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BBC News", "Rupert Murdoch ditches plan to merge Fox and News Corp - BBC News", "Oscars 2023: Till director calls out 'misogyny towards Black women' after Oscars snub - BBC News", "Ukraine war: US to follow Germany in sending tanks to Ukraine - BBC News", "Microsoft says services have recovered after widespread outage - BBC News", "Mike Pence: Classified documents found at former vice-president's home - BBC News", "Ros Atkins on… Germany’s Ukraine tank decision - BBC News", "Jared O'Mara: Fraud-accused MP non-existent in office, jury told - BBC News", "Nadhim Zahawi: Tax error was careless and not deliberate - BBC News", "Al-Shabab: US air strike in Somalia 'kills 30 militants' - BBC News", "Australian Open 2023 results: Iga Swiatek loses to Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff out to Jelena Ostapenko - BBC Sport", "UK space launch: What next for Space Forge after mission failure? - BBC News", "Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93 - BBC News", "Newcastle: St Mary's Cathedral lockdown gathering claims to be reviewed - 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wide.", "Play on the outside courts at the Australian Open is interrupted by extreme heat and then rain on the second day in Melbourne.", "A man is charged with assaulting Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale after Sunday's Premier League match away to Tottenham.", "No date has been set for the release of the former prime minister's book, nor does it yet have a title.", "The low temperatures will linger until Friday before the weather turns milder this weekend, forecasters say.", "Andrey Medvedev says he fled Wagner after witnessing war crimes while serving in Ukraine.", "Gary Lineker said a phone \"taped to the back of the set\" was to blame after viewers heard porn noises.", "Imogen, 11, says she has to look at the floor to stop people from staring at her feeding tube.", "Scotland's first minister says the UK government would be using trans people as a political weapon.", "A look back at some of the unexpected funny moments in the history of the BBC's morning news programme.", "Walkouts are planned for 1 and 3 February after the Aslef union calls a pay offer \"clearly unacceptable\".", "The home secretary urges forces to root out corrupt officers after serial rapist David Carrick's case.", "The climate activist was briefly held with a group which opposes the expansion of a coal mine.", "Premiership rugby club finances are \"clearly unsustainable\", a damning parliamentary report has concluded.", "Ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng tells Parliament sudden unexplained child deaths need more attention.", "High Street stationery chain confirms it is hunting for buyer but talking to insolvency experts.", "A wildlife trust says brewery's planned solar farm is in the wrong place and calls for a moratorium.", "The actor - who is facing sexual assault charges in the UK - received the award in Italy.", "The boss of Yara says Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven up the price of fertilisers and food.", "Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss, is captured after 30 years on the run.", "The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in NI until noon on Wednesday.", "The former EU lawmaker is accused of being a leader of a criminal network which took Qatari bribes.", "Some schools are forced to close due to icy conditions and police warn of \"treacherous\" roads.", "Small businesses tell the BBC they are facing delays and losing money as overseas post is stopped.", "A new border control system, which was pushed back to May, has been delayed to the end of the year.", "The legislation shouldn't treat community-run sites like big tech firms its foundation says.", "Sir Mark Rowley apologises for failings in the case of PC David Carrick, who admitted 49 offences.", "Ian Burton, from Salisbury, was initially refused a refund as he had signed for the delivery.", "Amber and yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place across the UK, as temperatures plummet.", "People in England and Wales are more likely than ever to have neighbours of a different ethnicity.", "Carrick's guilty pleas leave the Metropolitan Police once more apologising for a criminal in its ranks.", "It will be the first time ministers in London have used powers to stop a Scottish bill from becoming law.", "The Union has a clash on its hands, writes James Cook, BBC News's Scotland editor.", "Wages rose at their fastest rate since 2001 excluding the pandemic, but still lag behind rising prices.", "Two days of action - on 6 and 7 February - are announced in England and Wales, in the biggest walkout yet.", "David Carrick admits 49 offences against 12 women, including multiple rapes, over two decades.", "The government is urged to take 25 actions by 2025 and phase out gas boilers within a decade.", "The GMB and the RCN unions say they will not call strikes while pay negotiations are being held.", "Brad trains five times a week, but is still trying to convince his friends it is more than pompoms.", "Despite his acquittal on most charges, the footballer may struggle to escape his portrayal in court.", "The activist condemns police as German protesters try to stop a coal mine from swallowing up a village.", "The monarch made his first public engagement in Scotland after Prince Harry's memoir was published.", "The move is part of wider efforts to remove the derogatory term from hundreds of geographic sites.", "Dennis McGrory was initially cleared of the murder of a teenager he raped and strangled in 1975.", "Heavy rains and strong winds cause disruption in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service stage their second walkout in a month.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 6 and 13 January.", "The Manchester City footballer faces a retrial on two counts the jury could not reach verdicts on.", "The song about ex-partner Gerard Pique gained over 63m views in the first day of it being online.", "The political leaders had a \"robust\" exchange on Scottish independence, it is understood.", "Ruined buildings and cratered landscape around the town in eastern Ukraine can be seen in the new images.", "More than 100 flood warnings are in place across the UK, as a cold weather alert is also issued.", "The role of women in bringing an end to the Troubles is commemorated in a new display in Londonderry.", "Personal finance analyst Myron Jobson is answering your questions after the UK economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1% in November.", "Unions say one-off payment not enough for workers after talks with Wales' health minister.", "Wild camping on Dartmoor without permission has been ruled unlawful by the High Court.", "An Ofsted probe after Arthur Labinjo-Hughes's death finds Solihull children's services inadequate.", "The YouTuber tells BBC Newsbeat he wants to use his own influential platform in a positive way.", "Oleksii Reznikov's comments are set to provoke Russia, which frames the war as a battle with the West.", "The group is working \"around the clock\" to resolve severe disruption to overseas deliveries.", "There were cordial talks on the PM's visit to Scotland, but battles could be looming on a number of issues.", "The expat spotted a great white swimming close to a packed beach and called to have it evacuated.", "Tory rebels want to make social media bosses criminally liable if they fail to protect children.", "Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, Italy's highest-profile mafia target, has learnt to live in constant danger.", "They are demanding visitor logs after classified documents were found in the president's garage.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "The late singer and daughter of Elvis Presley wrote and sang about her grief and struggles.", "Researchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.", "The 26-year-old beautician was shot at a pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve.", "School chief says at least one staff member was alerted the child had a gun before the shooting.", "Ms McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Lurgan.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "The number of encounters has climbed from the 144 compiled by a top US spy agency in its 2021 report.", "Jennie Gow, 45, says it will take some time for her to return to work after the stroke two weeks ago.", "The singer was the only child of the \"King of Rock 'n' Roll\", Elvis Presley.", "Tributes flood in for the US singer, who was rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley's only child.", "The 26-year-old beautician died in a shooting at a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve.", "A court hears Harry May thought the monarch's visit to the \"poor area\" of Luton was in \"bad taste\".", "The sportswear giant argued the use of four parallel stripes was too similar to its logo.", "The hotel was used by the Home Office to ease pressures at overcrowded detention centres in Kent.", "A special counsel has been appointed to investigate the US president's handling of classified documents.", "The University and College Union said the \"the clock is ticking\" for a deal to be reached over pay.", "Lesley Weekley says she had to call 999 six times as her husband suffered a heart attack.", "The UK and Scottish governments announce that Cromarty Firth and Forth bids have been successful.", "The 28-year-old woman from London was walking a number of dogs when she was killed in an attack.", "Mark Brown still claims he did not kill Leah Ware and that she is still alive.", "The EIS union says it is \"disappointed\" that no new offer was made in the ongoing pay row.", "Nearly all of the metals, used in mobile phones, electric cars and wind turbines, come from China.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting Liverpool, where they officially opened a new hospital.", "The Flash star avoids being sent to prison after agreeing a plea deal over an alleged burglary.", "New forecasts by Investec suggest energy bills could fall below £2,500 from July as wholesale gas prices fall.", "PFAS substances linked with cancer discovered in UK cosmetics on day EU sets out to ban them.", "The PM says he is awaiting final advice before deciding whether to block Scotland's gender reforms.", "The 26-year-old midfielder was pulled over by police in the early hours of the morning.", "The company will close nearly half of its restaurants and cut 218 staff in a further restructure.", "The US actor was accused of seven sexual offences against a man in the early 2000s.", "Healthier chocolate that feels just as good to eat could be developed, researchers say.", "Russia says it has captured the salt-mine town after a long battle, but Ukraine says fighting continues.", "Coroner Graeme Hughes concludes Gareth Roberts and Dominga David died of industrial disease.", "Tokyo plans to release a million tonnes of water contaminated by the destroyed Fukushima plant.", "Darren Smith assaulted Richard Thomas and set fire to his home after the pair had a row.", "Former Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli, who played 59 times for Italy, dies at the age 58.", "Some American voters say they support the Republican rebels blocking Kevin McCarthy's way to be Speaker.", "Stratford Town play for the first time since the death of player Cody Fisher.", "Liverpool and Wolves are forced to settle for an FA Cup third-round replay after a thrilling encounter finishes level at Anfield.", "The Scottish Ambulance Service took hundreds of people to hospital during freezing weather last month.", "In a new clip, he also speaks about how difficult it was to meet the public after his mother died.", "Officers have searched the grounds of Silverwood Golf Club near the 32-year-old's County Armagh home.", "Denise Coates is one of the richest women in Britain, having founded the firm in Stoke-on-Trent.", "Few in Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut expected Russia's declared truce to be matched with action.", "Adam Davies faces large medical bills after a motorbike accident in Thailand on Boxing Day.", "There was a huge response from the emergency services following the blaze in the Scottish city.", "Social media platform Weibo says it acted over personal attacks against Chinese Covid experts.", "Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville says talks with unions were \"constructive and helpful\".", "About 2,000 homes on Shetland are without power on a day when temperatures in Braemar peaked at -9.3C.", "The PM says he wants to fix the health service, but there are no easy answers, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "In his book, Harry says killing 25 Taliban fighters was like removing chess pieces from a board.", "Romeo Beckham, son of former England captain David, joins Brentford's B team on loan from Inter Miami II until the end of the season.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "The Republican is finally chosen after a week of chaos and angry scenes between colleagues in his own party.", "\"That was easy, huh?\" quipped the congressman as he clinched the prized gavel after four gruelling days.", "The lawsuit comes as Washington marks the second anniversary of the Capitol riot.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went missing with their baby after breaking down on the M61.", "Six journalists have been detained over footage of the South Sudan president appearing to wet himself.", "Police and fire officers launch a probe into the deaths of three people at the New County Hotel.", "A group of entrepreneurs speak to the BBC about the challenges of running start-ups during a war. ", "BBC News NI's Marie-Louise Connolly says shocking headlines show a system that is beyond broken.", "The duke says those meant to defend him were feeding the media negative stories, writes the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "UK-wide industrial action by RMT union members is continuing on Friday and Saturday.", "A unilateral ceasefire called by Russia breaks down within hours of coming into effect.", "A man who died following an incident on a farm is named locally as 26-year-old Macauley Owen.", "The global burger chain did not confirm details about the scope of the cuts it is planning.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 December - 6 January.", "Favourable conditions on Scotland's slopes come as some resorts elsewhere struggle for snow.", "Covid affected one in 25 people while hospitalisations for flu increased most in under ones.", "People who work in charity shops share some of the more bizarre donations they receive.", "Some 200 million people are marking the holiday, one of the most important dates in the faith.", "Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini said they had been forced to make false confessions.", "Hazrat Wali, 18, was stabbed in Twickenham in October 2021. A youth, 17, is on trial for murder.", "The number of LGBT+ people living in England and Wales has been revealed in the 2021 census.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "The film director tells Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he has \"total sympathy\" with the idea.", "Donna Janse Van Rensburg, Sharon McLean and Keith Russell died in a fire at the New County Hotel.", "In the end, just six Republican lawmakers stood between him and the prized Speaker's gavel.", "Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ethan Hawke were all targets of phishing scams.", "Two human rights groups accused Riyadh of using agents to \"promote positive content\" on the site.", "This is the longest vote for House Speaker in living memory, but it's still a far cry from the all-time record.", "The star tops the charts as an independent artist, after her label refused to release her debut album.", "The Rail Delivery Group says its offer would see wages for drivers rise by £5,000 by the end of 2023.", "The ancient game sees rival villagers locked in battle to get a leather \"Hood\" to their pub.", "Revelations from Prince Harry's memoir have upended a carefully co-ordinated marketing strategy.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met health leaders to discuss ways to tackle the pressures facing the NHS.", "The event, scheduled for Monday, will be livestreamed and all tickets available to the public have gone.", "Government proposals \"damage people's ability to enforce their rights\", a group of MPs and peers say.", "Justin Roiland, who is facing domestic abuse charges, has now lost work with Hulu and Adult Swim.", "Ukraine hails the announcements as a turning point, while Russia says they are a provocation.", "The pop star joins a growing group of artists who have cashed out on their catalogues.", "Boss Gwendoline Cazenave says post-Brexit border checks are causing problems for the train company.", "Flora Turnbull is to run the event in honour of her father and raise prostate cancer awareness.", "Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says the alleged offences include violence against women and girls.", "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's indecision has earned him criticism both nationally and internationally.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "PC Hussain Chehab, 22, was serving as a Safer Schools officer in London when concerns were raised.", "The PM's ethics adviser is examining if the Conservative Party chairman broke the ministers' rule book.", "Rebecca Scotland found her Citroen had been targeted in a car park in Digbeth, Birmingham.", "The gecko survived the 3,000-mile trip from Egypt to Manchester to pop up in a punnet of strawberries.", "Emma Thompson and Aisling Bea back campaign to stop banks financing new oil, gas and coal projects.", "Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed in Soledar, eastern Ukraine, family members say.", "Berlin denies it is preventing countries from donating Leopard 2s, but Poland criticises its \"hesitation\".", "The boost from next month comes as analysts warn the peak in savings rates may be approaching.", "The UK and EU both previously suggested it could help reduce checks related to the NI Protocol.", "Analysts NPD say more than one in four toys and games bought last year went to adults and teenagers.", "Poultry giant 2 Sisters says its site on Anglesey is no longer sustainable following a review.", "Andrea Riseborough's nomination for a low-budget drama is one of several to surprise awards pundits.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the PM should have sacked Nadhim Zahawi, at Prime Minister's Questions.", "The girl was attacked and seriously injured at a school in the Didsbury area of Manchester.", "But the PM insists he is showing principle by waiting for an investigation on the Tory chairman's tax affairs to report back.", "Ukrainians on the front lines call for hundreds of modern tanks, as the West debates new deliveries.", "The British actor went missing 12 days ago during a hike in mountains near Los Angeles.", "Ambulance crews say they are treating more people who are sick because they cannot afford to heat their home.", "Isla Bryson carried out the rapes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as a man.", "The social media firm Meta said the former US president's suspension will end \"in the coming weeks\".", "Tate says there is \"no justice in Romania\" as he is taken for police questioning at a special unit.", "Requiring businesses to offer mental health first aid training would save lives, campaigners say.", "The Dutch government says Russian disinformation over the downing of flight MH17 is a rights violation.", "Mourners gather to pay their respects to the beautician, 26, who was shot in a Merseyside pub.", "Birmingham City Council acts after police cite \"terrifying risks\" at the venue where Cody Fisher died.", "Kwasi Kwarteng's rejection of electricity link from Portsmouth to France is overturned in High Court.", "Rhian Bowen Davies says Steve Phillips' apology is \"not enough\" and he \"should take responsibility\".", "Rishi Sunak is likely to be grilled at Prime Minister's Questions about the conduct of his party chairman.", "Russia has downplayed the impact of the move, saying Western tanks will \"burn like all the rest\".", "Mr Hipkins built a reputation as the minister who led New Zealand's Covid-19 strategy.", "Two British nationals are reported missing in Ukraine. Here's what we know so far.", "Pressure is mounting on the Welsh Rugby Union following claims of sexism and a \"toxic culture\"", "Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of Russia's Wagner group, used an exemption to get around UK sanctions.", "Zara Aleena's family tells Labour leader the government has \"blood on their hands\" over failures.", "Relatives of those who died when two Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed are trying to reopen a settlement.", "Lucy Letby is alleged to have tried to kill a premature baby three times before murdering her.", "The sculptures were erected at Brixton railway station in 1986 but have been absent for seven years.", "Louise Harris says she was left in tears outside the Wetherspoons on 13 January.", "DeadHappy says it used the serial killer to \"make people think\" but it was sorry for any offence.", "The American Bullies Kennel Club event is cancelled after undercover filming found welfare issues.", "CCTV shows Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, who are missing with their baby, shopping in London.", "The 18-carat gold timepiece was found at a branch in Hounslow, west London.", "Robert Thomas paid for diazepam but got a mix of headache tablets and tranquillisers.", "Dina Boluarte says radical groups are behind the ongoing demonstrations calling for her to resign.", "Julian Sands went missing while hiking in California on 13 January.", "Police arrest a 61-year-old man over what the MP's spokesman says was an \"unpleasant encounter\".", "Germany's decision to send tanks to Ukraine follows weeks of pressure from Kyiv and Western allies.", "Convicted murderers Alison McDonagh, 49, and Stephen McParland, 54, had been on temporary release.", "The asylum family waited for hours in Coatbridge before being taken to a hotel 200 miles away.", "Police gave Sheldon Lewcock's family members a code word to visit him in hospital.", "Wales is set to become the first UK nation to introduce a mandatory national licensing scheme.", "Researchers believe that gestures used by great apes were an evolutionary \"starting point\" for our language.", "Sharon Hearn says she can only afford to heat her home for two hours a day.", "The media tycoon has withdrawn his proposal, saying it is \"not optimal\" for shareholders at this time.", "Chinonye Chukwu, who wrote and directed Till, says industries are \"committed to upholding whiteness\".", "In a significant policy reversal, the US joins Germany in providing powerful battle tanks to Ukraine.", "Tens of thousands of users of Outlook and Teams were affected earlier on Wednesday.", "The files were passed to the FBI following their discovery by the former US vice-president's lawyer.", "The BBC's Analysis Editor examines the background to Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.", "A former employee of Jared O'Mara says the MP visited his office just \"once or twice\" in six months.", "Labour calls on the ex-chancellor to answer questions after he addresses \"confusion\" about his taxes.", "The US military says it helped government troops fighting al-Shabab Islamists northeast of the Somali capital.", "World number one Iga Swiatek loses to Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open fourth round, with Coco Gauff also out.", "Space Forge's first satellite was on board the failed Virgin Orbit mission from Cornwall.", "The former US astronaut, who was the second man on the moon, married his partner in Los Angeles.", "The Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency review is being supported by the Archbishop of Liverpool.", "Liverpool's Liam Smith says he is willing to fight Chris Eubank Jr again but is also intrigued by a bout with Kell Brook.", "Unite has written a letter to the Business Secretary Grant Shapps seeking more government support.", "Authorities keep the Bronx River in south-east New York City stocked with a plentiful supply of fish.", "Ron Klain, who has spent decades as one of Mr Biden's top aides, could leave within weeks, reports say.", "Hundreds of visitors who were left stranded at the popular Inca site have now been rescued.", "Adam Kalinin has been camping in the Russian wilderness since September to avoid fighting in Ukraine.", "Fear and the old code of silence helped shield Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro for 30 years.", "Women say they considered suicide because of a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the Welsh Rugby Union.", "Darcey Corria suffered a broken pelvis and bones in her neck, say Miss Wales competition organisers.", "The event to be broadcast live on the BBC is among the celebrations to mark the coronation in May.", "Arsenal retain control of the Premier League title race after Eddie Nketiah's 90th-minute winner gives them a dramatic victory over Manchester United.", "The mass shooting which killed 10 has brought the issue of gun violence to the heart of a tightknit community", "Two of the people killed by a gunman as they took a ballroom dancing class have been identified.", "The Conservative party chairman paid a penalty to resolve a dispute over unpaid tax, the BBC has been told.", "Chairman John Allan says it is \"entirely possible\" food producers are taking advantage of the poorest.", "The BBC chairman helped him secure a loan guarantee weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role, a paper says.", "On their behalf, Priscilla Presley read the tribute at a memorial service for her daughter Lisa Marie Presley.", "Motion capture suits used to create alien characters can track the onset of diseases of movement, researchers say.", "Liam Smith stops Chris Eubank Jr in four rounds to win their middleweight fight in Manchester.", "Judy Chu says the city of Monterey Park is \"resilient\" and will recover after 10 people were killed.", "Zelensky adviser tells West to \"think faster\" as pressure grows on countries to send tanks to Ukraine.", "Jack Moyse was a teenager when he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.", "The suspect fled after opening fire at a dance studio as the city celebrated the Lunar New Year.", "Chris Hipkins vows to protect his family from the treatment his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received.", "For a third time, investigators find more files during a 13-hour search of the US president's home.", "The Avengers star shares an update on his recovery after being critically injured on New Year's Day.", "Nadhim Zahawi should \"get it all out now\" former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has told Laura Kuenssberg.", "Councils aim to give parents a week's notice about implications of strikes, education minister says.", "Palestinian Sally Azar became the region's first female church leader at an event in Jerusalem.", "The San Francisco 49ers secure a hard-fought win over the Dallas Cowboys to reach the NFL's Conference Championships while the Cincinnati Bengals upset the Buffalo Bills.", "National Highways says the southbound carriageway will be closed for a \"considerable time\".", "Suppliers not doing enough for vulnerable customers will be named and shamed, the government says.", "It follows a suspected firearm and suspicious package being found at St James's Hospital in Leeds.", "Just six out of 10 of a health board's buildings are considered \"operationally safe\", says a report.", "General Julio Cesar de Arruda is the latest person in the military to lose their position.", "Ukrainian civilians are returning to Lyman, close to the front line, despite the threat of strikes.", "The former prime minister says it is a \"privilege\" to visit the country once more.", "Aerial video shows a vehicle which may hold the suspect after 10 people were shot dead in Monterey Park.", "The warning comes from a leading councillor as heavy rain causes flooding and disruption.", "People planning a trip abroad for the summer are splashing out despite incomes being hit by inflation.", "Alexei Navalny says he has been denied access to hospital treatment by Russian prison officials.", "For the first time the ex-president is put among those potentially responsible for the riots.", "The GMB and the RCN unions say they will not call strikes while pay negotiations are being held.", "Despite his acquittal on most charges, the footballer may struggle to escape his portrayal in court.", "A woman is taken to hospital by ambulance after the blast in Kylemore Park in Londonderry.", "Guidance to landlords in England over mould and damp will be reviewed after Awaab Ishak's death.", "School staff will walk out after failing to agree a pay deal with council and government leaders.", "Iran's top diplomat in the UK is called to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests.", "Latvia's defence minster says sabotage could not be ruled out as a cause of the blast near its border.", "Several cities were struck including Dnipro, where an apartment block was hit, killing at least 20.", "Alzheimer's Research UK said the findings were encouraging but said more and larger studies were needed.", "After delivering what manager Jurgen Klopp described as their worst game of his Liverpool tenure, where do the struggling Reds go from here?", "Brighton leapfrog Liverpool with a one-sided victory that condemns Jurgen Klopp's side to a second successive league defeat at Amex Stadium.", "Twenty people have been rescued after the nine-storey block of flats was struck in the eastern city of Dnipro.", "Refugees who have been living on a cruise ship say they are ready to integrate into Scottish life.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "The RCN wants progress in negotiations by the end of January or says it will ballot more members.", "Vehicles including a Rolls-Royce and Mercedes were taken away from the influencer's Romanian home.", "The UK described the Iranian regime, which sentenced Alireza Akbari to death for spying, as \"barbaric\".", "Labour are ahead in the polls, but leader Keir Starmer has his work cut out, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Demonstrators in Tel Aviv say government plans to overhaul the judiciary would be an attack on democracy.", "The Manchester City footballer faces a retrial on two counts the jury could not reach verdicts on.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "The Red Lady of Paviland, actually a man, was found 200 years ago in Wales by an Oxford professor.", "More details emerge of a ban that businesses say could make takeaways more costly.", "School chief says at least one staff member was alerted the child had a gun before the shooting.", "More than 100 flood warnings are in place across the UK, as a cold weather alert is also issued.", "The role of women in bringing an end to the Troubles is commemorated in a new display in Londonderry.", "Ms McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Lurgan.", "A girl is in a life-threatening condition after a shooting which injured another child and four women.", "The number of encounters has climbed from the 144 compiled by a top US spy agency in its 2021 report.", "The party says the next UK election will either be a de facto referendum or a mandate for an indyref2 vote in 2026.", "The Scottish SPCA said the boa constrictors were discovered by a member of the public in Blanefield.", "An ambulance worker reveals how difficult the job now is and why they are striking.", "The US president's lawyers found additional documents at his property in Delaware.", "A clash between the UK and Scottish governments could be imminent if a bill is blocked by UK ministers.", "Jennie Gow, 45, says it will take some time for her to return to work after the stroke two weeks ago.", "Russia says it has captured the salt-mine town after a long battle, but Ukraine says fighting continues.", "The singer was the only child of the \"King of Rock 'n' Roll\", Elvis Presley.", "Britain's prime minister Rishi Sunak says the execution was a callous and cowardly act by a barbaric regime.", "Alireza Akbari's wife says his family were told to go to his prison in Tehran for a \"final visit\".", "Rina Yasutake's mummified body was found in a house she shared with her mother and siblings.", "The 28-year-old woman from London was walking a number of dogs when she was killed in an attack.", "Struggling Cardiff City part company with manager Mark Hudson after four months in charge of the Championship club.", "Everton's board of directors miss Saturday's home Premier League game against Southampton because of a \"real and credible\" safety threat.", "Coroner Graeme Hughes concludes Gareth Roberts and Dominga David died of industrial disease.", "Downing Street says ambulance workers are \"greatly valued\" and the \"door remains open\" for talks.", "Rishi Sunak confirms the tanks will be provided during a call with President Zelensky.", "The star complained after the right-wing politician used his song Still D.R.E. without permission.", "Swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms are at risk of closure unless the UK government offers more support to tackle soaring energy costs, a fitness industry trade body warns.", "Prince Harry's book, with sex, drugs and monarchy, reaches parts never seen before in a royal memoir.", "Fire, ambulance and rail would have to provide minimum services in laws planned for later this year.", "The former PM is missing from a photo posted by the business secretary of a Spaceport Cornwall visit.", "Physical game sales fell 4.5% last year, the digital entertainment and retail association says.", "The hosts of the award-winning podcast about dealing with cancer say they plan to stand down.", "Why Harry isn't the first person to have the predicament of being the royal understudy.", "Last year was the world's fifth warmest year with Europe enduring its hottest summer on record", "A global agreement in 1987 to ban chemicals harming the ozone layer is working, scientists say.", "At least 17 people are killed as anti-government protesters try to seize an airport, officials say.", "Chris Parry, 28, has been missing in Ukraine along with Andrew Bagshaw, 48, since Friday.", "There are 28 warnings in England and one in Wales that householders and firms should expect floods.", "In a letter they say the Hong Kong media tycoon's upcoming national security trial is \"deeply concerning\".", "The amount of damages being sought in class actions leapt from £4bn in 2021 to £26bn in 2022.", "One rescue service is urging people to avoid popular water beauty spots and water-based activities.", "It is \"time to take action to address our shameful past,\" says the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "The business secretary is outlining a bill to ensure some public service workers continue to work during strike action.", "Liverpool will host a handover ceremony and allocation draw on 31 January as Turin hands over keys.", "The first UK attempt to take satellites into space ends after the rocket fails to reach orbit.", "Last month the parole board considered whether murderer Jeffrey Gafoor should be set free.", "Under the proposals, some public sector workers would be required to provide services during a strike.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "Unions say the plans for minimum service levels are \"undemocratic and unworkable\".", "Total retail sales jumped by almost 7% but price rises meant shoppers bought less but spent more.", "Russia's Wagner mercenaries claim to be in control - but Kyiv says its troops are still holding out.", "Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the shipment, which originated from Pakistan.", "Plans for the UK to become a satellite-launching state are already well advanced.", "A bookseller placed Prince Harry's memoir Spare beside Bella Mackie's novel How to Kill Your Family.", "Thousands of protesters ransacked the Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasília.", "Several hundred Evri parcels were stolen from a Stockport warehouse, police say.", "Several customers say they had huge sums of money taken from their accounts after visiting the club.", "The Scottish government is to spend an extra £8m to free up hospital beds by moving patients to care homes.", "Thousands of people in California have been told to evacuate amid floods and mudslide warnings.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "Tomasz Waga was killed after he tried to steal drugs from a cannabis factory.", "What you need to know about the ambulance workers' strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Early trade body figures suggest \"extraordinary\" record sales in the entertainment sector.", "Unite says NHS talks were a \"missed opportunity\", as unions say planned strikes will go ahead.", "While much has been said about Bolsonaro's loss, this is more about the man he lost to - Lula.", "Prince Harry tells a US interviewer his mother would have been upset at the fallout between her sons.", "Companies are facing tough choices as the government reveals a new energy bills support scheme.", "Ministers hope their plan will be seen as pragmatic - but Labour has already set itself against them.", "It's a tit-for-tat move that Beijing says is in response to discriminatory restrictions.", "Police searching for a missing couple and a baby want to ensure the child is \"alive and well\".", "The rock band will play several US festival dates, a year after their drummer's untimely death.", "The controversial influencer remains in detention as part of a human trafficking probe.", "Petrol at lowest price since Russia invaded Ukraine, but diesel still costs more than last year.", "Prince Harry describes how he found about the late Queen's death and his last conversation with her.", "One of the officials, the former military police commander, has been arrested, local media reported.", "It can improve life for thousands with type 1 diabetes in England and Wales, health assessors say.", "The 2023 growth forecast for the global economy is cut to 1.7% as a result of Ukraine war and Covid pandemic.", "Ministers are hinting publicly and privately that they might be willing to compromise.", "The party pledges more support for older workers and those with medical conditions.", "New figures show more than 650,000 people died in the UK last year.", "Beth Matthews, a patient at a psychiatric hospital, ordered the substance online, an inquest hears.", "Revelations from Prince Harry's memoir have upended a carefully co-ordinated marketing strategy.", "The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is the creme de la creme of celebrity ghostwriters.", "Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is discharged from a Cincinnati hospital one week after suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game.", "Wales captain Gareth Bale announces his retirement from football at the age of 33.", "The Australian cardinal's convictions on child abuse charges, quashed on appeal, shocked the Church.", "An ambulance worker reveals how difficult the job now is and why they are striking.", "Rachael and Helen Patching, aged 33 and 52, from Kent, were visiting Ystradfellte while on holiday.", "Fans queue to buy a hardback copy of the duke's memoir as it went on sale at midnight.", "About 300 care home beds will be used for medically fit hospital patients who are not yet able to go home, minister Humza Yousaf tells Holyrood.", "The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has a technical problem on its climb to space.", "The papers, discovered at a think tank office he used, reportedly contain briefings on foreign countries.", "President Lula has questioned police actions in failing to prevent the storming of government buildings.", "The first minister warns of \"exceptional and severe\" pressure on Scotland's health services.", "The online retail giant confirms plans to shut its warehouse in Gourock, putting 300 jobs at risk.", "A search is under way for British nationals Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry in Ukraine.", "They come after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked the heart of the Brazilian state.", "The online giant is to shut three warehouses, but also plans to open two new ones creating 2,500 roles.", "Health managers say Wednesday's walkout in England and Wales will be harder to cope with.", "The Brazilian president, who has declared emergency powers, is vowing to punish those involved.", "The 24 volunteers are accused of several misdemeanours in a trial that has prompted uproar.", "Travel in and out of China gets easier from Sunday, as it moves away from its zero-Covid strategy.", "The PM says 2022 has been tough but promises to focus on people's priorities, in New Year's message.", "Rishi Sunak also makes pledges on the economy and small boat crossings in his first major speech of 2023.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action this week, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "The EU data watchdog says the way Meta obtained permission to process users' data for ads broke data law.", "A leading clinician says several A&Es want to bring in emergency measures amid safety concerns.", "People in Bakhmut, at the epicentre of the war, live in defiance under constant Russian bombardment.", "After a chaotic year, what awaits the political parties in the next 12 months - and will it be any calmer?", "In his first speech of 2023, the PM also set out his priorities, including dealing with NHS backlogs.", "A BBC Freedom of Information request shows Qatar paid for a hotel for Wales' first minister.", "Gas and electricity prices have been fixed for firms until the end of March, but many want the support to continue.", "The mayor of Berlin plans a youth violence summit after police and firefighters come under attack.", "New figures from the Bank of England show that they dropped to their lowest level since the middle of the pandemic.", "Chair of the BMA council, Professor Phil Banfield, is calling on the government to \"take immediate action\".", "Forecasts suggest bills for households may drop later in the year, although a rise in April remains certain.", "Overall food inflation hit 13.3% in December, driven by the high cost of animal feed, energy and fertiliser.", "The health secretary blames the pandemic and flu for NHS pressures, but insists government has right plan.", "Novak Djokovic is set to miss Indian Wells and the Miami Open as the US extends its requirement for international visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19.", "The deaths of eight people in recent weeks may have been caused by lengthy ambulance waiting times.", "NHS chief warns against complacency and says \"risk of serious illness is very real\".", "Shaun Slator's comment has been described as \"revolting\" by Bromley's Labour group leader.", "Sean Patterson, a 33-year-old personal trainer, was shot and killed in St James, Jamaica.", "Prosecutors say robbers threatened to stab the Olympic cyclist in front of his three-year-old son.", "The bodies were found decaying in an outdoor shed and almost half were children.", "A patient with breathing difficulties on Christmas Day describes his ordeal waiting for treatment.", "The footballing legend was laid to rest after a huge procession through the streets of Santos.", "The reopening comes amid a record exodus from Cuba as it suffers one of its worst economic crises.", "Martyn Armstrong was identified with software that was used for the first time in the UK.", "West Ham United co-chairman David Gold dies at the age of 86 following a short illness.", "From Spain to Latvia, national and regional records for January are broken across the continent.", "Buoyed by recent opinion polls, the party wants to start talking about its ideas for the long term.", "The loan agreement which brought Tian Tian and Yang Guang to Edinburgh Zoo ends this year.", "Two other men are accused of robbing the cyclist when he was at home in bed with his wife and son.", "A mother and her daughter dismembered hundreds of corpses without consent, prosecutors in Colorado say.", "The last-minute cancellations mean many fans are unable to travel to Wednesday's World Cup semi-final.", "At his first press conference in Saudi Arabia, the football star refers to being in South Africa.", "Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight to India when a passenger went into cardiac arrest", "Huw Edwards says his former colleague Aled Glynne Davies was a \"kind and generous man\".", "As China opens its borders, countries around the world have announced testing for arrivals.", "Pharmacies say there are supply chain issues with some products but people should not panic buy.", "Pope Francis has been working in his predecessor's shadow, says the Vatican's most senior British official.", "Harry Styles, Cat Burns and Kate Bush scored huge hits, as UK music fans streamed 159 billion songs.", "Wales fans remain upbeat after a first World Cup appearance in 64 years ends at the group stage.", "Russia now says 89 soldiers were killed in the attack in Makiivka, in the occupied Donetsk region.", "The girl, who took her own life, should have been seen as a victim not a terrorist, her mum says.", "The pressures faced by the NHS are uppermost in Rishi Sunak's mind, as he lays out his ambitions for 2023.", "The US House of Representatives adjourns for the night as the California congressman suffers fresh defeats.", "The American football player is still under intensive care after collapsing during a game on Monday.", "There were no ambulances available to respond after an 83-year-old man collapsed.", "The Avengers star was run over by his own snow plough, the local sheriff said in a news conference.", "John Jessop, 26, murdered 47-year-old Clair Ablewhite shortly after their relationship ended.", "The author and essayist was best known for books including 1983's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.", "The former health secretary tells users they will still be able keep up with him on TikTok.", "Simon Tadros' wife died in the accident and his 10-year-old son is in a critical condition.", "GP surgeries across the country are likely to face intense demand this week after the Christmas break.", "The health body says it is worried about the risk to life and again urges Beijing for better data.", "Taraneh Alidoosti was arrested after she removed her headscarf and condemned recent executions.", "Scotland's national clinical director also urges people with a bug not to go to work to avoid passing it on.", "The deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers at Makiivka in Ukraine prompt recriminations in Russia.", "Demand for hospitals driven by winter illness means the NHS is being \"pressurised like never before\".", "The prime minister says he wants the public to judge him on delivering five priorities - including cutting NHS waiting lists for treatment", "Analysis of mobile phone data finds people are swapping big cities for life by the seaside.", "In a leaked letter, the culture secretary tells the PM privatisation \"is not the right decision\".", "Walter Cunningham - described as a \"true hero\" - was on the first Nasa mission to broadcast live TV.", "Aled Davies went missing on New Year's Eve and was last seen in Pontcanna, Cardiff.", "Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey were teenagers when they made the Oscar-winning 1968 movie.", "The Labour leader says investment is needed but \"there is no substitute for a robust private sector\".", "The NI secretary is expected to speak to them next week in another attempt to break the deadlock.", "The supermarket giant increased pay for the third time in a year in a bid to keep up with rivals.", "A play-by-play of the Republican leader's so-far unsuccessful efforts to become Speaker of the House.", "Former prime minister Liz Truss is among those concerned plans to overhaul the system could be scrapped.", "Eleanor Williams lied to police and posted on Facebook she had been trafficked by an \"Asian gang\".", "The row with postal workers over pay and conditions has cost the company £200m in recent months.", "The mummy was found inside a sarcophagus that has remained unopened for 4,300 years.", "Joanna Gosling says goodbye to viewers after 23 years in a job \"that's never felt like a job\".", "Ukraine's president says the modern fighting vehicles must be supplied quickly and in significant numbers.", "Russian and Belarusian athletes could be free to compete as neutrals at the 2024 Olympics after a statement from International Olympic Committee.", "The former health secretary is not thought to have been hurt in the incident on the London Underground.", "Tyre Nichols was stopped in Memphis on 7 January for reckless driving and died three days later.", "A 27-year-old man is charged with planning a terror attack after the security scare at a hospital.", "Ukraine hails the announcements as a turning point, while Russia says they are a provocation.", "A helicopter fitted with a device which can detect reflective material and even credit cards is being used.", "The competition watchdog is concerned shoppers are being \"misled\" about goods claiming to be green.", "MP Andrew Bridgen claims he was libelled, but the former health secretary is standing by his comments.", "Julian Sands went missing while hiking in California on 13 January.", "Police arrest a 61-year-old man over what the MP's spokesman says was an \"unpleasant encounter\".", "The pop star says he’s never seen the NHS “so bad”, as he backs political change in a TV phone-in.", "Puffs of dust are seen in the footage before the section of cliff crumbles on to the beach below.", "The chancellor, who outlined a growth plan, says there will be little room for cuts in March.", "Experts say it is a \"hugely dangerous time\" as the numbers of young recruits increase.", "Leah Croucher murder detectives believe Neil Maxwell changed his appearance to evade arrest.", "There are hopes students will stay in north Wales after their degree to ease a shortage of doctors.", "The joey, the first of its kind to be born at Chester Zoo, has been developing in the pouch since July.", "The 20-year-old man has been held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and assisting an offender.", "Chancellor Olaf Scholz's indecision has earned him criticism both nationally and internationally.", "Up to £200 was offered by some banks to switching customers - prompting the most moves since 2013.", "CCTV shows the driver lose control of the steering wheel in an accident that left no-one seriously hurt.", "Isla Bryson had been remanded to a female prison after being convicted of raping two women before she changed gender.", "Car production in the UK continued to fall last year, lagging further behind the US and EU.", "The US will soon send the first of its Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but Poland has stopped sending weapons.", "Rachel Chinouriri says being picked to support the star at his stadium shows is a dream come true.", "All four regions have backed calls by Cardiff director Hayley Parsons for Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Steve Phillips and the board to leave.", "Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC.", "The American Bullies Kennel Club event is cancelled after undercover filming found welfare issues.", "Tony Thomas killed his father after not taking his mental health medication for 18 months.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says the PM should have sacked Nadhim Zahawi, at Prime Minister's Questions.", "The First Minister said it would not be acceptable for Scotland's teaching workforce to decrease.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of Russia's Wagner group, used an exemption to get around UK sanctions.", "The strike across 30 services in England is the latest action by health staff in the pay dispute.", "Nicola Sturgeon is facing questions over a transgender woman who was convicted of raping two women before she changed gender.", "Eleven people have been killed and 11 others injured after strikes hit buildings in several regions.", "Chinonye Chukwu, who wrote and directed Till, says industries are \"committed to upholding whiteness\".", "A life insurance firm said it wanted to \"make people think\" by using the serial killer's image.", "The former health secretary says he donated £10,000 of the fee to two charities.", "About the size of a bus, the space rock whipped over the southern tip of South America.", "Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan is filmed posing for pictures with supporters of Russia president Vladimir Putin at the Australian Open.", "The suspect is believed to have been involved in a scheme to pass German intelligence to Russia.", "The home secretary says the changes recommended in the wake of the scandal will no longer go ahead.", "Ukrainians on the front lines call for hundreds of modern tanks, as the West debates new deliveries.", "Relatives of those who died when two Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed are trying to reopen a settlement.", "Lucy Letby is alleged to have tried to kill a premature baby three times before murdering her.", "The Newcastle United and Brazil midfielder was arrested while driving near St James' Park.", "There are fears that 2023 could see a wave of company failures as the cost of living crisis continues.", "Rebecca Press changed her plea to guilty midway through her trial.", "Isla Bryson carried out the rapes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as a man.", "The former business secretary will \"debate the hot topics of the day\", the broadcaster confirmed.", "What's behind the raid on the West Bank city, which led to nine Palestinian deaths on Thursday?", "The social media firm Meta said the former US president's suspension will end \"in the coming weeks\".", "The BBC's Analysis Editor examines the background to Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.", "Politicians and journalists are being targeted with espionage attacks, the UK government is warning.", "DeadHappy says it used the serial killer to \"make people think\" but it was sorry for any offence.", "The heaviest death toll in years came as troops battled militants in the flashpoint West Bank town.", "Gareth Southgate talks to BBC sports editor Dan Roan about his decision to remain England manager, the team's performance in Qatar and why he has no regrets.", "Laws may be tightened on the sale and use of the drug, which can have damaging side effects to users.", "Several news outlets including Sports Illustrated report that he was killed in a car crash in Delaware.", "Takeaway owner Marc Wilkinson says the giveaway will cost him three times more than he estimated.", "The bear entered a remote community and began chasing after residents before being shot dead, police said.", "The prosecution gives its closing speech in the trial over a robbery at the elite cyclist's home.", "Section 35 of the Scotland Act has been triggered - a wire in devolution never before tripped.", "He could be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages if he loses the fraud lawsuit over a tweet.", "What you need to know about the nurses' strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Ukraine's interior minister is among the 14 killed in the helicopter crash beside a nursery.", "Sister André, a French nun who took holy orders in 1944, died at her nursing home in Toulon.", "As nurses take part in the largest strike in NHS history, use our tool to see if your area is affected.", "After police appealed for doorbell footage, the attempted burglar was identified and jailed.", "Labour says North East England is \"one of the big losers\" from the latest funding to boost deprived areas.", "Jeremy Hunt drew comparisons to the comic character as he used coffee cups to explain soaring costs.", "Ukraine's interior minister and a child were among those killed when a helicopter came down near Kyiv.", "Thousands of UK laws are due to expire automatically at the end of this year, prompting warnings from MPs.", "A charity says the knock-on effect will be felt in coming months as people cannot pay their bills.", "\"We are not extras for Greta Thunberg\" police say, after false claims her detainment at a protest was set up.", "The Met Police chief inspector, who was found dead at home, had been arrested for various offences.", "What you need to know about the nurses' strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Labour uses Davos appearance to promise a boost for foreign investment and green industries.", "An MP who was cautioned for assaulting his wife could run against his former party, Plaid Cymru.", "Testing cars after four years - rather than three - would not affect road safety, the government says.", "Iran's courts are convicting protesters after fast-track trials that activists say are grossly unfair.", "The baby's mother, Constance Marten, is from a wealthy family but is now estranged from them, say police.", "Nurse Lucy Letby is accused of attempting to murder the premature baby girl on two occasions.", "Aleksandra Wahab and her husband Abdul deny a \"campaign of child abuse\" against Ms Wahab's daughter, Nadia.", "Wales' men's and women's senior players will be paid the same for representing their country for the first time.", "Great Britain's most successful female Olympic athlete Dame Laura Kenny and her husband Sir Jason Kenny are expecting their second child.", "It would have cost less to settle earlier but reforms remained necessary, rail minister tells MPs.", "The law, which automatically makes people organ donors, cannot go forward without Stormont.", "Abigail Wooding says she had \"no option\" but to pay for the jab which is not available on the NHS.", "Ukraine's interior minister and other officials are among 14 killed in the crash beside a nursery.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack tells MPs trans people deserve respect - but Scotland's bill could undermine UK equalities law.", "The ex-chancellor is under pressure over reports he will pay millions to settle a dispute with HMRC.", "Chief executive Satya Nadella says cuts will cost $1.2bn (£972m) as tech firms scale back staff numbers.", "Liverpool claim their first win since the turn of the year as Harvey Elliott's stunning strike fires the Reds past Wolves in their FA Cup third-round replay.", "You are never too young to start improving your brain health, an Alzheimer's charity says.", "A weather warning for snow and ice across Northern Ireland is extended until noon on Thursday.", "While inflation remains high, there have been changes to what's costing us more, according to the Office of National Statistics.", "Ian Kirwan was stabbed to death after telling off teens for messing about in supermarket toilets.", "Kaylea, 16, was found dead at home, weighing almost 23 stone and on soiled sheets, a court hears.", "The bishops will recommend that \"prayers for God's blessing\" for gay couples be adopted, the BBC expects.", "The mayor of Amiens believes the singer owns the artwork, Diana and Endymion, which once hung in its museum.", "The unusual-looking dog, from East Yorkshire, is one of several in line for winning the title.", "Gary Lineker said a phone \"taped to the back of the set\" was to blame after viewers heard porn noises.", "The US labour secretary also opposes the UK government's plans for “minimum service agreements”.", "Some residents in Brovary filmed the devastating fire through their windows.", "Trisha Napier says her investigation of the Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos case was \"watered down\".", "Ruan Crighton's former schools and theatres are remembering a \"wonderful\" man who toured Europe.", "The PM is facing the leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, and other MPs in the Commons.", "The one-day national strike action in France is also affecting Eurostar rail services.", "The climate activist was briefly held with a group which opposes the expansion of a coal mine.", "The home secretary urges forces to root out corrupt officers after serial rapist David Carrick's case.", "Ron Jeremy - who denies charges including rape - is deemed mentally incompetent by a judge.", "Rafael Nadal's Australian Open title defence is over after a second-round defeat by American Mackenzie McDonald.", "High Street stationery chain confirms it is hunting for buyer but talking to insolvency experts.", "Arsenal launch an investigation into \"two disturbing incidents\" of antisemitic abuse during their north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur.", "The UN sends in its most senior team since the Taliban retook power to try to avert a looming famine.", "The order follows the serving Met Police officer David Carrick admitting to being a serial rapist.", "The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for snow and ice in NI until noon on Wednesday.", "British number one Emma Raducanu is out of the Australian Open after losing in straight sets to Coco Gauff, but Cameron Norrie is through.", "The former EU lawmaker is accused of being a leader of a criminal network which took Qatari bribes.", "Rishi Sunak is dragged into a row about the former chancellor's tax affairs at Prime Minister's Questions.", "Greek sixth seed Maria Sakkari avoids a shock as she fights back to beat Russian teenager Diana Shnaider in the Australian Open second round.", "All purchases are being refunded - but there are worries some games will be lost forever.", "The most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began had not been long in the government.", "A new border control system, which was pushed back to May, has been delayed to the end of the year.", "New sources of energy mean Germany is no longer dependent on Russia, Germany's finance minister said.", "Workers should think about colleagues' health, the chairwoman of the Food Standards Agency says", "The prime minister says more money will improve services but Labour's leader says he has presided over \"lethal chaos\".", "Amber and yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place across the UK, as temperatures plummet.", "One child is among 14 killed after a helicopter carrying top officials to a war \"hot spot\" crashes.", "The overall rate of price rises slowed to 10.5% in December but dairy and sugar costs grew.", "The Union has a clash on its hands, writes James Cook, BBC News's Scotland editor.", "In an ITV interview, the prince points out Buckingham Palace took more action after a recent race row.", "Nearly 1,800 patients were ready but unable to leave hospital this week, so what's the issue?", "Police issue a new photo of an unidentified man and say his first language might be Latvian.", "The Scottish Ambulance Service took hundreds of people to hospital during freezing weather last month.", "Liverpool and Wolves are forced to settle for an FA Cup third-round replay after a thrilling encounter finishes level at Anfield.", "In a new clip, he also speaks about how difficult it was to meet the public after his mother died.", "John Compton says having no government for four of the last six years has led to a health care crisis.", "The PM says his healthcare is \"a personal choice\", as a union leader urges him to \"come clean\".", "Brazilian authorities have begun to dismantle protest camps after key government buildings were stormed.", "Few in Ukraine's eastern city of Bakhmut expected Russia's declared truce to be matched with action.", "Officers speak to motorists and pedestrians, and hand out leaflets as the investigation continues.", "Social media platform Weibo says it acted over personal attacks against Chinese Covid experts.", "Steve Barclay says he will \"engage\" with unions but rejects calls to reopen current pay settlement.", "The Post Office is urging customers to redeem their energy payment voucher as soon as they get it.", "About 2,000 homes on Shetland are without power on a day when temperatures in Braemar peaked at -9.3C.", "The PM says he wants to fix the health service, but there are no easy answers, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "Mike Rogers dramatically confronts a fellow Republican after 14 rounds of voting for Kevin McCarthy.", "The Republican is finally chosen after a week of chaos and angry scenes between colleagues in his own party.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went missing with their baby after breaking down on the M61.", "Seven penguins had been isolating after an outbreak of avian flu in December, Marwell Zoo says.", "Six journalists have been detained over footage of the South Sudan president appearing to wet himself.", "BBC News NI's Marie-Louise Connolly says shocking headlines show a system that is beyond broken.", "Moscow says it killed Ukrainian forces in a \"mass missile strike\" but hasn't provided any evidence.", "With only days to go until Lula is sworn in as president, some of his opponents refuse to accept defeat.", "The PM says he wants to talk to the RCN about wages, as he is questioned on the crisis in the health service.", "Figures suggest more than four billion pieces of single-use cutlery are used in England each year.", "The PM says he is open to a \"responsible\" and \"affordable\" deal in a bid to end strike action.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were seen in Colchester on Saturday, police say.", "Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini said they had been forced to make false confessions.", "Bolsonaro supporters wearing Brazilian colours wave flags and cheer after invading the building.", "The move follows years of Covid closure and comes as a huge travel surge begins for Lunar New Year.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "The film director tells Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he has \"total sympathy\" with the idea.", "League Two Stevenage produce an incredible late comeback to stun Premier League Aston Villa and reach the FA Cup fourth round.", "Health workers offered single payment in an attempt to end NHS strikes, first minister says.", "There has been \"little progress\" in recent efforts at tackling barriers to participation in sport and physical activity in England, say an influential group of MPs.", "The billionaire has seldom been seen in public since criticising China's financial sector in 2020.", "The 77-year-old says he will rebuild a country his predecessor had reduced to \"terrible ruins\".", "Police take back control of Brazil's Congress and Supreme Court after they are overrun by protesters.", "Dozens of far-right demonstrators can be seen inside the court building with large crowds outside.", "Grief at his mother's death and anger towards his family - our royal correspondent explores Spare.", "What you need to know about industrial action taking place on Monday.", "High street retailers paid suppliers in Bangladesh less than production costs, researchers claim.", "The government will replace the current scheme at the end of March with a less generous one.", "Revelations from Prince Harry's memoir have upended a carefully co-ordinated marketing strategy.", "The Lebanese cedar predated Queen Victoria who lived at the home with Prince Albert.", "Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met health leaders to discuss ways to tackle the pressures facing the NHS.", "Two-time champion Naomi Osaka becomes latest name to withdraw from the Australian Open.", "The event, scheduled for Monday, will be livestreamed and all tickets available to the public have gone.", "Damar Hamlin thanks fans for their \"overwhelming love\" as Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs show support at their NFL game.", "The 36-hour Orthodox Christmas ceasefire is \"a cover\" to stop the Ukrainian advance, Zelensky says.", "The storm is bringing deadly flooding, landsides, winds and power outages affecting millions.", "The average annual temperature last year was more than 10C for the first time, the Met Office says.", "The deaths of eight people in recent weeks may have been caused by lengthy ambulance waiting times.", "Mourners showed their appreciation of the former pontiff during a Mass in St Peter's Square.", "Travel in and out of China gets easier from Sunday, as it moves away from its zero-Covid strategy.", "Pope Francis has been working in his predecessor's shadow, says the Vatican's most senior British official.", "Rishi Sunak also makes pledges on the economy and small boat crossings in his first major speech of 2023.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Could fresh concessions by Kevin McCarthy to the rebels give him the Speaker votes he needs?", "The 800-year-old tree at Beauly Priory had succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease.", "Labour's leader uses his New Year message to say the country can \"rebuild\" after Covid.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action this week, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Judith Paget's apology comes after a man was forced to carry his grandfather to A&E.", "Fire, ambulance and rail would have to provide minimum services in laws planned for later this year.", "The Duke of Sussex is heard in excerpts of two broadcast interviews ahead of the release of his book.", "The US House of Representatives adjourns for the night as the California congressman suffers fresh defeats.", "His team says he has been able to talk to his family and the recovery is remarkable.", "A survivor of a deadly helicopter collision in Australia is seen apparently trying to warn a pilot.", "His funeral is to take place in front of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday.", "The head of the Catholic Church pays his respects to his predecessor Benedict, who resigned in 2013.", "The Labour leader is happy to wait before setting out further details of what he would do in office.", "There were no ambulances available to respond after an 83-year-old man collapsed.", "People in Bakhmut, at the epicentre of the war, live in defiance under constant Russian bombardment.", "The government says it will not go ahead with a controversial plan to sell the broadcaster.", "Ron and Diane Hughes were visiting relatives \"after being separated by Covid\", their family say.", "The duke says those meant to defend him were feeding the media negative stories, writes the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "Huw Edwards says his former colleague Aled Glynne Davies was a \"kind and generous man\".", "Former Pope Benedict's funeral takes place at the Vatican, as Francis celebrates Mass with pilgrims.", "In his first speech of 2023, the PM also set out his priorities, including dealing with NHS backlogs.", "Furniture conservator Ben Bacon spent hours of his own time decoding cave paintings.", "The mayor of Berlin plans a youth violence summit after police and firefighters come under attack.", "Some train lines in England will not run at all today after drivers at 15 firms walk out.", "Buoyed by recent opinion polls, the party wants to start talking about its ideas for the long term.", "Russell Causley murdered his wife Carole Packman in 1985 but has never revealed where her body is.", "The loan agreement which brought Tian Tian and Yang Guang to Edinburgh Zoo ends this year.", "The former health secretary tells users they will still be able keep up with him on TikTok.", "Publishers announce January publication date and say the Duke of Sussex will reveal his \"hard-won wisdom\".", "Police found eight people, including five children, dead in a Utah home during a welfare check.", "Instant-messaging service WhatsApp is letting users connect via proxy servers so they can stay online.", "The Labour leader vows to devolve more powers to communities, using a Take Back Control Bill to do that.", "Police, who describe the death as suspicious, say more tests are needed to discover how he died.", "When there is no mobile coverage, phones will be able to send emergency texts via satellite.", "In response, furious gang members set up road blocks, set fire to vehicles and attacked a local airport.", "Mark Drakeford says he had to accept a luxury hotel stay, paid for by Qatar, on his World Cup trip.", "They want to see more awareness and use of inclusive LGBTQ+ language in Welsh.", "The amount of money paid to farmers in England for environmental work will rise, the government says.", "Several retailers said Christmas sales had seen a boost despite cold weather, rising costs and rail strikes.", "The NI secretary is expected to speak to them next week in another attempt to break the deadlock.", "The Labour leader promises to transfer powers from Westminster and turn the slogan into a \"solution\".", "The Labour leader says investment is needed but \"there is no substitute for a robust private sector\".", "Tarek Namouz sent money he received from a London council to help organise attacks in Syria.", "In his book Spare, the Duke of Sussex claims his brother pushed him to the floor, the Guardian says.", "The Duke of Sussex says the “ball is in their court” in this family dispute, in an ITV trailer.", "Court records released on Thursday have revealed new details in the case.", "Elle Edwards, who was shot on Christmas Eve in Wallasey, was a \"beautiful young woman\", a coroner says.", "Sean Patterson from London was shot and killed by a pool at a guest house in Jamaica.", "English heavy metal band Iron Maiden have been honoured with a set of twelve commemorative stamps.", "For the first time in modern history a living pope will help bury a dead pope.", "Emma Raducanu criticises the \"slippery\" courts as she retires early with an ankle injury against Viktoria Kuzmova, 11 days before the Australian Open", "The 55-year-old was one of two people rescued from flood water in a Borders village on Hogmanay.", "Scotland's national clinical director also urges people with a bug not to go to work to avoid passing it on.", "Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight to India when a passenger went into cardiac arrest", "Most of the job losses will come from human resources and retail including its shops.", "News of public figures' deaths has sparked speculation about greater losses than officials have reported.", "Police were called to waterfalls in the Brecon Beacons after two people were seen in the river.", "Mohammad Farooq is also accused of carrying out \"hostile reconnaissance\" at an RAF base.", "The mummy was found inside a sarcophagus that has remained unopened for 4,300 years.", "Barry Martin, 38, is critically ill in hospital following the blaze in the Edinburgh building.", "Novak Djokovic says it was \"not pleasant\" to deal with the controversy surrounding his father Srdjan before his Australian Open semi-final victory.", "Moscow accuses Poland of attempting to \"rewrite history\" after it is not invited to the event.", "Car production in the UK continued to fall last year, lagging further behind the US and EU.", "The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said 22 fire engines were sent to the incident in Edinburgh.", "The father-of-one had a tattoo of his mother's name on his arm and a passion for skateboarding.", "William Beer, 96, is jailed for more than two years for causing death by dangerous driving.", "Wynter Andrews' parents Gary and Sarah say the fine \"demonstrates the seriousness\" of the failings.", "Daniel Harris's far-right videos were shared by a gunman who killed 10 people in New York.", "A life insurance firm said it wanted to \"make people think\" by using the serial killer's image.", "X-Men star says although he was \"grateful\" to be recognised in 2009 - his eyes have since been opened.", "A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and theft after the incident on Thursday.", "The government in Kyiv is trying to tackle corruption head-on, but it’s a risky strategy.", "The BBC understands some workers pulled out after they were told they would be identified to Dominic Raab.", "Seven people were killed in Friday's attack with two more injured in a separate shooting on Saturday.", "The former child actor said Ryan Keira Armstrong should never have been up for consideration.", "The chancellor, who outlined a growth plan, says there will be little room for cuts in March.", "Laura Winham had refused contact with her family, who she thought were trying to harm her.", "Fans of the artist have been speculating for months about which album could be re-recorded next.", "The vehicles were burnt out in the Penilee and Hillington areas of Glasgow overnight on Thursday.", "Isla Bryson should not have been sent to a women's jail, says the ex-governor of Cornton Vale.", "Novak Djokovic dominates another opponent as he beats Tommy Paul to set up an Australian Open final against Stefanos Tsitsipas.", "Laura Winham, 38, who had schizophrenia, was found in a \"mummified, almost skeletal state\".", "Hospital bosses say they let down the family of Wynter Andrews, who died at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.", "A police report discloses more details about the snowplough accident that seriously injured the actor.", "A torrential downpour in New Zealand's largest city prompts evacuations, power cuts and other chaos.", "The head of the business lobby group claims the world of work has \"gone crazy\" since the pandemic.", "Gareth Southgate talks to BBC sports editor Dan Roan about his decision to remain England manager, the team's performance in Qatar and why he has no regrets.", "Kaylea, 16, who was found dead weighing almost 23 stone, had enjoyed sport, school staff say.", "Shoppers' purchases of medicines could flag early symptoms linked to the cancer, UK researchers say.", "Barry Martin was injured in a fire at the former department store in Edinburgh on Monday.", "The prosecution of the trust is one of only two the CQC has brought against an NHS maternity unit.", "The 21-year-old serviceman is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.", "The 20-year-old man has been held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and assisting an offender.", "The singer says Yung Gravy did not have permission to mimic his voice on the rapper's track Betty.", "Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC.", "A Republican who has criticised LGBT people becomes television comedy fodder as pictures from his past resurface.", "Police say that the attacker has now been “neutralised\" following the shooting, which happened on Holocaust Memorial Day.", "The tiny object contains Caesium-137, which could cause serious illness.", "The man had been working on the pop-up toilet, which is stored beneath the ground during the day.", "The former health secretary says he donated £10,000 of the fee to two charities.", "About the size of a bus, the space rock whipped over the southern tip of South America.", "Footage appears to show Memphis police officers striking the 29-year-old even while he's detained.", "There are fears that 2023 could see a wave of company failures as the cost of living crisis continues.", "BBC News NI understands officials are modelling different cuts and no decisions have yet been made.", "What's behind the raid on the West Bank city, which led to nine Palestinian deaths on Thursday?", "West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor Alison Lowe says she understands why some people may steal food.", "Holocaust survivors and international leaders honour the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis.", "The special police squad unit focuses on violent crime, but critics say it has a reputation for brutality.", "Nottingham Coroner's Court heard concerns over the conditions of the baby and mother were not acted on.", "A US court authorised the release of video from the October 2022 assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband.", "In 1938, Woman Ironing was sold to escape Germany. Now the heirs of the original owner want it back.", "This follows reports that rising costs could mean the rail link might stop in the suburbs of west London.", "The pop star says he’s never seen the NHS “so bad”, as he backs political change in a TV phone-in.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 20 - 27 January.", "The bodycam footage shows Mr Nichols being severely beaten and crying out for his mother.", "Isla Bryson had been remanded to a female prison after being convicted of raping two women before she changed gender.", "Absence rates from schools were higher in 2021/22 than during the pandemic or the year before.", "The chancellor says he can't see any circumstance where the high-speed rail line would not reach Euston station as planned.", "A charity says its data highlights how predators took advantage of the worldwide Covid-19 situation.", "It comes after an Israeli operation against militants in the West Bank left nine Palestinians dead.", "Eleven people have been killed and 11 others injured after strikes hit buildings in several regions.", "British windsurfer Sarah Jackson says she has relocated from the south coast of England to Tenerife for the winter because she was \"surfing in sewage everyday\".", "Those on the lowest incomes are being hit hardest by tax penalties, a non-profit says.", "Local residents describe seeing flames and \"smoke everywhere\" before the roof caved in.", "The statement is the clearest indication yet of the evidence against the British-American influencer.", "Russell Causley murdered Carole Packman in 1985 and has never revealed the whereabouts of her body.", "She started as a Bafta-nominated starlet in the 1950s and became a well-loved character actress.", "Pep Guardiola calls Nathan Ake an \"exceptional guy\" after he sends Manchester City into the FA Cup fifth round with the winner against Arsenal.", "The reshuffle comes as Russians claim to be making progress in eastern Ukraine after months of reverses.", "The ad for the singer's new album linked sexuality to a sacred symbol, the advertising watchdog says.", "The foreign secretary says Michelle O'Neill was invited to the meeting but \"chose not to come\".", "People working in 124 government departments and several other bodies will walk out on 1 February.", "The comedian says the news \"answers a lot of questions about behavioural issues in the past\".", "Responding for the first time to coverage of his book, the prince accuses some in the press of \"lies\".", "Bernard Arnault made his fortunes as chief executive of French fashion giant, LVMH.", "The government has revised its position on what can be offered to striking rail workers, the RDG says.", "A man is held over the death of Elle Edwards, who was shot outside a pub in Wallasey on Christmas Eve.", "Mr Wilson has been given a clean bill of health by his GP, allowing him to continue driving.", "Soledar in eastern Ukraine is the latest town to face an intense battle involving Russian forces.", "Air traffic in the US resumes after all domestic flights were grounded for several hours.", "The supermarket giant said customers want to see what they are buying, amid the cost-of-living crisis.", "Prince Harry's book, with sex, drugs and monarchy, reaches parts never seen before in a royal memoir.", "Andrew Bridgen suspended as Conservative MP for spreading misinformation, the chief whip says.", "The PM says he wants to fix the health service, but there are no easy answers, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Elvis superfan Carole Davies, 80, was serenaded and even got a kiss at the Elvis tribute concert.", "The walkouts follows the closure of primary schools on Tuesday in an ongoing pay dispute.", "The hosts of the award-winning podcast about dealing with cancer say they plan to stand down.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "Health trusts say it is \"too early\" to assess the strike's impact, but there will be a \"knock-on effect\" for patients.", "The government says a new law is unnecessary as there are already several offences which cover spiking.", "People in Bakhmut, at the epicentre of the war, live in defiance under constant Russian bombardment.", "The Labour leader is happy to wait before setting out further details of what he would do in office.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service stage their second walkout in a month.", "Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the shipment, which originated from Pakistan.", "Russia's Wagner mercenaries claim to be in control - but Kyiv says its troops are still holding out.", "Welsh Slate is struggling to keep up with demand from across the globe, especially from Australia.", "Women report positives, but also areas for improvement in a report by England's care regulator.", "The prime minister has previously bristled when the personal becomes political.", "Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy is on trial accused of raping women at his home.", "Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson died in the blaze at the luxury Loch Lomond resort in December 2017.", "The firm is telling customers to stop sending items abroad while it tries to resolve the issue.", "A fatal accident inquiry has heard 11 days of evidence about the Cameron House Hotel blaze.", "Russia's defence ministry and the mercenary Wagner Group give competing versions of events in Soledar.", "The infant was taken by ambulance to hospital but was not seriously injured.", "A problem with the system that alerts pilots to potential hazards caused mass delays nationwide.", "The controversial influencer remains in detention as part of a human trafficking probe.", "Rachael and Helen Patching, aged 33 and 52, from Kent, were visiting Ystradfellte while on holiday.", "A judge praised the supermarket manager's bravery as he tried to stop the thief.", "A woman who lost her mother to pancreatic cancer urges others to learn how to spot the symptoms.", "One of the officials, the former military police commander, has been arrested, local media reported.", "One of rock's most influential guitarists, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.", "Former world number one and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka announces she is pregnant.", "The PM tells MPs he has \"used independent healthcare in the past\" but is registered with an NHS GP.", "Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announces new policing plans following several damning reviews.", "Conservative Andrew Bridgen will be suspended for five days for breaching the MP's code of conduct.", "But the PM also says he has used private healthcare in the past, after previously declining to say.", "Chris Parry, 28, has been missing in Ukraine along with Andrew Bagshaw, 48, since Friday.", "An ambulance worker reveals how difficult the job now is and why they are striking.", "What you need to know about the ambulance workers' strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Sepideh Qolian tells how confessions are extracted from detainees, in a rare letter from Evin prison.", "The proposal could allow both ministers and unions to save face, but there are questions about the detail.", "Universities will receive £15m to help students struggling with living costs, the government also says.", "Irish actor Colin Farrell is recognised for his performance in the dark comedy set on a remote island.", "In extensive BBC interviews, Shamima Begum also reveals the detailed planning before she joined IS at 15.", "Alireza Akbari's wife says his family were told to go to his prison in Tehran for a \"final visit\".", "Health managers say Wednesday's walkout in England and Wales will be harder to cope with.", "The Tesla and Twitter boss has seen his fortune fall by $165bn (£135bn) since November 2021.", "Molly Sampson went beachcombing for a fossil from the largest macropredator to exist, and found this.", "The attacker is shot by off-duty police officers after injuring six people at Gare du Nord station.", "The Australian cardinal's convictions on child abuse charges, quashed on appeal, shocked the Church.", "It is \"time to take action to address our shameful past,\" says the Archbishop of Canterbury.", "The mother of Simon Midgley says he told her he was having a fabulous time with his partner before the Cameron House blaze.", "Tatjana Patitz, one of the 1990's most prominent supermodels, died in California.", "Arsenal extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points with an outstanding performance and win in the north London derby at Tottenham.", "A seven-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting and five others were hurt.", "A man is held on suspicion of dangerous driving after a crash at what police believe was a \"car meet\".", "Searchers say the chances of finding anyone alive are \"nil\" after the crash near the town of Pokhara.", "Officers would be able to shut down protests before they cause serious disruption, under new plans.", "The UK Labour leader voices \"concerns\" about the Scottish government's reforms to the process.", "The landslip in Hampshire has severely damaged the track between London Waterloo and Basingstoke.", "Ticket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides networks will stay the same until September.", "Several cities were struck including Dnipro, where an apartment block was hit, killing at least 20.", "The step, approved in 2021, means the country now has one of the world's strictest anti-tobacco laws.", "Alzheimer's Research UK said the findings were encouraging but said more and larger studies were needed.", "After delivering what manager Jurgen Klopp described as their worst game of his Liverpool tenure, where do the struggling Reds go from here?", "Refugees who have been living on a cruise ship say they are ready to integrate into Scottish life.", "One scientist on why we should all pay more attention to the hidden world beneath our feet.", "Incentives are being used by businesses to lure workers back to hotels, restaurants and pubs.", "Health Secretary Steve Barclay says voluntary arrangements could not ensure public's safety.", "A boy who was thrown from a viewing platform has made \"considerable progress\", his family say.", "The Labour leader criticises the \"bureaucracy\" in some parts of the health service as he calls for change.", "The RCN wants progress in negotiations by the end of January or says it will ballot more members.", "Vehicles including a Rolls-Royce and Mercedes were taken away from the influencer's Romanian home.", "The UK described the Iranian regime, which sentenced Alireza Akbari to death for spying, as \"barbaric\".", "Labour are ahead in the polls, but leader Keir Starmer has his work cut out, writes Laura Kuenssberg.", "Demonstrators in Tel Aviv say government plans to overhaul the judiciary would be an attack on democracy.", "A widespread frost is expected overnight, which could see temperatures drop as low as -4C.", "Due to a new machine bought by his school, Jacob has stood up and moved his legs for the first time.", "Video posted on social media shows an aircraft flying low over a populated area before banking sharply.", "Kathryn Dumphreys says if cars with a known fault had been withdrawn, her husband would not have died.", "More than 100 flood warnings are in place across the UK, as a cold weather alert is also issued.", "SNP members are being offered two new routes to independence - a vote at the next general election or at the next Holyrood one.", "At least 19 people have died and millions are at risk of flooding as storms drench California.", "The Labour leader says he wants to \"look at all sorts of reform\" to help preserve the health service.", "A girl is in a life-threatening condition after a shooting which injured another child and four women.", "A machine is allowing disabled pupils at one school to experience walking for the first time.", "The party says the next UK election will either be a de facto referendum or a mandate for an indyref2 vote in 2026.", "The Scottish SPCA said the boa constrictors were discovered by a member of the public in Blanefield.", "Arfon Jones says he fells like he gave someone \"a nice Christmas present\".", "The US president's lawyers found additional documents at his property in Delaware.", "A clash between the UK and Scottish governments could be imminent if a bill is blocked by UK ministers.", "The woman was hiking with two other people on Mont Blanc's Argentière Glacier, say French police.", "Officials say fighters affiliated to the Islamic State group carried out the attack which killed 17 people.", "The man suffered multiple injuries following the incident at Grey Mare's Tail waterfall, near Moffat.", "A man in his 60s, held on suspicion of terror offences over the incident, has been released on bail.", "Chelsea complete the signing of Ukraine forward Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk on an eight-and-a-half-year deal.", "A yellow weather warning for ice is issued for parts of the UK, with snow and frost in coming days.", "The death toll rises to 40 after a Russian missile wrecked an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.", "Rishi Sunak confirms the tanks will be provided during a call with President Zelensky.", "The Crown Estate has filed a High Court claim against the social media firm over the alleged arrears.", "World Athletics has proposed continuing to allow transgender women to compete in female international track and field events.", "Gary Hemming, from Edinburgh, has multiple convictions for violence spanning 20 years.", "The fans were celebrating with a replica trophy but were arrested for staging an illegal procession.", "Ulf Kristersson is criticised after hiring an aide who had broken poaching laws and misled police.", "The Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency review is being supported by the Archbishop of Liverpool.", "The former head of Welsh women's rugby claims a male colleague made the comment in a busy office.", "The man in his 60s was found unresponsive in a Tesco car park after the suspected robbery in Stroud.", "A bus driver is held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop.", "Men must defend the rights of Afghan women and girls, a professor at a Kabul university says.", "Great Britain's Ellie Downie has announced her retirement from gymnastics at the age of 23.", "The Turkish president's warning comes after protests in Sweden, including a Quran burning.", "The inquiry will examine if the process complied with government rules on public roles.", "Londoners have been asked to avoid unnecessary car journeys and not burn garden waste during the alert.", "Some LGBT fans have questioned the US singer's decision to perform in the United Arab Emirates.", "The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service says five firefighters were treated in hospital after tackling the blaze in Edinburgh.", "The former chancellor is under pressure after it was revealed he paid a penalty to HMRC last year related to unpaid tax.", "Moscow accuses Estonia of \"total Russophobia\" after Tallinn reduced its diplomat numbers.", "Women say they considered suicide because of a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the Welsh Rugby Union.", "Industry body the Food & Drink Federation says supermarkets are already \"very tough\" on suppliers.", "Erin Reid says her product is aimed at hikers, kayakers, military personnel and festival goers.", "Police say they are searching for the driver of a car that failed to stop after the incident.", "The PM is forced to confront three issues that test promises he made on his first day in the job.", "The UK's two biggest steelmakers are expected to get support to move away from old-fashioned coal.", "Emma Whitfield's son Jack was mauled to death by an American XL bully dog named Beast.", "Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton says he had bananas thrown at him and was regularly racially abused when he was at school.", "Two of the people killed by a gunman as they took a ballroom dancing class have been identified.", "The mass shooting which killed 10 has brought the issue of gun violence to the heart of a tightknit community", "Bulldogs, including the new American Bully breed, are being bred with hugely exaggerated characteristics.", "The Conservative party chairman paid a penalty to resolve a dispute over unpaid tax, the BBC has been told.", "Jake Davison killed his mother and then shot dead four others, including a girl, in Plymouth.", "Brandon Tsay, who works at his family's dance hall, is credited with averting another tragedy.", "The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said 22 fire engines were sent to the incident in Edinburgh.", "The Labour leader says Nadhim Zahawi is not going to resign and the PM should sack him.", "The Cabinet Office, BBC chairman and Boris Johnson deny suggestions of a conflict of interest.", "Hundreds of fans travelled to Graceland to pay their respects to the late singer, who died aged 54.", "Judy Chu says the city of Monterey Park is \"resilient\" and will recover after 10 people were killed.", "On their behalf, Priscilla Presley read the tribute at a memorial service for her daughter Lisa Marie Presley.", "Chairman John Allan says it is \"entirely possible\" food producers are taking advantage of the poorest.", "The BBC chairman helped him secure a loan guarantee weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role, a paper says.", "The northernmost city of Mohe has recorded temperatures of -53C, its lowest on record.", "Customers are telling us how they are changing their use to save money, and our expert is answering your questions.", "Chris Hipkins vows to protect his family from the treatment his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received.", "Grace Jones will be joined by Pavement and Roisin Murphy at the top of Bluedot's bill, organisers say.", "Rishi Sunak says there are \"questions that need answering\" over the Conservative party chairman's tax affairs.", "Staff are \"desperately\" trying to do their job, says South Western Ambulance Service's leader.", "Romario Henry is convicted of a knifepoint robbery at the family home of the elite British cyclist in Essex.", "Welsh rugby was warned about \"deep rooted\" cultural problems before sexism claims were made public.", "The British actor went missing on 13 January during a mountain hike near Los Angeles.", "Everton sack manager Frank Lampard after less than a year in charge, with the club second from bottom of the Premier League.", "Palestinian Sally Azar became the region's first female church leader at an event in Jerusalem.", "The music-streaming company says it is shedding 6% of its workforce.", "Richard Sharp apologises for the \"distraction\" amid claims he helped secure a loan for Boris Johnson.", "Reporters followed Dr Jo Wilson over several months as her husband navigated the social care system.", "Teddy, from Portishead, now four, can also count to 100 in six non-native languages.", "Some people on benefits will receive £25 within the next two weeks after temperatures drop.", "Jared O'Mara. 41, is alleged to have submitted fake invoices worth nearly £30,000.", "British Airways says it has had to cancel around 80 flights out of the airport on Monday.", "Police identify Huu Can Tran as the man who opened fire in an area with a large Asian population.", "Ukrainian civilians are returning to Lyman, close to the front line, despite the threat of strikes.", "It happened after power grids were turned on in the morning, leaving millions without electricity.", "The former prime minister says it is a \"privilege\" to visit the country once more.", "Aerial video shows a vehicle which may hold the suspect after 10 people were shot dead in Monterey Park.", "Newly-released cabinet papers show ministers were worried about sensitivities over shooting contests.", "As the new year sweeps west across the globe, cities are marking it with spectacular fireworks and light displays.", "Non-league footballer Cody Fisher was fatally attacked at a club in Birmingham on Boxing Day.", "She was a member of the Pointer Sisters, the 70s band whose hits included Jump (For My Love) and Fire.", "The BBC's Steve Rosenberg on the Kremlin's alternative reality as 2023 begins.", "The RSPCA shares some of the strangest animal rescues from the past year.", "More than 8,000 performers delight flag-waving crowds at an annual parade in central London.", "The Most Reverend Justin Welby uses his new year's message to highlight the social care crisis.", "Kyrylo Budanov says neither side can make significant advances, and eyes advanced Western weapons.", "The head of the Catholic Church pays his respects to his predecessor Benedict, who resigned in 2013.", "Teresa Hanson, 53, appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court charged with killing her husband Paul Hanson.", "A trip to the beach changed Matthew Bassett's life - now he's determined to say yes to everything.", "It is the latest place to approve the process - considered to be greener than a burial or cremation.", "The West must be in it for the \"long haul\" as Russia shows no signs of relenting, says Nato's chief.", "Another man was seriously injured in the avalanche on the north face of the mountain.", "The new year was marked with fireworks displays and street parties despite the wet weather.", "The Wikileaks founder fighting extradition to the US will seek leave from Belmarsh, his wife says.", "A viral video shows the pair performing a rendition of Abba's Waterloo in a Braemar hotel.", "Gary McKee had been aiming to reach the target for charity, having run 26.2 miles every day this year.", "Local wildlife experts say it may be the first time a walrus has been seen in Yorkshire.", "Charity Oscar Birmingham says the cold leads to painful sickle cell flare-ups and hospital stays.", "Russia's leader is a \"guilty man\", says the barrister who led the case against Serbia's ex-leader Milosevic.", "After life-saving heart surgery, one task on Dai Jones' bucket list could not wait.", "People across the country welcomed in the new year with parties, fireworks and a few drams.", "A nurse says she is heartbroken that nothing can be done to save her house from coastal erosion.", "Watch a selection of some of the most momentous stories covered by BBC News this year.", "Some energy suppliers are changing their tariffs in January, as the government reduces support.", "The 77-year-old says he will rebuild a country his predecessor had reduced to \"terrible ruins\".", "Ice alerts are in force for the whole of Scotland, much of northern England and Northern Ireland.", "From eating grapes in Madrid to a mass of balloons in Wuhan - how people have seen in the new year around the world.", "Ukraine's president says his country will never forgive Russians for the terror they have inflicted.", "Volunteers are needed to help identify sharks, skates and rays as part of a conservation project.", "The Viking Orion is denied entry to Australia until divers remove the potentially harmful material.", "The council called off the fireworks display over concerns it \"could cause distress to the mammal\".", "The 31-year-old had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but has now been released.", "The vote has been hailed a victory by Palestinians and described as \"despicable\" by Israel.", "The West Coast Mainline is closed between Carlisle and Scotland as a clean-up takes place after Friday's floods.", "In an ITV interview, the prince points out Buckingham Palace took more action after a recent race row.", "Fresh accusations emerge in South Africa against former teacher at Boris Johnson's elite prep school.", "Police issue a new photo of an unidentified man and say his first language might be Latvian.", "Dozens of people stripped off in stations around London for the global \"no trousers\" event.", "Prince Harry tells a US interviewer his mother would have been upset at the fallout between her sons.", "John Compton says having no government for four of the last six years has led to a health care crisis.", "The PM says his healthcare is \"a personal choice\", as a union leader urges him to \"come clean\".", "Brazilian authorities have begun to dismantle protest camps after key government buildings were stormed.", "Renters are being hit harder than owners by rising housing costs, official data shows.", "A modified jumbo jet will fly out of Cornwall on a mission to send nine satellites to orbit.", "Officers speak to motorists and pedestrians, and hand out leaflets as the investigation continues.", "The first UK attempt to take satellites into space ends after the rocket fails to reach orbit.", "Harry May is charged under the Public Order Act after an incident in Luton in December.", "A crowd gathered in Karaj amid reports authorities were preparing to execute another two protesters.", "Workers protest at an antigen test kit factory in over layoff and wage disputes, videos show.", "Negotiations over teachers' pay are described as \"constructive\" but break up without agreement.", "Moscow says it killed Ukrainian forces in a \"mass missile strike\" but hasn't provided any evidence.", "A judge says it is up to political leaders, not the courts, to find a resolution to the health crisis.", "President Lula has questioned police actions in failing to prevent the storming of government buildings.", "James Watt says he made some \"costly mistakes\" in ads offering people a chance to win gold cans.", "Mark Drakeford says he cannot meet union demands ahead of talks to avert further industrial action.", "The PM says he is open to a \"responsible\" and \"affordable\" deal in a bid to end strike action.", "Thousands of protesters ransacked the Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasília.", "Figures suggest more than four billion pieces of single-use cutlery are used in England each year.", "The first minister warns of \"exceptional and severe\" pressure on Scotland's health services.", "As Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, locals in Brasilia were forced to shelter in fear.", "Steve Easterbrook was fired in 2019 after the firm found he had had a consensual relationship with an employee.", "Tony Stowell says his mother's care home took two days to tell the family they had put her on end-of-life care.", "A global agreement in 1987 to ban chemicals harming the ozone layer is working, scientists say.", "The NHS is being given an extra £250m to buy beds in care homes as it grapples with a winter crisis.", "Piotr Krowka's body was found in a derelict former parochial house in Maghera in 2018.", "A 17-year-old boy admits murdering Jermaine Cools, London's youngest stabbing victim in 2021.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were seen in Colchester on Saturday, police say.", "Camilla needed to rehabilitate her image and forged press connections, Prince Harry says in a CBS interview.", "Bolsonaro supporters wearing Brazilian colours wave flags and cheer after invading the building.", "Heavy rain brought by a tropical cyclone has hit Western Australia, leaving communities stranded.", "League Two Stevenage produce an incredible late comeback to stun Premier League Aston Villa and reach the FA Cup fourth round.", "Irish broadcaster RTÉ announces Public Image Ltd will compete with five other acts for the title.", "BMA Scotland deputy chair Dr Lailah Peel says patients safety is \"at risk every day\" in hospitals.", "A search is under way for British nationals Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry in Ukraine.", "Ministers are hinting publicly and privately that they might be willing to compromise.", "Morwen Griffiths had low oxygen levels and suspected sepsis, but there were no hospital beds.", "Some 89% of people in Henan province have been infected but visits to clinics have peaked.", "Dozens of far-right demonstrators can be seen inside the court building with large crowds outside.", "Police take back control of Brazil's Congress and Supreme Court after they are overrun by protesters.", "Beth Matthews, a patient at a psychiatric hospital, ordered the substance online, an inquest hears.", "What you need to know about industrial action taking place on Monday.", "A trial of two men hears the elite cyclist's home was broken into and high-value watches were stolen.", "The proposal could allow both ministers and unions to save face, but there are questions about the detail.", "The Foreign Office repeats its warning to Iran to end \"brutal repression\" of anti-regime protesters.", "Critics say there are a number of reasons why the health service is struggling during the current crisis.", "High street retailers paid suppliers in Bangladesh less than production costs, researchers claim.", "The government will replace the current scheme at the end of March with a less generous one.", "Unite says NHS talks were a \"missed opportunity\", as unions say planned strikes will go ahead.", "Wales captain Gareth Bale announces his retirement from football at the age of 33.", "Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is discharged from a Cincinnati hospital one week after suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game.", "The Brazilian president, who has declared emergency powers, is vowing to punish those involved.", "A Middlesbrough doctor is among five people to become the stars of a set of modern folk songs.", "The Labour leader says the sector needs a strategic plan, following the collapse of Britishvolt.", "The BBC's Alex Forsyth speaks to local councils struggling with the rising cost of regeneration.", "Nadia Zofia Kalinowska died after being found injured at her family home in Newtownabbey in December 2019.", "NRS figures show there were 121 deaths last week where flu was mentioned on the death certificate.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service stage their second walkout in a month.", "A crew member will also be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the death of Halyna Hutchins.", "A military bomb disposal team removes a suspected mortar bomb from a recycling centre.", "Unions say one-off payment not enough for workers after talks with Wales' health minister.", "The King wants to cut the royal slice of Crown Estate profits, which are rising after a £1bn wind farm deal.", "As the self-assessment deadline looms, the tax authority will answer callers' simple questions by text.", "It is unclear how many others are missing and hundreds of rescuers are at the scene.", "Ukraine's interior minister is among the 14 killed in the helicopter crash beside a nursery.", "A review found 23 areas needing “urgent” attention at the Perth hotel where three people died.", "The charges relate to an investigation into a serving Met chief inspector, who was later found dead.", "The prime minister said taking an RAF jet to Blackpool made him more effective at his job.", "Train companies have increased their offer to RMT rail workers in an attempt to prevent more strikes.", "After police appealed for doorbell footage, the attempted burglar was identified and jailed.", "Labour says North East England is \"one of the big losers\" from the latest funding to boost deprived areas.", "Ukraine's interior minister and a child were among those killed when a helicopter came down near Kyiv.", "High Court papers show Cardiff City sought £20m coverage for the striker the day after he died.", "Two other women died at the same hospital as blogger Beth Matthews weeks before her death, the BBC finds.", "\"We are not extras for Greta Thunberg\" police say, after false claims her detainment at a protest was set up.", "The streaming service is attracting new customers as co-founder Reed Hastings hands over the reins.", "High-risk patient Beth Matthews, 26, was given \"inadequate care\" before her death, an inquest rules.", "The Met Police chief inspector, who was found dead at home, had been arrested for various offences.", "It's the first day of action by the Unite union and follows two days of GMB walkouts.", "The reality TV star paid over £163,000 at Sotheby's for a necklace worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.", "What you need to know about the nurses' strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Labour uses Davos appearance to promise a boost for foreign investment and green industries.", "An MP who was cautioned for assaulting his wife could run against his former party, Plaid Cymru.", "A look back at the New Zealand prime minister's first term in office.", "The baby's mother, Constance Marten, is from a wealthy family but is now estranged from them, say police.", "Crosby is remembered as a \"genius\" for co-founding The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.", "Julian Sands, 65, was last seen hiking in the San Gabriel mountains last week during bad weather.", "It would have cost less to settle earlier but reforms remained necessary, rail minister tells MPs.", "The law, which automatically makes people organ donors, cannot go forward without Stormont.", "Italian police have discovered a bunker used by Matteo Messina Denaro following his arrest on Tuesday.", "The US and nine European nations promise more firepower ahead of a major donor conference on Friday.", "Environmental campaigners want a stop to throwaway e-cigarettes, which contain lithium batteries.", "The high-profile businessman criticises the government for its \"short-sighted\" approach to business.", "Education Minister Jeremy Miles says the cost of living \"should never be a barrier\" to university.", "Andy Street calls for an end to \"begging bowl culture\" as £2.1bn is allocated to local projects.", "The fashion chain sold more items and for higher prices despite cost-of-living pressures.", "A weather warning for snow and ice across Northern Ireland is extended until noon on Thursday.", "Kaylea, 16, was found dead at home, weighing almost 23 stone and on soiled sheets, a court hears.", "Four officers are investigated after the 15-year-old was strip-searched eight days after Child Q.", "The mayor of Amiens believes the singer owns the artwork, Diana and Endymion, which once hung in its museum.", "Emission cuts must be accompanied by greater efforts to remove CO2 from the atmosphere a new report says.", "The 999 operator did not know when an ambulance would arrive to treat five year old Niamh.", "Ex-Crawley Town boss John Yems directed racist abuse towards his players, a panel finds.", "The Labour leader has a glowing reputation among liberals, but critics say she has failed on promises.", "The New Zealand leader's decision shows the pressures she felt both from herself and the outside world.", "The one-day national strike action in France is also affecting Eurostar rail services.", "The World War One epic is the first film to score 14 or more nominations since The King's Speech in 2011.", "The prime minister has apologised for removing his seat belt while filming a clip for social media.", "Andy Murray produces one of his best fightbacks from two sets down to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in an epic Australian Open match finishing at 04:05 local time.", "Armed officers were sent to the zoo after reports of the break-in were shared on social media.", "Those born as a result of rape will be explicitly defined as victims under the law, the government says.", "The UN sends in its most senior team since the Taliban retook power to try to avert a looming famine.", "An independent watchdog warns that England is facing a 'deeply concerning decline in biodiversity'.", "Beth Matthews opened a parcel which she claimed contained \"protein powder\", an inquest jury is told.", "Protesters take to the streets across France over plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.", "Louise Kam was strangled and dumped in a bin after a plan to \"plunder\" her life savings went wrong.", "David Sutherland also illustrated Dennis the Menace cartoons during a long career at the comic.", "The most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began had not been long in the government.", "A grant of £5.1m is given to 20 local rugby clubs while Belfast's Strand cinema gets £4m.", "Beth Matthews, 26, ordered a poisonous substance and ingested it while at a mental health unit.", "Jake Davison had his licence revoked in 2020 but police returned it in 2021 ahead of the shooting in Plymouth.", "Napier Marten told his estranged daughter Constance he was \"deeply concerned\" for their welfare.", "Jacinda Ardern ended up more popular abroad than at home and leaves a largely unfinished reform agenda.", "An opposition party described the situation as \"a horror show\", calling for urgent improvements.", "Andrew Harding goes under fire on the front line in eastern Ukraine after recent Russian gains.", "The German Chancellor is under pressure to supply tanks to Ukraine, but will not do so without US approval.", "Travellers are still being advised to contact their airline for flight information.", "Amanda Spielman says she is \"not comfortable\" with younger children having unlimited internet access.", "One senior police officer said serial predator David Carrick 'was one of us - like it or not'.", "The 36-hour Orthodox Christmas ceasefire is \"a cover\" to stop the Ukrainian advance, Zelensky says.", "Former Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli, who played 59 times for Italy, dies at the age 58.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "Denise Coates is one of the richest women in Britain, having founded the firm in Stoke-on-Trent.", "Police are investigating after the designer's body was discovered dumped at the roadside.", "The British Medical Association says it rejects the Welsh government advice.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went missing with their baby after breaking down on the M61.", "There was a huge response from the emergency services following the blaze in the Scottish city.", "The Post Office is urging customers to redeem their energy payment voucher as soon as they get it.", "Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville says talks with unions were \"constructive and helpful\".", "Fire, ambulance and rail would have to provide minimum services in laws planned for later this year.", "What you need to know about the rail strike and other industrial action, by the BBC's Zoe Conway.", "The prince says he took psychedelics 'like medicine' as a form of therapy to cope with royal life.", "In his book, Harry says killing 25 Taliban fighters was like removing chess pieces from a board.", "The US House of Representatives adjourns for the night as the California congressman suffers fresh defeats.", "His team says he has been able to talk to his family and the recovery is remarkable.", "Romeo Beckham, son of former England captain David, joins Brentford's B team on loan from Inter Miami II until the end of the season.", "The Republican is finally chosen after a week of chaos and angry scenes between colleagues in his own party.", "\"That was easy, huh?\" quipped the congressman as he clinched the prized gavel after four gruelling days.", "The duke says those meant to defend him were feeding the media negative stories, writes the BBC's Jonny Dymond.", "Police and fire officers launch a probe into the deaths of three people at the New County Hotel.", "BBC News NI's Marie-Louise Connolly says shocking headlines show a system that is beyond broken.", "UK-wide industrial action by RMT union members is continuing on Friday and Saturday.", "Former Pope Benedict's funeral takes place at the Vatican, as Francis celebrates Mass with pilgrims.", "A unilateral ceasefire called by Russia breaks down within hours of coming into effect.", "Republican Kevin McCarthy's bid for the role has been thwarted repeatedly by rebels in his own party.", "The average UK house price fell by 1.5% to £281,272 in December, according to Halifax.", "More electricity in Great Britain last year came from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 December - 6 January.", "Favourable conditions on Scotland's slopes come as some resorts elsewhere struggle for snow.", "Covid affected one in 25 people while hospitalisations for flu increased most in under ones.", "Hazrat Wali, 18, was stabbed in Twickenham in October 2021. A youth, 17, is on trial for murder.", "Police found eight people, including five children, dead in a Utah home during a welfare check.", "The number of LGBT+ people living in England and Wales has been revealed in the 2021 census.", "Claire is thinking of leaving her job so she can take her seven-year-old daughter to school.", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "Cases are surging as the country reopens after the sudden reversal of three years of restrictions.", "Donna Janse Van Rensburg, Sharon McLean and Keith Russell died in a fire at the New County Hotel.", "Members of a union for doctors are to be balloted over a 72-hour walkout in March in England.", "The government is working with German pharmaceutical company BioNTech on new ways to fight cancer.", "In response, furious gang members set up road blocks, set fire to vehicles and attacked a local airport.", "When there is no mobile coverage, phones will be able to send emergency texts via satellite.", "Police, who describe the death as suspicious, say more tests are needed to discover how he died.", "The Labour leader promises to transfer powers from Westminster and turn the slogan into a \"solution\".", "The British-Australian actor died aged 83 last Wednesday at her Sydney home after a long illness.", "People say Evri claim to have tried delivering, despite video doorbells showing no courier arriving.", "A lack of oil caused a helicopter to come down over Eryri, also known as Snowdonia, report finds.", "The airline has updated its workwear for the first time in 20 years with designs by Ozwald Boateng.", "Brendan Clarke-Smith says it is unlikely firefighters earning £32,000 a year were using food banks.", "Grief at his mother's death and anger towards his family - our royal correspondent explores Spare.", "Katharine Birbalsingh has attracted controversy since being appointed in late 2021.", "The star tops the charts as an independent artist, after her label refused to release her debut album.", "The Rail Delivery Group says its offer would see wages for drivers rise by £5,000 by the end of 2023.", "Revelations from Prince Harry's memoir have upended a carefully co-ordinated marketing strategy.", "The deadlock will continue, since no business can go ahead until a speaker is picked.", "Data from 50 universities shows 28% of courses are like this, compared with 4.1% before the pandemic.", "But Rishi Sunak says ensuring basic services are provided during strikes is \"entirely reasonable\".", "The Crown Estate has filed a High Court claim against the social media firm over the alleged arrears.", "Birmingham City Council acts after police cite \"terrifying risks\" at the venue where Cody Fisher died.", "Campaign group Enough is Enough says 44 people have died on the road since 2007.", "Richard Sharp says he is confident there was no conflict of interest and he welcomed an inquiry.", "Government borrowing hit the highest level for a December since records began in 1993.", "A top aide and deputy defence minister are among those to resign as Kyiv tackles corruption reports.", "Women around the country are sending us updates, describing their lives under Taliban rule.", "The pop star joins a growing group of artists who have cashed out on their catalogues.", "Kwasi Kwarteng's rejection of electricity link from Portsmouth to France is overturned in High Court.", "Investigators produce a facial reconstruction of a man found dead in East Dunbartonshire in 2011.", "Rhian Bowen Davies says Steve Phillips' apology is \"not enough\" and he \"should take responsibility\".", "Great Britain's Ellie Downie has announced her retirement from gymnastics at the age of 23.", "Barry Martin, 38, is critically ill in hospital following the blaze in the Edinburgh building.", "Conservative Party chairman and ex-Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi is facing a probe into his financial affairs.", "The Turkish president's warning comes after protests in Sweden, including a Quran burning.", "The inquiry will examine if the process complied with government rules on public roles.", "Russia has downplayed the impact of the move, saying Western tanks will \"burn like all the rest\".", "The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service says five firefighters were treated in hospital after tackling the blaze in Edinburgh.", "The indie sci-fi comedy drama starring Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis has emerged as the frontrunner.", "A federal lawsuit alleges the tech giant's anti-competitive actions mean more websites need paywalls.", "Andrea Riseborough's nomination for a low-budget drama is one of several to surprise awards pundits.", "The PM is forced to confront three issues that test promises he made on his first day in the job.", "Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy sets out plans for closer security ties with the EU.", "Two of the people killed by a gunman as they took a ballroom dancing class have been identified.", "Wales is set to become the first UK nation to introduce a mandatory national licensing scheme.", "A suspect is held after farm workers are shot dead, two days after a gunman took 11 lives at a dancing club.", "The royal baby will be the 13th in line to the British throne.", "Nursery children were rescued from flooding in Milngavie, and supplies across Glasgow were disrupted.", "The rapper turns heads in full body paint and 30,000 crystals at Schiaparelli's Paris catwalk show.", "The Conservative party chairman paid a penalty to resolve a dispute over unpaid tax, the BBC has been told.", "Michelle Yeoh's Everything Everywhere All At Once is the frontrunner in the Hollywood awards.", "Politicians want to trial allowing people to work fewer hours on the same salary.", "Two British nationals are reported missing in Ukraine. Here's what we know so far.", "Jordan Kirkpatrick's first-half goal gives sixth-tier Darvel a historic victory over seven-time winners Aberdeen.", "Proposals for a one-off payment from Welsh government are rejected by Royal College of Nurses.", "In November, Walliams admitted making \"disrespectful comments\" about two past contestants.", "The women and equalities committee accuses the government of \"glacial progress\" on menopause.", "The new super space telescope has been studying some of the darkest, coldest regions of space.", "These films and actors could feature in Tuesday's nominations - where a few records could be broken.", "Minister Robert Jenrick says it is \"extremely concerning\" that about 200 children have gone from hotels.", "Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls says it's time for the firm \"to come to the table and negotiate\".", "Rishi Sunak says there are \"questions that need answering\" over the Conservative party chairman's tax affairs.", "The billionaire is accused of defrauding investors after a tweet claiming he had support for a deal.", "The government declares a medical emergency and ex-president Bolsonaro is accused of \"genocide\".", "The British actor went missing on 13 January during a mountain hike near Los Angeles.", "He tells the BBC that Germany has a \"special responsibility\", having spent so much on Russian gas.", "The PM's ethics adviser is examining if the Conservative Party chairman broke the ministers' rule book.", "There are fears that 2023 could see a wave of company failures as the cost of living crisis continues.", "Reporters followed Dr Jo Wilson over several months as her husband navigated the social care system.", "Isla Bryson carried out the rapes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as a man.", "Teddy, from Portishead, now four, can also count to 100 in six non-native languages.", "The files were passed to the FBI following their discovery by the former US vice-president's lawyer.", "The BBC's James Clayton visited the tunnel network carrying passengers in Tesla cars.", "Jared O'Mara. 41, is alleged to have submitted fake invoices worth nearly £30,000.", "Jordan McSweeney beat Zara Aleena to death as she walked home from a night out in east London.", "Small businesses are still unable to send new parcels overseas two weeks after the Royal Mail cyber-attack.", "Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw were killed in Soledar, eastern Ukraine, family members say.", "CCTV shows Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, who are missing with their baby, shopping in London.", "Hospital admissions peaked on 29 December, putting significant pressure on services, NHS bosses say.", "The government is urged to take 25 actions by 2025 and phase out gas boilers within a decade.", "Brad trains five times a week, but is still trying to convince his friends it is more than pompoms.", "Bernard Arnault made his fortunes as chief executive of French fashion giant, LVMH.", "The CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has been chosen as president-designate of key climate meeting.", "The group said its team was working \"around the clock\" to resolve disruption caused by a \"cyber incident\".", "The 18-year-old is detained in Birmingham on suspicion of murdering Cody Fisher.", "The monarch made his first public engagement in Scotland after Prince Harry's memoir was published.", "Heavy rains and strong winds cause disruption in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "The incident has sparked outrage with many accusing the man of deliberately targeting people.", "Rising British star Jack Draper will play top seed Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open first round, with Andy Murray also handed a tough draw.", "People in Bakhmut, at the epicentre of the war, live in defiance under constant Russian bombardment.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service stage their second walkout in a month.", "The political leaders had a \"robust\" exchange on Scottish independence, it is understood.", "Ruined buildings and cratered landscape around the town in eastern Ukraine can be seen in the new images.", "The children had to leave their school when the government moved their families to the north of England.", "Unions say one-off payment not enough for workers after talks with Wales' health minister.", "Former world number one and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka announces she is pregnant.", "The NHS says there is an \"urgent need\" for ethnic minority organ donors to help find the best matches.", "New research reveals dolphins struggle to communicate and work together as noise pollution increases.", "Hollywood stars wore a variety of eye-catching outfits to the ceremony in Los Angeles", "The actress dedicated her Golden Globes award to other minority actors in Hollywood.", "Hospitals are having their worst winter in a generation, with doctors warning lives are being lost. How did the NHS get here?", "Nearly 40 Tory MPs want tech bosses to face time in prison if they fail to protect children online.", "Researchers claim to put a number on what Exxon knew about temperature rise as early as the 1970s.", "Minister denies weakening the Online Safety Bill after dropping the \"legal but harmful\" material measures.", "The original cache is under review by US prosecutors, in a political embarrassment for the White House.", "The US dancer and choreographer has had surgery and is in the care of \"an excellent team of doctors\".", "As the NHS enters the difficult winter period, find out what's happening in your area.", "One of rock's most influential guitarists, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.", "Police watchdog reports a lack of consistency in quality of responses from officers called to incidents.", "But rules to tackle \"legal but harmful\" material will change over free-speech fears, a minister says.", "The birth of the critically endangered Western chimpanzee offers hope to the species, Chester Zoo says.", "Alireza Akbari's wife says his family were told to go to his prison in Tehran for a \"final visit\".", "The fashion chain sold more items and for higher prices despite cost-of-living pressures.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Andrew Bridgen suspended as Conservative MP for spreading misinformation, the chief whip says.", "A Russian mercenary group says it has found the body of one of two missing Britons in Ukraine - the claim has not been verified.", "The NUS apologises and says it will implement all recommendations listed in an independent report.", "Women report positives, but also areas for improvement in a report by England's care regulator.", "The prime minister has previously bristled when the personal becomes political.", "The \"extraordinary\" payment went to the boss of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.", "The chair of a review into 2,000 mental health deaths says it cannot continue without legal support.", "A special counsel has been appointed to investigate the US president's handling of classified documents.", "The University and College Union said the \"the clock is ticking\" for a deal to be reached over pay.", "Lesley Weekley says she had to call 999 six times as her husband suffered a heart attack.", "Homes are flooded, train lines are blocked and bus services are delayed after days of heavy rain.", "The EIS union says it is \"disappointed\" that no new offer was made in the ongoing pay row.", "The reshuffle comes as Russians claim to be making progress in eastern Ukraine after months of reverses.", "Nearly all of the metals, used in mobile phones, electric cars and wind turbines, come from China.", "Soledar in eastern Ukraine is the latest town to face an intense battle involving Russian forces.", "The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting Liverpool, where they officially opened a new hospital.", "The 18-month hunt for the last resting place of a dog who played Greyfriars Bobby ends in success.", "The government says a new law is unnecessary as there are already several offences which cover spiking.", "London mayor's call for closer ties with the EU puts him at odds with the Labour leader on Brexit.", "Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson died in the blaze at the luxury Loch Lomond resort in December 2017.", "See the full list of nominees for the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards, being updated live with winners.", "The firm is telling customers to stop sending items abroad while it tries to resolve the issue.", "Russia's defence ministry and the mercenary Wagner Group give competing versions of events in Soledar.", "New forecasts by Investec suggest energy bills could fall below £2,500 from July as wholesale gas prices fall.", "Nicola Sturgeon and Rishi Sunak meet for the first time since he became prime minister.", "The 26-year-old midfielder was pulled over by police in the early hours of the morning.", "Richard Rufus used his status to scam friends and family in a pyramid scheme, his trial hears.", "Hannah Munns and her family escaped from Cameron House after a fatal blaze in December 2017.", "The NASUWT reports a 42% turnout, saying 90% of those who voted are in favour of striking.", "Irish actor Colin Farrell is recognised for his performance in the dark comedy set on a remote island.", "Victoria's premier says honouring the controversial clergyman would be distressing for abuse victims.", "Beth Matthews talked to a care worker about euthanasia weeks before her death, an inquest hears.", "Tatjana Patitz, one of the 1990's most prominent supermodels, died in California.", "Advisers warn of pain to come as a poll for the BBC suggests many have no idea how they will repay festive spending.", "Every Olympic Games up to and including the 2032 summer Games will continue to be shown free to air across the BBC.", "The High Court rules the waiting times faced by four transgender people for treatment were lawful.", "Two people died and several were injured following a crowd surge during a gig in December.", "A seven-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting and five others were hurt.", "No date has been set for the release of the former prime minister's book, nor does it yet have a title.", "Equinor's chief says while prices will not be as volatile, investment in renewables must be paid for.", "The British-US influencer is in custody over human trafficking and rape allegations, which he denies.", "How doctors are spotting problems early and offering treatments at home - BBC Panorama.", "Searchers say the chances of finding anyone alive are \"nil\" after the crash near the town of Pokhara.", "Officers would be able to shut down protests before they cause serious disruption, under new plans.", "The UK Labour leader voices \"concerns\" about the Scottish government's reforms to the process.", "The landslip in Hampshire has severely damaged the track between London Waterloo and Basingstoke.", "People in Arbinda say two groups of women were taken while gathering food because of severe shortages.", "Andrey Medvedev says he fled Wagner after witnessing war crimes while serving in Ukraine.", "Christine Lambrecht's exit comes amid pressure to allow the delivery of German-built tanks to Ukraine.", "The stark images shows a family kitchen with its external wall ripped off by a Russian missile strike.", "Troops are using homemade arms against their own people, says a report which urges an end to supplies.", "A boy who was thrown from a viewing platform has made \"considerable progress\", his family say.", "Health Secretary Steve Barclay says voluntary arrangements could not ensure public's safety.", "Head of British Army gives backing to plan but raises concerns in internal message seen by the BBC.", "The action will affect two councils a day until 6 February, starting with Glasgow and East Lothian.", "A widespread frost is expected overnight, which could see temperatures drop as low as -4C.", "The TV presenter was criticised for comments he made about the Duchess in a newspaper column.", "Sir Mark Rowley apologises for failings in the case of PC David Carrick, who admitted 49 offences.", "Ms Nabizada was an MP until the government was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021.", "A woman is rescued from the debris of a building in Dnipro, a day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike.", "Due to a new machine bought by his school, Jacob has stood up and moved his legs for the first time.", "Scotland's first minister says the UK government would be using trans people as a political weapon.", "Police chiefs say having officers in schools is essential, but campaigners want them all removed.", "The High Court has said 11 migrants can take their challenge to the Court of Appeal.", "Kathryn Dumphreys says if cars with a known fault had been withdrawn, her husband would not have died.", "The person was originally named as Irish, but was believed to travelling on a UK passport.", "The retailer says it will open 20 stores in the next year, including five in former Debenhams sites.", "Home favourite Nick Kyrgios pulls out of the Australian Open with a knee injury the day before he was scheduled to play his opening match.", "A girl is in a life-threatening condition after a shooting which injured another child and four women.", "Social media firms respond to a coroner's call to take action over harmful content.", "The SNP's Ian Blackford said naming him was in the public interest to help more survivors speak out.", "She was a big star in the 1950s and '60s, and her life story was as exotic as the roles she played.", "CCTV footage shows the moments after the attack which injured six people outside a church in London.", "The UK still needs to rebuild its economic reputation around the world, says Andrew Bailey.", "Scottish Secretary Alister Jack tells MPs trans people deserve respect - but Scotland's bill could undermine UK equalities law.", "Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray says the force should have spotted the officer's abusive behaviour and missed opportunities to remove him.", "The death toll rises to 40 after a Russian missile wrecked an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.", "Carrick's guilty pleas leave the Metropolitan Police once more apologising for a criminal in its ranks.", "It will be the first time ministers in London have used powers to stop a Scottish bill from becoming law.", "The woman was hiking with two other people on Mont Blanc's Argentière Glacier, say French police.", "Two days of action - on 6 and 7 February - are announced in England and Wales, in the biggest walkout yet.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting injured two girls and four women.", "A man in his 60s, held on suspicion of terror offences over the incident, has been released on bail.", "Britain's Emma Raducanu makes a positive return to court after an ankle injury, while Cameron Norrie also moves into the Australian Open second round.", "Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy's most-wanted Mafia boss, is captured after 30 years on the run.", "No-one in their \"right mind\" would invest in Cardiff Airport, says ex-BMI Baby boss David Bryon.", "David Carrick admits 49 offences against 12 women, including multiple rapes, over two decades.", "The government is poised to help the struggling steelmaker secure thousands of jobs.", "In England and Northern Ireland the deposit return scheme will be limited to plastic and metal containers.", "The education and police minister will replace Jacinda Ardern following her decision to quit.", "A failure to see David Nash face-to-face meant he underwent surgery 10 hours later than was possible.", "One man said his teeth were not strong enough to bite an apple after wearing aligners bought remotely.", "The girl's family argued she would not have lost her limbs if she had been treated urgently.", "Relations between the health unions and the government have soured since talks last week.", "It was only when she died that her family found how many people she helped with her writing.", "Low prescribing in the early months of the pandemic may lead to more heart attacks and strokes, study warns.", "Officers will be checked against a national database following similar moves in other parts of the UK.", "Romanian teens reveal how the Tate brothers used a set formula to approach them in private messages.", "A crew member will also be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the death of Halyna Hutchins.", "As more people bank online, footfall in physical branches has dropped, says Lloyds Banking Group.", "Father Neil McGarrity is found guilty of four sexual assaults against young girls in Glasgow.", "After losing their hands in a landmine explosion, Andrii and Vitalii receive 3D printed prosthetics.", "Our view of the stars has been reduced every year over the last decade by artificial light 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in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nTory Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi says an error in his tax affairs was accepted by HMRC as having been \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nIn a statement, he said he wanted to address \"confusion about my finances\" after claims he tried to avoid tax and had to pay it back.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account, the BBC has been told.\n\nLabour said there was a whole list of questions that still needed answering.\n\nThe party has called on Mr Zahawi to publish all correspondence with HMRC \"so we can get the full picture\".\n\nAccording to the Guardian, Mr Zahawi had to pay back tax he owed with a 30% penalty and the total amounts to £4.8m.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify that figure, but when the paper asked about the penalty, Mr Zahawi's spokesperson did not deny one had been paid.\n\nMr Zahawi's statement does not make clear whether he paid a penalty or not as part of his settlement, nor does it say how much he paid to HMRC.\n\nHe said when he was being appointed chancellor, questions were being raised about his tax affairs and he discussed it with the Cabinet Office at the time.\n\nThe exact timing of when the matter was settled with HMRC remains unclear.\n\nIn the statement issued on Saturday afternoon, Mr Zahawi said: \"As a senior politician I know that scrutiny and propriety are important parts of public life. Twenty-two years ago I co-founded a company called YouGov. I'm incredibly proud of what we achieved. It is an amazing business that has employed thousands of people and provides a world-beating service.\n\n\"When we set it up, I didn't have the money or the expertise to go it alone. So I asked my father to help. In the process, he took founder shares in the business in exchange for some capital and his invaluable guidance.\n\n\"Twenty one years later, when I was being appointed chancellor of the exchequer, questions were being raised about my tax affairs. I discussed this with the Cabinet Office at the time.\n\n\"Following discussions with HMRC, they agreed that my father was entitled to founder shares in YouGov, though they disagreed about the exact allocation. They concluded that this was a 'careless and not deliberate' error.\n\n\"So that I could focus on my life as a public servant, I chose to settle the matter and pay what they said was due, which was the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe questions facing Mr Zahawi include whether he tried to avoid paying tax by using an offshore company called Balshore Investments to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 - something he has always denied.\n\nAccording to HMRC, tax avoidance involves bending the rules of the tax system to try to gain a tax advantage that Parliament never intended.\n\nIt is legal and includes things that some people would consider to be normal tax planning. Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion, which is illegal.\n\nPenalties can be applied by HMRC if tax is not paid in the correct amount at the right time.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Zahawi continues: \"Additionally, HMRC agreed with my accountants that I have never set up an offshore structure, including Balshore Investments, and that I am not the beneficiary of Balshore Investments.\n\n\"This matter was resolved prior to my appointments as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and subsequently chairman of the party I love so much. When I was appointed by the prime minister, all my tax affairs were up to date.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour listed some of the questions still facing Mr Zahawi - including how much he agreed to pay HMRC and whether he paid a fine.\n\n\"This carefully worded statement blows a hole in Nadhim Zahawi's previous accounts of this murky affair,\" said Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds, who called on Rishi Sunak to sack him.\n\n\"He must now publish all correspondence with HMRC so we can get the full picture.\n\n\"In the middle of the biggest cost-of-living crisis in a generation, the public will rightly be astonished that anyone could claim that failing to pay millions of pounds worth of tax is a simple matter of 'carelessness'.\n\n\"Nadhim Zahawi still needs to explain when he became aware of the investigation, and if he was chancellor and in charge of our tax system at the time.\"\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats claimed Mr Zahawi was trying to brush it under the carpet.\n\nNo 10 said they have nothing to add to Mr Zahawi's statement.\n\nBBC News has been told Mr Sunak is satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account and has confidence in him as chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nHMRC previously said it would not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers.\n\nMr Zahawi's tax affairs began to make headlines last summer, when he ran for the Tory leadership.\n\nIn a personal statement issued to reporters at the time, Mr Zahawi said news stories suggesting he had been investigated by agencies including HMRC were \"inaccurate, unfair and are clearly smears\".\n\n\"It's very sad that such smears should be circulated and sadder still that they have been published,\" the July 2022 statement read.\n\nAnd of the reported investigations, the statement said: \"Let me be absolutely clear. I am not aware of this. I have not been told that this is the case. I've always declared my financial interests and paid my taxes in the UK.\"\n\nNadhim Zahawi was announced as chancellor on 5 July 2022, hours after the resignation of Rishi Sunak from Boris Johnson's government.\n\nHe was previously education secretary and before that, coronavirus vaccines minister. He was made minister for equalities, minister for intergovernmental relations, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster under Liz Truss.\n\nMr Sunak appointed him as Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet, on 25 October.\n\nMr Zahawi has been the Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jacinda Ardern was the leader we needed - Chris Hipkins\n\nNew Zealand MP Chris Hipkins says succeeding Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after her shock decision to resign amounts to \"the biggest responsibility and the biggest privilege of my life\".\n\n\"The weight of that responsibility is still sinking in,\" he told reporters on parliament's steps in Wellington on Saturday, in his first appearance since being nominated.\n\nAn experienced MP and career politician, Chris Hipkins is seen as the safest choice for Labour at the moment. He already has the education, Covid response and policing portfolios under his belt.\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian in 2021, he said one of his political strengths was \"understanding how the machinery of government operates, which is something that I've developed over about 20 years\".\n\nBut according to Dr Lara Greaves, senior lecturer in New Zealand politics at the University of Auckland, this could work against him.\n\n\"He's mainly just been in politics so he doesn't have that outside career to point to and that's something that I imagine the Nationals (opposition party) hammer on, given the strength of Christopher Luxon (leader of the opposition) as a former airline CEO, and working in international business,\" she said.\n\nBut even with that political pedigree, the incoming leader faces a steep uphill battle to convince New Zealanders that he and his centre-left Labour party are fit to lead the country for another term, when they go to the polls in October.\n\nDr Greaves said that if Labour wanted a third term, they needed enough successes to point to in the last two terms. Something that Labour will struggle with.\n\n\"The success that Labour can mainly point to at the moment is related to Covid and that feels less relevant to New Zealanders now. A large amount of the vote in 2023 will be about people's economic realities,\" she said.\n\nThere are two things the party currently lacks: favourable public opinion and Jacinda Ardern's star power - even though that has faded lately.\n\nAround the world, Ms Ardern is still considered something of a global figurehead, a rock star of international politics.\n\nSince taking power in 2017 aged 37 and steering the country through major crises - the Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 people were killed, the White Island volcanic eruption and Covid-19 pandemic - Ms Ardern has become a symbol of a new generation of female leaders inspiring young women all over the world.\n\nAt her peak she was extremely popular here in New Zealand too. But that has significantly changed, with recent polls putting her personal popularity at an all-time low.\n\nNew Zealanders are bearing the brunt of a deteriorating economy post-Covid, with inflation that has compounded the cost of living crisis and concern about crime rates.\n\nThe contrast between the sentiment towards Jacinda Ardern globally and at home is quite stark. From world leaders to actors and music stars, the reaction to her shock departure was one of sadness.\n\nAt home many said how happy they were that she was going. Others described her exit as a political tactic, given how unpopular the Labour Party has become - leaving before being pushed out.\n\nDr Greaves said that there wasn't a particular moment to point to when public sentiment turned against Ms Ardern. Rather, she said, since the end of 2021 there has been a \"progressive erosion of her popularity\". She puts it down mainly to overexposure.\n\n\"Normally in New Zealand politics a government gets three terms, but she has had three terms of exposure at this point. The five and a half years she was in power feel like ten,\" Dr Greaves said.\n\nThere was also a growing anger and national fatigue as the stringent Covid-19 measures lingered on for so long.\n\nUnfortunately Covid knocked her. It also knocked the economy\n\nTina Watson, visiting her children in New Zealand, blamed Ms Ardern for separating her from her family during the Covid border closures. Ms Watson is originally from the UK and now lives in South Africa. She told me she was \"thrilled\" that Ms Ardern had resigned, when I met her and her partner outside parliament in Wellington.\n\n\"I was here when they elected her [in 2017],\" Ms Watson said. \"I was really impressed. I thought 'wow! this thirty-odd year-old lady - this is a moving country',\" she said.\n\nBut she said the Ardern government's Covid response, including strict lockdowns and long border closures, had changed her opinion.\n\n\"Unfortunately Covid knocked her. It also knocked the economy,\" she said.\n\nWhile the country has now opened its borders there's still a sour taste among New Zealanders about what they had to endure during the pandemic.\n\nThe long-standing restrictions initially helped control the number of infections and fatalities, but led to increased anger and criticism of Jacinda Ardern and her government.\n\n\"Initially, there was a lot of misogyny towards Jacinda based on...a combination of gender and age, and comments about her partner,\" Dr Greaves said.\n\nShe added that the type and frequency of incidents have become more aggressive under Covid, with frequent threats and attacks.\n\nIn February 2022 anti-vaccine protesters occupied the parliament grounds in Wellington for more than two weeks, blocking streets in the capital's central business district with their cars.\n\nIt was a clear sign of the darkening mood of the country.\n\nJacinda Ardern has been on the receiving end of regular misogyny and abuse. In one incident a group of anti-vaccine protesters chased her van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, with some in the crowd shouting \"shame on you\" and \"traitor\".\n\nChris Hipkins, who led New Zealand's response to the pandemic in 2020, has previously conceded that strict lockdowns should have been scaled back sooner.\n\nAs one of the primary architects of the Covid response his association with the Ardern government could now come back to haunt him politically.\n\nHe paid tribute to her, saying she had been \"an incredible prime minister\" who had \"provided calm, stable, reassuring leadership, which I hope to continue to do\".\n\nBut he also addressed the abuse and misogyny she has had to deal with.\n\n\"There has been an escalation in vitriol, and I want to acknowledge that some politicians have been the subject of that more than others,\" he said. Ms Ardern \"has absolutely been on the receiving end of some absolutely intolerable and unacceptable behaviour,\" he added.\n\nIn an effort to highlight some of this, video compilations of sexist questions she has been asked have been shared on social media. They include talking about her hair colour and even comments on when her daughter may have been conceived.\n\nIn November Ms Ardern was praised for her quick response when a male reporter suggested that she was meeting Finland's Sanna Marin because both were young female prime ministers.\n\nAt the press conference in Auckland, Ms Ardern said she wondered \"whether or not anyone ever asked Barack Obama and [former New Zealand PM] John Key if they met because they were of similar age\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: New Zealand and Finland PMs shoot down 'similar age' question from reporter\n\nAfter announcing her resignation Ms Ardern rejected suggestions by some commentators that experiences of misogyny had played a role in her decision.\n\nShe said she had a \"message for women in leadership and girls who are considering leadership in the future\" that \"you can have a family and be in these roles\", adding \"you can lead in your own style\".\n\nOn Thursday she said she hoped she would leave behind a belief \"that you can be kind and strong… that you can be your own kind of leader, one that knows when to go\".\n\nThe challenge for Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party is not just whether they can convince New Zealanders that they will be able to turn the economy and public opinion around.\n\nThe bigger question is how closely he associates himself with the \"Jacinda Ardern brand\". That star quality that delivered a landslide Labour win in 2020 has almost the opposite effect now.\n\nThe incoming PM will have to assert his own leadership brand and convince New Zealanders that it's the one they need going forward.", "A bomb disposal team was called to the hospital\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected firearm and suspicious package at a hospital maternity ward.\n\nThe Gledhow wing of St James's Hospital in Leeds was evacuated after the security scare on Friday morning.\n\nThe man was held on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism acts.\n\nPolice said: \"This is being treated as an isolated incident.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Jim Dunkerley, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, added: \"There is no evidence to suggest there is any heightened or ongoing risk to the public.\"\n\nThe man was originally arrested on suspicion of firearms and explosives offences but police later announced he had been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in connection with the new allegation.\n\nOfficers have been searching a vehicle and a number of properties in connection with their inquiries.\n\nArmy specialists and a bomb disposal unit were called to the hospital site and a cordon was put in place as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nVisiting was suspended in part of the hospital for a time on Friday\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing North East said its officers were \"working to establish the full circumstances of the incident and any potential motivation\".\n\nSupt Dan Wood, from West Yorkshire Police said: \"We recognise an incident of this nature will cause understandable public concern.\n\n\"We are linking with our partner agencies and key community representatives to reassure them and keep them informed.\"\n\nLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said some patients had been moved and wards were temporarily evacuated at the Gledhow Wing as a safety precaution.\n\nVisiting for patients in parts of the hospital was also suspended for a time.\n\nCounter terrorism police worked with Army specialists during the incident\n\nStephen Bush, the hospital trust's medical director for operations, said: \"Unfortunately some patient appointments were cancelled... we would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused - these will be rearranged as soon as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"We'd like to thank our patients and the public for their patience and understanding during this matter.\n\n\"We want to wholeheartedly thank our staff and the emergency services for their dedication and commitment to ensure we have been able to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act.\n\nA meeting on Friday to co-ordinate military donations for Kyiv did agree to supply more armoured vehicles and air defence systems.\n\nBut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier made a specific appeal for modern tanks to repel Russia.\n\n\"Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now,\" Zbigniew Rau wrote on Twitter.\n\nWestern countries have committed billions in other weaponry - but without Germany's commitment on tanks, it was not the result Ukraine was hoping for.\n\nUkraine wants German-made Leopard 2s as they are easy to maintain and designed specifically to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nThere are believed to be more than 2,000 Leopard 2 tanks worldwide and President Zelensky believes about 300 of them would help ensure it can defeat Russia.\n\nHowever, under German export laws, other countries who want to supply German-made Leopard 2s - like Poland and Finland - are unable to do so until Berlin gives the all-clear.\n\nUkraine already has tanks, but they are old, Soviet-era machines, prone to breaking down and without the upgraded armour and sophisticated laser range-finders found on modern Nato tanks.\n\nThe country knows its best, perhaps only, chance of fending off the massed assault Russia is expected to launch in the coming months is fielding a sizable force of western-supplied armour.\n\nMr Zelensky said there was \"no alternative\" to supplying his country with tanks in a video address on Friday evening: \"Each arrangement must be carried out as quickly as possible - for our defence.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Germany was reported to have made a decision on providing the tanks - which would be done on the condition the US agreed to send its advanced M1 Abrams tank.\n\nBut speaking after Friday's meeting of 54 countries at Ramstein air base in Germany, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin denied Berlin was waiting on the US to make the first move.\n\n\"This notion of unlocking - in my mind it's not an issue,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of Germany's wider contribution to the defence of Ukraine, Mr Austin, said: \"They are a reliable ally, they've been that way for a very, very long time and I truly believe that they'll continue to be a reliable ally going forward.\"\n\nHe told reporters other countries were providing tanks to Ukraine: \"I don't have any announcements to make on M1s [Abrams tanks] and you heard the German minister of defence say that they've not made a decision on Leopards.\"\n\nOther countries have committed to sending tanks, including the UK, which will send 14 Challenger 2s.\n\nDespite hesitation over the Abrams tanks, the US announced fresh support worth more than $2.5bn (£2bn) this week, including armoured vehicles.\n\nThe Pentagon promised an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other supplies.\n\nNine European nations have also promised more support of their own after meeting on Thursday in Estonia. They included:\n\nFor now, this leaves Ukraine in limbo - receiving armoured vehicles and air defence systems, but not the armour it so desperately needs.", "Buzz Aldrin and new wife Dr. Anca Faur at their wedding ceremony in Los Angeles\n\nThe former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin has got married for the fourth time on his 93rd birthday.\n\nMr Aldrin was one of the pilots on the legendary Apollo 11 spaceflight in 1969, becoming one of the first two people to walk on the moon after the mission's commander, Neil Armstrong.\n\nThe former pilot said that he and new wife Anca Faur were as \"excited as eloping teenagers\".\n\nHe is one of only four people alive to have walked on the moon.\n\nPictures from their Los Angeles ceremony were shared by Mr Aldrin on Twitter.\n\n\"On my 93rd birthday and the day I will be honoured by Living Legends of Aviation I am pleased to announce that my long-time love Dr Anca Faur and I have tied the knot,\" he tweeted.\n\nDr Faur, 63, who has a PhD in chemical engineering, is the executive vice president of Mr Aldrin's company, Buzz Aldrin Ventures.\n\nIn 1969, an estimated 600 million people witnessed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. It was the largest television audience in history at the time.\n\nAlmost overnight, Mr Aldrin became one of the most famous names on the planet - the ensuing months was a blur of media appearances, photo opportunities and after-dinner speeches.\n\n\"I hadn't thought that much of what would come afterward,\" Mr Aldrin told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. \"I was not that prepared or comfortable to be thrust into the public eye that much.\"\n\nBefore the famous moon landing, Mr Aldrin piloted fighter planes on US Air Force combat missions during the Korea war.\n\nIn 2018 he founded a non-profit think tank, the Human SpaceFlight Institute.\n\nBuzz Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module on 20 July, 1969", "Pollution and habitat destruction have caused numbers of bottlenose dolphins to drop (image taken in Scotland)\n\nDolphins are back in the Bronx River in New York for the first time in more than five years.\n\nThough they were recently seen in the city's East River, it is the first time the animals have been spotted in the Bronx River since 2017.\n\nAuthorities keep the river stocked with a plentiful supply of fish, which they believe may have drawn the dolphins in.\n\nThe city's Department of Parks and Recreation posted a video on Twitter, taken by someone who saw the dolphins.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NYC Parks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the joyous reception of the mammals' arrival came with a warning. \"Make sure that they're comfortable during their visit by giving them space and not disturbing them,\" wrote the department.\n\nThe Bronx River flows through Bronx borough, just north of Manhattan, and is the only freshwater river in the city.\n\nThe sightings were also confirmed by the Bronx River Alliance, a non-profit that works to protect and restore the waterway.\n\n\"There seems to be more dolphin pods swimming near NY Harbor!\" it wrote on social media. \"We are not sure why but authorities are further investigating their presence and we will keep you updated as we get more info.\"\n\nPollution and habitat destruction have caused numbers of bottlenose dolphins, which are found off both the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, to drop. Some are also injured by fishing nets and die.\n\nAs a consequence, they are protected throughout the United States under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes it illegal to feed or harass them.\n\nDolphins are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. The US military uses them to locate underwater mines and identify enemy military personnel.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes says his side's crucial victory against Everton was \"a relief\" for the club, but does not believe the board want to get rid of him.\n\nThe match cruelly dubbed 'El Sackico' was settled by a first-half double from Jarrod Bowen.\n\nIt was West Ham's first Premier League win in three months and piled the pressure on Everton boss Frank Lampard.\n\nLike Lampard, it had been suggested Moyes would lose his job if West Ham lost.\n\n\"My understanding was the board will still support me no matter what, that takes a lot of doing and a big thank you to them,\" Moyes told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nSpeaking in his news conference after the game, Moyes added: \"I still believe it is something the board didn't want to do, to make changes.\n\n\"I have a board behind me who are supportive and who have backed me.\n\n\"I really hope Everton stick with Frank. He is a top bloke from the times I've been with him, but I have to think about my position because me winning one game doesn't mean everything is fine.\"\n• None Reaction to West Ham v Everton and all the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n• None How did you rate West Ham's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Everton's display? Send us your views here\n\nUnder-fire Everton owner Farhad Moshiri was attending his first game in 14 months, alongside the directors who missed last week's home defeat by Southampton because of what Everton said was a \"real and credible\" threat to their safety, in a show of support for Lampard and defiance of his critics.\n\nBut his return didn't bring Everton any luck. They have now gone 10 games without a win in all competitions and have picked up a single point - at Manchester City - in a run of seven games that has included five defeats against teams around them in the relegation battle.\n\nThe final whistle brought more boos from the Everton contingent and also banners being raised proclaiming 'Sack the Board' and 'No Communication, No Plan, No Vision'.\n\nManagers are forever talking about the fine margins that make the difference between success and failure.\n\nBowen's opener could not have been finer. On first glance, it appeared he was offside as he advanced on to Kurt Zouma's header to knock the ball past Jordan Pickford. But VAR spotted James Tarkowski's leg was playing the England man on by about an inch.\n\nIf trials agreed by the International Football Association Board are successful, next season the supporters inside the ground may get an actual explanation. Instead, they had to make do with referee Stuart Atwell pointing to the centre circle.\n\nHaving gone 12 games without a goal, Bowen's next arrived seven minutes later as Tarkowski dived into a tackle on Michail Antonio in a position of little danger, allowing the West Ham forward to run into the box and deliver a low cross which was driven home from close range.\n\nHad Alex Iwobi pulled one back before the break with a shot that was going in until it deflected off Declan Rice, then on to a post, Everton might have found a way back into the contest.\n\nBut, having established a crucial advantage, West Ham were not in the mood to let it go.\n\n\"The only difference between this and the other performances was scoring two goals,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We have had a couple of extraordinary years and we are all disappointed that we haven't hit that height this year, but we need time for some players to settle in. Hopefully we can build that team and are on the right track now.\"\n\nThe big question for Everton is what does Moshiri do now?\n\nAfter spending so long not watching his team in the flesh, this provided him with the evidence for where his tenure - and an outlay in excess of £500m - has left them.\n\nAlthough they dominated for an extended period at the start of the second half, Everton lacked the guile to prise open a determined home defence. Danny Ings' introduction for his debut 20 minutes from time must have been particularly painful for Lampard as the striker was someone he was trying to attract to Goodison Park before he moved to West Ham for an initial £12m on Friday.\n\nIndeed, it was West Ham who came closest to adding to their lead as Pickford turned Emerson's shot on to the bar, and Rice rolled an effort marginally wide of the far post.\n\nMoshiri was sat on the same row as chairman Bill Kenwright, chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale and between football director Kevin Thelwell and director Graeme Sharp.\n\nKenwright was shown on his own near the end, but it is Moshiri who must now decide whether Lampard will remain in his job, the former West Ham player taunted with a \"sacked in the morning\" jibe from the home fans.\n\nThe result was at least fitting on the day West Ham paid tribute to joint chairman David Gold, who died on 4 January.\n\nBorn in the shadow of Upton Park, a lifelong fan of the club and a player in his schooldays, Gold was viewed as the least problematic of an ownership group many fans do not like.\n\nThe stadium was full and paid a respectful tribute to Gold before the game, with sporting director Mark Noble laying a wreath on behalf of the club before kick-off, flanked by Gold's daughters, Jacqueline and Vanessa.\n\nA video of Gold's journey from childhood poverty - \"I only wanted to own a bike\" - to football club owner was greeted with warm applause.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Johnson with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Ings with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Yerry Mina (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Dwight McNeil with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Declan Rice (West Ham United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Saïd Benrahma. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The UK steel industry, which supports thousands of jobs, is \"a whisker away from collapse\", the Unite union says.\n\nIt has written a letter to Business Secretary Grant Shapps seeking an urgent meeting to push for more support.\n\nUnite has accused the government of taking \"little meaningful action\" to help the industry, leaving the sector \"at breaking point\".\n\nThe government said the success of the steel industry is a priority.\n\nIn the letter, Steve Turner, Unite's assistant general secretary, said there were a number of issues causing the industry problems.\n\nThese included \"crippling energy costs, carbon taxes, lost markets, lower demand, and open market access for imported steel\".\n\nWriting to Mr Shapps on behalf of two other unions as well - Community and GMB - Mr Turner said the challenges faced by manufacturers like British Steel, Tata Steel, and Liberty Steel were the consequences of \"direct actions by your government that have... significantly undermined UK plant competitiveness in global markets\".\n\n\"With little meaningful action on the part of government in areas of UK procurement policy, energy pricing support, green energy generation or support for investment in new plant and technologies, the industry is at breaking point,\" Mr Turner added.\n\n\"We are, in the words of many, 'a whisker away from collapse'\".\n\nHe said UK steel \"employs tens of thousands of skilled workers and hundreds of apprentices\", and asked for an urgent meeting to discuss \"current and future government policy\" to support the sector.\n\nIt has been reported that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is poised to grant a £300m funding package for British Steel.\n\nThe money has not been confirmed by the Treasury, but the BBC understands it would depend on the firm's Chinese owners, Jingye, investing in greener technology.\n\nResponding to the letter, a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government recognised \"the vital role that steel plays within the UK economy, supporting local jobs and economic growth\".\n\nIt said it was \"committed to securing a sustainable and competitive future for the UK steel sector,\" adding that Mr Shapps \"considers the success of the steel sector a priority and continues to work closely with industry to achieve this\".\n\nCommenting on the proposed funding package for British Steel, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said the UK steel sector has been left \"on the brink\" as a result of the government's failure to come up with long-term solutions.\n\n\"Endless sticking plaster solutions from the Conservatives have left our UK steel sector on the brink,\" said Mr Reynolds.\n\n\"Instead of finding a long-term solution, successive Conservative governments have lurched from crisis and bailouts with no plan to keep UK steel internationally competitive or deliver a return on taxpayers investment.\"", "A farmer in a small US town kept an astounding secret from his family and friends. Then the truth emerged at his funeral - and the news has inspired the community.\n\nThe adage that charity begins at home has been enacted in the most uplifting way by the actions of one man.\n\nHody Childress spent his whole life in Geraldine, Alabama, working as a farmer and an employee of the Lockheed Martin Space facility nearby.\n\nHis family described him as a humble, God-loving man, who would often send handwritten get-well cards and share vegetables from his garden with neighbours.\n\nBut even his family didn't know one big secret. Every month, for nearly a decade, Mr Childress donated $100 (£80) to the local pharmacy for anyone who couldn't afford to pay for a prescription.\n\nOver the years, he gave nearly $12,000 to the community, but his generosity came with one condition: don't tell anyone.\n\nBrooke Walker said she'd been the pharmacist at Geraldine's, the town drug store, for nearly two years when Mr Childress, who was a regular customer, asked her a question.\n\n\"He pulled me to the side and said, 'Do you ever have anybody that can't pay for their medication?' and I said, 'Well, yeah, unfortunately, that happens a good bit.\"\n\nMany have come to see Mr Childress as their guardian angel after a family secret was revealed at his funeral.\n\nShe said Mr Childress handed her a folded bill and said: \"Next time that happens, will you use this? Don't tell where it came from, and don't tell me who needed it, just say it's a blessing from the Lord.\"\n\nMs Walker later called Mr Childress to tell him how much his generosity meant to the customer it had helped. He thanked her and she said she ended the call feeling blown away by his generosity. She thought it would be a one-time kindness.\n\nBut the next month, he came in and did the same thing.\n\n\"It continued every single month for almost 10 years,\" she said. \"I never saw it lasting this long and he always said, 'Keep this between us.'\"\n\nEventually, his daughter, Tania Nix, had to be brought in on the secret.\n\nAfter battling illness for years, her father became unable to leave his home. But one day, he asked her for a favour.\n\n\"He said, 'I've been doing something for a while and I would like to continue doing this,'\" Ms Nix said. \"He said, 'I want you to take a $100 bill up to the drugstore, at the first of the month, as long as I'm alive.'\"\n\nThe request didn't surprise her. As an Air Force veteran and a man of faith, she said her father cared deeply for his community and country and always sought to help others any way he could.\n\nMr Childress died on 1 January 2023. He was 80 years old.\n\nMs Nix initially had mixed emotions about sharing her father's secret but felt compelled to speak about his generosity at his funeral because it showed the kind of man that he was.\n\nAfterward, she said a staff member from the local high school approached her to say thank you.\n\nHer son had been prescribed an Epi-pen, but the family struggled to afford the $600 cost for the lifesaving shot of adrenaline. Mr Childress' generosity helped to cover the expense.\n\n\"She said my dad could have possibly saved her son's life,\" said Ms Nix.\n\nNews of her father's altruism quickly spread throughout the community and the media.\n\nAfter the story was reported in the Washington Post this week, Ms Walker said her pharmacy began receiving calls from the across the US from people wanting to help keep the fund going.\n\nMs Nix said it can often seem like the country is moving further apart, but her father's gesture has been a reminder of the importance of kindness and community.\n\n\"People do care, and there's hope out there,\" she said.", "Tarik Namik was detained at Manchester Airport after a flight from Istanbul\n\nThe head of a people-smuggling ring who fled the UK to avoid jail has been arrested.\n\nTarik Namik led a gang that brought people from Iraq and Iran to the UK hidden in lorries.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said his phone records suggested he may have been involved in smuggling at least 1,900 migrants in 50 days, charging each person about €1,800 (£1,540).\n\nHe was detained at Manchester Airport after a flight from Turkey on Friday.\n\nThe 45-year-old, from Oldham, was sentenced in absentia for eight years at Manchester Crown Court in December after fleeing abroad.\n\nNamik had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to help asylum seekers enter the UK.\n\nAn image shows Habil Gider and Tarik Namik meeting at the latter's car wash in Stockport\n\nHis organised crime group became the subject of an NCA investigation in 2017.\n\nIn one case, nine people - including five children - were found in a distressed state in the back of a lorry in a lay-by.\n\nPeople were also smuggled hidden in the wind deflector of a lorry's cabin.\n\nMost were ethnic Kurds from Iran and Iraq, a trial at Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nPeople who were smuggled to Skelmersdale, Lancashire, repeatedly rang 999 as they became desperate for food and water when they escaped from a lorry, before being taken for hospital treatment.\n\nTarik Namik and Hajar Ahmed were pictured by the NCA at a bank in Oldham\n\nFour men who worked with Namik were also jailed in December after pleading guilty to conspiracy to help asylum seekers enter the UK.\n\nHajar Ahmed, 40, from Manchester, and Soran Saliy, 32, from Stoke-on-Trent, helped co-ordinate the British part of the operation.\n\nHabil Gider, 54, also from Stoke-on-Trent, acted as an escort for some migrants once they were in the UK, while Hardi Alizada, 32, from Nottingham, coordinated operations abroad on the European continent.\n\nAt their sentencing in December, Judge John Potter said they had \"grossly exploited these individuals' unfortunate plight and undermined the security of the UK\".\n\nThe judge said: \"You displayed a ruthlessness which in some cases exposed desperate individuals to danger for your own selfish and greedy needs.\"\n\nNCA branch commander Richard Harrison said: \"Namik was a prolific people smuggler whose crime group put vulnerable migrants at great risk while he reaped the profits.\n\n\"I'm delighted that he will now face justice for the offences he committed.\"\n\nNamik is due to be formally sentenced in person at Manchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 13 and 20 January.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRebecca Maclennan captured the sun reflecting off the colourful snow-covered houses along the Tobermory waterfront.\n\n\"Taken after sunset,\" said Scott MacKellar. \"Glencoe Lochan was totally calm, resulting in a stunning silhouette picture of the snowy mountain and trees.\"\n\nThe first snowdrops emerging at Dalkeith Country Park snapped by Sharon Mackintosh.\n\nJohn Maclean captured a freezing sunrise which turned the beach at Sandend pink.\n\n\"This young cormorant appeared several miles upstream the Water of Leith and has made itself at home ever since,\" said Tom Kelly.\n\nAlison Carroll spotted this colourful pair out on a sunny afternoon walk along Aberdeen Beach.\n\nPaul Steven from Wick captured the northern lights over Sinclair and Girnigoe Castle in Caithness.\n\nMay Cruickshank's beautiful picture of a red squirrel near Doune.\n\n\"The Cowden Japanese Gardens near Dollar caught in the sunshine between the squally showers,\" said Ken Lawton.\n\nLocals brave the cold for a late afternoon walk as the sun sets over Cramond in Edinburgh. Taken by Susan Bald.\n\nAfter the floods in Dumfries, the cold weather created some interesting frozen rings around the trees. Snapped by Morven Campbell.\n\nRoger Chapman's view of the sunset from Kinghorn on the Fife coast.\n\n\"Gorgeous sea eagle at Camperdown Wildlife Park in Dundee,\" said Emma Legge from Cupar.\n\n\"Beautiful light and long shadows when I was walking around Balerno,\" said Jim Hughes.\n\nWild goats at Newtonmore in the Highlands. Taken by Fearghus Ormiston.\n\nJo Tucker captured the afternoon sunshine looking out to Whiten Head, Sutherland.\n\n\"Not sure taking a seat on this bench at Glenfinnan would be such a good idea,\" said Jim Johnston.\n\nKatharine Iveson captured this snowy scene while out for a walk in Moray with her 14-year-old collie Tess.\n\nGordon Coley from Arbroath captured this stunning picture during sunset and high tide at St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife.\n\nRoss Fountain in Princes Street Gardens slightly frozen over. \"Beautiful but cold!\" said Adam Neep.\n\nGiant icicles hanging off boulders in the Arrochar Alps. \"Interestingly, they were not hanging down vertically, but at an angle as the wind had affected their formation,\" said Ken Milne.\n\nAmanda Taylor spied a seal disguised as a boulder on the Isle of Mull.\n\nThe sunrise lighting up the Arran peaks over a very cold Troon skyline. Taken by Colin Irvine.\n\nDave Stewart from Leith spotted a waxwing on a clear day in Edinburgh.\n\nMike Rennie snapped this view on his first trip to Lerwick in Shetland. \"Everything is beautiful, blanketed in snow and all the kids out sledging,\" he said.\n\nFatlips Castle behind some snow-dusted trees near Denholm in the Scottish Borders. Taken by Joe Somerville.\n\nCameron Campbell took this picture of an old yacht and art installation at the Dysart Harbour in Fife. \"The colours on the poles match to the colour of the Forth on any given day,\" he said.\n\nSnow on Unst, the UK's most northern inhabited island. Taken by Elizabeth Johnson.\n\nAndrew Murray snapped this picture of the sunrise over Castle Loch Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. \"The swan just came at the right time,\" he said.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jacinda Ardern was the leader we needed - Chris Hipkins\n\nNew Zealand Labour MP Chris Hipkins is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after becoming the only nominee for the party's leadership.\n\nHe was first elected to parliament in 2008 and was appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020.\n\nIn Ms Ardern's shock announcement on Thursday she said she did not have \"enough in the tank\" to lead.\n\nHow long Mr Hipkins will be in office is uncertain as New Zealand holds a general election in October.\n\nMr Hipkins, 44, is currently minister for police, education and public service.\n\nHe will still need to be formally endorsed by the Labour Party in the House of Representatives on Sunday before he can become leader.\n\nShould he receive that backing, Ms Ardern will formally tender her resignation to the governor-general, who will then - on behalf of King Charles III - appoint Mr Hipkins as prime minister.\n\nBut the incoming Labour leader faces an uphill battle if he wants to remain in the top job after the 2023 election.\n\nInflation and increasing social inequality saw Ms Ardern's popularity fall to all-time lows according to opinion polls.\n\nThey also suggested public approval of the country's Labour Party was similarly low.\n\nMr Hipkins' appointment removes the immediate possibility of Justice Minister Kiri Allan becoming the country's first Maori prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’\n\nDuring her resignation announcement, Ms Ardern - who at 37 became the youngest female head of government in the world when she took office in 2017 - said the past five-and-a-half years had been the \"most fulfilling\" of her life.\n\nHowever, she added that leading the country during \"crisis\" had been difficult - with the Covid pandemic, Christchurch mosque shootings and White Island volcanic eruption taking place during her premiership.\n\nReaction to Ms Ardern's announcement was mixed, with some suggesting she was \"running away before getting thrown out\".\n\nBut renowned New Zealand actor Sam Neill said she had faced \"disgraceful\" treatment from \"bullies\" and \"misogynists\".\n\nIf Labour loses the general election Mr Hipkins will have only spent eight months as the nation's leader - although the shortest prime ministerial stint was Harry Atkinson's term in 1884, which lasted just eight days.", "Labour is calling for Rishi Sunak to sack Nadhim Zahawi as Conservative Party chairman after reports he paid a penalty to HMRC as part of a multi-million pound tax settlement.\n\nThe ex-chancellor has been under pressure over claims he tried to avoid tax and has now had to pay it back.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Zahawi's position was \"untenable\" and the prime minister must sack him.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Zahawi for comment on the latest allegations.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said Mr Zahawi had been \"very transparent\" about the matter, saying: \"He has been clear that all of his tax owed to HMRC are up to date and paid in full.\n\nHe added: \"If he needs to answer any further questions I'm sure he'll do so\".\n\nHowever, Ms Rayner said: \"Nadhim Zahawi's story doesn't add up. The position of the man who was until recently in charge of the UK's tax system and who this prime minister appointed Conservative Party Chair is now untenable.\n\n\"It's time for Rishi Sunak to put his money where his mouth is and dismiss Nadhim Zahawi from his cabinet.\"\n\nMs Rayner added: \"The fact that Nadhim hasn't been out on the airwaves explaining himself to me adds insult to injury.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe company at the centre of the row is Balshore Investments, which is registered offshore in Gibraltar.\n\nMr Zahawi has faced questions over whether he used Balshore to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 - something he has always denied.\n\nLabour have called for an explanation. According to The Guardian, he has had to pay back the tax he owed with a 30% penalty and the total amounts to £4.8m.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify that figure, but when the Guardian asked repeatedly about the penalty, Mr Zahawi's spokesperson did not deny one had been paid.\n\nWhen pressed on the total amount, which was thought to include the alleged penalty, the spokesperson said: \"Nadhim Zahawi does not recognise this amount … as he has previously stated, his taxes are properly declared and paid in the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC has discovered that Balshore Investments was also registered as a \"beneficial owner\" of a UK crowdfunding firm called crowd2Fund for three years.\n\nUnder transparency rules brought in by the coalition government in the UK, the firm should have made public who was personally in charge.\n\nThat is because Balshore owns more than 25% of Crowd2Fund's shares.\n\nAlthough it is based in Gibraltar where beneficial ownership information is kept behind a paywall, the UK requires this to be made freely available to the public.\n\nBalshore was described as the \"family trust of Nadhim Zahawi, an executive director of YouGov\", in the polling firm's 2009 annual report.\n\nBut the Conservative Party chairman has denied benefiting from or having any involvement with the company.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Zahawi said it was a matter of public record that Balshore Investments is owned by his father, hence the YouGov reference to his family.\n\nIn June 2020, Crowd2Fund told Companies House that its Gibraltar-based shareholder had in fact ceased to be a beneficial owner in April 2016.\n\nCompanies are supposed to update these details within 14 days. But Crowd2Fund appears to have taken four years to register the information.\n\nIn June last year, Nadhim Zahawi's parents were personally recorded as beneficial owners of Crowd2Fund which indicates they now control the Gibraltar firm.\n\nHowever, Balshore Investments has owned more than 25% of Crowd2Fund's shares since at least 2015.\n\nThat leaves a gap in the register explaining who ultimately benefited from the shareholding prior to June 2022.\n\nBBC News asked both Crowd2Fund and Balshore Investments to explain what happened and if they would now disclose who the beneficial owners of Balshore were for the relevant period.\n\nThey were also asked if they accepted they may have broken the law if they failed to file the correct information with Companies House.\n\nNeither Balshore Investments or Crowd2Fund has so far responded to requests for comment.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Zahawi has previously said his taxes are \"properly declared and paid in the UK\" and the minister \"has never had to instruct any lawyers to deal with HMRC on his behalf\".", "Ron Klain is a familiar presence alongside Mr Biden having spent decades as one of his top aides\n\nPresident Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, US media is reporting.\n\nThe departure of the veteran political operative would be a major change in the White House, where Mr Klain manages Mr Biden's schedule and drives his policy agenda.\n\nThe news was first reported by the New York Times, which said that Mr Klain would likely leave after the president's State of the Union address on 7 February.\n\nAn exact timeline is still unclear.\n\nMr Klain has spent spent decades as one of Mr Biden's top aides, first in the Senate and later when Mr Biden was vice-president.\n\nHe was also an adviser and speechwriter on Mr Biden's unsuccessful 1988 and 2008 White House campaigns.\n\nThe 61-year-old was also a senior White House aide to former President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice-President Al Gore.\n\nHe was played by the actor Kevin Spacey in the movie Recount, which was about the presidential election of 2000.\n\nMr Klain has informed Mr Biden of his decision to leave, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nA successor has not yet been decided, reports say. The New York Times listed a series of potential replacements that included Labour Secretary Marty Walsh and another of Mr Biden's senior aides, Anita Dunn.\n\nMr Klain is the longest serving first chief of staff of any Democratic president. The role is known to have a high turnover rate - former President Donald Trump, for example, had four chiefs of staff during his four-year term.\n\nMr Klain has steered Mr Biden's administration for its first two years, but the president's term is entering a new phase following the midterm elections in November.\n\nThe Republican Party won a majority in the House of Representatives, which is one half of the United States Congress, and has pledged to investigate Mr Biden on multiple fronts.\n\nThe president's staff are also turning their attention to a potential re-election campaign, with reports suggesting Mr Biden could announce his intention to seek a second four-year term after February's State of the Union address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A whirlwind dash through Biden's first year in office", "Elizabeth Holmes launched Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University at age 19\n\nTheranos founder Elizabeth Holmes attempted to flee the US shortly after her conviction on fraud charges last year, prosecutors claim.\n\nAccording to a new court filing, the 38-year-old bought a one-way ticket to Mexico last January.\n\n\"Only after the government raised this unauthorised flight... was the trip cancelled,\" prosecutors said.\n\nHolmes was convicted for defrauding investors in her blood testing start-up that was once valued at $9bn (£7.5bn).\n\nThe former Silicon Valley star falsely claimed the technology could diagnose disease with just a few drops of blood. But it did not work and - facing multiple lawsuits - the company was dissolved in 2018.\n\nThe latest court filing, which was submitted on Thursday, also said Holmes's partner had bought a one-way ticket to Mexico.\n\n\"The government anticipates [Holmes] will note in reply that she did not in fact leave the country as scheduled - but it is difficult to know with certainty what [she] would have done had the government not intervened,\" prosecutors said.\n\nThe BBC has contacted a lawyer for Holmes to request comment.\n\nHolmes was convicted in early January 2022 of defrauding investors, and then sentenced in November to more than 11 years in prison. During her sentencing hearing, she was ordered to self-surrender to prison on 27 April this year.\n\nBut she appealed her conviction shortly after and is asking a judge to let her remain free beyond April while her appeal is heard in federal court. That process could take a year.\n\nHer lawyers also claimed Holmes would raise \"substantial questions\" that could warrant a new trial.\n\nThe latest court filing in California said Holmes has been paying $13,000 (£10,500) a month to live on an estate as her appeal is heard.\n\nProsecutors want her to surrender as planned in April. \"The time has come for Elizabeth Holmes to answer for her crimes committed nearly a decade ago,\" they said. \"There are not two systems of justice - one for the wealthy and one for the poor.\"\n\nA judge will hear her motion to delay her prison sentence pending appeal on 17 March.\n\nHolmes launched Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University at age 19. The company's value skyrocketed after executives claimed it could bring about a revolution in disease diagnosis.\n\nThe rise and fall of the start-up was chronicled in several popular podcasts and TV shows, including a Hulu series called The Dropout, with Amanda Seyfried starring as Holmes.\n\nHolmes's business partner, Sunny Balwani, the former president of Theranos, was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison in December.\n\nHolmes has apologised for her business \"failings\" and said she has \"felt deep pain for what people went through, because I failed them\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes", "The girl was taken to hospital with \"red flags for meningitis and sepsis\", the court heard\n\nA girl whose limbs were amputated after she was wrongly discharged from hospital has had a £39m settlement approved in the High Court.\n\nShe went to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey with \"red flags for meningitis and sepsis\" but was given paracetamol and discharged, her lawyers said.\n\nWhen her parents took her back to A&E a few hours later, she was diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis and went on to suffer multi-organ failure.\n\nThe young girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had above-knee amputations of both legs and above-elbow amputations of her arms.\n\nHer family brought a claim, arguing if she had been treated urgently with antibiotics, she would not have been as ill and would have avoided the amputations.\n\nThe High Court heard Neil Dardis, chief executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, had apologised in a letter to the parents and said her care \"fell below the standard (the girl) was entitled to expect\" and she should not have been discharged.\n\nElizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC, representing the family, said the girl had lost all four limbs after \"not being diagnosed promptly enough in relation to meningitis\".\n\nShe said she was \"an extraordinarily brave little girl who is managing in school to do very well academically\".\n\nBradley Martin KC, for the trust, said: \"There is no amount of money that can truly compensate (her) for her injuries.\n\n\"She will have access to the care and technology she needs.\"\n\nJudge Caspar Glyn KC said he would \"unhesitatingly\" approve the settlement, to be paid partly in a lump sum and the remainder in annual payments for the rest of her life.\n\nPaying tribute to the girl and her family, he said: \"Money cannot bring who your daughter was back, but it can secure her future.\"\n\nRepresenting the family, lawyer Deborah Nadel said: \"This child's injuries and severe disabilities were completely avoidable with proper care.\n\n\"All the red flags for meningitis and sepsis were there for doctors to see. Specific protocols for treating these illnesses exist to protect patients and doctors, but they only work if they are followed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the NHS trust said: \"We are very sorry for the claimant's injuries and we understand no amount of money can fully compensate for them.\n\n\"However we are pleased that the settlement has been approved and we hope the agreed damages will ensure that the claimant can live as independently as possible in the future.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None BBC Two - Trust Me, I'm a Doctor - How can I spot the signs of meningitis\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "State TV showed pictures of the rescued women and children on Friday evening\n\nSecurity forces in Burkina Faso have rescued 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant jihadists in the north of the country last week, state TV reports.\n\nIn an unprecedented mass kidnapping, the victims were seized while gathering food in an area hit by an insurgency.\n\nThey were found on a bus at a security checkpoint some 200km (125 miles) south of where they were taken, reports say.\n\nIt is not clear if their captors have also been detained.\n\nOn Friday night, state TV showed pictures of the children and women, some with babies on their backs, boarding a bus at an airport after being addressed by a military officer.\n\n\"They have found freedom after eight long days in the hands of their kidnappers,\" the reporter says.\n\nThey are now in the capital, Ouagadougou, where they are expected to be questioned to find out \"more about their abductors, their detention and their convoy\", a security source told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe women and children were kidnapped in two groups on 12 and 13 January in the district of Arbinda.\n\nRoads in and out of the area have been blocked by militant jihadists. There is severe hunger as food supplies are limited, and the humanitarian situation is desperate.\n\nLast month, protesters in Arbinda broke into warehouses to get food and supplies.\n\nBurkina Faso as a whole has been hit by a decade-long insurgency that has displaced nearly two million people.\n\nThe military took power last January, promising an end to attacks. A different group of officers mounted a second coup in September over a failure to end the insurgency but the violence has continued.", "A dolphin died after being attacked by a bull shark near Shelly Beach in Sydney\n\nSeveral popular beaches in Sydney have been closed after sharks attacked a dolphin in waters near the city.\n\nAt least two bull sharks were spotted in the Shelly Beach area, in northern Sydney, after the attack and authorities closed all nearby beaches as a precaution.\n\nThe injured dolphin circled the shallow waters but eventually beached and died.\n\nManly Open Surf, a carnival taking place at the beach over the weekend, has been suspended.\n\nLifeguards cleared people from the water after the attack, which happened at around 07:00 local time on Saturday (20:00 GMT on Friday).\n\nHundreds of people had been about to compete in the festival.\n\nTracey Hare-Boyd, a spokeswoman from Surf Life Saving New South Wales (SLSNSW), said that, luckily, no person had been injured or involved in the attack.\n\nThe dolphin was seen close to the shore of Shelly Beach after the shark attack\n\nSLSNSW said it was monitoring the shark activity via a drone and urged people not to enter the water until it was deemed safe by lifeguards.\n\nAn eyewitness who was on Shelly beach told ABC News she was initially delighted to see a dolphin swimming in the bay.\n\nBut she soon learned there was a shark in the water and swimmers were told to stay on dry land.\n\n\"We came back and saw the dolphin was on the beach which was really incredibly sad,\" she said.\n\nIt was not yet clear whether the dolphin died from injuries sustained in the attack or whether it was already ill and dying, which would have made it an easy target for the sharks, SLSNSW's Ms Hare-Boyd said.\n\nBeaches from Shelly Beach to Queenscliff Beach remain closed and people have been urged to be vigilant and follow shark safety advice.\n\nHuman deaths from shark attacks are rare in Sydney, with only two in the past 60 years.\n\nLast February, British swimmer Simon Nellist died in the city's first fatal shark attack in 59 years after he was mauled by a great white in the waters off east Sydney.", "Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has called for Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi to resign from government, calling his position \"untenable\".\n\nIt has been reported that the former chancellor paid a penalty to HMRC as part of a multi-million pound tax settlement.\n\nThe ex-chancellor has been under pressure over claims he tried to avoid tax and has now had to pay it back.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Zahawi for comment on the latest allegations.", "Scottish transport tycoon Dame Ann Gloag has been charged with human trafficking offences.\n\nHer husband David McCleary and two other members of their family have also been charged.\n\nAll four strongly deny the charges against them.\n\nBBC Scotland has been told that the 80-year-old co-founder of Stagecoach was charged after voluntarily attending Falkirk police station with Mr McCleary for an interview on Thursday.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Dame Ann said that she could not comment on the details of an ongoing investigation.\n\nBut it added: \"Dame Ann Gloag strongly disputes the malicious allegations that have been made against her, her foundation and members of her family.\"\n\nIt went on to say she would \"vigorously defend herself and the work of her foundation to protect her legacy and continue her work helping thousands of people in the UK and abroad every year.\"\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that four people were charged in connection with an investigation into alleged human trafficking and immigration offences.\n\nA spokesperson said a report would be sent to Scottish prosecutors.\n\nIt is understood Sarah Gloag, who is Dame Ann's stepdaughter and daughter-in-law, attended voluntarily at Livingston police station in West Lothian with Dame Ann's son-in-law Paul McNeil.\n\nThe allegations are believed to relate to people who were brought to Scotland as part of Dame Ann's charity work with the Gloag Foundation.\n\nA source close to Dame Ann told the BBC that the family were \"victims of collusion\" and had endured \"a Kafkaesque nightmare for the last two years.\"\n\nThe source added: \"Everybody is bewildered by these accusations and the level of this investigation.\n\n\"It is deeply ironic that Dame Ann actually funds an Eastern European charity called the Open Door Foundation whose job it is to stop the trafficking of poor women into sex crimes.\n\n\"She is very attuned to the real dangers that are going on in this world.\n\n\"This is bizarre. We are dealing with technicalities.\n\n\"There are countless people who are stepping forward to support Dame Ann from around the world.\"\n\nDame Ann has donated to many charites over the years including the Africa Mercy hospital ship project\n\nSarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, took to Twitter to voice her support for Dame Ann.\n\nMrs Brown said: \"Gordon and I have known Ann Gloag for many years through her huge personal commitment to Freedom from Fistula and supporting girls' health & education.\n\n\"She is a remarkable campaigner and quietly generous charity supporter. These charges just don't add up.\"\n\nAnother charity voiced its support for Dame Ann, with Monica Boseff, executive director of the Open Door Foundation, saying she has \"compassion and high moral values\".\n\nThe foundation says it works to provide \"emergency shelter for victims of any form of human trafficking\" and described Dame Ann a \"long time supporter and friend\" who provided donations.\n\nDame Ann retired from Stagecoach in 2019, almost 40 years after she founded the firm with her brother. At the time she was Scotland's richest woman.\n\nThe Perth-based firm grew out of Margaret Thatcher's deregulation of the bus industry in the 1980s.\n\nIt became one of the UK's biggest bus and coach operators, employing more than 24,000 people.\n\nDame Ann is now a philanthropist with charity interests around the world.\n\nShe set up the Gloag Foundation to support projects that \"prevent or relieve poverty and encourage the advancement of education, health and religion in the UK and overseas\".\n\nThe foundation supports charities including Freedom from Fistula, a charity founded by Dame Ann, which supports women and children in Sierra Leone, Malawi and Madagascar.", "Coverage: Radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra from 20:00 GMT and main card from 22:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Live; live text coverage on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nChris Eubank Jr faces Liam Smith in an intriguing all-British middleweight fight at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday.\n\nBoth men are on impressive winning streaks and have promised big performances.\n\nSmith, 34, has stopped his past three opponents while Eubank's last defeat was in 2018 to then-world champion George Groves.\n\nThe fight will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live from 22:00 GMT, while the BBC Sport website will have a live text commentary page from 20:00 GMT, featuring all the build-up and undercard action on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra.\n\nWe have asked big names from the world of boxing for their opinions on the big fight.\n• None How Eubank emerged from his father's shadow\n\nFeatherweight world champion Leigh Wood: \"I think Smith will win on points. Both fighters will get hurt and Eubank has got a chin but Liam has more push in him and his style will make it tough for Eubank.\"\n\nFormer light-middleweight world champion Hannah Rankin: \"I see Eubank coming out on top. However, I think it's going to be a lot harder than people think. It's not going to be a walkover for him.\"\n\n5 Live boxing analyst Barry Jones: \"As soon as it was announced I really fancied Smith - he won't make a dent in Eubank, but I don't think Smith will care.\"\n\nHeavyweight Frazer Clarke: \"Liam Smith on points. But I would not be surprised one bit if Eubank came out and is absolutely exceptional. It has happened before with Chris Eubank.\"\n\nUnified light-middleweight world champion Natasha Jonas: \"Liam Smith on points. The first four rounds will be the most telling for Eubank, he needs to build up a lead. We know that Liam comes back strong. Down the home straight he's been there a million times and gets better as the fight goes on.\n\n\"We saw that against Fowler and in his last fight against Vargas. We know that's coming, so how you start is imperative and it has to be a good start. If you think you're going to start slow and try and work him out, that's not going to happen because he's going to work you out first.\"\n\nFormer world champion George Groves: \"I can imagine Smith is mentally very tough but physically I don't know. I make Eubank a chunky favourite but it's definitely a banana skin.\"\n\nCruiserweight Scott Forrest: \"Liam will be too much for him. Too strong. Eubank's got a good chin so I think Liam will win on points.\"\n\nTrainer and former world champion Andy Lee: \"It could go either way. I slightly favour Eubank but I can see a win for Smith as well.\"\n\nFormer heavyweight champion David Haye: \"I think Chris Eubank Jr is an exceptional fighter. I don't think he's been able to express how good he is. I'm expecting him to go in there fully loaded because Liam is the guy to really bring the best out of him.\"\n\nMiddleweight Liam Williams: \"I've boxed them both. I am personally going with a Liam Smith win. I don't think either of them are going to stop each other but I think Liam is better schooled than Eubank.\"\n\n5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce: \"I just fancy Chris Eubank. But I do think what we've seen in Manchester this week, that will have an effect on the fight.\"", "Darcey Corria has been treated in hospital since the crash last Thursday\n\nMiss Wales Darcey Corria has suffered a broken pelvis and two broken bones in her neck after an M4 crash.\n\nShe is being treated at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff, following the crash near Bridgend on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a social media video, she said she was \"feeling a lot better than a couple of days ago, but there's still a long way to go\".\n\n\"I'm a tough cookie so I know I will be OK.\"\n\nIn a story on her Instagram account, she also praised the \"outstanding\" care she was receiving in hospital, adding that it had given her more of a \"push to become a nurse\".\n\nMiss Wales competition organisers said Darcey - who won the title last May aged 21 - was \"receiving much love and support from her close family\".\n\n\"She is expected to make a full recovery,\" said the organisation.\n\n\"While the accident will have an immediate impact on Darcey's preparation for Miss World in May, we are hopeful and confident that she will still be able to fly the flag for Wales thanks to her own personal determination, the love and support of her family and the incredible team of medics at UHW.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police confirmed a woman had been taken to hospital with \"serious injuries\" following a traffic collision.\n\nAfter winning the 2021 title, Darcey said: \"I understand the significance and the importance of my crowning moment\"\n\nIt led to a long closure on the M4 eastbound between Junction 35 Pencoed and Junction 36 Sarn on Thursday from about 18:00 GMT.\n\nDarcey, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, who has a white mother and a father who has Jamaican heritage, is a black rights campaigner who has been involved in shaping anti-racism legislation.\n\nAfter her win in the competition last year she described it as \"a great platform and if I can work with the Miss Wales brand, we could really be a force to be reckoned with in terms of tackling racism\".", "A gym at Rebekah and Jamie Vardy's Lincolnshire home was destroyed by fire\n\nA gym at the home of Jamie and Rebekah Vardy has been destroyed by fire.\n\nThe Leicester City footballer's wife said \"thankfully no one was hurt\" by the blaze in the grounds of the family's mansion near Grantham.\n\nLincolnshire Fire and Rescue said it was called to a fire in Stainby, at 15:20 GMT on Thursday.\n\nA spokesperson said the fire caused \"severe damage\" to 90% of a wooden outbuilding used as a gym. The cause is thought to be an electrical fault.\n\nMrs Vardy wrote on Instagram: \"Every cloud and all that.\n\n\"Buildings and contents are replaceable and the kiddies enjoyed the fire engines.\"\n\nAlongside a photo of two of her children inside a fire engine, she added: \"Thank you for being so brilliant @lincolnshirefirerescue.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by beckyvardy This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe couple, who married in 2016, have three children together. Mrs Vardy also has two other children from previous relationships and Mr Vardy has another daughter.\n\nIn October, Mrs Vardy was told to pay an estimated £1.5m towards Coleen Rooney's legal costs after losing the so-called Wagatha Christie libel trial.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A historic building in Lima caught fire on Friday as protests against Peru's President Dina Boluarte continued.\n\nFirefighters battled to put the blaze out and it's thought the building, on Plaza San Martín, was empty during the blaze.\n\nDozens of lives have been lost during weeks of demonstrations in Peru, after former leader Pedro Castillo was ousted.\n\nDemonstrators want Ms Boluarte to step aside and call fresh elections, and for Mr Castillo, her left-wing predecessor, to be released from custody.", "Police Scotland is to check staff against national databases as it steps up vetting of its officers.\n\nIt follows the case of David Carrick who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met police officer.\n\nIn response, police forces in England and Wales were asked to check officers using UK-wide data on previous offences.\n\nPolice Scotland said the new measure will \"further enhance\" its vetting measures.\n\nThe checks will apply to 22,000 officers and civilian workers.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said Police Scotland was determined to address sexism, misogyny and violence against women in the force and across society.\n\n\"Police Scotland has already strengthened vetting measures, introducing an additional check for new recruits just before they are sworn into office and we will commence a rolling programme to review vetting decisions this year,\" she added.\n\n\"We have recently invested in our vetting team and take relevant action where concerns emerge.\n\n\"To further enhance our ability to safeguard our values and standards, all officers and staff will be checked against national systems, in line with work being taken forward in England and Wales.\n\n\"It is right policing is held to high standards. We will always support officers and staff acting with our values and standards at heart.\n\n\"Those who reject what we stand for don't belong in Police Scotland.\"\n\nDavid Carrick admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met Police officer\n\nIt follows a warning from the former assistant chief constable of Tayside that Police Scotland would look \"stupid\" if it did not follow the measures announced in England and Wales.\n\nAngela Wilson, who now chairs the Women's Rape and Abuse Centre in Dundee, also called for an independent body to be set up to look at complaints against officers.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council, which asked forces in England and Wales to step up vetting, said earlier this week it was also holding talks with Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nCarrick, 48, was officially sacked on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women over two decades.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said his crimes were an \"absolutely despicable\" abuse of power which needed to be \"addressed immediately\".", "The coronation weekend will include concerts, public celebrations and a bank holiday\n\nWorld-famous entertainers will perform at Windsor Castle as part of a weekend of celebrations to mark the King's coronation, it has been announced.\n\nThe concert will be broadcast on the BBC on 7 May featuring \"global music icons\", orchestras and a diverse \"coronation choir\".\n\nIt will come the day after the coronation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nProcessions to and from the abbey will take place, ending with a balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThese are among the new details just released on plans for the weekend which the King and Queen Consort hope will be an opportunity for friends, families and communities to celebrate together, said Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe concert choir will be picked from amateur choirs, including from the NHS, refugees, LGBTQ+ singing groups and deaf-signing choirs, reflecting the aim to make this a more inclusive coronation, which mixes the ancient and modern aspects.\n\nThere will be a laser and drone lightshow, but in an end to another tradition, there are no plans for beacons to be lit around the country.\n\nDiana Ross was a headline act in the party for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nThe line-up for the Windsor concert has still to be announced but organisers are promising \"some of the world's biggest entertainers\".\n\nThe event is expected to be a wide mix of music, dancing and a laser lightshow will be linked to the illumination of famous sites around the UK. For the Shakespeare-loving monarch there will be spoken-word performances from stage and screen stars.\n\nLast year a concert was held outside Buckingham Palace for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee, with music from pop performers such as Diana Ross and Sir Rod Stewart.\n\nStreet parties and local get-togethers will also be held on the Sunday, under the banner of the Coronation Big Lunch.\n\nSupporting the local community will be encouraged on the bank holiday of Monday 8 May, with the Big Help Out, in which people will be urged to get involved in local volunteering projects.\n\nPrevious coronations have also included the monarch making a broadcast to the nation and official banquets for guests and visiting dignitaries.\n\nThe St Edward's Crown will be used in the coronation of King Charles III\n\nThe coronation at Westminster Abbey will see the crowning of King Charles and the Queen Consort Camilla, in a service full of religious symbolism and pageantry.\n\nThe ceremony is expected to be a shorter, smaller and a more diverse occasion than for Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.\n\nThat previous coronation lasted three hours and the ceremony for King Charles is expected to be considerably shorter.\n\nElements of the service could be reduced, such as the paying of homage, and a \"claims office\" is currently looking at which roles should be included.\n\nPrevious coronations have had historic roles such as the \"rouge dragon pursuivant\", \"unicorn pursuivant\" and carriers of the \"golden spur\" and the \"white wand\".\n\nThere were more than 8,000 guests for the 1953 coronation, while the ceremony in May is expected to be smaller, with Westminster Abbey usually having a capacity of about 2,200.\n\nAlthough it remains uncertain whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be part of the congregation - with Prince Harry in a recent TV interview not confirming his attendance if invited.\n\nThe coronation procession is expected to be more modest. In 1953, there were 16,000 participants in a procession that took 45 minutes to pass any stationary point on the 7km (4.3 miles) route.\n\nThis time round the King and Queen Consort will arrive at the abbey from the palace, in the King's procession and return in a larger Coronation procession, joined by other members of the Royal Family. It is not yet confirmed who will then appear with them on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere have been suggestions that the dress code for those attending the coronation is likely to be more modern.\n\nA more inclusive, multi-faith dimension is anticipated for the service, with representatives of a range of religions. There will be scrutiny of whether the coronation oath is updated to reflect a wider range of beliefs.\n\nFor anti-monarchy group Republic the occasion is not a reason to celebrate in this way.\n\n\"The coronation is a celebration of hereditary power and privilege, it has no place in a modern society,\" said its chief executive officer Graham Smith.\n\nAttention will certainly be paid to the cost of the state-funded coronation. According to the House of Commons Library, the coronation in 1953 cost the equivalent of £18.8m in 2021 prices.", "Fionnuala Kennedy said she was \"breathless with anger\"\n\nA head teacher has warned pupils at her all-girls' school \"not to allow a lone policeman to approach you at any time\".\n\nFionnuala Kennedy, head of Wimbledon High School in south London, made the comments after the David Carrick case.\n\nMet Police officer Carrick admitted 49 sexual offences, including 24 counts of rape, across two decades. He has been dismissed by the force.\n\nMs Kennedy said the case made her concerned about how to empower her students while also keeping them safe.\n\nThe head teacher at the independent school wrote her comments in a blog post after Carrick's crimes became public knowledge earlier this week.\n\nShe called the case \"horrific\" and said that she was \"breathless with anger\" about \"the utter failing of the Met Police to protect girls and women\".\n\nHer remarks come as the head of the Met Police, Sir Mark Rowley, published a plan to reform the force over the next two years, after a series of scandals involving rogue officers, including Carrick.\n\nSir Mark said he was \"determined to win back Londoners' trust\" and was asking the public to comment on the plan over the next three months. The Met said its priorities included tackling violence against women and girls and identifying misconduct in its ranks.\n\nIn her blog post, Ms Kennedy also reflected on Andrew Tate's recent arrest - the social media influencer is being investigated over allegations of sexual assault and exploitation, which he denies.\n\nMs Kennedy said that both cases made her feel \"tired\", \"angry\" and \"somewhat defeated\".\n\nAndrew Tate (third from right) is currently in detention in Romania\n\nMs Kennedy told BBC London that the anger she expressed in her post was really \"the anger of my students, and I'm the channel through which that is expressed\".\n\nShe said she thought it was \"important for women to express anger when they feel it\" as they were often told it was an \"inappropriate\" or \"shameful\" emotion.\n\nMs Kennedy said she felt it was her place to offer the advice she gave in her blog \"as long as parents are in the loop\".\n\nMs Kennedy said she would still encourage her pupils to approach a police officer if they were in trouble\n\nShe clarified that she was \"not suggesting for a moment that girls don't trust the police as an entire establishment\" and she was not discouraging girls from finding a police officer if they were in trouble.\n\nBut she defended her warning to pupils that they should be wary, saying \"the police have done a good enough job on their own of developing distrust from the public\".\n\nMs Kennedy called for the Met Police to \"address their cultural issues and make sure that we feel that they are taking due diligence to protect our vulnerable people\".\n\nIn response to the head teacher's remarks, the Met referred the BBC to a statement by Sir Mark issued soon after Carrick pleaded guilty. The Met commissioner - whose statement preceded the comments made about his reform plans - admitted that the force had \"let women and girls down and indeed we've let Londoners down\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Pupils from Ysgol Bro Teifi say they see more English spoken among younger pupils since the pandemic\n\nCovid lockdowns have been partly blamed for a drop in young Welsh speakers, who were not able to use the language regularly for two years.\n\nThe 2021 census showed a 5.7% drop in the number of school-age children able to speak Welsh since 2011.\n\nThis is despite the number of pupils in Welsh-medium education rising by 11,000 in that period.\n\nStudents in a Welsh-speaking heartland said Covid may have hit the confidence of some to use it socially.\n\nThe Welsh government has ambitious plans to increase the number of speakers to one million by 2050 - with 562,000 reporting they could speak it in 2011, dropping to 538,000 in 2021 (17.8% of the population).\n\nIn 2011, 168,000 school-age children were recorded as being able to speak Welsh, which fell to 146,000 in 2021.\n\nThis is despite the number of pupils in schools where Welsh is taught as a first language rising from 85,325 to 95,120, with many others in bilingual schools.\n\nWith lockdowns and learning from home in place as the country battled Covid between March 2020 and December 2021 - when census data was collected - government officials said this could have affected parents' confidence in classing children as Welsh-speaking.\n\n\"Children were out of school and it may be that we are seeing this concern reflected in the way they reported their children's ability in Welsh,\" a Welsh government spokesman said.\n\nA new immersion unit is introducing older children to Welsh-medium education in Torfaen\n\nYsgol Bro Teifi in Llandysul, Ceredigion, has seen sixth-form numbers increase from 750 in 2016 to more than 900, but pupils said the pandemic has had an impact on language confidence.\n\n\"I barely speak English at home or in school, but I've seen a decrease maybe around in the community since Covid and people have maybe lost the confidence to speak Welsh,\" Jano,16, said.\n\nOsian, 17, agreed, saying he had seen younger pupils speaking more English.\n\nThis is because those from English-speaking families had \"not really had the opportunity over the last two years because of Covid to use the Welsh language\", he believes.\n\nDespite this, Tomos, 17, said he was confident for the future: \"There are many more pupils in this school than when it started which shows that people want their children to have their education through the Welsh language.\"\n\nAnnie, 16, agreed - her mother is not a Welsh speaker, but she said children \"do pick it up\".\n\nDr Rhian Hodges, a sociology lecturer at Bangor University said Welsh-medium education needed to be \"accessible to everyone\".\n\n\"There is a general sense of disappointment and of maybe shock initially when we look at this paradox between the decreases and the numbers attending Welsh medium education,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh language commissioner believes all parents should have a choice in sending children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has written to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which compiles the census data, to ask officials to look at why different surveys about Welsh produce different results.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Efa Gruffudd Jones said Welsh in all schools should be offered \"better and more efficiently\".\n\nIn Torfaen a new language immersion unit - the first in the county - is about to open at Ysgol Panteg, Pontypool.\n\nIt will allow seven to 11-year-olds to have intensive Welsh lessons for 12 weeks before moving into mainstream Welsh-medium classes.\n\nHead teacher Dr Matthew Dicken said it would offer another chance for parents to introduce their children to Welsh-medium education.\n\nHe added that the aim was to \"show the opportunities that come with Welsh education and to really give people the opportunity to take that up in so many different ways\".\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"More children in English-medium schools are learning Welsh through our curriculum for Wales and we've approved plans to increase Welsh in education in the next 10 years with all local authorities.\n\n\"The census is one of many important pieces of data that will be used to consider what changes need to be made in future to ensure our language thrives.\"", "Labour is calling for a parliamentary investigation into claims the chairman of the BBC helped Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee, weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role.\n\nThe Sunday Times says Richard Sharp was involved in arranging a guarantor on a loan of up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Sharp said he had \"simply connected\" people and there was no conflict of interest.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman said he did not receive financial advice from Mr Sharp.\n\nHe also dismissed Labour's suggestion Mr Johnson could have breached the code of conduct for MPs \"through failing to appropriately declare the arrangement\" on his Parliamentary register of interests.\n\nOn Sunday the Cabinet Office said Mr Sharp was appointed following a \"rigorous appointments process\" and all the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\nLabour's chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, asking for \"an urgent investigation into the facts of this case\".\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that \"of course perception matters\". But he added Mr Sharp was an \"incredibly accomplished, incredibly successful individual\", and there was \"no doubt he was appointed on merit\".\n\nHe also said it was not \"unusual for someone to be politically active prior to their appointment to senior BBC positions\".\n\nMr Sharp declined to appear on Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday but told the show \"the claim that there was anything financial involved is not true\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson travelled to Ukraine on Sunday to visit parts of Kyiv and meet with President Zelensky.\n\nMr Johnson was reported to be in financial difficulty in late 2020.\n\nThe Sunday Times says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. It is not clear where the loan agreement itself came from.\n\nMr Sharp - a Conservative Party donor who at the time was applying to be the chairman of the BBC - contacted Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and current head of the civil service. The paper says a due diligence process was then instigated.\n\nThe Cabinet Office later wrote a letter telling Mr Johnson to stop seeking Mr Sharp's advice about his personal finances, given the forthcoming BBC appointment, the Times says. BBC News has not seen the letter.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Mr Sharp reminded the cabinet secretary about the BBC appointment process and asked for advice given his existing relationship with Boris Johnson.\n\n\"They agreed that he could not take part in discussions involving the then prime minister, given the appointment process. This was accepted by Mr Sharp to avoid any conflict or appearance of any conflict of interest and the then prime minister was advised accordingly.\"\n\nAccording to the Times, Mr Sharp, Mr Blyth and Mr Johnson had dinner together at Chequers before the loan guarantee was finalised, although they deny the PM's finances were discussed then.\n\nFormer Goldman Sachs banker Mr Sharp was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman in January 2021. The government's choice is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nThe BBC chairman heads the board that sets the corporation's strategic direction and upholds its independence.\n\nCandidates for such publicly-appointed roles are required to declare any conflicts of interest.\n\nAppointed for a four-year term on the recommendation of the culture secretary through the PM, and with a salary of £160,000 a year, the BBC chairman's role is to uphold and protect the independence of the BBC.\n\nAfter a 40-year career in finance, since February 2021 Richard Sharp has led the BBC board, responsible for setting the corporation's strategic vision and budgets as well as ensuring BBC decisions are made in the interests of the public.\n\nMr Sharp is often the public face of the corporation; only a few days ago, he was making a speech about the financial pressures on the BBC World Service and the importance of impartiality.\n\nNow he is accused of helping his old friend, Boris Johnson to secure a loan guarantee.\n\nCrucially, during the application process to be chairman, Mr Sharp didn't declare a potential conflict of interest and Mr Sharp insists there was none.\n\nThe post is a political appointment, but the story is damaging not just to Mr Sharp personally but could also be to the BBC more widely.\n\nThe corporation is making a highly visible effort, in a polarised media landscape, to put impartiality and transparency at the heart of its attempts to earn people's trust.\n\nWhatever the truth of what happened, perceptions matter - particularly with the corporation facing a review of its charter by the government ahead of renewal in 2027.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sharp said: \"There is not a conflict when I simply connected, at his request, Mr Blyth with the cabinet secretary and had no further involvement whatsoever.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Richard Sharp was appointed as chairman of the BBC following a rigorous appointments process including assessment by a panel of experts, constituted according to the public appointments code.\n\n\"There was additional pre-appointment scrutiny by a House of Commons Select Committee which confirmed Mr Sharp's appointment. All the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\n\"The recruitment process is set out clearly and transparently in the governance code on public appointments and overseen by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour had already written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards calling for an investigation into the reports Mr Blyth had set up the loan guarantee.\n\nThe guarantee is a promise by one party - known as a guarantor - to assume the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.\n\nIn her letter to the commissioner, Ms Dodds cites the Sunday Times story, saying she was concerned that Mr Johnson may have breached rules \"by asking for an individual to facilitate a guarantee on a loan whom he would later appoint to a senior public role\".\n\nShe said that a \"lack of transparency\" may \"give the impression that this was a quid pro quo arrangement, something which would undermine the integrity of the democratic process, and calls into question the process by which the chairman of the BBC was appointed\".\n\nRichard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021\n\nShadow culture minister Lucy Powell has also sent a letter to the Commissioner for Public Appointments to look into the selection process for the chair of the BBC.\n\nShe wrote: \"It is vital that the public and Parliament can have trust in this process and it is free from any real or perceived conflict of interest.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"Richard Sharp has never given any financial advice to Boris Johnson, nor has Mr Johnson sought any financial advice from him. There has never been any remuneration or compensation to Mr Sharp from Boris Johnson for this or any other service.\n\n\"Mr Johnson did indeed have dinner with Mr Sharp, whom he has known for almost 20 years, and with his cousin. So what? Big deal.\n\n\"All Mr Johnson's financial arrangements have been properly declared and registered on the advice of officials.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC plays no role in the recruitment of the chair and any questions are a matter for the government.\"", "Rhett Wilson was arrested in March 2020, days after a referral was made to the force's Professional Standards Department\n\nA former police officer who abused his position to start sexual relationships with vulnerable women has been jailed.\n\nRhett Wilson met the domestic violence victims through his work as a West Mercia Police officer in Shropshire.\n\nHe had admitted three corruption offences relating to the relationships and was sentenced to two years and eight months at Worcester Crown Court.\n\nHe was convicted of perverting the course of justice for deleting evidence in December at the same court.\n\nWilson, 27, joined the force in 2019 and began pursuing sexual relationships and stalking in December that year.\n\nHe was arrested on 10 March 2020, days after a referral was made to the force's Professional Standards Department.\n\nAfter being interviewed, he was suspended on 12 March and resigned in July 2020 while under investigation, the force said.\n\nThe incident was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and internal misconduct proceedings will now take place following him being jailed on Friday.\n\nWilson previously admitted three counts of corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges.\n\nHe was convicted of perverting the course of justice after deleting messages and call data from his phone to hide his offences.\n\nGiovanni D'Alessandro of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Rhett Wilson was fully aware of his professional obligations in relation to those he met through his duties.\n\n\"Yet, he targeted women he knew to be vulnerable and used his position of power to exploit them for his sexual gain.\n\n\"When he became aware of the police investigation into his behaviour, he deleted all evidence from his phone to evade justice, showing a blatant disrespect for the law.\"\n\nDep Ch Con Alex Murray said he abused his position and it was likely his victims did not even know what he was doing was wrong.\n\n\"The public need to have confidence police officers will act with the utmost integrity and not abuse their powers,\" he said.\n\n\"Wilson's actions could seriously undermine that confidence his exploitive behaviour will not be tolerated in West Mercia Police.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nUnderdog Liam Smith stopped Chris Eubank Jr in four rounds to bring a bitter rivalry to an explosive end.\n\nEubank Jr, 33, had been unbeaten since 2018 but suffered the first stoppage defeat of his career.\n\nLiverpool's Smith knocked Eubank down twice in quick succession in the fourth round before the referee waved off the middleweight contest in Manchester.\n\nFight week was dominated by controversy but it was Smith who pulled off the upset after moving up in weight.\n\nThere were rapturous celebrations among Smith's team and in the crowd when the fight ended, with the 34-year-old's brothers Callum, Paul and Stephen joining him in the ring.\n\nThe two fighters hugged in the ring after emotions calmed and Smith opened the door to a rematch in his post-fight comments.\n\n\"I said all week I'm a good finisher and I knew if I got him hurt that I would finish him,\" Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Name me a Chris Eubank fight that has been respectful - not many.\n• None Reaction & as it happened: Smith upsets Eubank at middleweight\n\n\"Something I said may have come across wrong and I apologise for anyone offended by that. I respect everybody and it was just tongue in cheek with Chris.\n\n\"There's not many fighters who can milk a crowd like I can. That was up there with the best nights in my career.\n\n\"I'll do the rematch on my terms.\"\n\nEubank-Smith had gradually turned into an unexpected grudge match that erupted during fight week.\n\nThe pre-fight media conference saw Eubank suffer homophobic taunts from Smith. The Liverpudlian denied his comments were homophobic. He was then the victim of taunts about social class and personal attacks about infidelity from Eubank.\n\nIt meant fight night was a charged affair once the main event rolled around just before 23:00 GMT.\n\nSmith emerged first to a brilliant reception and was the clear crowd favourite having made the short trip from Liverpool.\n\nEubank entered the arena to a chorus of boos, but appeared undeterred, taking an extra moment to turn and face the crowd before jumping over the ropes.\n\nBut it was a cautious opening from Eubank. Smith was on the front foot, tagging Eubank in the opening rounds with quick right hands.\n\nEubank, though, was prepared to ride out the pressure and came to life in the third with a flurry of uppercuts after a left hook landed on Smith.\n\nBut just as it seemed Eubank was getting a foothold in the fight, Smith came back strong in the fourth round.\n\nHe caught Eubank with a succession of left hooks and landed an uppercut during a combination that sent Eubank falling backwards.\n\nThe Brighton native immediately returned to his feet but was visibly unsteady.\n\nThe referee allowed the contest to continue and Smith pounced on a hurt Eubank, immediately sending him back to the canvas.\n\nThe defeat is the third of Eubank's career and leaves him at a crossroads should he decide against fighting Smith again.\n\nFor Smith, victory marks the fourth stoppage win in a row as the veteran fighter continues to enjoy a purple patch, picking up the 33rd win of his career.\n\nWill there be a rematch?\n\nAfter such a bitter rivalry and thrilling conclusion, many fight fans will be hoping to see Smith and Eubank meet again in the near future.\n\nBefore fight week, Smith revealed there was a rematch clause and Eubank has the option to activate it.\n\nEubank, who had never been dropped before in his career, is open to a second fight and it seems a likely proposition considering the attention this week has generated - with the fighter citing Liverpool's Anfield home as a potential venue.\n\n\"Big congratulations to Liam. I felt like it could've gone on but he caught me with a great shot,\" Eubank told Sky Sports afterwards.\n\n\"The build-up got a bit ugly at the end and I regretted that.\n\n\"I respect you and your family and I always have. If the fans want to see a rematch, we can get it on at Anfield.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra from 20:00 GMT and main card from 22:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Live; live text coverage on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nChris Eubank Jr says boxers \"need to set the example\" in the fight for an inclusive sport after controversy in Manchester.\n\nUgly scenes at a news conference on Thursday have overshadowed Saturday's fight between Eubank and Liam Smith as the boxing year began on a sour note.\n\n\"It was about the lowest and the most out-of-control conference I've ever been at - it shocked me,\" BBC 5 Live boxing analyst Steve Bunce said.\n\n\"Boxing went across that line.\"\n\nEubank, 33, was the subject of homophobic taunts from Smith for much of the event and responded by taunting his opponent about his city of birth, Liverpool, and smearing his marriage.\n\nUnified light-middleweight champion Natasha Jonas admitted it was a \"bad look for boxing\" while retired boxer George Groves said: \"Both fighters crossed that line of professionalism.\"\n\nSmith has since apologised to anyone who was \"offended\" but insisted \"not one homophobic thing\" came out of his mouth.\n\nIn the exchange on Thursday, Smith made repeated comments apparently suggesting Eubank is gay, questioning why he had not been seen \"with a girl\" and asking \"have you got something to tell us...?\"\n\nSmith said: \"Do you want to tell us something? Because no one in this room has ever seen you with a woman.\" He later added: \"I'm not that type of way [gay] mate, I like women.\"\n\nEubank replied: \"My private life is my private life, it's irrelevant to boxing. But I'm happy, I'm comfortable.\" He added, \"if you want to get dark and personal with it\" before making comments about Smith's private life, alleging Smith cheated on his wife.\n• None How Eubank emerged from his father's shadow\n• None Eubank needs to 'blast away' handpicked Smith - Groves\n\nOn Friday, Eubank wore a rainbow armband to the weigh-on in a show of support for the LGBTQ+ community.\n\n\"Liam disrespected and hurt and alienated a whole group of people,\" Eubank said. \"That is unacceptable. We don't want that in boxing. We want be all inclusive in this sport.\n\n\"When you're getting ready to fight a man, tensions are high, I get it. But we've got to be responsible, we've got kids looking up to us and we've got to set the example.\"\n\nEubank denied his reference to Liverpool needing a hero during hard economic times was a taunt about social class.\n\nFight promoter Boxxer and their broadcaster partner Sky Sports spoke to Eubank and Smith after the media event, reminding them of their responsibility to behave in a professional manner.\n\nNeither intend to take any further action against Smith or Eubank, but the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) will conduct its own hearing into what happened.\n\n\"The stewards of the board will be considering the conduct of both boxers directly,\" a BBBofC statement said on Friday.\n\nBunce said he expects fines to be issued by the governing body.\n\n\"I've never heard that language or homophobic stuff used in that way shape or form before in boxing,\" Bunce said.\n\n\"Maybe as a throwaway line but that was relentless. Liam went on relentlessly and then Chris could have handled it better. It escalated out of control.\"\n\n\"They won't be banned for it, and I don't think they should be,\" he added. \"But they should face a fine.\n\n\"And maybe everyone involved should face a fine.\"\n\nLGBTQ+ rights organisation Stonewall said the proportion of sports fans who think homophobic remarks in sport are acceptable has almost halved from 2017 to 2022, from 25% to 14%, but said the incident in Manchester proved more work was needed.\n\n\"These instances show why it's so important for boxers, coaches and individuals to continue to lace up and keep up the fight for inclusion,\" Stonewall's director of communications and external affairs Robbie de Santos said.\n\n\"Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic comments have no place in sport.\n\n\"It's vital that the sports authorities take instances like this seriously and make clear that anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric will not be tolerated.\"\n\nIt is common for fighters who use derogatory language and bring the sport into disrepute to be reprimanded by the BBBofC, although no British fighter has ever been banned for using homophobic language towards another opponent.\n\nEubank joins a small but growing group of elite athletes willing to take part in a public show of support for the LGBTQ+ community on a major stage.\n\nBunce, who will commentate on the fight for BBC Radio 5 Live on Saturday, hopes Eubank's actions will lead to progress in the sport.\n\n\"That's the infamous armband that wasn't good enough for Fifa and for some of the highest paid sportsmen in the world to wear - and Chris wore it,\" he said.\n\n\"It was beautiful, I thought it was a really good thing.\"\n\n\"What happened here this week in Manchester won't vanish. It's not going to be an isolated incident. It's going to stay.\n\n\"It will linger with Liam Smith. There's a little bit more explaining and a little more openness needed for us to move on.\n\n\"Chris Eubank may have started it today.\"\n• None Sliced Bread investigates whether it's worth spending more on a scent\n• None How did an interview turn 'nearly physical'?", "The Leopard tank is designed to compete with the Russian tanks being used in the invasion\n\nAn adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the West's \"indecision\" over sending extra weapons to Ukraine is \"killing more of our people\".\n\n\"Every day of delay is the death of Ukrainians,\" Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.\n\nHis remarks come after Ukraine's defence minister said he had a \"frank discussion\" with his German counterpart about German Leopard 2 tanks, which Kyiv is urgently requesting to confront Russian armour.\n\nGermany has insisted that it is not blocking the delivery of German-made Leopard tanks, which other countries want to send.\n\n\"We had a frank discussion on Leopards 2. To be continued,\" Oleksii Reznikov said after meeting Western allies on Friday.\n\nThe meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany brought an agreement to supply more armoured vehicles, air defence systems and ammunition.\n\nOn Saturday, an adviser to Mr Reznikov told the BBC that Nato countries committed to helping Ukraine need to be several steps ahead of the enemy.\n\nYuriy Sak said that the West needed to redefine what it meant to stand with Ukraine - and that it did not simply mean stabilising Ukraine's front line.\n\n\"To be able to defend our land means to be able to de-occupy our land, to liberate our territories and for this we need heavy tanks, for this we need armoured vehicles,\" he said.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is seen as a potential game-changer for Ukraine, as it is easy to maintain and designed specifically to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said opinions remained divided over supplying Leopards, and he denied that Berlin was blocking such a move.\n\nUnder German export laws, other countries who want to supply Leopards - like Poland and Finland - are unable to do so until Berlin gives the all-clear.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the Nato partners for their military assistance, but said \"we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks\".\n\n\"Every day we make it more obvious that there is no alternative, that a decision about tanks must be made.\"\n\nUkraine's current tanks are mostly old Soviet models, often outnumbered and outgunned by Russian firepower.\n\nMore than 2,000 Leopards are sitting in warehouses all over Europe. President Zelensky believes about 300 of them could help to defeat Russia.\n\nMr Pistorius said Berlin was prepared to move quickly if there was consensus among allies, though he could not say when a decision on the tanks might be made.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov (R) with Kyiv's US and German allies in Ramstein\n\nGermany has found itself in a deadlock due to several factors including international diplomacy and the legacy of World War Two.\n\nIt used to have a policy of not sending arms to conflict zones, but that was reversed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nLate last year, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said Germany was now \"among the allies providing most military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine\", by supplying artillery, air defence systems and Marder infantry fighting vehicles.\n\nBut Germany is reluctant to send Leopards unless they are part of a wider Nato package that preferably includes America's powerful M1 Abrams tanks. The US has rejected this, saying the Abrams tanks are impractical for Ukraine's forces because they are difficult and expensive to maintain.\n\nRegardless, there has been pressure in some corners for the US to send its tanks, and to persuade Germany to do the same.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin denied that Berlin was waiting for the US to make the first move. \"This notion of unlocking - in my mind it's not an issue,\" he said after Friday's meeting of 54 countries at Ramstein Air Base.\n\nGermany also remains haunted by the Nazi-era devastation it caused in World War Two, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been cautious about having anything to do with an escalation in Ukraine.\n\nA leading opposition Christian Democrat (CDU) politician in Germany, Johann Wadephul, condemned the government's \"policy of refusal\" on the Leopards, saying it would affect Germany's international reputation. \"What is Scholz waiting for?\" he asked.\n\n\"Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now,\" he tweeted.\n\nWestern countries have committed billions in other weaponry - but without Germany's commitment on tanks, it was not the result Ukraine was hoping for.\n\nOther countries have committed to sending tanks, including the UK, which will send 14 Challenger 2s.\n\nThe US announced fresh support worth more than $2.5bn (£2bn) this week, including armoured vehicles.\n\nThe Pentagon promised an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other supplies.\n\nNine European nations have also promised their own weapon support after meeting in Estonia on Thursday.", "Hannah says she had to call seven times, over two days, to get through to a crisis line\n\nSuicidal patients in England are being put at risk of serious harm, with one in five calls to NHS helplines going unanswered, BBC research shows.\n\nOne caller said after repeatedly trying to get through, staff eventually told her to \"think happy thoughts\".\n\nCoroners have expressed fears over how patients are assessed. One man who died told staff he wanted to end his life, but was not referred for support.\n\nNHS England said crisis lines had seen \"record demand\".\n\nIt said it had made £7m available to local areas to improve their crisis lines, to \"ensure that everyone receives the support they need\".\n\nRun by NHS mental health trusts, crisis lines receive over 200,000 calls each month across England.\n\nThey aim to signpost patients to services, and provide access to urgent mental health support by phone for adults - and in some areas under-18s - at high risk of suicide. They were seen as key to making mental health support more accessible during the pandemic.\n\nBut figures collated by the BBC through Freedom of Information requests, from 29 of the 47 mental health trusts with crisis lines, show that at least 418,000 calls went unanswered in 2021-22.\n\nThat means 20% of calls to these trusts weren't answered - with some areas performing far better than others.\n\nIn 10 trusts, some people waited more than an hour for their call to be answered.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to more than a dozen crisis line callers who say their safety or their lives have been put at risk.\n\nHannah, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety, says on one occasion when she was suicidal it took her seven calls - across two days - to get through.\n\n\"I've literally been crying my eyes out and I've left a message on the answer phone and no-one's ever got back to me.\n\n\"Your brain already makes you feel that you're alone. And then to have the people that are meant to care not answer, it makes it 10 times worse.\"\n\nWhen Hannah did get through to the helpline, she said she explained she no longer wanted to be alive, but was told to \"think happy thoughts and read a book\" - before the staff member blamed her for \"not wanting to help yourself\" and ended the call.\n\nHannah says she took herself to A&E, a decision she believes may have saved her life, and was later sectioned.\n\nSouth London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has since apologised, saying Hannah's calls should have been returned and the advice given by staff was \"not appropriate\". It said improvements had been made.\n\nFewer than one in six trusts that responded to the BBC's request for data said all their crisis line staff were qualified mental health professionals.\n\nProfessor Sonia Johnson says it is a \"major problem\" if callers are unable to access helplines in a timely manner\n\nFormer staff members at three different NHS Trusts have told the BBC that after being hired, they were not given training on assessing or supporting patients.\n\n\"You're expected to learn on the job, which is disappointing when you're dealing with people's lives,\" said ex-employee Sophie - not her real name - who left her role in mid-2022.\n\nShe was a call handler whose role it was to assess patient risk and - where someone was in need of urgent support - pass their call to a \"responder\", who in most cases would be a qualified mental health nurse.\n\nBut Sophie said that because of staffing pressures, \"very often\" the responders were busy, and so suicidal patients would be asked to wait for help.\n\n\"We would then try to call them back within 15 minutes. But it wasn't always possible.\"\n\nStaff were told to limit the time spent speaking to callers to meet demand, she said, but this detracted from their ability to provide compassionate care. \"You forget about the human factor.\"\n\nIn 2022, coroners investigating deaths published two Prevention of Future Deaths reports - written to alert the wider healthcare system to issues of concern - that highlighted concerns about crisis lines.\n\nIn one case, the coroner found the individual in question had called his local NHS crisis line and described himself \"as 'suicidal', wanting to die… [and] scared that that he might try and take his own life\".\n\nThe caller was not recognised by the service to have been in a mental health crisis, the inquest found, and no referral for crisis or urgent support was made. He was found dead by loved ones the following day.\n\nIn his report, the coroner found there had been \"difficulties in recruitment\" of staff, which were associated with levels of service funding.\n\nHe said call handlers did not always have enough time to effectively assess patient risk, which \"creates a risk of future deaths\" and was a concern \"experienced nationally\".\n\nFormer call handler Sophie said staffing pressures meant suicidal patients were asked to wait\n\nThe trust acknowledged the \"advice given and lack of onward referral appeared to be an inadequate response\", the report said.\n\nProf Sonia Johnson, an expert in community psychiatry at University College London, believes staffing pressures in the wider mental health system have led to demand for crisis services among patients unable to get the long-term support they need.\n\nShe said it was a \"major problem\" if such callers were unable to access helplines in a timely manner.\n\n\"The purpose of crisis lines should really be to make access to support easy, to make it easy not to go to A&E.\"\n\n\"The great pressures that there are on [A&E] services at the moment make it doubly important to have alternatives.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said by 2024 its workforce investment \"will deliver an additional 27,000 mental health professionals and give two million more people the help they need\".\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, mental health support is available through NHS 111. Northern Ireland has its own crisis response hotline, Lifeline.", "Forty more Halifax and Lloyds bank branches will close this year as fewer people need physical sites, the banks' owner Lloyds Banking Group has said.\n\nThe switch to online banking has seen branch footfall in those sites drop by over half, it said.\n\nCost-cutting in the banking sector has led to the closure of thousands of branches in recent years.\n\nIn July, Lloyds Banking Group said it would close 66 branches between October 2022 and January 2023.\n\nIn its latest announcement, the group said Halifax will close 18 sites, while Lloyds will shut 22 between April and June.\n\nAll but one of the closures are in England, with Halifax closing its site in Bangor, Wales.\n\nThe group said there were no job losses as a result of the closures.\n\nThe number of people using services in-person has been falling for years as more people do their banking online.\n\nThe group said the branches to be closed have seen the number of visits drop dramatically in the last five years.\n\n\"Branches play an important part in our strategy but we need to have them in the right places, where they are well-used,\" a group spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that all of the branches due to close have at least one free-to-use cash machine or a Post Office within a third of a mile.\n\nThe Halifax branches shutting are in: Bangor, Chester-le-St, Fenchurch Street in London, Aldershot, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Crouch End, Golders Green, Putney, Norbury, Surbiton, Chingford Mount, Redruth, Bletchley, Maldon, St Neots, Whitley Bay, Grays and Purley.\n\nThe Lloyds branches closing are in: Norbury, Beckenham, Pontefract, Chingford, Gillingham in Kent, Dagenham Heathway in London, Marylebone, Bramford Road in Ipswich, Ripley, Weybridge, Twickenham, Beeston, Whitstable, Wickersley, Borehamwood, Littlehampton, Rustington, Liverpool's Aintree, Shaftesbury, Newport in Shropshire, Hyde and South Harrow.\n\nIn November 2021, TSB bank announced it would be shutting 70 sites, while in November 2022 HSBC said that from April, it would close 114 branches.\n\nBarclays announced it would be closing 15 branches in 2023.\n\nThere were 8% fewer banks on High Streets across England, Scotland and Wales in March 2022 from a year earlier, according to data from Ordnance Survey.\n\nOnce the closures are complete, Lloyds Banking Group will have 1,277 branches across its Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.", "Father Neil McGarrity has been found guilty of four sexual assaults\n\nA Glasgow priest has been convicted of sexually abusing four girls.\n\nFather Neil McGarrity, who has been added to the sex offenders register, targeted his victims at two churches as well as his parish home.\n\nThe 68-year-old was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of four sexual assaults and one charge of engaging in sexual activity.\n\nThe charges span from December 2017 to February 2020, with the girls aged between 10 and 16.\n\nSheriff Vincent Lunny said the priest carried out \"touching of a sexual nature\".\n\nHe told the court: \"I was impressed with the care the witnesses gave their evidence and were not exaggerating in any way\n\n\"I'm satisfied that the contact and inappropriate touching was the beginning of getting to something more serious.\n\n\"I'm satisfied this was a single course of conduct systematically pursued by you.\"\n\nSome of the incidents happened at St Bernadette's church in Carntyne\n\nThe court heard from a girl who said she was repeatedly hugged by the priest when she was aged 10 or 11 at St Thomas' Church in Riddrie.\n\nThe witness stated that McGarrity made her feel \"uncomfortable\". The girl added that he stroked her arm and hugged her.\n\nA second girl told the court that she phoned Childline about the priest not long after meeting him.\n\nThe girl said that on separate occasions he rubbed her waist, chest, arm and touched her leg.\n\nA third girl told the court McGarrity put his arm around her at St Bernadette's Church, in Carntyre, as well as St Thomas'.\n\nA 25-year-old woman said she spotted the priest and her younger sister in a \"prolonged embrace\" at his parish home.\n\nMcGarrity told the court he was \"stunned\" to hear of the allegations.\n\nSentencing was deferred, pending background reports, until March. McGarrity has been granted bail.\n\nA spokesman for the Archdiocese of Glasgow said the convicted priest was suspended from public ministry.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise to the victims of Fr McGarrity and renew apologies previously made for the abuse suffered by anyone in the care of those ministering or working on behalf of the church,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The archdiocese will, in due course, continue its own canonical process, which was put on hold until completion of the criminal case and sentencing.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus play their home games at Allianz Stadium in Turin Juventus have been docked 15 points following an investigation into the club's past transfer dealings, Italy's football federation (FIGC) says. The Serie A giants were accused of fixing their balance sheets by artificial gains from club transfers. Juventus had been in third place but the penalty will drop them to 10th. The club's board of directors, including former president Andrea Agnelli and vice-president Pavel Nedved, resigned in November. Juventus have denied any wrongdoing and confirmed they will appeal against the decision. In a statement, the club said they \"await the publication of the reasons of the decision\" but have started bringing an appeal to the Sport Guarantee Board of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). The FIGC's sanction is tougher than the nine-point deduction prosecutors had requested. Juve's former sports director Fabio Paratici, now Tottenham's managing director of football, has been banned for 30 months. The FIGC has also hit Agnelli and the club's former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene with two-year bans, while current sports director Federico Cherubini has been given a 16-month ban. A total of 11 former and current Juventus executives have received sanctions, with Nedved given an eight-month ban, The FIGC says all the bans include a request for the sanction to be extended to Uefa and Fifa and therefore then apply worldwide. How did we get here? Juventus were initially acquitted alongside 10 other clubs, including current Serie A leaders Napoli, in April 2022. Paratici and Agnelli were among 59 individuals to also be cleared. The investigation was reopened in December after the federal prosecutor decided to appeal that ruling. It followed new evidence from a separate investigation into Juve's finances conducted by prosecutors in Turin. The request to reopen the trial and apply sanctions concerned nine of the original 11 clubs investigated, including Serie A sides Juventus, Sampdoria and Empoli, as well as 52 of the executives at those clubs. Juventus' lawyers said the FIGC's sanctions \"constitute a clear disparity of treatment against Juventus and its managers compared to any other company or member\". They added: \"We point out, as of now, that only Juventus and its managers are attributed the violation of a rule, that the same sports justice had repeatedly recognised that it did not exist. \"We believe that this is also a blatant injustice towards millions of fans, who we trust will soon be remedied in the next degree of judgement.\" In a statement in November, the outgoing board said their resignations were \"considered to be in the best social interest to recommend that Juventus equip itself with a new board of directors to address these issues\". Juventus won nine Serie A titles in a row during Agnelli's 13-year tenure, but finished fourth last season and made a 254m euro (£220m) loss - a record in Italy. Agnelli was one of the chief architects of the breakaway plans to form the European Super League in 2021 and as a result resigned as chairman of the European Club Commission. A new board of directors was approved at a Juventus shareholders meeting on Wednesday, with Gianluca Ferrero replacing him as chairman. Juventus are also facing an investigation from Uefa over potential breaches of its club licensing and financial fair play regulations, which was announced last month. Juve's next league game is at home to Atalanta on Sunday. In 2006, Juventus were relegated to Italy's second division, Serie B. They were also stripped of two Serie A titles.\n• None Sliced Bread investigates whether it's worth spending more on a scent\n• None How did an interview turn 'nearly physical'?", "Julian Sands went missing last Friday in California\n\nAuthorities in California have resumed the air search for British actor Julian Sands, who disappeared last Friday while hiking.\n\nBut the ground search for Mr Sands remains on pause due to poor road conditions.\n\nThe British actor was last seen a week ago in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nPolice said they had found his car near where he was reported missing.\n\n\"There has been no new update or witness information about his whereabouts since then,\" Gloria Huerta, Public Information Officer for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department told the BBC on Friday.\n\nHe was reported missing at about 19:30 local time on Friday 13 January.\n\n\"The air search is being resumed, but we have not been able to resume a ground search yet due to icy conditions and a threat of avalanches,\" said Ms Huerta.\n\nMr Sands, 65, is known for his roles in popular film and television shows, including A Room With A View, 24 and Smallville.\n\nPolice had previously said that they plan to continue looking for Mr Sands, and there is \"no hard deadline\" for ending their search mission.\n\nThey initially said phone pings appeared to show he was on the move two days after he was reported missing. They later clarified that these alerts were delayed and showed his movements on the day he went missing.\n\nMr Sands went missing after California had been battered for weeks by deadly storms, prompting an emergency declaration by US President Joe Biden.\n\nPolice said they had responded to 14 calls from Mount San Antonio, known to locals as Mount Baldy, in the last four weeks and had warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,\" police said. They are also searching for another hiker, an American, who went missing in the same mountains.\n\nLast week, a mother of four whom friends described as an experienced hiker died after sliding more than 500ft down Mount Baldy.\n\nFellow actors have taken to social media to express their concern for Mr Sands' well-being, and his family has assisted authorities in their search.\n\nMr Sands has spoken previously about his love for hiking and mountain climbing, and said in 2020 he was happiest \"close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning\".\n\nHe has three children, and lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nAndy Murray is out of the Australian Open after eventually losing to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in a valiant display where he struggled to move.\n\nFormer world number one Murray finished his second-round match at 4am on Friday and, returning to court 39 hours later, was beaten 6-1 6-7 (7-9) 6-3 6-4.\n\nThe 35-year-old Scot, who had career-threatening hip surgery in 2019, was the last Briton to fall in the singles.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Dan Evans lost 6-4 6-2 6-3 to fifth seed Andrey Rublev.\n\nMurray left everything out on the court before succumbing to the man who famously beat him at the 2019 Australian Open in what the three-time Grand Slam champion feared would be the final match of his career.\n\nTwo weeks later, Murray had the hip resurfacing surgery he thought he would not be able to return from - but four years on he was back in Melbourne aiming to reach the fourth round at a major for the first time since Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nMurray said he had \"a lot of mixed emotions\" after losing to 34-year-old Bautista Agut.\n\n\"I feel like I gave everything that I had to this event so I'm proud of that,\" he added.\n\n\"That is really, in whatever you're doing, all you can do. You can't always control the outcome. You can't control how well you're going to play or the result.\n\n\"You can control the effort that you put into it, and I gave everything that I had the last three matches.\"\n• None Djokovic troubled by hamstring again in Dimitrov win\n• None 'How TikTok provides an escape from tennis' - Gauff column\n\nA step too far even for Murray\n\nEver since Murray beat Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis in a five-set thriller that ended at a time he described as a \"farce\", the question was: how would he recover physically to face 24th seed Bautista Agut?\n\nMurray, ranked 66th in the world, needed five hours and 45 minutes to beat Kokkinakis in the longest match of his eventful career.\n\nThat was already an extraordinary effort - particularly for an ageing player with a lump of metal in his hip - after needing nearly five hours to beat Italian 13th seed Matteo Berrettini in the opening round.\n\n\"I slept from 6-9am on the morning I played Kokkinakis, which obviously isn't enough,\" said Murray.\n\n\"Then I had to come in [to Melbourne Park] and had about seven or eight blisters that I had to have drained.\n\n\"My feet didn't feel great. My legs were actually OK, but I was struggling with my lower back. That was affecting my serve.\n\n\"That was really the main thing that I was struggling with.\"\n\nThe signs were not good from the start.\n\nRegularly wincing after points, and walking gingerly between them, the five-time finalist looked to be in pain as Bautista Agut wrapped up the opening set in just 29 minutes.\n\nWhen the Spaniard, a consistent counter-puncher, moved a break up in the second set it looked like it would be a short night.\n\nBut Murray, as he has so often in the past, refused to accept he was beaten.\n\nThe British number four started moving a little more freely, at least during the points, and fought back to take the set into a tie-break.\n\nThere, he again needed his fighting spirit. Murray trailed 5-2 but, with the support of the crowd behind him, staved off two set points for Bautista Agut before levelling the match with his second set point.\n\nA tight third set - where Murray continued to produce some stunning shots but bent over in pain between points - stayed on serve until he finally buckled to help Bautista Agut break in the eighth game.\n\nDespite struggling to serve, Murray broke for a 2-0 lead in the fourth set but Bautista Agut remained patient and broke for 5-4 before serving out the match.\n\nA excited celebration from the mild-mannered Bautista Agut signalled how deep he had to dig to see off the gallant Murray, who received a rapturous standing ovation when he trudged off court.\n\n\"Playing Andy in a Slam is always very tough, he knows the game very well,\" said 2019 quarter-finalist Bautista Agut, who plays American Tommy Paul in the last 16.\n\n\"I am very happy how I managed all the nerves and the tension during the match. I played good tennis and I'm happy with the win.\"\n\nEvans, seeded 25th, was outpowered by Rublev, who hit 60 winners to 22 unforced errors in a strong display.\n\nThe Russian will face Danish teenager and ninth seed Holger Rune as he bids to reach the Melbourne quarter-finals for the first time.\n\n\"Andrey was too good. He played some good tennis,\" said the 32-year-old Englishman.\n\n\"I didn't feel I did too much wrong. I had a little chance in the first when I had break point, but I didn't take it.\n\n\"He was very aggressive and better than me.\"\n\nEvans had won three of his six previous meetings with the 25-year-old Russian, but all of those were three-set matches.\n\nThe British number two, who reached the fourth round in Melbourne in 2017, started well against Rublev, creating a break opportunity for a 4-3 lead in the first set.\n\nHowever, Rublev saved it and broke to close out the set, before upping his aggression to win the next two sets in solid style.\n\n\"I'm not stupid, I know it's three out of five and a very different match to two out of three,\" said Evans.\n\n\"That also gave me a lot of confidence that he'd have to win three. Obviously it didn't work out that way.\"\n\nRublev thanked Evans after the match for giving him a banana during a changeover.\n\n\"I asked the ball boy, but Danny asked for bananas earlier and he had two so he just said 'take it', and I caught it,\" Rublev said.\n\n\"He helped me with some energy, for sure. I had extra because I ate the banana.\"\n• None Sliced Bread investigates whether it's worth spending more on a scent\n• None How did an interview turn 'nearly physical'?", "Protesters walked to Stall Moor to argue for the right to wild camp\n\nThousands of people protested in Dartmoor on Saturday in opposition to the loss of wild camping rights.\n\nIt comes after a decision by the high court to outlaw the long-held custom of camping on the moor without asking the landowner's permission.\n\nDartmoor National Park Authority has struck a deal with landowners to pay them to let wild camping take place.\n\nLandowners said this would help to protect the land, but environmental groups argue it restricts access.\n\nEnvironmental activist organisation Right to Roam, which organised the march, estimated 2,000 people took part.\n\nThe walk, which stretched for nearly a mile, went from the picturesque village of Cornwood up to the top of Stall Moor, which is owned by Mr and Mrs Darwall, who brought the original case against the park authority.\n\nMany of the protesters were local, coming from Plymouth and other parts of Devon, but some travelled from as far as Essex and the Midlands.\n\nNearly 2000 people gathered in the main square of Cornwood village before marching to the moor\n\nThe ongoing disagreement has gathered national interest because Dartmoor was the only area of England and Wales where under a local law there had been an assumed right to wild camp without the landowner's permission.\n\nProtesters - a mixture of families, young people and older couples - have told the BBC wild camping brings them significant mental and physical benefits.\n\nJulian Adams, who came over from the Isle of Wight, said: \"All my childhood was spent here wandering around Dartmoor - it seemed a free, wild space and it's been taken away for the future generation. That's why I brought my kids up here to join the protest.\"\n\nBut the landowners - of which there are 15 - have seen the damaging impacts of wild camping.\n\nRussell Ashford, a farmer whose land includes Buckfastleigh Moor, told the BBC that dozens of times a year he has to clean up after campers who do not treat the land with respect, including leaving behind human faeces.\n\n\"In terms of litter, there's beer cans, bottles, syringes sometimes. And there's a risk to people, a risk to animals grazing and a risk to the environment,\" he said.\n\nRussell Ashford has had to regularly clean the common land which sits on his farm - a danger he says to his animals and others\n\nHe hopes the new system will allow him to use the funding to put up better signage and monitor any damage.\n\nRebecca Trebilcock, one of the volunteers at the march, who is an expedition leader for young people on Dartmoor, told the BBC: \"I do empathise with the landowners, but it is a very small fraction of campers.\n\n\"Three point one million people visited Dartmoor last year, and only 100 people got in trouble\".\n\nShe thinks that \"education over privatisation\" is the way forward.\n\nRebecca Trebilcock is hiking and wild camping around the 160 tors of Dartmoor\n\nBut both the landowners and the protesters agree that funding for Dartmoor National Park Authority, which pays for rangers to manage the land, is tight.\n\nLuke Pollard, Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, tweeted on Friday: \"Dartmoor National Park has already had huge chunks of its budget slashed in Tory cuts since 2010 and now they're having to pay out more.\"\n\nThe government currently provides £49m to National Park Authorities in the UK.\n\nA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokesperson did not comment on the funding issue, but said they \"welcome the ongoing efforts of the authority and the local landowners to reach a resolution\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The grey seal was first spotted by lifeboat crews and made its way to Eel Pie Island\n\nA seal surprised lifeboat crews after it emerged from the River Thames and hopped on to a kayak mount.\n\nThe RNLI said it encountered a \"special guest\" when the grey seal played outside its station in Teddington Lock in south-west London on Friday.\n\nGrey seal populations in the River Thames are growing, according to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).\n\nAmateur photographer Tobias Handschuh also documented the seal \"eating a massive fish\" later in the day.\n\nThe charity posted footage of the grey seal playing by the locks and said it was \"so good to see\".\n\n\"Our station is busy but being this close to nature is definitely one of the perks of the job,\" a RNLI spokeswoman added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Teddington Lifeboat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLater in the day, Mr Handschuh said he saw a \"strange thing floating in the river\" near Eel Pie Island, in Twickenham, so he got out his camera.\n\n\"It is always very exciting to see a seal in the upper part of the Thames,\" he said.\n\n\"My last seal sighting in Twickenham was in March 2022,\" Mr Handschuh added.\n\nAn RNLI spokeswoman said crews had spotted another seal in Richmond while on a training exercise on 6 January.\n\nResearchers from the ZSL found the Thames was home to 2,866 grey seals after pupping season in 2021.\n\nMarine biologists use seal population as a barometer of river health and have previously said that despite a dip in numbers, the river is thriving.\n\nThe seals have been counted every year since 2013, apart from 2020.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was filmed without a seatbelt in a moving car\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video.\n\nLancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty.\n\nNo 10 said Mr Sunak \"fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologised\", adding that he would pay the fine.\n\nPassengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available can be fined £100.\n\nThis can increase to £500 if the case goes to court.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, the deputy prime minister said Mr Sunak was \"someone with the highest standards of integrity\" who had \"made a mistake on the seatbelt issue\".\n\nDominic Raab said the PM was \"a human being doing a demanding job\" and had \"put his hands straight up\" and apologised.\n\nThe prime minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed, during a trip across the north of England.\n\nThe video - to promote the government's latest round of \"levelling up\" spending - was posted on Mr Sunak's Instagram account.\n\nIt is the second time Mr Sunak has received a fixed penalty notice while in government.\n\nLast April, he was fined along with Boris Johnson and wife Carrie for breaking Covid lockdown rules - by attending a birthday gathering for the then-prime minister in Downing Street in June 2020.\n\nFixed penalty notices are a sanction for breaking the law, and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days, or contested.\n\nIf someone chooses to contest the fine, the police will then review the case and decide whether to withdraw the fine or take the matter to court.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said in a tweet that Mr Sunak was a \"total liability\".\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson added: \"Hapless Rishi Sunak's levelling-up photo op has blown up in his face and turned him into a laughing stock.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said, in becoming the second ever serving prime minister to be fined by police, he had \"shown the same disregard for the rules as Boris Johnson\".\n\nDeputy Lib Dem leader Daisy Cooper said: \"From partygate to seatbelt gate, these Conservative politicians are just taking the British people for fools.\n\n\"Whilst they continue to behave as though it's one rule for them and another for everyone else, this fine is a reminder that the Conservatives eventually get their comeuppance.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP for Blackpool South Scott Benton defended Mr Sunak, saying \"everybody makes mistakes\".\n\nMr Benton said police should focus on \"tackling serious crime in our communities\", adding: \"Let's keep this in proportion here. Every single year millions of Britons receive similar fixed penalty notices.\"\n\nPassengers aged 14 and over are responsible for ensuring they wear a seat belt in cars, vans and other goods vehicles if one is fitted. Drivers are responsible for passengers under 14.\n\nExemptions include having a doctor's certificate for a medical reason, or being in a vehicle used for a police, fire or other rescue service.\n• None Police look into Sunak's failure to wear seat belt", "Amanda Pritchard says strikes extended over a long period of time are making things difficult for the health service\n\nStrikes by health staff are making workloads \"more challenging\" to handle, NHS England's chief executive has acknowledged.\n\nAmanda Pritchard told the BBC that the ongoing industrial action is \"clearly having an impact\".\n\nBut she suggested that all sides are \"looking to try to reach a resolution\".\n\nNurses in England walked out this week and ambulance staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are planning more strike days in February and March.\n\nDuring strikes at the end of last year and earlier this month, ambulance staff provided emergency cover but routine care has been affected.\n\nAnd this week, thousands of NHS operations and appointments had to be cancelled because of the nurses' strikes in England.\n\nOver the two days of action, NHS England said 27,800 bookings had to be rescheduled, including 5,000 operations and treatments.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Pritchard said: \"As the strike action is extended over long periods of time, and as those dates start coming closer together, it does get more challenging, there is absolutely no doubt.\n\n\"It is clearly having an impact. I think that's obvious.\"\n\nShe added: \"My sense is that everybody is looking to try and reach a resolution.\"\n\nMatthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation - which represents health service organisations - said both ministers and trade unions needed to be \"pragmatic\" and \"willing to compromise\".\n\nHe told BBC News: \"We simply need to say that if the government doesn't take a step, doesn't open negotiations, then it will be very difficult for us to break out of this vicious cycle of trying to meet demand at the same time as trying to make a recovery.\"\n\nAsked if she believed the NHS would ever return to its pre-Covid \"normal\", Ms Pritchard replied: \"I don't think there is a normal for the NHS.\n\n\"It's always been adapting and changing over the last 74 years.\"\n\nMs Pritchard thinks there is a \"once in a generation opportunity\" with a new workforce plan being drawn up by NHS England. Too many people with a passion for the health service being turned away because of limits on courses and training places, she said.\n\nThere should be more medical and nurses apprenticeships offering the chance to \"earn while you learn\", and this would allow more people to change career and join the NHS, she added.\n\nMs Pritchard said her hope was that booking appointments via the NHS app would become as easy as \"ordering an uber\" and it would be \"crucial\" to the health service's development.\n\nPrevention was also a key focus for the future, she said, with early diagnosis and treatment boosted by community pharmacies carrying out blood tests and cancer referrals, already being piloted across England.\n\nNHS leaders have kept a low profile in this dispute, anxious to avoid fuelling the pay row.\n\nAmanda Pritchard says all sides want a resolution - but she made clear the strikes come at an increasing cost.\n\nEach day of action requires intense and detailed discussions between local union representatives and management about which services will and won't be covered.\n\nThese take time and are a distraction from the already daunting task of running an NHS under extreme pressure.\n\nA series of strikes without much time in between for recovery creates even more of a challenge, as Ms Pritchard indicates.\n\nThat is what is looming next month with nurses and ambulance staff walking out together in England and Wales for the first time on 6 February.\n\nDifferent players may want to see a resolution but there is no sign of that right now, with the glimmer of optimism at talks last week having faded.\n\nMs Pritchard also said the NHS had been up front about wanting to use the private sector as part of its recovery plan.\n\nIt was not, she told the BBC, a case of taking money from the NHS to give to the private sector but about offering patients faster access at the same cost to the NHS.\n\nWhen the private sector is paid to do operations such as hip and knee replacements - it generally costs the NHS the same as if it were done in an NHS hospital.\n\n\"We're doing it on a fair playing field. It's got to be good for patients, and therefore it's something we're keen to continue to do,\" said Ms Pritchard.\n\nIt comes as former health secretary Sajid Javid told the Times patients should be charged for GP appointments and A&E visits, as he called the present model of the NHS \"unsustainable\".\n\nElsewhere in the wide-ranging BBC interview, Ms Pritchard was asked about the Food Standards Agency chairwoman comparing cake in the office to passive smoking.\n\nShe replied: \"I absolutely 100% allow cake in my office. I would say, of course, as part of a balanced diet where we're all being very sensible about what we eat and how we eat it, cake for me forms an essential part.\"\n\nDo you work for the NHS? What's your position on the strikes? Are you a patient who has had an appointment or operation cancelled? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The intensity of working at an extreme pace in an elite kitchen is laid bare by the study\n\nChefs working in elite kitchens face \"extreme suffering\" to produce award-winning food, a new study suggests.\n\nResearchers heard that Michelin Star chefs are sterilising their wounds on hot stoves and plunging their hands into deep-fat fryers to prove themselves at work.\n\nOne of them said going on shift felt like \"going to war\".\n\nHowever, the study also found that many chefs still see the pain as \"a medal of honour\".\n\nThe research, conducted by Cardiff University and Emlyon Business School in France, is based on the anonymous accounts of 62 Michelin Star chefs working in the UK and abroad.\n\nMany detailed experiencing physical abuse and bullying from the start of their career, with one junior chef describing how he was \"locked in fridges, punched, and kicked about\".\n\n\"At such a young age I was in a position where I felt very lonely. I was really exhausted. I wasn't used to the abuse I was getting,\" he said.\n\nSome chefs said they were routinely subjected to endurance tests, like peeling \"up to 150 fresh langoustines every day with our bare hands.\"\n\n\"That would basically rip your hands to shreds because they're extremely sharp,\" they added.\n\nAnother said food would be thrown in their face if they made mistakes.\n\nThat level of pressure led some to having bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea before clocking on shift, with some stints in the kitchen lasting 20 hours.\n\nAnother chef described how his boss \"picked up his bread knife from the middle of the kitchen and just - had it to my neck in front of everyone.\"\n\nFollowing that ordeal, he was then promoted to a three-star Michelin restaurant.\n\nIn one instance, a chef gave the researcher a tour of back-stage areas of a restaurant, including rooms where chefs lay sleeping on the floor.\n\nUK chef's union Unichef said work was needed to stamp out what it described as a \"playground bullying\" culture\n\nBut despite that level of pressure, researchers said that for many, \"a body marked by cuts and burns... was something to be celebrated.\"\n\nThe academics said: \"For many of our chefs, it was the right kind of body to have - it was the body of a committed, hard-working, tough chef\".\n\nBecause of this attitude, many continued working even when they were injured.\n\nOne chef said: \"I stabbed myself between my fingers with a knife many years ago. Blood was pulsing out. I just wrapped it with a tea towel [and carried on],\" one said.\n\nAnother said burn marks and cuts on their colleagues were taken as \"a good indicator that they're working under some sort of pressure\".\n\n\"I mean, we always turned it around... you gave it some sort of, positive [spin]. You knew the reality was your bloody suffering and it's horrible and horrendous, but you couldn't let it in. You can't do that,\" they said.\n\nThe intense working culture in top kitchens has come under the spotlight in films like The Menu and Boiling Point - both received critical acclaim in their exploration of the fine dining process.\n\nThe UK's chef's union, Unichef, told the Guardian the accounts highlighted the need for greater diversity in kitchens - including more women - to help stamp out what it described as a \"playground bullying\" culture.", "Nadhim Zahawi, who attends cabinet, was made chancellor in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nNadhim Zahawi has been \"transparent\" about his tax affairs, the deputy prime minister says, after reports the Tory Party chairman paid a penalty to HMRC.\n\nMr Zahawi is under pressure over claims he tried to avoid tax and has now had to pay it back as part of a multi-million pound settlement.\n\nDominic Raab told the BBC \"all the tax owed has been paid\" and it was for Mr Zahawi to answer any further questions.\n\nLabour said the former chancellor should be sacked.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Zahawi for comment on the allegations.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, Mr Zahawi has had to pay back tax he owed with a 30% penalty and the total amounts to £4.8m.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify that figure, but when the Guardian asked repeatedly about the penalty, Mr Zahawi's spokesperson did not deny one had been paid.\n\nWhen pressed on the total amount, which was thought to include the alleged penalty, the spokesperson said: \"Nadhim Zahawi does not recognise this amount… as he has previously stated, his taxes are properly declared and paid in the UK.\"\n\nPenalties can be applied if tax is not paid in the correct amount at the right time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nadhim Zahawi's clear he's paid all his tax due in UK - Raab\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Deputy Prime Minister Mr Raab said Mr Zahawi \"has been transparent about the fact that all of the tax has been paid and he doesn't have any tax outstanding\".\n\n\"He has been clear that all of his tax owed to HMRC are up to date and paid in full,\" Mr Raab added.\n\n\"If he needs to answer any further questions I'm sure he'll do so.\"\n\nAsked whether Mr Zahawi - who attends cabinet - should address the issue in Parliament, Mr Raab said: \"That's a matter for him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast: \"The position of the man who was until recently in charge of the UK's tax system, and who this prime minister appointed Conservative Party Chair, is now untenable.\n\n\"It's time for Rishi Sunak to put his money where his mouth is and dismiss Nadhim Zahawi from his cabinet.\"\n\nShe added: \"The fact that Nadhim hasn't been out on the airwaves explaining himself to me adds insult to injury.\"\n\nShadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves echoed Ms Rayners calls for Mr Zahawi to go, saying: \"If the prime minister wants to stick by his commitment for integrity, honesty and professionalism, he should do the right thing and sack Nadhim Zahawi.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the allegations were \"becoming impossible\" for the prime minister to ignore, and the public deserved to know the substance behind them.\n\nThe company at the centre of the row is Balshore Investments and it is registered offshore in Gibraltar.\n\nMr Zahawi has faced questions over whether he used Balshore to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 - something he has always denied.\n\nQuestions about Mr Zahawi's tax affairs have added to a series of challenges this week for the prime minister, who was fined by police for not wearing a seatbelt in the back of a moving car.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was filmed without a seatbelt in a moving car\n\nYou may well wonder why the prime minister forgetting to put his seatbelt on for a few minutes as he recorded a quick video for social media matters at all.\n\nWe are, after all, meant to be living in a serious country - not an episode of TV satire The Thick of It.\n\nGaffes are fun for political nerds, attract clicks on the internet and occasionally get that elusive quality of \"cut through\" when the wider public really notices something a politician does.\n\nRemember Boris Johnson having his coffee cup swiped off him because the official edict was never to be spotted with disposable cups for environmental reasons?\n\nThe prime minister has accepted he made a mistake but this mess-up is likely to stick with him.\n\nFirst, if you are responsible for making the law, it goes without saying that it's far from ideal to be caught breaking it. His old boss Mr Johnson made history by becoming the first sitting prime minister to have broken the law while in office by flouting lockdown rules.\n\nRishi Sunak received his first fixed-penalty notice for breaking lockdown rules for attending a gathering in the Cabinet Room at No 10 to mark Boris Johnson's birthday\n\nMr Sunak received one of those fines too and now has a second. Whether you think it was really worth Lancashire Police's time and effort to investigate the offence, how would it go down with many people (450 by Humberside Police alone last year) who were fined for similar offences if he had not faced any consequences?\n\nThat said, the fine is highly unlikely to be treated as seriously as Boris Johnson's for breaching lockdown rules during the pandemic.\n\nThat penalty was part of a long-running fiasco in Downing Street that hit hard because of the public's own agony over lockdown and Mr Johnson's unusual relationship with the truth.\n\nMr Sunak ended up in No 10 because of how much his personal style contrasted with Mr Johnson's. He is not the kind of leader to bluster through and promise everything would be \"world-beating\", but wants to under-promise and overdeliver.\n\nA self-inflicted mistake like this directly contradicts his carefully curated personal brand. And at the very least, dealing with it takes up time, political energy and effort.\n\nAnd, for a party seriously behind in the polls, it ruined a chance to drive the conversation and provided another beautifully wrapped gift for the opposition.\n\nLet's also not forget that following the scrappiness of Boris Johnson's time in No 10 Mr Sunak promised his government would stick to the highest standards of accountability and integrity - breaking the law doesn't exactly fit with that lofty aim.\n\nIs it the end of the world? Plainly not, and you may well think it's a fuss over nothing. But it is worth noting the government has been considering increasing the penalties for not wearing seatbelts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nadhim Zahawi's clear he's paid all his tax due in UK - Deputy PM Raab\n\nOne Conservative MP suggests this latest episode symbolises exactly the kind of artificial outrage and conversation that's making life increasingly hard for politicians - who exist in a world where every indiscretion or minor mistake provides content for social media and easy barbs for their opponents.\n\nBut this may be a moment the public notices and remembers about this relatively new prime minister. It also comes at a time when Mr Sunak is having to manage difficult questions about two men in his top team - Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs and bullying allegations against Dominic Raab, which the justice secretary denies.\n\nThere is an ongoing debate about the standards to which we hold our politicians and what is important in our national conversation. Some may argue that this kind of thing - not wearing a seatbelt - doesn't matter, but it is the kind of own goal Rishi Sunak can't afford to concede right now.", "Thousands of NHS operations and appointments have had to be cancelled because of the nurses' strikes in England this week.\n\nOver the two days, NHS England said 27,800 bookings had to be rescheduled, including 5,000 operations and treatments.\n\nThere were more than 30 hospital trusts affected with some saying between 10% to 20% of normal activity was lost.\n\nThey warned the dispute was hampering progress in reducing the backlog.\n\nCurrently more than 7 million people - one in eight of the population - are on a waiting list for planned care, such as knee and hip operations.\n\nDuring the strikes, nurses provided emergency cover but routine care was affected.\n\nThis included operations as well as outpatient appointments and check-ups.\n\nHospitals reported finding it most difficult to carry out surgery because of the lack of theatre nurses and staff on wards to provide post-op care.\n\nAt University College London Hospital, two-thirds of its operations and procedures were cancelled and one in seven outpatient appointments.\n\nOverall, this meant around 20% of its planned activity for the strike days had to be rescheduled, affecting over 2,000 patients.\n\nAt Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals 13% of their planned bookings were put back.\n\nOther places the BBC contacted reported similar levels of disruption.\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, said the strike days caused \"significant disruption\" and were \"some of the hardest\" hospitals have had to cope with this winter.\n\nShe said it would have a \"big knock-on effect on efforts to tackle the backlog\".\n\n\"The ramifications go well beyond the day itself. We are deeply concerned by this pile-up of demand, which will only continue with more strikes on the horizon.\"\n\nThe RCN has announced two more strikes on 6 and 7 February, involving even more services.\n\nThis week's strikes involved a quarter of hospitals, but in February close to half of hospitals will be involved.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which also represents hospitals, added his members were \"increasingly concerned\" about the dispute.\n\nHe said it was particularly dispiriting because in November, before the strikes had started, the NHS had finally started to make inroads in the backlog - the waiting list fell slightly for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\n\"The longer this vicious cycle continues the longer it will take for the NHS to tackle the backlog.\"\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"I'm sorry that people have had their operations cancelled. But look at the bigger picture, operations are cancelled every day of the week because there are not enough nurses.\n\n\"Nursing staff did not create this situation - it was the government's refusal to invest in nursing and tackle the workforce crisis which has led us to where we are now.\"\n\nOn Friday, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association announced the junior doctors it represents had backed strike action by 97%.\n\nThe group is a smaller trade union, and has just over 3,000 members. The British Medical Association - which represents around 45,000 junior doctors - is set to announce the result of its strike ballot at the end of February.\n\nCurrently one in eight nurse posts in the NHS in England is vacant.\n\nThe government argues it has awarded NHS staff the rise recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body - 4.75% on average - and meeting the demands of the RCN, which wants 5% above inflation, would hamper its attempts to get rising prices under control.", "The rescue operation has now ended\n\nA rescue operation to find people trapped in an avalanche on a Tibetan highway has now ended, with Chinese state media reporting the death toll to be at least 28.\n\nPeople were left trapped in their vehicles as falling snow engulfed the exit of a tunnel in the south-eastern city of Nyingchi on Tuesday evening.\n\nLocal rescuers said the avalanche was \"triggered by powerful winds\".\n\nIt is not known how many people are still missing.\n\nHowever, 53 survivors were found, five of whom were seriously injured, according to Global Times, citing a local government official.\n\nState-run Xinhua news agency reported that local authorities sent 1,348 rescue workers and 236 pieces of equipment to help excavate a passage of 7.5km (4.66 miles)\n\nThe avalanche covered a highway that connects the town of Pai in Mainling county and Medog county in Tibet, a remote and mainly Buddhist autonomous region of western China.\n\nThe mountain has an altitude of nearly 4,500 metres (14,764 ft), as well as steep slopes and part of the road that runs along it is rugged.\n\nRising temperatures also played a part in the disaster, experts from the local emergency rescue headquarters told Xinhua.\n\nThe Himalayas are often hit by avalanches, as it is home to the world's highest mountains.\n\nAt least 26 people died back in October after a mountaineering expedition was caught in an avalanche on Mount Draupadi ka Danda-II, in India's northern state of Uttarakhand.", "Efforts to boost the red squirrel population appear to be working in Scotland\n\nA survey of red squirrels in Scotland suggests that efforts to increase their numbers have been successful.\n\nThe Great Scottish Squirrel Survey found they were returning to the Aberdeen area and that the number of greys had decreased.\n\nOver many years, the reds retreated further northwards and concerns grew that they could be wiped out.\n\nPeople are encouraged to continue reporting sightings and feed the red squirrels as the population grows.\n\nThe survey confirmed the only red squirrel population in the Highlands is safe and free of greys due to the efforts of staff protecting the Highland Boundary Fault Line, a geological feature stretching from Argyll to Aberdeenshire.\n\nDuring the fourth annual survey week in October, 659 participants reported 255 grey squirrel and 510 red squirrel sightings - more than triple the number reported in a typical week.\n\nThe data influences conservation work carried out by Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels, a project led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust that has been working to save the species for the last 14 years.\n\nProgramme manager Nicole Still thanked the public for submitting \"vital\" sightings of both species.\n\n\"We strongly encourage people to continue to report sightings with us,\" she said.\n\n\"Just this small act of citizen participation can make a big difference to our efforts.\"\n\nMs Still said the red squirrel population was \"thriving\" throughout the country.\n\n\"[It] is a really promising sign and a good demonstration that the really active control efforts and conservation efforts of our projects and also our partners and statutory agencies have been really successful over the years,\" she said.\n\nVanessa Fawcett from the Red Squirrel Survival Trust told BBC Scotland that gardeners can help with the conservation efforts.\n\nShe said: \"We are encouraging gardeners who live in red areas or areas adjacent to red areas to start to feed the reds as their numbers grow [and] to start to grow the food that will benefit and supplement the existing food sources for our red squirrels.\"\n\nThe main threats facing red squirrels are urbanisation, grey squirrels outcompeting them for space and food, and squirrel pox spread by greys.\n\nIn the south of Scotland, a mix of the two species remains, but volunteers are working to keep numbers of grey squirrels low.", "A protest in support of Turkey is held in Stockholm as separate demonstrations in opposition are also held\n\nTurkey has condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran during a protest in Sweden, describing it as a \"vile act\".\n\nIt said the Swedish government's decision to allow the protest to go ahead was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nIt comes amid growing diplomatic tension between the two countries.\n\nTurkey, which had appealed to Sweden to stop the protest, earlier called off a visit by Sweden's Defence Minister, Pal Jonson, saying the trip had \"lost its significance and meaning\".\n\nIt was hoped the trip could dispel Ankara's objections to the Scandinavian country joining the Nato military alliance. Turkey has so far held up both Sweden and Finland's Nato applications.\n\nTurkey wants political concessions, including the deportation of critics of its President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Kurds that it claims are terrorists.\n\nTurkey is already a Nato member, which means it can block another country from joining. Sweden and Finland both applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nRasmus Paludan, a politician from the Danish far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party, burnt a copy of the Quran during the protest on Saturday afternoon outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.\n\nMuslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.\n\nTurkey is a majority Muslim country. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement denouncing the act, which it said happened despite \"repeated warnings\".\n\n\"Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of 'freedom of expression' is completely unacceptable,\" it said.\n\nIt added that the burning of the Quran was another example of the \"alarming\" extent to which Islamophobia, racism and discrimination had reached Europe, and it called on the Swedish government to take \"necessary measures\".\n\n\"Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish government, or myself, support the opinions expressed,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nSeparate protests both in support of and against Turkey were also held in Stockholm.\n\nAfter Turkey cancelled the Swedish defence minister's trip, Mr Jonson tweeted: \"Our relations with Turkey are very important to Sweden, and we look forward to continuing the dialogue on common security and defence issues at a later date.\"\n\nDemonstrators in Stockholm last week hung an effigy of President Erdogan from a lamppost in what Sweden's Prime Minister said was an effort to sabotage Sweden's Nato application.\n\nMr Paludan held rallies last year at which he threatened to burn the Quran, sparking riots.", "Peruvian authorities say those with tickets to Machu Picchu can be refunded\n\nPeru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing protests against the country's new president.\n\nThe government said it closed the site, and the Inca trail hike leading up to it, to protect tourists and citizens.\n\nHundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued.\n\nThe violent protests, which have seen dozens of people killed, began when Peru's previous leader was ousted.\n\nRail services to Machu Picchu were suspended on Thursday after some train tracks were damaged, allegedly by protesters.\n\nIt left 418 people stranded at the site, tourism minister Luis Fernando Helguero said at a news conference on Saturday.\n\nHowever by Saturday night, the tourism ministry announced that everyone - 148 foreigners and 270 Peruvians - had been safely evacuated on trains and buses.\n\nThe tourism ministry tweeted photos of the stranded visitors being taken away from Machu Picchu\n\nThey are not the first visitors to have been stranded at Machu Picchu because of civil unrest - last month, hundreds of tourists were airlifted out after being stuck there for several days.\n\nSitting high on a mountain in the Andes, Machu Picchu is considered one of the new seven wonders of the world. It is hugely popular with tourists, with around a million people visiting every year.\n\nSome visitors arrive at Machu Picchu via the Inca Trail, which is a famous multi-day hike.\n\nIn a statement, Peru's culture ministry said that those who had already bought tickets for the site would be able to use them for one month after the end of the demonstrations, or get a refund.\n\nDemonstrators in Peru are demanding fresh elections and calling for the new President, Dina Boluarte, to stand down, which she has so far refused to do.\n\nThey want her left-wing predecessor, Pedro Castillo, who is in jail and facing charges of rebellion and conspiracy, to be released. Mr Castillo denies the accusations and insists that he is still Peru's legitimate leader.\n\nAuthorities announced on Saturday that another protester had died following demonstrations in the southern region of Puno, where police stations were set on fire.\n\nAt least 58 Peruvians have been injured in the protests, according to a report from Peru's ombudsman.\n\nIn the latest clashes, roads were blocked and police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators in the capital, Lima.\n\nThe European Union has condemned the widespread violence and what it called the \"disproportionate\" use of force by the police.\n\nIn a statement, it called for \"urgent steps to restore calm\".\n\nPeru has been through years of political turmoil, which came to a head when Mr Castillo was arrested last month for trying to dissolve Congress.\n\nMs Boluarte has resisted calls to step down, including from some regional governors, and earlier this week urged Peruvians to ensure their protests were peaceful.", "Spain is one of a number of countries to ask for a negative Covid test from Chinese arrivals\n\nThe Chinese government has suggested that travel restrictions imposed by several countries on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.\n\nThe US, India and the UK are among the nations that have introduced mandatory testing for arrivals from China.\n\nThe country has recently seen a surge in Covid cases following the easing of its strict controls.\n\nAnd there are fears that cases and deaths are being vastly underreported.\n\nChina's last daily Covid update, on 24 December, reported fewer than 5,000 cases - but some analysts claim the daily caseload is already over two million, and could peak at almost four million this month.\n\nA lack of data - and China's announcement that it was easing curbs on travel from 8 January - led to more than a dozen countries announcing Covid testing on arrivals from China.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to share more real-time information and a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry on Tuesday said that Beijing was willing to \"improve communication with the world\".\n\nHowever, spokeswoman Mao Ning said the government was \"firmly opposed to attempts to manipulate the epidemic prevention and control measures for political purposes, and will take corresponding measures...according to the principle of reciprocity.\"\n\nChina's borders have been largely closed since March 2020 - meaning few foreigners were able to enter and those that did had to undergo rigorous testing and quarantine.\n\nThe European Union's disease prevention agency and Australia's Chief Medical Officer have both argued that high levels of vaccination and immunity reduce the threat that Covid poses.\n\nBut despite that, countries - including some in the EU - have imposed testing for Chinese arrivals.\n\n\"I think we're performing our duty in protecting French people by asking for tests,\" France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're doing it while respecting the rules of the World Health Organization and we will continue to do it.\"\n\nThe European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has said an overwhelming number of member states favour introducing travel restrictions. France, Italy and Spain have already introduced their own measures but a decision on whether that will be extended to all EU countries is expected on Wednesday.\n\nThe US has also defended its testing requirements, saying that its approach is based \"solely and exclusively on science\".\n\nIt's not the first time that Beijing has been at odds with the international community over the virus. It was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019 and the government resisted attempts to investigate the origins.\n\nMeanwhile, China has on Tuesday rejected an offer from the European Union to supply an unspecified number of Covid-19 vaccines to help deal with the surge in cases, saying it has an \"adequate supply\".\n\nOfficial data shows China has given more than 3.4 billion doses - the vast majority of which are CoronaVac.\n\nThe government has so far insisted in using only Chinese-made vaccines, which have been proven to be less effective than other Western-developed mRNA vaccines against the Omicron variant.", "Luke Young, assistant director of Citizens Advice Cymru said records were regularly broken last year\n\nThe past year broke records for people in Wales asking for crisis support, according to a charity.\n\nCitizens Advice Cymru assistant director Luke Young said each month it set new records \"for some really sad reasons\".\n\nHe forecast a \"looming debt crisis\" as people realise the full extent of what they have to pay back after Christmas.\n\nThe UK government said millions of low-income households will get new cost of living payments from spring.\n\nThe payments include £900 for means-tested benefit claimants that will go directly into bank accounts in three instalments over the financial year, and extra cash support for disabled people and pensioners.\n\nMr Young said: \"Since last January, we have helped more than 17,500 people in Wales with access to crisis support such as food banks and fuel vouchers - nearly double the number for the previous year.\n\n\"We have seen a record number of people coming to us who can't afford to top up their prepayment meter. Since last January, we've seen nearly three times the number of people across Wales being moved onto a prepayment meter for debts than we saw in the same period in 2019.\"\n\nMr Young said at the beginning of December, his organisation had record numbers coming for support.\n\n\"The support from the UK government is going to be essential for those on means tested benefits in the coming year,\" says Luke Young\n\n\"We've got lots of people living in homes that are really inefficient - they leak heat pretty much. So people are paying over the odds just to keep their houses relatively warm in the winter,\" he said.\n\n\"They will end up paying the cost of that over a longer period. That's particularly a problem in Wales as we have some of the worst housing in efficiency terms in western Europe.\"\n\nMr Young said reasons for people contacting Citizens Advice ranged from food and energy vouchers to debts.\n\n\"We've done some opinion polling that we've released in the past few days which shows that there are a big chunk of households who wouldn't be able to absorb an extra £20 cost monthly in their budgets,\" he said.\n\n\"For some people, that £20 might be a takeaway meal or a Deliveroo, but actually for lots of households, that is make or break\"\n\nOver the past 10 years, people have \"become used\" to living in times of crisis, according to Mr Young.\n\n\"Whether it was the the great financial crisis, concerns around Brexit, Covid and now a cost of living crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"From my sense, people have become a bit de-sensitised to how bad things are - which is why I continually repeat this message - people are struggling, we are living in a cost of living crisis.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary David TC Davies said the UK government remained committed to helping people across Wales with the cost of living.\n\n\"In 2022 more than 400,000 households in Wales received £650 to ease family finances, over 600,000 Welsh pensioners received £300 and 400,000 people received a £150 disability cost of living payment,\" said Mr Davies.\n\n\"All of this assistance will continue with the new payments announced for the coming year.\"\n\n\"These payments are part of a wider financial package the UK government is providing as we continue to support people across Wales through the challenges we all continue to face.\"", "The NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record, as hospitals are being \"pressurised like never before\", health leaders have warned.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it believes this will have been the worst December for hospital bed occupancy and emergency care delays.\n\nThe warning comes as hospitals face soaring demand driven by winter infections like flu, strep A and Covid.\n\nThe government says it is \"working tirelessly\" to ensure patient care.\n\nA number of NHS trusts have declared critical incidents in recent days, signalling they are unable to function as normal due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nDr Adrian Boyle, the president of the RCEM, told the BBC that hospitals were \"too full\" and the situation was \"much worse than in previous years\".\n\nAmbulances waiting outside hospitals was the \"most obvious marker\" of this, Dr Boyle told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn November, around 37,837 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E for a decision to be admitted to a hospital department, according to data from NHS England.\n\nThis was more than triple the equivalent figure for November 2021, when an estimated 10,646 waited longer than 12 hours.\n\nIn separate remarks to the PA news agency, Dr Boyle said he \"would not be at all surprised\" if December proved to be the worst month on record for hospital occupancy rates.\n\nOver 90% of senior doctors reported there had been people waiting in their emergency department for more than 24 hours last week, he added.\n\nDr Boyle remarked: \"The gallows joke about this is now that 24 hours in A&E is not a documentary, it's a way of life.\"\n\nHe said the health service had been stretched further by a \"staff retention crisis\", as well as recent nurse and ambulance worker strikes and a \"demand shock\" caused by winter infections.\n\nFears of a \"twindemic\" of flu and Covid infections were \"sadly being realised\", added MP Steve Brine, chair of the Commons health and social care select committee.\n\nThis was \"very heavily weighted\" towards flu infections, Mr Brine said in his own interview with the BBC.\n\nFlu case numbers in Wales have put the country's hospitals in an \"unprecedented situation\", says its top doctor - and those with symptoms have been asked to stay away from hospitals.\n\nAt the same time, the 111 telephone helpline has come under \"significant pressure\", Dr Sir Frank Atherton said. People have instead been urged to consult the 111 website.\n\nMeanwhile in England, the latest figures show there were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week - up from 520 a day the month before, and just 34 a day this time last year.\n\nAmong the NHS trusts to have declared \"critical incidents\" in recent days are:\n\nOther trusts previously declared critical incidents but have since removed the status as conditions improved - including Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals, East of England Ambulance, and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.\n\nOn top of this, several ambulance services have declared critical incidents over the past two weeks - with North East Ambulance Service and East of England Ambulance Service doing so twice.\n\nNo critical incidents have been declared in Scotland, but A&E doctors have urged NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to declare one over \"grave concerns\" over patient safety, the BBC understands.\n\nIn his own comments to the PA news agency, Dr Nick Scriven, the former president of the Society for Acute Medicine, warned that UK's urgent care system was being \"pressurised like never before\".\n\nHe urged people to \"consider carefully\" whether or not their problem required emergency care before attending a hospital.\n\nDr Scriven said the NHS should consider a \"short-term moratorium\" on the pressure to ease backlogs in elective procedures - with services working together \"for the common good\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social care said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tirelessly to ensure people get the care they need, backed by up to £14.1bn additional funding for health and social care over the next two years.\n\n\"This winter, the government has provided an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharge and free up beds - and the NHS is creating the equivalent of at least 7,000 more beds to help reduce A&E waits and get ambulances back on the road.\n\n\"We're supporting and growing the health and social care workforce through training and recruitment campaigns at home and abroad, and there are record numbers of staff working for the NHS, including 9,300 more nurses and almost 4,000 more doctors compared to September 2021.\"", "Admissions among children under 5 have been high this flu season, as well as among older people.\n\nThere were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week - up from 520 a day the month before, the latest data from NHS England shows.\n\nOf these, 267 people needed specialised care in critical care beds last week.\n\nNHS England warns pressures on the health service continue to grow as viruses like flu re-circulate after a hiatus during the pandemic.\n\nThis time last year, when social mixing was low, there were only 34 patients in hospital a day with flu.\n\nProf Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"Sadly, these latest flu numbers show our fears of a 'twindemic' have been realised, with cases up seven-fold in just a month and the continued impact of Covid hitting staff hard, with related absences up almost 50% on the end of November.\"\n\nHe warned this was \"no time to be complacent\" with the risk of serious illness being \"very real\" and encouraged those eligible to take up their flu and Covid jabs as soon as possible.\n\nAdmissions among children under 5 have been high this flu season, as well as among older people.\n\nThe report suggests NHS staff have also been affected by the spread of viruses during winter, with staff absences from all causes sitting at around 63,296 a day. This compares to 52,556 at the end of last month.\n\nIn Wales, admissions with flu have been rising since the beginning of December, with 702 people in hospital with flu on Christmas day and 29 of those patients required critical care support.\n\nFlu-related hospital admissions in Scotland have also been steadily increasing over the winter with the rate at 7.5 patients per 100,000 of the population, according to the latest figures. This is the highest on record since 2017.\n\nThe latest figures published for Northern Ireland, for mid-December, show the number of positive flu tests in hospital have risen sharply compared to previous weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Cavendish, pictured in October 2022, was recovering from injuries at the time of the alleged robbery\n\nOlympic cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife were subjected to a knifepoint robbery while at home with their children, a trial has heard.\n\nProsecutors say intruders made off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000, following the raid in Ongar, Essex, in November 2021.\n\nJurors were told one of the masked raiders threatened to stab the 37-year-old athlete in front of his children.\n\nTwo defendants each deny two counts of robbery.\n\n\"[It was a] well-orchestrated and well-executed planned invasion of the home of a well-known individual with the intention of grabbing high-value timepieces,\" said prosecutor Edward Renvoize, opening the first day of the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\n\"It's quite clear the assailants were interested in obtaining watches and once they got the watches they left the premises with very little else.\"\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south east London, and 28-year-old Oludewa Okorosobo, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, both deny two counts of robbery.\n\nPeta and Mark Cavendish were in bed when \"male voices\" were heard in the house\n\nMr Renvoize said Mr Cavendish and wife Peta were in bed with their three-year-old child, on 27 November 2021, when Mr Cavendish thought he heard the noise of \"male voices\".\n\nJurors were told Mrs Cavendish went to investigate because her husband was recovering from a \"number of injuries\".\n\nShe heard voices appearing to come from the kitchen and was next aware of figures running towards her, the court heard.\n\nThe suspects, who were allegedly armed with \"large knives\" and wearing balaclavas, followed her to the bedroom where they \"jumped on\" and \"began punching\" Mr Cavendish - telling him to turn his panic alarm off.\n\n\"One produced a knife and threatened to stab him up in front of his children,\" said Mr Renvoize.\n\nHe said three masked individuals were asking where \"the watches were\" and collected their mobile phones.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Cavendish kept her three-year-old under a duvet during the ordeal to prevent him witnessing the robbery.\n\nAfter ordering the gates to be opened, Mr Renvoize said the intruders left with telephones, suitcases and the watches by 02:32 GMT.\n\nThe couple found their downstairs patio door was smashed.\n\nThe prosecutor however said that Mrs Cavendish's phone was found outside the property, which was an \"error in what was a carefully planned and executed robbery\".\n\nThe jurors were told that Ali Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham in Kent - whose DNA was matched to Mrs Cavendish's phone - had already pleaded guilty to robbery.\n\nThe trial was estimated to last two weeks.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has appeared in court accused of the murder of a missing woman from south-east London.\n\nMaureen Gitau, 24, was reported missing on 10 December, having last been seen five days earlier as she left her home in Evelyn Street, Deptford.\n\nMark Moodie, 54, of Nightingale Place in Woolwich, appeared at Bromley Magistrates' Court charged with her murder.\n\nHe is next due to appear in custody at the Old Bailey on Thursday.\n\nThe details of the charge allege that Mr Moodie murdered Ms Gitau in the borough of Lewisham on 5 December.\n\nMs Gitau's body has not been found.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 2.9m (9.5ft) long \"Green Coffin\" belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest called Ankhenmaat\n\nA looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that was on display at a US museum has been returned to Egypt.\n\nThe 2.9m (9.5ft) long \"Green Coffin\" dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned 664BC to 332BC, and belonged to a priest called Ankhenmaat.\n\nIt was looted from the Abu Sir necropolis in north Egypt by a global art trafficking network, which smuggled it through Germany into the US in 2008.\n\nA collector loaned it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2013.\n\nThe sarcophagus was repatriated after an investigation that lasted several years and was formally handed over by US diplomats at a ceremony in Cairo on Monday. The event was attended by Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa.\n\nMostafa Waziri, the top official at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspected the sarcophagus\n\n\"Today's ceremony is emblematic of the long history of co-operation between the United States and Egypt on antiquities protection and cultural heritage preservation,\" said the US chargé d'affaires in Egypt, Daniel Rubinstein.\n\nMr Issa said the return of the sarcophagus showed Egypt's strenuous efforts to recover smuggled artefacts.\n\nIn September, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the Green Coffin, which was valued at over $1m (£830,000), was illegally trafficked out of Egypt by a multinational network of antiquities smugglers.\n\nThe network was also responsible for trafficking the \"Gold Coffin\", which was which was returned to Egypt in 2019, the Stele of Pa-di-Sena, which is also from the Late Dynastic Period and was handed over in 2020, and five pieces seized from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.\n\nThe US is not the only country to have returned antiquities to Egypt recently.\n\nIn 2021, Israel handed over 95 relics which had been smuggled into the country or found for sale in Jerusalem.\n\nLast month, a university in the Republic of Ireland said it was planning to repatriate a sarcophagus, mummified human remains and canopic jars.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPalestinians have condemned a visit to a contested holy site in Jerusalem by a far-right Israeli minister as an \"unprecedented provocation\".\n\nNational Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has called for a harder line towards the Palestinians, walked around the site surrounded by police.\n\nCompeting claims to the compound bitterly divide Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nTensions have risen with the advent of Israel's new nationalistic government.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir's visit was his first public act since the government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was sworn in five days ago.\n\nThe hilltop site is the most sacred place in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam. It is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, site of two Biblical temples, and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, the site of Muhammad's ascent to Heaven. The entire compound is considered to be al-Aqsa Mosque by Muslims.\n\nJews and other non-Muslims are allowed to go to the compound but not pray, though Palestinians see visits by Jews as attempts to change the delicate status quo.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir, leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, has long said that he wants to bring about a change to the rules to allow Jewish worship at the site. There is no indication that Mr Ben-Gvir prayed during Tuesday's visit.\n\n\"The Temple Mount is open to everyone,\" he tweeted, accompanied by a photograph of him surrounded by a security cordon with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background.\n\nItamar Ben-Gvir has said he wants to change rules to allow Jewish prayer at the site\n\nAhead of November's election, Mr Ben-Gvir said that he would demand that Benjamin Netanyahu introduce \"equal rights for Jews\" there.\n\nHowever, Mr Netanyahu has sought to reassure Israel's allies that he will not allow any changes. A clause in his coalition deals states that the status quo \"with regard to the holy places\" will be left intact.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir was given the go-ahead for his first visit since becoming a minister after consulting Mr Netanyahu and security officials.\n\nFollowing the 15-minute walkaround, the Palestinian foreign ministry denounced what it described as \"the storming of al-Aqsa mosque by the extremist minister Ben-Gvir and views it as unprecedented provocation and a dangerous escalation of the conflict\".\n\nPalestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called for \"thwarting the raids that aimed at turning the al-Aqsa Mosque into a Jewish temple\", saying Mr Ben-Gvir's visit was \"a violation of all norms, values, international agreements and laws, and Israel's pledges to the American president\".\n\nA spokesman for the Palestinian militant Islamist group, Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, called it a \"crime\" and vowed the site \"will remain Palestinian, Arab, Islamic\", AFP news agency reported.\n\nJordan, one of a small cluster of Arab countries to formally recognise Israel, summoned Israel's ambassador in protest.\n\nIn his tweet, Mr Ben-Gvir sent a message of defiance to Hamas, declaring: \"No Israeli government that I'm a member of is going to bow to a despicable and murderous terror organisation... and if Hamas thinks that I'll be deterred by its threats, it needs to accept that times have changed and that there's a government in Jerusalem.\"\n\nTensions between Israel and Palestinians which escalated into violence at the site in May 2021 saw Hamas fire rockets towards Jerusalem, triggering an 11-day conflict with Israel.\n\nA visit to the site in 2000 by Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon, then opposition leader, infuriated Palestinians. Violence which followed escalated into the second Palestinian uprising, or intifada.\n\nThe Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif is the most sensitive site in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Situated in occupied East Jerusalem, it was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. Under a delicate set of arrangements, Jordan was allowed to continue its historical role as custodian of the site, while Israel assumed control of security and access.\n\nMuslim prayer continued to be the only form of worship allowed there, although a bar on Jewish visits was lifted. Palestinians argue that in recent years, steps have been taken that undermine the status quo, with Orthodox Jewish visitors often seen praying quietly without being stopped by Israeli police.\n\nThe number of visits by Jews has swelled in the past few years, something Palestinians claim is part of a surreptitious attempt to take over the site.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Detectives are treating the death of 16-year-old boy in Aberdeenshire on New Year's Day as unexplained.\n\nPolice Scotland said the alarm was raised at a property on Keirhill Avenue in Westhill at about 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe teenager was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but pronounced dead a short time later.\n\nA force spokesman said: \"The death is being treated as unexplained, although there are no apparent suspicious circumstances.\n\n\"A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.\"", "Migrants seen disembarking in Dover on 2 January 2023\n\nSome 44 migrants have been brought to shore in the UK, in the first small boat crossing of the new year.\n\nThe migrants were picked up by the UK's Border Force and taken to Dover.\n\nFrench authorities say another two boats carrying 80 migrants got into difficulty in the Channel on Monday and were returned to Calais, in France.\n\nLast year, a record 45,756 people succeeded in making the journey - the highest number since records began in 2018.\n\nThis marks around a 60% increase on the previous year's figure.\n\nThe government has announced a series of measures in the past 12 months to tackle the issue of migrants in small boats making the perilous journey across the English Channel.\n\nIn December, four people died when a migrant vessel got into difficulties in freezing conditions.\n\nKent Police say they are working to establish their identities. Up to six other people are feared to be missing.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has labelled the crisis a priority for his premiership, expressed sorrow at the \"tragic loss of human life\" and set out new plans to reduce the number of crossings.\n\nThese included the creation of a new Small Boats Command Centre to bring together the military and National Crime Agency (NCA), increased funding for the NCA, and more raids on people suspected of working illegally.\n\nAnd because in the 12 months to September 2022 more than 15,000 asylum seekers were Albanian, the government has also announced a new agreement with Albania to place more UK Border Force staff in its capital Tirana, and to fast track the return of failed asylum seekers to the country.\n\nIn April, the Home Office launched a five-year trial to send some asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda on a one-way ticket, to claim asylum there. However the policy, which was ruled to be lawful by the High Court in December, is likely to be hampered by further legal challenges.\n\nAnother measure is an agreement struck in November that will see the UK pay France £8m more a year under a revised deal to try to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats.\n\nUnder the plan, the UK will pay for increased surveillance of French beaches, while British officers will be allowed to observe command centres on French soil, to share information and help direct resources.\n\nBorder Force guards brought some people to shore, while many others were returned to France\n\nThe final figures for number of asylum applications to the UK in 2022 are not yet available, but in the first nine months of the year, the UK received more than 52,500 applications, the highest number for almost two decades.\n\nThe majority of the people applying for asylum over the past 12 months arrived via the English Channel from France.\n\nHowever, asylum claims made on or after 28 June 2022 can be rejected if the applicant has a connection to a safe third country - which includes passing through France on the way to the UK.\n\nAsylum seekers have an initial interview and - if their case is accepted - they can apply to remain in the UK.\n\nFigures show that in 2021 the UK authorities granted more first-time applications than France or Germany.\n\nHowever, asylum seekers in the UK also have much longer waits than their counterparts elsewhere in Europe - 15.5 months compared to France's 8.5 months and Germany's 6.5 months.\n\nAnd only 4% of people who arrived in the UK in small boats in 2021 have had a decision made about their case.\n\nThose who are still waiting are generally not allowed to work, and many are housed in hotels due to lack of other suitable accommodation, at an estimated cost of £5.5m a day.", "Michael Woodcock, suffering from appendicitis, slept in his car due to a bed shortage at Scarborough Hospital\n\nA man suffering from appendicitis has said he slept in his car outside a hospital due to a bed shortage.\n\nMichael Woodcock, from Harrogate, said the alternative was trying to sleep in a chair in a crowded waiting room at Scarborough Hospital's A&E department.\n\nHe said he was provided with blankets by nurses.\n\nYork and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it was experiencing \"the worst pressures on emergency services in our history\".\n\nMr Woodcock was at pains to point out that he did not blame clinicians for the situation, adding he had no complaints about post-surgery care received, which included eventually being given his own room off the ward.\n\nHe and his family had been enjoying Christmas in Whitby, but when he began experiencing severe stomach pains he was advised by health professionals to go to A&E, which he did on 27 December.\n\nMr Woodcock said he was triaged \"fairly quickly\" but then had to wait about eight hours to be seen by a doctor.\n\nHe said: \"The hospital was really busy. There were beds on the sides of corridors and lots of frustrated people in the waiting room.\"\n\nA scan later confirmed acute appendicitis, requiring an urgent operation. Due to the risk of it bursting, Mr Woodcock was told he would need to stay in hospital overnight.\n\nHe said: \"There were no beds. I ended up getting some blankets and sleeping in the car for a few hours before heading back to the hospital in the morning for the operation.\"\n\nIn a statement, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, said: \"Like hospitals across the country, our emergency departments are under severe strain and in the last couple of days we have experienced the worst pressures on emergency services in our history.\n\n\"Increased staff absence and high numbers of patients waiting to be discharged who no longer need to be in hospital have had an impact on our emergency departments, resulting in patients waiting much longer for beds to become available.\n\n\"We recognise this means many patients will spend a long time in the emergency department before they are admitted to a ward, and we are sorry for this. Our staff are working exceptionally hard in the most difficult of circumstances.\"\n\nAshley Green, chief executive of watchdog Healthwatch North Yorkshire, said Mr Woodcock's experience was \"very concerning\".\n\nHe added: \"No patient should have to go through what Michael has. Such a personal experience reiterates the pressures that the NHS and hospitals across North Yorkshire are facing this winter, which are further exacerbated by new cases of Covid-19 and flu, alongside backlogs in treatment, set against the continuing workforce crisis in health and social care.\n\n\"We continue to highlight the urgent need for increased staffing, funding and resources across the NHS.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Troubles was a period of conflict which lasted for 30 years and cost the lives of more than 3,500 people\n\nA new call for the government to shelve its Troubles legacy bill has been rejected, with a minister stating he sees \"no circumstances\" in which it would be withdrawn.\n\nThe bill, which introduces conditional amnesties, is on course to pass into law before summer.\n\nVictims' commissioner Ian Jeffers said: \"We would love to see the bill withdrawn, it is as simple as that.\"\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"The bill certainly will not be voted down (in Parliament) and I see no circumstances in which it would withdrawn.\"\n\nHe indicated there will be additional changes to the bill beyond those outlined recently and urged people \"to give them a fair wind when they see them\".\n\nThe bill would create a new information recovery body, headed by a senior judicial figure, to produce reports on hundreds of pre-1998 incidents in which people were killed or seriously injured.\n\nMany victims' groups are opposed to the legislation put forward\n\nIt would offer conditional amnesties to perpetrators who co-operate and \"conduct criminal investigations where appropriate\".\n\nIt would also end all future civil actions related to the Troubles and there would be no further inquests beyond those already commenced.\n\nMr Jeffers said: \"It is believed it will not deliver truth recovery and for some it removes the opportunity for justice they continue to hold out for.\n\n\"Lord Caine has made a good attempt at listening to victims and survivors but I still have not heard anything coming from government to say this will work for victims and survivors.\n\n\"I am genuinely worried we are going to see the bill pushed through by government for its own means and not really for reconciliation in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nArising from a 2019 manifesto commitment, the government pledged better protection for military veterans from investigations and prosecutions related to the Troubles.\n\nThe bill is opposed by victims' groups and Northern Ireland political parties, as well as the Irish government.\n\nLord Caine said the narrative around the legislation \"could have been more victim-focused\"\n\nRecently, experts at the United Nations and the Council of Europe called for the bill to be withdrawn, arguing it was not compatible with the UK's human rights obligations.\n\nAt the bill's second reading in the House of Lords six weeks ago, Lord Caine outlined amendments which the government will table in coming weeks, claiming they will improve the investigative powers of the information body.\n\nThey also propose tougher penalties for those who refuse to co-operate.\n\nLord Caine said: \"I would be very, very surprised if I do not table more amendments.\n\n\"The responsibility I have is to try and put this bill in the best possible shape.\n\n\"If you were to ask me in a personal capacity: 'Do I think the narrative around the legislation could have been better and more victim focused?' then the answer would almost certainly be: 'Yes.'\"\n\n\"But in politics I am often less interested in how we got to a situation than how we actually get out of a situation and how we improve things.\"", "Evidence showing the grooming and sexual exploitation of a schoolgirl was handed to MI5 months before she was charged with terrorism offences, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe prosecution of Rhianan Rudd was later dropped after the Home Office concluded she was a victim of exploitation.\n\nRhianan, who was 15 when she became the youngest girl charged with terror offences in the UK, took her own life in a children's home in May 2022.\n\nHer mother says investigators should have treated her daughter \"as a victim rather than a terrorist\".\n\nThe case raises questions about how the UK deals with the problem of children involved in extremism, according to the senior lawyer responsible for reviewing terror laws.\n\nAt the age of 14, Rhianan Rudd became absorbed by right-wing extremism. Her mother Emily Carter remembers her as a \"lovely girl\" who adored horses. But then she began to express racist and antisemitic beliefs, Ms Carter says.\n\n\"If you didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes - Aryan as they say - she didn't want to know you, you were an inferior race, you shouldn't have been alive,\" her mother recalls.\n\nShe says her daughter was taking in extreme views \"like a sponge\". \"She was changing herself, that's not Rhianan,\" she says. \"She was a child who fixated on things.\"\n\nRhianan, who was born in Essex and later moved to Derbyshire, had difficulty building relationships and \"struggled in life\", Ms Carter says. She was also diagnosed as autistic.\n\nRhianan had run away from home in the past and there was social service involvement with the family. Her mother acknowledges she made mistakes but \"always tried to do her best\".\n\nBy September 2020, Ms Carter had become so concerned by Rhianan's mindset that she referred her to Prevent, the government de-radicalisation scheme, after she admitted downloading a bomb-making manual.\n\nThe 14-year-old was talking to American extremist Christopher Cook online\n\nWithin a month, Rhianan was arrested by counter-terror detectives and her brief engagement with Prevent had to end. She was questioned, bailed as a terrorism suspect, and was no longer able to attend school.\n\nFor some time, she had been talking to older people online, including American Christopher Cook, who promoted a terrorist form of neo-Nazism, and formed a combat cell to carry out attacks.\n\nEvidence shows the then-partner of Rhianan's mother also had an influence. Ms Carter says this was kept from her.\n\nThe partner, American Dax Mallaburn, had been part of a white supremacist prison gang in the US. He met Rhianan's mother via a pen pal system for prisoners.\n\nBefore Rhianan was arrested, Mallaburn's relationship with her mother had broken down and he returned to the US. But the BBC has discovered that Cook and Mallaburn had been in contact, with Cook telling him to teach Rhianan the \"right way\".\n\nBBC News investigates the case of Rhianan Rudd - the youngest girl charged with terror offences in the UK.\n\nDuring police interviews, Rhianan described being coerced and groomed, including sexually, and having sent explicit images of herself to Cook. The abuse she described would eventually result in a formal government finding of exploitation.\n\nUnder modern slavery laws, certain public bodies like the police are required to notify the Home Office about any potential victims of exploitation they encounter.\n\nHowever, in the months before Rhianan was charged, none of the organisations involved referred her to the specialist Home Office unit that considers such cases.\n\nThis was not due to a lack of information.\n\nThe BBC has found that, around the time of Rhianan's arrest, MI5 received evidence showing she had been exploited - including sexually - by Cook.\n\nAn FBI investigation had uncovered messages and images from Cook's devices showing Rhianan being groomed, coerced and exploited. The FBI handed the material to MI5.\n\nDax Mallaburn had also been in contact with Cook\n\nRhianan spent over six months on bail waiting for a charging decision. Her mother says this period led to a decline in Rhianan's mental health, with instances of self-harm, running away, and attempted suicide. Derbyshire social services were involved and she was moved into care.\n\nIn April 2021, more than six months after the arrest, she was charged with six terrorism offences for having earlier possessed instructions for making explosives and weapons. Prosecutors alleged one set of instructions were connected to a potential planned attack.\n\nDays after she was charged, when newly-appointed defence lawyers intervened, Derbyshire Council referred Rhianan to the Home Office as a possible victim of exploitation.\n\nIt took a further seven months for a decision to be made. When it came, the Home Office concluded she had been trafficked and exploited.\n\nIn late December 2021 the prosecution was halted.\n\nRhianan is part of a trend of growing numbers of children, often involved in online right-wing extremism, being investigated by MI5 and police.\n\nIn the case of another boy, a pre-sentence report from experts said it was \"likely that he did not see the wider ramifications of his activities, now seamlessly replaced apparently by interests such as Dad's Army\".\n\nCases involving children are complex. A child might have been groomed and exploited, but nevertheless pose a genuine risk of harm to other people.\n\nDebates about trafficking and exploitation are also taking place in immigration cases concerning young women appealing the removal of their British citizenship after they went to Syria to join the Islamic State group.\n\nIn the case of Shamima Begum, who travelled aged 15, the government has argued against claims of trafficking and said she is a security threat. Her lawyers say she was trafficked and sexually exploited.\n\nFew children who are charged with terror offences end up being imprisoned. The process of investigation, arrest and prosecution can take many months, and well over a year in some cases.\n\nJonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, says that in 2020/2021 only one child who committed a terrorism offence was jailed, with all the others \"eventually given non-custodial sentences\".\n\nHe says the question needs to be asked about whether the current approach is effective. He suggests changes in the law that would allow police to say to a child terror suspect that they would either be prosecuted or they could accept an injunction. He says these could, for example, limit mobile phone use, require the use of monitoring software and engagement with a mentor.\n\n\"That can be done really quickly, and keep them out of the criminal justice system altogether,\" he says.\n\nRhianan's mother had warned Derbyshire Council about the risk of her daughter taking her own life\n\nRhianan's mother thinks her daughter should never have been charged.\n\nShe says police \"obviously\" have to investigate and search for evidence, but she believes they should have subsequently dealt with it \"completely differently\".\n\n\"They should have seen her as a victim rather than a terrorist. She's a child, an autistic child. She should have been treated as a child that had been groomed and sexually exploited.\"\n\nA government spokesperson told the BBC: \"MI5 takes its responsibilities in relation to those who may be at risk of harm very seriously.\n\n\"In accordance with long-standing government policy, MI5 can neither confirm nor deny involvement in individual cases.\n\n\"More generally, if in the course of work to protect national security someone in MI5 obtains information that an individual is or may become at risk of death or serious harm, this will be passed to the relevant authorities.\"\n\nCook, the American who exploited Rhianan, has pleaded guilty in the US to a neo-Nazi terrorist plot along with others to destroy a power grid. He had been on bail awaiting sentencing.\n\nBut the BBC has established that the court in Ohio only recently became aware of Cook's predatory conduct towards Rhianan, which had not been part of the original case against him despite the FBI's long-standing knowledge of his abuse. After the court learned of his behaviour, Cook was placed in custody in December ahead of sentencing.\n\nAfter the prosecution of Rhianan was abandoned, she chose to continue living in her Nottinghamshire children's home and began engaging with the Prevent scheme.\n\nBut there were signs that all was not well.\n\nIn the weeks before her death, Rhianan asked her mother to help her contact a neo-Nazi extremist in the US. Her mother reported it to the children's home, which is run by private firm Blue Mountain Homes. She says she was then told social services and police had decided to let contact take place. It is unclear if it did.\n\nHer mother had warned Derbyshire Council about the risk of Rhianan taking her own life. In emails to a social worker in 2021, she wrote: \"I hope she doesn't try kill herself when in her room on her own.\"\n\nShe stated in the emails that Rhianan had access to ligatures.\n\nMs Carter says she saw Rhianan days before her death and was so concerned by her appearance that she contacted the home.\n\nShe says she warned staff that her daughter was \"going to do something\" and asked them to watch her. The manager said they would \"find out what's going on\" and told her not to worry, she says.\n\nBut later that week, she says, three police officers were \"standing in my living room telling me that my daughter died by hanging\".\n\nIn Rhianan's room at the children's home, access to items that could be used as ligatures were banned due to the risk of self-harm and suicide, but she gained access to one.\n\nAged 16, she was found dead in May over 12 hours after she retired to her room the night before.\n\nAn inquest is due to take place into her death. No date has been set.\n\nThe organisations contacted by the BBC said they could not comment on the details of our investigation until the inquest is complete.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThousands of mourners lined the streets as Brazilian football icon Pele was laid to rest in Santos, the city of his former club.\n\nPele had been lying in state for 24 hours in the centre of the pitch at the club's Urbano Caldeira stadium for the public to pay their respects.\n\nPeople crowded the streets on Tuesday as his coffin was carried on a fire truck to a private family funeral.\n\nPele - a three-time World Cup winner - died at the age of 82 on 29 December.\n\nArguably the world's greatest ever footballer, he had been receiving treatment for colon cancer since 2021.\n\nBrazil's government declared three days of national mourning after his death, and the country's new president - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - travelled to Santos to pay his respects.\n\nCovered with a Brazilian flag, Pele's coffin was carried on a fire truck through the packed roads of fans.\n\nThe procession also passed by the house where his 100-year-old mother, Celeste Arantes, still lives.\n\nSantos FC said more than 230,000 people had attended his 24-hour wake in the Vila Belmiro stadium, where a steady stream of mourners continued through the night.\n\nThe funeral cortege ended at the port city's Memorial Cemetery, where a Catholic funeral service was held before Pele is interred in a 10-storey mausoleum that holds the Guinness World Record as the tallest cemetery on Earth.\n• None Obituary: 'The best player in the history of football'\n\n'He joined all of us' - fans pay tribute\n\nPele's coffin was paraded through Santos on a fire truck - as is the Brazilian tradition - while fans accompanied the cortege chanting \"Pele, 1,000 goals\".\n\nHundreds of people waved huge banners and were wearing the number 10 shirt he made so famous.\n\nThis was a day of mourning for the man Brazilians call their King, but it was clearly a moment to celebrate him too.\n\nThere was joy and happiness on the streets that Pele was - and will always be - Brazil's biggest source of pride.\n\nDeofilo de Freitas was first in the queue at the stadium on Monday, but wanted another chance to see his idol before he was laid to rest.\n\n\"Pele was the Pele of the people, he joined all of us,\" he said. \"It'll be hard to find someone else like him.\n\n\"In addition to being the best player in the world, he was a marvellous human being.\"\n\nSantos FC, where Pele spent the majority of his club career, tweeted: \"Our eternal King Pele says goodbye in Vila Belmiro, his home, with his people.\"", "Alan Rankine was described by his sons as a \"beautiful, kind, and loving man.\"\n\nThe musician and producer Alan Rankine, co-founder of acclaimed Scottish band The Associates, has died aged 64.\n\nRankine's sons Callum and Hamish confirmed the news on the guitarist and keyboard player's Facebook page.\n\nThey said their father died peacefully at home shortly after spending Christmas with his family.\n\nRankine formed the Associates, whose biggest hit was Party Fears Two, with singer Billy Mackenzie in Dundee in 1979.\n\nThey released three albums before Rankine left the band in 1982.\n\nHis sons said their father was a \"beautiful, kind, and loving man who will be sorely missed.\"\n\nThey said his social media account would be kept open for friends and fans to celebrate his life.\n\nAlan Rankine released three solo albums after leaving The Associates\n\nDirector Grant McPhee, who featured Rankine in his 2015 Scottish post-punk documentary Big Gold Dream, said the musician was a \"true one-off maverick genius.\"\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"He had an innate understanding of feel for a project, which can be clearly heard in the wonderful music he made.\n\n\"He also is probably the most naturally-gifted musician I've ever had the pleasure to speak to, and certainly one of the all-time greats.\n\n\"Kindness is a skill that is rare and Alan had that in abundance to his prodigious musical and storytelling talents.\"\n\nFellow musicians, including Duglas T Stewart from BMX Bandits, and Danny Wilson singer Gary Clark paid tribute to Rankine online.\n\nWriter David Stubbs, who recently interviewed the musician, said on Twitter that Rankine and Billy Mackenzie were \"the perfect pairing.\"\n\nHe wrote: \"In The Associates, they made a still-living, still vibrant, unmatched thing of myriad, enigmatic and unmatched beauty.\"\n\nAfter leaving The Associates, Rankine released three solo albums and worked with artists including Paul Haig and Belle and Sebastian.\n\nIn 1992 Rankine founded Electric Honey Records, the record label run by the students on the music business course at Stow College, now known as Glasgow Kelvin College.\n\nThe label's best-known release was Belle and Sebastian's debut album Tigermilk, with the band's drummer Richard Colburn previously describing Rankine as the \"heart and soul of the course.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead in fire at New County Hotel in Perth\n\nThree people have died after a fire broke out at a Perth hotel.\n\nEmergency services including 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire engines were called to the New County Hotel on County Place at about 05:10.\n\nHotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated and police set up a cordon, urging members of the public to avoid the area.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nJust before midday, police began removing them from blue tents close to the hotel into a private ambulance.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said a dog also died in the fatal blaze.\n\nJason Sharp, the area's senior fire officer, said firefighters had worked hard to rescue a number of casualties from the building before transferring them into the care of paramedics.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale arrived at the scene of the fire\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale, who is deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council told BBC Scotland News: \"The loss of three people in a dreadful fire is truly shocking and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the deceased.\"\n\nHe added that council staff were supporting neighbouring residents, hotel staff and guests - who were being looked after in another city centre hotel.\n\nAlthough the road closure had caused disruption for people and businesses, Mr Drysdale said it was essential for emergency services to preserve the scene.\n\nHe added: \"There have been three deaths and the investigation has to take its course. I'm sorry to people and indeed businesses on the street that have been affected. I'm sure everything is being done to restore access as soon as possible.\"", "Fred White, former drummer of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, has died aged 67.\n\nA child drumming prodigy, Chicago-born White was one of the first members to join the group founded by his older brothers Maurice and Verdine.\n\nBassist Verdine said his \"amazing and talented\" sibling was now \"drumming with the angels\".\n\nAmong the tributes to White, singer Lenny Kravitz called him a \"true king\" and said he was \"blessed\" to have been influenced by him.\n\nWhite began drumming at nine years old, and featured on his first gold record, Donny Hathaway's Live, at just 16.\n\nIn 1974, he joined Earth Wind & Fire, whose best-known hits include September and Boogie Wonderland.\n\nA year later, the group shot to fame with its triple platinum album That's the Way of the World.\n\nThe funk and soul outfit became one of the best-selling groups of all time, with more than 90 million records sold worldwide.\n\nOver the years the group won six Grammys and four American Music Awards, as well as entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and gaining a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nFred's death was announced on Instagram by Verdine White, who did not give a cause.\n\n\"Our family is saddened today with the loss of an amazing and talented family member, our beloved brother Frederick Eugene 'Freddie' White,\" he wrote.\n\nAs well as his drumming success, White was a wonderful brother who was \"always entertaining and delightfully mischievous\" he added.\n\n\"We could always count on him to make a seemingly bad situation more light hearted! He will live in our hearts forever, rest in power beloved Freddie!\"\n\nIn response, Kravitz wrote: \"Sending my love and deepest condolences to you and the family.\n\n\"I was blessed to have been in his presence and blessed to have been influenced by him. A true king. Rest in power.\"", "Harry: The Interview on ITV1 at 9pm on 8 January Prince Harry is set to release his autobiography Spare on 10 January\n\nPrince Harry has said \"I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back,\" in a trailer for an interview ahead of the release of his upcoming memoirs.\n\nIn a trailer for the sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, he says \"they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,\" although it is not clear who he is referring to.\n\nThe prince also said he was \"betrayed\" in a trailer for US broadcaster CBS.\n\nCBS and ITV have only released short trailers for their programmes. Both interviews will be broadcast on 8 January, two days before his memoir, Spare, is published.\n\nIn the CBS trailers, Prince Harry - the Duke of Sussex - speaks to CBS 60 Minutes journalist Anderson Cooper in a chat the broadcaster described as \"explosive\".\n\nThe duke claims he was \"betrayed\" along with \"briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife\".\n\nHe said: \"The family motto is 'never complain, never explain', but it's just a motto.\n\n\"They will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.\n\n\"But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.\n\n\"So when we're being told for the last six years, 'we can't put a statement out to protect you', but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.\"\n\nIn a second trailer released by CBS, Prince Harry said he could not see himself returning to the institution as a full-time royal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nITV said its interview would cover Prince Harry's personal relationships and \"never-before-heard details\" surrounding the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nFilmed in California where the Sussexes live, the ITV sit-down will also see the duke refer to \"the leaking and the planting\" of stories, before adding: \"I want a family, not an institution\".\n\n\"They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains,\" he adds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ITV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpare, which is anticipated to give details about disagreements with his brother the Prince William, will be released on 10 January.\n\nPublisher Penguin Random House has called it \"a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief\".\n\nThe book follows the release of Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, in which Prince Harry said it was \"terrifying\" to have his brother \"scream and shout\" at him during a summit to discuss the couple's future in the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims made in the programme.\n\nThe Sussexes also talked about why they decided to give up royal duties and move to the US, criticising the British press and the inner workings of the royal institution.\n\nNow we have Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper.\n\nThe new trailers from ITV and CBS 60 Minutes tease the two big TV interviews Prince Harry has done ahead of his book \"Spare\" coming out.\n\nThe themes discussed are largely what we've heard from both Harry and Meghan so far - an institution that didn't support them, a family breakdown proving hard to fix, and a media that is manipulated by Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe difference this time may be the two people conducting the interviews.\n\nSo far, the story shared has been from the perspective of Harry and Meghan.\n\nThey have shared their sadness and frustration.\n\nWith no comment from Buckingham Palace, it is difficult to present another side of the story.\n\nBut both Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper are respected journalists.\n\nIt is hard to imagine that they wouldn't want this to be a more challenging, questioning conversation with Prince Harry compared to anything we've heard so far.\n\nWe will know for sure next Sunday.", "Police have charged a 19-year-old with two counts of attempted murder over an attack on three police officers near Times Square on New Year's Eve.\n\nTrevor Bickford - who was also charged with two counts of attempted assault - travelled to NYC by train from Maine before the attack, police said.\n\nUS media reported his family recently told the FBI they feared he was being radicalised by Islamist extremists.\n\nPolice Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the attack was \"unprovoked\".\n\nThe three officers - one of whom suffered a fractured skull after being struck by the machete - were all released from hospital on Sunday.\n\nMr Bickford is believed by investigators to have travelled to the city on 29 December after withdrawing thousands of dollars in cash from his bank account and purchasing the knife later used in the attack.\n\nHe allegedly launched his attack shortly before 22:00 local time on Saturday near an area that had been set up for New Year's Eve celebrations, Ms Sewell said.\n\nDuring the attack he attempted to strike police over the head with his weapon, before one of the officers fired their weapon and hit him in the shoulder, officials said.\n\nMr Bickford remains in hospital under police custody because of the injuries sustained in the attack.\n\nNYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the attack had been \"unprovoked\".\n\nAccording to US media reports, his mother and aunt had reported him to the FBI over their fear that he had been radicalised by extreme Islamists.\n\nCNN, citing law enforcement sources, reported that was interviewed by FBI agents in Maine in mid-December after he said he wanted to travel overseas and help fellow Muslims.\n\nThe network also reported that a backpack found at the scene contained a diary in which he expressed his desire to join the Afghan Taliban and believed he would die in the attack.\n\nAhead of New Year's Day, the NYPD had released intelligence reports suggesting that some terrorist groups were preparing for a potential attack.\n\n\"Throughout December, multiple pro-ISIS users disseminated extremist propaganda graphics broadly calling for attacks in advance of the New Year, advocating a wide range of low-tech tactics,\" the assessment report said.", "Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019 Image caption: Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019\n\nFormer President Donald Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker yesterday, but it’s unclear whether his words hold the weight they once did.\n\nEven though the 20 Republican holdouts come from the Trumpian wing of the party, they have not changed their minds and continue to oppose McCarthy.\n\nAs little as two years ago, House Republicans would likely have followed Trump’s instructions to \"VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY\".\n\nTrump is once again running for president, on the presumption that he still holds the Republican Party in the palm of his hand.\n\nBut now, out of power and under multiple federal and state investigations, some Republicans and political observers have begun to question his grip. The Speaker contest might provide one data point.\n\nAs the House’s Republican leader, McCarthy long appeased Trump during his presidency and defended him through two impeachments. McCarthy went so far as to visit Trump at his Florida estate after the 6 January attack on Congress to make peace - even after a mob of Trump supporters had chased McCarthy and his colleagues into hiding.\n\nMcCarthy was so deferential to Trump over the years that the former president gave him the moniker “My Kevin” - both an endearment and a reflection of political reality.\n\nBut right now, being Trump’s Kevin might not be enough.", "Electric car maker Tesla said it delivered a record 1.3 million vehicles last year, 40% more than in 2021.\n\nBut the firm, led by billionaire Elon Musk, fell short of Wall Street sales forecasts for the final months of the year.\n\nThe company's shares sank by more than 12% on Tuesday after the update.\n\nIn a statement to investors, Tesla said it had to deal with \"significant Covid and supply chain related challenges throughout the year\".\n\nMeanwhile, earlier on Tuesday authorities in South Korea said they would fine Tesla $2.2m (£1.8m) for failing to tell its customers about the shorter driving range of its electric vehicles in low temperatures.\n\nThe Korea Fair Trade Commission said the company had exaggerated the \"driving ranges of its cars on a single charge, their fuel cost-effectiveness compared to gasoline vehicles as well as the performance of its Superchargers\".\n\nTesla did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nThe slide in the share price on Tuesday wiped more than $50bn (£41bn) off Tesla's market value, which has long been seen as outsized compared with carmakers like Ford and General Motors, who make more vehicles.\n\nTesla shares tumbled 65% last year - its worst year since going public in 2010 - as investors worried about disruptions to production, concerns over a slowdown in demand and Mr Musk's focus on newly acquired Twitter.\n\nThe multi-billionaire bought the social media platform at the end of October for $44bn (£36.4bn) and has spent much of his time since then trying to turn the business around even as Tesla faces rising challenges.\n\nLike other car makers, Tesla is grappling with the likelihood of slowing demand for vehicles as customers deal with rising borrowing costs and concerns about an economic slowdown.\n\nTesla also faces competition from traditional motor manufacturing giants such as Ford and General Motors, as well as newer entrants to the market like Rivian and Lucid in the US and China's BYD and Nio.\n\nHighlighting the logistics issues faced by the world's most valuable car maker, deliveries in the fourth quarter of the year were also about 34,000 fewer than Tesla produced.\n\nThe shortfall is unusual for Tesla, as it had previously managed to deliver about as many vehicles as it produced.\n\nIn October chief executive Musk said he was working to resolve the issue,and pushed back on the idea that demand was hurting.\n\nThe company is scheduled to announce financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the year as a whole on 25 January.\n\nTesla said in a separate statement that it plans to host its Investor Day on 1 March and livestream the event from its Gigafactory in Texas.\n\n\"Our investors will be able to see our most advanced production line as well as discuss long term expansion plans, generation 3 platform, capital allocation and other subjects with our leadership team,\" the company said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aled Davies: Son of missing BBC editor urges dad to come home\n\nThe son of Aled Davies, who went missing on New Year's Eve, has urged people to check their CCTV footage for any signs of him.\n\nGruffudd Glyn said any footage would be vital to help establish his father's movements that night.\n\nMr Glyn said that they were \"incredibly concerned\" about Mr Davies and that his disappearance was out of character.\n\nIn a message to his father, Mr Glyn said: \"We love you so much. Please come home.\"\n\nAled Glynne Davies, the former editor of BBC Radio Cymru, was last seen in the Pontcanna area of Cardiff on Saturday evening, South Wales Police said.\n\nHe is around 6ft (1.83m) tall and was last seen wearing a green puffer jacket, a dark green deer-hunter hat and glasses.\n\nMr Glyn said the search for his dad was being frustrated by the lack of footage of him that night.\n\nHe said: \"There is footage of him on people's cameras on their CCTVs. He didn't disappear. He didn't take his car. He was on foot. Just please, if you can check your cameras.\n\nBBC presenter Huw Edwards, who worked with Mr Davies during his time at the BBC, also reiterated the family's appeal for CCTV footage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ℍ𝕦𝕨 𝔼𝕕𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Glyn added that his dad is physically fragile and could be distressed.\n\n\"He has a curvature of the spine. He is on medication for a lung condition that he should be taking. He gets tired easily and can walk quite slowly.\"\n\nBecause of his physical conditions, Mr Glyn has emphasised that his dad might be resting somewhere unusual.\n\n\"If you're walking and you have a dog and you go on your usual path, maybe just go off that beaten track a little bit. Keep yourself safe as well as you're doing that. Of course don't put yourself at risk, but look to see if maybe you know he's resting somewhere.\n\n\"We just can't wait to see you again. Come home.\" Gruffudd Glyn says in a message to his father\n\n\"Check anywhere because if we all do this together we will find out and that's all we want is some answers or to develop this case further.\n\n\"If you see him approach with care, and call 999 immediately.\"\n\nMr Glyn thanked the people who had come out to help look for his father yesterday and said it showed how loved he is in the community.\n\nIn a direct message to his dad, he said: \"We all love you so much. And we just can't wait to see you again. Come home. We've got tickets to watch Wales play in the Euro qualifiers and I can't wait to be singing the anthem with you. We love you so much. Please come home.\"", "Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the court in New York on 3 January\n\nThe former boss of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX has officially denied charges that he defrauded customers and investors.\n\nSam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in a US court to claims that he took customer deposits at FTX to fund his other firm, Alameda Research, buy property and make political donations.\n\nHe was released after his arrest last month on a $250m (£208m) bail package.\n\nBut he faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted.\n\nTwo of Mr Bankman-Fried's closest colleagues have pleaded guilty already and are cooperating with the investigation, which has shaken the entire cryptocurrency industry.\n\nIn interviews before his arrest, the 30-year-old former billionaire admitted failings but put the problems down to his own \"mistakes\".\n\nIt is not unusual for defendants to change their pleas as the legal proceedings unfold.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried, who founded FTX in 2019, was one of the most high-profile figures in the cryptocurrency industry, known for his political ties, celebrity endorsements and bailouts of other struggling firms.\n\nBut in November, a wave of customer withdrawals sparked by reports of shaky finances forced FTX to declare bankruptcy and reveal billions of dollars worth of missing funds.\n\nIn a press conference last month, federal prosecutors said the meltdown at the platform, which allowed customers to buy and sell digital tokens, stemmed from \"intentional fraud\".\n\nProsecutors accused Mr Bankman-Fried of misappropriating FTX customer funds to pay debts at his other company, Alameda, and to make other investments.\n\nThey announced eight criminal charges, including wire fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations. Financial regulators also brought claims against Mr Bankman-Fried.\n\nMr Bankman-Fried was arrested in December in the Bahamas, where he lived and FTX was based.\n\nHe was extradited to the US, where he was freed on a $250m bail package. His bail conditions required that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and remain largely confined to the California home of his parents, law professors at Stanford University.\n\nHis parents co-signed the bond, guaranteeing the money if Mr Bankman-Fried fails to appear in court.\n\nIn court filings on Tuesday, attorneys asked to keep the identities of the other backers secret, saying Sam Bankman-Fried's parents had been receiving threats. Judge Kaplan granted that request.", "US actor Jeremy Renner is out of surgery but remains in a critical condition after an accident with a snow plough, his publicist has said.\n\nRenner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries, and is still in intensive care, Samantha Mast said in a statement to US media on Monday night.\n\nHe was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after an accident while clearing snow outside his home in Nevada.\n\nThe US has been battered by snowstorms, killing dozens of people.\n\n\"Jeremy's family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him,\" publicist Ms Mast said in a statement.\n\nThe family also thanked the local police and fire services, and said they were \"tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his fans\".\n\nBefore the accident Renner was reportedly clearing a road outside his home in Reno, Nevada using his personal snow plough so his family could get out after a heavy storm.\n\nThe 51-year-old was the only person involved in the incident, the Washoe County Sheriff's office said, adding that it was being investigated.\n\nUS celebrity news site TMZ reported that Renner was aided by neighbours at the scene, one of whom was a doctor. His family thanked \"the Carano and Murdock families\" in their statement.\n\nA day after the accident, news emerged that rally driving champion Ken Block was killed when his snowmobile flipped at his ranch in Utah.\n\nThe US was battered by a major snowstorm over the New Year weekend, with at least 60 people in eight states killed.\n\nThousands of homes experienced power cuts, and travel was severely disrupted.\n\nTwo-time Oscar nominee Renner is best known for his role as Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the Marvel cinematic universe, starring in several Avengers films and in the spin-off television series Hawkeye.\n\nHe was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor for his role in The Hurt Locker in 2008, and for best supporting actor in The Town in 2010.\n\nHe had shared updates previously on the amount of snow in his area, tweeting in December that \"Lake Tahoe snowfall is no joke\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMartina Navratilova has been diagnosed with both throat and breast cancer.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, who previously had breast cancer in 2010, will start treatment in New York later this month.\n\nNavratilova, 66, said both cancers had been caught at an early stage.\n\n\"The double whammy is serious, but fixable, and I'm hoping for a favourable outcome,\" she said. \"It's going to stink for a while, but I'll fight with all I have got.\"\n\nNavratilova noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck during November's WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas.\n\nDuring the tests, a lump was also discovered in her breast, which was later diagnosed as an unrelated cancer.\n\n\"Both of these cancers are in their early stages with great outcomes,\" Navratilova's representative Mary Greenham added.\n\nNavratilova was due to cover this month's Australian Open from the Tennis Channel studio in Melbourne, but will instead make some occasional remote appearances.\n\nThe nine-time Wimbledon singles champion said she felt \"helpless\" after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, but decided to go public with the news to help other women suffering similar health problems.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Huge crowds turned up to say goodbye to Pele as his coffin made its way through the streets of Santos\n\nIf Monday's wake for Brazilian football legend Pele was a day of reflection, Tuesday's funeral cortege was one of carnivalesque proportions.\n\nThe 82-year-old, who many regarded as the world's best football player, died on 29 December.\n\nHis coffin arrived in Santos on Monday, where thousands of mourners came to pay their respects at the ground of his former club - some even queued overnight.\n\nOn Tuesday, supporters' club Torcida Jovem gathered outside the Urbano Caldeira stadium ahead of the casket leaving. Fans waved huge black and white banners, the colours of Santos Football Club. Many wore the number 10 shirt that Pele made so famous.\n\n\"Only Pele, 1,000 goals,\" they repeatedly chanted as people beat drums and danced in the street.\n\nHis body was then accompanied for seven kilometres through the streets of Santos while helicopters flew overhead. His coffin was carried on a fire engine, as is traditional in official parades.\n\nIt travelled along the sea front and past Pele's mother's house - she turned 100 last year. There, a relative asked for a minute's silence and the party atmosphere hushed immediately as Doña Celeste clutched her hands in prayer.\n\nThese past few days have halted the busy coastal city of Santos.\n\nMembers of supporters' club Torcida Jovem were among those who turned up to say goodbye to Pele\n\n\"He was important for the whole world, for young people too,\" said Marcia Simões, who was standing with her sons Eduardo and Mario at the road leading to Pele's burial place. \"I'm prouder than ever to be from Santos.\"\n\nThat was a feeling echoed by so many mourners - that he was the best of Brazil.\n\n\"Everyone in Brazil wants to be a football player to imitate him,\" said Thiago Silva, one of the last people in the queue before the wake ended. \"Of course, nobody can.\"\n\n\"My father was a Pele fanatic,\" said Sandra Garcia, who was with 11-year-old Enzo. \"I got really emotional remembering my father - if he was alive, no question he would have been here crying. I grew up praising Pele, talking of him and telling stories about him - so it's important to be here.\"\n\nEven for someone of Enzo's young age, Pele was a powerful influence.\n\n\"No question, he beats Cristiano Ronaldo by a long way,\" he said. \"He's the best player of all time over several decades.\"\n\nSandra Garcia and her son Enzo are among Pele's fans\n\nBeyond football, Pele united Brazilians by being their ambassador. In a country deeply divided politically and economically - people have only had good things to say about him.\n\nThe same could not be said of the country's new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who only this week took office for a third term. He arrived to pay his respects shortly before the wake ended and cheers for him competed with calls that he should be in prison.\n\nPresident Lula was released in 2019 after spending 18 months in jail for corruption. His convictions were annulled in 2021.\n\nThe coming together of a nation in grief has been a welcome relief for so many in what has been a turbulent few months since the presidential elections.\n\n\"Pele united all of us,\" said Deofilo de Freitas, waiting in the queue. He was the first one in the line on Monday but wanted another chance to see his idol before he was laid to rest. \"Not only was he the best player in the world, he was a marvellous human being.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Manju Prasanna fled the blaze with his wife and four-year-old daughter\n\nA guest at a Perth hotel where three people died in an early-morning blaze has told of his family's escape from the fire.\n\nManju Prasanna, his wife, and their four-year-old daughter were woken by a guest at the New County Hotel shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nThe family fled outside where they watched the incident unfold on Monday morning.\n\nPolice and fire officers have launched an investigation into the fire's cause.\n\nMr Prasanna, who is from Sri Lanka, was visiting his wife, who is studying at Dundee University.\n\nHe said the family were in their room on the first floor of the hotel, the floor below the area where the fire broke out.\n\nThe 38-year-old said he heard a guest shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nMr Prasanna left the building with his wife and child and saw flames coming from the second floor window.\n\n\"I waited here, me my daughter and my wife - my daughter was afraid and she was crying loudly,\" he said.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nForensic teams have been working at the scene\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10, leading to a huge response from the emergency services, with 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and three bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nA dog also died in the blaze, according to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nJason Sharp, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service area commander for Perth, Kinross, Angus and Dundee, described it as a \"very complex incident\".\n\n\"Our firefighters worked extremely hard in a very complex and challenging environment to prevent the further spread of fire and damage where possible,\" he said on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"At its height, we had nine fire appliances in attendance with over 60 firefighters.\n\n\"We're currently still in attendance to make sure the scene is safe. I would like to thank our crews and our other emergency partners and local authority for their support.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"", "Rishi Sunak is due to set out his plans for the year ahead in his first speech of 2023\n\nThe prime minister is looking at plans to ensure all school pupils in England study maths in some form until the age of 18.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, Rishi Sunak said he wanted people to \"feel confident\" when it came to finances.\n\nBut critics have said the plan will not be possible without more maths teachers.\n\nMr Sunak also set out the priorities for his premiership, including tackling backlogs in the health service.\n\nThe number of 16 to 18-year-olds is projected to rise by a total of 18% between 2021 and 2030.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Sunak said the UK must \"reimagine our approach to numeracy\".\n\n\"In a world where data is everywhere and statistics underpin every job, letting our children out into that world without those skills is letting our children down,\" he said.\n\nHe said he wanted people to have the skills they needed \"to feel confident\" with finances and things like mortgage deals.\n\nJust half of 16 to 19-year-olds study maths, according to Mr Sunak - but this figure includes pupils doing science courses, and those who are already doing compulsory GCSE resits in college.\n\nIt is not clear what the plans will mean for students who wish to study humanities or creative arts qualifications, including BTecs. No new qualifications are immediately planned, and there are no plans to make A-levels compulsory.\n\nThe government is instead exploring expanding existing qualifications as well as \"more innovative options\", a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nThe idea appears to be an aspiration rather than a fully developed policy, with the precise mechanics for how it would work not set out.\n\nThe government acknowledges it would not be possible to implement before the next general election, although the prime minister is expected to begin working on the plan in this Parliament.\n\nThe Autumn Statement unveiled an extra £2.3bn in core school funding for five to 16-year-olds over the next two years - reversing the real-terms cuts of the last decade.\n\nHowever, no extra funding was given to further education colleges, which teach many of the most disadvantaged 16 to 18-year-olds, nor to sixth form colleges.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity and chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, welcomed Mr Sunak's aspiration and said the focus should be \"on giving young people the practical maths skills that they need in the workplace and in their everyday lives\".\n\nHowever, the Association of School and College Leaders said there was a \"severe shortage of maths teachers\", and that the plan was \"therefore currently unachievable\".\n\nIn 2021, there were 35,771 maths teachers in state secondary schools in England. There were more English teachers (39,000) and science teachers (45,000).\n\nMaths teacher numbers are 9% higher than in 2012, but shortages have been reported across the country.\n\nA survey of secondary schools in England by the National Foundation for Educational Research found that 45% of respondents used non-specialist teachers to deliver some maths lessons in 2021.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson called on Mr Sunak to \"show his working\" on how greater participation in maths will be funded.\n\n\"He cannot deliver this reheated, empty pledge without more maths teachers, yet the government has missed their target for new maths teachers year after year,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson called the aim \"an admission of failure from the prime minister on behalf of a Conservative government that has neglected our children's education so badly\".\n\nShe added: \"Too many children are being left behind when it comes to maths, and that happens well before they reach 16.\"\n\nMr Sunak's speech emphasised the importance of family, but it was light on plans for early years education - another sector that went without extra funding in the Autumn Statement.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said it showed \"a lack of understanding\" about the importance of early years.\n\nTory MP Robin Walker, who is chairman of the education committee, urged the prime minister to focus on childcare.\n\n\"It's great to hear the prime minister today committing to maths beyond 16,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"But if we don't get the right approach to stimulating and supporting children early on, they won't have the opportunities to thrive in the school system.\"\n\nThe prime minister also said education was \"the closest thing to a silver bullet there is\".\n\nAs well as a new approach to numeracy, his proposals included better attainment at primary schools and more technical education.\n\nLast year, 59% of children leaving primary school in England reached the expected standards in reading, writing and maths.\n\nThat is well below a target announced last year of 90% by 2030.", "Members of the security forces are out in force after the prison break\n\nAt least seven people have been killed in a shoot-out in Mexico as officials searched for 30 inmates who staged a bloody prison break on Sunday.\n\nGunmen opened fire on state investigators who were hunting the escapees, killing at least two of them.\n\nFive gunmen also died in the shoot-out, but it is not yet clear if any of the escapees were among those killed.\n\nA gang called Los Mexicles, which has links to the Sinaloa cartel, is thought to be behind the violence.\n\nSunday's prison break in Ciudad Juárez was one of the deadliest in recent times, leaving 10 guards and seven inmates dead.\n\nSuspected members of Los Mexicles took advantage of the busy visiting hours on Sunday morning as relatives flocked to the jail to wish their loved ones a happy new year.\n\nThey arrived in several armoured cars and opened fire on the guards at the entrance, according to local media.\n\nAt the same time, inmates set mattresses alight inside their cells to create confusion and distract the guards.\n\nAt first, officials said two dozen inmates had escaped, but the head of the state prison system has since announced that the number was \"at least 30\".\n\nAmong those who escaped is the leader of Los Mexicles, Ernesto Piñón de la Cruz, also known as El Neto.\n\nEl Neto, 33, has been in prison for 14 years serving a sentence for kidnapping and murder. An attempt by his gang to free him during a prison transfer in 2010 failed and he was injured.\n\nEl Neto began his criminal career as a teenager, kidnapping locals for ransom\n\nHe appears to have wielded enormous power from behind bars, where he enjoyed a more luxurious life than less well-connected prisoners.\n\nMexico's defence minister said 10 \"VIP cells\" had been \"discovered\" during a search of the jail.\n\nPolice also found 16kg (35lb) of marijuana, 4kg of crystal meth and 1.5kg of heroin, as well as several weapons.\n\nPolice managed to secure some of the weapons used in the prison break\n\nFederal officials say the state of Chihuahua, in which the prison is located, is to blame for the lack of oversight, while Chihuahua officials say their requests to have El Neto moved to a federal institution with higher levels of security had been turned down.\n\nResidents of Ciudad Juárez told local media they were terrified after the breakout, as El Neto is believed to have been behind a wave of killings in August 2022 known as \"Black Thursday\", in which 10 people without any links to criminal gangs were killed across the city.\n\nPolice are carrying out checks at nearby airports and on main highways to try and prevent him and his fellow escapees from leaving the state.", "Ukraine's president says Russia is planning a protracted campaign of drone attacks in a bid to demoralise Ukraine.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky said he had received intelligence reports suggesting that Moscow would launch the attacks using Iranian-made Shahed drones.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine carried out a strike that it said killed hundreds of Russian soldiers in the Donbas region.\n\nIn an extremely rare admission of battlefield losses, Russia said the attack killed 63 of its troops.\n\nSpeaking from Kyiv in his nightly address, Mr Zelensky said Russia planned to \"exhaust\" Ukraine with a prolonged wave of drone attacks.\n\n\"We must ensure - and we will do everything for this - that this goal of terrorists fails like all the others,\" he said. \"Now is the time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky should be especially attentive.\"\n\nRussian drone strikes on Ukraine appear to have increased in recent days, with Moscow launching attacks on cities and power stations across the country over the past three nights.\n\nCorrespondents say that as well as the strain on Ukraine's military - which has to track and intercept the drones - there is also an attritional impact on the civilian population which lives with the uncertainty, fear and disruption the attacks cause across the country.\n\nRussia has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure for several months, destroying power stations and plunging millions into darkness during the country's freezing winter.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukrainian air defences had already shot down over 80 Iranian-made drones in the opening days of 2023.\n\nElsewhere, Ukraine has confirmed it carried out a strike in the occupied region of Donetsk, which it earlier claimed killed 400 Russian troops.\n\nRussian officials contested the figure, saying only 63 troops were killed. Neither claim has been verified, and access to the site is restricted.\n\nHowever, some of those killed and wounded came from Russia's south-western Samara region, according to governor Dmitry Azarov, who urged families to contact a hotline or local military offices.\n\nFamilies laid wreaths in the region's main cities of Samara and Tolyatti on Tuesday to remember those killed.\n\nFootage, apparently from the scene of the attack, was posted by the Ukrainian military\n\nThe Ukrainian attack, thought to have taken place as Russians celebrated the new year, hit a vocational school building in the city of Makiivka, where Russian soldiers were stationed.\n\nIt is extremely rare for Moscow to confirm any battlefield casualties.\n\nBut this was such a deadly attack, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, that staying silent probably wasn't an option.\n\nIt is the highest number of deaths acknowledged by Moscow in a single incident since the war began 10 months ago.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Russia's defence ministry said Ukrainian forces fired six rockets using the US-made Himars rocket system at a building housing Russian troops. Two of them were shot down, it added.\n\nIgor Girkin, a Russian nationalist commentator, earlier said that hundreds had been killed and wounded, although the exact number was unknown because of the large number still missing.\n\nThe building itself was \"almost completely destroyed\", he said.\n\nHe added that the victims were mainly mobilised troops - that is, recent conscripts, rather than those who chose to fight. He also said ammunition was stored in the same building as the soldiers, making the damage worse.\n\n\"Almost all of the military equipment was also destroyed, which stood right next to the building without any disguise whatsoever,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nGirkin is a well-known military blogger, who led Russian-backed separatists when they occupied of large parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014. He was recently found guilty of murder for his part in the shooting down of flight MH17.\n\nDespite his hawkish stance, he regularly criticises the Russian military leadership and their tactics.\n\nSeveral Russian lawmakers have also strongly criticised military commanders over the attack, saying commanders must be held to account for allowing troops to concentrate in an unprotected building within range of Ukrainian rockets, where ammunition may also have been stored.\n\nSergei Mironov - a former chairman of the Russian Senate - said it was obvious than neither intelligence nor air defence had worked properly.\n\nAccording to the Ukrainian military's earlier statement, 300 were wounded in addition to the estimated 400 killed. Ukraine's army claims, almost daily, to have killed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of soldiers in attacks.\n\nA later statement from the Ukrainian military's general staff said \"up to 10 units of enemy military equipment\" were \"destroyed and damaged\" in the strikes, and that \"the losses of personnel of the occupiers are being specified\".\n\nThe US-based Institute for the Study of War said the defence ministry in Moscow was probably trying to deflect the blame for the security lapse on to Russia's proxy authorities in Donetsk.\n\nLocal security officials told Tass news agency that the cause of the strike was that Ukrainian forces had been able to detect the use of Russian mobile phones by servicemen arriving in the building.\n\nMakiivka is just to the east of Donetsk city", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour people have died after a mid-air collision between two helicopters near Sea World on Australia's Gold Coast.\n\nQueensland Police say initial investigations suggest the crash happened as one aircraft was taking off and the other was landing.\n\nThose who died were travelling in the same helicopter. Three other passengers are in a critical condition.\n\nTwo UK citizens were among those killed in the crash, a foreign office spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nThey added that officials were supporting the families of the two victims - who have not been named - and would remain \"in contact with the local authorities\".\n\nFive of the six people on the other aircraft, which made an emergency landing, suffered minor injuries.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said the country had been left shocked by the \"terrible and tragic incident\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with all those affected, including first responders, and my deepest sympathies are with those who are grieving,\" he said.\n\nThe Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating the collision, which happened at about 14:00 local time (04:00 GMT).\n\nThe two aircraft came down near a tourist strip known as Main Beach, about 75km (47 miles) south of Brisbane.\n\nGary Worrell of the Queensland Police Service said: \"It's a difficult scene, Due to the area it's located, on the sand bank, it was difficult to gain access, to get our emergency services to the scene to manage it appropriately.\"\n\nImages from the site show debris strewn around the area and a mangled helicopter apparently lying upside down opposite the Sea World resort.\n\nThe other helicopter has the popular marine park's logo on its fuselage and appears to have made an emergency landing after the collision.\n\nMr Worrell said members of the public and police had tried to remove passengers from the aircraft and performed first aid on the injured.\n\nAccording to the Sea World website the park offers sightseeing helicopter flights for tourists, as well as carrying out other charter operations.\n\nThe resort's owner, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, offered its condolences to all those impacted and said Sea World Helicopters is an independent operator.\n\nATSB chief commissioner Angus Mitchell asked eyewitnesses who saw the collision or the helicopters in flight to contact investigators.\n\nA preliminary report will be made public in the next six to eight weeks, with a final report to follow once the investigation is complete, he added.\n\nQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called the incident an \"unthinkable tragedy\" and said her \"deepest sympathies are with each of the families and everyone affected by this terrible accident\".\n\nThe Gold Coast region is currently in its peak tourist season, with children on their summer breaks.", "Spain has seen unseasonably warm weather over the Christmas period\n\nTemperatures for January have reached an all-time high in a number of nations across Europe.\n\nNational records have fallen in eight countries - and regional records in another three.\n\nWarsaw, Poland, saw 18.9C (66F) on Sunday while Bilbao, Spain, was 25.1C - more than 10C above average.\n\nThe mild European weather comes as North America faces more severe storms, days after a deadly winter cold snap left more than 60 dead.\n\nHeavy snow and freezing rain have been forecast for parts of the northern Midwest while severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are expected in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.\n\nBut on the European side of the Atlantic, the weather has been balmy for many places at the start of the year.\n\nTemperatures in the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and Belarus broke national records.\n\nStation records were broken in Germany, France and Ukraine.\n\nThe temperature recorded in Warsaw on 1 January was 4C higher than the previous record for the month, and Belarus' record high was 16.4C, some 4.5C above the previous record.\n\nIn Spain, New Year's Day temperatures in Bilbao were equivalent to the average in July, and parts of Catalonia including Barcelona are subject to restrictions on water use.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecords are broken all the time, but it is unusual for the difference to be more than a few 10ths of a degree.\n\nIn Switzerland, temperatures hit 20C, and the warm weather has affected ski resorts across the Alps which have seen a snow shortage.\n\nIt's not all warm in Europe, though - colder temperatures and snow are forecast in parts of Scandinavia and Moscow is expected to drop to -20C by the weekend.\n\nWarm temperatures mean cherry blossom has come early to the Polish city of Szczecin\n\nJust days earlier, the UK, Ireland, France and Spain declared 2022 their hottest year on record.\n\nIn the UK, every month but December was hotter than average. December itself saw snow fall across large parts of the country, although conditions are milder and wetter now.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nHowever, warm winter events such as these do not have the same human impact as summer heatwaves, which can result in large numbers of excess deaths.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Business groups are expecting government help with their energy bills to be halved after March, when the existing package of support expires.\n\nHeavy energy users will get support close to current levels.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt told business groups on Wednesday that the support would be at a \"lower level\" to protect the public finances from volatile energy markets.\n\nGas and electricity prices have been fixed for firms until the end of March.\n\nThe revised scheme is expected to run for 12 months until March 2024, with details on the level of support detailed next week\n\n\"No government can permanently shield businesses from this energy price shock,\" Mr Hunt added.\n\nThose at the meeting included the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Federation of Small Businesses, the British Chambers of Commerce, Institute of Directors, Make UK, UKHospitality, and the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not covered in normal times by an energy price cap, which limits the amount suppliers can charge per unit of energy.\n\nBut after energy prices spiked last year, the government's Energy Bill Relief Scheme fixed costs, providing a lifeline for many firms that risked going bust without the support.\n\nIn October, the government said it would review the scheme due to its high cost to taxpayers, with officials considering options to extend support only for \"vulnerable businesses\".\n\nA decision on whether to extend the support had been due before Christmas, but the government postponed it until the new year.\n\nFirms and business groups reacted angrily to the delay, with Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, describing it as having \"a corrosive effect on business confidence\".\n\nThe delay is thought to have been down to the complexity of delivering the government's original ambition of separating out different sectors for different levels of support according to need.\n\nIt is impossible to accurately forecast how much the ongoing support, which ran from October, will cost the exchequer, as it depends on the difference between wholesale energy prices and the level of any cap.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility estimated the cost of the support scheme for business at nearly £20bn for the six months to March 2023.\n\nThe Treasury told businesses that extending the scheme at current levels \"could cost tens of billions of pounds, with costs potentially doubling or tripling if international energy prices increase further than expected\".\n\nAs wholesale gas prices have fallen sharply from the record highs seen a few months ago thanks in part to the very mild winter so far in Europe, the government may not need to spend as much as forecast.\n\nSeparately, household bills will also not rise as high as previously thought. Government subsidies are keeping typical annual household bills at £2500 till March when support will be scaled back.", "Pressure on the NHS is \"intolerable and unsustainable\", according to the British Medical Association (BMA) which represents doctors.\n\nChair of the BMA council, Professor Phil Banfield, has called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\" to solve the crisis.\n\nHospitals are facing soaring demands, which experts believe is in part driven by winter illnesses like flu and Covid.\n\nThe government said it recognised the pressures faced by the NHS.\n\nA number of hospitals have declared critical incidents in recent days, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments - the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record and some A&E departments are in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nDr Ian Higginson, the college's vice-president, said he was in \"no doubt\" there was a risk to patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live the waits being experienced by patients in emergency departments were \"appalling\" - and said he had heard of waits of up to four days.\n\n\"Emergency departments are in a really difficult and in some cases a complete state of crisis right now... and in many cases we are unable to provide care at the standard we would like.\"\n\nOn Sunday, RCEM president Dr Adrian Boyle said between 300 and 500 people were dying every week as a result of delays to emergency care.\n\nThe figures appear to be based on research published by the Emergency Medical Journal which calculated that every 82 patients whose hospital admission is delayed by more than six hours results in one death within 30 days.\n\nBut NHS England's Chris Hopson said care needed to be taken \"jumping to conclusions about excess mortality rates and their cause without a really full and detailed look at the evidence\".\n\nMr Hopson told BBC Radio 5 Live he feels \"deeply uncomfortable\" about the level of care sometimes being provided at moments of pressure.\n\nHe listed multiple factors that have contributed to pressures on NHS services including:\n\nHowever, the chief strategy officer urged people in need of medical attention to \"come forward\", but reminded patients to \"use the best route\" of support.\n\nEducation minister Robert Halfon said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was treating pressures on the NHS as a \"top priority\".\n\n\"We're increasing NHS capacity by the equivalent of 7,000 beds, spending an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharges and improve capacity, and providing an extra £150m for the ambulance service,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting blamed the situation on \"more than 12 years of Conservative mis-management\".\n\nHe said he found it \"completely inexplicable\" that no government minister had appeared in public to \"explain what they are doing to grip this crisis\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for an immediate recall of parliament and urged the government to pass an emergency health plan and declare a \"national major incident\".\n\nDr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the situation in emergency departments remains \"unbearable\".\n\n\"Unless we are able to retain and attract colleagues, and recruit new colleagues, then our situation will remain unbearable for a long time,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nAndrew Macfarlane's 90-year-old mother has been waiting more than 30 hours for an ambulance after she fell on New Year's Eve and hurt her hip.\n\n\"She's in a lot of pain but she's not on death's door, so I think there is a priority listing whereby she's down the priority list,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHis closest hospital in Torbay, Devon, is a 10-minute drive away but he was told not to move his mother in case it caused her further injury.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: \"We sincerely apologise for the delay this patient has experienced.\"\n\nThey said handover delays at emergency departments were affecting their performance. An ambulance did later arrive for her.\n\nMeanwhile, nurses and paramedics went on strike in December and the BMA has said it will ballot junior doctors this month. Nurses will again strike in England on 18 and 19 January and ambulance staff in parts of England on 11 and 23 January.\n\nThe government says it recognises the pressures being faced, and said it was providing £14.1bn in additional funding for health and social care over the next two years, as well as an extra £500m to try to speed up hospital discharges.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Kelly Monteith starred in his own show on the BBC, which ran for six seasons\n\nKelly Monteith, the US stand-up comic who also had his own BBC show, has died at the age of 80.\n\nMonteith's death was announced on Tuesday by The Anglophile Channel, an LA production company which worked with him in recent years.\n\nHe rose to fame in the UK after several appearances on The Des O'Connor Show.\n\nThis led to his self-titled BBC series which ran for six series between 1979 and 1984. Monteith suffered a stroke in 2021 and died in Los Angeles on Sunday.\n\nMonteith was the one of the first American comedians to get his own show on the BBC. In America, he starred in two series on CBS called The Kelly Monteith Show and The Hit Squad.\n\nActor Sanjeev Kohli paid tribute to the US comic on Twitter, writing: \"Sad news about Kelly Monteith. Funny, personable & (like Dave Allen) way ahead of his time. Judging from the reaction on here he was a bigger influence than he ever knew.\"\n\nScreenwriter and comedian Bennett Arron recalled: \"A few years ago I said in an interview that, along with Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper and my father, he was one of my favourite comedians. He heard about it, got in contact and thanked me.\"\n\nMark Braxton of the Radio Times said: \"Very sad news about Kelly Monteith. His BBC series was a firm fixture of my early 80s viewing.\"\n\nMonteith (centre) starred in a self-titled comedy series in which he would give his unique observations on life\n\nMonteith first made a name for himself on the US comedy circuit in the 1970s. He made more than 40 appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno as well as on The Late Show with David Letterman.\n\nLeno once described Monteith as a comedian who was \"always extremely clever, extremely funny. One of the benchmarks. For those of us of a certain generation, Kelly was the guy\".\n\nOnce he moved to the UK, Monteith appeared on Des O'Connor Tonight and Blankety Blank.\n\nAfter proving popular with the public with those appearances, Monteith was offered his own series by the BBC that ran for six seasons.\n\nMonteith was one of the first American comedians to get his own BBC show, and co-wrote his self-titled series with Neil Shand.\n\nKelly Monteith (left) and Frederick Jaeger performing a dentist sketch from the BBC television show Kelly Monteith in 1981\n\nHis fondness for the UK was partly due to the fact he met his future wife Caroline there.\n\nMonteith often said that one of the highlights of his career was performing for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Variety Performance in 1983.\n\nIn a statement issued to the BBC, the Anglophile Channel confirmed his death \"with great sadness\".\n\nHe had hosted Kelly Monteith's BBC Memories for the Anglophile Channel, which is dedicated to British culture and entertainment. The programme featured a look back at his groundbreaking BBC comedy series.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo opposition MPs in Senegal have been given six-month jail sentences for kicking a pregnant colleague in the stomach during a budget debate.\n\nThe male lawmakers attacked Amy Ndiaye after she criticised an opposition religious figure.\n\nThe judge also ordered Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb to pay Ms Ndiaye five million CFA francs ($8,100; £6,750) in compensation.\n\nThe incident was widely condemned and sparked a debate about women's rights.\n\nIn a video widely shared online, Mr Samb is seen walking towards Ms Ndiaye and slapping her during a routine budget debate on 1 December. She then retaliates by throwing a chair, but at the same time gets kicked in her belly by another male colleague. A melee then breaks out as other MPs try to calm the situation.\n\nMs Ndiaye, a member of the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition, fainted in parliament after the attack and there were fears that she would lose the baby.\n\nDespite leaving hospital she \"remains in an extremely difficult situation,\" her lawyer Baboucar Cissé told news agency AFP.\n\nDespite the video evidence, lawyers for Mr Niang and Mr Samb argued in court that their clients had not physically attacked Ms Ndiaye.\n\nThey also argued unsuccessfully that the two lawmakers were immune to prosecution.\n\n\"They are going to remain in prison pending an appeal,\" one of their lawyers, Abdy Nar Ndiaye, told AFP.\n\nThere has been tension in Senegal's parliament since the government lost its majority in legislative elections in July last year.", "The British victims of a mid-air collision between two helicopters on Australia's Gold Coast have been named.\n\nDiane Hughes, 57, and her 65-year-old husband Ron were from Neston, Cheshire. They got married last year and were on holiday, Queensland Police said.\n\nTheir pilot and another passenger also died in Monday's crash, which happened as one helicopter was taking off from a sandbar and the other was landing.\n\nThree others, including two children, were badly injured and are in hospital.\n\nIn a statement to Australian news outlet 7NEWS, Mr Hughes' daughter Jane Manns said: \"Our family is heartbroken and we are still trying to contact friends and family to let them know.\n\n\"Please respect our privacy at this devastating time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a public Facebook post, Mrs Hughes' brother Dave Boyce thanked friends for their support, adding: \"We are truly humbled at this heartbreaking time.\"\n\nMr Hughes owned a home interiors company based in Neston on the Wirral peninsula, about 12 miles (18km) south-west of Liverpool.\n\nA neighbour, Paul Lightfoot, told the BBC: \"I saw Ronnie (Hughes) walking his dog the day before he flew, he was looking forward to his holiday.\n\n\"He was a lovely fella, he was well known locally. It's just a massive shock.\"\n\nAustralian media reported that 36-year-old Vanessa Tadros also died in the crash, while her 10-year-old son was critically injured.\n\nAshley Jenkinson with friend Ritchie Gregg helped flood victims in New South Wales last year\n\nThe fourth victim was 40-year-old Ashley Jenkinson, an experienced Sea World Helicopters pilot who was originally from Birmingham but lived in the Gold Coast area.\n\nRitchie Gregg told the BBC that his friend had been a \"silent hero and gentle giant\" who \"would have done everything to bring the helicopter down safely\".\n\nHe added: \"He was a top guy with so much experience. He's flown in all sorts of terrain and environments, we're completely shocked.\"\n\nThe cause of the crash, which happened near the Sea World resort about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Brisbane, is not yet known.\n\nBoth helicopters were operating tourist flights for the resort.\n\nIts owner, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, has offered condolences and said Sea World Helicopters was an independent operator.\n\nOfficials say it happened less than 20 seconds after one of the helicopters had taken off.\n\nAll those killed and critically injured were in the ascending helicopter, which crashed within seconds after its main rotor blade struck the cockpit of the other aircraft, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said.\n\nThe second helicopter landed upright on the sandbank. Five of the six people on board suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe landing was a \"remarkable achievement\" given the helicopter was damaged \"where the pilot was sitting\", said air safety commissioner Angus Mitchell.\n\n\"We are very fortunate that we're not standing here with far more deaths.\"\n\nIt's difficult to square how beautiful and serene that spot of The Broadwater on the Gold Coast is with that fact it is now a major crash scene. The water is clear, there are boats and jet skis all around.\n\nJust opposite is the sandbank where the helicopter crash happened. The wreckage of the choppers was removed earlier; authorities were finding it quite challenging because of the tide. Now a couple of police boats remain with investigators scouring the area for more evidence. I've seen at least three divers going underwater to scan the sea bed.\n\nA stone's throw away is the Sea World theme park where people can be heard on the rides. One eyewitness said that as one of the helicopters was trying to land it hovered over the park and there was concern it would crash into crowds. This is peak holiday season and thousands are here with their children.\n\n\"If you know the Gold Coast you'd know Sea World helicopters,\" one local told me. They are a common attraction and many tourists fly on them on quick tours around the area.\n\nFootage from the scene showed wreckage strewn across the area.\n\nOne eyewitness has said he heard \"a loud bang\" and saw \"pieces of shrapnel flying everywhere\".\n\nThe ATSB said it would conduct interviews and meticulously scour the helicopters, crash scene, footage, and other evidence before establishing what had caused the crash.\n\nIt called on eyewitnesses to come forward.\n\nPolice said boat operators had rushed to help after the crash at about 14:00 local time (04:00 GMT), including by giving CPR.\n\nRescue teams faced challenges accessing the sandbank and later securing evidence amid tidal changes, officials said.\n\nThe ATSB's preliminary report is due in six to eight weeks.\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the country had been left shocked by the \"terrible and tragic incident\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting the British victims' families and would continue to liaise with the local authorities.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Cost-of-living payments are coming in various ways in the coming months\n\nEight million people receiving benefits and on low incomes will receive their £900 cost-of-living payments in three instalments, the government has said.\n\nThe first payment of £301 will be made in the spring, with a second of £300 in the autumn and a final £299 instalment in the spring of 2024.\n\nExact dates are yet to be finalised, but ministers said the money would help households with high energy bills.\n\nA £400 discount for all energy billpayers looks set to end by April.\n\nCharities have called on the government to do more to protect vulnerable households from soaring costs, claiming that support had not improved for those already struggling.\n\nThe government also confirmed that a £150 cost-of-living payment would automatically go to those with disabilities during the summer, and a further £300 payment would be paid to pensioners during the winter of 2023-24.\n\nCost-of-living payments have provided additional support for more vulnerable households, or those with higher energy costs, since the summer. The government also set a cap on the unit price of energy for households, which means the typical household pays £2,500 a year. This will rise to £3,000 a year when the cap is reset in April.\n\nHowever, the universal £400 discount, which is being paid in monthly instalments over this winter is not expected to be continued.\n\nMyron Jobson, senior personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor, said: \"The various cost-of-living support schemes and measures past and present have and will help to ease the inflationary crunch on budgets - but most have a shelf life.\n\n\"It remains important to have a comprehensive understanding of your financial position and make the necessary adjustments to ensure that your financial position holds strong long after the cost-of-living measures expire.\"\n\nFuel poverty campaigners have argued that support for the most vulnerable people has not increased on what was announced last year.\n\n\"In fact, with the end of the Energy Bills Support Scheme looming, households will be worse off than they were this winter,\" said Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition..\n\n\"The government must go further to help the millions of homes in fuel poverty throughout 2023.\"\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said: \"We are sticking by our promise to protect the most vulnerable and these payments, worth hundreds of pounds, will provide vital support next year for those on the lowest incomes.\"\n\nA survey for charity Nesta suggested that concerns about higher energy bills had pushed almost all households in the UK to try to save energy in at least one way, but many did not know which cut their bills the most.\n\nThe charity has a guide to turning down the boiler flow temperature on a combi boiler to save energy.\n\nHave you been affected by the cost of living crisis? How will these payments help you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Virginia Crosbie, pictured at a constituency surgery at a hotel in Valley, said she was aware of other colleagues who avoid face-to-face surgeries for security reasons\n\nA Welsh Conservative MP has said she wears a stab-proof jacket when meeting constituents.\n\nVirginia Crosbie, who represents Ynys Mon, said she started wearing the protective garment after the murder of her colleague Sir David Amess in 2021.\n\nSir David was stabbed multiple times at a surgery in his Southend West constituency in Essex.\n\nMs Crosbie, who was first elected in December 2019, has spoken before about the threats and abuse she has received.\n\nIn April, another Conservative MP, Mike Freer, told The Times that he and his staff had started wearing stab vests and carrying panic alarms.\n\nAs well as the murder of Sir David Amess, Ali Harbi Ali was also convicted of preparing attacks on Mr Freer and Michael Gove.\n\nThe UK Parliament said security arrangements are kept under continuous review.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The safety of MPs is very important.\n\n\"There is a great deal of work that goes on both across government and with the parliamentary authorities on this.\n\n\"The government - mainly the Home Office - will take every appropriate measure to ensure the safety of MPs.\"\n\nMs Crosbie, who was elected in 2019, told BBC Wales that, like other MPs, she doesn't feel safe.\n\nThe MP previously told BBC Wales that a death threat was sent to her constituency office in Holyhead last year.\n\nShe said she was aware of other colleagues who avoid face-to-face surgeries for security reasons.\n\nBut she said: \"I'm really keen to go out and about meeting my constituents, having face-to-face surgeries and listening to their concerns and their problems and that's the best way that I can help them.\n\n\"I don't want to have to wear a stab jacket, and I don't want to have to have police protection, and I don't want to have to tell the police where I am every moment but the reality is, if I'm going to keep safe I need to take precautions.\n\n\"After the tragic death of Sir David Amess, which was in October 2021, and the senseless murder of Jo Cox, we've lost two MPs in in seven years - I think it really is important that we're aware of the situation, that I do everything that I can to ensure that I can do my job safely.\"\n\nSir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October 2021\n\nAli Harbi Ali was convicted last April of the murder of Sir David Amess.\n\nAli, a fanatic for the group calling itself Islamic State (IS), had decided to attack Sir David after a search on Twitter showed he was due to hold a constituency surgery. The attack came five years after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nConservative MP James Sunderland told the Times that it was a question of \"when, not if\" an attack on an MP happens again.\n\nMr Sunderland, who said he was the last MP to see Sir David, said: \"What we have to do is do everything in our power to prepare us for those situations.\"\n\nA UK Parliament spokesperson said: \"The ability for members and members' staff to perform their parliamentary duties safely both on and off the estate is fundamental to our democracy.\n\n\"We work closely with the Met's parliamentary liaison and investigations team (PLaIT), and through them, local police forces, who are responsible for the security of MPs and their staff away from the Parliamentary Estate, to ensure MPs are kept as safe as possible and are able to perform their duties.\n\n\"We cannot comment on MPs' security arrangements or advice because we would not wish to compromise the safety of MPs, parliamentary staff or members of the public, but these are kept under continuous review.\"", "Family members of American football star Damar Hamlin say they are \"deeply moved\" by fan support after the player suffered a cardiac arrest during a primetime US National Football League game.\n\nThe Buffalo Bills player remains in critical condition after spending the night in a hospital intensive care unit, according to his team.\n\nHamlin collapsed after colliding with an opponent during the Monday match.\n\nFans have rallied behind the player.\n\nThe collision happened during the first quarter of the NFL game and Hamlin received on-field medical attention for more than 30 minutes before being taken to a local hospital. His team later confirmed the player had suffered a cardiac arrest and said that his heartbeat was restored on the field on Monday.\n\nThe NFL, which suspended the game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals for the night, announced on Tuesday its commissioner, Roger Goodell, had spoken with both teams and informed them that the game would not resume this week.\n\nThe NFL has made \"no decision\" on whether the game will resume at a later date, the league said.\n\nIn their first remarks since the incident, Hamlin's family said they wanted to share their \"sincere gratitude for the love and support\" from fans, including through donations to a toy drive he had launched, according to the statement shared by the NFL on Tuesday.\n\n\"Your generosity and compassion mean the world to us,\" they said.\n\nThe NFL Players Association - a labour union representing the athletes - said that they were focused on \"the health of our brother, Damar Hamlin\", adding that they would ensure both Bills and Bengals players receive support during this time.\n\nThe on-field emergency sparked an outpouring of support for Hamlin and brought attention back to the dangerous nature of America's most popular sport as the NFL season approaches its climactic play-off stages.\n\nHamlin was tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins in the stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, when Higgins' helmet appeared to hit Hamlin in the chest. After initially getting to his feet, he fell on his back.\n\nPlayers from both teams gathered around Hamlin as emergency medical staff gave CPR and oxygen. Several were seen visibly distressed, with many kneeling to pray and some in tears.\n\nTelevision coverage repeatedly broke away from the scene on the field, while the crowd in Cincinnati remained silent during the ordeal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNFL games are rarely suspended because of injury. Commentators said the fact that gameplay had stalled was a sign of the shocking and severe nature of the emergency.\n\nThe two teams are among the top Super Bowl contenders this year, with their head-to-head coming in the primetime Monday night slot in the penultimate week of the NFL's regular season.\n\nHamlin, a native of McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, was drafted from the University of Pittsburgh by the Bills in 2021.\n\nHe has drawn praise for hosting annual Christmas toy drives in his hometown since before he was a paid athlete.\n\nAn online GoFundMe page for the toy drive was reshared after Hamlin collapsed on Monday and has raised over $4m (£3.3m).\n\nThe safety of American football has been much debated in recent years but usually over concussion rather than cardiac risks.\n\nMany former NFL players have the the degenerative brain condition CTE which research has linked to repeated hits to the head.\n\nThe game was suspended in the first quarter\n\nBlunt trauma is common in contact sports, but it's rare that it causes heart issues like this.\n\nA direct hit to the chest can result in cardiac arrest. That's when the heart stops beating properly and is unable to do its job of pumping blood around the body.\n\nIt's different to a heart attack, which happens when blood supply to the heart muscle is cut off.\n\nIn Hamlin's case, medics were able to quickly get his heart beating again. It's not yet known what internal injuries he may have sustained from the incident and whether there has been any significant damage to his heart.\n\nGood wishes for the stricken player have poured in and buildings across Cincinnati were lit up in blue on Monday evening, including Paycor Stadium where the incident occurred.\n\nBasketball star LeBron James said: \"It was a terrible thing to see and I wish nothing but the best for that kid.\"\n\nBruce Sharpe, a Bills fan who was in the stadium when it happened, said it was \"devastating\".\n\n\"Everything got dead silent,\" he said. \"We're just praying that everything's okay.\"", "Part of the Twyn Hywel energy farm would be on hills above Llanbradach in Caerphilly county\n\nA major wind farm plan touted as a key part of Wales' transition to green energy must deliver local benefits, campaigners have said.\n\nBute Energy wants to build about 14 turbines on hills above Senghenydd and Llanbradach in Caerphilly and Cilfynydd and Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nIt could power the equivalent of 81,000 houses a year from 2025.\n\nBut people in the nearby communities said the turbines would be too close to homes.\n\n\"If we can see and hear [the wind turbines] and if our wildlife and biodiversity is affected, we should at least benefit,\" said Pontypridd councillor Dawn Wood.\n\nBute Energy said it had already reduced the number of planned turbines, each 200m (656ft) high, in response to concerns.\n\nIt said the wind farm would help build a low-carbon, prosperous Wales, with most turbines within an area approved for wind farms in Welsh government plans for 2040.\n\nMs Wood, whose home overlooks a field where some of the turbines would be, said she was \"positive about alternative energy and wind farms\".\n\n\"Although the plans have been reduced as regards the number of turbines,\" she said, \"we are concerned about the height and how visible they will be\".\n\nPontypridd councillor Dawn Wood says the turbines should be owned by the communities they affect\n\n\"We accept that there are good arguments for exploring alternative energy,\" she added. \"But if our communities are affected by wind farms we feel they should be community owned.\"\n\nThe developer said it was talking about a community investment fund and supporting local economies .\n\nBute Energy's Aled Rowlands said: \"Society is facing three crises: climate, cost of living and rebuilding the economy.\n\n\"Projects like this can help with all three,\" he said. \"But there are a number of other different benefits that could come to this community.\n\nAled Rowlands, external affairs director for Bute Energy, says the wind farm will create local jobs and a community investment fund\n\n\"We are talking partly about jobs, skills and investment,\" he said. \"On top of that we have a community benefit fund which is worth over £30m over the next 45 years going directly to communities around this plan.\"\n\nThe possibility of extra funding is important to local charities like Little Lounge, which supports children in their early years, and their families in Cilfynydd.\n\nKatie Hadley, from Little Lounge, said: \"I want to find out more about what [the wind farm] could offer us as a small community.\n\n\"I can understand that people will have questions about the development, because this is our village and we want to keep our beautiful surroundings.\n\nKatie Hadley, who runs a children's charity in Cilfynydd, says she is interested in what financial support the developer could offer\n\n\"Valleys people are very proud and very protective over our communities,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to weigh that up with looking at alternative energy resources for the future.\n\n\"We know of the problems with fossil fuels, so there has to be a compromise but we don't want to compromise our community so we need more information,\" she added.\n\nBute Energy said a survey would take place to avoid historic monuments.\n\nThe developer wants to build 14 wind turbines on high ground in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf counties\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"We need a range of technologies, at different scales, to meet our future electricity needs as we move towards a net-zero energy system. Wind and solar are cost-effective options to generate electricity and have a clear role to play.\n\n\"We want to ensure local communities and people in Wales directly benefit from energy generated in Wales. We are taking action to support local and shared ownership and developing strong, local supply chains.\"", "In England abortions are legal up to 24 weeks' gestation if carried out by a registered medical practitioner\n\nA man and a woman have been charged with illegally aborting a baby and concealing the birth of a child.\n\nElliot Benham from Wingfield, Swindon and Sophie Harvey, from St Mary's Road, Cirencester, were also charged with illegally disposing of a baby's body.\n\nLocations in Swindon and Cirencester were searched in September 2020 as part of the investigation.\n\nGloucestershire Police said the offences allegedly took place between 1 September 2018 and 1 December 2018.\n\nThe pair, who are both aged 23, were charged with:\n\nOfficers said Ms Harvey was separately charged with procuring her own miscarriage by poison/use of instrument, contrary to Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.\n\nIn England abortions are legal up to 24 weeks' gestation if carried out by a registered medical practitioner, and can be carried out after 24 weeks only in very limited circumstances.\n\nThe Offences Against the Person Act 1861 states it is a criminal offence to try to cause your own abortion.\n\nA police spokesperson said it was \"alleged in this case that the pregnancy was past 24 weeks and was not carried out by a registered medical practitioner\".\n\nThe man and the woman have been released on bail and are due to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils are preparing to return to lessons after the Christmas holidays.\n\nParents in England are being urged to keep children off school if they are unwell and have a fever, amid high levels of flu and Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe same applies for nurseries, according to advice from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).\n\nThe number of scarlet fever cases is also high, it warned.\n\nA head teachers' union welcomed the advice, issued as pupils prepare to return to lessons after the Christmas holidays.\n\nFlu and Covid cases are \"currently circulating at high levels and are likely to continue to increase in coming weeks\", the UKHSA said.\n\n\"High numbers of scarlet fever, which is caused by group A streptococcus, also continue to be reported.\"\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, its chief medical adviser, said: \"If your child is unwell and has a fever, they should stay home from school or nursery until they feel better and the fever has resolved.\"\n\nShe also stressed the importance of washing hands and catching coughs and sneezes in tissues.\n\nAdults should also stay at home when unwell and wear a face covering if they have to go out, she said. Those who are ill should avoid healthcare settings and vulnerable people unless urgent, she added.\n\nProf Hopkins said uptake of the flu vaccine remained low among young children, but it was still available for:\n\nMore than 1.4 million people in the UK, about one-in-45, were infected with Covid in the week ending 9 December, according to the latest official data.\n\nHospital admissions from flu in England were at their highest level since the winter of 2017-2018.\n\nHealth officials also say parents should be aware of strep A, an infection that can cause scarlet fever, after children in the UK died from it.\n\nAbsence rates across schools in England rose sharply at the start of December as more pupils missed class due to illness.\n\nThe proportion of children off sick rose to 7.5% in the week commencing 5 December - up from 6.1% the previous week and 2.6% at the start of the term.\n\nOverall absence rates up to that week surpassed the whole of the 2021 autumn term, when Omicron was taking hold.\n\nJames Bowen, director of policy for school leaders' union NAHT, said there \"does appear to be an unusually high level of illness around at the moment, even for this time of year\".\n\n\"Advice from government is welcome to give schools and parents clarity on when children should stay at home,\" he said.\n\n\"It is quite common for school policies to already state that children with a fever should remain at home, so this shouldn't represent a major departure from existing policies.\"", "Eva has suffered with severe acne for two years\n\nA 16-year-old beauty queen has said her TikTok account was shut down because her acne was branded as \"gruesome content\".\n\nEva, from Easingwold, North Yorkshire, said its decision had made her determined to challenge perceptions about the common skin condition.\n\n\"Just because you have blemishes on the outside, it doesn't mean you are not beautiful,\" said Eva.\n\nTikTok said it had reviewed the decision and reinstated the account.\n\nEva said she created the TikTok account to offer encouragement and advice to others because acne \"doesn't define who you are\".\n\nHowever, her initial account was deleted with no warning as it had failed to meet the company's guidelines.\n\n\"It didn't fit them because of my skin, because it was gruesome content,\" the reigning Miss Teen Galaxy York told BBC Radio York.\n\nThe teenager said she wrote an email to the company, and did not let the situation discourage her.\n\n\"I didn't let it bring me down and I created the account again the next day and made it even better.\"\n\nIn a statement, TikTok said it was driven to provide a \"platform for creative authentic self-expression\".\n\n\"We are open about the fact that we don't get every moderation decision right and have reinstated Eva's account,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We hope Eva continues to use TikTok to offer encouragement and advice to others, and to share her story.\"\n\nEva has won several beauty pageants and said her acne had never been an issue\n\nEva said she had suffered from acne for more than two years.\n\n\"I used to have really cystic acne all over my face, it went from my cheeks down to my chin.\n\n\"It was really bumpy and it was really hard to cover up.\"\n\nShe said initially it had got her down and she did not want to leave the house.\n\nMedical treatment has helped and Eva said that had prompted her to share her journey.\n\n\"My aim is for people to be aware that non-clear skin is normal.\n\n\"Just because you have blemishes on the outside it doesn't mean you are not beautiful.\"\n\nEva is currently Miss Teen Galaxy York and is due to compete in the national finals in March. She also won the UK Junior Miss competition, holding the title until July 2022.\n\nShe said her acne had never been an issue within the pageant world, which she said was very inclusive.\n\n\"No-one really says anything in pageants because they all accept you for who you are not what you look like,\" she said.\n\nThe sixth-former is due to compete in the national Miss Teen Galaxy finals in March\n\nEva's older sister Olivia had competed in pageants and initially she had no intention of following in her footsteps.\n\nEva said: \"I was the girl who never wanted to do a pageant, but then I saw how much she grew in pageants and what friendships she made and what she was doing for her causes and I was like 'I think I should really give that a go'.\"\n\nShe said pageants were more about contestants' charity work than their looks. Eva fundraises for Mind and cancer charities.\n\nIf she is successful in March, she will compete at an international level in the US.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Why do we get acne- - BBC Future", "A man was fatally assaulted at an adult care centre in Lansbury Drive\n\nA 44-year-old care facility resident has been arrested on suspicion of murdering another resident at the premises in west London.\n\nA 60-year-old man died at the centre for adults with mental health and drug abuse issues in Lansbury Drive, Hayes, shortly before midnight on Monday.\n\nEmergency crews attended but he died at the scene. His family has been informed and post-mortem tests will take place.\n\nDetectives from the Met's Specialist Crime Command are investigating.\n\nAnyone with information should call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The IRGC is estimated to have more than 190,000 active personnel\n\nThe UK is preparing to formally declare that Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organisation.\n\nThe legal change would mean it becomes a criminal offence in the UK to belong to the group or support its activities.\n\nWhitehall sources said no announcement was imminent and many details remained to be sorted out.\n\nBut they said it was \"broadly correct\" to say the government intended to proscribe the IRGC.\n\nThe proscription - first reported by the Daily Telegraph - would follow a similar decision made by the US in 2019.\n\nAnd it would mark a further hardening of the UK's position towards Iran after intelligence agencies said the country posed a direct threat, citing 10 plots against British or UK-based individuals over the last year.\n\nThere were reports last November of an Iranian hit squad targeting British-Iranian journalists in London.\n\nThe IRGC last week arrested seven people with links to the UK in relation to anti-government protests that have been sweeping through Iran in recent months.\n\nProscribing an organisation is a formal legal process carried out under the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nThe government has to assess not just the scale of a group's terrorist activities but also the specific threat it poses to the UK and British nationals overseas. It would make it an offence not just to belong to the organisation but also express support for its aims, meet its members or even display its flag or logo in public.\n\nAny decision by the UK to proscribe the IRGC would make it even harder to revive the ailing international talks designed to revive the deal curbing Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe IRGC was set up over 40 years ago to defend Iran's Islamic revolution and is now one of the most powerful paramilitary organisations in the Middle East. It has huge military, political and economic force, using its vast funds to support allied governments and militant groups across the region.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly announced last month that sanctions had been imposed on the IRGC in its entirety.\n\nBut there has been growing parliamentary pressure for the government to go further. The Foreign Affairs Committee issued a report later in the month calling for the group to be proscribed as well.\n\nDuring last summer's Conservative leadership contest - won by Liz Truss - Rishi Sunak said there was \"a case for proscribing the IRGC\". He has not commented on his views since becoming prime minister.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Whilst the government keeps the list of proscribed organisations under review, we do not comment on whether a specific organisation is or is not being considered for proscription.\"", "Paul Swinney says people will always want to be in offices - notwithstanding pandemics or strikes Image caption: Paul Swinney says people will always want to be in offices - notwithstanding pandemics or strikes\n\nRail walkouts may cause a fall in the number of people travelling into cities for their jobs on a strike day. But will they have a longer-term impact as well, given that people are more accustomed to home-working after the Covid pandemic struck?\n\nNot according to one think tank.\n\nAnalysis of passenger data in the capital suggests there has been a \"sustained increase\" in the number of people returning post-Covid, says Paul Swinney, the director of policy and research at the London-based Centre for Cities.\n\nEach strike day causes a \"drop-off\" in that number, but that tends to be a blip, he says.\n\nSwinney says very recent data for other regional centres is not yet available - but previous figures indicate the return to offices witnessed in places like Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds had been \"even stronger than what's been seen in London\".\n\nHe therefore \"wouldn't be surprised\" if there is a continuation of a general nationwide trend of workers returning to offices, despite the strikes.\n\nAs for why - Swinney explains that there are a few \"pull factors\" which encapsulate the idea that \"face-to-face interaction is important\".\n\nHe says the sharing of ideas, the greater ease of transferring knowledge and employees' desire to have influence over decision-making are among the advantages that office-based working has over home-based working.\n\n\"There's a reason people want to come in\", Swinney says. And for many people, \"there isn't really any choice\" other than to use the train.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInvestigators are still trying to work out what caused a deadly mid-air collision between two helicopters on Australia's Gold Coast, officials say.\n\nA British couple and two Australians died in the crash on Monday near the Sea World resort in Queensland.\n\nThree others - including two children - were seriously injured in the crash.\n\nOfficials say it happened less than 20 seconds after one helicopter took off from a sandbar and collided with another aircraft that was landing.\n\n\"What we do need to know now is what was occurring inside those two cockpits at the time,\" air safety commissioner Angus Mitchell said.\n\nAll those killed and critically injured were in the ascending helicopter, which crashed within seconds after its main rotor blade struck the cockpit of the other aircraft.\n\nThe second helicopter landed upright on the sandbank. Five of the six people on board suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe landing was a \"remarkable achievement\" given the helicopter was damaged \"where the pilot was sitting\", Mr Mitchell said.\n\n\"We are very fortunate that we're not standing here with far more deaths,\" he told reporters on Tuesday.\n\nThe UK victims were Diane and Ron Hughes from Cheshire - aged 57 and 65 - who were married and had next of kin in Australia.\n\nAustralian media reported that 36-year-old Vanessa Tadros also died in the crash, and her 10-year-old son was among the survivors taken to hospital in a critical condition.\n\nThe fourth fatality was 40-year-old Ashley Jenkinson, an experienced Sea World Helicopters pilot who lived in the area. The Brisbane Times reported he was originally from England.\n\nA close friend of Mr Jenkinson's, Ritchie Gregg, told the BBC he was a \"gentle giant\" and a \"silent hero\".\n\n\"He was always out there helping the community - from the bushfires a few years ago to the flood waters last year,\" he said.\n\n\"What we did with the floods in NSW last year was definitely a highlight of my life. If it wasn't for him, a lot of people wouldn't have got the help that they got.\"\n\nNew South Wales was devastated by floods last year, particularly near Lismore.\n\nPolice said a woman aged 33 had been seriously injured but was stable in hospital, while her nine-year-old son remained in a critical condition. They and the boy of 10 were the only survivors from the crashed helicopter.\n\nBoth helicopters were operating tourist flights for Sea World - one of several popular theme parks on the Gold Coast. Its owner, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, has offered condolences and said Sea World Helicopters is an independent operator.\n\nIt's difficult to square how beautiful and serene that spot of The Broadwater on the Gold Coast is with that fact it is now a major crash scene. The water is clear, there are boats and jet skis all around.\n\nJust opposite is the sandbank where the helicopter crash happened. The wreckage of the choppers was removed earlier; authorities were finding it quite challenging before because of the tide. Now a couple of police boats remain with investigators scouring the area for more evidence. I've seen at least three divers going underwater to scan the sea bed.\n\nA stone's throw away is the Sea World theme park where people can be heard on the rides. One eyewitness said that as one of the helicopters was trying to land it hovered over the park and there was concern it would crash into crowds. This is peak holiday season and thousands are here with their children.\n\n\"If you know the Gold Coast you'd know Sea World helicopters,\" one local told me. They are a common attraction and many tourists fly on them on quick tours around the area.\n\nThere are still many questions the investigators are trying to answer - most crucially is why one chopper took off in such close proximity with another that was trying to land.\n\nThe ATSB says it will conduct interviews and meticulously scour the helicopters, scene, footage, and other evidence before speculating on what caused the crash. It called on eyewitnesses to come forward.\n\nPolice said boat operators had rushed to help after the crash at about 14:00 local time (04:00 GMT), including by giving CPR.\n\nAuthorities had faced challenges accessing the sandbank and later securing evidence amid tidal changes, officials said.\n\nThe ATSB's preliminary report is due in six to eight weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said the country had been left shocked by the \"terrible and tragic incident\".\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has said it is supporting the victims' families and will remain in contact with local authorities.", "France's version of the Oscars has announced it will ban anyone facing a potential prison sentence for sexual assault from its 2023 ceremony.\n\nThe César Awards - due to be held next month - said it was acting out of respect for any possible victims.\n\nIt means the ceremony will exclude French actor Sofiane Bennacer, who is under investigation for allegations of rape which he denies.\n\nThere had been fears of protests if Mr Bennacer attended.\n\nIt follows a backlash in 2020 when Roman Polanski, wanted in the US for statutory rape, won best director.\n\nThe César Academy, which distributes the awards, removed Mr Bennacer from the list of nominations in November, and said it was considering a rule change around eligibility.\n\nNow it has announced that anyone being investigated for violent crimes punishable by imprisonment - especially those of a sexual nature - will be barred from attending this year's ceremony on 25 February.\n\nThe rule also applies to anyone who has been convicted of such an offence.\n\nThe Academy will vote on whether to make a permanent change to eligibility criteria.\n\nSofiane Bennacer, pictured at the Cannes premiere of Les Amandiers, denies allegations of rape\n\n\"Out of respect for the victims... it has been decided not to highlight people who may have been implicated by the judiciary in acts of violence,\" it said in a statement, noting that this included \"presumed\" victims in cases under investigation.\n\nMr Bennacer, 25, had been nominated for his role in Les Amandiers - titled Forever Young abroad - before police launched an investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault.\n\nHe denied the accusations, and the film's director, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, said he was the victim of a \"media lynching\".\n\nHer sister, former French First Lady Carla Bruni, said the treatment of the actor undermined the presumption of innocence.\n\nThe Academy is facing an ongoing reckoning over accusations of sexual violence in the film industry.\n\nThe entire board resigned in 2020 after Mr Polanski was nominated for best director. When he won, there was significant outcry, with several actresses walking out of the ceremony.\n\nMr Polanski has been wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl since the 1970s. He admitted unlawful sex with a minor in 1977 and served six weeks in prison, but later fled the US over concern that a plea bargain deal would be scrapped.\n\nIn 2019 former model Valentine Monnier accused him of raping her in 1975. A lawyer for Mr Polanski said he disputed the allegation \"in the strongest terms\".", "Ministers are under mounting pressure to respond to \"intolerable and unsustainable\" pressure facing the NHS.\n\nSenior doctors described the NHS as on a knife edge, with some A&Es in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nLabour criticised the government's management of the health service, while the Liberal Democrats called for Parliament to be recalled early.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said he recognised staff were under \"tremendous pressure\".\n\nBut he said the government had offered more resources to the NHS and social care to help services cope.\n\nHospitals are experiencing soaring demand, which experts believe is in part driven by winter illnesses like flu and Covid.\n\nSome 13% of hospital beds in England are filled with people with Covid or flu, NHS England figures showed.\n\nIn some places, like Shropshire and Gloucestershire, people are being advised to only visit A&E in extreme circumstances.\n\nIn recent days, a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents suggesting they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said it was \"completely inexplicable\" that no government ministers had \"raised their head or shown their face to say exactly what they are doing to grip this crisis\".\n\nHe claimed the NHS was \"actively deterring\" people from going to A&E \"because they are overwhelmed\".\n\n\"And I think that's the sense of jeopardy which is frightening so many people across the country,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\n\"This is a national crisis and the country will never forgive the government if they refuse to recall Parliament.\"\n\nMPs are due back at Westminster next Monday following their Christmas break.\n\nProf Phil Banfield, chairman of the British Medical Association, which represents doctors, called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\".\n\nHe said the survival of Britain's health service was on a knife edge and claimed patients were needlessly dying because of a political choice.\n\nHe described the current situation in the NHS as \"intolerable and unsustainable\".\n\nNHS England chief strategy officer Chris Hopson urged caution when asked about people who may be dying as a result of issues in the health service.\n\nHe warned against \"jumping to conclusions about excess mortality rates and their cause without a really full and detailed look at the evidence\".\n\nAmid rising cases of flu, Covid and strep A, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued advice urging people to stay home if unwell, and wear a mask if they have to go out.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, the UKHSA's chief medical adviser, also asked parents to keep children off school if they are unwell and have a fever.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"NHS staff do an incredible job and we recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic.\n\n\"That's why we've backed the NHS and social care with up to £14.1bn additional funding over the next two years and this winter we have provided an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharge and free up beds.\n\n\"We also awarded a 9.3% pay rise to the lowest earners in the NHS last year.\n\n\"The health secretary and ministers have met with unions several times and have been clear their door remains open to further discuss how we can work together to improve the working lives of NHS staff.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "Flu and Covid have put \"massive pressure\" on the NHS and reducing backlogs caused by the pandemic will \"take time\", Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said.\n\nSpeaking amid mounting concern over hospital delays, he said the government was working on freeing up beds.\n\nHe said this would relieve pressure in A&Es and on ambulance services.\n\nIt comes as a woman who waited 25 hours to be seen at an emergency department told the BBC it was \"like a war movie\".\n\nMr Barclay said people with conditions like heart disease had been reluctant to come forward for support at times during the pandemic - and this was a major factor in the demands now being seen.\n\nHe acknowledged the NHS was facing huge challenges, but said the government was providing extra funding to help.\n\nThis includes a £500m winter fund that has been set up to help hospitals discharge patients who are medically fit to leave but cannot because of a lack of support available in the community.\n\nAnd he added: \"We are so focused on getting people out of hospital who do not need to be there.\"\n\nAnnette Fury, who spent 13 hours in an ambulance and another 12 waiting in A&E, described the scene at a hospital as like 'a war movie'\n\nDowning Street said the government had been \"up front\" with the public about the pressure the NHS would face.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman acknowledged that \"for a number of people seeking to access the NHS this winter it will be very difficult\".\n\nHe said the service was facing an \"unprecedented challenge\" but insisted the government was doing \"everything possible\" to ease pressure.\n\n\"I think we are confident we are providing the NHS with the funding it needs,\" he said, adding the NHS was already \"maximising its number of beds\" to free up capacity.\n\nIn recent days, a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents, suggesting they cannot function as usual because of extraordinary pressure.\n\nSenior doctors have described the NHS as on a knife edge, with some accident and emergency units in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nOne patient, Annette Fury, described the situation in A&E after she suffered a seizure from bacterial meningitis and was blue-lighted to a hospital in the West Midlands.\n\nOnce there, she spent 13 hours in an ambulance and then another 12 waiting in A&E.\n\n\"It was like a scene from a war movie,\" she told BBC News. \"There were people sitting on the floor, people on trollies everywhere. It was just horrendous.\"\n\nShe added she wanted to \"highlight to the government how dangerous the situation is\".\n\nShe said: \"What I would like to do is invite a government minister to come in - even for six hours - and to observe what goes on here,\" she said.\n\nThere have been sharp rises in the numbers of people in hospital with Covid and flu in recent weeks - about one in eight beds in England is now occupied by patients with these infections.\n\nLabour criticised the government's management of the health service, while the Liberal Democrats called for Parliament to be recalled early.\n\nMPs are due back at Westminster next Monday, following their Christmas break.\n\nProf Phil Banfield, who chairs the British Medical Association, which represents doctors, called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\".\n\nThe situation was \"intolerable and unsustainable\", he said, with the NHS's survival on a knife edge and patients needlessly dying because of a political choice.\n\nRichard Webber, of the College of Paramedics, said the current situation was the worst in his 30-year career.\n\nDelays were causing patients \"significant harm\", he said, with ambulance services now struggling to find available crews for cardiac arrests - the highest category of emergency call.\n\n\"I've never known anything like it,\" Mr Webber said.Meanwhile, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reiterated the importance of people wearing masks if they are ill and need to go out.\n\nThe UKHSA has also asked parents to keep children off school if they have a fever.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf reading this page but unable see the form, visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit a question or comment - or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location, with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A long term plan for health and social care is needed to ease pressure on the NHS, it's been claimed\n\nTough choices have to be made now to protect the NHS, a health leader in Wales has warned.\n\nDarren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said the NHS is on a knife-edge in terms of its ability to cope.\n\nA consultant for Wales' largest health board, which has declared a critical incident, said staff are forced to deal with overcrowding in the department.\n\nThe Welsh government called the situation in the NHS \"unprecedented\".\n\nMr Hughes, said the NHS was already struggling to cope, and the Christmas period had \"tipped it over the edge\".\n\n\"In the run-up to Christmas there were multiple hospitals across Wales, across all health boards pretty much who were at the very highest level of pressure having to postpone care and treatment for people who were really needing it.\"\n\nHe said this was down to staff on sick leave and annual leave, but also the impact of Covid and flu.\n\nMr Hughes said there was as staffing crisis in the hospital sector as well as the social care sector\n\nMr Hughes said politicians needed to commit to a long-term plan to put these things right.\n\n\"The NHS has been under pressure and under-funded for a significant period of time, we've got a political blame game happening between Cardiff and Westminster.\n\n\"What we are seeing across the UK, the NHS in Northern Ireland, in Wales, and in England, is pressures that simply cannot be coped with.\n\nHe said it was much more than just an investment in beds, but to develop the workforce so that there is the staff which \"we simply don't have at the moment\".\n\nNurses across Wales staged their first strike on 15 December 2022\n\n\"I've been saying this for so long: the NHS is in danger, and the government aren't doing enough, tough choices need to be made.\n\n\"The NHS in Wales is in a hugely difficult situation, there's a crisis in the NHS, and there's a crisis in social care - we're facing the toughest times we've seen.\"\n\nMr Hughes said a clear sustainable funding plan and a commitment from both the Welsh and UK governments for the service to be planned better were needed.\n\nWales' largest health board, Betsi Cadwaladr, which covers north Wales said all routine appointments for Tuesday would be postponed, and there would be long waits for emergency care.\n\nDr Phil Morgan, an A&E consultant at Ysbyty Gwynedd, described the situation as \"demoralising\".\n\n\"Certain things that would normally happen routinely are cancelled or postponed to make additional resource available for dealing with the situation that we have in the emergency department,\" he said.\n\n\"We know we can provide a better standard of care than we're delivering, but we're just forced to cope with the overcrowding and the congestion in the department.\n\n\"We don't want to be seeing patients in corridors. We don't want to be breaking bad news in cupboards... it's just the only thing we can do to keep the system going.\"\n\nHe said staff were \"tired\" from working at a \"high intensity\" but thanked patients for listening to their messaging after seeing a drop in the number of people turning up to A&E.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said its emergency departments were under extreme pressure and to only attend if absolutely necessary.\n\nHywel Dda health board said its hospitals continue to be extremely busy with many sick patients and a continuing high demand for emergency and urgent care.\n\nHealth boards across Wales, including Betsi Cadwaladr are asking people to only come to the emergency department if it is a life-threatening injury, due to an unprecedented demand\n\nAneurin Bevan health board said it was currently at red level (defined as extreme pressures) due to demand across all its sites and services.\n\nPowys health board said it had not declared critical incidents for its community hospitals, but it was supporting the wider system to respond to the current challenges.\n\nCardiff and Vale University health board said it was also facing \"significant and sustained pressure\" and asked the public to carefully consider which service they choose for their needs.\n\nOther hospitals, like Morriston in Swansea, have been asking people not to turn up to A&E unless it is a life-threatening injury or illness.\n\nKathy Cracknell called an ambulance for her 98-year-old mother-in-law, Jean Cracknell, due to a chest infection.\n\nShe said that after the ambulance took Jean to Wrexham Maleor hospital from her home in Mold, Flintshire, she was kept in overnight to be monitored.\n\n\"The nursing staff were happy for her to be discharged on New Years Eve. We talked to them at about nine or 10 in the morning and they said they were waiting for a doctor to come and discharge her.\n\n\"We went along at three in the afternoon for visiting time hoping that it had all been processed - only to be told that because of illness there were no doctors that were able to discharge patients so she had to spend an extra night in.\"\n\nCathy said her Mother-in-law got \"got shuffled around and felt very confused as during the night there was obviously a shortage of beds\"\n\nKathy said she phoned the hospital again the following morning at 10:00 GMT.\n\n\"We were told that they were happy with her condition and they wanted to discharge her, but there was still the shortage of doctors,\" she said.\n\n\"She was discharged at two that afternoon which is about 36 hours after she was ready for discharge.\"\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians in Wales said hospital staff were suffering \"moral injury\".\n\nDr Olwen Williams says every winter is difficult but this year is significantly harder\n\n\"The pressures on our staff are tremendous, not only are they themselves falling with influenza, vomiting bugs, and Covid, they also have to deal with the fact that there are a significant number of vacancies across both health and social care that are adding to these pressures of the illnesses that we are seeing as well.\"\n\nDr Williams works at Betsi Cadwaladr and said staff have been asked to volunteer to do extra shifts next week in order to cope with the internal emergency that has been called, but that staff were at \"breaking point\".\n\nRichard Stanton, a professor in virology at Cardiff University said it was \"very, very concerning\".\n\n\"When you hear the stories from people working in the NHS, when you look at the statistics around how long people are waiting for ambulances, how long ambulances are waiting to get people into A&E, how long people are waiting in A&E, all of these metrics I think are the worst that I can remember.\n\n\"So the situation in the NHS right now is very serious.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that in parts this was due to the spike in cases in respiratory viruses, in particular Covid and the flu, but there were other things that had tipped it over the edge.\n\nMr Stanton said to an extent it was a Covid hangover, but it was a conflation of multiple things\n\n\"What we have seen now for at least the last 10 to 12 years across the UK is an NHS that hasn't been funded or looked after properly, and as a result it has been run at risk for a long time now, before Covid.\n\n\"Right now the problem is Covid and other respiratory viruses, but this is something that has been building for many years now.\"\n\nMr Stanton added that if people had flu to try and manage it at home and medicate, and only go into hospital if it was an absolute emergency.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said the NHS was facing unprecedented demand this winter responding to both flu and Covid cases, and appropriate staffing decisions would be made to mitigate risks with a focus on life-saving care continuing to be provided.\n\nIn a statement, it said anyone with flu-like symptoms should stay away from hospital \"unless absolutely necessary,\" and asked people to use NHS 111 online website if they have a non-life-threatening condition.", "American motorsport legend and YouTube star Ken Block has died in a snowmobile accident in Utah at the age of 55.\n\nA competitive rally driver in series such as Rally America and Global Rallycross, he earned wide renown later in life for his \"Gymkhana\" video series on YouTube.\n\nThe 10-part series, in which he performed daring racing feats, earned him nearly two million subscribers.\n\nHoonigan Industries, another clothing company he owned, confirmed its founder's passing in a statement on Instagram on Monday.\n\n\"Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed.\"\n\nBlock was riding a snowmobile up a steep slope in Wasatch County, Utah, when the vehicle upended, landing on top of him, the local sheriff's office wrote on Facebook.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene from the injuries he sustained.\n\nThe news of his death emerged a day after US actor Jeremy Renner sustained serious injuries while using a snow plough to clear snow outside his home in Nevada.\n\nThe sheriff's office in Utah said that Block had been riding with a group but was alone when the crash occurred.\n\nA competitive rally driver since 2005, Block was Rally America's Rookie of the Year in his first season and went on to win rallycross medals at the X Games and podium finishes at the World Rallycross Championship.\n\nHe also competed in other actions sports, including motocross, skateboarding and snowboarding.\n\nBut Block found a second wind on YouTube, where millions watched him navigate dangerous tracks and obstacle courses in a range of vehicles.\n\nHe was featured twice on the BBC's Top Gear programme, as well as in four EA Sports racing video games.\n\nThe BBC apologised after Block and Top Gear host Matt LeBlanc performed doughnuts that created black tyre marks near the Cenotaph during a 2016 episode. The footage was never aired.\n\nThe American Rally Association said it was \"gutted\" at the news of Block's passing.\n\n\"He was a massive influence on everything he touched, including the global world of rallying,\" it said in a statement on Facebook.\n\nFellow racers also paid tribute to Block, with former British Formula One world champion Jenson Button calling him \"a talent that did so much for our sport\".\n\nBritish former rally driver Malcolm Wilson told BBC Radio 5 that Block was an \"infectious character\" who helped bring the sport of rally racing to a global audience, especially through his social media videos.\n\n\"What he did with cars, the stunts that he did were just truly amazing,\" Wilson said.\n\nNascar Xfinity Series driver Ryan Vargas said watching Block's videos \"shaped my personality and interest in cars\".\n\nBlock is survived by his wife, Lucy, and three children.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThousands of mourners queued through the night to pay respects to Brazil legend Pele, who is lying in state at the stadium of his former club Santos.\n\nPele's coffin is in the centre of the pitch at the Urbano Caldeira stadium in Sao Paulo, and fans have lined the streets to get into the ground.\n\nThere will be a procession through the streets of Santos from 12:00 GMT, before a private family burial.\n\nPele - a three-time World Cup winner - died at the age of 82 on 29 December.\n\nArguably the world's greatest ever footballer, he had been receiving treatment for colon cancer since 2021.\n\nBrazil's government declared three days of national mourning after his death, and the country's new president - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - will travel to Santos to pay his respects as the 24-hour vigil draws to a close.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino attended the memorial on Monday, and said: \"We're going to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele.\"\n• None Obituary: 'The best player in the history of football'\n\n'There will be no-one else like Pele' - fans pay tribute\n\nThousands of fans gathered on the streets as the hearse carrying Pele's coffin arrived at the stadium on Monday.\n\nFormer Brazil midfielder Ze Roberto and Pele's son Edinho helped carry the coffin, with floral wreaths sent by Brazil internationals Neymar and Vinicius Junior, and Real Madrid.\n\nThere were tears and applause, and some people fell to the ground in worship of the man who revolutionised football and made Brazil famous.\n\n\"I had the opportunity to see him playing in the stadium many times,\" Joao Paulo Machado, who lives in Santos, told BBC South America correspondent Katy Watson.\n\n\"He's the number one ambassador of this country in the world, in my opinion. If you travel abroad, the first thing people say is: 'You are from Pele's country.'\"\n\nFormer Santos FC president Marcelo Teixeira said Pele was a \"fantastic human being\".\n\nHe added: \"He had a generous heart, not just because he was the athlete of the century. He always looked after people in a really sincere, humble way.\"\n\nBeatrice woke up at six in the morning to travel with her husband from the city of Soracaba to Santos, and had been waiting for more than two hours in the queue.\n\n\"I'm determined to pay my final respects to him,\" the 56-year-old told the BBC.\n\nMarcela Buono, a Santos native who now lives in Miami, also returned to pay her respects.\n\n\"We grew up with him,\" she said. \"He used to go to the supermarket here every day. That was normal for us. He was always fantastic, giving autographs for the kids. He was an amazing person, an inspiration.\"\n\nWilson Genio queued with his 13-year-old son Miguel, carrying white roses and a Santos flag signed 'To the family Genio, your friend Pele'.\n\nThe Genios had travelled overnight with the hearse carrying Pele's body from Sao Paulo.\n\n'The whole city is drawn to the stadium'\n\nIt is baking hot - about 30 degrees in Santos - but it feels like the whole city is drawn to the heart of Vila Belmiro stadium, where Pele's coffin lies.\n\nA steady stream of mourners pass through the centre to pay their final respects - sometimes a smattering of applause breaks out as they pass his coffin. People from all over Brazil - and the outside world - have come. I spot a Mexican flag, a Dutch pin.\n\nThere are several news helicopters buzzing overhead. People are dressed in the striped black-and-white jerseys of Santos Football Club - Pele's team - or in Brazil's national team yellow jersey.\n\nPele's voice blasts over the stands in the stadium - his 2006 song Meu Legado (My Legacy) is playing on repeat.\n\nOutside the stadium, a queue of thousands snakes for kilometres across half a dozen city blocks.\n\nMen have taken off their shirts to wrap around their heads like bandanas. Others are fanning themselves with the tribute newspaper printed just for the day. Some have come prepared with hats, umbrellas and their tributes.\n\nSometimes a Mexican wave ripples through. There are occasional chants of 'Pele! Rei!' But mostly, the crowds are patient in the heat, waiting for their turn to say goodbye.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nCristiano Ronaldo says his work in Europe is done, but he had \"many opportunities\" from other clubs before joining Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr.\n\nHe joined Al Nassr as a free agent on Friday after leaving Manchester United following a controversial interview in which he criticised the club.\n\nThe Portugal captain, 37, said he had offers from clubs in Brazil, Australia, the United States and Portugal.\n\n\"I gave my word for this club,\" he said at his unveiling on Tuesday.\n\n\"I won everything, I played for the most important clubs in Europe and now it is a new challenge in Asia.\"\n\nRonaldo is reportedly set to receive the biggest football salary in history at more than £177m per year in a deal that runs until 2025.\n\n\"As nobody knows, I can say now I had many opportunities in Europe, many clubs in Brazil, Australia, the US, even in Portugal, many clubs tried to sign me,\" Ronaldo told reporters at his first media conference.\n\nThe five-time Ballon d'Or winner was greeted with applause and shouts of his trademark 'Siu' celebration as he spoke. He answered questions from a club official but took none from reporters.\n\nSpeaking about his contract with the nine-time Saudi Pro League champions, Ronaldo said: \"This contract is unique but I'm a unique player, so for me it's normal.\n\n\"I know the league is very competitive, I saw many games. I hope to play after [Wednesday] if the coach thinks there's a chance. I'm ready to keep playing football.\"\n\nAl Nassr head coach Rudi Garcia said signing Ronaldo was \"fantastic\" for Saudi Arabia.\n\n\"In my life, I've seen that great players like Cristiano are the simplest to manage, because there's nothing I can teach him,\" the Frenchman said.\n\n\"My goal, my objective for Cristiano is to make him happy. I want him to enjoy playing with Al Nassr and winning with Al Nassr.\"\n\nFollowing the media conference he posed in his new Al Nassr kit on the club's pitch in front of thousands of fans.\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None The girls paying for their parents' sins: Watch Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on BBC iPlayer now", "Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said mistakes were made on all sides in the way Brexit was negotiated.\n\nMr Varadkar said he would be \"flexible and reasonable\" when attempting to solve issues with the Northern Ireland protocol.\n\nHe admitted that \"perhaps\" the treaty was a \"little bit too strict\" and that the European Union was willing to make compromises.\n\nMr Varadkar became PM, or taoiseach, for the second time last month.\n\nThe Fine Gael leader has been unpopular with some unionists who see him as instrumental in the creation of the contentious protocol.\n\nAsked about this, he said: \"I'm sure we've all made mistakes in the handling of Brexit.\n\n\"There was no road map, no manual, it wasn't something that we expected would happen and we've all done our best to deal with it.\"\n\nHe said he was looking forward to travelling to Northern Ireland early in the new year \"in an effort to find a solution\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland protocol has been a source of tension since it came into force at the start of 2021.\n\nThe protocol is a part of the Brexit deal that keeps Northern Ireland aligned with some European Union trade rules.\n\nPower-sharing in Northern Ireland is currently in a state of flux as a result of a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) boycott of Stormont in protest over the protocol.\n\nThe DUP has said it would not return to devolved government unless radical changes are made to trading agreements.\n\nThe UK and EU remain in negotiations to reduce the impact of the deal.\n\nMr Varadkar said he understood that some unionists feel the treaty \"creates barriers between Britain and Northern Ireland that didn't exist before\".\n\nHowever, he said this was also true of Brexit which was imposed without cross-community consent.\n\nMr Varadkar said the protocol had worked without being fully enforced which is \"why I think there's room for flexibility and room for changes\".\n\nHe said this was also the position of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and vice-president Maros Sefcovic.", "Eleanor Williams has been convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nA woman who falsely claimed she had been raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice.\n\nEleanor Williams, 22, of Barrow-in-Furness, was found guilty of eight counts at Preston Crown Court.\n\nShe posted photos on social media in May 2020 of injuries she said were from being beaten but the jury heard she inflicted the wounds on herself.\n\nOne man told the court the false accusations had \"ruined\" his life.\n\nHer Facebook post was shared more than 100,000 times and sparked demonstrations in her home town, however, the court heard this was a \"finale\" to her story and she had injured herself with a claw hammer.\n\nShe pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to one count of perverting the course of justice, which related to contacting her sister and mother with requests for them to take a hammer to her solicitor.\n\nThe photos of her injuries went viral on social media\n\nJonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, said Williams had gone online to \"effectively find random names\" to present as either victims or perpetrators of trafficking.\n\nSome of the people she made allegations about were real while others did not exist, the jury heard.\n\nShe had sent some messages to herself, and in other cases manipulated real people in to sending messages she then claimed were from abusers.\n\nA Snapchat account Williams claimed belonged to an Asian trafficker called Shaggy Wood was found to be the account of a young white Essex man called Liam Wood.\n\nMr Wood worked in Tesco and had believed Williams was a friend from Portsmouth who was planning to visit him.\n\nAnother Snapchat account of an alleged abuser was created at her mother's address, police found.\n\nThe court heard she fabricated text messages from her so-called abusers\n\nWilliams had falsely claimed business owner Mohammad Ramzan had groomed her since the age of 12.\n\nWhile under cross-examination, Mr Ramzan asked defence counsel Louise Blackwell KC: \"Don't you think you have put my life through enough hell, or your client has?\"\n\nWilliams said Mr Ramzan had made her work in brothels in Amsterdam and sold her at an auction there.\n\nHowever the court heard that at the time, his bank card was being used in a Barrow B&Q.\n\nAnother man falsely accused of rape, Jordan Trengove, told the court the allegations had \"ruined\" his life.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Local military commander's wife Yekaterina Kolotovkina was among mourners in the centre of Samara\n\nThe deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers in a new year missile strike on a building in occupied eastern Ukraine have prompted recriminations among critics of the Russian military.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has so far conceded that 89 people were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka at around midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nOne commander's wife accused the West of trying to destroy Russia.\n\nBut elsewhere military leaders were accused of incompetence.\n\nUkraine says as many as 400 people were killed or wounded at Makiivka, and numbers into the hundreds have been given by Russian nationalists on social media.\n\nHowever, there is no way of verifying how many soldiers were killed when US-made Himars missiles hit a vocational college packed with conscripts. Ammunition was also being stored close to the site, which was reduced to rubble.\n\nWhatever the number, this is the highest number of deaths acknowledged by Russia since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.\n\nRallies were held in several cities in Russia's south-western region of Samara, where governor Dmitry Azarov said many of the conscripts had lived.\n\nThe biggest commemoration took place in the city of Samara itself, with at least 200 people taking part. Other official events were held in the industrial city of Tolyatti and in Syzran and Novokuybyshevsk.\n\nNo criticism was reported at the Samara rally, where the main remarks came from Yekaterina Kolotovkina, who said \"neither we nor our husbands wanted war; the entire West united against us to eliminate us and our children\".\n\nHers was very much an official voice as her husband, Lt Gen Andrei Kolotovkin, commands the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army based in Samara.\n\nThe commander's wife's remarks prompted anger on social media with independent journalist Dmitry Kolezev pointing out that her husband did not die in Makiivka.\n\n\"Could we have at least some evidence?\" he asked, in response to her claim that the West intended to kill Samara's children. Another blogger condemned her comments as a \"pack of lies\".\n\nThe governor of Samara met defence ministry officials in Moscow on Tuesday and was expected to visit some of the wounded in hospital in the city of Rostov-on-Don the next day.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has so far said nothing about the attack, but did sign a decree on Tuesday for families of National Guard soldiers killed in service to be paid 5m roubles (£57,000; $69,000).\n\nThe building housing the conscripts was all but flattened in the Ukrainian attack\n\nThe soldiers sent to Makiivka were among an estimated 300,000 men signed up by Russia's military as part of the president's \"partial mobilisation\" announced last September in the face of a string of setbacks in Ukraine.\n\nA number of voices have been highly critical of the military in the aftermath of the attack on Makiivka, a city adjacent to the main city of Donetsk and some distance from the front line.\n\nPavel Gubarev, a former leading official in Russia's proxy authority in Donetsk, condemned the decision to place a large number of soldiers in one building as \"criminal negligence\".\n\nSuch mistakes were being made early in the war, he complained, and even if the conscripts did not realise the risk, the authorities should have.\n\n\"If no-one is punished for this, then it'll only get worse,\" he warned.\n\nOne theory promoted by local security officials was that Ukrainian forces had been able to detect the use of Russian mobile phones by servicemen arriving at the vocational college on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe deputy speaker of Moscow's local parliament, Andrei Medvedev, said it was predictable that the soldiers would be blamed - instead of the commander who made the original decision to position so many soldiers in one place.\n\n\"History will certainly preserve the names of those who tried to keep silent about the trouble, and those who tried to blame the dead soldier for everything,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's armed forces said they killed or wounded 500 Russian troops in another attack on New Year's Eve, on a village in the occupied southern region of Kherson.\n\nThere was no independent verification of the attack at Chulakivka, some 20km south of the River Dnipro.\n\nRussian forces retreated across the Dnipro in November and Ukrainian officials have posted video of a flag being hoisted on an island between the eastern and western banks of the river.\n\nUkraine's southern military command has warned that it is too early to talk of Velykyi Potomkin island being completely liberated.\n\nCommander in chief Valerii Zaluzhny said on Monday that Ukraine had liberated 40% of the territories seized by Russia since last February, and 28% of all territories occupied by Russia since 2014.", "A pioneering NHS trial has begun to assess whether proton beam therapy can help certain breast cancer patients.\n\nThe study, which is a world-first, will compare the hi-tech treatment with standard radiotherapy for those deemed at higher risk of long-term heart problems.\n\nThe treatment uses charged particles instead of X-rays to target tumours more precisely.\n\nThe trial will include 192 people across 22 UK sites.\n\nEvery year some 30,000 breast cancer patients in the UK are offered radiotherapy following surgery.\n\nTypically, the treatment is effective but for some it can lead to heart problems later down the line.\n\nThis is because the breast tissue and lymph nodes being targeted are close to the heart, or because the patient already has an underlying increased risk of heart problems.\n\nIt is hoped that using the proton beam treatment will minimise the amount of radiation delivered to the heart during traditional treatment, while still targeting the cancerous cells.\n\nOnly those who are estimated to have at least 2% or more potential lifetime risk of heart issues caused by radiotherapy will take part in the trial.\n\nScientists will measure the dose of radiation delivered to the heart and patients will record their experience.\n\nKim Jones, a 44-year-old school caterer from Ely, was diagnosed with breast cancer in February last year.\n\nShe had chemotherapy and a mastectomy, along with lymph node removal.\n\nMrs Jones was one of the first patients included in the trial, with her therapy beginning on 24 October.\n\nThe mum-of-two said she was told she might be suitable as she already had an issue with her heart.\n\n\"When I was told that I'd been accepted onto the trial, I felt very lucky to have the opportunity to get this treatment,\" Mrs Jones continued.\n\n\"Clinical trials are incredibly important as they are the best way to evaluate which treatments work the best.\"\n\nShe added her experience of being treated with proton beam therapy had been superb, and that the facilities had been \"bright and spacious and feels very relaxing\".\n\nAlmost 200 patients will take part in the trial, which is being led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the Institute of Cancer Research, London and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nPatients will be treated at either the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, or University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nDr Anna Kirby, radiotherapy lead for the trial, said that it had been a huge effort to secure funding for and launch the trial.\n\nShe continued: \"We have already learned a huge amount about how to optimise and standardise current breast cancer radiotherapy practices alongside optimising proton beam therapy approaches.\n\n\"We hope that the Parable trial will help us to further personalise radiotherapy treatments and ensure that people can access the radiotherapy approach that is best for them, regardless of where they live.\"", "This was the scene just before the new year as Adelboden prepared to host the Alpine Skiing World Cup on 6 January\n\nThey have been holding their breath in the Swiss resort of Adelboden, as New Year temperatures in Switzerland hit a record 20C - the highest ever north of the Alps in January.\n\nMany wondered if next weekend's ski World Cup would go ahead, as the usual snowy slopes were mud and grass.\n\nEven at 2,000m (6,500ft), the temperature was above freezing.\n\nIn the end, the famous Chuenisbärgli piste has been approved for use for the big slalom events.\n\nIt took the help of an army of snow cannon, as well as a slight drop in temperature at the top of the run. But when the world's top men's skiers hurtle across the finish line, they will be on artificial snow.\n\nAcross the Alps, the unseasonably warm wet weather has put a real damper on the start of the ski season.\n\nThe word for it here is Schneemangel or snow shortage. There's a phrase for when the snow is plentiful too - das weisse Gold - white gold. It's a reflection of how many alpine communities depend on winter sports for their livelihoods.\n\nSkiers at this resort in Seefeld in western Austria are urged to stick to the slope\n\nThis January, they are having to rethink.\n\nIn Austria, the resorts around Salzburg last had snow a month ago. In Chamonix in France, the snow cannon are idle because the water to fuel them is in short supply.\n\nIn Switzerland, some resorts have even opened their summer biking trails rather than try to offer winter sports. Others have simply shut down their ski lifts indefinitely.\n\nClimate experts suggest we should not be surprised by this January weather. Global warming, they have long warned, will cause warmer, wetter winters. But as with the shrinking of the Alpine glaciers, the rate at which ski resorts become unviable seems to be accelerating.\n\nJust a few years ago, Swiss resorts were warned that skiing below 1,000m was, over time, likely to become impossible as global temperatures rose. But this week, the resort of Splügen, at 1,500m considered \"snow safe\", shut down until further notice.\n\nThese Swiss snowboarders are having to deal with far less of the white stuff than they would like\n\nHacher Bernet, the director of Splügen's ski lifts, graphically showed Swiss journalists why he had taken such a difficult decision.\n\nPicking up a lump of snow from the slope, he held it out: not fluffy white powder, but a lump of dripping slush.\n\n\"It's really too wet, like in spring. For skiing, the snow needs to hold together - there's just too much water in this, it's impossible.\"\n\nThe highest resorts are staying open for now, but with the help of more and more snow cannon pumping out artificial snow.\n\nThat uses up vast amounts of water, which is not ideal when Switzerland has been carefully preserving water this winter in order to be able to generate enough hydropower to replace gas power shortages caused by the war in Ukraine.\n\nIn the long term, a new study by the University of Basel warns that higher resorts will have to rely increasingly on artificial snow to survive, raising their water consumption by up to 80%. This could cause conflict between the winter sports industry and local communities, whose energy comes from hydropower.\n\nThe study also predicts a huge increase in the cost of skiing, as resorts switch to ever more expensive and artificial ways to preserve their slopes. By the end of the century, it is feared that skiing, if it is still a sport at all, will be confined to the very rich.\n\nAs a result, anxiety is mounting across the Alps. After two years of reduced income because of the pandemic, winter resorts have been banking on a return to normal.\n\nIn February and March, schools in Europe break up for the winter \"ski week\". Tens of thousands of families will head to the mountains expecting to ski. Snow needs to come, soon.\n\nBut for now, the weather forecast remains warm and wet.", "Thor is believed to be aged between three and five years old\n\nA walrus who attracted huge crowds in Scarborough and saw the town's new year fireworks cancelled has left his latest stopping point of Blyth.\n\nThe animal, dubbed Thor, arrived in the Northumberland harbour at about midday on Monday where he rested on a pontoon.\n\nThe British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDLMR) kept watch overnight and said he left Blyth at about 06:45 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nIt is hoped he will head north to his normal Arctic waters.\n\nThe animal's arrival on a slipway in Scarborough attracted thousands of spectators and led to the new year's celebration fireworks display being cancelled so as not to disturb him.\n\nThor arrived in Blyth at about midday on Monday\n\nThe walrus, which is believed to be aged between three and five years old and had earlier been spotted in Hampshire, left the Yorkshire town on Saturday night and was next seen more than 70 miles north at Blyth.\n\nThe BDLMR said he had hauled itself on to a pontoon in Blyth harbour where he rested during Monday afternoon and over night.\n\nDan Jarvis, BDLMR director of welfare and conservation, said the animal, which feeds chiefly on cockles, clams and mussels on the seafloor, appeared fit and healthy.\n\nHe said Thor was \"heading in the right direction\" and would \"hopefully\" continue his journey north.\n\n\"We might not see him again or he could pop up for a rest somewhere along the Scottish coast,\" Mr Jarvis said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Betsi Cadwaladr decided to postpone \"all but the most urgent\" appointments at its hospitals on Tuesday\n\nWales' largest health board has declared a \"critical incident\" as it faces \"unprecedented demand\".\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board covering north Wales said patients face long waits for emergency care due to flu and Covid cases.\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed at hospitals in north Wales on Tuesday in response.\n\nSeparately, Swansea Bay health board told patients not to go to A&E unless it is a life-threatening situation.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr's executive director of nursing, Angela Wood, said: \"This morning we have declared an internal critical incident as we are struggling to cope with prolonged, unprecedented demand across the health and social care system.\n\n\"We are currently seeing a very high volume of patients presenting at our hospitals with flu, Covid and other respiratory viruses, as well as in increase in the most seriously injured or unwell patients requiring emergency care.\n\n\"This, together with a lack of available beds in our hospitals and significant staffing shortages, is leading to extremely long waits for patients to be seen - particularly at our hospital emergency departments.\"\n\nThe nursing director said it was an \"exceptionally challenging time\" for staff across the health service.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr said it was contacting patients after deciding to postpone \"all but the most urgent\" appointments at its hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nPlanned appointments on Wednesday will still go ahead.\n\nHealth officials at Swansea's Morriston Hospital are asking patients to stay away from A&E\n\nOn Monday the Royal College of Emergency Medicine - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments - said the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record.\n\nIts vice-president Dr Ian Higginson said some of Britain's emergency departments were in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nWales' most senior doctor, Sir Frank Atherton, said on New Year's Eve all health boards were \"at the highest level of escalation\" and described the system as the busiest he had seen.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\nIn the week up to Christmas Day, family doctors in Wales diagnosed 1,877 cases of the influenza virus, with 369 people needing hospital care.\n\nMore than a third of calls to the NHS 111 helpline were flu related - with the Betsi Cadwaladr board warning that one in five acute beds were occupied by someone with the virus.\n\nThe Welsh government said the current situation across the NHS in Wales was \"unprecedented\".\n\nIn a statement, it said anyone with flu-like symptoms should stay away from hospital \"unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nIt asked people to use the NHS 111 online website if they have a non-life-threatening condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marc Wilkinson said although he has found the act of kindness stressful he is still glad he did it\n\nA takeaway owner who offered to give everyone in Edinburgh a free pizza says the experience has been \"very stressful\".\n\nMarc Wilkinson, 55, the owner of Pure Pizza in Morningside, started to panic when more people than he had expected started to turn up.\n\nHe now thinks that the month-long giveaway will cost him three times more than originally estimated.\n\nBut he said he was determined to see it through to the end of January.\n\nMr Wilkinson told BBC Scotland earlier this month that he wanted to carry out an act of kindness to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe said he had now given away thousands of pizzas to crowds of people who turn up every day as soon as he opens at 11:00.\n\nEmanuele Mascolo is one of the chefs at Pure Pizza\n\nHe said: \"At first it felt so exciting because everyone who was coming to the shop was saying what a great thing I was doing and it was a nice feeling, I felt like Santa.\n\n\"But as the days went on a lot more people were turning up than I thought there would be.\n\n\"I started to panic at the thought of this happening for the whole month and that I would run out of funds.\n\n\"I was dreading the moment of having to decide to put a stop to it.\"\n\nHe had budgeted to spend £12,000 on the initiative but estimated it was now going to cost three times as much.\n\nAfter a few days, he started receiving donations from well-wishers, including one local woman who turned up with a roll of notes which totalled £300.\n\nHe received hundreds of pounds from a businessman in India, as well as other smaller contributions - and donations of ingredients from suppliers. He has also started a JustGiving page.\n\nHe said: \"My brain was working overtime when I realised I might not be able to cope with this but it all changed when I started receiving donations.\n\n\"I realised that there were people all over the world willing to help me.\"\n\nMr Wilkinson said he was working in the shop 12 hours each day.\n\n\"It has been very stressful but I'm still glad I did it and I don't want to stop it,\" he said.\n\n\"My gift is out there in the psyche of Edinburgh and it seems a shame to cut it in its tracks.\"", "Staff across 150 UK universities will strike on 1 February, the University and College Union has announced.\n\nIt is the first of 18 strike days planned in February and March. The UCU said it would confirm the other 17 next week.\n\nA pay offer worth 4-5% made during talks with employers last week was insufficient, it said.\n\nBut the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association has said the offer is actually worth up to 7%.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady said staff would be walking out \"alongside fellow trade unions\".\n\nTeachers, civil servants and train drivers will also be striking that day.\n\nUniversity staff held three days of strikes in November. Some academic staff and those in other professional roles, including administrators, librarians and technicians, also walked out earlier in 2022 and in 2021.\n\nThis year's 3% pay increase is far below the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation, which currently stands at 14%.\n\nBut the dispute has also included calls to tackle \"excessive workloads\" resulting in hours of \"unpaid work\".\n\nAnd many staff members are protesting at the use of short-term insecure contracts.\n\nAt the universities that have existed since before 1992, there is also a separate dispute, about proposed changes to the pension scheme.\n\nNational strikes by teachers in England and Wales are scheduled for 1 February, 15 and 16 March. There are several regional dates too.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you a student who is affected by the industrial action? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "David Carrick is due to be sentenced for his offending in February\n\nA serial rapist who used his role as a Metropolitan Police officer to put fear into his victims has been sacked by the force.\n\nDavid Carrick, 48, admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women across two decades.\n\nThe Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised for failings and told BBC Breakfast opportunities to remove Carrick from policing were missed.\n\nCarrick was dismissed at a misconduct hearing on Tuesday morning.\n\nHywel Jenkins, counsel for the commissioner, told the Met panel that the offending was \"heinous, targeted and deliberate\" and the impact on victims and their families could be \"summed up in one word - catastrophic\".\n\nIn the chair for the hearing, the Met's Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said she was in no doubt Carrick's actions amounted to gross misconduct.\n\nShe said: \"Carrick's multiple convictions for multiple serious offences plainly discredits the police service and undermines public confidence in it.\"\n\nCarrick did not attend the hearing, did not respond to the disciplinary charges and did not have legal representation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Suella Braverman - More shocking cases may come to light in the short-term\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons after his formal dismissal, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said Carrick had carried out \"a monstrous campaign of abuse\".\n\n\"It is vital that the Metropolitan Police and other forces double down on their efforts to root out corrupt officers; this may mean more shocking cases come to light in the short-term,\" she said.\n\nThe home secretary said the case would now also be considered in the inquiry, chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini KC, which was set up to look into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens.\n\nBut Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper accused the government of failing to address \"appalling failures in the police vetting and misconduct processes\".\n\nCarrick served as an armed officer in London with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command and was suspended from duty when he was arrested in October 2021.\n\nHis crimes, which included 24 counts of rape, spanned 2003 to 2020 and most took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived.\n\nMeeting some of the women on dating websites, Carrick, from Stevenage, would control what they wore, what they ate, where they slept and he even stopped some of them from speaking to their own children.\n\nThe Met apologised after it emerged Carrick was brought to the attention of police over nine incidents including allegations of rape, domestic violence and harassment between 2000 and 2021.\n\nAt Tuesday's hearing, the assistant commissioner said the public reaction showed how his conduct had \"gravely undermined\" confidence in the police.\n\nMs Rolfe added that the case had caused public harm, particularly to women and girls who may be less likely to \"come forward and report they have been the victims of criminal offences.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We failed and let women down - Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley\n\nSir Mark told BBC Breakfast: \"What he's done to his victims is truly abhorrent. Their courage in coming forward is truly admirable. But we've let London down - he's been a police officer for 20 years.\n\n\"Through a combination of weak policies and weak decisions, over those 20 years we missed opportunities when he joined and subsequently, as behaviour came to the fore, we should have removed him from policing.\n\n\"Whether it would have affected him being a sex offender I don't know, but he shouldn't have been doing it as a police officer.\"\n\nHe agreed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was a \"spectacular failure\" by his force.\n\nThe Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.\n\nFormer Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, Vera Baird, who resigned from her post last year, said: \"The Metropolitan Police seem incapable of not employing - and furthermore retaining - some quite evil people.\"\n\nSpeaking in Commons earlier, the home secretary said: \"Yesterday was a dark day for British policing and the Metropolitan Police as an officer admitted being responsible for a monstrous campaign of abuse.\"\n\nShe said it was \"intolerable for [the victims] to have suffered as they have. They were manipulated and isolated and subjected to horrific abuse\".\n\n\"For anyone to have gone through such torment is harrowing, but for it to have happened at the hands of someone they entrusted to keep people safe is almost beyond comprehension,\" she added.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan it was \"unacceptable\" that \"there were various opportunities where the chance to get rid of [Carrick] and get justice were missed\".\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, he said: \"That is one of the things that Sir Mark Rowley is getting to the bottom of. The reality is there are so many cultural issues within the police service.\"\n\nMr Khan also said there would be efforts to strip Carrick of his police pension.\n\nGuidance from the Home Office states that up to 65% can be forfeited if a conviction was \"committed in connection with their service as a member of a police force\" and has been certified by the home secretary as \"liable to lead to a serious loss of confidence in the public service\" or \"gravely injurious to the interests of the state\".\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Rishi Sunak told a meeting of the cabinet \"the police must address the failings that happened in this case, restore public confidence, and do everything possible to ensure women and girls are safe in their communities and homes\".\n\nCarrick pleaded guilty to six offences at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, and had already admitted 43 others in December.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced in February.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Images of the apartment with its wall torn off and apples still in a fruit bowl were shared widely on social media\n\nImages of a bright, family kitchen in Ukraine, which was exposed to the world when a Russian missile strike tore off its external wall, have caused shock and sadness on social media.\n\nThe apartment was home to well known boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky, who was killed in Saturday's attack. His wife and children reportedly survived.\n\nA video of Korenovsky celebrating a recent birthday with his family in the same flat has also been published.\n\nThe victims included three children, with more than 30 people still unaccounted for on Monday evening.\n\nThe image is striking for the stark contrast between the normal and the abnormal; the everyday domesticity of the cosy kitchen is framed by the sudden and total devastation delivered by a Russian attack.\n\nThe modern-looking kitchen with bright yellow cupboards remained remarkably intact after the strike, despite the total destruction of its external wall.\n\nA bowl of apples sits on the table, dishes lie next to the sink waiting to be washed and oven gloves still hang neatly from a line of hooks.\n\n\"Here people cooked, had kitchen conversations, celebrated holidays, laughed, argued,\" Kyiv MP Zoya Yarosh wrote on Facebook.\n\nShe compared the destruction of the building to the fate of her country: \"These are the wounds on the body of Ukraine. Wounds on our homes.\"\n\nOn social media, many people highlighted the small details in the photograph, suggesting a family getting on with their life as best they could, despite the raging war.\n\n\"When I look at this kitchen all I see is the flat I grew up in, the flat my grandparents lived in, the flat my cousins lived in, because we all had two stools tucked under the kitchen table just like that,\" wrote Ukrainian Alina on Twitter.\n\nA video posted online shows a family celebrating a birthday in the same kitchen\n\nBefore the missile strike, the kitchen seems to have been at the centre of a happy family moment - a child's birthday party.\n\nIn a video published online and reposted by Ukraine's armed forces, a young girl smiles as she is presented with a huge birthday cake, and blows out her four candles. The same yellow cupboards are clearly visible, as are the oven gloves and television on the wall.\n\nThose in the video are believed to be Mykhailo Korenovsky's family, who reportedly survived the strike, while the boxing coach did not.\n\nIt is not clear when the video was filmed, but it is a stark reminder of how suddenly war can destroy lives.\n\n\"Perhaps it was him [Korenovsky] who bought those apples for his family, left standing on the table after the building collapsed,\" said BBC Russian journalist Liza Fokht. \"Or perhaps it was him who left a plate in the sink - there'll always be time to wash it later.\"\n\nThe strike on the building killed at least 40 people", "If a jury rules in favour of Tesla's shareholders, Mr Musk may be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages\n\nProspective jurors in a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk have a range of opinions of him, from \"smart, successful\" to \"off his rocker\".\n\nMr Musk, who is being sued by Tesla shareholders arguing he manipulated the firm's share price, has said he cannot get a fair trial in San Francisco.\n\nHe wanted the trial to take place in Texas - where he has moved Tesla's headquarters - but that was rejected.\n\nA jury has been selected, after jurors completed a pre-trial questionnaire.\n\nThe case centres on 2018 tweets, saying that he would take Tesla private. US regulators removed Mr Musk as Tesla chairman because of the posts.\n\nOn 7 August 2018, he tweeted that he had \"funding secured\" to take the carmaker private in what would be a $72bn (£58.7bn) buyout.\n\nIn a second tweet, Musk added that \"investor support is confirmed,\" and that the deal was only awaiting a vote by shareholders. No such deal went ahead.\n\n\"The claim is that the investors felt that they were defrauded by Musk's tweet, that he was considering taking Tesla private and critically, that he had funding secured for it,\" Robert Bartlett, law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told Reuters.\n\n\"That turned out not to be the case. So when the stock price rose after the news, they allegedly bought, and then it collapsed when the truth came out. They claimed that that was fraud.\"\n\nThe Tesla chief executive, however, argued that he believed he had secured funding from Saudi Arabia's Investment Fund, and did not commit securities fraud.\n\n\"I think he's a little off his rocker, on a personal level,\" one possible juror wrote on a questionnaire asking whether they could be impartial.\n\n\"I truly believe you can't judge a person until you walk in their shoes,\" said another possible juror, who added that Mr Musk seemed \"narcissistic\".\n\nAnother person said Mr Musk had a \"mercenary\" personality because he's \"willing to take risks… that's my image of him\".\n\nAnother called him a \"fast-rising business man\", while yet another said he was a \"smart, successful pioneer\".\n\n\"I think he is not a very likable person,\" said one person, according to Yahoo.\n\nWhen asked by the judge whether that meant she would not be impartial towards him, the woman responded: \"A lot of people are not necessarily likable people…. sometimes I don't like my husband.\"\n\nUltimately a jury of nine people was chosen, and opening arguments are set to begin on Wednesday.\n\nMr Musk argued that mass sackings at Twitter, a company he bought last year, affected many employees in the Californian city, and a fair trial couldn't take place there.\n\nHowever, on Friday the judge said the trial would go ahead in California.\n\nIf a San Francisco jury rules in the shareholders' favour, Mr Musk could be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages.\n\nHe has already paid $20m to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the tweet, while Tesla had to pay another $20m.\n\nHis tweet has become legendary in Silicon Valley, as it showed the sheer power that Twitter can have.\n\nLegal experts said they believe it will be a difficult case for Mr Musk to win, and that the fine he paid to the SEC will be used against him in the case. However, jury trials in cases of fraud are notoriously difficult to predict.\n\nThe case may see Mr Musk give evidence under oath. The witness list includes Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and media tycoon James Murdoch. It is expected to last around three weeks.", "A Challenger 2 tank being used during a military parade in the UK\n\nSending tanks and artillery guns to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort will leave the British Army weaker, its chief has said.\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders said that Ukraine would put British donations to \"good use\" in the fight with Russia, in an internal message sent to troops and seen by the BBC.\n\nBut he warned that it would also leave the British Army \"temporarily weaker\".\n\nThe UK has committed to sending 14 Challenger 2 tanks to the frontline.\n\nAround 30 AS90s - large, self-propelled guns - are also expected to be delivered.\n\nGen Sanders, head of the British Army, told troops that ensuring Russia's defeat in Ukraine \"makes us safer\".\n\nBut he said it was vital the Army's \"warfighting capability\" was restored at pace.\n\n\"There is no doubt that our choice will impact our ability to mobilise the army against the acute and enduring threat Russia presents and meet our Nato obligations,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace highlighted the need to reinvest in the military.\n\nHe told MPs his department was now considering whether the Army needed a larger tank fleet in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Wallace added he would \"also build on the Army's modernisation programme at pace, specifically on artillery\".\n\nGen Sanders' memo to the troops is as much a message to the Treasury to deliver on the government's pledge to modernise the Army.\n\nHe makes clear the Army is making sacrifices to help Ukraine win the war.\n\nAnd while he believes that it is worthwhile, it comes at a cost. So Gen Sanders wants to see the investment needed to rebuild it. In that goal he has the support of the defence secretary.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has pledged to spend £24bn on re-equipping the Army over the next decade. But much of that new kit - including upgraded tanks and new armoured vehicles - will not be fully operational until the early 2030s.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the decision to send the Challenger 2 tanks \"will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners\".\n\nBuilt in the late 1990s, the Challenger tank is more than 20 years old, but it will be the most modern tank at Ukraine's disposal\n\nWhile the donation alone is not considered a game-changer, it is hoped that the UK's move will inspire other countries to donate more modern equipment to help Ukraine.", "An artist's impression of how the Blyth factory may have looked\n\nUK battery start-up Britishvolt has collapsed into administration, with the majority of its 232 staff made redundant with immediate effect.\n\nEmployees were told the news at an all-staff meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe firm had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland.\n\nMinisters had hailed it as a \"levelling up\" opportunity that would boost the region's economy and support the future of UK car making.\n\nBut Britishvolt struggled to turn a profit and ran out of money. Its board is believed to have decided on Monday that there were no viable bids to keep the company afloat.\n\nPlans for the £3.8bn factory in Blyth were part of a long-term vision to boost UK manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries and create around 3,000 skilled jobs.\n\nThe project was championed by government ministers due to the area being one of the main so-called \"red wall\" seats to change hands from Labour to the Conservatives in the 2019 General Election.\n\nThe UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the European Union.\n\nIndustry experts have said the UK will need several battery factories to support the future of UK car making as pure petrol and diesel engines are phased out over the next decade.\n\nEY, who were appointed joint administrators, described the move as \"disappointing\", and said all impacted staff were being offered support.\n\nDan Hurd, joint administrator and partner at EY, said the firm had offered \"a significant opportunity to create jobs and employment, as well as support the development of technology and infrastructure needed to help with the UK's energy transition\".\n\nMr Hurd said the administrators would now explore options for a sale of the business and assets.\n\nAn existing shareholder added: \"It's madness, I have been offering a variety of possible solutions. Falls on deaf ears. It appears, to me, that management wants the company to go into administration. A real shame.\"\n\nAnother artist's impression of the planned factory\n\nBritishvolt had also planned to open a new battery development centre.\n\nThe ambitious, but financially troubled, start-up only narrowly avoided collapse at the end of last year after an emergency lifeline was extended by one of its investors, the commodity trading giant Glencore.\n\nLast year, Britishvolt asked the government to advance £30m of a promised £100m in support, but was refused as the company had not hit agreed construction milestones to access the funds.\n\nBut both industry and government sources remain confident that this plant will eventually be built - whoever ends up owning it.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said the government had \"remained hopeful\" that Britishvolt would find a suitable investor and was disappointed to hear it had not been possible\".\n\nIt said it would work with the local authority in the area and potential investors to \"ensure the best outcome for the site\".\n\nHowever, the Labour chairman of the Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee said the government needed to do more to support the UK's electric vehicle industry.\n\nDarren Jones told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme: \"There is a case to be made here in the UK for ministers and the government to be much more closely involved in delivering a successful battery manufacturing factory.\n\n\"If we want cars to continue to be made in the UK, we're going to have to build electric vehicle batteries here as well. So ministers needs to roll up their sleeves, not just write cheques.\"\n\nThe founders of Britishvolt were trying to create a £4bn facility, from scratch, without the backing of a major manufacturer.\n\nWhat they did have was a vision which they hoped could surf a wave of political support - and attract the necessary funding.\n\nThey looked first for a location in Wales, before settling on Cambois, in the Blyth Valley.\n\nThe site, formerly a power station, was good. It had a deep water port, good transport links and access to plentiful power. It also happened to be in a \"red wall\" constituency captured by the Conservatives in 2019.\n\nBut political support wasn't enough. Delays to construction meant £100m of public funding never materialised. With costs rising and no firm orders, the money ran out.\n\nThe question is, what happens next? Speak to pretty much anyone in the motor industry, and they'll tell you that without gigafactories, the long-term future for UK manufacturing looks bleak.\n\nSo the plant itself could still become a reality. But for that to happen significant investment will be needed.\n\nAnd any potential buyer will know that their chances of success will be much greater if they can get an established manufacturer on board.\n\nJim Holder, editorial director at What Car?, said that Britishvolt's factory would have taken years to build, \"yet the truth is we need at least five such facilities by the turn of the decade to remain a competitive country to build electric cars in\".\n\nHe warned it was \"very bad news for the whole industry\", adding: \"The only positive will come if it spurs government into action to secure a partnership between itself, the industry and battery manufacturers that can succeed into the long-term.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth described the collapse as \"yet another blow to building the clean, modern future we urgently need\".\n\nThere was also disappointment from people who live and work where Britishvolt's plant was supposed to be built.\n\nMichelle Charlton, who runs Cafe One in the village of Cambois, said the news was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"There isn't any real industry for the young ones coming through, so they could've done with it yes. It would've been a real benefit to the area,\" she told the BBC.", "Jeremy Clarkson is the star of Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm and hosts Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for ITV\n\nJeremy Clarkson has said he has apologised to Harry and Meghan over his column in The Sun newspaper in which he said he \"hated\" the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said he emailed the couple on Christmas Day to say his language had been \"disgraceful\" and he was \"profoundly sorry\".\n\nIn the column, he wrote about a naked Meghan being pelted with excrement.\n\nA spokesperson for Harry and Meghan said the article was not an isolated incident for Clarkson.\n\nClarkson had released a statement before Christmas saying he \"was horrified to have caused so much hurt\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper has also apologised for the December article and removed it from its website.\n\nIn the column, Clarkson wrote that he lay in bed \"dreaming of the day when she [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nHe also claimed \"everyone who's my age thinks the same way\", and that her appeal to young people who \"think she was a prisoner of Buckingham Palace\" made him \"despair\".\n\nA record 25,000 complaints have been made to press regulator Ipso since the piece was published.\n\nIn his lengthy Instagram post on Monday, the presenter of Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour and Clarkson's Farm and ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, said he usually reads what he's written before filing his copy, but he was home alone that day and in a hurry.\n\n\"So when I'd finished, I just pressed send. And then, when the column appeared the next day, the land mine exploded.\"\n\nHe said he picked up a copy of The Sun and quickly realised he had \"completely messed up\".\n\n\"You are sweaty and cold at the same time. And your head pounds. And you feel sick. I couldn't believe what I was reading. Had I really said that? It was horrible.\"\n\nHe said he had been thinking of a scene in Games of Thrones when he wrote about imagining the duchess being abused in the street, but had forgotten to mention it.\n\n\"So it looked like I was actually calling for revolting violence to rain down on Meghan's head.\"\n\nClarkson's daughter Emily criticised her father over the column\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said Clarkson addressed his correspondence solely to Prince Harry.\n\n\"While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his long-standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Unless each of his other pieces were also written 'in a hurry', as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate,\" they added.\n\nIn a recent interview with ITV, Prince Harry criticised Clarkson as well as the Royal Family for not commenting on the matter at the time.\n\nIn his statement, Clarkson added that he had \"tried to explain\" himself. \"But still, there were calls for me to be sacked and charged with a hate crime. More than 60 MPs demanded action to be taken. ITV, who make Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Amazon, who make the Farm Show and the Grand Tour, were incandescent.\"\n\nIt was then that he \"wrote to everyone who works with me saying how sorry I was\" as well as emailing the duke and duchess.\n\n\"On Christmas morning, I emailed Harry and Meghan in California to apologise to them too. I said I was baffled by what they had been saying on TV but that the language I'd used in my column was disgraceful and that I was profoundly sorry.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that his own daughter Emily had been among his critics.\n\nVariety is reporting that Amazon Prime \"is likely to be parting ways\" with Clarkson after 2024, when his shows that are already in the pipeline are due to end. Amazon declined to comment.\n\nLast month, ITV's media and entertainment boss Kevin Lygo described Clarkson's column as \"awful\" but said there were no plans \"at the moment\" to replace him as host of game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nITV is believed to have one more series due to be filmed with Clarkson but no further current commissioning commitments beyond that.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What do the teachers' strikes in England mean for parents?\n\nTeachers do not need to go on strike to get \"attention\", the education secretary has said.\n\nTeaching union the National Education Union (NEU) voted to strike over pay in England and Wales on seven dates in February and March.\n\nGillian Keegan said the vote was disappointing and the government was trying to tackle inflation.\n\nNational strikes are scheduled for 1 February, 15 and 16 March, with regional ones on other days.\n\nThe NEU, the UK's largest education union, said strikes would affect 23,400 schools in England and Wales.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast Ms Keegan said: \"You don't have to strike to get a meeting with me, to get attention from me.\n\n\"And I'm very interested in supporting teachers, they do a fantastic job - they really are changing lives every day.\"\n\nShe said changes had been made to tackle recruitment and retention challenges within the teaching profession, including providing more support for teachers in their first few years.\n\nMs Keegan said the \"key problem\" was inflation and the government was working to halve it this year.\n\nHead teachers are being asked to keep \"as many schools open for as many children as possible,\" Ms Keegan said in a separate interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"But if they need to prioritise, to prioritise vulnerable children, exam cohorts and also children of critical workers.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU said there \"comes a time when it's important to stand up for yourself\".\n\nHe said the ballot result was the \"biggest union result since thresholds have come in\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Courtney said some teachers had left the profession to work in supermarkets and children were learning subjects from textbooks.\n\nHe said he was pleased talks were happening between unions and the government and another meeting was scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nTeacher strikes will happen both nationally and regionally, in schools as well as sixth-form colleges.\n\nAction will take place on the following days:\n\nThe NEU says any individual school will only be affected on a maximum of four out of the seven dates.\n\nMost state school teachers in England and Wales had a 5% pay increase in 2022.\n\nBut the NEU says this rise actually equates to a pay cut, because of high inflation rates.\n\nMeanwhile, head teachers will not strike in England after a ballot by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) union failed to meet the legally-required 50% turnout threshold.\n\nThe union says it is considering re-running the ballot because of alleged disruption caused by postal strikes.\n\nNAHT members in Wales will take industrial action, however, after the ballot there met the required turnout.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary for the NAHT, said the union might run a ballot again to \"make sure voices of NAHT's members are heard\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been a \"hardening of attitudes\" and the dispute had been \"coming for years\".\n\nSupport staff in England and Wales also voted in favour of striking but in England they failed to meet the legal threshold so will not be taking part.\n\nThe NASUWT union reported a 42% turnout last week - below the threshold needed for lawful strike action.\n\nNASUWT members, as well as those of other unions, have already been on strike in Scotland.\n\nTeachers from five unions in Northern Ireland are continuing to take action short of a strike - affecting meeting attendance and administrative tasks.", "Nurses are walking out of more hospitals in their latest strike action on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a row over pay.\n\nThe strikes are taking place at 55 Trusts in England affecting around a quarter of hospitals and community services.\n\nIf you have a medical appointment, the advice is to go anyway unless you've been told otherwise.\n\nGP practices will run as normal as nurses working in those services are not involved in the strike action.\n\nAnd all nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work, but routine check-ups and other operations such as hip replacements may be affected.\n\nStrike action from teachers also continues in Scotland.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThe nurses' strike by Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members follows two days of action before Christmas.\n\nRoutine check-ups may have to be rescheduled, although life-preserving care must be provided.\n\nSo services such as chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and intensive care will be staffed, but other care such as knee and hip replacements and hernia repair are likely to be affected.\n\nAnyone who is seriously ill or injured should still call 999, or 111 for non-urgent care.\n\nOn Wednesday teachers in Scotland are continuing their 16-day wave of rolling strikes with every local authority affected over the period.\n\nMembers of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) will strike in two local authorities per day from 16 January until 6 February.\n\nThey want a 10% pay rise, which ministers and councils have said is unaffordable.\n\nStrikes recently closed almost every primary and secondary school in Scotland across two days.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers gathered at the site of the crash\n\nA British man is among the passengers who died in a plane crash in Nepal on Sunday.\n\nThe person was previously described as Irish by Nepal authorities, but was understood to be traveling on a UK passport.\n\nHe has not yet been formally named by authorities.\n\nThere were 72 passengers and crew aboard the Yeti Airlines that crashed near the tourist town of Pokhara. There are not believed to be any survivors.\n\nA spokesman for Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that an individual indicated in reports as being Irish is a UK national, and that the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FDCO) was providing consular support.\n\nAn FCDO spokesman said: \"We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Nepal and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nSunday's incident - which occurred on a flight from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, in central Nepal - is the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.\n\nA local official said the jet's pilot did not report \"anything untoward\" as the plane approached the airport.\n\nAnup Joshi said that the \"mountains were clear and visibility was good\", adding there was a light wind and \"no issue with weather\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nMobile phone footage showed the plane rolling sharply as it approached the runway. It then hit the ground in the gorge of the Seti River, just over a kilometre from the airport.\n\nOfficials have said the voice and black box flight recorders have been recovered.\n\nThe government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the disaster and the prime minister declared Monday a national day of mourning.\n• None Nothing unusual on doomed Nepal flight - official", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray produced one of his best performances in recent years to hold off Italian 13th seed Matteo Berrettini and win a five-set thriller in the Australian Open first round.\n\nThe 35-year-old Scot looked stunned after completing a 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (10-6) win on Rod Laver Arena.\n\nMurray, who thought hip surgery in 2019 would end his career, saved a match point at 5-4 in the decider.\n\nDan Evans is also through after beating Argentina's Facundo Bagnis.\n\nThe Englishman, seeded 25th, won 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-4 in a first-round match that was delayed for three hours because of extreme heat in Melbourne.\n\nFormer world number one Murray later ensured four Britons would play in the second round - after Emma Raducanu and Cameron Norrie won on Monday - with a memorable triumph against last year's semi-finalist Berrettini.\n\nIt was 66th-ranked Murray's first success over a top-20 opponent at a Grand Slam since 2017.\n\nAfter racing 6-1 ahead in the first-to-10 final-set tie-break, Murray secured victory after almost five hours with a forehand which took a huge chunk of the net cord and left 26-year-old Berrettini stranded.\n\nThe three-time major champion will play Italian veteran Fabio Fognini or Australia's Thanasi Kokkinakis in the second round on Thursday.\n• None 'Metal-hip Murray stuns everyone - even himself'\n• None How boxing sessions can help knock out Raducanu - Gauff column\n\n\"I will be feeling it this evening and tomorrow but right now I'm unbelievably happy and proud of myself,\" said Murray, a five-time runner-up in Melbourne.\n\n\"I've been working to give myself the opportunity to perform in matches like this and against players like Matteo. It paid off tonight.\n\n\"I was a bit lucky at the end with the net cord, but it felt like some of the tennis was really good.\n\n\"He's an unbelievable player and one of the best competitors.\"\n\nThe British number two had moved into a two-sets-to-one lead when the players were taken off court as temperatures topped 35C at Melbourne Park.\n\nCooler conditions when they returned at 5pm local time - after a three-hour break - helped Evans wrap up the win.\n\nNobody upsets the odds quite like Murray and this latest act of defiance was the greatest since he had the surgery four years ago which left him with a metal hip.\n\nWhen the draw for the Australian Open pitted Murray against Berrettini, the general consensus was the veteran Scot had landed an opponent who would leave him cursing his luck.\n\nInstead, an upbeat Murray felt playing the 2021 Wimbledon finalist was an opportunity to earn the statement win he has long craved.\n\nMurray produced some of the best tennis he has played since his comeback, particularly in the opening two sets as Berrettini struggled to fire up his devastating forehand.\n\nAfter Murray was unable to take break points for a 3-1 lead in the third, Berrettini discovered his rhythm and strong serving enable him to eventually level.\n\nMomentum had swayed away from Murray and his energy seemingly started to dip as Berrettini continued to grow in confidence.\n\nBut the British number four's refusal to know when he is beaten came to the fore once again as he avoided losing from a two-sets lead for only the second time in 159 matches.\n\nThe pivotal moment of a gripping contest - turning it back in Murray's favour - came when Berrettini choked after being presented with a golden opportunity to win the match.\n\nMurray poorly executed a drop-shot and, with options to beat his stranded opponent at either side, Berrettini dumped a straightforward backhand into the net.\n\nThose watching on Laver could not hide their disbelief as a loud, collective gasp echoed around Melbourne's show court, while Berrettini clutched his face before managing a rueful smile.\n\n\"It's really tough to talk about the match now. It could have been different just with a different ball,\" Berrettini said.\n\n\"I had a match point. I missed on his ball. That sums up the match.\"\n\nBerrettini composed himself to hold the next game, but lost his serve at the start of the tie-break when Murray showed all his quality to win the point with a backhand down the line.\n\nThat laid the platform for Murray to dominate the breaker and, after a slice of luck with the winning point, he secured his first top-20 win at a major since beating Japan's Kei Nishikori at the French Open in 2017.\n\nAfter an ice bath and a hot shower, Murray made his way wearily through the bowels of the Rod Laver Arena and into the main interview room.\n\nHe conducted his BBC radio interview en route. He said he had been nervous beforehand - usually a good sign - and practising well, which is not something he has always been able to say before a big tournament.\n\nMurray was able to produce his very best tennis in the 10-point tie-break which decided the match. He had never played one in competition before and said he was grateful for Ivan Lendl's suggestion that they should practise them regularly in training in Florida at the end of last year.\n\nFour hours and 49 minutes of Grand Slam tennis will deplete the reserves of anyone, of any age and any type of hip, but Murray says his pre-season work gives him the belief he can rebound strongly in the second round.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The Lyell team cross paths with the mafia:\n• None Key moments on the pitch, candid interviews with the players and unique behind-the-scenes insight", "If you feel like you're not getting paid enough, you're probably not alone.\n\nWhile average wages have been increasing, they're still not keeping up with the pace of price rises, which means many people are finding it harder to get by.\n\nRecent months have seen waves of strikes, with tens of thousands of workers walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions.\n\nMany of these strikes have taken place in the public sector, where workers often do not have the power to negotiate individually.\n\nAnd whether you work in the public or private sector, even if you do have a conversation with your manager there's no guarantee that it will result in a pay rise.\n\nHowever, there are ways to give yourself the best chance of success.\n\nWe spoke to recruiters, a manager and a workplace psychologist to get five tips on how to best negotiate for more money.\n\nJill Cotton, a career trends experts at jobs site Glassdoor, says scheduling a talk in advance will allow you and your boss time to prepare, and means you're more likely to have a productive conversation.\n\n\"Don't spring this on your line manager,\" Ms Cotton says. \"Be upfront and say that you want to book in a conversation that is specifically about pay.\"\n\nRowsonara Begum, who helps her brother run Saffron Indian takeaway in Salisbury, says it also needs to be the right time for the business.\n\nThe takeaway has five members of staff and occasionally takes on additional workers during busy periods.\n\nRowsonara Begum says workers seeking a pay rise should ask at a good time\n\nShe says if workers pick a time when the business is doing well, they will have the best chance of successfully negotiating more money.\n\nIf you're asking for a pay rise, you should have lots of evidence of why you deserve one.\n\n\"Know what you've achieved either from a work setting or what you've done to develop yourself, maybe to support your team, support your line managers. List all the pros of what you've done,\" says Shan Saba, a director at Glasgow-based recruitment firm Brightwork.\n\nThis evidence also helps your manager rationalise why you should be paid more, according to Stephanie Davies, a workplace psychologist.\n\n\"The brain needs a 'why' - why should I pay you this amount?\" she says.\n\nHowever, it's not just about bringing a list of all the things you've done. You should also be clear about what you want to do next, says Mr Saba.\n\n\"If you have aspirations of moving up through your organisation, have a plan of what you're looking to do over the coming year.\"\n\nWhen asking your boss for more money, it helps if you're confident and know your worth.\n\nThat's something Ms Begum has noticed, from her experience of having these talks with staff.\n\n\"Here in Salisbury, it's quite difficult to get the staff we need,\" she says.\n\n\"It's also become harder to recruit from overseas. So workers have negotiating power because they know there's a shortage.\"\n\nOften people don't feel confident because there is a \"stigma\" around talking about pay, says Glassdoor's Jill Cotton, but it's \"an important part of work\".\n\nWomen and people from minority backgrounds can often find it particularly hard to ask for more more, adds psychologist Stephanie Davies.\n\nHer advice to them is to ask for a mentor or role model, who can help guide them through those conversations.\n\nMost experts agree it's best to have an exact figure in mind before embarking on a conversation about pay.\n\nDo your research, advises James Reed, chair of recruitment firm Reed.\n\n\"You can go online and look at job adverts and see what other comparable jobs are being recruited for and what the salaries are,\" he says.\n\nMs Cotton warns the figure should be realistic.\n\n\"We would all love to be paid millions of pounds every single year. But we are being paid to fulfil a role with the skillset we have,\" she says.\n\nIf the above steps don't result in a pay rise, try not to be disheartened.\n\n\"Sometimes these conversations can take a while, even months, but it's important to keep the communication open,\" says Ms Begum.\n\nPay is also not the be-all and end-all, says Mr Reed.\n\n\"It's not just necessarily about money. You might be able to get more holiday or more flexibility around working hours,\" he says, adding you could also negotiate extra training and development.\n\nAnd if you don't feel you're getting what you want from your employer, remember, there are other opportunities out there.\n\n\"You can always look elsewhere, that's the really big lesson,\" says Ms Davies.", "There is still a \"hangover effect\" from the financial instability seen during the prime ministership of Liz Truss, the Bank of England governor has said.\n\nAndrew Bailey told MPs that the cost of government borrowing, which soared after the mini-budget, had normalised.\n\nBut he said international investors were still wary about lending money to the UK government.\n\n\"It's going to take some time to convince everybody that we're back to where we were before,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"Not because I doubt the current government, I am not trying in any sense to be negative. Obviously there is something of a hangover effect.\"\n\nIn September the pound fell sharply and government borrowing costs soared after Ms Truss's administration promised a huge package of tax cuts without explaining how they would be funded.\n\nIt caused mortgage rates to surge to a 14-year high. The Bank of England also had to step in to calm financial markets after the chaos put some pension funds at risk.\n\nSince then, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reversed almost all of Ms Truss's tax plans and the pound and government borrowing costs have stabilised.\n\nMr Bailey told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that international investors were no longer demanding sharply higher rates of interest when they bought UK \"gilts\", which are debt issued by the UK government.\n\n\"My judgement would be that that has pretty much gone now actually and we're back to where we were before,\" he said.\n\nBut he said there were signs the instability had left international investors wary of buying UK gilts.\n\nThe Bank of England says foreign investors sold more gilts than they bought between September and November, indicating a lack of confidence in the government. However, Mr Bailey said that the gap was \"considerably lower\" in November suggesting confidence was returning.\n\n\"So I think that is reasonable evidence and it probably suggests that [the hit to the UK's reputation] is taking a bit longer to work its way through,\" he told MPs.\n\nSeparately, Mr Bailey said that inflation - the rate at which prices rise - looks set to fall sharply this year as energy prices decrease, but a shortage of workers in the labour market posed a \"major risk\" to this outcome.\n\n\"I think that going forwards the major risk to inflation coming down ... is the shrinkage of labour force,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest pace in 40 years as energy bills and food price soar, putting households under pressure.\n\nThe Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for a tenth time in a row early next month as it seeks to cool inflation.\n\nBut it has to balance rates rises - which increase the cost of borrowing money for consumers and businesses - with the risk of tipping the country into recession.\n\nA recent forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility suggests the UK is already in recession and will remain so for the whole of 2023.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio 2's Ken Bruce has announced on air that he is leaving the station after 31 years hosting its weekday mid-morning show.\n\nHis slot is the most listened-to show on British radio, and he will now join rival station Greatest Hits Radio.\n\n\"I have decided the time is right for me to move on from Radio 2,\" he said, adding he'd had \"a tremendously happy time\" but it was \"time for a change\".\n\nHis departure comes after Steve Wright left after 23 years as afternoon host.\n\nOther popular presenters who have also left the station in the past year include Paul O'Grady and Vanessa Feltz.\n\nBruce told listeners: \"I'll reach the end of my current contract in March, and so at that point I will be moving on from Radio 2. Nothing stays the same forever...\n\n\"I have been here for quite a long time now, and it possibly is time to move over and let somebody else have a go.\"\n\nHis programme, well known for its daily Popmaster quiz, currently has more than 8.5 million weekly listeners, according to data from industry body Rajar.\n\nBruce has been a fixture on Radio 2 since the mid-1980s\n\nOne of the station's longest-serving hosts, he joined the BBC in 1977 and took his first regular Radio 2 slot in 1984.\n\nHe moved to mid-mornings in 1986 before periods on late nights and early mornings, and moved back to what would become his permanent slot in 1992.\n\nThe 71-year-old said: \"I really must stress that this is entirely my decision, however some new opportunities have come up and I would like to continue my career in just a slightly different way if that is possible in the next few years.\n\n\"In the meantime, I will always be tremendously proud of my association with the BBC and in particular with Radio 2.\" He will remain at the station until the end of March, he said.\n\nBruce said his new show would include \"Popmaster, me and my musings and all the great records you know and love from the 70s, 80s and 90s\"\n\nIn a subsequent statement issued by Greatest Hits Radio, Bruce said Popmaster would feature in his new programme, which will begin on 3 April and will be on air from 10:00-13:00.\n\nThe station's line-up already includes his former colleague Simon Mayo, who left Radio 2 in 2018.\n\nBen Cooper, chief content and music officer at parent company Bauer Audio UK, said Bruce was \"a broadcasting legend, with the biggest radio show in the UK\".\n\n\"So as well as today being an exciting announcement for Greatest Hits Radio and its growing audience, it is a hugely significant moment for the industry,\" he said.\n\nLorna Clarke, director of BBC Music, described Bruce as \"an extraordinary broadcaster with an exceptional career over many decades\".\n\nShe added: \"He has been part of every significant occasion marked by BBC Radio 2 and we, his faithful audience and the Radio 2 all-star line-up will miss his warm humour and wit. Congratulations on a brilliant career.\"\n\nBruce has also been Radio 2's voice of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1988.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by R Y L A N This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRylan Clark, who hosts a Radio 2 show on Saturdays, wrote on Twitter: \"Going to be so missed on air, but personally I'll miss having a beer in a foreign country discussing anything and everything whilst at Eurovision. Thanks for always being so lovely.\"\n\nOwain Wyn Evans, who is taking over as the station's early breakfast host, described him as \"a legend\".\n\nBruce earned between £385,000-£389,999 in 2021-22, according to the last BBC annual report.\n\nThe BBC has not yet confirmed who will replace Bruce, however Radio 2 often promotes presenters from within its existing roster.\n\nTrevor Nelson, Rylan Clark, Claudia Winkleman, Dermot O'Leary and Jo Whiley are among the names who could be considered for Bruce's slot.", "Sonu Jaiswal, who livestreamed from the plane seconds before it crashed\n\nIn the hours after Nepal's deadliest plane crash for 30 years, a video went viral in India - it showed one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, livestreaming from the plane just seconds before the crash.\n\nHe was part of a group of four friends from Ghazipur in India who were visiting Nepal, and were on the flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara.\n\nIn the footage, Pokhara airport's surroundings are visible from the doomed plane as it comes into land, those on board unaware they are just moments from death.\n\nNone of the 72 people on board are believed to have survived the crash.\n\nThe video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.\n\nHe then turns it around again to show other passengers in the aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nThe following details could be distressing to some readers.\n\nWithin seconds huge flames and smoke fill the screen as the camera keeps recording. What sounds like the screeching of an engine is audible, as well as breaking glass and then screams before the video ends.\n\nFriends and family members of Sonu Jaiswal told reporters that they had watched the video on his Facebook account, confirming its authenticity.\n\n\"Sonu did the [livestream] when the plane crashed in a gorge near the Seti River,\" Mukesh Kashyap, Jaiswal's friend, told reporters.\n\nLocal journalist Shashikant Tiwari told the BBC that Kashyap showed him the video on Jaiswal's Facebook profile, which is set to private.\n\nHundreds of rescuers were sent to the site of the crash\n\nIt is not clear how Jaiswal accessed the internet to stream from the plane.\n\nAbhishek Pratap Shah, a former lawmaker in Nepal, told Indian news channel NDTV that rescuers had recovered the phone on which the video was found from the plane's wreckage.\n\n\"It [the video clip] was sent by one of my friends, who received it from a police officer. It is a real record,\" Mr Shah told NDTV.\n\nOfficials in Nepal have not confirmed his claim or commented on the footage, which could help crash investigators in their work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: \"The smell of smoke still hangs in the air here\"\n\nBut for the loved ones of the four men - Jaiswal, Abhishek Kushwaha, Anil Rajbhar and Vishal Sharma - none of this matters. They say they are \"too shattered\" to care.\n\n\"The pain is hard to explain,\" said Chandrabhan Maurya, the brother of Abhishek Kushwaha.\n\n\"The government needs to help us as much as they can. We want the bodies of our loved ones to be returned to us.\"\n\nAuthorities in Ghazipur in northern Uttar Pradesh state said they are in touch with the four families and the Indian embassy in Kathmandu to offer any possible help.\n\n\"We have also told the families that if they want to travel to Kathmandu, we will make all the arrangements for them,\" district magistrate Aryaka Akhauri told reporters.\n\nSeveral villagers remembered the four men as \"kind, fun-loving souls\". They said they were devastated by the tragedy that had struck their otherwise quiet lives.\n\nSome of them also joined protests, demanding compensation for the families.\n\nThe families of the Indian victims have asked for compensation from the government\n\nThe four men, all thought to be in their 20s or early 30s, had been friends for many years, and often spent time together.\n\nLocals say they had gone to Nepal on 13 January to visit the Pashupatinath temple, a grand shrine on the outskirts of Kathmandu which is dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.\n\nThe trip was reportedly Jaiswal's idea - a father of three, he wanted to pray at the temple for another son.\n\nAfter visiting the temple, the friends set off on Sunday to Pokhara - a picturesque tourist town nestled near the Annapurna mountain range - to paraglide. They planned to return to Kathmandu.\n\n\"But fate had something else in store for him,\" an unnamed relative of Jaiswal's told news agency PTI.\n\nThe four men were among five Indians on board. Officials said 53 of the passengers were Nepalese, along with four Russians and two Koreans. Others on board are reported to have included one passenger each from the UK, Australia, Argentina and France.\n\nOn Monday, social media in India was awash with images from the crash site and of the video shot by Jaiswal.\n\nJaiswal's father, Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, said he could not bear to watch the clip himself. \"I have only heard about it from Sonu's friends. Our lives have come crashing down.\"\n\nWhile groups of mourners stood around the neighbourhood in disbelief, Anil Rajbhar's father stayed away.\n\nHis son had left for Nepal on 13 January without informing his family. While his father was busy in the family's fields, Anil quietly packed his bags and left with his friends, neighbours said.\n\nHis father is still in disbelief at the news.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A spectator holds a Russian flag at the Australian Open on Monday\n\nRussian and Belarusian flags have been banned from the Australian Open tennis tournament after a courtside incident.\n\nSpectators were initially permitted to bring the flags into Melbourne Park on the condition they did not cause \"disruption\".\n\nBut the organisers reversed that decision on Tuesday, after fans displayed a Russian flag during a match between Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl and Russian Kamilla Rakhimova.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the players and our fans to ensure the best possible environment to enjoy the tennis,\" Tennis Australia said in a statement.\n\nUkrainian fans say they called police and security to the first-round match on Monday, claiming Russian supporters were \"taunting\" Baindl.\n\n\"This is profoundly unsafe, the war is ongoing,\" one fan told local newspaper The Age. \"It's a small court, the guys were extremely close to the players, so there was an element of what I felt was intimidation.\"\n\nBut one of the Russian men involved told The Age his group had simply been cheering their countrywoman on.\n\nHe said: \"People can view that as being obnoxious but we were just being your normal supporters. There was no ridiculing or disrespect.\"\n\nUkraine's ambassador to Australia and New Zealand had earlier called on Tennis Australia to take action.\n\nRussian and Belarusian athletes have not been able to play under their countries' flags in several sports, including tennis, since the invasion of Ukraine began in February last year.\n\nWhile players from the two countries are competing under a neutral white flag during the Australian Open, they were banned from playing at Wimbledon altogether in 2022.\n\nOrganisers were subsequently fined and the tournament was stripped of its ranking points by the Association of Tennis Professionals and Women's Tennis Association. The WTA said equal opportunities for players to compete as individuals had to be protected.\n\nThe Victorian state government on Tuesday said Tennis Australia had made the right decision.\n\n\"Russia's invasion of Ukraine is abhorrent,\" acting premier Jancinta Allan said. \"It breaches international human rights obligations. It's been enabled and supported by Belarus.\n\n\"[This] sends a very, very clear message that human rights are important, whether it's in sport, or more broadly in our community.\"\n\nThe ban comes after Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk said she would not shake hands with opponents from Russia and Belarus who she believes have not done enough to condemn the invasion.", "Snow has hit much of Cornwall, including Madron in the west of the county\n\nCornwall and Devon have been issued with a further yellow weather warning after schools were shut and some roads blocked by snow in parts of Cornwall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued the new warning for snow and ice across most of Devon and Cornwall from 18:00 GMT on Tuesday until 12:00 on Wednesday.\n\nIt said: \"Snow showers and icy stretches may cause some disruption.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, more than 80 schools were closed or opened late and drivers urged to take care after snow fell overnight.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the A30 and A39 near Carland Cross, near Truro, were both blocked on Tuesday morning, with reports of cars and lorries stuck in the snow.\n\nNicolle Mitchell tweeted this picture of snow in the Redruth area, saying: \"Happy Christmas\"\n\nErica, from Four Lanes, near Pool, told BBC Radio Cornwall snow started in the area at about 01:00 and left cars trapped after \"they were covered in snow in about an hour\".\n\nBBC Radio Cornwall's Emma Clements said St Dennis had experienced \"probably around 10cm [4in]\".\n\nShe said from one of the village's greens \"which is quite near the main road between Newquay and St Austell, which runs right through the village\" it had started becoming slushy by about 08:00.\n\nTwitter user @sweatpeafreesia sent this picture of how deep the snow has been in Stithians\n\nCornwall Fire and Rescue Service tweeted it had received reports of vehicles getting stuck on the A39 at Trispen and the A391 at Bugle amid \"hazardous\" driving conditions.\n\n\"Please allow extra time for any journey and drive with care,\" Devon and Cornwall Police said.\n\nThe snow in Cornwall has allowed traditional winter activities, including this snowman made by a group in Goonhavern\n\nCornwall Council said it had deployed gritters on main routes.\n\nDevon County Council said its gritters were out overnight, treating more than 2,000 miles (3,220km) of the county's main routes, and were going out again on Tuesday afternoon and 02:00 on Wednesday.\n\nIt added that motorists should \"stick to main roads where possible and expect to find ice, [and] drive with extreme care\".\n\nDevon's volunteer snow wardens have also been advised to be prepared to treat priority routes in their local communities this week.\n\nNo schools in Devon were closed, but some school routes did not operating because of the weather conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The child was filmed with the weapon on a neighbour's surveillance camera\n\nA man has been arrested on live TV in the US state of Indiana after his four-year-old son, appearing to wear a nappy, was seen waving a gun.\n\nShane Osborne, 45, was charged with neglect after neighbours reported a child in a hallway carrying what they believed to be a handgun, police said.\n\nThe arrest was filmed on the TV show On Patrol: Live.\n\nThe show aired surveillance video allegedly showing the boy playing with a weapon and even pulling the trigger.\n\nNeighbour Nicole Summers told local station WTHR that she called police after the boy came to her door and pointed a pistol at her son.\n\n\"My son, he opened the door and then shut it and backed away and he was like, 'Uh...baby with a gun. Get out of here, get out of here!'\" said Mrs Summers.\n\nLooking through the door's peephole she confirmed that the gun was not a toy.\n\n\"He was just kind of holding it behind his back, and I thought...like that's a real gun. I sell guns for a living, so I know what a gun looks like.\"\n\nMr Osborne initially told police there were no weapons in the house, claiming to have been been feeling ill all day and sleeping, Beech Grove Police told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't have a gun,\" he tells police on the show, where Beech Grove officers are followed on shift. \"I have never brought a gun into this house, if there is, it's my cousin's.\"\n\nHe added that he did not realise that his son had been outside in the hallway of the apartments.\n\nWhile the officers were still on the scene, a neighbour came forward to the officers with surveillance video. The video showed the young child in the hallway with what appeared to be a real firearm.\n\nPolice then found the firearm in Mr Osborne's apartment and he was arrested. It was later found that there were 15 bullets in the gun's magazine, but luckily, there was no round in the chamber.\n\nThe search and arrest aired live on the TV programme On Patrol: Live, which is broadcast on the Reelz channel. Mr Osborne is due to appear in court on Thursday to face child negligence charges.\n\nIt comes in the same month that a six-year-old student allegedly shot his teacher with a handgun at a Virginia elementary school, in what police described as an \"intentional\" shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "\"Queen\" has taken the top spot in a vote to find UK children's word of the year for 2022.\n\nIt was followed by the words \"happy\" and \"chaos\".\n\nAsked about the word Queen, many of the six to 14 year-olds described feelings of sadness and loss, as well as pride for the monarch who died in September.\n\nSome 4,000 children took part in a survey, conducted by Oxford University Press (OUP), to find words they felt had been important during the year.\n\nBased on the top themes that emerged, three words - queen, happy and chaos - were shortlisted.\n\nA separate poll of a further 1,000 children by Opinium was then carried out to choose the word of the year from the shortlist.\n\nA report by OUP, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary, said many children expressed feelings of sadness over Queen Elizabeth II's death, but they also felt hopeful and excited about the coming year.\n\nDirector of Oxford Children's Books, Helen Freeman, said this year's top pick was no surprise.\n\n\"This not only reflects Her Majesty's 70 years of incredible service, but over the past decade our research consistently reveals how attuned children are to the news and the impact current affairs have on their language,\" she added.\n\nBy looking at the Oxford Children's Corpus, the largest children's English language database, it was found that Queen Elizabeth was often in the top 10 list of famous people written about by children.\n\nWith events such as the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and funeral in the last year, it was a time her legacy would have been circulated around classrooms.\n\nIt was also found that the winning word is being used by young people to express support for someone else, as a compliment.\n\nExamples from the survey include one girl writing: \"I always say 'yes queen' to every woman/girl I know, I want them to feel empower[e]d. Every woman/girl I know is a queen in my eyes.\"\n\nRebecca Ashdown, illustrator of Madeleine Cook's book My Granny is a Queen, said the winning word was a \"good choice\".\n\n\"For me the word Queen feels like someone with strength, compassion and wisdom - qualities that never go out of fashion. It's a word of respect, a way to honour a friend or a family member.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the founder of EmpathyLab - an organisation aiming to show literature's role in building empathy awareness and skills in children - said this year's word shows how children were affected by current events.\n\n\"We always encourage teachers and parents not to shy away from discussing the news and the empathy issues of the day,\" said Miranda McKearney.\n\nRunner-up happy was often cited as a choice by children because they felt happy they could return to normal life again after the pandemic.\n\nHowever, number three choice chaos serves as a reminder that the world still is not back to what it once was. Last year's winning word was anxiety.\n\nIn addition, children were surveyed this year on popular slang - with the words cool, sick and slay coming up top.\n\nIt was the first time children were given the choice to put forward words to be considered for the vote. Before this year, the most common words were selected from those used in the BBC 500 Words creative writing competition for children.\n\nIt was also the first year the Oxford adult word of the year - goblin mode - was voted on by the public.", "Terri Harris (bottom left) and her children John Bennett (top left) and Lacey Bennett (bottom right) were killed along with Lacey's friend Connie Gent (top right)\n\nA review into how a quadruple murderer was dealt with by probation officers has found failings \"at every stage\".\n\nThe failings meant Damien Bendall was deemed suitable to live with his pregnant partner Terri Harris and her two children, who he then killed together with another child.\n\nHe could, instead, have been sent to prison when he was sentenced for arson just months before the murders.\n\nRelatives of the victims were said to be \"shocked\" by the failings.\n\nHM Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell said he had spoken to them personally.\n\n\"I think shocked and upset would be the summary,\" he said, describing how they reacted to the findings of an independent Serious Further Offence (SFO) review.\n\n\"I've met with the parents of Terri, her ex-partner, and also the parents of Connie Gent. I think all of them were shocked by what we had found.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Killamarsh murders: Footage shows arrest of man who murdered four\n\nBendall murdered Ms Harris, who was pregnant with his child, at her home in Killamarsh in Derbyshire in September 2021.\n\nHe also killed her 13-year-old son John Bennett, 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, and Lacey's 11-year-old friend Connie Gent. He used a claw hammer to murder his victims, and he also raped Lacey.\n\nThe 32-year-old was jailed for the murders and rape in December, with the judge giving him a whole-life order.\n\nMr Russell described the case as \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"The Probation Service's assessment and management of Bendall at every stage, from initial court report to his supervision in the community, was of an unacceptable standard and fell far below what was required,\" he said.\n\nBendall had previous convictions for violent offences, a former partner had made allegations of domestic abuse against him, and Wiltshire Police's child sexual exploitation unit had made inquiries about him with the Probation Service.\n\n\"Probation practitioners should take account of this sort of intelligence when assessing potential risks of serious harm, but this does not appear to have happened in this case,\" said Mr Russell.\n\nIn a statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, Prisons and Probation Minister Damian Hinds said the Chief Probation Officer has apologised to the victims' families for the \"unacceptable failings in this case\", and disciplinary action has been taken against two members of staff.\n\nPolice found Terri Harris and the three children dead at the house in Chandos Crescent\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab had previously asked Mr Russell to conduct an independent review into the case, which has now been published following the end of criminal proceedings.\n\nAccording to the report, the failings began in June 2021, when Bendall was assessed by a probation officer prior to being sentenced for arson at Swindon Crown Court.\n\nThe probation officer wrote a pre-sentence report to help the judge decide the most suitable sentence. This officer was \"relatively inexperienced\" and the quality of the report was \"very poor\", according to the review.\n\nFor example, the significant level of violence used by Bendall during his previous offending was \"not sufficiently examined\".\n\nDamien Bendall admitted four murders and the rape of 11-year-old Lacey\n\nHis previous convictions comprised a robbery in 2010, which left the victim unconscious, using a knife during an attempted robbery in 2015, and attacking three prison officers in 2016, which left one needing surgery and months of physical rehabilitation.\n\nThe probation officer had also not read about police evidence regarding Bendall posing \"a sexual risk of harm to girls\". The report does not go into detail about this evidence, but Mr Russell told journalists that Wiltshire Police \"had concerns he was associating with a vulnerable 16-year-old girl and wanted to give him a warning to keep away from this girl\".\n\nMr Russell said: \"The court report author assessed Bendall as posing a medium risk of serious harm to the public and posing a low risk of serious harm to partners and children. We do not agree with this risk assessment; they underestimated the risks Bendall posed and this had serious consequences.\"\n\nBendall was curfewed to live with John and Lacey Bennett, pictured here with their father Jason Bennett\n\nThe pre-sentence report also stated Bendall was \"suitable for a curfew requirement\", but the probation officer had not contacted Ms Harris to check she consented to her home being used as his curfew address.\n\n\"They came to this wholly inappropriate conclusion without speaking to Ms Harris, visiting the property, conducting domestic abuse enquiries, or taking into account past domestic abuse claims,\" Mr Russell said.\n\nThe judge, Jason Taylor QC, then gave Bendall a 17-month custodial sentence but suspended it for two years, and gave him a five-month curfew so that he was tagged and could not leave Ms Harris's home at certain times.\n\nThe judge told Bendall: \"I do not think for a second that you are going to come back to court. I really hope now you have turned [over] a new leaf and I hope you can carry on with the new chapter in your life.\"\n\nThe report into the probation service's handling of Bendall said: \"Had DB's [Damien Bendall's] risk of serious harm to the public and children been correctly assessed as high, and had his risk of serious harm to partners been correctly assessed as medium, the court may not have curfewed him to an address with Ms Harris and her children.\"\n\nAfter Bendall was sentenced, he was managed by a probation officer based in the East Midlands, but this officer was also inexperienced, having only worked in the criminal justice system for six months.\n\nThe review found Bendall would have been allocated to a more experienced officer if his risk of serious harm had been correctly assessed.\n\nBendall admitted killing his partner and the three children when police arrived\n\nThe review found there were then subsequent failures by supervising managers to amend his \"medium risk of serious harm\" to \"high risk of serious harm\", and to take the case back to court to have the curfew requirement removed.\n\nMr Russell made 17 recommendations for improvement to the Ministry of Justice, HM Prison and Probation Service and His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service as a result of the review.\n\n\"They have accepted all these recommendations and responded with an action plan for implementing them,\" he said.\n\n\"While this is welcome, over the past year in our local and national probation inspections we have continued to raise deep concerns about the quality of probation practice we find more generally in relation to the assessment and management of risk of harm.\n\n\"This is a subject I have raised repeated concerns about since becoming Chief Inspector. It is vital that this time lessons are learnt from this awful case.\"\n\nIn a statement, Prisons and Probation Minister Damian Hinds said: \"These were appalling crimes. The Chief Probation Officer has apologised to the victims' families for the unacceptable failings in this case and disciplinary action has been taken against two members of staff.\n\n\"The extra funding of £155 million a year we have put into the Probation Service is being used to recruit thousands more frontline staff and to ensure domestic abuse and child safeguarding checks are always carried out before any offender is given a curfew.\n\n\"The Probation Service has also improved information sharing with police and councils, so no family is put at such significant risk again.\"\n\nFor the probation inspector, Justin Russell, this is the worst report he's seen in three years at his post. He is clear that this was not just a one-off mistake by probation staff.\n\nIn about two-thirds of the 850 cases the inspectorate has examined, insufficient checks were done on criminals when assessing the risks they pose to the public.\n\nMr Russell said in this respect, the probation service was \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nIt was all supposed to have been so much better.\n\nIn 2013 the then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling promised to give \"front-line professionals the flexibility and resources to innovate and do what works\".\n\nHis plan, branded \"Transforming Rehabilitation\", involved splitting probation into a national publicly-run service for the most serious criminals and private companies given commercial-style financial incentives to reduce reoffending.\n\nIt was abandoned 18 months ago with the companies involved struggling to fund basic services.\n\nMr Russell said probation had been transformed. But into a service struggling with major staffing issues, with under-trained officials coping with an \"unmanageable workload\" just as the Covid-19 crisis hit.\n\nThe hope is that probation has turned a corner. It is now recruiting and training more staff. But the deaths of a mother and three children show what is at stake.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people were arrested over the violence, which saw government buildings and police come under attack\n\nBrazil's attorney general has filed an indictment against 39 people for their alleged involvement in the storming of the Senate building on 8 January.\n\nThe riot saw thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro attack government buildings following his election loss last year.\n\nThe indictment says the individuals - who are not named - used violence and threats to try to abolish democracy.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has voiced \"regret\" for the unrest, but denies he caused it.\n\nPerceived threats to democratic order are a sensitive subject in a country where military rule ended in 1985.\n\nThe far-right leader is currently in the United States, having left Brazil to avoid attending the inauguration of his successor - the veteran leftist politician Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (widely known as Lula).\n\nLula's election win in October outraged Bolsonaro supporters. Lula, a former president, was found guilty of corruption in 2017 and spent time in prison before his convictions were annulled.\n\nHundreds of arrests have been made following the 8 January violence - during which the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court were vandalised after rioters forced their way in.\n\nDozens of police officers were injured, and the scenes were condemned by President Lula and other world leaders.\n\nAuthorities in Brasília have pledged to more than double the security presence at locations that came under attack.\n\nMonday's indictment, presented to the Supreme Court, accused 39 people of offences including coup activities and damage to public property.\n\nBut the filing said it had not been possible to show the group had broken anti-terror laws - despite prior suggestions from the government that suspects could be charged on this basis.\n\nThe attorney general ordered a freeze on $7.7m of the group's assets to cover repairs to damaged buildings.\n\nDuring an address to a group of supporters in Florida, quoted by the Reuters news agency, Mr Bolsonaro called the recent scenes \"unbelievable\".\n\nIn an apparent discussion of what happened, the former army captain said: \"Unfortunately, people learned, understood what politics is, got to know the political powers, and started to value freedom\".\n\nThe Supreme Court has already said it will investigate whether the former president encouraged the violence - something he denies.\n\nMr Bolsonaro also faces separate probes over comments made while in office over alleged anti-democratic statements.\n\nIn his latest remarks, the ex-leader appeared to offer rare acknowledgement of errors during his presidency. He conceded: \"There are some holes, of course, we make some slips at home.\"", "Anju Khatiwada had nearly 6,400 hours of flying experience\n\nThe co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged.\n\nAnju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in the country's worst air disaster in 30 years.\n\nHer husband Dipak Pokhrel had also been co-piloting a Yeti Airlines flight when he died - and it was his death that spurred Anju to pursue a career in aviation.\n\nDistraught at her loss, alone with their young child, Anju's grief became her motivating force.\n\n\"She was a determined woman who stood for her dreams and fulfilled the dreams of her husband,\" family member Santosh Sharma said.\n\nDipak was in the cockpit of a Twin Otter prop plane which was carrying rice and food to the western town of Jumla when it came down and burst into flames in June 2006, killing all nine people on board.\n\nFour years later Anju was on the path to becoming a pilot, overcoming many obstacles to train in the US. Once qualified, she joined Yeti Airlines.\n\nA trailblazer, Anju was one of just six women employed by the airline as pilots, and had flown close to 6,400 hours.\n\n\"She was a full captain at the airline who had done solo flights,\" Sudarshan Bartaula from Yeti Airlines said. \"She was a brave woman.\"\n\nAnju later remarried and had a second child as she continued to build her career. Friends and family say she adored her job, and was a delight to be around. That she and her first husband both died this way is a tragedy within a tragedy.\n\nAt the crash site in Pokhara, parts of the plane Anju was co-piloting lay scattered on the banks of the River Seti, strewn like battered pieces of a broken toy. A small section of the aircraft rested on the gorge, windows intact and the green and yellow of Yeti Airlines still visible.\n\nThis week's tragedy has reignited a conversation about airline safety in the Himalayan nation, which has seen hundreds die in air accidents in recent decades.\n\nOver the years, a number of factors have been blamed for Nepal's poor airlines safety record. The mountain terrain and often unpredictable weather can be tricky to navigate, and are often cited as reasons. But others point to outdated aircraft, lax regulations and poor oversight as equally important factors.\n\nIt's still unclear what caused Sunday's crash.\n\nOutside the hospital in Pokhara, families of those killed waited for the bodies of their relatives to be released after their post mortems had been completed.\n\nIn the bitter cold January air, Bhimsen Ban said he was hoping he could take his friend Nira back to her village soon so her last rites could be performed.\n\nNira had been due to perform at a festival\n\nNira Chhantyal, 21, was a singer who often flew with Yeti Airlines. Low cost air travel has become an affordable and popular way for the country's middle class to traverse the mountainous nation.\n\nNira, who had moved to Kathmandu, had been on the flight on her way to perform at a music festival in Pokhara.\n\n\"She was a very talented artist, and used to sing folk songs. She would often sing spontaneously,\" Bhimsen said, his eyes red from crying.\n\n\"I have no words to describe the loss.\"", "Andrew Tate (left) and his brother Tristan outside a Bucharest court last week\n\nAndrew Tate's head of security has given a dismissive account of the women who surrounded the controversial influencer, in spite of a police investigation into claims of sexual assault and exploitation against him. Tate denies all the allegations.\n\nIn an exclusive broadcast interview with the BBC, Bogdan Stancu said more than 100 women had passed through Mr Tate's compound in Bucharest, since he began work there two years ago.\n\nThe former police intelligence officer said he was sometimes asked to physically remove women from the Tate house for being \"too drunk\" or \"making problems\", but that no force was ever used.\n\nAndrew Tate and his brother Tristan are currently in 30-day custody in Romania, while police investigate allegations of trafficking and rape.\n\nThe case has put a spotlight on the attitudes inside their Bucharest home, and the way women were treated there.\n\nMr Stancu says his boss's public persona is the opposite of his real character. But his own views about the models, girlfriends and other women in the Tate house are revealing.\n\nMost of the women who spent time with the brothers in their compound were under 25, he said, and their expenses were paid for by Andrew Tate.\n\n\"Some of the girls misunderstood the reality and believed [they would] be his next wife,\" Mr Stancu told me. \"When they realised the reality, it's easy to transform from a friend into an enemy, and make a statement to the police.\"\n\nBogdan Stancu's lack of faith in the women accusing Andrew Tate is in sharp contrast to the loyalty he feels for his employer.\n\n\"I never doubt Andrew,\" he told me.\n\nAnd, as one of the millionaire's most senior staff, his explanation for doubting the testimony of Mr Tate's accusers is equally striking.\n\n\"They're young and stupid,\" he said.\n\nBut, he added, it was right that the police investigated these serious allegations, and that if the Tate brothers were ultimately charged and convicted, they must pay for their crimes.\n\nHe also offered a glimpse into Andrew Tate's private anxieties, saying his boss believed \"somebody wanted to hurt him\".\n\nIt wasn't clear where Mr Tate believed the threat was coming from, he said.\n\nAsked whether these concerns amounted to paranoia, the security chief said, \"I would not say 'paranoid' but something similar maybe. He wanted to have a normal life and couldn't - maybe it's normal to be a little bit more paranoid.\"\n\nMr Stancu said the social media star could also be impulsive while travelling abroad, changing his schedule at the drop of a hat, and flying to different destinations at a moment's notice.\n\n\"[The security team] stayed inside the hotel with the baggage locked and without changing our clothes,\" he said, \"because we knew anything could happen.\"\n\nAnd he also confirmed that both Mr Tate and his brother Tristan had several children living in Romania, saying they sometimes went to visit them.\n\nInvestigators have been widening their inquiries over the past week.\n\nOn Saturday, they removed Mr Tate's fleet of luxury cars - the sight of his shiny dove-grey Porsche perched on the battered frame of a police tow-truck captured his shift in fortunes, from a millionaire internet personality to a key suspect in a human trafficking case.\n\nAndrew Tate's luxury cars were towed away from his compound in Bucharest\n\nPolice last week expanded their investigation to seven more properties, including a villa owned by the Tates beneath the Carpathian Mountains in northern Romania.\n\nIn the town of Comarnic, two hours' drive further north, the Tate villa, raided by police on Thursday, towers over the houses around it. Small home-made sheds perch against the high walls that surround the property.\n\nNeighbours here say the property was fully-renovated last year, and only completed a few months ago.\n\nBeldica Trandafir lives in a worn housing block beside the main gate to the villa.\n\n\"The guy in charge of the construction asked me to work on the electrics, but when they explained what they wanted, I told them it was way beyond what I knew how to do,\" Mr Trandafir told me.\n\nInside, he said, the house has \"all the amenities you can think of\".\n\n\"It's extremely luxurious,\" he explained. \"It's divided into flats, [and] they could afford to build a swimming pool - things that people like us couldn't even dare to dream of.\"\n\nHow Andrew Tate made his money is a key part of this investigation.\n\nPolice want to know whether he lured women to Romania with promises of a serious relationship or marriage, before forcing or manipulating them into working for him as models in adult entertainment chat rooms.\n\nThey are also looking into rape allegations made by one of the witnesses.\n\nInvestigators have confirmed that six women have been identified as potential victims. But last week, two of the women in the investigation publicly denied any mistreatment by the Tate brothers.\n\nThe women - who have tattoos reading \"Property of Tate\" and \"Tate Girl\" - worked in the compound in Bucharest, where Andrew Tate lived with his brother and the models who staffed his adult web-cam business.\n\nThe BBC has verified their identities with a member of Tate staff.\n\nSpeaking to Romania's Antena 1 TV channel, one of the women - identified as Beatrice - said she had been \"good friends\" with the Tate brothers for two years and had \"Tate Girl\" tattooed on her arm \"out of respect for them\".\n\nThe other woman - Jasmin - said she had never seen Mr Tate or his brother Tristan be \"aggressive or rude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Beatrice and Jasmin, who Romanian police deem to be potential victims of Andrew Tate, say they were friends, not victims\n\n\"I was never threatened,\" Beatrice said. \"If I was, I wouldn't be stupid enough to stay in that house.\n\n\"You can't describe me as a victim in the case file if I'm not a victim.\"\n\nDescribing the moment police first entered the compound in December, Beatrice said 20 police officers charged in and went upstairs to a bedroom where, she says, two other women had locked themselves inside the room in fear of the raid.\n\n\"They broke the door down. [The women] screamed,\" Beatrice said.\n\n\"But the police didn't see that the key to the bedroom was lying on the bed.\"\n\nBBC News has spoken to others who have different memories of the raid.\n\nNo charges have yet been brought against the Tates - or the two Romanian women detained alongside them. But Mihaela Dragus, spokeswoman for Romania's National Anti-Trafficking Agency, says the case is already sending a strong message to both traffickers and victims.\n\nIn one of his social media videos, Andrew Tate explains why he moved to Romania in 2017.\n\n\"One of [my reasons] is the #MeToo era,\" he says. \"People say: 'Oh you are a rapist'. No, I am not a rapist, but I like the idea of being able to do what I want, I like being free.\"\n\n\"If she goes to the [Romanian] police and says: 'He raped me yesterday', they'll say ok, do you have evidence? Is there CCTV proof?\"\n\nNone of this is evidence that Mr Tate was involved in human trafficking or rape, but his assessment of Romania's attitude to sexual crimes is not wrong, says Laura Stefan, a legal expert and prominent anti-corruption campaigner working with the Expert Forum think tank.\n\n\"In a way, he's right,\" she told me. \"Listening to him, the way he explained why he came here, I could relate to that; I thought he made a good calculation - unfortunately.\"\n\nBut she says things are changing.\n\n\"Romania has a serious problem with trafficking, and I think the Romanian authorities have come to understand that this has to be dealt with,\" she explained.\n\n\"That means not only investigating a handful of hotshots, but also working with the victims and providing them with support.\"\n\nLast year, Romania made enough progress for the US Trafficking In Persons report to take it off their watchlist.\n\nBut the report also repeated concerns about Romanian officials themselves being involved in people trafficking.\n\nThis case, involving a controversial, high-profile personality with US-British citizenship, has put a fresh spotlight on how Romania handles allegations of organised crime and sexual exploitation.\n\nThere's huge public interest in this case.\n\nAnd whatever the truth about life behind the high black gates of his compound, this case is a test for both the Romanian authorities and for the reputation of Andrew Tate.", "A new law to ban all forms of conversion therapy in England and Wales will include practices aimed at transgender people, the government says.\n\nThe ban will outlaw attempts to change someone's sexuality or gender identity.\n\nMental health groups have warned all types of conversion therapy are \"unethical and potentially harmful\".\n\nThe government had previously said transgender conversion therapy would not be included in the ban.\n\nCulture Secretary Michelle Donelan said in a written statement that the bill would be published shortly and would \"protect everyone, including those targeted on the basis of their sexuality, or being transgender\".\n\nMs Donelan says it is a \"complex\" area and legislation must not \"harm the growing number of children and young adults experiencing gender-related distress, through inadvertently criminalising or chilling legitimate conversations parents or clinicians may have with their children\".\n\n\"We recognise the strength of feeling on the issue of harmful conversion practices and remain committed to protecting people from these practices and making sure they can live their lives free from the threat of harm or abuse,\" she added.\n\nThe bill will undergo pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint committee.\n\nConversion therapy - sometimes called \"gay cure\" therapy - tries to supress someone's sexual orientation or stop them identifying as a different gender to their sex recorded at birth.\n\nIt can include talking therapies and prayer, but more extreme forms can include exorcism, physical violence and food deprivation.\n\nIt is not known exactly how widespread the practice is but 5% of 108,000 people who responded to a UK-wide LGBT survey in 2018 said they had been offered some form of conversion therapy, while 2% had undergone it.\n\nOf the transgender respondents, 8% said they had been offered conversion therapy and 4% said they had undergone it.\n\nThe government was probably hoping its conversion therapy ban would be met with applause from campaigners who have spent years asking for it to become law.\n\nInstead, it has been met with a more cautious welcome. It is not the first time such promises have been made.\n\nCast your mind back to 2018, when the government made a raft of announcements after its landmark LGBT Action Plan.\n\nOne of the headline pledges was a plan to stop so-called conversion therapy practices.\n\nSince then, there have been several U-turns, endless debates in the media and even resignations from the government's LGBT advisory panel.\n\nWhile the announcement has been met with some caution, the government has committed to a rough time frame. It says details of the law will be thrashed out by MPs, Lords and experts some time before the autumn.\n\nThe culture secretary hopes this scrutiny will stop the bill having \"unintended consequences\" and protect \"everyone\" from such practices.\n\nThe government had announced last year that it was entirely scrapping plans for a ban, before quickly backtracking.\n\nIt then decided therapy relating to a person's sexuality would be banned but said its plans would not cover trans people and that separate work would be carried out into the \"complexity of issues\".\n\nIt said there were worries that a ban including transgender people could have \"unintended consequences\" which might affect teachers, parents and therapists helping children who are struggling with their gender identity.\n\nThat decision followed the Cass Review interim report which called for a rethink of children's gender identity services in England.\n\nHowever, a group of mental health bodies, including the NHS, published an open letter downplaying the risk of unintended consequences and called for any ban to include trans people.\n\nThe bill will now include all forms of conversion therapy including over-18s \"who do not consent and who are coerced or forced to undergo\" the practice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeni Morris, chief executive of LGBT+ anti-abuse charity Galop, has told the BBC she is glad to see trans people will be included within the proposed ban.\n\nShe's encouraging the government to bring \"this vital piece of legislation\" to Parliament quickly with no more delays as they work with \"victims and survivors who are experiencing conversion practices right now and our community deserves to be protected\".\n\nGalop runs the National Conversion Therapy Helpline which is funded by the government and helps people who have had, or are at risk of, conversion therapy.\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said the ban would \"end up criminalising consensual conversations with those who genuinely want help and support\".\n\nChristian Concern has said it is preparing legal action against any proposed legislation in this area.\n\nTuesday's announcement comes after the UK government blocked Scottish plans designed to make it easier for people to change their legal sex.\n\nMinisters said the draft law would conflict with equality protections applying across Great Britain.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seventy people were on the bus when it overturned\n\nA road has reopened after a double-decker bus carrying 70 Hinkley Point C workers overturned in icy road conditions in Somerset.\n\nInitially declared a major incident, police attended the crash, which also involved a motorcyclist, on the A39 near Cannington at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nThere were 70 people on board the bus and 54 patients were treated at the scene.\n\nA spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police said there were no fatalities.\n\nThe crash was downgraded from a major incident shortly after noon.\n\nPolice are no longer treating the crash as a major incident\n\nInsp Rebecca Wells-Cole said 26 of the 54 patients were \"walking wounded\" and being treated at Bridgwater minor injury unit and Southmead Hospital in Bristol.\n\n\"The incident was initially declared as a major incident due to the number of people involved and the resources required,\" she said.\n\nA spokesperson for the NHS in Somerset confirmed a \"small number\" of passengers on the bus required surgery.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"As of 3pm today, 27 patients were treated at the minor injuries unit in Bridgwater and a further 26 were treated at the emergency department at Musgrove Park Hospital for injuries consistent with a serious traffic collision.\n\n\"A small number require surgery and some have been admitted to inpatient wards.\"\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said 53 crashes were reported on Monday evening\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"A further three patients were taken to Southmead Hospital, Bristol, where they received treatment, but none have needed to be admitted to hospital.\n\n\"We would like to thank all our colleagues, including those who came in on their day off, as well as the emergency services who have been involved and supporting, and we wish all patients involved a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe crash site is about eight miles away from the nuclear power station, which is currently under construction.\n\nEDF Energy is building two new nuclear reactors there and it is the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in more than 20 years.\n\nPolice are advising the public to only travel where absolutely essential due to the treacherous driving conditions\n\nAbout 8,500 people work on the site with more than 5,500 workers using buses to get there.\n\nA spokesman for Hinkley Point said: \"Emergency services are on the scene and travel to and from the site has been suspended.\"\n\nCharis Ware, 45, who lives close to the scene of the crash, told BBC West she was woken by \"banging, shouting and horns blowing and screaming\".\n\nShe said she had counted at least 20 emergency service vehicles at the scene.\n\nCharis Ware was woken by the noise of the crash\n\n\"All I could hear was noise, lots of shouting,\" Ms Ware said.\n\n\"This is quite a busy road and we do have regular accidents but this one being quite a serious incident shook us all.\"\n\nBy 15:40 GMT on Tuesday, recovery teams had managed to right the bus, although the road remained closed.\n\nThe bus was back on its wheels by Tuesday afternoon\n\nAvon and Somerset Police say 53 crashes were reported on Monday evening.\n\nPolice said a further 67 calls were received for other road-related incidents, between 18:00 and 23:00 on Monday, taking the total number of reports to more than 100 in five hours.\n\n\"The conditions are extremely icy and dangerous due to the freezing conditions overnight and residual water on the road from the past week's wet weather,\" a spokesperson for police said.\n\nSeven of these incidents were reported to have resulted in injuries, but they are not thought to be serious.\n\nBridgwater MP Ian Liddell-Grainger said: \"Obviously it was a terrifying experience for everyone on that bus and my thoughts are with them and their families.\n\n\"But we absolutely must get to the bottom of why this crash occurred because EDF is very conscious of the need to maintain the highest safety standards for the protection of their workers - and that concern naturally extends to those periods when they are being transferred to and from the site.\n\n\"I am aware police have been reporting a high number of accidents in the area this morning, all of them blamed on icy road conditions.\n\n\"We need to establish as soon as we can whether similar circumstances played a role in this particular event.\"\n\nLocals call it a \"red route\" because they hear so many sirens and see so many emergency vehicles responding to incidents.\n\nThey say this is the worst crash in recent memory. EDF said the drivers it uses to transport workers to and from the site are highly trained and drive \"defensively\".\n\nThe bus, despite toppling over isn't as badly damaged as you might expect, which seems to indicate it wasn't travelling very fast.\n\nPolice have been clearing debris from the road and collecting the injured workers' belongings. The operation to recover the vehicles is under way. The road is likely to be reopened this afternoon\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice across central areas of the UK is in place, as temperatures reached a low of -2C in Somerset last night.\n\n\"We have seen a significantly higher number of road-related collisions and incidents in the past 12 hours, which has increased the demand on police resources,\" added Supt Runacres.\n\nA significant number of police, fire and ambulance units are at the scene of the A39.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeveral former stars of BBC Breakfast have returned to the show for its 40th birthday celebrations.\n\nFrancis Wilson, Russell Grant and Debbie Rix were among the familiar faces returning to the famous red sofa.\n\nDiana Moran, aka the Green Goddess, also turned back the clock to lead an exercise routine at Waterloo station.\n\nThe original blue-and-yellow analogue clock returned to the bottom-right of the screen, replacing the current red digital clock for one day only.\n\n\"The problem we hadn't foreseen is there are lots of younger people who have never seen an analogue clock and are trying to work out what that strange blue thing is at the bottom of the screen,\" Kay told viewers.\n\nElsewhere, newsreader-turned-author Rix joked as she returned to the programme: \"The sofa is just as uncomfortable. They design it to look groovy, but nobody thinks about who's got to sit on it.\"\n\nThe first episode of BBC Breakfast Time aired on 17 January 1983.\n\nPresenters past and present celebrated the programme by reflecting on how it has become \"more newsy\", with presenters wearing more formal attire than the original jumpers.\n\nCharlie Stayt, who presents the show in the second half of the week, seen in the make-up chair on Tuesday\n\nDebbie Rix brought a photo of her first day presenting the show\n\n\"People said television in the morning, that's disgusting. Some even said it was immoral.\"\n\nForty years on, Ron Neil, who was the first editor of Breakfast Time knew there were doubts about this strange new arrival on television.\n\nBut everything had changed at the corporation when the news broke that their rival was about to take the early morning plunge.\n\nThe BBC, he says, \"hummed, it hawed, it hesitated… and then one bright day ITV announced it was going to do breakfast TV and from that day onwards the BBC decided it was going to do breakfast television and it was going to do it first.\n\n\"The question was what would be the mood of this new type of programme. Ron and the rest of the team had a vision.\n\n\"Everyone thought it should be welcoming, it should be light hearted. It shouldn't be a boring man behind a desk giving you a lecture. I'm not sure that we said to Frank Bough to wear a jumper.\n\nThe production gallery, pictured during the 40th birthday programme\n\n\"I just think Frank decided to put on a jumper. Within a few weeks, ladies up and down the land began to knit jumpers for Frank.\"\n\nAlso watching on that first day were their slightly disgruntled rivals at ITV - the BBC had sneaked in ahead of them by two weeks. But, the original TV AM formula was rather more formal and serious than the BBC.\n\nIt was not what the pundits or the advertisers had been expecting and for TV AM it was to be the beginning of a rather rocky period.\n\n17 January 1983 was just the beginning. Breakfast TV was not just a new arrival in the schedules it was to be for months, front page news.\n\nRix, one of the first newsreaders on British breakfast TV, admitted she was a \"tiny frightened rabbit\" of a person when she first started, as she reminisced about the show's launch in 1983.\n\nAnother former presenter, Dan Walker tweeted that it had been a \"real privilege\" to have hosted the show for six years.\n\nWalker, who previously presented the programme opposite Louise Minchin, wrote: \"Happy 40th birthday to BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"It is a special programme, made by an brilliant, dedicated team and it continues to be an important show for the huge, loyal audience.\"", "Royal Mail has been accused by a senior MP of breaching its legal obligations by prioritising parcels over letters.\n\nBusiness Committee chair Darren Jones said a poster in a delivery office sent to him by a whistle-blower had told workers to favour delivering parcels.\n\nHe showed it to Royal Mail chief executive Simon Thompson who was giving evidence to the committee.\n\nMr Thompson said he was aware of the sign but that it was \"absolutely not our policy\".\n\nShowing Mr Thompson the poster, Mr Jones said \"you are unilaterally only delivering on 50% of the USO (Universal Service Obligation)\" and asked him if the poster represented Royal Mail policy.\n\nUnder the Universal Service Obligation, Royal Mail is legally required to deliver letters to every address in the UK, six days a week, at a uniform price, and parcels five days a week.\n\nA postal worker gave a copy of the poster to the BBC\n\nMr Thompson denied that the message on the poster was company policy, adding that the poster was a \"local action\" and that it had been \"dealt with\".\n\nBut the committee chair sounded unconvinced by what he heard. \"I'd remind you Mr Thompson that misleading Parliament is not something that we appreciate here on the committee.'' And he asked the chief executive to write to the committee to ''prove'' that this was not Royal Mail policy.\n\nDavid Bharrat, a postal worker who is also a branch secretary for the Communication Workers Union, says the poster was displayed in a delivery office in the Harrow and District area.\n\nHe said the sign appeared in August last year and told the BBC: \"We feel depressed. We're leaving mail behind and that's not what we're about, postmen regard all mail as important.\"\n\nMr Bharrat said that letters at his delivery office regularly sat in sorting devices known as \"frames\"' for four days at a time.\n\nHe said that the poster would not have been put up on the wall without the permission of a senior manager. \"Local managers do not do anything without getting advice from senior management.\"\n\nEarlier in the hearing, the Conservative MP for Rushcliffe, Ruth Edwards, said that postal workers from across the country had contacted her to say that they had specifically been told to prioritise parcels.\n\nMr Thompson said that letters and parcels were given equal importance by the company. \"We've been very, very clear that there is no difference between the two. We've written to our teams on a regular basis, I remember in my first year I wrote to every postal worker reminding them of the importance of letters.\"", "Downing Street insists that using Section 35 of the Scotland Act to veto this Holyrood bill is not a political choice but a legal necessity.\n\nThat argument is complicated by the fact that when the mechanism was proposed in 1998, the Conservatives’ Constitutional Affairs Spokesman Michael Ancram was highly critical of it.\n\nThe MP for Devizes invoked the notion of colonialism by referring to it as a “governor-general clause” which appeared “to place draconian powers in the hands of the Secretary of State”.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is now trying to frame the decision to use Section 35 (confusingly known at the time as Clause 33) as an attack on devolution itself.\n\nBut her position is complicated by the fact that SNP MPs voted for the Scotland Act after abstaining on Ancram’s amendment\n\nIt sought to raise the bar for invoking Section 35 albeit in a way that would probably not have made a difference in this case as it simply required the minister to seek legal advice before making a decision, which the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack appears to have done.\n\nLabour, which designed the devolutionary framework, is in more of a pickle about the gender law itself. UK leader Sir Keir Starmer expressed concerns about it on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg even though Scottish Labour MSPs had voted for it.\n\nSo we are now heading for the courts. In the meantime, you might want to ask Ancram for his lottery numbers because, in the House of Commons debate on 12 May 1998, he made this prediction:\n\n“…the purpose of the Opposition throughout the passage of the Bill has been to try to identify the areas in it that could lead to dramatic confrontation between the Parliament and Government in Edinburgh and the Parliament and Government in London.\n\n\"I can see within this draconian power—were it used in a way that ran counter to the wishes of the Scottish Parliament—the epitome of such a confrontation.”", "Tech bosses could face jail time for failing to protect children online, after the government conceded to a backbench rebellion.\n\nNearly 50 Tory MPs wanted to amend the Online Safety Bill to introduce two-year sentences for managers who fail to stop children seeing harmful material.\n\nThe government had been facing defeat, with Labour also supporting the move.\n\nUnder a deal with the rebels to stave off defeat, ministers have now promised to introduce similar proposals.\n\nIt is the third time that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backed down in the face of rebellious backbenchers since taking power in October.\n\nIt follows concessions late last year on the issues of housing targets for councils and restrictions on onshore wind farms.\n\nThe bill would oblige managers of sites hosting user-generated content, including social media sites, to take \"proportionate measures\" to stop children seeing harmful material.\n\nThe draft law says this could be through measures such as age verification, taking content down, and parental controls.\n\nCurrently the bill would only make managers criminally liable for failing to give information to media regulator Ofcom, which is set to gain wide-ranging powers to police the internet under the new law.\n\nMaking managers liable for a failure to comply with broader safety duties in the bill was rejected after a consultation ahead of the bill's introduction, which concluded it could make the UK tech sector less attractive.\n\nThe bill introduces fines of up to 10% of global revenue for companies failing in their legal duties, including to protect children.\n\nHowever, the Tory rebels had argued that only personal liability for company bosses would ensure the child safety provisions are effective.\n\nRebels have agreed to withdraw their amendment after talks with Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan over the weekend.\n\nIn exchange, the government has now agreed to introduce an amendment of its own along similar lines when the bill gets to the House of Lords - giving ministers more time to work on the wording.\n\nMs Donelan said the measures, based on a recently-passed law in Ireland, would introduce criminal liability for bosses failing to comply with enforcement notices issued by Ofcom.\n\nShe said this would give the bill \"additional teeth\" and ensure people were held to account if they failed to properly protect children.\n\nShe added that criminal penalties, including imprisonment and fines, would be in line with \"similar offences\".\n\nHowever, Ms Donelan stressed the proposals would not affect \"those who have acted in good faith to comply in a proportionate way\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, leading Tory rebel Miriam Cates said she was \"delighted\" with the government's commitments, adding that \"only personal criminal liability will drive proactive change\" in the industry.\n\n\"We've seen this is other areas, such as the financial services industry and the construction industry,\" she added.\n\nSir Jeremy Wright, a former attorney general, said there was a \"strong case\" for extending criminal liability - but this must be \"appropriately\" designed, adding the rebels' amendment had been too broad.\n\nMs Donelan said the government would also take steps to tackle the advertising of small boat Channel crossings on social media, in response to calls led by Tory MP Natalie Elphicke, who represents Dover.\n\nShe said changes to the bill would mean posting videos which showed Channel crossings in a \"positive light\" could be an offence and platforms would have to \"proactively remove\" such content.\n\nLabour's shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said the concessions showed the prime minister's \"weakness\".\n\nShe welcomed the proposed changes to the bill but accused the government of \"watering down\" the legislation, arguing the scope of regulator Ofcom was too narrow.\n\n\"The Conservatives have allowed online harms to thrive and proliferate because of their failure to deliver on this legislation which is years in the making,\" she added.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill was introduced in March under Boris Johnson, and has been repeatedly altered during its passage through Parliament.\n\nIts progress was further delayed last month when the government decided to make more changes to the bill.\n\nThe bill will now begin what is expected to be a lengthy journey through the House of Lords, after MPs gave their final approval on Tuesday.", "Nadhim Zahawi ignored questions from reporters in Downing Street\n\nFormer Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has not denied a report he has agreed to pay millions of pounds in tax to settle a dispute with Revenue and Customs.\n\nIt comes after the Sun on Sunday claimed Mr Zahawi's representatives would pay a \"seven-figure sum\" to HMRC.\n\nBBC News has not been able to verify the Sun story but a representative for Mr Zahawi did not issue a denial when asked if it was true.\n\nHis tax affairs \"were and are fully up to date and paid in the UK\", they said.\n\nHMRC said it would not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers.\n\nLabour says Mr Zahawi, who now chairs the Conservative Party, has \"serious questions\" to answer about his tax affairs.\n\nThe questions centre on whether Mr Zahawi tried to avoid paying tax by using an offshore company to hold shares in polling company YouGov.\n\nThe minister, who has a personal fortune estimated at up to £100m, co-founded YouGov in 2000, before he entered politics.\n\nAt the time, his co-founder was given just over 40% of the shares in the company.\n\nUnusually, Mr Zahawi did not take any shares himself. However, a similar size shareholding was allocated to Balshore Investments Ltd, based in Gibraltar.\n\nDan Neidle, a Labour-supporting tax lawyer, who has looked into Mr Zahawi's affairs, last year described his decision not to take any YouGov shares himself as \"surprising and unusual.\" He questioned why the arrangement had been put in place.\n\nYouGov's 2009 annual report said: \"Balshore Investments Ltd is the family trust of Nadhim Zahawi, an executive director of YouGov PLC.\"\n\nA representative for Mr Zahawi said: \"Neither he nor his direct family are beneficiaries of Balshore Investments or any trust associated with it.\n\n\"Mr Zahawi has always said that he will answer any questions from HMRC, which he has always done.\"\n\nBy 2018, YouGov had become a very successful business and Mr Neidle says company accounts suggest Balshore Investments Ltd had sold shares it had held in the company for a total of up to £27m.\n\nMr Neidle has estimated the tax due, if this had been liable to UK capital gains tax, would have been in the region of £3.7m.\n\nBBC News asked Mr Zahawi's spokesman whether any sum had been paid, or was planned to be paid, by Mr Zahawi, or a representative, to HMRC - but he declined to comment.\n\nIt also asked whether any such sum had been to settle a tax matter identified by HMRC and whether that had been in relation to YouGov but did not receive an answer.\n\nReacting to the reports about a payment to HMRC, Anneliese Dodds, who chairs the Labour Party, said: \"If true, this is another nail in the coffin of the honesty, integrity and accountability promised by Rishi Sunak.\n\n\"Not for the first time, Rishi Sunak's judgement has been called into serious question. The question remains is he strong enough to sack Nadhim Zahawi?\"\n\nMr Zahawi ignored reporters' questions on his way in and out of a cabinet meeting, in Downing Street, on Tuesday morning.\n\nAsked if the public had a right to know if Mr Zahawi had made a large payment to the tax authorities, his cabinet colleague Gillian Keegan said: \"He is paying tax, so that's the important thing.\n\n\"His tax affairs are up to date,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nJurgen Klopp said he has waited \"ages\" for Liverpool to win a game with a positive performance, after the Reds booked their place in the FA Cup fourth round with a gutsy victory over Wolves at Molineux.\n\nHarvey Elliott's stunning first-half drive earned Klopp's team their first win since the turn of the year, just three days after a dismal defeat at Brighton in the Premier League.\n\nWolves applied heavy pressure in the latter stages but the much-changed visitors held on to book a fourth-round meeting with the Seagulls on Sunday, 29 January.\n\n\"It feels like ages ago we had that feeling of winning and playing well,\" Klopp told BBC One afterwards.\n\n\"We had to fight hard at the end but we controlled the game for long periods. It's great and the reaction we wanted to see.\"\n\nTuesday's triumph was Liverpool's third since the resumption of domestic football after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nA 3-2 League Cup loss at Manchester City on 22 December was followed by hard-fought victories over Aston Villa and Leicester in the Premier League, before humbling defeats at Brentford and Brighton either side of the 2-2 draw with Wolves at Anfield.\n\n\"We had a few man-of-the-match performances today,\" Klopp continued. \"We played a really good first half, had good periods in the second and in the end it was just about passion to block the shots.\"\n\nWolves' improvement under Julen Lopetegui has been clear to see but the home side failed to seriously threaten Caoimhin Kelleher's goal until late on, when Ruben Neves, Raul Jimenez and Matheus Cunha all went close to an equaliser.\n• None Go straight to all the best Wolves content\n\nThere was a brief stoppage in play within the first minute due to a power cut inside the stadium, but Liverpool's visiting supporters did not have to wait much longer for teenager Elliott to light up Molineux with a goal of the highest quality.\n\nThe 19-year-old - one of eight changes from Saturday's loss at Brighton - collected a pass from Thiago Alcantara, advanced unchallenged into the Wolves half and unleashed a ferocious 30-yard effort which sailed over the dive of goalkeeper Jose Sa and into the net.\n\nThe goal appeared to settle Liverpool, who continued to attack with pace and intensity while forcing the hosts into errors in possession.\n\nFabio Carvalho had the ball in the Wolves net again 10 minutes before half-time, but the former Fulham forward was in an offside position from Naby Keita's through-ball and the goal was disallowed.\n\nWolves' best opportunity of the first half fell to the lively Adama Traore, who raced on to Neves' pass but failed to hit the target from a tight angle.\n\nLopetegui introduced Matheus Nunes and Nelson Semedo at half-time in an effort to give his team fresh impetus, but the hosts continued to labour in the final third until Cunha and Daniel Podence entered the fray with 25 minutes remaining.\n\nJimenez and Cunha both failed to hit the target from promising positions, before the latter sent a tame header into Kelleher's arms from deep inside the penalty area.\n\nFellow second-half substitute Curtis Jones missed an opportunity to double Liverpool's advantage when he dragged a shot just past the far post in the 90th minute, but the holders held on for a first clean sheet in eight games and a place in the fourth round.\n\n\"It's not easy playing against Liverpool, but in my opinion we deserved more from the second half,\" Lopetegui said. \"We had two or three clear situations - not chances but clear situations.\n\n\"We're sad of course. The most important is the Premier League, but while competing in the cup we had a big will to win in it.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt missed. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Diego Costa.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raúl Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Adama Traoré with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The Upflow ocean-bottom seismometer project is led from University College London, UK\n\nThe massive volcanic blast in the Pacific last year was felt 18,000km away on the other side of the world, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nThe cataclysmic eruption of Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai on 15 January 2022 sent pressure waves through Earth's atmosphere that connected with the sea surface and triggered 50 highly sensitive seismometers placed 5,000m under water on the seabed.\n\nIt was one of a number of intriguing phenomena picked up by the instrument network in the Azores-Madeira-Canary Islands region.\n\nScientists, led from University College London, had set up the stations primarily to detect earthquakes.\n\nThe goal is to use the signals from ground motions to image the interior of the planet, to trace the great upwellings of magma of the type that built the islands of the Portuguese and Spanish archipelagos.\n\nThe seismometers were laid down and picked up during two two-legged cruises\n\nThe project is called Upflow, or UPward mantle FLOW from novel seismic observations.\n\nSensing a far-off volcanic eruption through an atmosphere-ocean interaction was unexpected, as was the detected cacophony of whale song and the explosive sinking of a cargo ship carrying some of the most luxurious cars money can buy.\n\nThe volcano signal is interesting because it neatly illustrates the power and reach of the remarkable Pacific event.\n\nHunga-Tonga produced the highest ash cloud ever recorded, sending rocky particles more than half way to space.\n\nBut the energy involved also shook the atmosphere, despatching so called Lamb waves in all directions.\n\nThese are energetic waves in the air that move at the speed of sound, along a path guided by the surface of the planet.\n\nOver the eastern Atlantic they produced pressure changes that were transmitted to the seabed.\n\n\"It must have been a long wavelength feature because we see it best at the deepest seismometers on the abyssal plain, less well in shallower waters,\" UCL's Dr Stephen Hicks told BBC News.\n\nHave a look at the chart above. It displays the data from the Upflow instruments, arranged for distance from Tonga.\n\nJust over an hour after the onset of the mighty eruption, seismic waves from its associated Magnitude 5.8 earthquake ripple through the Atlantic network. This signal will have travelled around the Earth, through its crust, at a velocity of a few kilometres per second.\n\nIt's a further 14 hours before a Lamb wave arrives.\n\nBecause the pressure disturbance only moves at 330m/s, it takes a while to move across the network, producing the gradient, or slant, in the chart.\n\nThe Upflow seismometers were in position on the Atlantic Ocean floor for one year, ending in September 2022.\n\nThe submerged instruments carried onboard dataloggers, which meant scientists had to recover them to access and analyse their information.\n\nA research vessel went from site to site over a period of six weeks to make the retrievals.\n\n\"The protocols were like a space mission,\" recalled principal investigator Prof Ana Ferreira.\n\n\"The seismometers were anchored to the seabed. A release mechanism would allow them to float back to the surface but not until we had transmitted a special code. Only one didn't come back.\"\n\nAs part of its year-long primary mission, the network recorded seismic signals from more than 250 large earthquakes worldwide, including a Magnitude 8.2 in Alaska.\n\nThe network recorded two explosions as the car carrier Felicity Ace sank off the Azores\n\nThese big tremors can act like a strobe light to illuminate the interior structure of our world.\n\nThe scientists want to investigate the plumes of hot rock that rise up from deep, and which, when they breach the crust, will result in volcanoes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The whale song signal recorded by the seismometers is \"sonified\" to make it audible\n\nThe Azores, the Canaries and Madeira were all built as a consequence of such activity. The Hawaiian arc is another example.\n\nPlumes have also been responsible through geological history for some of the greatest ever outpourings of lava. In Siberia and India, there are regions where hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometres of molten material spilled across the land surface.\n\nLava pouring from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands\n\n\"These large igneous provinces, as we call them, coincided with changes in the climate and also mass extinctions,\" explained Prof Ferreira.\n\nNothing on that scale looks like it is about to happen under the area studied by Upflow, fortunately. But it's thought still to be an excellent laboratory.\n\nIts siting was close to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where some of Earth's tectonic plates meet. The nearby continent of Africa would also influence how plumes would flow. The Upflow team hopes to publish its imagery in the next couple of years.\n\nThe project is funded by the European Research Council. Co-principal investigator is Prof Miguel Miranda from the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Tonga volcano despatched Lamb waves to circle the globe. Video looped three times. (Himawari-8/JMA/NCEO/@simon_sat)", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nPlay on the outside courts at the Australian Open was interrupted by extreme heat and then rain on the second day in Melbourne.\n\nWith temperatures above 35C, matches were stopped at 14:15 local time.\n\nThey resumed after a three-hour break, allowing several matches to be completed, but rain later in the evening further held up play.\n\nAndy Murray's match against Matteo Berrettini was allowed to start under the roof on Rod Laver Arena.\n\nMatches on Margaret Court Arena and John Cain Arena - which both have a roof - were also allowed to continue.\n\nPlay stopped outside when the Australian Open heat stress scale - which takes into account the strength of the sun, air temperature in the shade, relative humidity, and wind speed - reached its highest level of five.\n\nThe extreme heat policy had earlier come into effect when the scale hit four, allowing singles players to take a 10-minute break during the match and have a shower or use cooling rooms.\n\nBritain's Dan Evans was involved in one of the matches that was delayed by the heat, leading two sets to one against Argentina's Facunado Bagnis.\n\nEvans, like many of the players who were involved in the earlier matches, used an ice pack on his head during changeovers.\n\nHe returned to court later to register a 6-4 4-6 6-4 6-4 win.\n\nSeventeen of Tuesday's scheduled matches were either unfinished or did not start, meaning Wednesday will be a packed schedule and more rain is forecast.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The Lyell team cross paths with the mafia:\n• None Key moments on the pitch, candid interviews with the players and unique behind-the-scenes insight", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nA man has been charged with assaulting Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale after Sunday's match away to Tottenham.\n\nMetropolitan Police confirmed he faces charges of assault by beating, going onto an area adjacent to a playing area and throwing a missile onto a football playing area.\n\nJoseph Watts, 35, from Hackney, is due to appear at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 17 February.\n\nRamsdale was instrumental as Arsenal won the north London derby 2-0.\n\nSpurs, the hosts on Sunday, have assisted the Met's football investigations team in their enquiries.\n\nThe incident was condemned by the Professional Footballers' Association and the Football Association, while Tottenham said the fan would face \"an immediate ban\".", "Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as prime minister last year\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a book about his turbulent time as prime minister, described as a \"memoir like no other\".\n\nPublisher HarperCollins has bought the rights to the memoir, which is yet to be titled.\n\nNo publication date has been set for the account of Mr Johnson's time in office.\n\nA biographer and friend of Mr Johnson said he expected the former PM to make a \"vast sum\" from the book deal.\n\n\"It will be tremendously readable and no ghost writer will be required,\" Andrew Gimson, author of The Rise of Boris Johnson, told the BBC. \"People pay vast amounts of money for these books.\"\n\nLiterary agents have predicted Mr Johnson could be paid \"north of £1m\" for a memoir about his spell as prime minister.\n\nHarperCollins refused to share details about how much Mr Johnson was paid for the deal, when the book might be finished, or how many copies it expected to sell.\n\nIn brief statement, its publishing director, Arabella Pike, said: \"I look forward to working with Boris Johnson as he writes his account of his time in office during some of the most momentous events the United Kingdom has seen in recent times.\"\n\nMr Johnson was forced to resign by his ministers last July after a series of controversies shattered confidence in his leadership.\n\nHe attempted a comeback after his successor, Liz Truss, quit within weeks of taking office, but ultimately stood aside, and saw Rishi Sunak become prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson's time in office was defined, in part, by the Covid-19 pandemic and the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nThere has been speculation that Mr Johnson is plotting a return to frontline politics and has said he will stand again as an MP at the next general election.\n\nMr Gimson said the memoir will be \"an important exercise in rescuing his reputation\" and \"part of the audience for this will be his own party\".\n\n\"He's got to tell those people I'm worth another go,\" Mr Gimson said, predicting the book could be published this year.\n\nA former journalist, Mr Johnson had a long career in the media before becoming prime minister, working as editor of the Spectator from 1999 to 2005 and as a columnist for the Telegraph.\n\nOther UK prime ministers have secured lucrative books deals, receiving large sums for the publishing rights.\n\nSir Tony Blair was reported to have been paid about £5m in 2007 for his political memoir A Journey, while David Cameron was reported to have earned £1.5m for his memoir, For The Record.\n\nMr Johnson has already written a number of books, including The Churchill Factor, a biography of his hero and wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nAs a backbench Conservative MP, Mr Johnson has also made a considerable amount of money touring the speaking circuit, declaring more than £1m in speaking fees since leaving office in September.\n\nLast week, parliamentary records showed a company set up by Mr Johnson had received a £1m donation from crypto-currency investor.", "In different parts of the UK, people are being told to take care on the roads - and in some places to avoid travelling altogether.\n\nDespite this, breakdown service the AA says it is responding to about 12,500 incidents a day this week - an increase of about 25% since Saturday.\n\nPart of the reason for this is the change in temperatures damaging road surfaces and creating potholes, the AA says.\n\n\"We advise drivers to adjust their speed to suit the conditions, especially when driving on wet or icy roads and to leave more room between their car and the one in front,\" AA spokesperson Tony Rich warns.\n\n\"Drivers can help themselves by preparing for their journey in advance by checking the basics such as tyres, oil, coolant and fuel/electric charge levels before they set off,\" he adds.\n\nThe RAC Breakdown reported a similar picture, with today's cold weather causing \"a huge spike in breakdowns\".\n\n\"Flat batteries are the top reason for drivers calling us out as cars with older ones finally give up the ghost in the cold,\" says RAC breakdown spokesperson Rod Dennis.\n\nIt's \"vital\" that everyone \"slows down and gives themselves time to plenty of time to brake and react\" if something unexpected happens, he adds.", "Andrey Medvedev in uniform before defecting from Wagner\n\nA former commander with the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group has claimed asylum in Norway after deserting from the mercenary outfit.\n\nAndrey Medvedev, 26, crossed the border into Norway last Friday, where he was detained by border guards.\n\nHe is currently being held in the Oslo area where he faces charges of illegal entry to Norway, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the BBC.\n\nMr Risnes said his client left Wagner after witnessing war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nThe Norwegian Border Guard confirmed to the BBC that a Russian man had been detained after crossing the country's 198km (123 mile) long border with Russia, but said it could not comment further for \"reasons of security and privacy\".\n\nTarjei Sirma-Tellefsen, police chief of staff in the Norwegian region of Finnmark, said a man had been detained by a border patrol and said he had applied for asylum.\n\nBut the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net, who helped Mr Medvedev leave Russia, confirmed his identity. His escape is believed to be the first known instance of one of the group's soldiers defecting to the West.\n\nGulagu.net's founder Vladimir Osechkin told the BBC that Mr Medvedev had joined the paramilitary group in July 2022 on a four-month contract, but had deserted after witnessing a host of human rights abuses and war crimes while serving in Ukraine.\n\nHe said that Mr Medvedev is a former soldier in the Russian army and that he later served time in prison between 2017 and 2018 before joining the Wagner Group.\n\nHe was placed in charge of a Wagner division in Ukraine, where the mercenary group supplied him with around 30-40 troops every week, Mr Osechkin said.\n\nIn a video posted by Gulagu.net to its social media channels, Mr Medvedev said he fled Ukraine in November after being informed that the group intended to extend his contract indefinitely.\n\nAfter spending two months underground in Russia, he crossed the border into Norway last week.\n\nMr Risnes said his client had also witnessed a host of war crimes while fighting in Ukraine, including seeing \"deserters being executed\" by the Wagner Group's internal security service.\n\n\"In short he felt betrayed and wanted to leave as soon as possible,\" Mr Risnes said.\n\nHe added that he believed Mr Medvedev had taken some evidence of war crimes with him to Norway and that he intends to share his information with groups investigating war crimes in the coming weeks.\n\nIn response, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared to laugh off the allegations.\n\nIn a press release from one of his companies, Prigozhin issued a sarcastic statement, linking Mr Medvedev to a non-existent Nordic mercenary unit and said he was a Norwegian citizen, in an apparent attempt to mock the man's testimony.\n\nPrigozhin also accused him of \"mistreatment of prisoners\" and said that his former employee was \"very dangerous\". Mr Risnes told the BBC that the Wagner leader's claims were not true.\n\nUK officials believe the Wagner Group makes up about 10% of Russia's forces in Ukraine, and played a significant part in helping Moscow's forces take the town of Soledar in eastern Donbas region last week.\n\nThousands of its troops have been recruited from Russian prisons. Mr Prigozhin - a former convict himself - has promised recruits their freedom in exchange for six months service in Ukraine.\n\nBefore the invasion of Ukraine, it had only a few thousand mercenaries. Most were believed to be experienced former soldiers, including some from Russia's elite regiments and special forces.\n\nSince 2015, it is believed to have deployed troops to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: As far as pranks go it was a good one - Gary Lineker tells Newsnight\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has laughed off the moment sex noises transmitted by a YouTube prankster disrupted the show's live coverage.\n\nNoises from a porn clip were heard as Lineker presented pre-match build-up before the Wolves v Liverpool fixture.\n\nA frenzied studio hunt uncovered a planted mobile phone - and YouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis claimed he was behind the stunt on Tuesday's show.\n\nThe BBC apologised to any viewers who were offended.\n\nBut Lineker, who later tweeted a picture of the mobile phone he said was \"taped to the back of the set\", said he thought there was nothing to apologise for.\n\nCalling it a \"good prank\", he said: \"As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.\"\n\nThe prank played out as Lineker presented the programme in a studio at Wolverhampton's Molineux Stadium alongside pundits Paul Ince and Danny Murphy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Two's Newsnight later on Tuesday, Lineker explained that he initially thought a video had been sent to one of the pundits' phones that they had inadvertently left switched on.\n\nBut it was \"too loud\", he said, and he noticed that every time the producers cut away from the studio to show a video clip, the noises immediately stopped.\n\nSo he reasoned that it must be someone watching on TV who was triggering them remotely.\n\nAsked by Newsnight how loud the sound effect was in the studio, the broadcaster said he was unable to hear what any of the producers were telling him in his earphones, making it \"quite difficult\" to carry on with the pre-match build-up.\n\nAt one stage he had to explain what he thought was going on to viewers and said \"Somebody's sending something on someone's phone, I think.\n\n\"I don't know whether you heard it at home.\"\n\nWhen the coverage of the match itself started - and the studio knew they had a clear 45 minutes off air before Lineker and the pundits would be back to discuss the first half action, a detailed search began.\n\nIt was not long before Lineker was able to share the explanation on Twitter as he shared a picture of a mobile phone on Twitter and three laughing emojis alongside the words: \"Well, we found this taped to the back of the set.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gary Lineker 💙💛 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC issued an official statement which read: \"We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening. We are investigating how this happened.\"\n\nLess than an hour after coming off air on BBC One, Lineker was back on BBC Two to discuss what had happened on Newsnight.\n\nHe said he could see the funny side and he questioned why the BBC had issued an apology.\n\n\"We've certainly got nothing to [be sorry] for,\" he told the BBC's Kirsty Wark, while travelling back from the FA Cup match.\n\n\"If you told me this morning that tonight I'd be on Newsnight talking about a porn scandal,\" he added, laughing, \"I would have been terrified.\"\n\nThe incident did not go unnoticed by viewers, with clips of the moment widely shared on social media on Tuesday evening.\n\nYouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis claimed he was behind the stunt, posting a video on Twitter that appeared to show him at Molineux.\n\nJarvis was handed a suspended sentence last October after being convicted of aggravated trespass over an incident in which he collided with England cricketer Jonny Bairstow while invading the Oval pitch in south London during Test Match.\n\nHe was given an eight-week prison sentence suspended for two years and was banned from attending any venue where a sporting fixture is being held in England and Wales for two years.\n\nHe was also banned from travelling abroad for 12 months and made subject to a rehabilitation activity requirement.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Imogen says people notice her feeding tube more than her wheelchair\n\nHow would you feel if the first question many strangers asked was \"what's wrong with you?\" or \"what's that on your face?\"\n\nThat is the reality for 11-year-old Imogen from Caldicot, Monmouthshire, who said she has had enough after people started touching her face.\n\nImogen has cerebral palsy and has been fed through a tube since last March because she was unwell and losing weight.\n\n\"The most annoying thing possible with people, and adults do this too, is they stare at you and because it's on my face they keep eye contact with me the whole time,\" she said.\n\n\"Normally I just stare at the floor and then they stop.\"\n\nBBC Wales is following Imogen and her mum Catherine over the next year, as they navigate challenges that are faced by many families with a disabled child - accessing education and other services and seemingly endless medical appointments.\n\nImogen says she stares at the floor so people don't stare at her\n\nImogen has been home-schooled since she was six because her mum has been in dispute with the council about her needs, including over the provision of disabled toilets.\n\nMonmouthshire Council said all schools in the county had disabled toilets.\n\nBespoke toilet facilities had been installed for Imogen, it added, in schools identified by the family, as well providing training and resources to staff.\n\nShe hopes to re-enter mainstream education this year and start secondary school in September.\n\nImogen relies on her wheelchair to get around due to her treatment\n\nImogen has been undergoing treatment to try to help her walk and since September she has been in casts to stretch her muscles and could walk short distances in them.\n\nLast week, she tried new splints to give her better support, but the transition has not been straightforward, so for the moment it means that Imogen has to rely on her wheelchair again and crawl up the stairs in her house.\n\nThere will be more doctors appointments, so it is a big year ahead, but one of the main things Imogen wants is to talk about is how people behave around her.\n\n\"People grab your face. Touch you,\" she said. \"Once a random child picked this up [her tube] and said 'what is this?'\n\n\"The thing I struggle with is when I am with my friends who are all in wheelchairs, they get it,\" she said. \"But when I am trying to make friends with new people, the first question is always 'what's that thing on your face?'\n\n\"It's sometimes hard to explain because, especially a lot of children don't understand the medical terms of it,\" she said. \"Sometimes I just say to the younger ones, it helps me stay strong like a superhero. It's annoying.\"\n\nCatherine says they became used to people staring when Imogen was younger and in her wheelchair but that was happening less as she has got older.\n\nBut since having the tube fitted last year, Catherine said it became much more noticeable, recalling a difficult shopping trip before Christmas when they were stared at the whole time.\n\n\"Staring at her makes her feel really uncomfortable and self-conscious,\" said Catherine, who is Imogen's full-time carer. \"And I think people probably just don't realise how uncomfortable it makes her feel.\n\n\"Actually if they were to decide to spark up a conversation, not just touch her and stare. But it's also how they ask. Sometimes we get 'what's wrong with you? Or 'we hope it's not permanent'.\"\n\nThese are the casts being fitted to Imogen's legs to help stretch out her muscles\n\n\"I would happily talk about it, if they asked me,\" Imogen said. \"They could have said, 'if you don't mind me asking, not meaning to be rude, why are you a wheelchair user?'\n\n\"It just depends how they ask really. It's ok to ask questions. We are not going to take offence.\"\n\nImogen is sport mad and plays tennis for Wales, as well as loving horse riding and basketball, swimming and surfing.\n\nSo if you see her and her mum out on the court or on the beach, they are hoping you might stop and think about what you say and do around her and other people with disabilities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nThe first minister said any veto of the legislation would be an \"outrage\".\n\nThe UK government said it had not yet decided whether to use powers which would stop the bill becoming law.\n\nMs Sturgeon also criticised Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for saying that 16-year olds were too young to decide about changing their gender.\n\nIt would mean that people in Scotland would no longer require a medical diagnosis to change gender. The timescale involved would also be reduced.\n\nThe UK government is considering using its own powers to block the Scottish legislation.\n\nUnder Section 35 of the Scotland Act, ministers can stop a bill getting royal assent - a power which has never previously been used.\n\nDowning Street said Scottish Secretary Alister Jack would make an announcement ahead of Wednesday's deadline.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"No decision has been taken at this point by the UK government.\n\n\"It's the secretary of state for Scotland who is the ultimate decision-maker.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said there were no grounds to challenge the legislation, as it falls within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe said: \"It doesn't affect the operation of the equality act and it was passed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish Parliament after very lengthy and intense scrutiny by MSPs of all parties.\n\n\"If there is a decision to challenge, then in my view then it will quite simply be a political decision and it will be using trans people, already one of the most vulnerable stigmatised groups in our society, as a political weapon.\n\n\"I think that will be unconscionable, indefensible and really quite disgraceful.\"\n\nUK ministers have concerns the Scottish system could come into conflict with UK-wide equalities law.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the government was taking advice on the implications of the reforms \"as is completely standard practice\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the significance the UK government using Section 35 powers would \"go beyond the particular subject matter\" of gender reforms.\n\nShe added: \"There is a bigger issue of principle here, the right of the Scottish Parliament to legislate within its areas of competence.\n\n\"If we see a challenge this week then we will be seeing yet more evidence from this UK government of complete contempt for the Scottish Parliament and devolution.\"\n\nThe first minister also said it would \"embolden\" the UK government to use Section 35 powers on other issues, which she described as \"a very slippery slope indeed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. '16 is too young to change legal gender', says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nAt a Scottish government media briefing on the health service, Ms Sturgeon was also asked about Sir Keir Starmer's views on the gender reforms.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he had concerns and felt 16-year-olds were too young to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nBut he stopped short of supporting a challenge to the legislation.\n\nMs Sturgeon pointed out that Scottish Labour had voted for the legislation at Holyrood.\n\nShe said: \"If he backed any move by the government to block this he would be showing utter contempt for his own Scottish party as well as the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nA survey conducted for the BBC last year showed general sympathy towards trans people alongside uncertainty over some of the details of Scotland's gender reforms.\n\nThe controversial legislation, which is expected to come into force later this year, lowers the age at which people can apply for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16.\n\nIt also removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while applicants only needing to have lived as their acquired gender for three months rather than two years - or six months if they are aged 16 or 17.\n\nThe BBC poll found people aged 16 to 34 were more likely than older people to support making it easier to acquire a gender recognition certificate and also backed allowing people to legally identify as non-binary.\n\nIn addition to the generation split, it found there was also a tendency for women to be more supportive than men.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The BBC launched a new era of early morning news programming when Breakfast Time hit TV screens on 17 January 1983.\n\nBut live television is always in the hands of the gods and, even in that first show, not everything went according to plan.\n\nAs BBC Breakfast celebrates 40 years on air, we take a look back at some of the unexpected funny moments from its time.", "Train drivers are to strike on 1 and 3 February after union bosses rejected a pay offer from rail companies.\n\nDrivers had been offered a 4% pay rise for two years in a row earlier this month in a bid to end a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nBut the pay deal hinged on several changes to working practices.\n\nAslef said the proposal was \"not and could not ever be acceptable\", but its general secretary Mick Whelan said the union was open to further talks.\n\n\"Not only is the offer a real-terms pay cut, with inflation running north of 10%, but it came with so many conditions attached that it was clearly unacceptable. They want to rip up our terms and conditions in return for a real-terms pay cut,\" he said.\n\nThe two new strike dates will affect 15 train companies. Aslef members have staged action on six previous occasions, causing huge disruption to services, with some operators unable to run any trains.\n\nThe RMT union, which also represents a few hundred train drivers, confirmed its members at 14 companies would also strike on the same dates in February, although it will only make a marginal difference to the level of disruption.\n\nThe RMT strike will affect many of the same train companies hit by the Aslef walkout, but also include c2c and Island Line.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said negotiations would continue with the rail operators \"to create a package on jobs, conditions and pay that can be offered to our members\".\n\nThe fresh walkouts by drivers come after a series of large-scale rail strikes, with other rail workers, such as guards and signalling staff in the RMT union, striking in recent months.\n\nThe rail industry is not alone, with many other workers, such as nurses, ambulance staff and civil servants also taking industrial action.\n\nThe offer, the first in the dispute to be made by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), which represents train companies, would have seen drivers get a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year.\n\nThe RDG had said the deal would have seen the average salary for a driver increase from £60,000 per year to £65,000 by the end of 2023. Ten years ago it was £44,985.\n\nResponding to the rejection by Aslef, the RDG said it was disappointing its \"fair and affordable offer\" was not put to the union's members.\n\n\"With taxpayers still funding up to an extra £175m a month to make up the shortfall in revenue post-Covid, it provided a significant uplift in salary for train drivers while bringing in long overdue, common-sense reforms that would mean more reliable services for passengers,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe group urged Aslef to \"recognise the very real financial challenge the industry is facing and work with us to deliver a better railway with a strong long-term future\".\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nBut Aslef's Mr Whelan said the offer had been \"rushed\" and was not one designed to be accepted.\n\n\"Our members at these companies have not had an increase since 2019, despite soaring inflation, and it is time the companies - encouraged, perhaps, by the government - sat down with us and got serious,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the way - and the only way - to end this dispute.\"\n\nThis rejection is not a surprise.\n\nUnlike the RMT's dispute, the mood music with Aslef remains very pessimistic, and there has been much less progress.\n\nAslef, which represents the vast majority of train drivers, is unhappy both with the process by which the RDG's initial offer was made, and its contents.\n\nAnd its general secretary recently told me its members were in the dispute for the long haul, with some wanting action stepped up.\n\nThe government says the offer is fair and reasonable, while the industry argues proposed changes will make services more reliable.\n\nAssuming these latest walkouts go ahead, expect many of the affected operators to run no trains at all on strike days.\n\nThe Department for Transport called Aslef's rejection \"incredibly disappointing\", and said passengers had \"borne the brunt of these damaging strikes for far too long\".\n\n\"The government has played its part and facilitated conversations,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We urge Aslef to play their part, call off strikes and consider this fair and reasonable offer to members, which would see train drivers receive a pay rise in line with the private sector without fuelling inflation, so we can bring this dispute to an end.\"\n\nWhat are your opinions on the February train strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Suella Braverman - More shocking cases may come to light in the short-term\n\nMore shocking cases involving police officers may emerge, the home secretary warns after Met officer David Carrick admitted he was a serial rapist.\n\nSuella Braverman urged police forces to \"double down\" on their efforts to root out corrupt officers and reform police vetting processes.\n\nBut Labour said ministers had failed to heed repeated calls for reform.\n\nCarrick was sacked from the force after admitting to dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women over decades.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who was an armed officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, used his role to instil fear in his victims.\n\nHe admitted four counts of rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault relating to a 40-year-old woman in 2003, at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.\n\nCarrick had already pleaded guilty to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, in December.\n\nMs Braverman told MPs that Monday was a \"dark day\" for British policing and the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"It is intolerable for them [the victims] to have suffered as they have,\" she said, in a statement to the House of Commons after his formal dismissal.\n\n\"They were manipulated and isolated and subjected to horrific abuse.\n\n\"For anyone to have gone through such torment is harrowing, but for it to have happened at the hands of someone they entrusted to keep people safe is almost beyond comprehension,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had been \"encouraged\" by the work Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley had already undertaken to \"root out officers not fit to wear the badge\" before warning more cases could soon emerge.\n\n\"It is vital that the Metropolitan Police and other forces double down on their efforts to root out corrupt officers. This may mean more shocking cases come to light in the short-term,\" she said.\n\nThe home secretary announced an internal review into police dismissals to make sure the system was fair and effective at removing officers not fit to serve.\n\n\"Bureaucracy and process appear to have prevailed over ethics and common sense,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the case would now also be considered in the Angiolini Inquiry, which was set up to look into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused the government of failing to address \"appalling failures in the police vetting and misconduct processes\".\n\n\"Her statement is very weak and it shows a serious lack of leadership on something that is so grave and affects confidence in policing as well as serious crimes,\" she added.\n\nEarlier, Sir Mark Rowley apologised for the failings of the Met Police and said opportunities to remove Carrick from policing were missed.\n\n\"We have failed. And I'm sorry. He should not have been a police officer,\" he said.\n\nIn an interview with Good Morning Britain, he admitted he could not promise women that Met Police officers to whom they report crimes were not themselves a sex offender.\n\nHe said most of his officers were \"fantastic\" but warned there were some who should not be in the Met he had to \"identify and get rid of\".\n\nHe has previously said the force is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClimate campaigner Greta Thunberg was among those briefly detained by police at a protest in western Germany.\n\nShe was protesting with activists seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.\n\nPolice clarified that Ms Thunberg had not been arrested, and later said she had been released after an ID check.\n\nThe Swedish activist was detained after a group \"rushed towards the ledge\" of the Garzweiler 2 mine, police said.\n\nOfficers also confirmed all of those detained would not be charged.\n\nVideo from the scene showed three officers carrying Ms Thunberg from the protest as she smiled.\n\nPolice also told Reuters news agency that one man jumped into the mine, which is located some 9km (5.6 miles) from Lützerath.\n\nThe Swedish campaigner is seen sitting in a bus following her detention by police\n\nThe government has pledged to bring forward the phase-out of coal in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which the mine lies, to 2030. The national target is 2038.\n\nLignite is the dirtiest form of coal, and the area around Lützerath yields 25 million tonnes of it each year.\n\nThe village, owned by energy company RWE after residents abandoned it, is expected to be the final one demolished for the lignite mine. RWE has said the coal under the village is needed as early as this winter.\n\nThe government argues it needs to expand the mine to keep up with German energy demand as it deals with the interruption of gas from Russia.\n\nOrganisers of the protest said around 35,000 demonstrators attended on Saturday while police said the number was closer to 15,000.\n\nPolice said they had managed to remove all activists from the town over the weekend. Footage from Sunday showed Ms Thunberg and other protesters being moved along by police.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPremiership Rugby club finances are \"clearly unsustainable\", a damning parliamentary report has concluded.\n\nThe Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee report said the recent demise of Wasps and Worcester Warriors puts a \"stain on the reputation\" of the sport's authorities.\n\nThe committee heard from leading figures in rugby after the two clubs went into administration in the autumn.\n\nDamian Green MP said elite club rugby \"is in disarray\".\n\nGreen, who is acting chair of the committee, added: \"Inert leadership from the Rugby Football Union [RFU] and Premiership Rugby [PRL] has allowed mismanagement to collapse two of English rugby's top teams.\n\n\"Thousands of loyal fans have been deprived of their clubs and hundreds of jobs have been lost.\"\n\nThe committee was told that annual losses average £4m per Premiership club and its report pointed to a \"lack of safeguards\" at the highest level.\n\nA joint RFU and PRL statement in response to the report said the organisations are \"working hard\" to \"create a sustainable league\".\n\nThe DCMS committee added that Worcester Warriors' \"unscrupulous owners mismanaged club finances while attempting to strip the club of its assets\", and that they had gone more than a year without filing accounts, with players paid late for several months.\n\nThe committee said \"one of the most striking facets of the problems at Worcester Warriors was the lack of due diligence undertaken regarding its owners, particularly Colin Goldring\".\n\nLast May, the club's co-owner Goldring was banned from working in the legal profession without the permission of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.\n\n\"This was seemingly not enough for the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to intervene and end Mr Goldring's ownership of Worcester Warriors,\" the DCMS committee added.\n\nAt that time, the club issued a statement saying: \"All regulatory bodies expressed to Goldring that they were satisfied he was fit and proper to own and be director of a sports club.\"\n\nGoldring, who was a trainee solicitor at the time the incident occurred, said then that he had been cleared of \"any allegations of dishonesty or lack of integrity\".\n\nIn response to the DCMS report, which Goldring said he had not seen, he denied claims of asset stripping.\n\nGoldring added that the committee \"wasted the opportunity of having a constructive assessment of what really caused Warriors to go into administration and in doing so understand and address the challenges still faced by other clubs\".\n\nMeanwhile, the committee said Wasps had experienced mounting problems for several years, linked to debt from what it called a \"disastrous and ill-thought-through relocation to Coventry\".\n\nThe report concluded that the \"debacle\" at both clubs could have been avoided with \"better governance structures, financial monitoring and proactive intervention from the RFU and PRL\".\n\nWhile Green welcomed planned reforms, including a \"new and fuller\" owners' and directors' test, he said \"the root of the problem remains\".\n\nBoth RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney and PRL's chief executive Simon Massie-Taylor spoke of their ambitions to boost revenues within English domestic club rugby.\n\nHowever, these did not appear to allay the concerns of the committee, which said it had seen \"precious little evidence\" that an increase in collaboration between PRL, the RFU and other key stakeholders would significantly increase revenues.\n\n\"The financial situation of Premiership clubs is clearly unsustainable, and we are surprised by the very complacent belief of Bill Sweeney and Simon Massie-Taylor that further growth in club revenues will solve these problems,\" the report said.\n\n\"The demise during the playing season of two Premiership clubs is a stain on the reputation of the RFU and PRL. It is not indicative of a healthy professional setup.\"\n\nOnce its annual report has been published, the RFU has been asked to provide \"a detailed commentary of its financial position and what steps it will be taking to prevent further clubs collapsing, with consequent damage done to players, staff and local communities\".\n\nA \"lack of attention\" to the welfare of Worcester Warriors and Wasps players was another area criticised by the committee.\n\nThe report said the \"introduction of a form of benevolent fund [is] a pressing need\" and recommended that the RFU should adopt measures \"to give players a stronger say in all matters relating to their welfare\".\n\nThe RFU and PRL said player welfare \"is an absolute priority\" and added that plans are in place for a financial monitoring panel which would include a third-party financial review of all clubs.\n\nPlayers' union the Rugby Players Association said \"we welcome the recognition of change needed\". The union agreed with the report's suggestion of a player benevolent fund and that players need a greater say \"in matters relating to their welfare\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Not knowing why my son died is an added trauma'\n\nThe issue of children dying unexpectedly and without any known cause has been debated in Parliament for the first time.\n\nSudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) is a rare category of death in which the cause remains unknown even after thorough investigation.\n\nCurrently there is very little awareness or research into its causes.\n\nFormer Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who led the debate, said SUDC had not had the attention it deserved.\n\nIn his first speech as a backbencher for six years, he said it was important to not shy away from discussing \"something that is incredibly difficult to deal with, emotionally very taxing, and one of the most serious medical phenomena\".\n\nSUDC is among one of the leading categories of death in England and Wales for children aged between one and four.\n\nHe said: \"Imagine a death of a child, who has all his or her life in front of them, suddenly ended. If you can imagine that and if you can imagine that for one of your own children you can get a sense of how tragic and how difficult that occurrence is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. William died after having a seizure which couldn't be explained\n\nMany of the MPs who attended paid tributes to their constituents who had contacted them about the unexplained deaths of their children.\n\nLib Dem MP Tim Farron said one mother had told him: \"It clouds everything you do, feel and breathe. I hate that it happened to him and not me.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's such an uncomfortable issue but it is important to grasp uncomfortable issues to honour those who had died and prevent future deaths.\"\n\nThe MPs were united in their call for more research to be carried out; only 55 research papers have been published worldwide into SUDC, whereas 12,000 have been conducted into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), a condition also known as cot death. Since the early 1990s there has been an 80% reduction in these deaths.\n\nThey also called for the NHS website to be updated to include information about SUDC and for there to be more training for medical practitioners.\n\nThe debate heard many children whose deaths have been classed as SUDC had febrile seizures. However, the link between febrile seizures and SUDC has not been proved.\n\nMr Farron said children receiving medical care for febrile seizures should be seen as a red flag.\n\nNeil O'Brien, the minister for primary care and public health, said of the 204 unexpected and sudden deaths of children reviewed by child death overview panels in 2022, 32 were classified as unexplained.\n\nHe said the National Child Mortality Database, which was established in 2018, aimed to systematically capture information about every child death and was working with the NHS to track modifiable factors.\n\nThe minister said every area in the country had child death overview panels, which were responsible for reviewing information on all child deaths and looking for patterns and service improvements.\n\nHe added the University of Bristol had been contacted to discuss potential research priorities.\n\nThe NHS Children and Young People Programme was reviewing patient information to make sure it was relevant and appropriate, he added.\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action Line\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "High Street stationery chain Paperchase has lined up administrators and put itself up for sale.\n\nThe firm said it has a number of buyers interested in the business but was also talking to the insolvency experts Begbies Traynor about options for its future.\n\nPaperchase was only recently sold to a consortium led by retail investor Steve Curtis.\n\nAnother investor group had bought it out of administration in January 2021.\n\nThe chain, which is 50 years old, has 106 stores in the UK and Ireland and 820 staff.\n\nPaperchase confirmed that it had hired Begbies Traynor and consultants PwC to advise it after Sky News first reported the story.\n\nBegbies is being lined up in case the firm goes bust, and PwC is handling the sale of the business, a source told the BBC.\n\n\"Talks are continuing with a number of interested parties,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"All Paperchase stores and the website will continue to trade as normal during this period.\"\n\nPaperchase has had a challenging couple of years. In 2021 it was bought out of administration in a deal which rescued 90 of its then-127 stores, with 500 of its 1,500 employees losing their jobs.\n\nAt the time, the firm said its trade had slumped due to coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nLast August the chain was taken over by Steve Curtis, a retail investor and chairman of investment vehicle Quilam Capital.\n\nMr Curtis is also chairman of clothing shop Jigsaw, which again struggled during the pandemic.", "Plans for at least four solar parks on the Gwent Levels include a marshland in Magor\n\nWildlife campaigners want a temporary ban - or moratorium - on solar farms on the Gwent Levels due to concerns about their impact on biodiversity.\n\nBudweiser Brewing Group wants to develop renewable energy sources to cut carbon emissions to net zero at its brewery in Magor, Monmouthshire.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was unable to comment as it may prejudice any future decisions.\n\nWith several other solar proposals for the Levels, a wildlife trust has expressed its concerns over the risk of biodiversity loss.\n\nBudweiser Brewing Group UK&I said it would develop a scheme that tries to provide ecological enhancements.\n\nThe solar farm is expected to be built on environmentally sensitive marshland near Magor, to the east of Newport.\n\nIt will be used to generate electricity for a hydrogen plant that will power Budweiser's Magor brewery.\n\nAccording to the project developer, Protium, \"Magor Net Zero\" will comprise a solar park, a wind turbine, a hydrogen refuelling station and a green hydrogen production facility that will collectively displace more than 15,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.\n\nIt is part of the global beer brand's plans to cut carbon emissions.\n\nBut wildlife campaigners fear solar farms could weaken vulnerable ecosystems on the Gwent Levels, a wetland area between eastern Cardiff and Chepstow, Monmouthshire.\n\nMike Webb from Gwent Wildlife Trust says the solar farm is in the \"wrong place\"\n\n\"We've got lapwings here... a very scarce and declining breeding bird in Wales and in Gwent,\" said Mike Webb from the Gwent Wildlife Trust.\n\n\"We have water voles, a declining riverside mammal,\" he said.\n\n\"We have lots of wildlife here and it would be so sad if it were threatened by this type of development.\"\n\nHe added the charity is very much for renewable energy as a response to climate change.\n\n\"Unfortunately this fragile and complex wetland ecosystem is just not suitable,\" he said. \"We're not 'nimbies', or anti-solar farms - it's just right idea, wrong place, I'm afraid.\"\n\nAs part of its consultation on the project, Protium said: \"We are aware of the importance of the Gwent Levels and local wildlife habitats such as Magor Marsh. By law, we are required to deliver an improvement in local biodiversity of at least 10%\".\n\nBudweiser says the solar farm would producing 17MW electricity, cutting carbon emissions from its Magor brewery\n\nIn December 2022, the Welsh government suspended a decision on another solar farm proposal on the Gwent Levels.\n\nRush Wall solar park, in Redwick, near Newport, is expected to generate enough energy to provide electricity to 18,755 homes.\n\nThe developer, BSR Energy, has been asked by the planning inspectorate to provide further evidence on how its plans comply with national environmental policies.\n\nBSR Energy said: \"We are in the process of producing a document detailing how our existing scheme complies with these new requirements.\n\nBSR Energy also want to use the Gwent Levels for its Rush Wall Solar Park near Redwick, Newport\n\n\"We believe our application already takes into account the resilience of ecosystems and we are happy to explain how the step-wise approach has been considered and applied in order to maintain and enhance biodiversity and build ecological networks.\n\n\"We work hard to build good relationships with local stakeholders and listen to everyone's views, adjusting plans where possible to mitigate concerns,\" the company added.\n\nThe developer of another solar farm proposal at Wentlooge, west of Newport, has made changes to a previously rejected plan which include reducing the number of PV solar panels and enlarging wildlife corridors through the development.\n\nCatherine Linstrum of Friends of the Gwent Levels says the group wants a temporary halt on developments\n\nCatherine Linstrum, from Friends of Gwent Levels, said: \"We have asked the Welsh government to place a temporary moratorium on major development on the Gwent Levels.\n\n\"We're not saying nothing, nowhere, never,\" she said. \"We're saying at the moment there is still not enough evidence to prove that the solar farms don't create real adverse impacts on the biodiversity of the levels.\n\n\"Until such a time where everyone's sure that they're not creating real adverse impacts, we need to stop them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis award comes days after he appeared in a UK court to face seven charges of sexual assault against a man in the early 2000s. He denies the allegations.\n\nThe Museum of Cinema in Turin said it handed the prize in recognition of Mr Spacey's \"personal aesthetic and authorial contribution to the development of the art of drama\".\n\nHe thanked the museum for having the \"balls\" to present him with the award.\n\nMr Spacey won Oscars for performances in American Beauty and The Usual Suspects, but has barely worked since being accused of sexual misconduct.\n\nHe did not directly address the allegations at the ceremony, but delivered a speech saying he was \"surely blessed and grateful and humbled\".\n\n\"My heart is very full tonight toward the Museum of Cinema for having had le palle [the balls] to invite me tonight,\" he said.\n\nThe 63-year-old's appearance at Southwark Crown Court in London on Friday was via video link for the plea and trial preparation hearing.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have taken place between 2001 and 2005.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor is now facing a total of 12 sexual offences in the UK against four men.\n\nIn July, he denied five allegations relating to three men, who are now in their 30s and 40s, when he appeared at London's Old Bailey.", "Vladimir Putin is \"weaponising food\", and the impact is being felt around the world, the boss of one of the world's biggest fertiliser firms has warned.\n\nSvein Tore Holsether, from Yara, said countries needed to cut their reliance on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine hit global food supplies and prices.\n\nRussia is a top exporter of fertilisers and chemicals used to make them.\n\nBut the war has caused supply issues and driven up the price of natural gas, which is key to fertiliser production.\n\nAs a result, global fertiliser prices have hit record levels and forced farmers to raise food prices, putting pressure on consumers worldwide.\n\n\"Putin has weaponised energy and they're weaponising food as well,\" Mr Holsether told the BBC at the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\n\"It's the saying, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'.\"\n\nThe warning echoes concern from the International Monetary Fund. Also speaking to the BBC, its managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the world should \"move attention today to fertilisers, because this is where we see particular threat for food production and therefore food prices in 2023\".\n\nShe added: \"Fertiliser prices remain very high. Production of ammonia [which is used to make fertiliser] in the European Union, for example, shrank dramatically. All of this is connected, of course, to the impact of Russia's war on gas prices and gas availability.\"\n\nKristalina Georgieva said high fertiliser prices were a threat to food production\n\nRussia stockpiled fertiliser for domestic use last year. While its exports declined, the record prices paid for fertiliser led to a 70% increase in export revenues, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.\n\nMoscow increased exports to countries such as India and Turkey. Russia also produces enormous amounts of nutrients, like potash and phosphate - key ingredients in fertilisers, which enable plants and crops to grow.\n\n\"With energy we've built an infrastructure in Europe on cheap Russian gas and we see the consequences and the cost of that right now with food and fertiliser.\"\n\nHe pointed out that half of the world's food production is dependent on fertiliser.\n\n\"If you see significant disruptions on that, that's a very powerful weapon.\"\n\nLast week economists reported that sharp increases in fertiliser costs could lower food production yields so much that by the end of the decade, an increase in agricultural land equivalent to \"the size of much of Western Europe\" would be required to meet demand globally.\n\nThis would mean \"severe impacts\" for deforestation, biodiversity and carbon emissions, they added.\n\nDr Peter Alexander of the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh University said: \"This could be the end of an era of cheap food. While almost everyone will feel the effects of that on their weekly shop, it's the poorest people in society, who may already struggle to afford enough healthy food, who will be hit hardest.\n\n\"While fertiliser prices are coming down from the peaks of earlier this year, they remain high and this may still feed through to continued high food price inflation in 2023.\"\n\nSustained high fertiliser prices could increase food prices by 74% from 2021 levels by the end of this year, the study calculated, raising fears of \"up to one million additional deaths and more than 100 million people undernourished if high fertiliser prices continue\".\n\nYara's boss Mr Holsether warned that the impact of all of this is being felt around the world.\n\n\"Russia is the world's largest exporter of fertiliser, so it will have global implications. We've seen some of that from the disruptions already and there is a need for Russian fertiliser in order to maintain global food production,\" he said.\n\n\"But my message here is that we also need to think about the next phase to reduce, to avoid the dependency on Russia. Because when that is being used as a weapon in war, we cannot go back to how it used to be.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nItaly's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run.\n\nMessina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer.\n\nHe is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and he was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 over numerous murders.\n\nMore than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest.\n\nItalian media reported that Messina Denaro was captured just before 10:00 (09:00 GMT) and taken to a secret location by the Carabinieri. He was reportedly visiting the clinic under a fake name for a course of chemotherapy.\n\nA video circulated by Italian media appears to show people standing in the street and applauding the Italian police as Messina Denaro is led away.\n\nThese are some of the murders he was convicted over:\n\nMessina Denaro once boasted he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.\n\nThe Mafia boss also oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking for the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate.\n\nHe was reportedly the protege of Totò Riina, head of the Corleone clan, who was arrested in 1993 after 23 years on the run.\n\nClans nicknamed Messina Denaro \"Diabolik\" - the name of an uncatchable thief in a comic book series - and \"U Siccu\" (Skinny).\n\nHe is thought to be Cosa Nostra's last \"secret-keeper\". Many informers and prosecutors believe that he holds all the information and the names of those involved in several of the most high-profile crimes by the Mafia, including the bomb attacks that killed magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.\n\nAlthough Messina Denaro had been a fugitive since 1993, he was thought to have still been issuing orders to his subordinates from various secret locations.\n\nOver the decades, Italian investigators often came close to catching Messina Denaro by monitoring those closest to him.\n\nThis resulted in the arrest of his sister Patrizia and several other of his associates in 2013. Police also seized valuable businesses linked to Messina Denaro, leaving him increasingly isolated.\n\nHowever, few photos of Messina Denaro existed and police had to rely on digital composites to reconstruct his appearance in the decades after he went on the run. A recording of his voice was not released until 2021.\n\nIn September 2021, a Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested at gunpoint in a restaurant in the Netherlands after being mistaken for Messina Denaro.\n\nItalians were glued to their screens on Monday morning when news of the arrest of the mafia boss broke.\n\nFor years, Messina Denaro had been a symbol of the state's inability to reach the upper echelons of the organised crime syndicates.\n\nHis arrest will be an unexpected sign of hope that the Mafia can be eradicated even in the southern regions of the country, where the state is perceived as largely absent and ineffective.\n\nUniversity of Essex criminology professor Anna Sergi told the BBC that Messina Denaro's arrest was \"symbolic not just because he was the boss of Cosa Nostra, but because he represents the last fugitive the Italian state really wanted to get its hands on\".\n\nShe said the reason people applauded in Palermo and the state felt \"triumphant\" was because the news felt like closure.\n\nHowever, questions are likely to arise over the timing of the arrest.\n\nProf Sergi suggested it was still unclear how the morning raid on the clinic came about, who tipped the authorities off and crucially, how it was possible for Messina Denaro to \"run around Sicily, presumably protected, for 30 years\".\n\nMessina Denaro was being treated for cancer so was \"quite sick\", the professor said, adding people were speculating that someone in the crime world had decided he was no longer useful.\n\n\"This means he was likely still part of structure where there is an exchange of favours between the Mafia and state, and where one can be given up in return for something,\" she explained.\n\nBut at a press conference on Monday afternoon the Carabinieri appeared to deny that they had received a tip-off on the whereabouts of Messina Denaro and emphasised the hard work of investigators who tracked the mafia boss down in a \"painstaking and extremely delicate\" operation.\n\nThe authorities said Messina Denaro did not attempt to run when he realised the operation was taking place, and that he admitted to being the man the Carabinieri were searching for as soon as they approached him.\n\nThey also said that the fugitive was \"looking well, well dressed and wearing high-end clothing\": \"We certainly did not find a destroyed man… we found a well-groomed man in a good economic condition.\"\n\nGeneral Pasquale Angelosanto of the ROS special force unit of the Carabinieri added that Messina Denaro was wearing a watch worth 35,000 euros ($37,880, £31,067) when officers detained him.\n\n\"Obviously the mafia has not been defeated, and it would be a mistake to think it so,\" said the Palermo prosecutor general Maurizio De Lucia.\n\nDe Lucia also told reporters that Messina Denaro spent the last three decades hiding out in many parts of Italy, most recently in Sicily.\n\nAfter the arrest, tributes to the work of the armed forces poured in from across the political spectrum.\n\nGian Carlo Caselli, a judge and former prosecutor general, said that the arrest of Messina Denaro was an \"exceptional... simply historical event\" that might lead to significant developments in the ongoing inquiries into the 1993 bomb attacks that killed 10 people across Italy.\n\nItaly's president, Sergio Mattarella, whose brother Piersanti was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1980, congratulated the minister of the interior and the Carabinieri.\n\nPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni travelled to Sicily today and visited the memorial to Giovanni Falcone and the other victims of the 1992 bombing near Palermo, where she observed a minute's silence.\n\nMs Meloni also thanked the armed forces for their work in detaining the \"most important member of the mafia criminal group\", adding: \"This is a great victory for the state.\"", "A yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been issued across Northern Ireland from noon on Tuesday until noon on Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office has warned of further disruption due to snow and ice over the next few days.\n\nA yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been issued across Northern Ireland until noon on Wednesday.\n\nSnow showers are forecast to continue overnight on Tuesday and into Wednesday.\n\nPolice have advised drivers to reduce speed as the cold snap continues to make roads hazardous.\n\nA number of schools are closed, particularly in the north west.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure also asked drivers to exercise caution and said salting was under way on the road network on Tuesday evening and would continue overnight.\n\nThe Met Office expects several centimetres of snow in some low level areas with 5-10cm in some higher areas.\n\nUp to 15cm could fall over the highest spots, with a risk of ice forming where the showers have fallen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowboarder John Spence takes to the slopes of Derry\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, warnings for snow and ice have also been issued across counties Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo.\n\nThe coldest temperatures recorded overnight in Northern Ireland were in Katesbridge, County Down, (-8.4C) and Castlederg, County Tyrone, (-7.1).\n\nThere were 20 road crashes across Londonderry and Strabane, police said earlier on Tuesday, as icy conditions moved in.\n\nSDLP assembly member for Foyle Mark H Durkan described conditions on some roads in the north west as \"shambolic\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Mr Durkan said his office was inundated with calls for assistance and that the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) had \"come up short\".\n\nEmergency services dealt with a crash on the Creggan Road in Derry on Monday night\n\nRoads Service engineer Peter McParland defended the response to the conditions, saying staff had been working in salting shifts over the past 24 hours and that there were \"no major incidents to report\".\n\n\"All gritters have made it safely back to the depots and currently all main roads are open and passable with care, but I would stress that we can't guarantee roads will be free of ice even after they've been salted,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDunloy, County Antrim was the scene of heavy snowfall\n\nSome areas in the north coast also experienced snowy spells on Tuesday\n\n\"The department salts around 7,000km of road - that equates to about 25% of the entire road network, but it carries 80% of the traffic.\"\n\nHe said he was satisfied that everything was done that could have been done by his department.\n\n\"The gritters were out from 15:00 yesterday, in the north west they went out again after 20:00 after the snow showers and again at 02:00 this morning. There's plenty of salt on the road, but salt needs traffic to activate it, so I expect that the roads will clear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane\n\nMany young children in Derry made the most of school closures on Tuesday and used make-shift slays to enjoy the snow near the city's historic walls.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Aodhán Roberts This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTranslink bus services have also been affected by snow, with delays and disruption expected.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Emma McGinley said driver safety had to take priority over the inconvenience to travellers.\n\n\"The priority is not just the safety of the residents, but the bus drivers, their health and safety has to be taken into account.\n\n\"If it's not safe to them to be driving in it, that needs to take priority - we can't have a situation where someone is putting their life at risk essentially.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Translink This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council also warned residents of possible disruption to a number of services, including bin collection.\n\nIt advised people to leave their bin out as normal and that those not emptied today will be emptied as conditions improve later this week.\n\nAll council cemeteries are also closed to the public on Tuesday except to facilitate burials.\n\nRecycling centres and parks will be opened \"when it is safe to do so\", the council added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC NI Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pier Antonio Panzeri ran lobby group Fight Impunity after he left the European Parliament\n\nAn alleged leader of a criminal network involved in an EU corruption scandal has agreed to reveal which countries were involved and how it operated.\n\nA lawyer for Pier Antonio Panzeri said his client had agreed to \"tell all\" after reaching a deal with prosecutors.\n\nThe former member of the European Parliament is one of four suspects being held in Belgium.\n\nThey are suspected of accepting bribes from Qatar and Morocco in return for influencing the Parliament in Brussels.\n\nQatar has strenuously denied that it tried to gain influence through gifts and money while Morocco has also strongly rejected allegations that it sought influence on issues such as fishing rights and the disputed status of Western Sahara.\n\nThe four suspects were charged last month after police seized around €1.5m (£1.3m) in cash during a series of raids on a flat, a house and a hotel. Pictures of stashes of €200, €50, €20 and €10-denomination notes were released by police, including a suitcase found in the hotel which was stuffed with cash.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Panzeri agreed the plea deal under an informant law used only once before in Belgium.\n\nHis lawyer Marc Uyttendaele said he admitted \"criminal responsibility\", adding: \"It is important to know that this is a man who is destroyed and he doesn't have much of a life left.\"\n\nBut his client hoped to \"secure his situation\" by agreeing to \"tell all he knows about the case\", Mr Uyttendaele added.\n\nBelgian police released pictures of the cash seized in last month's raids\n\nThe other suspects include a serving Greek MEP, Eva Kaili, who has been stripped of her role as a vice-president of the Parliament, her partner Francesco Giorgi, and lobbyist Niccolò Figà-Talamanca.\n\nAfter Mr Panzeri, 67, left the Parliament, he became the head of a lobby group called Fight Impunity. Mr Figà-Talamanca worked from the same building in Brussels for a separate NGO.\n\nAccording to a statement from Belgium's federal prosecutor, the former MEP agreed to the plea bargain under a law modelled on an Italian provision for repentant mafia members or \"pentiti\" to turn state witnesses.\n\nA spokesman said he faced a year in jail, rather than a \"much heavier prison sentence\", as well as a fine and confiscation of €1m in assets.\n\nIn return he would be required to give details of how the network operated, what the financial arrangements were with the countries concerned, and \"the involvement of known and unknown persons within the investigation, including the identity of the persons he admits to having bribed\".\n\nThe plea deal was released a day after an Italian court agreed to extradite the ex-MEP's daughter, Silvia Panzeri, 38, on suspicion of involvement in the scandal.\n\nThe same court in the northern city of Brescia ruled last month that Mr Panzeri's wife, Maria Colleoni, could also be extradited, but Italy's top appeal court will give a final ruling on their case. The two women are currently under house arrest and deny allegations of corruption and money laundering.\n\nGreek MEP Eva Kaili, who also denies involvement in the case, is suspected along with the others of taking bribes from Qatar in return for influencing EU policy-making.\n\nHer partner Francesco Giorgi was reported to have confessed last month to his role in the affair.\n\nHowever, a reference to \"unknown\" people within the investigation suggests more revelations are due to emerge.\n\nProsecutors have already sought to lift the immunity of two more centre-left MEPs, Belgian Marc Tarabella and Italian Andrea Cozzolino.\n\nLawyers for both MEPs have denied that they played any part in the scandal, but the request is being reviewed by Parliament's legal affairs committee.\n• None Four in EU-Qatar bribery inquiry to stay in custody", "Three cars have overturned on icy roads in Pendoylan, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nCars have ended up on their roofs and some schools have been shut after snow caused \"treacherous\" conditions in parts of Wales, police have said.\n\nMet Office weather warnings have been extended until noon on Wednesday, with up to 10cm (4in) of snow expected in some areas.\n\nIn the Vale of Glamorgan, three cars overturned in lanes around Pendoylan but there were no reports of injuries.\n\nAcross north Wales, nine road incidents were reported but no serious injuries.\n\nThere were no reported injuries, but some passengers did have to be rescued from the overturned cars in Pendoylan\n\nNorth Wales Police said late on Tuesday that due to snow and ice, the A470 between Llanelltyd and Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd was closed.\n\nBorras Hall Lane between Llan y Pwll and Gresford, Flintshire, also closed overnight due to ice and snow.\n\nNear Merthyr Tydfil, a 200-tonne landslide has made the road between Trefechan and Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, impassable.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council said it had been closed between The Aberglais Inn and a property known as the Spanish House.\n\nThe road is expected to re-open next week.\n\nSouth Wales Police said an old mine flooding meant a road was closing between 20:00 GMT on Tuesday and 06:00 on Wednesday in Llwynypia, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThe road will be shut north of traffic lights on the A4058 to the road's junction with Glandwr Terrace.\n\nJon Terry described how he crashed after returning from driving his five-year-old son to school, heading to Bonvilston, but was turned back due to black ice, so headed back past Pendoylan.\n\n\"I was driving about 15 or 20 miles an hour, pretty slow, and I saw a car up ahead,\" he said. \"It's a single track lane and you have to give way or reverse to make space.\n\n\"The other car was stopped so I put the brakes on and then all of a sudden the back end of my car swung round to the right.\"\n\nHe said that forced the front of the car up, it went into the hedge, tilted over and slammed on its side.\n\n\"Then just all the airbags went off, there was smashed glass all over me and I slid a bit down the road,\" he said.\n\nBoth South Wales and Dyfed-Powys police forces warned of \"treacherous\" conditions\n\n\"The guy who was in the other car came over and helped me out. I had to get up through the passenger side door vertically and then I was helped down.\"\n\nHe was taken to a nearby house and offered a cup of coffee and waited for the police to arrive.\n\nHe said the police told him they had been to a similar incident earlier, and as he was being driven home, another car had overturned and a woman with blood on her wrist was standing nearby.\n\n\"I looked in the car and saw something moving,\" said Mr Terry, who got out of the car he was in to help a man out of the overturned one.\n\nDenbigh and the Clwydian Range has been covered in a blanket of snow\n\nHouseholds in St Asaph, Denbighshire, also awoke to a snow covering\n\nTraffic information site Inrix said the A4119 was closed in both directions from the A473 at Talbot Green, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, to Ely Valley Road at the Coed Ely roundabout.\n\nThere were also several temporary road closures, and venues including Conwy Castle have been forced to shut.\n\nDenbighshire council reported emergency closures of seven schools, while \"heavy snowfall\" has also led to the closure of four schools and three education centres in Conwy county, and nine schools in Flintshire.\n\nEarlier, North Wales Police urged motorists to take care, with crashes in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and Bala in Gwynedd as some roads were \"impassable due to snow and ice\".\n\nBoth the South Wales and Dyfed-Powys police forces also warned of \"treacherous\" conditions.\n\nThe Met Office said there was a risk of falls on icy surfaces and there could be travel disruption.\n\nOne lane was closed on the A55 westbound at Dobshill, Flintshire, for a time on Tuesday following a crash\n\nA new yellow weather warning covering south Wales will come into force at 18:00 on Tuesday\n\nAn initial yellow warning for snow and ice across north Wales ends at 12:00 GMT on Wednesday, with a separate warning for parts of south Wales in place from 18:00 on Tuesday to 12:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAs well as road closures, the forecaster warned of longer journey times by road, bus and rail.\n\nMeanwhile, Welsh Water is urging people to ensure they are prepared for any further cold snaps this winter after thousands were left without water in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt said customers can protect themselves by lagging any exposed pipes in cold areas, such as outdoors, in attics or cupboards and in any buildings that may be empty for a few days.\n\nConwy sees more snow than usual for the north Wales coast", "The record collecting community are a pretty understanding bunch, according to David MacDonald.\n\nThe 60-year-old, who runs Blue Sky Vinyl, is lucky but he admits: \"Their patience will only go so far.\"\n\nWhy? Because Mr MacDonald, like many other small business owners, has been waiting for nearly a week to send out international orders via Royal Mail.\n\nAnd, as others have told the BBC, he has absolutely no idea when his shipments can resume.\n\nLast Wednesday, Royal Mail asked customers to stop sending letters and parcels overseas after criminals launched a ransomware attack on the company.\n\nIt has impacted a system used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.\n\nThe problem first emerged on Tuesday, 10 January. Customers were told of the problem the following day.\n\n\"As with all technical issues, we had to rule out a lot of things to ensure we only shared accurate information,\" said a spokesman for Royal Mail.\n\nThe company has assured customers that it is \"working around the clock\" to resolve the issue.\n\nBut Mr MacDonald says a \"disappointing\" lack of regular updates has left his business in stasis.\n\n\"There is no indication of when things will be fixed,\" he says. \"It could be a week, it could be a month, it could be six months.\n\n\"If it is going to be a month or six months then at least give us the opportunity as small businesses to make decisions that can overcome this hurdle.\"\n\nAround 45% of Blue Sky Vinyl's business comes from overseas including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan and China.\n\nThere are even buyers in Ukraine though Mr MacDonald recently had to explain to a customer there why his order was delayed. \"He said he'll be patient and wait,\" says Mr MacDonald.\n\nRoyal Mail says it's sorry for the disruption and that it's currently exploring \"multiple workarounds\" to restore its systems.\n\nBut a week is a long time in business.\n\nFirms say that the delay to international shipments is compounding problems they have been facing since before Christmas when Royal Mail workers went on strike.\n\nMr MacDonald said: \"We are giving out refunds from parcels that haven't arrived that were posted in November and the refund compensation system for Royal Mail is running at a snail's pace.\"\n\nIt is \"a big problem on top of a big problem\", according to Andrew Bradley who runs Lello Living, a family business which makes prints, picture frames and homeware.\n\nEven before the ransomware attack on Royal Mail, Mr Bradley said some international customers had been waiting for more than a month for parcels.\n\n\"At the moment I am just trying to placate customers,\" he said. But as a small business, his hands are tied.\n\nOnce a parcel is sent \"we can't get it back\", he said, so the package is just sitting there.\n\nIt is expensive to send a replacement and doubly difficult for a firm such as Lello Living which produces personalised prints.\n\n\"We sell a lot on websites like Etsy and we are seeing one or two star reviews,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, the majority of people are understanding and patient but we are seeing that patience start to dissipate.\"\n\nSimon Thompson, chief executive of Royal Mail, is expected to face questions about how the company has responded to the attack when he appears before MPs on the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Tuesday.\n\nIn the meantime, freelance illustrator Danielle English, aged 31, says that the delays caused by the ransomware attack have \"been quite a big blow\" financially.\n\nIllustrator Danielle English says she has been unable to fulfil international orders\n\nThe artist specialises in fantasy and sci-fi images and relies on her online shop, Kanizo, for half of her income.\n\n\"Just today I've had to refund a few orders that were made over the weekend that I now can't fulfil and I would say about 70% of those were international,\" she says.\n\nMs English said that she is trying her best to keep her customers up to date \"but obviously that is so limited\".\n\n\"I don't want to keep them waiting too long because I don't want them to think I'm not a legit business by not sending out their order, but there is only so much I can tell them really.\"\n\nOthers such as Karen Gilroy don't know whether to go ahead and book a courier service to send deliveries to countries such as the US or wait until Royal Mail can start shipping again.\n\nThe 62-year-old retired civil servant runs a sewing business, called KraftyKoriginal, and says it usually costs around £20 to send packages overseas with Royal Mail.\n\nShe could use a specialist parcel company but they are more expensive - a cost she is not comfortable passing onto her customers.\n\n\"I suppose I could ask them but it's not really their fault is it?\" she says. \"If I decide to send via courier I think it is for me to eat up the cost.\"\n\nAt the moment she is not sure what to do - book a courier in advance and risk losing money if Royal Mail services resume or wait and see?\n\n\"I'm sort of hanging on and hanging on thinking 'surely this week they'll sort it out' but who knows?\"", "A new EU border control IT system which sparked fears of summer holiday queues at Dover has been delayed again.\n\nThe Entry/Exit System was due to be introduced in late May, having already been pushed back from last year.\n\nA new timetable will aim to have the technology in place by the end of 2023.\n\nUnder the scheme people entering the bloc from non-EU countries - including the UK - will need to register fingerprints and a photo with their passport details.\n\nOnce travellers have given their fingerprints and details, that registration will be valid for three years.\n\nDuring that time it must be validated every time someone crosses the border. This will replace passport-stamping.\n\nThe Port of Dover previously warned the time taken for initial registration at the port could cause queues.\n\nThe former boss of Eurostar, who left in the autumn, had also expressed concern.\n\nRecords from an EU agency's board meeting last week said the May 2023 date was \"considered no longer achievable\", blaming contractor delays.\n\nThe EU-LISA agency, which is based in Tallinn and deals with big IT programmes for the bloc, is now planning a revised timetable.\n\nA summary from a meeting last Thursday said: \"Border crossing points should be fully equipped for the use of the Entry/Exit System by the end of the year.\"\n\nThe European Commission has been approached for comment.\n\nWhen travelling from Dover, entry to France is checked by passport officers at the UK port.\n\nIn September, Doug Bannister, chief executive of the Port of Dover, warned that it could take 10 minutes to register one car carrying four people.\n\nThe technology to be used was unclear, but if it was a tablet computer, it could cause delays as it was passed round in a car, he said at the time.\n\nHe warned the system seemed designed for an airport environment, rather than people travelling in vehicles, and the port had safety concerns around people being made to get out of their vehicles in the busy terminal.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for the UK government said on Tuesday that passengers would \"not experience unnecessary delays at the border\".\n\nThe government is \"working closely with port authorities, operators and the French government to make sure passengers are prepared,\" the spokesperson said.", "Wikipedia should be treated differently to the big social media firms in the Online Safety Bill, a leading member of its foundation says.\n\nThe encyclopaedia is written and edited entirely by thousands of volunteers around the world.\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation's Rebecca MacKinnon also says a proposed change to the bill,would \"limit freedom of expression\".\n\nThe bill aims to protect people from harmful content online.\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is the not-for-profit organisation which hosts the encyclopaedia.\n\nMs MacKinnon says the foundation is concerned about the effect of the bill on volunteer-run sites.\n\nShe told the BBC that the threat of \"harsh\" new criminal penalties for tech bosses \"will affect not only big corporations, but also public interest websites such as Wikipedia\".\n\nMs MacKinnon says the law should follow the EU Digital Services Act which, she argues, differentiates between centralised content moderation carried out by employees and Wikipedia-style moderation by community volunteers.\n\nThe government told the BBC the bill is designed to strike the balance between tackling harm without imposing unnecessary burdens on low-risk tech companies.\n\n\"[Regulator] Ofcom will take a reasonable and proportionate approach when monitoring and enforcing the safety duties outlined in the bill, focusing on services where the risk of harm is highest,\" it said.\n\nHow sites are treated under the bill partly depends on their size.\n\nBut lawyers have also pointed out that some of the duties in the bill, promoted as a way to rein in big tech, will affect much smaller services where users can communicate with other users.\n\nNearly 50 Tory MPs wanted to amend the Online Safety Bill to introduce two-year sentences for managers who fail to stop children seeing harmful material.\n\nUnder a deal with the rebels to stave off defeat, ministers have now promised to introduce similar proposals.\n\nNeil Brown, a solicitor specialising in internet and telecoms law, told the BBC: \"The bill, and the amendment, would impose pages of duties on someone who, for fun, runs their own social media or photo/video sharing server, or hosts a multi-player game which lets players chat or see each other's content or creations.\"\n\nHe suggests limiting the scope of the bill to the major commercial operators with multi-million pound turnover would help \"remove the burden and threat to hobbyists and volunteers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWikipedia is the eighth most visited website in the UK, according to data from software company Similarweb, but everything on the site is produced by volunteers, and the community decides what is acceptable.\n\nMs MacKinnon says it has been caught in a net designed for the likes of Facebook and Instagram where decisions are centralised.\n\nThe foundation believes in community decision making, and does not get involved with the articles, she says, but the bill could force it to intervene if a volunteer editor kept up an article which might break UK law, for example.\n\n\"It forces the foundation to break the community model, and proactively take things down,\" she says.\n\nWikipedia is banned in some countries\n\nHowever, the government says a site like Wikipedia will be able to develop its own approaches to community moderation, as long as it tackles illegal content and protects children.\n\nIt is also understood that officials believe Wikipedia is unlikely to be classed as a Category 1 service, subject to the strictest rules.\n\nMs MacKinnon says any UK changes would affect all readers of Wikipedia in English, including those in the US, an example the \"UK regulating the world\", she says.\n\nWikipedia has articles covering topics like sexuality, pornography, drug use, and suicide, which some might feel could be harmful for children to view.\n\nMeasures in the bill mean it worries it might have to check the ages of users, which would require collecting more information about readers, which Wikipedia tries to avoid.\n\nFor example, Ms MacKinnon says the page about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal in Russia.\n\nAge verification could mean collecting information on readers which might then be requested by a government or be hacked.\n\n\"It actually ultimately exposes everyone, including children to greater harm,\" she says.\n\nThe plans to amend the bill so that those who break the rules could face jail time for failing to protect children online, won cross party support with Labour backing the change.\n\nAnd a number of prominent children's charities and campaigners lent their support.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut industry body TechUK, say the amendment will be seen as a \"very open-ended risk by investors\" and could mean companies do not invest and locate senior talent in the UK.", "The Metropolitan Police is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said.\n\nIt comes after PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes.\n\nSir Mark Rowley announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.\n\nHe also apologised to Carrick's victims for the force's failings.\n\n\"We have failed. And I'm sorry. He should not have been a police officer,\" he said.\n\n\"This man abused women in the most disgusting manner. It is sickening. We've let women and girls down, and indeed we've let Londoners down. The women who suffered and survived this violence have been unimaginably brave and courageous in coming forward.\n\n\"I do understand also that this will lead to some women across London questioning whether they can trust the Met to keep them safe.\n\n\"We haven't applied the same sense of ruthlessness to guarding our own integrity that we routinely apply to confronting criminals.\"\n\nThe Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.\n\nIt can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty in December to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, and admitted the final six counts on Monday.\n\nHe committed the offences against 12 women across two decades.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We failed and let women down - Met police chief\n\nThe Met apologised after it emerged Carrick was brought to the attention of police over nine incidents including allegations of rape, domestic violence and harassment between 2000 and 2021.\n\nMeeting some of the women on dating websites, he would control what they wore, what they ate, where they slept and he even stopped some of them from speaking to their own children.\n\nIt emerged he had been accused of two offences against a former partner the year before he passed vetting to join the Met in 2001, and faced further assault and harassment claims against an ex-girlfriend in 2002, while still in his probationary period.\n\nDespite having five public complaints to his name, he passed checks to become a firearms officer when he transferred to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009 and he was vetted again in 2017.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said high-profile cases such as Carrick's had \"shattered\" the public's trust in policing.\n\nRishi Sunak retains faith in the Met and its chief Sir Mark Rowley, the spokesman said, adding: \"The commissioner has acknowledged the significant work required by the force.\"\n\nBaroness Casey, who is conducting a review of the force's standards and internal culture, called on the home secretary for a full inquiry into Carrick's case.\n\n\"We owe it to all of his victims that this work takes place,\" she said.\n\nShe added the scope of Lady Elish Angiolini's current non-statutory inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard should be extended to include the actions of Carrick.\n\nAny inquiry into Carrick should \"include the conduct of David Carrick and the potential opportunities the Met, other police forces and organisations may have had to identify his pattern of behaviour prior to October 2021, to stop him being a police officer and, ultimately, stop him offending,\" she said.\n\nThe issue was \"so serious\", she said, that if extending the current inquiry was not possible she would volunteer to conduct a separate inquiry.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said it was a \"sobering day\" for the Met and \"the whole policing family throughout the country\".\n\n\"This appalling incident represents a breach of trust, it will affect people's confidence in police and it's clear that standards and culture need to change in policing,\" she said.\n\nShe added chief constables needed to follow recent guidance by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary on prioritising vetting and recruiting processes.\n\n\"I expect every chief constable to take on board those recommendations and implement them urgently,\" she said.\n\nZoe Billingham, who previously served as HM Inspector of Constabulary, called for a public inquiry to look into misogyny in policing on the BBC's Newscast Podcast.\n\nShe said she feared \"there will be more cases\" like Carrick's without \"a rapid public inquiry\" across police forces in England and Wales.\n\nIt would serve to establish if \"misogyny in policing is leading to our failings to root out this form of corruption early enough to protect women,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? 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If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The packet of dog food weighed as much as an iPhone\n\nConsumers are being warned to film themselves opening Amazon deliveries after a Salisbury man's £1,300 iPhone was switched for a packet of dog food.\n\nIan Burton bought the phone on 4 December to replace his daughter's device but received a packet of Naturo.\n\nThe online retail giant initially refused to refund the sum because Mr Burton had signed for the delivery.\n\nIt has since returned the money after being approached by the BBC's You and Yours programme.\n\nMr Burton, 69, told You and Yours he initially thought there had been a simple mistake.\n\nBut Amazon told him because he had accepted the parcel and given the courier a passcode, and the fact the dog food weighed the same as an iPhone, then he must have received the iPhone.\n\nMr Burton said something within Amazon's security systems was \"obviously wrong\" if a high-value piece of technology could be replaced with dog food.\n\nHe said that he had reported it to the police, but was told Amazon would need to investigate if the switch had occurred at one of its fulfilment centres and then refer it to the relevant force.\n\nIan Burton said Amazon's security systems were \"obviously wrong\"\n\nWithin minutes of being contacted by You and Yours, Mr Burton received a call from a representative of Amazon who apologised for the situation.\n\nThey promised they would be conducting a \"comprehensive review to identify any areas of improvement\" with the findings sent \"to the appropriate leadership team\".\n\nThe money was refunded to Mr Burton's account the following day.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson told the BBC: \"We've contacted Mr Burton directly, apologised and processed a full refund.\"\n\nTech journalists and consumer champion David McClelland said he had heard other reports of people receiving packets of dog food instead of a high-value laptop, and in one case a box of cornflakes.\n\n\"I'm not saying there is a pattern here but currently it seems as though, whether it's dog food or corn flakes, some people are experiencing problems in this way.\"\n\nMr McClelland recommends that when consumers order high value items from Amazon, they film the packaging for any signs of tampering, and film themselves opening it.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, TwitterandInstagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "A woman and child walk through the snow in Eglinton, Northern Ireland\n\nParts of the UK have been hit by snow and ice, with warnings from police in some areas to only travel if \"absolutely essential\".\n\nYellow alerts for snow and ice are in place across large areas of all four nations and an amber alert for snow has been issued for northern Scotland.\n\nIn Somerset, a double-decker bus with 70 people on board overturned in icy conditions, injuring dozens.\n\nOvernight temperatures dropped as low as -9.8C and some schools have shut.\n\nBBC forecaster Nick Miller said: \"Widespread cold has returned to the UK with lows of -7 to -10C across the four home nations last night.\"\n\nNorthern Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of north-west England and Wales are likely to see further snow, he said.\n\nConditions in the Highlands were expected to \"deteriorate\", he said, and travel disruption was likely.\n\n\"Temperatures across much of the UK will only rise a degree or so above freezing today with another widespread frost tonight\", he added.\n\nAn amber alert for snow is in place for parts of north and north-east Scotland until midnight meaning travel disruption is expected and rural communities are likely to become cut off.\n\nA yellow alert for snow and ice across parts of the UK until midday on Wednesday means travel delays are likely and icy conditions which could lead to slips and falls.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTemperatures dropped to -9.8C in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, overnight and to -8C across Scotland and Northern Ireland on what was the coldest night of the year so far.\n\nAt Loch Glascarnoch in the Scottish Highlands, 32cm (12.5in) of snow fell on Tuesday morning, according to the Met Office.\n\nIt will remain cold for the rest of the week, but BBC forecasters say it will turn milder by the weekend.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police warned drivers to \"only travel if absolutely necessary\" after the force said it received more than 100 reports in five hours due to \"treacherous conditions\".\n\nThe A39 near Cannington is closed after a crash involving a motorcyclist resulted in a bus overturning.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said conditions were \"extremely icy and dangerous\" as a result of freezing overnight temperatures and residual water on the road from last week's wet weather.\n\nOver in the South East, Kent County Council highways manager Toby Howe warned of flooding issues on the roads after an \"awful night\" of heavy rainfall.\n\nCars overturned on icy roads in Wales on Tuesday\n\nIn Wales, icy conditions on the roads caused cars to overturn, with nine road incidents being reported but no serious injuries.\n\nIn Cornwall, more than 80 schools have been shut and some roads are blocked after heavy snow fell in parts of the county.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police tweeted, urging drivers to \"travel with caution as heavy snow showers sweep through the region\".\n\nSchools in Shetland have been closed for a second day and more than 200 have been shut in the Highlands.\n\nThe Met Office said a further 10 to 15cm of snow could fall in a short space of time across northern parts of Scotland.\n\nThere have been 19 road crashes across Londonderry and Strabane as snow and icy conditions came in overnight in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office has issued the following weather alerts:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look ahead at the week's UK weather forecast\n\nA level three cold alert was issued on Monday by the UK Health Security Agency and is in place until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nThe government health agency warned the severe cold weather could cause health risks to vulnerable people and disrupt services.\n\nLondon's mayor Sadiq Khan activated the city's Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) on Monday to provide emergency accommodation for rough sleepers as temperatures fell.\n\nThe cold spell comes after widespread flooding left parts of the UK submerged over the weekend. More than 82 flood warnings and at least 116 flood alerts are still active across England.\n\nBreakdown service the AA said it has been responding to around 12,500 incidents on the roads a day this week due the colder conditions damaging road surfaces and creating potholes.\n\nIt added this is an increase of about 25% since Saturday.\n\nAA spokesman Tony Rich said: \"We advise drivers to adjust their speed to suit the conditions, especially when driving on wet or icy roads and to leave more room between their car and the one in front.\"", "Newham in east London was the most diverse area of England and Wales\n\nEngland and Wales are less ethnically segregated than they have ever been, according to a new study.\n\nResearchers looked at thousands of neighbourhoods across the two nations, alongside data from the 2021 census.\n\nThey found that more people from different ethnic backgrounds are now living close to each other or next door to each other than ever recorded.\n\nStudy author Dr Gemma Catney told BBC News the data suggests people are generally becoming more tolerant.\n\nDr Catney, from Queen's University Belfast, led a team of international researchers to analyse the data.\n\nTheir findings have been published today in the Royal Geographical Society's Geographical Journal.\n\nDr Catney said the data contradicts many debates around race and ethnicity, which focus on \"division and difference\".\n\n\"What we're seeing is increasing levels of people living together or next door to each other, and that indicates a level of tolerance - something that's happened really naturally over time without major government interventions on integration,\" she added.\n\nResearchers used figures from the Office of National Statistics to measure both ethnic diversity - that is, how many different ethnic groups are represented in an area - and residential segregation, which is how likely people from those groups are to live near or with each other.\n\nThey found that diversity has increased, and segregation has decreased, both in cities and in smaller towns and villages.\n\nThe most diverse district was Newham in east London, while Slough in Berkshire was the most diverse place outside London.\n\nOne measure researchers used is the Reciprocal Diversity Index (RDI), which looks at how diverse an area is on a scale from zero to 100.\n\nIf a neighbourhood has an RDI score of 30 or higher, it's considered to be very ethnically diverse.\n\nThe 2021 data shows that 2,201 neighbourhoods - 6.2% of the total - in England and Wales, have a high diversity score. This is significantly more than in 2001, when only 342 areas - 1% - were very diverse.\n\nEthnicity figures collected in the 2021 census were published last November.\n\nAbout 41% of people in Leicester described themselves as white - the lowest of any city in the UK.\n\nThe survey, carried out on March 21, 2021, was filled out by more than 24 million households across England and Wales.", "For 20 years, David Carrick, a serial rapist and violent sexual predator, wore a police uniform and, for much of that time, also carried a gun.\n\nIn his private life, he told his victims: \"You are my slave,\" as he controlled and abused them, subjecting them to appalling acts of degradation. They would never be believed as it would be their word against that of a serving officer, Carrick told them.\n\nCarrick has now admitted 49 charges relating to 12 victims. His guilty pleas leave the Metropolitan Police - the force he served in - once again apologising for failing to root out a criminal in uniform.\n\nCarrick was finally stopped when one woman did decide to report him. In October 2021, after publicity about disgraced Met Police officer PC Wayne Couzens, she contacted police in Hertfordshire, where Carrick lived and committed many of his crimes.\n\nThe woman described how, a year earlier, she had met Carrick on Tinder, the dating app. On their first encounter, he showed her his police warrant card, claimed he had met famous people - including the prime minister - and said he handled firearms. He also mentioned his pet snake. He told her he wanted a submissive woman.\n\nAfter plying her with drink, he took her to a hotel room where, she said, he raped her. Carrick was arrested and charged.\n\nAt his first court appearance, he denied the allegation - but, as a defendant in a court case, Carrick's name was made public. Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, of Hertfordshire Constabulary, who led the investigation, describes this first complainant as a trigger.\n\nSeeing him finally in the dock, Carrick's many victims - previously intimidated and silenced - gradually began to come forward. \"The investigation snowballed,\" Det Ch Insp Moor says. The first complainant did not realise she would empower so many women to strip away the law-and-order mask of a monster.\n\nThe Met has apologised after it emerged Carrick had come to the attention of the Met and three other forces nine times.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray says the force \"should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour\". She says failings \"may have prolonged\" the suffering of Carrick's victims.\n\nCarrick's earliest known victim described being falsely imprisoned, raped and threatened by him in 2003, as his probationary period in the police was ending.\n\nHe went on to rape, sexually assault and abuse a series of women, calling them his prostitutes. He would tell some what to wear, where to sleep and what to eat, sometimes even banning them from food altogether. Some he banned from speaking to other men, or even to their own children. Others he urinated on.\n\nOne woman described Carrick whipping her with a belt, another how he regularly imprisoned her in a small cupboard under the stairs. She stayed there \"intimidated and humiliated until he chose when she could come out\", Det Ch Insp Moor says, adding: \"I have seen bigger dog crates.\"\n\nHe says Carrick developed relationships with women \"to sustain his appetite for degradation and control\". \"He thrived on humiliating his victims,\" Det Ch Insp Moor says. Three women were in \"controlling and coercive\" relationships with Carrick. And police believe there may be more victims.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary has set up a dedicated section on its website, allowing people to report directly online without going through a police control room or the general online reporting system.\n\nBBC News has also spoken to a woman who met Carrick through a dating site. He did not attack her and she is not one of the women in this case. Although they never went on a date, she did once go to his house.\n\nShe describes how he began bombarding her with messages that \"really creeped me out\". \"He was weird,\" she says. \"I thought I should be nice to him because he was a police officer - and I was also thinking, surely you can trust a police officer.\"\n\nIn the messages, Carrick told her he thought he was falling in love with her and accused her of leading him on. She is shocked and astonished by the crimes of a man she regarded as simply cocky and strange.\n\nIn police interviews, Carrick appeared relaxed, claiming the sexual activity had been consensual or had not happened.\n\nAnd for months, it appeared his victims would have to go through the ordeal of court, as Carrick denied the charges. Suddenly, in December 2022, he admitted most of the offences. He was still due to go on trial, in February, on the remaining charges but now the arch-manipulator has pleaded guilty to those as well.\n\nThe street in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where David Carrick lived\n\nHis conviction has left the police with serious questions to answer.\n\nCarrick joined the Met, aged 26, in 2001, after a spell in the Army. He had passed the vetting procedure despite having twice in the previous year been implicated, although not arrested or charged, in possible offences - including burglary, involving a former partner he had refused to accept he was no longer in a relationship with.\n\nIn 2002, Carrick, the rookie cop, was investigated by his own force, after being accused of assaulting and harassing an ex-partner. There were no criminal charges and he was not referred to the Met's directorate of professional standards.\n\nPC Carrick's career saw several more reports of assault, harassment and domestic abuse, but none led to a criminal prosecution. He was on the radar of police in Hertfordshire, Hampshire and Thames Valley.\n\nOne allegation was made in 2009, when Carrick became a member of the armed teams guarding the Houses of Parliament, government offices and diplomatic missions.\n\nIn 2017, he sailed through his police re-vetting - but two years later, he was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck. Again, there were no criminal charges. And although the Met was informed, it decided against a misconduct process.\n\nIn summer 2021, Carrick was accused of rape and arrested by Hertfordshire Constabulary, but the Met allowed him to continue working - on restricted duties.\n\nWhile the Met was publicly proclaiming its commitment to protecting women after the murder of Sarah Everard, it now admits its professional-standards department made no attempt to check the full record of another officer accused of rape.\n\nMs Gray, who recently took over the department, says she is incredulous, stressing Carrick should have been re-vetted and suspended.\n\nThe rape case did not proceed, after the woman withdrew her complaint. And Carrick was preparing to return to full duties when he was arrested again, on another rape allegation. He was charged, named publicly and his 17 years of offending finally exposed.\n\nThe Met has asked the police watchdog to review its decision-making on Carrick, a case Ms Gray describes as \"devastating for the victims that have had to go through pain and suffering at the hands of a serving police officer\".\n\n\"It's devastating to the trust and confidence that we are working so hard to earn from women and girls across London,\" she says. \"We know this is a day when policing has definitely taken a step back.\"", "The UK government has decided to block a controversial Scottish bill designed to make it easier for people to change their legal gender.\n\nUK ministers say the draft law would conflict with equality protections applying across Great Britain.\n\nIt is the first time a Scottish law has been blocked for affecting UK-wide law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called the move a \"full-frontal attack\" on the Scottish Parliament and vowed to oppose it.\n\nShe said the Scottish ministers would \"defend\" the bill, warning if the veto succeeded it would be the \"first of many\".\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to challenge the ruling - potentially through a judicial review - but is waiting for more details from UK ministers.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's government believe the current process is too difficult and invasive, and causes distress to an already marginalised and vulnerable minority group.\n\nThe UK government's Scottish secretary Alister Jack will take the legal steps on Tuesday to confirm the move, and set out the reasons for it in a statement to the House of Commons.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon, he said the bill would have a \"significant impact\" on protections contained in UK equalities legislation.\n\nHe cited concerns over its effect on legal rights to run single-sex clubs, associations and schools, as well as rules on equal pay for men and women.\n\nHe added that having \"two different gender recognition schemes in the UK\" risked creating \"significant complications,\" including \"allowing more fraudulent or bad faith applications\".\n\nThe announcement was greeted with fury by Scottish Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison, who called the decision to block the bill \"outrageous\".\n\nArguing that the bill does not affect UK-wide equalities law, she said the \"political\" move demonstrated the UK government's \"contempt for devolution\".\n\n\"This is a dark day for trans rights and a dark day for democracy in the UK,\" she added.\n\nThis is a major and unique intervention from the UK government.\n\nThey have successfully challenged Holyrood legislation before on the basis that MSPs exceeded their powers.\n\nBut they have never blocked a Scottish bill on the basis that they think it will have a negative impact on UK law, in this case the Equality Act.\n\nThis decision turns a dispute about the process for legally changing gender into a significant constitutional clash between the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nI am told the UK Labour Party will not challenge this intervention, but some Scottish Labour MSPs are furious that gender reforms they helped pass are being stopped.\n\nWhile UK ministers have suggested the bill could be modified, Scottish ministers have made clear they intend to defend what Holyrood has approved - which probably means this dispute ends up in court.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Bill, passed by 86 votes to 39 in the Scottish Parliament last month, would streamline the process in Scotland for changing legal gender.\n\nThe bill would lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) - a legal document confirming a gender change - from 18 to 16.\n\nIt would also remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, with applicants only needing to have lived as their acquired gender for three months rather than two years - or six months if they are aged 16 or 17.\n\nTrans campaigners welcomed the bill, however critics of the plans are worried that allowing anyone to \"self-identify\" as a woman could impact on women's rights and access to single-sex spaces like refuges and changing rooms.\n\nUK ministers have used a power to block the law under Section 35 of the Scotland Act, the legislation which created a Scottish Parliament with powers to make laws on a range of issues.\n\nIf ministers think a Holyrood bill would modify laws reserved to Westminster and have an \"adverse effect\" on how those laws apply, they can block it. But the power has not been used up to now.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has argued there are no grounds for the UK government to challenge the legislation as it falls within the powers of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe has said any move to block the reforms would be using trans people \"as a political weapon\".\n\nScottish Labour, who supported the bill at Holyrood, called on Scottish and UK ministers to find a solution to the impasse.\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray added: \"Trans rights and women's rights should not be used as an excuse for SNP-Tory attrition warfare\".\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nJust last week Rishi Sunak was joking with Nicola Sturgeon about stealing the chips that came with her steak at dinner.\n\nThe prime minister was said to be on a charm offensive as he visited the Highlands for private talks with Scotland's first minister.\n\nNow, say Ms Sturgeon's supporters, the Conservative leader's true attitude has been revealed in what she calls a \"full-frontal attack\" on the will of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nNonsense, say UK government sources, insisting robustly that they have no desire whatsoever for a constitutional clash, and that blocking the Gender Recognition Reform bill passed at Holyrood last month by 86 votes to 39 is both essential and purely a matter of procedure.\n\nThey point to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack's stated hope of finding \"a constructive way forward\", respecting both devolution and the operation of Westminster legislation.\n\nHowever, whatever the reason and whomever may be at fault, the fact is we do now have a clash.\n\nIn truth, the architecture of devolution set out in the Scotland Act 1998 probably made one inevitable in the end, even if it took a long time to occur.\n\nSurely a day was always going to come when the Scottish Parliament passed a law which UK ministers reckoned stepped on their toes?\n\nThe fact that it has arrived, after nearly a quarter of a century, on such a hot-button topic adds an additional layer of jeopardy.\n\nThe law passed at Holyrood last month would remove medical, legal and administrative hurdles which must currently be cleared before someone in Scotland can change the sex recorded on their birth certificate. It would also cut the age limit to do so from 18 to 16.\n\nIts opponents have argued that allowing someone, in essence, to self-identify in their gender would impinge on Westminster equalities legislation by, for example, making it more difficult for women-only spaces to exclude people who were born biologically male.\n\nThe Scottish National Party (SNP), the Conservatives and Labour are all, to a greater or lesser extent, divided on the merits of the legislation itself. Even some senior figures in the SNP worry that the controversial nature of the subject makes it a risky centrepiece for a \"democracy denied\" campaign.\n\nThere are also concerns within the party hierarchy that the relevant passage of the Scotland Act is narrowly-enough drawn that the UK government might win in the courts.\n\nSection 35 of the law provides for the Scottish secretary to veto Holyrood legislation \"as a matter of last resort\" if it would have an \"adverse effect\" on the operation of the law as it applies to matters reserved to Westminster (as opposed to devolved to Holyrood). Gender recognition is devolved. Equality law is reserved.\n\nA successful challenge would involve proving that Mr Jack did not have \"reasonable grounds\" for believing that there would be such an adverse effect.\n\nIf and when they take their case up the Royal Mile from Holyrood to the Court of Session - and perhaps ultimately to the UK Supreme Court in London - those closest to Nicola Sturgeon sound confident of victory.\n\nEven if they lose, campaigners for liberalisation argue that the SNP is placing itself on the right side of history.\n\nA poll conducted for the BBC last year suggested that younger voters were far more likely than older voters to support making it easier to change gender. Oddly enough, polling also suggests higher support for independence among younger voters.\n\nIs this the case of the SNP aligning itself with what it perceives as its future base? Or is that too cynical a view?\n\nIn the meantime, Whitehall lawyers may have to consider cancelling their Easter holidays, for this is far from the only issue involving the UK government which looks like ending up in court.\n\nMigrants facing potential removal to Rwanda have been granted permission to challenge the Home Office.\n\nMr Sunak and Ms Sturgeon held talks in Inverness last week\n\nUnions have threatened legal action over plans by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department to enforce minimum service levels during industrial action, a move which would restrict the right of some workers to strike.\n\nExpanding the powers of the police to tackle public protest in England and Wales also has the potential for a challenge.\n\nThat's a lot of conflict for a government which was supposed to have replaced the turbulence of the Liz Truss and Boris Johnson years with plain sailing.\n\nWill voters approve of tough talking on these controversial topics? Is this the way to win a general election? To secure the union? We shall see.\n\nAs for what happens immediately, there are limited options.\n\nThe Scottish Secretary suggested the Scottish government could consider amending its law but it is difficult to envisage a draft that would satisfy Mr Jack without gutting the bill of its original purpose. In private, even some on the UK side acknowledge this.\n\nLabour have an interesting role. Sir Keir Starmer's comments on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg in which he expressed concerns about the legislation, to the discomfort of many in Scottish Labour who supported it, may have provided some political cover for the Tories on the issue.\n\nThat in itself is an indication that Labour remains torn, both about the fundamental principles at stake and about the political implications of siding with either the Conservatives or the SNP in a row over gender and the constitution.\n\nIn the words of the shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray: \"These issues are too important to be reduced to the usual constitutional fight.\" Although Mr Murray knows as well as anyone that the fight has been raging in Scotland for some years, sucking in almost every issue imaginable regardless of its perceived importance.\n\nWith that in mind, you can certainly overstate the friendliness between Mr Sunak and Ms Sturgeon in Inverness last week.\n\nAfter an initial convivial conversation, the meeting quickly turned serious with plenty of disagreement about key issues - strikes, the NHS, renewable energy and more. The two leaders did talk gender but, at that point, the discussion about parliamentary procedure was abstract.\n\nNow it is very real. The stakes have been raised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Wages have grown at the fastest rate in more than 20 years, but are still failing to keep up with rising prices.\n\nAverage pay, including and excluding bonuses, rose by 6.4% between September and November compared with the same period in 2021, official figures show.\n\nIt is the fastest growth since 2001, excluding during the height of Covid, but when adjusted for rising prices, wages fell in real terms by 2.6%.\n\nThe gap between public and private sector pay is also near a record high.\n\nPrivate sector wages grew 7.2% annually in the three months to November, which was more than double that of the 3.3% increase in the public sector, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nPay packets failing to keep pace with the rising cost of living has led to thousands of workers in both sectors striking over pay and working conditions in recent months.\n\nStrikes have disrupted everything from train services to postal deliveries and hospital care, and more industrial action is set to take place in the coming weeks.\n\nIn total, 467,000 working days lost were lost due to strikes in November 2022 - the highest number in more than 10 years.\n\nOn Wednesday and Thursday, members of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) will strike in England, while some ambulance staff in England and Wales plan to walk out on 23 January.\n\nLiving costs are rising at the fastest rate in almost 40 years, with energy and food prices shooting up, largely due to the war in Ukraine. Inflation, the rate at which prices rise, is currently at 10.7%.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said the \"real value\" of people's pay was continuing to fall, with regular earnings dropping at the fastest rate since records began once inflation is taken into account.\n\nWorkers feeling the pinch has led to people asking for pay rises, but for some businesses, particularly smaller ones, raising wages in line with inflation, at the same time as having to pay for higher energy bills, is difficult.\n\nIn addition, worker shortages in some sectors has meant that companies have had to offer more attractive pay packets, with the number of vacancies remaining at historically high levels.\n\nLeanne Wayne, who runs Little Explorers Day Nursery in Golcar, just outside Huddersfield, prides herself on paying above the National Living Wage, which is currently £9.50 per hour for over-23s but will rise in April to £10.42.\n\nNursery manager Leanne Wayne is preparing to increase fees again this year to pay for higher bills and staff wages\n\n\"I would like to put my staff wages up more to reflect how hard they work,\" she said. \"They totally deserve it.\"\n\nBut she added such a decision wasn't a simple one. Not being able to increase wages has also made recruiting new, qualified staff \"impossible\", Leanne added.\n\nThe nursery increased its fees last year and Leanne is bracing herself to do it again in the spring.\n\nThe UK's employment rate has remained largely unchanged, while the unemployment rate has edged up marginally, despite fears the UK economy is stagnating.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year, something many forecasters have predicted will happen as the cost of energy falls.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said sticking to the government's plan to tackle inflation was the \"best way to help people's wages go further\". He warned: \"We must not do anything that risks permanently embedding high prices into our economy.\"\n\nBut Jonathan Ashworth, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said the government was \"totally bereft of ideas when it comes to tackling the cost of living crisis\".\n\nInterest rates have been steadily put up by the Bank of England in a bid to try to control rising prices. Raising interest rates makes it more expensive for people to borrow money. In theory, this encourages people to borrow and spend less, and save more.\n\nAshley Webb, UK economist for Capital Economics, said the fact that the jobs market \"remained tight and wage growth remained strong [would] only increase the Bank of England's fears that inflation, despite falling, is still persistent\".\n\nIt is to be expected in a time of high inflation that wages will grow faster than in a period of low inflation.\n\nThe average earnings rise of 6.4% (both including and excluding bonuses) may be the highest in cash terms, but because each pound buys you less and less, it's one of the biggest pay cuts in real terms that we've seen this century.\n\nIn contrast to the public sector, you can see clearly private sector wage rises are being driven by employers contending with market forces in the shape of one of the tightest labour markets in decades.\n\nThose in most urgent need of staff are bidding up wages - like in the professional, scientific and technical activities. Employers know that if you ignore market forces in the labour market, you'll find you can't attract the staff you need to do the work. And those market forces are at work across the whole economy, in the public every bit as much as the private sector.", "Nurses and doctors protesting in Westminster, in July\n\nTwo new nurses' strikes will be held on 6 and 7 February in England and Wales - unless there is movement on pay, the Royal College of Nursing says.\n\nThe walkouts will be the biggest so far, with more than a third of NHS trusts in England and all but one Welsh health board affected.\n\nIt comes as nurses prepare to walk out on Wednesday and Thursday, following the two strike days before Christmas.\n\nAs required under trade union laws, emergency care will be covered.\n\nMost of the 73 NHS trusts involved in the new set of strike dates are hospitals.\n\nIt means the biggest disruption is likely to be in pre-booked treatment such as hernia repair, hip replacements or outpatient clinics.\n\nServices such as chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and intensive care will be staffed, however, as part of the emergency cover.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"It is with a heavy heart that nursing staff are striking this week and again in three weeks. Rather than negotiate, Rishi Sunak has chosen strike action again.\n\n\"We're doing this in a desperate bid to get him and ministers to rescue the NHS. The only credible solution is to address the tens of thousands of unfilled jobs - patient care is suffering like never before.\n\n\"My olive branch to government - asking them to meet me halfway and begin negotiations - is still there. They should grab it.\"\n\nThe union has asked for 5% above the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation, which currently stands at 14%.\n\nThe governments in England and Wales have given an average of 4.75% to NHS staff, with everyone guaranteed at least £1,400.\n\nTalks have been held between the RCN and other NHS unions and Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nGovernment sources said there would be no movement on this year's pay award but ministers are considering backdating the 2023-24 pay rise to January. It would normally kick in in April.\n\nThis has already been tabled in Scotland, leading to NHS strikes being halted for further negotiations - although, staff there received a 7.5% pay rise this year.\n\nThere have been walkouts in Northern Ireland but the RCN said its members there were not being included this time.\n\nThe RCN, which represents about two-thirds of nurses, balloted more than 300,000 across individual NHS trusts and boards rather than in a single, national vote.\n\nThis means some nurses are not entitled to take industrial action, because the turnout in their local area was too low.\n\nDuring the first two days of strikes, before Christmas, nurses at 44 out of 209 NHS trusts in England were involved, along with those at services in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis week, nurses at 55 other NHS trusts in England are striking.\n\nMatthew Taylor, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said routine treatments and checks-ups would have to be rescheduled \"against a backdrop of what is a very pressured time of year\".\n\nHe added: \"It appears that that both sides have a willingness to compromise - it is vital that the prime minister takes this opportunity to find a solution in health.\"\n\nAre you a nurse? Have you voted on strike action? Share your experiences. Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Metropolitan Police armed officer who used his role to put fear into his victims has admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women.\n\nDavid Carrick, 48, who met some victims through dating websites, pleaded guilty to 49 offences across two decades.\n\nThe Met has apologised after it emerged he had come to the attention of police over nine incidents, including rape allegations, between 2000 and 2021.\n\nA senior officer said his offending was \"unprecedented in policing\".\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met's lead for professionalism, said: \"We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn't, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation.\n\n\"We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police officer may have prolonged the suffering of his victims.\n\n\"We know they felt unable to come forward sooner because he told them they would not be believed.\"\n\nCarrick, who admitted 24 counts of rape, was suspended from duty when he was arrested in October 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Policing has definitely taken a step back\", says Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray\n\nHis offences spanned 2003 to 2020 and most took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived.\n\nCarrick, from Stevenage, would control what the women wore, what they ate, where they slept and even stopped some of the women from speaking to their own children.\n\nHe was finally stopped when one woman did decide to report him. In October 2021, following publicity about disgraced Metropolitan Police officer PC Wayne Couzens, she contacted police.\n\nJaswant Narwal, chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Carrick held a role where he was trusted with the responsibility of protecting the public, but yet over 17 years, in his private life, he did the exact opposite.\n\n\"This is a man who relentlessly degraded, belittled and sexually assaulted and raped women.\n\n\"As time went on, the severity of his offending intensified as he became emboldened, thinking he would get away with it.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Iain Moor (second right) and Jaswant Narwal, from the Crown Prosecution Service, spoke to the media outside Southwark Crown Court\n\nShe said the \"scale of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is unlike anything I've encountered in my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service\".\n\nCarrick, who served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, met some victims through online dating sites such as Tinder and Badoo, and used his role as a police officer to gain their trust.\n\nHe admitted four counts of rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault relating to a 40-year-old woman in 2003, at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.\n\nIt can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, in December.\n\nCarrick admitted raping nine women, some on multiple occasions over months or years, with many of those attacks involving violence that would have left them physically injured.\n\nDavid Carrick has been suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: \"The details of David Carrick's crimes are truly shocking.\n\n\"I suspect many will be appalled and sickened by his actions, but I hope the victims and the public more widely are reassured that no-one is above the law and the police service will relentlessly pursue those offenders who target women in this way.\"\n\nHe said he expected even more victims to come forward.\n\nDavid Carrick, as pictured by a court artist, was an armed officer until he was suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police\n\nCarrick admitted to false imprisonment offences, having on a number of occasions forced one of his victims into a small cupboard under the stairs at his home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Moor, the senior investigating officer, said: \"I have seen bigger dog crates.\"\n\nAfter Carrick's first guilty pleas, the Met stopped his pay and began an accelerated misconduct process, with a hearing due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Carrick: 'The sheer magnitude of his offending is horrifying'\n\nHarriet Wistrich, director of campaign group the Centre for Women's Justice, said: \"We have known for some time that there has been a culture of impunity for such offending by police officers.\n\n\"Recent reports show a woefully deficient vetting and misconduct system and a largely unchallenged culture of misogyny in some sections of the Met.\n\n\"That Carrick could have not only become a police officer but remain a serving officer for so long whilst he perpetrated these horrific crimes against women, is terrifying.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he was \"absolutely sickened and appalled\" by Carrick's crimes.\n\nHe said \"serious questions must be answered about how he was able to abuse his position as an officer in this horrendous manner\".\n\nIn the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, the force publicly proclaimed its commitment to protecting women and launched an \"action plan\" to try to regain trust.\n\nBut it has now admitted its professional standards department made no attempt to check the full record of another officer accused of rape.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said it was \"an appalling case\" and that Rishi Sunak's \"thoughts are with all of [Carrick's] victims\".\n\n\"There is no place in our police forces for officers who fall so seriously short of the acceptable standards of behaviour and are not fit to wear the uniform.\"\n\nDavid Carrick will be sentenced in February\n\nSal Naseem, from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said no opportunities to stop Carrick earlier had been identified by police so far.\n\nTwo retired Met officers who dealt with a 2002 allegation of assault and harassment against Carrick may have committed misconduct, but as they cannot face misconduct proceedings, the IOPC decided it was not in the public interest to take further action.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Conservative MP has said delaying climate action risks damaging the UK's economic prospects, in a major review of the government's net zero plans.\n\nThe report by Chris Skidmore says the government's climate policies need to be more consistent and ambitious.\n\nThe UK is \"falling behind\" on some targets and needs a \"new approach\", the report says.\n\nIt calls for 25 actions within two years, including food eco-labelling, and phasing out gas boilers by 2033.\n\nMr Skidmore - the Tory MP who wrote the report - was commissioned by former prime minister Liz Truss to review the government's delivery of net zero, to ensure it was \"pro-growth and pro-business\".\n\nSome green campaign groups praised the report for focusing on the economic opportunities of net zero and urged the government to heed its recommendations.\n\nLabour's shadow climate secretary, Ed Miliband, said the government's lack of \"urgency and consistency\" was \"depriving our country of the economic opportunities climate action offers\".\n\nAnd Green MP Caroline Lucas said the review itself shied away from calling for \"truly transformative measures to end our dependence on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels\".\n\nThe government said the UK was leading the world on tackling climate change and developing green jobs for the future.\n\nNet zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.\n\nThe UK has set a legally binding target of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of the global effort to avert the worst effects of climate change.\n\nMr Skidmore is one of the greenest Tory MPs and signed the 2050 emissions target into law in 2019 when he was an energy minister.\n\nHe spent months meeting politicians, business leaders and energy experts across the country as part of his evidence-gathering process.\n\nCalling net zero \"the growth opportunity of the 21st century\", Mr Skidmore says the UK \"must move quickly\" and decisively to reap the economic benefits of achieving the target.\n\n\"We have heard from businesses that economic opportunities are being missed today because of weaknesses in the UK's investment environment - whether that be skills shortages or inconsistent policy commitment,\" Mr Skidmore writes.\n\n\"Moving quickly must include spending money. We know that investing in net zero today will be cheaper than delaying, as well as increasing the economic and climate benefits.\"\n\nHe added: \"The review recognises we have fallen behind, but it sets out how we can be world-leading in these areas once again. We need to remove the barriers that are in place at the moment.\"\n\nThe review - a leaked copy of which was seen by the BBC ahead of its publication on Friday - said a key demand from across the country was \"the need for clarity, certainty, consistency, and continuity from government\".\n\nOn top of setting out long-term goals, it outlines 25 actions the government should take in the next two years. These include:\n\nIn his conclusion, Mr Skidmore said the UK was in a \"net-zero race\" and delaying decisions risked losing jobs, infrastructure and investments to other countries.\n\nThe UK, he said, had \"reached a tipping point\" where the \"risks of 'not zero' are now greater than the associated risks of taking decisive action on net zero now\".\n\n\"This is why we need a new approach to our net zero strategy,\" Mr Skidmore writes. \"One which identifies stable 10-year missions that can be established across sectors, providing the vision and security for stakeholders and investors.\"\n\nSources in the renewable energy sector told the BBC it was vital for the review's recommendations to be \"taken forward immediately\", adding: \"The government needs to take the same kind of agile and empowered approach as was used for developing the coronavirus vaccine.\"\n\nThe government's independent adviser on climate change said Mr Skidmore had gone \"further than anything we've published before by highlighting the fact that there's a risk if we don't go fast enough\" on net zero.\n\n\"To have that from a Conservative MP is very significant indeed,\" Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, told the BBC.\n\nBut Tanya Steele, chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), said she was concerned by the government's \"stop-start\" policies on net zero.\n\nThe WWF was urging the government to \"deliver on its promise to meet the net zero target with a clear strategy\", Ms Steele said.\n\nA government spokesperson said Mr Skidmore's report \"recognises the government progress that has been made to date in working towards legally-binding net zero targets\".\n\n\"The UK is leading the world on tackling climate change while also developing green jobs for the future - in fact we've cut emissions by over 44% since 1990 while growing our economy by 76%, and our policies have supported 68,000 green jobs since late 2020,\" the spokesperson said.", "The Royal College of Nursing and GMB have put strike action on hold\n\nThe threat of widespread strike action in Scotland's NHS has been put on hold by unions.\n\nThe GMB and Royal College of Nursing will not call strikes while negotiations take place on the 2023 pay offer, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nHealth secretary Humza Yousaf said the breakthrough was \"very welcome\".\n\nNegotiations are likely to take several weeks and the unions still have a mandate to call members out on strike if they are unsuccessful.\n\nIf a deal is reached, the pay rise would be backdated to January.\n\nThe announcement follows talks with the Scottish government on Thursday, aimed at ending the long-running pay dispute affecting staff in NHS Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS).\n\nThe three unions with mandates to strike are the GMB, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).\n\nThey said they would now enter an \"intensive period of negotiations\" on the 2023 pay deal.\n\nAll three unions rejected the 2022 pay offer which was worth around 7.5% on average. It was accepted by others including Unison and Unite.\n\nUnions still have a mandate to call NHS staff on strike if pay talks are unsuccessful\n\nOn Thursday, the Scottish government made new proposals including accelerated negotiations on the 2023 pay offer, and an extra payment for staff.\n\nRCN Scotland said it had paused a formal announcement of strike action in response to the talks.\n\nPat Cullen, RCN General Secretary said: \"The Scottish government has shown a willingness to return to the negotiating table and to act to address the nursing workforce crisis.\n\n\"The pressure from our members has been key to these negotiations moving forward. We need to see this process through. \"\n\nThe GMB said Mr Yousaf had made a commitment to effectively backdate the value of any agreed terms for 2023 to January, with the deal fully implemented by April.\n\nThe union said that negotiations would start next week.\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said: \"GMB is prepared to engage in good faith with the Scottish government on fresh proposals to resolve this dispute.\n\n\"This has been a marathon for our members and there is still some distance to go, but their strength has now secured more money for all staff in the year ahead.\"\n\nThe RCM said it was \"cautiously optimistic\" that Mr Yousaf would meet its calls for a decent pay deal.\n\nBut the union said its mandate for industrial action remained and it \"would have no hesitation in using it\" if talks did not progress.\n\nRCM Scotland director Jaki Lambert said: \"We are grateful to the cabinet secretary that he has acknowledged this and has committed to finding a meaningful solution to this dispute.\n\n\"We are hopeful that this is a turning point in the dispute which, yes, is focused on pay, but is just as much about the conditions our members have to work in.\"\n\nStrike dates had been due to be announced before the latest breakthrough. Scotland's health secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the move.\n\nHe said: \"I have always maintained that I will leave no stone unturned in order to avert industrial action in our health service.\n\n\"This positive way forward is a direct result of all parties continuing meaningful dialogue in a constructive an open manner.\n\nHe added: \"This is in stark contrast to the UK government, who have this week introduced draconian legislation curbing the rights of staff in Scotland's NHS and other devolved public services.\n\n\"I would urge the UK government to follow Scotland's example and get back round the negotiating table.\"\n\nThe threat of strikes in the NHS in Scotland is not over but the possibility is now greatly reduced.\n\nIt would have been difficult to reopen the 2022 pay deal. It had been accepted by other major NHS unions including Unison and Unite.\n\nThe idea is that this year's offer - which would normally apply from April - will be backdated to January.\n\nThere can be no certainty that a deal will be reached though.\n\nIf talks fail, strikes are still an option.\n\nBut the chance of strike action adding to the difficulties facing the NHS over the winter is now greatly reduced.", "Brad is passionate about cheerleading and wants more boys involved in the sport\n\nBeing a cheerleader has helped an autistic teenager become more comfortable around people and now he wants to inspire more boys to try it.\n\nBrad, 19, from Cardiff, was the only male member of Team Wales' advanced adaptive abilities side that won last year's world championships.\n\nHe trains daily, including weight sessions, and monthly with Wales.\n\nHowever, he has struggled to convince his friends to get involved who \"still think it's all about pompoms\".\n\nBrad had enjoyed boxing and hockey but after watching sister Freya in action, decided cheerleading was for him.\n\n\"People have taken the mick out of me, like [saying] cheerleading's just going around with pompoms and dancing,\" he said.\n\n\"But I show them a video on my phone of what I actually do and then they stutter their words, they're like 'Oh, OK, so you don't do pompoms?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrad's role is far from pompoms, as he is what is known as the base - holding the flyer, or top girl, in the air during the routine, sometimes for long periods.\n\nWhile being part of the team has required him to get \"super strong arms\", it has also helped him cope with his autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).\n\nThe Wales team has given Brad a sense of belonging among the members\n\nHe described being around lots of people as his \"issue\".\n\n\"My autism affects my day-to-day life, when I meet new people I go into a really shy mode… and it's hard to be around people.\"\n\nHowever, cheerleading has made him comfortable around not only his teammates, but competitors from around the world.\n\nHis trip to the world championships in Orlando also gave him a desire to travel.\n\nTeammate Libby called him \"brilliant\", adding: \"He makes me laugh and he's a good friend to everyone on the team. Everyone gets along with him.\"\n\nBrad, who is at college training to be a plumber, has already started inspiring other boys, with two others joining the Wales squad in 2023.\n\nIn 2022 Brad was the only boy - but two more have joined for 2023\n\nIt was in 2017 that SportCheer Wales created the adaptive abilities side - which brings together a mix of people with and without disabilities.\n\n\"Cheerleading is different from when I was a kid. It was just a sideline thing then in the USA, on the sideline [of sports matches], dancing, cheerleading,\" said coach Sabrina Steele.\n\n\"But it's gone physical and is a sport of its own.\n\n\"There's a lot to tumbling, holding flyers up in the air by their feet. They're extremely high in the air, we are throwing them, so it's has gone very far forward from when I was a cheerleader.\"\n\nWhile becoming a cheerleading coach was a natural progression after being a professional dancer until she was 30, the 45-year-old's journey to look after the Wales team was less straightforward.\n\nOriginally from New Jersey in the United States, she met her husband on a cruise ship, who she initially thought was English.\n\nSabrina was confused when somebody told her he was actually Welsh, having never heard of it.\n\nBut now living in Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, she said: \"I'm living in Wales, my kids speak Welsh, I'm coaching the Welsh team... I'm Welsh now.\"\n\nWhile she is passionate about getting more boys involved in the sport, she thinks there needs to be a mindset shift in a country where many think of playing rugby and football.\n\n\"In the US, boys grow up thinking about cheerleading from a young age,\" she said.\n\n\"Here in Wales, it's not something they think about from a young age, or something that's instilled in them. Brad is moving it forward.\"", "Benjamin Mendy steadfastly denied all of the charges against him\n\nDespite his acquittal on all but two charges, Benjamin Mendy may still struggle to shake the image portrayed of him in court - a sex-mad, out-of-control, multi-millionaire.\n\nA Premier League star who didn't care about the feelings or wellbeing of the women he slept with on an almost industrial scale.\n\nWhat people may suspect some footballers get up to in their private lives has, in Mendy's case at least, been revealed over the course of a six-month trial.\n\nIt was not just his behaviour and attitude towards women which was laid bare in court, but also the difficulties that football clubs have when their star players are off-duty.\n\nPep Guardiola, Mendy's manager at Manchester City, told Chester Crown Court that \"in their private life I don't know what they do\".\n\n\"I don't follow the players on social media, so I don't know what they are doing outside my control in training sessions and in games,\" he said, adding: \"I'm not his father.\"\n\nBack in July 2017, Mendy became City's then-record signing when, aged 23, he joined from Monaco for a reported transfer fee of £52m.\n\nDescribed by the club's director of football Txiki Begiristain as \"one of the world's best full-backs\", the France international was paid an estimated £90,000 a week.\n\nMendy became the world's most expensive defender when he signed for Manchester City five years ago\n\nIn football, such deals come with a simple truth - for such high rewards, elite players are expected to focus all their efforts on the pitch.\n\nTheir clubs are often happy to spend whatever it takes to keep them happy off it.\n\nLike all major clubs, City employs an army of staff to cater to their needs, with helpers who will pay bills, act as a 24-hour concierge and look after their fleets of luxury cars.\n\nJodie Deakin worked for the Premier League champions for 10 years as the men's team support manager.\n\nDuring Mendy's trial, she said her \"role was to look after the first-team players and the management staff in every aspect of their lives\".\n\n\"These boys don't do anything for themselves,\" she said.\n\nMs Deakin told the court how she would choose schools for the players' children, deal with the banks, and check their homes for security.\n\nShe dealt with demands for payments from contractors who'd been working at Mendy's house when he'd run out of money.\n\nOn one visit to the footballer's Cheshire mansion, she advised him to increase security.\n\nSoon afterwards, locks that could be activated by his fingerprints were fitted to the bedroom doors.\n\nMs Deakin said she wanted this \"so he had a bit of sanctuary, to lock people out, and that was his safe haven\".\n\nShe also talked about the attraction footballers hold for many young women who frequent the same bars and clubs.\n\nMs Deakin described players like Mr Mendy as \"magnets\".\n\n\"You can tell a mile off he's a footballer, as they all have similar dress sense,\" she said. \"He drips in designer. A lot of girls would be attracted to that look.\"\n\nMr Mendy, pictured right, was on trial alongside his friend Louis Saha Matturie\n\nMark Boixasa was the head of first-team operations and support at Manchester City for nine years.\n\nLike Ms Deakin, his job involved helping new signings, as well as advising players about life after retirement.\n\nAppearing for the defence, he told the court Mendy had suffered a number of long-term injuries and was \"not the perfect professional\".\n\nHe added that the player was often late for work because he overslept.\n\nMendy's agent, Meïsa N'Diaye, said that whenever his client wasn't playing, he would go out a lot more and, in a written statement to the court, he said he had warned the player he had to make a choice about his life.\n\nMr N'Diaye said he was also aware the footballer was having a lot of short-term relationships and wasn't interested in settling down.\n\nAs well as receiving help from Manchester City, Mendy employed his own staff, including a chef to provide food at parties he hosted at his mansion.\n\nCleaner Yvonne Shea, who worked 15 hours a week there, said she often arrived the morning after some of them.\n\nShe told the court that women, looking \"a little worse for wear\", were sometimes still there and the house was a \"catastrophe\", with discarded food and drink lying around.\n\nOnce she found a coffee table lying smashed on the floor.\n\n\"It was like windscreen glass, so that was all over everywhere,\" she said.\n\nShe also said clothes were left lying around and if she found them near Mendy's indoor swimming pool, she would \"just gather it up\".\n\n\"Underwear I didn't wash, I put it to one side and there was a cupboard for phones and handbags,\" she said.\n\nShe told the court she'd stopped working for Mendy when City stopped paying his wages in September 2021 ahead of his trial.\n\nSome of the parties started in Manchester's nightclubs before continuing back at the mansion.\n\nVideos were shown to the court of the player in a club, stripping to the waist in front of young women, waving his shirt around his head before throwing it into the crowd.\n\nOther footage from a party at his house showed him with his hand thrust down his trousers as he danced with a group of young women.\n\nCCTV put before the court also showed him staggering drunk from a car.\n\nDuring his trial, Mendy admitted occasionally being over the limit while driving and his disregard for authority was highlighted when he fully accepted many of the parties and gatherings in his house had taken place when they were banned due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe four-month trial was heard at Chester Crown Court\n\nIn court, Mendy admitted to living a life which focussed on his sexual conquests.\n\n\"I was not thinking like how they were feeling or they can be upset because, for me, if they wanted to have sex and I wanted to, everything was fine and I would carry on my partying,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court it was \"honestly so easy\" for him to meet women and have sex with them.\n\nMendy said that while he started attracting women's attention when he signed for Marseille as an 18-year-old, interest in him had grown tenfold when he joined City.\n\n\"It's not because of my look, it's because of football,\" he told jurors.\n\nHe said he had never considered contraception and added that it was \"normal\" for him to have sex with a number of different women.\n\nHe stressed to the court, though, that if a woman ever said \"no\", he would \"be fine\", adding: \"I'd accept it and I'd stop.\"\n\nMendy said he was embarrassed to talk about sex because \"I can't scream 'Yeah, I love sex!', because it would seem weird.\"\n\nHe also told the court that when he was remanded into custody between August 2021 and January 2022, he had changed.\n\n\"All my life, I have never had the time to really think about what I was doing,\" he said.\n\n\"When I went there I was alone, you're sat down all day, the only thing you do is think.\n\n\"I didn't know I can hurt their feelings if we were both OK to have sex.\"\n\nSuch was the portrait painted of him during the case that even his own legal team, led by Eleanor Laws KC, admitted that \"life, as he knew it, is over, in football in the UK\".\n\nMs Laws added that Mendy \"will never escape these accusations\".\n\nHis contract at Manchester City runs out this summer and if his barrister is correct, he may have to go abroad to continue playing.\n\nHow the case will impact on his lifestyle remains to be seen, but his agent, City and any future club will be hoping he will be talked about for his footballing talent and not his off-pitch behaviour.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg: \"Germany is really embarrassing itself right now\"\n\nSwedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced \"police violence\" in removing climate protesters trying to stop an abandoned village being swallowed up by an open coal mine.\n\nThe last resident left Lützerath in western Germany more than a year ago and police moved in to clear activists from the site on Wednesday.\n\nMany of the protesters have gone but two protesters nicknamed \"Pinky\" and \"Brain\" are holed up in a tunnel.\n\nOthers are waiting in treehouses.\n\nSeveral thousand supporters are expected to attend a big rally on Saturday in the neighbouring village of Keyenberg.\n\nThe police operation in Lützerath, now owned by energy firm RWE, has proved awkward for the government as Germany's Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck is a leading figure in the Greens.\n\nGermany has promised to phase out coal-fired power by 2030, bringing forward the date from 2038, and Lützerath is expected to be the final village to be swallowed up by the Garzweiler opencast mine. RWE said the coal under the village would be needed as early as this winter.\n\nBut the climate protesters have been buoyed by public support, with a survey suggesting 59% of Germans are against the lignite mine expanding.\n\nLützerath has become a symbol for activists from all over Germany.\n\n\"People are already suffering in the global south. Here we're privileged and able to protest and we have to use this privilege to stop the use of fossils,\" one activist told the BBC.\n\nAs police moved in on Wednesday, protesters formed human chains, and took to treehouses or rooftops in the village.\n\nMost had been cleared by Friday, when the focus turned to two young men in a tunnel they had dug beneath Lützerath.\n\nSitting beside a bouquet of flowers, the two protesters have posted videos on YouTube in which they call themselves Pinky and Brain, taken from an animated cartoon about lab rats in the late 1990s.\n\nThe two young men posted a video from the tunnel on Thursday saying they had oxygen and that it was \"nice and cold\"\n\n\"We're trying to make this last as long as possible so the people upstairs have time to mobilise even more and make the protest even bigger,\" they said on Thursday night.\n\n\"It's much harder to evict a tunnel than a tree house. They don't know exactly where [we] are. All the ways in are barricaded with doors, so getting inside will be a lot harder.\"\n\nAachen police chief Dirk Weinspach said his team were trying to communicate with the two underground protesters and warned that the tunnel was in danger of collapse.\n\nResponding to Greta Thunberg's accusations of violence, the police chief said the Swedish activist had made no attempt to speak to authorities about what was going on and had made only a brief visit during which she spoke to the media.\n\nLike the Greens, many of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats are unhappy with the operation to clear the village and believe it runs counter to Germany's commitment to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.\n\nMr Scholz rejected the protesters' claims that using the lignite deposits from Lützerath would put Germany's climate goals in danger. \"It's exactly the other way around - we're working politically to achieve our climate goals.\"", "King Charles has carried out his first public engagement since the publication of Prince Harry's memoir Spare.\n\nHe visited the Aboyne and Mid Deeside Community Shed in Aberdeenshire to meet with local hardship support groups.\n\nIt came while King Charles was on a short break at his Scottish home of Birkhall on the Balmoral estate.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography was released earlier this week, following days of leaks and headlines across the world.\n\nBuckingham Palace has declined to comment on the book's contents or anything mentioned by Harry in a string of high-profile media interviews.\n\nWell-wishers turned out to greet King Charles in Aboyne\n\nA plaque to commemorate the visit was made by members of the Men's Shed\n\nOn his Aberdeenshire visit, the King said he was \"very impressed\" with a plaque made to commemorate the occasion.\n\nDressed in a hunting Stewart tartan kilt, he unveiled the plaque made by Men's Shed member Tony Atherton, to a round of applause.\n\nHe also drank tea with members of the Men's Shed and watched craft skills including wood and stone carving in action.\n\nThe Aboyne Men's Shed opened last year with the goal of reducing rural social isolation.", "US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland launched a task force to rename locations that use derogatory terms\n\nThe US government has announced name changes for five places whose designations included a racist term for Native American women.\n\nThe sites are in the states of California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas.\n\nThe decision came after a year-long process to remove the racial slur from federal use, the government said.\n\nThe sites are the last of almost 650 locations selected by the Department of the Interior to be renamed.\n\n\"Words matter, particularly in our work to ensure our nation's public lands and waters are accessible and welcoming to people of all backgrounds,\" said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, who is the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history.\n\nThe word 'squaw' has historically been used as \"an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women\", the department said.\n\nNearly a year ago, Ms Haaland created a task force to replace derogatory names of the nation's geographic features.\n\nShe said the panel would serve as a \"big step forward in our efforts to remove derogatory terms whose expiration dates are long overdue\".\n\nIn September, the Department of the Interior - which oversees public lands and is the federal agency that most closely oversees Native affairs - announced a final vote to change the names of hundreds of locations, but left seven places that it said needed to be further reviewed.\n\nFive of the seven locations were included in Thursday's vote. They were renamed in consultation with tribes and local communities.\n\nOf the remaining two sites, one in Wyoming was removed from consideration because it is now privately owned land, while another location in Alaska was removed because it is a historical area that no longer serves an unincorporated community, the government said.\n\nThe move comes as several private companies and sports teams in recent years have also decided to rename teams or remove terminology and imagery considered racist toward Native Americans.", "Dennis McGrory, who was 28 when he murdered Jacqui Montgomery, was given a minimum term of 25 years\n\nA man has been jailed for life for raping and murdering a girl almost 50 years ago, in the oldest double jeopardy case in England and Wales.\n\nDennis McGrory, 75, was 28 when he sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled 15-year-old Jacqui Montgomery in Islington, north London, in 1975.\n\nHe was tried on circumstantial evidence in 1976 but was cleared of murder.\n\nMcGrory was tried again after swabs from the teenager's body proved to be a one-in-a-billion DNA match to him.\n\nJacqui's body was found by her father, Robert Montgomery, in the living room of their home in Offord Road on 2 June 1975.\n\nShe had suffered fatal stab wounds and blunt-force trauma to her face, and had been strangled with the flex of an iron.\n\nJacqui Montgomery was killed by McGrory when he was \"wild with rage\", his trial heard\n\nAs a consequence of a change 20 years ago to the law regarding double jeopardy - the principle that no-one can be tried twice for the same crime - McGrory was brought before the courts again on the basis of the DNA evidence against him.\n\nHe was found guilty last month at the Old Bailey of the rape and murder of the teenager and sentenced earlier on Friday at Huntingdon Crown Court.\n\nMcGrory's trial had been halted in March when the defendant, from Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, fell ill.\n\nMcGrory was found to have cuts and bruises behind his ears and on his hands the day after Jacqui's murder\n\nDuring the trial, the court was told McGrory had been \"wild with rage\" when he killed the teenager as he tried to track down his ex-partner Josie Montgomery, who was the victim's aunt.\n\nMcGrory had threatened to rape Jacqui in the past and, on that night, he \"made good\" on those words, jurors were told.\n\nDuring the attack he also ripped out a page of the teenager's diary with her aunt's address on it.\n\nSentencing McGrory to a minimum term of 25 years and 126 days, Mr Justice Bryan told the killer: \"I have no doubt whatsoever that you intended to kill her in your brutal attack on her.\n\n\"You put Jacqui through a horrific, violent and sustained ordeal in her own home - a place where she was entitled to feel safe.\n\n\"In the decades that followed, you must have thought you had gotten away with your hideous crimes.\n\n\"How any man could inflict such sexual violence on a 15-year-old child that had done them no harm beggars belief.\"\n\nSpeaking outside court, Jacqui's sister Kathy Montgomery told reporters she was relieved.\n\n\"She suffered, that girl... she didn't deserve what she got, but he deserved what he got just now,\" she said.\n\nAsked how she felt about McGrory being out of prison for decades, Ms Montgomery said: \"Soul-destroying. Soul-destroying, knowing I could do nothing to get near him.\n\n\"We all knew he'd done it since day one.\"\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Con Jane Mascall from the specialist casework team at the Met Police said at the time of Jacqui's murder a swab was taken, which was retained.\n\nShe said that when the teenager's sister requested a case review, the swab was tested for DNA - something that was not possible in 1975.\n\nDet Con Mascall said: \"Forensic experts discovered a trace of McGrory's DNA on a swab taken from Jacqui, which meant we were also able to establish that he had raped her, something officers at the time could not prove.\n\n\"This crucial piece of evidence has allowed us to apprehend this violent man who thought he had got away with murder.\"\n\nLee Shufflebottom, the forensic scientist whose work helped solve the case, said when reviewing the initial investigation he noticed there were \"some original exhibits retained on the file, which was unusual\".\n\nHe said the items \"were preserved on the file within label packaging\", enabling him and his colleagues to examine them and find the evidence.\n\n\"It was just foresight upon these scientists at the time in 1975 to actually preserve and retain those parts of the exhibits for future new technologies to come around, to be able to find that evidence that crucially they couldn't find in 1975,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Railway lines were closed and roads flooded after heavy overnight rain on Friday\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds across the UK have led to flooding and travel disruption, as warnings continue with more bad weather forecast.\n\nThe National Grid said about 600 homes, mainly around the Welsh city of Newport, were without power.\n\nThe bad weather is expected to continue into Friday and the weekend.\n\nAs it stands, a yellow wind warning for wind is in place until 03:00 GMT on Friday for Northern Ireland, north Wales, and north-west England, with warnings of gusts of up to 70mph.\n\nThe Met Office warns it could mean travel disruption and potential short-term loss of power.\n\nRoads have flooded at Reybridge near Lacock in Wiltshire\n\nOn Thursday, flooding blocked two train lines in the west of England, between Bristol Parkway and Swindon, and between Bristol Temple Meads, Bath and Swindon.\n\nIn the town of Keynsham in Somerset, some drivers had to be rescued from their cars due to the flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Images of Bath and Beyond.\n\nIn South Wales, the fire service said the areas worst affected by flooding were Porth and Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nTransport for Wales said four railway lines were blocked due to heavy rain flooding the tracks.\n\nThese include Cardiff Central to Bridgend, Pontypridd to Treherbert, Newtown to Shrewsbury and Abercynon to Aberdare.\n\nThe River Taff burst its banks, flooding a number of parks and walking routes along the Taff trail, including Cardiff's Bute Park near the city centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many areas across Wales are experiencing storm disruption following high winds and heavy rain overnight.\n\nFlood barriers have gone up on several stretches of the River Severn as river levels continue to rise in Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.\n\nRail lines between Welshpool and Shrewsbury were blocked, National Rail Enquiries said.\n\nGemma Plumb, forecaster with BBC Weather Centre, said the heavy rain which had hit Northern Ireland and Scotland on Thursday evening would travel southward into the night.\n\n\"It is going to turn windier in the north-west, Northern Ireland, and parts of north Wales. There is potential for some severe gales in some coastal areas,\" she said.\n\nShe said there would be some showers on Friday, but concentrated in northern and western areas, with it being drier in the south and east.\n\n\"Friday night into Saturday morning there will be heavy and persistent rain, and that will be hitting areas already badly affected by flooding,\" she said.\n\n\"In the next few days we will be seeing more wintery weather. There will be some sleet and snow, especially around parts of northern Scotland.\"", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service are staging their second walkout in a month\n\nMore than 1,000 ambulance workers in Wales have gone on strike for the second time in a month in a pay dispute.\n\nGMB members - about a quarter of the Welsh Ambulance Service - will only respond to life-threatening calls.\n\nHealth bosses fear it will be worse than the strike before Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh government plans to discuss a one-off payment offer with unions on Thursday, but said anything more would require further funds from Westminster.\n\nGMB officer for NHS Wales, Nathan Holman, said members were not taking a stand against the public but against the government, adding that life-threatening calls - about 15% of all calls - would be responded to.\n\n\"We have data for category one calls from the last time we took this action and the percentage of calls that were responded to nationally increased on strike day because vehicles were not being held [at hospitals],\" Mr Holman said.\n\nHe said the Welsh government was considering an offer.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking for an inflation-busting pay rise, but any offer we get we want at least the same as . £1,000 or more on top of what we have now.\"\n\nWhen the GMB took action in December, Unison, which also represents ambulance staff, had not reached the threshold to do the same, but has since re-balloted and will strike on 19 and 23 January.\n\nThe strike is for 24 hours from midnight on Tuesday but the union has made it clear staff working night shifts would not leave patients and compromise care.\n\nParamedic Jamie Stone said they were seeing people in car parks arriving having had strokes\n\nJamie Stone, 31, from Newport, is a paramedic in Cardiff and believes what people were dealing with was \"inhumane\".\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing people turn up in cars that are having heart attacks, patients having strokes in the back of cars and then we're having to deal with it in the car park of a hospital, because they are being told they have to wait eight hours-plus for an ambulance.\n\n\"It's rare that it's been a patient who is critically ill, but it has happened a number of times, where we've had to drag somebody out of a car on to a stretcher and take them straight into the emergency department for the life-saving treatment they need.\"\n\nUrgent responder Laura Morton, 40, has experienced 19-hours waits with patients outside Cwmbran's Grange Hospital.\n\nShe said ambulances were becoming like \"mini-hospitals\" due to the lack of hospital beds.\n\nEmergency medical ambulance technician in Powys, Gyles George, said staff were working late because they felt compelled to stay with patients.\n\n\"You can't just abandon them and you don't know what time you are going to get home,\" he said.\n\n\"Healthcare used to be a vocation and it has become a chore.\"\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan says the Welsh government can only afford a one-off payment\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens said his staff had not been trained to nurse patients for long periods.\n\nEating, drinking and using the toilet was also problematic when parents were in ambulances.\n\n\"I would prefer not to start to train our staff and equip our vehicles to be nursing patients in them for very long periods of time and I think what we should be doing is focusing on solutions to the problem.\"\n\nHe said some paramedics were being trained to treat patients at their homes in a bid to ease problems at hospitals - last month more than a third of the emergency fleet was lost to delays outside hospitals.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan is meeting healthcare unions on Thursday about a one-off payment.\n\nShe said: \"It's very difficult for us to go beyond commitments this year - it will be only an offer of a one-off payment.\"\n\nCat and her dog Vince were part of the picket line in Colwyn Bay\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has urged people to only call 999 if there is an immediate risk to life, while other patients may have to make their own way to hospital.\n\nWhile some 999 call handlers are striking, all calls will be answered and it was agreed the most urgent calls would get responses.\n\nNon-emergency patient transport will also be affected, though exemptions include patients being taken to renal dialysis and oncology.\n\nStrikers at Colwyn Bay say they are taking action for future generations\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Russell George, said: \"It is welcome that the Labour government has finally recognised that it has responsibility for funding the NHS in Wales and that they are now, at last, willing to talk pay with the unions, it should not have taken this long for it to happen.\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised the \"anger and disappointment\" of public sector workers, adding: \"We will continue to work with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised.\n\n\"But it is vital that all of us to do all we can to minimise pressure on our health service during the industrial action and consider carefully what activities we take part in.\"", "Jennifer Marr's picture of Loch Clair near Torridon. Jennifer said: \"I love how the pic could be either way up as the water is so still creating a mirror effect, but only the boulders bottom right give it away.\"", "Benjamin Mendy was accused of luring women to his home and sexually assaulting them\n\nManchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against four young women.\n\nThe jury failed to reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape and a retrial will take place.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of three counts of rape against two teenagers.\n\nJurors at Chester Crown Court could not reach verdicts on six other counts by five other women.\n\nMr Mendy, 28, and his friend Mr Matturie, had been accused of raping women at the player's home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and at a Manchester flat.\n\nMr Mendy covered his face with both hands as the jury foreman repeated \"not guilty\" to the six counts.\n\nDuring a six-month trial, prosecutors told the jury Mr Mendy was a \"predator\" who turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game.\n\nBut jurors were also told by defence lawyers that while the trial, involving money, sex and celebrity, had \"all the makings of a good drama\", it came with a significant \"plot twist\" - that the accused were innocent.\n\nLawyers for both men argued each allegation was \"riddled with inconsistencies and flaws\".\n\nLisa Wilding KC, representing Mr Matturie, told jurors it was \"chillingly easy\" to make false allegations and suggested all the women involved were in some way connected through friendships, social media or by attending parties.\n\nDefending Mr Mendy, Eleanor Laws KC, suggested that \"regret\" at having \"quick, animalistic sex\" was not the same as being raped.\n\nJurors were told not to take a \"moralistic\" approach to the defendants' sexual lifestyles.\n\nThe unanimous not guilty verdicts were delivered on Wednesday by the seven men and four women on the jury, one juror having been discharged earlier for medical reasons.\n\nThe verdicts could not be reported until jurors concluded considering the remaining two counts, after they were given a majority direction by Judge Steven Everett, meaning he would accept a 10-1 majority on any verdict.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of three counts of rape\n\nBut after 14 days of deliberation, jurors could not reach verdicts on Mr Mendy's alleged attempted rape of a woman, 29, in 2018 and the alleged rape of another woman, 24, in October 2020.\n\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault against Mr Matturie.\n\nJudge Everett discharged the jury on Friday, ending the trial.\n\nBoth men had been on trial since 10 August, accused by 13 women of multiple sexual offences.\n\nLockdown-busting parties were held both at Mr Mendy's home and an apartment he rented on Chapel Street near Manchester city centre, the court heard.\n\nHe was first arrested in November 2020 and was suspended by his club in August 2021, after he was charged with rape.\n\nThe prosecution has sought a retrial on the two counts the jury failed to reach a verdict on and it has been scheduled for 26 June.\n\nMr Matturie also faces a retrial, with a trial date set for September.\n\nMatthew Conway, prosecuting, said: \"The prosecution has made a decision. We have made a decision today, which is to proceed on these counts in two separate trials and we seek today a provisional case management.\"\n\nA statement from Manchester City said: \"Given there are open matters related to this case, the club is not in a position to comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe allegations and trial had been \"absolute hell\" for Mr Mendy, the court heard, with his life in football \"over\" as he would \"never escape\" the accusations.\n\nMr Mendy's lawyer said he was \"delighted\" to have been cleared of sex attacks on four women and looked forward to clearing his name at a retrial over two other allegations and \"rebuilding his life\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shakira split from Gerard Pique after 11 years together\n\nA song by Shakira about her ex-partner Gerard Pique cheating on her has broken YouTube records.\n\nThe video for Out of Your League has been watched more than 63 million times in 24 hours, making it the most-watched Latin song in that time period.\n\nShakira, 45, separated from former Barcelona footballer Pique, 35, in 2022 after more than 10 years together.\n\nThe pair also have two children together.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Bizarrap This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Pique for comment .\n\nThis four-minute pop song is the first time Shakira and Argentinian producer and DJ Bizarrap have worked together.\n\nShakira joins a hallowed list of Latin performers to break YouTube records - including J Balvin, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee.\n\nIt's not her first song about the breakup - Monotonia came out three months ago, but was more of a heartbreak song than one vying for revenge.\n\nIn the diss track, Shakira sings about Pique's new alleged 23-year-old partner.\n\nShe says she is \"worth two 22-year-olds\" and compares the relationship to swapping \"a Ferrari for a [Renault] Twingo\" and a \"Rolex for a Casio\" in Spanish.\n\nThe Colombian singer also references her run-in with the Spanish authorities, who claim she has failed to pay €14.5m (£12.8m) in income tax.\n\nShakira appears to say in the song that Pique left her whilst all this was going on, with her in-laws as neighbours.\n\nShe criticises his workout technique too - singing \"lots of time at the gym, but your brain needs a little work too\".\n\nGerard Pique has not responded to the song online, but has been posting about his new seven-a-side project, King's League.\n\nThe pair released a statement when they split in June last year, saying they were focusing on co-parenting their children Milan, nine, and Sasha, aged seven.", "Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon met in private at an Inverness hotel\n\nThe prime minister and Scotland's first minister have held \"cordial\" talks at a private meeting in Scotland.\n\nRishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon met at a hotel in Inverness on Thursday night, following a series of engagements by the PM north of the border.\n\nThey are understood to have discussed the NHS, the economy and legislation passed in Scotland last month to make it easier to change gender.\n\nThere was said to have been a \"robust\" exchange on Scottish independence.\n\nThe creation of two green freeports in Scotland was also discussed. A joint announcement from the UK and Scottish governments is expected on Friday.\n\nThe Cromarty and Forth bids are thought to be the favourites to be named, which will see tax incentives being used in a bid to boost investment and economic growth in the two areas.\n\nIt is Mr Sunak's first trip to Scotland as prime minister.\n\nAhead of the meeting, he visited a Sea scouts community group in Muirtown near Inverness, and a Coastguard search and rescue team at Inverness Airport.\n\nMr Sunak tweeted: \"It was great to be in Inverness today meeting rescue services and hearing more about the life-saving work they do every day.\n\n\"I also sat down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to discuss the challenges we jointly face and how best to deliver for communities across the UK\"\n\nFollowing the talks, which lasted more than an hour, Ms Sturgeon told the BBC they had been \"perfectly constructive and cordial\".\n\n\"Clearly Rishi Sunak and I disagree on lots, but we were able to talk about some of the areas where the Scottish and UK governments can work together,\" she added.\n\nThe First Minister said there was also talk about how they could work together to realise Scotland's \"vast\" renewable energy potential.\n\nThe two political leaders met previously at the British-Irish Council in Blackpool in November.\n\nThese discussions included how best to tackle the cost of living crisis, the NHS and Ms Sturgeon's desire for a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nMr Sunak's predecessor, Liz Truss, did not have any formal talks with Ms Sturgeon during her brief spell in Downing Street, although they briefly met at a service following the death of the Queen.\n\nMs Truss had previously described the first minister as an \"attention seeker\" who was best ignored, during a Tory leadership hustings.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has spoken of wanting to \"reset\" the often fractious relationship between the two governments.\n\nHowever, there could be a major clash coming between the Scottish and UK governments over Holyrood's gender recognition reform legislation.\n\nThe UK government has concerns about the wider implications of Scotland's new gender recognition legislation\n\nScotland recently became the first part of the UK to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change their legal gender.\n\nThe new rules lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) to 16, and removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nBut the UK government has concerns about the impact of the new law on the rest of the UK and is considering blocking it.\n\nThe deadline for an intervention is the middle of next week.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the PM's visit, Downing Street said the UK government had not yet decided whether to block the gender recognition legislation.\n\nAsked whether the Mr Sunak has decided whether to use section 35 of the Scotland Act, which would prevent the new laws coming into force, his official spokesman told reporters: \"No, there's no decision made on that.\n\n\"There is a process to consider it and then he will be given advice to make a decision. That is still taking place\".\n\nThere is plenty they disagree about but Nicola Sturgeon seems to get on with Rishi Sunak far better than with his two immediate predecessors.\n\nShe had next to no relationship with Liz Truss and made no secret of her belief that Boris Johnson was unfit for office.\n\nThere is potential for this PM and FM to do some business like their joint announcement on Scottish freeports.\n\nThey are much further apart on a range of other things such as energy policy, UK legislation to limit strike action and Scottish government calls for another independence referendum.\n\nRelations could sour significantly if the UK government blocks Scottish reform of the process for legally switching gender.\n\nThat came up in their discussions, but these majored on shared challenges like the huge pressures on the NHS.", "Fighting around Soledar in eastern Ukraine has left many buildings in the town in ruins\n\nThe destruction caused by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces battling for control of a town in eastern Ukraine has been revealed in newly released satellite images.\n\nComparison with earlier images shows a school and several agricultural buildings are among the structures destroyed in Soledar, while bomb craters scar the landscape and roads around the salt-producing town in Donetsk.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMuch of the damage has been caused in recent weeks with Russian forces trying to seize the town, after months in which they have failed to take a single key town or city in Ukraine.\n\nThe strategic significance of Soledar is disputed by military analysts but if Russia succeeds in establishing full control over the town it would be a symbolic victory for the Kremlin.\n\nRussia's notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group has been heavily involved in the battle for the town, with its head Yevgeny Prigozhin at one point claiming his fighters were in full control and that only his troops took part. However, Russia's defence ministry has insisted its forces are involved.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry said on Wednesday that heavy fighting continues, and Wagner forces have had no success in breaking through Ukrainian defences.\n\nThe images released by Maxar, a US-based space technology company, show how Ukrainian trenches in fields around the town have been targeted by Russian artillery.\n\nSuccess in Soledar may help Russia in its assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, about 10km (6 miles) to the south west, providing it with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nThe town also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nTaking Bakhmut would be a \"much needed boost for Russian forces in the east who have been under real pressure since September\", says Edward Arnold, from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), although he adds it would have \"little strategic significance for the outcome of the war\".\n\nThe city has itself been devastated by months of fierce fighting, with Russia continuing its assault there even as its forces were pushed back elsewhere in Ukraine.", "Flooding in the centre of York has forced rescue workers to navigate parts of the city in boats\n\nPeople across the UK are facing more rain, flooding and cold weather in the coming days.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 119 flood warnings - mainly in west and south-west England and Yorkshire - as well as 193 flood alerts.\n\nThe bad weather has already damaged hundreds of homes and left many without power.\n\nAn alert for severe cold weather has also been issued for England from Sunday evening, as temperatures drop.\n\nIt will remain in place across much of the UK until Thursday morning, with the warning the cold could increase health risks for vulnerable people and disrupt some services.\n\nYellow Met Office warnings for rain, wind and ice are in place across parts of northern England, Northern Ireland, and most of Scotland.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said while the persistent rain would ease away on Saturday, the weather was going to turn \"much colder\" in the days ahead.\n\nThe Environment Agency said conditions in the West Midlands will worse before improving - the River Severn is expected to peak in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on Saturday night and Worcester on Sunday.\n\nRiver levels have been high at Atcham Bridge in Shropshire\n\nSeveral football matches have been cancelled across Devon and Cornwall because of severe weather conditions.\n\nIn Somerset, Keynsham Town's Crown Field has been shut, along with other sports venues across the county, and the football club said water levels at the ground were the worst since Christmas 2013.\n\nBath's rugby game against Toulon was postponed and moved to Kingsholm stadium in Gloucester, after The Rec failed a safety inspection.\n\nThis is the scene around Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire where flood waters have crept close\n\nRoad users have also been affected in Apperley, Gloucestershire, where the River Severn burst its banks\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued dozens of flood alerts around Wales, and seven flood warnings concentrated in the south.\n\nThe bad weather has caused travel disruption across much of Wales. The River Ely has burst its banks, causing flood to many areas, including a golf driving range near Cowbridge, west of Cardiff.\n\n\"If we had more rain... I think we'd have been underwater,\" manager and pro golfer Aled Griffiths told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is flooding across Wales following stormy conditions\n\nFlood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - include those for groundwater flooding, along with areas close to rivers like the Avon and Wye.\n\nSome flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - are also in place further north, including in Keswick in the Lake District, and areas of Yorkshire.\n\nThis is the panoramic view where the River Parrett has flooded field in Somerset\n\nDrivers in the Dumfries area have been having to cope with challenging conditions\n\nThere are also one flood warning in place in Scotland for Callander and Ayr to Troon, and seven flood alerts across the country.\n\nForecasters are warning that bus and train services will probably be affected, while spray and flooding on roads is set to make journey times longer.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a 70% chance of severely cold weather, icy conditions and heavy snow from 18:00 GMT Sunday until 09:00 Thursday.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nine influential women have been painted by artist Marian Noone, aka Friz\n\nThe \"immense contribution\" of women to the Northern Ireland peace process is the focus of a new exhibition.\n\nPeace Heroines of Northern Ireland celebrates women who \"wanted to create a better future\", organisers have said.\n\nWomen's Coalition founder Monica McWilliams, Pat Hume - the widow of John Hume - and trade unionist Baroness May Blood are among those who feature.\n\nArtist Marian Noone, aka Friz, has painted portraits of nine women for the show at Londonderry's Tower Museum.\n\nThe exhibition will visit other towns and cities in Northern Ireland this year\n\nPart of the wider Herstory programme, the exhibition will tour a number of locations across Northern Ireland this year to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.\n\nHerstory founder and project curator Melanie Lynch said it was imperative that a new generation knew the role played by women in bringing an end to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe exhibition details the history of a number of groups including the Derry Peace Women\n\nShe said that was not something that was formally taught in schools in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Our new Peace Heroines project aims to change that and introduce students and the public to these legendary activists and inspire the next generation of peace builders,\" she said.\n\n\"It's time to write herstory into history.\"\n\nBernadette Walsh from the Tower Museum said the nine new portraits captured \"all of the passion of the women\" who featured.\n\nPeace Heroines focuses on the role of women in bringing an end to violence\n\nPeace Heroines honours women from right across Northern Ireland's religious and political spectrum, she said.\n\n\"All these women are from very different communities - that's why this exhibition is so important,\" said Ms Walsh.\n\n\"We are telling the stories of individuals but also the story of groups of people who worked on the Shankhill Road, the Falls Road, lots of community-led work.\"\n\nMayor of Derry Sandra Duffy said she was delighted the city was hosting the exhibition.\n\n\"These real heroines were an inspiration to so many young women, myself included, who are proud to take up the mantle and continue their work for positive change and peace in our society,\" she said.\n\nThe role Derry's factory girls played in keeping the city's economy going during the Troubles also features in the ehibition\n\nThe mayor said it was also fitting that Derry's factory girls were celebrated in the exhibition.\n\n\"They kept local industry going in the factories, supported homes, brought up children and drove social and political change in the most economically and politically turbulent times,,\" she said.\n\nMuseum curator Roisin Doherty said a \"diverse range of opinions and identities\" were highlighted by the exhibition.\n\n\"It also captures the shared concerns and goals of local women who wanted to create a better future here and how they went about creating platforms for positive dialogue,\" she said.\n\nIt acknowledges the \"immense contribution made by women who at great personal cost dedicated their lives to lobbying for change and promoting cross community relations.\"\n\nThe Peace Heroines exhibition opens on Friday and runs until 24 March.", "While today's focus has been on what happened in November, what matters now is what happens this year, as rising debts, interest costs, and elevated food and energy prices hit consumers hard.\n\nWhile the unseasonal Qatar World Cup may have helped us avoid a technical recession in 2022, in economic terms, we haven’t even qualified from the opening group stages of this situation just yet.\n\nThe consequence of slightly better-than-expected data is that it increases the likelihood of further base interest rate rises from 3.5% to 4% by the Bank of England, from early next month.\n\nThe Bank is currently grappling with whether factors such as post-Covid supply chain issues, post-Brexit trade constraints, and a shrinking workforce are having a long-term impact on the economy.\n\nDecision makers have some theories, but are not certain why the UK stands out from other similar countries that did see their entire workforces return after the pandemic.\n\nAll this matters because the Bank will judge whether the economy is not as efficient as it was, and is more prone to high and sustained inflation.\n\nIt’s what the experts refer to as the economy’s “speed limit”. If that has been lowered for this variety of reasons, interest rates will go up further, above 4%, and, as importantly, stay there for longer. If not, households and businesses might get some respite.\n\nIn the short term, the full impact of even existing higher rates, and of energy price rises, is yet to be felt in household finances.\n\nSo while a technical recession may not now prove to have started in June, most economists anticipate we are probably, right now, still in one. And for millions of households, it will certainly feel like that.", "The Royal College of Nursing said it could announce further strike days \"imminently\".\n\nStrikes by ambulance workers and nurses look set to continue despite talks with Wales' health minister on Thursday.\n\nEluned Morgan gave unions details of a pot of money that could be handed out to NHS staff as a one-off payment.\n\nBut several unions said the offer was not enough to avoid further industrial action, and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) accused ministers of not negotiating seriously.\n\nMs Morgan said there was no intention to reach an agreement at the meeting.\n\nIt is not clear how much cash was put on the table and no specifics have been made available on how much NHS workers might get.\n\nBut unions said they would continue speaking to the Welsh government.\n\nThe Welsh government had been hoping that an offer of a one-off payment to NHS staff would avoid further industrial action.\n\nBut striking workers are hoping for a better permanent pay deal than last year's below-inflation offer of between 4% and 5.5%.\n\nGMB members held a one-day strike in the Welsh ambulance service on Wednesday, while Unite is planning ambulance service walkouts later this month.\n\nThe GMB's Nathan Holman said: \"We have not had an offer that we can put to our members yet.\n\n\"GMB made the minister aware that our members would not accept a one-off payment as this would not be sufficient to address the real problems with pay.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"remain around the table to negotiate\" but had \"no alternative than to continue with industrial action\".\n\nRCN Wales director Helen Whyley said: \"The approach put forward today is simply not enough to offer a substantive and restorative pay award to our members, which is what we have called for all along.\n\n\"From the perspective of nursing staff, the Welsh government are not negotiating seriously on NHS pay. Unless they do so urgently, we will be announcing further strike days for Wales, imminently.\"\n\nSome unions were more receptive than others to the idea of a one-off payment for health workers in this financial year only.\n\nBut those who have already been on strike or are about to do so say it doesn't go far enough to avert further action.\n\nThe minister also wants to keep people around the negotiating table - the difficult question is what they negotiate about.\n\nEluned Morgan wants to talk about how to share out a lump sum payment, the unions want to talk pay deals - and neither side seems to be budging at the moment.\n\nTalks are probably better than no talks, but right now further strikes look likely.\n\nUnite General Secretary Sharon Graham said: \"The Welsh government's offer falls far short of what our members need and what is fair pay after a decade and more of pay cuts. Unless they can move further, the strikes by ambulance workers on 19 and 23 January will go ahead.\"\n\nBoth the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Wales and the Royal College of Midwives said they would not suspend strike action.\n\nThere was a warmer reception for the proposals from Unison.\n\nIts members in the NHS are not currently taking industrial action after it missed the turnout threshold needed in a strike vote - it is balloting members again.\n\nDominic MacAskill, regional secretary of Unison, said the Welsh government's offer was a \"significant step that ups the pressure on Westminster if nothing else. Rishi Sunak must explain why the first minister can dig deep for NHS staff but the UK government cannot\".\n\nHe said the union will enter into negotiations into the detail - but added that a one-off payment still presented \"clear difficulties\".\n\nEluned Morgan told BBC Wales there \"was no intention to go to any agreement\" on Thursday.\n\n\"Today was a day for us to start a discussion. We were really pleased that we were able to start that discussion. We understand the strength of feeling from trade unionists within the health service,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan said there \"is a pot of money on the table\" but declined to say how much it was worth.\n\n\"We will have further discussions about that with the trade unions\", she added.\n\nThe talks coincided with news that PCS members at a number of Welsh public bodies - including the Senedd and Natural Resources Wales - will strike on 1 February as part of wider UK industrial action.\n\nDavid TC Davies, Conservative Welsh Secretary, said it was not fair for the Welsh government to blame UK Tory ministers for not being able to meet health workers' pay demands, accusing Labour ministers of wanting to blame \"someone else\".\n\n\"The Welsh Labour government actually have the power if they wanted to raise income tax to pay those settlements,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's spokesperson for health, Rhun ap Iorwerth, added: \"A one-off payment will not attract new entrants, nor will it be incentive to keep people in an already understaffed profession - ultimately, if we do not have sufficient staff to run our health service, then there are serious implications for patient safety.\"", "Dartmoor ponies - that have roamed freely over the land for centuries - are the symbol of the moor.\n\nThe owner of an estate on Dartmoor has won the right to remove people \"wild\" or backpack camping on his land.\n\nThe High Court ruling on Friday has been seen as a test case for countryside access.\n\nDartmoor was the only area of England and Wales where under a local law there had been an assumed right to wild camp without the landowner's permission.\n\nHowever a High Court judge ruled this was legally wrong and permission was needed.\n\nThe case had been brought by Alexander Darwall, a hedge fund manager, and his wife Diana, who have owned the 4,000 acres (16 sq km) on southern Dartmoor since 2013.\n\nAt a two-day hearing last December, lawyers for the Darwalls argued that a byelaw in the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 which enshrined a historic custom of open access \"to all the commons on foot and on horseback for the purposes of open-air recreation\", excluded wild camping.\n\nThe judge, Sir Julian Flaux, Chancellor of the High Court, agreed. He said the act did not \"confer on the public any right to pitch tents or otherwise make camp overnight on Dartmoor Commons. Any such camping requires the consent of the landowner.\"\n\nIf there were such a right, he said it would mean \"the landowner would have suffered a loss of control or a usurpation of his rights over his own land.\"\n\nMr Justice Flaux also said there was \"no local custom of camping which has the force of law\" and it was \"apparent\" that some wild campers on the Darwalls' land did \"cause problems in relation to livestock and the environment\".\n\nThere have been protest hikes on Dartmoor organised by the group 'The Stars are for Everyone'\n\nThe Dartmoor National Park Authority had been fighting to maintain full access to the moor, arguing that a tradition of backpack camping on Dartmoor that had existed for decades was included in the definition in section 10 of \"open-air recreation.\"\n\nThere is a code of conduct that backpackers must follow, carrying their equipment up onto the moor and leaving no trace; no fires or BBQs are allowed, and the maximum stay is two nights.\n\nThe Park Authority had argued it was \"very different to camping in family-sized tents or in camper vans and motor homes, which on Dartmoor are directed to designated or registered sites\".\n\nDr Kevin Bishop, Chief Executive/National Park Officer for Dartmoor National Park Authority, said: \"We are really disappointed with the outcome but obviously respect the judgment.\"\n\nHe said they would now consider their position carefully before deciding on whether to appeal, and on what grounds and in the meantime would amend their website and other information they provide to people who are planning to wild camp on Dartmoor.\n\n\"We are keen to work with landowners and other stakeholders to see how we can sustain opportunities for people to wild camp on Dartmoor,\" he said.\n\nHe said they would meet with Dartmoor Common Owners' Association in coming days in a bid to ensure, with the agreement of landowners, the opportunity to wild camp as it existed prior to this judgment.\n\nWilderness guide Emma Lindford, who leads the campaign group The Stars Are for Everyone, pledged to keep fighting.\n\n\"From the outset it was clear that this whole case had nothing to do with the preservation of Dartmoor's delicate ecology,\" she said. \"Instead, this was always one landowner's naked attempt to find any pretext to roll back the public's right to connect with nature on national parkland.\"\n\nThe area of land on Dartmoor covered by the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 is around 86,000 acres (348 sq km). Wild camping was previously permitted in approximately 71,000 acres (287 sq km).\n\nNow out of bounds to those wishing to stay out overnight unless the Darwalls give their permission is a remote area of land called Stall Moor, covering 2,800 acres (11 sq km).\n\nDoubt has now been thrown on the future of one of England's biggest outdoor adventure events, the Ten Tors Challenge, when thousands of young people hike and camp on the moor.\n\nThe Darwalls are the sixth-largest landowners of Dartmoor. The largest landowner is the Duchy of Cornwall, which owns close to 70,000 acres.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Darwalls and the Duchy of Cornwall for comment.", "Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' death sparked outrage across the country and sparked a series of reviews\n\nChildren in the town where Arthur Labinjo-Hughes lived before his death are experiencing \"significant harm\" due to delayed responses by council services, a report has found.\n\nAn Ofsted inspection of Solihull Council's children's services has rated it inadequate.\n\nSix-year-old Arthur's father and stepmother were jailed for his killing at their home in June 2020.\n\nThe council said it accepted the findings of the report.\n\nPublished on Friday following November's inspection, it said:\n\nThe children's services were last inspected in 2019 when they were graded as \"requires improvement to be good\".\n\nBut the report said \"since that time, the quality and impact of social work practice across all areas have significantly deteriorated\"\n\nArthur had more than 130 bruises and was emaciated when he died\n\nEmma Tustin was jailed for murder and Arthur's father Thomas Hughes for manslaughter.\n\nTheir trial heard that after his death, 130 bruises were found on Arthur's body and that he had been subjected to salt poisoning, deprived of food and drink and made to stand alone for hours on end.\n\nHe suffered a catastrophic brain injury while in the care of Tustin on 16 June, with his final days captured on CCTV installed in the living room where he was forced to sleep.\n\nEarlier reports found a failure by police and social workers to fully investigate bruises on the murdered schoolboy was a \"pivotal\" moment to save him.\n\nFamilies' concerns about the children were disregarded and not taken seriously enough, while Arthur's wider family had \"contacted every agency they could think of\", some several times, but \"their voice was not heard\".\n\nEmma Tustin and Thomas Hughes were jailed after subjecting Arthur to months of abuse\n\nThe latest inspection said serious failings identified following Arthur's death \"had not been responded to with sufficient urgency and rigour\".\n\nOfsted has made a number of recommendations for improvement, including an plan to ensure senior leaders address the quality of social work practice.\n\nIt also calls for an increase the timeliness and quality of decision-making after concerns are received about children and improvements to the stability of the social care workforce, so children experience fewer changes of social worker.\n\nHis cousin, Bernie Dixon, has set up a charity called Arthur's Angels in his memory to help children, young people and families in need.\n\nShe said she found this latest report \"extremely disappointing\".\n\n\"There is elements all over the system that are really failing the children and I just can't comprehend that they have meeting after meeting but they are not implementing any action,\" she said.\n\n\"For the system to be running this long and to have this many inadequate failings is a disgrace.\"\n\nShe has called for social workers to wear body cameras and all visits to children under 10 to be unannounced to help identify problems earlier.\n\nArthur's cousin, Bernie Dixon, said the report is extremely disappointing\n\nEarlier this year, Solihull Children's Services department's new director Pete Campbell revealed the number of children in care within the borough has doubled over the last 10 to 12 years.\n\nA government intervention announced in November last year saw the department receive an urgent £642,402 grant.\n\nEducation Secretary Kit Malthouse also sent Sir Alan Wood, former director for children's services in the London borough of Hackney, to work with the council.\n\nThe Ofsted report was published on Friday\n\nIn a statement, Councillor Ian Courts, leader of Solihull Council, said: \"This council is fully committed to making the necessary changes to children's services and we understand what we need to do to improve and realise that we need to do this at greater speed than we are already doing.\n\n\"An Improvement Board was put in place last year made up of experts and a good representation from the agencies involved, including in particular the police, NHS, and council, and improvements have already been made over the last 12 months.\n\n\"However, we are updating our improvement plan to ensure it addresses the things that Ofsted have found.\"\n\nHe said more social workers had been recruited to meet the \"rising demand from people contacting us with concerns about children\".\n\n\"This has provided us with the capacity to ensure there is a dedicated social worker for all the children that are assessed as needing one,\" he added.\n\nA new leadership team is also in place and the council has agreed to \"invest significantly\" in children's services over the coming years, Councillor Courts said.\n\nHe said Sir Alan was also conducting a review of the leadership across the three safeguarding partners in the area, police, health and local authority, with his report to be published later this month.\n\nThe inspection report is about as bad as it could get for Solihull.\n\nIt doesn't just show systemic failings, but it indicates there has been a failure to take action since Arthur's death and the Joint Targeted Area Inspection report which was published last February.\n\nThe latest inspection took place at the end of October and beginning of November, at about the same time the government appointed Sir Alan Wood as a Commissioner to oversee changes.\n\nOne of the findings, that the department was suffering from a high turnover of staff, is not surprising. In other areas where there's been criticism of Children's Services departments after a high profile case like that of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, many senior staff choose to either leave the profession or move to another area.\n\nSolihull needs to act quickly - the problems can become endemic, and it won't want the situation to spiral like it did in the decade that neighbouring Birmingham's children's services was in special measures.\n\nJohn McGowan, general secretary of the Social Workers Union, said he supported the report's findings.\n\nHe said staff stability was key for teams working in social services.\n\n\"We are not surprised by this and it won't be the last because at the end of the day the funding has really drastically reduced in social work and not just our members social workers in general are just firefighting at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"They are only dealing with high level situations and they've not had the time to deal with lower levels referrals which obviously will lead to higher levels if they are not addressed.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "KSI says he doesn't want fans to put him on a pedestal\n\nYouTuber and rapper KSI says Andrew Tate's Top G persona is \"cringey\" and fans shouldn't worship influencers.\n\nTate, a self-styled misogynist, has gained an army of young fans by boasting about his wealth and lavish lifestyle.\n\nThe ex-kickboxer, who is currently under arrest in Romania, is known among followers as \"Top G\".\n\nBut KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, tells BBC Newsbeat he has no interest in \"being put on a pedestal\" like Tate.\n\n\"I don't want people to worship me. I don't want this Top G title,\" says KSI, who has 24m followers on his main YouTube account.\n\nKSI has found success as a YouTuber, recording artist, and teamed up with fellow top YouTuber Logan Paul to create the in-demand Prime Hydration drink.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who's also starred in a series of boxing matches with other influencers, returns to the ring on Saturday night to face esports star FaZe Temperrr.\n\nKSI's also previously said he is keen to challenge Tate in the ring.\n\nBut outside of it, he says he would rather use his own influential platform in a positive way, in contrast to Tate, who insults his own followers.\n\n\"Try and be fair to everyone, try and just be good to everyone. Spread positivity all the time,\" he says.\n\n\"And yeah, you know, we're all human. We're all gonna make mistakes. No one is perfect.\n\n\"And I always say that to my audience: don't put me on a pedestal. Like I am not the GOAT. I don't want people to worship me.\"\n\nKSI is returning to the boxing ring at the weekend for a matchup with fellow YouTuber FaZe Temperrr\n\nEarlier in his career, KSI was accused of making vulgar comments about women, and his actions towards women at a 2013 gaming convention led brands to criticise him and cut ties with him.\n\nHe apologised for his behaviour in a 2020 Guardian interview, adding: \"You can hide from it, pretend it doesn't exist. Or, you know, hit it head on, realise why it was a mistake.\"\n\nAnd KSI says his outlook these days is very different.\n\n\"Treat women well, treat men well, treat everyone well, and just have the right attitude.\"\n\nAnd it's not the only difference between him and Tate.\n\nSince his arrest, Tate has tweeted frequently about \"The Matrix\" - thought to be a reference to powerful figures in media, politics and business trying to silence him and control others.\n\n\"I just think it's cringey,\" says KSI.\n\n\"I don't care about this whole matrix stuff or whatever,\" KSI says.\n\n\"For me, I just want to live my life and help as many people as possible and be a good person.\"\n\nAndrew Tate lost his appeal against being detained\n\nA four-time kickboxing world champion who was booted out of reality show Big Brother in 2016 after video of him appearing to attack a woman emerged.\n\nHe went on to build up a huge online following and found worldwide fame.\n\nThis was largely thanks to social media, where videos with the Andrew Tate hashtag have been watched billions of times\n\nHe proudly claims to be a misogynist, and has previously described women as \"intrinsically lazy\" and said there was \"no such thing as an independent female\".\n\nIt was comments like these that got him banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. He was allowed back on Twitter after Elon Musk took over the company.\n\nTate claims he's a \"self-made millionaire\" thanks to a webcam business he runs with his brother.\n\nBoth are currently detained in Romania as a part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.\n\nNot everyone is happy about big-ticket boxing matches featuring big influencers, but KSI says he doesn't listen to those criticisms.\n\nHe says he doesn't mind how people address him, because it's now all about the work ethic, whatever he does.\n\n\"I don't really mind people calling me an influencer fighting because I am an influencer, I'm a YouTuber. That's how I started out.\"\n\n\"I don't really care. For me, I just love working hard. I love training hard and putting in hard work, whatever I do,\" he adds.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Oleksii Reznikov said he believed Russia was trying to gather forces and weapons for a new offensive in the south and east\n\nUkraine has become a de facto member of the Nato alliance, the Ukrainian defence minister says, as Western countries, once concerned that military assistance could be seen as an escalation by Russia, change their \"thinking approach\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Oleksii Reznikov said he was sure Ukraine would receive long-sought weapons, including tanks and fighter jets, as both Ukraine and Russia seemed to be preparing for new offensives in the spring.\n\n\"This concern about the next level of escalation, for me, is some kind of protocol,\" Mr Reznikov said.\n\n\"Ukraine as a country, and the armed forces of Ukraine, became [a] member of Nato. De facto, not de jure (by law). Because we have weaponry, and the understanding of how to use it.\"\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has framed his invasion of Ukraine as an existential battle against Western countries that want to weaken Russia.\n\nRussian figures have argued they are fighting Nato in Ukraine, as the West has supplied the country with weapons in what they call a war of aggression.\n\nUkraine, for years, has sought to join the military alliance between the US, Canada and 28 European countries, something President Vladimir Putin has described as a security threat for Russia.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed for fast-track accession, but it is unclear whether full membership is something the alliance members will seriously consider even after the war is over, despite pledges of support.\n\nArticle 5 of the Nato Treaty says an armed attack against any member should be considered an attack against all.\n\nMr Reznikov, however, denied that his comments would be seen as controversial, not only by Russia but, perhaps, by Nato itself, as the alliance has taken steps not to be seen as a party to the conflict.\n\n\"Why [would it be] controversial? It's true. It's a fact,\" Mr Reznikov said. \"I'm sure that in the near future, we'll become member of Nato, de jure.\"\n\nSoledar, a small town in the eastern Donetsk region, has been experiencing some of the war's most intense fighting\n\nThe defence minister spoke in the capital, Kyiv, as Ukrainian and Russian forces continued to fight for the small town of Soledar, in the eastern Donetsk region, in some of the most intense battles in the nearly 11-month-old war.\n\nThe Russian offensive is led by the mercenary Wagner Group, whose founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, a long-time Putin ally, has become a vocal critic of the Russian army's performance in Ukraine.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Prigozhin claimed that his fighters had seized control of the town, an allegation that was dismissed by Ukraine and, remarkably, by the Kremlin, in what was considered a rebuff to Mr Prigozhin.\n\nThe situation in Soledar was \"very difficult\", Mr Reznikov said, but \"under control\". He said Wagner fighters were being used in \"wave after wave after wave\" of attacks, leading to a high number of deaths, and that Mr Prigozhin was interested in the possible economic benefits of seizing the town, home to Europe's largest salt mines.\n\n\"They'll earn money from blood,\" he said.\n\nSoledar is about 10km (six miles) from Bakhmut, a strategic city where Ukrainian and Russian forces have been engaged in a months-long war of attrition that has caused widespread destruction and heavy losses on both sides. There, Wagner mercenaries have also been deployed in large numbers, and Mr Prigozhin is believed to have made the capture of Bakhmut a personal goal.\n\nThe group, Mr Reznikov said, \"need to deliver some kind of proof to declare they're better than the regular armed forces of the Russian Federation\". If seized, Bakhmut could pave the way for a Russian push towards Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, two Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk, a region that has been a key target for President Putin.\n\nMr Reznikov was speaking before Russia on Friday claimed it had taken control of Soledar. Ukraine disputed this and accused Russia of \"information noise\".\n\nAny gains would be, more than anything else, of extreme symbolic value for Russia. They would come after a series of humiliating setbacks, including a chaotic retreat from the north-eastern region of Kharkiv and the withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russian forces had captured in the war.\n\nMr Reznikov claimed that \"approximately 500 or 600\" Russian fighters were being killed every day across the country, while Ukraine was losing a tenth of that, figures that could not be independently verified. He believed Russia could be trying to gather \"forces, ammunition and weapons\" for an offensive from areas it already occupies in the south and east.\n\nUkraine, in the meantime, needed time to regroup and rearm while it waited for the delivery of Western weapons. \"Spring is the best period to refresh the movement for all sides,\" he said. \"We understand they'll be ready to start and, surely, we have to be ready to start.\"\n\nHowever, he did not repeat a claim that Russia could be preparing another invasion from Belarus, a warning that has been dismissed by the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency. The movement from the north, Mr Reznikov said, \"would take a lot of time and they [Russia] have no resources\".\n\nMr Reznikov spoke a day after the Russian defence ministry replaced the commander of its forces in Ukraine, a surprise announcement that was seen as a sign of a power struggle. Gen Valery Gerasimov, one of the architects of last year's invasion, would return to the post that was being held by Gen Sergei Surovikin, who had been appointed in October.\n\nThe change, Mr Reznikov said, was a result of the \"conflict between Mr Prigozhin and the armed forces of the Russian Federation\". Gen Surovikin oversaw the recent brutal attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure that, according to Mr Reznikov, \"reduced the [Russian missile] stocks without any results\", repeating a Ukrainian claim that \"they're running out of missiles\".\n\nAs Poland and Britain revealed plans to deliver battle tanks for the first time, Mr Reznikov said he was sure Ukraine would receive \"tanks, fighting aircrafts or jets, and long-range weaponry to hit targets in 300km (186 miles) as well\", because \"things were changing\" in Western countries.\n\nHe dismissed concerns that the announcements could trigger a Russian response, despite now-familiar threats from Moscow. \"I have a war in my country,\" he said. \"They're hitting my cities, my hospital, my kindergartens, my schools. They killed a lot of civilians, a lot of civilians. They're an army of rapists, murderers and looters. What's the next level of escalation?\"", "Severe disruption to Royal Mail's overseas deliveries has been caused by ransomware linked to Russian criminals, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe cyber-attack has affected the computer systems Royal Mail uses to despatch deliveries abroad.\n\nRoyal Mail has been warning customers since Wednesday of disruption due to a \"cyber-incident\".\n\nIts latest advice is for people not to try to send international letters and parcels until the issue is resolved.\n\nRansomware is malicious computer software that encrypts data and locks up systems.\n\nThe ransomware used in the attack is \"Lockbit\", according to a source close to the investigation.\n\nComputer security firms say the software has been developed and used by criminal gangs with links to Russia.\n\nThe BBC has seen a ransom note sent by the criminals to Royal Mail which reads: \"Your data are stolen and encrypted.\"\n\nThe ransom demand is expected to be in the millions, although sources close to the investigation say there are \"workarounds\" to get the system going again.\n\nRansomware attacks are a persistent threat to organisations around the world, with attacks happening on a near-daily basis.\n\nBut this situation is highly significant, as Royal Mail is what is deemed \"critical national infrastructure\" - that is, it is critical to the UK economy.\n\nThe attack is not just affecting one company and its customers, but the communications and businesses of citizens at home and abroad.\n\nRansomware crews typically ramp up pressure on firms to transfer funds in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin to an anonymous digital wallet.\n\nThey will have a deadline and are likely to be threatening Royal Mail with the prospect of having potentially sensitive data published.\n\nLockBit is thought to have strong Russian roots but the hacker that carried out the attack could be anywhere.\n\nIn November a Russian-Canadian national was arrested for allegedly carrying out LockBit hacks from Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is ransomware and how does it work?\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman declined to comment on whether the attack was ransomware, but repeated warnings to customers that there is no end in sight to delivery disruption.\n\nThe firm is still unable to send letters and parcels overseas and says it is \"working hard\" to fix the issue.\n\nThere are also minor delays to post coming into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.\n\nIt said that some customers who had posted items abroad even before the \"incident\" might see delays.\n\nA National Crime Agency spokesperson said it was \"aware of an incident impacting Royal Mail\" and was working alongside the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of the UK's cyber-intelligence agency GCHQ, to understand its impact.\n\nThe back office system that has been affected is used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.\n\nIt is in use at six sites, including Royal Mail's huge Heathrow distribution centre in Slough, as well as its Bristol site.\n\nRoyal Mail has faced a number of hurdles in recent months including delivery delays as postal workers strike over pay and conditions.\n\nHave you seen disruption to your international deliveries with Royal Mail? How has it affected you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rishi Sunak toasted marshmallows with Sea Scouts in the Highlands\n\nLegend has it that my brilliant, late colleague Kenny Macintyre once secured an interview with Margaret Thatcher by jumping out of a broom cupboard in her hotel.\n\nThese days most journalists are lucky to get within a mile of a prime minister on a political visit.\n\nRishi Sunak's trip to Scotland was no exception. It was carefully choreographed and tightly controlled.\n\nWatched by a very small band of invited media, he began his visit to the Highlands by toasting marshmallows with Sea Scouts, and chatting about search and rescue with emergency workers.\n\nThe man who famously loves Coca-Cola fizzed with energy and seemed extraordinarily enthused about it all.\n\nNot that any passing member of the public would be likely to witness that for themselves.\n\nWhen Mr Sunak arrived for dinner with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon a flashy Land Rover with an official driver shuffled backwards and forwards blocking our cameraman's valiant efforts - legal and on public land - to film him entering the hotel.\n\nPhotographs issued later by Number 10 showed the two leaders shaking hands and smiling broadly.\n\nRishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon met in Inverness on Thursday\n\nThe leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party had dinner with the leader of the party committed to ending the union, and the River Ness continued to rush to the sea.\n\nYou might think that such adult interaction is a low bar, the absolute minimum we could expect from our political leaders. After all, regardless of their differences, both politicians run governments which simply must work together day in day out.\n\nMaybe, but in truth that bar has not always been cleared in recent years.\n\nThe first minister struggled to hide her contempt for Boris Johnson. Liz Truss promised to ignore Ms Sturgeon and, during her brief tenure in Downing Street, was as good as her word.\n\nStill, the Sunak/Sturgeon love-in only goes so far.\n\nIt was striking that both went out of their way to avoid being seen in public together.\n\nOne of the green freeports will be craeted on the Firth of Forth\n\nAlthough a deal to create two \"green freeports\" on the firths of Cromarty and Forth was billed as a joint announcement between the UK and Scottish governments, only one of the two - Mr Sunak - was present for the formalities in Invergordon.\n\nMs Sturgeon was back in the central belt chairing a crisis meeting about the emergency in the NHS.\n\nIn fact after Thursday night's dinner, which lasted abour an hour and a quarter, the first minister was off like a rocket, giving the most perfunctory of interviews to the BBC in the murk outside the hotel, her breath frosting on the chilly Highland air, before heading back down the A9.\n\nA senior member of her retinue who complained about the cold was given short shrift by a journalist (OK, me) who had been standing outside for several hours.\n\nBoth sides described their chat as \"cordial\", but let's not get carried away. The wide grins in the official pictures belie deep political differences.\n\nI'm told that topics which came up at the meeting included public sector strikes, where the Conservatives and the SNP are sharply at odds.\n\nThe UK government has tabled legislation which would give its ministers the power to ensure minimum service levels during industrial action in certain critical sectors - such as hospitals, firefighting and the railways - which would curtail the right of some workers to strike.\n\nIt says the proposed law - which would apply in England, Scotland and Wales - is necessary to \"ensure the safety of the British public\".\n\nLabour call it a bill for sacking nurses. The Scottish government says Westminster already has some of the most restrictive anti-strike legislation of any democracy and describes the proposals as a further attack on workers' rights.\n\nThere is also disagreement about NHS funding.\n\nMs Sturgeon wants more money from Westminster. Doesn't she always, say her critics.\n\nMr Sunak says funding is already at a record level - and rising. The topic of the current emergency in the NHS reportedly took up more than half of the talks.\n\nNicola Sturgeon insists she has a mandate for another independence referendum\n\nAnother area of dispute is Brexit. The pair remain at odds over the economic impact of the UK's exit from the European Union, which was opposed by 62% of Scottish voters in the 2016 referendum.\n\nThen - you knew it was coming - there is independence, on which subject, I am told, there was a \"robust\" exchange of views at the dinner table.\n\nThe arguments are well-rehearsed. The SNP leader insists she has a cast-iron mandate for another referendum because in 2021 Scottish voters returned a majority of MSPs (SNP and Greens) to the Scottish Parliament who had made manifesto pledges to hold one.\n\nMr Sunak says the people of Scotland would prefer a \"relentless focus\" on the rising cost of living. His allies say the last thing anyone needs right now is more divisive constitutional upheaval.\n\nThe national question is not going away though. Polls suggest Scotland is split more or less down the middle on whether or not to leave the UK and become an independent country.\n\nExpect to hear a lot more about this as winter turns to spring, with the SNP holding a special conference to discuss Ms Sturgeon's attempt to turn the next general election into a de facto referendum on the subject.\n\nAnd finally there is probably the most contentious issue of the hour - gender.\n\nLast month the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of making it easier to legally change gender, clearing away medical and administrative barriers in favour of a process of self-declaration.\n\nBut before any Holyrood legislation can receive royal assent, the UK government has a window in which to decide whether it wants to object.\n\nOne means of doing so is set out in Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 (the law which sets out the framework of devolution) which allows for the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack to block the bill from receiving royal assent if he has \"reasonable grounds to believe\" that it \"would have an adverse effect\" on the operation of the law as it applies to matters reserved to Westminster, rather than devolved to Holyrood.\n\nThat nuclear option has never been used - but Number 10 is said to be considering it this time on the grounds that the new Scottish law might be said to interfere with UK-wide equalities legislation, which provides for the provision of female-only services.\n\nThe first minister insists it does nothing of the sort, saying the bill is both the right thing to do and within Holyrood's legislative competence.\n\nThe gender reform legislation was approved by the Scottish Parliament last month\n\nApparently the two leaders focused on the legislative process rather than debating the substantive issue on Thursday night.\n\nHours later, the prime minster told Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland that the Gender Recognition Reform Bill may indeed have \"impacts across the UK\".\n\nHe added that his government was awaiting final advice on the matter before deciding how to proceed, a practice he described as \"entirely standard\".\n\nMs Sturgeon's official spokesman told me the Scottish government would \"vigorously contest any attempt to undermine the democratic will of the Scottish Parliament\".\n\nThe deadline for a decision is next week, setting the stage for a potential battle, encompassing not just the culture wars but the highly-charged issue of the constitution.\n\nKenny, who loved nothing more than an almighty controversy, would have been all over it.", "A British amateur photographer called for help to get a packed beach in Australia evacuated after spotting a shark on his drone.\n\nExpat David Alphonso, originally from Northampton, saw the great white swimming close to the shoreline in Western Australia, where hundreds of people were bathing.\n\nHe phoned his wife on the beach, who told a lifeguard and a helicopter was scrambled to decide whether the animal was a potential danger.\n\nHe said: \"If I hadn't have spotted it, it could have potentially been a danger of a shark attack if people are splashing in the water, although it is quite rare.\"", "Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan says she would take a \"sensible approach\" when considering MPs' ideas\n\nThe culture secretary has said she is \"not ruling out\" changes to the government's Online Safety Bill in the face of a major backbench rebellion.\n\nForty-three Tory MPs are backing a plan to make social media bosses face prison if they fail to protect children from damaging online content.\n\nIn the bill's current form, firms would instead face higher fines.\n\nMichelle Donelan told the BBC's Newscast she would take a \"sensible approach\" when considering MPs' ideas.\n\nUnder the proposals, senior managers at tech firms could face up to two years in jail if they breach new duties to keep children safe online. The provision would not apply to search engines.\n\nCurrently the bill would only make managers criminally liable for failing to give information to media regulator Ofcom, which is set to gain wide-ranging powers to police the internet under the new law.\n\nAmong the rebels backing the amendment, which is due to be voted on next week, are former Cabinet ministers Priti Patel and Dame Andrea Leadsom.\n\nLabour has confirmed to the BBC it also supports the amendment, meaning rebel MPs could have the numbers to inflict the first defeat of Rishi Sunak's premiership if it is called to a vote.\n\nMiriam Cates, a leading Tory rebel, told the BBC the group of backbenchers met Ms Donelan earlier this week, and ministers recognise the \"strength of feeling\" over the issue.\n\nShe added that they were open to government concessions, but any proposal to change the law would have to retain personal liability for managers.\n\n\"I think that is the key driver of change,\" she told the BBC's World Tonight programme, adding: \"In the construction industry we've seen a massive drop in accidents and deaths in construction since the senior manager liability was introduced.\"\n\nMr Sunak has already faced significant backbench revolts in the first two months of his premiership - over housing targets for councils and restrictions on onshore wind farms.\n\nOn both of those issues, the prime minister backed down and offered concessions to avoid defeat in the House of Commons.\n\nThe Online Safety Bill was introduced in March under Boris Johnson, and has been repeatedly altered during its passage through Parliament.\n\nIts progress was further delayed last month when the government decided to make more changes to the bill.\n\nIt is due to return to the Commons next Tuesday, before what is likely to be a long journey through the House of Lords.", "Italy's highest-profile mafia target only tells us where to find him 20 minutes before we meet. Nicola Gratteri, the prosecutor leading the country's fight against organised crime, has learnt to live in constant danger - and too much advance warning leaves him exposed.\n\nWe are instructed to wait for him outside the court in the southern region of Calabria where he is overseeing the biggest trial of its kind since the 1980s. More than 330 suspects have been testifying there and 70 of them have already been convicted.\n\nSuddenly Gratteri sweeps in, surrounded by his escort of five police cars. We thank him, a few times, for his readiness to meet and talk. \"Stop thanking me - and let's get on with it,\" he snaps. \"There's nothing I hate more than dead time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'When I went to school I saw dead people in the streets'\n\nThe man on the kill list of Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, who has devoted his entire career to taking on the group, does not do pleasantries.\n\nAnd then he decides to drive us to his office 40 minutes away. He will be freer to talk there. We climb into his bullet-proof car and so begins perhaps Italy's most dangerous commute.\n\n\"I've been living with this level of security since 1989, when my fiancee's house was shot at, and someone phoned her in the night to tell her she was marrying a dead man,\" he recalls. \"It's escalated to reach this suffocating level of control.\"\n\nGiovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino - both were murdered in bombings\n\nThere is no alternative, given what happened 30 years ago. In 1992, prosecutor Giovanni Falcone was blown up by a bomb planted beneath a motorway near Palermo by the Sicilian mafia, Cosa Nostra. It killed him, his wife and three police officers. His colleague Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by a car bomb two months later.\n\nTheir murders - and the searing images of the half-collapsed motorway at the scene of the Falcone attack - are still seen by Italians as a defining moment in their modern history. The magistrates are revered for their heroism and the brutality of the crimes remain a potent symbol of the mafia's capacity for terror.\n\nWith his eyes on the road, Gratteri tells me he thinks of the murdered judges often - and how they, too, were moving targets as they drove through another part of the country poisoned by organised crime. \"I often talk to death, because you have to rationalise fear in order to move on,\" he says. \"Otherwise, I couldn't do this job.\"\n\nWe speed across the rugged and lush toe of Italy: the bastion of the 'Ndrangheta since its origins in the 19th Century. The criminal syndicate is based around family clans, or 'ndrine, who traditionally controlled the mountain-top villages of the Calabrian landscape, their die-hard loyalty forged by blood ties.\n\nWhile Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Camorra around Naples are better known internationally, in part through their dramatic mass bombings, both have been weakened by a relentless police crackdown. As a result, the 'Ndrangheta has risen in their place and is now Italy's most potent mafia, with offshoots around the world, from South America to Australia, and an estimated annual turnover of around $60bn (£49bn).\n\nTheir currency is cocaine. The group dominates the global market and is now thought to control up to 80% of Europe's trade in the drug.\n\nThe 'Ndrangheta has grown to become Italy's most powerful mafia. The BBC's Mark Lowen meets the Calabrian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri - who has risked his life fighting them.\n\nInternational viewers can see the programme on BBC World News at 07:10 and 15:10 (GMT) on Saturday 14 January, and 07:10 on Sunday 15 January.\n\nMost is funnelled through Gioia Tauro, Italy's busiest container port, a hulking facility in the south of Calabria. A fraction of the cocaine that arrives here is for the Italian market, with the rest passing through and onwards east, to the Balkans and the Black Sea. Military hardware bound for Russia has also been intercepted here.\n\nWe watch as a freshly arrived container carrying bananas from Ecuador is checked, first by sniffer dogs and then by officers from the Guardia di Finanza, or financial crime squad, who cut open boxes to rifle through the bunches of fruit. This shipment is clean - but many others are not, with the quantity of cocaine impounded here almost tripling in the past two years.\n\nA recent police operation swooped on port workers suspected of being involved in a massive 'Ndrangheta trafficking ring. Thirty-five were arrested and seven tons of cocaine, with a street value of $1.4bn (£1.14bn), were seized.\n\nWe are given rare access to see the bulk of these drugs, which sit in a locked cell: hundreds of tightly wrapped packets that are photographed and then analysed.\n\nA fragment of the white powder is cut away and placed into a tube containing a liquid solution, which is squeezed into testing kits that look like something from the pandemic - only this time detecting crime, not Covid. After a few seconds, a red line appears. It's positive, with a purity of 98%.\n\nThe cocaine seized by the Guardia di Finanza at Gioia Tauro port over the past two years accounts for more than half of their entire haul from the last two decades. 'Ndrangheta smuggling may be going up, but so too is police know-how, with forces collaborating across borders.\n\nA massive international operation in 2019 by officers in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Bulgaria led to the arrests of 335 suspects, including lawyers, accountants and an ex-MP. All were part of, or linked to, the Mancuso family - one of the estimated 150 ruthless clans that make up the 'Ndrangheta.\n\nIn the aftermath of this, the biggest blow to the group in its history, the so-called \"maxi trial\" in Calabria began two years ago. A call centre on the outskirts of Lamezia Terme was converted into a space large enough for some 600 lawyers and 900 witnesses, many testifying by video link. Charges include murder, extortion and drug-trafficking. More than 70 have already been sentenced.\n\nSitting inside the enormous room, with cages set up on the side, it feels like the visual symbolism is important here: a set-up designed to show Italians that their state is hitting the 'Ndrangheta and that the mobsters are not untouchable.\n\nIt is the biggest trial of Nicola Gratteri's career. As we are whisked into his office, with his close-protection team always one step behind, he tells me the arrests deprived the 'Ndrangheta of 70% of their control in Vibo Valentia, one of their stronghold provinces.\n\nThe large room set up for the trial used to be a call centre\n\n\"If they are all convicted, it means breathing space for the community,\" he says. The Mancusos, though, are just one, albeit powerful, family of the 'Ndrangheta and this is by no means the beginning of its end. \"As soon as I finish this trial, I'll be moving on to another,\" the prosecutor adds.\n\nHe has dedicated - even sacrificed - his life to this struggle. \"I don't have a life,\" he tells me. \"To go into a cafe, we have to stop and discuss it with my protection team. Someone enters to pay and then we go in and drink the coffee. We have to stop and discuss where to use the bathroom. I haven't gone to a cinema or a restaurant in 25 years. My barber comes here to the office when I need a haircut. I hardly ever see my family. But inside my head, I'm a free man.\"\n\nI ask if it's worth it. He sighs heavily. \"It's worth it if you believe in it - and I do,\" he replies. \"I believe I'm doing something important. There are thousands of people who believe in me and for whom I am the last resort, the last hope of change. I can't disappoint them.\"\n\nSara Scarpulla and her husband Francesco are among them. In 2018, they endured the unimaginable, when they buried their only child, Matteo, blown up by a bomb planted on the undercarriage of his car.\n\nHis assassins were alleged to have belonged to the Mancusos, the 'Ndrangheta clan currently on trial, who had targeted Matteo and Francesco after a prolonged dispute over the boundary between each other's land.\n\nAt the cemetery in the town of Limbadi, just metres from the grave of Matteo, lies the Mancuso family tomb: the victim and the relatives of his killers almost side-by-side in a region soaked in its blood feuds.\n\nIn their living room, where the walls are adorned with giant photographs of Matteo, Sara tells me he was \"the joy of life - polite and exceptional. I'm proud to have been Matteo's mother and proud to have had him as a son\".\n\nSitting beside her, Francesco, who was in the car with Matteo at the time, distractedly taps on the table, watching helplessly as his wife can no longer hold back the tears.\n\n\"Ours is not a life anymore,\" she says. \"Sometimes, I ask God: 'Where were you when Matteo was dying?' And Matteo's girlfriend tells me: 'He was there, taking Matteo with him'\".\n\nLimbadi, Sara says, is riddled with the 'Ndrangheta. They control local businesses, hold the levers of power and inspire fear with their thuggish behaviour. As her land dispute with them escalated, she recalls how they would kill her family's animals and then throw beheaded chickens on to the roof of her house.\n\n\"Until the mentality of people changes, things will never change,\" she adds. \"We have to plant the seed of change, like Prosecutor Gratteri and all prosecutors like him. Until we follow in the footsteps of these people, we will be stuck here with the 'Ndrangheta in charge.\"\n\nA look of defiance suddenly takes hold. \"I need to fight, to go the front line and shout in the streets of this town: 'The 'Ndrangheta must leave from here!' This is not the 'Ndrangheta's town. It is Matteo's town.\"\n\nBut prising apart the 'Ndrangheta's suffocating grip will require more than a change in mentality: it will need the mafiosos to turn against the mafia, breaking the \"omertà\", or code of silence.\n\nThere are, though, precious few turncoats among a group founded on blood ties, in which disloyalty means betraying your own family.\n\nWe track down one, Luigi Bonaventura, who is testifying in the Mancuso trial. He agrees to meet in northern Italy, somewhere not far from where he lives, though he will not tell us exactly where that is. His testimony offers a rare insight into the inner workings of the mobsters and how their indoctrination functions.\n\nLuigi Bonaventura - disguised for his own protection\n\nSixteen years ago, he began collaborating with police - in order, he says, to give his children the freedom that he never had and has lived under witness protection ever since. He uses his own name but covers his face with a balaclava, so as not be recognised by those he turned against.\n\n\"The 'Ndrangheta is a tribe, and if you are born into that family while it is at war, you can do nothing but grow up with the incitement to hatred and violence,\" he tells me. \"The words repeated were always the same: 'Kill, kill, kill'\".\n\nHe recalls being brought up \"as a child soldier\", handed a gun aged 10 and playing with real weapons as if they were toys. Having been trained as what he calls \"a sleeper-cell killer\", he was called to fight at 19 when his family went to war with another. \"I was involved in five murders,\" he says. \"Three I witnessed, and two I carried out.\"\n\nHe claims his collaboration has led to the conviction or arrest of more than 500 'Ndrangheta suspects. What impact, I ask, does he think the ongoing \"maxi trial\" will have on the mafia?\n\n\"The 'Ndrangheta does not have one head, it is not Sicily's Cosa Nostra, with a boss of bosses who, once he collapses, brings everything down with him,\" he replies. \"The 'Ndrangheta is a monster, a multi-headed hydra, and if one is cut off, there are many others. It's a matter of time, maybe 10 years, but the Mancuso clan will regroup, and they will be back stronger than ever.\"\n\nIt is a pessimistic prognosis. But on the ground in Calabria, anti-mafia associations are working to educate the next generation and ensure Italy's young are steered away from the clutches of organised crime.\n\nHowever, the mafia's tentacles are so long, its infiltration of Italian society so deep, that even Nicola Gratteri, the country's top authority on the 'Ndrangheta, tells me Italy will never be free of its grasp. \"It can be reduced a lot, but it would take a revolution to fight it. We still need a stronger system - and above all, we need to invest in education and culture.\"\n\nThat, he says, is what made the difference for him as a boy, while many of his childhood friends were ensnared by the 'Ndrangheta.\n\n\"If I'd been born a hundred metres down the road, I would have been a mafia boss today,\" he remarks. \"But I was lucky because I was born into a family of honest people. Many of my classmates have been killed with a sawn-off shotgun; others I have had arrested for weapons or drugs.\"\n\nHe recalls being deployed to Miami when a former school friend was arrested with 800kg of cocaine on his sailing ship. \"He told me he had ruined his life. I said to him: look, you can still change things, there's a chance to cooperate, but he refused.\"\n\nIn this battle for the soul of Italy, I ask which side is winning: the mafia or the state? He smiles. \"It's a draw. To win, we need to change the rules of the game, with a prison system strong enough to discourage the criminals.\"\n\nHero to many, enemy of some, Gratteri seems somehow an isolated figure, unafraid to pick fights and unturn stones at the highest level. So does the 64-year-old have regrets?\n\n\"No,\" he replies. \"Maybe I could have done more - even if it was not humanly possible. I've done the best job in the world - and I'll go on as long as I can.\"\n\nHe pauses, collecting his thoughts. \"Everything in life has a price, no? To have had a normal life, I would have had to go slower. Perhaps I'd have had to work less. But I'd have felt like a coward. And living like a coward makes no sense to me.\"\n\nAs we draw our time with him to a close, he checks his phone. \"Pack up quickly,\" he instructs us, \"and move your bags out, I need to lock up here and go.\" With a brisk handshake, the anti-mafia crusader is off to fight his next battle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says documents weren't sitting out on the street\n\nCongressional Republicans are demanding to see visitor logs for US President Joe Biden's homes, arguing that the discovery of classified files at one of his residences is a national security risk.\n\nMr Biden acknowledged on Thursday that sensitive material was found in the garage of his house in Delaware.\n\nThe White House deflected when asked if the visitor logs would be provided.\n\nThe justice department has appointed an investigator to look into the files.\n\nNews that sensitive documents dating from Mr Biden's time as vice-president had been found in a private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, emerged earlier this week.\n\nThat was followed by a disclosure that a second cache was discovered at Mr Biden's home.\n\nThe first batch was found on 2 November, just before the US midterm elections, but only became public on Monday.\n\nMr Biden kept an office at the think tank after he left the White House in 2017 until he launched his presidential campaign in 2019.\n\nOn Thursday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed in a news conference that the second cache had been found on 20 December at Mr Biden's private home in Wilmington, Delaware.\n\nHe added that Mr Biden's lawyers had called investigators on Thursday morning to notify them of an additional document, also found at the same residence.\n\nCiting the \"extraordinary circumstances\", the attorney general appointed Robert Hur, a former senior justice department official during the Trump presidency, to lead an investigation in the Biden files.\n\nKevin McCarthy, the newly elected Republican Speaker of the House, questioned the timing of the first disclosure and accused Mr Biden of knowingly mishandling the sensitive papers.\n\n\"He knowingly knew [sic] this happened going into [the] election, going into interviews. This is what makes America not trust their government,\" Mr McCarthy said on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther Republicans on Thursday demanded the president release a log of all the people who had visited Mr Biden's Delaware home.\n\nJames Comer, a Kentucky congressman and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told Fox News: \"We need to know who all has had access to the president.\"\n\nColorado Republican Ken Buck wrote a letter to the White House calling on Mr Biden to \"release all visitor logs\".\n\nElise Stefanik, the number three House Republican and a New York congresswoman, said that the visitor logs were \"a clear matter of national security\".\n\nMr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, is also under investigation by the justice department after more than 300 classified files - including some marked with Secret and Top Secret designations - were discovered by FBI agents executing a search warrant last year at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.\n\nSpeaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Biden again said that his lawyers had notified officials of the discovery and that he took the matter seriously.\n\nThe president - who previously described Mr Trump's alleged mishandling of classified material as \"totally irresponsible\" - added that the documents were found locked in a garage next to his 1960s Chevrolet Corvette sports car, \"not sitting out in the street\".\n\nLawyers also searched Mr Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but said they found no additional files.\n\nAn attorney for the president, Richard Sauber, said they were co-operating closely with the justice department.\n\nHe predicted the investigation would show \"these documents were inadvertently misplaced, and the president and his lawyers acted promptly upon discovery of this mistake\".\n\nAsked whether the Delaware visitor logs would ever be released, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre countered that the Biden administration had restored public disclosure on White House visitor logs that had been restricted under Mr Trump.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration also refused to reveal the names of most of the visitors to Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach during his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the attorney general should \"immediately\" end the investigation he faces over the Mar-a-Lago cache, claiming the special counsel \"hates\" him.\n\nAccording to a CNN analysis in October, Mr Biden had spent more than a quarter of his presidency working from his houses in Wilmington or Rehoboth Beach.", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "Lisa Marie Presley channelled her thoughts and feelings into her music and writing\n\nLisa Marie Presley, who has died at the age of 54, stepped out of her father's shadow with her music, but experienced \"more than anyone's fair share\" of tragedy and heartbreak in her life.\n\n\"I've dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of nine years old,\" she wrote last August.\n\nShe was just nine when her father Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, died.\n\nShe was 52 when her son Benjamin Keough, killed himself in 2020.\n\nHer four husbands included the late singer Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage.\n\nLisa Marie's birth was a happy time for her parents\n\nBorn in 1968 to Elvis and her actress mother Priscilla, Lisa Marie spent the first four years of her life at her parents' mansion Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.\n\nElvis doted on his daughter and even named his jet after her. But following her parents' divorce in 1973, Lisa Marie went to live with her mother in the suburbs of Los Angeles, with regular visits to her father at his home.\n\nIt is the place where he died in 1977, at the age of 42. Doctors said he died of a heart attack, which was likely brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.\n\nPictured as a toddler with her parents Priscilla and Elvis Presley\n\nPerhaps not surprisingly, her teenage years were troubled.\n\nIn 2003, she told the Los Angeles Times that following her father's death, her mother sent her to a series of private schools when \"she began acting out and experimenting with drugs\".\n\n\"I was kind of a loner, a melancholy and strange child,\" Lisa Marie told the newspaper.\n\n\"I had a real self-destructive mode for a while. I never really fit into school. I didn't really have any direction.\"\n\nA daughter and father moment between Lisa Marie and Elvis\n\nElvis named his private jet after his beloved daughter\n\nShe credited Scientology \"with helping her break from drugs and start building some self-esteem\", saying the controversial church was \"a form of self-help, self-discovery\".\n\n\"It's not so much a God thing. It's nondenominational. It offered answers to questions I had about life. In the most basic way, it's like Humpty Dumpty. When I fell off the wall, they helped put me back together.\"\n\nIt was sometimes difficult to keep herself together. She became addicted to opioids and painkillers following the birth of her twin daughters in 2008, according to CNN.\n\nShe opened up about the addiction in the foreword for the 2019 book The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating a Nation in Pain.\n\n\"Many more people are suffering silently, addicted to opioids and other substances. I am writing this in the hope that I can play a small part in focusing attention on this terrible crisis,\" she wrote.\n\nShe also had two children, Riley and Benjamin, with her first husband, musician Danny Keough.\n\nHer second marriage was to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, in May 1994. They divorced in 1997.\n\nLisa Marie Presley said she wrote songs to try to recover from her marriage to Michael Jackson\n\nLisa Marie memorably appeared in his music video for You Are Not Alone in 1995, which was oddly interspersed with what looked like intimate bedroom footage of the scantily-clad couple.\n\nShe told Rolling Stone magazine in 2003 she had been attracted by his mysterious lifestyle and wanted to protect him from allegations of child abuse.\n\nLisa Marie also said she was \"not proud\" of her brief marriage, which was so bad that by the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, the hostility between them was plain to see. She was left glaring at him from the audience as he performed a medley of hits.\n\n\"It just got really ugly at the end,\" she said.\n\nShe demanded a divorce, but he refused to speak to her, adding that the experience sent her into a mental and physical breakdown - which she took to writing songs to overcome.\n\nBut she added: \"I'm not into Michael-bashing at all. I know people want to know what that was about, and I'm trying to say it without making him a bad guy.\n\n\"It's hard to do, because it was such a bad situation.\"\n\nLooking remarkably like her father, she sang in London in 2003\n\nAt the end of the 1990s, she felt able to try to step into the spotlight as a musician in her own right.\n\nAlthough she had written songs during her early years, the pressure of being the King's daughter had been an understandable deterrent to making her music public. There was so much to live up to.\n\nIn 1997, she performed a duet with her late father, singing on his 1968 track Don't Cry Daddy.\n\nThen songwriter and producer Glen Ballard encouraged her to make solo music, co-ordinating a deal with Capitol, with a slated release for her debut album in 2000.\n\nHer personal life was still fraught, however, with a 2002 marriage to actor Nicolas Cage, who won an Oscar in 1996 for the film Leaving Las Vegas and starred in Face Off. They split after just 107 days together.\n\nHer first album To Whom It May Concern eventually came out in 2003, followed by two more in 2005 and 2012.\n\nLisa Marie had written the majority of the often downbeat lyrics, and co-written the melodies.\n\nThe Guardian gave her first album one star, with critic Alexis Petridis writing: \"It sounds like Alanis Morissette pushed through a sieve until every distinguishing feature has been strained away.\"\n\nBut AllMusic.com describes it as \"a sharp, ambitious mainstream pop/rock album performed by a singer with real character\", calling her \"sharp and brash\".\n\nPriscilla and Lisa Marie Presley at the 75th birthday celebration for Elvis in 2010\n\nIt reached a number five on the Billboard chart, while her second album made the top 10. Her third, Storm & Grace - a collaboration with T-Bone Burnett - only charted at 45 but had a much better critical reception, with Q magazine calling it a \"likeable record if not a startling one\".\n\nIn 2005, she told Oprah Winfrey that being compared with her father was \"a huge mountain to climb\".\n\nBy the following year, Lisa Marie was married to musician Michael Lockwood, and two years later their twin daughters Finley and Harper were born. Presley and Lockwood stayed together until 2016, and she told Oprah the best thing she did for her children was \"overwhelming them with affection and love\".\n\nLisa Marie with her mother and children during Elvis Presley's 80th birthday celebration in 2015\n\nLisa Marie's life was in some ways cushioned by her huge inherited wealth, but she was quoted as saying: \"Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.\"\n\nThe story of her father's rise and fall has recently been told in director Baz Luhrmann's biopic, titled simply Elvis, which obviously touched Lisa Marie deeply. She called it \"nothing short of spectacular\" and \"absolutely exquisite\".\n\nSeen just earlier this week at the Golden Globes, where Austin Butler won best actor in a drama film for his portrayal of her father, she and her mother cried as he collected his award.\n\nLisa Marie leaves behind what could be described as a story of tackling and often overcoming tragedy.\n\nIn an essay about grief following the death of her son Benjamin, Lisa Marie wrote in August 2022: \"Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life, in spite of what certain people or our culture wants us to believe. You do not 'get over it,' you do not 'move on,' period.\n\n\"I'm saying this... in the hopes that maybe today or as soon as possible, you can reach out to someone who is grieving someone they loved and lost. Whether they lost a child, a parent, a spouse, a sibling, a fiancé, anyone.\n\n\"Ask them how they're doing, ask them to talk about their person. Yes! We DO want to talk about them. That's how we keep them alive in our hearts, that's how they don't get forgotten, that is what keeps us alive as well.\n\n\"And do me a favour, don't tell them that 'you can't imagine' their pain. The truth is, oh yes you can - you just don't want to.\"\n\nPerhaps that message will end up as her legacy, as her family now deals with one more tragedy.\n• None Who was the real Elvis Presley? - BBC Culture", "Climate change is making extreme weather including flooding more likely, scientists say\n\nOne of the world's largest oil companies accurately forecast how climate change would cause global temperature to rise as long ago as the 1970s, researchers claim.\n\nExxonMobil's private research predicted how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet but the company publicly denied the link, they suggest.\n\nThe academics analysed data in the company's internal documents.\n\n\"This issue has come up several times in recent years and, in each case, our answer is the same: those who talk about how \"Exxon Knew\" are wrong in their conclusions,\" the company told BBC News.\n\nCorporations including ExxonMobil have made billions from selling fossil fuels that release emissions that scientists, governments and the UN say cause global warming.\n\nThe findings suggest that ExxonMobil's predictions were often more accurate than even world-leading Nasa scientists.\n\n\"It really underscores the stark hypocrisy of ExxonMobil leadership, who knew that their own scientists were doing this very high quality modelling work and had access to that privileged information while telling the rest of us that climate models were bunk,\" Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University, told BBC News.\n\nThe findings are a \"smoking gun\", suggests co-author Geoffrey Supran, associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami.\n\n\"Our analysis allows us for the first time to actually put a number on what Exxon knew, which is that the burning of their fossil fuel products was going to heat the planet by about 0.2C of warming every decade,\" he said.\n\nResearchers have never before quantified the scientific evidence in ExxonMobil's documents, he says.\n\nIn response, ExxonMobil pointed to a 2019 US court ruling that concluded: \"ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible.\"\n\n\"ExxonMobil is committed to being part of the solution to climate change and the risks it poses,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA chart that researchers say compares ExxonMobil's predictions of temperature rise with actual temperature increase\n\n\"Their excellent climate modelling was at least comparable in performance to one of the most influential and well-regarded climate scientists of modern history,\" Prof Supran said, comparing ExxonMobil's work to Nasa's James Hansen who sounded the alarm on climate in 1988.\n\nProf Oreskes said the findings show that ExxonMobil \"knowingly misled\" the public and governments. \"They had all this information at their disposal but they said very, very different things in public,\" she explained.\n\nPrevious investigations have unearthed Exxon documents that suggest the company sought to spread doubt about the science. One internal paper set out the \"Exxon position\" to \"emphasise the uncertainty in scientific conclusions\" about the greenhouse effect.\n\nThe research, published in the academic journal Science, also suggests that ExxonMobil had reasonable estimates for how emissions would need to be reduced in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change in a world warmed by 2C or more.\n\nTheir scientists also correctly rejected the theory that an ice age was coming at a time when other researchers were still debating the prospect.\n\nProf Oreskes and Prof Supran carried out the research after journalists in 2015 uncovered evidence suggesting ExxonMobil's knew about climate change, but were accused by ExxonMobil of \"cherry-picking\" the truth.\n\nThey plotted scientific data in more than 100 publications from Exxon and Exxon Mobil between 1977 and 2014 to calculate their predictions of global temperature rise.\n\nProf Oreskes suggests that it showed the company was internally using climate science when publicly it called the models \"speculative\" or \"bad science\".\n\nThe findings add to ongoing pressure on the company over what it knew about climate change. Campaigners allege it spread misinformation in order to protect its business interests in fossil fuels and are suing the company in a number of US courts.\n\nIn May a court in Massachusetts, US ruled that ExxonMobil must face trial over accusations it lied about climate change.", "The 26-year-old beautician died shortly before midnight on 24 December\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of Elle Edwards, who was shot at a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve.\n\nConnor Chapman, 22, of Houghton Road, Woodchurch, has been remanded in custody and will appear in court later.\n\nHe is also charged with two counts of attempted murder and three counts of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.\n\nMs Edwards, a 26-year-old beautician, was shot in the head at the Lighthouse Pub in Wallasey Village on 24 December.\n\nSpeaking five days after her death, her father Tim Edwards told how she would \"light up a room\".\n\n\"There was no-one as beautiful as our Elle May - her looks, her laugh,\" he said.\n\n\"She had this way about her that as soon as you met her, you just instantly fell in love with her, everyone that met Elle knew how special she was.\n\n\"She was only just getting started. Christmas and our family will never be the same again without her. She was the glue that held this big family together, from all of us.\"\n\nTim Edwards described his daughter as \"beautiful\" and \"special\"\n\nMr Chapman has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life and handling stolen goods, namely a Mercedes A Class, Merseyside Police said.\n\nHe is set to appear at Wirral Adult Remand Court.\n\nA 23-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender has been released on bail.\n\nPolice are still appealing for witnesses and urged anyone with information to contact them.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Virginia school remains closed after the incident\n\nA staff member at the Virginia school where a six-year-old boy allegedly shot his teacher last week had been alerted before the shooting that the child might have a weapon, an official said.\n\nThe boy's bag was searched, but no weapon was found, Richneck Elementary school superintendent George Parker told parents.\n\nFirst-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner was left with serious injuries after police say the boy shot her \"intentionally\".\n\nPolice said he used his mother's gun.\n\nThe shooting has rocked the town of Newport News and raised questions about what legal ramifications the young boy could face for carrying out the shooting.\n\n\"At least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon,\" Mr Parker said during an online meeting with parents on Thursday, according to a clip shared by local news outlet WAVY-TV. \"(The staff member) was aware that that student had, there was a potential that there was a weapon on campus.\"\n\nThe school superintendent did not clarify whether the boy hid the weapon or why authorities did not find it in his backpack.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the school superintendent for comments.\n\nAfter the shooting, police said they found a 9mm Taurus pistol in the class near the student's desk, along with his backpack, a mobile phone and one spent shell casing.\n\nPolice determined through an interview with the child's mother that the gun was bought legally and stored in their home.\n\nThe shooting happened without warning, and with no fight or physical struggle, police said.\n\nNewport News police chief Steve Drew said the child fired one round at his teacher. He added that the \"shooting was not accidental, it was intentional\", and that it took place while Ms Zwerner was giving a lesson.\n\nThe school remains closed after the incident.\n\nMs Zwerner was in serious but stable condition earlier this week, authorities said.\n\nThe school is making administrative changes in the wake of the incident and has consulted with Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a shooter killed 19 children and two adults last year.\n\nThe school district is installing metal detectors at every campus and will hold a safety training day where staff can discuss additional security measures, school board Chair Lisa Surles-Law said at a news conference Thursday.\n\nDaily metal detector checks for students remain rare, taking place at fewer than 2% of public elementary schools in 2020, according to National Center for Education data.\n\nThe district has not yet said when Richneck will reopen. The six-year-old boy is being held at a medical facility.\n\nPolice have lauded Ms Zwerner for her determination to escort all of her students out of the classroom after she was shot.\n• None What happens to a six-year-old who shoots someone?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Natalie McNally in Lurgan has been released on bail.\n\nMs McNally, who was 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Silverwood Green in Lurgan.\n\nThe 46-year-old man was arrested in south Belfast on Friday.\n\nOn Friday, police also released further CCTV of a suspect seen entering her street on the night she was killed.\n\nFootage shows the suspect enter the Silverwood Green at 8.52pm travelling directly towards Natalie McNally's front door.\n\nHe is briefly illuminated by the reverse lights of a vehicle.\n\nTwo arrests have previously been made in connection with her murder but no-one has been charged.\n\nA 32-year-old man arrested on 19 December was released the next day and is no longer a suspect.\n\nAnother 32-year-old man was arrested on 21 December and has been released on police bail while detectives continue their inquiries.\n\nHundreds of house-to-house enquiries have been carried out and over 3,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized, police have said.\n\nLast Friday, detectives conducted a search of the council-owned Silverwood Golf Club grounds beside Ms McNally's home.\n\nEarlier that week, a weapon believed to be used in the murder was recovered by police and is said to have come from her home.\n\nOfficers believe Ms McNally knew her killer, that they had a pre-existing relationship and she felt comfortable inviting them into her home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness has said the PSNI remained \"absolutely steadfast\" to bringing Ms McNally's murderer to justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Previous CCTV footage shows a man leaving Natalie McNally's street on the night she was killed\n\nCCTV footage of a suspect in Ms McNally's murder was released previously by police.\n\nIt shows a man entering Silverwood Green at 20:52 GMT on Sunday, 18 December and leaving again at 21:30.\n\nThe charity Crimestoppers have offered a £20,000 reward for information about Ms McNally's killing.", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "An image of a UAP, seen through night vision goggles, shown to US lawmakers\n\nA new de-classified US government report on UFO sightings by US troops has revealed hundreds of new cases.\n\nThe US National Intelligence office is now aware of 510 reported sightings, an increase over the 144 compiled in the spy agency's first 2021 assessment.\n\nNearly half of the new sightings were deemed \"unremarkable\" and attributed to human origins, according to the report.\n\nHowever, more than 100 of the encounters remain unexplained.\n\nThe report says that encounters with UFOs - which the government calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - continue \"to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety\" and national security.\n\nOf the 366 new reports, 26 were determined to be drones, 163 were balloons and six aerial objects were attributed to clutter.\n\nThe report was issued in part to help \"destigmatise\" experiences with UFOs and improve air safety.\n\nAnd it says increased reports of encounters are indeed the result of \"a concentrated effort to destigmatise the topic of UAP and instead recognise the potential risks that it poses as both a safety of flight hazard and potential adversarial activity\", the report states.\n\nIt goes on to say that 171 sightings still remain \"uncharacterised and unattributed\" - meaning, not enough information was collected to effectively identify them.\n\n\"Some of these uncharacterised UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis,\" the report says.\n\nNone of the reports have been linked to any extra-terrestrial activity.\n\nThe reports are being examined by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), an office in the Pentagon created last year to review UAP incidents.\n\nThe AARO will focus on receiving and analysing incidents with unidentified phenomena and work with intelligence agencies to further assess those incidents, according to the new declassified document.\n\nLast month, the Pentagon's Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security told media: \"We have not seen anything that would lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin.\"\n\n\"I have not seen anything in those holdings to date that would suggest that there has been an alien visitation, an alien crash, or anything like that,\" added Ronald Moultrie.\n\nBut the effort continues to identify whether the remaining UFOs have earthly origins.\n\n\"In the absence of being able to resolve what something is, we assume that it may be hostile,\" he said. \"And so, we have to take that seriously.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Jennie Gow said she was \"desperate\" to make a full recovery from her stroke two weeks ago\n\nThe BBC sports broadcaster Jennie Gow has said she is recovering from a serious stroke.\n\nThe 45-year-old, who covers Formula 1 for Radio 5 Live, wrote on social media that she had been treated at hospitals in London and Surrey, and her recovery \"might take some time\".\n\nMs Gow said the stroke two weeks ago had affected her speech.\n\nDozens of fellow broadcasters and motorsport firms have tweeted messages of support.\n\nAnnouncing her condition on Twitter and Instagram, the presenter said: \"My husband is helping me type this, as I'm finding it hard to write and my speech is most affected.\n\n\"I'm desperate to make a full recovery and return to work.\n\n\"Thank you to the medical teams at Frimley and St George's, and my family and friends who've got me through the last fortnight.\"\n\nMs Gow has reported on motorsport events for the BBC and other broadcasters\n\nIn response, Formula 1 Racing tweeted: \"Thinking of you Jennie, and wishing you all the very best with your recovery.\"\n\nThe McLaren racing team said: \"The entire team sends their love and strength as we look forward to seeing you back in the paddock.\"\n\nBroadcasters Hazel Southwell, Laura Winter and Dan Walker are among those who have tweeted messages of sympathy.\n\nJennie Gow has covered Formula 1 and other motorsport events for the BBC, ITV, Netflix and Sky TV.\n\nThe Southampton-born presenter, who grew up in Wargrave, Berkshire, began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Solent before working for commercial radio stations in the south of England.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Lisa Marie Presley will be buried near her father and late son at the family's Tennessee estate, Graceland, according to a family representative.\n\nThe singer, who died after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest in her home Thursday, was 54 years old.\n\nShe was the only child of the \"King of Rock 'n' Roll\", Elvis Presley.\n\n\"Lisa Marie's final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son, Ben,\" a representative for her daughter said.\n\nPresley's son, Benjamin Keough, took his own life in August 2020 aged 27.\n\nIn one of her final posts on social media, Presley shared an essay she wrote for People Magazine about her struggle with grief after her son's death.\n\n\"I've dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I've had more than anyone's fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I've made it this far,\" she wrote. \"Death is part of life whether we like it or not — and so is grieving.\"\n\nShe is survived by three daughters - Riley Keough, an actress, and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood - and her mother, Priscilla.\n\nPresley became the sole heir to the Graceland estate and its 17,500 square foot mansion when she turned 25, according to the Graceland website.\n\nThe mansion is second only to the White House as the most visited home in the United States, according to the estate's website.\n\nDays before her death, she had visited Graceland to celebrate what would have been his 88th birthday on 8 January.\n\nFollowing the news of her death, well-wishers laid flowers and lit candles outside its gates.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of singing legend Elvis, has died\n\nLisa Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis, has died at the age of 54, her mother has said.\n\n\"It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,\" Priscilla Presley said.\n\nLisa Marie, also a singer, was rushed to hospital earlier on Thursday. US media said she suffered cardiac arrest.\n\n\"She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known,\" Priscilla said in a statement.\n\n\"We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss.\"\n\nHer mother gave no details about the possible cause of death.\n\nTMZ reported that the star was found unresponsive in her bedroom on Thursday morning. Her former husband Danny Keough, who also lives at the property, arrived and performed CPR, the site said.\n\nTributes soon poured in from fans and friends around the world.\n\nElvis and Priscilla Presley with Lisa Marie at just four days old in 1968\n\nActor Tom Hanks played her father's manager Col Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's 2022 biopic Elvis. On behalf of the couple, Hanks' wife Rita Wilson posted on Instagram that their hearts were \"broken\".\n\n\"Tom and I had spent some time with the family during the Elvis movie promotional tour. Lisa Marie was so honest and direct, vulnerable, in a state of anticipation about the movie,\" she wrote.\n\n\"She spoke so eloquently about her father, what the movie meant to her, that it was a celebration of her dad.\"\n\nLisa Marie was married to Michael Jackson in the 1990s\n\nLisa Marie Presley was last seen in public on Tuesday night at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.\n\nAccompanied by her mother, the pair were seen in tears as they watched the show, where Austin Butler won best actor in a film drama for his portrayal of her father in Luhrmann's movie.\n\nDuring an emotional speech, the actor thanked the Presley family for their help during the film.\n\n\"Thank you guys, thank you for opening your hearts, your memories, your home to me,\" Butler said. \"Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever.\"\n\nDays before her death, she had visited Graceland, the mansion owned by her father in Memphis, Tennessee, to celebrate what would have been his 88th birthday on 8 January.\n\nFollowing the news of Lisa Marie's death, well-wishers laid flowers and lit candles outside Graceland's gates.\n\nBorn in 1968, Lisa Marie followed in her father's footsteps and forged a career in music. The star released three albums, with her 2003 debut studio album selling hundreds of thousands of copies and receiving generally positive reviews.\n\nThe star was also well-known for a series of high-profile marriages to pop legend Michael Jackson, actor Nicolas Cage and musicians Keough and Michael Lockwood.\n\nShe had four children, including the actress Riley Keough. Presley's son, Benjamin Keough, killed himself in 2020.\n\nThe Presley family: Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Benjamin Keough in 2010\n\nLast August, Presley wrote an essay on grief for US publication People about \"the horrific reality\" of how she felt after her son's death.\n\n\"I've dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of nine years old,\" she wrote, referring to her age when Elvis died in 1977 from a heart attack when he was 42. \"I've had more than anyone's fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I've made it this far.\"\n\nThose paying tribute to her included LaToya Jackson, sister of Michael, who wrote on Twitter: \"I will never forget how much you shared the love you had for my brother with me, I thank you for being so honest #RIP.\"\n\nBaz Luhrmann's film Elvis is likely to be in the running for this year's Oscars\n\nSinger and actress Bette Midler said: \"So beautiful and only 54 years old; I can't actually comprehend it.\"\n\nGarbage singer Shirley Manson wrote that Lisa Marie was \"surprisingly sweet, fierce, generous, talented and painfully vulnerable\".\n\n\"I will treasure you always in my heart girl. Thank you for your kindness. May you now be granted peace,\" she added.\n\nBeach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson also paid tribute, saying it was \"hard to take when someone so young and full of life passes on\".\n\nUS pop star Pink described Presley as \"one of a kind\" and \"smart as a whip, sensitive [and] talented\", while Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin wrote a message referring to Priscilla.\n\n\"I had the chance to know Cilla Presley when I was on Dancing With the Stars and as a mother, I can't imagine the pain she must be going through with the untimely passing of Lisa Marie,\" she said.\n\nGrammy Award-winning songwriter Diane Warren expressed her sorrow at the \"horrible news\". The singer added that \"the entire world is sending love and prayers to Priscilla and Lisa Marie's children right now\".\n\nJohn Travolta said his \"heart goes out\" to the Presley family, writing: \"Lisa baby girl, I'm so sorry.\n\n\"I'll miss you but I know I'll see you again. My love and heart goes out to Riley, Priscilla, Harper and Finley.\"\n• None Who was the real Elvis Presley?", "Connor Chapman, 22, of no fixed address, appeared at Wirral Magistrates' Court\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Elle Edwards, who was shot at a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe 26-year-old beautician was shot in the head at about 23:50 GMT while celebrating Christmas with friends at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village.\n\nConnor Chapman, 22, of no fixed address, appeared at Wirral Magistrates' Court for the hearing.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday.\n\nMr Chapman was also charged with:\n\nAll of those charges relate to the incident on 24 December.\n\nMr Chapman, who has long hair and wore a grey tracksuit, was also charged with handling stolen goods, namely a Mercedes A Class car, between 22 and 26 December.\n\nIn an initial court appearance lasting about three minutes, he spoke in court only to confirm his name, date of birth and that he was of no fixed address.\n\nA 23-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender was released on bail pending further inquiries, Merseyside Police said.\n\nThe 26-year-old beautician died shortly before midnight on 24 December\n\nPaying tribute after his daughter's death, Tim Edwards said she was \"the most beautiful and bright star\".\n\nMs Edwards was described as \"the glue that held this big family together\".\n\n\"Everyone that met Elle knew how special she was.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry May's defence counsel said the 21-year-old \"cares deeply about his local community\"\n\nA man has been fined after pleading guilty to throwing an egg towards King Charles III during a walkabout.\n\nHarry May, 21, was charged with a public order offence after the royal visit to Luton on 6 December.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard that May, from Moreton Road South in Luton, thought the monarch's visit to the \"poor area\" was in \"bad taste\".\n\nThe defendant - who gave his full name as Harry Spartacus May - was fined £100 and ordered to pay £85 in costs.\n\nThe King was initially steered away from crowds outside Luton Town Hall by protection officers, but continued his visit shortly afterwards.\n\nProsecutor Jason Seetal said police had detained May after seeing him hurl a projectile that landed on the ground near the King as he spoke with members of the public.\n\nThe King was ushered away from the crowd by protection officers while meeting members of the public in Luton\n\nMay was charged with using threatening/abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nMr Seetal said that when officers interviewed him, May told them \"he did this because he believed the King visiting a town like Luton, which is a deprived and poor area, was in bad taste and he wanted to make a point of this\".\n\nMay sat in the dock wearing glasses and a navy jacket and remained expressionless as the facts were read out to the court.\n\nHis defence lawyer Alex Benn told the court their client \"deeply regrets\" his actions and \"accepts he now has to face the consequences\".\n\nThey described him as a \"committed and family-oriented person\" who \"cares deeply about his local community\".\n\nAddressing May, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said: \"Whatever disagreement you have with somebody, the way to resolve it is not to throw projectiles at them.\"\n\nHarry May pictured outside Luton Magistrates' Court earlier this week\n\nMr Goldspring rejected a claim from May's mother that he \"was not really aware\" hurling an object in the direction of a public figure may cause them \"fear\" but accepted that he expressed regret.\n\nHe added: \"I also accept you weren't trying to hit His Majesty with the egg. But you planned it and you planned to do it again, otherwise why take two?\n\n\"You targeted somebody. It doesn't matter the reasons why.\"\n\nThe King also spoke to volunteers at a soup kitchen during his visit to Luton\n\nThe King also had a ride on Luton Airport's new DART shuttle\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adidas has lost a court case to try to stop a fashion designer from using a four-stripe design.\n\nThe sportswear giant argued that luxury brand Thom Browne Inc's four stripes were too similar to its three stripes.\n\nBrowne argued that shoppers were unlikely to confuse the two brands as - among other reasons - his had a different number of stripes.\n\nAdidas had planned to ask for more than $7.8m (£6.4m) in damages - but a jury in New York sided with Browne.\n\nAs well as a Thom Browne cardigan, former Bournemouth manager Scott Parker also wore a blazer by the designer\n\nBrowne's designs often feature four horizontal, parallel stripes, encircling the arm of a garment or - as frequently seen on the creator himself - a sock.\n\nAdidas' designs often see three stripes.\n\nBrowne's legal team portrayed him as the underdog taking on a huge corporation, and argued the two brands served different customers.\n\nSportswear does not dominate Thom Browne Inc's creations and its output is aimed at wealthy customers - for example, a pair of women's compression leggings cost £680, while a polo shirt goes for £270.\n\nBrowne's lawyers also argued that stripes are a common design.\n\nWhile Adidas launched legal action in 2021, the battle between the two companies dates back more than 15 years.\n\nIn 2007, Adidas complained that Thom Browne was using a three-stripe design on jackets. Browne agreed to stop using it and added a fourth stripe.\n\nSince then Thom Browne Inc has expanded rapidly and is now sold in more than 300 locations worldwide, and in recent years has been creating more athletics wear.\n\nThe brand has a diverse fan base. It designed rapper Cardi B's outfit for the 2019 Met Gala, while former professional footballer and Bournemouth manager Scott Parker sported one of its cardigans and a blazer to matches.\n\nA spokesperson for Adidas said the company was disappointed but will \"continue to vigilantly enforce our intellectual property, including filing any appropriate appeals\".\n\nA spokesperson for Thom Browne Inc said the company was pleased with the outcome. Speaking to the Associated Press, the designer said he hoped the case would inspire others whose work is challenged by larger companies.\n\n\"It was important to fight and tell my story,\" he said.\n\nDocuments used in the case showed that Adidas has launched more than 90 court battles and signed more than 200 settlement agreements since 2008 related to its trademark.\n\nDesigner Thom Browne wore his signature look of suit shorts and a sock bearing his four-stripe design, to court in New York", "One politician has called for better communication from the Home Office over its treatment of asylum seekers and where they are placed\n\nA luxury north Wales hotel which has been used to house asylum seekers for the past two months will reopen as a holiday destination in early February.\n\nThe Home Office used the rural hotel to ease pressures at overcrowded detention centres in Kent.\n\nOn social media, the hotel said it would \"welcome guests back\" from 6 February.\n\nThe Home Office which is responsible for accommodating asylum seekers said the use of hotels was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn November, the hotel's operators said it was being used by the Home Office which prompted angry responses from politicians in Aberconwy, with Conservative MP Robin Millar saying it was \"isolated and unsupported by the appropriate services\".\n\nOn its social media account, the hotel, which the BBC is not naming for safeguarding reasons, said \"we're excited to get started on a new chapter\".\n\n\"Thank you for your endless support, we're really excited to welcome you back again soon.\"\n\nOn social media, Mr Millar said: \"This will come as a big relief to many here in Aberconwy.\n\n\"I want to thank residents in particular for their patience and understanding.\n\n\"The public services, the school, Conwy council, the health board and local GPs and the police have all done a terrific job - much of it quietly behind the scenes - to make sure the asylum seekers were cared for while they were with us.\n\n\"It's been a difficult and unsettling few weeks, but everyone has played their part.\"\n\nIn a statement, Janet Finch-Saunders Conservative MS for Aberconwy was still critical of the Home Office.\n\n\"We learnt through rumour that the asylum seekers were arriving... and now we learn through rumour that they are going.\n\n\"It is clear that there remains a real need for the Home Office's communication to improve.\n\nConwy council has been supporting people who were placed at the hotel\n\n\"I hope that the asylum seekers who were placed in this most inappropriate of locations have now had their applications processed.\"\n\nThe Welsh Refugee Council said: \"Housing asylum seekers in hotels, in areas with little service provision available to them, is not an ideal situation.\n\n\"The broader problem is that the Home Office backlog is stopping asylum cases being assessed quickly, and is therefore creating a delay on properties being freed up.\"\n\nIt added people were waiting too long in the system and the Home Office \"urgently\" needed to speed up assessing cases.\n\nThe Home Office said the use of hotels was temporary solution and that it was taking immediate action to bring the asylum backlog down.\n\nA Home Office said: \"The number of people arriving in the UK who require accommodation has reached record levels and has put our asylum system under incredible strain.\n\n\"The use of hotels to house asylum seekers is unacceptable - there are currently more than 45,500 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer £5.6m a day.\"\n\nThey said they work with local authorities whenever sites are used as asylum accommodation to make sure arrangements are safe for hotel residents and local people.", "Karine Jean-Pierre is being questioned on why the Biden administration did not disclose publicly that a second batch of classified files had been found in his Delaware home until today.\n\nShe directs questions towards the Department of Justice, but says a search for further material has now been completed.\n\nJean-Pierre says the decision was made to share the information with the public after the search was finished.", "A wave of 18 new strike days are planned across 150 UK universities in February and March, the University and College Union has announced.\n\nIt said a pay offer worth between 4-5% made during talks with employers this week was not enough.\n\nBut UCEA, which represents university employers, says the offer made is worth up to 7%.\n\nUCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady said the \"clock is now ticking\" for a deal to be reached.\n\nIt comes after the government announced tuition fees in England will be frozen for another two years.\n\n\"Today our union came together to back an unprecedented programme of escalating strike action. The clock is now ticking for the sector to produce a deal or be hit with widespread disruption throughout spring,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nUniversity employers, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) say the offer on the table \"recognises that cost-of-living pressures fall disproportionately on the lower paid staff\".\n\nUCEA chief executive Raj Jethwa said a proportion of the award on offer was being offered from February.\n\n\"This is six months early as a direct response to current cost of living concerns,\" he said.\n\nUCEA said its offer would mean an increase of up to 7%, with a minimum of 5% for anyone earning up to £51,000.\n\n\"The fact that UCU is not calling indefinite strike action is welcome, but their revised strike plans could still have a damaging impact on students. UCU needs to provide its members with a realistic and fair assessment of what is achievable, \" Mr Jethwa said.\n\nThe UCU said it would confirm the precise dates of strike action by the 70,000 academics and university support staff next week.\n\nAs part of the stepping up of its industrial action the union also said it would re-ballot members.\n\nThat would allow it to comply with the law on industrial disputes and open the way for it to call more strikes later in the year.\n\nPay and working conditions are the issues affecting every university caught up in the dispute.\n\nThe 3% pay increase this year is far below the rising cost of living, and the union said an offer of 4-5% tabled at a meeting yesterday was also not enough.\n\nMany staff are also protesting at the use of short term insecure contracts at universities.\n\nAt the older universities - in existence before 1992 - there is also a separate dispute about proposed changes to the pension scheme.\n\nFor students the strikes mean more disruption to their courses, after many have already had their studies compromised by remote learning during the pandemic.\n\nSo far the National Union of Students has been broadly supportive of the industrial action. The BBC has contacted NUS for comment.\n\nUniversity staff previously held three days of strikes in November, in a dispute that has included calls for action to tackle \"excessive workloads\" resulting in hours of \"unpaid work\".\n\nAcademic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians have taken part in the strikes.", "Lesley Weekley believes he husband Rob could still be alive today if an ambulance had been sent sooner\n\nA woman who called 999 six times as her husband suffered a fatal heart attack said she was told he would have survived if paramedics had been sent after her first call.\n\nRob Weekley, 75, died about four hours after his wife, Lesley, first called 999 in the early hours of 4 January.\n\n\"The paramedic said that night, 'had we have come out after your first call he'd have survived',\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was not the service it wished to provide.\n\nLesley, 73, who works as a receptionist at the intensive care unit at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, said the couple, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, were walking their dog when Rob complained of feeling like his \"lunch was sitting on his chest\".\n\nThe discomfort returned the following day but they put off going to A&E because of waiting times, Lesley said.\n\nRob Weekley was \"full of life\" and \"always positive\"\n\nThe night he died, he woke her asking for indigestion tablets.\n\n\"He was almost incoherent icy cold, sweaty and clammy and I couldn't understand what he was saying and I gave him the tablets and he just laid on the bed and straight away I phoned 999,\" she said.\n\n\"He was conscious at the time, still sort of slurring his words, but he was roaring, holding his head, trying to fight off the feeling... writhing on the floor.\"\n\nAfter calling 999, she said she was first told to give Rob four aspirin to suck on, but then later was told not to give him aspirin.\n\n\"The fact that they told me to give him aspirin they must have thought it was a heart problem,\" she said.\n\nLesley says her husband first felt discomfort in his chest when they were out walking their dog Booze\n\nShe said she could not feel a pulse, but Rob was still breathing, a concern she raised three times with ambulance staff, which she said she thought should have set \"alarm bells ringing\".\n\n\"They didn't say, 'we'll get the ambulance out straightaway'. [They said] 'if he deteriorates, phone us back'.\"\n\nDuring her sixth call to 999 Rob stopped breathing.\n\nRob was an architect who sang with the London Welsh male voice choir\n\nShe started doing CPR, continuing as best she could until an ambulance arrived after about 20 minutes.\n\nBut she said towards the end she \"wasn't doing it properly because my arms were so tired and I was sweating\".\n\nShe said the paramedics were \"just amazing\" trying to revive Rob, but stopped at about 04:45.\n\nLesley said through her work in the hospital she had seen staff and a system under \"extreme\" pressure.\n\nShe said she wanted someone to \"sit up and take notice that we are not just statistics, we are loving families\" and called for something \"drastic\" to be done.\n\nRob and Lesley lived in a flat in Barry\n\nLiam Williams, the executive director of quality and nursing at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: \"We are really sorry to hear about such a distressing incident, and we send our deepest condolences to Mrs Weekley and her family.\n\n\"This is not the service we aim to deliver, and we know that this must have been a very upsetting and traumatic experience.\"\n\n\"We will be contacting Mrs Weekley to listen to her concerns, investigate the circumstances of our response and to answer any questions she may have.\"", "Cromarty Firth is one of two Scottish sites chosen to host a green freeport\n\nSites at Cromarty Firth and the Forth have been selected to host Scotland's first green freeports.\n\nThe winning bids were revealed in a joint announcement by the UK and Scottish governments.\n\nThe special economic zones north of the border are being created under a scheme agreed by the two governments.\n\nThe successful applicants will be able to offer tax incentives and lower tariffs in the zones.\n\nA total of five bids for green freeport status were submitted, with North East Scotland, Orkney and Clyde missing out.\n\nEach had to set out how they would regenerate their area, create high-quality jobs and support transition to a net-zero economy.\n\nThe Forth Green Freeport bid was led by Forth Ports, which owns and operates seven ports on the east coast of Scotland.\n\nForth Ports said the freeport had the potential to create up to 50,000 new, high-quality jobs in renewable energy, manufacturing, sustainable fuels and construction.\n\nIts activities will focus on renewables, advanced manufacturing, alternative fuels, carbon capture utilisation and storage, shipbuilding, logistics and the creative industries.\n\nThe Opportunity Cromarty Firth consortium - backed by Port of Cromarty Firth, Global Energy Group, Highland Resources and Port of Inverness - said it could create 25,000 jobs.\n\nThe Inverness and Cromarty Firth bid aims to build a \"world-beating\" floating offshore wind manufacturing sector, with sites in the Cromarty Firth, Invergordon, Nigg and Inverness.\n\nAlso called free trade zones, freeports are designated areas where the normal tax and tariff rules of the country in which they are based do not apply.\n\nThey allow goods to be imported, manufactured and re-exported without being subject to checks, paperwork, or import taxes, known as tariffs.\n\nThis means raw materials can be imported, then engineered into whole products for export.\n\nTypically, companies operating in a zone receive tax waivers or tax breaks on National Insurance contributions, Land and Buildings Transactions Tax, business rates and capital allowances.\n\nThe Scottish \"green freeport\" model includes commitments to meeting net zero targets and supporting fair work practices.\n\nThe UK government has committed funding of £52m to the project and bidders had to pledge to reach net zero by 2045.\n\nScotland's deputy first minister, John Swinney, described the creation of green freeports as a \"milestone achievement\".\n\nHe said: \"Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport and Forth Green Freeport will support businesses to create high-quality, well-paid new jobs, promote growth and regeneration, and make a significant contribution to achieving our net zero ambitions.\n\n\"The successful applicants showed a strong determination to embed fair work practices, including payment of the Real Living Wage, and to enshrine net zero initiatives in their work.\"\n\nThe UK government's Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said the green freeports would \"undoubtedly be transformative for future generations\".\n\nHe added: \"Inverness and Cromarty Firth and the Firth of Forth are fantastic areas for these new green freeports to set up, ensuring the benefits are felt right across Scotland.\n\n\"This will help to create exciting new jobs, boost business and encourage investment in the local areas and beyond.\"\n\nThe Forth Green Freeport bid aims to deliver up to an additional 50,000 jobs across the UK\n\nThere was disappointment among backers of the failed bids.\n\nGlasgow Chamber of Commerce said: \"Overlooking Scotland's entire west coast risks making both the UK government's Levelling Up strategy and delivery of the Scottish government's commitment to a Clyde Mission extremely challenging\".\n\nMeanwhile, Peterhead Port Authority chief executive Simon Brebner said he was \"baffled\" that the north east had missed out, and called for a third green freeport to be created.\n\nScottish Renewables said it was pleased that the freeports would have green energy as a focus.\n\nIts head of energy transition and supply chain, Emma Harrick, said they would \"help Scotland compete on the international stage as offshore wind develops to become the mainstay of electricity generation in the UK\".\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments were previously unable to agree plans to establish freeports north of the border, after a number of sites were announced for England.\n\nScottish ministers later said they would pursue an alternative \"green freeport\" model, with additional standards around jobs and climate targets.\n\nThe SNP's partners in government - the Scottish Greens - do not support the freeports, arguing they are likely to result in \"greenwashing\" rather than genuine action on sustainability.\n\nGreens MSP Ross Greer described freeports as a \"Thatcherite gimmick\" and voiced concern about potential abuse by criminals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"We've consistently across the world seen freeports attract a lot of criminal activity, particularly money laundering and smuggling, because of the customs arrangements that are in place for them, because they are about deregulation, they are about making it 'easier', particularly for international trade.\"\n\nPaul Swinney, director of policy research for think tank Centre for Cities, said it remained to be seen how much impact the new freeports would have.\n\nHe said: \"With freeports, the government has dressed it up as saying we are going to make them into centres of innovation and hotbeds of new ideas.\n\n\"But the reality is that the tools that are that on offer make these schemes very attractive to low-skilled businesses rather than high-skilled businesses.\"", "Police cordons remain in place near the scene\n\nA dog walker was mauled to death after being set upon while out walking a group of dogs in rural Surrey.\n\nThe 28-year-old woman, from London, was attacked in Caterham just before 14:45 GMT on Thursday.\n\nA second woman who received treatment for dog bites has since been discharged from hospital.\n\nPolice said eight dogs were seized at the scene by officers and the owners of these dogs had been identified and were being kept informed of investigations.\n\nThe dogs were not believed to be banned breeds and the second woman was not thought to be linked to the woman who died, police said.\n\nOfficers investigating the attack have erected a cordon in the Gravelly Hill area, which is a quiet rural community.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nInsp Lyndsey Whatley said: \"I would like to reassure residents that we are confident all the dogs involved are in the custody of police whilst we investigate the circumstances of what has happened.\"\n\nEast Surrey MP Claire Coutinho said her thoughts were with the loved ones of the woman who died.\n\nShe said: \"Thank you to the paramedics for their efforts at the scene, and officers from Surrey Police who controlled the situation so quickly.\"\n\nForensic work was being carried out on Friday as investigators tried to establish how the tragic events unfolded on Thursday.\n\nA heavy police presence was being maintained at Gravelly Hill where a woman in her 20s lost her life and another was left needing hospital treatment.\n\nIt is apparent the investigation is being carried out at pace, with police telling reporters at a briefing that all the owners of the dogs involved have been identified.\n\nAnd they were keen to offer reassurance to the local community that they were confident all the dogs involved had now been seized.\n\nThe area is within a quiet, rural setting with properties set within large grounds, and locals have expressed shock at the tragedy.\n\nThe woman who was attacked by the dog is yet to be named, but Surrey Police said her next of kin had been informed.\n\nCh Insp Alan Sproston said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the woman who sadly died.\n\n\"This incident will be concerning to the local community and I would like to reassure them that we believe all dogs have been accounted for and are in police custody.\n\n\"Our investigation to establish the circumstances of the incident remains ongoing and we would ask the community not to speculate.\"\n\nRichard Bream, who runs the nearby Mardens Kennels, said he had never heard of a dog attack in the area before.\n\nHe said: \"That particular area, View Point, is an area where professional dog walkers will turn up in their van and take the dogs out and walk them.\n\n\"I've always felt you see some of these dog walkers have five or six, and they shouldn't be able to do that.\"\n\nA woman walking a border collie past one of the police cordons, who asked not to be named, said she was shocked by the incident.\n\nShe said: \"It's a nice circular woodland walk and we've never had any issues before. It is so shocking. Normal dogs surely wouldn't do that.\"\n\nTandridge District Council leader Catherine Sayer said: \"It's just a terrible, tragic incident. Obviously, our thoughts are with the family of the young woman who died and we very much hope for a quick recovery for the woman who was injured.\"\n\nTalks are planned at the authority about the council's response to the attack, and it will be discussed at a meeting of the community services committee on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Brown had denied murdering Leah Ware, 33, from Hastings, East Sussex, and Alexandra Morgan, 34, from Sissinghurst, Kent\n\nA builder who murdered two women and was described as \"pure evil\" has been jailed.\n\nMark Brown, 41, of St Leonards, East Sussex, killed Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware, who went missing six months apart in 2021.\n\nBrown, who never revealed what happened to Ms Ware, killed Ms Morgan and burned her body in a converted oil drum.\n\nHe was given two life sentences, to be served concurrently, and told he would spend a minimum of 49 years in prison.\n\nAfter Brown was convicted of murdering the two women in December, Mr Justice Nicholas Hilliard said he had been considering sentencing him to a whole-life term.\n\nThe judge had told the court if Brown wished to confirm what he had done with Ms Ware's body, that would be something he would take into consideration ahead of sentencing.\n\nJudge Hilliard, who sentenced Brown in his absence after he refused to come to the court, said: \"No sentence I pass is any measure of the lives lost. Nothing can put right what the defendant has done, that is not possible.\n\n\"His conscience is untroubled by what he has done.\"\n\nSpeaking outside Hove Crown Court following the verdict, Det Ch Insp Neil Kimber from Kent Police and Det Ch Insp Andy Wolstenholme from Sussex Police said they had contacted Brown's solicitors and tried to visit him in prison to ask him what he did with Ms Ware's remains, but to no avail.\n\nWhen asked what they made of Brown's decision not to attend the sentencing, Det Ch Insp Wolstenholme said: \"Mark Brown is a man who needs to be in control.\n\n\"I think perhaps this is one of the final vestiges of him trying to retain some control or trying to assert some authority over the people involved in these proceedings.\n\n\"I think it's a sign of what a repulsive person he really is.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Kimber added: \"Mark Brown didn't like to hear a bad word said about him. This is about responsibility and he didn't want to take it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Leah Ware's mother, Rebecca Martin, says is desperate for Brown to tell her where her daughter is\n\nBefore the judge passed down his sentence, the court heard a victim impact statement from Ms Ware's mother, Rebecca Martin.\n\nShe said: \"He [Brown] continues to extend his sadistic torture of our family's life by not telling us what happened to her.\n\n\"She lost her life because Mark Brown wanted to gratify his depraved desires.\n\n\"He controlled and manipulated every aspect of her life and then when he had had enough, he discarded her like a piece of dirt.\"\n\nMs Ware's cousin Alice Barnard told the court: \"She was always the cheeky bubbly bigger cousin.\n\n\"The saddest part was that she did not know that the man she loved was pure evil.\n\n\"He had committed the worst crimes known to man and he does not deserve to walk the streets again.\"\n\nMark Brown had murdered the two women, a jury decided in December\n\nThe court also heard from Alex Morgan's parents, who said: \"She was bright and energetic, with a determination to succeed.\"\n\n\"She had challenges but she was overcoming them and had hopes for her future with her two children who she adored.\"\n\nBrown, a father of one who had a long-term partner, met both of his victims on an escort website.\n\nHe has always maintained that he does not know where Ms Ware is, and that she is still alive.\n\nHe had claimed that in November 2021 Ms Morgan had slipped and fallen on a tool or piece of mechanical equipment in a workshop he was renting at Little Bridge Farm, near Hastings, hitting her head.\n\nHe told the court there was \"a lot of blood\", and he was convinced she had died. He then burned her body in a oil drum he had adapted.\n\nThe jury was told Brown had sent a message saying: \"It happened again, not very long ago when disposing of something.\n\n\"It's a very unpleasant thing to do - an old oil drum, five litres of diesel, and hey presto, there's not very much left.\"\n\nHis message, which was read out at the start of the trial, continued: \"The things I have done weigh heavily on my heart, on my head and my soul. A psychopath with a conscience - it's a joke really.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Brown had previously told his boss that he expected to be arrested\n\nBrown was working at a building site in Sevenoaks, Kent, when police launched an inquiry into Ms Morgan's disappearance.\n\nAfter discovering that Ms Ware had been in a relationship with Brown, police decided they wanted to speak to her about Ms Morgan. It was then they discovered she had not been seen since May 2021.\n\nShe had also met Brown through her escort work, but had moved to Little Bridge Farm after being in a relationship with him for about three years.\n\nWhile searching Brown's van, Kent Police officers found prescription drugs in Ms Ware's name.\n\nMs Ware, who did not have custody of her three children, lived at the farm with her two dogs, Duke and Lady, to whom she was devoted.\n\nBrown killed her on or around 7 May 2021 after tensions grew when she pressed him to leave his partner of 14 years, the jury was told.\n\nIn the days immediately after the prosecution say she died, Duke was rehomed with Brown's sister.\n\nLady, a Pomeranian, has not been seen since, although remains of a Pomeranian dog were found in a pond at the farm with a weight tied to its lead.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Members of the EIS union have been campaigning for a 10% pay rise\n\nTeacher strikes will go ahead in Scotland on Monday after a deadline passed for a new pay offer to be made.\n\nThe Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said an improved deal was needed to prevent planned action going ahead.\n\nUnions, councils and the Scottish government met on Thursday afternoon but no new offer was tabled.\n\nTeaching unions have rejected a 5% pay increase, arguing for 10%. The latest offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nThe Scottish government and councils have said a 10% rise is unaffordable and the education secretary urged teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\nA fresh round of strikes will begin on Monday.\n\nAny new deal would need to be agreed by all 32 council leaders. They are currently not due to meet for two weeks.\n\nEarlier this week all four unions representing teachers and headteachers walked out together for the first time.\n\nIt involved members of the EIS, Scotland's largest teaching union, the NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes (AHDS) unions.\n\nThe EIS said it was \"disappointed\" and its national executive committee would meet on Friday to consider next steps.\n\nGeneral secretary Andrea Bradley said: \"Despite their warm words over the past week, the Scottish government and Cosla have again failed to come to the table with a new pay offer to Scotland's teachers.\n\n\"Our members are not prepared to accept the repeatedly reheated sub-inflationary offer that has now been sitting around for six months, and that is neither fair nor affordable for teachers.\n\n\"In the absence of an improved offer, our members will continue with strike action from Monday of next week, in their struggle for fair pay.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said meetings which took place this week had provided \"a crucial opportunity\" to further discuss potential areas for agreement.\n\nShe said: \"There is a shared understanding that these latest talks are focused on examining options for compromise, rather than tabling a new offer at this time.\n\n\"While talks are ongoing, the Scottish government continues to urge the teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\n\"Strikes in our schools are in no one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to a fair and sustainable pay deal.\"\n\nLocal authority group Cosla it was there continued to be in proactive discussions.\n\nCosla spokesperson, Councillor Katie Hagmann, said \"Strikes in education are in nobody's interest.\n\n\"All parties are eager to seek a resolution that not only protects the teaching and wider local government workforce, but also our children and young people's educational experience.\"\n\nHowever she reiterated that the 10% pay rise asked for by unions remained unaffordable.\n\nWithout movement on an offer, a 16-day programme of regional strikes will begin on Monday.\n\nSchools in Glasgow and East Lothian will be targeted on the first day of the campaign with strike action then continuing on a rolling basis within two authorities each day.\n\nIt follows strikes this week that closed almost every primary school in Scotland on Tuesday, and every secondary school on Wednesday.\n\nPreliminary exams due to take place had to be rescheduled for some pupils.\n\nIt was a great disappointment to the teachers unions that no new pay offer was put to them today. But it was, probably, no great surprise.\n\nIt had become apparent that the gulf between what the unions want and what council and the Scottish government say they can afford remains wide.\n\nAny new pay offer would need to be agreed by Scotland's 32 council leaders before it could be formalised.\n\nTheir next meeting is not due for another fortnight.\n\nThe unions will be hopeful the new offer will come before then. But will that new offer, when it comes, be enough to lead to the suspension of strikes and even settle the dispute?", "No rare earths are currently mined in Europe, and nearly all of the EU's supply comes from China\n\nEurope's largest deposit of rare earths - which are used from mobile phones to missiles - has been found in Sweden.\n\nNo rare earths are mined in Europe at the moment and a Swedish minister hailed the find as a way of reducing the EU's dependence on China.\n\nThe discovery is also being seen as \"decisive\" for the green transition, given the expected rise in demand for electric vehicles and wind turbines.\n\nSome 98% of rare earths used in the EU in 2021 were imported from China.\n\nOver one million tonnes are reported to have now been found in Sweden's far north.\n\nAlthough significant, that is a fraction of the world's 120-million-tonne reserves, according to a US estimate.\n\nThe term rare earth refers to a group of 17 elements that are used to make a range of products and infrastructure which are increasingly important to everyday life.\n\nThey can be found in mobiles, hard drives and trains. But they are also important for green technology including wind turbines and electric vehicles. Some are essential for military equipment like missile guidance systems.\n\nExtraction is both difficult and potentially damaging to the environment.\n\nDemand for them is expected to increase fivefold by 2030.\n\n\"Lithum and rare earths will soon be more important than oil and gas,\" the EU's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said last year.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Thursday, Swedish Energy Minister Ebba Busch said the EU was \"way too dependent on other countries for these materials\" and insisted a change was needed.\n\n\"Electrification, the EU's self-sufficiency and independence from Russia and China will begin in the mine,\" she asserted.\n\nThe newly discovered raw materials may not reach the market before 10-15 years' time, the LKAB mining company's CEO Jan Mostrom said. Permitting processes take time due to environmental risk evaluations.\n\nBut Mr Mostrom called on authorities to speed up the process, \"to ensure increased mining of this type of raw material in Europe\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Have you read your brother's book?\" - The royals give no comment to a reporter's question\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have made their first public engagement since the Duke of Sussex's controversial memoirs went on sale.\n\nWilliam and Catherine waved to well-wishers as they officially opened Royal Liverpool University Hospital.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography Spare became the fastest selling non-fiction book in history.\n\nThe book includes stories of a fraught relationship between Prince Harry and his elder brother.\n\nOn arriving at the hospital entrance, the couple did not respond when a reporter asked: \"Were you hurt by the comments in Harry's book, sir?\"\n\nAn 81-year-old woman attending an appointment grasped the prince's hand and said: \"Keep going Will, Scousers love you\", to which he responded: \"I will do.\"\n\nThe royal couple were greeted by well-wishers as they visited Liverpool\n\nThe prince and princess later met staff at the hospital, which has become the biggest British hospital to provide all in-patients with ensuite rooms.\n\nStaff member Nikki Langley, who works in administration, was left overjoyed when a smiling William posed for a selfie with her and three colleagues, the five all crowding into the image.\n\nA few minutes later she asked Kate for a picture and the princess joked: \"I'm going to be told off by William.\"\n\nThe 646-bed venue became operational in autumn, taking over from the old Liverpool Royal Hospital.\n\nIt was delayed by five years - partly due to the collapse of construction firm Carillion - with costs spiralling from £335m to an estimated £1bn-plus.\n\nThe Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared together after the Queen's death\n\nRecently, more than 30 senior medics at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital wrote in a letter that they were \"ashamed and demoralised\" by the standards they could provide in the new A&E.\n\nThey described it as \"overcrowded, chaotic and unpleasant\".\n\nThe NHS trust that runs the site said it had made positive progress since the letter, which was dated in November.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography includes claims the Prince of Wales physically attacked Harry and teased him about his panic attacks, and that the King put his own interests above Harry's and was jealous of the Duchess of Sussex and the Princess of Wales.\n\nThe autobiography sold more than 1.4 million copies on its release date on Tuesday, a new record according to its publisher Penguin Random House.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The actor has starred in several blockbuster films\n\nUS actor Ezra Miller has pleaded guilty to unlawfully trespassing at a neighbour's house, as part of a plea deal to avoid going to prison.\n\nThe Fantastic Beasts and Justice League star had faced a trial and possible jail time for a burglary charge, which has now been dropped.\n\nMiller, 30, appeared in court in Bennington, Vermont, on Friday.\n\nThe star will now be on probation for a year, must pay a $500 (£410) fine and must give up alcohol.\n\nMiller, who uses they/them pronouns, will also have to do random drug tests and continue seeking mental health treatment.\n\nThey were accused of breaking into a house near where they lived and stealing bottles of alcohol from the kitchen last May.\n\nThe actor, who plays the Flash in DC Comics films, originally pleaded not guilty to burglary and larceny as well as trespassing, but the former two charges have been dropped in exchange for a guilty plea to the latter.\n\nIn a statement, Miller's lawyer told US media: \"Ezra Miller pled guilty this morning to a misdemeanour unlawful trespass in Vermont Superior Court and accepted the conditions imposed by the court.\n\n\"Ezra would like to thank the court and the community for their trust and patience throughout this process, and would once again like to acknowledge the love and support they have received from their family and friends, who continue to be a vital presence in their ongoing mental health.\"\n\nThe actor has been involved in a string of high-profile incidents and controversies, including being arrested twice in Hawaii in 2022.\n\nThey were later charged with disorderly conduct and harassment and second-degree assault.\n\nThey pled no contest to the assault charge and paid a $500 (£442) fine and $30 (£26) in court costs. The harassment charge was later dismissed.\n\nThe actor is still set to star in Warner Bros' The Flash, the superhero's first solo film, which is due to come out later this year.", "Energy bills could fall further than previously forecast later this year, easing pressure on struggling households, new projections suggest.\n\nLess generous government help means a typical household gas and electricity bill is expected to rise from £2,500 a year to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nBut falling wholesale gas prices mean annual bills could fall below this from July, says finance firm Investec.\n\nIt predicts customers will be paying £2,478 a year from that point.\n\nIt's a marked reduction from recent forecasts by energy consultancy Cornwall Insight, which suggested that bills would settle at about £2,800 a year in the summer.\n\nInvestec said warmer weather and higher gas storage levels had helped bring down gas prices in recent months.\n\nInvestec analyst Martin Young wrote that this will feed through to the government's price cap, which sets a maximum limit that suppliers can charge households per unit of energy.\n\nMr Young expects this to fall to £2,478 in July and then £2,546 in October.\n\nIf either prediction proves to be correct, then the bill paid by 26 million households would again be governed by regulator Ofgem's price cap, rather than the government's energy price guarantee, which was originally introduced in October in a bid to protect bill-payers from soaring costs.\n\nThat would ultimately mean a lower-than-expected cost to the government, and ultimately taxpayers.\n\nBut even if the weather stays relatively mild over January and February, household bills wold still be much higher than they were before the pandemic.\n\nThey are unlikely to fall back to that level for many years, after prices spiked following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and as industry recovered from coronavirus-related lockdowns.\n\nMost households in the UK are on a variable or default gas and electricity tariff. The price per unit of energy is capped in England, Wales and Scotland at what is considered an appropriate level by the energy regulator Ofgem. The cap is set every three months.\n\nHuge costs faced by suppliers meant that would have left a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity paying £4,279 a year from the start of January.\n\nSo, the government stepped in to cover some of that cost for people across the UK. Its Energy Price Guarantee means the typical household pays £2,500 a year now, rising to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nThat is still a massive hike on the bills people had been accustomed to. In the winter of 2021-22, the typical annual bill was £1,277.\n\nThe government has also introduced extra cost-of-living payments to help less well-off households with soaring prices.\n\nAlthough bills are extremely high, the wholesale prices paid by suppliers - in advance of selling it on to consumers - have been tumbling.\n\nIf these lower wholesale prices hold, then customers could see the benefit later in the year, both Investec and Cornwall Insight predict.\n\nHowever, this is far from certain as global tensions could quickly push prices up again.", "L'Oréal committed to phasing out PFAS in 2018 but still continues to use these chemicals in some products\n\nMajor beauty brands Urban Decay, Revolution and Inglot are selling make-up in the UK containing \"forever chemicals\", BBC News has found.\n\nThese pollutants - known as PFAS - have been linked to serious health concerns including cancer.\n\nThey are not illegal in the UK but five European countries are expected to propose an EU-wide ban on Friday.\n\nUrban Decay's owner L'Oréal, Revolution and Inglot told the BBC they were phasing out the chemicals.\n\nPFAS, which stands for poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, are resistant to oil and water, making them highly valuable to the make-up industry.\n\nHistorically they have been added to products to make them last longer, improve finish and preserve the colour of eyeshadows and lipsticks.\n\nMany brands are now \"PFAS-free\" because of the increasing evidence of the negative environmental and health impacts from these compounds.\n\nBut a BBC News investigation into the UK cosmetics market has identified dozens of products being sold in the UK still containing these toxic chemicals.\n\nHigh levels of exposure have been associated with cancer, birth defects and thyroid issues.\n\nResearch remains ongoing to determine the impacts from lower levels of exposure - such as in make-up - but scientists and politicians are concerned even at these levels because PFAS can build up in the environment.\n\nThese substances contain strong bonds which cannot be broken down naturally, so as more products are used and disposed of e.g. by washing make-up off, PFAS begin to accumulate in rivers, soil and have even been detected in human blood.\n\nStudies exposing animals in labs to PFAS found they caused birth defects, damaged livers and newborn deaths. Most of these studies have so far tested doses at higher levels than those usually found in the environment.\n\nProf. Miriam Diamond, an environmental chemist at Toronto University, whose lab has previously looked at contamination in US cosmetics, told the BBC that consumers should be concerned about low-level contamination in products because of the limited information on the long-term toxic effects.\n\nOn Friday, Germany, along with four other European nations, will submit a proposal to the EU to ban the manufacture and use of PFAS over concerns about its accumulation and exposure of humans.\n\nPFAS can enter rivers when make-up is washed off or thrown away\n\nThis potential risk led the Environment Agency (EA) to conduct a review into PFAS use in the UK in 2021.\n\nDuring that review, the EA asked the industry body for cosmetics, the CTPA, to tell it which PFAS compounds were still being used in the UK cosmetic industry and by which companies.\n\nThe CTPA told the EA that nine PFAS were in use but declined to share the company names for \"commercial reasons\".\n\nThe EA did not publish the names of the nine PFAS still in use by the industry in its final report. But a Freedom of Information request by BBC News into the EA has now revealed them. The BBC searched for them in thousands of ingredient lists of the most popular UK brands and common product types known to use PFAS: mascara, eyeshadow, foundation, and lipsticks.\n\nProducts produced by Revolution, Inglot and Urban Decay - which is a subsidiary of L'Oréal - were found to contain PFAS called PTFE and Polyperfluoromethylisopropyl Ether. They were being sold across multiple outlets as well as their own websites.\n\nAlthough PFAS use remains legal in the UK the Health and Safety Executive is now due to publish an assessment for the government of the health risks of PFAS. This follows the EA review and would be the first step in regulating the chemicals.\n\nA group of more than 30 NGOs are now calling on the government to introduce a complete ban on non-essential use in the UK, following in the footsteps of the EU proposal and action by US states such as California.\n\nDr Francesca Bevan, chemicals policy manager at the Marine Conservation Society, which is part of the group of NGOs, said they want regulation because water treatment processes aren't currently effective at removing PFAS from wastewater, meaning they get released into our rivers.\n\nShe said: \"Some PFAS have already been linked to health impacts in marine animals such as reduced immune, liver, blood and kidney function in bottlenose dolphins or thyroid hormone disruption in marine birds, and it's likely only a matter of time for other health impacts to be recognised.\"\n\nIndustry body the CTPA declined to be interviewed by the BBC on this issue but said in a statement: \"The cosmetics industry welcomes any action which will protect the environment and our health from harm.\"\n\nThey also added they had \"been working with the UK Environment Agency for several years to help the agency better understand sources of PFAS chemicals.\"\n\nBut an email exchange seen by the BBC in late 2022 between senior advisors at the Environment Agency questions the transparency of the industry. In the exchange they revealed that: \"We have minimal knowledge of PFAS usage in cosmetics.\"\n\nSince 2019, legislators in the Bipartisan PFAS Task Force have been working to regulate PFAS in the US\n\nMia Davis, vice president of sustainability for Credo beauty - which is one of many brands which have prohibited these chemicals - told the BBC that its products show \"we can make beautiful make-up without them\".\n\nBut Gloria Lu and Victoria Fu, who were previous formulation chemists at major beauty brands and now run their own brand Chemist Confessions which is PFAS-free, said that the industry should be wary of a knee-jerk reaction to certain chemicals like PFAS, as there may be regrettable substitutions where the replacement chemical has not been tested.\n\nL'Oréal told the BBC that product safety was its top priority and had in 2018 made the decision to phase out all PFAS. A L'Oréal spokesperson said: \"The phase out and substitution plans are well underway and we have already removed PFASs from the majority of our products.\"\n\nA Revolution Beauty spokesperson said: \"We comply fully with all EU and UK cosmetics regulations and we have already begun the process of phasing out poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances from our products.\"\n\nInglot told the BBC that the PFAS they used was \"permitted\" but despite this \"for the sake of the public's concerns, INGLOT is conducting research to completely eliminate it\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRishi Sunak has said he is concerned about the potential impact of Scotland's new gender reforms on other areas of the UK.\n\nThe prime minister said the government was taking advice on the implications of the reforms \"as is completely standard practice\".\n\nBut he did not say whether Westminster would seek to block the legislation.\n\nScotland is the first country in the UK to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change gender.\n\nThe controversial reforms, which are expected to come into force later this year, lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) from 18 to 16.\n\nThey also remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, with applicants only needing to have lived as their acquired gender for three months rather than two years - or six months if they are aged 16 or 17.\n\nThe Scottish government believes the existing process can be intrusive and distressing and put people off applying for a GRC.\n\nBut there have been concerns about the potential impact on the Equality Act and its protections for women-only spaces, as well as the implications for UK-wide documents and some social security benefits.\n\nThis has led to speculation that the UK government could use Section 35 of the Scotland Act to prevent the new law coming into force.\n\nThe provisions allow Scottish Secretary Alister Jack to prevent legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament from receiving Royal Assent if he believes it would have an adverse effect on issues that are reserved to Westminster.\n\nHe will need to decide whether to do so by the middle of next week, and would almost certainly face a legal challenge from the Scottish government if he did block the reforms.\n\nMr Sunak had private talks with Nicola Sturgeon in a Perth hotel on Thursday evening\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Sunak said the government was waiting for some \"final advice\" before deciding what to do.\n\nHe added: \"Obviously this is a very sensitive area and I know there were very robust debates and exchanges on it as the bill was passing in Scotland.\n\n\"What I'm concerned about is the impact of the bill across the United Kingdom. As is entirely standard, the UK government would take advice on that.\n\n\"There may be impacts across the UK that we need to be aware of and understand the impact of them.\n\n\"That is what we are doing, and once the government has received final advice it will set out next steps.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said that \"any attempt by the UK government to undermine the democratic will of the Scottish Parliament will be vigorously contested\".\n\nControversy over the gender reforms saw a Scottish government minister resign in protest and several SNP MSPs vote against the proposals\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said the question of whether the UK government would provide Royal Assent went beyond the issue of gender recognition and people's views on it.\n\nHe said: \"This is about democracy. The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of legislation that sits within devolved competencies and it is incumbent upon Westminster to ensure that the legislation is passed in full\".\n\nMr Sunak started a two-day visit to Scotland - his first since becoming prime minister - on Thursday evening, when he had private talks with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at a hotel in Inverness.\n\nThe discussions were described as being \"cordial\", with the gender reforms being discussed alongside the NHS, the economy and Scottish independence.\n\nRishi Sunak is stressing how normal and reasonable it is for his government to carefully consider the impact of a Scottish law on all of the UK.\n\nIt's true that the Scotland Act which set up the Scottish Parliament provides for that kind of scrutiny.\n\nThere have been occasions when UK ministers have successfully challenged in court Holyrood's power to make laws in certain areas.\n\nBut never before have they intervened to stop a Scottish bill, passed by MSPs, from becoming law on the basis that it might have unwelcome impacts on UK legislation.\n\nIf that's what the Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, decides to do with Holyrood's gender recognition reform bill, a very big row and a court clash with the Scottish government is sure to follow.\n\nMr Jack is expected to consider some final advice over the next few days before making a decision.\n\nThe two governments made a joint announcement on Friday about the location of two \"green freeports\" in Scotland, which will be at sites on the Cromarty Firth around Inverness and the Forth on the east of Scotland.\n\nThe scheme will see tax incentives and lower tariffs being used in a bid to boost investment and economic growth in the two areas, with the aim of creating total of 75,000 jobs.\n\nMr Sunak also visited Invergordon on Friday morning, where he rejected criticisms by Ms Sturgeon of UK government plans to limit the impact of public service strikes.\n\nThe prime minister said it was \"right and responsible\" to change the law to guarantee a basic level of service in areas like health and education when there are strikes.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that she strongly opposed the legislation and accused the UK government of trying to reduce workers rights and of pouring fuel on the fire of industrial tension.", "Joelinton will appear in court on 26 January.\n\nNewcastle United star Joelinton has been charged with drink-driving after being stopped by police in the early hours of the morning.\n\nPolice said a 26-year-old man was pulled over in the Ponteland Road area of Newcastle at 01:20 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe Brazilian is due to appear before magistrates on 26 January.\n\nThe midfielder, who signed for Newcastle United for £40m in 2019, scored in the club's 2-0 win against Leicester City on Tuesday.\n\nJoelinton was previously fined £200 after he broke lockdown restrictions to get a haircut.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of the Byron Burger chain has said it will close nine restaurants and cut 218 jobs in another restructure of the business.\n\nFamously Proper Ltd, which also controls the Mother Clucker fried chicken brand, blamed rising costs and lower consumer spending for the move.\n\nIt is the third time since 2018 that the company has been significantly downsized.\n\nA deal has been struck to save 12 sites and around 365 jobs.\n\nThe remaining restaurants and staff will be transferred to a new company called Tristar Foods, operated by the existing owner Calverton, through what is known as a pre-pack administration.\n\nClaire Winder, managing director at Interpath Advisory who acted as a joint administrator on the deal, said: \"Like many other companies across the hospitality sector, Byron had seen a boost in trading following the end of the Covid lockdown measures.\n\nBut she added that \"sky-high\" inflation, which measures how costs change over time, had seen customers reduce their spending, and pressure increased on the business in turn.\n\nThe wider casual dining sector has been hard hit since the pandemic emerged in 2020.\n\nA BBC analysis of corporate insolvency notices found that 320 businesses in the food service industry - restaurants, pubs, cafés and catering firms - were forced to initiate insolvency procedures in December.\n\nThis was an increase of 41% compared to the same month in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. In total, 6,613 hospitality firms have started insolvency proceedings since 2020.\n\nHowever, Byron Burger was already experiencing problems five years ago when it employed around 1,800 staff and operated 67 restaurants across the UK.\n\nIn July 2020, it shut more than half of its remaining 51 sites and cut 650 jobs.\n\nInterpath said that over the past year the company had faced \"significant challenges\", driven by rising costs \"principally food and utilities, together with a reduction in customer spending as a result of the current cost-of-living crisis\".\n\nThe rate of price rises, or inflation, is currently at a 40-year-high fuelled by surging energy costs for both businesses and households.\n\nInterpath added: \"Following an exploration of a number of options to safeguard the future of the business, no solvent offers were forthcoming, and the directors took the difficult decision to file for the appointment of administrators.\"\n\nThe administrators stressed that although they were pleased that they had managed to save a number of jobs, they would also be providing support to those who are being made redundant.", "A court artist sketch of Spacey showed appearing via video link on Friday\n\nActor Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of sexual assault against a man in the early 2000s.\n\nThey include indecent assault, sexual assault and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.\n\nThe offences are alleged to have taken place between 2001 and 2005.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor is now facing a total of 12 sexual offences against four men.\n\nIn July, he denied five allegations relating to three men, who are now in their 30s and 40s, when he appeared at London's Old Bailey.\n\nThe trial is due to begin in June.\n\nThe 63-year-old's appearance at Southwark Crown Court in London was via video link for the plea and trial preparation hearing.\n\nMr Spacey replied \"not guilty\" to each of the seven charges as they were formally put to him.\n\nHe appeared under his full name Kevin Spacey Fowler.", "Scientists said their findings could lead to the creation of healthier chocolate that feels just as good to eat\n\nThe reason chocolate feels good to eat has been uncovered by researchers at the University of Leeds.\n\nScientists analysed the process that takes place when the treat is eaten and focused on texture rather than taste.\n\nThey claim that where the fat lies within the chocolate helps to create its smooth and enjoyable quality.\n\nDr Siavash Soltanahmadi led the study and hopes the findings will lead to the development of a \"next generation\" of healthier chocolate.\n\nWhen chocolate is put in the mouth, the surface of the treat releases a fatty film that makes it feel smooth.\n\nBut the researchers claim fat deeper inside the chocolate plays a more limited role and therefore the amount could be reduced without the feel or sensation of chocolate being affected.\n\nProf Anwesha Sarkar, from the School of Food Science and Nutrition at Leeds, said it is the \"location of the fat in the make-up of the chocolate which matters in each stage of lubrication, and that has been rarely researched\".\n\nDr Soltanahmadi said: \"Our research opens the possibility that manufacturers can intelligently design dark chocolate to reduce the overall fat content.\"\n\nThe team used an artificial \"3D tongue-like surface\" that was designed at the University of Leeds to carry out the study and researchers hope the same equipment could be used to investigate other foods that change texture, such as ice cream, margarine and cheese.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soledar has been devastated by Russia's bombardment, as shown by this satellite image from Tuesday\n\nRussia's military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an \"important\" step for its offensive.\n\nThe victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said.\n\nThis was a very confident and ambitious statement from Moscow.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the fight for Soledar was still going on and accused Russia of \"information noise\".\n\nThe battle for Soledar has been one of the bloodiest of the war.\n\nThe town is relatively small, with a pre-war population of just 10,000, and its strategic significance is debatable. But if it is confirmed that Russian forces have seized control of it, then there will likely be a big sigh of relief in the Kremlin.\n\nDivisions have emerged between regular Russian forces and the notorious Russian Wagner paramilitary group throughout the battle, with a jealous turf-war developing over who should take credit for the advance.\n\nBarely any walls in Soledar remain standing, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week. Describing almost apocalyptic scenes, he spoke of the nearby terrain as scarred by missile strikes and littered with Russian corpses.\n\nSpeaking during his nightly address from Kyiv on Friday, Mr Zelensky said the battle in the region continued to rage, but avoided any reference to Russia's claims of control over Soledar.\n\n\"Although the enemy has concentrated its greatest forces in this direction, our troops - the Armed Forces of Ukraine, all defence and security forces - are defending the state,\" the Ukrainian leader said.\n\nHis chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, compared the fight for Soledar and Bakhmut to one of the bitterest battles of World War One, at Verdun.\n\nRegional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Thursday that 559 civilians including 15 children remained in Soledar and could not be moved out.\n\nThe town's significance for the Russian military is disputed by military analysts because of its relatively small size. The US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said while it was likely that Russian forces had captured Soledar, it did not believe they would then be able to go on to encircle Bakhmut.\n\nNevertheless, if it becomes clear that Russia has taken it, then that will be seen in Moscow as progress - even a victory.\n\nThat is exactly what President Vladimir Putin needs as Russia has failed to capture a single town in Ukraine since July 2022. Since then, Moscow's forces have suffered a whole series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nUkraine's successful counter-attack pushed Russia almost completely out of Kharkiv region in the north-east. In October, Russia's Kerch bridge came under attack, with Russian forces retreating from the city of Kherson the following month.\n\nThe southern port city had been the only regional capital that Russia had managed to seize since the invasion began.\n\nCapturing Soledar would be something for Moscow to present as some \"good news\" to the Russian people and the troops on the wintry front line.\n\nBut Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson for Ukraine's eastern military command, denied Soledar was in Russian hands: \"We won't give any more details as we do not want to reveal the tactical positions of our fighters.\"\n\nDeputy Defence Minister, Hanna Malyar, said fighting had been \"hot in Soledar overnight\". Ukrainian fighters were \"bravely trying to hold the defence\", she added, in what was a difficult stage of the war.\n\nWestern and Ukrainian officials have said much of the fighting in Soledar and Bakhmut is being done by the notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group.\n\nUkraine this week cast doubt on a photo claiming to show Yevgeny Prigozhin inside a Soledar salt mine\n\nIts leader, 61-year-old Yevgeny Prigozhin, has claimed repeatedly over the past few days that his forces are the only units on the ground in Soledar. He said on Tuesday night that his mercenaries had seized the town, only to be contradicted by Russia's defence ministry the next morning.\n\nDaily updates from the Russian defence ministry have made no mention whatsoever of Wagner, and Friday's briefing was no exception. The military said that paratroopers had played a key part in the capture of the town.\n\nMr Prigozhin then released a statement saying he was \"surprised\" to read the defence ministry briefing. There \"wasn't a single paratrooper\" in Soledar, he insisted, warning against \"insulting [his] fighters\" and \"stealing others' achievements\".\n\nAnd on Friday evening, Mr Prigozhin accused \"officials who want to stay in their places\" of being the biggest threat to his group's advance in Ukraine.\n\nIn a later statement, the defence ministry praised the mercenaries' \"courageous and selfless actions\" during the fighting, but again emphasised the leading role of regular Russian forces.\n\nAnalysts have long spoken of tensions between the military and Mr Prigozhin's Wagner group. The Russian oligarch has publicly criticised senior military leaders, including Gen Valery Gerasimov, appointed two days ago as overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.\n\nWhile Russia has mobilised some 300,000 reservists for the war since the end of September, Prigozhin has looked to recruit extra numbers from Russia's prisons.\n\nAndriy Yermak told French daily Le Monde that Russian criminals had been sent straight to their deaths on the front line: \"Soledar is a scene of street battles, with neither side really in control of the town.\"", "Gareth Roberts and Dominga David both died in the opening months of the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nTwo nurses who died with Covid probably became infected at work, an inquest has concluded.\n\nGareth Morgan Roberts fell ill days after the first lockdown began in March 2020 and died on 11 April.\n\nDominga David died on 26 May 2020 after being sent home ill from Penarth's Llandough Hospital on 31 March.\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes said it was \"more likely than not\" both were exposed to the Covid-19 virus while at work and ruled they died of industrial disease.\n\n\"On the balance of probabilities, exposure more likely happened at work and infection happened as a result of that exposure,\" Mr Hughes told the inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court.\n\nThe family of Mr Roberts had argued for a conclusion of death by industrial disease, while the health board had made the case for ruling both deaths were from natural causes.\n\nMr Roberts retired in 2015 after working in the NHS for more than 40 years, but returned to work casual ward shifts.\n\nHe told colleagues he did not want to work on a Covid ward at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff because of his age and due to him living with diabetes.\n\nHe also cared for his grandson and told a colleague Jodie Davies he could not risk it.\n\nHe was working 12-hour shifts in Cardiff in the days leading up to March 25 when he fell ill - two days after the UK announced its first lockdown.\n\nColleagues described Mr Roberts as \"hard-working\" and someone \"who never let anyone down\".\n\nHis family said in a statement he was a \"much-loved husband, father, and grandfather\" and \"one of the heroes of the pandemic\".\n\n\"Gareth touched so many lives, and when he died we received over 1,800 cards of condolence,\" they said.\n\nMs David, originally from the Philippines, died on 26 May, almost two months after becoming infected with Covid.\n\nShe had been working long shifts at the Llandough Hospital in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nDominga David came to the UK in 2004 to work as a nurse\n\nHer ward manager, Jane Linton, who gave evidence during the week-long hearing, described her as \"a fantastic person and a brilliant nurse\".\n\nMs David, 63, had pre-diabetes but was in otherwise good health and died from complications such as an ischemic bowel, arising from Covid-19, the inquest found.\n\nCoroner Mr Hughes said: \"It is more likely than not that she (Ms David) was exposed to the Covid-19 virus at work, was infected as a consequence, and died due to complications of acquiring the disease.\"\n\nThe inquest was told when Mr Roberts and Ms David caught Covid, ward nurses in the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board only used PPE while directly treating patients.\n\nIt also heard also shift handovers took place in small cubicles where people did not wear masks. At the time, patients were also not routinely swabbed for Covid.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said in a statement after the inquest: \"We were very concerned about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and guidance on its use, in healthcare settings in Wales during the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nShe said union members were concerned about the lack of PPE in a survey of May 2020.\n\nThe coroner, Mr Hughes, concluded that Mr Roberts died from Covid-19 and that his type 2 diabetes had contributed to his death.\n\nHe concluded Mr Roberts and Ms David, who lived in hospital accommodation, both died as a result of industrial disease.", "Decommissioning work for the Fukushima power plant will take four decades\n\nJapan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant this year.\n\nAfter treatment the levels of most radioactive particles meet the national standard, the operator said.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says the proposal is safe, but neighbouring countries have voiced concern.\n\nThe 2011 Fukushima disaster was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.\n\nDecommissioning has already started but could take four decades.\n\n\"We expect the timing of the release would be sometime during this spring or summer,\" said chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno on Friday, adding that the government will wait for a \"comprehensive report\" from IAEA before the release.\n\nEvery day, the plant produces 100 cubic metres of contaminated water, which is a mixture of groundwater, seawater and water used to keep the reactors cool. It is then filtered and stored in tanks.\n\nWith more than 1.3 million cubic metres on site, space is running out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe water is filtered for most radioactive isotopes, but the level of tritium is above the national standard, operator Tepco said. Experts say tritium is very difficult to remove from water and is only harmful to humans in large doses.\n\nHowever, neighbouring countries and local fishermen oppose the proposal, which was approved by the Japanese government in 2021.\n\nThe Pacific Islands Forum has criticised Japan for the lack of transparency.\n\n\"Pacific peoples are coastal peoples, and the ocean continues to be an integral part of their subsistence living,\" Forum Secretary General Henry Puna told news website Stuff.\n\n\"Japan is breaking the commitment that their leaders have arrived at when we held our high level summit in 2021.\n\n\"It was agreed that we would have access to all independent scientific and verifiable scientific evidence before this discharge takes place. Unfortunately, Japan has not been co-operating.\"\n\nNorth-eastern Japan was rocked by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on 11 March 2011, which then triggered a giant tsunami.\n\nThe waves hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, flooding three reactors and sparking a major disaster.\n\nAuthorities set up an exclusion zone which grew larger and larger as radiation leaked from the plant, forcing more than 150,000 people to evacuate from the area. The zone remains in place.", "Richard Grenfell Thomas, 52, was taken to hospital following a caravan fire, but later died\n\nA man has been jailed for life for murdering his neighbour who he left to burn alive in a blazing caravan.\n\nDarren Smith, 43, had a row with neighbour Richard Grenfell Thomas, 52, and left him \"smouldering and smoking\" after dousing his caravan in petrol.\n\nSmith told another neighbour: \"If he dies, he dies.\"\n\nSmith who denied murder was found guilty after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court and ordered to serve at least 25 years in jail.\n\nDuring sentencing, judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said: \"You said 'No one was meant to die'.\n\n\"I find that to be true but there was obviously a high risk of death by lighting a fire close, or setting fire to Mr Thomas himself while unconscious.\"\n\nSmith and Mr Thomas lived next door to each other at a residential caravan park and had been on good terms before it turned into a \"somewhat volatile relationship\".\n\nDarren Smith has been jailed for life for murdering his neighbour\n\nThree days before the murder the pair had an \"altercation\" at the Beeches Residential Caravan Park in Magor, Monmouthshire, where they both lived alone.\n\nThe court heard that it lead to Smith texting his mum to say: \"If he does it again I would have to hurt him.\"\n\nOn the night of 20 December 2021, Smith assaulted Mr Thomas, leaving him injured and unable to move, before setting fire to the van.\n\nProsecutor Michael Jones KC said: \"This defendant assaulted Mr Thomas in his own caravan, leaving him lying on the floor injured and incapacitated.\n\n\"He then set fire to the caravan using petrol and then walked away knowing Mr Thomas was injured and incapacitated and unable to get out of the caravan.\n\n\"He died as a direct result of the injuries he sustained.\"\n\nMr Jones said fellow resident Jason Pritchard was woken on the night to the sound of dogs barking and thought he saw steam coming from Mr Thomas' caravan.\n\nMr Jones said: \"Mr Pritchard said he saw the defendant in his dressing gown walking calmly away from [Thomas'] caravan and back to his own caravan.\n\n\"Around 15 minutes later, Mr Pritchard looked out of his window again and realised that it was not steam but black smoke.\n\n\"He then went over and saw some of the glass on the caravan had been smashed and that the kitchen area was ablaze.\"\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard how Mr Pritchard ran to the burning van, found Mr Thomas \"catastrophically burned\" and dialled 999.\n\nWhen Mr Pritchard told Smith he'd seen him in the caravan, Smith allegedly replied: \"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If he dies, he dies.\"\n\nGwent police were called to reports of a fire in a caravan at The Beeches Residential Caravan Park\n\nMr Thomas died with burns on most of his body. He also suffered blunt force injuries to the head and chest including six fractured ribs.\n\nMr Jones said that, when firefighters and police officers arrived, Smith tried to speak to them.\n\nMr Jones said: \"He said he knew nothing about the fire and suggested Mr Thomas might have taken his own life.\"\n\nWhen one officer allegedly \"noticed soot\" on Smith's nostrils, he denied being in the caravan and said it was from his log burner.\n\nPolice later found his dressing gown and shoes had been washed.\n\nThe victim's brother, Bryn Thomas, said in a statement to the court: \"No one can put into words the pain, disbelief and anguish we felt following Richard's death.\n\n\"That horrific period of our lives remains with us daily and for the rest of our days. It will last several generations through the Thomas family.\n\n\"Richard was a much loved son, father, brother, brother-in-law, uncle and cousin. Richard's untimely passing left us broken.\n\n\"The man responsible will never be able to comprehend the impact his actions have had on our family. Our lives will never be the same again.\n\n\"There is some modicum of comfort that this violent and dangerous individual will be behind bars and not able to harm another soul.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli, who has died at the age of 58, was \"a gorgeous soul\" as well as \"a wonderful footballer and a warm human being\", his former Sampdoria team-mate Graeme Souness has said.\n\nVialli was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017. In 2020 he revealed he had been given the all-clear, but was diagnosed with it again in 2021.\n\nSouness told Sky Sports: \"People will say things about his magnificent football ability, and correctly so, but above all that what a human being.\"\n\nFormer Scotland midfielder Souness added: \"My condolences go to his family - the kids were blessed to have a dad like that, his wife was blessed to be married to a man like that.\n\n\"He was just fabulous to be around. He was such a fun-loving guy, full of mischief, a wonderful footballer and a warm human being.\n\n\"Forget football, he was just a gorgeous soul.\"\n\nVialli, who played 59 times for Italy, left a role with Italy's national team in December 2022 to focus on his health.\n\nHe helped the Azzurri win Euro 2020 with victory over England at Wembley in July 2021 after being appointed to Italy's backroom staff by manager and former Sampdoria team-mate Roberto Mancini in October 2019.\n• None Vialli on his life and career in football - listen to the Headliners podcast\n• None Know the signs of pancreatic cancer\n\nThe Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed that a minute's silence in memory of Vialli will be held before all Italian matches this weekend.\n\n\"Gianluca was a splendid person and he leaves a void that cannot be filled,\" FIGC president Gabriele Gravina said.\n\n\"I hoped until the end that he would be able to perform another miracle. Yet I am comforted by the certainty that what he did for Italian football and the blue shirt will never be forgotten.\"\n\nAn FIGC statement added: \"That photo on the Wembley lawn, that hug with Mancini after Federico Chiesa's goal against Austria in the round of 16 of the 2021 European Championship, will be one of the images of Vialli that we will carry in our hearts forever.\"\n\nVialli made his Italy debut in 1985, a year after joining Sampdoria, where he would win the Serie A title and European Cup Winners' Cup during eight seasons with the club.\n\nSampdoria said: \"We won't forget your 141 goals, your overhead kicks, your cashmere shirts, your earring, your platinum blonde hair, your Ultras bomber jacket.\n\n\"You gave us so much, we gave you so much: yes, it was love, reciprocal, infinite. A love that will not die today with you.\"\n\nVialli helped Sampdoria reach the 1992 European Cup final but after losing to Barcelona, he moved to Juventus for a then world record fee of £12m. Vialli spent four seasons with Juve, winning the Champions League, Uefa Cup and Serie A titles.\n\nJuve said: \"We loved everything about you, absolutely everything - your smile, your being a star and leader at the same time, on the pitch and in the dressing room, your adorable swashbuckling ways, your culture, your class, which you showed until the last day in the black and white stripes.\"\n\nVialli joined Chelsea on a free transfer in 1996 and became player-manager in 1998 - the first Italian to manage a Premier League side, taking over from the sacked Ruud Gullit late in the season - and went on to lead the Blues to victory in the League Cup, Uefa Cup Winners' Cup and Uefa Super Cup.\n\nHe also guided Chelsea to victory in the 2000 FA Cup final and Charity Shield but was sacked early the following season after a poor start.\n\nChelsea said: \"A brilliant striker, a trophy-winning manager and a wonderful man, Luca's place in the pantheon of Chelsea greats is assured. He will be deeply missed.\"\n\nVialli subsequently spent the 2001-02 season as manager of Watford, then in the second tier, but was dismissed after the Hornets finished 14th.\n\nVialli's former team-mates and managers led the tributes to the former Italy striker.\n\nGianfranco Zola, who both played alongside Vialli and then under him when he was manager at Chelsea said: \"Together we won many matches and shared some of the best moments of our lives.\n\n\"For the love of our ball we have often clashed. With no quarter, but always with the utmost respect. Because, in the end, we were always ourselves: two Italian boys and a ball.\"\n\nReal Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, who played alongside Vialli with Italy, tweeted in Italian: \"Ciao, amico mio\" - goodbye, my friend.\n\nAlessandro del Piero, a Champions League winner alongside Vialli with Juventus posted: \"Our captain. My captain. Forever.\"\n\nFormer Blues manager Gullit posted an image on Instagram of himself with Vialli on the day he signed for Chelsea in 1996 with the caption: \"RIP Gianluca Vialli. We will miss you.\"\n\nTottenham assistant Cristian Stellini said manager and fellow Italian Antonio Conte was \"upset and sad\" following the news, adding Vialli was an \"important person\" who \"opened the door for Italian managers\" in the Premier League.\n\n\"For us he was a great player but first of all he was a great man. He taught us a lot of things, also not only when he played but when he spoke with everyone,\" Stellini said.\n\n\"Now we have to say thanks to Vialli for opening the door and letting us understand how important football is in Europe to open doors and create, because also Italian managers came into the Premier League and improved it so we did it together. It is a great thing.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker said: \"Deeply, deeply saddened to hear that Gianluca Vialli has left us. One of the loveliest people you could possibly meet. A truly magnificent footballer who will be hugely missed. RIP Luca.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea captain John Terry tweeted: \"Heartbroken. RIP Luca. A proper legend and a great man. I will forever be grateful for you giving me my debut.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He played a very important part in what has become the best league in the world.\n\n\"He always had such a positive energy. He had a big aura. You could feel his presence as soon as he walked into a room.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer tweeted: \"RIP Gianluca Vialli. What a lovely lovely man and a wonderful player he was.\"\n\nAnd ex-England striker Peter Crouch wrote on Twitter: \"I'm genuinely gutted about this. I had Sampdoria home and away shirts because of him. I tried to replicate his volleys In the park and such a lovely man when I met him. Rip\"\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters' Trust described Vialli as a \"foundational pillar\" upon which the club built a new trophy-filled era.\n\nA statement read: \"He was loved by everyone at our football club. Thank you, Gianluca. We will miss you.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chief executive Richard Bevan described Vialli as \"one of the kindest and most charismatic men we have ever met in the world of sport\".\n\nAleksander Ceferin, president of European football's governing body Uefa, added: \"All members of the football family will feel real pain and a sense of profound dismay.\n\n\"Gianluca was more than a champion; he was kind, measured, respectful and above all courageous, in life even more than on the pitch, as he has taught us in recent years through his dignified fight against his illness.\n\n\"We will always remember his radiance at the many trophies that he won, right up to the final image when he embraced his friend Roberto Mancini in the middle of the pitch at Wembley - a moment of joyful emotion at the most beautiful and brilliant of all triumphs. He will be greatly missed.\"", "A group of right-wing Republican rebels have upended what was supposed to be a formality vote for Speaker of the House, causing chaos on the Capitol.\n\nNo business can be undertaken within the House until a Speaker has been chosen, which means that the US government is currently at a stalemate.\n\nAs the House Speaker vote rolls into the double digits, Republican voters share their thoughts on what is going on at the Capitol with their elected officials.\n\nBrooke Riske, who grew up in a Republican family in conservative North Carolina, says her top priorities are constitutional protections and curbing government corruption.\n\nI'm energised by the Republicans holding out and opposing Kevin McCarthy. Iron sharpens iron and if McCarthy wants to lead the party, then here is his first chance to prove himself. I feel Americans should be encouraged by healthy debate and disagreement. That's as American as it can get when you really think about the history and founding of this country. At least some of our members of Congress are willing to speak up, even when it's unpopular. Blind rubber stamping and party politics benefits the politicians, not the American people. I find this very interesting and think it's a cool process to watch play out. A small minority is attempting to create significant change in the party.\n\nRom Solene does not like Kevin McCarthy and views him as part of the problem with Washington. The 61-year-old says he admired former President Donald Trump's ability to shake up the establishment.\n\nI've been following the Speaker vote very closely. Personally, I'm very happy to see this kind of debate and push-back. In my opinion, our representatives have lacked the fortitude to question the status quo for far too long. This kind of debate and negotiation should be the norm, not the exception, on all matters that come up for vote.\n\nAfter the events of the past several days, I'm more convinced than ever that McCarthy is not a strong leader and should step aside. A strong leader would stand on his principles and not negotiate them away in an effort to hold on to power, as McCarthy has been doing with each successive vote. A strong leader would have the ability to get his caucus in line behind him and to quickly and effectively deal with anyone not toeing the line.\n\nVinod Jeyakaran became a US citizen in 2019. His top issues are abortion, the economy and border security.\n\nWith regard to the ongoing vote fiasco, that's exactly what it is. I think it is high time that all Republicans rally around Kevin McCarthy. The lack of cohesion sends the wrong signal to the Democrats - so I do hope that the remaining Republicans that are currently opposed to Representative McCarthy will be able to come to a reasonable compromise and back him.\n\nI think Representative McCarthy is a good leader and has important work to do over the next two years. He needs all the backing and a cohesive Republican majority in the House.\n\nNoah Slayter is an anti-abortion activist from Northern Virginia, attending college in Washington, DC.\n\nI do care about the Speaker vote. I think Congress should do everything in its power to work effectively and, at same time, have a Speaker who represents their constituents. Kevin McCarthy portrays an image to work for all Americans, which is good. I think the dissenters have legitimate concerns about things McCarthy has said in the past, though. I think we should end this stalemate as soon possible to get back to work, but they need to pick the right Speaker. We should have representatives voting for a candidate they truly believe in.", "Schoolchildren have formed a guard of honour in memory of a non-league footballer who was stabbed to death on a nightclub dance floor on Boxing Day.\n\nThere was also be a minute's silence for Cody Fisher at his club's match.\n\nThe Stratford Town game on Saturday was the first since his death at the Crane venue in Digbeth, Birmingham.\n\nChildren from St Gregory's School in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he coached, carried his shirt around the pitch.\n\nThe pre-match minute's silence was followed by one of applause in the 23rd minute - matching the player's squad number.\n\nHis shirt was retired by the club in a ceremony on Thursday.\n\nThe club's chairman, Jed McCrory, said local schoolchildren had been invited to attend the game for free, along with those from schools where the 23-year-old taught.\n\nStratford Town chairman Jed McCrory said Saturday's game was important for the community to come together\n\nHe said the game on Saturday was not about playing or winning, or losing.\n\n\"It's about normal people getting through life and going forward together and [seeing] where we end up,\" he explained.\n\nThe Stratford Town manager, Gavin Hurren, said: \"The lads want to do this for Cody.\"\n\nHe described the player as a hard-working team player who was \"honest, positive and respectful\" and had been \"a massive part of the dressing room\".\n\nHe added it was \"a day where we can stand together, shoulder-to-shoulder, and pay our respects to one of our own\".\n\nManager Gavin Hurren said everyone wanted to show their love for Cody Fisher\n\nTeam mate Dan Lafferty said it was \"really tough\" but the match was about \"remembering Cody for the top lad that he was because he was an unbelievable person\".\n\nCaptain Will Grocott said the team had met a number of times since they heard the news, adding: \"I think everyone's still in shock, personally, for me, it still hasn't sunk in.\"\n\nHe said he and some of the other players had gone to the nightclub where Mr Fisher died to lay flowers.\n\nHe described him as \"a beautiful, beautiful person\".\n\nT-shirts worn at the game carried the words \"Cody's Law\"\n\nThe football club, which plays in the seventh tier of the English football league pyramid, is also backing a petition calling for \"Cody's Law\" which would make metal detectors and bleed kits mandatory in nightclubs and at events.\n\nT-shirts carrying the slogan were worn at the game.\n\nIn the ceremony on Thursday, players at the club said Mr Fisher's death had left a hole in their lives and they were struggling with their grief.\n\nThe Redditch-born left back had previously played for Stourbridge Football Club and Bromsgrove Sporting Football Club.\n\nStratford Town has set up the Cody 23 Community Fund with the aim of helping young people get a coaching licence and to pay for their qualifications to become a referee.\n\nMurder suspects Kami Carpenter, 21, and Remy Gordon, 22, both from Birmingham, appeared at the city's crown court on Wednesday.\n\nMr Carpenter, of no fixed address, and Mr Gordon, of Cofton Park Drive, Birmingham, were remanded in custody.\n\nThe Crane nightclub has had its licence suspended for 28 days.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool and Wolves were forced to settle for an FA Cup third-round replay after a thrilling encounter finished level at Anfield.\n\nWolves led after Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson horrifically gave the ball away and Goncalo Guedes tapped home.\n\nHwang Hee-chan then came off the bench to earn Wolves a replay, with the ball ricocheting in off his side.\n\nWolves thought they had won the game when Toti flicked home, but the linesman had ruled it offside earlier in the move.\n\nA replay is likely to anger Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, who reiterated his opposition to them as recently as Friday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How to follow the FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nLiverpool started the game sharply, but Klopp will be concerned that his side found themselves behind for the third successive game.\n\nRather than a tactical issue like in previous games, this was purely a personal error.\n\nAlisson rolled the ball out to Thiago, who tried to dribble past his man 25 yards from his own goal, but was intercepted. The ball ended up back at Alisson, who tried to pass it out to Trent Alexander-Arnold, but Guedes intercepted and slotted in.\n\nWolves were buoyed and pressed for a second, with Guedes having a shot tipped away, before Raul Jimenez was inches away from tapping home a dragged Adama Traore shot.\n\nThe leveller, and timing of it, will annoy Wolves. A rash clearance from Nathan Collins found Alexander-Arnold, and his clipped pass found Nunez, who side-footed into the far corner on the stroke of half-time.\n\nSalah's goal was clinical. He latched onto a poor headed clearance from Toti, and slotted into the corner.\n\nLiverpool's defensive issues reared their head again when Rayan Ait-Nouri broke in behind the defence, but his effort was saved by the outstretched leg of Alisson.\n\nWolves got their deserved equaliser when Matheus Cunha's slide cross hit Ibrahima Konate and then Hwang's side before going in.\n\nThere was confusion around Toti's disallowed goal, with Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui outraged by the decision.\n\nThe linesman flagged for offside against the initial corner taker, after he received the clearance. The VAR then had no camera angle available with any evidence to overturn the decision.\n\nDespite that, Lopetegui will be happy with the performance, with Wolves worthy of a draw and causing Liverpool numerous problems throughout the game.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Doak (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Hwang Hee-Chan tries a through ball, but Matheus Nunes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nathan Collins (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Check out the stellar selection of films on BBC iPlayer\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer", "Ambulances were called out to 800 people suffering from hypothermia during freezing weather in Scotland.\n\nFigures from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), published by The Herald newspaper, showed that about 44 people a day were taken to hospital between 1 and 18 December.\n\nDuring that period temperatures plummeted to minus double figures while households faced soaring energy costs.\n\nCharity Age Scotland said this was a \"recipe for disaster\" for older people.\n\nThe first half of December saw an Arctic blast hit the UK with freezing temperatures and snow across Scotland.\n\nBraemar in Aberdeenshire, was the coldest place in the UK at -15.7C, the lowest minimum temperature since February 2021.\n\nDuring December's cold spell, Braemar had its coldest night since February 2021\n\nAccording to the SAS figures, 799 people were taken to hospital from 1 December to 18 December with hypothermia - defined as a temperature of less than 35C.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had the highest number with 170 taken to hospital.\n\nOrkney and Shetland had the lowest number of cases, where fewer than five people were admitted.\n\nAdam Stachura, Age Scotland's head of policy and communications, told BBC Scotland the charity was \"taken aback\" by the figures.\n\nHe said: \"We have been concerned for months that a particularly cold winter, coupled with the energy crisis, would mean that large numbers of older people would experience hypothermia or other serious issues linked to a low body temperature - such as heart attacks and strokes.\n\n\"It has laid bare the stark reality of spiralling energy and living costs on our population.\"\n\nA recent survey by Age Scotland found 62% of older people had cut back on heating to make ends meet.\n\nThe charity said the low temperatures and high cost of heating homes was a \"recipe for disaster\" for health and wellbeing.\n\nHypothermia develops when the body temperature (37C/98.6F) falls by just two degrees. It can affect anyone and even develop indoors in a cold room.\n\nFalling into cold water can trigger it, even on a hot day, as can drinking lots of alcohol. Hypothermia can be a medical emergency and the elderly are especially vulnerable, as are young babies.\n\nSigns of hypothermia include: Shivering and pale, cold, dry skin. Disorientation, apathy or irrational behaviour. Impaired consciousness or lethargy. Slow and shallow breathing. Slow and weakening pulse.\n\nMr Stachura said: \"We know that hundreds of older people on low incomes are not heating their homes to comfortable levels, missing hot meals, or have been staying in cold homes alone for long periods of time.\n\n\"There are no easy solutions this winter, but there have been payments from government to help with energy costs - perhaps helping to give people some confidence that they can use their heating more frequently.\"\n\nTwo energy assistance payments totalling £650 have been made to more than eight million low-income households.\n\nAn extra £900 in three instalments will be paid to households on means-tested benefits in spring, autumn and spring 2024.\n\nHowever, an estimated 850,000 UK pensioner households do not claim Pension Credit, which is a gateway to these extra payments.\n\nAge Scotland said its helpline on 0800 12 44 222 can offer information and advice on energy issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry has revealed he cried only once over the death of his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, in 1997.\n\nIn a new interview clip promoting the publication of his autobiography Spare, Prince Harry recounts how he and Prince William were unable to show any emotion as they met mourners in public.\n\nHe told ITV's Tom Bradby he had cried when his mother was buried.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex said he had felt \"some guilt\" walking among crowds who left flowers outside Kensington Palace.\n\nThe absence of Princess Diana in Prince Harry's life is highlighted as a theme throughout Spare.\n\nThe book is not due to be published until 10 January, but extracts were leaked after some copies went on sale early in Spain. BBC News has obtained a copy and has been translating it.\n\nIn the ITV interview, due to be broadcast on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said \"everyone knows where they were\" when his mother died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.\n\nHe said he had looked back on the footage of him and his brother meeting mourners a few days later.\n\n\"I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace,\" he said.\n\n\"There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people's hands, smiling...\n\n\"And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn't understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.\"\n\nPrince Harry adds: \"Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.\"\n\nSpare includes details of Prince Harry's walk behind his mother's coffin at her funeral, where crowds reached out to him and how he felt unable to cry in public.\n\nHe also writes about getting a driver to take him through the road tunnel in Paris where his mother died, hoping for closure from a \"decade of unrelenting pain\".\n\nAnd he says his father did not hug him when he broke the news Princess Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.\n\nA number of sensational claims from Prince Harry's autobiography Spare have leaked out ahead of its publication\n\nPrince Harry's ITV interview will be the first of four broadcast appearances to be aired over the coming days to promote Spare. He also spoke to three US TV networks - Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News on Sunday night, Michael Strahan of Good Morning America on Monday and Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on CBS on Tuesday.\n\nAmong the other revelations in Spare are a claim by Prince Harry that he was physically attacked by his brother; information on how Harry lost his virginity; details about drug taking; and a claim he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan.\n\nA number of high-profile military veterans have criticised his claim of killing Taliban fighters.\n\nEx-colonel Tim Collins, best known for delivering the Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraq War in which he called on his officers to \"show respect\", said Prince Harry had \"badly let the side down\" and \"we don't do notches on the rifle butt\".\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment on the contents of the book.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties in 2020, saying they intended to become financially independent.\n\nIn February last year, they spoke to Oprah Winfrey about their difficult relationship with other members of the Royal Family, and a Netflix documentary series about the pair - released last month - revealed further strife.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: William and Harry, a life in the spotlight\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked if the institution of the monarchy has been damaged by Prince Harry's book.\n\nHe said he \"wouldn't get into talking about the Royal Family but it's something that I'm most proud of when I think about what it is to be British\".\n\nHe added he believed the public have \"enormous regard for the Royal Family\", and the King's coronation \"will be another fantastic occasion for the country to come together\".\n\nKing Charles was seen on Sunday for the first time since revelations from the book were released.\n\nAttending morning service at Castle Rising Church in Norfolk, near to his Sandringham estate, he smiled and spoke to those gathered on his arrival.\n\nKing Charles greeted members of the public in Norfolk on Sunday morning", "Silverwood golf club is beside Silverwood Green where 32-year-old Natalie McNally was murdered in her home\n\nPolice investigating the murder of Natalie McNally have been searching the grounds of Silverwood Golf Club in Lurgan.\n\nDetectives have also visited business properties in Armagh and Craigavon to carry out enquiries as part of their investigation.\n\nThe 32-year-old was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December.\n\nThe council-owned golf club grounds are beside Ms McNally's Silverwood Green home.\n\nBBC reporter Kevin Sharkey said it was understood that the searches were not intelligence based.\n\nHe said much of the police focus was around pathways and shrubbery and it is understood the search was part of ongoing investigations which include an examination of potential off-road routes close to the scene of the murder.\n\nDetectives attended a business property in Armagh and Craigavon yesterday to carry out enquiries as part of the investigation. They said there had been no searches in Belfast relating to the case.\n\nTwo arrests have been made in connection with Ms McNally's murder but no-one has been charged.\n\nOn Thursday police said they believed they had recovered the weapon used in her murder and that it came from her home.\n\nInvestigating officers believe she knew her killer, that they had a pre-existing relationship and that she was comfortable allowing him into her home.\n\nPolice also believe it was a targeted attack towards Mrs McNally.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness said he was \"keeping an open mind\" as to whether it was a planned attack or something that developed when the killer arrived at Ms McNally's home.\n\n\"I don't believe Natalie's door was locked,\" he added.\n\n\"I believe the killer entered her home as soon as he walked up to her door.\"\n\nPolice previously released CCTV footage of a suspect near Ms McNally's home on the night she died and continue to appeal to the public for help identifying the man in the footage.\n\nNatalie McNally had celebrated her 32nd birthday with her parents in October\n\nFormer SDLP assembly member Dolores Kelly met the McNally family on Friday.\n\n\"The community is reeling, it really is. There's a sense of shock and despair about what has happened,\" Ms Kelly said.\n\nShe said the family were \"desperately seeking answers\".\n\nAlliance MLA Andrew Muir was formerly a colleague of Ms McNally's at Translink, where she worked in marketing.\n\n\"It was a great privilege to work alongside Natalie,\" Mr Muir told BBC News NI's Newsline programme.\n\nHe described her as \"a very kind, caring, conscientious person, someone who was very inclusive, a really strong advocate for equality\", and urged people with any information regarding her murder to come forward.\n\nA silent vigil took place at Stormont for Ms McNally on Thursday afternoon.\n\nHer brother Declan thanked the community for their support.\n\n\"Whatever differences of opinions there are in this country we know there is no difference of opinion and everybody wants to see an end to violence against women and girls,\" he said.\n\n\"Everybody in society has to redouble our efforts to end violence against women and girls in memory of our sister Natalie.\"\n\nEarlier in the week, Ms McNally's parents spoke of their grief at losing their daughter before Christmas.\n\nHer father Noel also made an appeal for his daughter's killer to \"find it in his heart to give himself up to the police\".\n\nA 32-year-old man arrested on Monday 19 December was released the next day and is no longer a suspect.\n\nAnother 32-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday 21 December and has been released on police bail while detectives continue their inquiries.", "The usually low-profile Denise Coates was appointed CBE for services to the community and business in 2012\n\nThe boss of gambling firm Bet365 was paid more than £200m in just one year, which is one of the biggest salaries ever awarded in the UK.\n\nThe highest paid director of Bet365 Group, believed to be founder Denise Coates, earned a salary of £213.4m in the year to March 2022.\n\nShe was also entitled to at least half of £100m in dividends, despite a fall in profits.\n\nBet365 did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nBut campaign groups such as the High Pay Centre hit out at the announcement, arguing it served as a reminder that \"too much [money] is going to too few people\" in the UK economy.\n\nIts spokesman Andrew Speke said: \"It shows if the government wanted to provide greater support to those struggling and increase the pay of striking public sector workers facing real wage cuts, increasing tax on high incomes and wealth would be one of the most effective ways of funding this.\"\n\nLabour MP Carolyn Harris, who co-chairs a cross-party parliamentary group examining gambling-related harm, said that losses made by users as prices are rising \"are paying for the huge salaries of gambling bosses\".\n\nShe called on the government to bring forward its white paper on gambling and update laws that have been in place for decades.\n\nMs Coates founded the Bet365 website in a portable building in Stoke-on-Trent more than 20 years ago. She is thought to be one of Britain's richest women and among the best-paid bosses in the world.\n\nAfter training as an accountant she helped build the group into one of the biggest online gambling companies from her father's bookmaking business. Her brother is also co-chief executive.\n\nAccording to the latest company accounts, Ms Coates received a salary of almost £250m salary the year before.\n\nPiling money into efforts to expand internationally saw the Bet365 group's profits dive.\n\nBet365 made a profit before tax of £49.8m for the year, taking into account a £26.2m loss from its ownership of Stoke City Football Club, much less than the £469m profit seen in 2021.\n\nThe group also saw its wage bill go up significantly, with more than 6,000 employees now on the payroll.\n\nIn the year to 29 March 2022, the business turned over £2.9bn in total, an increase of 2% compared with the year before. While sales from sports betting fell, online games revenues jumped by 25% during the year.\n\nIts report also describes how it invested heavily in advertising and IT systems, having previously benefitted from a boom during the pandemic.\n\nCharitable donations of about £100m were made through the Denise Coates Foundation.\n\nThe eldest of four children, Ms Coates worked part time for the family firm while still at school, before gaining a first-class degree in econometrics.\n\nShe has previously been described as one of the UK's \"most successful women\", spotting the opportunity that online platforms presented.\n\nIn a rare interview with a local newspaper, Ms Coates once said: \"I was convinced early on that gambling would work well on the internet. It is private, accessible and allows you to present a huge range of betting opportunities to customers.\"", "The drive from Kostyantynivka to Bakhmut is like dropping off a cliff of civilisation.\n\nThe \"pops\" of outgoing tank fire tell you you're getting close to one of the most active parts of the front line in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.\n\nThey also show that Russia's declared 36-hour ceasefire is in name only.\n\n\"They promised there would be one, but we don't see or feel it,\" says Oleksandr, a Ukrainian soldier.\n\nThe constant bangs of incoming artillery reinforce his point. Then, a shell lands 50 metres away from where we are speaking.\n\nI jump. Oleksandr doesn't flinch. \"What is it all for?\" he asks. A perfectly reasonable question while standing in the almost destroyed main square.\n\nOleksandr says he has seen no real impact of the ceasefire on the ground\n\n\"Everything is being ruined. Civilians are killed, soldiers are killed, our people are dying.\"\n\nRussian forces are on the eastern edge of the city a little over a mile away. They've thrown everything at trying to take Bakhmut since the summer in an attempt to push further west, but the city hasn't fallen.\n\nOn Thursday, Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire which he said his troops would observe across the front line.\n\nIt would run from Friday at midday until midnight on Saturday. He claimed it was so Orthodox Christians could celebrate Christmas.\n\nUkraine almost immediately rejected it. It certainly doesn't seem like a day worth marking for those left in Bakhmut.\n\nAs he rakes leaves into a bin, Sergiy - a civilian - proves me wrong.\n\n\"You wouldn't wish this even to your enemy, but we've celebrated Christmas as usual,\" he says.\n\n\"We had a Christmas tree and decorations, but it was in the basement though.\"\n\nSergiy is one of the few civilians left in Bakhmut\n\nYou don't expect to meet anyone who isn't a soldier inside the city. Only a couple of thousand people are left here out of an original population of 50,000.\n\nMilitary vehicles drive with urgency along the icy roads. We can't stay in the same place for more than five minutes. Hanging around would make us a target.\n\nIt's hard to imagine the shelling being more intense, but Sergiy claims it's relatively calm.\n\n\"Do you see that missing roof?\" he asks. \"That was loud. Where the bus depot was hit, that was loud. When this lamp post was hit, that was loud. So, this is quiet.\"\n\nAs a tip of the iceberg, Vladimir Putin's declaration of a truce was significant. It's the first time such language has been used by either side since the start of the full-scale invasion.\n\nEastern Ukraine, however, is no stranger to war. It's been the focal point of Russia's aggression since 2014 after Moscow first backed separatist militants here.\n\nThere have been numerous attempted ceasefires over the years too. Most have failed, and few in Bakhmut expected any respite on this occasion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He was in a terrible state and very lucky to be alive'\n\nThe sister of a man who is facing a large medical bill after a motorbike crash in Thailand has urged others to check their travel insurance policies.\n\nThe Boxing Day crash left 28-year-old Adam Davies with serious injuries, including a fractured skull.\n\nAdam, from Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, now faces large medical costs which are not covered by his travel insurance.\n\nHis provider, Lloyds Bank encouraged customers to check the terms and conditions of their insurance.\n\nAdam's family have raised £20,000 to pay for treatment, but have warned others to check their policy's fine print.\n\nAdam's sister Jess Davies, 30, said while her brother had worldwide travel insurance, the policy would not pay out for medical expenses as he had been away from the UK for more than 31 days.\n\nFollowing the crash on the island of Ko Tao, he remains in a hospital in Koh Samui, with his parents at his bedside.\n\nIn addition to fractures to his skull, he has bleeding on the brain, a punctured lung, broken ribs, a broken clavicle, a broken scapula and a fractured ankle.\n\nJess Davies said her brother had no idea of the clause in his travel insurance policy which meant his medical bills would not be covered\n\n\"He was on a little island and he was driving a scooter and he just, I think he came round a bend and just went straight in to an electric pole,\" said Jess.\n\n\"We didn't find out until it was 24 hours after. He had to be shipped to another island because there was no hospital there and he had multiple injuries, some major injuries and his insurance wouldn't cover him.\"\n\nJess has managed to raise £20,000 for her brother through an online fundraising page, but she is urging other travellers to be more cautious.\n\nAdam's parents, Alison and Graham, are hoping to stay with him in Thailand until he is well enough to travel home to Wales\n\n\"It was something in the small print. He took out an insurance policy which enabled him to travel worldwide, that's how it was sold. But it would only insure him for one country for 31 consecutive days.\"\n\nShe's urged others to study the \"small print\" of policies before travelling.\n\n\"I know it's annoying to look through… nobody really reads the small print, but I urge everybody to do it. Even if it takes half an hour, it's worth it.\n\nFamily friend, Lucie Macleod, 23, said no one expected the policy to have such a clause, which is why it is important to read the whole thing.\n\nLucie Macleod said it felt like a \"no-brainer\" to get travel insurance with your existing bank, but it's important to read the policy\n\n\"Nobody would have ever thought that one of the caveats would be that every 30 days you would have to land back in the UK,\" said Lucie.\n\n\"It was worldwide insurance, and for a year. It seemed convenient to have the same bank and same insurance. Everybody should definitely read the small print.\"\n\nJess has thanked the hundreds of people that have raised the more than £20,000 for her brother's medical care.\n\n\"People worldwide have helped out and we're just amazed and overwhelmed by all the help we've had really and the support,\" she added.\n\n\"It reached the target within 24 hours, which was £15,000, and it's up to £20,000 now and keeps on climbing. We are just so grateful and so blessed to have all this help and support.\"\n\nAdam Davies bought worldwide travel insurance for a trip to Thailand, but was caught out by a clause after he was injured\n\nAdam's parents, Alison and Graham, are hoping to stay in Thailand until he is well enough to travel home to Wales.\n\nA spokesperson for Lloyds Bank, Adam's insurer, said: \"We would always encourage customers looking to travel abroad for an extended period of time to check the terms and conditions of their insurance, whether that's been provided through their bank account or purchased separately.\n\n\"Most providers, including Lloyds Bank, will make it clear what is covered under your policy when you first take it out, and send annual reminders to make sure it remains suitable for you.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead in fire at New County Hotel in Perth\n\nThree people have died after a fire broke out at a Perth hotel.\n\nEmergency services including 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire engines were called to the New County Hotel on County Place at about 05:10.\n\nHotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated and police set up a cordon, urging members of the public to avoid the area.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nJust before midday, police began removing them from blue tents close to the hotel into a private ambulance.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said a dog also died in the fatal blaze.\n\nJason Sharp, the area's senior fire officer, said firefighters had worked hard to rescue a number of casualties from the building before transferring them into the care of paramedics.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale arrived at the scene of the fire\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale, who is deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council told BBC Scotland News: \"The loss of three people in a dreadful fire is truly shocking and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the deceased.\"\n\nHe added that council staff were supporting neighbouring residents, hotel staff and guests - who were being looked after in another city centre hotel.\n\nAlthough the road closure had caused disruption for people and businesses, Mr Drysdale said it was essential for emergency services to preserve the scene.\n\nHe added: \"There have been three deaths and the investigation has to take its course. I'm sorry to people and indeed businesses on the street that have been affected. I'm sure everything is being done to restore access as soon as possible.\"", "The bans come as 2 billion in China are expected to travel for the Lunar New Year over the next 40 days\n\nChina has taken down more than 1,000 social media accounts - some with millions of followers - that criticised the government's Covid policies.\n\nSocial media platform Weibo said it had suspended or banned accounts for what it described as personal attacks against Chinese Covid specialists.\n\nWeibo did not specify which posts had prompted the action.\n\nChina scrapped its strict zero-Covid policy in December and has seen a rapid surge of infections and deaths.\n\nOnline criticism has until recently largely focused on the strict enforcement of Covid regulations, including lockdowns that required people to stay at home in isolation for weeks.\n\nBut recent posts have taken aim at experts who have defended the sudden decision to drop restrictions, despite supporting them just weeks ago.\n\nWeibo said it had spotted almost 13,000 violations, including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers. Temporary or permanent bans have been handed to 1,120 accounts.\n\n\"It is not acceptable to hurl insults at people who hold a different point of view, or publish personal attacks and views that incite conflicts,\" Weibo said in a statement.\n\nAny kind of move that is destructive to the [Weibo] community would be handled in a serious manner.\"\n\nSince China abandoned key parts of zero-Covid following historic protests against the policy, there have been reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed.\n\nBut China has stopped publishing daily cases data and has announced only 22 Covid deaths since December, using its own strict criteria.\n\nOn Saturday, China marked the first day of the 40-day period of Lunar New Year, known as the world's largest annual migration of people.\n\nThe Ministry of Transport said it expects more than two billion passengers to travel over the next 40 days, an increase of 99.5% year-on-year and reaching 70% of trip numbers in 2019.\n\nThis has led to widespread concerns that the festival may see another wave of infections, especially in rural areas that are less well-equipped with ICU beds and ventilators.\n\nFrom Sunday, China will drop a requirement for travellers coming from abroad to quarantine, meaning many Chinese will be able to travel abroad for the first time in almost three years.", "Further strikes could be looming\n\nThe Scottish government said there is \"potential scope for compromise\" following talks with teaching unions in a bid to prevent further strikes.\n\nThe Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SCNT) will meet on Monday to discuss pay deal options.\n\nUnions rejected a 5% increase, arguing for 10%. The offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest paid staff.\n\nMembers of the EIS, NASUWT, SSTA and the AHDS trade unions are due to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.\n\nStaff in primary schools will walk out on Tuesday followed by secondary school teachers on Wednesday.\n\nSchools across Scotland are expected to shut during the industrial action.\n\nThe SNCT brings unions, the government and councils together to negotiate teachers' pay.\n\nThe EIS said it hoped the meeting, which was called at the request of the unions, would advance discussions towards a new offer.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said talks held between the Scottish government and unions on Friday were \"constructive and helpful\".\n\nShe said: \"I took the opportunity to make clear how much I value our teaching workforce and recognise the vital importance of reaching a fair and affordable settlement on pay.\n\n\"We are open to considering options to resolve this dispute, through the SNCT, and potential scope for compromise.\n\n\"I recognise that any deal must be fair and affordable for all concerned, given the unprecedented pressures facing Scotland's budget.\"\n\nTeachers protested outside of the Scottish parliament during November's walk out\n\nMs Somerville added she hoped unions would reconsider their plans for industrial action while talks were ongoing.\n\nShe said: \"Strikes in our schools are in no one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\"\n\nCosla spokeswoman for resources Katie Hagmann said there was no additional funding available for an improved pay offer due to financial pressures.\n\nBut she acknowledged that reaching a \"fair and affordable pay deal\" would protect the workforce and those in education.\n\nShe added: \"I do however, look forward to maintaining constructive and proactive dialogue, which considers all options available, with all parties so that we limit any further disruption for pupils, parents and carers, which we all agree is in no one's best interests.\"\n\nDes Morris, EIS salaries convener and chair of the teachers' side of the SNCT, said planned strike action would proceed in the absence of a new and improved offer.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross criticised the education secretary for not doing enough to avert strike action.\n\nHe said: \"We know that Shirley-Anne Somerville has done very little with the teacher unions to reach a resolution on this.\n\n\"And that's why for the first time in decades we saw teachers striking at the tail end of last year.\n\n\"Has anyone heard from the SNP education minister over the Christmas period about what she and her government are trying to do to avert these strikes in the new year? Nothing, not a single thing - it's unacceptable.\"\n\nEarlier, Higher and Further Education Minister Jamie Hepburn said Scottish teachers would be the \"best paid in the UK\".\n\nMr Hepburn told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"If you actually look at what we have offered, it is a 6.85% uplift for the lowest paid teachers, 5% for most and £3,000 for those earning £60,000 or more.\n\n\"That would represent a 21.8% cumulative pay increase for most teachers since 2018.\"\n\nHe said the current offer was \"very fair and affordable\".\n\nNext week's industrial action follows the biggest Scottish teachers strike in decades in November.\n\nTeaching unions in England and Wales are also balloting members over pay.\n\nMost state school teachers in England and Wales had a 5% rise this year, and many teachers in Northern Ireland have been offered 3.2% over the past two years.\n\nUnions argue that with inflation at 10.7%, these increases amount to a real-terms pay cut.\n\nScotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, dismissed the offer as \"insulting\".\n\nThe SSTA said the Scottish government must \"act and negotiate sensibly\" if it values teachers.\n\nNASUWT said the dispute would only end when a \"substantially improved pay offer\" was on the table.\n\nThere now seems to be little realistic chance of averting next week's teachers' strike.\n\nDespite the warm language from the government there was, as expected, no new pay offer today.\n\nA meeting of the committee which negotiates teachers' pay will take place on Monday at the unions' request.\n\nBut a fresh pay offer then would seem unlikely too. The most the unions hope for is that the meeting will advance discussions toward a new offer.\n\nRealistically it would be hard to stop school closures on Tuesday, even if there was a breakthrough on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe unions have a number of concerns about the current pay offer.\n\nFirstly, it simply fails to keep pace with inflation.\n\nSecondly, the offer is differentiated - with higher percentage rises for those on the lowest salaries.\n\nThirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000. The unions do not want the gap between those in senior posts and classroom teachers to be eroded - in part to ensure these posts can be filled.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you a parent who is affected by the industrial action? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Braemar had its coldest night since February 2021\n\nScotland is on course for its coldest December in over a decade after the UK's lowest maximum temperature for 12 years was recorded in Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the highest temperature recorded in Braemar was -9.3C after overnight temperatures plummeted to -15.7C.\n\nBBC Weather's Simon King said it was the coldest night since February 2021.\n\nA yellow warning for ice and snow currently covers northern Scotland with the cold spell set to last for 10 days.\n\nA further yellow warning has been issued for the same area from midnight on Tuesday until 12:00 on Thursday.\n\nSnow ploughs were out in force in the Cairngorms National Park near Aviemore\n\nBBC Scotland Weather reporter Kirsteen Macdonald said the 10-day cold spell would make it the coldest December since 2010.\n\nShe added: \"Cold weather isn't at all unusual for the time of year but, given that we experienced a record-breaking mild November, this continued cold spell may come as a shock to people, at a time of great worry regarding energy bills and the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nMeanwhile, about 2,000 properties across Shetland were without electricity on Monday evening after a power cut.\n\nResidents faced a bitterly cold night as SSEN said supplies may only be restored by 11:00 on Tuesday.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was aware that people in the Burravoe and Bressay areas may not be able to make 999 calls from their landline but added that mobile phones should not be affected.\n\nThe extreme cold has also forced the closure of all schools and early learning settings across the isles on Tuesday, with the sole exception of Fair Isle.\n\nShetland Island Council confirmed the precautionary measure due to uncertainty over the impact the weather may have on school transport and power supplies.\n\nThe Met Office is also warning of ice and fog around the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nIt has led to a number of school closures in the Highlands and disruption to rail services.\n\nNetwork Rail said icicles in tunnels were causing overhead line and signalling faults at Edinburgh Haymarket before they were cleared by staff.\n\nScotRail has reported \"disruption across the network\".\n\nMany rural areas saw temperatures dip to minus double figures.\n\nBalmoral came in at -13.5C, followed by Aviemore at -13.0C, Dalwhinnie at -12.0C, Kinbrace at -11.2C, Fyvie Castle at -11.0C, Altnaharra at -10.5C, and both Tulloch Bridge and Drumalbin at -10.1C.\n\nIn Glasgow temperatures fell to -7.2C and to -6.7C in Edinburgh.\n\nSnow gates were closed on the A939 overnight\n\nSnowfall caused the closure of the snow gates at the A939 at Cock Bridge and the A939 at Tomintoul.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, Drummore School near Stranraer and Penpont School have been closed due to snow and ice issues, while police are warning people not to try to walk on parts of the River Nith which have frozen in Dumfries.\n\nGraeme McLatchie told BBC Scotland how he was forced to spend the night at Luton airport after his flight to Glasgow was cancelled.\n\nHe said: \"We were supposed to be on the 6pm from Luton back to Glasgow, with EasyJet. They eventually cancelled the flight after 11pm with little-to-no communication, along with other flights to Inverness and Aberdeen.\n\n\"I understand the weather conditions made it difficult but it was all done so late that there was no option but to sleep at the airport.\"\n\nMr McLatchie, 44, who lives in Paisley, is now on the train back to Scotland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Coldest night of 2022 as Scots struggle with bills", "With timing that Labour is gleefully pointing out, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's promise to sort out the NHS came on the anniversary of a different vow from one of his predecessors.\n\nThe Conservative leader then was David Cameron who promised in 2010 that he would sort out the nation's finances, and \"cut the deficit, not the NHS\".\n\nThe promise came after a long stint of hard work by his tribe of Tory modernisers to \"detoxify\" the party's brand, to use the language of the day.\n\nAbsolutely core to that was to persuade the public to trust the Conservatives with the health service - which is never far from the top of the list of voters' concerns.\n\nFast-forward to the start of 2023 and the NHS is again high on the list of the public's concerns. It is creaking and struggling with the data nearly all pointing in the wrong direction.\n\nDay after day stories emerge of delays and distress in emergency departments around the country, with doctors warning that people are dying unnecessarily because they just cannot treat them in time. Countless families around the country have their own horror stories.\n\nThe Conservative Party has been spending enormous amounts of taxpayers' cash on the NHS and Mr Sunak is keen to talk about the steps that he is trying to take, including Saturday's meeting of health leaders which he convened at No 10 to work out what could ease the strain.\n\nBut again, there is a pressure on him and his party to demonstrate to the public that they can translate the cash and pledges of commitment into a service that really provides for patients when they need it - that they can get the sick out of ambulances, into beds, and given the treatment they need.\n\nProving that though looks hard, very hard. That's not just because of the significant hangover from the pandemic, nor down to the serious outbreak of flu this winter.\n\nBut it is worth remembering that a high level of demand was one of the possible scenarios the NHS planned for.\n\nThere have been months of warnings from health leaders going into this winter, with one senior official saying \"ministers cannot have been surprised\".\n\nMore cash has gone in, but as our health correspondent Nick Triggle explains here, the huge cheques for health spending have not kept pace with demand or inflation.\n\nThe problems have been brewing for a long time: the Accident and Emergency target which says people should be seen within four hours has not been met since 2015.\n\nMr Sunak might want to fix the problems of today but their roots stretch back further than the pandemic. There are fewer beds and more staff shortages.\n\nOne of our viewers who got in touch with us won't be the only person in the country to be asking \"how have they allowed this to happen?\".\n\nSecond, there's perhaps a mismatch between the sense of the action the government wants to take now and the scale of the issues.\n\nThe government disputes the suggestion that at least 300 people are dying every week because of delays and overcrowding.\n\nBut it is indisputable that patients are suffering because of what is going on.\n\nMinisters have promised 7,000 extra beds to help cope. But according to NHS sources only around 3,000 of them are available now, with some of them so-called \"virtual beds\" that help people to be treated at home.\n\nThat may well be a smart policy to help in the future but it is hard to see how it can relieve the significant pressure that is in plain sight right now.\n\nMinisters also point to another £500m to deal with social care - but that was promised in the summer and only around half the cash has reached the front line.\n\nThere's another question right now that is being asked of Mr Sunak's government too.\n\nCan the way the health service works really last into the next decade and beyond?\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nScores of politicians would say privately that we need to have a conversation as a country about whether our way of providing health care can survive as medical advances create more amazing but expensive treatments and demand goes up and up as the population lives longer.\n\nThat is a conversation few politicians are willing to have in public - yet.\n\nThere was good reason why David Cameron wrapped himself in affection for the NHS. Even starting a conversation about how it works is politically deeply awkward for the Conservatives.\n\nWhether or not a change to the fundamentals is required, one health leader told me this week it is imperative that we have that debate. But there simply is not much sign of it right now.\n\nIn his first TV interview of the year - his first full-length TV interview since he got the job - I asked the prime minister about whether he can get a grip on what is happening and if the NHS can go on as it is.\n\nYou can watch his response from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer this Sunday.\n\nMr Sunak says he wants to be held to account about what happens, but knowing that even though there are no easy answers, he will be judged.", "Saturday saw yet another day of disruption for rail passengers, with workers in the RMT union continuing their latest 48-hour walkout.\n\nStrike action from driving examiners also continues in some parts of the country.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nSunday is the only strike-free day on the railways this week, but there may still be some knock-on disruption to services. That's because carriages, engines and staff may not be in the right place at the start of the day.\n\nRail services are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n\nAs things stand there are no more major rail strikes scheduled, although both the RMT and Aslef unions have warned there could be further action.\n\nThe unions are expected to meet rail employers and the rail minister on Monday to try to find a way forward.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nStrike action by driving examiners is continuing at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf your driving test is due to take place,, you can check here whether your test centre is affected.\n\nHowever, not all examiners are members of the PCS union so your test may go ahead as planned.\n\nUnless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up.\n\nThe strike by driving examiners is scheduled to continue until Tuesday 10 January.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A retired commanding officer has accused Prince Harry of \"turning against\" his military family after \"having trashed his birth family\".\n\nIn his memoir, the Duke of Sussex describes killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan as \"chess pieces taken off the board\".\n\nEx-colonel Tim Collins said that was \"not how you behave in the army\".\n\nPrince Harry gives details about his time as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan in his memoir Spare.\n\nBBC News has obtained a copy of the book after it was put on sale early in Spain.\n\nIn it, Prince Harry reveals for the first time that he killed 25 enemy fighters - which is perfectly possible after two tours in the Helmand region of the country.\n\n\"It wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed,\" he writes.\n\n\"When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn't think about those as 25 people. You can't kill people if you see them as people.\n\n\"In truth, you can't hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys.\n\n\"They trained me to 'other' them and they trained me well.\"\n\nResponding to the prince's comments, a senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani tweeted: \"Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return...\n\n\"I don't expect that the (International Criminal Court) will summon you or the human rights activists will condemn you, because they are deaf and blind for you.\"\n\nSpeaking to Forces News, retired-commanding officer Colonel Collins condemned the book by calling it a \"tragic money-making scam\".\n\nReferring to Prince Harry's revelation that he killed 25 enemy fighters, Col Collins said: \"That's not how you behave in the Army; it's not how we think.\n\n\"He has badly let the side down. We don't do notches on the rifle butt. We never did.\"\n\nThe ex-colonel, who gained worldwide fame for an eve-of battle speech to troops in Iraq, said: \"Harry has now turned against the other family, the military, that once embraced him having trashed his birth family.\n\nHe accused Prince Harry of choosing an \"alien\" path and of \"pursuing riches he does not need\".\n\n\"In the end, I see only disappointment and misery in his pursuit of riches he does not need and his rejection of family and comradely love that he badly needs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Colonel Richard Kemp says Harry's comments may \"inflame old feelings of revenge\"\n\nEx-army officer Col Richard Kemp, who was sent to Kabul in 2003 to take command of forces in Afghanistan, told the BBC it was unusual but he did not have a problem with Prince Harry revealing his kill number.\n\nHe said soldiers did talk about people they had killed or wounded privately, sometimes as \"a way of almost decompressing after a period of combat\".\n\nOn referring to killed Taliban insurgents as chess pieces, Col Kemp said such comments could give \"propaganda to the enemy\".\n\nHe added the remarks may have undermined Prince Harry's security and could provoke people to take revenge.\n\n\"They're always looking to radicalise people and to recruit people and we've already seen how the Taliban has capitalised on it,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry briefly served as a forward air controller on the ground calling in strikes, before flying Apache helicopters in his second longer tour.\n\nThe US and its Nato allies invaded in October 2001 to oust the Taliban, who they said were harbouring Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda figures linked to the 9/11 attacks\n\nBen McBean, who lost an arm and a leg serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan and was described by Prince Harry as a hero after the pair met at several events, said the royal needed to \"shut up\".\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Love you #PrinceHarry but you need to shut up! Makes you wonder the people he's hanging around with.\n\n\"If it was good people somebody by now would have told him to stop.\"\n\nAnother serviceman still serving told the BBC Harry's comments were \"very unsoldier-like\".\n\nAnd like many military personnel he said he had no interest in keeping count. More often it is those who write books who seem to take more of an interest in their kill statistics.\n\nHarry in his role as a helicopter pilot would have had a better view than most from his cockpit - seeing individuals up close using sensors and screens.\n\nHe would also see the impact of his cannon and hellfire missiles - although clarity would be soon obscured by dust - and he would be able to review footage from the cockpit. But it is not always possible to count bodies on the ground or to distinguish between someone injured or killed.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would not comment on the appropriateness of the prince's 25 kills claim, but added he was \"enormously grateful to our armed forces\".\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesperson, when asked about the prince's kill number, said: \"We do not comment on operational details for security reasons.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has declined to comment on Prince Harry's claims", "Last updated on .From the section Brentford\n\nRomeo Beckham, son of former England captain David, has joined Brentford's B team on loan from Inter Miami II until the end of the season.\n\nBeckham, 20, will link up with Neil MacFarlane's second team \"to continue his development\", the Premier League club said.\n\n\"I'm very proud and very happy to be here,\" said Beckham, who played 20 times for Inter Miami II last season.\n\n\"I'm excited to come here and see what I can do.\"\n\nInter Miami II, the second team at the club which is co-owned by his father, finished sixth in the Eastern Conference last season, with Beckham contributing two goals and 10 assists.\n\nBeckham has trained with Brentford's B team since the conclusion of the 2022 Major League Soccer (MLS) Next Pro season in September.\n\nThe loan move is subject to international clearance.\n\n\"We've been absolutely delighted with Romeo since he arrived with us,\" said Brentford B coach MacFarlane.\n\n\"I love his standards and the way he conducts himself on and off the pitch.\"\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That was easy, huh?\" Kevin McCarthy makes first speech after becoming Speaker\n\nKevin McCarthy has been elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow Republicans come to blows.\n\nIt took 15 rounds of voting for Mr McCarthy to win the job, despite his party having a majority in the chamber.\n\nIt came after a dramatic pressure campaign played out live on the House floor as party rebel Matt Gaetz was urged to vote for Mr McCarthy.\n\nThe Florida Congressman was among six holdouts who relented late on Friday.\n\nEarlier, amid heated scenes in the chamber, Mr Gaetz had almost come to blows with Rep Mike Rogers - a supporter of Mr McCarthy. The Alabama congressman had to be physically restrained by colleagues as he bellowed and jabbed his finger at Mr Gaetz.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Speaker sets the House agenda and oversees legislative business. The post is second in line to the presidency after the US vice-president.\n\nSpeaking after his confirmation, Mr McCarthy wrote on Twitter: \"I hope one thing is clear after this week: I will never give up. And I will never give up for you, the American people.\"\n\nMr McCarthy told reporters that former President Trump had helped him get the final votes: \"I don't think anybody should doubt his influence\".\n\n\"He was with me from the beginning... he would call me and he would call others,\" he said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden congratulated Mr McCarthy for his win and said he looked forward to co-operating with the Republican Party.\n\n\"The American people expect their leaders to govern in a way that puts their needs above all else, and that is what we need to do now,\" he said.\n\nRepublicans have already pledged to launch investigations into Mr Biden's family business dealings and administration.\n\nIn a remarkable turnaround in the 12th round of voting, Mr McCarthy was able to persuade 14 Republican holdouts to cast their vote for him. A 15th rebel followed suit for the 13th ballot.\n\nAfter the 13th ballot was adjourned, Mr McCarthy insisted to reporters that he would \"have the votes\" to take the speakership on the next round.\n\nBut the California congressman was still three votes short of the 217 he needed to take the prized gavel, and in chaotic and dramatic scenes, he again failed to win on the 14th ballot.\n\nThe dissidents included members of the House Freedom Caucus, who argue that Mr McCarthy is not conservative enough to lead them as they work to try to oppose Democratic President Joe Biden's agenda.\n\nMr McCarthy has offered various concessions to the rebels, including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber.\n\nHe also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the Speaker, to only one House member, leading to the possibility that the Republican coalition could easily fracture again even after Mr McCarthy's victory.\n\nAs the last politician on the roll - Montana's Ryan Zinke - voted, the House floor erupted in applause as it became clear Mr McCarthy had finally emerged victorious.\n\nMr McCarthy hugged other representatives and signed autographs, but across the room the Democrats' side was completely silent. No democrat applauded.\n\nSenior Democratic Party lawmakers accused Mr McCarthy of ceding power to an extreme wing of his party and likened the stand-off to the riot exactly two years ago on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters who disrupted Mr Biden's certification as president.\n\n\"Two years ago insurrectionists failed to take over the Capitol,\" Congressman Eric Swalwell wrote on Twitter. \"Tonight Kevin McCarthy let them take over the Republican Party.\"\n\nAnd Virginia Congressman Don Beyer referred to the angry scenes among Republicans that followed the 14th count.\n\n\"Unsettling that this process ends in threats of violence in the House Chamber, on this of all days,\" he said. \"Maybe it didn't determine the outcome, but that is no way to conduct the people's business. A dark and sobering moment will probably be remembered long after this session ends.\"\n\nAfter finally after being handed the Speaker's gavel Mr McCarthy hugged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries\n\nThe minority Democrats had continued to vote in unison for their leader, New York's Hakeem Jeffries, the first black person ever to lead a party in Congress.\n\nFriday was the first day that Mr McCarthy's vote count actually surpassed that of Mr Jeffries.\n\nMr McCarthy opened his acceptance speech joking; \"that was easy, eh?\". He outlined a range of Republican policy objectives that included lowering prices, securing the US-Mexico border and combatting what he described as a \"woke indoctrination\".\n\nHe said one of his primary goals was to stop \"wasteful Washington spending\".\n\nThe lawmakers began leaving the Congress around 02:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday morning - 14 hours after the gavel first rang at noon.\n\nNot since 1860 in the build-up to the American Civil War has the lower chamber of Congress voted this many times to pick a speaker. Back then it took 44 rounds of ballots.\n\nIn November's midterm elections, Republicans won the House by a weaker-than-expected margin of 222 to 212. Democrats retained control of the Senate.", "When he came onto the House floor earlier, Kevin McCarthy was the picture of confidence: smiling and joking with his Republican colleagues. He'd made it clear to reporters earlier that he thought this process would end tonight.\n\nThat confidence has evaporated into the stuffy air of the House floor.\n\nHis smile has been replaced with a scowl - and he and other Republicans are milling about the floor, seemingly in disbelief. Earlier in the day, after all, the momentum seemed to have swung firmly in McCarthy's favour after he managed to flip all but the few last remaining, hardcore holdouts.\n\nIn the second-to-last row, a small crowd has again formed around Matt Gaetz, the man who scuppered McCarthy's hopes tonight.\n\nIn a few minutes, the clerk will begin counting the \"yays\" and \"nays\" on the motion to adjourn until Monday.", "Around 950 people have been arrested in relation to the 6 January 2021 riots, but the FBI is still looking for 300 more individuals believed to have committed violent acts that day\n\nThe partner of a US Capitol Police officer who died a day after the 6 January 2021 riot has sued Donald Trump for wrongful death.\n\nThe lawsuit filed on Thursday says Mr Trump \"intentionally riled up the crowd\" that attacked Brian Sicknick.\n\nPolice have ramped up security on Capitol grounds on the second anniversary of the riots.\n\nHundreds have been convicted so far, but the FBI says there are more at large.\n\nFederal police believe that more than 300 people who committed violent acts that day are yet to be identified.\n\nAmong them is a person responsible for planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the riots.\n\nOn Wednesday, the FBI said it will offer $500,000 (£420,730) to anyone with information that can help them catch the suspect.\n\nThe US Capitol riot erupted two years ago as Congress certified President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.\n\nThe mob stormed the Capitol following a speech from Mr Trump, who was speaking at a rally one mile from the Capitol grounds. In his speech, Mr Trump claimed election fraud and called on then-Vice-President Mike Pence to overturn the results.\n\n\"We're going to walk down to the Capitol,\" Mr Trump said in the speech. \"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\"\n\nIn the same speech he also told them to \"peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard\".\n\nDuring a commemoration event on Thursday at the White House, Mr Biden called the events of 6 January an \"inflection point\" of US history.\n\n\"It's hard to believe that this could happen right here in America,\" he said.\n\n\"January 6 is a reminder that there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy,\" Mr Biden added.\n\nUS Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died one day after the 6 January 2021 riots\n\nOne woman was fatally shot during the riots by a police officer. Three others who were on Capitol grounds that day died from natural causes.\n\nOne of them was Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the riots from a series of strokes.\n\nWhile Mr Sicknick did not suffer any injuries during the riot, a lawsuit filed by his family on Thursday alleges the violent mob played a role in his death.\n\nHis family sued Mr Trump on Thursday for wrongful death, claiming that the former president \"intentionally riled up the crowd\" and that Mr Sicknick died as a result of \"the injuries that violence caused\".\n\n\"Many participants in the attack have since revealed that they were acting on what they believed to be Defendant Trump's direct orders in service of their country,\" the lawsuit states.\n\nThe lawsuit also accuses Mr Trump of violating Mr Sicknick's civil rights, assault and negligence, and is seeking $10m in damages.\n\nMr Trump has not yet commented on the lawsuit.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Biden awarded several presidential citizen's medals to officers who responded to the 6 January riots, including a posthumous medal for Mr Sicknick, saying he \"lost his life after protecting the citadel of democracy.\"\n\nSince the attacks, a Democrat-led congressional probe also examined Mr Trump's role in inciting the riots.\n\nIn December, the US House committee probing the 6 January attack asked federal prosecutors to charge Mr Trump with obstruction and insurrection - marking the first time in US history that Congress referred a former president to be criminally prosecuted.", "The image is believed to be of new mother Constance Marten\n\nPolice searching for a missing couple and their newborn baby have released a CCTV image believed to be of the mother amid fears for their safety.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) has appealed for Constance Marten to make contact and seek medical assistance.\n\nMs Marten, Mark Gordon and their child have been missing since their vehicle broke down near junction 4 of the M61, near Bolton, on Thursday.\n\nThe image is thought to show the new mother outside Harwich Port in Essex.\n\nAfter breaking down, GMP said the family left the vehicle safely and walked towards Anchor Lane bridge which links the Highfield and Little Hulton areas.\n\nGMP believes the new image shows Ms Marten, wrapped in a large red scarf, outside Harwich Port at 09:00 GMT, more than 250 miles (400km) away.\n\nMs Marten and Mark Gordon left their car safely with their newborn near to junction 4 of the M61\n\n\"Our concern is make sure that Constance, Mark and baby are safe and well,\" the force said.\n\nIt said evidence suggests Ms Marten had \"very recently given birth and neither her or the baby have been assessed by medical professionals\".\n\nGMP said Ms Marten and Mr Gordon were both originally from London.\n\nMr Gordon was described as wearing dark clothing while Ms Marten was wearing a burgundy coat. The baby was swaddled.\n\nCh Supt Michaela Kerr previously said: \"As a mum, I would like to make a direct appeal to Constance.\n\n\"Constance, I know this is an exceptionally hard time for you and you are likely feeling scared, but I promise that our number one priority is the same as yours - to keep your beautiful newborn safe.\n\n\"As you know, it's really important that both you and your baby are assessed by medical professionals as soon as possible, so please make contact with emergency services or make your way to your nearest hospital, wherever that may be.\"\n\nShe also appealed to members of the public with any information about the family's whereabouts to \"please do nothing more than contact emergency services\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Couple missing with newborn last seen on motorway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Salva Kiir became the first president of South Sudan - Africa's newest country - in 2011.\n\nSix journalists in South Sudan have been arrested over the circulation of footage appearing to show President Salva Kiir wetting himself, media rights groups say.\n\nIn December, a video shared on social media appeared to show Mr Kiir urinating on himself as the national anthem played at a function.\n\nSix staff from the state broadcaster were detained this week.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is now calling for their release.\n\nPatrick Oyet, president of the South Sudan Union of Journalists, told Reuters that the journalists \"are suspected of having knowledge on how the video of the president urinating himself came out\".\n\nThe South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation says the footage was never aired.\n\nThe arrests match \"a pattern of security personnel resorting to arbitrary detention whenever officials deem coverage unfavourable\", said CPJ's sub-Saharan Africa representative, Muthoki Mumo, calling for their unconditional release.\n\nSouth Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei told Voice of America radio that people should wait to learn why the journalists were detained.\n\nRights groups have frequently called on the South Sudanese authorities to stop harassing and threatening journalists.\n\nMr Kiir became the first president of South Sudan - Africa's newest country - in 2011.\n\nBut the country has suffered numerous crises since then, enduring brutal conflict, political turmoil, natural disasters and hunger.", "Manju Prasanna fled the blaze with his wife and four-year-old daughter\n\nA guest at a Perth hotel where three people died in an early-morning blaze has told of his family's escape from the fire.\n\nManju Prasanna, his wife, and their four-year-old daughter were woken by a guest at the New County Hotel shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nThe family fled outside where they watched the incident unfold on Monday morning.\n\nPolice and fire officers have launched an investigation into the fire's cause.\n\nMr Prasanna, who is from Sri Lanka, was visiting his wife, who is studying at Dundee University.\n\nHe said the family were in their room on the first floor of the hotel, the floor below the area where the fire broke out.\n\nThe 38-year-old said he heard a guest shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nMr Prasanna left the building with his wife and child and saw flames coming from the second floor window.\n\n\"I waited here, me my daughter and my wife - my daughter was afraid and she was crying loudly,\" he said.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nForensic teams have been working at the scene\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10, leading to a huge response from the emergency services, with 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and three bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nA dog also died in the blaze, according to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nJason Sharp, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service area commander for Perth, Kinross, Angus and Dundee, described it as a \"very complex incident\".\n\n\"Our firefighters worked extremely hard in a very complex and challenging environment to prevent the further spread of fire and damage where possible,\" he said on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"At its height, we had nine fire appliances in attendance with over 60 firefighters.\n\n\"We're currently still in attendance to make sure the scene is safe. I would like to thank our crews and our other emergency partners and local authority for their support.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"", "Lyubomyr Dykun says 95% of his workforce \"have gone to fight\".\n\nHe is the chief executive officer of G-Mak, a Ukrainian-based home security company.\n\nHis idea is similar to Amazon Ring's home security system - but on steroids.\n\nHis company has designed what looks like a small, black box fitted with a camera.\n\nIf it detects an intruder it can fire out tear gas to put off any would-be burglar.\n\n\"Ukrainians know how to defend\" is the company's wry slogan.\n\nHowever, the war has created a huge problem for him. The workforce he had has been decimated.\n\n\"We have lost five people,\" he says, holding back tears.\n\nTrying to create a successful start-up at the best of times is a huge challenge but doing so at a time of war is punishingly difficult.\n\nBombing, the targeting of infrastructure and blackouts are just a few of the challenges of working in Ukraine right now.\n\nAnd yet a delegation of Ukrainian start-ups have made the long journey to Las Vegas, to the world's biggest tech gathering.\n\nFor them CES (The Consumer Electronics Show) is a huge opportunity to meet Western investors.\n\nJust getting to the show has been tough.\n\n\"It took me three days to get here,\" says Artem Didinskyi, the co-founder of online kitchen designer Corner.\n\nUkrainian men under 60 are not allowed to leave the country, so he has had to obtain special permission from Ukrainian authorities to attend.\n\nFor him, the countless neon signs of Las Vegas are a far cry from working in Kyiv - where electricity is a luxury.\n\n\"Sometimes my working day is limited to the battery of my computer… two weeks ago I didn't have any electricity for three days,\" he says.\n\nArtem has found a solution of sorts though. His local gas station has a reliable generator. His office is now a petrol pump forecourt. It is the only way the programmer can work.\n\nHe says he has no heating in his apartment. \"I sleep with my dog in my bed to help keep me warm,\" he says.\n\nMariana Romaniak works for Rekava - a company that makes cutlery out of old coffee beans.\n\nBased near the Russian border, in the town of Sumy (near Kharkiv), her business partner made the difficult decision of moving the company across Ukraine - some 800km (500 miles) - to the city of Lviv.\n\n\"It's very hard now if you're a business in Ukraine,\" she says.\n\nOn top of bombs and electricity shortages Mariana also says it is almost impossible for new companies to get funding\n\n\"All of our big investors and big companies are supporting the army,\" she says.\n\nIt is not all bad news for her company though. Mariana says being in Lviv - close to the border with Poland - has actually helped business.\n\n\"We started to think that maybe it's better for us to be near the European Union - because we can deliver more easily,\" she says.\n\nAnother company, eFarm, is set up to help Ukrainian farmers utilise fertiliser on their fields by using satellite technology.\n\nThe company has pivoted in the last few months though - and is trialling tech that can spot land mines.\n\nTatiana Gorzey from eFarm says 30% of Ukrainian fields have been contaminated. \"If the fields are millions of acres, it's really difficult to check every inch.\"\n\nAs for Lyubomyr, CEO of G-Mak, he is looking to try to produce his home security units in America.\n\nFor him, CES is a vital chance to meet potential investors.\n\nMany of the delegation put a brave face on the war, and hope they can succeed.\n\nAnd if they can, after all the challenges that the war has thrown at them, they have a pretty good shot at succeeding elsewhere too.", "Staff on the front line are becoming increasingly frustrated with those behind the scenes\n\nIt's a week where I have run out of adjectives to describe the crisis that's engulfing the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nEven the word crisis doesn't do justice to what's happening and while disaster seems excessive, calamity belittles the enormity of what's going on.\n\nIf I was allowed to sum it up in my own words - I'd say it's been a hellishly difficult week.\n\nHeadlines, while shocking, capture a system that's beyond broken.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine warned that delays in emergency care could be causing the deaths of up to 500 people in the UK each week.\n\nLocally, BBC News NI revealed an inquiry into eight deaths after ambulance delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A nurse who spent Christmas on the front line describes the pressure\n\nAn emergency department nurse told me his ward resembled a war zone where patients were treated amid scenes of chaos.\n\nAfter I was given access to film inside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast last month, I can verify his words are true.\n\nAmid all the adjectives and numbers, often we forget we are talking about people.\n\nSome patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy\n\nAt the time of writing, 403 men and women were waiting on a hospital bed - that number could fill a small hospital.\n\nOf those, 378 were waiting more than 12 hours.\n\nSpace is limited and staff are trying their best but are exhausted.\n\nThere are many unsettling aspects about this week including that this no longer feels like a temporary glitch.\n\nInstead, the daily reports of trolleys lying head-to-toe, side-by-side is becoming the norm.\n\nIf that continues the shock factor will wear off and overcrowded emergency departments could become acceptable.\n\nThose on the front line are also becoming increasingly and openly frustrated with those behind the scenes who are attempting to fix the problem.\n\nThis week, the Royal College of Emergency Doctors said mitigating measures were \"not working\".\n\nAnother called on commissioners to take four hours to \"road test\" their solutions before introducing them to the \"front-facing team on the shop floor\".\n\nA charity also said decision makers should sit down with those involved in domiciliary care to come up with solutions to tackle the ongoing problems in community care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurses on the picket line last month\n\nBeing outspoken and challenging the system isn't the norm in Northern Ireland. Recent outbursts, however, are an indication of just how much those on the front line are at the end of their tether.\n\nThe problems are 10-fold and I have yet to mention the political stand-off.\n\nHaving a power-sharing executive wouldn't make things perfect, but it would make a difference.\n\nThere would likely be a recurrent budget and people with the authority who can legislate for change.\n\nThe system and those who run it would also be accountable for their actions - at present that's not the case.\n\nIn the meantime, those running the hospitals are firefighting, without making any real proactive changes.\n\nAt the end of a long week, our overwhelmed health service is in much need of some of its own intensive care.\n\nIn fact, some might argue that it's beyond that stage and instead the system against all odds is struggling to be revived in resus.\n\nAs I said earlier, finding the right words to describe such an emotive situation that involves frail elderly people is difficult.\n\nI will sign off by saying at present it feels bleak.", "Forget, for one moment, the allegation of a physical attack by his brother reportedly set out in Prince Harry's upcoming memoir Spare. Put to one side claims of shouting matches and William criticising Harry's new wife.\n\nIt's all good juicy stuff and it reveals - if true - the depths to which the relationship between the brothers fell.\n\nIt is unsurprising that the Palace has held its nose, refusing to comment on private experiences that a fair number of families might have gone through one way or another. The Royal Family, most people agree, deserves some privacy.\n\nBut at the heart of his story is one allegation that has gone entirely unanswered by the Palace - that his family leaked and planted negative stories \"against me and my wife\" to the press.\n\nIn a clip previewing this Sunday's sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex is asked how his desire for privacy sits alongside his tell-all biography.\n\n\"That,\" Harry says, \"would be the accusation from people that don't understand or don't want to believe that my family have been briefing the press.\"\n\nIn happier times: The brothers came together to unveil a statue they commissioned of their late mother Princess Diana in 2021\n\nThe duke said the same sort of thing in last year's Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. There was a deal, he said, between him and William that they would never brief against each other.\n\nHe explained the deal was born out of their experience of their separated parents - Diana and Prince Charles - feeding vicious briefings to the media through third parties.\n\nThen, Harry says, he found out the office they shared, the Kensington Palace communications team that was supposed to speak for and defend both him and his brother, was feeding negative stories to the media. The couples officially split their offices in January 2020.\n\nNo details have emerged as to which stories he means but it's perhaps not hard to guess. Just after the Sussexes' wedding, tales began to emerge about Meghan's behaviour towards Palace staff, about demands she reportedly made over the 2018 ceremony, about how she had made Kate, now the Princess of Wales, cry.\n\nThe brothers and their wives came together briefly for a walkabout in Windsor last year following Queen Elizabeth II's death\n\nHarry's deep dislike of the media, in particular Britain's best-selling newspapers, is well chronicled. But this allegation is something different.\n\nIf you are a member of the Royal Family the deal is you suck up the criticism and let the Palace communications people deal with the flak. You don't speak out, you don't tell your side of the story.\n\nBut Harry claims the very people he was told to rely on to defend him and Meghan were actually feeding negative stories about them to the media.\n\nThere was, in his eyes, no way for the truth to be told while he remained within the Palace machinery. His and Meghan's side of the story, he says, never got told.\n\nAnd worse, behind their backs, he says Palace staff - the people paid to speak for them - were in fact undermining them.\n\nIf this were an allegation made against a government department, a political party, a business or a football team in the public eye, a response would be expected.\n\nThe lack of any response or denial would be taken by many as an admission that the allegation was true.\n\nSo is it true that the office of William and Catherine briefed against Harry and his wife?\n\nNo comment, says the Palace.\n\nCorrection: Prince William and Catherine's office is funded by the Duchy of Cornwall and not taxpayers, as an earlier version of this article said.", "Train passengers in Scotland have been facing further disruption as Network Rail staff resumed strike action.\n\nThe UK-wide industrial action by members of the RMT union took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and is continuing on Friday and Saturday.\n\nScotRail said a very limited service would run on strike days and schedules would also be disrupted on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile engineers have fixed the main rail line between Glasgow and Carlisle after it was damaged by floods.\n\nThe line reopened for passenger trains on Friday, but Network Rail urged customers only to travel if their journey was essential due to services being limited by strike action.\n\nAbout 40,000 Network Rail workers are expected to take part in the nationwide strikes over a pay dispute.\n\nNetwork Rail owns, repairs and develops the railway infrastructure - tracks, bridges, tunnels and signals - and its staff have essential safety roles.\n\nScotRail said the action meant it would not be able to run the vast majority of its services.\n\nOn strike days the train operator will run services on 12 routes across the central belt, Fife and the Borders between 07:30 and 18:30.\n\nThe UK government is planning to introduce anti-strike laws in the current parliamentary session, which would mean unions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, ambulance and rail services.\n\nThe legislation - which would not resolve the current wave of strikes - would apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnions have condemned the proposed restrictions and threatened legal action, while Labour says it would repeal them.\n\nRMT members on the picket line in Glasgow\n\nMeanwhile, engineering on the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs was completed on Thursday.\n\nAn embankment under the railway was damaged during heavy rain last week.\n\nNetwork Rail said its engineers had worked round the clock to remove hundreds of tonnes of landslip material along a 40m (131ft) section of the line.\n\nThey also reinforced the area with more than 300 tonnes of new stone, re-laid the track above and checked signalling in the area.\n\nThe embankment has been reinforced following the landslip\n\nThe same section of track on 31 December following heavy rain\n\nLiam Sumpter, Network Rail's Scotland route director, said: \"Our engineers have worked as quickly as possible to complete these repairs and reopen the railway.\n\n\"We appreciate the inconvenience the closure of the line has caused and we thank everyone for their understanding during these recovery works.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast said a significantly reduced service would operate on Friday and Saturday and urged people travelling to and from Scotland to make their journeys on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday when a full timetable would be operating.", "Fourteen buildings were damaged by Russian missiles on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials\n\nA unilateral ceasefire called by Vladimir Putin appears to have had little effect on the ground, with Ukrainian officials accusing Russians of opening fire in several areas.\n\nA Ukrainian rescue worker was killed in a Russian strike, while Russian state TV said the city of Donetsk was hit.\n\nRussia ordered a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, to coincide with the Orthodox Christmas.\n\nUkraine rejected it saying Moscow might use it to reinforce troops.\n\nRussia's defence ministry insisted it was observing the truce along the entire \"line of contact\", starting at 12:00 Moscow time (09:00 GMT) on Friday.\n\nIt said its forces had only returned fired during the ceasefire when the Ukrainian army had attacked Russian positions.\n\nAir alerts were reported across Ukraine shortly after the purported truce began, and then the governor of Kherson region said a strike on a fire station had left one rescuer dead and four other people wounded in the main city, which was liberated in November by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe eastern city of Kramatorsk also came under attack and more than a dozen buildings were damaged, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nLuhansk regional leader Serhiy Haidai warned that Russia's Christmas truce was \"a lie and a trap\", advising residents not to attend Orthodox Church services or gather in crowded places as the Russians could plan \"terrorist attacks\".\n\nKyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko warned that overnight temperatures in the capital would drop to -11C and called for electricity to be carefully used.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the truce was an attempt to stop his country's military advances in the east of the country, and bring in more men and equipment.\n\nArtillery fire could be heard on both sides of the front line in the eastern city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces have concentrated much of their firepower in an attempt to push west towards Kramatorsk.\n\nRussia's Wagner mercenary group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said this week that Ukrainians had turned every house in the city into a fortress. Satellite images released on Friday revealed the effects of the battle since last August.\n\nAlthough Russian officials insisted the truce remained intact, there was no indication of any significant lull in fighting.\n\n\"We are two and a half hours into this proclaimed ceasefire, and actually the whole territory of Ukraine is under air raid alert. So I think that speaks for itself,\" Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun told the BBC. \"Basically the ceasefire, the Russians are making it up.\"\n\nThe Russian Orthodox Church - the largest of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - celebrates Christmas Day on 7 January, according to the Julian calendar.\n\nSome people in Ukraine celebrate Christmas on 25 December, others on 7 January. Both days are public holidays in the country.\n\nThis year, for the first time, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine said it would allow its congregations to celebrate Christmas on 25 December, as do some other denominations in western Ukraine.", "Macauley Owen has been described as \"always hard working, happy, smiling, laughing and joking\"\n\nTributes have been paid to a man who died following an incident on a farm.\n\nThe 26-year-old, named locally as Macauley Owen, died in hospital on Friday after being seriously injured on Tuesday at Carreglefn, near Amlwch, Anglesey.\n\nMr Owen has been described as \"always hard working, happy, smiling, laughing and joking\" by his childhood friend Osian Evans.\n\n\"God took another angel home,\" he said, in a Facebook tribute.\n\nMr Evans said his friend passed away peacefully at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.\n\nIn the tribute, Mr Evans wrote that he would \"always cherish the moments, memories and laughter we had over the long years of friendship\".\n\n\"It's never going to be the same without you,\" he added.\n\nOther people who knew Mr Owen added personal messages to the online tribute and also offered their condolences to his family.\n\nHe was described by many as a hard worker known for his great skills with machinery.\n\nNorth Wales Police was called to the farm on Tuesday at 21:15 GMT.\n\n\"The man was taken to Stoke Hospital following the incident but has now sadly died following his injuries,\" said the force, in a statement on Friday.\n\n\"The man's family and the coroner have been informed.\n\n\"Police will continue to assist the coroner in their investigations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of McDonald's has warned staff to expect job cuts in a huge reorganisation that will also see it speed up plans for new restaurants.\n\nIts boss Chris Kempczinski said the fast food giant was being hurt by an \"outdated and self-limiting\" structure.\n\n\"We are trying to solve the same problems multiple times, aren't always sharing ideas,\" he said.\n\nIn a letter sent to employees globally, it said it would review corporate staffing levels by April.\n\n\"There will be difficult discussions and decisions ahead,\" the memo said.\n\nMcDonald's employs about 200,000 people in corporate roles and its owned restaurants, with 75% of them outside located outside of the US.\n\nIts chief executive also announced that certain projects will be stopped altogether.\n\n\"This will help us move faster as an organization, while reducing our global costs and freeing up resources to invest in our growth,\" he wrote in to the letter to staff, which was shared with investors.\n\nThe firm did not provide details about the scope of the job cuts being looked at, or say which projects might be affected.\n\nBut in an interview with the Wall Street Journal newspaper, Mr Kempczinski said he did not have a fixed goal for the number of cuts.\n\n\"Some jobs that are existing today are either going to get moved or those jobs may go away,\" he said.\n\nAs part of the new strategy, Mr Kempczinski said the company wants to push to open more restaurants \"to fully capture the increased demand we've driven over the past few years\".\n\nAlthough dining generally suffered during the pandemic, McDonald's has benefited from investments the firm made in online ordering and home deliveries.\n\nIn the first nine months of the year, McDonald's saw sales rise 6%, helped by price increases to items like its cheeseburgers.\n\nBut its profits overseas have been hurt by the rise of the dollar and the exit from Ukraine.\n\nDuring its most recent update to investors in October, the firm said rising prices were also posing challenges, noting that at many of its restaurants - which are operated by franchisees - there was \"increasing uncertainty and unease about the economic environment\".\n\nThe Chicago-based company operates in more than 160 countries around the world.\n\nIt said earlier this week it would be pulling out of Kazakhstan, which borders Russia, pointing to supply chain issues sparked by the war in Ukraine.\n\nMcDonald's pledged to leave Russia in May after setting up there 32 years ago - the latest change after several years of upheaval in the restaurant industry.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 December - 6 January.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRobert Booth photographed a drawing on a whitewashed window in Dundee, \"the comic capital of Scotland\".\n\nA rainbow at Traigh Beach, near Mallaig. \"Made a bike ride in the pouring rain worth it,\" said Mark Slattery.\n\n\"A partridge having a break from its pear tree,\" said Jeff How in Penicuik, Midlothian.\n\nKarin Cudworth captured the scene on Tweed Green, Peebles, the morning after heavy flooding.\n\nCallum Malone photographed the flooding in Dumfries following heavy downpours.\n\nChristine Smith enjoyed a New Year's Eve stroll with friends along the banks of the river Earn in Comrie, \"before Hogmanay celebrating started\".\n\n\"I saw this highland cow up the Pentlands on New Year's Eve,\" Ross McLennan said. \"I am not sure if he is sticking his tongue out or if it’s a party horn for New Year.\"\n\nDaniel Arnold snapped this bold mountain biker at the Storr, Skye, on Hogmanay.\n\n\"We took full advantage of a break in the weather on New Year's Eve to ascend Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis,\" said Jozed Tkocz. Pictured is \"the intrepid\" Tom Golden.\n\nMhairi Young captured the scene near Staffin on Skye an hour out from the bells.\n\nByron Tilly got this shot of the Hogmanay fireworks show at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\n\"The Biggar bonfire to welcome in 2023,\" Mark Murphy said.\n\nAlana Smith captured the spectacular scene at Edinburgh Castle on Hogmanay.\n\n\"We lost our brother in 2022, he loved a pint of Stout,\" Guy Fraser said. \"I was drawn to this whilst out walking, maybe a wee message from him.\"\n\n\"A beautiful crisp start to the New Year at Troon Parkrun,\" said Alex Mullen.\n\nA message in the sand at Niseaboist Beach, Isle of Harris, captured by Louisa McLennan. The message was written in sand and seaweed by local families as part of a West Harris Trust community event.\n\nYvonne Manson, from Cardenden, Fife, captured the scene \"on our traditional New Year’s Day walk\".\n\nWest Bay, North Berwick, hosted its traditional Loony Dook event on New Year's Day. \"A spontaneous community gathering which has been going for as long as people can remember,\" said Matthew Gibbons.\n\n\"I climbed Ben Lomond on New Year's Day and was rewarded with a cloud inversion and the rare phenomenon known as a snowbow,\" said Alan FIndlay.\n\nSteven Clark grabbed this shot on New Year's Day just outside Braemar. \"It was like time had stopped,\" he said.\n\nThe scene at Salisbury Crags on New Year's Day, captured by Stephanie Land.\n\nA bird's-eye view of Lochan Uaine, near Aviemore, taken by Johnny MacAulay on New Year's Day.\n\nStuart Miller took this picture in Carnoustie. \"The interesting rock, reflection and the moon at the top makes a triple lunar landscape,\" he said.\n\nThe lighthouse at Rua Reigh, near Gairloch. \"The sun reflecting from the glass gave the impression the lighthouse was operational,\" said Jane Sayliss.\n\nGareth Holroyd took this photo during a trip to Glencoe.\n\nAndy Condron photographed this scene on New Year's Day \"of January of Jupiter sitting above the Pap of Glencoe with its reflection shimmering on the cold, still waters of Loch Leven\".\n\nSalvatore Carida snapped this photograph of a frozen drop on Knock Hill. \"I was amused and surprised about the unusual pointed shape of the drop, as it has been frozen instantaneously while falling off the tree,\" he said.\n\n\"Stirling Castle looking stunning at sunrise with Stuc á Chroin and Ben Vorlich,\" said Ian Barnes. \"I’m glad I got out of bed early to take this.\"\n\n\"Two cows having a nice kiss,\" by Dave Lowe during a trip to Elgol, Skye.\n\n\"My little ray of sunshine,\" said Bex Jackson, who snapped this image of her dog Oki on Lamlash Beach, Arran.\n\n\"I watched this otter chilling out in Brodick on the Isle of Arran,\" said Brian Gallagher.\n\n\"Peace perfect peace,\" said Liz Rodger, who got this shot of a still Loch Ard\n\n\"A stunning sight,\" said Adrian Plumb, who took this picture in Fife overlooking the Firth of Forth at sunset.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Good conditions have given the Lecht a strong start to the season\n\nScotland's ski resorts are enjoying a strong start to the season as some resorts elsewhere in Europe struggle for snow.\n\nRelative warmth has been far from ideal for some resorts in countries such as France and Switzerland.\n\nHowever, at venues such as the Lecht Ski Centre in Aberdeenshire, business is booming.\n\nThe blue skies of 2 January saw it so busy they had to stop selling tickets for only the second time in 45 years.\n\nPieter du Pon, chairman of the Lecht Ski Company, said the season was off to a \"very good start\".\n\nPieter du Pon, chairman of the Lecht Ski Company, said good luck with the weather would come and go\n\n\"Christmas is a peak period, there are a lot of kids on holiday.\n\n\"We specialise in families and small children learning to ski up here.\"\n\nHe said: \"Just listening, there are a lot of English voices around.\n\n\"I don't want to gloat too much, but yes it's nice that we've got snow.\"\n\nSkiers pass on a small layer of artificial snow in Leysin, Switzerland\n\nHe explained: \"I would imagine the higher resorts in the Alps will be fine, it's the lower ones, snow has not fallen quite often in many places.\n\n\"We look at a 10-day forecast. In a week's time in could disappear. We were very lucky this Christmas period.\n\n\"It comes and goes. We'll see how the rest of the season goes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, people heading to the hills are being urged to be well-prepared by mountain rescue experts.\n\nInsp Matt Smith, the Police Scotland Mountain Rescue national lead, said smart phone technology has benefits but did have some drawbacks.\n\n\"The first one is battery life, when it's cold,\" he said.\n\n\"You still need an ability to navigate. You need a map and compass in your bag.\"\n\nInsp Smith said conditions could deteriorate from a car park to being up in the hills.\n\nHe said this meant crampons and an ice axe were also needed.", "Covid cases are once again increasing\n\nCovid-19 infection rates are at their highest since last July with one in 25 estimated to have the infection, according to new figures.\n\nMeanwhile, hospitalisations for flu in Scotland reached the highest level in five years over Christmas.\n\nPublic Health Scotland's weekly update reveals nine of the 14 health boards are considered to be experiencing \"extraordinary\" levels of flu.\n\nIt also shows hospital admission rates are highest in children under one.\n\nThe ONS Covid infection survey estimates an average of 213,100 people were infected on any given day in the week up to 28 December.\n\nFigures from the National Records of Scotland also show there were 67 Covid deaths in the week ending 6 January, which is higher than the previous week.\n\nAlthough levels are much higher than last week when the estimate was one in 40 people, Scotland is currently believed to have the lowest levels of Covid-19 in the UK.\n\nFigures say one in 20 people in England are believed to be infected, as well as one in 18 people in Wales.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the data showed one in 16 people had tested positive - but this was for the week ending 22 December.\n\nCovid and flu are putting pressure on hospitals\n\nMichelle Bowen, head of health surveillance dissemination and strategy for the ONS said: \"Infections have risen across the whole of the UK.\n\n\"In England, Wales and Scotland, cases are at the highest they have been since July 2022, and the highest they have been since March 2022 in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nShe added that the organisation would \"continue to monitor the data closely\".\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nPublic Health Scotland's weekly update on influenza shows there were 2,279 influenza cases.\n\nThe hospitalisation rate for flu has been on the rise since the middle of 2022 and in the second last week of 2022 it was higher than any week since the beginning of the 2016-2017 season.\n\nThe data also showed that in week 52, the most admissions were in patients aged less than one year old - about 13 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme that these numbers were to be predicted following the festive period.\n\nShe said: \"We always knew the winter period was going to be tricky.\n\n\"It is likely infection is going to spread and our efforts have not been about controlling infection, but more geared towards protecting people from the serious affects of Covid.\"\n\nChildren under one are the largest group ending up in hospital with the flu virus\n\nMs Evans described the flu situation as a cause for concern.\n\nShe said: \"That is a worry and flu is nasty because it affects the most vulnerable - those very young children and older people.\n\n\"It has a wider impact on the population too, and the possibility of illnesses following on from flu.\"\n\nMs Evans added that one of the reasons the population is so susceptible to flu this year is because people have been protecting themselves against the effects of Covid.\n\nShe said: \"Our immunity is lower and we are more susceptible to catching it.\n\n\"We are also hearing about the possibility of new variants of Covid but I think mainly what we are seeing is the result of more people mixing and socialising.\"\n\nMs Evans also told the programme the prevalence of both respiratory infections was \"a worsening situation\".\n\nShe said: \"We need to take stock next week but there is no doubt about it - we are feeling the effects of respiratory infections within hospitals.\n\n\"The main thing we can do at the moment is to consider the effects of these infections and how we protect the most vulnerable in society.\"\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, virologist at the University of Brighton's Institute of Biomedical Sciences told BBC Scotland a new sub variant of Covid -19 called XBB 1.5 is beginning to emerge in the UK.\n\nShe said' \"It is a variation of the theme of Omicron. It seems to be a bit more infectious.\n\n\"It has taken off quite dramatically in the US and is starting to account for a higher number over here in Europe.\"\n\nDr Pitt said that as with previous variants, she expected vaccine protection and previous infection to give some protection from serious illness.\n\nShe added: \"We should just be aware of it because it is super infectious.\"", "A prosthetic leg, false teeth and a camel saddle are among some of the more bizarre items received by charity shops\n\nUsed sex toys, taxidermy pets, someone's ashes and a teapot full of mouldy tea - these are just some of the bizarre donations charity shops say they have received.\n\nWith the annual January declutter in full swing following Christmas' influx of toys and general detritus, many households may be thinking of donating to their local charity shop.\n\nSo what donations are charity shops hoping for?\n\nAnd what items could they live without?\n\nStacey Dyer, who works in the Ty Hafan shop in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, says staff have become accustomed to \"wacky and crazy donations\".\n\n\"We've had a prosthetic leg donated with a shoe still attached to it,\" she said.\n\nStacey works for Ty Hafan, which provides palliative care for children with life-limiting conditions at its hospice in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nShe said recently a woman donated her son's jeans without realising he was keeping his Christmas savings in the back pocket.\n\n\"She phoned up up frantic… we had to go through all the donations and luckily we did find it,\" she said.\n\nAt Halloween the shop was donated a very realistic severed hand.\n\n\"It was very scary because when it came out the bag we were like 'is this actually a hand?' but it was just very, very authentic looking,\" she said.\n\n\"False teeth is a common one,\" said Maggie Hamilton, a retail area manager for Tenovus Cancer Care, which covers south Wales.\n\n\"We recently received a teapot with the tea in it and the water, and you kind of think 'how did you do that? Did you just take it off the side of the kitchen and just bring it in?'\n\n\"It managed to come to us all the way with the tea bags and the water still in it, but it wasn't fresh, it was quite mouldy.\"\n\nAngela Whelan is head of retail for Hope House Children's Hospices which support seriously ill children in Shropshire, Cheshire, Powys and north Wales.\n\nShe said a few years ago their Chester shop was donated a saddle for a camel.\n\n\"That was really amazing and sold very quickly actually, so we were really surprised about that one,\" she said.\n\nThey recently received some Ferrari parts which sold very well on the charity's eBay site.\n\nPatrick Jackson, a regional manager for British Red Cross, said: \"We unfortunately have used sex toys that have been donated.\n\nVolunteer Rachel Boo working on a window display for the British Red Cross shop in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"We've had stuffed family pets that have been donated, people's ashes, false teeth… black bin bags of household waste that has somehow accidentally been donated to us.\"\n\nPatrick, who looks after the charity's shops in south east Wales and along the M4 corridor up to Oxfordshire, said some of the donations leave him baffled.\n\n\"I don't know if it's people accidentally donating things or not paying attention or they're doing it for a laugh,\" he said.\n\n\"It certainly sparks a bit of a conversation with everyone in our stock rooms, people have a laugh and a giggle, but we've got to be mindful that it's got to be a safe environment for our teams to work in.\"\n\nHe said they had also been donated some incredibly generous high-value items.\n\n\"We've had people donate a yacht to the charity,\" he said.\n\nMaggie Hamilton (left) and shop manager Paula Hughes outside Tenovus's shop in Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf\n\nMaggie said the Tenovus shop in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, had recently received rugby shirts signed by the players from the Barbarians vs New Zealand game in 1973 where Gareth Edwards is widely considered to have scored one of the greatest tries ever.\n\nAnother \"hugely generous\" item donated to its Cardiff shop last year was a special edition of James Joyce's Ulysses which fetched £750 at auction.\n\nSo what donations are charity shops looking for?\n\n\"We're grateful for any donations but clothing is our big seller,\" said Stacey,\n\nShe is hoping people will consider donating any unwanted Christmas presents,.\n\nAngela said Hope House loved receiving donations of \"fashion for all the family\", as well as accessories, jewellery, homeware, kitchen accessories and unwanted gifts such as toiletries.\n\n\"If you're thinking 'yes, I would buy this' it should be a donation because that means that we can definitely sell it,\" she said.\n\nMaggie said since the Covid pandemic the growth areas for her shops were women's and men's clothing, books and toys.\n\n\"More people are willing to come to charity shops because they believe in sustainable fashion and want to buy second hand,\" she said.\n\nBut she said they were willing to take \"anything and everything - stamps, coins, clothing, books, pictures - it's all very welcome\".\n\nSo what items would charity shops prefer you left at home?\n\nMaggie said not all of Tenovus's shops were able to take electrical items but those that could were listed on their website.\n\nThey also cannot sell candles or bedding without a safety label.\n\nDonations to charity shop raise money for charity, helped cash-strapped shoppers and save items from going to landfill\n\n\"If something's broken or dirty then people won't buy it,\" she said.\n\nAngela said before making a donation people should consider if the item is still useable.\n\n\"With games if you've got pieces missing it becomes unusable and therefore no good to sell on to our customers,\" she said.\n\n\"We're really looking for that donation that's got that second life to give to somebody else.\"\n\nStacey said receiving soiled, damaged or broken items could be \"quite disheartening\".\n\n\"It costs Ty Hafan tens of thousands of pounds every year trying to get rid of waste that people donate and people might not think that when they donate it to us,\" she said.\n\n\"If it's broken or chipped china and things like that we have to pay to get it disposed of and taken into landfill, so that that's a massive cost, an ever increasing cost for the sector,\" explained Patrick.\n\nHe said another bugbear was people leaving donations outside shops when the shop was closed, something he said had worsened since many recycling centres had become appointment only.\n\n\"A lot of people dump bags and bags [of stuff] outside our doorstep overnight and that's quite a shame, because the rain gets to it, sometimes seagulls or animals will rip open the bags, and when our teams come to the shop first thing in the morning they've got a pile of bags that have been split open and halfway down the street that we've got to clear up first,\" he said.\n\n\"If it's wet we can't even sell it and it's not fit for recycling either.\"\n\nA woman mistakenly donated jeans containing cash saved up for Christmas to Aberdare's Ty Hafan shop\n\nHe said people donating items should always come into charity shops during trading hours so they have an opportunity to register for gift aid, meaning the charity receives an extra 25p for every pound they make on items donated by UK tax payers.\n\nAngela fears the cost-of-living crisis could deter some people from donating.\n\n\"Normally [January] is a good time of year for donations but this year we're sort of worrying about circumstances for everybody… what they can and can't afford to do,\" she said.\n\nShe said some people may choose to sell their unwanted items online rather than donating.\n\nPatrick said the cost-of-living crisis also meant some people who may have otherwise considered volunteering to work in a charity shop were choosing to take paid shop work instead, with the sector as a whole was down 30% in volunteering hours.\n\nPatrick, Maggie, Angela and Stacey all said overall the public were incredibly generous.\n\nDonations not only raise money for charity but also helped cash-strapped shoppers and save items from going to landfill, helping the planet, said Stacey.\n\nShe said: \"You should feel really proud about donating your items, we are so grateful.\"", "Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, even as two of the faith's most populous nations - Russia and Ukraine - continue to fight in Europe's largest conflict since World War Two.\n\nMore than 200 million Christians around the world are associated with Orthodox Churches. Most of them celebrate Christmas on 7 January as they follow the Julian calendar, unlike those Christian denominations which follow the Gregorian calendar.\n\nAnd while the majority of Orthodox Christians are based in eastern Europe, ceremonies and processions have taken place across the world - including in the Middle East where Orthodox Churches are the most common form of Christianity.\n\nAcross Ukraine, celebrations were coloured by the ongoing war. Ukrainian troops fighting near the front line in the Donbas region toasted each other during a brief moment of respite.\n\nIn Kyiv, believers lit candles at St Volodymyr's Cathedral. Millions of other Ukrainians flocked to churches across the country at the end of a brutal year of war.\n\nAt the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, led celebrations. The leader of some 110 million believers, Kirill has been a vocal supporter of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.\n\nInside the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin cut a solitary figure as he attended a service at the Annunciation Cathedral. He had sought to declare a brief ceasefire in Ukraine to mark the occasion, but was rejected by Kyiv.\n\nIn Serbia, people attended the annual bonfire of dried oak branches - the badnjak - the at the Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade. The fire symbolises that built by the shepherds to warm the baby Jesus in his manger.\n\nIn Ethiopia, where there are more than 36 million Orthodox Christians, priests led believers to mark Christmas Eve - or Gena - at Saint Mary's Church in Lalibela.\n\nAnd at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - said to be the birthplace of Jesus - believers gathered to mark one of the most important days in the Orthodox faith.\n\nGreek Orthodox Christians now celebrate Christmas on 25 December but Friday was still a special day - the Feast of the Epiphany. These believers held up a wooden cross after retrieving it from the waters of the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.", "Two men have been hanged in Iran for killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year.\n\nMohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini had appealed against their sentences, saying they had been tortured into making false confessions.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the executions were \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe total number of protesters known to have been executed in the aftermath of the unrest is now four.\n\nDemonstrations against the clerical establishment erupted in September following the death in custody of a woman detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab, or headscarf, \"improperly\".\n\nIran's judicial news agency, Mizan, said the two men were the \"main perpetrators\" in the killing of paramilitary officer Ruhollah Ajamian. Prosecutors say he was stripped naked and killed by a group of mourners paying their respects to a recently killed protester.\n\nThe men were first sentenced to death in December 2022 but they launched appeals after saying they had been tortured.\n\nMohammad Mehdi Karami's family pleaded with authorities to spare his life\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International denounced what it described as a \"sham\" trial and said Iranian authorities were seeking the death penalty for at least 26 others.\n\nThe family of 22-year-old Mr Karami say they were not permitted to meet him before he was killed on Saturday. They had also pleaded with the judiciary to spare his life. \"I beg you please, I ask you... to remove the death penalty from my son's case,\" his father said.\n\nThe UK's James Cleverly urged the Iranian authorities to \"end the violence against its own people\", while the EU said it was \"appalled\" by the use of the death penalty against protesters.\n\nAt least 516 demonstrators including 70 children have been killed so far in the unrest and 19,262 others have been arrested, according to the foreign-based Human Rights Activists' News Agency. It has also reported the deaths of 68 security personnel.\n\nMany of those who have been detained after protests have reportedly been subjected to enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment.\n\nIranian officials describe the protests as \"riots\" and have accused foreign powers of fuelling the unrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests against regime in Iranian city of Zahedan\n\nThree other men have been sentenced to death in the same case, while another 11 received prison sentences.\n\nThe latest hangings follow last month's executions of two other men allegedly involved in attacks on security forces.", "An 18-year-old Afghan refugee was fatally stabbed in a south-west London park by another teenager during a fight over a girl, a court has heard.\n\nHazrat Wali died after being attacked in Craneford Way Playing Fields, Twickenham, on 12 October 2021.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he suffered \"massive and fatal blood loss\" after being stabbed with an 8in (20cm) knife when he and a girl he was with were approached by a group of teenagers.\n\nOn the opening day of the trial, a jury was told Mr Wali had been sitting in the park with a female friend when they were approached by a group of teenagers, including the defendant.\n\nOne of the girls in the group said the pair \"looked nice together\".\n\nThe defendant then began to swear at Mr Wali and the two began to push each other, prosecutor Jacob Hallam KC told the court.\n\nMr Wali died at the scene in Craneford Way Playing Fields\n\nThe jury heard the female friend of Mr Wali's then noticed the 17-year-old, who was aged 16 at the time, was holding a large, black knife, with \"zigzag-shaped indentations\" on the top of the blade.\n\nAs the two teenagers continued to push each other, the 17-year-old stabbed Mr Wali in the right side with the knife, Mr Hallam said.\n\nThe blade pierced Mr Wali's liver and caused \"massive and fatal blood loss\", the prosecutor explained, adding that pathologists analysing the wound found it would have required \"at least moderate force\".\n\nAfter he was stabbed, Mr Wali was heard saying \"why did they stab me?\", Mr Hallam said.\n\nThe final stages of the fight were witnessed by participants in a nearby rugby match between two local school teams.\n\nDuring evidence given to the police, one of the players said he saw Mr Wali chase his attacker with a stick, return a short time later, and then faint, the jury was told.\n\nEmergency services went to the scene but were unable to save Mr Wali's life and he died about an hour later.\n\nMr Hallam told the court the defendant had previously said he had acted out of anger.\n\n\"Although he speaks of acting in what he claims was self-defence, he says that when he stabbed Hazrat it was 'just anger', and stabbing was 'a way to release your anger',\" the prosecutor said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 2021 census was the first to ask people about their gender identity and sexual orientation\n\nMore than 1.3 million people in England and Wales identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, census data has revealed for the first time.\n\nFor people aged 16 and over, more than 1.5% - 748,000 - identify as gay or lesbian, and 624,000 (1.3%) as bisexual.\n\nSome 165,000 people identify as \"other\" sexual orientations.\n\nAnd 262,000 people (0.5%) said their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth.\n\nThis is the first census that has asked people about their sexual orientation and gender identity.\n\nThe census, which took place in England and Wales on 21 March 2021, offers a snapshot of the population. The total population of England and Wales is about 59.6 million.\n\nBefore it was circulated, the government said the information would provide evidence about inequalities to tackle discrimination and improve decisions made about health care, education, employment, housing and social services for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.\n\nCompleting this section of the census was voluntary.\n\nBrighton and Hove was the local authority with the highest percentage (10.7%) of people identifying as \"LGB+\", - lesbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual orientation.\n\nSeven of the other local authorities in the top 10 were in London.\n\nIn Wales, Cardiff was the local authority with the biggest LGB+ population (5.3%).\n\nLondon was the English region with the highest percentage of people who said their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth (0.91%). The South West was the region with the lowest percentage (0.42%).\n\nLondon also had higher proportions of people identifying as transgender men (0.16%) and trans women (0.16%) when compared with the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe decision to include a voluntary question about gender identity in England and Wales was welcomed by some charities as a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nResearch suggested that asking just the one question in previous censuses about a person's sex was a \"barrier\" to some taking part who felt it did not apply to them.\n\nSmaller surveys have indicated that less than 2% of the population of England and Wales currently identify as lesbian or gay.\n\nPreviously the government estimated there to be between 200,000 and 500,000 transgender people in the UK.\n\nCensus respondents were asked voluntary questions about their sexual orientation, and whether their gender identity is different from their sex registered at birth.\n\nAround 3.6 million people (7.5%) did not answer the question on sexual orientation, while 2.9 million (6.0%) chose not to disclose their gender identity.\n\nThose who did answer were able to select from options including heterosexual, gay, lesbian and bisexual. They could also select \"other\" and fill in a text box describing their sexual orientation.\n\nOf those who selected \"other sexual orientation\":\n\nRespondents were also asked whether their gender identity matched their sex registered at birth. Those who selected \"no\" were asked to fill in a text box describing their gender identity.\n\nThose aged 16 or over who did not wish for their answers to be revealed to other members of their household were able to submit a separate form to keep their answers anonymous.\n\nJen Woolford, Population Director for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the body responsible for carrying out the census, said the data will help to \"tackle inequalities\" in the LGBT+ community.\n\nShe said: \"We've introduced those questions as a reflection of of our society becoming more diverse, but also because there are now clear user needs for more information on that kind of diversity and the richness of our population.\n\nDr Kevin Guyan, Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and LGBT data expert, has called the information a \"landmark moment for inclusion\".\n\nHe urged that the figures be used to benefit communities.\n\n\"The data will not, on its own, address issues negatively impacting many LGBT people such as the cost-of-living crisis, access to healthcare and affordable housing,\" he said. \"It must be understood as the first step in a longer project of change.\"\n\nMatthew Belfield, spokesperson for Manchester-based charity the LGBT Foundation, said the data will help them better target services across the country.\n\nHe said: \"Manchester is such a hot spot for the LGBTQ+ community, but other communities aren't so lucky.\n\n\"By asking these type of questions on a national level, it means that resources will be allocated in the correct way, that their communities will have their needs addressed.\"\n\nThe LGBT Foundation's Matthew Belfield said it would help the charity to better allocate resources\n\nScotland's census was delayed due to the pandemic, but its responses are expected to be released later this year.\n\nNorthern Ireland's didn't include a question about gender identity. The responses to its question on sexual orientation are also due to be published this year.\n\nInformation about how age groups and ethnicity intersect with these figures hasn't yet been released. However, previous surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and in recent years there has been a small gradual decline in the number of people identifying as exclusively straight.\n\nCanada is the only other country so far to have released data related to gender identity.\n\nNew Zealand will also include similar questions in its census in 2023.", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Last year, The Crown star Emma Corrin called for gender-neutral categories at major film awards.\n\nDirector Sam Mendes has told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he has \"total sympathy\" with the idea.", "The three people who died were (from left) Sharon McLean, Donna Janse Van Rensburg and Keith Russell\n\nThree people who died in a fire at a hotel in Perth have been named by police.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Donna Janse Van Rensburg, 44, and Sharon McLean, 47, both from Aberdeen, and Keith Russell, 38, originally from Edinburgh, were discovered at the New County Hotel after the blaze on Monday.\n\nMr Russell's family described him as a \"loving father\".\n\nPolice Scotland said an investigation was ongoing.\n\nBoth families have asked for privacy.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Russell's family said: \"Keith was a loving father and loved by all his family. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison said a joint investigation with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was continuing.\n\n\"Our thoughts continue to be with the family and friends of those who died as well as the many people affected by this incident,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to again thank all the emergency services and partner agencies involved as well as the local community for their patience while inquiries are carried out.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10 on 2 January, leading to a huge response from the emergency services. There were 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the three bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nThe deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council, Councillor Eric Drysdale, said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with the heartbroken families of Donna, Sharon and Keith.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone in Perth and Kinross I send our deepest condolences.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10 on 2 January\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene", "Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz are two \"Never McCarthy\" holdouts\n\nOver the course of four days and 15 tense rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy wore down enough of his opponents to finally be elected Speaker of the House.\n\nIn the final round, after a near-altercation on the chamber floor, six final holdouts opted to vote \"present\" instead of pick an alternative candidate, thus allowing Mr McCarthy to clinch victory.\n\nThe six rebels are all members of the Freedom Caucus - the most conservative bloc of the Republican party.\n\nHere's a look at the holdouts who stood between Mr McCarthy and his prized Speaker's gavel.\n\nThe 40-year-old Floridian remains among the most vocal members of the anti-McCarthy holdouts.\n\nOnce considered a rising Republican star, Mr Gaetz is a loyalist to former President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, he lodged a symbolic protest vote against Mr McCarthy by nominating Mr Trump instead for House Speaker.\n\nSome of Mr Gaetz's hostility to Mr McCarthy may stem from a feeling that he did not receive adequate political support when he was the subject of a sex-trafficking investigation, which was dropped last year.\n\nBob Good, 57, of Virginia, was first elected to Congress in 2020 after running a campaign railing against \"socialism\" and warning that religious liberties were \"under assault\".\n\nMr Good has said there is \"no possibility\" he will vote for Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker.\n\nRepresentative Lauren Boebert, Colorado's right-wing firebrand, just barely made it back for her second term in Congress, eking out a victory by less than 600 votes over a moderate Democrat challenger.\n\nIn her first two years, she rose to fame by picking frequent fights with her Democratic colleagues and promoting unproven claims of mass election fraud.\n\nA staunch defender of gun rights, the 36-year-old vowed to bring her pistol to the Capitol in an ad before she was sworn in for her first term.\n\nOn his campaign website, he describes himself as \"a faith-oriented, family man\", who is \" unafraid to take a stand against cancel culture and the radical left\".\n\nBefore running for Congress, Mr Crane served in the US Navy Seals, and once appeared on the business reality show Shark Tank to pitch a line of bottle openers made out of .50-calibre shell casings. He dubbed the product the \"Bottle Breacher\".\n\nMontanans elected Matt Rosendale to Congress in 2020, after his stints as the state's auditor and member of the legislature. He first ran unsuccessfully for US Senate in 2018, before finding better luck in the House contest two years later.\n\nDuring one vote, Mr Rosendale, 62, teased his House colleagues by adding a lengthy pause while voting for \"Kevin... Hern\", another congressman who shares a first name with the embattled Speaker front-runner.\n\nAn attorney by trade, Andy Biggs was until last year chairman of the Freedom Caucus.\n\nDuring the last administration, statistics show he voted nearly 80% in line with President Trump's position on issues - compared to about 5% since Joe Biden has been in the White House.\n\nMr Biggs was also one of a number of Republican lawmakers referred for an ethics inquiry by the committee investigating the riot that took place at Capitol Hill two years ago.\n\nHe dismissed the move as a \"political stunt\".\n\nWith reporting from Kayla Epstein, Holly Honderich, and Bernd Debusmann", "Margaret Atwood previously confirmed there had been \"concerted efforts to steal the manuscript\" of her book The Testaments\n\nAn Italian man has admitted stealing more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts, many written by high-profile authors.\n\nFilippo Bernardini impersonated figures from the publishing industry to trick people into handing over their works.\n\nHe used his inside industry knowledge, having been employed by the publishing giant Simon & Schuster in London.\n\nBernardini, 30, pleaded guilty in New York to wire fraud, but his motive has never been clear.\n\nManuscripts were not found to have been leaked on the internet, nor were any ransom demands made.\n\nThe conviction of Bernardini, who was arrested by the FBI in January last year, appears to explain a mystery that has baffled the literary world for years, with Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Sally Rooney among the novelists targeted.\n\nProsecutors said he registered more than 160 fake internet domains from 2016.\n\nAgents, editors and Booker Prize judges all fell victim to phishing scams from slightly altered official-looking email addresses, requesting manuscripts of works by authors including Booker winner Margaret Atwood.\n\nIn an interview with The Bookseller in 2019, Atwood confirmed there had been \"concerted efforts to steal the manuscript\" of her book, The Testaments, before it was released.\n\n\"There were lots of phoney emails from people trying to winkle even just three pages, even just anything,\" she noted.\n\nDaniel Sandström, editor of Swedish publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag, who was among those targeted, said it was difficult to know what the motivation for the scam was.\n\n\"The literary answer to that question, I think, I mean somebody was doing it for the thrill of it and there's a psychological enigma at the bottom of this story,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"A less romanticised answer would be that... this was somebody who liked to feel important and pulling strings, and that this was a trick in order to achieve that.\"\n\nAlthough Bernardini worked at Simon & Schuster, there was no suggestion that the publishing house was at fault and it was not named in the legal papers.\n\n\"We are grateful to the FBI and Department of Justice for its defence and support of the intellectual property rights of authors throughout the world,\" the publisher said in a statement on Friday.\n\nBernardini will be sentenced in April. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.", "Wikipedia's operator has denied claims the Saudi government infiltrated its team in the Middle East.\n\nTwo international human rights groups said Saudi officials had altered or deleted content on the website.\n\nThe claims came after Wikimedia carried out its own investigation and suspended 16 users for \"conflict of interest\" editing in the Middle East.\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Wikipedia said no evidence of Saudi infiltration was found.\n\nIt admitted, however, that \"material inaccuracies\" had been published.\n\nWikipedia relies on teams of volunteer administrators and editors for its content.\n\nA statement by Smex and Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) accused the Saudi government of using agents to act as independent editors on Wikipedia to \"control information about the country\".\n\nSmex is based in Lebanon while Dawn is a US-based organisation founded by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018 inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.\n\nThe groups also alleged that two \"high-ranking administrators in Saudi Arabia\" were arrested in September 2020 and charged with \"swaying public opinion\" and \"violating public morals\". They were sentenced to five and eight years in prison, the groups said.\n\nLast year, Wikimedia announced 16 global suspensions for users who \"were engaging in conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia projects\" in the Middle East.\n\n\"We were able to confirm that a number of users with close connections with external parties were editing the platform in a co-ordinated fashion to advance the aim of those parties,\" it said.\n\nCiting \"sources with knowledge of Wikimedia's operations\", Smex and Dawn said at least one of the 16 were Saudi users, serving as agents for the government to \"promote positive content about the government and delete content critical of the government\".\n\nWikimedia said this is \"unlikely to be the case\", adding that some users \"who may have been Saudi\" were among those banned.\n\n\"These organisations did not share the statement with the [Wikimedia] Foundation, and 'sources of knowledge' as cited in their release can get things wrong,\" it said.\n\nSaudi authorities have not commented on the claims.", "In 1856, abolitionist Nathaniel Banks was finally elected after 133 ballots\n\nIf you think US House of Representatives' failure to elect a Speaker is moving at a glacial pace after 11 votes over three days, that's only by modern standards.\n\nAmericans last witnessed a Speaker election like this one a century ago, in 1923, when another Republican rebellion led to nine rounds of voting.\n\nBut even that might be considered fairly speedy by the standards of lawmakers in 1855.\n\nThat year, as the 34th Congress kicked off, it took a record two months - and 133 ballots - to elect a Speaker.\n\nIn the 234-year history of the body, only 14 Speaker elections have required multiple ballots, and only seven of them have required more than 10.\n\nIn December 1855, William Richardson - a pro-slavery Democrat from Illinois - was up against abolitionist Nathaniel Banks from Massachusetts, who belonged to the American Party, a populist faction that opposed slavery and immigration.\n\nOnly 113 votes were needed to reach a majority in the House of Representatives at the time, but the topic of slavery drove a deep wedge through the chamber.\n\nBy the 33rd ballot, Mr Banks had won 100 votes, several shy of the majority.\n\nBy late January, as the election dragged on, frustration morphed into fury when a member of the New-York Tribune, who supported Mr Banks, was attacked by a pro-slavery Democrat, congressman Albert Rust from Arkansas, outside the Capitol.\n\nIn February, Democrats switched allegiance from Mr Richardson to Representative William Aiken Jr of South Carolina.\n\nAt the same time, Congress discussed shifting from a majority-vote system to a plurality. That meant a winner could be picked even if he - they were all men back then - did not win half the vote.\n\nOn 2 February, the plurality-vote system was agreed upon, helping Mr Banks secure the victory 103-100 over Mr Aiken.\n\nIncidentally, if there were a plurality vote today, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican frontrunner, would lose to Democrat Hakeem Jeffries.", "Raye signed a four-album deal with Polydor when she was 17, but said the label was unwilling to release her debut album\n\nPop star Raye has claimed her first number one single, 18 months after splitting from the record label that refused to release her debut album.\n\nThe five-time Brit nominee has topped the chart with the hard-hitting, drink-the-pain-away club anthem Escapism.\n\n\"As someone who writes for a living, I have no words,\" she told the BBC on Friday. \"I've been crying all day.\"\n\n\"It just shows that you should back yourself, no matter what people tell you.\"\n\nShe added: \"And we've done it independently - that's just crazy.\"\n\nEscapism had already been riding high in the charts, but was held off the number one spot by a succession of Christmas songs over the festive period.\n\nAs those tracks dropped away this week, Escapism rose to the top with 5.6 million streams, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nRaye had previously reached number three in the UK Singles Chart twice, first as a guest vocalist on Jax Jones's You Don't Know Me in 2016, then on last year's Joel Corry and David Guetta collaboration Bed.\n\nBut after her solo material failed to reach the same heights, she publicly parted ways with record label Polydor in 2021, saying she was being treated as a \"rent-a-vocal\" dance artist.\n\n\"Imagine this pain,\" she wrote in an open letter in June 2021. \"I have been signed to a major label since 2014… and I have had albums on albums of music sat in folders collecting dust, songs I am now giving away to A-list artists because I am still awaiting confirmation that I am good enough to release an album.\n\n\"I've done everything [Polydor] asked me, I switched genres, I worked seven days a week. I'm done being a polite pop star.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAYE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVindication came with the release of Escapism late last year. A juddering, powerful song about dulling the pain of a break-up with a night of hedonism, it went viral on TikTok before crossing into the mainstream charts.\n\n\"The crazy thing is, you can see the statistics,\" she said. \"One in two people who heard the song on TikTok went and added it [to their library] on a streaming platform.\n\n\"Substance abuse isn't a pretty subject for a woman to express so boldly, but maybe it was important to be so visceral because there are clearly a lot of heartbroken people out there, blowing off steam in the wrong way.\"\n\nThe singer, who previously came third in the BBC Sound Of 2017, admitted the song's unusual structure and shifting tempos made it an unlikely hit.\n\nMajor labels who heard the song after her split from Polydor were sceptical about its chances.\n\n\"I was reluctant to ever get involved with a major again, but I took some meetings just in case,\" she said. \"And the people who heard the song were like, 'Yeah, this is cool [but] it's just something Raye needs to get out of her system'.\n\n\"It's just brilliant when you get to prove people wrong,\" she added. \"This music wasn't about charts or numbers, it was just about passion.\"\n\nEven so, getting to number one \"is the most beautiful affirmation I could ever ask for as a musician\", she said.\n\nThe 25-year-old will finally release her debut album, My 21st Century Blues, on 3 February.\n\nRaye received her first-ever Number One Award from the Charts Company on Friday\n\nWith Christmas songs staging a mass exodus from this week's charts, there are an incredible 46 new entries in the Top 75, with hits like Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits and Beyoncé's Cuff It returning to the countdown.\n\nDozens of other songs have rebounded inside the chart. Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero has leapt 51 places to number two, and Venbee & Goddard's dance anthem Messy In Heaven has rocketed from 65 to number three.\n\nUS R&B star SZA has gained her first top 10 hit, as her revenge fantasy Kill Bill climbs 28 places to number four.\n\nTwo other tracks from her critically-acclaimed album SOS have also made the Top 40, with Shirt at 25 and Nobody Gets Me at 29.\n\nMeanwhile, Tom Odell's 2012 hit Another Love has gained a new lease of life after becoming popular on TikTok as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance during Russia's invasion.\n\nAfter featuring in London's New Year's Eve fireworks display, it has re-entered the chart at number 10, its highest position to date.\n\nIn the albums chart, Taylor Swift has claimed the number one spot with her 10th studio album Midnights, while the Top 40 contains another four of her records.", "Train drivers have been offered a 4% pay rise for two years in a row by the body that represents rail companies in a bid to end strike action.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made its first offer to Aslef, the union for train drivers, after several strikes.\n\nThe deal includes a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year, but it also hinges on changes to working practices.\n\nAslef told the BBC its officials had not seen the offer yet.\n\nBut its General Secretary Mick Whelan has previously said that the union is \"chasing a pay rise that at least puts a dent\" in prices, which are rising at their fastest rate in 40 years.\n\nThe RDG said it sent its offer to Aslef mid-afternoon on Friday after drivers at 15 train companies walked out on Thursday, leaving some operators unable to run any trains.\n\nThe action by drivers comes as other rail workers, such as guards and signalling staff in the RMT union, continued a series of large-scale strikes.\n\nSaturday marks the second day of a 48-hour walkout by tens of thousands of RMT members, with only around 20% of services on the rail network expected to run.\n\nMeetings between the rail minister, industry representatives and union leaders will take place on Monday.\n\nThe RDG said its offer, the first made to Aslef during to the dispute, included having no compulsory redundancies until the end of March next year.\n\nIf accepted by members, it would mean the average salary for a driver would increase from £60,000 per year to £65,000 by the end of 2023. Ten years ago it was £44,985.\n\nIt is understood the deal is contingent on what the the group has described as \"common sense, vital and long overdue changes to working arrangements across the industry\", which the RDG argues will deliver a more reliable service to passengers.\n\nOne of the conditions the RDG has outlined is employers taking control of things like staff, work and training schedules, meaning bosses would not need to agree rotas or train routes with unions.\n\nThe RDG said the changes were \"vital in a post-Covid world\", which has seen leisure travel recover more quickly than commuting has and companies struggling with a big hole in their finances.\n\nIt said the offer also looks to \"address many inefficient and arcane practices\", using a policy of extra payment for the use of technology such as tablets and smartphones as an example.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the Rail Delivery Group, said: \"This is a fair and affordable offer in challenging times, providing a significant uplift in salary for train drivers\".\n\nHe added that the deal would bring in \"common-sense\" reforms that would allow the railway to adapt to changing travel patterns.\n\n\"Instead of staging yet more damaging strike action and holding back changes that will improve services, we urge Aslef to work with us,\" he said.\n\nIf Aslef accepted this offer, it would still need to go down to local level and agreed at each of the 15 train companies where it represents drivers.\n\nLast month, the RMT union rejected an offer from the Rail Delivery Group, which included the same pay rise conditional on a list of changes to working practices.\n\nThe RMT objected to some of those, particularly the expansion of driver-only operation, where drivers operate the doors on all carriages.\n\nIt is understood this is an area under discussion, as all sides look for a way forward in the ongoing dispute", "Participants battle each other for control of the Hood\n\nHundreds have turned out to take part in an ancient rugby-style game involving rival villagers after a two-year break during the pandemic.\n\nThe annual Haxey Hood game between pubs in the North Lincolnshire villages of Haxey and Westwoodside dates back to the 14th Century.\n\nIt involves large crowds of people facing off in a mass scrum to push a leather tube - known as the Hood.\n\nCovid restrictions meant it could not take place in 2021 and 2022.\n\nThe game begins with the ceremonial fool, this year portrayed by James Chatwin, delivering a speech while a bonfire is lit behind him covering him in smoke.\n\nOnce the Hood is thrown into the scrum the battle begins\n\nThe Hood is then thrown into the crowd and rival teams compete to get it to their pub, however no-one is allowed to run with the hood and they are not allowed to throw it.\n\n\"It's brilliant,\" said Lord of the Hood Bill Coggan.\n\n\"It brings the villages together.\n\n\"It does what Christmas and new year doesn't, everyone comes back for the Hood, they come from all over the world back to see family.\"\n\nThe festivities are held every 6 January unless it falls on a Sunday\n\nThe victorious pub is allowed to display the 3ft (1m) hood for the rest of the year, in 2020 it was the Kings Arms in Haxey.\n\n\"It's a big thing for the villages and for the pubs,\" said landlord Jim Pinder.\n\n\"Everyone comes back to the winning pub so if you get the Hood you've got a big night.\"\n\nHowever, this year's victorious pub was the Loco, also in Haxey.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Harry's memoir Spare went on sale early in some bookshops in Spain\n\nIt was billed as the publishing event of the year.\n\nBut the meticulously-laid PR strategy for the launch of Prince Harry's tell-all autobiography appeared to unravel on Thursday in the face of a newspaper leak, followed by its surprise sale by some Spanish booksellers.\n\nPlans for a tightly choreographed publicity push, which would have been months in the making and involved a series of TV interviews with the prince, looked to be in ruins.\n\nBut while the publishers of Spare had gone to great lengths to keep the book under wraps to maximise the impact of its release, it's unlikely this unanticipated publicity will hurt sales.\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of trade paper The Bookseller, tells BBC News he thinks the leaks are \"70% good\" for the book and its publisher, Penguin Random House.\n\n\"I think they will be a little bit annoyed it has come out before the book is released, but I'm sure they will be delighted it is dominating the headlines around the world at a time when they want to increase pent-up demand ahead of publication on Tuesday,\" he says.\n\nHarry has conducted a string of pre-recorded broadcast interviews to promote the book\n\nDespite the publisher's efforts to keep the book secure, many journalists were able to get hold of it on Thursday, after word got out that the Spanish edition had been put on sale early in some bookshops.\n\nThat came hot on the heels of a leak in the Guardian, which broke the news of Harry's allegation in the book of a physical altercation with his brother, Prince William.\n\nThe next 36 hours saw wall-to-wall coverage of Spare as news outlets digested and distributed the revelations contained in its 416 pages.\n\nMost industry figures doubt that sales will be harmed by the leaks.\n\n\"This probably won't make any difference - they're likely going to sell the same number of books,\" says Edward Coram James, reputation management expert and CEO of digital marketing agency Go Up. \"If anything, they might sell more because they've got an additional week of coverage.\"\n\nBut he adds: \"You wouldn't have wanted a leak like this too far in advance, because you want the book to be launched at the height of the hype. If this leak had happened three weeks ago, the news cycle would have moved on and this story would have been slightly old hat.\n\n\"I would say it has happened close enough to the scheduled launch that, actually, the hype will continue until the launch itself, so it won't lose momentum.\"\n\nPenguin had carefully co-ordinated its publicity campaign. The strategy was for Harry to conduct a string of broadcast interviews (at least four that we know about so far), which will air in the 48 hours before the book's release.\n\nThe publisher otherwise kept things under wraps. They avoided doing a newspaper serialisation deal, while deliveries to many bookshops were scheduled to arrive at the last minute.\n\nThe book's publication follows the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series Harry & Meghan\n\nBut the number of people involved in the book's international production and distribution meant a leak was difficult to avoid. The Guardian, The Sun, The Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News were among the outlets which obtained the book en Español on Thursday and started ploughing through it.\n\n\"The net result has been that about every two or three hours, someone translates another chapter and then there's been another news dump of some new line,\" notes Neill Denny, joint editor of book trade news website BookBrunch. \"No publicity campaign can normally achieve that. It's almost worked better than a serialisation.\"\n\nHowever, a spokesman for the Spanish publisher, Plaza y Janes Editores (which belongs to Penguin Random House) expressed his frustration, telling Reuters: \"A very clear launch protocol was established and communicated to all customers so that the book would not be marketed before that date.\n\n\"Everything points to the fact that some customers have breached their commitment to the publisher and have put the book on sale before the agreed date.\"\n\nMr Denny dismisses any suggestion that the leak could have been co-ordinated for publicity. \"I think this is embarrassing for the publisher, because it shows they can't handle a massive worldwide release without it leaking,\" he says.\n\nHarry's memoir further exposes the strained relationship with his brother Prince William\n\nWhile the early revelations may not have been part of the original rollout plan, Mr Coram James points out: \"With PR strategies on big events like this, there is very often a half-expectation that something is going to go wrong. And so they will have prepared for this scenario, even though they won't have expected it.\"\n\nOne result of the leak, he suggests, has been that the broadcasters who had pre-recorded interviews with Harry have been rushing out more teaser clips, partly to make sure their exclusive isn't undermined.\n\n\"I think that will have been co-ordinated with Penguin and the Sussexes after the leak, and will be an attempt by all three parties to get a bit of control,\" Mr Coram James adds.\n\nHarry is due to be interviewed on ITV, CBS, Good Morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the coming days. The clips released so far suggest Harry will be given a tough ride by some of the interviewers.\n\nUnder the original PR strategy, that would have created the appearance of Harry being held to account over the book's content, getting ahead of any potential criticism.\n\nBut instead, Mr Coram James says, the leak has led to an unplanned period of exposure for the Sussexes, creating a gap that has been filled by critics appearing on media outlets to condemn parts of the book's content.\n\n\"When you are doing a release like this, you want to make sure you are setting the terms,\" he says. \"When the book is leaked, all of a sudden the narrative escapes you.\"\n\nThe book has been written with prolific celebrity ghostwriter JR Moehringer\n\nSpare might have Harry's name on the cover, but it was written with JR Moehringer, a prolific ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs who made his name writing Andre Agassi's bombshell autobiography in 2009.\n\n\"The American publishers were very smart to get him in the room with Harry,\" says Mr Denny. \"I think if Harry had written the book himself, it would have been a bit blander. But I think this guy's pulled out and worked on these themes and made the book much more interesting.\"\n\nThe publication of Spare is part of a long-running effort by Harry to get his own narrative into the public domain. That started when he sat down, alongside wife Meghan, with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 for a tell-all interview.\n\nThe couple later signed a reported $100m (£83m) deal with Netflix for a string of programmes including their recent six-part docuseries, as well as a reported $25m (£21m) deal with Spotify for a podcast hosted by Meghan. Harry reportedly received a further $25m from Penguin for the rights to Spare.\n\nThe releases of all these products have been timed so they do not clash. The Spotify podcast ran from August to November, followed by the release of the Netflix series in December, now the publication of Spare in January.\n\n\"Had they dropped all of them at once, their market will have fragmented - some will have bought the book, some will have watched the series or listened to the podcast,\" says Mr Coram James. \"But it's not just about giving consideration to their various stakeholders and employers, it's also about, how do we keep ourselves at the top of the news cycle for as long as possible?\"\n\nMany bookshops are running promotions for the release of Spare\n\nSpare is currently number one on Amazon's pre-order chart, suggesting the publicity has been beneficial. \"It's great that people want people to buy a book early,\" says Mr Jones. \"January is a difficult time to sell books and this book is great for the industry.\"\n\nPrior to the publicity from the book's leak, Spare was at number four in Amazon's weekly non-fiction chart.\n\nAhead of Harry in Amazon's most sold list were Miriam Margolyes' autobiography and two cookery books, Pinch of Nom and Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book.\n\nUltimately, no matter how much interest there is in Harry, his toughest competition may come from a recipe for a 463-calorie Red Lentil Dal.", "Rishi Sunak found a meeting with health leaders to tackle the pressures in the NHS \"highly valuable\", Downing Street has said.\n\nThe prime minister, health secretary and Treasury ministers met health experts from across England on Saturday to discuss \"crucial challenges\".\n\nReports have emerged of patients spending days on trolleys because of shortages of beds in some hospitals.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer urged the PM to \"give Britain its NHS back\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Sunak told health and social care leaders he recognised the \"tough time\" they had experienced over the last couple of years.\n\nThe PM also praised the \"boldness and radicalism\" employed by medical professionals during the pandemic, adding that \"we need that same bold and radical approach now because a business-as-usual mindset won't fix the challenges we face\".\n\nMr Sunak said hearing examples of parts of the health service where \"things are going well\" gave him \"enormous confidence\", and added that \"together today, we can figure out the things that will make the biggest difference to the country and everyone's family, in the short and medium term\".\n\nFollowing the Downing Street talks, a government spokeswoman said the prime minister and his health ministers had \"found today's discussions highly valuable for sharing ideas and best practices that could be spread nationwide to improve care for patients throughout the country\".\n\nHowever, Labour's leader Keir Starmer criticised the government's approach, saying that people who face long waits for doctor's appointments, test results or ambulances need \"urgent action\" and criticised \"sticking plaster politics\".\n\nMr Starmer urged the PM to use Labour's plan to slash waiting times by temporarily ramping up partnerships with private providers - a measure which he said would provide \"vital\", though short, reprieve.\n\nHe also argued that a Labour government could provide a longer-term fix and \"give Britain its NHS back, through a decade-long programme of renewal and reform, to make the health service fit for the future\".\n\nRepresentatives from the public and private sectors attended Saturday's forum, alongside chief executives and clinical leaders of NHS organisations, local areas and councils from across the country, plus medical and social care experts.\n\nAmanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, and Sir Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, also took part in the meeting.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nA government spokeswoman reiterated that Mr Sunak had made it one of his top five priorities to reduce NHS waiting lists and said that \"the government is investing a record amount in the health service, including in recruiting a record number of doctors and nurses\".\n\nShe added: \"Next steps will be set out in due course.\"\n\nSenior doctors have said the NHS is on a knife-edge, with long waits for emergency care, routine operations, GP appointments and care for patients when they are discharged from hospital.\n\nHigh levels of flu and Covid, a wave of strike action and a cost-of-living crisis are also putting huge pressure on the health service.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Chris Witty takes part in a roundtable meeting of senior health service officials in Downing Street\n\nThe government in England has already announced plans to roll out virtual ward beds so that more people can be treated at home, a new service to save thousands of ambulance call-outs to people who have fallen, and more funding to improve emergency care and adult social care.\n\nMore than 90 diagnostic hubs, housed in venues such as football stadiums and shopping centres, have also been opened to reduce the queues for tests, checks and scans.\n\nThe hubs enable GPs to refer patients for procedures like MRI and CT scans without the need for a hospital visit.\n\nThe government says it wants 40% of all diagnostic activity to take place in the hubs by 2025. It also aims to eliminate 18-month waits by April 2023 and 12-month waits by March 2025.\n\nAlthough two-year waits for routine treatment have shrunk since the pandemic, experts say there is still a mountain to climb before the numbers of patients waiting longer than a year start coming down.\n\nMore than seven million people are currently on a hospital waiting list for a non-urgent operation or treatment in England - one in eight of the population.\n\nOn Monday, health unions have been invited to meet Health Secretary Steve Barclay to discuss pay for 2023-24 from April - but union leaders say the government must act on the current pay dispute for this year, and the talks will not stop planned strikes in January.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme on Saturday, Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Pat Cullen said the pay increase nurses would receive in 2022-23 was \"fundamental\" to the ongoing dispute.\n\n\"We'll of course go to the meeting... but it's sadly not what's going to prevent strike action that's planned for 10 days' time,\" she said.", "The launch window will open on Monday night\n\nInformation about how people can watch the first orbital space launch from the UK has been released.\n\nThe Start Me Up mission will be livestreamed on Virgin Orbit's YouTube channel from 21:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAll tickets for the viewing area at Cornwall Airport Newquay were snapped up shortly after becoming available.\n\nThe launch window opens at 22:16 and Spaceport Cornwall said \"we are making history, and we want to make sure you can witness it happen\".\n\nThe viewing area is located across the runway from the Spaceport hangar and there will also be a big screen, refreshments, toilets and a silent disco on site.\n\nThe Spaceport said: \"Although it will be dark, you'll still be able to witness some aspects of the launch and experience the sounds and smells that come with it.\"\n\nCosmic Girl will carry the rocket out over the ocean, attached to the underside of the left wing\n\nThere will not be parking on site and the viewing area will only accessible via a park and ride system.\n\nThe two park and ride sites are at Tregunnel Hill in Newquay, and Watergate Bay, and will be operating from 18:00.\n\nA number of road closures will also be in place throughout the evening.\n\nPeople who have secured tickets are advised to bring warm clothes and seating but umbrellas are not permitted next to the active airfield.\n\nCosmic Girl, the repurposed 747 which will carry the rocket containing the satellites, is expected to take off between 21:45 and 22:45.\n\nThe rocket, LauncherOne, will then be released off the coast of Ireland between 22:54 and 23:54.\n\nCosmic Girl will return to the spaceport between midnight and 01:00 on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, those hoping to travel to watch the event in person have been warned \"there is no guarantee the launch will take place on the first attempt\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bill of Rights aims to reassert the primacy of UK courts in human rights cases\n\nPlans to rewrite UK human rights law would \"damage people's ability to enforce their rights\" inside and outside court, MPs and peers say.\n\nThe influential Joint Committee on Human Rights said a planned Bill of Rights restricts certain protections \"the government finds inconvenient\".\n\nIt said the bill should not go ahead in its current form.\n\nBut the government said the bill would strengthen freedom of speech and end \"abuse of our laws\".\n\nThe Bill of Rights is intended to replace the Human Rights Act, which sets out in law the basic rights and freedoms everyone in the UK is entitled to.\n\nThe government says the bill is designed to \"help prevent trivial human rights claims from wasting judges' time\" and to make it clear UK courts do not always need to follow the decisions of European courts.\n\nBut in a new report, the cross-party committee argues the bill is likely to reduce the protections currently provided by the Human Rights Act.\n\nThe committee said its public consultation found people were \"overwhelmingly against the proposals\", with victims of violence against women, care home residents, and those whose family members have lost their life due to the actions of the police among those raising concerns.\n\nIts report said the reforms would undermine the universality of human rights by making it more difficult for certain groups to bring cases.\n\nThe committee said the bill also \"risks dangerous uncertainty by abandoning decades of important case law\".\n\nIt said the likely result of the legislation would be that more people would need to go the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to enforce their rights and more judgements would be made against the UK.\n\nThe Bill of Rights has been championed by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab\n\nThe committee's chairwoman, SNP MP Joanna Cherry said: \"Human Rights are universal. A Bill of Rights should reaffirm and reinforce the fundamental rights that protect everyone in the UK, but this bill does nothing of the sort.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have called on the government to reconsider the vast majority of the clauses of the bill.\n\n\"However, there is such little appetite for these reforms and the impact is likely to be so damaging to human rights protection in the UK it may be more sensible to scrap the bill in its entirety.\"\n\nThe bill has been championed by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, who first introduced it when he held the role under Boris Johnson.\n\nIt was later shelved when Mr Raab was sacked by Mr Johnson's successor as prime minister, Liz Truss.\n\nThe legislation has been revived by Rishi Sunak's government, but there is still no timetable for when MPs will start debating it.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"The Bill of Rights builds on the UK's proud tradition of liberty by strengthening freedom of speech, reinjecting a healthy dose of common sense to the system and ending abuse of our laws.\n\n\"The government was elected on a manifesto that committed to updating the Human Rights Act to ensure there is a proper balance between the rights of individuals, our vital national security and effective government - that is what we are doing.\"", "Justin Roiland has pleaded not guilty to the charges\n\nUS streaming site Hulu has followed TV channel Adult Swim in dropping Rick and Morty co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland, over charges of domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend.\n\nMr Roiland voiced the title characters in Adult Swim's Emmy-winning animated sitcom about a scientist and his grandson.\n\nHe also worked on Solar Opposites and Hulu's other animated show, Koala Man.\n\nMr Roiland denies the charges. A trial date has not yet been set.\n\nHulu and 20th TV Animation said in a statement on Wednesday that it had \"ended our association with Justin Roiland\", though according to the PA news agency, both of its above shows are expected to continue without him.\n\nRick and Morty won the Emmy for best animated programme in 2018 and 2020\n\nIt comes after Adult Swim, part of the Cartoon Network, said earlier this week that Mr Roiland's best-known work, Rick and Morty, would go on without its co-creator and star for its seventh season, with his roles reportedly to be recast.\n\nA statement released on Tuesday said: \"Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland.\n\n\"Rick and Morty will continue. The talented and dedicated crew are hard at work on season seven.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post by Rick and Morty\n\nThe gaming company set up by Mr Roiland in 2016, Squanch Games, also revealed on Wednesday it had \"received Justin Roiland's resignation\" earlier this month.\n\n\"The passionate team at Squanch will keep developing games we know our fans will love while continuing to support and improve High On Life,\" they said.\n\nIn May 2020, prosecutors in California charged Mr Roiland, 42, with two charges of domestic battery with corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit, of an unidentified woman who was living with him at the time.\n\nA police complaint said the incident, which allegedly occurred on or around 19 January of the same year, resulted \"in a traumatic condition\" for the woman.\n\nHis lawyer said in a statement that his client was \"innocent\", adding: \"We look forward to clearing Justin's name and helping him move forward as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nMr Roiland appeared at a pre-trial hearing earlier this month and is set to return to court in April, ahead of a trial. He could face up to seven years in prison.\n\nHe created the anarchic animated sitcom Rick and Morty with Dan Harmon in 2013, and it won the Emmy for best animated programme in 2018 and 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says tanks are not an offensive threat to Russia\n\nThe US will send 31 powerful battle tanks to Ukraine, joining Germany in sending the vehicles to support the fight against Russia's invasion.\n\nThe decision to deliver the M1 Abrams tanks was announced just hours after Germany said it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to the battlefield.\n\nBerlin also cleared the way for other European countries to send German-made tanks from their own stocks.\n\nUkraine has lobbied Western allies to send the military equipment for months.\n\nIt hailed the twin announcements as a turning point that would allow its military to regain momentum and take back occupied territory almost a year after Moscow invaded. It also said the tanks could help deter a potential Russian offensive in the spring.\n\n\"An important step on the path to victory,\" Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said. \"Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal - liberation of Ukraine.\"\n\nRussia, meanwhile, condemned the moves as a \"blatant provocation\" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed. \"These tanks burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive,\" President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said.\n\n\"Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve,\" President Joe Biden said while announcing the decision at the White House on Wednesday. \"He was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong.\"\n\n\"We're also giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks in battle,\" he said. \"This is about helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia.\"\n\nA Ukrainian tank battalion typically consists of 31 tanks, which is why that number has been agreed upon, Mr Biden said.\n\nThe US decision, however, marks a reversal in their position as the Biden administration has insisted for some time that the heavy M1 Abrams tanks would be difficult to deliver, expensive to maintain and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate.\n\nThe US-made military vehicle is one of the most modern battle tanks in the world and requires extensive training to operate. The $400m (£323m) American package also includes eight recovery vehicles that can tow the tanks if they become stuck.\n\nBut it is likely to be many months before the tanks reach the battlefield, experts say, as they will be purchased from private contractors and not sent from an existing stockpile.\n\nThe German-made Leopard 2 tanks, however, will be drawn from existing stock and are expected to arrive in two to three months. They are widely seen as one of the most effective battle tanks available.\n\nThe decision to send the heavy weapons follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling. Germany faced mounting international pressure to send the tanks, and there are reports that the eventual decision to do so was conditional on the US doing the same.\n\nBoth sides participated in \"good diplomatic conversations\" that made the difference and contributed to the \"extraordinary shift in Germany's security policy\", a senior US official said on condition of anonymity earlier on Wednesday.\n\nWhen asked if the US decision was designed to give Germany cover to send tanks, national security spokesman John Kirby said: \"I wouldn't use the word cover. What this decision does do is show how unified we are with our allies.\"\n\nHe attributed the change in Washington's position to the conditions on the ground as well as Russia's tactics, without giving further details.\n\nMr Kirby also said the decision was based on the \"kinds of fighting... that we believe the Ukrainians are going to need to be capable of in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nUkrainian crews would soon be trained to use the Leopard tanks in Germany, officials in Berlin said. Mr Biden said troops would be trained to use the American-made tanks \"as soon as possible\" but added that delivering them would take time.\n\nWhile the acquisition of tanks from the West will be considered a diplomatic coup for President Volodymyr Zelensky, he said on Tuesday that his country required at least 300 of them to defeat Russia.\n\nSeveral European countries have Leopard 2 tanks in their stocks, and the German decision means some of these can also be sent to Ukraine. Germany hopes around 90 will ultimately be delivered to the battlefield.\n\nNorway announced later on Wednesday that it would send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but did not specify how many it would deliver.", "Justin Bieber has sold his share of the rights to his music to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a reported $200m (£162m).\n\nThe firm now owns the pop star's stake in some of the biggest hits of recent years, including Baby and Sorry.\n\nBieber, one of the best-selling artists of the 21st Century, joins a growing group of artists who have cashed out on their catalogues.\n\nThe move means Hipgnosis will receive a payment every time a song it owns is streamed or used on radio, TV or film.\n\nThe company - a $1bn venture between financial giant Blackstone and the British Hipgnosis Song Management - acquired Bieber's publishing copyrights to his 290-song back catalogue.\n\nIt has also acquired his share in the original master recordings of his songs.\n\nThat includes all of his music released before 31 December 2021.\n\nHipgnosis has not disclosed the terms of the deal, but a source told the news agency AFP it was worth around $200m.\n\nArtists are increasingly selling stakes in their work to music funds, although the trend is more common among older artists. In the last two years, music legends Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen both sold back catalogue rights to Sony.\n\nSpringsteen received a reported $500m (£376m) for the sale of his life's work.\n\nBy Sean Farrington, BBC Wake up to Money and Today business presenter\n\nUp-and-coming artists may now be watching Justin Bieber's pension plans as closely as they do announcements for his new music.\n\nBieber had a choice - continue to reap the rewards every single time one of his hits gets played, or cash in now and sell the rights in a lump sum. Bieber's bet is he's better off with latter. It's a move often made by singers much older than him.\n\nAs the investor who bought the rights put it to me: \"It gives him an opportunity to put his money to work for himself, and he's de-risking his future.\"\n\nHow will he put that money to work? Maybe music's queen of entrepreneurialism, the billionaire Rihanna, could give him a few tips.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Capital is separate entity to the Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has also been building up a catalogue of classic hits and inviting big institutional investors to share in the proceeds.\n\nThe fund floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2018, while Hipgnosis Songs Capital is a private company.\n\nThe man behind both companies is Merck Mercuriadis, who has claimed hit songs can be \"more valuable than gold or oil\".\n\nHe said Bieber's music was \"arguably the definitive soundtrack of the streaming revolution\", with 13 songs that have each achieved more than a billion streams on platforms like YouTube and Spotify.\n\nAs his audience are still relatively young, he added, royalties will continue to pour in for \"60 or 70 years\".\n\n\"The beautiful thing about music is that when these songs become hits, they become part of the fabric of our lives and they live on forever,\" Mercuriadis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, his fund's share price has fallen by more than 27% since this time last year, as investor interest has waned.\n\nIn December, Mercuriadis called the share price situation a \"disappointment\", but said he believed in the company's long-term profitability.\n\n\"In the wider music market, people continue to listen to and pay for music irrespective of today's cost of living challenges with annual audio streams in the US passing the one trillion mark for the first time,\" he said.\n\n\"These are all exciting indicators for the further growth that we will experience as income flows through the collection process into Hipgnosis.\"\n\nThe company's share price rose by 1.6% after the Justin Bieber deal was announced, even though it is not involved in that purchase.", "The boss of Eurostar has said its trains between the UK and Paris are carrying 30% fewer passengers.\n\nChief executive Gwendoline Cazenave said with post-Brexit border checks and current levels of border staff, there were \"bottlenecks\" in stations.\n\nEurostar is currently running 14 services per day between London and Paris, compared with 18 in 2019.\n\nMs Cazenave said the company might not restore some services suspended last year due to the problems.\n\n\"The thing is now we are not able to run the same transport offer as what we had before in 2019, because of bottlenecks in stations,\" she said.\n\n\"We have a main issue in Eurostar terminals because of the new boarding conditions between the UK and EU, because of the impact of Covid, because of staff in the stations.\"\n\nMs Cazenave also said that Eurostar and both French and UK authorities were working hard on solutions such as having more border staff.\n\nLast year, Eurostar announced it was halting its direct service from London to Disneyland Paris and also stopped services calling at Ebbsfleet or Ashford International stations.\n\nIt cited reasons which included financial problems due to losses suffered during the height of the pandemic and post-Brexit border checks - with more time needed to stamp UK passengers' passports\n\nAsked if the services would be reinstated in the future, Ms Cazenave said: \"We'll see, it depends on the way we can handle the big stations' issues.\"\n\nShe said the company's \"objective\" was to \"be this backbone between big cities\", such as London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.\n\n\"These are the main cities, these are the main markets.... we are working for, which is our main role I would say,\" she said.\n\nEurostar used to offer services direct to Disneyland Paris from London\n\nCurrently, UK passengers travelling to the EU need their passport stamped when they cross the border, which has caused delays.\n\nAn Entry/Exit System, or EES, will replace the checks, but the technology has been delayed several times and is now due to be implemented at the end of 2023.\n\nBut concerns have been raised that initial registration for the system could cause delays to Eurostar services and lead to queues at the Port of Dover, as under the scheme people entering the bloc from non-EU countries - including the UK - will need to register fingerprints and a photo with their passport details.\n\nOnce travellers have given their fingerprints and details, that registration will be valid for three years. During that time it must be validated every time someone crosses the border.\n\nMs Cazenave told the BBC Eurostar was \"pushing\" for the system to be completely digital, meaning people could register details at home before they travel and it would \"not be a bad customer experience\".\n\n\"We know it's a big deal, we know it's a really big challenge,\" she said.\n\nThe Eurostar boss said the system would still work without \"digitisation\", but added it would need \"a lot of investment, anticipation and staff.\n\nOn Tuesday, Eurostar announced its new brand which involved a merger between Thalys and Eurostar and said it hopes to carry 30 million passengers a year by 2030.", "The daughter of former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull said she would run this year's London Marathon in memory of the broadcaster.\n\nFlora Turnbull said she wanted to raise awareness of prostate cancer after her father's death from the disease in August.\n\n\"I wanted to have a purpose this year and to remember dad in the most purposeful way possible,\" she told his former colleagues.\n\nMr Turnbull died at his home in Suffolk after a \"challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer\", his family said at the time.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Sir Mark tells the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee there is a \"trickle\" of cases, and \"more are going be surfacing\"\n\nTwo or three Met Police officers per week are expected to appear in court on criminal charges in the coming weeks and months, the force's chief has said.\n\nCommissioner Sir Mark Rowley says the public should \"prepare for more painful stories\" as the force confronts the issues it faces.\n\nHe said cases included \"violence against women and girls offences\", such as domestic abuse and sex offences.\n\n\"There's a trickle of them and more are going to be surfacing,\" he added.\n\nSir Mark was speaking to the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee in the wake of the case of PC David Carrick, who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women on 16 January.\n\nCarrick was finally stopped when one woman decided to report him following publicity about disgraced Met officer PC Wayne Couzens, who abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard.\n\nThe Met chief also mentioned the case of PC Hussain Chehab, who pleaded guilty to child sex offences on Tuesday.\n\nSir Mark urged the public not to lose heart as the Met rooted out hundreds of corrupt officers thought to be serving.\n\nHe told the committee: \"We haven't applied the same sense of ruthlessness to guarding our own integrity that we routinely apply to confronting criminals - and I'm deeply sorry for that.\"\n\nHe also said: \"Lifting the stone and revealing painful truths will not be resolved overnight, and I mustn't pretend it will do, and I hope you understand that that can't be done.\n\n\"We have to prepare for more painful stories as we confront the issues that we face.\"\n\nDuring the meeting, he also revealed a new Met corruption hotline had received tens of calls each week, a third of which related to other forces, which had been passed on.\n\nBut he stressed progress with wider reforms of the Met \"won't be rapid\".\n\nResponding to questions by the committee about whether certain Met teams have more abusive or corrupt officers, Sir Mark said they were looking at units for \"warning signs\". Carrick served in the same policing unit as Couzens.\n\n\"This is pockets, but it's too many pockets that exist because systematically we haven't been good enough,\" he added.\n\nHe emphasised the problem was bigger than \"a few bad apples\", adding the Met's anti-corruption and abuse command was being encouraged to be \"proactive in using more covert techniques\".\n\nThis included monitoring internal communications \"more intrusively where there's good cause\", Sir Mark said.\n\nThe force is currently reviewing previous allegations of violence against women and girls made against 1,071 Met Police officers and other staff members over the past 10 years.\n\nSir Mark said some of those officers and staff had \"multiple cases\" against them.\n\nThe review is expected to be completed by the end of March.\n\nSir Mark also previously announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It insists they can make all the difference - helping to push Russia back from Ukrainian territory and handing Kyiv the initiative.\n\nGermany produces the vast majority of modern heavy tanks in Europe - the Leopard 2s. Around 2,000 of them are spread out amongst European allies. And Germany owns all the export licenses for them.\n\nThis meant that while it dithered, others like Poland - desperate to deliver tanks to Ukraine as soon as possible - were prevented from doing so. They lacked the green re-export light from Berlin.\n\nUkrainian soldiers still need to be trained in how to use the vehicles, of course, and it's unclear how many and how soon they might arrive for use in Ukraine.\n\nBut Berlin's prolonged hesitance, even as Russia committed human rights abuse after human rights abuse in Ukraine, led to huge pressure amongst Western allies who, up until now, had been oh so keen to display a determined sense of unity in the face of Russian aggression.\n\nChancellor Scholz's indecision divided his country too, including his governing coalition and even his own Social Democrat Party. \"Free the Leopards!\" was the slogan shouted at regular demonstrations outside the German parliament, while inside the debate to send, or not to send tanks, raged amongst German MPs.\n\nWhat was it then, causing Olaf Scholz so much consternation?\n\nOf huge significance is the weight of history felt by German modern-day leaders. It can't be over-emphasised.\n\nThis Friday is Holocaust Memorial Day. A huge sign proclaiming \"We Will Not Forget\" hangs at the Reichstag in Berlin.\n\nAs the aggressor in two world wars, many Germans are wary of being the main provider of battle tanks in Ukraine.\n\nThe \"Zeitenwende\" or \"turning point\" in Germany, announced by Chancellor Scholz soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, is hugely significant. For Germany itself but also Europe as a whole.\n\nBerlin promised to massively invest in its depleted, outdated military and to take a far more assertive role in European defence. A real break with Berlin's post World War Two timidity and preference for allies to lead in security matters.\n\nThis \"transformation\" has been peppered by setbacks and is by no means complete but it is certainly under way and that is a big change for Germany.\n\nSince World War Two, Berlin has been reluctant to take the lead, but as the Europe's biggest economy, that's exactly what allies often look to Germany to do.\n\nGermany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has come under pressure to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks\n\nReturning to the tank debate, another sensitivity for Germany to overcome is that their Leopard 2s would be used against Russian soldiers.\n\nGermany feels deep responsibility for the slaughter of millions of Russians during World War One and Two.\n\nA further, not entirely separate issue, is that large sections of German society - particularly in the formerly communist east of the country, where many express a disappointment in how western society functions - feel traditionally close to Russia.\n\nNGOs monitoring Russian disinformation in Europe report that many Germans are fallible.\n\nThat said, the overwhelming majority of Germans sympathise with ordinary Ukrainians caught up in the current conflict.\n\nBut in a survey shortly before Christmas, 40% of Germans who took part said they understood the Kremlin's blaming of the West for its invasion of Ukraine - because of the eastward expansion of the Nato military alliance.\n\nOlaf Scholz is an avowed transatlanticist but his SPD party historically - though far from entirely, these days - looks east to Moscow, with many party members a bit suspicious of the US and its Nato dominance.\n\nFor all these reasons - and a few more I'll illustrate - Chancellor Scholz didn't want Germany to go it alone, nor be the central facilitator on the battle-tanks-to-Ukraine front.\n\nAnother German concern has been that, while European countries including the UK, Poland and the Netherlands, say it's clearly the Kremlin that is escalating this conflict, many in Germany say they fear delivering heavy tanks and other offensive weaponry to Ukraine could push Vladimir Putin to even wilder extremes. Even the use of nuclear weapons.\n\nIt's thought one of the reasons Chancellor Scholz has pushed so hard for Washington to also send tanks to Ukraine is so Europe can feel that nuclear power US on board and by its side.\n\nOverall, Olaf Scholz didn't want Germany to stand out and alone in being the main provider of heavy tanks to Ukraine.\n\nHis sudden U-turn could well be because he realised if he continued to hold those tanks back, he could find himself isolated amongst his own allies.\n\nSomething else to bear in mind is that, despite the current and previous controversies over foot-dragging by Chancellor Scholz in providing and enabling the delivery of other military equipment, Germany is amongst the top three single donors of military aid and one of the main providers of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "PC Hussain Chehab served as a Safer Schools officer in a secondary school in north London between May and August 2021\n\nA serving Met Police officer who was posted in a school in north London has pleaded guilty to child sex offences.\n\nPC Hussain Chehab, 22, admitted four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13-15, three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and sexual communication with a child.\n\nHe appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on Tuesday and will be sentenced on 17 March.\n\nThe Met said no evidence had linked any of Chehab's offending to his role.\n\nSpeaking to the Greater London Authority's Police and Crime Committee on Wednesday morning, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley described the case as \"ghastly\".\n\nHe apologised to the victims and their families, saying: \"They shouldn't be facing that at the hands of a police officer.\"\n\nThe Met said the PC joined the force in March 2020 and was attached to the North Area Command Unit, serving as a Safer Schools officer in a secondary school in Enfield between May and August 2021.\n\nThe family of a 16-year-old girl raised concerns with police in July 2021, reporting she had recently been in a relationship with Chehab which they believed began when she was 15.\n\nChehab was arrested in August 2021 and he was placed on restricted duties, including having to work within the confines of a police building in a non public-facing role, and having no contact with schools or children.\n\nDet Ch Supt Caroline Haines said Chehab's offences were \"sickening\" and he \"exploited\" the young girls \"for his own sexual gratification\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Met said investigators found a number of indecent images when they seized his digital devices, and he was arrested for further offences and suspended from duty in October 2021.\n\nWhen police analysed his devices, they also found messages between Chehab and a 14-year-old girl engaging in sexual communication.\n\nThe teenager later provided evidence to police that they had entered into a sexual relationship in 2019, when she was 14.\n\nDet Ch Supt Caroline Haines, policing lead for Enfield, said Chehab's offences were \"sickening\" and he \"exploited\" the young girls \"for his own sexual gratification\".\n\n\"Once the initial allegations against PC Chehab were made, he was immediately removed from his role while the investigation took place,\" she said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Haines added the Met had worked closely with the school and local authority to ensure there were no further unreported safeguarding incidents or missed opportunities.\n\nShe said the information provided to the Met before Chehab joined the force was reviewed and he also went through further child and vulnerable group supervision vetting before beginning his role as a Safer Schools officer, but \"nothing was found that could have indicated his offending\".\n\n\"This news will of course cause considerable damage and concern not only to the local community, but Londoners as a whole, who place their trust in police officers to go into our schools alongside their children every day and keep them safe,\" she continued.\n\n\"While no evidence has been found linking any of Chehab's offending to his role, we are engaging with our local schools community forums and independent advisory groups to reassure them following the damage his actions will have caused.\"\n\nDuring the court hearing, no verdict was recorded in an additional four counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and the judge ordered they be left to lie on file.\n\nThe Met said an accelerated misconduct process had been initiated for Chehab and would be held as quickly as possible.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's a political tragedy.\" One long standing Conservative figure is reflecting on the political pickle Nadhim Zahawi finds himself in.\n\n\"He set up an incredibly successful polling company. He knows just how opinion polls work and what you can read into them. He's a great organiser. It makes him an ideal party chairman,\" they add.\n\nBut there's a \"but\" coming.\n\n\"But this is really difficult. How can he function as party chairman with all this going on? Talk to rich donors who are scrupulous about their taxes? Talk to the grassroots?\"\n\nThe former Tory minister Caroline Nokes has told the BBC her party chairman should \"stand aside\" while an inquiry by the prime minister's ethics adviser takes place.\n\nBut others say this is impractical: Were he to do so, there would have to be a temporary replacement, who may find themselves replaced were Mr Zahawi to be exonerated.\n\n\"Once you get off the roundabout it is hard to get back onto it,\" it was put to me.\n\n\"I love him, but patience really is running thin\" a minister says.\n\nThere's a sense he has mucked up and defending him is difficult.\n\nAnd part of that is the degree to which MPs say privately the whole thing looks so otherworldly: for millions of people who pay tax as they earn, the idea of accountants and complex arrangements seems hard to relate to.\n\nAnd for many businesses with experience of filing tax returns, the sums involved here, settling a bill and penalty of around £5m, seem off the scale compared with their own lives.\n\nAnother minister goes as far as to say they feel it \"doesn't pass the smell test;\" that there were no excuses for ending up having to pay a penalty to the tax authority and not getting things right in the first place.\n\nAnd enter next Lord Evans of Weardale, the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.\n\nHe's told BBC Radio 4 that reports Mr Zahawi threatened some journalists with being sued if they reported on his tax affairs don't match with the behaviour \"the government has committed itself to\".\n\n\"The sort of attempts, apparent legal attempts to suppress this story... I don't think that does live up to the sort of standards that the public would rightly expect.\"\n\nSo how soon might all this be sorted out, one way or another?\n\nIt is the job of the recently appointed Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests, Sir Laurie Magnus, to determine if Nadhim Zahawi broke the rule book of being in government, the ministerial code.\n\nAnd here are those rules, against which Mr Zahawi will be judged.\n\nOne senior MP told me the prime minister had been \"too nice\" in asking Sir Laurie to look into things, and could have just sacked Mr Zahawi.\n\nAnother countered that the government had been criticised for not having an ethics adviser until his appointment last month, so you might as well use him when an incident like this flares up.\n\nDowning Street have said the inquiry was requested because of \"potential breaches of the ministerial code\" based on what the prime minister's official spokesman called \"ministerial declarations\".\n\nIn other words, what Mr Zahawi did and didn't say about his tax affairs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions last week, Rishi Sunak told the Commons his party chairman had addressed the issue of his tax \"in full\". But it turns out he hadn't.\n\nDowning Street didn't learn until the weekend that he had in fact paid a penalty to HM Revenue and Customs as well as an outstanding tax bill. And then it asked Sir Laurie to look into it all.\n\nSo what is in the rules that could prove tricky for Mr Zahawi?\n\nIt's for the adviser to advise and then the prime minister to decide what to do. But let's take a look.\n\n\"Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing,\" are two sentences that jump out.\n\n\"Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests\" is another.\n\nNadhim Zahawi says he looks forward \"to answering any and all specific questions in a formal setting to Sir Laurie\" but isn't being drawn into saying anything else publicly while the inquiry is carried out \"in order to ensure the independence of this process\".\n\nSo when will Sir Laurie be finished?\n\nDowning Street wants it done \"swiftly.\"\n\nOne senior figure well-placed to know the hoped-for timetable told me it could be done within a week.\n\nLet's see. These things have a tendency to trundle on.\n\nThere is no doubting the appetite among Conservative MPs to get this sorted one way or the other and quickly, so the focus can turn to something, anything, else.", "Rebecca Scotland returned from a concert to find parts stripped from her car\n\nA driver has described being left devastated and hysterical after discovering her car had been stripped for parts while she attended a concert.\n\nRebecca Scotland parked the Citroen C1 in a Digbeth car park while at a show at the O2 Academy in Birmingham.\n\nOn returning to the vehicle she discovered the whole of the front exterior had been taken.\n\n\"I've never seen anything like it. I'd say it was the worst night of my life,\" the 27-year-old said.\n\nThe driver from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, had left the vehicle at about 21:00 GMT, returning after the concert by 23:30.\n\n\"I thought the car looked a bit funny, I thought it was the lighting,\" she told BBC Radio Derby.\n\n\"It turned out that the front exterior had been stripped from it. The bonnet, headlights, bumper and a smashed window as well, so they could get the bonnet open.\n\n\"It's my first car, my baby, I think one of the reasons I'm so devastated is that I'm still paying for it till I'm 30 and I turn 28 next month,\" she added.\n\nThe vehicle was targeted in a car park in Digbeth\n\nThe incident happened before Christmas and the car is now back on the road after an insurance claim, said Ms Scotland.\n\n\"You'd think they'd be going for the more expensive cars but they seem to be just picking on what's popular,\" she added.\n\nIn the final three months of last year West Midlands Police arrested more than 100 suspects in a crackdown on vehicle crime.\n\nThe force advised people to think twice about buying parts from unauthorised or non-trusted dealers.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Nikata Moran, 29, who found the gecko says she \"can't get over the journey it had, ending up in my kitchen\"\n\nA gecko has made a journey of nearly 3,000 miles (4,828 km) stowed away in a punnet of strawberries.\n\nA woman made the surprise discovery of the Egyptian lizard when she opened her fridge in Manchester to find a \"little head\" popping up.\n\nNikata Moran, 29, who bought the fruit from Lidl said she saw something move \"out of the corner of my eye\".\n\n\"When I looked again I saw this tiny gecko, I couldn't believe it,\" she said.\n\nMs Moran put the gecko, which measured only 2.5cm (1 inch) into a tub and called the RSPCA who have rehomed it.\n\nShe said: \"It seemed very alert, so I managed to get it onto a spoon and pop it into a plastic container, where it moved very, very fast.\n\nApart from missing a \"little piece of tail\", which should grow back, the lizard was uninjured.\n\n\"I just can't get over the journey it had, ending up in my kitchen,\" Ms Moran said.\n\nThe Egyptian gecko was hidden amongst the strawberries\n\nThe Egyptian gecko - or Tarentola annularis - was collected by RSPCA inspector Rachel Henderson and checked by a vet specialising in exotic animals.\n\n\"I have no idea how something so tiny survived for such a long time in transit in a sealed-up container,\" she said.\n\nIt was taken to Reptilia Exotic Animal Rescue in Ossett, West Yorkshire.\n\nA spokesman said accidentally imported geckos were common, adding that they \"adapt very well to captivity\" and \"this little one has settled in well\" and would be rehomed \"once he has passed his quarantine period\".\n\nApart from missing its tail, which should grow back, the gecko was otherwise unscathed, the RSPCA says\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Aisling Bea are among celebrities calling on the five of the UK's biggest High Street banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal projects.\n\nIt follows criticism that HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds are funding \"fossil fuel expansion\" despite making green pledges.\n\nBusinesses and charities like Greenpeace also back the campaign.\n\nHSBC and Barclays said they were helping their clients to cut emissions.\n\nThe Make My Money Matter campaign points to research by environmental charity Rainforest Action Network, which claims that between 2016 and 2021, HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds funnelled almost $368bn (£298bn) towards the fossil fuel industry.\n\nIt added that in the same time period, the lenders financed the 50 companies making the biggest investments in oil and gas projects to the tune of $141bn.\n\nIt added that while HSBC and LLoyds had made \"welcome new announcements\" on stopping direct finance for new fossil fuel expansion since then, \"there is a long way to go\".\n\n\"HSBC was this month found to have provided $340m to a company opening a new coal mine in Germany,\" it said.\n\nThe campaign, which is also backed by actor Mark Rylance and musician Brian Eno, urges the public to sign an open letter asking the banks to stop directly financing projects that expand fossil fuel use, or end relationships with clients that do.\n\nThe campaign's founder, filmmaker Richard Curtis, said he wanted to put \"a fire under the banks\".\n\n\"It's clear that new oil and gas fields are not only hugely damaging to the planet, but they're also wildly unpopular with the public,\" he added.\n\nAlmost one third of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds' customers surveyed by the campaign said that they would switch bank if they discovered that theirs was financing the expansion of fossil fuel projects.\n\nOver 85% of customers at the five banks surveyed said they did not think that their bank was doing enough to tackle the climate crisis.\n\nTV presenter Chris Packham CBE said that financial institutions had an \"enormous ethical and moral responsibility\" to start withdrawing funding from organisations that damaged the climate and biodiversity.\n\nHigh Street banks have made steps to loosen their ties to environmentally damaging companies.\n\nBritain's biggest domestic bank, Lloyds, announced it would stop \"direct\" financing to develop new oil and gas fields in October. The BBC has also contacted Lloyds for comment.\n\nUnder the 2015 Paris Agreement, 197 countries agreed to try to keep temperature rises \"well below\" 1.5C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.\n\nExperts say that to achieve this, countries must have net zero emissions by 2050.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish nationals Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, who were reported missing in eastern Ukraine, have been killed, their families have said.\n\nMr Bagshaw, 47, and Mr Parry, 28, were last seen heading to the city of Soledar on 6 January.\n\nMr Bagshaw's family said the pair were attempting to rescue an elderly woman when their cars were hit by a shell.\n\nThe family of Mr Parry said the men had died while \"attempting a humanitarian evacuation\".\n\nEarlier this month, the Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed the body of one of the men had been found.\n\nSoledar had been the focus of intense fighting and earlier this month Russia's military claimed to have captured the Ukrainian salt-mine time town after a long battle.\n\nIn a statement issued by the UK Foreign Office, Rob, Christine and Katy Parry wrote: \"It is with great sadness we have to announce that our beloved Chrissy has been killed along with his colleague Andrew Bagshaw whilst attempting a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar, eastern Ukraine.\"\n\nSpeaking of Mr Parry, originally from Truro in Cornwall, they said: \"His selfless determination in helping the old, young and disadvantaged there has made us and his larger family extremely proud. We never imagined we would be saying goodbye to Chris when he had such a full life ahead of him. He was a caring son, fantastic brother, a best friend to so many and a loving partner to Olga.\n\n\"Chris was a confident, outward looking and adventurous young man who was loyal to everyone he knew. He lived and worked away as a software engineer but Cornwall was always his home. He loved rock climbing, cycling, running and skydiving and wanted to travel the world.\n\n\"He found himself drawn to Ukraine in March in its darkest hour at the start of the Russian invasion and helped those most in need, saving over 400 lives plus many abandoned animals.\n\n\"It is impossible to put into words how much he will be missed but he will forever be in our hearts.\n\n\"We feel so privileged that he chose our family to be part of.\"\n\nMr Parry and Mr Bagshaw had been in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine doing voluntary work.\n\nScientific researcher Mr Bagshaw was a British national but lived in New Zealand. He had been a volunteer in Ukraine since April.\n\nHis parents, Dame Sue and Prof Phil Bagshaw, said the men had been delivering food and medicines and helping the elderly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement released via news outlets they said Mr Parry and Mr Bagshaw \"were attempting to rescue an elderly woman from Soledar, in an area of intense military action, when their car was hit by an artillery shell.\n\n\"Andrew selflessly took many personal risks and saved many lives; we love him and are very proud indeed of what he did.\"\n\nThey added: \"The world needs to be strong and stand with Ukraine, giving them the military support they need now, and help to rebuild their shattered country after the war.\"\n\nBelgian journalist, Arnaud de Decker, who interviewed the pair three days before they went missing, described the evacuations they were carrying out in Ukraine as \"one of the most dangerous jobs you could do right now\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the journalist said Mr Parry had just returned from an evacuation mission and \"seemed very experienced\".\n\n\"He saved a lot of lives\", said Mr Decker, adding that Mr Parry's actions were \"truly heroic\".\n\nMr Parry's last words on camera were \"as long as people are willing to be evacuated, I will be ready to go\", Mr Decker told the BBC.\n\n\"I think you can only conclude one thing, that's a very inspiring personality - I'm sure that the family must be very proud of the actions of Chris.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously warned against all travel to Ukraine, saying there is \"a real risk to life\".\n\nBritish nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately if it is safe to do so, it said.\n\nUkraine's airspace is closed and for those in the vicinity of military activity, the Foreign Office has advised people to stay indoors, away from windows and remain alert to developments.\n\nMr Parry previously spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall on 2 January from the Bakhmut area in eastern Ukraine.\n\nExplaining his motivation for being there, he said he wanted to help children in particular.\n\n\"To be able to get them out of these war-torn areas, it makes it definitely more worthwhile than anything else that I can imagine,\" he said.", "Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act.\n\nA meeting on Friday to co-ordinate military donations for Kyiv did agree to supply more armoured vehicles and air defence systems.\n\nBut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier made a specific appeal for modern tanks to repel Russia.\n\n\"Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now,\" Zbigniew Rau wrote on Twitter.\n\nWestern countries have committed billions in other weaponry - but without Germany's commitment on tanks, it was not the result Ukraine was hoping for.\n\nUkraine wants German-made Leopard 2s as they are easy to maintain and designed specifically to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nThere are believed to be more than 2,000 Leopard 2 tanks worldwide and President Zelensky believes about 300 of them would help ensure it can defeat Russia.\n\nHowever, under German export laws, other countries who want to supply German-made Leopard 2s - like Poland and Finland - are unable to do so until Berlin gives the all-clear.\n\nUkraine already has tanks, but they are old, Soviet-era machines, prone to breaking down and without the upgraded armour and sophisticated laser range-finders found on modern Nato tanks.\n\nThe country knows its best, perhaps only, chance of fending off the massed assault Russia is expected to launch in the coming months is fielding a sizable force of western-supplied armour.\n\nMr Zelensky said there was \"no alternative\" to supplying his country with tanks in a video address on Friday evening: \"Each arrangement must be carried out as quickly as possible - for our defence.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Germany was reported to have made a decision on providing the tanks - which would be done on the condition the US agreed to send its advanced M1 Abrams tank.\n\nBut speaking after Friday's meeting of 54 countries at Ramstein air base in Germany, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin denied Berlin was waiting on the US to make the first move.\n\n\"This notion of unlocking - in my mind it's not an issue,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of Germany's wider contribution to the defence of Ukraine, Mr Austin, said: \"They are a reliable ally, they've been that way for a very, very long time and I truly believe that they'll continue to be a reliable ally going forward.\"\n\nHe told reporters other countries were providing tanks to Ukraine: \"I don't have any announcements to make on M1s [Abrams tanks] and you heard the German minister of defence say that they've not made a decision on Leopards.\"\n\nOther countries have committed to sending tanks, including the UK, which will send 14 Challenger 2s.\n\nDespite hesitation over the Abrams tanks, the US announced fresh support worth more than $2.5bn (£2bn) this week, including armoured vehicles.\n\nThe Pentagon promised an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other supplies.\n\nNine European nations have also promised more support of their own after meeting on Thursday in Estonia. They included:\n\nFor now, this leaves Ukraine in limbo - receiving armoured vehicles and air defence systems, but not the armour it so desperately needs.", "The number of wins of some Premium Bond prizes will increase from next month, pushing the prize fund rate to its highest level for 14 years.\n\nExtra prizes worth £50 to £100,000 will be available but the overall chances of winning remain unchanged, according to the Treasury-owned operator NS&I.\n\nIt reflects the improvement in savings rates more generally during a period of intense competition between providers.\n\nHowever, experts say the peak in savings rates is approaching.\n\nA slowdown in the inflation rate, which charts the rising cost of living, means economists predict the Bank of England may slow the pace of interest rate rises. In turn, that would slow, or end, the improving returns for savers.\n\nNS&I has now improved the prize fund rate of Premium Bonds - held by millions of UK savers - four times in the last year.\n\nNext month's changes will mean, for example, that there are an estimated 59 prizes of £100,000 available, up from 56 in January. There will also be 12,573 prizes of £1,000 prizes next month, up from 11,968 in January.\n\nHowever, the overall odds of each £1 bond winning a prize will remain unchanged at 24,000 to one, because there will be fewer prizes of £25 available.\n\n\"The fact remains that while some savers might be lucky enough to hit the [£1m] jackpot or win big early on, others may save and wait for long periods for even a small return,\" said Myron Jobson, personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor.\n\nThese increases by NS&I have come during wider improvement in the market in recent months after a decade of low returns for savers.\n\nSavers have been offered much better rates than they have for years, but the buying-power of their pot of money has been diluted by rising prices in the shops.\n\nAt present, the highest interest rate for an easy-access savings account is about 3.25% on the first £5,000 of savings, compared with 0.7% a year ago.\n\nFor a one-year fixed bond, the top rate was 1.36% a year ago for those saving more than £1,000, but is now 4.33% for those saving more than £5,000.\n\nThe rate of inflation is predicted to slow significantly by the end of the year, which means that activity in the savings arena is starting to diminish.\n\nAnna Bowes, of independent comparison website Savings Champion, said that the UK was \"possibly reaching the peak of the interest rate cycle\". Although, some variable, easy-access accounts might still raise returns, overall activity among providers was likely to slow.\n\nShe pointed out that Bank of England figures showed there was £268bn in accounts that did not pay interest - usually bank current accounts - so it was still advisable for people to shop around to get better returns for any spare cash, especially as prices were still going up.\n\nHowever, a quarter of UK adults have less than £100 set aside in savings, according to the Money and Pensions Service.\n\nThe lack of a financial safety net means many have to borrow money to cover any extra costs, creating greater anxiety about their plight.\n\nDebt advisors are expecting a sharp increase in enquiries as people struggle to fund higher food and energy bills, with little to fall back on.\n\nA recent survey for BBC News indicated that a third of respondents who borrowed money to help get through Christmas and the holiday season said they were not confident about their ability to repay.", "Marks & Spencer has warned that separate labelling for goods being sold in Northern Ireland would not be a viable change to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe protocol is the post-Brexit deal which keeps Northern Ireland inside the EU single market for goods.\n\nThe UK and EU are negotiating ways to improve its operations.\n\nBoth have previously suggested labelling could have a role in reducing checks and controls on goods.\n\nM&S chairman Archie Norman has written to the foreign secretary to warn that labelling would mean \"overbearing and prohibitive costs\" for retailers.\n\nIn July 2021 the UK government proposed that \"appropriate labelling requirements so that goods could only be sold in the UK\" should be part of a radical plan to reduce controls on Great Britain goods, particularly food products, entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThat was echoed by the EU in October 2021 which said that one condition for reducing checks and paperwork was for goods to be labelled \"at the level of the individual end-consumer packaging, with words such as 'products for sale only in the United Kingdom'\".\n\nBoth the UK government and the EU have suggested extra labelling could have a role in reducing checks and controls on goods\n\nHowever M&S said that would create difficulties for businesses which sell outside the UK, particularly into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the letter it said products for export would need separate production runs, packaging and segregated stock.\n\nIt added that such a requirement would \"completely undermine the all-Ireland supply we have set up to help get around the current issues\".\n\nThe letter said Northern Ireland-specific labelling would create similar problems, \"requiring specific production runs and segregated stock for about 7-9% of our volume, incurring cost of packaging changes on every production run\".\n\nMr Norman said any solution needed to be fully digital, adding that \"retailers already operate in real time digital information - day or night, at the click of a button, we can locate our products, be that in a depot, in transit or in a store\".\n\n\"In a digital era - when one tap of a mobile can check-in a customer at store and locate their order in under 60 seconds, it's baffling that the government and the EU have rewound four decades to discuss an expensive 'solution' involving stickers & labelling,\" he said.\n\nIt is understood the UK has not ruled out a role for labelling, seeing it as a standard practice for all food retailers.\n\n\"The protocol is causing real problems in Northern Ireland. These include trade disruption and diversion, significant costs and bureaucracy for traders,\" a government spokesperson said.\n\n\"It's our preference to resolve these problems through talks, and the government is engaging in constructive dialogue with the EU to find solutions.\"\n\nMr Norman, a former Conservative MP, has been a vocal critic of the impacts of the protocol on the M&S business.\n\nHowever the company has continued to expand in Northern Ireland, opening new food stores.\n\nIt also restored its Christmas food ordering service in Northern Ireland in 2022 having suspended it in 2021.", "Soft toys, like these made from recycled plastic bottles, were popular\n\nParents are increasingly buying toys and games for themselves, despite cost-of-living pressures, new research suggests.\n\nAnalysts NPD said more than one in four toys and games bought last year went to adults and teenagers.\n\nSo-called kidults may be spending their limited disposable income on puzzles rather than nights out, it added.\n\nIt came as toy sales overall fell in 2022 as parents cut back on low-cost impulse buys.\n\nThe number of toys and games sold fell by 6% compared with the previous year, NPD said.\n\nParents typically bought toys of £30 to £50, but resisted small and unplanned purchases, with sales of \"pocket money toys\" under £10 falling sharply.\n\nAmong the most popular items sold were soft toys such as Squishmallows, building sets, action figures and vehicles.\n\nMelissa Symonds, NPD's executive director, said parents similarly cut back on low cost during the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nShe added that parents facing rising bills and prices had become very price savvy, seeking out \"choice and value\".\n\nAbout a third of shoppers compared prices online and in-store before deciding what to buy in the run-up to Christmas. Such considered shopping habits were another factor in the drop in lower cost toy sales, she suggested.\n\nIn-store sales accounted for half of last year's total, up 6% on the previous year, owing in part to concern over delivery disruption and there being a full shopping week before Christmas Day which fell on a Sunday.\n\nDespite consumers shopping around on price, the toy industry is comparatively resilient to economic downturns compared with other sectors.\n\nSales last year, by value, were down 3% compared with the previous year, NPD analysis suggests.\n\nThe average price of a toy is £10.54. With price so important to consumers, the toy industry has been lobbying the government over rules regarding the sale of cheap, potentially low-quality products on internet marketplaces.\n\nThe British Toy and Hobby Association, which is holding its annual Toy Fair at London's Olympia, said there was a risk of dangerous products being sold by third-party sellers on these sites.\n\nSpokeswoman Kerri Atherton said that these portals did not have the same obligations as the rest of the industry, allowing third-party sellers to list cheaper products without having to invest in quality and safety controls.\n\nShe said the association had been pressing ministers on the matter for four years, but now a product safety review was imminent.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Worker Andy Ferguson said news of the closure had come as a \"big shock\" for staff\n\nPoultry giant 2 Sisters Food Group said the site in Llangefni, Anglesey, was old and would require significant investment to bring it up to the same standard as its other locations.\n\nThe firm also said Llangefni was one of its smallest sites and products could be made more efficiently elsewhere.\n\nIt added that it would speak with employees to explore the options before making final decisions on closure.\n\nThe company's chief executive Ronald Kers said 2 Sisters would try to find alternative work for everyone.\n\nThis would be with other local employers, or at its other sites including Sandycroft in Flintshire and Rogerstone, Newport.\n\nHowever, he admitted redundancies were likely.\n\n\"We will do our best to redeploy as many people as possible, but I think it will be unrealistic to assume that we can redeploy everyone, so we will be looking at redundancies,\" he said.\n\n\"We realise that this is absolutely terrible news for those families and we'll do all that we can to listen to the ideas before we make any final decision.\n\n\"However, it is also our responsibility to the other 13,000 people that we employ to make sure that our business is sustainable as a total division.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rhun ap Iorwerth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Kers said a consultation with unions would explore the best way forward, but left little prospect of the factory staying open.\n\n\"I would never rule anything out, but the fact of the matter is that the site is old,\" he added.\n\n\"It's over 50 years old, it's small, it's inefficient, the transport costs are too high.\n\n\"So if there was an easy solution, we would have definitely explored that in more detail. Unfortunately, the picture is bleak.\"\n\nThe planned closure follows a review by 2 Sisters of its UK poultry division to overcome \"challenges facing the food manufacturing sector\".\n\nIts review described the Llangefni site, which it bought in 2013, as \"not sustainable\" and lacking space to be efficient, despite £5m being invested there.\n\n\"The cost to produce here is higher, and it would require significant investment to bring it up to the standards of our other factories,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Our products can be made more efficiently elsewhere across our estate.\n\nPeter Hughes, the regional secretary of Unite Wales, said: \"It came as a complete shock for the workforce and for ourselves.\n\n\"We believe there's viable employment here. They're making a profit, so ultimately there should be jobs on Anglesey.\n\n\"This place has been here over 50 years and employed people over that lifespan. So why now have they made the decision to move out of Anglesey?\"\n\nEconomy Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"I met with the local authority this morning once we were made aware of the news.\n\n\"We are in contact with the company and trade union to understand the implications of this surprise announcement.\"\n\nMr Kers previously warned in an interview with The Grocer in December about the challenges faced in the industry.\n\nThe company's last published accounts show it made a £95.5m loss to 31 July, 2021.\n\nFarmers' Union of Wales chief executive Guto Bebb, said: \"The closure of this food processing site is a blow for the local community, the economy and for food processing in Wales.\n\n\"We are naturally concerned about the impact this will have on our food supply chains as we are losing another food processing site in Wales.\"\n\nYnys Mon MP Virginia Crosbie said the planned closure was \"devastating news\".\n\nShe added: \"I will be speaking to the unions very soon and I would support a task group being set up to help navigate what is happening and what could happen, if the factory closes.\n\n\"I am also meeting with the chancellor this morning and I will be raising what is happening on the island with him as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said action needed to be taken to support workers and their families.\n\n\"Now is also the time for urgent and decisive action from both UK and Welsh governments - both of which can facilitate more investment and much needed jobs on the island,\" she added.\n\nWorkers in Llangefni are bearing the brunt of the cost pressures hitting 2 Sisters.\n\nThe site on Anglesey did not have the capacity to be improved, the company said, which made it a target for closure as the owners looked for efficiencies.\n\nSome feared this was coming.\n\nThere was an \"existential threat\" facing the 2 Sisters business model in December, when the CEO Ronald Kers warned that it was being hit by rising costs and the bird flu outbreak.\n\nProduction costs had risen by 35% year on year and the firm had been losing tens of millions of pounds, but Mr Kers warned the \"worst was yet to come\".\n\nStaff in Llangefni are feeling the pain of the 2 Sisters plan to address the problem.\n\nBut the island's broader economy will also take a hit. While jobs are being lost at the poultry plant, local people have faced the bottleneck traffic of the closure of the Menai Bridge and the continuing uncertainty about whether a new nuclear power plant will be built at Wylfa.\n\n2 Sisters workers need support in finding new jobs, but they'll be doing so as many other businesses review their plans amid high inflation and a looming recession.", "Andrea Riseborough said she was \"not entirely sure\" how her nomination had happened\n\nAwards pundits are still picking their jaws off the floor after Tuesday's Oscar nominations.\n\nDespite enjoying a flurry of late celebrity support, many Oscar-watchers felt British actress Andrea Riseborough had too high a hill to climb to score a nomination in the highly competitive best actress category.\n\nBut on Tuesday, she was nominated for her performance in To Leslie, in which she plays an alcoholic mother from Texas who tries to make ends meet after squandering her lottery winnings.\n\nThere is no doubt that Riseborough is impressive in the low-budget film, but the nod took even her by surprise. \"I'm astounded,\" she told Deadline after the nominations were unveiled. \"It's such an unexpected ray of light... I'm not entirely sure how this happened.\"\n\nWell, we have a bit of an idea - and it involves Gwyneth Paltrow, Edward Norton, Courteney Cox, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Paulson and Amy Adams.\n\nThey are just a few of the Hollywood A-listers who got behind To Leslie - voicing their support for the film on social media in the dying days of voting, and in some cases even hosting their own screenings.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gwynethpaltrow This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt had become a bit of a running joke in recent days that many posts championing the film used the same wording, calling To Leslie a \"small film with a giant heart\". But the copy-and-paste tweets and Instagram posts were driven by an apparently genuine admiration.\n\nThe efforts to get the film on to the Academy's radar were ultimately successful, but it's hard to overstate how unusual Riseborough's campaign has been.\n\nTo Leslie reportedly only made $27,000 (£21,800) at the box office when it first opened. (Having said that, it did make at least an extra £4.49 last week when this reporter paid to rent it on a well-known streaming service.)\n\nThe film premiered at South by Southwest last March. Unlike Toronto, Venice or Cannes, SXSW is not one of the film festivals considered a key part of the awards race and the film went largely unnoticed.\n\n\"After SXSW there was a quiet lull,\" Riseborough recalled. \"And then slowly, as the film had a few screenings elsewhere - including at Raindance, which was a big deal because we hadn't had a release in the UK - we found people were starting to talk about it.\n\nI, Tonya actress Allison Janney, a previous Oscar winner herself, stars opposite Riseborough in To Leslie\n\n\"And people were asking us, 'Why can I not go and see it? Where can I see it?' After a while, we were able to point them to iTunes and Amazon, but it didn't happen right away.\"\n\nNonetheless, a nomination seemed like a long shot. \"It was so hard to believe it might ever happen because we really hadn't been in the running for anything else,\" Riseborough commented.\n\nCrucially, the team behind the film uploaded it to the Academy's viewing portal, which meant voters could access it more easily. Meanwhile, the nomination Riseborough netted at the Independent Spirit Awards, which recognise small indie films, certainly didn't hurt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edward Norton 🌻🇺🇦 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, some expressed scepticism that the campaign was anything other than contrived.\n\n\"There are people saying this is such a beautiful, organic movement, and I've got to tell you, this is not organic,\" said Vanity Fair's Rebecca Ford. \"She [Riseborough] has a very well-connected manager, she is well-respected by actors, and they just took this moment to launch this campaign, and it is a campaign.\"\n\nRiseborough was previously nominated for a Bafta for playing a young Margaret Thatcher in the BBC's The Long Walk to Finchley, and has appeared in the films Birdman and Shadow Dancer, and TV shows like ZeroZeroZero and National Treasure.\n\nHer first Oscar nomination is somewhat humbling for the many awards watchers who usually pride themselves on predicting which way things will go, based on the countless films they've watched and their sense of momentum on the ground at industry events.\n\nAs Erik Anderson of Awards Watch tweeted, only half-jokingly: \"We are going to talk about the Andrea Riseborough campaign for DECADES to come.\"\n\nWe'll certainly be talking about it until the Oscars ceremony on 12 March.\n\nHere are just four of the other talking points from this year's nominations:\n\nAll Quiet on the Western Front has nine nominations - the most of any Netflix film\n\nStreaming services have not had as strong a year at the Oscars as they did in 2022, when Apple's Coda became the first film from a streamer to win best picture.\n\nThis year, Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front is the only nominee from a streaming service in the top category.\n\nIt is notable that despite Netflix putting a lot of campaign effort into Glass Onion and Pinocchio, they both scored just one nomination each.\n\nIn contrast, All Quiet had not initially seemed as strong a contender - until it started showing up prominently at precursor ceremonies, at which point the marketing and campaigning was stepped up a gear. It has now secured nine nods at the Oscars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guillermo del Toro is nominated in best animated film for Pinocchio\n\nAll of the other best picture contenders were released in cinemas - although some have since become available on streaming. The Banshees of Inisherin, for example, is on Disney+ in the UK just three months after it was released on the big screen.\n\nIn total, streaming services got about half the number of nominations they did a year ago. Netflix, Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 total nominations, down from 37 last year.\n\nDespite the distinct possibility that Netflix's All Quiet could win best picture, the weaker year for streaming overall may partly reflect a return to cinema releases following the pandemic.\n\nPaul Mescal shot to fame after appearing in the BBC drama Normal People\n\nFour actors were considered locks for best actor, and all were duly nominated on Tuesday (Bill Nighy, Colin Farrell, Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser), but there had been much debate about who would score the fifth slot.\n\nSomewhat surprisingly, it ended up being Irish actor Paul Mescal for his performance in the terrific Aftersun. The film sees him play a young Scottish father grappling with how to raise his daughter.\n\n\"This is bananas!\" Mescal said of his nomination. \"To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I'm so utterly grateful.\"\n\nHe was part of a very strong showing for Irish actors and talent. The Banshees of Inisherin alone scored four acting nods (Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon) in addition to best picture and best director for Martin McDonagh.\n\nElsewhere, An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl became the first ever in the Irish-language film to be nominated for best international feature. The enjoyable and understated film tells the story about a shy young girl who goes to stay with distant relatives for the summer.\n\nWriter and director Colm Bairéad said the team behind the film were \"honoured beyond words\" to be recognised.\n\nAngela Bassett has already won a Golden Globe for her performance in Wakanda Forever\n\nAngela Bassett became the first actor in history to be nominated for a performance in a Marvel film.\n\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever sees Bassett reprise her role as Queen Ramonda, the mother of the late Chadwick Boseman's character T'Challa.\n\nBut while Wakanda Forever missed best picture, the nominations for Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water ensured a record was still broken for the most sequels to make it into the shortlist in a single year.\n\nBrian Tyree Henry is nominated for his performance in Apple's Causeway\n\nBrian Tyree Henry, who stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Apple's excellent Causeway, scored an unexpected nomination in the best supporting actor category.\n\nThis was a huge but very welcome surprise. Henry plays a mechanic who befriends Lawrence's character as she begins recovering from a traumatic brain injury.\n\nOther surprises included Hong Chau making it into the best supporting actress shortlist for The Whale, and Ana de Armas being nominated for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the divisive Blonde, just a day after it was nominated for several Razzies.\n\nSadly, there were as many snubs as there were surprises, perhaps most notably Danielle Deadwyler, who was widely expected to be recognised for her outstanding performance in Till. Other notable absences included Olivia Colman and Eddie Redmayne.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this job too big for Rishi Sunak? - asks Sir Keir Starmer\n\nRishi Sunak defended his decision to launch an ethics inquiry into Nadhim Zahawi rather than sacking him, at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the PM was \"hopelessly weak\" for not firing the minister for \"seeking to avoid tax\".\n\n\"Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for him?\" the Labour leader asked.\n\nMr Sunak said it was Sir Keir who was weak because \"he has no principles just petty politics\".\n\nDowning Street initially said Mr Sunak's tax arrangements were \"confidential\" when asked by Labour if he had ever paid a penalty to the UK tax authorities, like Mr Zahawi.\n\nBut the PM's spokesperson later confirmed that he had not, saying: \"The prime minister has never paid a penalty to HMRC.\"\n\nThe PM will publish his tax returns \"in due course\", Downing Street has said.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said it would have been \"politically expedient\" to sack Mr Zahawi as a minister before PMQs got under way at noon but he believed in \"proper due process\".\n\nThat was why, he said, he had asked ask his ethics adviser to investigate whether the Conservative Party chairman had broken ministerial rules.\n\nIt will be up to the PM to decide whether to sack Mr Zahawi if his ethics adviser says he has broken the ministerial code.\n\nMr Zahawi was chancellor at the time the estimated £4.8m settlement was agreed with HMRC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH PMQs in 70 secs: Sunak insists he believes in \"due process\", as Starmer turns up the heat over Zahawi investigation.\n\nSir Keir asked Mr Sunak why he had said at last week's PMQs that Mr Zahawi had \"addressed this matter in full\".\n\n\"Since I commented on this matter last week more information, including a statement from the minister without portfolio [Mr Zahawi], has entered the public domain which is why it's right that we do establish the facts,\" the prime minister said.\n\nHe accused Sir Keir of \"simple political opportunism\" for urging him to appoint an ethics adviser then wanting a decision before they had investigated the case.\n\nAnd he claimed \"the difference between him [Sir Keir] and me is I stand by my values and my principles even when it is difficult,\" accusing the Labour leader of indulging in \"petty politics\".\n\nSir Keir said the PM's \"failure\" to sack Mr Zahawi showed \"how hopelessly weak he is - a prime minister overseeing chaos, overwhelmed at every turn\".\n\n\"He can't say when ambulances will get to heart attack victims again. He can't say when the prisons system will keep streets safe again. He can't even deal with tax avoiders in his own cabinet,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for him?\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman and his senior advisers spent about 35 minutes after PMQs facing questions from the media about Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nIt became something of an endurance slalom event, his team swerving this way or that to avoid many of the questions.\n\nThey wouldn't tell us whether Rishi Sunak had talked to Mr Zahawi before last week's PMQs, when the PM said the whole thing was sorted.\n\nWe were told the PM has confidence in Mr Zahawi, even though Mr Sunak said it would have been politically expedient to sack him.\n\nTo be fair, any serving minister technically has to have the confidence of the prime minister.\n\nBut the truth is we know that confidence is draining away, if not yet entirely emptied.\n\nAnd a broader front is opening up - the weaponising of wealth, with Labour and the SNP pointing to the PM's vast wealth too.\n\nHowever admirably accumulated, for those at the top of politics who are mega rich there is always likely to be political vulnerability around a perception of being detached from the lives of ordinary folk and having concerns and issues over tax, for instance, that seem other-worldly.\n\nConservative MP Nigel Mills told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that Mr Zahawi must explain why he had to pay a penalty to the tax authorities.\n\n\"I just don't see how an investigation into the ministerial code resolves this because if he is cleared by that, that won't stop people asking questions about what on earth happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think the only way to resolve this is to make clear what the situation was that gave rise to a significant penalty.\n\n\"If that can be explained we can all move on. If it can't, then clearly his position won't be tenable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Zahawi confirmed on Saturday that he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), adding that the tax authority accepted the error was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when Mr Zahawi was chancellor under Boris Johnson, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HMRC.", "The girl was stabbed at Parrs Wood High School during her dinner break\n\nA 14-year-old girl has been stabbed and seriously injured at a school in Manchester.\n\nPolice said she was attacked just after 13:00 GMT on Tuesday at Parrs Wood High School in the East Didsbury area.\n\nShe was taken to hospital for treatment for injuries described as \"serious though not life threatening\".\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at the Wilmslow Road school and was being questioned, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nThe girl's injuries were believed to have been caused by a \"sharp object\" after the attack during her dinner break, the force said.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to come forward and said they were working with the local authority and the school to support children affected by the incident.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sunak's own taxes could be scrutinised soon - if he publishes returns\n\nA hint of the next issue coming down the road for Rishi Sunak? Rishi Sunak decided to address his comments last week - that Nadhim Zahawi had addressed questions about his tax affairs in full - head on in PMQs today. He said more information (the fact Zahawi paid a penalty to HMRC) had come to light since he spoke last week and that’s why he has asked the government’s ethics adviser to investigate. While he got cheers from his MPs for saying he believes it’s fair to allow due process, it was uncomfortable to be answering questions about the ethics of his own MPs again. Perhaps more uncomfortable, personally, though were the hints at a potential next challenge for Rishi Sunak. The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked speculatively why the prime minister may not want to talk about tax avoidance and family connections. The SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn asked whether people seeking to avoid tax should simply “apply for non-dom tax status.” Both are alluding to revelations last year that Sunak’s wife had claimed non-dom tax status to avoid UK tax on overseas income. Sunak has promised to publish his tax returns at some point, and No 10 have hinted this will be soon. He’s said he wants to be transparent about this, but the publication of them may, at least temporarily, turn eyes away from one very wealthy Tory MP’s taxes to the prime minister's own.", "Ukraine is pleading for Western-made, modern tanks to fight off the Russians\n\nAs the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns of Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThe explosions come every few seconds, sometimes in rapid clusters of six or more short blasts, sometimes deep and long and rib-cage-rattling, thundering across the snow-speckled hills that stretch along the front lines close to Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThen come the distant booms, the shorter punch of a mortar round blasting off on the roadside, and, occasionally, the bone-chilling, fizzing whoosh of an incoming artillery shell that sends us diving for cover on the frozen fields.\n\nThis is the daily, constant, percussive chorus of war in the Donbas, where Ukrainian and Russian artillery, rocket and tank crews are slugging it out, trading blows in a fierce, but largely inconclusive struggle to break a months-long deadlock.\n\n\"We have a target,\" said Roman, a Ukrainian tank unit commander, suddenly pulling off his gloves, clambering up onto the slippery, snow-covered turret of a dark green T-72 tank, and swinging open a heavy steel hatch.\n\nVasyl, Volodymyr and Bogdan man a Soviet-era tank - and would all like an upgrade\n\nAnother crew member, Vlad, scrambled out of a nearby fox hole, where he had been warming his grimy hands over a fresh fire, to help out.\n\nSeconds later, a skull-shaking explosion echoed across the valley and towards Bakhmut, as a US-supplied tank shell tore out of the gun barrel with a flash of orange, heading towards Russian positions on the opposite hillside.\n\n\"T-72s are old tanks - this one's the same age as me,\" said Bogdan, a 55-year-old Ukrainian volunteer, turning to pat the huge, squat, Soviet-era machine behind him. \"I used to drive one of these nearly 40 years ago - I can't believe I'm doing it again. But it works. It does the job.\"\n\n\"But a Leopard would be better,\" said Volodymr, another member of their three-man crew, with a low chuckle.\n\nPlans to send German-made Leopard tanks and UK Challengers to the front lines here in the Donbas have been greeted with visible excitement by Ukrainian forces, who have been taking heavy casualties in recent weeks, around Bakhmut, and, more particularly, during the ferocious struggle for the nearby town of Soledar.\n\n\"There were very heavy losses. It's very pitiful. It's hard,\" said Danylo, an officer in charge of repairing tanks for the 24th Mechanised Brigade. He said the current deadlock would not be broken unless foreign tanks arrived in significant numbers.\n\n\"Yes, we'll be stuck here. We need these [Western tanks] to stop Russia's aggression. With infantry, covered by tanks, we'll win for sure,\" he said.\n\n\"Leopards, Challengers, Abrams - any foreign tank is good for us! I think we need at least 300. And we need them now!\" said Bogdan.\n\nThe Ukrainians all acknowledged that Russia had more modern tanks but were scathing about their tactics.\n\n\"The Russian tanks are a bit better than ours. They're fully modernised. But mostly the Russians are strong because they push forwards en masse, advancing over the bodies of their own soldiers. Our commanders care more about the lives of their crews, so we try to destroy [the enemy] while losing as few of our own men as possible,\" said Bogdan.\n\nA more senior company commander in the 24th Brigade, with the code name Khan, took us to a rear position, past fresh trenches being dug in the fields by specialised machines, where several tanks were hidden under camouflage nets in a wooded area.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian forces are deadlocked on the eastern front lines\n\n\"These T-72s have proved effective in winter conditions. But they're old, and not really suited for modern warfare. These days it's all about drones and the latest technology.\" Khan said he believed it would take very little time for his crews to adapt to more modern European equipment.\n\n\"If you're a tank driver you're already someone of above-average intelligence. They'll be able to learn and adapt quickly,\" he said.\n\nSuddenly, an incoming Russian artillery shell landed several hundred metres away. Seconds later, another landed closer, and then closer still, sending soldiers and journalists diving for cover.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has, in many ways, been a distinctly old-fashioned conflict, based on attrition, on devastating artillery strikes, and on dug-in positions reminiscent of the trenches of World War One. But the war has also revealed the limitation of tanks - most clearly in the first weeks of the conflict when nimble Ukrainian infantry destroyed many huge Russian armoured columns with shoulder-launched rockets.\n\n\"In the old days, it was all about tanks. Now it's about these new rocket systems,\" said Volodymr. But the coming months could yet see Western tanks - if deployed quickly, and in large numbers - play a decisive role.", "Julian Sands has talked about his love of hiking in the past\n\nCalifornian authorities have said they have found no evidence of Julian Sands' location, 12 days after he went missing.\n\nThe British actor, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said \"numerous\" ground and air search efforts had taken place.\n\nCalifornia has recently been battered by deadly storms.\n\nHowever, the sheriff's department said the search would continue, \"weather and ground conditions permitting\".\n\nA spokesperson for the department told the PA news agency that ground searches in areas of higher elevation, yet to be searched in, were still not possible due to the conditions.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said it had responded to more than a dozen calls on Mount San Antonio, known locally as Mount Baldy, and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. It warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area, adding it was \"extremely dangerous\", even for experienced hikers.\n\nLast week, Mr Sands' car was found next to where he was reported missing.\n\nHis family have thanked the authorities for their efforts.\n\nEarlier this week, they also said they were \"deeply touched\" by the \"outpouring of love and support\" they had received.\n\nIn a statement, the family praised the \"heroic search teams\" who are working through the difficult weather conditions \"on the ground and in the air to bring Julian home\".\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Mr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nHe lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.\n\nMr Sands has talked in the past about his love of hiking and mountain climbing.\n\nWhen asked in 2020 what made him happy, he replied: \"Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Crews have reported finding people in homes that feel ice cold\n\nAmbulance crews say they are treating a growing number of patients who are falling ill because they are unable to afford to heat their homes.\n\nThe soaring cost of gas and electricity has forced many people to switch off their heating in the winter months.\n\nScottish Ambulance Service crews say they are seeing people who are unwell because their homes are so cold or they cannot afford to eat properly.\n\nParamedics say they are typically called out by friends or family.\n\nCharities have warned many people are dealing with a \"toxic cocktail\" of increasing energy bills, growing inflation and higher interest rates this winter.\n\nThe Scottish government estimates that about 36% of Scotland's homes will now be in fuel poverty after recent energy price rises.\n\nRespiratory illnesses are the biggest impact of living in a cold home says Will Green\n\nGlasgow ambulance workers Tanya Hoffman and Will Green say that most weeks they see patients who are facing the stark choice between eating and heating.\n\nThey have been in homes which feel ice cold, where the patients are clearly struggling to cope.\n\n\"It is sad to see people are living like that,\" said Tanya.\n\n\"There's been quite a few patients I have been out to who can't afford to buy food. They have to choose one or other, heating or food.\n\n\"So they'll sit quietly at home and it's usually a relative or a friend who will phone for them as they don't want to bother anybody.\n\n\"They're sitting there [and] you can't get a temperature off them because they're so cold.\n\n\"So you take them into hospital because they are not managing. You know if you leave that person at home they are probably going to die through the fact they are so cold.\"\n\nWill and Tanya work out of an ambulance depot in the east end of Glasgow\n\nFigures from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) show that about 44 people a day were taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia during the first cold snap of the winter, between 1 and 18 December last year.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - Scotland's biggest health board - had 170 people taken to hospital with hypothermia in that period, when temperatures plummeted to minus double figures in many areas.\n\nWill says the fact that someone is living in a freezing home is \"weighed in\" to the judgement he makes on whether or not they are safe to be left at home.\n\nHe added: \"If they are not turning the heating on they are not going to feel better.\n\n\"Respiratory illnesses and seasonal bugs take hold much easier if they are not able to look after their basic needs such as food and heating.\n\n\"If they are not able to keep on top of that then they will get sick.\"\n\nThe pressure facing Scotland's hospitals this winter has led to a series of pleas for people to cut out unnecessary calls for ambulances or trips to A&E.\n\nBut for Will and Tanya, this message is part of a wider shift needed in the mindset of patients.\n\nThey say calling for an ambulance does not automatically mean you are going to hospital.\n\n\"People sometimes do see us as a big white taxi just to take them into the hospital,\" explains Will.\n\n\"They can be quite taken aback if we arrive and tell them that with all their assessments and everything we have checked, you could be dealt with at home a lot of easier.\n\n\"Some people do expect you to get them in and just go, and you have to explain you are not really there for that now.\"\n\nTanya adds that it is often younger people who are more willing to \"call an ambulance for a headache\", as she puts it, than older people, who are generally keener to avoid any trip to hospital.\n\nAre you personally affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Isla Bryson, who was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow, faces a custodial sentence\n\nA transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women in attacks carried out before she changed gender.\n\nIsla Bryson committed the crimes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that the 31-year-old has now started the process of gender re-assignment.\n\nJudge Lord Scott said she had been convicted of two extremely serious charges and a significant custodial sentence was inevitable.\n\nBBC Scotland understands Bryson is being sent to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling but will not be held alongside the jail's general population.\n\nA risk assessment will then be carried out to decide where Bryson should go after that.\n\nBryson had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as Adam Graham.\n\nThe following year Bryson told jurors she had made the decision to transition from a man to a woman.\n\nAt the trial, she was then known as Isla Bryson with jurors told Adam Graham was now her \"dead name\".\n\nBryson had been on bail, but was remanded in custody by Lord Scott.\n\nShe attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, having met on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThis was immediately after Bryson's marriage to a woman had ended.\n\nThe rape occurred on 16 September 2016 after Bryson locked the door and got into bed beside the woman.\n\nIsla Bryson was remanded in custody at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nIn pre-recorded testimony played to jurors, the woman recalled repeatedly stating \"no\" as a \"muscular\" Adam forced himself upon her.\n\nThe second woman was raped at a flat in Drumchapel, Glasgow on 27 June 2019.\n\nBryson told jurors how she had shared her \"sexuality issues\" with the 34-year-old having met on the social media site Bigo.\n\nThe court heard the pair were together at the flat planning to watch a film.\n\nThe victim recalled feeling \"crushed\" as the attacker she knew as Adam raped her.\n\nShe stated: \"I told him to stop and he did not. He kept going. That is when I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to do.\"\n\nBryson denied that charge. She said: \"I would never do that. I would never hurt any woman.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, prosecutor John Keenan KC said the first rape had been reported to the authorities in 2016, but that there were no further \"proceedings at that stage\".\n\nLord Scott deferred sentencing on Bryson until 28 February in Stirling.\n\nShe already had three summary levels convictions - not for sexual matters - and has never been jailed before.\n\nThe judge told her: \"You have been convicted of two extremely serious charges. Given what you have been convicted of, a significant custodial sentence is inevitable.\"\n\nThe media and public had to watch proceedings from a viewing room elsewhere in the court building.\n\nA previous trial was abandoned due to Bryson reporting being unwell after having her photo taken as she arrived at court.\n\nSince 2014, the Scottish Prison Service's policy has been that prisoners should be accommodated on the basis of self-declared identity, subject to a risk assessment.\n\nThat accommodation must best suit \"the person's needs and should reflect the gender in which they are currently living\".\n\nInitially, Isla Bryson will be held on remand at the women's prison at Cornton Vale where it is expected she will be segregated from other inmates.\n\nThe judge has made it clear she will receive a lengthy prison sentence when she is brought back to court.\n\nAfter that, the prison service will have to work out what to do with her.\n\nA multi-disciplinary assessment will decide whether she should serve her sentence with male or female prisoners.\n\nThe assessment will gauge the risk Bryson poses to others, and the risk that would be posed to Bryson, depending on where she was sent.\n\nSandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, believes it is the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"If someone has been convicted of a serious sexual offence they should not be held with the general female population.\"\n\nThe community safety spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives Russell Findlay MSP referred to the fact that Bryson has not yet had gender reassignment surgery.\n\nHe said: \"It would be wrong to put a male-bodied rapist in a women's prison.\"\n\nDiscussing the general issue of trans prisoners in 2018, the Scottish Trans Alliance said the prison service \"isn't daft\" and scrutinises each case with great care.\n\nClearly, Bryson cannot be held in segregation - solitary confinement - forever. It would breach her human rights.\n\nAt some point she will mix and be housed with other prisoners. One commentator with extensive knowledge of Scotland's jails said the prison service \"is in a very difficult position facing very difficult choices.\"", "Donald Trump will be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram, after Meta announced it would be ending its two-year suspension of his accounts.\n\nThe ban will end \"in the coming weeks\", the social media giant said.\n\nIn a statement, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the public \"should be able to hear what their politicians are saying\".\n\nThe then-US president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riots in 2021.\n\nMeta had acted following Mr Trump's \"praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol\", Mr Clegg said.\n\n\"The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances,\" he added.\n\nHe said a review had now found that Mr Trump's accounts no longer represented a serious risk to public safety.\n\nBut because of Mr Trump's past \"violations\", he would now face heightened penalties for any future offences.\n\nMeta's Oversight Board - a body it set up to review moderation rulings - said that the decision to reinstate Mr Trump on its platforms \"sat with Meta alone - the board did not have a role in the decision\".\n\nThe board had previously told Meta that Mr Trump's suspension needed to be revisited.\n\nIt urged Meta to be transparent and to provide additional information about new policies covering public figures so that it could review their implementation.\n\nRepublicans have been pressing for Mr Trump to be allowed back on Facebook as he prepares to run for the US presidency again next year.\n\nMr Trump posted on his own social media company, Truth Social, in response on Wednesday, saying that Facebook had \"lost billions\" after banning \"your favourite president, me\".\n\n\"Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting president, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!\" he wrote.\n\nDonald Trump now has a decision to make.\n\nTruth Social, a social media platform he set up in 2021, has vastly fewer users than Facebook, which has three billion.\n\nTruth Social may have as many as five million accounts - though it's likely it has far fewer active users.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump has an exclusivity agreement with Truth Social - that means he is legally required to post first on the platform - six hours before any other.\n\nIt means if he posts on Facebook or Twitter - there is a chance he could get sued.\n\nAnalysts also warn that if Mr Trump were to stop using Truth Social, or post content elsewhere, the platform would struggle to survive.\n\nHe could simply ignore that exclusivity agreement - and start posting content straight away.\n\nHowever, that could open him up to legal problems.\n\nWhat is also possible is that he simply waits until June, when the agreement times out.\n\nOr, he could take the decision never to go back to platforms that he has criticised consistently.\n\nHowever, if he is going to have a tilt at the White House, being on Facebook - the world's biggest social media platform - would make a lot of sense.\n\nWhatever happens next, the ball is firmly in Mr Trump's court now.\n\nIf he does decide to come back, though, he will have to follow Meta's rules. The company has left the door open for another suspension if he flouts them.\n\nIt means Mr Tump will have to hold his tongue (to a certain extent) on Facebook, in a way that he currently does not have to on Truth Social.\n\nNews of Mr Trump's reinstatement was quickly criticised by Democrats and some activist organisations who expressed concern that he could again use the platforms to repeat false claims that he won the 2020 election.\n\n\"Trump incited an insurrection,\" California Democratic representative Adam Schiff wrote on Twitter. \"Giving him back access to a social media platform to spread his lies and demagoguery is dangerous.\"\n\nDerrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP civil rights organisation, told the Associated Press that he saw the move as a \"grave mistake\" that was a \"a prime example of putting profits above people's safety\".\n\n\"It's quite astonishing that one can spew hatred, fuel conspiracies, and incite a violent insurrection at our nation's Capitol building, and Mark Zuckerberg still believes that is not enough to remove someone from his platforms,\" he said.\n\nBut the American Civil Liberties Union, a not-for-profit organisation that defends civil rights in the US, tweeted that the decision was the \"right call\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter had also banned the former president following the 6 January 2021 US Capitol riot, saying he had broken its rules on the glorification of violence.\n\nBut in November, its new owner Elon Musk said Mr Trump's account ban had been lifted, after running a poll in which users narrowly backed the move.\n\nMr Trump has not yet returned to Twitter, having earlier said: \"I don't see any reason for it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInfluencer Andrew Tate said the case against him was \"empty\" as he was taken for questioning at Romania's organised crime unit on Wednesday.\n\nHe is currently detained alongside his brother Tristan over allegations of rape and human trafficking.\n\n\"There is no justice in Romania\", Mr Tate said. Tristan Tate added that there was \"no evidence\" against him.\n\nPolice have not yet laid any charges against the brothers, who have been in detention since 29 December.\n\nBut last week, a judge extended their custody - and that of the two Romanian women held with them - until 27 February.\n\nProsecutors allege the brothers recruited victims by seducing them and falsely claiming they wanted a relationship or marriage.\n\nThey say the victims were then taken to properties on the outskirts of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, where they were sexually exploited and forced to create pornographic content.\n\nThe brothers have denied the allegations against them.\n\nA former Romanian policewoman held with the two brothers in custody was also taken for questioning on Wednesday.\n\nWhen asked if he had hurt any women, Mr Tate replied: \"Of course not.\"\n\n\"They know we have done nothing wrong,\" he told reporters.\n\nThe controversial online personality and former kickboxing world champion has millions of followers online - despite being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for misogynistic comments.\n\nHis Twitter account was reactivated in November and remains active, despite his detention.\n\nMr Tate moved to Romania five years ago. He has has previously said he moved because he liked living in countries where corruption was accessible to everybody.", "Dean Russell told MPs requiring businesses to offer mental health first aid training would save lives\n\nA new law requiring businesses to offer mental health first aid training has been presented to parliament.\n\nTory MP Dean Russell told the Commons the move will lead to more people spotting the early signs of mental health issues in the workplace.\n\nMany businesses already offer mental health training to first aiders, but it is not a legal requirement.\n\nMr Russell told MPs that requiring mental health first aid training in the workplace would save lives.\n\n\"People do not always wear bandages to show where they have anxiety and depression,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"This Bill will simply mean that workers have a person to signpost them to the help and support they need, when they need it.\"\n\nThe idea has been discussed for several years.\n\nIn 2018, a petition for the \"Where's Your Head At!\" campaign for a mandatory mental health first aider in every place of work attracted more than 200,000 signatures.\n\nThe extra training would come at a cost to businesses, but campaigners highlight the growing number of workdays lost to poor mental health.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive estimates that mental illness accounted for around half of all cases of sick leave last year .\n\nMr Russell believes the change could limit the long-term impact on businesses and the NHS, and ultimately save lives.\n\n\"We cannot bring back those we have lost,\" he said.\n\n\"But through early intervention and ensuring the right signposting at the right time, through this Bill we could possibly prevent losing others in the future.\"\n\nMr Russell proposed the new law as a Ten Minute Rule Bill on Wednesday.\n\nThere is rarely enough time for Ten Minute Rule Bills to become law - but they represent an avenue for MPs to raise awareness of issues.\n\nMr Russel attempt to bring forward similar legislation in 2021, but the Bill failed to go any further.\n\nHealth Minister Maria Caulfield watched his speech from the government benches.\n\nAddressing her directly, Mr. Russell said, \"This is not a request that will go away and I will be back if needed. It is a simple change that will make a massive difference.\"", "The wreckage of MH17 was painstakingly reassembled in the Netherlands and later inspected as part of the trial\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights has confirmed it will hear a Dutch case against Russia over the downing of flight MH17 in 2014.\n\nAll 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam were killed when it was shot down by a missile fired by Moscow-backed Ukrainian separatists.\n\nThe Dutch government argues that Russia's disinformation about Moscow's role in the incident is a violation of the relatives' human rights.\n\nThe Boeing 777 was flying from the Dutch capital to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile in July 2014 during a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine.\n\nThe Netherlands argues that Russia played a key role in the air disaster and the case hinges on whether or not Moscow had \"effective control\" over the area of Ukraine where the missile was fired from.\n\nAt this stage, the ECHR's decision is only procedural and does not rule on the merits of the case, but it shows the court believes Russia can be held accountable for the human rights violations in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.\n\nIt could be years before a ruling is issued, but if the ECHR issues a guilty verdict against Russia, Moscow could be obliged to pay damages to the victims' relatives.\n\nLast September, Russia stopped being party to the European Convention on Human Rights, but the court can still deal with claims against Russia regarding actions up until that date.\n\nIn November, a Dutch court at the Schiphol Judicial Complex found three men - two Russians and a Ukrainian - guilty of murder in absentia for their part in the downing of MH17.\n\nThe court concluded that the missile had been fired deliberately to bring down a plane, even if the target had been military rather than civilian.\n\nThe three men were sentenced to life in jail but are all thought to be in Russia.\n\nSince Moscow condemned the verdict as scandalous and politically motivated it is extremely unlikely that they will be handed over to face justice.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied involvement in the attack.", "The grandfather of Merseyside shooting victim Elle Edwards has urged family and friends to live on with \"hope\" as they gathered for her funeral.\n\nThe 26-year-old died after a gunman opened fire at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village on Christmas Eve.\n\nShe was merely a bystander and not the intended target, police said.\n\nThe vicar at the service at St Nicholas' Church said Ms Edwards' grandfather George wanted everyone to \"leave with hope in our hearts\".\n\nReverend Jeff Staples said: \"George hit the nail on the head. We must do that for ourselves and for the communities we live in - let us be people of hope.\"\n\nHe told how Ms Edwards, a beautician, had \"laughed and joked and enjoyed\" life.\n\nFlowers topped the coffin as it was carried into the church\n\n\"Many of you, if not all, will be going through a whole range of emotions, sadness and grief obviously, maybe anger, or fear or anxiety, shock or bewilderment,\" he said.\n\n\"We are emotionally in a kind of fuzz, where nothing feels solid, nothing feels stable.\n\n\"We don't know whether to laugh or cry, to shout or be silent, so it's important that we find stillness, calm, peace.\"\n\nThe service included the hymn Be Still for the Presence of the Lord while a eulogy, Remembering Elle, was given.\n\nMourners were asked for donations to the Elle Edwards Foundation in her memory.\n\nHer father Tim last week said he hoped a charitable foundation could help combat gun violence in the region.\n\nThe funeral cortege involved a horse drawn carriage and the horses had red, pink and white plumes\n\nTraffic stopped and silence fell among the mourners lining the streets as Elle's funeral cortege pulled into the church grounds.\n\nThe church - just a five-minute walk from the Lighthouse pub - previously offered support sessions to anyone directly affected in the aftermath of the killing.\n\nToday the building once again became the focal point for a community still struggling to make sense of events.\n\nThe message within was one of hope and praise for those who had tried to save Elle and support her family.\n\nAs the hundreds of mourners left, they carried that message with them, embracing each other and members of Elle's family who waited in the churchyard.\n\nHer father stood strong, thanking those who had turned out to say farewell to his daughter.\n\nTears were masked by rain, on a day the wider Wirral community will never forget.\n\nMr Staples said: \"How true is that, if we lose hope then the darkness of evil has gained a victory.\n\n\"All of us have been touched by darkness in these past weeks at one level or another, it is just as Tim [Elle's father] said, what happened on Christmas Eve affected so many people and it continues to do so.\n\n\"We were all touched by the darkness of evil yet the light of hope shines even in the deepest darkness, in the goodness of those who were able to act to try and save Elle, she was not abandoned to the darkness.\"\n\nElle Edwards' father, Tim Edwards said his daughter was \"the most beautiful and bright star\"\n\nThe Lighthouse pub was closed earlier as a mark of respect.\n\nA statement on the pub's Facebook page said: \"Elle and her family have remained very much in our thoughts over these past few weeks and even more so right now. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nConnor Chapman, 22, has been charged with murdering Ms Edwards and is due to go on trial on 7 June.\n\nPaying tribute after his daughter's death, Mr Edwards said she was \"the most beautiful and bright star\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cody Fisher played for several non-league Midlands clubs, most recently Stratford Town\n\nA nightclub where a footballer was stabbed to death on the dance floor has lost its licence amid fears it posed \"terrifying\" risks to public safety.\n\nCody Fisher was killed at the Crane venue in Digbeth, Birmingham, on Boxing Day (26 December).\n\nPolice had asked the council to revoke the licence permanently, citing drugs misuse as well as security concerns.\n\nOn the night Mr Fisher died, three people needed medical help due to drugs, police told a licensing hearing.\n\nEvidence from several bodies was considered by a licensing committee on Tuesday.\n\nA licence suspension which came into force on 30 December remains in place pending any appeal against the finding to revoke.\n\nRepresentations on behalf of the club were held in private but ahead of the council's decision, a spokesperson had said revoking the licence would be \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nThree men have been charged with murdering 23-year-old Mr Fisher, a sports coach from Redditch, Worcestershire, who played for non-league Stratford Town.\n\nGary Grant, representing the West Midlands force in a public portion of Tuesday's hearing, urged councillors to pull the licence, saying the venue posed a \"grave risk\" to public safety and also of crime and disorder.\n\nDoor searches were \"inconsistent or haphazard\", he told the committee, and, citing bags of white powder, added there was \"blatant and widespread\" use of drugs.\n\nThe meeting heard that video footage from the night in question showed a person inhaling from a balloon believed to contain nitrous oxide, regardless of a police presence that emerged following the stabbing.\n\nCouncil enforcement officer Shaid Ali told members the terms of the licence required the venue to have a zero-tolerance policy on drugs, adding \"it's quite clear its policy wasn't being enforced\".\n\nWest Midlands Police found a \"scene of chaos and drug use\" following the stabbing on Boxing Day\n\nBefore the committee passed judgment, barrister Nicholas Leviseur for Damian Eston, director of Digital Arts Media Ltd which operated Crane, told the hearing the revocation of the licence was \"wholly inappropriate in this case\".\n\nHe said he would not comment further on \"what led to the tragic loss\" of Mr Fisher as his client's evidence had been set out in private sessions.\n\nMr Grant said checks on CCTV from Boxing Day revealed three customers \"had to be carried out by friends or staff\" because of drug use, including a woman who was described as \"dribbling out of her mouth, barely breathing\".\n\nAn ambulance was required and the woman was taken to hospital, adding to the perception \"this was not a properly controlled event\", he explained.\n\n\"[It was] so blatant, that management and security showed a reckless blind eye or simply didn't care what was going on in their venue,\" Mr Grant stated.\n\nDigbeth landlord Oval Real Estates, and venue Lab 11, joined environmental health and trading standards in making submissions to the council against Crane. One city councillor had said while he opposed its closure there should be strong conditions placed on the venue.\n\nThe club began operating on 15 October after being granted a licence in June, the hearing was told.\n\n\"Within just three months this venue is facing a summary review triggered by\" Mr Fisher's death, said Mr Grant, expressing concerns of \"rather terrifying risks in the operation of this venue\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Stop Aquind campaign, pictured here in Portsmouth in 2021, is \"disappointed\" by the ruling\n\nThe UK government's decision to refuse permission for a £1.2bn electricity link between England and France has been overturned in the High Court.\n\nAquind Ltd wants to lay cables through Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Normandy.\n\nLast year's decision to block the scheme was made by then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nAquind challenged the decision in the High Court after being granted a judicial review.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it was \"disappointed by the outcome but we will be considering the judgment carefully before deciding next steps\".\n\nThe project is now expected to be referred back to Mr Kwarteng's successor as Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, to make a final decision.\n\nAquind's proposal has faced objections from residents, campaigners and local MPs, including Commons leader and Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt.\n\nMs Mordaunt said: \"The plan will never happen. It is hard to imagine why any investor would want to be associated with it.\n\n\"I believe the government's decision was the right one and that it will stand.\"\n\nThe Stop Aquind campaign group argue the cable could cause damage to \"onshore and shoreline wildlife\", threatening the habitats of birds and insects.\n\nThe campaigners also express concern about \"pollution resulting from the construction traffic\".\n\nIn his January 2022 ruling, Mr Kwarteng said he was not satisfied that \"more appropriate alternatives to the proposed route\" for the interconnector cable had been fully considered.\n\nBut lawyers for Aquind argued in the High Court that Mr Kwarteng had \"misunderstood the evidence\" when making his decision.\n\nThe interconnector, allowing electricity to flow between the two countries, will make landfall at Eastney beach in Portsmouth\n\nAquind director Richard Glasspool said Mrs Justice Lieven's decision to rule against the business secretary and Portsmouth City Council was \"wonderful news\" for the interconnector project.\n\n\"We look forward to re-engaging with local residents, stakeholders, environmental experts, and energy professionals in order to pursue the commitment to meeting the UK's net zero energy target,\" he added.\n\nBut Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan said the court's decision \"will be a bitter blow to Portsmouth people\".\n\n\"Aquind's desperate attempt to re-run the argument through the High Court doesn't change the facts, and it shouldn't change the outcome,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been clear from the outset that this project would bring untold disruption to our daily lives and our city's natural environment, with no clear benefits.\"\n\nThe MP added he would \"continue to do everything in my power to ensure this project is stopped once and for all\".\n\nPaula-Ann Savage, of the Stop Aquind campaign group, said she was \"disappointed\" with the court's decision.\n\nBut she added: \"We will continue to raise awareness of the dangers to the environment and our national security.\n\n\"Aquind are not an appropriate company to carry out any energy infrastructure project in the UK.\"\n\nAquind Ltd is led by Ukrainian-born British businessman Alexander Temerko\n\nIn October 2021, the BBC's Panorama programme revealed that Aquind is part-owned by Russian-born former oil executive Victor Fedotov.\n\nThe company has donated more than £700,000 to 34 Conservative MPs since the Aquind project began.\n\nAquind's co-owner, Ukrainian-born businessman Alexander Temerko, has donated a further £700,000 to the party.", "Steve Phillips has said he believes he is the man for the job\n\nWelsh Rugby Union (WRU) boss Steve Phillips should resign, the Welsh government's former national adviser for violence against women has said.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies said his apology was \"not enough\", adding he \"should take responsibility\" for what had happened.\n\n\"There needs to be urgent steps taken and one of the biggest steps would for him to resign,\" she said.\n\nIt comes after major Welsh rugby sponsors and politicians expressed concern at the allegations.\n\nPrincipality Building Society, which supports grassroots rugby and sponsors Wales' national stadium, said the allegations were \"extremely concerning\" and called for \"immediate and decisive\" action.\n\nClaims were made by an ex-Wales women's manager and a former chairwoman of the Welsh Rugby Union's professional board.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies was appointed the Welsh government's first national adviser for violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in 2015.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies says \"the culture is something that has strong roots within\" the WRU\n\nMs Bowen Davies, who is now an independent consultant in that field, told the S4C Newyddion programme: \"Even though I understand that this happened before he came into the role, the culture is something that has strong roots within the union and someone needs to take responsibility.\n\n\"This is another example where misogyny and sexism is systemic and is a culture that tries to quieten individuals who suffer any kind of violence or violence at home.\n\n\"We need to take definite steps to change this kind of culture. This culture exists in systems where men have ruled for decades.\"\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said rugby bosses had to take \"urgent and transparent action\" and acknowledge the scale of the issue to restore confidence in the WRU at question time in the Senedd.\n\nHe added the Welsh government would \"continue to be in a challenging, where necessary, conversation with them to make sure that a future is set out for the Welsh Rugby Union that commands the confidence of all of those who are players of the game and who want to see it have a successful future\".\n\nAdmiral, another WRU partner, said in a statement: \"Our culture is of paramount importance to us, so naturally the cultures of the partners we work with are also important. While this is a matter for the WRU, given the serious nature of the allegations made, we have and will remain in discussion with them.\"\n\nThe Millennium Stadium was renamed the Principality Stadium in 2016 as part of a 10-year sponsorship deal\n\nAnd Vodafone, which sponsors Welsh women's rugby, said in a statement it was \"concerned about the nature of the allegations made and are in regular communication with the WRU\".\n\nIt added: \"At Vodafone we believe that sport can be a force for good, and through our partnerships we seek to make a positive and progressive difference to fans and wider communities.\"\n\nWelsh women's rugby ex-manager Charlotte Wathan described a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the WRU.\n\nShe also said a male colleague had said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, a mother of one, said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\nAmanda Blanc, now chief executive of insurance company Aviva, told the WRU it had a \"deep rooted\" culture and behavioural problems when she left her role on the union's professional board and that a WRU-commissioned review into the women's game was \"beyond disappointing\" and verged on \"insulting to women\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He joked he wanted to rape me', claims Charlotte Wathan\n\nThe allegations prompted Principality to speak out.\n\nVicky Wales, its chief customer officer, said: \"Principality Building Society takes great pride in supporting grassroots rugby within the diverse communities we serve, as we have for over 20 years.\n\n\"Principality wants to work with partners who share our values.\n\n\"The allegations in the emerging BBC investigation are extremely concerning and we would expect the WRU to take the immediate and decisive action required to remove any discriminatory and bullying behaviours and to uphold the inclusive values that we should all live by.\"\n\nAmanda Blanc was named as one of the Financial Times' 25 most influential women of 2022\n\nThe Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the Senedd's sports committee should consider how it can support \"those on the receiving end of this treatment\" and work with the WRU to introduce safeguards.\n\nThe WRU has also resisted calls to publish its 2021 review of the the women's game in Wales but extracts of it have been seen by BBC Wales Investigates.\n\nIn it, past players described Welsh rugby's culture as toxic and called for an end to \"inequality\" and \"empty promises\".\n\nThe WRU said both cases in the programme were investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nThe WRU has previously spoken of its commitment to the women's game and last year gave Wales' women players professional contracts for the first time.\n\nThe Senedd's sport and culture committee called the accusations \"extremely serious\".\n\nIt said: \"The committee expects the WRU to address these issues immediately.\"\n\nS4C, an official WRU broadcast partner, declined to comment.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rishi Sunak is likely to face more criticism at Prime Minister's Questions as he resists calls to sack his party chairman Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nMr Sunak has ordered his ethics advisor to investigate how Mr Zahawi resolved a tax dispute when he was chancellor.\n\nThe PM has said there are \"questions that need answering\" but it is unclear what he knew about Mr Zahawi's dealings with HMRC when he appointed him.\n\nLast summer, Mr Zahawi dismissed reports of a HMRC investigation as \"smears\" and threatened some who intended to raise questions about his tax affairs with legal action.\n\nThis has drawn criticism not just from the opposition, but from Lord Evans, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the \"apparent legal attempts to suppress this story\" does not \"live up to the sort of standards\" the public would expect.\n\nSenior Conservative MP Caroline Nokes has called for Mr Zahawi to \"stand aside until this matter is all cleared up\" but the prime minister has so far stood by him saying it is \"longstanding practice\" for ministers to remain in their roles while under investigation.\n\nMr Sunak ordered the investigation into Mr Zahawi's tax affairs after it was revealed he had paid a penalty to settle his tax issue with HMRC.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson suggested Mr Sunak was not aware last week that Mr Zahawi had paid a penalty.\n\nThat leaves questions for former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who appointed Mr Zahawi chancellor last summer when the matter had not been resolved.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Zahawi said he welcomed the investigation and looked forward to \"explaining the facts of this issue\" to the No 10 ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus.\n\nLabour has argued the prime minister should sack Mr Zahawi before the investigation concludes, calling it a \"pathetic attempt to pass the buck\".\n\nFormer Conservative minister David Gauke said Mr Zahawi is likely to have to quit, telling the BBC: \"It's hard to see how this doesn't ultimately end in his resignation.\"\n\nHe added there were too many \"impossible questions\" - and Prime Minister's Questions would be \"very uncomfortable\" for Mr Sunak.\n\nMr Sunak's spokesman has said Sir Laurie's inquiry will be carried out \"swiftly,\" but no timeline has been set for publication of its findings.", "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the decision after weeks of reluctance and international pressure\n\nAfter weeks of reluctance, Germany has agreed to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, in what Kyiv hopes will be a game-changer on the battlefield.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz announced the decision to send 14 tanks - and allow other countries to send theirs too - at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration is also expected to announce plans to send at least 30 M1 Abrams tanks.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman earlier said the tanks would \"burn like all the rest\".\n\nDmitry Peskov said there was an overestimation of the potential the tanks would bring to the Ukrainian army, and called the move a \"failed plan\".\n\nBut Ukrainian officials insist they are urgently in need of heavier weapons, and say sufficient battle tanks could help Kyiv's forces seize back territory from the Russians.\n\nA German government spokesperson said the decision to supply the tanks \"follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability\".\n\nGermany also permitted other countries to send their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine - which was restricted until now under export regulations.\n\nThe US and Germany had resisted internal and external pressure to send their tanks to Ukraine for some time.\n\nWashington cited the extensive training and maintenance required for the high-tech Abrams.\n\nGermans endured months of political debate about concerns that sending tanks would escalate the conflict and make Nato a direct party to the war with Russia.\n\nUS media is reporting that an announcement regarding Abrams shipments to Ukraine could come as soon as Wednesday, with unnamed officials cited as saying at least 30 could be sent.\n\nHowever the timing remains unclear, and it could take many months for the US combat vehicles to reach the battlefront.\n\nGerman officials had reportedly been insisting they would only agree to the transfer of Leopard 2s to Ukraine if the US also sent M1 Abrams.\n\n\"If the Germans continue to say we will only send or release Leopards on the conditions that Americans send Abrams, we should send Abrams,\" Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a Biden ally, told Politico on Tuesday.\n\nBritain has already said it will send Challenger Two tanks to Ukraine.\n\nUkraine is still unlikely to get the 300 modern main battle tanks it says it needs to win the war.\n\nBut if half a dozen Western nations each provide 14 tanks, then that would bring the total to nearly 100 - which could make a difference.\n\nWestern tanks - including the UK's Challenger 2, Germany's Leopard 2 and the US-made Abrams - are all seen as superior to their Soviet-era counterparts, like the ubiquitous T-72.\n\nThey will provide Ukrainian crews with more protection, speed and accuracy.\n\nBut Western modern main battle tanks are not a wonder weapon or game-changer on their own. It's also what's being supplied alongside them.\n\nIn recent weeks, there's been a step change in heavy weapons being supplied by the West - including hundreds more armoured vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition.\n\nCombined together, they are the kind of military hardware needed to punch through Russian lines and to retake territory.\n\nIf Ukrainian troops can be trained and the weapons delivered in time, they could form key elements of any spring offensive. A missing element for offensive operations is still air power.\n\nUkraine has been asking for the West to provide modern fighter jets since the war began. So far, none has been delivered.\n\nMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann of the liberal FDP party, who chairs the defence committee of the German parliament had previously described reports that Germany had approved the tanks as a relief to \"the battered and brave Ukrainian people.\"\n\n\"The decision was tough, it took far too long, but in the end it was unavoidable,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Poland's PM: \"Free world cannot afford not to send Leopard tanks\"\n\nAllied nations had become frustrated at what they perceived as German reluctance to send the armoured vehicles in recent days.\n\nThe Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, on Tuesday called on Western countries to give Kyiv hundreds of tanks to form a \"crushing fist\" against Russia.\n\n\"Tanks are one of the components for Ukraine to return to its 1991 borders,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nAnatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to Washington, wrote on Telegram: \"If the United States decides to supply tanks, then justifying such a step with arguments about 'defensive weapons' will definitely not work.\n\n\"This would be another blatant provocation against the Russian Federation.\"", "Chris Hipkins sworn in as New Zealand PM\n\nChris Hipkins has been sworn in as New Zealand's 41st prime minister.\n\nThe 44-year-old was formally appointed to the role in Wellington, a week after Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation.\n\nMs Ardern, 42, had said she no longer has \"enough in the tank\" to lead the country. The country's governor-general Cindy Kiro accepted her formal resignation on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hipkins built a reputation as the minister who led New Zealand's Covid-19 strategy.\n\nAt the ruling Labour Party's caucus over the weekend, Mr Hipkins received unanimous support to be promoted to lead the country, and now faces the uphill task of retaining power in the upcoming general elections in October.\n\nOpinion polls have suggested that his party is trailing its conservative opposition, the National Party, in popularity.\n\nThe country of five million was among the first to close borders. This move won plaudits for keeping New Zealand virus-free early in the pandemic, but frustration set in later among the Kiwis tired of the zero-tolerance strategy, which saw nationwide lockdowns over a single infection.\n\nMr Hipkins previously conceded that strict lockdowns should have been scaled back earlier.\n\nMost recently, Mr Hipkins also held the weighty ministerial portfolios of education, police, and public service.\n\nNicknamed \"Chippy\", the father-of-two had said his commitment and politics is to \"make sure that we provide opportunities for all Kiwis who want to work hard, to be able to work hard and get ahead and provide a better life for themselves and for their families\", according to Reuters.\n\nHe will hold his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nMs Ardern ended her last day in office with a visit to Ratana, a small town north of Wellington, with politicians and Maori elders. She said she was ready to be a backbench MP, a sister and a mother.", "Andrew Bagshaw, pictured left, and Christopher Parry have been reported as missing in Ukraine\n\nThe body of one of two Britons who went missing in Ukraine has been found, according to a Russian mercenary group.\n\nWhile the claim has yet to be verified by the BBC, the disappearance of Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry has raised questions about their last-known movements and what they were doing in Ukraine.\n\nChris Parry, 28, had spoken to multiple journalists saying he was working as a volunteer evacuating civilians from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.\n\nA Ukrainian charity - Pavlo Vyshniakov Foundation - told the BBC that Mr Parry had worked with them, but that Mr Bagshaw had not. A Telegram channel associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, boss of Russian mercenary group Wagner, earlier released an image of a document which had the name of that charity and Mr Parry's permission to operate as a volunteer.\n\nThe same Telegram post included images of what appear to be the two men's passports, although we have not been able to verify them definitely.\n\nImages posted online appear to be of the two men's passports, not definitively verified\n\nWe spoke to a former UK border official who told us that \"from looking at these pictures they appear to be genuine, several safeguards can be seen.\"\n\nA volunteer who said he worked as Andrew Bagshaw's interpreter supplied us with a video posted on 12 December 2022 showing Mr Bagshaw and Mr Parry wearing civilian clothes carrying a stretcher into a hospital building in the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine. We've been able to verify the location by comparing the video with other confirmed images of the hospital.\n\nMr Parry and Mr Bagshaw, 48, were believed to have headed to the heavily bombarded front-line town of Soledar on Friday 6 January. In an Instagram post, a friend of theirs - also working as a volunteer - said that the pair had made the journey to carry out evacuations.\n\n\"If you have any information on the whereabouts of the boys, or have seen their car (Black Land Rover, AFIO HWU), please contact me or the police,\" the friend added.\n\nThere are lots of groups in the area, which include foreigners, who help with evacuations of civilians and bring food and supplies to people.\n\nBBC correspondent Yogita Limaye and producer Imogen Anderson met Mr Parry, from Truro in Cornwall, on new year's day in the city of Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donbas region. They had been looking to report on Bakhmut, the scene of intense fighting, and the volunteers working there.\n\nHe told them he had been staying in the city for about six weeks, and had just acquired a new 4x4 through a fundraiser he had started two months before.\n\nHe told the BBC journalists that he had to abandon his old car in Bakhmut the previous week. It had been \"shot by a tank\" he posted on Instagram at the time.\n\nHe told the pair that he had no intention of leaving Ukraine, where he had been since March.\n\nThe journalists were on their way to Bakhmut on 2 January when Mr Parry got in touch to say he was also going into the city. But once they reached Bakhmut they lost reception and that was the last contact they had with the volunteer.\n\nThe following day, Mr Parry gave an interview to BBC Radio Cornwall and described a close encounter he'd had with a drone in the Bakhmut area.\n\nMr Parry said that he was staying in a town 10 miles from the front line and explained his motivation was to help children particularly.\n\n\"To be able to get them out of these war-torn areas, it makes it definitely more worthwhile than anything else that I can imagine.\"\n\nIn a previous interview with the same station in November 2022, he said he had become \"obsessed\" with Ukraine after the invasion, realised he could not fight and decided it would be more useful for him to get a van and help evacuate civilians.\n\nA friend of Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry said the pair were missing in a message posted on Instagram\n\nOn 3 January, three days before the volunteers disappeared, Mr Parry was interviewed in Bakhmut by freelance journalist Arnaud de Decker.\n\nMr Parry told the journalist he had been volunteering as an evacuation driver.\n\n\"I receive requests from family members who ask us to go and collect their relatives.\"\n\nDescribing an evacuation, he said there had been \"lots of Ukrainian missiles... a lot of small arms firing\".\n\nHe said: \"A lot of volunteers won't go anymore, but there are people there who want to get out, so I'm willing to go.\"\n\nMr Parry said he used a vehicle for evacuations - his black Land Rover is seen in the video.\n\nChris Parry said he'd obtained a 4x4 vehicle through an online fundraiser\n\nMr De Decker spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall on Thursday about the interview on 3 January. He said when he met Mr Parry, he had just returned from an evacuation in the east of Bakhmut. \"It's a very dangerous part. Volunteers, most of them, they don't dare to go there, because it's too dangerous.\n\n\"Chris went that morning to rescue a resident who was stuck... in her apartment. Chris was able to go to the eastern part with his own car, cross the river, and he was able to save her.\"\n\nMr De Decker said Mr Parry had \"probably saved hundreds of people from the frontline areas\".\n\nFighting around Soledar in eastern Ukraine has left many buildings in the town in ruins\n\nRegarding Andrew Bagshaw, the BBC has spoken to Grzegorz Rybak, who lives in Edinburgh, but travelled to Ukraine in November. He says he carried out evacuations alongside Mr Bagshaw, acting as his interpreter. Mr Rybak said the 48 year old had travelled to Ukraine in March, and first worked distributing aid, before starting evacuations during the summer.\n\nJournalist and filmmaker Laurel Chor told the BBC she first met Mr Bagshaw in October in Kramatorsk. She says she joined him on evacuations in Bakhmut on three occasions in November.\n\n\"Andrew had been doing it for months and months and largely on his own. He lived in Kramatorsk, had a vehicle that he'd scrounge up donations for and he was really doing all the evacuations that he could. He was very quiet about it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Andrew was so experienced.\"\n\nShe said she believes there were about 12 volunteers working independently on frontline evacuations in the region. \"There's a small group of mostly independent volunteers, mostly foreign, who have just taken upon themselves to do evacuations.\n\n\"They don't necessarily work with an organisation. What they do is so dangerous.\n\n\"They are often going into areas that are actively getting shelled and sometimes they go further in where it's actually the grey zone of the contested territory, in between Ukrainian and Russian positions.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has not confirmed whether either of the volunteers have died.\n\nAdditional reporting: Daniele Palumbo, Paul Myers in London and Liubov Sholudko, in Ukraine", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ieuan Evans says the WRU will \"address the issues we need to address\"\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union has been branded institutionally misogynistic amid sexism claims about the organisation.\n\nEqualities minister Jane Hutt made the comments following a BBC probe into a \"toxic culture\" at the WRU after a male colleague allegedly said he wanted to \"rape\" an ex-Wales women boss.\n\nThe WRU said it was backing Mr Phillips and would set up a task force to examine the allegations.\n\nFormer First Minister Carwyn Jones also said he wanted a Senedd inquiry into the claims.\n\nSpeaking in the Senedd on Wednesday, Ms Hutt said the testimonies given in the BBC Wales Investigates programme were \"absolutely devastating\" and she praised the women for coming forward.\n\nShe said: \"I was just thinking again of the impact on those women who had the courage to come forward, such courage to take after experiencing the harassment, the bullying, the abuse.\n\n\"But I would have to say that what came over was serious, I would say, institutional misogyny and sexism, which obviously imbued the organisation.\"\n\nHeledd Fychan, Plaid's sports spokeswoman wants to see action taken over the claims.\n\n\"The appalling claims of sexism and misogyny that have come to light raise grave questions for the WRU,\" Ms Fychan said.\n\n\"Their abject failure to acknowledge the seriousness of these allegations show that there has been, and continues to be, a leadership vacuum at the Union.\n\n\"As a result, the current CEO should resign, and new leadership brought in to bring about the changes that are desperately needed.\n\n\"Until the issues are dealt with and there is a change of culture, the Welsh government should consider whether it is appropriate for the WRU to receive any further public money.\n\n\"We certainly can't encourage women into an environment where they face this kind of misogyny.\"\n\nMr Jones said faith in the WRU was shaken \"to its very foundations\", and the union had not been open enough.\n\n\"What is clear is that this isn't going to go away,\" he said.\n\n\"People want to know what happened. The Senedd has the powers to hold inquiries,\" he told BBC Wales, \"[and] to subpoena witnesses for example that the [Welsh] government doesn't have.\"\n\n\"The reputation of not just the Welsh Rugby Union, but rugby in general in Wales, will continue to be tarnished if people think that the action that's been taken isn't sufficient.\"\n\nA former sexual violence advisor to the Welsh government has also called for Mr Phillips to step down, while a major Welsh rugby sponsor Principality Building Society, called for \"immediate and decisive\" action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He joked he wanted to rape me,\" claims Charlotte Wathan\n\nAnother long-term WRU partner, Heineken, has also said it is \"extremely concerned\" by the claims.\n\nA statement added: \"We urge the Welsh Rugby Union to act immediately to investigate and eradicate such practices.\n\n\"There is no room for discrimination of any kind in sport, and as a company that celebrates diversity, we expect swift and decisive action to be taken.\"\n\nMr Jones, who led the Welsh government from 2009 to 2018, has just made an S4C TV series about the history of the game, Rygbi Cymru: Y Gêm yn y Gwaed (Welsh Rugby: In the Blood).\n\nHe said as much light as possible must be shed by the WRU on what happened and \"what's going to happen now to make sure that this situation does not arise again\".\n\n\"If that involves a Senedd committee looking at it,\" he added, \"I think that's better for everybody.\n\n\"What's clear at the moment, people's faith in the Welsh Rugby Union has been shaken to the very foundations of the union.\"\n\nVeteran sports journalist Peter Jackson said Mr Phillips's apology for the \"culture between 2017 and 2019\" does not go far enough.\n\n\"What about the culture between 2020 and 2021,\" he asked. \"[The WRU] talk about the highest standards of personal and professional conduct from all staff.\n\n\"Did nobody between 2017 and 2019 see fit to say to somebody, what about our core values... it's appalling.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, was nicknamed 'Putin's chef' over his Kremlin catering ties\n\nThe Treasury is considering changes to the process that allowed the head of Russia's Wagner group to get around UK sanctions and sue a UK journalist.\n\nInvestigative reporter Eliot Higgins faced action by Yevgeny Prigozhin - whose Wagner mercenaries are fighting for Russia in Ukraine - in late 2021.\n\nOpenDemocracy reported the UK issued special licences so he could override sanctions and pay his legal fees.\n\nThe case was dropped when he admitted his ties to the notorious private army.\n\nMr Prigozhin was first sanctioned by the UK in 2020 in a bid to stop anyone doing business with him.\n\nBut under a UK law defining the Russian sanction regime, provisions allow sanctioned people to cover their \"basic needs\", including the ability to apply for a licence to pay for legal fees.\n\nDecisions are taken by the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation, a department in the Treasury which reviews applications by people placed under financial measures.\n\nMr Prigozhin successfully used this route to enlist the help of Discreet Law, a London-based law firm, in order to take action against Mr Higgins, reported Open Democracy, a UK website that focuses on human rights.\n\nTreasury minister James Cartlidge told MPs on Wednesday that the guidance for these exemptions was \"longstanding\" - but said the government \"is now considering whether this approach is the right one and if changes can be made\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman also said these applications are reviewed by officials with no political involvement - with Mr Cartlidge later telling the Commons \"we are not aware of any decision being taken by a minister\".\n\nShortly before the legal case was brought, Mr Higgins's website Bellingcat had recently published a story naming businessman Mr Prigozhin - an ally of Vladimir Putin - as the man behind the Wagner Group.\n\nHe denied involvement until after the February 2022 invasion began, despite having already been sanctioned by the UK government over the group's activities in Libya in October 2020.\n\nThe journalist was personally sued in the UK for tweeting articles by his publication and other outlets. He believes the decision to target him rather than Bellingcat was designed to intimidate.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Higgins called for greater transparency about how the rules are applied. He said he was left with £70,000 in legal costs despite the case being dropped.\n\nHe said: \"For me the question is, 'What is the process?' No one seems to fully understand that. Until there has been more transparency we can't make a judgement about if it was applied correctly.\n\n\"Then the next question is, 'Do we want this sort of process in place where journalists can be sued?'\"\n\nHe added: \"How do I know some other oligarch isn't going to do the same thing again to me next week? This time the costs were five figures but it might be six or seven figures next time.\"\n\nDiscreet Law has been under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since May 2022 following a formal complaint from Bellingcat.\n\nMr Prigozhin has been sanctioned by the UK, European Union and US. He has been accused of interfering in foreign elections by Western governments using online \"troll farms\".\n\nThe 61-year-old rose from an obscure background working as a hot dog street vendor and serving time in prison for robbery before going on to become a key Putin ally.\n\nHis lucrative catering contracts with the Kremlin earned him the nickname \"Putin's chef\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has been accused of committing atrocities in Ukraine and was involved in the recent operation to capture the town of Soledar.\n\nThe government confirmed it was conducting an internal review of the process after Labour was granted an urgent question in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy said \"the government appears to have granted a waiver for a warlord that enabled him to launch a legal attack on a British journalist\".\n\nHe described Mr Prigozhin as \"one the most dangerous and noxious members of Putin's inner circle\" and said it would be \"absolutely unconscionable\" if the Treasury played a role in \"alleviating pressure\" on the Wagner Group.\n\nMr Lammy also pointed out that Mr Sunak was chancellor at the time the application was granted by the Treasury office.\n\nDecisions on such waivers are made \"on a costs basis\", Mr Cartlidge said, and that it was up to the courts to decide on the \"substantive merits of the case rather than the government\".\n\nHe added: \"However I can confirm that in light of recent cases and in relation to this question, the Treasury is now considering whether this approach is the right one and if changes can be made without the Treasury assuming unacceptable legal risks and ensuring that we adhere to the rule of law.\"\n\nMr Cartlidge defended the government's record on sanctions and said ministers were committed to cracking down on individuals who use \"threatening tactics to silence free speech advocates who act in the public interest\".\n\nDr Sue Hawley, executive director of the campaign group Spotlight on Corruption, said the exemptions used in this case could leave the UK's anti-Kremlin sanctions policy \"so riddled with holes that it will be a laughing stock and it needs to be urgently reviewed\".\n\nA Treasury spokesperson declined to comment on the individual case, adding: \"Everyone has a right to legal representation and the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation grant licences to allow sanctioned people to cover their own legal fees, provided the costs are reasonable.\"\n\nRoger Gherson, who founded the firm Discreet Law, told the Financial Times it had \"at all times complied fully with their legal and professional obligations\". The BBC has contacted them for further comment.", "\"The one word that would describe Zara would be independent,\" her aunt told the BBC\n\nThe Labour leader has said that the family of Zara Aleena believe the government has \"blood on their hands\".\n\nJordan McSweeney, 29, attacked and killed the law graduate in Ilford, east London, in June 2022, nine days after his release on licence from prison.\n\nHe had been wrongly assessed as medium risk by staff, a probation inspectorate report found on Tuesday.\n\nAsking Prime Minister Rishi Sunak about the report, Sir Keir Starmer spoke of the family's \"agony\".\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, he said: \"I spoke to Zara's family this morning, it is hard to convey to this house the agony that they have been through.\n\n\"They say that the government has 'blood on their hands'.\"\n\nThe prime minister said his \"heart goes out to them\".\n\nMr Sunak said \"this was a truly terrible crime\" and that the failings the chief inspector found \"were serious and indeed, unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"In both of the cases that are in the public domain, these failures can be traced to failings in the initial risk assessment, and that's why immediate steps are being taken to address the serious issues raised.\"\n\nZara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a \"danger to any woman\".\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nHe said that the probation services had taken action where appropriate, adding that the government had made moves to address staff shortages and other issues.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe prime minister added: \"If we do want to increase the safety of women and girls out on our streets then we need tough sentencing, and that is why this government passed the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, which he opposite and his party opposed.\"\n\nSir Keir countered saying: \"In light of case of Zara, I really do not think the primer minister should be boasting about the protection he is putting in place for women.\"\n\nHe said McSweeney was \"not fit to walk the same streets\", adding: \"But that's precisely the problem. He was free to walk the same streets.\"\n\nMcSweeney was jailed for life last month and ordered to serve a minimum of 38 years in prison.\n\nOn Tuesday, Zara's aunt Farah Naz said her niece would have been alive today if probation \"had done their jobs better\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We live in a horror film', says aunt\n\nMs Naz described the report as \"extremely distressing\", adding her family had \"lost a loved member... for absolutely nothing\".\n\n\"We're sad, we're heartbroken, we're still traumatised. It's an effort to be alive,\" she said.\n\nShe said her family had not received a personal apology from the government or the Probation Service but had only \"read it in the paper\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed nearly four years ago\n\nBoeing has told a US court it was not guilty of concealing information about flight control systems on its 737 Max aircraft, which led to two crashes, killing 346 people.\n\nFlaws in the systems were found to have led to the accidents, but Boeing avoided a trial by agreeing to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn).\n\nNow relatives of those who died are trying to reopen the settlement.\n\nThey are due to confront the aircraft giant in court.\n\nThe hearing marks the first time Boeing has been forced to answer to the fraud charge in a public court, after the judge hearing the case ruled that those killed in the planes were legally \"crime victims\" and should have been involved in settlement negotiations.\n\nFamilies of those who died say that the deal Boeing reached with the Department of Justice (DoJ) in 2021 to resolve a criminal conspiracy charge was a \"sweetheart agreement\" which violated their rights and allowed the company to avoid being held fully accountable.\n\nThe DoJ has defended its decision, insisting that the settlement was appropriate, because it could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was a direct connection between Boeing's alleged crimes and the two crashes.\n\nBoeing, which admitted responsibility as part of the deal, has opposed reopening the agreement, saying to do so would be \"unprecedented, unworkable and inequitable\". The firm declined to comment ahead of Thursday's hearing in Texas.\n\nMark Pegram, whose son Sam was working for a refugee agency when he died on the second plane that crashed, was unable to travel to Texas. But he said he was very glad the hearing was taking place.\n\n\"To us a fine and cover-up is not justice,\" he said.\n\n\"It is important a precedent is set to prevent similar loss of innocent lives, and for Boeing to understand the horrific impact their misconduct has had on so many families,\" he added.\n\nIn a court filing this week, the families asked the judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee Boeing's compliance with the deal and require public disclosure of the firm's compliance efforts.\n\nIt is still not clear whether the legal action will ultimately lead to the deferred prosecution agreement between Boeing and the DoJ being reopened.\n\nSuch a move would be highly unusual. But according to Robert A Clifford, a Chicago lawyer representing the families in a separate civil action, it could have far-reaching consequences, including action against individuals.\n\n\"These families want the maximum penalty imposed against Boeing, and they want any immunity from prosecution that senior officials at Boeing received to be lifted,\" he said.\n\nIt is nearly four years since Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. 157 people died when it plunged into farmland outside the Ethiopian capital in March 2019.\n\nThe accident involved a new design of aircraft - the 737 Max.\n\nJust months earlier, an almost identical aircraft operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air had crashed into the Java Sea on what should have been a routine flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang. 189 passengers and crew lost their lives.\n\nIt later emerged that both accidents were triggered by design flaws, in particular the use of flight control software known as MCAS.\n\nThe system was designed to assist pilots familiar with previous generations of the 737, and prevent them from needing costly extra training in order to fly the new model.\n\nBut sensor failures caused it to malfunction, and in both cases it forced the aircraft into a catastrophic dive the pilots were unable to prevent.\n\nInvestigations in the US revealed that Boeing had not included information about the MCAS system in pilot manuals or training guidance, and had deliberately sought to downplay the impact of the system in its communications with the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nThe 737 Max was cleared to fly again in 2020, after being grounded in March 2019\n\nBoeing 737 Max aircraft were cleared to fly again in the US in 2020 and in the UK and EU in 2021, after being grounded in 2019 following the crashes.\n\nIn January 2021, the US charged Boeing with fraud. But the company was able to avoid going on trial, by agreeing to pay $2.5bn, including $500m to the families of those killed, and promising to tighten up its compliance procedures.\n\nIf the firm complies with the terms of the deal, the DoJ has agreed to drop the charge after three years.\n\nThis settlement - known as a deferred prosecution agreement - provoked intense anger among a number of the relatives of those who died aboard ET302.\n\nThere is no doubt that for the families, including those living in the UK, the arraignment hearing itself is a major milestone.\n\nZipporah Kuria's father Joseph Wathaika was killed in the crash of ET302, and she has been a vocal campaigner for Boeing to be held to account ever since.\n\nShe is in Texas for the hearing, and says her statement will be a tribute to an \"incredible\" man who changed many lives.\n\n\"It feels like we're finally being seen,\" she said. \"It feels like the death of our loved ones, of 346 people, at least has a level of relevance now.\"", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others\n\n\"Smiling\" nurse Lucy Letby offered to take photographs of a baby girl soon after she allegedly murdered her at the fourth attempt, a court has heard.\n\nThe 33-year-old is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nMs Letby offered to take photos as the parents of Child I, who cannot be named for legal reasons, bathed her after she died, Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nMs Letby has denied all of the charges.\n\nThe court was told Child I was born prematurely in August 2015 at Liverpool Women's Hospital at the gestational age of 27 weeks and weighed 2Ibs 2oz (970g).\n\nShe was transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital later that month.\n\nIt is alleged that before murdering Child I, Ms Letby attempted to kill the infant on 30 September and during night shifts on 12 and 13 October.\n\nThe prosecution said she harmed the premature infant by injecting air into her feeding tube and bloodstream before she eventually died in the early hours of 23 October 2015.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Child I's mother said her daughter was about six weeks old when she thought the infant might be well enough to go home.\n\n\"I started to notice that she was looking different,\" she said.\n\n\"She was looking around the room now, taking it all in.\n\n\"I was able to sit her on my knee. I remember looking at her and thinking, 'we are going home'.\n\n\"She looked like a full-term baby, she didn't look frail or small.\"\n\nThe mother recalled that around this time she was allowed to bathe her daughter for the first time, and that Ms Letby helped prepare the bath.\n\nThe mother said she was \"so pleased to be able to bathe her\" and her daughter was \"obviously enjoying it because she was smiling\".\n\n\"Lucy even offered to take some photos using my mobile, which I agreed to,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't have too much to do with Lucy. She always appeared reserved compared to other nurses. She didn't really interact with parents.\"\n\nThe prosecution said Ms Letby, originally from Hereford, went on to make her first attempt to kill Child I during a day shift on 30 September and tried again during night shifts on 12 and 13 October.\n\nChild I's mother said she was called at home in the early hours of 23 October and told she and her partner needed to go to the hospital immediately.\n\nOn their arrival, she saw Ms Letby with another nurse, Ashleigh Hudson, and consultant Dr John Gibbs, who told the couple they were \"working to try to resuscitate\" the child.\n\n\"I heard them all counting times,\" she said.\n\n\"I asked Dr Gibbs how long had they been doing this, to which he said 20 minutes.\n\n\"I remember thinking they can't keep doing it.\n\n\"I said to Dr Gibbs, 'you can't do any more'.\"\n\nChild I was being cared for on the neonatal ward at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe mother said she and her partner were then moved to a private room, where Ms Hudson and Ms Letby asked her if she wanted to bathe Child I's body.\n\n\"I didn't want to look back and regret not doing it so I said yes,\" she said.\n\n\"Lucy brought the bath in. She said she could come in and take some photos which we could keep.\n\n\"While we were bathing her, Lucy came back in.\n\n\"She was smiling and kept going on about how she was present at the first bath and how [Child I] had loved it.\"\n\nShe said she had \"wished she would just stop talking\".\n\n\"Eventually she realised and stopped. It was not something we wanted to hear,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember it was Lucy who packaged up [Child I's] belongings to go home.\"\n\nShe added that Dr Gibbs had \"mentioned about having an autopsy\", but she told him she did not want one \"because I wanted her leaving alone\".\n\n\"He said I didn't have a say because her death was unexpected and the results would be needed to clear the hospital,\" she said.\n\nThe court also heard how Ms Letby had searched for Child I's mother on Facebook.\n\nThe jury was told searches were carried out at about 01:15 GMT on 5 October 2015, at about 23:45 on 5 November 2015 and at about 23:00 on 29 May 2016.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Platforms Piece was first installed at Brixton station in 1986\n\nStatues thought to be the first sculptures depicting black British people on display in England are set to return to Brixton station later.\n\nThe life-size bronze figures, called Platforms Piece, were first installed on the platform in 1986 before being removed in 2016 for refurbishment.\n\nCreated by Kevin Atherton, it depicts three Brixton residents of the time and is Grade II listed.\n\nThe original statues will be joined by a new one named Joy II.\n\nJoy II depicts Joy Battick, one of the south Londoners featured in the original artwork.\n\nPlatforms Piece, which was commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust on behalf of British Rail, also shows two other Brixton residents, Karin Heistermann and Peter Lloyd.\n\nHistoric England said the artwork was \"believed to be the first sculptural representation of British black people in England in a public art context\".\n\nJoy Battick was 26 when the first statue of her was made\n\nJoy Battick was 26 years old when the first statues were cast.\n\nShe was working at the Brixton Recreation Centre at the time and initially declined the offer of being a model, but changed her mind to get away from the poolside.\n\nMs Battick said the process of creating the statue was \"more meaningful\" the second time round.\n\n\"There was more interaction,\" she said, adding that she felt \"more like I've achieved something\".\n\nMs Battick was recovering from cancer at the time, which she said made the process \"more poignant\".\n\nAlthough she no longer lives in Brixton, she still goes there frequently and said she felt the statue \"fits in the culture more now\".\n\nThe sculpture Joy II has been unveiled, depicting Joy Battick in her 60s\n\n\"It's crazy - when I first said yes, I didn't expect anything important, but now I'm part of something historical, especially as a woman of colour.\"\n\nMr Atherton said it was \"heartening\" being reunited with Joy.\n\nWhen he created the first sculpture of her in 1986, the artist made the first body cast by hand, but for Joy II he incorporated 3D scanning and printing into the process.\n\nJoy Battick and Kevin Atherton reunited for Joy II after 35 years\n\nHe reflected that, much like the technology, the meaning of the sculptures had also changed.\n\n\"It has always been about time and travelling, but now it's about time travel,\" Mr Atherton said.\n\n\"Joy is looking at her younger self, but she's also looking at herself that's yet to be.\"\n\nMs Battick during the process to create Joy II\n\nMr Atherton called the statues the \"best-kept secret\" of the area and said that commuters had told him they loved seeing the figures, even if they never got out at Brixton station.\n\nHe also reflected on the significance of the statues, saying that when he was first choosing models it was a \"no-brainer\" that the artwork had to \"represent the demographic of Brixton\".\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" that the sculptures were returning and hoped for \"another 35 years of the two Joys looking at each other\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "A disabled woman said she was reduced to tears when asked to leave a pub because of her assistance dog.\n\nLouise Harris, who has multiple sclerosis, was approached by a manager in Hanley Wetherspoons on 13 January.\n\n\"I was in utter shock, I could not believe it,\" said Ms Harris, adding she had provided proof cockapoo Bella was a service dog.\n\nWetherspoons said in a statement it had a \"no-dog policy\", but assistance dogs were allowed in its pubs.\n\nThe chain added it was in contact with Ms Harris to understand her concerns.\n\nMs Harris was socialising with friends over food and cups of tea at the Reginald Mitchell on Parliament Row, when the staff member came over about 19:00 GMT, she said.\n\nBella, who helps her owner with daily tasks made difficult by her limited mobility, was lying on a mat under the table in a clearly marked jacket.\n\n\"Amazing\" Bella helps her owner untie her shoelaces and remove clothing, among other tasks\n\n\"We'd been in there for a good few hours and then the manager come over to me and asked me to leave,\" Ms Harris told BBC Radio Stoke.\n\n\"[He said] 'we don't allow your kind of dog in' and I said, 'she's an assistance dog she has a coat on saying she's an assistance dog, please do not ignore me'.\"\n\nMs Harris, who was wearing a hidden disability lanyard and had crutches with her, said she felt intimidated and frustrated during the incident.\n\n\"I came outside and just cried because I was humiliated, discriminated and in front of my friends and that we'd been in there for five hours,\" she said.\n\nShe added that an action card listing her disabilities and paperwork on her phone were \"ignored\" by the manager.\n\nThe Equality Act 2010 prevents businesses refusing entry to those who need an assistance dog with them.\n\nMs Harris said she and Bella had previously been allowed entry to the same Wetherspoons, and another in nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme, and she had \"no idea\" why she had been challenged on this occasion.\n\nShe has contacted the Equality Advisory and Support Service to intervene with the venue on her behalf.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Harold Shipman is one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nA life insurance firm has defended using serial killer Harold Shipman in an advert after it was labelled \"beyond despicable\" by other industry leaders.\n\nDeadHappy used the image to promote its services with the tagline: \"Life Insurance. Because you never know who your doctor might be.\"\n\nThe Leicester-based firm said it wanted to \"make people stop and think\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) watchdog said it was reviewing more than 50 complaints about the ad.\n\nShipman is estimated to have murdered up to 260 people during his time as a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nSenior insurance advisers across the UK have slammed the advertising campaign.\n\nKathryn Knowles, founder of Cura Financial Services, tweeted: \"Please know that many of us in insurance find this beyond despicable.\"\n\nOthers called it \"shocking\" and \"absolutely appalling\".\n\nIn a statement, the firm's founder Andy Knott said: \"We are called DeadHappy and our strapline is 'Life insurance to die for' so we are aware of the provocative and to some the very shocking nature of our brand.\n\n\"But being provocative is different to being offensive and it is of course never our intention to offend or upset people. It is our intention to make people stop and think. If however you have been personally distressed by this advert we do sincerely apologise.\"\n\nShipman was found guilty of murdering 15 patients under his care in January 2000, sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. He was found dead in his cell in Wakefield Prison in 2004.\n\nAn ASA representative said it had taken \"careful note of the serious concerns being raised about this advert and we're reviewing complaints to determine whether there are grounds for further action\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The American Bully Kennel Club UK was due to hold the event in Coventry on 11 February\n\nAn international dog show showcasing American bullies has been cancelled following a BBC investigation into the trading of the popular breed.\n\nThe American Bully Kennel Club (ABKC) UK event was due to be held at Coventry Building Society Arena on 11 February.\n\nFootage gathered by undercover journalists at an ABKC UK show in Manchester showed hundreds of dogs paraded with cropped ears.\n\nABKC UK has not responded to the BBC's questions.\n\nThe undercover filming aired on the Panorama and Disclosure programmes on Monday night.\n\nThe RSCPA says ear-cropping is a painful, unnecessary procedure that should never be celebrated\n\nEar-cropping is where skin at the tops of dogs' ears is cut off to reshape them - in the case of the American bully to make them stand more upright.\n\nThe practice is illegal in the UK under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2006.\n\nBBC journalists also secretly filmed in the house of Aaron Lee, an ABKC UK qualified judge, and discovered two 10-week-old American bully puppies in a cage with freshly cropped ears.\n\nThe BBC found puppies with cropped ears in the home of judge Aaron Lee\n\nIan Muttitt, of the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, reviewed the BBC's footage of the ABKC UK show.\n\n\"It's of real concern to the RSPCA to see dogs that have been mutilated, deliberately mutilated,\" he told the programmes.\n\n\"It's totally against the law, it's illegal in the UK and it's something that we're really keen to address.\"\n\nThe RSPCA and Scottish SPCA have seen incidents of ear-cropping rise in recent years.\n\nA Coventry Building Society Arena spokesperson confirmed the previously scheduled ABCK event had been cancelled following the BBC's revelations\n\nFollowing the BBC programmes, Panorama: Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime, and Disclosure: The Dog Dealers, a spokesperson for the venue in Coventry confirmed the event was now cancelled.\n\nThey said: \"The arena has terminated its agreement with the organisers.\"\n\nThe BBC filmed undercover at an ABKC UK event in Manchester in July\n\nDr Samantha Gaines, from the RSPCA's companion animals department, said the BBC's findings raised \"big and troubling question marks\" over the welfare of dogs shown at previous events.\n\n\"Sadly, while ear cropping in the UK is illegal, a loophole still allows dogs to be imported with cropped ears,\" she added.\n\n\"The UK government's Kept Animals Bill will change that - and the findings from Panorama highlighting issues at events like this demonstrates why we need that legislation on the statute book as soon as possible.\"\n\nOne key figure of the ABKC UK was found by the programme to be a convicted drugs trafficker from Scotland. He runs a breeding business featuring dogs with cropped ears.\n\nScottish SPCA Chief Superintendent Mike Flynn said he welcomed the cancellation of the ABKC show.\n\n\"We would hope that any Scottish venues considering hosting one of these shows think carefully about whether the practices shown in the programme are ones that they want to be associated with,\" he said.\n\nHundreds of people were expected to attend the Coventry show, which was to feature a range of breeds, including American bullies, bulldogs and cane corsos.\n\nRefunds will now have to be provided to those who had already bought tickets.\n\nABKC UK has been approached by the BBC for a response.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were last seen in east London on 7 January\n\nA couple who disappeared with their newborn baby may be sleeping in a tent in sub-zero temperatures, police have told the BBC.\n\nConstance Marten, 35, and Mark Gordon, 48, were last seen with the infant in east London on 7 January.\n\n\"No child, especially a tiny, newborn baby, should be forced to endure such dangerous, potentially life-threatening, conditions,\" police said.\n\nThe child was less than a week old at the time of their disappearance.\n\nNew CCTV footage shows when they were last seen buying camping gear in Argos in London's Whitechapel area, before unsuccessfully trying to flag down three black cabs.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's detective superintendent Lewis Basford, who is leading the investigation, told the BBC he was \"really concerned\" the baby could have been subjected to recent harsh weather.\n\nHe said: \"We're really concerned that a newborn baby, only days old at the time, would have been subjected to the harsh environments we've had in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"We don't believe as a couple that they're looking to intentionally harm the baby, but we do know that those conditions and the fact they've had no medical attention since the birth could be a significant risk to the baby.\"\n\nThe force believes the couple are trying to \"evade authorities\".\n\nMaking a plea directly to the couple, he added: \"I can say to Constance and Mark please come forward. This is about the baby's health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Please reach out to us.\"\n\nDetectives think the couple could be anywhere in the country, and have asked dogwalkers to keep an eye out for a blue tent in local parks and wasteland.\n\nNew CCTV footage shows the family on the night they were last seen - they walked with a baby buggy along Brick Lane towards Bethnal Green Road in London's East End, before disappearing just after 22:00 GMT on 7 January.\n\nLast sighting: Constance Marten and Mark Gordon with a buggy in Whitechapel, London, on 7 January\n\nPolice say the couple left their home in Eltham, south-east London, in September 2022 when Ms Marten began showing signs of pregnancy, and have since led a nomadic lifestyle.\n\nDetectives do not know if the baby has been assessed by medical professionals since the child's birth, or if the baby was born prematurely or went full term.\n\nThe infant has been missing since the parents' car broke down and caught fire on the M61 near Bolton, on 5 January. The baby was believed to be only a day old or so at the time, and could have been born in the vehicle, according to police.\n\nIt is believed most of their belongings were destroyed in the car fire.\n\nCCTV footage also showed the couple carrying bags as they walked near Adler Street in Whitechapel\n\nSince then, Constance \"Toots\" Marten and Mark Gordon appear to have been avoiding police, moving to Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester and London in quick succession.\n\nMs Marten is from a wealthy family, and grew up in a stately home in Dorset attending private school, university and drama school.\n\nBut after meeting Gordon in 2016, she became estranged from the family, police said.\n\nNapier Marten, Ms Marten's father, has previously called for his daughter to \"find the courage\" to make contact with the police.\n\nGordon has been a registered sex offender in the UK since 2010, having been convicted in Florida of a rape he committed aged 14.\n\nHe served some 20 years in prison in the United States before being deported to Britain.", "The 18-carat gold Cartier watch was found in a bag of donations at a British Heart Foundation shop\n\nA Cartier watch found in a bag of donations at a west London charity shop has sold for almost £10,000.\n\nThe Tank Française yellow gold model broke records as the British Heart Foundation's (BHF) biggest online auction sale.\n\nAfter 46 bids, the 18-carat gold watch sold for £9,766.\n\nIt was found at a branch in Hounslow, and verified as a real Cartier product at the BHF's eBay warehouse in Leeds.\n\nThe watch was then double checked by experts at an independent auction house.\n\n\"When you consider the average value of an item donated to a charity shop is less than £5, finding a Cartier watch is like striking gold and winning the lottery at the same time,\" said Kama Villiers, enterprise customer success manager at Shopiago, the BHF's online shopping partner.\n\n\"Whoever the generous donor was, they can rest assured that their donation will go a long way towards fighting heart disease.\"\n\nCartier watches have been sported by celebrities including Jake Gyllenhall, Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama, as well as Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nIn recent years the BHF has sold a 7-inch vinyl demo of the Beatles' Love Me Do for £9,400, and a second-hand Mercedes Benz E320 for £7,502.\n\nThe charity's eBay site currently lists multiple pieces from designer brands including Gucci and Burberry.\n\nRichard Pallier, head of online retail at the BHF, said donations made a huge difference to the charity,\n\n\"It's only through the hugely generous donations of the public that we can continue to do this very important work,\" he said.", "Robert Thomas paid for diazepam but got a mix of headache tablets and tranquilliser Flualprazolam\n\nA dealer bought 100,000 pills thinking they were a Class C drug, but 98,000 were found to be paracetamol.\n\nRobert Thomas, 41, of Corporation Street, Aberystwyth, was jailed for five and a half years after being found guilty of five counts of drug dealing.\n\nFollowing his sentencing at Swansea Crown Court, Dyfed-Powys Police said he had been dealing \"on a large scale\".\n\nHe was arrested after being spotted taking drugs in Aberystwyth in July 2020.\n\nOfficers searched his home and found 101,000 blue and white tablets.\n\nAs Class C drug diazepam - also known as Valium - they would have a street value of between £101,000 and £202,000 if sold individually or £40,000 if sold wholesale.\n\nAt interview, Thomas claimed he had bought a number of tubs for £12,000 each on the internet, and did not intend to sell them, but got more than he had ordered.\n\nHowever, forensic testing of the tablets revealed that 3,211 of them were Flualprazolam which fall within the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, while the other 97,814 were paracetamol that had been dyed blue.\n\nOn scales in his home, officers also found traces of cocaine.\n\nWhen officers looked at Thomas' phone, they found evidence of drug dealing, including offering to sell cocaine, MDMA, amphetamines, cannabis and diazepam.\n\nDS Steven Jones said: \"Following the good work from our officers who attended the initial call through to the thorough investigation that followed, we were able to show Thomas was an active dealer who was selling drugs on a large scale in Ceredigion.\"\n\nHe was found guilty following a trial and sentenced at Swansea Crown Court on Friday 20 January.\n\nFor offering to supply cocaine and MDMA, Thomas received five-and-a-half years for each, 12 months each for amphetamine and cannabis and six months for the diazepam.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeru's President Dina Boluarte has called for a \"national truce\" after protests that have rocked the country since her predecessor Pedro Castillo was ousted on 7 December.\n\nFollowing her speech, thousands of people marched in the capital, Lima, demanding she resign.\n\nMs Boluarte was sworn in after Mr Castillo was impeached following his failed attempt to dissolve Congress.\n\nMore than 50 people have died in the subsequent unrest.\n\nHours after Ms Boluarte called for dialogue and urged calm, thousands of protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas. Some protesters threw rocks at the security forces.\n\nThere were shouts of \"Boluarte, murderer\", referring to the dozens of Peruvians who have been killed in confrontations with the police.\n\nIn her speech, President Boluarte said \"radical groups with a political and economic agenda rooted in drug trafficking, illegal mining and smuggling\" had incited Peruvians to protest.\n\nShe added that she supported the right to protest but rejected violence: \"I, too, have marched as part of just fights for labour and student rights, but protests can't be accompanied by violence, destruction and death.\"\n\nThe president also alleged that many of those who had died had not been shot by police but by fellow demonstrators.\n\n\"The deaths occurred not where police were but in nearby streets,\" she said.\n\nHowever, Peru's ombudsman has said that of the 56 people who have died in the unrest, 46 people were killed in direct clashes with the security forces.\n\nThe government has been accused of using excessive force in its efforts to quell the protests.\n\nSpeaking at a summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Argentina on Tuesday, the president of neighbouring Chile, Gabriel Boric, said \"we can't be indifferent today when in our sister nation Peru, people who go out to march and demand what they consider to be fair, end up shot by those who should defend them\".\n\nBut Peru's justice minister insisted on Wednesday that his government had responded \"appropriately\" to the protests.\n\n\"Actions taken to restore public order have been undertaken in full compliance with constitutional and international obligations,\" he said in a video address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.\n\nMany of those protesting are demanding the resignation of Ms Boluarte, who was Pedro Castillo's vice-president and who came to power after Mr Castillo was impeached by Congress following his failed attempt to dissolve it.\n\nMr Castillo is in pre-trial detention facing charges of rebellion and fresh presidential elections have been scheduled for April 2024.\n\nPresident Boluarte has said she hopes Congress will agree to hold the election earlier than April 2024 but she has ruled out resigning before those are held.", "The brother of British actor Julian Sands has said he has come to terms with the fact \"he has gone\".\n\nMr Sands, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nHis brother Nick, who lives in Gargrave, North Yorkshire, said he had already said his \"goodbyes\".\n\nCalifornian officials have been unable to locate the actor, saying deadly storms have hampered search efforts.\n\n\"I have come to terms with the fact he's gone and for me that's how I've dealt with it,\" Nick Sands said.\n\nThe financial adviser said he preferred that to thinking of his brother lying injured on the mountain side.\n\nBut he said clearly his brother's three children and wife were still hopeful he would be found.\n\n\"We are all still hoping I guess, but I know he's gone in my mind and because of that I've already said my goodbyes.\"\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said: \"Numerous ground and air search efforts have taken place. As of this time, Mr Sands has not been found and no evidence of his current location has been discovered.\n\n\"The search will continue, weather and ground conditions permitting.\"\n\nMr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nNick Sands said he and his brothers were raised in the area around Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.\n\n\"We moved up to Cracoe in 1962 from Adel in Leeds and then to Gargrave in '63, which was Julian's home address until he went off to the London School of Speech and Drama when he was 18.\"\n\nNick Sands describes the area as a \"great place to grow up\" and four of the five brothers still live in the area.\n\n\"Julian, bless him, all the time he has lived away, has been able to find his way back to see us and his mum, he was absolutely brilliant with Brenda who died six years ago.\"\n\nMr Sands said the actor had continued to visit three or four times a year to catch up with brothers Quentin, Robin, Nick and Jeremy or the \"Monday Club\" as they called themselves.\n\nJulian Sands has previously spoken about his love of hiking and mountain climbing and Nick said he would always try to fit in some activity when visiting.\n\n\"He's done the Pennine Way in completion,\" he said.\n\n\"He just comes for one night, it's a great effort, he comes up on the train, stays the night with me and will be on the train the following day, just for a beer and a curry.\"\n\nJulian Sands lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former health secretary is standing down as an MP at the next election\n\nA man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting former health secretary Matt Hancock on the London Underground.\n\nPolice said the 61-year-old was arrested on suspicion of common assault and a public order offence.\n\nFootage posted online showed a man shouting and following Mr Hancock through Westminster station and onto a train.\n\nMr Hancock is not thought to have been hurt in the incident - described by his spokesman as an \"unpleasant encounter\".\n\n\"Matt wants to put on record his thanks to Transport for London and the British Transport Police for their extraordinary work,\" the spokesman added.\n\nMr Hancock, the MP for West Suffolk who currently sits as an independent, announced last month that he would not seek re-election next year.\n\nHe lost the Conservative whip last year after signing up for the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, which saw him trade Westminster for the Australian jungle for weeks on end.\n\nHe ultimately finished in third place, and defended his participation in the competition by insisting that television was a \"powerful tool\" for raising awareness of issues such as dyslexia.\n\nThe 44-year-old became a household name in spring 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he regularly spoke for the government as health secretary under then prime minister Boris Johnson.\n\nHe was forced to resign from his job the following year, after images emerged showing him kissing colleague, Gina Coladangelo, who later became his partner.\n\nFollowing his appearance on I'm a Celebrity he announced that he would not be standing to be an MP in the next general election, saying he would instead \"engage with the public in new ways\", adding that it had been an honour to represent his constituency in Parliament.", "The militaries of several European countries have Leopard tanks in their arsenals\n\nUkraine has welcomed as a \"first step\" Germany's decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to aid in its fight against Russia's invasion.\n\nAllies hailed the announcement as the \"right decision\", which came after weeks of reluctance in Berlin and international pressure.\n\nRussia said the \"extremely dangerous\" move would escalate the conflict and that the tanks would \"burn\".\n\nUkraine says it needs heavy weapons to take back territory from Russia.\n\nGermany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Germans who are worried about the move to trust him, insisting that it was right to support Ukraine.\n\nAddressing Berlin's previous hesitance to send tanks, the chancellor told MPs in the Bundestag that it was \"right that we didn't just get swept up\".\n\nMr Scholz said Germany would deliver 14 of the vehicles as a \"first step\", but that its goal was to assemble two battalions of them for Ukraine.\n\nGermany also allowed other countries, including Poland, to pass on their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine's front line - which was restricted until now under export regulations.\n\nDespite previous accusations of foot-dragging by Chancellor Scholz, Germany is in the top three single donors of military aid and one of the main providers of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration is also expected to announce plans on Wednesday to send at least 30 M1 Abrams tanks.\n\nThere had been speculation in the past weeks that the German chancellor's decision to send tanks was conditional on the US doing the same.\n\nRussia's ambassador in Washington said the possible deliveries of battle tanks were \"another blatant provocation\".\n\nThe Kremlin said earlier on Wednesday that the Abrams battle tanks would \"burn like all the rest\", dismissing the proposed shipments as \"just very expensive\".\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was \"sincerely grateful\" for the tanks Germany decided to send - calling the decision \"important\" and \"timely\".\n\nHe said the move was a \"green light for partners to supply similar weapons.\"\n\nWhile the acquisition of tanks from the West would be considered a diplomatic coup for President Zelensky, he said in his address on Tuesday night that his country will need even more tanks than has been promised so far.\n\nHe believes his country needs at least 300 battle tanks to defeat Russia.\n\nGermany's Nato and European allies have welcomed the decision. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said it will \"strengthen Ukraine's defensive fire power\".\n\nPolish PM Mateusz Morawiecki thanked Germany, saying the decision was a \"big step towards stopping Russia\".\n\nMr Morawiecki told the BBC on Tuesday that apart from sending Leopards, his government will soon be sending an additional 50-60 older, Soviet-era tanks to Ukraine.\n\nNato's secretary general said Germany's decision came at a \"critical moment in Russia's war\" and would \"help Ukraine to defend itself, win and prevail as an independent nation\".\n\nOn Tuesday night on Russian state TV, presenter Vladimir Solovyov called the German defence minister \"a cretin\".\n\n\"German tanks appearing [in Ukraine] will lead us to consider German territory, military bases and other sites as legitimate targets,\" he said.\n\nThough Russia chose to invade Ukraine, the narrative constructed by the Kremlin frames the West as the aggressor, the BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says.\n\nRussian authorities tell Russian people that in Ukraine, Nato is waging war with Moscow under American leadership.\n\nGermany's decision to send tanks to Ukraine will be used to strengthen that narrative.\n\nUkraine is still unlikely to get the 300 modern main battle tanks it says it needs to win the war.\n\nBut if half a dozen Western nations each provide 14 tanks, then that would bring the total to nearly 100 - which could make a difference.\n\nWestern tanks - including the UK's Challenger 2, Germany's Leopard 2 and the US-made Abrams - are all seen as superior to their Soviet-era counterparts, like the ubiquitous T-72.\n\nThey will provide Ukrainian crews with more protection, speed and accuracy.\n\nBut Western modern main battle tanks are not a wonder weapon or game-changer on their own. It's also what's being supplied alongside them.\n\nIn recent weeks, there's been a step change in heavy weapons being supplied by the West - including hundreds more armoured vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition.\n\nCombined together, they are the kind of military hardware needed to punch through Russian lines and to retake territory.\n\nIf Ukrainian troops can be trained and the weapons delivered in time, they could form key elements of any spring offensive. A missing element for offensive operations is still air power.\n\nUkraine has been asking for the West to provide modern fighter jets since the war began. So far, none has been delivered.", "Stephen McParland and Alison McDonagh have spent years in jail for murder\n\nTwo convicted murderers from Northern Ireland are on the run and police believe they are together.\n\nAlison McDonagh, 49, and Stephen McParland, 54, absconded while on temporary release from jail.\n\nMcDonagh was imprisoned for a murder committed in 2004; McParland received his conviction for a killing in 1997.\n\nThey were last seen at Lanyon Place train station in Belfast at about 13:45 GMT on Saturday and police believe the pair are still in each other's company.\n\nThe Belfast to Dublin train service leaves from Lanyon Place and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has contacted An Garda Síochána (Irish police force).\n\nMcDonagh is about 5ft 2in (157cm) in height and of stocky build with auburn hair and green eyes.\n\nShe has two tattoos, including the words \"mum\" and \"dad\" on the underside of her right forearm.\n\nMcParland and McDonagh were last seen at Lanyon Place train station in Belfast on Saturday\n\nPolice said she was last seen wearing a sky blue-coloured puffa jacket and light-coloured leggings and was carrying bags.\n\nMcParland is described as being about 5ft 10in (178cm) tall and of medium build with blue eyes and balding, \"dirty-fair\" hair and has a tattoo on his left arm.\n\nHe was last seen wearing a black hooded coat and grey trousers and was pushing or carrying a large amount of luggage.\n\nPolice have not been able to locate the prisoners in spite of attempts to contact them.\n\nDetectives said anyone who has seen the pair or who knows of their whereabouts should not approach them but instead contact police.\n\nThey also appealed to McDonagh and McParland to hand themselves in.\n\nAccording to the Department of Justice, McDonagh was on a pre-release scheme and McParland was on pre-release testing.", "Henry Okwo is an academic who came to Scotland to further his studies\n\nA family seeking asylum in Glasgow were left out in freezing temperatures while waiting for emergency accommodation.\n\nHenry Okwo told how his wife and three young children were then transported 200 miles away to York by Home Office contractor Mears Group.\n\nMears said the family's housing application was done at short notice but Mr Okwo said he had completed a Home Office interview a month earlier.\n\nThey have now been put up in a Glasgow hotel by a charity.\n\nMr Okwo told BBC Scotland that his wife's hands and his daughter's lips were cracked and bleeding after being outside in minus temperatures into the early hours of the morning on 17 January.\n\nHis wife had been unable to keep gloves on so she could breastfeed their four-month-old baby.\n\nMr Okwo said: \"I kept saying we just needed to get these children warm. You can do everything you can to give them a better life, but those memories remain with them - and it was scary.\n\n\"I just couldn't stand them having these memories. It was something I could have given an arm for, for them to not have this experience.\"\n\nMr Okwo and his wife have three young children - a four-year-old, a two-year-old and a four-month-old baby\n\nMr Okwo, who has a PhD and several masters degrees, had come to Scotland on a visa in September last year to further his studies.\n\nBecause his wife had just given birth, they were not able to travel together. The family submitted their asylum application in December and were interviewed by the Home Office.\n\nThey were originally staying in a private let that Mr Okwo had secured in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, but he said he had to give it up as the Home Office told him that he could no longer work.\n\nAlso in December, Mr Okwo said he submitted a housing application - but was only informed in January, 10 days before his rent expired, that he would need to apply for emergency support.\n\nMr Okwo said this information came from charity and Home Office partner Migrant Help, who he liaised with throughout the process.\n\nOn 16 January, the family were forced to take their belongings into the private let stairwell and then outside.\n\nThey waited there for hours in minus temperatures before the property factor called the police.\n\nThe family waited in the cold stairwell with their belongings that had been packed for days\n\nAfter being taken to a police station, they were eventually picked up by drivers working on behalf of Mears Group.\n\nThey were taken to two hotels in Newcastle, neither of which had a room set aside for them or knowledge of the family's circumstances.\n\nEventually, they were driven a further 85 miles to York. It had been around 24 hours since Mr Okwo had slept.\n\n\"It was harrowing for us,\" he said. \"We tried our best to come here in a decent manner and we want to live a dignified life.\n\n\"We thought this was a humane society and felt it was a place for our children.\n\n\"There's this sense that most of the people in this group are [here illegally] and so they are treated that way.\"\n\nPositive Action in Housing have provided the family with hotel accommodation in Glasgow so Mr Okwo can continue his studies.\n\nThe charity has accused the Home Office and partners of \"shocking neglect and failure of duty of care\" towards the family.\n\nThey are now being represented by a lawyer who is working with the Home Office to have them accommodated in Glasgow.\n\nMr Okwo said his family's situation last week had been exacerbated by communication and technology problems with Migrant Help and Mears Group.\n\nThese issues, he said, led to confusion and fear over where they were being transported to.\n\nAll of this would have been far more difficult for people with language barriers to navigate, he added.\n\n\"People don't want to speak out against authorities - they could be scared, there could be repercussions if they try to express themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"For me, I worry it could get worse for my children. Maybe people who can improve the system don't know these things are happening.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Mears said: \"Mears was asked to provide accommodation at short notice and we sent transport to take the family to the nearest hotel contingency accommodation we had available.\n\n\"We understand that the family would have preferred to stay in Glasgow but this was not possible due to an acute shortage of accommodation.\"\n\nMigrant Help said it had informed the family about their support package as soon as it was approved, adding: \"Unfortunately, we have no influence on, or control over, how long it takes for the housing provider to pick the family up or where the accommodation is offered.\"\n\nOn Mr Okwo's employment eligibility status, the Home Office said it may consider applications for permission to work on an exceptional basis where the applicant does not meet the requirements of immigration rules.\n\nIt added: \"To allow asylum seekers the right to work sooner would undermine our wider economic migration policy by enabling migrants to bypass work visa rules by lodging unfounded asylum claims here.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Lewcock is upset by the codeword given to her by police\n\nA codeword used by police to give a family access to a dying son in hospital was racist, says his mother.\n\nSheldon Lewcock was hit by a van in Tilehurst, Reading, in August 2022.\n\nWhile the 19-year-old - who was mixed race - was in hospital police gave his mother the codeword \"banana\" for when she wanted to visit.\n\nThames Valley Police said its professional standards department was investigating the use of the word.\n\nMr Lewcock, who died five days after the incident, was part of a large family and very close to his mother Angela.\n\nShe told the BBC her son was affectionally known as \"Shelly\" and described his \"amazing personality\" and \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\n\"He had a heart of gold, wouldn't hurt anybody, always out on his bike... they'd go to Sulham Woods a lot because they'd made wooden ramps,\" Mrs Lewcock said.\n\n\"That's where they were that day.\"\n\nMrs Lewcock said she had affectionally called her son \"Shelly\" since he was a young boy\n\nMr Lewcock suffered catastrophic injuries on Pierce's Hill, Tilehurst, while he was out with his friends on their bikes.\n\nDespite that he still managed to call his mum.\n\n\"My phone rang and it was Sheldon,\" Mrs Lewcock said. \"He repeatedly said my name, 'Mum. Mum. Mum.'\n\n\"By then, I'm asking Sheldon, 'What's up?' The phone went dead and within about 10 seconds I had a FaceTime call from Sheldon... he had blood all over his face.\"\n\nMrs Lewcock said her boy had an \"amazing personality\" and \"wicked sense of humour\"\n\nWhen she arrived at the scene she sat with him as he lay on the ground and held his hand while paramedics tried to keep him alive.\n\nMr Lewcock was airlifted to hospital and his family were with him when he was put into an induced coma.\n\nThey were given a special codeword to get access to his room.\n\nShe said: \"To visit my son he had a password, which was banana, which I didn't really think much of it at the time and it wasn't until after I realised that it was probably a racist comment. It's disgusting.\"\n\nYvonne Yew, editor-in-chief of Reading's Caribbean Express News, said: \"The password banana is inappropriate.\n\n\"It indicates that the person has to be black and of colour, and normally you would associate bananas with a monkey. That's the association that I got.\n\n\"I was horrified when I heard that was the password.\n\n\"It's a serious matter. It might only seem like one word but it's one word that has affected this family and the community as a whole.\"\n\nIn a statement, Thames Valley Police said: \"We are conducting an investigation into the password which was used at the hospital. This has been referred to our professional standards department.\"\n\nAn 18-year-old man has been charged with failing to report an accident and driving without insurance.\n\nThames Valley Police confirmed its serious collision investigation unit was continuing its inquiries into the crash.\n\n\"Sheldon's family continue to be supported by family liaison officers and are regularly updated on the investigation,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ashley Davies supports the plan for tighter controls being introduced\n\nWales is set to become the first UK nation to introduce mandatory licensing for tattoo artists, body piercers and cosmetic clinics.\n\nThe tougher controls aim to reduce infections and poor working practices by creating a public register of licence holders.\n\nAbout 3,500 practitioners will need to be licensed and 1,868 business premises will require approval.\n\nA 12-week consultation has been launched by the Welsh government.\n\nThe new rules are the final phase of changes introduced under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 to improve standards of infection prevention and control in the industry.\n\nThe legislative work was due to be brought in during 2020 but the scheme was delayed by Brexit and the Covid pandemic.\n\nAshley Davies, who has been running Stronghold Tattoo in Cardiff for eight years and has been working with the Welsh government on the new qualification, said: \"The increase in quality of tattoos in the last decade has been exponential so the hygiene needs to be raised.\n\n\"This is all positive for the industry and helps shake the image of it being dark and shady. It's reassuring for those getting tattooed as well.\"\n\nThe pass rate for those practitioners who have already undertaken the level 2 award in infection prevention and control voluntarily is 95%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The parlour in Wigan says \"you may have regrets but we can cover them up\"\n\nBut there are still concerns about many without licences, including self-taught tattooists, known in the industry as \"scratchers\".\n\nHealth experts have warned of the dangers of contracting blood-borne viruses - such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV - from unlicensed tattoo artists, and warn how blood poisoning caused by dirty needles can kill.\n\nFfion Hughes, a paramedic tattooist who helps mastectomy patients with scarring and areola loss, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that her clinic in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, often sees distressed patients after \"having bad work, infections, viruses… a bad image on their body that they can't get rid of\".\n\nThe new regulations will be a \"shock\" to the tattoo industry, says paramedic tattooist Ffion Hughes\n\n\"Anybody can pick up a tattoo gun and become a tattooist which is absolutely shocking,\" she said, \"because that's actually on your body for the rest of your life.\"\n\nShe said the new regulations bring medical tattoo practitioners and tattoo artist to the same level.\n\n\"It's going to be a huge shock for the [tattoo parlour] industry,\" she said, but she believes the general public will be \"more accepting of it and respect it a bit better now that there's better work out there\".\n\nShaun Newman, manager at Stronghold Tattoo, said tattoos had become a lot more popular because of heavily tattooed celebrities such as David Beckham and exposure through social media, but that has brought extra issues.\n\n\"There can be a real problem of people going to unlicensed tattooists at their homes because they're cheap,\" he said.\n\n\"People think it doesn't matter if it's cheap, but it really matters that these people have no idea how to use the machinery properly or take care of the tattoo during and after the process, which is critical.\"\n\nWales' chief medical officer Frank Atherton said extra regulation was needed following an outbreak of skin infection pseudomonas at a Newport tattoo and body piercing establishment in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nowhere does this thing that we're doing' says inclusive tattoo studio\n\n\"This specific incident in 2014 highlighted the problem of unlicensed body art practitioners and body piercers and led to very difficult consequences for a number of people in south Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Some very young people were affected, even as young as 13 and they had significant hospital treatment and reconstructive surgery. It cost the NHS nearly £250 000.\n\n\"Good standards of hygiene and infection control by all special procedures practitioners and businesses is essential as these procedures are capable of causing harm if not carried out properly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The signals great apes use to communicate\n\nHumans share elements of a common language with other apes, understanding many gestures that wild chimps and bonobos use to communicate.\n\nThat is the conclusion of a video-based study in which volunteers translated ape gestures.\n\nIt was carried out by researchers at St Andrews University.\n\nIt suggests the last common ancestor we shared with chimps used similar gestures, and that these may have been a \"starting point\" for our language.\n\nThe findings are published in the scientific journal PLOS Biology.\n\nLead researcher, Dr Kirsty Graham from St Andrews University explained that this gesture-based way of communicating is shared by other species of great apes, including gorillas and orangutans.\n\n\"Human infants use some of these same gestures, too,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"So we already had a suspicion that this was a shared gesturing ability that might have been present in our last shared ancestor.\n\n\"We're quite confident now that our ancestors would have started off gesturing, and that this was co-opted into [our] language.\"\n\nThis study was part of an ongoing scientific mission to understand this language origin story by carefully studying communication in our closest ape cousins.\n\nThis team of researchers has spent many years observing wild chimpanzees. They previously discovered that the great apes use a whole \"lexicon\" of more than 80 gestures, each conveying a message to another member of their group.\n\nMessages like \"groom me\" are communicated with a long scratching motion; a mouth stroke means \"give me that food\" and tearing strips from a leaf with teeth is a chimpanzee gesture of flirtation.\n\nScientists used video playback experiments, because the approach has traditionally been used to test language comprehension in non-human primates. In this study, they turned the approach on its head to assess humans' abilities to understand the gestures of their closest living ape relatives.\n\nVolunteers watched videos of the chimps and bonobos gesturing, then selected from a multiple choice list of translations.\n\nThe participants performed significantly better than expected by chance, correctly interpreting the meaning of chimpanzee and bonobo gestures over 50% of the time.\n\n\"We were really surprised by the results,\" said Dr Catherine Hobaiter from St Andrews University. \"It turns out we can all do it almost instinctively, which is both fascinating from an evolution of communication perspective and really quite annoying as a scientist who spent years training how to do it,\" she joked.\n\nThe gestures people can innately understand may form part of what Dr Graham described as \"an evolutionarily ancient, shared gesture vocabulary across all great ape species including us\".", "Sharon Hearn and her cat Toby often try to keep warm together\n\nA disabled woman who cannot afford to heat her home for more than two hours a day said she puts her cat down her jumper to keep warm.\n\nSharon Hearn has been told she can no longer claim winter fuel bill discount despite the cold limiting her mobility.\n\nShe said even during December's cold spell her home was only heated to 10-12C (50-54F).\n\nThe UK government said Warm Home Discount changes prioritise those most likely to struggle to heat their homes.\n\nHouseholds are eligible if they are either on pension credit guarantee, a means-tested benefit or on tax credits with an income below a certain threshold.\n\nCharity Scope estimates about 300,000 disabled people in Wales and England will not be eligible because of the changes.\n\nMs Hearn, 50, from Newtown, Powys, is a part-time wheelchair user due to spinal cord damage, rheumatoid arthritis and a brain injury.\n\n\"People in my condition do feel the cold a lot more,\" she said.\n\n\"Sitting in these conditions is making my arthritis worse and making my joints worse, and making my mobility worse.\n\n\"At night and during the day, normally I have three to four blankets on.\n\n\"I normally have two jumpers on, two socks on and I'm very lucky to have a cat. Because he's cold I put him down my jumper and we sort of warm each other up.\"\n\nSharon Hearn has been left wondering how she will afford to pay for her electricity\n\nHer council house has an air source heat pump which takes warmth from the air outside to heat the home inside, but costs £8 per day to run.\n\n\"Two hours, that's all I can afford,\" Ms Hearn said. \"I tend to get to hypothermic stage, end of November beginning of December.\n\n\"I will then be forced to put it on two hours a day, and even by March or April, I'm having bills of five, six, seven hundred pounds.\n\n\"If that's the case, if I have it on 24 hours a day, then how much is that going to equate to?\"\n\nMs Hearn said she was told by the Warm Home Discount (WHD) helpline she was no longer eligible because her bungalow has a D-rating on its energy performance certificate.\n\nBut the UK government's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy disputed this, saying the WHD is not \"awarded according to the energy efficiency of the property but on people's financial circumstances\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We are prioritising households most in need this winter, with over three million homes across Great Britain receiving an additional £150 energy bill discount through the Warm Home Discount.\n\n\"This will mean an extra 780,000 pensioners and low-income families will benefit this year compared to last.\"\n\nAlex Osborne, from Disability Wales, said the WHD \"was just a little bit of breathing space for disabled people\".\n\n\"Not having the heating on 24/7 in their homes can make them really very ill,\" she added.\n\n\"So they're having to either take the risk they're going to get seriously ill by turning it off, or have it on and wonder how they're going to be able to afford the bills.\"\n\nHow are you coping with the rising cost of living? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rupert Murdoch has called off a proposal to reunite his broadcasting and publishing media empire.\n\nMr Murdoch and his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch have announced the decision not to go ahead with the plan because it \"is not optimal for shareholders of News Corp and FOX at this time\".\n\nThe idea was suggested last autumn, almost a decade after the two companies split.\n\nThe Murdoch family trust owns about 40% of both companies.\n\nA majority of non-Murdoch family members would have had to approve the deal for it to move forward.\n\nIn similar press statements issued by both companies, the Murdochs said special committees set up at Fox and News Corp to review the proposal have been dissolved.\n\nFox Corp owns the cable network Fox News and Fox Broadcasting Network in addition to the American streaming content platform Tubi. News Corp is the parent company of Dow Jones, which owns the Wall Street Journal, news organisations in the UK and Australia, and HarperCollins Publishers.\n\nIt is unclear why the 91-year-old media mogul decided not to move ahead with the merger. However, the suggestion reportedly received resistance from several top shareholders.\n\nNews Corp is looking to sell its digital real estate assets. According to people close to the discussion, News Corp is in talks to sell Move Inc, which runs Realtor.com in the US, to its rival CoStar Group.\n\nA company spokesperson would not confirm the discussion. However, he told the BBC that they \"continuously evaluates M&A opportunities across a broad range of companies to maximise shareholder value\".\n\nNews Corp also owns almost two-thirds of Australia's digital real estate company REA.", "Director Chinonye Chukwu has accused Hollywood of \"unabashed misogyny towards Black women\" after her film Till missed out on an Oscar nomination.\n\nTill is based on the true story of the mother who pursued justice after her son Emmett Till was lynched in 1955.\n\nThe film's star Danielle Deadwyler had been widely tipped to be named in the best actress category on Tuesday for her portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley.\n\nBut she was absent, and no black stars were on the lead acting shortlists.\n\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever's Angela Bassett is the only black actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year, in the best supporting actress category. In recent years, the Academy has nominated Cynthia Erivo, Viola Davis and Andra Day in the best actress category.\n\nJalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley in Till\n\nChukwu, who wrote and directed Till, posted a message on Instagram in an apparent reference to her film's lack of nominations.\n\nShe said: \"We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women.\n\n\"I am forever in gratitude for the greatest lesson of my life - regardless of any challenges or obstacles, I will always have the power to cultivate my own joy, and it is this joy that will continue to be one of my greatest forms of resistance.\"\n\nHer message was posted alongside a picture of herself with civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, who features in the film.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by chinonyechukwu This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmett Till was 14 when he was brutally murdered after a white woman said he had harassed her at a store.\n\nHis death galvanised the civil rights movement, and his mother insisted the coffin remain open so his injuries could be seen by the thousands of people who paid their respects in Chicago.\n\nDeadwyler won rave reviews for her portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley. Mark Kermode that she gave \"an awards-worthy performance\", while The Times' film critic Kevin Maher that the actress was \"an Oscar cert\", adding: \"Nominations, at the very least, are due.\"\n\nShe was nominated for a Bafta last week but was overlooked by the Oscars - as was Viola Davis, who was also among the favourites to be nominated for the best actress Oscar, for The Woman King.\n\nThe nominees on the final list were Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Williams and Michelle Yeoh.\n\nMeanwhile, no women are nominated for best director, although Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley, is up for best film. The overall field is led by Everything Everywhere All At Once, about a Chinese woman, played by Yeoh, who hops through the multiverses as different versions of herself.\n\nThe BBC asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars, for a comment, but they said they were not giving a response at this time.\n\nThe Oscars have been criticised for their lack of diversity in recent years. The failure to nominate black or minority actors in 2016 led to a furious backlash, with film stars boycotting the ceremony and the growth of the #OscarsSoWhite movement in 2015.\n\nIt led to a promise from the Academy to double its female and black and ethnic minority members, a target it said it met in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's happened since the the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015\n\nThat year, the organisation also announced that films hoping to compete for the best picture Oscar would have to meet certain criteria over diversity.\n\n\"The Academy is committed to playing a vital role in helping make this a reality,\" it said at the time. \"We believe these inclusion standards will be a catalyst for long-lasting, essential change in our industry.\"", "One of the much-coveted American-made Abrams tanks Image caption: One of the much-coveted American-made Abrams tanks\n\nThe US is just one of several countries who've pledged - or are planning to pledge - to send tanks to Ukraine, with the Russian invasion now in its twelfth month.\n\nA short while ago, President Biden confirmed that the US was pledging 31 M1 Abrams tanks. The vehicle is one of the most modern tanks in the world, though challenging to operate.\n\nGermany announced earlier on Wednesday that it would send an initial shipment of 14 Leopard 2 main battle tanks and would clear the way for other European countries to send their own German-made Leopards.\n\nNorway responded by pledging to send some of its 36 Leopards, but has not yet said how many.\n\nIn Poland, an adviser to the president told CNN earlier that the country hoped to send “one company” of Leopards - between 10 to 14 vehicles - to Ukraine.\n\nSpain’s defence minister said today that her country was \"ready\" to join with allies in sending tanks - including Leopards - but hasn't said how many.\n\nThe Netherlands is considering giving Ukraine 18 Leopards that are currently on loan from Germany. \"We leased them, which means we can buy them, which means we can donate them,\" Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday, according to German news outlet FAZ.\n\nThe UK said last week it would give 14 Challenger 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nUkraine’s defence minister has said the country needs 300 tanks to push back against Russia.", "Microsoft services have recovered after tens of thousands of users reported its products, including Outlook and Teams, had stopped working.\n\nThe company tweeted that its \"impacted services have recovered and remain stable\".\n\nMicrosoft blamed the outage on a change it made to its \"Wide Area Network\", which had now been \"resolved\"\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Microsoft explicitly ruled out a cyber-attack as a potential cause of the issue.\n\nServices including Teams and Xbox Live were also reported as not working.\n\nMicrosoft said cloud computing service Azure also experienced problems which affected \"a subset of users\".\n\nThe service provides computing power to many other businesses, some of which reported they were facing problems as a result.\n\nMany people and businesses will be breathing a sigh of relief now Microsoft services have come back online.\n\nBut for the thousands who lost access to services, it's been a significant inconvenience. It is also a reminder of how much so many of us rely on Big Tech to help us run our lives and our businesses with products we can't control when they go wrong.\n\nSystems and networks are always more vulnerable when maintenance or upgrades are under way, as there's more potential for the tiniest thing to either go wrong or not to plan - and the ripple effects, as we've seen today, can be widespread.\n\nEurostar, for example, tweeted that it was having problems with its services as a result of the outage affecting Azure - a popular rival to Amazon Web Services, and used by many big businesses for both storage and extra processing power.\n\nReports of problems came in from many countries, with Downdetector receiving thousands of reports in India and Japan alone.\n\nBut the impact seems to have been uneven, and relatively modest given the number of users of some of the affected systems.\n\nMicrosoft Teams, for example, is used by more than 280 million people globally, primarily in businesses and schools, where it can be of critical importance for calls, meetings and general service organisation.\n\nSome users shared memes celebrating an unexpected break from work, or disappointment that their workplace Teams seemed unaffected.\n\nAs well as Teams and Outlook, the services affected, according to the Microsoft 365 status page, included SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Graph, PowerBi, and Microsoft 365 Admin Center.\n\nThe disruption came a day after Microsoft reported its sales rose only 2% in the three months to December, to $52.7bn (£42.8bn) - with overall profits falling by 12% to $16.4bn.\n\nThe slowdown in sales accounts for the corporation's smallest quarterly increase in more than six years.\n\nMeanwhile, on 19 January, Microsoft announced it would reduce its workforce by roughly 5%, eliminating 10,000 jobs.\n\nIt is the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry, and will cost the business $1.2bn in severance and reorganisation costs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mike Pence previously said no classified documents left the White House\n\nClassified files have been found at ex-US Vice-President Mike Pence's home in the latest discovery of secret papers at the homes of officials who have served in the top ranks of government.\n\nThe documents, discovered by a lawyer last week for Mr Pence at his Indiana home, have been handed over to the FBI.\n\nInvestigators are already looking into President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump's possession of files.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Pence sent a letter to the National Archives alerting them to the documents.\n\nThe FBI came to the former vice-president's home to collect the documents, bypassing \"standard procedures\" and requesting \"direct possession\" of them, lawyers added in a separate letter.\n\nUnder the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends. Regulations require such files to be stored securely.\n\nA \"small number of documents bearing classified markings\" were \"inadvertently boxed and transported\" to Mr Pence's home at the end of Mr Trump's presidency, his lawyer wrote in a letter shared with US media.\n\nThe latest development emerged after Mr Pence sought legal help from specialists in handling classified documents \"out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nHe asked for help \"after it became public that documents with classified markings were found in President Joe Biden's Wilmington residence\", the letter read.\n\nLawyers found \"a small number of documents that could potentially contain sensitive or classified information\", which were locked by the former vice-president in a safe.\n\nAn aide to Mr Pence told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, the documents were stored in boxes in an insecure area of Mr Pence's home. The aide said they were taped shut.\n\nAccording to US media, the documents are believed to have first been taken to Mr Pence's home in Virginia before later being sent to Indiana.\n\nAfter the letter became public, Mr Trump came to Mr Pence's defence, taking to his Truth Social social media platform to say that he is \"an innocent man\".\n\n\"He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life,\" Mr Trump wrote. \"Leave him alone!!!\"\n\nMr Pence had repeatedly said over the last months that he did not believe he was in possession of classified documents.\n\nEarlier this month, he told CBS that he was confident reviews of documents in his home were done \"in a thorough and careful way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President has no regrets about classified documents\n\nMr Biden previously said he had \"no regrets\" over not going public before the midterm elections with the news that classified documents had been discovered in his private office.\n\nSix more classified files were found during a 13-hour search of President Biden's home in Delaware on Friday, his lawyer Bob Bauer said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nThe documents unearthed so far are believed to be related to Mr Biden's eight-year tenure as vice-president under former President Barack Obama.\n\nMr Biden offered access \"to his home to allow DoJ [the Department of Justice] to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material\", Mr Bauer added.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Biden's lawyers said a first batch of classified documents had been found on 2 November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank that the president founded in Washington DC.\n\nA second batch of records was found on 20 December in the garage at his Wilmington home, while another document was found in a storage space at the house on 12 January, his lawyers said.\n\nRepresentatives for former Presidents Obama and George W Bush told Reuters on Tuesday that their administrations had turned over all documents to the National Archives after leaving office.\n\nThe discoveries at the homes of Mr Pence and Mr Biden come as Mr Trump faces a special counsel inquiry over his alleged mishandling of documents.\n\nHundred of classified records were found at Mr Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago residence - Mr Trump and his lawyers resisted handing over the documents until the FBI raided the Florida holiday home last August.\n\nHe denied any wrongdoing, alleging that President Biden was being treated more favourably by the FBI.", "The BBC's Analysis Editor examines the background to Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.", "Jared O'Mara was elected to Parliament for Labour in June 2017, but quit the party the following year\n\nA former MP accused of fraud was \"non-existent\" in his constituency office and attended a staff meeting \"on some sort of substance\", a court has heard.\n\nJared O'Mara, 41, who represented Sheffield Hallam from 2017-2019, is accused of making fraudulent expenses claims totalling nearly £30,000.\n\nA former case worker on his team also claimed Mr O'Mara used a \"range of excuses\" to avoid attending Parliament, including \"slipping in the shower\".\n\nThe former MP, of Walker Close, Sheffield, was elected to Parliament for Labour in June 2017 but quit the party the following year and became an independent.\n\nHe stood down in 2019, the same year it is alleged the fraud offences took place.\n\nLeeds Crown Court heard Kevin Gregory-Coyne worked at Mr O'Mara's constituency office between November 2018 and April 2019 but only saw his boss in the building \"once or twice\".\n\nHe recalled an occasion Mr O'Mara did attend the constituency office, at the Redlands Business Centre, in Sheffield, for a meeting with staff on 12 February 2019.\n\n\"He did turn up, about an hour late,\" he told the court.\n\n\"He appeared to be on some sort of substance, he was gurning, clenching his teeth, sweating and talking at a million miles an hour.\"\n\nHe said his employer told staff he wished to make speech videos to post on an online fee-paying subscriber platform, along with \"comedy routines\".\n\n\"He fancied himself as a bit of a comedian,\" he said.\n\nMr Gregory-Coyne said when one member of staff challenged the suggestion Mr O'Mara \"threatened to sack him\".\n\nGareth Arnold, left, and John Woodliff, pictured at a previous hearing, are on trial alongside Mr O'Mara\n\nThe jury heard multiple members of Mr O'Mara's staff left their jobs to work for other employers soon after the meeting.\n\nOn the occasions Mr Gregory-Coyne was tasked with escorting the MP to Parliament he told the court Mr O'Mara would sometimes text him at short notice to say \"I'm not coming\".\n\n\"There were a range of what I saw as excuses,\" he told the jury.\n\n\"He said he'd slipped in the shower a couple of times and wouldn't be able to attend.\"\n\nMr Gregory-Coyne said he contacted Nic Dakin in the Labour whips' office in March 2019 after becoming concerned Mr O'Mara was not going to attend a Parliament Brexit vote, citing the fact that the MP was \"suffering a mental health crisis\".\n\nThe witness later told the court his boss confronted him on 16 April 2019 after he warned Mr O'Mara new employees were being \"signed up to contracts before they'd been vetted\".\n\n\"He was rather angry, told me not to question his authority again, shouted at me, swore at me,\" he said.\n\nProsecutors have previously told the court Mr O'Mara and co-defendant Gareth Arnold \"submitted a series of invoices for payment that were false\" in 2019.\n\nHe is also said to have submitted a false contract of employment for his friend, John Woodliff, claiming he worked for him as a constituency support officer.\n\nMr Arnold, 30, of School Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, denies six charges of fraud.\n\nMr Woodliff, 43, of Hesley Road, Shiregreen, denies one charge of fraud.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nadhim Zahawi, who attends cabinet, was made chancellor in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nTory Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi says an error in his tax affairs was accepted by HMRC as having been \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nIn a statement, he said he wanted to address \"confusion about my finances\" after claims he tried to avoid tax and had to pay it back.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak is satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account, the BBC has been told.\n\nLabour said there was a whole list of questions that still needed answering.\n\nThe party has called on Mr Zahawi to publish all correspondence with HMRC \"so we can get the full picture\".\n\nAccording to the Guardian, Mr Zahawi had to pay back tax he owed with a 30% penalty and the total amounts to £4.8m.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify that figure, but when the paper asked about the penalty, Mr Zahawi's spokesperson did not deny one had been paid.\n\nMr Zahawi's statement does not make clear whether he paid a penalty or not as part of his settlement, nor does it say how much he paid to HMRC.\n\nHe said when he was being appointed chancellor, questions were being raised about his tax affairs and he discussed it with the Cabinet Office at the time.\n\nThe exact timing of when the matter was settled with HMRC remains unclear.\n\nIn the statement issued on Saturday afternoon, Mr Zahawi said: \"As a senior politician I know that scrutiny and propriety are important parts of public life. Twenty-two years ago I co-founded a company called YouGov. I'm incredibly proud of what we achieved. It is an amazing business that has employed thousands of people and provides a world-beating service.\n\n\"When we set it up, I didn't have the money or the expertise to go it alone. So I asked my father to help. In the process, he took founder shares in the business in exchange for some capital and his invaluable guidance.\n\n\"Twenty one years later, when I was being appointed chancellor of the exchequer, questions were being raised about my tax affairs. I discussed this with the Cabinet Office at the time.\n\n\"Following discussions with HMRC, they agreed that my father was entitled to founder shares in YouGov, though they disagreed about the exact allocation. They concluded that this was a 'careless and not deliberate' error.\n\n\"So that I could focus on my life as a public servant, I chose to settle the matter and pay what they said was due, which was the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe questions facing Mr Zahawi include whether he tried to avoid paying tax by using an offshore company called Balshore Investments to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 - something he has always denied.\n\nAccording to HMRC, tax avoidance involves bending the rules of the tax system to try to gain a tax advantage that Parliament never intended.\n\nIt is legal and includes things that some people would consider to be normal tax planning. Tax avoidance is different from tax evasion, which is illegal.\n\nPenalties can be applied by HMRC if tax is not paid in the correct amount at the right time.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Zahawi continues: \"Additionally, HMRC agreed with my accountants that I have never set up an offshore structure, including Balshore Investments, and that I am not the beneficiary of Balshore Investments.\n\n\"This matter was resolved prior to my appointments as chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and subsequently chairman of the party I love so much. When I was appointed by the prime minister, all my tax affairs were up to date.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour listed some of the questions still facing Mr Zahawi - including how much he agreed to pay HMRC and whether he paid a fine.\n\n\"This carefully worded statement blows a hole in Nadhim Zahawi's previous accounts of this murky affair,\" said Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds, who called on Rishi Sunak to sack him.\n\n\"He must now publish all correspondence with HMRC so we can get the full picture.\n\n\"In the middle of the biggest cost-of-living crisis in a generation, the public will rightly be astonished that anyone could claim that failing to pay millions of pounds worth of tax is a simple matter of 'carelessness'.\n\n\"Nadhim Zahawi still needs to explain when he became aware of the investigation, and if he was chancellor and in charge of our tax system at the time.\"\n\nMeanwhile the Liberal Democrats claimed Mr Zahawi was trying to brush it under the carpet.\n\nNo 10 said they have nothing to add to Mr Zahawi's statement.\n\nBBC News has been told Mr Sunak is satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account and has confidence in him as chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nHMRC previously said it would not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers.\n\nMr Zahawi's tax affairs began to make headlines last summer, when he ran for the Tory leadership.\n\nIn a personal statement issued to reporters at the time, Mr Zahawi said news stories suggesting he had been investigated by agencies including HMRC were \"inaccurate, unfair and are clearly smears\".\n\n\"It's very sad that such smears should be circulated and sadder still that they have been published,\" the July 2022 statement read.\n\nAnd of the reported investigations, the statement said: \"Let me be absolutely clear. I am not aware of this. I have not been told that this is the case. I've always declared my financial interests and paid my taxes in the UK.\"\n\nNadhim Zahawi was announced as chancellor on 5 July 2022, hours after the resignation of Rishi Sunak from Boris Johnson's government.\n\nHe was previously education secretary and before that, coronavirus vaccines minister. He was made minister for equalities, minister for intergovernmental relations, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster under Liz Truss.\n\nMr Sunak appointed him as Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet, on 25 October.\n\nMr Zahawi has been the Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010.", "Al-Shabab is described by the US as a large terror network\n\nA US air strike assisting government troops in Somalia has killed about 30 Islamist al-Shabab militants, the US military says.\n\nThe operation happened near the town of Galcad, about 260km (162 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu.\n\nOver the past few days, the Somali army and al-Shabab militants have fought for control of the town.\n\nFriday's air strike came as the army was being attacked by more than 100 militants, the US Africa Command says.\n\nEarlier the Islamists killed seven soldiers after storming a military base in Galcad. Somalia's Information Ministry said dozens of the militants were killed.\n\nAl-Shabab has been fighting Somalia's central government since 2006, aiming to impose an extremist Islamist regime. While it has been pushed out of Mogadishu and other areas it continues to attack military and civilian targets.\n\nLast Monday the government said its army and local militias had captured the port town of Harardhere, which had been a key al-Shabab supply centre since 2010.\n\nIn its report on the Galcad fighting the US Africa Command said three al-Shabab vehicles were destroyed and \"the command assesses that no civilians were injured or killed\". The details have not been independently verified.\n\n\"US Africa Command's forces will continue training, advising and equipping partner forces to help give them the tools they need to defeat al-Shabab, the largest and most deadly al-Qaeda network in the world,\" the statement said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nTop seed Iga Swiatek is out of the Australian Open after losing to Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the fourth round.\n\nRybakina, seeded 22nd, had struggled to replicate the displays which saw her win at the All England Club in July.\n\nBut against Swiatek the Kazakh showed again how she thrives on the big stage, playing confidently and powerfully in a 6-4 6-4 win at Melbourne Park.\n\nLess than half an hour later, Coco Gauff lost 7-5 6-3 to Jelena Ostapenko.\n\nAmerican seventh seed Gauff, 18, was among the favourites for the title but was overpowered by the 17th seed from Latvia.\n\nRybakina, 23, will play former French Open champion Ostapenko in the quarter-finals instead of the match-up between Swiatek and Gauff that many predicted.\n\n\"I am nervous every time I am on court but I try to show calm. It is a big win and I'm happy to be in another round,\" Rybakina said.\n\nThird seed Jessica Pegula, the highest-ranked player left in the women's draw, came through 7-5 6-2 against Czech Barbora Krejcikova.\n\nThe American will face two-time Melbourne champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarter-finals after Azarenka beat China's Zhu Lin 4-6 6-1 6-4.\n• None Murray still doing himself 'justice' at Grand Slams\n• None 'How TikTok provides an escape from tennis' - Gauff column\n\nSwiatek 'wanted it too much'\n\nPoland's Swiatek rose to the top of the world rankings last year following the retirement of Australia's Ashleigh Barty, going on to win the French Open and US Open titles as she dominated the WTA Tour.\n\nShe reached the Melbourne semi-finals last year and, after a remarkable 2022, returned aiming to be the first women since Serena Williams in 2015 to hold three of the four major titles.\n\n\"I felt like I took a step back in terms of how I approach these tournaments and I maybe wanted it a little bit too hard,\" she said.\n\n\"So I'm going to try to chill out a little bit more.\"\n\nRybakina's success has been more sporadic. Between claiming the most prestigious title in tennis and the start of this year's Australian Open, she won just 14 of her 24 matches and has spoken out about the lack of recognition she feels she has been given.\n\nShe has also struggled with tough draws, with her world ranking lower than expected after receiving no points for her Wimbledon victory.\n\nBut she made another impressive statement at Melbourne Park, reaching the last eight for the first time with a dominant win over Swiatek.\n\nThe pair exchanged breaks early in the opening set before a double fault from Swiatek at 3-3 gave Rybakina another chance, which she took with a whopping cross-court backhand winner.\n\nA confident hold to love sealed the one-set advantage, but Swiatek improved at the start of the second set and moved into a 3-0 lead.\n\nRybakina quickly fought back and levelled for 3-3 as Swiatek struggled to deal with her hefty serve.\n\nShe dropped just six points on her first serve in the match and registered an impressive held to love to secure victory after breaking for 5-4.\n\nRybakina says she is no longer \"bothered\" about not having earned ranking points at Wimbledon but improving her world status is a source of motivation in Melbourne.\n\n\"For sure it's a motivation, but as I said before, every tournament I come I want to win and no matter points, no points,\" she said.\n\n\"I love to compete, no matter where I play. For now I would say that I don't really look at these things.\"\n\nOstapenko has 'never doubted' she can win another major\n\nOstapenko became a teenage champion at French Open almost six years ago but a lack of deep runs since has seen many write her off as a one-hit wonder.\n\nHowever, against Gauff she displayed the powerful-hitting and aggression that led her to the Roland Garros title in 2017.\n\nOstapenko hit 30 winners as she broke Gauff's serve three times and also saved seven of eight break opportunities for the American.\n\nDespite it being the first time since Wimbledon in 2018 that Ostapenko has reached a major quarter-final, the 25-year-old says she \"honestly hasn't really doubted\" she could win another.\n\n\"My life changed a lot, so I needed a few years to really get used to what happened because I was really young,\" said Ostapenko, who had never previously gone beyond the third round at Melbourne Park.\n\n\"I always knew and believed in my game. If I play well, I can beat almost anyone.\n\n\"I was trying to work more on my consistency, especially in the pre-season, just to step on the court and play my game.\"\n\nGauff had not dropped a set in her previous three matches, including a second-round win over British number one Emma Raducanu.\n\nThe teenage prodigy, who lost to Swiatek in last year's French Open final, became emotional during her news conference as her wait to land a major continues.\n\n\"I think every loss is somewhat in my control because I do feel like I'm a good player, but today she just played better,\" said Gauff.\n\n\"There were moments in the match where I was getting frustrated because I normally can problem-solve, but I feel like I didn't have much answers to what she was doing.\n\n\"There was a couple of things I could have improved on, but overall I think she deserved to win.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first satellite mission launched from the UK ended in failure early in January: so what happens now?\n\nA premature shutdown in the rocket meant the satellites it was carrying could not be released and were lost.\n\nSpace Forge, based in Cardiff, had its first satellite onboard the Virgin Orbit launch from Cornwall.\n\nCo-founder Joshua Western said while disappointing, the company will try again this year, with plans to return satellites to Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion.\n\n\"It was a real shame that we didn't get to make it to space, but we still got to learn a great deal. We still built and launched the first satellite ever designed and built in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"We also know that ForgeStar-0 worked perfectly. It passed every test and every validation activity we could throw at it, and it's just a shame that it never got the chance to show it off in space.\"\n\nWork is already under way on a new satellite - ForgeStar-1 - and it is 12 to 16 weeks away from being built. It is hoped to launch it later this year from Florida.\n\n\"It's a much more capable satellite than ForgeStar-0. ForgeStar-1 is about 10 times the size, and it's both a demonstration of our re-entry technology and in-space manufacturing technology,\" he said.\n\n\"We were two people in a garage on the outskirts of Bristol, today we are about to hit 50 people, and represent 20 different countries,\" says Joshua Western\n\n\"The objective of ForgeStar-1 is to demonstrate that better semi-conductors - the things that make your computer chips - can be made in a space environment and returned to earth safely.\"\n\nWhile looking forward to the future, Mr Western reflected on his company's first launch.\n\n\"I woke up feeling incredibly nervous and considering the amount of media attention it was going to get, I got a haircut in the morning,\" he laughed.\n\nHe arrived at the launch site at 2pm, and didn't leave until 2am the following day.\n\nJoshua Western still proudly displays the ForgeStar-0 badge on his arm\n\n\"There was a real buzz, it was the first time I have ever seen the UK get behind a space event,\" he said.\n\n\"The plane took off on time, was done to the Rolling Stones, where one of the lyrics [from Start Me Up] was 'Don't make a grown man cry', and I was bawling my eyes out, really just celebrating how far we'd come.\"\n\nHalf an hour later, however, he and his team received the news that the launch was unsuccessful.\n\n\"What was really strange about it was that it's really quite rare for a rocket launch to fail so late into a mission,\" he said.\n\n\"You had literally six-month-old babies up to 80-year-olds wrapped up in their coats on a deck chair,\" says the CEO\n\n\"We were on this rollercoaster of, is it going to launch or not? It launched, and we experienced this incredible high and that plummeted to one of the lowest points since having established Space Forge.\n\n\"After we knew the launch had failed, we gathered round with the team, to make sure they were OK. We took a moment to grieve for ForgeStar-0, and then got our heads down for ForgeStar-1.\"\n\nHe described the failed launch attempt as \"cash neutral\" for the company, as it has been able to recoup most of the costs of the satellite and the launch through insurance.\n\n\"Literally minutes after the failure had been publicly announced, we received an email from our insurance broker saying that he had started proceedings,\" said Mr Western.\n\n\"But what we have lost is time. It may have only been five months to do the satellite, but there was four years of Space Forge behind doing that activity.\"\n\nAna Castro, 30, from Brasília in Brazil, who works at Space Forge, said: \"It's in our culture to try these things, fail and learn from them. It's about pushing boundaries, so we're not afraid to test different things.\n\n\"I love my job, it's innovative and no two days are the same,\" says Ana Castro\n\n\"We all say that the next industrial revolution won't happen on earth, it will happen in space.\"\n\nMr Western said he and his co-founder, Andrew Bacon decided to locate Space Forge in Wales due to its \"unique geography\".\n\n\"Wales is one of the very few places in Europe and unique to the UK where you can accurately return a satellite to it.\n\n\"In the future, we are looking to return our Forge Star platforms to Cardigan Bay.\n\n\"There's no damage to marine life or the environment, it's entirely fuel-free. We then bring those satellites back to HQ here in Cardiff, refurbish it for the first time ever and launch the satellite again.\"\n\nAndrew Bacon, Space Forge Co-Founder and his dog at their unit in Rumney\n\nSustainability has always been a huge part of Space Forge, said Mr Western.\n\n\"We've been calculating our CO2 emissions since day one, and I truly mean when we were just two guys in a garage ordering Domino's pizza, we even added the CO2 footprint of that into our calculations for how much we're creating as Space Forge,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't want to engage in any activity unless there is a net positive benefit for us back on the ground.\n\n\"At the moment, for every kilogram of CO2 we create as Space Forge, we're targeting preventing up to 80 tonnes of CO2 being emitted on the ground.\"", "Buzz Aldrin and new wife Dr. Anca Faur at their wedding ceremony in Los Angeles\n\nThe former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin has got married for the fourth time on his 93rd birthday.\n\nMr Aldrin was one of the pilots on the legendary Apollo 11 spaceflight in 1969, becoming one of the first two people to walk on the moon after the mission's commander, Neil Armstrong.\n\nThe former pilot said that he and new wife Anca Faur were as \"excited as eloping teenagers\".\n\nHe is one of only four people alive to have walked on the moon.\n\nPictures from their Los Angeles ceremony were shared by Mr Aldrin on Twitter.\n\n\"On my 93rd birthday and the day I will be honoured by Living Legends of Aviation I am pleased to announce that my long-time love Dr Anca Faur and I have tied the knot,\" he tweeted.\n\nDr Faur, 63, who has a PhD in chemical engineering, is the executive vice president of Mr Aldrin's company, Buzz Aldrin Ventures.\n\nIn 1969, an estimated 600 million people witnessed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. It was the largest television audience in history at the time.\n\nAlmost overnight, Mr Aldrin became one of the most famous names on the planet - the ensuing months was a blur of media appearances, photo opportunities and after-dinner speeches.\n\n\"I hadn't thought that much of what would come afterward,\" Mr Aldrin told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. \"I was not that prepared or comfortable to be thrust into the public eye that much.\"\n\nBefore the famous moon landing, Mr Aldrin piloted fighter planes on US Air Force combat missions during the Korea war.\n\nIn 2018 he founded a non-profit think tank, the Human SpaceFlight Institute.\n\nBuzz Aldrin in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module on 20 July, 1969", "St Mary's Cathedral in Newcastle is operated by the diocese\n\nAn \"unscheduled\" safeguarding audit and review has been launched in the Catholic church following claims of lockdown gatherings in Newcastle.\n\nThe Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency will carry out the review into the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.\n\nThe BBC understands it involves claims from a whistleblower that men were regularly drinking on the St Mary's Cathedral complex during lockdown 2021.\n\nThe inquiry is also expected to examine the suicide of Canon Michael McCoy.\n\nFr McCoy, Dean of St Mary's Cathedral, killed himself in April 2021, days after police began an inquiry into a historical child sex abuse allegation made against him.\n\nThe diocese said it remains \"fully committed\" to safeguarding.\n\nThe Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency (CSSA) was set up to advise on and audit the work of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and is able to sanction clergy who do not meet standards.\n\nThe review, first reported by the Sunday Times, is backed by the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon, who oversees the Hexham and Newcastle diocese.\n\nThe diocese said it had previously invited the CSSA to conduct a review following the resignation of the former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, the Right Reverend Robert Byrne, in December 2022.\n\nHe quit the role after three years saying it had become \"too great a burden\", and had resigned \"with great sorrow\" and a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThere is no suggestion that the retired bishop participated in any of the alleged lockdown gatherings.\n\nCanon Michael McCoy was being investigated by police after a historical child sex abuse allegation\n\nOn Thursday, the diocese said trustees had met and have had contact with the chief executive and representatives of the CSSA.\n\n\"They have discussed how the review, originally scheduled to happen in May 2023, will be undertaken and how the findings will be published,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Prior to Bishop Byrne's resignation in mid-December, trustees were working with the Charity Commission, following their self-referral to that organisation.\n\n\"The diocese will continue to work productively and swiftly with both organisations, learning where it needs to, not from rumours and misinformation, but from the facts and evidence provided.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Liverpool wrote a letter to clergy and staff confirming that safeguarding work began on 19 January.\n\n\"There has been much speculation and heightened interest from the press and others regarding some of the issues here,\" he said.\n\nThe Right Reverend Robert Byrne quit as bishop in December after three years in the role\n\nHe added that he had been asked to prepare \"an in-depth report into the events leading up to Bishop Byrne's resignation\".\n\nStephen Ashley, CSSA chief executive, said: \"We will publish our independent recommendations publicly, as soon as possible, once our team has completed its investigatory work and satisfied all lines of inquiry.\"\n\nNazir Afzal, CSSA chair and the former chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, added: \"The review is fully supported by the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon and we appreciate his commitment to safeguarding.\n\n\"Naturally, we cannot yet speak to the detail of investigatory work which is ongoing, but there should be no doubt that we will leave no stone unturned to when it comes to keeping people safe, and this includes investigating the safeguarding culture in Hexham and Newcastle.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLiam Smith says he is \"open to anything\" after stopping Chris Eubank Jr in round four of their middleweight contest in Manchester on Saturday.\n\nEubank has a rematch clause but Smith said former welterweight world champion Kell Brook, or middleweight great Gennady Golovkin were also options.\n\nBrook, 36, retired after beating Amir Khan in 2022, but Smith's promoter suggested that the fight could be made.\n\n\"I've got good options, I'm in a good position,\" said 34-year-old Smith.\n\n\"If [Eubank] wants that rematch, I'll give it to him. I'm open to anything, I always have been. If it's Chris next, it's Chris next.\n\n\"Ben Shalom (from Smith's promoter Boxxer) said Kell wants to fight the winner. That's a huge fight. There's talk of Golovkin. We're in a good position.\"\n\nFellow Briton Brook, 36, won the IBF world title in the lighter welterweight division during his career but announced his retirement in May 2022, three months after beating Khan.\n\nKazakh fighter Golovkin has won multiple world titles at middleweight, with the only two defeats in his 45-fight career coming against Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, who is regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.\n• None As it happened: Smith stops Eubank in Manchester\n• None Fight Talk: Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Sr react to Liam Smith's knockout of Chris Eubank Jr\n• None What next for boxing after 'unacceptable' taunts\n\nShalom said it was up to 33-year-old Eubank if he wanted to activate the rematch clause.\n\nEubank suggested on social media after the fight he would do that, but Smith insisted he would want the second fight to be in his home city.\n\n\"This has to be right for me now, on my terms,\" he said. \"[I want it in] Liverpool. The money side to it [has to change].\"\n\nSmith has stopped his past four opponents and moved up to middleweight to fight Eubank.\n\nThe intriguing fight threatened to be overshadowed by an ugly build-up in fight week, where Eubank suffered taunts about his sexuality from Smith but responded with jibes of his own about social class and personal attacks on Smith about infidelity.\n\nEubank apologised, admitting he \"regretted\" what he had said.\n\nSmith briefly addressed the controversy in his post-fight news conference.\n\n\"It got a little bit out of hand between me and Chris,\" he said.\n\n\"I take what Chris said with a pinch of salt. I don't think he means it. A lot was said.\"", "The UK steel industry, which supports thousands of jobs, is \"a whisker away from collapse\", the Unite union says.\n\nIt has written a letter to Business Secretary Grant Shapps seeking an urgent meeting to push for more support.\n\nUnite has accused the government of taking \"little meaningful action\" to help the industry, leaving the sector \"at breaking point\".\n\nThe government said the success of the steel industry is a priority.\n\nIn the letter, Steve Turner, Unite's assistant general secretary, said there were a number of issues causing the industry problems.\n\nThese included \"crippling energy costs, carbon taxes, lost markets, lower demand, and open market access for imported steel\".\n\nWriting to Mr Shapps on behalf of two other unions as well - Community and GMB - Mr Turner said the challenges faced by manufacturers like British Steel, Tata Steel, and Liberty Steel were the consequences of \"direct actions by your government that have... significantly undermined UK plant competitiveness in global markets\".\n\n\"With little meaningful action on the part of government in areas of UK procurement policy, energy pricing support, green energy generation or support for investment in new plant and technologies, the industry is at breaking point,\" Mr Turner added.\n\n\"We are, in the words of many, 'a whisker away from collapse'\".\n\nHe said UK steel \"employs tens of thousands of skilled workers and hundreds of apprentices\", and asked for an urgent meeting to discuss \"current and future government policy\" to support the sector.\n\nIt has been reported that the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is poised to grant a £300m funding package for British Steel.\n\nThe money has not been confirmed by the Treasury, but the BBC understands it would depend on the firm's Chinese owners, Jingye, investing in greener technology.\n\nResponding to the letter, a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the government recognised \"the vital role that steel plays within the UK economy, supporting local jobs and economic growth\".\n\nIt said it was \"committed to securing a sustainable and competitive future for the UK steel sector,\" adding that Mr Shapps \"considers the success of the steel sector a priority and continues to work closely with industry to achieve this\".\n\nCommenting on the proposed funding package for British Steel, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said the UK steel sector has been left \"on the brink\" as a result of the government's failure to come up with long-term solutions.\n\n\"Endless sticking plaster solutions from the Conservatives have left our UK steel sector on the brink,\" said Mr Reynolds.\n\n\"Instead of finding a long-term solution, successive Conservative governments have lurched from crisis and bailouts with no plan to keep UK steel internationally competitive or deliver a return on taxpayers investment.\"", "Pollution and habitat destruction have caused numbers of bottlenose dolphins to drop (image taken in Scotland)\n\nDolphins are back in the Bronx River in New York for the first time in more than five years.\n\nThough they were recently seen in the city's East River, it is the first time the animals have been spotted in the Bronx River since 2017.\n\nAuthorities keep the river stocked with a plentiful supply of fish, which they believe may have drawn the dolphins in.\n\nThe city's Department of Parks and Recreation posted a video on Twitter, taken by someone who saw the dolphins.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NYC Parks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, the joyous reception of the mammals' arrival came with a warning. \"Make sure that they're comfortable during their visit by giving them space and not disturbing them,\" wrote the department.\n\nThe Bronx River flows through Bronx borough, just north of Manhattan, and is the only freshwater river in the city.\n\nThe sightings were also confirmed by the Bronx River Alliance, a non-profit that works to protect and restore the waterway.\n\n\"There seems to be more dolphin pods swimming near NY Harbor!\" it wrote on social media. \"We are not sure why but authorities are further investigating their presence and we will keep you updated as we get more info.\"\n\nPollution and habitat destruction have caused numbers of bottlenose dolphins, which are found off both the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, to drop. Some are also injured by fishing nets and die.\n\nAs a consequence, they are protected throughout the United States under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes it illegal to feed or harass them.\n\nDolphins are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet. The US military uses them to locate underwater mines and identify enemy military personnel.", "Ron Klain is a familiar presence alongside Mr Biden having spent decades as one of his top aides\n\nPresident Joe Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, is expected to leave his role in the coming weeks, US media is reporting.\n\nThe departure of the veteran political operative would be a major change in the White House, where Mr Klain manages Mr Biden's schedule and drives his policy agenda.\n\nThe news was first reported by the New York Times, which said that Mr Klain would likely leave after the president's State of the Union address on 7 February.\n\nAn exact timeline is still unclear.\n\nMr Klain has spent spent decades as one of Mr Biden's top aides, first in the Senate and later when Mr Biden was vice-president.\n\nHe was also an adviser and speechwriter on Mr Biden's unsuccessful 1988 and 2008 White House campaigns.\n\nThe 61-year-old was also a senior White House aide to former President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice-President Al Gore.\n\nHe was played by the actor Kevin Spacey in the movie Recount, which was about the presidential election of 2000.\n\nMr Klain has informed Mr Biden of his decision to leave, Reuters news agency reported.\n\nA successor has not yet been decided, reports say. The New York Times listed a series of potential replacements that included Labour Secretary Marty Walsh and another of Mr Biden's senior aides, Anita Dunn.\n\nMr Klain is the longest serving first chief of staff of any Democratic president. The role is known to have a high turnover rate - former President Donald Trump, for example, had four chiefs of staff during his four-year term.\n\nMr Klain has steered Mr Biden's administration for its first two years, but the president's term is entering a new phase following the midterm elections in November.\n\nThe Republican Party won a majority in the House of Representatives, which is one half of the United States Congress, and has pledged to investigate Mr Biden on multiple fronts.\n\nThe president's staff are also turning their attention to a potential re-election campaign, with reports suggesting Mr Biden could announce his intention to seek a second four-year term after February's State of the Union address.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A whirlwind dash through Biden's first year in office", "Peruvian authorities say those with tickets to Machu Picchu can be refunded\n\nPeru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing protests against the country's new president.\n\nThe government said it closed the site, and the Inca trail hike leading up to it, to protect tourists and citizens.\n\nHundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued.\n\nThe violent protests, which have seen dozens of people killed, began when Peru's previous leader was ousted.\n\nRail services to Machu Picchu were suspended on Thursday after some train tracks were damaged, allegedly by protesters.\n\nIt left 418 people stranded at the site, tourism minister Luis Fernando Helguero said at a news conference on Saturday.\n\nHowever by Saturday night, the tourism ministry announced that everyone - 148 foreigners and 270 Peruvians - had been safely evacuated on trains and buses.\n\nThe tourism ministry tweeted photos of the stranded visitors being taken away from Machu Picchu\n\nThey are not the first visitors to have been stranded at Machu Picchu because of civil unrest - last month, hundreds of tourists were airlifted out after being stuck there for several days.\n\nSitting high on a mountain in the Andes, Machu Picchu is considered one of the new seven wonders of the world. It is hugely popular with tourists, with around a million people visiting every year.\n\nSome visitors arrive at Machu Picchu via the Inca Trail, which is a famous multi-day hike.\n\nIn a statement, Peru's culture ministry said that those who had already bought tickets for the site would be able to use them for one month after the end of the demonstrations, or get a refund.\n\nDemonstrators in Peru are demanding fresh elections and calling for the new President, Dina Boluarte, to stand down, which she has so far refused to do.\n\nThey want her left-wing predecessor, Pedro Castillo, who is in jail and facing charges of rebellion and conspiracy, to be released. Mr Castillo denies the accusations and insists that he is still Peru's legitimate leader.\n\nAuthorities announced on Saturday that another protester had died following demonstrations in the southern region of Puno, where police stations were set on fire.\n\nAt least 58 Peruvians have been injured in the protests, according to a report from Peru's ombudsman.\n\nIn the latest clashes, roads were blocked and police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators in the capital, Lima.\n\nThe European Union has condemned the widespread violence and what it called the \"disproportionate\" use of force by the police.\n\nIn a statement, it called for \"urgent steps to restore calm\".\n\nPeru has been through years of political turmoil, which came to a head when Mr Castillo was arrested last month for trying to dissolve Congress.\n\nMs Boluarte has resisted calls to step down, including from some regional governors, and earlier this week urged Peruvians to ensure their protests were peaceful.", "Adam Kalinin has lived in the Russian wilderness for nearly four months to avoid being called up to fight in Ukraine\n\nWhen Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin - not his real name - a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest.\n\nThe IT specialist was against the war from the start, receiving a fine and spending two weeks in detention for sticking a poster saying \"No to war\" on the wall of his apartment building.\n\nSo when Russia said it was calling up 300,000 men to help turn things around in a war it was losing, Kalinin did not want to risk being sent to the front line to kill Ukrainians.\n\nBut, unlike hundreds of thousands of others, he did not want to leave the country.\n\nThree things kept him in Russia: friends, financial constraints and an unease about abandoning what he knows.\n\n\"Leaving would have been a difficult step out of my comfort zone,\" Kalinin, who is in his thirties, told the BBC. \"It isn't exactly comfortable here either but nevertheless, psychologically, it would be really hard to leave.\"\n\nAnd so he took the unusual step of saying goodbye to his wife and heading for the forest, where he has lived in a tent for nearly four months.\n\nHe uses an antenna tied to a tree for internet access and solar panels for energy.\n\nHe has endured temperatures as low as -11C (12F) and exists on food supplies brought to him regularly by his wife.\n\nLiving off-grid, he says, is the best way he can think of to avoid being called up. If the authorities can't hand him a summons in person, he can't be forced to go to war.\n\n\"If they are physically unable to take me by the hands and lead me to the enlistment office, that is a 99% defence against mobilisation or other harassment.\"\n\nIn some ways, Kalinin continues his life as before. He still works eight hours a day in the same job, although throughout winter - with its limited daylight - he doesn't have enough solar power to work full days and so makes up his hours on the weekend.\n\nSome of his colleagues are now in Kazakhstan, having also left Russia after mobilisation began, but his internet connection via a long-range antenna strapped to a pine tree is reliable enough that communication is not a problem.\n\nHe is also a lover of the outdoors, spending many of his past holidays camping in southern Russia with his wife. When he made the decision to move permanently to the wilderness, he already had much of the equipment he needed.\n\nKalinin says he doesn't know how much longer he will stay in the forest\n\nHis wife, who visited Kalinin's camp for a couple of days over the new year, plays a big role in his survival. She brings supplies every three weeks to a drop-off point where they are briefly able to see each other in person. He then takes the supplies away to a safe place which he visits every few days to stock up. He cooks using a makeshift wood-burning stove.\n\n\"I have oats, buckwheat, tea, coffee, sugar. Not enough fresh fruit and vegetables of course, but it's not too bad,\" he says.\n\nKalinin's new home is a large tent of the type used for ice-fishing. When he first arrived in the forest, he set up two camps five minutes apart; one with internet access where he worked, the other in a more sheltered spot where he slept.\n\nAs winter approached and the weather got colder, he brought the two areas together to live and work under one canvas.\n\nRecently, the temperature dropped to -11C, colder than he had expected. But now the days are getting longer again and the snow is beginning to melt, he plans to stay where he is.\n\nAlthough Kalinin hasn't received a call-up himself, he says the situation is constantly changing and he fears he could receive a summons in the future. Officially, IT workers like Kalinin are exempt from the draft, but there are numerous reports in Russia of similar exemptions being ignored.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilisation on 21 September, shortly after Ukraine's lightning counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region during which it reclaimed thousands of square kilometres of territory from Russian troops.\n\nHe said the mobilisation was necessary to defend Russia against the West. But many in the country protested, and there were chaotic scenes on Russia's borders as hundreds of thousands of people fled.\n\nThe call-up had a profound effect on Russia. Until then, many Russians were able to continue their lives much as they had before the war. True, some Western brands disappeared and sanctions made financial transactions more difficult, but the direct impact on society was mostly limited.\n\nMobilisation brought the war crashing on to the doorsteps of many Russian families. Suddenly, sons, fathers and brothers were deployed to the front line at short notice, often with poor equipment and minimal training. If the conflict seemed distant before, now it was all but impossible to ignore.\n\nYet, public acts of protests are rare inside Russia - something that has been criticised in Ukraine and in the West. But Kalinin says people are rightly scared of what might happen to them.\n\n\"We have a totalitarian state that has become so powerful. In the last six months, laws have been brought in at an incredible pace. If a person speaks out now against the war, the state will pursue them.\"\n\nAn ice-fishing tent is Kalinin's space for work and sleep\n\nKalinin's life in the forest has brought him a certain level of popularity online, with 17,000 people following his near-daily updates on Telegram. He posts videos and photos of his surroundings, his daily routine, and of how his camp is organised. Wood-chopping features heavily.\n\nKalinin claims not to miss much about his previous life. He calls himself an introvert who doesn't mind being alone, although he misses his wife and would like to see her more often. However, he points out that his current situation is still preferable to being sent to the front line or to prison.\n\n\"I've changed so much, that the kind of things I might have missed have faded into the background,\" he says. \"The things that seemed important before don't have their power any more. There are people in a much worse situation than us.\"\n\nThe snow is beginning to melt as the days get longer, Kalinin says", "Messina Denaro was arrested at a private clinic in central Palermo where he had made an appointment under a false name\n\nPalermo residents couldn't have known for sure who the man being led to the police car was.\n\nAfter all, it had been 30 years since he was last seen in public.\n\nBut over a hundred members of the armed forces had gathered in the narrow streets of Palermo that morning - and people knew of only one criminal who could elicit that kind of response.\n\nMatteo Messina Denaro - the \"boss of the bosses\", the last fugitive - had been found.\n\nApplause and cheers broke out. Somebody high-fived a policeman; others went in for a hug; some had tears in their eyes. Everyone was beaming.\n\nLater, Maria Falcone told Italian media she wished her brother could have witnessed the scene.\n\nAnti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone was murdered by Sicily's Cosa Nostra, spearheaded by Messina Denaro, in 1992. It was the height of the \"massacre season\" that had plagued Italy in the early 1990s.\n\nAt the time, Messina Denaro's organised crime syndicate was attempting, through a sustained murder campaign that killed more than 20 people, to force the state into negotiations about the hard prison regime for jailed Mafia associates.\n\nA 1993 bomb attack in Florence left five people dead, including a newborn baby, a nine-year old girl and their parents\n\nMessina Denaro once reportedly boasted he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.\n\nHe was instrumental in the 1993 kidnapping and killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a mafioso-turned-state witness. The boy was held in captivity for two years before being killed; his body was dissolved in acid to prevent the family from burying him.\n\nMessina Denaro also ordered the killing of a rival Mafia boss and his pregnant girlfriend.\n\nA warrant was put out for his arrest. Then, in the summer of 1993, he vanished without a trace. Reported sightings placed him everywhere from Venezuela to the Netherlands.\n\nBut it was in Palermo - the heart of his homeland of Sicily - that he was caught.\n\nThis week, after his arrest, police uncovered three hideouts in Campobello di Mazara, a sun-soaked village 115km (70 miles) from Palermo - and 10km from his birthplace of Castelvetrano.\n\nQuiet, small Campobello is not the kind of place one could imagine hiding in very easily.\n\nNot that Messina Denaro appears to have led the life of a secretive outlaw.\n\nIt seems he was a regular customer of the local Bar San Vito; a neighbour said they frequently greeted one another.\n\nIt is an image deeply at odds with the 30-year search for the mobster.\n\nItaly invests large amounts of resources in its anti-mafia operations - but the case of Messina Denaro shows that a compliant culture of silence can still put a dent in the state's battle against organised crime.\n\nMaurizio Bellacosa, criminal lawyer and law professor at LUISS University in Rome, said that Messina Denaro \"made full use of Mafia culture\" to remain undetected.\n\nMafia culture worked as a combination of intertwined elements, Prof Bellacosa told the BBC: \"From the Mafia's widespread presence in the territory, to a scarce or non-existent co-operation with investigators by society, to an entrenched code of silence, especially in small towns and suburbs, where the state is often perceived as absent.\"\n\nThe mayor of Campobello, Giuseppe Castiglione, told Italian media he had been \"so dejected by the thought that Messina Denaro lived among us for at least a year - because now I know that my fellow residents chose to go down the road of complacency and bury their head in the sand instead\".\n\nPolice stand guard near one of Messina Denaro's three hideouts in Campobello\n\nHowever, silence does not necessarily mean assent.\n\nThe Mafia's tentacles stretch deep into Sicilian society. Fear and the old code of silence are still entrenched.\n\n\"Mafia-style association works in a very simple way: violence and intimidation provoke a condition of subjugation and 'omertà' in those involved,\" said Mr Bellacosa.\n\n\"In essence, the Mafia uses fear to achieve its goals.\"\n\nIn the press conference given by police following the arrest, Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said that Messina Denaro had likely been aided by the \"Mafioso bourgeoisie\" - referring to local professionals, entrepreneurs and politicians.\n\nThis is shown by the arrests made over the years of people deemed close to Messina Denaro. Palermo-based journalist Tullio Filippone said these were individuals who \"accepted to live and collaborate with the Mafia, turning a blind eye when Mafia associates need medical examinations, appraisals or asset management.\"\n\nThis local network was found to be aiding the mobster by laundering his money, said Mr Filippone, and was \"what culturally makes the difference and what needs to be eradicated.\"\n\n\"Every Sicilian knows that the Mafia exists... [and] it has the power to influence society and exert control over the territory in a capillary way.\"\n\nWhether Messina Denaro was leading a life of retirement, or whether he was still active and engaged in criminal activities is unclear - and it may yet turn out that his spectacular arrest was the easy part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough the years of car bombs and heinous violence may be over, most experts agree that over the years, the Mafia has transformed into a less flashy yet arguably more insidious organisation.\n\nRacketeering, intimidation and extortion have not gone away: \"It is still here, as is shown by the fact that a godfather could remain hidden for so long.\"\n\nIn this context, the spontaneous applause on the morning of the arrest was picked up by many as an extraordinary sign of change.\n\nMs Falcone, the sister of the slain judge, said she was struck by \"how everyone was cheering - in the street, among the buses, people hugging the police in their bulletproof vests. It's a victory for Italian society as a whole\".\n\nThere are other signs that change may be afoot.\n\nEarlier this week, high school students took to the streets of the town chanting \"Castelvetrano is ours, not yours\".\n\nAn 18-year-old told Italian newspaper La Repubblica: \"I shivered with emotion when I saw people applauding the police. This crowded square is proof that this town doesn't want to be labelled by the Mafia\".\n\nAnother student said: \"I felt proud when I heard he had been caught.\"\n\nOlder generations may hold different views. Mr Filippone said that in Sicily there were 60-year-olds who had lived through the murders of the 1990s, and yet they defended Messina Denaro - and almost denied there was a problem.\n\nMr Filippone was referring to a series of interviews with elderly Castelvetrano residents aired by Italian TV earlier in the week. In one, a man says he doesn't judge the actions of Messina Denaro; in another, a resident says arresting the mobster was a mistake.\n\n\"But younger people… took to the streets to demonstrate their happiness at such an important moment. This highlights the contrast between different generations, and that things are gradually changing,\" Mr Filippone told the BBC.\n\nAt least symbolically, the arrest of Messina Denaro is hugely significant - even \"a form of liberation,\" said Mr Filippone.\n\n\"All those people applauding really show what it represents for the history of Sicily and the country: the end of an era, a catharsis.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He joked he wanted to rape me,\" claims Charlotte Wathan\n\nA former boss at Welsh women's rugby said she considered suicide because of what she claimed was a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\nCharlotte Wathan also said a male colleague said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, a mum of one, said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\nThe WRU said that both cases were investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nOne MP, also a former Wales player, warned the allegations against a major UK sporting organisation were \"on a level\" with the racism scandal that rocked Yorkshire Cricket Club.\n\nTonia Antoniazzi has written to the Prince of Wales as patron of the WRU for a meeting to \"create a better future for women and girls in rugby in Wales\".\n\nMs Wathan, the former general manager of Welsh women's rugby, said she cried after the alleged rape comment was made towards her at the WRU's Vale of Glamorgan training base in 2019.\n\n\"Someone referring about me in an office environment that they wanted to rape me,\" she told the BBC Wales Investigates programme.\n\n\"Take me back to the hotel, tie me to the bed and rape me. I remember feeling sick, like a punch to the stomach. I remember standing in shock thinking, 'did I just hear that?'\n\n\"And everyone's laughing, and there was a senior member of staff there. I left the room and I burst into tears. I thought 'crikey, is this what it's come to?'\"\n\nThe Welsh team are ninth in the women's rugby world rankings\n\nThe comment was eventually investigated by an external lawyer after Ms Wathan raised it with the WRU as part of a wider grievance, but the BBC has discovered a number of key witnesses, who she said could corroborate her allegations, were not spoken to as part of that investigation.\n\nThe man who allegedly made the comment also was not spoken to as part of the grievance. He still works at the WRU.\n\nMs Wathan, hired to help transform its struggling women's game in 2018, later started legal proceedings against the WRU.\n\nBut the WRU and Ms Wathan, who left the organisation early in 2022, reached an \"amicable resolution\" last month and a planned employment tribunal case was withdrawn.\n\nThe WRU told the BBC Ms Wathan's allegations remained unsubstantiated following a thorough independent legal investigation and that it could not comment further because her case had been settled since her interview with the BBC.\n\nBut it added it took any allegations from staff regarding behaviour, attitude and language seriously and if any allegations were substantiated it would act swiftly. It said such behaviour had no place in the WRU or Welsh rugby.\n\nMs Wathan said she told the WRU in 2021 the culture was \"toxic\" and she was too ill to return to work due to the impact on her mental health.\n\nCharlotte Wathan helped develop a strategy for the women's game in Wales\n\n\"They'd beat me down. They'd won,\" she said.\n\n\"You just, at that point, think there's no hope. And nobody wants to take this seriously.\n\n\"This was probably one of the worst experiences of my life and it was dark. It was grim. And it could have cost me my life.\n\n\"I could have left my children without a mum, just because I was trying to develop the women's game.\"\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, who wants to remain anonymous, also alleged she suffered sexism and bullying by a manager within the organisation and left in 2018.\n\nThe second woman described her time at the organisation as \"an open wound\" and said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\n\"This wasn't about an incident here and an incident there,\" she said.\n\n\"It was constant undermining of me or my gender by nit-picking at irrelevant stuff.\n\n\"It takes you to a very dark, dark place when you can genuinely look at your husband and think 'you're young enough to meet someone else and my daughter is young enough to get another mother'.\n\n\"I went as far as to start drafting a manual for my husband and what to do in the event that I died.\"\n\nShe said she told HR that bullying and sexism at work had left her feeling suicidal and was advised to put in a grievance against the manager concerned and was told she could move to another office in the same building.\n\nBut she feared that complaining would make her life more difficult, so ended up leaving the WRU without raising a grievance.\n\nShe said she did give the name of the accused manager to HR and considered taking the WRU to an employment tribunal but the organisation argued she had left it too late to make a claim and there were no grounds.\n\nThe accusations come just days before the start of Wales' 2023 Six Nations campaign\n\n\"They bullied me by saying they would put in a costs order against me,\" she added.\n\n\"On the balance of what was most important for that time - my family and livelihood, or trying to fix an organisation I no longer work for? I chose my family and my livelihood.\"\n\nThe WRU told the BBC her case was investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nNew WRU chief executive Steve Phillips said in December the union would \"never be complacent\" on fighting discrimination and said \"the expectations are very high and rightly so, on everybody in the WRU - and we will maintain those standards.\"\n\nMs Antoniazzi, a former Wales rugby international, has said women from inside the WRU had also raised concerns with her.\n\nShe said she wanted the Welsh government to set up an independent body to oversee complaints about Wales' sports governing bodies.\n\nFounded in 1881, the WRU is responsible for running the sport in Wales from grassroots to international rugby\n\n\"This is on a level of what's happened in cricket,\" said the Labour MP for Gower.\n\n\"I have great, great concerns about the future of women's rugby in Wales.\n\n\"Unless you are a woman and, excuse the expression, but with balls and deep pockets, how on Earth do you take on somebody like the WRU and stand up to them without there being financial detriment, reputational detriment?\n\n\"Nobody holds them to account. They hold themselves to account, but they're marking their own homework. So what is the point? How do we know that this scandal now will [not] be resolved?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warren Gatland says he does not 'know a lot about' WRU sexism claims\n\nThe claims were revealed on the day Wales' men's squad meet up to prepare for this year's Six Nations tournament ahead of their opener with Ireland on 4 February in Cardiff.\n\nWarren Gatland has returned as Wales coach and, on his first day with his players, was asked about the allegations and how it would affect his team's preparations.\n\n\"For me it's something I don't know a lot about, I've been away since the World Cup in 2019,\" Gatland told the BBC.\n\n\"I've not really read too much of the press about things. It's like anything there's two sides to every story and I hope you'd get a balance in terms of both sides being represented in the proper way.\"\n\nIt was not just sexism claims against the WRU - the BBC has spoken to two people who say they witnessed the \"P-word\" being used in an online staff meeting attended by a senior manager.\n\n\"A colleague was watching cricket in his living room on silent while on his laptop and the senior manager on the call asked what the score was,\" recalled witness Marc Roberts, a former manager in Welsh rugby's community game.\n\n\"That person used a racist term to describe who was in the lead of that cricket game.\n\n\"The conversation was between the manager and the individual who used that word. And nothing was said. I actually brought it up and said that term was unacceptable and inappropriate.\n\n\"At no stage did a senior manager, stop and say, 'you cannot use that term that's not an appropriate term'.\"\n\nMr Roberts worked for the WRU for 20 years and said the culture had got worse in the past five years and he had warned bosses about what he had seen and heard from a number of women in the organisation.\n\nHe eventually quit the WRU this month.\n\nHe said: \"I have seen no change in our culture. It's not a culture that likes to be challenged.\"\n\nThe WRU said how sad it was to hear how individuals in this programme felt and it would continue to work with staff to ensure they feel valued and listened to.\n\nThe WRU has previously spoken of its commitment to the women's game and last year gave Wales' women players professional contracts for the first time.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Darcey Corria has been treated in hospital since the crash last Thursday\n\nMiss Wales Darcey Corria has suffered a broken pelvis and two broken bones in her neck after an M4 crash.\n\nShe is being treated at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff, following the crash near Bridgend on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a social media video, she said she was \"feeling a lot better than a couple of days ago, but there's still a long way to go\".\n\n\"I'm a tough cookie so I know I will be OK.\"\n\nIn a story on her Instagram account, she also praised the \"outstanding\" care she was receiving in hospital, adding that it had given her more of a \"push to become a nurse\".\n\nMiss Wales competition organisers said Darcey - who won the title last May aged 21 - was \"receiving much love and support from her close family\".\n\n\"She is expected to make a full recovery,\" said the organisation.\n\n\"While the accident will have an immediate impact on Darcey's preparation for Miss World in May, we are hopeful and confident that she will still be able to fly the flag for Wales thanks to her own personal determination, the love and support of her family and the incredible team of medics at UHW.\"\n\nSouth Wales Police confirmed a woman had been taken to hospital with \"serious injuries\" following a traffic collision.\n\nAfter winning the 2021 title, Darcey said: \"I understand the significance and the importance of my crowning moment\"\n\nIt led to a long closure on the M4 eastbound between Junction 35 Pencoed and Junction 36 Sarn on Thursday from about 18:00 GMT.\n\nDarcey, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, who has a white mother and a father who has Jamaican heritage, is a black rights campaigner who has been involved in shaping anti-racism legislation.\n\nAfter her win in the competition last year she described it as \"a great platform and if I can work with the Miss Wales brand, we could really be a force to be reckoned with in terms of tackling racism\".", "The coronation weekend will include concerts, public celebrations and a bank holiday\n\nWorld-famous entertainers will perform at Windsor Castle as part of a weekend of celebrations to mark the King's coronation, it has been announced.\n\nThe concert will be broadcast on the BBC on 7 May featuring \"global music icons\", orchestras and a diverse \"coronation choir\".\n\nIt will come the day after the coronation at Westminster Abbey.\n\nProcessions to and from the abbey will take place, ending with a balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThese are among the new details just released on plans for the weekend which the King and Queen Consort hope will be an opportunity for friends, families and communities to celebrate together, said Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe concert choir will be picked from amateur choirs, including from the NHS, refugees, LGBTQ+ singing groups and deaf-signing choirs, reflecting the aim to make this a more inclusive coronation, which mixes the ancient and modern aspects.\n\nThere will be a laser and drone lightshow, but in an end to another tradition, there are no plans for beacons to be lit around the country.\n\nDiana Ross was a headline act in the party for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\n\nThe line-up for the Windsor concert has still to be announced but organisers are promising \"some of the world's biggest entertainers\".\n\nThe event is expected to be a wide mix of music, dancing and a laser lightshow will be linked to the illumination of famous sites around the UK. For the Shakespeare-loving monarch there will be spoken-word performances from stage and screen stars.\n\nLast year a concert was held outside Buckingham Palace for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee, with music from pop performers such as Diana Ross and Sir Rod Stewart.\n\nStreet parties and local get-togethers will also be held on the Sunday, under the banner of the Coronation Big Lunch.\n\nSupporting the local community will be encouraged on the bank holiday of Monday 8 May, with the Big Help Out, in which people will be urged to get involved in local volunteering projects.\n\nPrevious coronations have also included the monarch making a broadcast to the nation and official banquets for guests and visiting dignitaries.\n\nThe St Edward's Crown will be used in the coronation of King Charles III\n\nThe coronation at Westminster Abbey will see the crowning of King Charles and the Queen Consort Camilla, in a service full of religious symbolism and pageantry.\n\nThe ceremony is expected to be a shorter, smaller and a more diverse occasion than for Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.\n\nThat previous coronation lasted three hours and the ceremony for King Charles is expected to be considerably shorter.\n\nElements of the service could be reduced, such as the paying of homage, and a \"claims office\" is currently looking at which roles should be included.\n\nPrevious coronations have had historic roles such as the \"rouge dragon pursuivant\", \"unicorn pursuivant\" and carriers of the \"golden spur\" and the \"white wand\".\n\nThere were more than 8,000 guests for the 1953 coronation, while the ceremony in May is expected to be smaller, with Westminster Abbey usually having a capacity of about 2,200.\n\nAlthough it remains uncertain whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be part of the congregation - with Prince Harry in a recent TV interview not confirming his attendance if invited.\n\nThe coronation procession is expected to be more modest. In 1953, there were 16,000 participants in a procession that took 45 minutes to pass any stationary point on the 7km (4.3 miles) route.\n\nThis time round the King and Queen Consort will arrive at the abbey from the palace, in the King's procession and return in a larger Coronation procession, joined by other members of the Royal Family. It is not yet confirmed who will then appear with them on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere have been suggestions that the dress code for those attending the coronation is likely to be more modern.\n\nA more inclusive, multi-faith dimension is anticipated for the service, with representatives of a range of religions. There will be scrutiny of whether the coronation oath is updated to reflect a wider range of beliefs.\n\nFor anti-monarchy group Republic the occasion is not a reason to celebrate in this way.\n\n\"The coronation is a celebration of hereditary power and privilege, it has no place in a modern society,\" said its chief executive officer Graham Smith.\n\nAttention will certainly be paid to the cost of the state-funded coronation. According to the House of Commons Library, the coronation in 1953 cost the equivalent of £18.8m in 2021 prices.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal retained control of the Premier League title race after Eddie Nketiah's 90th-minute winner gave them a dramatic victory over Manchester United in a thriller at Emirates Stadium.\n\nManchester City's earlier win over Wolverhampton Wanderers applied pressure on the Gunners but they responded with character and quality, even after going behind, to secure a five-point advantage at the top with a game in hand.\n\nUnited's man of the moment Marcus Rashford fired home a superb right-foot strike from 25 yards to give them a 17th-minute lead.\n\nArsenal responded fiercely and were level seven minutes later when Granit Xhaka's cross created a heading opportunity for Nketiah, who got in ahead of Aaron Wan-Bissaka at the far post.\n\nBukayo Saka's angled drive put Arsenal ahead eight minutes after the break but their advantage lasted only six minutes, with Lisandro Martinez heading his first goal for the club after keeper Aaron Ramsdale dropped a corner.\n\nArsenal looked the more likely winners in the closing stages, with Saka hitting the post and Nketiah denied by David de Gea's outstanding save.\n\nThe pressure paid off in the closing moments when Nketiah - a striker who is doing an outstanding job filling in for injured Gabriel Jesus - turned in from close range to spark wild scenes of celebration at Emirates Stadium.\n• None Echoes of our title-winners - Keown on Arsenal's belief and desire\n• None Arsenal's fire an example to all in title race\n\nThe celebrations on and off the pitch at the final whistle showed the huge significance of Nketiah's late winner.\n\nA draw would hardly have been disastrous for Arsenal coming against Erik ten Hag's improving Manchester United - but the whole mood was lifted sky high by Nketiah's last-gasp intervention.\n\nAware Manchester City were on their shoulders after beating Wolves, Arsenal's nerve was further tested when Rashford's golden run continued and he put United ahead.\n\nArsenal responded with the intensity and quality that has marked their game on their route to the top of the table - ordered and composed; still creating opportunities until Nketiah settled matters.\n\nSaka and captain Martin Odegaard are creating chances and threat, while Nketiah is ensuring the absence of Gabriel Jesus - which many feared would seriously sabotage the Gunners' title challenge - is not stopping them winning matches.\n• None How did you rate Arsenal's performance? Have your say here\n• None What did you make of Manchester United's display? Send us your views here\n\nManchester United thought they had done all the hard work as the clock ticked down and their defence - with Martinez outstanding - held firm.\n\nSo it was understandable that they looked so devastated when the brief hope offered by a VAR check on Nketiah's winner was extinguished and they simply did not have enough time to salvage a point.\n\nArsenal deserved the win and United may look back on the expensive absence of the suspended Casemiro, who would have provided vital experience and game management in those frantic closing stages, and the fact that giant striker Wout Weghorst is still adjusting to life back in the Premier League.\n\nThere was still plenty to admire in United, who gave as good as they got for the first hour and fought back strongly after Saka put Arsenal in front.\n\nIn the end, United were left bitterly disappointment by the defeat, with a heavy recent programme leaving them looking weary-legged near the end.\n\nArsenal fully merited the victory but there is no doubt tenacious United are heading in the right direction.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 3, Manchester United 2. Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.Goal confirmed following VAR Review.\n• None Attempt missed. Martin Ødegaard (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Eriksen (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Eddie Nketiah (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Takehiro Tomiyasu.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "What began as a night of celebration to mark the Lunar New Year quickly turned into tragedy as a shooting spree left at least 10 people dead and 10 others wounded.\n\nIt happened as thousands had gathered in the majority Asian-American city of Monterey Park, California, for the festival.\n\nMany expressed shock and fear on learning that a gunman had entered the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a popular dance hall, and fired multiple rounds at patrons before fleeing the scene.\n\nHe has been identified as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old of Asian descent. His motive remains unclear.\n\nWong Wei told the Los Angeles Times that his friend was at the club but had been in the bathroom when the shooting began.\n\nHe said that when she came out, she saw the gunman firing indiscriminately from a long gun, and she also saw three people lying dead, including a boss of the club. She escaped to Mr Wei's nearby home, he said.\n\nThe attack on the dance studio took place on Garvey Avenue, home to several Asian-owned businesses.\n\nSeung Won Choi, the owner of a seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from the club, told the newspaper that three pedestrians had run inside and asked him to lock the door.\n\nThey said they had seen a man with a semi-automatic gun and multiple rounds of ammunition, he said.\n\nMonterey Park is home to about 60,000 people, of which roughly two-thirds are of Asian descent. Many locals were still digesting the news on Sunday, and what it meant for the community.\n\nConnie Chung Joe, who runs Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, which had a booth at the festival, told Associated Press the impact has been profound, regardless of the motive.\n\n\"Having this tragedy on one of our most important holidays... it feels very personal to our community,\" she said. \"There is still that feeling of being targeted, and being fearful, when we hear about a shooting like this.\"\n\nMonterey Park City Council member Thomas Wong, whose district is where the shooting occurred, told the Washington Post he was in shock, and anxiously waiting for news about the victims.\n\nAlso uppermost in his mind was the rise in anti-Asian violence in recent years, he said.\n\n\"Regardless of the motive and whether this was a hate crime, the fact of the matter is this type of violence is sparking fear in our community, in our Asian American community.\"\n\nPastor and writer Raymond Chang said this tragedy was another shock to a community still reeling from the spike in anti-Asian hate.\n\n\"We have not had enough time and space to heal from all the collective trauma and loss our communities have gone through,\" Mr Chang, who is also president of the Asian-American Christian Collaborative, told USA Today.\n\n\"Incidents like these add to the unprocessed pain and trauma that has piled up over the years.\"\n\nRepresentative Judy Chu, who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and is a former mayor of the city, tweeted: \"My heart is broken for the victims, their families, and the people of my hometown Monterey Park.\"", "A small trickle of mourners came to pay their respects at the entrance of Star Dance Studio on Monday morning, some softly uttering their condolences as ever-present media helicopters buzzed overhead.\n\nBy mid-morning, several bouquets, candles, and other tributes had accumulated in front of a gate. One bundle of roses came with a note: “Victims and families, you are in our prayers.”\n\nJovita and Alfonso Matematico left whispered prayers for the victims. The married couple, both Catholics, had driven to Monterey Park from downtown Los Angeles to pay their respects.\n\n“We went to church today, at eight o'clock, and we prayed for them - may they rest in peace,” said Jovita, 64.\n\nMako Seto, a 44-year-old Baptist pastor from neighboring Montebello, and his son, Jordan, came to the scene.\n\nHe had woken up on Sunday morning to a flurry of texts and news alerts about the shooting, and had to address his congregation at Evergreen Church soon after.\n\n“People were sad, they were afraid,” he said. “A lot of our church members are from Monterey Park. They were shocked.”\n\n“We’re mourning,” Seto said. “We never thought this would happen, in a million years.”", "Nadhim Zahawi was made chancellor in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nNadhim Zahawi is determined to stay on as Conservative party chairman, allies have told the BBC, amid calls for his resignation after details of a multi-million pound tax dispute emerged.\n\nMr Zahawi paid a penalty to HMRC over unpaid tax while he was chancellor.\n\nHe has described the error as \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nMeanwhile Labour is calling on Rishi Sunak to \"come clean\" about his knowledge of the deal and called Mr Zahawi's position \"untenable\".\n\nMr Zahawi's allies have insisted he would continue in the role Mr Sunak appointed him to less than three months ago.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Zahawi said he made a payment to settle the issue. But while it had previously been reported this included a penalty, it had not been confirmed.\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, as previously reported.\n\nPressure has been growing on Mr Zahawi to give more details about his finances after reports emerged this week he had agreed to pay millions of pounds to HMRC to settle his tax affairs.\n\nThe Guardian had previously reported that Mr Zahawi paid back tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HM Revenue & Customs.\n\nLabour said there were questions that still needed answering - and called on him to publish all his correspondence with HMRC \"so we can get the full picture\". Labour also said there are questions over the timing.\n\nAlthough the BBC has been told the issue with HMRC was resolved while Mr Zahawi was chancellor - and the minister ultimately responsible for HMRC - it is still not clear when he originally became aware of it.\n\nHis allies claim he told the government's Propriety and Ethics Team - which is in charge of ensuring ethics across government departments - about it before his appointment as chancellor.\n\nAnd after having become chancellor, Mr Zahawi did not seek to challenge HMRC's demands, but instructed his accountants to pay all of what they said was due, the BBC has been told.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith urged Mr Zahawi on Sunday to release \"the absolute facts\", adding he did not believe he was \"deceitful\". Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it was for Mr Zahawi to decide \"how much detail to put in the public domain\".\n\nLater on Sunday, Conservative MP Tim Loughton told the BBC's Westminster Hour it was fair to let Mr Zahawi put his side of the case but he should have given a fuller account earlier on.\n\n\"The more transparency, as early as possible, might have avoided all this speculation.\n\n\"If there's more to it then he will absolutely have to stand up and take the consequences and the prime minister, I'm sure, will take the appropriate action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was previously told on Saturday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account and has confidence in him as chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nA former child refugee who fled Iraq with his parents in the 1970s, Mr Zahawi went on to co-found the successful online polling company YouGov.\n\nHe is now believed to be one of the richest politicians in the House of Commons, after being elected as Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010.\n\nHe gained public recognition for his role as vaccines minister during the pandemic and later served as education secretary.\n\nBetween July and September 2022, he served briefly as chancellor under Boris Johnson, after the resignation of Mr Sunak.\n\nWhen Liz Truss took over as prime minister, he was made chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, minister for equalities and minister for intergovernmental relations.\n\nIn October Mr Sunak appointed him Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet as part of his role.", "Some food firms may be using inflation as an excuse to hike prices further than necessary, the chairman of Tesco has said.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if food producers were taking advantage of the poorest in society, John Allan said it was \"entirely possible\".\n\nHe said Tesco was trying \"very hard\" to challenge price hikes it thinks are illegitimate.\n\nFood costs including milk and cheese are rising at their fastest since 1977.\n\nMr Allan said all supermarkets were challenging cost increases from suppliers where they could - and Tesco was confronting companies it believed were increasing prices beyond what was necessary.\n\n\"We do try very hard to challenge [price hikes], I think,\" Mr Allan said.\n\n\"We have a team who can look at the composition of food, costs of commodities, and work out whether or not these cost increases are legitimate.\"\n\nHe said it was something Tesco's buying teams were dealing with \"every day of the week\".\n\nTesco, which has a 27.5% share of the Great Britain grocery market, had \"fallen out\" with \"a number of suppliers\" after \"robust\" discussions over price hikes that the supermarket had challenged, he said.\n\n\"There have been some dramatic increases in commodity costs, energy costs and labour costs. On the other hand, if you don't want to pay £1.70p for... soup in Tesco or any other supermarket, there are own-label alternatives,\" he said.\n\nHeinz beans and tomato ketchup were among the products Tesco temporarily removed from shelves last year in a row over pricing. Kraft Heinz said at the time it was becoming more expensive to make its products.\n\nMillions of people continue to struggle with the cost of living which rose steadily as Covid restrictions eased and after Russia launched its assault on Ukraine.\n\nInflation, which measures the rate of price rises, fell to 10.5% in the year to December from 10.7% in November - but remains at levels not seen for 40 years.\n\nFood prices rose 16.8% in the year to December, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBasics such as milk, cheese and eggs saw the biggest increases. Prices for jam, honey and chocolate also jumped. However, price growth slowed for bread and cereals.\n\nConsumer group Which? has also been tracking how much major retailers have put up their prices compared with their competitors.\n\nTesco was sixth in the list of supermarkets with the highest price rises, the group said.\n\nWhich?'s supermarket food and drink inflation tracker records the annual price rises of tens of thousands of food and drink products across three months at eight major supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose and Ocado.\n\nIt found that despite being the cheapest supermarkets overall, Lidl's prices went up the most in December at 21.1% since this time last year, followed closely by Aldi at 20.8%.", "Labour is calling for a parliamentary investigation into claims the chairman of the BBC helped Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee, weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role.\n\nThe Sunday Times says Richard Sharp was involved in arranging a guarantor on a loan of up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Sharp said he had \"simply connected\" people and there was no conflict of interest.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman said he did not receive financial advice from Mr Sharp.\n\nHe also dismissed Labour's suggestion Mr Johnson could have breached the code of conduct for MPs \"through failing to appropriately declare the arrangement\" on his Parliamentary register of interests.\n\nOn Sunday the Cabinet Office said Mr Sharp was appointed following a \"rigorous appointments process\" and all the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\nLabour's chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, asking for \"an urgent investigation into the facts of this case\".\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that \"of course perception matters\". But he added Mr Sharp was an \"incredibly accomplished, incredibly successful individual\", and there was \"no doubt he was appointed on merit\".\n\nHe also said it was not \"unusual for someone to be politically active prior to their appointment to senior BBC positions\".\n\nMr Sharp declined to appear on Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday but told the show \"the claim that there was anything financial involved is not true\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson travelled to Ukraine on Sunday to visit parts of Kyiv and meet with President Zelensky.\n\nMr Johnson was reported to be in financial difficulty in late 2020.\n\nThe Sunday Times says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. It is not clear where the loan agreement itself came from.\n\nMr Sharp - a Conservative Party donor who at the time was applying to be the chairman of the BBC - contacted Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and current head of the civil service. The paper says a due diligence process was then instigated.\n\nThe Cabinet Office later wrote a letter telling Mr Johnson to stop seeking Mr Sharp's advice about his personal finances, given the forthcoming BBC appointment, the Times says. BBC News has not seen the letter.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Mr Sharp reminded the cabinet secretary about the BBC appointment process and asked for advice given his existing relationship with Boris Johnson.\n\n\"They agreed that he could not take part in discussions involving the then prime minister, given the appointment process. This was accepted by Mr Sharp to avoid any conflict or appearance of any conflict of interest and the then prime minister was advised accordingly.\"\n\nAccording to the Times, Mr Sharp, Mr Blyth and Mr Johnson had dinner together at Chequers before the loan guarantee was finalised, although they deny the PM's finances were discussed then.\n\nFormer Goldman Sachs banker Mr Sharp was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman in January 2021. The government's choice is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nThe BBC chairman heads the board that sets the corporation's strategic direction and upholds its independence.\n\nCandidates for such publicly-appointed roles are required to declare any conflicts of interest.\n\nAppointed for a four-year term on the recommendation of the culture secretary through the PM, and with a salary of £160,000 a year, the BBC chairman's role is to uphold and protect the independence of the BBC.\n\nAfter a 40-year career in finance, since February 2021 Richard Sharp has led the BBC board, responsible for setting the corporation's strategic vision and budgets as well as ensuring BBC decisions are made in the interests of the public.\n\nMr Sharp is often the public face of the corporation; only a few days ago, he was making a speech about the financial pressures on the BBC World Service and the importance of impartiality.\n\nNow he is accused of helping his old friend, Boris Johnson to secure a loan guarantee.\n\nCrucially, during the application process to be chairman, Mr Sharp didn't declare a potential conflict of interest and Mr Sharp insists there was none.\n\nThe post is a political appointment, but the story is damaging not just to Mr Sharp personally but could also be to the BBC more widely.\n\nThe corporation is making a highly visible effort, in a polarised media landscape, to put impartiality and transparency at the heart of its attempts to earn people's trust.\n\nWhatever the truth of what happened, perceptions matter - particularly with the corporation facing a review of its charter by the government ahead of renewal in 2027.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sharp said: \"There is not a conflict when I simply connected, at his request, Mr Blyth with the cabinet secretary and had no further involvement whatsoever.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Richard Sharp was appointed as chairman of the BBC following a rigorous appointments process including assessment by a panel of experts, constituted according to the public appointments code.\n\n\"There was additional pre-appointment scrutiny by a House of Commons Select Committee which confirmed Mr Sharp's appointment. All the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\n\"The recruitment process is set out clearly and transparently in the governance code on public appointments and overseen by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour had already written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards calling for an investigation into the reports Mr Blyth had set up the loan guarantee.\n\nThe guarantee is a promise by one party - known as a guarantor - to assume the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.\n\nIn her letter to the commissioner, Ms Dodds cites the Sunday Times story, saying she was concerned that Mr Johnson may have breached rules \"by asking for an individual to facilitate a guarantee on a loan whom he would later appoint to a senior public role\".\n\nShe said that a \"lack of transparency\" may \"give the impression that this was a quid pro quo arrangement, something which would undermine the integrity of the democratic process, and calls into question the process by which the chairman of the BBC was appointed\".\n\nRichard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021\n\nShadow culture minister Lucy Powell has also sent a letter to the Commissioner for Public Appointments to look into the selection process for the chair of the BBC.\n\nShe wrote: \"It is vital that the public and Parliament can have trust in this process and it is free from any real or perceived conflict of interest.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"Richard Sharp has never given any financial advice to Boris Johnson, nor has Mr Johnson sought any financial advice from him. There has never been any remuneration or compensation to Mr Sharp from Boris Johnson for this or any other service.\n\n\"Mr Johnson did indeed have dinner with Mr Sharp, whom he has known for almost 20 years, and with his cousin. So what? Big deal.\n\n\"All Mr Johnson's financial arrangements have been properly declared and registered on the advice of officials.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC plays no role in the recruitment of the chair and any questions are a matter for the government.\"", "One of Lisa Marie Presley's daughters has paid tribute to her late mother at a memorial service in Graceland, Tennessee.\n\nIt was read out by Lisa Marie's mother, Priscilla, to a crowd of mourners.\n\nWatch to hear the emotional tribute in full.", "The Avatar films used sensors to capture the movement of actors to make them look like aliens. Scientists have adapted the technology to track the progression of diseases\n\nMotion capture suits that bring characters to life in films like Avatar are helping researchers track the onset of diseases which impair movement.\n\nIn many cases, the quicker such conditions are assessed the sooner a patient is able to receive the appropriate support and treatment.\n\nThe new system uses artificial intelligence to analyse body movements.\n\nIn tests, the UK experts measured the severity of two genetic disorders twice as quickly as the best doctors.\n\nThe researchers say it could also halve the time and greatly reduce the cost required to develop new drugs in clinical trials.\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Nature Medicine.\n\nDr Valeria Ricotti, of Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health told BBC News that she was \"completely blown away by the results\".\n\n\"The impact on diagnosis and developing new drugs for a wide range of diseases could be absolutely massive.\"\n\nDr Ricotti was among a group of researchers at Imperial College and University College London who spent 10 years developing the new technology.\n\nThey tested it on patients with Friedreich's ataxia (FA) and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in two separate studies. The researchers say it could also be used to monitor patients recovering from other diseases that affect movement.\n\nThese include any condition involving the brain and nervous system, heart, lungs, muscles, bone and a number of psychiatric disorders.\n\nJames has sensors strapped to his wrist, elbows and knees to monitor how his movement is being affected by a rare genetic disorder called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy\n\nTracking the severity and likely progression of such diseases usually involves measuring in a clinic the speed and accuracy with which patients carry out a set of standardised movements. That assessment - vital to working out what support and treatment a patient needs - can take years.\n\nThe two studies published on Thursday show that the motion capture system can do this much more quickly and accurately. It was adapted from the technology used by filmmakers to capture the movement of actors in the Avatar films in order to create lifelike aliens on screen.\n\nProf Aldo Faisal of Imperial College, who was one of the scientists who came up with the idea, said it was an enormous improvement.\n\n\"Our new approach detects subtle movements that humans can't pick up on,\" he said. \"It has the capability to transform clinical trials as well as improve diagnosis and monitoring for patients.\"\n\nProf Aldo Faisal (right) is developing a sensor system that can track movement outdoors and in everyday situations outside of the clinic.\n\nFA typically appears in adolescence and affects one in 50,000 people, whereas DMD affects 20,000 children, mostly boys, globally each year. There is currently no cure for either.\n\nA team at Imperial College first tested the motion sensor suits on patients with FA. They found that the AI could predict the worsening of the disease over twelve months, half the time it would normally take an expert.\n\nA separate team at Great Ormond Street tested the technology on 21 boys with DMD between the ages of five and 18. It predicted how their movement would be affected six months in the future much more accurately than a doctor.\n\nThe researchers believe that their system could be used to speed up and lower the cost of clinical trials to test out new drugs for a wide range of conditions.\n\nIn particular, it may make trials of new drugs for rare genetic disorders more cost effective.\n\nThe movement is recorded and analysed by an AI system that is able to assess any deterioration in a patient twice as quickly as the best doctors\n\nProfessor Paola Giunti, Head of UCL's Ataxia Centre said: \"We will be able to trial more drugs with less patients at a lower cost.\"\n\nIn the case of DMD a minimum of 100 patients are needed over the course of about 18 months to get statistically significant results relating to the effectiveness of a new drug. The study showed that using the new system it could potentially be done with 15 patients over six months.\n\nAbout 6,000 rare genetic diseases affect a total of about 1 in 17 people in the UK. The number of patients with each disease can amount to just a few hundred or less. That is a disincentive for drug companies to undertake expensive clinical trials to develop new medicines to treat them.\n\nProfessor Richard Festenstein from the Medical Research Council's London Institute of Medical Sciences, told BBC News that the application of the suit technology, which was his idea, had the potential to change the economics of drug discovery.\n\n''This is going to attract the pharmaceutical industry to invest in rare diseases,\" he said. \"The main beneficiary from our research is going to be patients, because the technology is going to be able to come up with new treatments much more quickly.''\n\nThe researchers are already seeking approval for the use of motion capture for drug trials for FA and DMD, which if successful could begin in two years. They are also gathering data for its use with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and MS.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nUnderdog Liam Smith stopped Chris Eubank Jr in four rounds to bring a bitter rivalry to an explosive end.\n\nEubank Jr, 33, had been unbeaten since 2018 but suffered the first stoppage defeat of his career.\n\nLiverpool's Smith knocked Eubank down twice in quick succession in the fourth round before the referee waved off the middleweight contest in Manchester.\n\nFight week was dominated by controversy but it was Smith who pulled off the upset after moving up in weight.\n\nThere were rapturous celebrations among Smith's team and in the crowd when the fight ended, with the 34-year-old's brothers Callum, Paul and Stephen joining him in the ring.\n\nThe two fighters hugged in the ring after emotions calmed and Smith opened the door to a rematch in his post-fight comments.\n\n\"I said all week I'm a good finisher and I knew if I got him hurt that I would finish him,\" Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Name me a Chris Eubank fight that has been respectful - not many.\n• None Reaction & as it happened: Smith upsets Eubank at middleweight\n\n\"Something I said may have come across wrong and I apologise for anyone offended by that. I respect everybody and it was just tongue in cheek with Chris.\n\n\"There's not many fighters who can milk a crowd like I can. That was up there with the best nights in my career.\n\n\"I'll do the rematch on my terms.\"\n\nEubank-Smith had gradually turned into an unexpected grudge match that erupted during fight week.\n\nThe pre-fight media conference saw Eubank suffer homophobic taunts from Smith. The Liverpudlian denied his comments were homophobic. He was then the victim of taunts about social class and personal attacks about infidelity from Eubank.\n\nIt meant fight night was a charged affair once the main event rolled around just before 23:00 GMT.\n\nSmith emerged first to a brilliant reception and was the clear crowd favourite having made the short trip from Liverpool.\n\nEubank entered the arena to a chorus of boos, but appeared undeterred, taking an extra moment to turn and face the crowd before jumping over the ropes.\n\nBut it was a cautious opening from Eubank. Smith was on the front foot, tagging Eubank in the opening rounds with quick right hands.\n\nEubank, though, was prepared to ride out the pressure and came to life in the third with a flurry of uppercuts after a left hook landed on Smith.\n\nBut just as it seemed Eubank was getting a foothold in the fight, Smith came back strong in the fourth round.\n\nHe caught Eubank with a succession of left hooks and landed an uppercut during a combination that sent Eubank falling backwards.\n\nThe Brighton native immediately returned to his feet but was visibly unsteady.\n\nThe referee allowed the contest to continue and Smith pounced on a hurt Eubank, immediately sending him back to the canvas.\n\nThe defeat is the third of Eubank's career and leaves him at a crossroads should he decide against fighting Smith again.\n\nFor Smith, victory marks the fourth stoppage win in a row as the veteran fighter continues to enjoy a purple patch, picking up the 33rd win of his career.\n\nWill there be a rematch?\n\nAfter such a bitter rivalry and thrilling conclusion, many fight fans will be hoping to see Smith and Eubank meet again in the near future.\n\nBefore fight week, Smith revealed there was a rematch clause and Eubank has the option to activate it.\n\nEubank, who had never been dropped before in his career, is open to a second fight and it seems a likely proposition considering the attention this week has generated - with the fighter citing Liverpool's Anfield home as a potential venue.\n\n\"Big congratulations to Liam. I felt like it could've gone on but he caught me with a great shot,\" Eubank told Sky Sports afterwards.\n\n\"The build-up got a bit ugly at the end and I regretted that.\n\n\"I respect you and your family and I always have. If the fans want to see a rematch, we can get it on at Anfield.\"", "Congresswoman Judy Chu has said it was horrible the mass shooting in Monterey Park occurred during a time of celebration as the Lunar New Year was rung in.\n\nShe said the Californian city was \"resilient\" and that the community would get through it together.\n\nAt least ten people were shot dead at a ballroom dance studio.", "The Leopard tank is designed to compete with the Russian tanks being used in the invasion\n\nAn adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the West's \"indecision\" over sending extra weapons to Ukraine is \"killing more of our people\".\n\n\"Every day of delay is the death of Ukrainians,\" Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.\n\nHis remarks come after Ukraine's defence minister said he had a \"frank discussion\" with his German counterpart about German Leopard 2 tanks, which Kyiv is urgently requesting to confront Russian armour.\n\nGermany has insisted that it is not blocking the delivery of German-made Leopard tanks, which other countries want to send.\n\n\"We had a frank discussion on Leopards 2. To be continued,\" Oleksii Reznikov said after meeting Western allies on Friday.\n\nThe meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany brought an agreement to supply more armoured vehicles, air defence systems and ammunition.\n\nOn Saturday, an adviser to Mr Reznikov told the BBC that Nato countries committed to helping Ukraine need to be several steps ahead of the enemy.\n\nYuriy Sak said that the West needed to redefine what it meant to stand with Ukraine - and that it did not simply mean stabilising Ukraine's front line.\n\n\"To be able to defend our land means to be able to de-occupy our land, to liberate our territories and for this we need heavy tanks, for this we need armoured vehicles,\" he said.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is seen as a potential game-changer for Ukraine, as it is easy to maintain and designed specifically to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nGerman Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said opinions remained divided over supplying Leopards, and he denied that Berlin was blocking such a move.\n\nUnder German export laws, other countries who want to supply Leopards - like Poland and Finland - are unable to do so until Berlin gives the all-clear.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the Nato partners for their military assistance, but said \"we will still have to fight for the supply of modern tanks\".\n\n\"Every day we make it more obvious that there is no alternative, that a decision about tanks must be made.\"\n\nUkraine's current tanks are mostly old Soviet models, often outnumbered and outgunned by Russian firepower.\n\nMore than 2,000 Leopards are sitting in warehouses all over Europe. President Zelensky believes about 300 of them could help to defeat Russia.\n\nMr Pistorius said Berlin was prepared to move quickly if there was consensus among allies, though he could not say when a decision on the tanks might be made.\n\nUkraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov (R) with Kyiv's US and German allies in Ramstein\n\nGermany has found itself in a deadlock due to several factors including international diplomacy and the legacy of World War Two.\n\nIt used to have a policy of not sending arms to conflict zones, but that was reversed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nLate last year, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said Germany was now \"among the allies providing most military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine\", by supplying artillery, air defence systems and Marder infantry fighting vehicles.\n\nBut Germany is reluctant to send Leopards unless they are part of a wider Nato package that preferably includes America's powerful M1 Abrams tanks. The US has rejected this, saying the Abrams tanks are impractical for Ukraine's forces because they are difficult and expensive to maintain.\n\nRegardless, there has been pressure in some corners for the US to send its tanks, and to persuade Germany to do the same.\n\nUS Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin denied that Berlin was waiting for the US to make the first move. \"This notion of unlocking - in my mind it's not an issue,\" he said after Friday's meeting of 54 countries at Ramstein Air Base.\n\nGermany also remains haunted by the Nazi-era devastation it caused in World War Two, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been cautious about having anything to do with an escalation in Ukraine.\n\nA leading opposition Christian Democrat (CDU) politician in Germany, Johann Wadephul, condemned the government's \"policy of refusal\" on the Leopards, saying it would affect Germany's international reputation. \"What is Scholz waiting for?\" he asked.\n\n\"Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now,\" he tweeted.\n\nWestern countries have committed billions in other weaponry - but without Germany's commitment on tanks, it was not the result Ukraine was hoping for.\n\nOther countries have committed to sending tanks, including the UK, which will send 14 Challenger 2s.\n\nThe US announced fresh support worth more than $2.5bn (£2bn) this week, including armoured vehicles.\n\nThe Pentagon promised an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other supplies.\n\nNine European nations have also promised their own weapon support after meeting in Estonia on Thursday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Photography is like meditation for me'\n\nAs a typical 17-year-old, Jack Moyse enjoyed spending time with his friends and playing sports before his life changed.\n\nHe gradually noticed that the activities he enjoyed were becoming physically harder.\n\n\"It became quite noticeable that I wasn't as capable as my teammates and that something wasn't quite right,\" he recalled.\n\nJack, from Swansea, was diagnosed with Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) - a condition that means his muscles are weakening faster and earlier than normal and, 10 years on, he still lives with daily pain.\n\nSometimes even the simplest task such as climbing stairs is a painful challenge.\n\n\"It makes a lot of everyday tasks really difficult. It takes a lot of energy. In those moments, I'm quite aware of my difference,\" said Jack, 27.\n\n\"In the past couple of years, because my condition has been getting worse, I have been facing more discrimination from a very small minority.\"\n\nA friend suggested Jack used his photography to \"try and make sense of some of the feelings that were haunting me\"\n\nAs well as the physical impact, FSHD has taken an emotional toll on Jack, who admits his mental health has taken a \"beating\" from not talking about his condition, leaving him with anxiety and depression.\n\n\"I found it very difficult,\" he said.\n\n\"My way of dealing with it probably wasn't the healthiest was but it was by shutting down and not really talking about it. I shut down any conversations about it for maybe eight years. I didn't want to deal with it.\n\n\"I was in quite a dark place. A friend suggested I use my skills as a photographer to try and make sense of some of the feelings that were haunting me.\"\n\n\"Photography and the process of taking the photo really allows me to explore and explain my feelings,\" says Jack\n\nMaking art has changed Jack's life. Despite the continual challenges, photography has enabled him to express his feelings as well as raising awareness of his disability.\n\n\"Photography and the process of taking the photo really allows me to explore and explain my feelings.\"\n\nIn his most recent project, entitled What It's Like Being Me, he explores how the condition affects his mental health.\n\n\"I find it cathartic because it's just me and the camera. It's almost meditative.\"\n\nHis latest project, What It's Like Being Me, looks at how the condition affects Jack's mental health\n\nLast summer he travelled to the south of France to complete a three-week residency in Arles.\n\nThe project concluded with a piece of performance art with him standing in the market, recording people's responses.\n\n\"I've never been one to do public performances, but I really wanted to push myself,\" he said.\n\n\"I see a lot of hateful comments on social media. A lot of people sharing their thoughts on disability and a lot are quite negative. So I wanted to see if people would be brave enough to share those thoughts in real life.\"\n\nJack's performance art in the south of France aimed to examine responses to his disability\n\n\"I've always been fascinated by what able-bodied people think about disability, about how my disability makes other people feel,\" he wrote on social media.\n\n\"I didn't feel necessarily that I was going to get the types of comments that I thought I would.\n\n\"I ended up getting a real range of comments. Some of them were negative and what I was expecting, but some them were really positive.\"\n\nHe aims to exhibit his art in Wales to stimulate a debate over life with disability\n\nJack hopes to exhibit his art in Wales to provoke a debate over living with disability.\n\nDisability Wales, the national association of disabled peoples organisations, said thousands of people complained every year about the lack of mental health support after a life-changing diagnosis.", "Victims were treated both inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio and in the car park outside, police said\n\nA gunman is still at large after killing at least 10 people near Los Angeles in one of California's deadliest mass shootings.\n\nAnother 10 people were wounded and some are in a critical condition.\n\nThe shooting in Monterey Park, which has a large Asian population, happened shortly after thousands of people had gathered for a Lunar New Year festival.\n\nThe gunman opened fire on a busy dance studio in the downtown area of the city.\n\nOfficers arrived at the scene at 22:22 local time on Saturday (06:22 GMT on Sunday) and found people \"pouring out of the location screaming\", Captain Andrew Meyer said.\n\nVictims were treated both inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio and in the car park outside, police said.\n\nOfficers are hunting for a male suspect between the age of 30 and 50 who fled the scene, but have received different descriptions of the attacker. Dozens of witnesses are being interviewed.\n\n\"We need to get this person off the street as soon as possible,\" Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference on Sunday.\n\nHe gave no details about the weapon used but said the suspect may have fled in a white van. The motive for the attack is still unclear.\n\nThe centre of Monterey Park, including West Garvey Avenue where the shooting happened, was decorated for Lunar New Year with red lanterns and banners.\n\nThe celebration is one of the largest in California and attracted tens of thousands of people throughout the day.\n\nTwo days of celebrations were planned, but officials cancelled Sunday's events following the shooting.\n\nThere is a large police presence in the city - which is about seven miles (11km) east of downtown Los Angeles - and much of the area near the dance studio has been sealed off.\n\nPolice are investigating the possibility that the suspect entered a second dance studio around 30 minutes after the attack.\n\nThe weapon he was carrying was wrestled from him by someone at the Alhambra dance studio, according to police. No one was injured at that location.\n\n\"We believe that there's an incident that may be related,\" Sheriff Luna said. \"It's definitely on our radar.\"\n\nChester Chong, the chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles, told BBC News the community had been stunned by the attack.\n\n\"This just should not happen,\" he said, adding that he was worried for his friend who owns the Star Ballroom Dance Studio.\n\nOthers who were in the area at the time of the attack said they heard sounds they thought were fireworks. \"I thought maybe it had something to do with Lunar New Year,\" Tony Lai, 35, told the Associated Press.\n\nOne eyewitness said three people ran into his restaurant and told him to lock the door as there was a man with a machine gun in the area.\n\nVideo shared on social media showed police and firefighters rushing to an area on Garvey Avenue and treating the victims.\n\nThe attack is one of the worst shootings in California's modern history - the deadliest was in 1984, when a gunman killed 21 people at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, near San Diego.\n\nPresident Joe Biden had been briefed and has ordered the FBI to support the local authorities, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.\n\nThe mayor of Alhambra, Sasha Renée Pérez, said it was \"especially painful\" the tragedy happened on a Lunar New Year weekend.\n\n\"Residents should be celebrating with family, friends and loved ones - not fearing gun violence,\" she said.\n\nCalifornia's Governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, described the shooting as a \"horrific and heartless\" act of gun violence and expressed his sympathies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Police give update as California gunman still at large\n\nDid you witness this incident? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Chris Hipkins has said the abuse Jacinda Ardern received while Prime Minister doesn't represent New Zealand as a country\n\nNew Zealand's incoming prime minister has vowed to protect his family from what he called the \"abhorrent\" abuse that his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received while in office.\n\nMs Ardern announced that she was quitting as the country's leader on Thursday, citing burnout.\n\nThreats against her became more frequent in recent years and included a man claiming he had the right to \"shoot the prime minister\" for treason and treachery in a YouTube video.\n\nChris Hipkins, who was speaking on Sunday after MPs from his ruling Labour Party voted unanimously to endorse him, said a \"small minority\" of Kiwis were responsible for abusing Ms Ardern.\n\nHe said that \"it does not represent who we are as a country\".\n\nMen had a responsibility to call out misogyny, he added.\n\nHe said he realised that putting himself forward as leader meant that he was \"public property\" - but that his family were not, and he wanted his children to have a \"typical Kiwi kid life\".\n\nData released in June showed that threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years, and local media reported that at least eight threats against her had entered the legal system - including the man who filmed the threatening YouTube video.\n\nPolice also had to investigate after handwritten fliers vowing to \"eradicate\" Ms Ardern were delivered to several homes in January 2022.\n\nRadio New Zealand spoke to a former intelligence worker, Paul Buchanan, who said he believed Ms Ardern would need more ongoing security and protection than any former New Zealand prime minister.\n\nMr Hipkins, 44, was New Zealand's Covid response minister and has extensive political experience.\n\nHe is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday after Ms Ardern formally steps down.\n\nHe received a standing ovation from his colleagues after they gave him their backing on Sunday, and shared a hug with Ms Ardern, whom he described as \"my very good friend\".\n\nCarmel Sepuloni is New Zealand's first deputy prime minister of Pasifika descent\n\nMr Hipkins has named Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, making her the first person of Pasifika descent to hold the role.\n\n\"I am proudly Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage,\" she said. \"I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pacific community.\"\n\nAround eight percent of New Zealand's population identify themselves as being Kiwis with Pacific island descent.\n\nMr Hipkins will announce his full Cabinet later but has said he plans to keep the former deputy prime minister, Grant Robertson, on as finance minister.\n\nOutlining his priorities as prime minister, he promised to help Kiwi families and businesses through the country's cost of living crisis - which will be a key issue in the general election later this year.", "Secret service personnel at Joe Biden's home in Wilmington last week\n\nUS Department of Justice (DoJ) investigators have found six more classified documents during a 13-hour search of President Joe Biden's home in Delaware, a lawyer for Mr Biden says.\n\nSome documents seized at the Wilmington property on Friday were from his time as a senator and others from his tenure as vice-president under Barack Obama.\n\nLawyer Bob Bauer said \"personally handwritten notes\" and \"surrounding materials\" were also taken away.\n\nMr Biden and his wife were not present.\n\nThe president offered access \"to his home to allow DoJ to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material\", Mr Bauer said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified files.\n\nEarlier this month Mr Biden's lawyers said a first batch of classified documents had been found on 2 November at the Penn Biden Center, a think-tank the president founded in Washington DC.\n\nA second batch of records was found on 20 December in the garage at his Wilmington home, while another document was found in a storage space at the house on 12 January, his lawyers said.\n\nAfter finding the documents, the president said his team immediately turned them over to the National Archives and the Justice Department. It is not clear why Mr Biden had kept them.\n\nUnder the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends, where they can be stored securely.\n\nA special counsel, Robert Hur, has been appointed to lead the investigation into how the sensitive documents were handled.\n\nThe lengthy search and subsequent discovery of more documents is a political headache for the president, as he prepares to declare whether he will run for a second term in 2024.\n\nMr Biden and his wife, Jill, are spending the weekend in the coastal town of Rehoboth Beach in Delaware, where they own another house. It was searched earlier this month and no documents were found, his lawyers said, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe two-month gap between the first Biden discovery - days before the midterm elections - and the news being made public in January raises awkward questions for the president about transparency, BBC North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher says.\n\nMr Biden's team insists the president has co-operated fully with the DoJ inquiry. Mr Biden has played down the affair as an oversight, saying he has \"no regrets\" about not publicly disclosing the discovery of some classified files before the November midterm elections.\n\nThe discovery comes as former US President Donald Trump also faces a probe over his alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents at his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence and his alleged failure to comply with a subpoena.\n\nMr Trump and his lawyers resisted handing over the documents until the FBI raided his Florida holiday home last August. He alleges that President Biden is being treated more favourably by the FBI.\n\nPresident Biden said at the time that Mr Trump's handling of the documents was \"totally irresponsible\".\n\nMr Trump has not given any reason to explain their presence there but has said he had the power as president to declassify them, a claim challenged by legal experts.", "Renner posted a photo of his injured face to social media days after the accident\n\nHollywood actor Jeremy Renner has said he broke more than 30 bones in his body when he was accidentally run over by a snow plough on New Year's Day.\n\nGiving an update on his recovery, the Avengers actor said his \"morning workouts, resolutions all changed this particular new years\", and shared a photo lying in a hospital bed.\n\nRenner suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries while clearing snow outside his home in Nevada.\n\nFor days he was listed as critical.\n\nThe actor, who turned 52 a week after the accident, is best known for playing the bow and arrow-wielding Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the Marvel franchise.\n\nOn Instagram, he said the incident had been a \"tragedy for my entire family\" but had transformed into \"uniting actionable love\".\n\n\"These 30 plus broken bones will mend, grow stronger, just like the love and bond with family and friends deepens,\" he wrote, thanking everyone for their \"messages and thoughtfulness\".\n\nMany celebrities have written messages of support to Renner, including his Marvel co-stars Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.\n\n\"Your a champion mate! We love you\", Hemsworth wrote, while Evans exclaimed how tough Renner was, and asked: \"Has anyone even checked on the snowcat???\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Renner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSensitivities around his recovery led to promotional images of his TV show, Mayor of Kingstown, being edited to remove injuries from his face.\n\nThe accident happened after a New Year storm hit the US, killing dozens of people and dumping heavy snowfall across several states.\n\nRenner used his own snow plough to rescue a family member who was driving his car, but had got stuck in the snow near his house.\n\nRenner successfully towed the car free, but when he got out, the plough began to move while empty, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said at the time.\n\nRenner was trying to get back into the driver's seat to stop it moving, when the \"extremely large\" piece of equipment ran him over, Mr Balaam said.\n\nDays later, Renner posted a photo of his heavily bruised face, saying he was \"too messed up now to type\", but thanking supporters for their \"kind words\".", "We'll shortly be pausing our live coverage from this morning's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, here's a quick rundown of the show:\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly agreed ministers should have an enhanced duty of transparency but does think it's up to Nadhim Zahawi what he chooses to make public.\n\nHe also added that he had \"no doubt\" BBC chairman Richard Sharp was appointed on merit after a recent report he helped then prime minister Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee.\n\nNicola Sturgeon told Laura the Scottish government will do everything to defend the gender recognition bill, which the UK government blocked.\n\nThe Conservatives were criticised by the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves after recent scandals saying Labour would \"drain the swamp\".\n\nAnd we also heard who our panel, which included self-proclaimed \"old rocker\" Iain Duncan-Smith would like to see playing the coronation of King Charles. The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Tom Jones were all mentioned.\n\nThank you for joining us.\n\nToday's page was bought to you by Nathan Williams, Anna Boyd, Rob Corp, Jamie Whitehead, Victoria Lindrea and Christy Cooney.", "It is not yet clear whether online teaching could be provided on strike days, says the education minister\n\nSome schools in Wales will have to close as a result of teacher strikes, according to the education minister.\n\nNational Education Union (NEU) members are expected to strike on 1 February on the first of four days of action.\n\nJeremy Miles said the exact number of schools \"isn't clear\" but head teachers were calculating provision based on numbers of union members in schools.\n\nCouncils wanted to give \"a week's notice to parents of what that will mean in schools\", he said.\n\nIt still remains unclear whether any online teaching will be provided on strike days.\n\nTeachers were offered a 5% pay rise last year but the NEU wants 12%.\n\nNEU Wales secretary David Evans said unions had been offered a \"one off non-consolidated payment\" but it \"doesn't go anywhere near meeting\" demands.\n\nMr Miles told BBC Politics Wales there was an ongoing discussion with unions about workload pressures and pay but he conceded that \"we haven't yet come to a point where we can resolve those issues\".\n\n\"What's been happening over the past week is that the unions have been telling schools the number of members that they have, and now heads are looking at the provision as a consequence of that,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What do the teachers' strikes in England mean for parents?\n\n\"Most authorities genuinely want to give around a week's notice to parents of what that will mean in schools.\n\n\"They will need to make a judgment at a school level, with local authorities, around whether schools are staying open.\"\n\nAsked if that could mean some will be closing, Mr Miles said: \"Yes, that's going to happen.\n\n\"The exact number isn't clear but heads are working on that task.\n\n\"Obviously there are constraints on what heads can ask other teachers to do to cover for striking teachers so there are limitations that they will face.\"\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, hubs were set up for the children of key workers while schools were closed.\n\nBut Mr Miles said the rules which allowed that to happen were \"specific to coronavirus\".\n\n\"We will all be worried about parents having to take time off to look after their children when they may be losing pay themselves as a consequence of that,\" he said.\n\n\"None of us want to see schools shut so that's why we will do everything we can to seek a resolution.\"\n\nConservative education spokesperson Laura Anne Jones said: \"Pupils in Wales have faced enough disruption over the course of the pandemic, and we are now seeing the consequences.\n\n\"This avoidable disruption simply isn't in the best interest of our children and young people.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru urged Mark Drakeford to take part in talks with unions.\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price said: \"With talks at a standstill, it is time the first minister personally intervened, setting out a new and fairer deal for public service workers that addresses the basic unfairness of the current pay review bodies process and that can form the basis for an end to the disputes.\n\n\"Without progress, this deadlock will continue.\"", "Sally Azar became the Holy Land's first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church\n\nIn many parts of the Christian world, female church leaders are no longer unusual. But until now, the Holy Land - where events in the Bible are set - had not seen a local woman ordained.\n\nOn Sunday, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, Sally Azar, became its first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church in the heart of the Old City, attended by hundreds of international well-wishers.\n\n\"I got more excited seeing the excitement of other people,\" Reverend Azar told me. \"It's an indescribable feeling to take this step with the support of the church.\"\n\n\"I hope that many girls and women will know this is possible and that other women in other churches will join us. I know it will take a long time, but I think it could be exciting if this changes in Palestine.\"\n\nChristians make up a minority in the Palestinian Territories, Israel and Jordan. Most Christians here belong to the Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic Churches, which do not allow women priests.\n\nHowever, the ordination of women has been taking place in a growing number of Protestant Churches in the past few decades. These have small local congregations and run schools and hospitals in the Holy Land.\n\n\"Everywhere where you have a patriarchal society and culture this is a major step,\" says the recently retired Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelen.\n\nFormer Archbishop of the Church of Sweden Antje Jackelen\n\n\"Since I've been ordained for over 40 years, I've met many people who didn't think it was possible. But now they've seen women actually serving as pastors, as bishops, as archbishops, we know it works and we know that it's actually in accord with the Bible.\"\n\nIn the Middle East, churches in Lebanon and Syria have already conferred holy orders on women, while at least one Palestinian woman is known to serve in the US.\n\nMs Azar was ordained by her father Bishop Sani Azar. She insists that while his example inspired her, she never felt pressured into studying theology.\n\n\"It's what I wanted, what I was called to do,\" she says.\n\nAs a pastor she will take on different duties including leading services and bible studies in Jerusalem and in Beit Sahour, in the occupied West Bank, for English speaking congregations.\n\n\"It's a big, big day for the life of our Church, it's an important step forward and it's overdue,\" comments Reverend Dr Munther Isaac, Lutheran Pastor of Bethlehem and Beit Sahour.\n\nHe says he looks forward to introducing Reverend Azar as a role model at local Lutheran schools - which teach children who are Christians of all traditions and Muslims.\n\nRev Dr Isaac has written a book in Arabic about women's leadership in the Bible and in support of women's ordination.\n\n\"We accept women ministers, we accept women professors, we accept to go in surgery performed by women and it's strange that we still have to argue that women can teach the Bible or perform the sacraments,\" he says.\n\n\"This tells me that despite the progress we've made as Palestinians, when it comes to empowering women and women rights, that there is still work to be done.\"\n\nSupporters of Rev Azar believe she is the right person to challenge stereotypes and break the mould.", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nLive text coverage: On BBC Sport website and app on Sunday (19:30-04:00 GMT)\n\nThe San Francisco 49ers secured a hard-fought win over the Dallas Cowboys to reach the NFC Championship Game.\n\nThe five-time Super Bowl champions held on to beat the Cowboys 19-12 and take their winning streak to 12 games.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals upset the Buffalo Bills 27-10 at a snowy Highmark Stadium.\n\nLast year's Super Bowl runners-up visit the Kansas City Chiefs next Sunday for a place in Super Bowl 57 while the 49ers are at the Philadelphia Eagles.\n\nIt is the first time the Bengals, who charged into a 14-0 lead inside the first quarter, have reached the AFC Championship Game in successive years.\n\nIt is also the first time in 35 years that there is a repeat of the previous year's match-up.\n\nThe 49ers and Cowboys contested the NFC Championship Game three straight years in the 90s and they renewed their rivalry at Levi's Stadium.\n\nSan Francisco beat Dallas during last year's wildcard weekend and the 49ers dumped out their old rivals again in this year's divisional round to reach the Conference Championships for the third time in four years.\n\nAnd that is despite being led by third-choice quarterback Brock Purdy, who is now one win from the Super Bowl after being this season's 'Mr Irrelevant' - the last man selected in the draft.\n• None As it happened - 49ers beat Cowboys after Bengals upset Bills\n\nDallas quarterback Dak Prescott ended the regular season with a joint-league high of 15 interceptions, despite missing five games, and he threw two more during the first half - both resulting in field goals.\n\nIn between those picks, Prescott did lead the Cowboys to a 14-play, 74-yard drive, ending with a four-yard touchdown by Dalton Schultz, but another field goal edged the 49ers into a 9-6 half-time lead.\n\nSan Francisco's Ray-Ray McCloud fumbled a punt return early in the third quarter, giving the Cowboys the chance to level with a Brett Maher field goal.\n\nBoth sides then had to punt before the 49ers, led by Purdy since week 14 after injuries to Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo, put together what proved to be a game-winning 91-yard drive.\n\nTight end George Kittle made a stunning catch early in the drive, with the ball bouncing off his hands and against his helmet before he managed to grab it one-handed for a 30-yard gain.\n\nAnd from the first play of the fourth quarter, the 49ers' star mid-season signing Christian McCaffrey burst into the end zone from two yards.\n\nEach team kicked a field goal on their next possession, before the 49ers' defence stood firm to prevent Dallas getting within scoring range on their last two possessions.\n\nThat was enough to maintain the winning start to Purdy's NFL career - he has now triumphed on all seven starts - and the 23-year-old is one victory from becoming the first rookie quarterback to reach the Super Bowl.\n• None Why NFL's 'Mr Irrelevant' is now anything but\n\nBuffalo were the pre-season favourites to win this season's Super Bowl and came into the post-season as the AFC's second seed, with Cincinnati third.\n\nThey were also carried into the play-offs by an emotional wave of support for safety Damar Hamlin, who was resuscitated on the field after suffering a cardiac arrest during the penultimate game of the regular season - also against the Bengals.\n\nThe 24-year-old was discharged from hospital after nine days and has continued his recovery, visiting his team-mates for the first time since his collapse the day before Buffalo held on for a 34-31 win over the Miami Dolphins during week one of the play-offs.\n\nBills coach Sean McDermott said he had visited the team facility \"almost daily\" this week, leading to speculation Hamlin would be at Sunday's game - just 20 days after his collapse.\n\nAnd shortly before kick-off, television pictures showed Hamlin riding in a utility vehicle and being driven to the door of the Bills' locker room.\n\nHowever, Hamlin's presence failed to inspire his team-mates once they took to a snowy field in New York State, right on the border with Canada.\n\nWhen snow is forecast in Buffalo, few NFL teams relish heading up north, and the Bills had a 13-1 record at home in the play-offs.\n\nIn fairness, cold conditions are not completely alien to the Bengals in Ohio, and they dominated from the outset, scoring touchdowns on their first two possessions.\n\nQuarterback Joe Burrow fired a 28-yard dart to Ja'Marr Chase before finding a wide-open Hayden Hurst in the corner of the end zone for a 15-yard score.\n\nBuffalo opened the second quarter with a 15-play drive, resulting in quarterback Josh Allen barging in from a yard to cut the deficit to 17-7 at the half.\n\nBut after another lengthy drive at the start of the third quarter, the Bills had to settle for a field goal to make it 17-10.\n\nAnd that was the closest they got as the Bengals hit straight back with a touchdown, running back Joe Mixon capping off a 75-yard drive at the end of the third quarter.\n• None Get American Football alerts in the BBC Sport app", "The motorway was shut after the crash in Buckinghamshire\n\nTwo people have died in serious crash involving eight vehicles on the M40 southbound, police said.\n\nIt happened between Stokenchurch and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, just before 08:15 GMT.\n\nThames Valley Police said two more people were taken to hospital with serious injuries and a further 10 people sustained minor injuries.\n\nThe force said a woman in her sixties and a man in his seventies, died at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mike Bettington said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of the two people who died.\n\n\"We are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or who may have dashcam footage, to please get in touch.\"\n\nNational Highways said the M40 would be shut southbound between junctions four and five for a \"considerable time\".\n\n\"Due to the nature of the incident, the closure is expected to be protracted,\" it said.\n\nThe northbound carriage was also closed but reopened at around 11:30.\n\nAll emergency services attended the incident as well as the air ambulance.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Energy suppliers should stop forcing vulnerable households on to prepayment meters, the government has said.\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps warned he would \"name and shame\" suppliers who were doing \"nowhere near enough\" for vulnerable customers.\n\nCharity Citizens Advice, which wants a ban on forced remote switching, called for \"further protection\" for customers.\n\nIncreasing numbers of people are being left without heat or light when they are unable to afford meter top-ups.\n\nIn a letter to energy suppliers, Mr Shapps said his new plan was \"part of a drive to increase transparency around prepayment meter installations\".\n\nMr Shapps said energy firms should make greater efforts to help those struggling to pay their bills, such as offering credit or debt advice.\n\nHe called for the \"urgent publication\" of energy suppliers' recent investigation into vulnerable customers, and the release of data on applications suppliers had made to forcibly install meters.\n\nBut the government will stop short of an outright ban due to concerns over a subsequent increase in bailiff action.\n\nEnergy Minister Graham Stuart has asked to meet next week with energy firms, regulator Ofgem, Energy UK - which represents the energy industry - and Citizens Advice.\n\nAudrey Ridson, 81, was switched to a prepayment meter even though she could not walk to the shop to top up her energy card.\n\nMs Ridson, from Hampshire, had been in hospital recovering from a fall when her energy firm forced the switch to a prepayment account - even though her daughter-in-law warned her supplier that Audrey would struggle to top up her meter.\n\nAudrey Risdon said her situation was not resolved until Citizens Advice became involved\n\nIn his letter, Mr Shapps wrote: \"Suppliers are clearly jumping the gun and moving at-risk customers on to prepayment meters before offering them the support they are entitled to.\"\n\nHe said he wanted suppliers to \"lend a more sympathetic ear\" to those struggling amidst rising costs of living.\n\nHe added: \"I am deeply concerned to see reports of customers being switched to prepayment meters against their will, with some disconnected from supply - and quite literally left in the dark.\"\n\nHead of energy policy for Citizens Advice, Gillian Cooper, welcomed the plans, saying: \"Millions of people are being left in cold, dark and damp homes because they can't afford to top up their meter. No one should be forced to live like this.\"\n\nShe said if suppliers did not co-operate, the government must step in with \"stronger action\". She also called for \"further protections\" for those already using prepayment meters.\n\nChief executive Emma Pinchbeck from Energy UK - which represents energy companies - said suppliers had increased support to customers over winter through payment holidays, payment plans and emergency credit - but that the fundamental problem remained: people struggling to pay their bills due to the rising cost of living.\n\n\"If the option to install a prepayment meter - after exhausting other options - is removed, then it needs to be acknowledged that this will lead to a significant increase in bad debt, which has already been rising steeply in recent months, and is ultimately recouped from customer bills,\" Ms Pinchbeck added.\n\nBritish Gas has already announced that it will stop switching people onto prepayment meters via their smart meters when they struggle to pay their bills.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A bomb disposal team was called to the hospital\n\nA terror suspect being held after an incident outside a hospital in Leeds will continue to be questioned after police were granted an extension to his arrest.\n\nThe man was allegedly spotted on Friday with a suspected firearm and suspicious package at St James's Hospital.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing North East said it was now able to hold the man until Friday following a court order.\n\nInquiries into the 27-year-old's motivation were ongoing, police added.\n\nIt was being treated as an isolated incident, Det Ch Supt Jim Dunkerley said.\n\nCounter terrorism police worked with Army specialists during the incident\n\nThe man was arrested early on Friday on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nThe incident led to the The Gledhow wing of the hospital being evacuated.\n\nSince his arrest, the man has been held at a police station in West Yorkshire and has been interviewed by officers, the counter terrorism team said.\n\nOn Saturday a Warrant of Further Detention was granted by Westminster Magistrates' Court giving officers until Friday to hold and further interview the suspect if required, they added.\n\nThe suspicious package was found outside the Gledhow wing\n\n\"Extensive\" inquiries were ongoing to explore any potential motivation, with the investigation being \"large and complex\".\n\n\"We continue to treat this as an isolated incident and there is still no evidence to suggest there is any heightened or ongoing risk to the public,\" Mr Dunkerley said.\n\n\"Nevertheless, the UK threat level remains at Substantial and we would always encourage the public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity or behaviour to police in confidence.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says £348m is needed to bring buildings up to standard\n\nOnly 62% of buildings owned by a troubled Welsh health board are \"operationally safe,\" a report has revealed.\n\nThe figure compares to a Wales average of 72%, also below the 90% target.\n\nThe report said: \"There is a risk that failure to provide a safe and compliant built environment could result in avoidable harm to patients and staff.\"\n\nThe board said it costs £73m every year to run all its properties, the oldest of which is Denbigh Infirmary, built in 1813.\n\nHowever it predicts more than £348m needs to be spent to bring those buildings up to an acceptable standard due to a backlog in maintenance work.\n\nAt Abergele Hospital, only 15% of the building meets health and safety standards, according to the report, which will be discussed by health board members on Thursday.\n\nIn this graphic by Betsi Cadwaladr UHB, GIA stands for gross internal area\n\nOf particular concern are the board's three acute hospitals: Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan and Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nYsbyty Gwynedd faces the biggest backlog where \"a significant percentage of occupied floor area\" is unsuitable and does not meet statutory requirements.\n\nThe same concerns apply to Wrexham Maelor, where the design and layout also \"presents infection prevention and control risks\".\n\nAmong the priorities at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, where the backlog in work is estimated at £37m, is upgrading the electrics.\n\nRhyl's Royal Alexandra Hospital and Bryn y Neuadd Hospital in Llanfairfechan, Conwy, also require millions spent on them.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board has 700,000 people living in its area\n\n\"Our estate is facing significant risks and challenges and severe limitations on expected future funding,\" the BCUHB report stated.\n\n\"The current estate is not sustainable or viable in the long term and will not support the implementation of key BCUHB strategies and is a significant risk to the board\n\n\"On average, physical condition and statutory compliance of the estate has got worse since the 2019 Estate Strategy.\n\n\"In particular, the Abergele Hospital, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital, and Ysbyty Gwynedd sites are in poor condition with low levels of compliance.\"\n\nThe report concluded: \"There is a risk that failure to provide a safe and compliant built environment will adversely impact on the health board's ability to implement safe and sustainable services and could result in avoidable harm to patients, staff, public, reputational damage and litigation.\"", "Nearly 1,200 people remain under arrest following the storming of government buildings on 8 January\n\nBrazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has sacked the country's army chief, two weeks after rioting in the capital.\n\nGeneral Julio Cesar de Arruda had only been in the role since 30 December - just before former president Jair Bolsonaro's mandate ended.\n\nPresident Lula has said he suspects members of the armed forces colluded with protesters.\n\nHe has dismissed dozens of military officers in recent days.\n\nThousands of supporters of Mr Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in Brasília on 8 January after managing to march, largely unchallenged, through the city.\n\nSeveral police officers were injured in the violence and the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court were vandalised after rioters forced their way in. Some 2,000 people were detained on the day, Brazil's federal police reported, and nearly 1,200 remain under arrest.\n\nThe Supreme Court is investigating what happened and is including Jair Bolsonaro in the probe. Prosecutors said the far-right former leader may have incited the riot after posting a video that questioned the legitimacy of last year's presidential election.\n\nHe has denied any involvement in or responsibility for the uprising by his supporters.\n\nGeneral Arruda is being replaced by a military commander close to the president - General Tomás Ribeiro Paiva. He made a speech earlier this week urging soldiers to accept the result of the presidential election.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations of fraud in October's election were a driving motivation for many Bolsonaro supporters involved in the storming. Many were also enraged that President Lula, who was found guilty of corruption in 2017 and spent time in prison before his convictions were annulled, was back in power.\n\nPresident Lula blames Mr Bolsonaro directly for the rioting, but also points the finger very firmly at collusion by \"people inside the armed forces\".\n\nMr Bolsonaro was previously an army captain and known to have the support of certain figures in the military. Lula's sacking of the army commander and removal of dozens of officers responsible for presidential security could be seen as steps towards rebuilding trust in the military personnel who surround him.\n\nAfter this tumultuous start, Lula now faces the challenge of trying to govern in a bitter and thoroughly polarised atmosphere.\n\nOn Friday, Brazil's Defence Minister, José Múcio, said it was time to turn the page and focus on the country's future - adding that the military as an institution was not involved in the rioting.\n\nMeanwhile, Jair Bolsonaro remains in Florida, where he has been since he refused to attend President Lula's inauguration ceremony.\n\nLast week, the former justice minister and a key ally of Mr Bolsonaro, Anderson Torres, was arrested after being accused of \"sabotaging\" police efforts to protect the buildings in Brasília.", "Valentina says that while the town of Lyman has been liberated, the missile attacks continue\n\nTwo Ukrainian fighter jets roar low overhead as we emerge from a dense, snow-bound forest and drive into the railway junction town of Lyman, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.\n\nIt is nearly four months since Russian troops were forced to retreat from here, pushed back some 25km (about 15 miles) to the east. But the boom of artillery fire, close to the front lines, is still audible every few minutes, and this town - much of it in ruins - is not yet safe from Russian missiles.\n\n\"I live on the seventh floor. The rocket hit the fifth floor, early this morning, at around five. But I'm fine,\" says Alexander Rogovitz, a 73-year-old retired businessman and the only remaining resident of a large apartment block on the edge of town.\n\nHe bends over to share out some dried food to the eight cats - seven of them strays, abandoned by neighbours - he now looks after.\n\nThat resilience, and a strong collective spirit, seem to be widespread here, among those who have clung on amid the snow and rubble.\n\nValeri Dmitrenko has been sheltering in a basement with 21 neighbours for the past nine months\n\nIn a nearby courtyard, beside a giant bomb crater, a 45-year-old railway technician named Valeri Dmitrenko is busy chopping wood to heat the basement where he and 21 neighbours have been sheltering for the past nine months. Lyman still has no running water or central heating system, and the daytime temperature has been hovering around freezing.\n\n\"What can we do?\" Valeri shrugs, stroking the head of a stray dog he and his wife, Ira, recently adopted and named Princess Diana. When he's not busy with his axe, Valeri helps neighbours repair broken doors and windows in their badly damaged apartment building.\n\nIra walks past, hurriedly, with buckets of water she has pumped from a well in the yard.\n\n\"I still find it stressful to stay outside, in the open, for long,\" says Ira, a 41-year-old accountant, before heading down a dark flight of stairs and into the cramped cellar of 6 Railway Street.\n\nDespite heavy fighting continuing in the Donbas, civilians are trickling back to liberated Ukrainian towns close to the front line - against the advice of local authorities. In Lyman, devastated by Russian forces last year, some 13,000 residents are living, precariously, in gruelling winter conditions.\n\nAn apartment block in Lyman, which has been part-destroyed by Russian missile strikes\n\nAs Russia's forces approached Lyman last June, 41,000 civilians fled, leaving about 10,000 people behind. Many of those were elderly, or poor - or, like Ira and Valeri, had sick relatives who refused to leave. For the next four months, about 60 people squeezed into the same cellar on Railway Street.\n\n\"It was difficult at times. People are different. Some became aggressive - we're not used to living all together like this,\" says Ira. Adding to that stress was the fact that, by Ira's reckoning, about a third of those who had chosen to stay in the cellar were pro-Russian, actively hoping that Ukraine would lose the war.\n\n\"Yes, there were people who supported Russia. But they left when Ukraine started liberating territory. When the so-called Russian authorities moved out, they went with them, taking their children. Probably because they were scared of what would happen to them here,\" adds Ira.\n\nOn 3 October, Lyman was liberated by Ukrainian forces and soon afterwards the town's mayor, Alexander Zhuravlov, returned to discover that \"80%, maybe 90%\" of the buildings had been damaged or destroyed. The railway lines that pass through the centre of town are still a mass of broken overhead cables and blocked tracks.\n\nIn recent months, the mayor and his team have managed to restore electricity to most of the town and the surrounding villages. Pensions are now being paid, on time, and some shops have reopened.\n\nIra, one of those sheltering in a basement, says she finds it stressful being outside\n\nThe government and humanitarian groups have brought in wood stoves and distributed logs. Every day one aid group brings in hundreds of packed lunches to distribute free of charge. There are roughly 700 children living in Lyman and the mayor estimates that another 3,000 residents have returned since the town was liberated. But he's urging the rest to stay away.\n\n\"At the moment we do not recommend people to return here. On the contrary, they're better off in safer places and cities. There are no comfortable living places here, for now. People will be accepted in other regions and will be provided with accommodation and food,\" he says, driving to the site of a two-week-old missile attack that ripped the entire wall off a nine-storey apartment block.\n\nThe mayor says local police are still dealing with \"a handful\" of Lyman's residents suspected of working for the Russian occupiers. But he believes the experience of the past year has persuaded many pro-Russian residents to change their views.\n\n\"I think those people now understand that they made a mistake. They were led astray by the media - watching Russian propaganda on television every night and thinking it was the truth. They were in a minority, and they have already changed their minds. They see that this Russian world is not the one they'd been led to expect,\" says Zhuravlyov.\n\nAid groups provide food, which is distributed free of charge, to those in need in Lyman\n\nA 62-year-old woman called Valentina, queueing for food at the local hospital, seems to reflect that change of heart, when asked about the security situation in Lyman since it was liberated. In recent months, pro-Russian civilians have often hinted at their allegiance by implying that both sides are equally guilty of shelling towns, and that it is therefore impossible to assign blame.\n\n\"The bombardment hasn't stopped. The shells still hit the town. We don't know who is firing,\" she begins.\n\nBut then, unprompted, Valentina changes her mind.\n\n\"I suppose it must be the Russians. Yes, no doubt,\" she says, adding: \"We're Ukrainians. This is a Ukrainian town. The shops are open. Our pensions come on time. The state has not abandoned us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Boris Johnson says he'll be a foot soldier or spear carrier to President Zelensky\n\nFormer UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Johnson visited the outskirts of the city on Sunday before being received by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe Conservative MP said it was a \"privilege\" to visit the country at the invitation of Mr Zelensky.\n\nThe unannounced visit came as fresh questions over the former prime minister's personal finances emerged in the UK.\n\nThey stem from claims the BBC's chairman Richard Sharp helped Mr Johnson secure a loan guarantee while he was prime minister. Mr Sharp went on to be appointed to his BBC role by the government.\n\nDuring Mr Johnson's visit to Ukraine, in which he made no mention of the claims, he was received by Mr Zelensky and other Ukrainian ministers in Kyiv.\n\n\"I welcome Boris Johnson, a true friend of Ukraine, to Kyiv. Boris thanks for your support!\" wrote Mr Zelensky on Telegram.\n\nHe also visited the towns of Bucha and Borodyanka, to the north-west of Kyiv, which were occupied by Russian forces in March last year.\n\nAfter Russian troops were repelled, scenes of mass destruction were discovered in the two towns, including the bodies of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha.\n\nMr Johnson said \"the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on for too long\".\n\n\"The only way to end this war is for Ukraine to win - and to win as fast as possible,\" Mr Johnson said. \"This is the moment to double down, and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job.\n\n\"The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world.\"\n\nCurrent UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was said to be \"supportive\" of Mr Johnson's visit.\n\nMr Sunak is \"always supportive of all colleagues showing that the UK is behind Ukraine and will continue to support them,\" his press secretary said.\n\nMr Johnson's visit comes as increased pressure is being put on allies of Ukraine, including Germany, to supply more tanks to the war-torn country.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK confirmed it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort, a decision Mr Johnson's spokesman said he supported.\n\nMr Johnson has made several visits to Ukraine, both as prime minister and since he left Downing Street.\n\nJust a few days ago, he took part in a panel discussion on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which Mr Zelensky attended via video link.", "Police have surrounded a white van in Torrance, California more than 12 hours after a deadly shooting in nearby Monterey Park.\n\nAerial video shows the reported stand off which police say may hold the suspect but details are still very unclear.", "The Tywi Valley remained flooded on Saturday after weeks of rain\n\nMore money is needed for flood prevention in order to prevent further devastation and cut clean-up costs, a council leader has said.\n\nWales has been hit by disruption following days of continued heavy rain.\n\nFlood warnings are in place, with river levels set to peak on Saturday after weather warnings for heavy rain.\n\nAndrew Morgan, leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, said \"sustained investment\" was needed as responding to flooding \"drains\" councils' resources.\n\nThe flood warnings are in effect in south and mid Wales after days of heavy rain.\n\nFlooding has led to disruption on the trains between Cardiff and Bridgend county on Saturday, Transport for Wales said.\n\nTraffic Wales said the A470 between Llangurig to Rhayader in Powys had been closed due to flooding.\n\nAnd the A4042 between Hardwick Roundabout and Llanellen Bridge in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was also closed due to flooding.\n\nOn Thursday, homes lost power, people were rescued from cars and properties were damaged after persistent rain.\n\nMr Morgan, who is also head of the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), said although work done in the past few years had been successful there was \"an awful lot\" of culverts that need improvement.\n\n\"Over 20 properties were flooded unfortunately, through either culverts being overwhelmed because of the volume of water, because of debris washed off the mountain. So it goes to show, we still need to do that investment,\" he said.\n\n\"Climate change is happening and we're seeing floods more frequently. But in particular, the intensity of the weather is really changing.\"\n\nFlood waters continue to cause problems for motorists in Cardiff on Saturday morning\n\nAlthough Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) was one of the worst hit areas, much of Wales experienced heavy rain.\n\nMr Morgan said the clean up was \"relatively small\" on this occasion, with 26 homes in his area affected.\n\n\"It will probably be tens of thousands [of pounds worth of damage],\" he said.\n\n\"What we've had to do is redirect a lot of our contractors and our highway staff who would have been working on other things. So staff yesterday, who should have been filling potholes, or should be carrying out new footway schemes or resurfacing roads.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the first thought during a serious flooding event is to respond to the emergency situation, but the fact this meant less funding available for other important services was a \"concern\".\n\nMr Morgan said that, although more than £14m had been spent on infrastructure upgrades in RCT since Storm Dennis in 2020, £20m has been spent on storm repairs over the same time period.\n\nHe said more than £6.4m of Welsh government funding was secured for RCT after Storm Dennis, plus about £3.9m for flood alleviation works.\n\nThe council has also secured more than £8m from the Resilient Roads Grant over the past three years for targeted flood works.\n\nFlooding in Peterston Super Ely, just outside of Cardiff, made roads impassable on Thursday\n\nMr Morgan said pre-emptive investment was \"vital\", adding: \"What we don't want to do is be sending crews to clean up the mess.\n\n\"What we need to do is flip the money and spend more on the preventative and the upgrading. It can't be about a short-term fix.\"\n\nMike Evans, of Natural Resources Wales, said climate change was \"no longer a matter of argument... it's happening\".\n\n\"We had the biggest floods we've ever experienced during 2020. 2022 has been the hottest year on record and it was also the biggest drought in Wales,\" Mr Evans said.\n\n\"The storms we're having are more frequent and they're bigger. So we're going to get more frequent flooding and we're going to have to cope with it because we can't be expected to build higher and higher flood defences.\n\n\"We will build defences to protect people at the highest risk. But as climate change increases it's practically impossible for funding and the interventions to keep up with the increased risk.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many areas across Wales experienced storm disruption on Thursday following high winds and heavy rain\n\nThe WLGA said the past decade had seen \"unprecedented weather extremes\" which had put \"enormous strain on our communities, services, and infrastructure\".\n\nIt said: \"The resources implications on local government and partner organisations are huge, not only before and during an event but for many months afterwards.\n\n\"There is no doubt that future budget squeeze will likely put more pressure on technical services which are already stretched to the limit.\n\n\"It is important to note that keeping pace with climate change would require huge amount of funding which in itself is not sustainable.\n\n\"As a collective we are therefore looking at new ways of building resilience and adapting to these impacts.\"\n\nThe River Taff in Pontypridd was one of many to swell due to flood water\n\nThe Welsh government said it had invested more than £390m in flood and coastal erosion risk management through two programmes, reducing the risks faced by more than 47,000 properties across Wales.\n\nIt added that a further £71m is being spent on such works across Wales this financial year, through local authorities and Natural Resources Wales.\n\nA spokesman added: \"This includes work building new flood assets, maintenance of existing assets, development of future schemes, natural flood management, property flood resilience measures, mapping, modelling and awareness raising.\"", "People are spending more on holidays despite finances being squeezed by the cost of living, travel agents say.\n\nSeveral holiday companies and tour operators said demand was high with bookings surging in early January.\n\nFor some people, booking now gives them something to look forward to and work towards, but for others, a holiday is not an option because of higher bills.\n\nAverage spending per holiday was £3,104 this week, up about 5% on last year, said the Advantage Travel Partnership.\n\nBut there are concerns that passengers could face the delays and disruption seen at airports last summer because of staff shortages after the aviation industry struggled to replace the thousands of staff laid off during the pandemic.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel said some airlines and airports had \"a history of struggling to cope during peak travel periods, so it is hard to have complete confidence that we won't see some disruption again in the coming months\".\n\nMeanwhile, aviation expert John Strickland said this summer was \"still of a bit of an unknown quantity\", but added airlines, airports and baggage handling companies had been \"making the effort\" to build worker numbers. \"I think we will be in a better place,\" he said.\n\nHoliday bookings were expected to jump with Covid restrictions now removed but they are still below pre-pandemic levels.\n\nSpain is the most popular booking destination so far, along with Greece, the US and Turkey, according to the Advantage Travel Partnership, the UK's largest network of independent travel agents.\n\nJulia Lo Bue-Said, the group's chief executive, told the BBC that while average prices were up, the extra costs were not discouraging people from booking.\n\nShe said since the beginning of the year, sales across its network of 700 travel agents were up by 75% on the same period in 2022.\n\n\"It's really quite interesting when we look at the economic climate and cost of living… and look at holiday sales - there is such a disparity,\" she added.\n\n\"Consumers are not forgoing their holidays. They are doing absolutely everything they can to afford a holiday.\"\n\nMr Boland from Which? said because demand for holidays was high across Europe, \"operators can increase the price of a break\".\n\n\"Inflationary pressures are contributing to higher prices for travellers too, as holiday operators begin to pass extra costs for energy, fuel and even food, onto holidaymakers,\" he said.\n\nAndri Benson, who runs a wedding planning business, has booked to go to the Greek island Rhodes with her parents, sister and niece in June.\n\nShe told the BBC she wasn't well in November and her sister was ill over Christmas so they wanted to book a trip away as something to look forward to, and they also wanted a trip where her parents wouldn't have the \"stress\" of dealing with Covid passports and travel papers.\n\nMs Benson, who lives in south London, said the holiday was more expensive, but added: \"The feeling was if we are going to go on holiday, we want a nice place.\n\n\"We managed to get a really good deal. I want to make the most of spending time with my parents,\" she said.\n\nJane Griffin, the owner of a PR consultancy in East Sussex, booked a two-week holiday to Tuscany in the summer with her husband and five-year-old daughter.\n\nShe said this trip cost her less than last year because they ended up booking a self-catering place in case Covid was an issue.\n\nJane Griffin says booking a holiday is a nice thing to look forward to\n\n\"I think the snow, cold weather, and feeling cold at home due to the rising energy bills has made us think about racing to warmer climes as soon as we can,\" she said.\n\nAlthough travel agents said people were spending more on holidays, average prices could be higher due to more long-haul destinations becoming available after being largely closed due to Covid.\n\nSeveral companies saw an influx of bookings on what is marketed as \"sunshine Saturday\" - the first Saturday in January when people typically book summer trips after the festive period.\n\nOnline travel search firm Skyscanner said its bookings by UK travellers in the first week of this year were up 30% compared to the corresponding week in January 2019.\n\nHays Travel, one of the UK's biggest travel agents, said bookings on 7 January increased fivefold compared to the same day last year.\n\n\"Despite the cost-of-living challenges, the last thing people seem to want to give up is their annual holiday,\" said owner Dame Irene Hays. \"We have seen an extremely busy start to the peak booking season.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic also said bookings were 70% higher over the weekend than the same weekend in 2022.\n\nTui and Jet2 declined to provide figures on bookings but the latter said this summer would be its \"biggest ever programme on sale\".\n\nOnline travel agent On The Beach, which stopped selling all holidays for the 2021 summer due to Covid uncertainty, said it was expecting this weekend to be a \"bumper\" one for bookings.\n\nZoe Harris, chief customer officer, said its agents were also seeing customers willing to spend more on their trips abroad.\n\n\"We are seeing more customers booking four and five star [hotels],\" she said. \"People who have not had as many holidays over the last few years - if they are going to go, they are going to treat themselves.\n\n\"Our bookings are broadly back at 2019 levels.\"\n\nShe said all-inclusive trips were on the increase as well.\n\nMs Lo Bue-Said agreed, saying all-inclusive holidays made it easy for families with children to be able to budget.\n\nBut while families look for summer sun, Booking.com said its most-booked destinations by Brits for February half-term included staycations in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and York.\n\nPassengers were hit with delays due to staff shortages last year\n\nThough holiday bookings are returning to levels not seen since before Covid, there are fewer packages and flights available than in 2019.\n\nThe travel industry is still recovering after being almost completely shut down during the height of the pandemic.\n\nStaff shortages at airports saw some journeys delayed and cancelled last summer after thousands of workers lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Running costs for companies are also now higher due to inflated costs for things such as fuel.\n\nThe reduction in choice is also due to the collapse of huge global travel group Thomas Cook four years ago.\n\nWhich? Travel's Mr Boland said customers will \"rightly expect a significant improvement in service from airlines and airports in 2023\".\n\n\"Given every airline and every airport knows how many travellers are travelling and when, and have already banked their cash, it is inexcusable for them not to properly resource their business to get travellers to where they are going as promised,\" he added.", "Germany has joined calls for jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to get proper medical treatment amid growing concerns for his health.\n\nEarlier about 500 Russian doctors signed an open letter to President Vladimir Putin demanding that prison authorities stop \"abusing\" Navalny.\n\nNavalny's lawyer said he had since been seen by a doctor, but was still not receiving the medicine he needed.\n\nNavalny said he was being denied basic medication by prison officials.\n\nA German government spokesperson said Navalny \"is in urgent need of medical assistance as numerous Russian doctors have pointed out\".\n\n\"We call on the Russian authorities to provide this immediately and completely,\" said spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann.\n\nNavalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev says the anti-corruption campaigner has been suffering from chills, fever, severe cough and a low temperature in an isolation cell.\n\nBerlin also urged Navalny's release, saying his imprisonment was based on a \"politically motivated verdict\".\n\nHe has spent two years in jail, often in solitary confinement. He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been treated for a nerve agent attack in Siberia.\n\nIn the open letter, doctors expressed \"great concerns for the life and health\" of Navalny and said the refusal of Russia's prison service to provide the necessary medicines \"is directly threatening\" his life.\n\nThey demanded that the authorities stop sending him to solitary confinement and that civilian doctors be allowed to see him. \"We demand an end to the abuse of Alexei Navalny,\" the letter said.\n\nVadim Kobzev said the letter appeared to have had an impact, as Navalny was given antibiotics and his condition had appeared to stop deteriorating on Thursday.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Kobzev said the head of a tuberculosis hospital had given Navalny a medical check - but he added that Navalny had not yet received the medicine he needed.\n\nOn Thursday, John Kirby, spokesman for the US National Security Council, said the US shared the doctors' concerns and believed Navalny \"should be immediately released\" and should get \"proper medical care\".\n\nNavalny has accused the prison authorities of using a fellow inmate as a biological weapon to infect him with flu. He said he was transferred to a punishment cell on 31 December for the tenth time since his imprisonment.\n\nNavalny is being held in a penal colony more than 250km (150 miles) east of Moscow. The 46-year-old has long been the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Putin.\n\nHe was initially jailed for two and a half years for breaking bail conditions while being treated in a German hospital, but was then given an extra nine years for fraud and contempt of court.", "Brazil's Supreme Court has agreed to include right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into the storming of government buildings in Brasília.\n\nIt is the first time that Mr Bolsonaro has been named among those potentially responsible for the 8 January riots.\n\nIt comes days after Mr Bolsonaro posted a video questioning the legitimacy of October's presidential election.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Bolsonaro may have incited a crime by making such claims.\n\nThey asked the Supreme Court on Friday to include the ex-president in the investigation.\n\nThe Bolsonaro video claimed that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was not voted into office but rather chosen by the Supreme Court and Brazil's electoral authority.\n\nBy questioning the vote \"Bolsonaro would have publicly incited the commission of a crime\", the office of the prosecutor general (PGR) said in a statement.\n\nWhile the video was posted after Sunday's riot and later deleted, the prosecutor general's office argued its content was sufficient to justify investigating Mr Bolsonaro's conduct beforehand.\n\nSupreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes announced Mr Bolsonaro would be included in the probe into what the PGR said was the \"instigation and intellectual authorship\" of the rioting.\n\n\"Public figures who continue to cowardly conspire against democracy trying to establish a state of exception will be held accountable,\" said Justice de Moraes.\n\nThousands of radical Bolsonaro supporters, who continue to claim that the election was rigged, stormed the country's Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace on Sunday.\n\nThey had been camping in and around the capital Brasilia for weeks calling for a military coup.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Bolsonaro has been admitted to a hospital in Florida with abdominal pain, his wife said.\n\nHe left Brazil for the United States in late December, after refusing to take part in the handover of power to Lula.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany businessmen and officials are being investigated, including Brasilia's former head of security, Anderson Torres, who flew to the US ahead of the riots.\n\nOn Thursday, police visited his home and found a document reportedly trying to reverse the election result.\n\nMr Torres argues the document has been taken out of context, but Justice Minister Flavio Dino has said he must turn himself in by Monday or face extradition.\n\nEarlier, Lula accused Mr Bolsonaro's allies of aiding an attack on the presidential palace on Sunday.\n\nMore than 1,200 people have been formally arrested and are being charged in relation to the riot at Brazil's Congress.\n\nArrest warrants have already been issued for several top officials accused of being \"responsible for acts and omissions\" that led to the riots.", "The Royal College of Nursing and GMB have put strike action on hold\n\nThe threat of widespread strike action in Scotland's NHS has been put on hold by unions.\n\nThe GMB and Royal College of Nursing will not call strikes while negotiations take place on the 2023 pay offer, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nHealth secretary Humza Yousaf said the breakthrough was \"very welcome\".\n\nNegotiations are likely to take several weeks and the unions still have a mandate to call members out on strike if they are unsuccessful.\n\nIf a deal is reached, the pay rise would be backdated to January.\n\nThe announcement follows talks with the Scottish government on Thursday, aimed at ending the long-running pay dispute affecting staff in NHS Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS).\n\nThe three unions with mandates to strike are the GMB, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).\n\nThey said they would now enter an \"intensive period of negotiations\" on the 2023 pay deal.\n\nAll three unions rejected the 2022 pay offer which was worth around 7.5% on average. It was accepted by others including Unison and Unite.\n\nUnions still have a mandate to call NHS staff on strike if pay talks are unsuccessful\n\nOn Thursday, the Scottish government made new proposals including accelerated negotiations on the 2023 pay offer, and an extra payment for staff.\n\nRCN Scotland said it had paused a formal announcement of strike action in response to the talks.\n\nPat Cullen, RCN General Secretary said: \"The Scottish government has shown a willingness to return to the negotiating table and to act to address the nursing workforce crisis.\n\n\"The pressure from our members has been key to these negotiations moving forward. We need to see this process through. \"\n\nThe GMB said Mr Yousaf had made a commitment to effectively backdate the value of any agreed terms for 2023 to January, with the deal fully implemented by April.\n\nThe union said that negotiations would start next week.\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said: \"GMB is prepared to engage in good faith with the Scottish government on fresh proposals to resolve this dispute.\n\n\"This has been a marathon for our members and there is still some distance to go, but their strength has now secured more money for all staff in the year ahead.\"\n\nThe RCM said it was \"cautiously optimistic\" that Mr Yousaf would meet its calls for a decent pay deal.\n\nBut the union said its mandate for industrial action remained and it \"would have no hesitation in using it\" if talks did not progress.\n\nRCM Scotland director Jaki Lambert said: \"We are grateful to the cabinet secretary that he has acknowledged this and has committed to finding a meaningful solution to this dispute.\n\n\"We are hopeful that this is a turning point in the dispute which, yes, is focused on pay, but is just as much about the conditions our members have to work in.\"\n\nStrike dates had been due to be announced before the latest breakthrough. Scotland's health secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the move.\n\nHe said: \"I have always maintained that I will leave no stone unturned in order to avert industrial action in our health service.\n\n\"This positive way forward is a direct result of all parties continuing meaningful dialogue in a constructive an open manner.\n\nHe added: \"This is in stark contrast to the UK government, who have this week introduced draconian legislation curbing the rights of staff in Scotland's NHS and other devolved public services.\n\n\"I would urge the UK government to follow Scotland's example and get back round the negotiating table.\"\n\nThe threat of strikes in the NHS in Scotland is not over but the possibility is now greatly reduced.\n\nIt would have been difficult to reopen the 2022 pay deal. It had been accepted by other major NHS unions including Unison and Unite.\n\nThe idea is that this year's offer - which would normally apply from April - will be backdated to January.\n\nThere can be no certainty that a deal will be reached though.\n\nIf talks fail, strikes are still an option.\n\nBut the chance of strike action adding to the difficulties facing the NHS over the winter is now greatly reduced.", "Benjamin Mendy steadfastly denied all of the charges against him\n\nDespite his acquittal on all but two charges, Benjamin Mendy may still struggle to shake the image portrayed of him in court - a sex-mad, out-of-control, multi-millionaire.\n\nA Premier League star who didn't care about the feelings or wellbeing of the women he slept with on an almost industrial scale.\n\nWhat people may suspect some footballers get up to in their private lives has, in Mendy's case at least, been revealed over the course of a six-month trial.\n\nIt was not just his behaviour and attitude towards women which was laid bare in court, but also the difficulties that football clubs have when their star players are off-duty.\n\nPep Guardiola, Mendy's manager at Manchester City, told Chester Crown Court that \"in their private life I don't know what they do\".\n\n\"I don't follow the players on social media, so I don't know what they are doing outside my control in training sessions and in games,\" he said, adding: \"I'm not his father.\"\n\nBack in July 2017, Mendy became City's then-record signing when, aged 23, he joined from Monaco for a reported transfer fee of £52m.\n\nDescribed by the club's director of football Txiki Begiristain as \"one of the world's best full-backs\", the France international was paid an estimated £90,000 a week.\n\nMendy became the world's most expensive defender when he signed for Manchester City five years ago\n\nIn football, such deals come with a simple truth - for such high rewards, elite players are expected to focus all their efforts on the pitch.\n\nTheir clubs are often happy to spend whatever it takes to keep them happy off it.\n\nLike all major clubs, City employs an army of staff to cater to their needs, with helpers who will pay bills, act as a 24-hour concierge and look after their fleets of luxury cars.\n\nJodie Deakin worked for the Premier League champions for 10 years as the men's team support manager.\n\nDuring Mendy's trial, she said her \"role was to look after the first-team players and the management staff in every aspect of their lives\".\n\n\"These boys don't do anything for themselves,\" she said.\n\nMs Deakin told the court how she would choose schools for the players' children, deal with the banks, and check their homes for security.\n\nShe dealt with demands for payments from contractors who'd been working at Mendy's house when he'd run out of money.\n\nOn one visit to the footballer's Cheshire mansion, she advised him to increase security.\n\nSoon afterwards, locks that could be activated by his fingerprints were fitted to the bedroom doors.\n\nMs Deakin said she wanted this \"so he had a bit of sanctuary, to lock people out, and that was his safe haven\".\n\nShe also talked about the attraction footballers hold for many young women who frequent the same bars and clubs.\n\nMs Deakin described players like Mr Mendy as \"magnets\".\n\n\"You can tell a mile off he's a footballer, as they all have similar dress sense,\" she said. \"He drips in designer. A lot of girls would be attracted to that look.\"\n\nMr Mendy, pictured right, was on trial alongside his friend Louis Saha Matturie\n\nMark Boixasa was the head of first-team operations and support at Manchester City for nine years.\n\nLike Ms Deakin, his job involved helping new signings, as well as advising players about life after retirement.\n\nAppearing for the defence, he told the court Mendy had suffered a number of long-term injuries and was \"not the perfect professional\".\n\nHe added that the player was often late for work because he overslept.\n\nMendy's agent, Meïsa N'Diaye, said that whenever his client wasn't playing, he would go out a lot more and, in a written statement to the court, he said he had warned the player he had to make a choice about his life.\n\nMr N'Diaye said he was also aware the footballer was having a lot of short-term relationships and wasn't interested in settling down.\n\nAs well as receiving help from Manchester City, Mendy employed his own staff, including a chef to provide food at parties he hosted at his mansion.\n\nCleaner Yvonne Shea, who worked 15 hours a week there, said she often arrived the morning after some of them.\n\nShe told the court that women, looking \"a little worse for wear\", were sometimes still there and the house was a \"catastrophe\", with discarded food and drink lying around.\n\nOnce she found a coffee table lying smashed on the floor.\n\n\"It was like windscreen glass, so that was all over everywhere,\" she said.\n\nShe also said clothes were left lying around and if she found them near Mendy's indoor swimming pool, she would \"just gather it up\".\n\n\"Underwear I didn't wash, I put it to one side and there was a cupboard for phones and handbags,\" she said.\n\nShe told the court she'd stopped working for Mendy when City stopped paying his wages in September 2021 ahead of his trial.\n\nSome of the parties started in Manchester's nightclubs before continuing back at the mansion.\n\nVideos were shown to the court of the player in a club, stripping to the waist in front of young women, waving his shirt around his head before throwing it into the crowd.\n\nOther footage from a party at his house showed him with his hand thrust down his trousers as he danced with a group of young women.\n\nCCTV put before the court also showed him staggering drunk from a car.\n\nDuring his trial, Mendy admitted occasionally being over the limit while driving and his disregard for authority was highlighted when he fully accepted many of the parties and gatherings in his house had taken place when they were banned due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe four-month trial was heard at Chester Crown Court\n\nIn court, Mendy admitted to living a life which focussed on his sexual conquests.\n\n\"I was not thinking like how they were feeling or they can be upset because, for me, if they wanted to have sex and I wanted to, everything was fine and I would carry on my partying,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court it was \"honestly so easy\" for him to meet women and have sex with them.\n\nMendy said that while he started attracting women's attention when he signed for Marseille as an 18-year-old, interest in him had grown tenfold when he joined City.\n\n\"It's not because of my look, it's because of football,\" he told jurors.\n\nHe said he had never considered contraception and added that it was \"normal\" for him to have sex with a number of different women.\n\nHe stressed to the court, though, that if a woman ever said \"no\", he would \"be fine\", adding: \"I'd accept it and I'd stop.\"\n\nMendy said he was embarrassed to talk about sex because \"I can't scream 'Yeah, I love sex!', because it would seem weird.\"\n\nHe also told the court that when he was remanded into custody between August 2021 and January 2022, he had changed.\n\n\"All my life, I have never had the time to really think about what I was doing,\" he said.\n\n\"When I went there I was alone, you're sat down all day, the only thing you do is think.\n\n\"I didn't know I can hurt their feelings if we were both OK to have sex.\"\n\nSuch was the portrait painted of him during the case that even his own legal team, led by Eleanor Laws KC, admitted that \"life, as he knew it, is over, in football in the UK\".\n\nMs Laws added that Mendy \"will never escape these accusations\".\n\nHis contract at Manchester City runs out this summer and if his barrister is correct, he may have to go abroad to continue playing.\n\nHow the case will impact on his lifestyle remains to be seen, but his agent, City and any future club will be hoping he will be talked about for his footballing talent and not his off-pitch behaviour.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman has been taken to hospital after a suspected bottled gas explosion at a house in Londonderry.\n\nIt happened in Kylemore Park at about 11:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe woman was treated by paramedics at the scene and then taken to Altnagelvin Area Hospital in the city.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Conor Heaney, who has been to the scene, said the house was \"extensively damaged and not structurally sound\".\n\nIt is understood the address is not connected to the mains gas network.\n\nCllr Heaney said the woman who was injured was elderly.\n\n\"Neighbours broke down her door and administered first aid and removed her from the property,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"A nurse across the street helped her.\"\n\nDamage was caused to the front and back of the house\n\nEmergency services left the scene at about 14:00.\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party councillor Shauna Cusack said her thoughts and prayers were with the woman's family.", "Awaab was described as \"an engaging, lively, endearing two-year-old\"\n\nMinisters say guidance to landlords in England over mould and damp health risks will be reviewed, following the death of a toddler.\n\nAwaab Ishak, aged two, died from a respiratory condition caused by exposure to mould at his Rochdale home, an inquest found.\n\nThe housing and health secretaries said new guidance would come in summer.\n\nIt comes after a coroner asked the government take action to prevent future deaths.\n\nHousing Secretary Michael Gove and Health Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"Awaab Ishak's death was a tragedy that should never have occurred. People across the country were horrified to hear about the terrible circumstances that led to it.\n\n\"Awaab's case has thrown into sharp relief the need for renewed action to ensure that every landlord in the country makes certain that their tenants are housed in decent homes, and they are treated with dignity and fairness.\"\n\nThe inquest heard Awaab's father repeatedly raised the issue with housing association Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), but no action was taken before his death in 2020.\n\nThe family said they had \"no doubt at all that we were treated this way because we are not from this country and less aware of how the systems in the UK work\".\n\nSenior coroner Joanne Kearsley said RBH were not \"proactive\" and asked: \"How in the UK in 2020 does a two-year-old child die as a result of exposure to mould?\"\n\nFollowing her damning conclusions, she asked the government to address the fact its housing health and safety rating system does not reflect the known risks of damp and mould to health.\n\nShe also raised how the private landlord sector does not have access to the Housing Ombudsman for their complaints to be investigated independently.\n\nIn the government's response to the coroner, Mr Gove said it was working on policy that would specify time limits landlords must meet on investigating hazards, and acting where there are health concerns.\n\nHe also said there were plans to introduce a new private rented sector landlord ombudsman, which was previously announced in June.\n\nThe chief executive of Shelter, Dr Polly Neate, said reviewing guidance does not go far enough.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme what was more important was the government's social housing regulation bill, which would introduce inspections of social homes, adding: \"Guidance is guidance, but accountability Is the key word here.\"\n\nShe also said \"unliveable housing conditions\" were very common in private housing because of a lack of protection for tenants.\n\n\"People in private rentals don't dare mention poor conditions because their landlord could evict them for no reason,\" said Dr Neate.\n\n\"For my colleagues up and down the country, these appalling situations are their daily workload. This is a huge problem.\"\n\nMould had developed in the family's flat\n\nMore than 170,000 people have signed a petition calling for Awaab's law to ensure no other child dies due to mould in their home.\n\nIn a statement Mr Gove said: \"We have already taken tough action against failing landlords - blocking Rochdale Boroughwide Housing from receiving taxpayers' money to build new homes until it can prove it is a responsible landlord and warning others that they will face similar consequences unless they dramatically raise standards.\n\n\"Our Social Housing Bill will strengthen the powers of the regulator to ensure tenants are listened to and their concerns dealt with quickly and fairly, with unlimited fines for failing landlords.\n\n\"We will work closely with Awaab's family to deliver tougher laws on damp and mould.\"", "The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) confirmed the dates, which come in addition to a 16-day programme of rolling industrial action set to begin next week.\n\nIt follows talks between unions, councils and the Scottish government on Thursday.\n\nMinisters and councils have said a requested 10% pay rise is unaffordable.\n\nTeaching unions have so far rejected a 5% pay increase, including rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nThe education secretary urged teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\nEIS members have already taken three days of national strike action - one in November and two in January.\n\nThe programme of additional strike action will include two days of national strike action in all schools on 28 February and 1 March, followed by a rolling programme of strikes for 20 days between 13 March and 21 April.\n\nOver the rolling strike period, each local authority area will be impacted by three consecutive days of action, with one day of strike action in all schools bookended by one-day strikes in primary and secondary schools.\n\nFollowing a meeting of the EIS executive committee, general secretary Andrea Bradley said: \"The recent days of strike action by Scotland's teachers have succeeded in bringing Cosla and the Scottish government back to the negotiating table - but they have yet to put a single extra penny onto that table.\n\n\"Scotland's teachers rejected a sub-inflationary 5% offer six months ago, and little or no progress has been made in negotiations since.\n\n\"Our members are resolute and determined to secure a fair pay settlement, which both properly reflects their value and also takes account of the soaring cost of living.\"\n\nAny new deal would need to be agreed by all 32 council leaders. They are currently not due to meet for two weeks.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said: \"Strikes in our schools are in no one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\n\n\"It is disappointing that the EIS has proceeded to escalate industrial action - we are continuing to urge teaching unions to reconsider their plans while talks are ongoing.\"\n\nShe said recent discussions had been constructive.\n\nEarlier this week all four unions representing teachers and headteachers walked out together for the first time.\n\nIt involved members of the EIS, Scotland's largest teaching union, the NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes (AHDS) unions.\n\nThe EIS is giving plenty of notice of the next round of action. The new round of strikes will be nearly a month after the rolling round of regional strikes which begins on Monday comes to an end.\n\nThe action announced represents an escalation - two consecutive days of disruption in all parts of Scotland rather than one. The next round of regional strikes, due mid March, would affect schools as senior students prepare for exams.\n\nThe union hopes that by giving so much notice, it will provide plenty of time for councils and the Scottish government to make a pay offer acceptable to its members.\n\nBut it had always hoped the very threat of strikes would be enough and that action would not be necessary.", "Women have been at the forefront of the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini\n\nIran's top diplomat in the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office over Tehran's crackdown on protests sweeping the country.\n\nDemonstrations in Iran were sparked by the death in custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who was detained by the country's morality police.\n\nBut reports say as many as 133 people have been killed by security forces as they clamp down on unrest.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said the violence was \"truly shocking\".\n\n\"Today we have made our view clear to the Iranian authorities - instead of blaming external actors for the unrest, they should take responsibility for their actions and listen to the concerns of their people,\" Mr Cleverly said.\n\n\"We will continue to work with our partners to hold the Iranian authorities to account for their flagrant human-rights violations.\"\n\nBritish officials and foreign diplomats meet every day at the Foreign Office. So it might not seem that important for a senior FCDO director to ask Iran's acting head of mission in London to come in for a conversation.\n\nBut in fact the summons of Mehdi Hosseini Matin is significant and is designed to send a clear signal to Tehran that the world is watching.\n\nThe UK wants Iran to know that a further violent crackdown on the protestors would have consequences.\n\nIt was no surprise that at the same time that the foreign secretary issued his statement, a White House spokeswoman expressed alarm at the violence in Iran, and Canada imposed sanctions on senior figures in the regime.\n\nSo western powers are seeking to deter any escalation. But from what he has said, it is not clear if Iran's supreme leader will heed their warning.\n\nIn his first public comments on the unrest, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said \"riots\" had been \"engineered\" by Iran's arch-enemies and their allies.\n\nHe also gave his full backing to the security forces, saying that they had faced \"injustice\" during the unrest.\n\nMahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf. She died three days later.\n\nMahsa Amini fell into a coma hours after being detained by morality police\n\nHer family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head against one of their vehicles. The police have said there is no evidence of any mistreatment and that she suffered \"sudden heart failure\".\n\nWomen have led the protests that began after Ms Amini's funeral, waving their headscarves in the air or setting them on fire to chants of \"Woman, life, freedom\" and \"Death to the dictator\" - a reference to Ayatollah Khamenei.\n\nIran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Sunday that at least 133 people had been killed by security forces so far. They include 41 protesters said to have died in the city of Zahedan on Friday.\n\nState media have reported that more than 40 people have been killed, including security personnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests take place in countries outside Iran, in support of opposition to the custody death of Mahsa Amini", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Bursts of flames after gas pipeline explosion in Lithuania\n\nA large blast has hit a gas pipeline in the Pasvalys region of northern Lithuania, near the Latvian border.\n\nImages broadcast by local media showed flames illuminating the night sky, but officials say there have been no injuries caused by the explosion.\n\nLatvia's Defence Minster Inara Murniece wrote on Twitter that the cause of the incident would be investigated and said sabotage could not be ruled out.\n\nBut the pipeline's operator said it did not believe the blast was suspicious.\n\n\"According to the initial assessment, we do not see any malign cause, but the investigation will cover all possible options,\" Amber Grid chief executive Nemunas Biknius told reporters. \"We do not see the signs of any potential impact from outside.\"\n\nMr Biknius said the pipeline - which was built in 1978 - had undergone some recent maintenance work, and that officials would try to establish whether that had contributed to the blast.\n\n\"All reasons will be investigated and clarified in the coming days,\" Mr Biknius said.\n\nHe added that the gas supply to the pipeline had been cut off and that the fire had subsided after four hours and that authorities and specialists investigating the incident have had no information about any intentional damage to the pipeline.\n\nThe pipeline consists of two parallel systems, and Amber Grid said the explosion occurred in one of them. The other was undamaged. Amber Grid added that the blast had taken place \"away from any residential buildings\".\n\nThe mayor of Pasvalys district, Gintautas Geguzinskas, told LRT that he didn't have any concrete information on the cause of the blast, but said that local residents had told him \"they saw some work being done near the pipeline where the explosion happened\".\n\nIn footage obtained by the LRT news outlet, flames could be seen rising some 50 metres (160 feet) into the air. The blast was also reportedly visible from up to 17 km (11 miles) away.\n\nMeanwhile, the BNS news agency reported that officials had decided to evacuate the nearby village of Valakelie. The town has a population of around 700 people.\n\nThe pipeline is used by Amber Grid - Lithuania's national gas company - to transfer gas into the north of the country and to supply neighbouring Latvia.\n\nConsumers in the area are being supplied by an alternate pipeline.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia launched fresh waves of missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 20 people in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro.\n\nA number of other cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, were also hit.\n\nMuch of Ukraine is now under an emergency blackout after missiles hit power infrastructure in several cities.\n\nEarlier, the UK said it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to help the country's defence.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Challengers, the British army's main battle tank, would help Kyiv's forces \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nRussia responded by saying that providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties.\n\nLater on Saturday - a day when Ukrainians celebrate the Old (or Orthodox) New Year - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks on civilian targets could be stopped only if Ukraine's Western partners supplied necessary weapons.\n\n\"What is needed for this? Those weapons which are in the depots of our partners and which our soldiers are waiting for so much,\" he said in his nightly video address, adding that his forces shot down more than 20 out of 30 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine.\n\nRescue teams work in the rubble of the damaged residential building hit by shelling in Dnipro\n\nThe devastating strike in Dnipro hit the entrance of a nine-storey building, turning several floors into smouldering rubble, and leaving 73 injured, including 14 children, Ukrainian officials said, in what is likely to be the worst attack in months.\n\nA sizeable crowd gathered to watch the rescue effort at the site of the strike, while others joined rescue workers in a desperate search for survivors. There were urgent calls, human chains of volunteers clearing rubble and torch beams piercing thick clouds of dust and smoke.\n\nIn his address, Mr Zelensky said debris clearance in Dnipro would continue all night: \"We are fighting for every person, every life.\" So far, 38 people have been rescued from the building, including six children, officials say.\n\nThere is no information yet on why the apartment block was the object of such devastation, as it is some distance from the nearest power facility.\n\nOn a day when Russia seemed intent, once again, on targeting Ukraine's energy grid, this could have been one of the less accurate missiles in Russia's arsenal, or something brought down by Ukraine's air defences - although on the face of it, this seems a less likely explanation.\n\nIt has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid. Mr Zelensky said of the energy infrastructure facilities hit on Saturday that the most difficult situation was in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions.\n\nUkrainian state energy company Ukrenergo earlier said round-the-clock consumption limits had been set for all regions until midnight local time.\n\nOfficials, in the West and in Ukraine, had begun to wonder if Russia's \"energy war\" might be coming to an end, due to a possible shortage of suitable missiles and the evident fact the strategy has yet to break Ukraine's spirit.\n\nSaturday's attacks suggest Moscow still thinks it is a tactic worth pursuing.", "The research was an \"observational study\" rather than a clinical trial\n\nHormone replacement therapy (HRT) could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease among some higher-risk women, researchers say data has suggested.\n\nAbout a quarter of women in the UK are thought to carry a gene called APOE4, which is known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe new, early, research found HRT - which can help control menopause symptoms - was associated with better memory and larger brain volumes for those with the gene.\n\nThe researchers said it was too early to say for sure whether HRT reduced dementia risk in women, but the results highlighted its potential importance.\n\nThe research was an \"observational study\" rather than a clinical trial.\n\nAnd it did not measure whether the women it looked at went on to develop dementia.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK said the findings were encouraging. but that more and larger studies were needed to help understand the link between HRT and changes to the brain.\n\nThe study, led by Professor Anne-Marie Minihane, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, with Professor Craig Ritchie at the University of Edinburgh, was published in in the Alzheimer's Research & Therapy journal.\n\nIt looked at data from 1,178 women involved in the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia initiative, which studies participants' brain health over time.\n\nAll women who took part in the European initiative were over 50 and had no dementia diagnosis when joining it.\n\nThis study then looked at results of cognitive tests and brain volumes as recorded by MRI scans.\n\nDr Rasha Saleh, from UEA's Norwich Medical School. said the findings suggested HRT use was associated with \"better memory and larger brain volumes\" among the APOE4 gene carriers.\n\nIf confirmed in a clinical trial, she said, the effects of HRT would \"equate to a brain age that is several years younger\".\n\nProf Minihane said the results of the study were a \"very nice finding\" that would encourage them to run further studies.\n\nThe next stage will be to go on to a clinical trial, she said.\n\n\"We'll recruit people who are E4 and non-E4,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Put women on HRT, follow them up, study them in quite a lot of detail, and hopefully that will provide us with a definitive answer as to whether HRT is a really effective therapy in women who carry this E4 gene.\"\n\nShe added: \"The other major news I suppose was that the earlier the better - that HRT use seemed to be particularly beneficial in women who started it during the perimenopausal or early post-menopausal period.\"\n\nDr Sara Imarisio, head of strategic initiatives at the Alzheimer's Research UK, said the study provided evidence that HRT could have some cognitive benefits, but the findings needed to be confirmed with trials that directly tested it.\n\n\"The next step is to investigate this in more detail. Importantly, this study didn't measure whether women went on to develop dementia.\n\n\"So, its findings need to be confirmed, first in trials that directly test whether giving HRT affects women's cognitive abilities and changes in their brain, particularly carriers of the APOE4 gene.\n\n\"This will then help pave the way for finding possible interventions, for example clinical trials to see if it could eventually prevent dementia, and to help understand why dementia disproportionately affects women in the UK.\"\n\nAlzheimer's Society's associate director of research Dr Richard Oakley also said more studies were needed.\n\nHe said: \"Studies of this kind are important as they hint at a link between HRT and the changes to the brain.\n\n\"We need more studies, on a larger scale, to better understand this link.\"\n\nAlzheimer's is more common in women than in men - almost two thirds of Alzheimer's patients in the UK are women.\n\nAlthough the APOE4 gene is known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, people with the gene will not necessarily develop the condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\n\"It was bad. Really bad.\"\n\nJurgen Klopp's immediate reaction to Liverpool's heavy defeat by Brighton on Saturday was short and to the point.\n\nThe visitors were outplayed from start to finish at Amex Stadium, producing an alarmingly disjointed, toothless and lop-sided display that leaves them way off the pace in the Premier League.\n\nBrentford's win at home to Bournemouth on Saturday evening saw the Reds drop to ninth in the table, 16 points behind league leaders Arsenal having played a game more.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport after the 3-0 loss on the south coast, Klopp said: \"I can't remember a worse game. I honestly can't.\n\n\"Brighton played very well. They deserved to win. It was a very organised team against a not very organised team.\n\n\"Of course we're very concerned. How can you not be after a game like this?\"\n\nAfter 18 league games, Liverpool have scored fewer goals, conceded more, won fewer points and have a worse goal difference than at this stage of any previous full top-flight campaign under Klopp, who was appointed manager in October 2015.\n\nThey have dropped 26 points in the league this season - four more than across the entire 2021-22 campaign.\n\nKlopp fielded a 4-3-1-2 formation on Saturday, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain operating behind a front two of Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo, but there was an imbalance to their play which Brighton were only too keen to exploit.\n\nLiverpool fans will argue, with some justification, that injuries to Virgil van Dijk, Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and several others have had a major impact, but recent defensive frailties cannot be explained away.\n\nCareless mistakes were to blame for the 3-1 defeat at Brentford two weeks ago, and the 2-2 draw at home to Wolves in the FA Cup third round last Saturday.\n\nBrighton's opener in particular was entirely self-inflicted, Alexis Mac Allister intercepting Joel Matip's loose pass in the build-up to Solly March's 46th-minute effort.\n\nAsked what went wrong, captain Jordan Henderson simply said: \"Everything.\n\n\"It hasn't been right for a little while now. Everybody knows that. I'll take responsibility and the lads will too. We have to try to put it right.\n\n\"We're pretty low on confidence. The energy level is low. We have to keep fighting and hopefully we can change it sooner rather than later.\"\n\nRank out of seven seasons under Klopp\n\nKlopp delivered an angry response when asked during Friday's pre-match news conference why he has yet to bring in further reinforcements during the January transfer window, telling reporters that the \"transfer market is not the solution for us\".\n\nWhile Liverpool continue to be linked with Moises Caicedo - who delivered another midfield masterclass for Brighton on Saturday - and England international Jude Bellingham, Gakpo remains their only signing since the World Cup in Qatar.\n\nFormer England and Arsenal defender Martin Keown told Final Score a \"rebuilding job\" is required to pull Liverpool out of their current slump.\n\n\"I think Jurgen Klopp's a magnificent manager - we know that,\" he said. \"It just looks a bit old in midfield.\n\n\"If Liverpool can't press you - they were the best in Europe last year - then they're not the same. They just don't have that same energy.\"\n\nKlopp, however, believes better organisation remains the key to improving the Reds' fortunes.\n\n\"The same players have played outstanding football matches, but if things aren't properly organised then it can look like that,\" he said.\n\n\"Today is a really low point. From this game we can pick up absolutely nothing apart from things that did not work.\n\n\"To improve on today should not be too difficult.\"\n• None Visit our Liverpool page for all the latest Reds news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Liverpool news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Podcast: The Red Kop - listen to the latest episode on BBC Sounds\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRoberto de Zerbi says his Brighton side \"have a dream\" of qualifying for Europe as Solly March's double and a late Danny Welbeck strike condemned Liverpool to a heavy defeat at Amex Stadium.\n\nMarch converted Kaoru Mitoma's low cross to give the home team a deserved lead, after the returning Alexis Mac Allister had intercepted Joel Matip's loose pass.\n\nThe winger then doubled the hosts' advantage with a fabulous left-footed strike from Evan Ferguson's through-ball.\n\nSecond-half substitute Welbeck capped a magnificent Brighton display with a superb finish past Alisson after flicking the ball over Joe Gomez.\n\n\"I have a fantastic team of fantastic players,\" said De Zerbi. \"It is an honour to work with them.\n\n\"We have a target at the end of the season. Now we have to play another 20-21 games and we have to stay focused on those games.\n\n\"We want to work harder to achieve our target.\"\n\nDe Zerbi's side dominated the first half but failed to convert their pressure into goals, Trent Alexander-Arnold blocking March's effort near the goal-line and the lively Mitoma poking wide from a tight angle.\n\nBrighton thought they had won a penalty shortly before the break when March went to ground in the area under Alisson's challenge, but referee Darren England overturned his initial decision to award a spot-kick after consulting with VAR.\n\nIt mattered little, however, as March netted his third and fourth goals of the campaign before Welbeck struck to lift Brighton up to seventh - two places and two points above their opponents.\n• None Reaction to Brighton's win over Liverpool and the rest of Saturday's Premier League games\n• None Go straight to all the best Liverpool content\n\nDefensive frailties and a lack of physicality have proved Liverpool's undoing in recent weeks, with Jurgen Klopp's side conceding poor goals in defeat at Brentford in the Premier League and a draw at home to Wolves in the FA Cup last weekend.\n\nThe visitors, lining up in a 4-3-1-2 formation spearheaded by Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah, managed to keep free-flowing Brighton at bay in the first half but created next to nothing themselves and were fortunate to go into half-time on level terms.\n\nMitoma, in sparkling form for Brighton of late, caused Alexander-Arnold and Matip countless problems, with Salah - or any other Reds player for that matter - failing to offer any protection down their right flank.\n\nLiverpool survived a major let-off when Brighton were awarded a penalty for a foul on March by Alisson, only for VAR to rule that the winger had strayed offside from Adam Lallana's pass.\n\nBut the visitors' luck ran out in the second half as March scored twice in the space of seven minutes to put Brighton on course to a fifth win in seven top-flight games.\n\nGakpo had a close-range effort saved by Robert Sanchez late on, but Welbeck delivered the final blow with a strike that combined skill and audacity in equal measure.\n\nSeagulls going from strength to strength\n\nMac Allister was handed his first start since helping Argentina to World Cup glory in December, as Brighton made two changes to the team that thrashed Everton in their last league match.\n\nThe midfielder paraded his World Cup winners' medal before kick-off and was given a rousing reception by the Seagulls supporters, who were hoping to witness a first home league win over Liverpool since 14 January 1961 - precisely 62 years ago.\n\nBuoyed perhaps by Mac Allister's return to the starting line-up, Brighton played with precision and fluency from the start. March's low shot was brilliantly cleared to safety by Alexander-Arnold, before Mitoma fired past the far post after breaching the Liverpool defence.\n\nWhile Brighton's opener came from a Liverpool error, there was nothing fortunate about the home side's second as March finished magnificently after being played in by teenager Ferguson, who delivered the latest in a string of eye-catching performances.\n\nBrighton have now scored in each of their last eight games in the top flight, netting 21 goals in that run.\n\n\"It's one of the best performances I can remember for a long time,\" March told BBC Sport. \"It's a great day and if we keep playing like that then we'll do well, that's for sure.\n\n\"It was just about being patient and waiting for that right pass. We play better against the big teams at home. I don't know why.\n\n\"I love playing for Roberto - he's great. He puts his arm around you and tells you you're a good player. Maybe that's what I needed.\"\n• None Attempt missed. Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jeremy Sarmiento (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Moisés Caicedo.\n• None Attempt saved. Ibrahima Konaté (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Andrew Robertson with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Welbeck (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Solly March.\n• None Jeremy Sarmiento (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Joël Veltman (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 3, Liverpool 0. Danny Welbeck (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Solly March with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "The scene at the devastated apartment block in Dnipro is one of profound shock and frantic action.\n\nA sizeable crowd has gathered to watch, while others have joined rescue workers in a desperate search for survivors. The smouldering heap of wreckage, several storeys high, is a hive of activity.\n\nThere are urgent calls, human chains of volunteers clearing rubble and torch beams piercing thick clouds of dust and smoke.\n\nAs night falls and the temperature drops, the official number of dead and injured is climbing inexorably. It’s likely to be the worst attack here in months.\n\nThere’s no information yet on what caused such devastation. The apartment block is some distance from the nearest power facility.\n\nOn a day when Russia seemed intent, once again, on targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, this could have been one of the less accurate missiles in Russia’s arsenal, or something brought down by Ukraine’s air defences - although on the face of it, this seems a less likely explanation.\n\nIt’s been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Officials, in the West and in Ukraine, had begun to wonder if Russia’s “energy war” might be coming to an end, due to a possible shortage of suitable missiles and the evident fact that the strategy has yet to break Ukraine’s spirit.", "Polina reads in the window of her room on the cruise ship\n\nWhen Andriy gathered his family together and fled the war in Ukraine with only what they could carry, the last place he thought he would end up was on a cruise ship.\n\nBut for the past five months, the MS Ambition, docked in Glasgow, has been home.\n\nThe unconventional accommodation has turned out to have provided the bridge into Scottish life that the families needed.\n\nAfter six months, more than 1,000 Ukrainians, including 400 children, are preparing to go on the move again - this time to something more long term.\n\n\"It was very exciting during the first few weeks,\" Andriy told BBC Scotland. \"I have three kids and we have two small cabins.\n\n\"The conditions are good and we are very grateful. We have everything we need for temporary accommodation.\n\n\"We have a job centre on the ship, the Scottish government and city council advise us how to integrate here.\n\n\"We also have English courses and on the ship we made our own community. There are people who like to sing together, it was like a small social experiment, a small community of Ukrainians.\n\n\"But on a ship, you are quite isolated from society.\"\n\nAndriy and his family want to find jobs, earn money and pay for their own accommodation\n\nAndriy, his wife Natalia, Maria aged 10, and twins Oleksiy and Polina, eight, have been part of a community onboard the MS Ambition.\n\nBut it was only ever going to be a temporary measure and the Scottish government announced this week that the ship's contract will end on 31 March.\n\nThe contract for a second ship, the MS Victoria I docked in Edinburgh, has however been extended by five months.\n\nAndriy said: \"We are very grateful for the people of Scotland welcoming us here and giving us the opportunity to bring our kids and families to a safe environment.\n\n\"There were rumours the contract would end in March so everyone expected that and at least now we have a deadline. There is uncertainty over what will happen next but Ukrainians are used to uncertainty and we will get through it somehow.\"\n\nThe family would love to go home. But with the war in Ukraine still volatile, and constant Russian attacks, that is not yet possible.\n\n\"There is no better place than home,\" said Andriy. \" We understand we cannot go back to that immediately but I agree maybe it's time for another phase.\"\n\nMS Ambition has been home to more than 1,000 Ukrainians including 400 children\n\nAndriy worked in HR for a tech company in Lviv. He has been job hunting and like many on the ship who have already got work, he wants to help himself too.\n\n\"We are not expecting something will just be given to us. We want to be employed and to earn and pay for our accommodation. I hope we will manage that.\"\n\nSome have already moved on from MS Ambition, organising their own rented accommodation. Andriy has tried.\n\n\"It is quite challenging for us because we don't have any credit history here, we need a guarantor to co-sign a contract with you and I have no idea who that would be,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a bottleneck in the system, how to integrate, and we don't know how to overcome it.\"\n\nAndriy's daughter Polina has lived on a ship for almost five months\n\nThe Scottish government is working with Glasgow City Council and other local authorities to get longer term accommodation arranged.\n\nVolunteer hosting is still part of the plan.\n\nThe Scottish government's minister for Ukrainian refugees, Neil Gray, has urged potential hosts to come forward.\n\n\"There have been a number of people that have already moved on from the ships who have been matched into alternative accommodation by us, who have moved into social housing or their own private rented accommodation,\" he said.\n\n\"We expect that to continue.\n\nThe contract for the MS ambition will end on 31 March\n\n\"We have matching teams from the local authority and Scottish government on board the ship to look at what people's needs are to give them as much choice as possible and to present to them offers of accommodation from generous people opening up their homes across Scotland.\n\n\"That will be intensified now.\"\n\nAndriy appreciates the generosity of such hosts and sees it as an opportunity to be part of a Scottish community.\n\n\"That is incredible,\" he said. \"I can't imagine what kind of people they are and what kind of culture and kindness they have to do that.\n\n\"This is an opportunity to connect and learn the real culture, to learn English and to make friends.\"\n• None Ukrainian refugees on cruise ship to be rehomed", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "More nurses will be asked to strike next month in a bid to raise pressure on the government, union leaders warn.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says if progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January the next set of strikes will include all eligible members in England for the first time.\n\nIt comes as ministers push for new laws on strike days.\n\nNursing staff from more than 70 NHS trusts in England are set to take industrial action this week.\n\nThe RCN has said nurses should receive a pay increase of 5% above inflation this year, which at the peak rate of inflation would have equated to a 19% rise, although reports have suggested it would accept 10%.\n\nThe government says the demands are unaffordable and pay rises were decided by independent pay review bodies.\n\nGeneral secretary Pat Cullen described Rishi Sunak's position in their negotiation deadlock as \"baffling, reckless and politically ill-considered\".\n\nShe said: \"The prime minister gave nursing staff a little optimism that he was beginning to move, but seven days later he appears entirely uninterested in finding a way to stop this.\n\n\"Nursing staff just wanted to be valued and recognised.\n\n\"Without, they will keep leaving in record numbers with consequences for patients that Robert Francis documented in painful detail.\"\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We have accepted the recommendations of the independent NHS Pay Review Body in full and have given over one million NHS workers a pay rise of at least £1,400 this year.\n\n\"This is on top of a 3% pay increase last year when public sector pay was frozen and wider government support with the cost of living.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Sunak said he hopes to \"find a way through\" the deadlock with unions to avert further industrial action.\n\nThe government also wants to bring in controversial legislation that would impose a legal duty of minimum service levels on strike days for workers in health, education, transport and several other sectors.", "A Romanian police officer was seen behind the wheel of a Ferrari at Andrew Tate's property\n\nSeveral luxury cars have been seized from British-American influencer Andrew Tate's property in Bucharest.\n\nMr Tate was detained alongside his brother Tristan last month as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape, which they deny.\n\nCars, including a Rolls-Royce, BMW and Mercedes-Benz were removed from the property on Saturday, Reuters reported.\n\nMr Tate's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Tate lost a bid to end his detention in Romania after a court rejected his appeal and said he should remain in custody.\n\nMr Tate was seen carrying what appeared to be a copy of the Quran as he walked into Bucharest Appeal Court handcuffed to his brother.\n\nAfter the arrests on 29 December, police said they had identified six people who were allegedly \"sexually exploited\" by what it called an \"organised criminal group\".\n\nPolice alleged the victims were \"recruited\" by the British citizens, who they said misrepresented their intention to enter into a relationship with the victims - which they called \"the loverboy method\".\n\nThey were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, a statement alleged.\n\nThe Tates' lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, has said his clients rejected all the allegations.\n\nBorn in the US before moving to the UK, Mr Tate went on to have a successful career as a kickboxer.\n\nIn 2016, he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman. He then set up a \"webcam business\", which he described as \"adult entertainment\".\n\nHe went on to gain global notoriety, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.", "The execution of British-Iranian man Alireza Akbari, who had been sentenced to death, has been widely condemned.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his execution was a \"callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime\".\n\nFrance summoned Iran's top diplomat in Paris, warning that Tehran's repeated violations of international law could not go unanswered.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has imposed sanctions on Iran's Prosecutor General, saying it would hold the regime to account \"for its appalling human rights violations\".\n\n\"Sanctioning him today underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari's execution,\" UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.\n\nIn a further diplomatic move, the foreign secretary has temporarily withdrawn Britain's ambassador to Iran, Simon Shercliff, \"for further consultations\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's official news outlet Mizan reported on Saturday that Mr Akbari, 61, had been hanged. It did not specify the date when the execution took place.\n\nIran posted a video of Mr Akbari earlier this week showing what appeared to be forced confessions, and after the country's intelligence ministry had described the British-Iranian as \"one of the most important agents of the British intelligence service in Iran\".\n\nHowever, BBC Persian broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he said he had been tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nMr Akbari's family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" on Wednesday and his wife said he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nHis nephew, Ramin Forghani, has told the BBC of his shock at his uncle's execution, describing it as the sign of a \"desperate\" regime.\n\nHe said his uncle was an Iranian patriot devoted to the country - a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, consultant to the Iranian government on nuclear talks with the West and also a former deputy defence minister.\n\nMr Akbari returned to Tehran at the request of Ali Shamkhani (centre), secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, his nephew told the BBC\n\nMr Akbari had moved to the UK with an investment visa and become a naturalised citizen, his family say.\n\nBut Mr Forghani said his uncle had returned to Tehran from the UK following a request from his former boss, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Luxembourg, Mr Forghani said: \"He was devoted to the country, which is why he went back.\n\n\"He was involved with the system from its foundation, and would not contemplate causing harm either to the regime or the population.\n\n\"I can only speculate that there has been some power struggle at the very highest levels of the government and they have decided to create this plot against my uncle.\"\n\nMr Forghani links the timing of his execution to the UK's plans to designate Iran's powerful IRGC - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - as a terrorist organisation. \"This cannot be unrelated,\" he said.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International called on the UK to investigate claims Mr Akbari was tortured before his death. The group accused Iran of showing \"pitifully little respect\" for human life.\n\nDr Sanam Vakil, Iran expert at international affairs think-tank Chatham House, said Mr Akbari's death would be used by the Iranian regime to suggest a \"heavy outside hand\" was stoking the anti-government unrest - linking the protests with the accusation that Western nations were trying to \"destabilise the Islamic republic\".\n\n\"Keeping the narrative of the West being involved is a way to maintain unity among the political establishment,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nTies between the UK and Iran have deteriorated in recent months since London imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police and other top security figures, in response to the country's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a longstanding debt owed to Tehran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "He is miles ahead in the polls. He faces a rival party with a serious habit of knocking lumps out of itself. Wages run out more quickly every week. And there's a sense among the public that nothing works any more.\n\nPut all that together, and then ask yourself, is Keir Starmer going to be the next prime minister? It's a slam-dunk, surely? Hold on - whether that prospect thrills you, appals you, or leaves you cold, don't make that assumption.\n\n\"No-one believes we are really 20 points ahead,\" says one shadow minister.\n\nThe simple gap polls suggest between the two big parties doesn't capture the many voters who aren't sure who to back - showing up right now as a sizeable and mysterious chunk of \"don't knows\".\n\nThe election might be only 18 months or so away, but political years are like dog years, so it's a metaphorical lifetime until 2024.\n\nAnd while the Tories' specialist subject in the last few years has been messy turmoil, their campaign machine will crank up before too long, determined to do Labour a lot of damage.\n\nRemember too, the arithmetic of the existing Parliament. Boris Johnson's win in 2019 was so huge that Labour would have to achieve one of the biggest swings in living memory to end up with a measly majority of one.\n\nThat's why one shadow cabinet member says Keir Starmer's \"overwhelming message in our meetings is: don't be complacent\".\n\nAnother says, \"You won't find anyone sensible who thinks we have sealed the deal.\"\n\nIt is far, far too early to say if the Labour leader will become the next prime minister.\n\nBut let's ask, as this crucial year begins, is Labour's advantage a side-effect of total Tory meltdown - or a political achievement that has persuaded voters to a shift which will really last?\n\n\"We don't think it's all down to our brilliant genius,\" one of Labour's top team jokes.\n\nUnless you've been living on Planet Zog, you'll be well aware that the Conservatives have worked pretty hard in recent times to destroy their reputation as being the natural party of government in the UK.\n\nTheir former leader got into trouble over whether he was telling the truth and breaking the law under his own roof.\n\nHis successor's financial moves more or less crashed the pound, and \"trashed their reputation for looking after our cash\", says one shadow minister.\n\nRecession is expected. Inflation is historically high, and hurts. And although taxes are at record levels, public services are visibly stretched too thin in many areas, with strikes to boot.\n\nThey have a new leader, prime minister number three, who is trying hard to stop the rot.\n\nYet digest that list for a moment, and it is little surprise that right now, the opposition are on top. As another shadow minister says though, \"It is not good enough just to say we're not the other guys\".\n\nJust as the Tories have chaotically been going about the business of eroding their credibility, Keir Starmer has, piece by piece, been deadly serious about rebuilding Labour's.\n\nJust as it's worth remembering how huge the Conservative victory was in 2019, remember too how broken the Labour party was then.\n\nThat's not just about the car crash at the ballot boxes, but the fear and loathing inside the party, administrative problems, conflicts over antisemitism, financial issues.\n\nThree years on, Starmer's backers point to a party that's been totally transformed. His moves have angered many on the left who feel that he misled them during his leadership campaign by ditching several of the promises he made then.\n\nLegal disputes and resentments simmer, but there's no question it is a different party, a more focused and efficient machine with a different character and far less internal strife.\n\nSome who were devotees of Jeremy Corybn have left in fury. One shadow minister told me \"at party conference there were plenty of people shouting at us on the way in, but at least they're no longer inside the hall\".\n\nThere's a familiar criticism of Keir Starmer that he's a bit, well, dull - or cautious, to be more diplomatic.\n\nBut the change to the party is dramatic.\n\nThe shadow minister says while Starmer \"didn't do a Blair, make a speech about clause 4 on stage\" - when he controversially changed a key clause in Labour's constitution - the change in the party is \"profound\", and achieved by Starmer's \"steeliness\" to get it done.\n\nOne Labour MP who hung on to their seat in 2019 says that after the changes the leadership has made, the party \"isn't something to be frightened of anymore\", concluding if Keir Starmer hadn't taken on the battles inside the party, even at their wits' end with the Tories, voters would not have been willing to take a look.\n\nAll that, inevitably, feeds into the public's perception of Labour, which shows up so clearly in the polls.\n\nEven in the darkest days of Theresa May, when sometimes it felt like the government might not last the day, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn only edged slightly ahead.\n\nBut unsure if this advantage will last, the party's leadership wants to make the most of the moment - using the chance, and a seeming new-found confidence, to talk about immigration, about making changes to the NHS, seeming almost to delight in talking up issues that could cause consternation on the inside, like use of the private sector in health care.\n\nAnd almost trolling Brexiteers by stealing their \"take back control\" slogan when talking about the normally worthy subject of devolution.\n\nPolitics can (I promise) be fun, and with several months of a polling lead, Keir Starmer looks like he might be beginning to have some.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer leaves after delivering a New Year's speech at University College London\n\nYet there are plenty of pitfalls ahead - what position should his party take over the looming constitutional clash over trans rights? How would the Labour party, with its historic ties to the unions, deal with industrial unrest?\n\nThere are always calls from the backbenches for him to \"get off the sidelines\", as one senior MP bemoans, calling for urgency, clarity, a stronger sense of standing up for those suffering in this tough winter.\n\nThe same MP reports a \"real sense of trepidation and anxiousness\" about the Starmer project. \"I'm really twitchy about the whole thing.\"\n\nAnother backbencher says that while \"voters think we are credible, they don't think we are exciting yet\".\n\nWhile the party is consistently far ahead of the Conservatives, that's not the same as Starmer's personal ratings against Rishi Sunak.\n\nIt is impossible to divide up the reason why Labour has been so far ahead for so long neatly into the by-product of the Tory chaos and the changes the party has undergone itself.\n\nOne shadow minister wonders if it matters. Yet surely the reasons for the lead will make a difference to how sticky that support is during the battle of the next year - how easy or hard will it be for Keir Starmer to make this poll lead permanent and concrete, or for Rishi Sunak to peel it back?\n\nThe Conservatives' implosion has, in the words of one senior Labour figure, \"unlocked\" the electorate.\n\nKeir Starmer's plan was always a three-stage sequence - to sort out his party, then take the shine off the Conservatives, and then to explain to the country what he would do.\n\nWithout question the Tories have done much of the second part of his plan on his behalf. But part three is perhaps just truly beginning.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about profiting permanently from your opponents' disaster. And with Rishi Sunak determined to get his party back on track, Keir Starmer can't rely on the Conservatives giving it away.\n\nYou can watch from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer this Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 80,000 Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against plans by the new right-wing coalition government to overhaul the judiciary.\n\nThe reforms would make it easier for parliament to overturn Supreme Court rulings, among other things.\n\nProtesters described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed changes as an attack on democratic rule.\n\nIt follows the instalment of the most religious and hardline government in Israeli history.\n\nRallies were also held outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and in the northern city of Haifa, local media reported.\n\nOne group of protesters clashed with police while attempting to block a major road, Ayalon highway, in Tel Aviv.\n\nCritics say the reforms would cripple judicial independence, foster corruption, set back minority rights and deprive Israel's court system of credibility.\n\nBanners referred to the new coalition led by Mr Netanyahu as a government of shame.\n\nIsraeli security forces with left-wing protesters during the rallies in Tel Aviv\n\nAmong those opposed are Israel's Supreme Court chief justice, Esther Hayat, and the country's attorney-general.\n\nThe BBC's Samantha Granville in Tel Aviv saw protesters draped in Israeli flags, carrying posters in Hebrew, and pictures of Mr Netanyahu with X's over his mouth.\n\nThere was a group of young girls with red-painted hand prints over their mouths. They wanted to tell the government they won't be quiet.\n\nOne woman, who asked not to use her name, said through her tears she was a second-generation Holocaust survivor.\n\n\"My parents immigrated from non-democratic regimes to live in a democracy,\" she said. \"They came from the totalitarian regime to live freely. So seeing that destroyed is heart-breaking.\"\n\nShe and her friend said they expected Mr Netanyahu to try radical changes, but never thought they would come so fast.\n\nThese are the largest demonstrations since Mr Netanyahu's new coalition government was sworn in, in December.\n\nOpposition parties had called on Israelis to join the rallies to \"save democracy\" and in protest at the planned judicial overhaul.\n\nUnder the plans announced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin earlier this month, a simple majority in the Knesset (parliament) would have the power to effectively annul Supreme Court rulings. This could enable the government of the day to pass legislation without fear of it being struck down.\n\nCritics fear the new government could use this to scrap Mr Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial, although the government has not said it would do that.\n\nMr Netanyahu is being tried on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust - something he strongly denies.\n\nA huge crowd gathered in Tel Aviv to protest at the judicial reforms to reduce Supreme Court powers\n\nThe reforms would also give politicians more influence over the appointment of judges, with most members of the selection committee coming from the ruling coalition.\n\nIf it passes into law, the plan could make it easier for the government to legislate in favour of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank without worrying about challenges in the Supreme Court.\n\nIsrael has previously highlighted the power of the court to rule against it, as a way of blunting international criticism of such moves.", "Benjamin Mendy was accused of luring women to his home and sexually assaulting them\n\nManchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault against four young women.\n\nThe jury failed to reach verdicts on one count of rape and one of attempted rape and a retrial will take place.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of three counts of rape against two teenagers.\n\nJurors at Chester Crown Court could not reach verdicts on six other counts by five other women.\n\nMr Mendy, 28, and his friend Mr Matturie, had been accused of raping women at the player's home in Prestbury, Cheshire, and at a Manchester flat.\n\nMr Mendy covered his face with both hands as the jury foreman repeated \"not guilty\" to the six counts.\n\nDuring a six-month trial, prosecutors told the jury Mr Mendy was a \"predator\" who turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game.\n\nBut jurors were also told by defence lawyers that while the trial, involving money, sex and celebrity, had \"all the makings of a good drama\", it came with a significant \"plot twist\" - that the accused were innocent.\n\nLawyers for both men argued each allegation was \"riddled with inconsistencies and flaws\".\n\nLisa Wilding KC, representing Mr Matturie, told jurors it was \"chillingly easy\" to make false allegations and suggested all the women involved were in some way connected through friendships, social media or by attending parties.\n\nDefending Mr Mendy, Eleanor Laws KC, suggested that \"regret\" at having \"quick, animalistic sex\" was not the same as being raped.\n\nJurors were told not to take a \"moralistic\" approach to the defendants' sexual lifestyles.\n\nThe unanimous not guilty verdicts were delivered on Wednesday by the seven men and four women on the jury, one juror having been discharged earlier for medical reasons.\n\nThe verdicts could not be reported until jurors concluded considering the remaining two counts, after they were given a majority direction by Judge Steven Everett, meaning he would accept a 10-1 majority on any verdict.\n\nLouis Saha Matturie, 41, was also found not guilty of three counts of rape\n\nBut after 14 days of deliberation, jurors could not reach verdicts on Mr Mendy's alleged attempted rape of a woman, 29, in 2018 and the alleged rape of another woman, 24, in October 2020.\n\nThe jury failed to reach a verdict on three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault against Mr Matturie.\n\nJudge Everett discharged the jury on Friday, ending the trial.\n\nBoth men had been on trial since 10 August, accused by 13 women of multiple sexual offences.\n\nLockdown-busting parties were held both at Mr Mendy's home and an apartment he rented on Chapel Street near Manchester city centre, the court heard.\n\nHe was first arrested in November 2020 and was suspended by his club in August 2021, after he was charged with rape.\n\nThe prosecution has sought a retrial on the two counts the jury failed to reach a verdict on and it has been scheduled for 26 June.\n\nMr Matturie also faces a retrial, with a trial date set for September.\n\nMatthew Conway, prosecuting, said: \"The prosecution has made a decision. We have made a decision today, which is to proceed on these counts in two separate trials and we seek today a provisional case management.\"\n\nA statement from Manchester City said: \"Given there are open matters related to this case, the club is not in a position to comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe allegations and trial had been \"absolute hell\" for Mr Mendy, the court heard, with his life in football \"over\" as he would \"never escape\" the accusations.\n\nMr Mendy's lawyer said he was \"delighted\" to have been cleared of sex attacks on four women and looked forward to clearing his name at a retrial over two other allegations and \"rebuilding his life\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "The Red Lady of Paviland are, in fact, the skeletal remains of a man dating back more than 30,000 years\n\nTwo-hundred years ago scientists unearthed one of the most intriguing and controversial finds in Welsh archaeological history.\n\nOn 18 January 1823, The Red Lady of Paviland was discovered in a cave on the Gower peninsula, Swansea, by William Buckland, a reverend and Oxford University's first ever professor of geology.\n\n\"She\" was immediately transported to the Oxford University museum, prompting a two-century campaign for the remains to be repatriated to Wales.\n\nYet, for at least the first century after the discovery, no-one was entirely sure about what they'd found.\n\nA skeleton covered in red ochre, which is naturally occurring iron oxide, Prof Buckland presumed The Red \"Lady\" to be a Roman prostitute, or witch.\n\nHowever, further investigations over the centuries have revealed \"she\" was a \"he\", and in fact dates from between 33,000 and 34,000 years ago.\n\nRed Lady of Paviland was found in a cave on the Gower, Swansea, almost 200 years ago\n\nBut Prof George Nash, of the University of Liverpool and Coimbra University in Portugal, believes we should guard against judging Buckland too harshly.\n\n\"In 1823 the science of archaeology was very much in its infancy,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no careful stratified removal and recording of artefacts, great quantities of material were just hoiked out of the ground and dumped in a massive jumbled pile by unskilled labourers.\n\n\"There were indications that the skeleton could have been a woman due to the amount of seashell beads and ivory wands discovered around her.\"\n\nProf Nash, who is also convener of the Welsh Rock Art Organisation, added: \"You also have to bear in mind that Buckland was a clergyman and a creationist and - almost half a century before Darwin - his conclusions wouldn't have seemed that outlandish at the time.\n\n\"He wasn't a literalist, he believed that the seven days creation of the bible was a metaphor for seven billion years of the world's development, but this assumption did lead him to make some massive errors in his dating.\"\n\nProf George Nash says many early attempts at carbon dating were contaminated by scientists' DNA\n\nThe first breakthrough in the quest to establish the Red Lady's true identity came in 1912, when archaeologist William Solace revisited Goat's Cave in Paviland where \"she\" had been discovered and found flint arrow heads and tools.\n\nSolace concluded, correctly, that he, in fact, had been a hunter-gatherer or warrior during what is commonly known as the last Ice Age, though over the last 100 years his date has been pushed back from the Mesolithic period (4-10,000 BCE) to the Palaeolithic era (35,000/10,000 BCE).\n\nProf Nash said this fits in better with what we know of the climate and landscape at the time.\n\n\"It's likely that many of the early attempts at carbon dating were contaminated by modern DNA rubbing off the fingers of the scientists handling the exhibits,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only in the 1980s that we start to get a more reliable date, and even that has been finessed over the years as technology has improved.\"\n\nThe skeleton is on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, although there have been calls for it to return to Wales\n\nProf Nash added: \"33,000 years ago makes much more sense, as it falls during the warming period before the last Ice Age, when the Welsh ice cap was beginning to expand within mid Wales, and eventually covering the whole of Wales.\"\n\nHe explains that the Gower landscape would have looked very different in those days, with sea-levels having retreated so far it would have been possible to walk from Northern Africa all the way to southern England and then over the Bristol Channel into the few navigable sections of south Wales.\n\n\"The Red Lady and his cohorts were most likely tracking herds of Mammoth, deer or bison, and the ritualistic nature of his burial shows one of the earliest examples of spiritualistic thinking in Western Europe.\"\n\nTens of thousands of years ago, for a brief time it was possible to walk from Africa all the way to south Wales, where the Red Lady was found\n\nLord Davies of Gower, formerly Byron Davies MP for Gower, has long been a campaigner for the Red Lady's remains to be brought back to Wales.\n\n\"I was brought up in Port Eynon, just down the road from Paviland, so I was always fascinated by the story, but when I went to Gowerton Grammar School my English master got me even more interested and I went to visit the cave for myself.\n\n\"As a politician I started to get involved in the campaign to bring the Red Lady back to Wales, but given how delicate the remains are, and the cost involved in finding a permanent home in Wales, I'm not sure it'll ever happen.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, Lord Davies said he won't give up on his dream of seeing the Red Lady returned to Swansea\n\nLord Davies admits that given the cost-of-living crisis local councils and the Welsh government probably have more pressing demands on their finances, though he said he would never entirely give up on his dream.\n\nBut Prof Nash cautions against the \"Welsh Mysticism\" which has been created around the Red Lady over the years.\n\n\"Some have attempted to portray the remains as some sort of ancient Welsh ancestor, which is palpable nonsense,\" he said.\n\n\"Whoever he was, he was almost certainly of African or Arabian distinction, fleeing conflict or over-crowding in his more hospitable homeland.\n\n\"What's more, after the brief thaw of the Palaeolithic era, Wales was cut off again for several thousand years, so there's absolutely no chance of these remains having any genetic or cultural relationship to any modern Welsh person.\"\n\nYet Prof Nash does agree with Lord Davies in some respects.\n\n\"He may not be part of our genetic lineage, but he is a significant part of Welsh History.\n\n\"If there was a way the remains could be brought back to Wales safely - and that's a very big 'if' - I think it would definitely be the right thing to do.", "Andrew runs a fish and chip shop and says many takeaways will face higher costs\n\nA ban on some single-use plastics will come into force in England from October, the government has announced.\n\nTo tackle the growing plastic problem, takeaways, restaurants and cafes must stop using single-use plastic cutlery, plates and bowls.\n\nGreen groups welcomed the move, but said it could go further to address packaging being sent to landfill.\n\nThe British Takeaway Campaign told BBC News that businesses need more support to implement it.\n\nFish and chips restaurants and other takeaways will become more expensive as small companies will be forced to pass on higher costs of packaging to consumers, suggests Andrew Crook, who runs a fish and chip shop in Lancashire and is deputy chair of the British Takeaway Campaign.\n\nEngland uses about 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery, mostly plastic, a year, and 721 million single-use plates, according to estimates by the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs.\n\n\"We believe in doing our bit for the environment but many small businesses are only just hanging on,\" Mr Crook said.\n\nPlastic-free packaging is more common in takeaways now, he says, but can cost 12p per item more.\n\nIn a kebab shop in London, Ibo - who did not give his surname - says rising bills and fewer customers splashing out on his takeaway burgers, kebabs and chips are a worry.\n\n\"It will cost us more to change packaging. I'm not a fan of plastic myself, I wouldn't use it if I had a choice. But how else can we package our kebabs?\" he told BBC News.\n\nSome cafes have already stopped using single-use plastics. \"For us it's been a very positive story,\" explains Louise Lateur, managing director of E5 Bakehouse in London.\n\nThe cafe switched about five years ago, and in 2021 stopped using all throwaway coffee cups altogether. Now it uses a mix of compostable packaging and reusable cups or takeaway boxes.\n\nSome companies are trying to switch to fully reusable packaging\n\nAt the counter selling pastries, bread and lunches, Helen Vandenhaute shows me their stackable \"tiffin tins\" used for takeaways. Customers buy the tins, order takeaway and then bring the tin back next time.\n\nAt first the tins were \"quite popular\", but they're not in heavy use now. Customers still value convenience, Helen suggests.\n\nBecause compostable packaging is more expensive \"we are now more careful about what we use a takeaway box for, so I suppose we are reducing waste that way\", Helen explains.\n\nWhile she shows me around, a cargo bike parks at the front door. Danilo Ponzetta picks up a large box of reusable cups and loads them into the bike.\n\nE5 encourages customers to bring their own cup, but people who forget can use a service by start-up Reuser, which is one of several companies offering this in London.\n\nSeveral companies in London now offer reusable cup pick-up services\n\nCustomers download an app, scan the cup, and after enjoying their coffee, they must return the cup to the cafe within 10 days or pay a fee. Reuser collect the cups, take them to be cleaned, and return to the cafe again.\n\nIt has saved about 60,000 throwaway coffee cups from landfill, CEO Andrew Matthews explains.\n\nHelen says that customers were initially put off by the extra steps. \"But once people get past the barrier of a new system, they are generally happy - it's become normal here,\" she says.\n\nMs Lateur says the risks in switching were daunting and suggests the government provide more incentives for businesses to become more environmentally friendly.\n\n\"Everyone needs to remember that all single-use items, regardless of material, have an environmental impact,\" explains Helen Bird from the climate action NGO WRAP, adding that more measures are likely to come into place in coming months to address other packaging.\n\n\"This announcement is really just nibbling around the edges of a giant problem,\" Greenpeace commented, calling on the government to introduce targets for supermarkets to offer reuse schemes.\n\nDefra says it is considering introducing a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers.\n• None Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned", "The Virginia school remains closed after the incident\n\nA staff member at the Virginia school where a six-year-old boy allegedly shot his teacher last week had been alerted before the shooting that the child might have a weapon, an official said.\n\nThe boy's bag was searched, but no weapon was found, Richneck Elementary school superintendent George Parker told parents.\n\nFirst-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner was left with serious injuries after police say the boy shot her \"intentionally\".\n\nPolice said he used his mother's gun.\n\nThe shooting has rocked the town of Newport News and raised questions about what legal ramifications the young boy could face for carrying out the shooting.\n\n\"At least one administrator was notified of a possible weapon,\" Mr Parker said during an online meeting with parents on Thursday, according to a clip shared by local news outlet WAVY-TV. \"(The staff member) was aware that that student had, there was a potential that there was a weapon on campus.\"\n\nThe school superintendent did not clarify whether the boy hid the weapon or why authorities did not find it in his backpack.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the school superintendent for comments.\n\nAfter the shooting, police said they found a 9mm Taurus pistol in the class near the student's desk, along with his backpack, a mobile phone and one spent shell casing.\n\nPolice determined through an interview with the child's mother that the gun was bought legally and stored in their home.\n\nThe shooting happened without warning, and with no fight or physical struggle, police said.\n\nNewport News police chief Steve Drew said the child fired one round at his teacher. He added that the \"shooting was not accidental, it was intentional\", and that it took place while Ms Zwerner was giving a lesson.\n\nThe school remains closed after the incident.\n\nMs Zwerner was in serious but stable condition earlier this week, authorities said.\n\nThe school is making administrative changes in the wake of the incident and has consulted with Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a shooter killed 19 children and two adults last year.\n\nThe school district is installing metal detectors at every campus and will hold a safety training day where staff can discuss additional security measures, school board Chair Lisa Surles-Law said at a news conference Thursday.\n\nDaily metal detector checks for students remain rare, taking place at fewer than 2% of public elementary schools in 2020, according to National Center for Education data.\n\nThe district has not yet said when Richneck will reopen. The six-year-old boy is being held at a medical facility.\n\nPolice have lauded Ms Zwerner for her determination to escort all of her students out of the classroom after she was shot.\n• None What happens to a six-year-old who shoots someone?", "Flooding in the centre of York has forced rescue workers to navigate parts of the city in boats\n\nPeople across the UK are facing more rain, flooding and cold weather in the coming days.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 119 flood warnings - mainly in west and south-west England and Yorkshire - as well as 193 flood alerts.\n\nThe bad weather has already damaged hundreds of homes and left many without power.\n\nAn alert for severe cold weather has also been issued for England from Sunday evening, as temperatures drop.\n\nIt will remain in place across much of the UK until Thursday morning, with the warning the cold could increase health risks for vulnerable people and disrupt some services.\n\nYellow Met Office warnings for rain, wind and ice are in place across parts of northern England, Northern Ireland, and most of Scotland.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said while the persistent rain would ease away on Saturday, the weather was going to turn \"much colder\" in the days ahead.\n\nThe Environment Agency said conditions in the West Midlands will worse before improving - the River Severn is expected to peak in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on Saturday night and Worcester on Sunday.\n\nRiver levels have been high at Atcham Bridge in Shropshire\n\nSeveral football matches have been cancelled across Devon and Cornwall because of severe weather conditions.\n\nIn Somerset, Keynsham Town's Crown Field has been shut, along with other sports venues across the county, and the football club said water levels at the ground were the worst since Christmas 2013.\n\nBath's rugby game against Toulon was postponed and moved to Kingsholm stadium in Gloucester, after The Rec failed a safety inspection.\n\nThis is the scene around Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire where flood waters have crept close\n\nRoad users have also been affected in Apperley, Gloucestershire, where the River Severn burst its banks\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued dozens of flood alerts around Wales, and seven flood warnings concentrated in the south.\n\nThe bad weather has caused travel disruption across much of Wales. The River Ely has burst its banks, causing flood to many areas, including a golf driving range near Cowbridge, west of Cardiff.\n\n\"If we had more rain... I think we'd have been underwater,\" manager and pro golfer Aled Griffiths told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is flooding across Wales following stormy conditions\n\nFlood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - include those for groundwater flooding, along with areas close to rivers like the Avon and Wye.\n\nSome flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - are also in place further north, including in Keswick in the Lake District, and areas of Yorkshire.\n\nThis is the panoramic view where the River Parrett has flooded field in Somerset\n\nDrivers in the Dumfries area have been having to cope with challenging conditions\n\nThere are also one flood warning in place in Scotland for Callander and Ayr to Troon, and seven flood alerts across the country.\n\nForecasters are warning that bus and train services will probably be affected, while spray and flooding on roads is set to make journey times longer.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a 70% chance of severely cold weather, icy conditions and heavy snow from 18:00 GMT Sunday until 09:00 Thursday.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nine influential women have been painted by artist Marian Noone, aka Friz\n\nThe \"immense contribution\" of women to the Northern Ireland peace process is the focus of a new exhibition.\n\nPeace Heroines of Northern Ireland celebrates women who \"wanted to create a better future\", organisers have said.\n\nWomen's Coalition founder Monica McWilliams, Pat Hume - the widow of John Hume - and trade unionist Baroness May Blood are among those who feature.\n\nArtist Marian Noone, aka Friz, has painted portraits of nine women for the show at Londonderry's Tower Museum.\n\nThe exhibition will visit other towns and cities in Northern Ireland this year\n\nPart of the wider Herstory programme, the exhibition will tour a number of locations across Northern Ireland this year to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.\n\nHerstory founder and project curator Melanie Lynch said it was imperative that a new generation knew the role played by women in bringing an end to violence in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe exhibition details the history of a number of groups including the Derry Peace Women\n\nShe said that was not something that was formally taught in schools in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Our new Peace Heroines project aims to change that and introduce students and the public to these legendary activists and inspire the next generation of peace builders,\" she said.\n\n\"It's time to write herstory into history.\"\n\nBernadette Walsh from the Tower Museum said the nine new portraits captured \"all of the passion of the women\" who featured.\n\nPeace Heroines focuses on the role of women in bringing an end to violence\n\nPeace Heroines honours women from right across Northern Ireland's religious and political spectrum, she said.\n\n\"All these women are from very different communities - that's why this exhibition is so important,\" said Ms Walsh.\n\n\"We are telling the stories of individuals but also the story of groups of people who worked on the Shankhill Road, the Falls Road, lots of community-led work.\"\n\nMayor of Derry Sandra Duffy said she was delighted the city was hosting the exhibition.\n\n\"These real heroines were an inspiration to so many young women, myself included, who are proud to take up the mantle and continue their work for positive change and peace in our society,\" she said.\n\nThe role Derry's factory girls played in keeping the city's economy going during the Troubles also features in the ehibition\n\nThe mayor said it was also fitting that Derry's factory girls were celebrated in the exhibition.\n\n\"They kept local industry going in the factories, supported homes, brought up children and drove social and political change in the most economically and politically turbulent times,,\" she said.\n\nMuseum curator Roisin Doherty said a \"diverse range of opinions and identities\" were highlighted by the exhibition.\n\n\"It also captures the shared concerns and goals of local women who wanted to create a better future here and how they went about creating platforms for positive dialogue,\" she said.\n\nIt acknowledges the \"immense contribution made by women who at great personal cost dedicated their lives to lobbying for change and promoting cross community relations.\"\n\nThe Peace Heroines exhibition opens on Friday and runs until 24 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Natalie McNally in Lurgan has been released on bail.\n\nMs McNally, who was 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Silverwood Green in Lurgan.\n\nThe 46-year-old man was arrested in south Belfast on Friday.\n\nOn Friday, police also released further CCTV of a suspect seen entering her street on the night she was killed.\n\nFootage shows the suspect enter the Silverwood Green at 8.52pm travelling directly towards Natalie McNally's front door.\n\nHe is briefly illuminated by the reverse lights of a vehicle.\n\nTwo arrests have previously been made in connection with her murder but no-one has been charged.\n\nA 32-year-old man arrested on 19 December was released the next day and is no longer a suspect.\n\nAnother 32-year-old man was arrested on 21 December and has been released on police bail while detectives continue their inquiries.\n\nHundreds of house-to-house enquiries have been carried out and over 3,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized, police have said.\n\nLast Friday, detectives conducted a search of the council-owned Silverwood Golf Club grounds beside Ms McNally's home.\n\nEarlier that week, a weapon believed to be used in the murder was recovered by police and is said to have come from her home.\n\nOfficers believe Ms McNally knew her killer, that they had a pre-existing relationship and she felt comfortable inviting them into her home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness has said the PSNI remained \"absolutely steadfast\" to bringing Ms McNally's murderer to justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Previous CCTV footage shows a man leaving Natalie McNally's street on the night she was killed\n\nCCTV footage of a suspect in Ms McNally's murder was released previously by police.\n\nIt shows a man entering Silverwood Green at 20:52 GMT on Sunday, 18 December and leaving again at 21:30.\n\nThe charity Crimestoppers have offered a £20,000 reward for information about Ms McNally's killing.", "Forensic officers have worked at the crime scene following the shooting\n\nA seven-year-old girl has suffered life-threatening injuries in a suspected drive-by shooting outside a central London church.\n\nA remembrance service was being held at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were reportedly fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Police said a 12-year-old girl and four women - aged 21, 41, 48 and 54 - were also injured.\n\nThe 48-year-old may have life-changing injuries, police said.\n\nThe three other women's injuries are not life-threatening and the 12-year-old girl has been treated for a minor leg injury, said the force.\n\nThe seven-year-old, who was taken to a central London hospital at about 14:05 GMT, \"remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition\".\n\nIn a statement, the Met said an urgent investigation was under way and details of the incident were still emerging.\n\n\"At this early stage, there have been no arrests,\" it said.\n\nSupt Ed Wells said any shooting incident was \"unacceptable, but for multiple people, including two children, to be injured in a shooting in the middle of a Saturday afternoon is shocking\".\n\nThe shooting happened close to a church while a funeral was taking place, police say\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all the victims, but in particular with the seven-year-old girl. An investigation into this dreadful attack is already well under way,\" he said.\n\n\"I can assure the communities of Camden and beyond that we will do everything we possibly can to identify and bring to justice those who were responsible.\"\n\nHe added that there would be \"an increased visible police presence in the area through the weekend and into the days ahead\".\n\nDetectives have urged anyone with video footage or CCTV to contact the force.\n\nRoad closures were put in place and buses were diverted to allow investigation work to take place.\n\nFather Jeremy Trood conducted the remembrance service at St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, just before the shooting unfolded.\n\nHe confirmed the service was held for Sara Sanchez, 20, who had died from leukaemia, and her mother. They had died within a month of each other in November.\n\nFather Trood said: \"I was inside the church. I heard the bang and people ran back into the church. They knew something had happened outside.\n\n\"They were very scared, people sheltered in the church until the police said they can leave but some of them were so scared they had to wait a while to get their confidence back up to go outside.\"\n\nA forensics officer works at the scene of the shooting\n\nA resident on an estate near the church, who did not want to give her name, said: \"I heard the gunshots.\n\n\"I was having a quiet day on my balcony and I heard this almighty bang and I thought this was not normal, and the next minute everyone was screaming and shouting.\n\n\"Neighbours came in and said there has been a shooting. What a terrible thing.\"\n\nPhotographer Simon Lamrock said when he first arrived at the church, people had been evacuated through a side entrance.\n\n\"It's a very busy area. All the local residents had come out to find out what was going on,\" Mr Lamrock said.\n\n\"There was shock and surprise. That was the mood of people trying to work out what had happened.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with the Met Police.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An image of a UAP, seen through night vision goggles, shown to US lawmakers\n\nA new de-classified US government report on UFO sightings by US troops has revealed hundreds of new cases.\n\nThe US National Intelligence office is now aware of 510 reported sightings, an increase over the 144 compiled in the spy agency's first 2021 assessment.\n\nNearly half of the new sightings were deemed \"unremarkable\" and attributed to human origins, according to the report.\n\nHowever, more than 100 of the encounters remain unexplained.\n\nThe report says that encounters with UFOs - which the government calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - continue \"to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety\" and national security.\n\nOf the 366 new reports, 26 were determined to be drones, 163 were balloons and six aerial objects were attributed to clutter.\n\nThe report was issued in part to help \"destigmatise\" experiences with UFOs and improve air safety.\n\nAnd it says increased reports of encounters are indeed the result of \"a concentrated effort to destigmatise the topic of UAP and instead recognise the potential risks that it poses as both a safety of flight hazard and potential adversarial activity\", the report states.\n\nIt goes on to say that 171 sightings still remain \"uncharacterised and unattributed\" - meaning, not enough information was collected to effectively identify them.\n\n\"Some of these uncharacterised UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis,\" the report says.\n\nNone of the reports have been linked to any extra-terrestrial activity.\n\nThe reports are being examined by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), an office in the Pentagon created last year to review UAP incidents.\n\nThe AARO will focus on receiving and analysing incidents with unidentified phenomena and work with intelligence agencies to further assess those incidents, according to the new declassified document.\n\nLast month, the Pentagon's Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security told media: \"We have not seen anything that would lead us to believe that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin.\"\n\n\"I have not seen anything in those holdings to date that would suggest that there has been an alien visitation, an alien crash, or anything like that,\" added Ronald Moultrie.\n\nBut the effort continues to identify whether the remaining UFOs have earthly origins.\n\n\"In the absence of being able to resolve what something is, we assume that it may be hostile,\" he said. \"And so, we have to take that seriously.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "SNP members are to be given the choice of using the next UK general election or the next Holyrood election as a de facto independence referendum.\n\nThe party says its first choice is still for the UK government to agree to a referendum.\n\nBut if that is not possible it could use the general election as a vote.\n\nThe second option would be to treat the UK election result as a mandate for the party to contest the 2026 Holyrood election as an independence vote.\n\nThe UK government said now was a time to focus on \"shared challenges\" such as the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe SNP's national executive committee met on Saturday to agree the motion.\n\nIt will now be put to members at a special party conference in March.\n\nLeader Nicola Sturgeon said the second option had been included in the motion in the interests of having a \"full and open debate\".\n\nShe said: \"Given the significance of this decision for both the party and the country, it is important that this debate is a full, free and open one - which is what the draft resolution seeks to enable.\n\n\"It sets out - as I did last June - the option of contesting the next Westminster election as a de facto referendum.\n\n\"However, in the interests of a full and open debate, it also sets out the alternative option of contesting the next Scottish Parliament election on this basis.\"\n\nShe added: \"While this will be a debate on the process of securing independence, it is one that will be guided by a fundamental principle - that the future of Scotland must and will be decided by the people of Scotland, not by Westminster politicians.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon last year said the independence movement had to find a new way forward in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling\n\nIn November, the first minister announced the SNP intended to use the next general election as an attempt to show that a majority of people in Scotland supported independence.\n\nShe spoke after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled she did not have the power to hold a referendum this year.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she respected the ruling but admitted it was a \"tough pill to swallow\".\n\nShe also said the independence movement would now have to find a new way forward.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak had welcomed the \"clear and definitive ruling\" from the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Saturday, a UK government spokeswoman said: \"People in Scotland want both their governments to be concentrating on the issues that matter most to them - like growing our economy, getting people the help they need with their energy bills, and supporting our NHS.\n\n\"As the prime minister has been clear, we will continue to work constructively with the Scottish government to tackle our shared challenges.\"\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon first raised the possibility of using an election as a substitute referendum last June, she clearly targeted the next UK general election.\n\nWhen she returned to the idea in her SNP conference speech in October, she talked about using \"an\" election without specifying which one.\n\nWhen I pointed this out on social media and raised the potential flexibility in her wording, a senior SNP source told me I was \"over interpreting\". Maybe not.\n\nWhile the SNP still describe using the next Westminster vote to test opinion on independence as the \"principal\" alternative to the referendum they really want, party members are to be given a choice.\n\nThey can either opt for Westminster in (presumably) 2024 or for the Holyrood election planned for 2026 or even suggest further possibilities of their own.\n\nThe SNP say using either election to judge support for independence would be \"credible and deliverable\" but their opponents refuse to accept this is a legitimate route to Scottish statehood.", "The snakes were found by a member of the public at a fly-tipping spot\n\nAn animal welfare charity has issued an appeal after three dead snakes were found dumped near a loch in Glasgow.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said the boa constrictors were discovered by a member of the public at a fly-tipping spot near Carbeth Loch in Blanefield.\n\nSSPCA inspector Mairi Wright said the reptiles were lying close together, next to bags of rubbish.\n\nBoa constrictors, which kill their prey by crushing them, are usually found in South America and the Caribbean.\n\nHowever, they are also kept as pets in other countries.\n\nThe SSPCA described the discovery as \"very concerning\"\n\nMs Wright added: \"We are unsure of the cause of death for these reptiles, but the circumstances they were found in are very concerning.\n\n\"We are keen to ascertain what happened to these snakes and how they came to be there.\n\n\"If anyone recognises these reptiles, please contact our confidential animal helpline on 03000 999 999.\"\n\nThe SSPCA said the snakes were discovered at one of the entrances to Carbeth Huts, next to the loch.\n• None Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - SSPCA The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambulance staff will take part in their second day of strike action this winter, on Wednesday. Alongside paramedics, call-centre staff will walk out across England and Wales in the dispute over pay. These workers play a vital role, taking calls from the public and assigning ambulance crews.\n\nAn ambulance dispatcher at the North West Ambulance Service, who wishes to stay anonymous, has described working amid the extreme pressures of this winter.\n\n\"The job is crushingly depressing, stressful and embarrassing,\" the dispatcher says. \"I feel so destroyed. The feeling of saving lives has been taken over by how many can we not kill.\n\n\"I never thought I'd leave the NHS - but I'd take a job at Aldi. I'd take a job cleaning.\n\n\"The thought of going in and having to manage those calls just fills me with absolute dread. I have seen people leave the ambulance service - they have had enough. We are physically and mentally exhausted.\"\n\nMost frustrating, the dispatcher says, is the number of crews stuck outside hospital waiting to hand patients over to accident-and-emergency staff.\n\nIn the last week of 2022, more than 40% of crews in England had waits of more than 30 minutes - it should take 15.\n\n\"I know going in that I will have to dispatch ambulance crews to hospitals to take over from other ambulance crews who have been outside for 12 hours,\" the dispatcher says.\n\n\"It just means we don't have those crews available to respond to calls and it exacerbates our shortness of resources by 10-fold, 100-fold.\n\n\"So instead of going out on jobs, the first thing they do is go to the hospitals and free the ambulance staff up to go home. Those staff could have been there the whole shift virtually. This happens every shift at virtually every hospital.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\n\"If the crews are with patients in ambulances, then we send one crew to one ambulance to swap. Effectively, if there's seven ambulances outside, then seven new pairs of crews complete with ambulances are swapping over. They then send the 12-hour old crew back to base to go home.\n\n\"It is not how things should be - and because we have so many ambulances stuck at hospital, we are putting patients at risk.\"\n\nThe problems are due to a lack of beds, the dispatcher says.\n\n\"Social care is not in place,\" they say. \"I'll give you an example - a lady had a fall and was medically fit for discharge on 21 December but because her care package wasn't in place, she was advised that it was safer if she stayed in hospital.\n\n\"That's a bed taken up for the entirety of the Christmas and new-year period by someone who is well enough to leave hospital.\"\n\nThe dispatcher is particularly concerned about category-two calls, which include people who have had strokes and heart attacks. Meant to be reached in 18 minutes on average, they are taking nearly three times as long and in some cases, they say, hours.\n\n\"We are now telling them how long they have to wait, when there are long waits,\" the dispatcher says. \"We are asking them if there is anyone who can convey them to [hospital], because time is of the essence. Sometimes, they don't have that - and three hours later, they can be dead.\n\n\"In one case, there was a man who had chest pains who drove himself to hospital and had a cardiac arrest in the hospital car park and crashed his car.\n\n\"This is not the NHS I know and love and is why we have to take action.\"\n\nIn response, the North West Ambulance Service said the service was under \"extreme pressure\" and some patients were waiting longer \"than we would like\".\n\nBut it added: \"Our staff work hard every day to ensure everyone who needs an ambulance gets one - and we continue to perform better than other parts of the country.\"\n\nThe service said it was working with other parts of the NHS to tackle handover delays and recruiting call handlers and clinicians into the call centres, as well as front-line ambulance crews.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said extra money it was investing this winter, totalling £750m, would help speed up delayed discharges, which in turn would ease the handover problems being seen.\n\n\"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tireless to ensure people get the care they need,\" he added.\n\nDo you work for the ambulance service? Are you in favour or against strike action? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "An additional five pages of classified material has been found in US President Joe Biden's family home in Delaware, the White House has said.\n\nMr Biden's lawyer Richard Sauber said he discovered the additional documents on Thursday which were immediately handed to the Justice Department.\n\nMr Biden's lawyers have said the documents relate to his time as Barack Obama's vice-president.\n\nA special counsel is investigating Mr Biden's handling of the files.\n\nThe discovery of documents throughout the investigation has been called a political embarrassment for Mr Biden, as it comes during an ongoing investigation into former President Donald Trump's own alleged mishandling of classified files.\n\nOne document with classified markings had already been found in the garage of Mr Biden's Delaware family home this week, where he keeps his 1960s Chevrolet Corvette sports car.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says documents weren't sitting out on the street\n\nBut now, the White House has said an additional five pages of classified documents were found at Mr Biden's residence on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a statement shared on Twitter, Mr Sauber said the president's lawyers did not have security clearance and therefore stopped searching the immediate area where the first page of classified material was found on Wednesday.\n\nBut Mr Sauber, who has security clearance, says he returned to Mr Biden's Delaware home on Thursday evening to get the documents ready to hand to the Justice Department.\n\nThat was when Mr Sauber found the additional classified material.\n\n\"While I was transferring it to the DOJ [Department of Justice] officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages,\" Mr Sauber said.\n\nHe added that the White House will co-operate with the newly appointed special counsel.\n\nThe six pages found in Mr Biden's home this week are in addition to documents found in Mr Biden's garage in December and at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in November.\n\nOn Friday, CBS News reported that around 10 documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center, and marked as classified, included top secret material.\n\nThere are three basic levels of US classification: confidential, secret and top secret. A leak of top secret information could cause \"exceptionally grave damage\".\n\nRepublicans are calling on the White House to release visitor logs of Mr Biden's homes, but the White House has refused to say if such information will be divulged.\n\nDuring his time in office, Mr Biden has spent nearly 200 days - or more than a fourth of his presidency - in his home state of Delaware, according to an Associated Press tally, including a stay in Wilmington this weekend.\n\nMr Trump is also under investigation by the Justice Department after he kept more than 300 classified files - including some marked secret and top secret - at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.\n\nSome of these were seized by FBI agents executing a search warrant last August.\n\nThe papers only began to come to light in news reports last Monday, but the first batch was found at Mr Biden's former institute, the Penn Biden Center in Washington DC, back in November.", "A clash between the UK and Scottish governments could be coming this week.\n\nThe cause? The two governments are going in different directions on the process for allowing someone to change legal gender.\n\nBut look a bit deeper, and it's fast becoming a constitutional quarrel.\n\nWhen Holyrood passed legislation to enable Scots to change their gender more easily, many campaigners hoped it would draw a line under a debate that's simmered away in Scottish politics for years.\n\nCurrently, someone looking to change their legal gender in the UK must live in their acquired gender for two years and get a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nMSPs backed a move towards a self-identification system last month, meaning that Scots will no longer require a medical diagnosis to change gender, and the timescale will also be cut to a matter of months.\n\nBut, as it turned out, that vote in Edinburgh was not the end of the issue.\n\nThe UK government is considering using its own powers to block the Scottish legislation, and ministers are uneasy about the new system that could soon operate in Scotland.\n\nSo what's their justification for potentially challenging laws coming from Holyrood?\n\nThey have concerns that a simplified Scottish system for changing gender could come into conflict with UK-wide equalities law (something Holyrood is not responsible for).\n\nAnd this is prompting a number of Conservative MPs to ask questions about what the implications could be for the rights these people would have in any other part of the UK.\n\nWhat does it mean for accessing certain spaces reserved for just one sex, such as women's shelters or prisons? What's the impact on collecting and reporting data on the gender pay gap?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The passing of controversial gender reform laws receive mixed reaction in the Scottish Parliament\n\nThe Scottish government insists that the bill does not undermine any aspect of the UK-wide Equality Act, saying that the new system doesn't give any additional rights to anyone who gets a gender recognition certificate that they can't already enjoy today.\n\nRishi Sunak told BBC Scotland on Friday that his main concern was the bill's impact across the UK, saying it was \"completely standard practice\" to look at the effect legislation passed at Holyrood could have.\n\nDowning Street said no final decision had been taken on whether or not to block the legislation.\n\nAnd the PM's spokesman said they believed the UK's 2004 Recognition Act struck \"the correct balance\" and allowed for \"proper checks\".\n\nConservative MP Rachel Maclean is a vice-chair of the party, and while she may represent a seat in England, she's taken an interest in this Scottish legislation, arguing it could have enormous impacts on other parts of the UK.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We want to be compassionate to people who feel that they want to change their sex and their legal gender, but at the same time we have to make sure that we protect particularly single-sex spaces for women.\n\n\"They are there for a reason - to protect those vulnerable women and girls.\"\n\nShe's sceptical about the streamlining of the process in Scotland, saying it is effectively allowing self-identification - which creates \"a huge number of consequences\".\n\nShe says she worries about knock-on effects when it comes to participation in sport, the arts, and business.\n\nShe adds: \"That's before we really start talking about where we have vulnerabilities at play, such as in prisons or in rape and domestic abuse shelters.\"\n\nShe argues it has \"enormous impacts across the whole of our protection framework and our understanding of what does it mean to be a man or a woman\".\n\nThis is an issue that divides a number of parties. Even within the SNP, the Scottish legislation has its critics.\n\nThough the SNP-led government in Scotland spearheaded the bill, it sparked the biggest rebellion the party had ever seen at Holyrood.\n\nAsh Regan resigned as a Scottish government minister in order to oppose the legislation, and said the bill \"sent a message to the women and girls of Scotland that your rights to privacy, dignity and safety don't matter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellie is a long time advocate of reforms which would allow Scots to change their gender more easily.\n\nBut supporters of the bill see it differently. Campaigner Ellie Gomersall, who is president of the National Union of Students in Scotland, and a Scottish Green Party activist, has been a vocal advocate for a change to gender laws in Scotland.\n\nShe came out as trans when she was 18, and is hoping to legally change her gender and obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (a GRC).\n\nEllie says it was \"such a relief\" when the bill was passed in Scotland.\n\n\"One of the hardest parts about being trans is the admin,\" she explains, saying that she's faced a five-year wait to access an NHS gender identity clinic.\n\nShe says the trans community will fight any UK government attempts to obstruct the new Scottish system.\n\nShe sees their response as \"an attack ultimately on devolution, on trans people, and on Scotland's right to make our country fairer and more equal\".\n\nKade lives in England and, as a transgender man, believes UK government policies contribute to a difficult atmosphere for trans people.\n\n\"Nobody is going to be transgender for fun,\" he says, adding that he was hospitalised after a transphobic attack two years ago.\n\n\"We don't feel safe, we don't feel valid, and we're afraid I think. Although we try not to let this fear impact us on a daily basis, there is that underlying fear for both our mental wellbeing and our physical wellbeing.\"\n\nRather than block the Scottish legislation, he wishes the UK government would emulate it.\n\nIf the UK government does want to act, it doesn't have a lot of time. The Scotland Act stipulates a four-week time limit to intervene after MSPs pass a bill. That gives them until the middle of next week.\n\nSo what are the UK government's options?\n\nUnder Section 35 of the Scotland Act, UK ministers can stop a bill getting royal assent.\n\nThe secretary of state for Scotland can do so if they think a Holyrood bill would modify laws reserved to Westminster and have an \"adverse effect\" on how those laws apply.\n\nThis would be the nuclear option - a section 35 order has never been used. And it's entirely possible there could be a legal challenge in response from the Scottish government.\n\nOne Scottish government source said using a Section 35 Order would be \"chilling\". Scottish ministers would see this as the UK government muscling in on a devolved area.\n\nThe UK government has also not ruled out the possibility of referring the Scottish bill to the Supreme Court, who could decide if Holyrood legislated beyond its powers in passing this act.\n\nThis whole debate is - on the surface - about gender issues.\n\nBut like so many disagreements between governments in London and Edinburgh it has the constitution at its heart.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Jennie Gow said she was \"desperate\" to make a full recovery from her stroke two weeks ago\n\nThe BBC sports broadcaster Jennie Gow has said she is recovering from a serious stroke.\n\nThe 45-year-old, who covers Formula 1 for Radio 5 Live, wrote on social media that she had been treated at hospitals in London and Surrey, and her recovery \"might take some time\".\n\nMs Gow said the stroke two weeks ago had affected her speech.\n\nDozens of fellow broadcasters and motorsport firms have tweeted messages of support.\n\nAnnouncing her condition on Twitter and Instagram, the presenter said: \"My husband is helping me type this, as I'm finding it hard to write and my speech is most affected.\n\n\"I'm desperate to make a full recovery and return to work.\n\n\"Thank you to the medical teams at Frimley and St George's, and my family and friends who've got me through the last fortnight.\"\n\nMs Gow has reported on motorsport events for the BBC and other broadcasters\n\nIn response, Formula 1 Racing tweeted: \"Thinking of you Jennie, and wishing you all the very best with your recovery.\"\n\nThe McLaren racing team said: \"The entire team sends their love and strength as we look forward to seeing you back in the paddock.\"\n\nBroadcasters Hazel Southwell, Laura Winter and Dan Walker are among those who have tweeted messages of sympathy.\n\nJennie Gow has covered Formula 1 and other motorsport events for the BBC, ITV, Netflix and Sky TV.\n\nThe Southampton-born presenter, who grew up in Wargrave, Berkshire, began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Solent before working for commercial radio stations in the south of England.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Soledar has been devastated by Russia's bombardment, as shown by this satellite image from Tuesday\n\nRussia's military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an \"important\" step for its offensive.\n\nThe victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said.\n\nThis was a very confident and ambitious statement from Moscow.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the fight for Soledar was still going on and accused Russia of \"information noise\".\n\nThe battle for Soledar has been one of the bloodiest of the war.\n\nThe town is relatively small, with a pre-war population of just 10,000, and its strategic significance is debatable. But if it is confirmed that Russian forces have seized control of it, then there will likely be a big sigh of relief in the Kremlin.\n\nDivisions have emerged between regular Russian forces and the notorious Russian Wagner paramilitary group throughout the battle, with a jealous turf-war developing over who should take credit for the advance.\n\nBarely any walls in Soledar remain standing, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week. Describing almost apocalyptic scenes, he spoke of the nearby terrain as scarred by missile strikes and littered with Russian corpses.\n\nSpeaking during his nightly address from Kyiv on Friday, Mr Zelensky said the battle in the region continued to rage, but avoided any reference to Russia's claims of control over Soledar.\n\n\"Although the enemy has concentrated its greatest forces in this direction, our troops - the Armed Forces of Ukraine, all defence and security forces - are defending the state,\" the Ukrainian leader said.\n\nHis chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, compared the fight for Soledar and Bakhmut to one of the bitterest battles of World War One, at Verdun.\n\nRegional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Thursday that 559 civilians including 15 children remained in Soledar and could not be moved out.\n\nThe town's significance for the Russian military is disputed by military analysts because of its relatively small size. The US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said while it was likely that Russian forces had captured Soledar, it did not believe they would then be able to go on to encircle Bakhmut.\n\nNevertheless, if it becomes clear that Russia has taken it, then that will be seen in Moscow as progress - even a victory.\n\nThat is exactly what President Vladimir Putin needs as Russia has failed to capture a single town in Ukraine since July 2022. Since then, Moscow's forces have suffered a whole series of embarrassing defeats.\n\nUkraine's successful counter-attack pushed Russia almost completely out of Kharkiv region in the north-east. In October, Russia's Kerch bridge came under attack, with Russian forces retreating from the city of Kherson the following month.\n\nThe southern port city had been the only regional capital that Russia had managed to seize since the invasion began.\n\nCapturing Soledar would be something for Moscow to present as some \"good news\" to the Russian people and the troops on the wintry front line.\n\nBut Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesperson for Ukraine's eastern military command, denied Soledar was in Russian hands: \"We won't give any more details as we do not want to reveal the tactical positions of our fighters.\"\n\nDeputy Defence Minister, Hanna Malyar, said fighting had been \"hot in Soledar overnight\". Ukrainian fighters were \"bravely trying to hold the defence\", she added, in what was a difficult stage of the war.\n\nWestern and Ukrainian officials have said much of the fighting in Soledar and Bakhmut is being done by the notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group.\n\nUkraine this week cast doubt on a photo claiming to show Yevgeny Prigozhin inside a Soledar salt mine\n\nIts leader, 61-year-old Yevgeny Prigozhin, has claimed repeatedly over the past few days that his forces are the only units on the ground in Soledar. He said on Tuesday night that his mercenaries had seized the town, only to be contradicted by Russia's defence ministry the next morning.\n\nDaily updates from the Russian defence ministry have made no mention whatsoever of Wagner, and Friday's briefing was no exception. The military said that paratroopers had played a key part in the capture of the town.\n\nMr Prigozhin then released a statement saying he was \"surprised\" to read the defence ministry briefing. There \"wasn't a single paratrooper\" in Soledar, he insisted, warning against \"insulting [his] fighters\" and \"stealing others' achievements\".\n\nAnd on Friday evening, Mr Prigozhin accused \"officials who want to stay in their places\" of being the biggest threat to his group's advance in Ukraine.\n\nIn a later statement, the defence ministry praised the mercenaries' \"courageous and selfless actions\" during the fighting, but again emphasised the leading role of regular Russian forces.\n\nAnalysts have long spoken of tensions between the military and Mr Prigozhin's Wagner group. The Russian oligarch has publicly criticised senior military leaders, including Gen Valery Gerasimov, appointed two days ago as overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.\n\nWhile Russia has mobilised some 300,000 reservists for the war since the end of September, Prigozhin has looked to recruit extra numbers from Russia's prisons.\n\nAndriy Yermak told French daily Le Monde that Russian criminals had been sent straight to their deaths on the front line: \"Soledar is a scene of street battles, with neither side really in control of the town.\"", "Lisa Marie Presley will be buried near her father and late son at the family's Tennessee estate, Graceland, according to a family representative.\n\nThe singer, who died after reportedly suffering cardiac arrest in her home Thursday, was 54 years old.\n\nShe was the only child of the \"King of Rock 'n' Roll\", Elvis Presley.\n\n\"Lisa Marie's final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son, Ben,\" a representative for her daughter said.\n\nPresley's son, Benjamin Keough, took his own life in August 2020 aged 27.\n\nIn one of her final posts on social media, Presley shared an essay she wrote for People Magazine about her struggle with grief after her son's death.\n\n\"I've dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I've had more than anyone's fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I've made it this far,\" she wrote. \"Death is part of life whether we like it or not — and so is grieving.\"\n\nShe is survived by three daughters - Riley Keough, an actress, and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood - and her mother, Priscilla.\n\nPresley became the sole heir to the Graceland estate and its 17,500 square foot mansion when she turned 25, according to the Graceland website.\n\nThe mansion is second only to the White House as the most visited home in the United States, according to the estate's website.\n\nDays before her death, she had visited Graceland to celebrate what would have been his 88th birthday on 8 January.\n\nFollowing the news of her death, well-wishers laid flowers and lit candles outside its gates.", "British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, who was sentenced to death in Iran, has been executed.\n\nMr Akbari's family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" on Wednesday and his wife said he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the execution was a \"callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime\".\n\nIran's rulers had \"no respect for the human rights of their own people\" Mr Sunak said, adding that his thoughts were \"with Alireza's friends and family\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the execution would \"not stand unchallenged\".\n\nIn response, Iran summoned the British ambassador to Tehran, citing Britain's \"unconventional interventions\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's official news outlet Mizan reported on Saturday that Alireza Akbari had been hanged, without specifying the date when the execution took place.\n\nThe news came after Iran posted a video of Mr Akbari earlier this week showing what appeared to be forced confessions, and after the country's intelligence ministry had described the British-Iranian as \"one of the most important agents of the British intelligence service in Iran\".\n\nHowever BBC Persian broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he said he had been tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nThe United States had also joined calls for Iran not to execute Mr Akbari. US diplomat Vedant Patel said \"his execution would be unconscionable\" and condemned the charges against him as \"politically motivated\".\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International called on the UK to investigate claims Mr Akbari was tortured before his death.\n\nMeanwhile, France summoned Iran's top diplomat in Paris over Mr Akbari's execution with its foreign ministry warning Iran's \"repeated violations of international law cannot go unanswered\".\n\nDr Sanam Vakil, Iran expert at the Chatham House think tank, said Mr Akbari's death would be used by the Iranian regime to suggest a \"heavy outside hand\" was stoking the anti-government unrest - linking the protests with the accusation that Western nations were trying to \"destabilise the Islamic republic\".\n\n\"Keeping the narrative of the West being involved is a way to maintain unity among the political establishment\", she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office has been supporting Mr Akbari's family and had repeatedly raised his case with Iranian authorities. It had requested urgent consular access, but Iran's government does not recognise dual nationality for Iranians.\n\nIn Mr Akbari's audio message he said that he was living abroad a few years ago when he was invited to visit Iran at the request of a top Iranian diplomat who was involved in nuclear talks with world powers.\n\nOnce there, he adds, he was accused of obtaining top secret intelligence from the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, \"in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt\".\n\nMr Akbari alleged that he was \"interrogated and tortured\" by intelligence agents \"for more than 3,500 hours\".\n\n\"By using physiological and psychological methods, they broke my will, drove me to madness and forced me to do whatever they wanted,\" he said. \"By the force of gun and death threats they made me confess to false and corrupt claims.\"\n\nHe also accused Iran of seeking \"to take revenge on the UK by executing me\".\n\nHours after the audio message was broadcast, the Mizan news agency confirmed for the first time that Mr Akbari had been found guilty of espionage, and that the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal.\n\nTies between the UK and Iran have deteriorated in recent months since the UK imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police and other top security figures, in response to the country's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a longstanding debt owed to Iran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "Alireza Akbari says he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes that he did not commit\n\nThe family of a British-Iranian dual national sentenced to death in Iran have told BBC Persian that authorities are preparing to execute him.\n\nAlireza Akbari's wife, Maryam, said the family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" and that he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nThe UK urged Iran to halt the planned execution and immediately release him.\n\n\"This is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that has total disregard for human life,\" Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted.\n\nEarlier, a Foreign Office spokesperson told the BBC that it was supporting Mr Akbari's family and had repeatedly raised his case with Iranian authorities.\n\nIt has requested urgent consular access, but Iran's government does not recognise dual nationality for Iranians.\n\nBBC Persian also broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he says he was tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nHe says that he was living abroad a few years ago when he was invited to visit Iran at the request of a top Iranian diplomat who was involved in nuclear talks with world powers.\n\nOnce there, he adds, he was accused of obtaining top secret intelligence from the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, \"in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt\".\n\nMr Akbari served under Mr Shamkhani when the latter was defence minister during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who was in office for two terms between 1997 and 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Akbari alleges in the audio message that he was \"interrogated and tortured\" by intelligence agents \"for more than 3,500 hours\".\n\n\"During all those 3,500 hours, which took more than 10 months, they were recording my confessions with 10 cameras to make their Hollywood-style film,\" he says, adding that he was also given \"psychedelic drugs\".\n\n\"By using physiological and psychological methods, they broke my will, drove me to madness and forced me to do whatever they wanted. By the force of gun and death threats they made me confess to false and corrupt claims.\"\n\nHe also accuses Iran of seeking \"to take revenge on the UK by executing me\".\n\nHours after the audio message was broadcast, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency confirmed for the first time that Mr Akbari had been found guilty of espionage, and that the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal.\n\nIt cited Iran's intelligence ministry as saying that Mr Akbari had been \"one of the most important infiltrators of the country's sensitive and strategic centres\" for the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, and that he had been \"compiling and consciously transferring sensitive information\".\n\nThe ministry claimed that its agents uncovered Mr Akbari's spying by feeding him false information.\n\nAt the end of November, Iranian state media reported that authorities had hanged four men convicted of \"co-operating\" with Israeli intelligence.\n\nFour other men have been executed since December after being sentenced to death in connection with the anti-government protests engulfing the country.\n\nAlicia Kearns, chair of the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said the news from Mr Akbari's family was \"awful\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, it is another horrifying example of the Iranian regime - because they feel they are cornered, because there is such significant pressure from sanctions on them - weaponising British nationals and industrialising hostage taking,\" she told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nShe speculated that Mr Akbari might have been singled out by hard-liners in the establishment in order to undermine Mr Shamkhani, who she described as a \"moderate voice... [who] has been calling for discussions and dialogue\" in response to the current protests. Iran's current leaders have portrayed them as \"riots\" and cracked down on them with lethal force.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention beside Mr Akbari, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "Rina Yasutake's body was found in a house in Helmsley, North Yorkshire in September 2018\n\nThe family of a woman whose partially-mummified body was found in their home believed she was alive for months after she died, an inquest has heard.\n\nRina Yasutake, 49, shared a house with her mother and two siblings in the village of Helmsley, North Yorkshire.\n\nShe had been dead for weeks when paramedics found her in bed on 25 September 2018.\n\nNo cause of death was established despite police inquiries and Coroner Jon Heath recorded an open conclusion.\n\nThe inquest in Northallerton was told Ms Yasutake's body was discovered after suspicions were raised at the local chemist when her brother Takahiro, 51, and sister Yoshika, 56, repeatedly bought bottles of surgical spirit over a period of days.\n\nHer siblings and their mother, Michiko Yasutake, 80, were originally charged with preventing a lawful and decent burial, but the prosecution was halted when it was found the family members suffered from a rare mental disorder.\n\nCraig Hassall KC, representing the family, asked Det Insp Nichola Holden if the family was \"utterly convinced\" she was alive when the emergency services attended.\n\n\"They were at the time and for many months after,\" the detective replied.\n\nMr Hassall described his clients as \"a very insular and isolated family\" and Ms Holden agreed that, even when using a Japanese interpreter, communication was difficult, as they spoke their own dialect.\n\nThe officer added that during the course of inquiries, it was found they had no means of communicating with the outside world and no TV or radio.\n\nDet Insp Nichola Holden said Ms Yasutake's family had been \"utterly convinced\" she was alive\n\nHome Office pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton said it was hard to determine how long Ms Yasutake had been dead, given the extent of mummification, but that the level to which it had developed took \"some weeks\".\n\nMr Heath was told there was no evidence of any third party involvement in her death, no sign of injury or toxicological cause.\n\nMs Yasutake, who was Japanese, was a talented pupil and won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, where she studied classics, specialising in linguistics.\n\nShe did not work after university and the family had lived together in Helmsley for 20 years, the inquest was told.\n\nIn statements given to a psychiatrist, the brother and sister said that during the course of 2018, she stopped eating, grew weaker and began to move less and less.\n\nEarlier that year, it was recorded that Ms Yasutake, who was 4ft 11in tall (1.5m), weighed just 6st 6lb (41kg).\n\nMr Heath said: \"I am unable from the evidence available to determine how she died.\"\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Ms Holden said it was \"very unusual but obviously very tragic and also very upsetting for the family as well, given they have lost a loved one\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police cordons remain in place near the scene\n\nA dog walker was mauled to death after being set upon while out walking a group of dogs in rural Surrey.\n\nThe 28-year-old woman, from London, was attacked in Caterham just before 14:45 GMT on Thursday.\n\nA second woman who received treatment for dog bites has since been discharged from hospital.\n\nPolice said eight dogs were seized at the scene by officers and the owners of these dogs had been identified and were being kept informed of investigations.\n\nThe dogs were not believed to be banned breeds and the second woman was not thought to be linked to the woman who died, police said.\n\nOfficers investigating the attack have erected a cordon in the Gravelly Hill area, which is a quiet rural community.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nInsp Lyndsey Whatley said: \"I would like to reassure residents that we are confident all the dogs involved are in the custody of police whilst we investigate the circumstances of what has happened.\"\n\nEast Surrey MP Claire Coutinho said her thoughts were with the loved ones of the woman who died.\n\nShe said: \"Thank you to the paramedics for their efforts at the scene, and officers from Surrey Police who controlled the situation so quickly.\"\n\nForensic work was being carried out on Friday as investigators tried to establish how the tragic events unfolded on Thursday.\n\nA heavy police presence was being maintained at Gravelly Hill where a woman in her 20s lost her life and another was left needing hospital treatment.\n\nIt is apparent the investigation is being carried out at pace, with police telling reporters at a briefing that all the owners of the dogs involved have been identified.\n\nAnd they were keen to offer reassurance to the local community that they were confident all the dogs involved had now been seized.\n\nThe area is within a quiet, rural setting with properties set within large grounds, and locals have expressed shock at the tragedy.\n\nThe woman who was attacked by the dog is yet to be named, but Surrey Police said her next of kin had been informed.\n\nCh Insp Alan Sproston said: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the woman who sadly died.\n\n\"This incident will be concerning to the local community and I would like to reassure them that we believe all dogs have been accounted for and are in police custody.\n\n\"Our investigation to establish the circumstances of the incident remains ongoing and we would ask the community not to speculate.\"\n\nRichard Bream, who runs the nearby Mardens Kennels, said he had never heard of a dog attack in the area before.\n\nHe said: \"That particular area, View Point, is an area where professional dog walkers will turn up in their van and take the dogs out and walk them.\n\n\"I've always felt you see some of these dog walkers have five or six, and they shouldn't be able to do that.\"\n\nA woman walking a border collie past one of the police cordons, who asked not to be named, said she was shocked by the incident.\n\nShe said: \"It's a nice circular woodland walk and we've never had any issues before. It is so shocking. Normal dogs surely wouldn't do that.\"\n\nTandridge District Council leader Catherine Sayer said: \"It's just a terrible, tragic incident. Obviously, our thoughts are with the family of the young woman who died and we very much hope for a quick recovery for the woman who was injured.\"\n\nTalks are planned at the authority about the council's response to the attack, and it will be discussed at a meeting of the community services committee on Tuesday.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nStruggling Cardiff City have sacked manager Mark Hudson after four months in charge of the Championship club.\n\nThe former Bluebirds captain was relieved of his duties within hours of their 1-1 home draw against bottom-club Wigan Athletic.\n\nDean Whitehead takes interim charge of Cardiff, who are one place and three points above the relegation zone.\n\n\"The club's search for a new permanent manager will begin immediately,\" Cardiff said in a statement.\n\nTom Ramasut stays on as assistant manager of the Bluebirds with goalkeeping coach Graham Stack also remaining among the backroom staff.\n\nCardiff added: \"The board of directors would like to place on record its thanks to Mark for all of his work as a player, coach and manager whilst with the Bluebirds.\n\n\"We wish Mark all the very best of luck for the future.\"\n\nCardiff are winless in nine games and the draw against Wigan underlined their struggles, having led through a Callum O'Dowda goal until Will Keane's dramatic late equaliser.\n\nHudson is the second manager the Bluebirds have sacked this season after they dismissed Steve Morison in September.\n\nA former Cardiff player, Hudson was initially appointed on an interim basis, but Cardiff announced him as their permanent boss in November.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton's board of directors missed Saturday's Premier League game against Southampton because of a \"real and credible threat to their safety\".\n\nThe club said the directors were advised not to attend Goodison Park following \"threatening correspondence\".\n\nEverton sources said club chief executive Denise Barrett-Baxendale was manhandled by a male fan after last week's 4-1 home defeat by Brighton.\n\n\"This is an unprecedented decision,\" a club spokesperson said.\n\n\"Never before has our entire board of directors been ordered not to attend a match on safety grounds.\"\n\nEverton said there have been \"increasing incidents of anti-social behaviour, including targeted physical aggression\" at recent home games.\n\nThey said the board \"reluctantly accepted the outcome of the safety assessment carried out by security advisors\".\n\nThe fans' mood was not helped as Everton were beaten 2-1 by their relegation rivals, leaving them 19th in the table and level on points with bottom club Southampton.\n\nThe Toffees have not won in nine matches in all competitions and have been knocked out of both domestic cup competitions.\n\nThey narrowly escaped relegation last season and dropped into the relegation zone with the loss to Brighton.\n\nThis month the Everton Fans' Forum (EFF) wrote an open letter to owner Farhad Moshiri asking for \"sweeping changes at chair, board and executive levels\".\n\nIn response to the letter, Moshiri said he had faith in manager Frank Lampard and the directors.\n\nMore than 67 fan and social media groups, plus 21 official supporters' clubs, have combined for the #AllTogetherNow campaign.\n\nFor Saturday's fixture against Southampton, Everton fan groups said they would back Lampard and the team with \"full-blooded support\" during the game.\n\nHowever, banners showing their discontent with the board were unfurled during the game and some fans staged a sit-in protest after the match to \"highlight Farhad Moshiri's failure to change and strengthen chair, board and executive positions at the club\".\n\nFollowing the club's statement on Saturday, the EFF said : \"Everyone involved in our campaign and indeed every reasonable Evertonian utterly and completely condemn any threats to any Everton employee and/or officials and directors of the club.\"\n• None Visit our Everton page for all the latest Toffees news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Everton news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Gareth Roberts and Dominga David both died in the opening months of the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nTwo nurses who died with Covid probably became infected at work, an inquest has concluded.\n\nGareth Morgan Roberts fell ill days after the first lockdown began in March 2020 and died on 11 April.\n\nDominga David died on 26 May 2020 after being sent home ill from Penarth's Llandough Hospital on 31 March.\n\nCoroner Graeme Hughes said it was \"more likely than not\" both were exposed to the Covid-19 virus while at work and ruled they died of industrial disease.\n\n\"On the balance of probabilities, exposure more likely happened at work and infection happened as a result of that exposure,\" Mr Hughes told the inquest at Pontypridd Coroner's Court.\n\nThe family of Mr Roberts had argued for a conclusion of death by industrial disease, while the health board had made the case for ruling both deaths were from natural causes.\n\nMr Roberts retired in 2015 after working in the NHS for more than 40 years, but returned to work casual ward shifts.\n\nHe told colleagues he did not want to work on a Covid ward at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff because of his age and due to him living with diabetes.\n\nHe also cared for his grandson and told a colleague Jodie Davies he could not risk it.\n\nHe was working 12-hour shifts in Cardiff in the days leading up to March 25 when he fell ill - two days after the UK announced its first lockdown.\n\nColleagues described Mr Roberts as \"hard-working\" and someone \"who never let anyone down\".\n\nHis family said in a statement he was a \"much-loved husband, father, and grandfather\" and \"one of the heroes of the pandemic\".\n\n\"Gareth touched so many lives, and when he died we received over 1,800 cards of condolence,\" they said.\n\nMs David, originally from the Philippines, died on 26 May, almost two months after becoming infected with Covid.\n\nShe had been working long shifts at the Llandough Hospital in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nDominga David came to the UK in 2004 to work as a nurse\n\nHer ward manager, Jane Linton, who gave evidence during the week-long hearing, described her as \"a fantastic person and a brilliant nurse\".\n\nMs David, 63, had pre-diabetes but was in otherwise good health and died from complications such as an ischemic bowel, arising from Covid-19, the inquest found.\n\nCoroner Mr Hughes said: \"It is more likely than not that she (Ms David) was exposed to the Covid-19 virus at work, was infected as a consequence, and died due to complications of acquiring the disease.\"\n\nThe inquest was told when Mr Roberts and Ms David caught Covid, ward nurses in the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board only used PPE while directly treating patients.\n\nIt also heard also shift handovers took place in small cubicles where people did not wear masks. At the time, patients were also not routinely swabbed for Covid.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said in a statement after the inquest: \"We were very concerned about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and guidance on its use, in healthcare settings in Wales during the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nShe said union members were concerned about the lack of PPE in a survey of May 2020.\n\nThe coroner, Mr Hughes, concluded that Mr Roberts died from Covid-19 and that his type 2 diabetes had contributed to his death.\n\nHe concluded Mr Roberts and Ms David, who lived in hospital accommodation, both died as a result of industrial disease.", "10,000 GMB ambulance workers went on strike on Wednesday over pay\n\nStriking ambulance staff feel \"utterly betrayed\" by attempts to \"paint them as uncaring\", a union has said.\n\nThe GMB union has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, accusing him of \"demonising\" paramedics, call handlers and emergency care assistants who are striking over pay and conditions.\n\nIn response, Downing Street said it \"greatly valued\" ambulance workers and the \"door remains open\" for talks.\n\nMinisters have accused workers of putting lives at risk during strikes.\n\nGMB represents more than 10,000 ambulance workers who went on strike on Wednesday across nine ambulance services in England and Wales.\n\nSteve Rice, writing on behalf of the GMB Ambulance Committee, said he was \"appalled\" at recent government statements and accused ministers of attempting to remove workers' right to strike .\n\nHe wrote: \"We feel utterly betrayed by the way your government has singled out ambulance workers as part of a crude attempt to remove our right to strike.\n\n\"You and your ministers should be ashamed of the way you have tried to paint us as uncaring about safety standards - nothing could be further from the truth.\n\n\"We want a constructive relationship with government - to talk about pay and seriously improve conditions throughout the ambulance service. But you are making us and our ambulance colleagues feel demonised.\"\n\nMr Rice concludes: \"Please talk to us and stop attacking us.\"\n\nThe letter comes after the prime minister described the industrial action as \"terrifying\".\n\nHe told the Commons on Wednesday: \"What is terrifying is that right now people do not know whether, when they call 999, they will get the treatment they need.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs that \"a lack of timely co-operation\" from unions was \"putting their constituents' lives at risk.\"\n\nResponding to the GMB letter, Downing Street said the health secretary's door remains open to talks with unions and it has accepted the independent pay review body's recommendation to give one million NHS workers a pay rise of at least £1,400 this year.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"However, we must keep the public safe, which is why we are introducing minimum service and safety levels across a range of sectors to ensure that lives and livelihoods are not lost.\"\n\nThe military helped to drive ambulance during the strike on Wednesday\n\nMr Sunak said he hoped to \"find a way through\" the deadlock with unions to avert further industrial action and touted the minimum service level legislation.\n\nThe Bill is due to considered by MPs again on Monday.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted: \"Ministers know this shoddy, unworkable Bill won't do a thing to help working people or avoid strikes.\"\n\nAmbulance workers are striking over pay, patient safety and staffing levels.", "A Challenger 2 tank being used during a military parade in the UK\n\nThe UK is to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nHe spoke to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call on Saturday, during which he confirmed he would send the equipment and additional artillery systems, No 10 said.\n\nDowning Street said the move shows \"the UK's ambition to intensify support.\"\n\nThe government is to issue 14 tanks to Ukraine.\n\nAround 30 AS90s, which are large, self-propelled guns, are also expected to be delivered.\n\nPresident Zelensky has thanked the UK, saying that the decision to send the tanks \"will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners\".\n\nHe said the UK's support was \"always strong\" and was \"now impenetrable\".\n\nNo 10 said that during the call, Mr Sunak and Mr Zelensky also discussed recent Ukrainian victories, as well as the \"need to seize on this moment with an acceleration of global military and diplomatic support\".\n\nThe announcement came as a series of missile attacks were launched across Ukraine on Saturday, including in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa.\n\nAt least 14 people were killed in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro.\n\nMr Sunak said the Challengers, the British Army's main battle tank, would help Kyiv's forces \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nBuilt in the late 1990s, the Challenger tank is more than 20 years old, but it will be the most modern tank at Ukraine's disposal. The tanks will provide Ukraine with better protection, and more accurate firepower.\n\nThe UK will begin training the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use the tanks and guns in the coming days.\n\nWhile the donation alone is not considered a game-changer, it is hoped that the UK's move will inspire other countries to donate more modern equipment to help Ukraine.\n\nChair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said he welcomed the UK \"getting serious about the hardware it supplies Ukraine\", but that international assistance had been \"far too slow\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"That's exactly what Russia wants us to do - to remain hesitant.\n\n\"Unless we step forward and support Ukraine, Russia will not go away - and that will mean the bully has won.\"\n\nHe stressed that he wanted to see an arms factory in Eastern Poland which would allow Ukraine to procure its own weapons for the long term.\n\nAs it stands, Poland has plans to send 14 of its German-made Leopard tanks.\n\nBut the tanks, which are in greater supply and used by a number of European armies, need approval from Germany to be exported to Ukraine.\n\nUkraine also has hopes that the US will supply some of its Abrams tanks, which use the same ammunition as the Leopard.\n\nEarlier this month, Germany and the US agreed to join France in sending armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine - a move seen as a significant boost to its military's capability on the battlefield.\n\nShadow defence secretary John Healey said the government had \"Labour's fullest backing\" for the decision to send the Challengers.\n\nHe said: \"Modern tanks are crucial to Ukraine's efforts to win its battle against Russian aggression.\"\n\nResponding to the news of the Challenger tanks, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: \"As we've said previously, weapons supplies are legitimate targets for Russian strikes.\"\n\nSoledar has been devastated by Russia's bombardment, as shown by this satellite image from Tuesday\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Russia's military announced it had captured the salt-mining town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an \"important\" step for its offensive.\n\nThe victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the fight for Soledar was still going on and accused Russia of \"information noise\".\n• None Ukraine to get Patriot missile training in Oklahoma", "Rapper Dr Dre has sent a cease-and-desist letter to US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she used one of his songs in a promotional video.\n\nGreene used his hit song Still D.R.E. in a Twitter video celebrating Kevin McCarthy's election as speaker of the US House of Representatives.\n\n\"They can't stop what's coming,\" she captioned the video.\n\nDre said he had not licensed the song to Greene, who has a history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories.\n\nHer social media posts have supported outlandish suggestions that a 2018 high school shooting was staged, and that a wildfire in California was ignited by a laser beam shot from space by a prominent Jewish family, the Rothschilds, who are the subject of many antisemitic conspiracy theories.\n\nSuch tropes are common amongst right-wing QAnon followers.\n\nThe Georgia Republican's latest video showed her walking the halls of Congress in slow motion, smiling and reflecting on her role in helping McCarthy secure the House speaker position.\n\nThe score was the iconic piano riff from Still D.R.E, a 1999 single by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.\n\nDre, whose real name is Andre Young, immediately expressed his displeasure.\n\n\"I don't license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,\" he said in a statement to TMZ and the LA Times.\n\nWithin hours, the video had been removed from Twitter and replaced with the message: \"This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner\".\n\nThe Republican was re-elected in 2022, after a failed attempt to have her barred from standing for office over her role in the US Capitol Riot\n\nDre's lawyers then sent Greene a letter accusing Greene of \"wrongfully exploiting\" his music \"to promote [a] divisive and hateful political agenda\".\n\nThe letter said that Greene's use of Still D.R.E. constituted copyright infringement and that the rapper \"has not, and will never, grant [Greene] permission to broadcast or disseminate any of his music\".\n\n\"One might expect that, as a member of Congress, you would have a passing familiarity with the laws of our country. It's possible, though, that laws governing intellectual property are a little too arcane and insufficiently populist for you to really have spent much time on,\" the letter continued.\n\nThey demanded that Greene \"cease and desist from any further unauthorised use\" of Dre's work, and to confirm that she had complied with the request by Wednesday evening.\n\nThe politician fired back, attempting to undermine Dre's moral authority by referring to his background in gangsta rap, as a member of NWA and producer for artists like Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Eminem.\n\n\"While I appreciate the creative chord progression, I would never play your words of violence against women and police officers, and your glorification of the thug life and drugs,\" she told TMZ.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Leisure services at risk without further support for energy bills, UK government warned Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nUKactive believes leisure services should be classes as 'intensive' energy users requiring more bespoke support Swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms are at risk of closure unless the UK government offers more support to tackle soaring energy costs, a fitness industry trade body has warned. The government is scaling back its energy support scheme from April to focus on heavy energy-using sectors. That currently does not include the leisure sector, something UKactive said was a \"significant oversight\". It warned of \"severe\" effects on the industry unless the scheme is reviewed. \"Communities will see the loss of local services - including swimming lessons for children, mental health services, bespoke programmes for older citizens, ethnically diverse communities and disabled people - and long-term health programmes including cancer rehabilitation, musculoskeletal support and type 2 diabetes,\" said UKactive chief executive Huw Edwards. \"This will impact millions of people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. \"Tragically, the impact of the scheme and more facility closures will damage further our national health, our NHS and our economic growth.\" UKactive warned that even under the current energy relief scheme 74% of council areas are already classified as \"unsecure\", meaning there is risk of the closure of leisure centres or reduced services before March 2024. The scheme is mainly used by businesses, but is also for charities and public sector organisations such as schools and hospitals. The government first launched the package last September after prices were driven up in the wake of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Wholesale gas prices are now below the level they were before Russia's invasion, but still three to four times higher than their long-term average. In its announcement, the government said it was scaling back the energy subsidies for the next financial year to £5.5bn, warning that the current level of help was too expensive. Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson said: \"This decision by the government to not provide additional support to swimming pools and leisure centres is a hammer blow and flies in the face of previous statements from the government about the importance of physical activity and reducing pressures on the NHS. \"The government must review this decision immediately. \"With bills routinely tripling in price and energy costs typically being the second highest expense for swimming pool owners and operators, they have been consistently warning that without support pools and leisure centres will have to close. \"Sadly, we have already seen a number shutting in recent weeks and in light of [this] decision we will likely only see more and more pools disappearing across all parts of the country - each one a devastating loss for the local community.\" Councillor David Renard, energy spokesman for the Local Government Association, said that while it is \"good\" the government will continue to help the public sector, the LGA remain \"deeply concerned about the risk to some council services\". He added: \"Libraries and museums will be eligible for extra support, as energy-intensive industries, but leisure centres and swimming pools will not be equally protected from high energy prices. \"These valuable public facilities are at risk of reduced hours or even closure due to unsustainable and increasing costs. \"If the government is serious about reducing pressure on the NHS, as well as meeting its other targets on physical activity and sports participation, it must continue to support our leisure centres and public swimming pools which help people stay active, healthy and out of hospital. \"Councils need support with their energy bills for all their local services, so they can stay open and provide a safe haven for residents during this unprecedented cost-of-living crisis.\"\n• None Can they identify The Traitors to win £120,000?", "Prince Harry reaches the royal parts never reached before\n\nThis must be the strangest book ever written by a royal.\n\nPrince Harry's memoir, Spare, is part confession, part rant and part love letter. In places it feels like the longest angry drunk text ever sent.\n\nIt's the view from inside what he calls a \"surreal fishbowl\" and \"unending Truman Show\".\n\nIt's disarmingly frank and intimate - showing the sheer weirdness of his often isolated life. And it's the small details, rather than the set-piece moments, that give a glimpse of how little we really knew.\n\nThere are glimpses of him as a royal stoner, smoking a joint after dinner and worrying the smoke was going to blow over to his elderly neighbour the Duke of Kent.\n\nWhat other royal recollection would cover losing his virginity behind a pub, or go into such prolonged detail about a frost-bitten penis? This royal appendage gets more lines than many of his relatives. Maybe there should be a spoiler alert for the special cushion that's made.\n\nHe was also keenly conscious of girls with \"throne syndrome\", who would be \"visibly fitting herself with a crown the moment she shook my hand\".\n\nOr there's the story about when he's in Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee concert and listening to Brian May playing on the roof - and notices his grandmother Queen Elizabeth is wearing earplugs.\n\nHis pre-Meghan life in London was ostensibly full of luxury, but it also feels as though he was undercover in his own life.\n\nHarry suffered from appalling panic attacks, awful for anyone, but debilitating for someone expected to speak and appear in public.\n\nHe describes his lonely life at home, self-medicating with psychedelic drugs, drying his clothes on a radiator and planning shopping trips like military raids, to be carried out in disguise and at speed.\n\nPrincess Diana and Harry: The book describes the trauma he felt at her loss\n\nHe doesn't have an Amazon account, but he hits TK Maxx for clothes, and carries out a weekly food shop in a supermarket, rehearsing exactly where to find his favourite salmon and yoghurts. When he's in there one day he overhears shoppers debating whether he's gay.\n\nBut it's a profoundly odd life, moving suddenly between this lack of glamour to time with the international jet set.\n\nHarry says he watches the TV show Friends on a loop, identifying with the funny guy character of Chandler. But then on a trip to the US he is at a party with Courteney Cox, the actress who plays Chandler's on-screen wife, Monica.\n\nAnd this really is a trip, because he ends up taking hallucinogenic drugs and watches a pedal-bin coming to life. It's a long way from the commentary for Trooping the Colour.\n\nThe ghost-written work is a fast-paced, quickfire account, looking out from the inside, always scratchily aware of the bodyguards outside the door and the cameras waiting to catch him. As a schoolboy, smoking cannabis with his friends, he watches the police outside there to guard him.\n\nLeaks of the book revealed the scale of the conflict between Prince William and Prince Harry\n\nAt the very centre of this story, permeating almost every page, is the huge trauma that seems to have distorted the rest of his life - the death of his mother Princess Diana.\n\nHe adored her unreservedly and an overwhelming sense of unresolved grief is at the hub of all his other anxieties, like spokes on a wheel.\n\nHe really, really hates the press, blaming them for chasing his mother so relentlessly, including in the events leading to her death in Paris, with Harry returning obsessively to the scene of the car accident.\n\nHis anger at the news media is wide ranging, but Rupert Murdoch is singled out in particular and one of his executives is only described in anagram form, so much is his allergic reaction.\n\nThe rows with his brother Prince William are often framed by references to the closeness they had previously had with their mother.\n\nHis paralysing anxiety and self-destructiveness also seem to be consequences of the loss of his mother, taking away an emotional anchor that, until meeting Meghan, he had never replaced.\n\nKing Charles tried to offer support to Harry after the death of his mother\n\nWarning: Some strong language is used in the following paragraphs\n\nThere is also something of a death obsession. Going into Westminster Abbey for his brother's wedding he cheerfully thinks about the 3,000 people buried in the church over the centuries.\n\nWhat's missing from the book is any sense of awareness of any wider context of the rest of the world outside. It's as if he has been blinded by the paparazzi flashlights. No one worries about paying gas bills in this book. He's back and forth to Africa like he was going a few stops on the Northern Line.\n\nAlthough, that would have been more exotic for him because he says the only time he got on a Tube train was on a school trip.\n\nWhile copiously indiscreet about the interior of royal life - yes, that's his father doing physio exercises in his boxers - it remains strangely silent on any views about the outside world, even though he's no longer a working royal.\n\nThere are some glimpses. Harry talks about Prince William making what he calls a \"vaguely anti-Brexit speech\" which seems to annoy the tabloids.\n\n\"Brexit was their bread and butter. How dare he suggest it was bullshit,\" he writes.\n\nThe other royals are claimed by Prince Harry to be obsessing over the score sheets of how many visits they've carried out compared with other family members, looking over their shoulders in case anyone should question their purpose.\n\nBut he is also unmistakably a creature of his own upbringing, describing shooting a deer in a way that doesn't feel like the new-age therapy version of Californian Harry.\n\nSo who will be most upset about all these revelations in his book?\n\nNetflix mostly. They paid a prince's ransom for six hours of TV waffle and the smug contents of an Instagram feed, whereas the book crackles like a burning log with something bizarre on almost every page.\n\nPlenty of the book will get people irritated too, particularly its self-absorption. He talks about a row over people parking near his palace accommodation with more detail than you'd expect from a small war.\n\nThere are some off-the-wall claims too, such as comparing the Spice Girls' \"crusade against sexism\" with \"Mandela's struggle against apartheid\".\n\nThe leaks of the book have focused on the family conflicts and Harry's resentment at a lack of support for him and Meghan.\n\nCamilla arrives in the story to become his stepmother, with the narrative exuding a mixture of suspicion and a determined effort to be polite. But mostly suspicion really. It feels a bit divorced dad telling everyone he's not bitter, he doesn't mind that he paid for everything, really, not bitter at all, just wishing them both well...\n\nBut taken as a whole, beyond the excerpts, a much warmer picture emerges of his father, King Charles, even when it seems that the narrator is giving him a hard time.\n\nCharles is seen padding around in his slippers, listening to his audio-books, obsessed with Shakespeare, wearing Dior scent and falling asleep at his desk. He's seen as having faced terrible school bullying, still keeping a teddy bear as a totem of a lonely childhood.\n\nHis father tries to provide some emotional support for Harry after Diana's death, sitting up with him until he falls asleep at night, but it feels as though his good intentions had to navigate some tricky barriers.\n\nCharles leaves notes for him trying to say nice things - but Harry questions why he couldn't say them in person. He goes to see Harry in a school play and laughs uproariously and is then criticised by his son for laughing in the wrong places.\n\nWhen the adult brothers are feuding, Charles begins to sound like something of a Shakespearean figure himself, King Lear in tweed, begging his sons not to make his old age a misery.\n\nThe King is presented as old fashioned and rather unworldly. But he might be learning a new bit of text speak. TMI. Too much information...", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, ambulance and rail services, under planned anti-strike laws.\n\nVoluntary agreements would cover other sectors including health, education, other transport services, border security and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nThe measures will not resolve the current wave of strikes.\n\nUnions have condemned the restrictions and threatened legal action, while Labour says it would repeal them.\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps said the measures were being introduced to \"restore the balance between those seeking to strike and protecting the public from disproportionate disruption\".\n\nThe legislation is expected to be published next week, with MPs debating it for the first time the week after. It will apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is likely to face significant opposition in the House of Lords, as only transport strikes were mentioned in the Conservatives' 2019 manifesto pledge to introduce minimum service levels.\n\nThe Times newspaper quoted a government source saying striking workers who defied minimum service rules could face dismissal for breach of contract.\n\nBut a business department source told the BBC it was \"not our intention to penalise individuals\".\n\nUnder existing laws, people who take illegal strike action can already be sacked.\n\nThe business department also called on the unions to cancel upcoming strikes in a bid to resolve the current disputes \"constructively through dialogue\".\n\nIt said it would invite unions to meet for \"honest, constructive conversations\" about what was \"fair and affordable\" in public sector pay settlements for 2023/24.\n\nBut a number of unions have cast doubt on their continued involvement in the independent pay review process.\n\nGary Smith, GMB general secretary, said: \"There are huge questions over the NHS Pay Review Body, as ministers' actions have consistently undermined its independence. The process needs real reform.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner described the minimum-service proposals as \"unworkable and unserious from a dead-end government\".\n\n\"At every stage the government has sought to collapse talks and throw in last minute spanners. Now the prime minister is wasting time on shoddy hurdles that even his own transport secretary admits won't work,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters have said they will consult on and then set an \"adequate level of coverage\" for the fire and ambulance services and on the railways. For the other sectors, the government says it expects to be able to reach voluntary agreements.\n\nA wave of industrial action is affecting sectors from the health and postal services to driving examinations, as people seek pay rises that keep up with the fast-rising cost of living.\n\nRail workers in the RMT and other unions have taken part in a series of large-scale strikes over more than six months, with Thursday marking the sixth day of action since last summer by members of Aslef, which represents most train drivers.\n\nTUC general secretary Paul Nowak condemned the proposed bill as \"wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal\".\n\n\"This is an attack on the right to strike. It's an attack on working people, and it's an attack on one of our longstanding British liberties.\n\n\"This government has gone from clapping key workers to threating them with the sack if they take lawful action for a pay rise. It will only push more people away from essential jobs in public services,\" he added.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"Safe staffing levels that are set in law are what we want to see year-round not just in these extreme circumstances.\n\n\"We've long campaigned for governments to be accountable for safe and effective staffing levels in NHS and social care to prevent one nurse being left with 15, 20 or even 25 sick patients... Today's highly unsafe situation is what is driving our members to say 'enough is enough'.\"\n\nEarlier, Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, said he did not think new legislation would make life harder for his union.\n\nHe suggested it would lead to unions having to organise more strikes locally, instead of nationally.\n\nMr Whelan said: \"There have been minimum [service] levels in European countries for several years. They have never been enacted because they don't work.\"\n\nHe added that employers could already sack workers, if they went on strike for more than six weeks.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said the UK already had some of the most restrictive anti-union laws in the western world.\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of being \"clearly hellbent on criminalising and victimising trade unions with this threatened onslaught on the right to strike\".\n\n\"The Tories are badly misjudging the public mood with these attacks on the pay and conditions of key workers, who kept Britain going during the pandemic,\" he added.", "The picture posted by Grant Shapps on Monday\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps has denied doctoring a picture on his Twitter feed to remove former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Shapps posted a picture of a ministerial visit to Spaceport Cornwall, as he hailed the first rocket launch from UK soil.\n\nBut social media users spotted that Mr Johnson, who also went on the trip in 2021, had disappeared from the picture.\n\nMr Shapps says he was not aware it had been edited and has now deleted it.\n\nAn identical photo remains on the Number 10 Flickr account, dated 9 June 2021.\n\nThe original image posted by Downing Street in June 2021\n\nIt shows Mr Johnson and Mr Shapps side-by-side in Cornwall during a visit to LauncherOne.\n\nThe then-Conservative leader is wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words: \"Prime Minister\".\n\nA source close to Mr Shapps said: \"Grant wasn't aware anyone had edited the picture.\n\n\"He removed it as soon as it was pointed out. Obviously he wouldn't endorse anyone rewriting history by removing the former PM from a picture.\n\n\"He was proud to serve in Boris Johnson's government.\"\n\nThe first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil ended in failure on Monday, after the rocket suffered an \"anomaly\".\n\nA jumbo jet operated by the American Virgin Orbit company carried a rocket out of Newquay, Cornwall, to release it over the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket ignited and appeared to be ascending correctly, before the mission failed.\n\nThe satellites it was carrying could not be released and were lost.\n\nLabour's public health minister Andrew Gwynne took a swipe at Mr Shapps in a Commons debate on the government's planned strikes legislation.\n\n\"Perhaps he should spend less time on photoshop and more time on the day job sitting down and negotiating,\" he told MPs.", "Physical game sales are decreasing year-on-year, according to the ERA\n\nDigital sales accounted for almost nine out of every 10 video games sold in the UK in 2022, according to a trade body.\n\nThe digital entertainment and retail association (ERA) said 89.5% of games sold had been digital downloads and the remaining 10.5% actual physical copies.\n\nAbout 30% of the sales came from mobile apps, which are sold digitally.\n\nIn total, the gaming industry accounted for £4.7bn of sales in the UK in 2022 - higher than that of the film, television or music industries.\n\nThe numbers mean gamers were much more likely to download games through their console or PC rather than waiting for a delivery or going to a shop.\n\nERA chief executive Kim Bayley said gaming was the \"often-unheralded leader\" of the entertainment market.\n\n\"While growth, at 2.3%, was lower than that of video or music, its scale is enormous - and in terms of innovation and excitement, it continues to set the pace for the entire entertainment sector,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the music industry, where the Official Chart Company counts the exact number of sales of digital songs, the figures in the gaming industry are estimates.\n\nDigital stores owned by gaming titans such as PlayStation and Valve do not have to publish their sales figures - but the ERA estimates, provided market-research company Omdia, were \"the industry benchmark\", Ms Bayley told BBC News.\n\n\"In the old days, when there was pretty much only physical console games and PC discs, it was far easier to track the market,\" she said.\n\n\"These days, it's a lot more fragmented and sometimes the new digital players simply won't share their sales data directly - that's where estimates come in.\n\n\"The proof of the pudding is how the numbers are received and respected.\"", "Steve Bland and Lauren Mahon hosted the show with Dame Deborah James, left (pictured in 2019)\n\nThe presenters of a BBC podcast about living with cancer have said they are ready to \"hang up their headphones\".\n\nLauren Mahon and Steve Bland said they planned to stand down from presenting the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C.\n\nThe show launched in 2018 with Mahon presenting alongside BBC Radio 5 Live newsreader Rachael Bland and Dame Deborah James.\n\nThe podcast takes a candid look at cancer, discussing matters such as telling your family and friends as well as practical matters, such as hair loss and tips for dealing with finances.\n\nSteve Bland, Rachael's husband, took her place on the podcast after she died.\n\nSpeaking to BBC North West Tonight, Mahon, who is five years clear of cancer, said: \"I have struggled over the last year getting back in that studio without their seats being filled.\"\n\nThe Londoner said: \"I'm still processing it all.\n\n\"In what other job than the army would you go into work thinking you may lose colleagues, and so it's very hard because there's not many people who get it. It's challenging.\"\n\nShe said she has had \"so many chats\" with Steve about the podcast continuing as it is a \"public service\" but \"we don't feel like it's for us to continue it\".\n\n\"How do we get back into that studio without these two remarkable women that began this podcast?\n\n\"People are getting diagnosed everyday - that's not going to change. The world of cancer changes. So I think it would be more appropriate and probably more poignant and relevant to get people that are going through it now.\"\n\nSteve said there would not be many more episodes from them and it would be a \"long goodbye\".\n\nJames co-hosted You, Me and the Big C with Rachael Bland (left) and Lauren Mahon (centre)\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"We'd like the podcast to carry on because it's a really important thing for so many people.\n\n\"It just takes a toll and it's heavy and it's hard to kind of keep talking about this stuff - particularly when we've had to deal with obviously Rachel and Deborah over the last few years.\n\n\"There aren't many people doing podcasts where two people have died from the subject matter. It's a tough thing to keep talking about.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as the pair announced they will record an episode with a live audience later this month. Those wanting to be a part of the audience can enter an online ballot for a ticket.", "Princes Harry and William watch a flypast to mark the centenary of the RAF, 2018\n\n\"Wonderful. Now you've given me an heir and a spare, my work is done.\" That was the conversation that Prince Harry claims marked the day of his own birth, with the then Prince Charles joking to the Princess of Wales about the arrival of their second son.\n\nThe story is told in Harry's memoir, called Spare, and he says the term was often used to describe him, within his own family.\n\n\"They would say it without a spirit of judgement, but straight out. I was the shadow, the supporting actor, the plan B,\" he writes, in a translation of the book's Spanish edition.\n\n\"I was brought into this world in case something happened to Willy,\" he writes, using the nicknames that saw Prince William as \"Willy\" and Prince Harry as \"Harold\".\n\nThe saying \"an heir and a spare\" refers to aristocratic families needing an heir to inherit a title or an estate, and the \"spare\" as the younger sibling who could be the replacement if anything happened to the heir before he or she has their own children.\n\nIt clearly annoyed Prince Harry enough to use it as a title for his book, and it taps into the longstanding difficulty of this uncertain royal understudy role, where there's wealth and privilege but no obvious sense of purpose.\n\n\"It's a non-position,\" says royal expert Professor Pauline Maclaran, from the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy, Royal Holloway, University of London.\n\n\"There's no clear role apart from shaking hands and being pleasant to people,\" says Prof Maclaran.\n\nA life of pointless luxury might have its decadent charms, but it also carries a heavy risk of unfulfillment and lack of direction.\n\nSo much so that Prof Maclaran says that a modern, slimmed-down monarchy should either find better defined roles for such individuals, or else release them from any royal expectations, once they've slipped down the pecking order of succession.\n\nRoyal historian Ed Owens says Sweden and Denmark are examples of where such an approach has been taken, \"downsizing\" the royal families, so that individuals who might have been marginal \"spares\" can have their own private lives \"unfettered by royal responsibilities\".\n\nPrincess Margaret with her elder sister Queen Elizabeth II at the Badminton Horse Trials, 1973\n\nMr Owens says that Princess Margaret, younger sister to the late Queen Elizabeth II, is an example of the pressures put upon such siblings, in a way that remains relevant to the problems raised by Prince Harry.\n\nHe says Princess Margaret faced having her private life \"taken apart\" by the media - something that he says would be much less likely to happen to the monarch or those directly in line of succession.\n\nFor the second child, with no role expected beyond dutifully \"playing second fiddle\", it means facing tougher and more \"mischievous headlines\", with less expectation of protection from scrutiny, says the historian.\n\n\"More marginal royals are seen as fair game. The dignity accorded those in direct line is not afforded to those younger royals,\" he says.\n\nThis echoes Prince Harry's description of the spare as a \"back-up, distraction, diversion\".\n\nPrince Andrew looks at messages and floral tributes for his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, September 2022\n\nPrince Andrew is another whose attempts at finding a role have not exactly ended well. Even before the scandal involving sex assault claims, which he denied, he had gained the nickname of Air Miles Andy for his many overseas trips.\n\nBut there have been positive outcomes. George VI, a shy and initially reluctant monarch, had been Edward VIII's younger sibling but stepped up to the plate as King after his childless brother abdicated, and proved to be a leader in wartime.\n\nHis father, George V, had been another second son who came to the throne. His older brother had died at the age of 28 in an outbreak of flu in 1892.\n\nApart from the hereditary principle that puts the \"spare\" into second place, Prof Maclaran suggests looking at it through the prism of family dynamics.\n\nShe says they can have \"second-child syndrome\", rebellious and resentful of the older child who has been given more status and responsibility.\n\nThis can create its own sibling tension, Prof Maclaran argues, with the older child also getting irritated by the lack of responsibility shown by the younger. It's a psychological tinder box as well as a constitutional fixture.\n\nThere are also historical templates for the younger royal being cast in a negative light, accused of dissolute and disreputable behaviour or as a rival threatening to undermine the authority of the elder.\n\nThink of Bad King John versus Good King Richard, in the 12th Century power struggle between brothers, that was depicted in a 1970s Disney movie.\n\nPrincess Margaret with Diana Princess of Wales, and princes William and Harry, after the Trooping the Colour ceremony in June 1988\n\nBut in the 21st Century there's no need for any restrictions or negativity towards \"spare\" royals, says author and historian Sir Anthony Seldon.\n\nHe says that Prince Harry and Meghan have great potential to do good and could have a \"massive future, rather than be spent forces,\" for the monarchy if \"wisdom and generosity prevails\".\n\n\"Someone has to be the grown-up here. You have two very understandably damaged brothers and this will drag on and on and start causing serious damage.\n\n\"It is still recoverable, but there has to be an accommodation between the brothers.\n\n\"No-one is winning from the current war,\" warns Sir Anthony.", "Europe experienced its warmest summer and second warmest year in 2022\n\nThe polar regions and Europe were hit hardest by global warming in 2022, according to a new analysis.\n\nThe data from Copernicus, the EU's climate monitoring service, says 2022 was the fifth warmest year globally.\n\nEurope experienced its warmest summer, with temperatures increasing by more than twice the global average over the past three decades, faster than any other continent.\n\nThe last eight years are now also the warmest eight yet recorded.\n\nLast year saw a continuation of a pattern of global warming that has become the new normal, say Copernicus scientists.\n\nWhile the La Niña weather event helped to cool the oceans for the third year in a row, global temperatures were still approximately 0.3C higher in 2022 than the 1991-2020 reference period.\n\nResearchers say this means that last year was close to 1.2C above the 1850-1900 period, taken as the start of global industrialisation.\n\nEurope and the polar regions were at the sharp end of this high heat.\n\nTemperature records in many western European countries were broken including the UK, with summer heatwaves and intense droughts hitting many parts.\n\nEven the normally cooler month of October in Europe was some 2C above average last year.\n\nWhile the west of the continent was extremely hot, colder weather in northern and eastern countries saw the year overall drop to second warmest in Europe.\n\n\"We're already experiencing climate change now,\" said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"The heatwaves that we saw in Europe over the summer, but also the spring, and also the autumn ... many people will remember the heatwave that we had over the New Year's period as well. So we're seeing heatwaves, not only in the summer, but in the rest of the seasons.\"\n\nOver the past 30 years, temperatures in European countries have increased by more than twice the global average.\n\nAccording to the Copernicus service, Europe has the highest rate of temperature increase of any continent in the world.\n\nThis is due to a number of factors, say researchers. Land areas are warming faster than the seas, so this is helping make Europe warmer. Another factor is proximity to the Arctic, which is warming at around four times the global average.\n\nPart of the reason is that ice is more reflective and less absorbent of sunlight. When ice melts it reveals darker areas of land or sea, and this results in increased sunlight absorption and thus warming.\n\nApart from Europe there were significant record heat events in the Middle East, Central Asia and China with heatwave conditions in Pakistan and parts of India.\n\nThe two polar regions again saw record high heat with temperatures in some places rising by more than 2C above the 1991-2020 average.\n\nIn north-western Siberia, temperatures reached 3C above the average.\n\nAt Vostok in Antarctica, the mercury reached -17.7C, the warmest in the weather station's 65-year history.\n\nThe centre of Greenland also recorded values that were 8C higher than average during September.\n\nLooking at the global picture, the last eight years were all more than 1C above the long term average.\n\nThis is getting closer to breaching the 1.5C threshold that's a key limit for the Paris climate agreement.\n\n\"If we do a fairly simple linear extrapolation, and if we look at the current level of emissions and current level of warming, we will hit 1.5C sometime in the early 2030,\" said Samantha Burgess.\n\nDrought hit many parts of Europe including France where the River Loire dried up\n\n\"So we're already living on borrowed time effectively and borrowed emissions as well.\"\n\nLast year also saw the impact of a number of extreme events linked to climate change, with flooding in Pakistan perhaps the most destructive, with large loss of life.\n\nAcross the world, levels of warming gases also increased, with methane going up by more than the average of recent years.\n\nAnother cause for concern will be the carbon output from forest fires, with France, Germany, Spain and Slovenia all experiencing their highest summer wildfire emissions in 20 years.\n\nFurther insight into the state of the climate in 2022 will come later this week when a number of other meteorological agencies will report their data.", "The ozone layer - which is on track for recovery - protects against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun\n\nHuman action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says.\n\nAn international agreement in 1987 to stop using the harmful chemicals that were damaging the layer has been successful, the major assessment says.\n\nThe ozone layer is a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.\n\nWhen it is depleted, this radiation can reach the surface - causing potential harm to humans and other living things.\n\nUltraviolet rays can damage DNA and cause sunburn, increasing the long-term risk of problems such as skin cancer.\n\nThe ozone layer began depleting in the 1970s.\n\nChlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were commonly found in spray cans, fridges, foam insulation and air conditioners, were blamed for eating away at the ozone layer.\n\nA gaping hole in the layer was discovered by scientists in 1985. Just two years later, the Montreal Protocol was signed - with 46 countries promising to phase out the harmful chemicals.\n\nThe deal later became the first UN treaty to achieve universal ratification, and almost 99% of banned ozone-depleting substances have now been phased out.\n\nThe Antarctic ozone hole continued expanding until 2000, after which its area and depth began improving slowly.\n\nNow, a report co-produced by UN, US and EU agencies says the Montreal Protocol is working as hoped.\n\nIt says that, if current policies are maintained, the ozone layer will be restored to 1980 values - before the ozone hole appeared - at different points in different places:\n\nWhile the depletion of ozone is harmful due to solar radiation, it is not a major cause of climate change.\n\nBut saving the ozone layer has had a positive knock-on effect on global warming, the report suggests, because some of the harmful chemicals that were phased out are powerful greenhouse gases.\n\nThat phase-out will have prevented up to 1C of warming by the middle of the century - if compared to increasing their use by 3% per year, the scientists found.\n\nWhile the report has been hailed as good news - and evidence that rapid, international action to avert environmental crises can work - it warns that continued progress on the ozone layer is not guaranteed.\n\nFor example, proposals to limit global warming by sending millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere - known as stratospheric aerosol injection - could drastically reverse the ozone layer's recovery.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Injured protester says police pointed a gun at him\n\nAt least 17 people have died in clashes between supporters of the former president and security forces in south-eastern Peru, officials say.\n\nDozens more were injured on Monday in the city of Juliaca in some of the worst violence since ex-President Pedro Castillo was arrested last month for trying to dissolve Congress.\n\nHis supporters have been protesting and blockading roads for weeks.\n\nThey say new President Dina Boluarte must go, and want snap elections.\n\nPrime Minister Alberto Otárola denounced the clashes in Juliaca, describing them as an organised attack on police.\n\nHe said that thousands of people had tried to overrun the city's airport and a local police station.\n\nMeanwhile, one protester told the AFP news agency: \"The police are shooting at us.\"\n\n\"We ask Dina to resign. Accept the fact that people do not want you,\" the protester added.\n\nJuliaca is located in the Puno region, which has been a hotbed of anti-government demonstrations.\n\nThe South American nation has been through years of political turmoil, with the latest crisis coming to a head when Mr Castillo announced he was dissolving Congress and introducing a state of emergency in December.\n\nBut Congress proceeded to vote overwhelmingly to impeach him.\n\nMr Castillo, who is currently in detention, is being investigated on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. He denies all the accusations, insisting that he is still the country's legitimate president.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A border between Peru and Bolivia is blocked by protesters", "The family of a British man missing in Ukraine say they are \"very worried\" about his health and whereabouts.\n\nChris Parry, 28, was last seen on Friday with Andrew Bagshaw, 48, heading to the town of Soledar, which has seen intense fighting in recent days.\n\nThe two men had been working as volunteers helping people evacuate from the frontline of the war.\n\nMr Parry's family and partner say he is an extraordinary person who is \"compassionate and caring\".\n\nThey added he \"would not be dissuaded from his work in Ukraine liberating elderly and disabled people, which we are very proud of\" and that they \"all love him very much\".\n\nMr Parry, originally from Truro in Cornwall but living in Cheltenham, had travelled to Ukraine last year to do humanitarian work after the Russian invasion.\n\nHe said he had a \"drive to help\" during an interview with BBC Cornwall from Ukraine over Christmas last year.\n\nHe also described the \"continuous\" bombardment, as well as recalling the time he had a drone \"within about 10 metres of my face\" while he was on the front line.\n\nA missing person's report was filed for the two men from the police department in the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region at 17:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nUkrainian police said the men had been in Kramatorsk - where there have been reports of strikes in recent days - but were last seen heading to the small, eastern town of Soledar.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that Russia was \"likely\" in control of most of Soledar following a months-long battle with Ukrainian forces.\n\nGaining control of Soledar would be Russia's biggest gain since last August if it is confirmed.\n\nThe capture would be significant as it would allow Russia to gain access to Soledar's deep, city-like network of salt mine tunnels, which have been dormant since April.\n\nIt would also allow Russian troops to get closer to the nearby larger city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces have been fighting for months to capture.\n\nThe family of Mr Bagshaw, who is also missing, described their son as \"a very intelligent, independently minded person, who went there as a volunteer to assist the people of Ukraine\".\n\nIn a statement issued to the media in New Zealand - where Mr Bagshaw lives - his parents described the work he has been doing as delivering food and medicines and helping elderly people move from \"near the battlefront of the war\".\n\nThe British Foreign Office is warning against all travel to Ukraine due to attacks on a number of different cities currently taking place, as the conflict continues into its 11th month.\n\nIt says there is a \"real risk to life\", adding that British nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately.", "Waves crash over the promenade during rain and strong winds in Folkestone, Kent\n\nHomes and businesses have been warned to prepare for flooding in various parts of the UK.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 28 flood warnings and 97 flood alerts across England, while there is also one flood warning in Wales.\n\nThe Met Office has yellow weather warnings for rain and wind in place across various regions until Thursday.\n\nMotorists are being advised by the RAC to be \"on their guard\" in the wet weather.\n\nThe organisation said people should be driving at slower speeds and leaving a larger space between their vehicle and those ahead.\n\nThe majority of the flood warnings are clustered in the Dorset area but there are also flood warnings in place for areas including along the River Severn at points including Tewkesbury and Frankwell in Shrewsbury, also at Keswick campsite in the Lake District. Areas including Curry Moor and Hay Moor in Somerset are also at risk.\n\nBBC Weather said the number of flood warnings in place was \"nothing out of the ordinary\" due to mainly flood-prone areas being affected.\n\nCars drive through flood water along Kent Lane, near to Ibsley in Hampshire\n\nGiving a forecast it said that yellow Met Office warnings were in place for the far north and west of Scotland later, with gusts of 70-75mph, while there is a risk of coastal gales in western areas on Wednesday.\n\nTemperatures will remain above average for the time of year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Met Office has issued three yellow warnings for heavy rain, covering much of Wales, North West England, and South West Scotland.\n\nTwo yellow rain warnings - one stretching from Cardiff to Bangor and another covering Lancashire and southern Cumbria - will remain in place until 20:00 GMT.\n\nA third yellow warning for rain covers south-western and central Scotland, including Glasgow and Stirling until 19:00 GMT.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning for \"strong winds\" in the Northern Isles of Scotland until 10:00 GMT on Wednesday, with wind speeds predicted to reach up to 50mph.\n\nOn Wednesday, another yellow warning for rain will be in place in south-western areas such as Bath, Plymouth and Cardiff, in Wales, until 17:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nWorkers from the Environment Agency install flood defences in Bewdley, Worcestershire, after heavy rain\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: \"The rain will be spreading its way through eastern England and then through Scotland.\n\n\"There will be heavy and persistent rain for north-west England and parts of Wales, and, because it has been so wet recently, this extra rain could cause some issues, so we do have Met Office yellow warnings in place.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued one flood warning for Llanmynech, Powys, and 20 flood alerts elsewhere.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued six flood alerts across south-west Scotland, covering Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, and West Central Scotland.\n\nThe National Flood Forum has advised people concerned about the downpours affecting their homes to find out how to turn off their gas, electricity and water supplies, as well as keeping a list of useful contacts including for their GP and insurance company.\n\nThe charity also advises taking detailed photographs of homes before a flood occurs as evidence for any insurance claims, and in the event of a flood, checking on neighbours who could be elderly, disabled or have young children.", "Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai's international legal team have asked UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for an urgent meeting ahead of his trial on national security charges later this year.\n\nThe trial on charges of colluding with foreign forces and sedition could see Mr Lai - who holds British nationality - spend the rest of his life in prison.\n\nIn the letter, seen by the BBC, Mr Lai's international legal team say they want to discuss \"potential ways to secure Mr Lai's release\".\n\nThe lawyers describe the case against him as \"deeply concerning\" and \"emblematic\".\n\nJimmy Lai has already been in detention for two years, facing numerous charges. In December he was sentenced to an additional five years and nine months for breaking a lease agreement at the newspaper's headquarters.\n\nHis supporters say all the charges against him are politically motivated.\n\nMr Lai founded pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. For more than 25 years his tabloid was seen as the only opposition newspaper in Hong Kong.\n\nHowever, the newspaper was forced to close in June 2021 when its accounts were frozen and a number of senior staff were arrested under Hong Kong's national security law.\n\nBeijing imposed the wide-ranging national security law on the former British colony in 2020.\n\nThe authorities say it was needed to restore order after a year of often violent protests. Critics say it is being used to silence political opponents of Beijing via the practice of \"lawfare\" - the use of the legal system as a political weapon.\n\nToday the majority of the political opposition are either in prison or have fled the territory.\n\nMr Lai has long been considered the top target of the new legislation and his UK-based legal team has requested meetings with two consecutive foreign ministers, the first of which they say was rejected while the second went unanswered.\n\nEarlier this month the UK government agreed for the team to meet a minister from the foreign office, the letter says.\n\nIn the letter, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC also highlighted that the US government had condemned Mr Lai's conviction in October on fraud charges but the UK government had made no formal statement.\n\nThe British government confirmed that a junior foreign office minister had met Mr Lai's UK-based legal team on Tuesday.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson said: \"We've been clear the Hong Kong authorities must end their targeting of pro-democracy voices, including Jimmy Lai.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Lai's son Sebastien told the BBC his father should not be behind bars.\n\n\"This is a man who for 20-odd years has given up a lot for democracy in Hong Kong which was something that was actually promised when the British handed Hong Kong back to China,\" he said.\n\nLike his father, Sebastien is a British citizen. He lives in self-imposed exile in Taiwan. Since the arrest of his father under the national security law, he is unsure if he can return home.\n\n\"He is a British citizen who is in jail for championing these values we all take for granted that are sacrosanct to all of us,\" the 28-year-old said of his father.\n\nThe Hong Kong government has tried to block Timothy Owen KC from representing Mr Lai\n\nHong Kong was handed back to China from British control in 1997, but under a unique agreement - a mini-constitution called the Basic Law and a so-called \"one country, two systems\" principle.\n\nThey are supposed to protect certain freedoms for Hong Kong: freedom of assembly and speech, an independent judiciary and some democratic rights - freedoms that no other part of mainland China has.\n\nHowever, the national security law makes it easier to prosecute protesters and critics say it has reduced the city's autonomy.\n\nMr Lai's trial has been adjourned to September 2023 with a ruling over who is allowed to represent him pending.\n\nHe had wanted British human rights lawyer Timothy Owen KC to represent him - but the Hong Kong government opposed this and the central Chinese government in Beijing has since ruled that Hong Kong's Chief Executive John Lee has the power to bar foreign lawyers from national security trials. However no final decision has yet been made.\n\n\"Lai's case is a test case for fair trials and free speech,\" said Eric Lai, a Hong Kong legal scholar.\n\nThe authorities have described the seriousness of his alleged crimes - colluding with foreign forces and sedition - as comparable to murder.\n\n\"Jimmy Lai is a traitor who is manipulated by foreign forces and sells his country for prosperity,\" Johnny Patriotic, a self-styled pro-Beijing activist who is frequently outside court during Mr Lai's appearances, told the BBC.\n\nSebastien Lai however said his father had not committed any crime.\n\n\"The crime is that he is in jail for this. The crime is ignoring it and not speaking out,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jimmy Lai in 2021: The Hong Kong billionaire becomes emotional as he faces prison", "The UK is seeing a rise in people suing companies, including some of the best known names in technology, en masse.\n\nResearch by Thomson Reuters shows the amount of damages being sought in what are known as class actions leapt from £4bn in 2021 to £26bn in 2022.\n\nApple, Google and Sony are among those being pursued for alleged breaches of competition law.\n\nLawyers say it is largely down to a 2020 legal decision that encouraged collective proceedings.\n\nSingle claimants could now bring legal actions on behalf of potentially huge numbers of people without their express mandate or even knowledge, unless they specifically opted out, Pinsent Masons LLP partner Alan Davis told BBC News.\n\n\"In Europe, only two other jurisdictions - the Netherlands and Portugal - offer the possibility of such 'opt-out' class actions, which explains the increasing popularity of the UK as a venue,\" he said.\n\nToby Starr, of legal firm Humphries Kerstetter, said the rise of technology companies in the past decade plus \"the exposure of millions of people to the behaviour of these giant corporations\" was another reason for the increase.\n\nThomson Reuters competition lawyer Warsha Kalé said: \"With this kind of class action gaining popularity, corporates have to be wary of acting in what could be seen as an anti-competitive way.\n\n\"Fines for anti-competitive behaviour in the UK can already be as much as 10% of a businesses' worldwide turnover.\n\n\"Now, a business can pay that fine and then find themselves facing a separate class action composed of tens of thousands, or even millions, of customers.\"\n\nSony is facing a £5bn legal action over claims it abused its market position to overcharge customers buying digital games or in-game content via the PlayStation store.\n\nApple faces a £1.5bn claim over allegations it abused its monopoly power by overcharging customers through the App Store.\n\nMeanwhile, online publishers last year filed a £13.6bn legal action against Google, and its parent company, Alphabet, over claims it abused its dominant position in online advertising, depriving website owners of revenue.\n\nThe UK's Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) first set a precedent to allow opt-out legal actions, after a £14bn class action against Mastercard, over claims high fees led to people paying too much in shops.\n\nThe threshold had been set at a \"relatively low level\", Mr Davis told BBC News.\n\n\"In effect, this has resulted in a proverbial opening of the 'floodgates' - more than 20 collective proceedings are currently at various stages before the CAT and a significant number have now been certified by the CAT to proceed to trial on an opt-out basis,\" he said.\n\nThere are some constraints though, as Mr Starr points out, including \"the judicial resources available, the massive cost of these cases and the absence, outside of competition law, of the legal machinery to assess damages for large numbers of people\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople are being urged to avoid water-based activities after forecasters warned of more heavy rain and dozens of flood alerts were issued for rivers.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended several water and flood-related incidents in the past weeks.\n\nIt warned of strong currents and cold-water shock, and said people should also avoid popular water beauty spots.\n\nIn Wales one flood warning and more than 20 alerts were in place.\n\nThe flood warning is in place for the River Vyrnwy at Llanymynech, Powys, which was recorded at 4m (13ft) on Tuesday.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the river could hit between 4.3m and 4.65m on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe River Dee was swollen at Corwen, Denbighshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHeavy rain was expected to cause disruption across large parts of the country, with the Met Office saying the heaviest rain was expected over higher ground, with up to 10cm (3.9in) possible in parts.\n\nThe weather warning covered 19 of Wales' 22 counties and is in effect until 20:00 GMT on Tuesday, with another issued late on Monday affecting south-west Wales until 10:00.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The worst of the weather could be on the higher ground forecasters say\n\nThe fire service said people walking near water should also keep dogs on leads, time their walks to make the most of daylight and always keep back from the edge.\n\nIt also warned drivers never to enter flooded roads as the water can often be deeper and faster-flowing than they may realise.\n\nThe Met Office weather warnings coveed Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan, Torfaen and Wrexham.\n\nTuesday's weather warning covers nearly all of Wales\n\nThe Met Office said some homes and businesses could be flooded and travel disrupted.\n\n\"Outbreaks of rain will spread across England and Wales during Tuesday. This will be heaviest and most persistent across parts of Wales, particularly over higher ground,\" it warned.", "The Church of England is pledging £100m to \"address past wrongs\", after its investment fund was found to have historic links to slavery.\n\nThe funding will be used to provide a \"better and fairer future for all, particularly for communities affected by historic slavery\".\n\nA report last year found the Church had invested large amounts of money in a company that transported slaves.\n\nJustin Welby said it was \"time to take action to address our shameful past\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury previously called the report's interim findings a \"source of shame\" in June 2022.\n\nThe investigation, which was initiated by the Church Commissioners, a charity managing the Church's investment portfolio, looked into the Church's investment fund, which back in the 18th century was known as Queen Anne's Bounty.\n\nIt found that by 1777, Queen Anne's Bounty had investments worth £406,942 (potentially equivalent to around £724m in today's terms) in the South Sea Company.\n\nThe report estimated that the South Sea Company transported 34,000 slaves \"in crowded, unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane conditions\" during its 30 years of operation.\n\nAs a result, the Church Commissioners announced on Tuesday it was committing £100m over the next nine years to a new programme of investment, research and engagement.\n\nIt said it will also fund further research, including into the Church Commissioners' history, to support dioceses, cathedrals and parishes to research and address their historic links with slavery.\n\nGrowth made on the fund will also be spent into grants for projects helping communities adversely impacted by historic slavery.\n\nMr Welby said: \"The full report lays bare the links of the Church Commissioners' predecessor fund with transatlantic chattel slavery.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for these links.\n\n\"It is now time to take action to address our shameful past.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Dr David Walker, deputy chairman of the Church Commissioners, also said he is also \"deeply sorry\" for the fund's \"shaming\" historic links to the slave trade.\n\nHe added: \"We hope this will create a lasting positive legacy, serving and enabling communities impacted by slavery.\"", "This bill has a long - and potentially tricky - parliamentary journey ahead of it. But it shows the direction of travel the government wants to go in.\n\nMinisters want to use the law to ensure that staffing levels in certain parts of the public sector, such as health, “protect the public” even during strikes.\n\nBut this would mean certain strikes are less disruptive. Given that this is the point of industrial action, this may well dilute the impact certain employees can have during disputes.\n\nThis is all happening while there seems to be signs ministers and some unions are starting to make progress towards agreements to end current strikes (though this is far from guaranteed).\n\nWhile there may be a “chink of light” (as one union put it at the weekend) in the current situation, the government may well want to avoid being in the same position at some point in the future, and this legislation could help with that.\n\nThough obviously it will be fiercely opposed by the union movement.\n\nWhile Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has had a slightly tetchy relationship with a number of union leaders during recent strikes (he told his frontbenchers to avoid picket lines) the party is sticking to its trade union roots on this issue, insisting they would repeal this legislation.", "Sam Ryder has said this year's song contest is \"Ukraine's party, but in our house\"\n\nThe \"official keys of Eurovision\" will be handed over to Liverpool in a BBC TV broadcast on 31 January.\n\nThe Mayor of Turin, where last year's song contest was held, will travel to Merseyside for a handover ceremony hosted by Rylan and AJ Odudu.\n\nIt will also be when participating countries find out which semi-final they will compete in through an allocation draw.\n\nThis year's competition will take place in the second week of May.\n\nThe BBC also announced young people from a local Liverpool school, as well as members of the Ukrainian community who have settled in the city since the war began, will be involved in the allocation announcement.\n\nItaly, France, Spain, Germany and the UK automatically get a place in the final because of how much they pay to enter. The remaining 31 acts will sing in two semi-finals first with 10 countries from each show qualifying.\n\nUkraine's Eurovision act Tvorchi will also automatically qualify for the final this year\n\nThe United Kingdom is hosting May's competition on behalf of Ukraine after organisers ruled it couldn't be held there because of the ongoing war despite its act Kalush Orchestra winning the 2022 contest.\n\nNormally the country that wins puts on the event the following year, but it was offered to the BBC as Sam Ryder came second..\n\nBoth Liverpool City Council and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority will contribute £2m each to the cost of staging the world's most-watched live music event.\n\nFurther funding will come from the government, the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is thought to be in the region of about £10m.\n\nLast year the city of Turin in Italy spent £10m on events outside the arena, claiming it \"was a success well beyond our expectation\" as the hospitality industry made it back seven times over.\n\nLiverpool's Pier Head will host the official Eurovision village in May\n\nA new BBC Eurovision podcast, Eurovisioncast, will also launch on 31 January, made by the team behind the successful Newscast and Ukrainecast podcasts.\n\nThe broadcaster said it will \"bring the inside gossip on plans and unique insights\" and will be available on BBC Sounds and aired on BBC Radio 5 live as well as BBC Radio Merseyside.\n\nThe handover ceremony will be in front of a live, invited audience and broadcast on BBC Two from 7pm.\n\n\"It's going to be an amazing year for Eurovision. I genuinely can't wait,\" Rylan said. \"I'm so excited to be presenting the handover and allocation draw which symbolises the start of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023; the year in which the United Kingdom hosts Ukraine's party.\"\n\nAround 160 million viewers watched 2022's broadcast around the world but AJ Odudu believes \"new and existing fans are in for an event like no other come May\". She said it will showcase \"British creativity and Ukrainian culture at its core\".\n\nThe Eurovision grand final will take place on 13 May.", "It'll take about another 20 minutes before Cosmic Girl reaches the designated launch zone just off the coast of Ireland.\n\nOn arrival, Virgin’s chief pilot Mathew Stannard will turn the Virgin Orbit plane on to a course that looks a little like a racetrack, even though it’s 35,000 ft (10km) above the Atlantic.\n\nAt first, this course will take the jumbo towards the Republic, but then Sqn Ldr Stannard will turn again to point the plane southwards.\n\nWhen all systems are ready, he’ll pull the nose of the 747 up and his co-pilot, Eric Bippert, sitting alongside, will reach out in the cockpit to press a small red button.“Release, release!”.\n\nThe LauncherOne rocket will fall away. The sudden departure of 25 tonnes from under the left wing will make the plane bank hard to the right.\n\nThat’s actually quite useful because it takes the jumbo away from the moment of ignition which occurs four seconds into the rocket’s fall.\n\nLauncherOne should rapidly accelerate and head skyward. Its first stage will burn for three minutes. The rocket will then separate and the upper segment, or second-stage, will ignite to carry the journey on upwards.\n\nAfter six minutes, the achieved velocity will mean the satellites when ejected will be in orbit around the Earth.", "Jeffrey Gafoor was jailed for Lynette White's murder in July 2003\n\nThe murderer of Lynette White has been granted day release from prison.\n\nIn 2021 the parole board decided Jeffrey Gafoor was \"not suitable\" for release after being given a life sentence in 2003 for the 1988 killing.\n\nDetectives investigating the murder had said they were hunting a white suspect but five black and mixed-race men were arrested and charged with murder.\n\nTony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were wrongfully convicted of her murder in 1990.\n\nTheir convictions were later quashed by the Court of Appeal.\n\nAfter advances in DNA technology, Gafoor was caught and jailed.\n\nHe was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years after confessing to stabbing Ms White in a row over £30.\n\nMs White, a sex worker, suffered more than 50 wounds in a flat in Cardiff's docklands on Valentine's Day, 1988.\n\nLast month the Parole Board considered whether he should be set free.\n\nIt is the fifth parole review following the end of Gafoor's minimum term of imprisonment.\n\nThe review, completed in December, also considered a victim personal statement.\n\nA report to the Ministry of Justice confirmed Gafoor \"had successfully undertaken temporary releases from prison\".\n\nIt stated Gafoor could not be released \"at this stage\".\n\nThe report said: \"The plan included a requirement to reside in designated accommodation as well as strict limitations on Mr Gafoor's contacts, movements and activities, but the panel concluded these plans were not robust enough to manage Mr Gafoor in the community at this stage.\"\n\nIn its decision, the panel concluded: \"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in custody and other evidence presented in the dossier, the panel was not satisfied that Mr Gafoor was suitable for release.\n\n\"However, on considering the criteria for recommending placement in open conditions, the panel recommended that Mr Gafoor should remain in this location.\n\n\"It is for the Secretary of State to decide whether he accepts the parole board's recommendation.\n\n\"Mr Gafoor will be eligible for another parole review in due course.\"\n\nThe killing happened at 7 James Street, near where the Wales Millennium Centre is now\n\nThe report recommended Gafoor remain in prison until he is next eligible for review.\n\nHis life sentence means if he is released, he could be recalled to prison if he breaches the terms of his licence.\n\nJohn Actie, Ronnie Actie, Stephen Miller, Tony Paris and Yusef Abdullahi spent time in prison after being falsely accused of murdering Ms White.\n\nSpeaking on a BBC documentary about the case, A Killing In Tiger Bay, former Chief Constable of South Wales Police Matt Jukes said he was \"sorry for the effect\" on the lives of the so-called \"Cardiff Five\", who should be \"recognised as victims\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Grant Shapps: \"We are duty-bound to protect the lives... of the British people\"\n\nUnions have criticised a new bill aimed at enforcing minimum service levels for the public sector during strikes as \"undemocratic, unworkable and illegal\".\n\nUnder the proposals, some public sector workers would be required to work during a strike.\n\nThe business secretary said the aim was to protect lives and livelihoods.\n\nBut unions have threatened legal action if the bill is passed, while Labour says they would repeal it if they win the next election.\n\nThe head of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak, said that if it became law the legislation would \"prolong disputes and poison industrial relations - leading to more frequent strikes\".\n\n\"This legislation would mean that when workers democratically vote to strike, they can be forced to work and sacked if they don't comply,\" he said.\n\n\"That's undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.\"\n\nThe new bill, published on Tuesday, comes amid a wave of industrial action across the public sector as workers seek pay increases in the face of the rising cost of living.\n\nLaws requiring a minimum level of service during strikes had already been promised for public transport as part of the Conservative's 2019 election manifesto. A bill was introduced to Parliament in October.\n\nThe government is now seeking to extend this requirement to five other areas - the NHS, education, fire and rescue, border security, and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nTo meet minimum staffing levels - which are still to be decided - employers would be able to issue a \"work notice\" to unions, setting out who is required to work during a strike.\n\nUnder the legislation there would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work under minimum service agreements but chooses to strike.\n\nHowever, Business Secretary Grant Shapps pushed back on the idea workers would be sacked.\n\n\"No one is talking about sacking nurses... nothing we are announcing today in this bill from the despatch box is about getting rid of nurses any more than any employment contract has to be followed,\" he told MPs.\n\nMr Shapps said the government \"absolutely believes in the right to strike\" but it is \"duty bound\" to protect the lives and livelihoods of the public.\n\n\"We don't want to use this legislation but we must ensure the safety of the British public,\" he said.\n\nMr Shapps said the proposed legislation was similar to existing laws in other modern European economies and it was not designed to ban strikes.\n\nHe accused unions representing ambulance workers of \"a lack of timely cooperation\", which he said meant employers could not reach a national agreement for minimum safety levels during recent strikes.\n\nHe said this made \"contingency planning almost impossible\" and put lives at risk.\n\nBut unions disputed his claims as \"completely false\", with Unite's Sharon Graham saying agreements had been negotiated with regional managers to take into account local circumstances.\n\nGMB said it was an \"extraordinary attack\" on ambulance workers, who had left picket lines to respond to urgent calls.\n\nDuring December's strikes Category 1 calls - classed as the most life-threatening situations, such as cardiac arrest - were responded to by an ambulance. This will also be the case for Wednesday's strikes.\n\nHowever, no blanket agreement has been reached on responding to Category 2 calls, which include strokes or major burns, with unions agreeing locally which calls within this category will be responded to.\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack called the bill a \"shameful attack\" on democratic rights and key workers.\n\nUnite's Ms Graham described it as a \"dangerous gimmick from a government that should be negotiating to resolve the current crisis they have caused\".\n\nMick Lynch, head of the RMT transport union, said the \"draconian legislation\" sought to \"punish workers\" for demanding decent pay and working conditions.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was \"utterly stupid\" and \"insulting\" for Mr Shapps to go from thanking nurses to proposing to sack them for striking.\n\n\"How can he seriously think that sacking thousands of key workers won't just plunge our public services further into crisis?\" she told the Commons.\n\n\"We all want minimum standards of safety, service and staffing. It is the ministers failing to provide it,\" she said, adding that the public was being put at risk every day by the crisis in the NHS and staff shortages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner asks Grant Shapps about strikes in the public sector: \"Any chance of a deal this year?\"\n\nMPs will get a chance to debate the bill - which applies to England, Wales and Scotland - next week.\n\nAfter the bill makes it through the House of Commons, where the Conservatives have a sizeable majority, it is expected to face greater opposition in the House of Lords where the numbers are less favourable.\n\nAny legislation would not have an impact on strikes this month, which are still set to go ahead.\n\nAmbulance staff in England and Wales are preparing to walk out on Wednesday, while nurses in England are also set to strike next week.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you affected by industrial action? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Business Secretary Grant Shapps: \"We are duty-bound to protect the lives... of the British people\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps has set out plans to enforce minimum service levels during strike action, including for ambulance staff, firefighters and railway workers.\n\nUnder the bill, some employees would be required to work during a strike and could be sacked if they refuse.\n\nMr Shapps said the aim was to protect lives and livelihoods.\n\nBut unions said the proposed bill was \"undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal\".\n\nAnd Labour said it would repeal the legislation if it wins the next general election.\n\nThe new bill, published on Tuesday, comes amid a wave of industrial action across public services, with unions calling for pay increases to keep up with the rising cost of living.\n\nBut it is not set to become law until later this year - provided it gets past opposition in the House of Lords - so will have no impact on the current strikes.\n\nThe government is seeking to extend legislation on public transport already making its way through Parliament to cover other sectors.\n\nMinisters will get the power to set minimum safety levels for fire, ambulance and rail services under the bill, which will apply to England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nThey would also have the power to set minimum levels of service for health, education, nuclear decommissioning and border security but hope to reach voluntary agreements in these areas.\n\nMinisters will decide the level of service required for each sector during strikes following a consultation.\n\nEmployers will then be able to issue a \"work notice\" to unions, setting out who is required to work during a strike.\n\nUnder the legislation there would be no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is told to work through a notice but chooses to strike.\n\nIf a strike is not conducted in accordance with the new rules, employers would be also be able to sue unions for losses.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it was \"utterly stupid\" and \"insulting\" for Mr Shapps to go from thanking nurses to proposing to sack them for striking.\n\n\"We all want minimum standards of safety, service and staffing. It is the ministers failing to provide it,\" she said, adding that the public was being put at risk every day by the crisis in the NHS and staff shortages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner asks Grant Shapps about strikes in the public sector: \"Any chance of a deal this year?\"\n\nMr Shapps told MPs: \"No one is talking about sacking nurses... nothing we are announcing today in this bill from the despatch box is about getting rid of nurses any more than any employment contract has to be followed.\"\n\nHe added that the government \"absolutely believes in the right to strike\" but it is \"duty bound\" to protect the lives and livelihoods of the public.\n\n\"We don't want to use this legislation but we must ensure the safety of the British public,\" he said.\n\nMr Shapps said the proposed legislation was similar to existing laws in Spain and France - and it would not break European human rights laws.\n\nConservative MPs spoke in support of the plans in the Commons but one, Stephen McPartland, said on Twitter it was \"shameful\" to target individual workers and \"order them to walk past their mates on [the] picket line or be sacked\".\n\nThe head of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Paul Nowak, said that if it became law the legislation would \"prolong disputes and poison industrial relations - leading to more frequent strikes\".\n\n\"This legislation would mean that when workers democratically vote to strike, they can be forced to work and sacked if they don't comply,\" he said.\n\n\"That's undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal.\"\n\nThe TUC said it would hold a national \"protect the right to strike\" day on 1 February in protest against the bill.\n\nFire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack called the bill a \"shameful attack\" on democratic rights and key workers.\n\nMick Lynch, head of the RMT transport union, said the \"draconian legislation\" sought to \"punish workers\" for demanding decent pay and working conditions.\n\nThe GMB union, which represents some ambulance workers, said the bill would \"alienate\" NHS staff further by \"attacking their fundamental right to take action\".\n\nAmbulance staff in England and Wales are preparing to walk out on Wednesday, while nurses in England and teachers in Scotland are also set to strike next week.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you affected by industrial action? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Retail sales jumped by 6.9% in December but were driven by higher prices rather than people buying more, figures show.\n\nThere was also a \"healthy\" rise in like-for-like sales from last December, according to the British Retail Consortium and accountancy firm KPMG.\n\nMindful of rising household bills, shoppers invested in energy-saving products and warm clothing.\n\nBut the overall sales rise \"is largely due to goods costing more\", said KPMG's head of retail Paul Martin.\n\nHe added that it \"masks the fact that the volume of goods that people are buying is significantly down on this time last year\".\n\nThe rate of price rises - or inflation - hit 10.7% in November which is the fastest pace in 40 years.\n\nUK retail sales increased 6.5% on a like-for-like basis from December 2021, when they had increased by 0.6%.\n\nFood and drink sales for December, which includes the key festive period, jumped by 8% in the first Christmas since all Covid restrictions were lifted.\n\nThe last week of trading in the run up to Christmas saw the biggest amount of cash ever recorded through the tills in the grocery sector.\n\nBut again, this was down to rising prices while the volume of goods bought was \"essentially flat\", according to retail analysis group IGD.\n\nHowever Susan Barratt, chief executive of IGD, said: \"The flat volume number is an improvement on the rest of 2022, showing that Christmas still had the power to shift the direction of the market.\"\n\nBarclaycard, which has published separate figures on consumer spending on credit and debit cards during December, said there was evidence that shoppers had started stocking up for Christmas in November.\n\nIt meant that \"supermarket growth slowed as many Brits stocked up on festive food and drink earlier than usual to help spread costs and avoid shortages\".\n\nThere had been fears that the all important festive season would be a washout for retail given the cost of living crisis. These figures show its turned out better than expected.\n\nThe jump in sales looks healthy but the growth is still below the rate of inflation. People spent more over Christmas but bought significantly less. Clothes, beauty items and energy efficient household appliances did well. Food sales were also strong.\n\nBut things look set to get tougher now. With credit card bills landing and many consumers coming under more financial pressure from increasing living costs, there's a warning of high street casualties as we head into spring.\n\nMajor retailers including Sainsbury's, Tesco and Marks & Spencer will publish updates this week on trading over the Christmas period.\n\nBoth the BRC and KPMG said there was evidence that shoppers braved cold weather and overcame train strikes to visit shops with online non-food sales falling 3% during December, when Royal Mail staff staged a number of strikes.\n\nBarclaycard said: \"Postal strikes hampered online retail meaning shoppers headed to the high street for last-minute gifts.\"\n\nOverall, Barclaycard said that spending on credit and debit cards rose by 4.4% in December. Christmas parties and the FIFA World Cup boosted spending at pubs, bars and clubs while people also looked ahead to invest in holidays for 2023.\n\nHowever, Barclaycard also said that it had seen spending on utilities rise by 40.6% in December \"as the drop in temperature led more households to increase their heating\".\n\nAnd looking forward, higher living costs are expected to weigh on consumers' budgets and the retail sector.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson, said: \"Retail faces further headwinds in 2023. Cost pressures show little immediate signs of waning, and consumer spending will be further constrained by increasing living costs.\n\n\"Retailers are juggling big cost increases while trying to keep prices as low as possible for their customers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows fighting in Soledar, Ukraine, but the BBC has been unable to confirm the date these videos were filmed\n\nRussia's mercenary Wagner Group has claimed control over the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine - but Kyiv says its soldiers are holding out.\n\nRussia's media carried a statement purported to be by the Wagner head, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who said Ukrainians were now encircled in the city centre.\n\nUkraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar earlier said that \"heavy fighting is continuing\".\n\nThe claims by both sides have not been independently verified.\n\nIn the reported statement late on Tuesday, Mr Prigozhin said: \"Wagner units took control of the entire territory of Soledar. A cauldron has been formed in the centre of the city in which urban fighting is going on.\"\n\nThe statement stressed that only Wagner fighters - who are not part of the Russian armed forces - were taking part \"in the storming\" of Soledar.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Maliar said a few hours before that \"the enemy does not pay attention to the large losses of its personnel and continues to actively storm\".\n\n\"The approaches to our positions are simply strewn with the bodies of dead enemy fighters. Our fighters are defending bravely,\" she added.\n\nThe fall of Soledar - a small salt-mining town in the Donetsk region - could help Russian troops to encircle the nearby strategic city of Bakhmut.\n\nThe UK said earlier on Tuesday that Russian troops and the mercenary Wagner Group were \"likely\" to now be in control of the town.\n\nOn Monday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said there was \"almost no life\" left in Soledar and \"no whole walls left\".\n\n\"This is what madness looks like,\" he added.\n\nAnd in a new address late on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky praised the resilience of Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe strategic importance of Soledar is debated, but its capture would be significant for two reasons.\n\nFirst, it would allow Russian forces to inch closer to the regional city of Bakhmut. Russia could use access to Soledar's deep, city-like network of salt mine tunnels, dormant since April, to penetrate Ukrainian-controlled territory.\n\nSecondly, invading forces would be able to give Ukraine a taste of its own medicine.\n\nOne thing that has helped Kyiv liberate territory has been its ability to target Russian supply lines.\n\nLong-range missile strikes have often left thousands of invading troops unable to replenish personnel, ammunition, fuel, and rations, and stopped them freely moving military hardware.\n\nThe capturing of Soledar - which had a population of 10,000 before the war - would effectively cut Bakhmut off from a major supply line from nearby Sloviansk.\n\nThe UK said it believed Soledar was close to falling to Russia - but added that the Kremlin was \"unlikely\" to take Bakhmut immediately due to Ukraine's \"stable defence lines\".\n\nA senior military official from the US Department of Defense said earlier on Monday there was a \"good portion\" of Soledar in Russian hands.\n\nFighting around Bakhmut has been going on for months, and the US official described the most recent exchanges as \"savage\".\n\nTwo British nationals have gone missing in the region and were last seen heading to Soledar.\n\nUK nationals Andrew Bagshaw (L) and Christopher Parry (R) were doing voluntary work, police said, but have not been heard of since Friday\n\nDespite the long and intense battle, Oleh Zhdanov - a highly respected military analyst in Ukraine - believes that neither Soledar nor Bakhmut are especially important from an operational point of view.\n\nMr Zhdanov said in an interview on Monday with the Ukrainian newspaper Gazeta that Russia \"is trying to prove to the whole world that its army is capable of winning\".\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think-tank, has said that Mr Prigozhin, \"will continue to use both confirmed and fabricated Wagner Group success in Soledar and Bakhmut to promote the Wagner Group as the only Russian force in Ukraine capable of securing tangible gains\".\n\nRussia has suffered several major setbacks in Ukraine since its invasion nearly a year ago, including losing control of the only regional capital in the south it had managed to capture.\n\nCapturing Soledar would just as much be a propaganda victory for the Kremlin as a military one.\n\nThe gains for Russia are relatively small and costly, but the town would be a much-needed trophy to present to critics back home.", "Police are investigating after metal contaminated with uranium was found at London's Heathrow Airport last month.\n\nOfficers of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command responded to the security alert which was triggered on 29 December.\n\nThe Sun, which first reported the news, said the uranium came from Pakistan.\n\nOne line of inquiry is whether it was the result of \"poor handling\" in the country, the BBC was told. Police say there was no threat to the public.\n\nIt was found in a shipment of scrap metal, a source said.\n\nA Pakistan foreign ministry spokesperson told BBC News that the reports were \"not factual\", adding that no information to this effect had been shared with Pakistan officially.\n\nA former commander of the UK's defence forces said \"a very small sample\" was found and offered assurances that \"there are people looking out for this 24 hours a day\".\n\nColonel Hamish De Bretton-Gordon said the incident \"should not worry the public\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, in light of recent nuclear threats, he could see why the public was concerned.\n\nHe said uranium could potentially be used for nuclear fuel in power stations and, when highly enriched, it could be used for nuclear weapons.\n\nAlarms were triggered at Heathrow after specialist scanners detected the substance as it was ferried to a freight shed owned by handling firm Swissport, the Sun said.\n\nThe shipment's intended destination is not clear. No-one has been arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"We can confirm officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command were contacted by Border Force colleagues at Heathrow after a very small amount of contaminated material was identified after routine screening within a package incoming to the UK.\"\n\nCommander Richard Smith from the force's counter terrorism team separately told the BBC: \"Although our investigation remains ongoing, from our inquiries so far, it does not appear to be linked to any direct threat.\n\n\"As the public would expect, however, we will continue to follow up on all available lines of inquiry to ensure this is definitely the case.\"\n\nStrict protocols must be followed in order to fly dangerous cargo, including uranium, being loaded onto the base of units in the cargo hold and ensuring a minimum distance is kept between the nuclear material and cabin above.\n\nUranium is an element which occurs naturally. It can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.\n\nHighly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nCabinet minister Steve Barclay said he hoped for more information in \"due course\" and it was right an investigation \"looks at all the issues\".\n\n\"I'm learning about this this morning,\" he told Sky News.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"We do not comment on live investigations.\"\n• None The element that causes arguments", "The failure of the first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil is a setback but not a roadblock to the country's space plans.\n\nThe rocket suffered an \"anomaly\" late on Monday night after its release by a jumbo jet operated by the American Virgin Orbit company.\n\nThe satellites it was carrying could not be released and were lost.\n\nBut plans for the UK to become a satellite-launching state are already well advanced.\n\nLaunches are planned in Scotland, from Sutherland and Shetland.\n\nThese would be the more traditional type of launch system in which the rocket goes straight up from the ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The jumbo, called Cosmic Girl, and its rocket left Newquay just after 22:00 GMT\n\nThe mission had been billed as a major milestone for UK space, marking the birth of a home-grown launch industry. The ambition is to turn the country into a global player - from manufacturing satellites, to building rockets and creating new spaceports.\n\nDeputy CEO of the UK Space Agency, Ian Annett, said it showed \"how difficult\" getting into orbit actually was - but predicted further launches within the next 12 months.\n\n\"It's still an immense moment of national pride. It would have been the first time that anyone in Europe had managed to put satellites into orbit,\" he said.\n\n\"We go back, we get up, we do it again, and that defines our future.\"\n\nSpace consultant Adam Baker, who is independent of the launch team, told BBC News that he believed that the setback would be temporary.\n\n\"This is typical early difficult days for a new launch company and a launch from a brand-new site with a number of new staff.\n\n\"So, while it is disappointing, it is short term. I think it will get fixed.\n\n\"This is the start of a much longer commercial spaceflight journey that the UK is only just starting to make\"\n\nCrowds that had gathered on Monday night at Spaceport Cornwall, from where the jumbo jet took off, were deeply disappointed.\n\n\"Any kind of failure, it's how you react to it, so for us it's to get right back up again,\" said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport. \"We're here to support and get Virgin back up and get another rocket over here in the near future, hopefully, and just keep going.\"\n\nIt's clear that Spaceport Cornwall has tried to create a business model that is not solely reliant on Virgin Orbit.\n\nIt wants to be a focus for a cluster of space companies, and so far this seems to be working. Its new office centre is over-subscribed. And, of course, the spaceport is just one part of the larger Newquay Airport complex.\n\nJosh Western, CEO of Space Forge, an aerospace company headquartered in Cardiff that lost one of its satellites in the failed launch, told BBC News that he would be prepared to launch from Spaceport Cornwall again with Virgin Orbit.\n\n\"We didn't get to orbit but to see that plane take off with a rocket strapped under its wing, from a very blustery part of Cornwall and ignite that first stage and almost make it… it's really quite profound that we achieved so much in so little time,\" he said.\n\nMr Western said the trip was meant to test a new way of returning satellites from space to Earth, bringing them back gently enough that the company could for the first time ever re-use and re-launch satellites.\n\nHe said the satellite was insured and that the main loss to the start-up company had been in terms of time spent on the project rather than money.\n\nThe establishment of the spaceport and the mission have cost roughly £20m. That includes money from local government in Cornwall and national funding through the UK Space Agency.\n\nShares in Virgin Orbit fell more than 20% in pre-market trading on Tuesday after the failed launch.\n\nThe rocket ignited and appeared to be ascending correctly. But word then came from the company that the rocket had suffered its anomaly.\n\nWe'll have to wait for the official investigation but it's already apparent the Virgin Orbit rocket ran in to trouble during the engine burn on its upper-stage.\n\nThe LauncherOne rocket is a two-stage vehicle, meaning it has two propulsive sections, one that should fire for about three minutes and then fall away, and a second one that should fire for roughly six minutes. A further manoeuvre on the second stage would ordinarily be required to fine-tune the orbit before the satellites are set free to circle the Earth.\n\nThe six-minute burn on the upper-stage looks to have been completed, but by its end the rocket was not at the altitude it should have been and seemed to be falling fast. When the data stream eventually froze on Virgin Orbit's webcast, the vehicle was described as being at only 75km (245,000ft) in altitude.\n\nIt's difficult to judge much on a webcast. The data jumps around a lot as telemetry drops out when the rocket finishes talking to one ground station without yet picking up the next communication point. But Virgin Orbit should have a mass of data to go through to enable engineers to find the cause of the anomaly and to fix it.\n\nTickets for the launch event were snapped up. There was great enthusiasm from the crowd\n\nThe 747 jumbo that carried the rocket to its launch altitude returned to Newquay Airport safely and stands ready to be used on future missions already booked with Virgin Orbit.\n\nThe company only managed two flights last year and has a backlog of customers it needs to get into space. It will be looking for a swift return to flight. The Virgin Orbit factory in Long Beach, California, has rockets being produced on a production line.\n\nAll the rocket hardware from Monday's flight - or at least any debris from the mission - is likely now sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The southward trajectory of the rocket was carefully chosen so that populated areas were avoided in the event of a failure. Warnings were also issued in advance to aircraft and ships to stay clear of obvious danger zones.\n\nThe first stage and the rocket fairing - the nosecone that protects the satellites through the thick, lower-reaches of the atmosphere - would have come down off the coast of Portugal as planned anyway. The faulty second stage and those nine small satellites probably returned to Earth somewhere off the coast of Africa.\n\nA Virgin Orbit mission costs in excess of $10m to purchase. This one was bought by the US National Reconnaissance Office and based in the UK so that the American and British governments could fly satellites containing technologies of future interest in the realms of defence and security.\n\nThese included advanced radios to track illegal fishers and smugglers at sea. The satellite manufacturers and operators would obviously also have sunk considerable investment into their missions. A number of the payloads were said to be insured, however.\n\nVirgin Orbit is a young company trying to establish itself in the highly competitive launch market.\n\nCustomers are acutely sensitive to the price of a launch but even more so to the reliability of the vehicle performing that launch. Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket has now flown six times with two failures.\n\nThat's not unusual in an immature system, but when so many new rockets are coming into the market, a track record of successful launches is what stands out in the crowd. And being a young company, Virgin Orbit is in that growing phase where it's not currently making money. Quite the opposite. There's an urgency to get back flying successfully and regularly.", "An independent bookshop has gone viral for displaying Prince Harry's memoir Spare alongside author Bella Mackie's novel How to Kill Your Family.\n\nBert's Books' display quickly gained thousands of likes and numerous comments when it was posted on social media earlier.\n\nSome users speculated which author would sue the Swindon bookstore first.\n\nShop owner Alex Call, 35, said the staff thought it would be \"quite light-hearted and make a few people smile.\"\n\nIn the post - which coincided with the book's release - the shop tweeted: \"Anyway, we do have some spare copies of Spare if you want one\", alongside a photo of its window display which shows copies of Spare next to Bella Mackie's book How to Kill Your Family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bert’s Books This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter users turned to the comments section to react to the post, with replies including \"who will sue first HRH or Ms Mackie?\" and \"signed?\".\n\nTo the person who asked whether the book was signed, the shop said: \"Not by him, but I can sign if you like\" and to the user who posted about who will sue first - \"We've just put our bestselling books in the window… people are making all sorts of wild assumptions and connections\" next to an upside down face emoji.\n\nDespite claims in Harry's book dominating the news agenda for the past week, Michael Ritchie - who works in the shop - said they did not expect it to be a bestseller for long.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, he said they had advertised the memoir on their website for a couple of months and only had a \"handful of pre-orders\".\n\nPrince Harry's memoir Spare went on sale in the UK on Tuesday\n\n\"The price is £28 which I think is quite steep for a book,\" he added.\n\n\"People will go 'actually I don't know if I'm going to pay for that or (I'll) wait for the paperback'.\"\n\nHe also pointed out that Harry and Meghan have had \"a lot of press already so (people might wonder) what is going to be in the book that we don't already know?\".\n\nMr Ritchie said the publisher had been very \"cagey\" about Spare's content but thought perhaps it might be more geared towards an American audience than a British one.\n\nHe said they also had some Prince Harry bookmarks for sale but took them off the shelf after \"everyone who came in would regale us with stories about why they weren't buying it\".\n\n\"It became a bit draining after a while,\" he added.\n\nHe predicts the book will sell because of Prince Harry's celebrity status but then \"it will last for a week or two and then just fade\".\n\nResponding to the post, Ms Mackie wrote: \"Thank you to the 8,000 people who've sent me this today.\n\n\"And thank you @bertsbooks, what an honour\", followed by a knife emoji.\n\nHow To Kill Your Family follows protagonist Grace Bernard, 28, who attempts to eliminate family members to exact revenge on her father for abandoning her and her mother when Grace was a baby.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Thousands of protesters have ransacked Brazil's Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasília.\n\nPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was on an official state trip to Sao Paulo and Congress was on recess, leaving government buildings largely empty.\n\nSupporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro refuse to accept that he lost October's election and have been calling for military intervention and the resignation of Lula.\n\nRead more: Lula vows to punish rioters who stormed key sites", "An estimated £20,000 worth of parcels have been recovered\n\nSeven people have been arrested after hundreds of parcels were stolen from a courier company's warehouse.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said several hundred parcels were seized in the raid on Evri's Lingard Lane site in Brinnington, Stockport, on Friday.\n\nThey were taken away in transportation cages and a pallet that were \"wheeled through Brinnington\", GMP said.\n\nThe seven arrested, aged between 18 and 55 , were held on suspicion of burglary and handling stolen goods.\n\nGMP said the parcels were moved from the warehouse on foot between 20:00 GMT and just after 21:00 GMT after the earlier break-in.\n\nOfficers have appealed for information from passing drivers as well as CCTV and dashcam footage.\n\nAn estimated £20,000 worth of parcels have already been recovered and will be sent back to Evri.\n\nA GMP spokesperson added: \"If you were expecting a parcel which has not been delivered, please contact the courier service directly about this.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The strip club claims the spikings could have happened at brothels rather than at the venue\n\nA central London strip club has been shut down for three months after several customers claimed to have lost a total of £250,000 after being spiked.\n\nVanity Soho's licence has been revoked by Westminster City Council after complaints were made to the police.\n\nBut the venue suggested these had come from men who did not want their wives and girlfriends to find out they had \"spent summer holiday money\" on strippers.\n\nThe Met Police has shared details of at least 10 reported incidents in which Vanity Soho customers checked their accounts to find huge sums of money missing, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nSome also said they had woken up in unexpected locations.\n\nPolice logs shared with the council show one victim claimed he woke up in a brothel after visiting the club. Later, he said he realised £98,000 had been transferred from his bank accounts.\n\nMost recently, a man claimed to have blacked out when he visited the club in November. When he checked his account, he saw that £16,000 had been sent to a number of other accounts he did not recognise.\n\nHe said he remembered drinking, dancing and being led to a separate area, but said he had no other memories until he woke up in a street near his home the next day.\n\nTracing his movements with Google Maps, the man said the app showed he had spent two hours at a car wash before being dropped off near his home.\n\nA police report read: \"The victim does not know how he arrived at these locations or how he has returned home.\"\n\nAt a council licensing committee meeting on Monday, Vanity Soho's lawyer Gary Grant said men who visited the venue had come up with excuses to make to their loved ones.\n\n\"There are instances of when the wives, girlfriends and partners have found out because they've been pinged by their bank about what's going on,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not uncommon during allegations for those men to say: 'I'm sorry it wasn't me, I must have had my drink spiked and that explains why I spent our summer holiday money on strippers.'\"\n\nThe strip club has argued the spikings could have happened at brothels rather than at the venue.\n\nThe Met's lawyer said Vanity had a \"heavy burden\" for letting people leave the premises in a vulnerable position, regardless of whether they had been spiked.\n\nFollowing the seven-hour meeting, Westminster City Council suspended the venue's licence for three months and banned the bar's managers from working there.\n\nThe council also added 23 conditions to the strip club's licence including staff having to be retrained.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Scottish government is to spend an additional £8m in a bid to free up hospital beds by moving patients to care homes.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said there were more than 1,700 people in hospital who do not need to be there.\n\nHe said this was often because care packages that would allow them to go home were not in place.\n\nSome 300 care home beds have been found that can be used on an interim basis.\n\nMr Yousaf said these would be in addition to the 600 interim beds that are already being used, with the government paying 25% over the national care home contract rate to secure the additional beds.\n\nThe health secretary admitted that care home beds would not be the first or even second choice of many patients or their families.\n\nBut he said he hoped the move would help to ease the \"unprecedented pressure\" on the NHS over the winter, with many hospitals already close to full capacity due in part to the large number of patients suffering from Covid, flu and Strep A.\n\nThe week ending 1 January saw more than 1,200 patients in hospital with Covid - up 15% from the previous week and double the number from four weeks ago - while flu admissions were \"around three times higher than emergency admissions due to Covid\", Mr Yousaf added.\n\nHe said: \"This measure will only be in place for a limited period of time to directly support our hospitals to deal with pressures at the front door.\n\n\"However, it will enable some people to move from an acute setting to a more appropriate community one, recognising the risk of prolonged stays in hospital.\"\n\nMr Yousaf told the Scottish Parliament that this was the most challenging winter the NHS in Scotland has ever faced, with the pressure set to continue in the coming weeks.\n\nHe added: \"We are ensuring all possible actions are being taken to support services, and the additional measures I have outlined today will help relieve some of the extreme pressure health boards are facing.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said more than 1,700 people were in hospital despite being medically well enough to go home\n\nNHS 24 is also taking forward plans to recruit about 200 new staff before the end of March, and guidance has been issued to all health boards making it clear that they can take any necessary steps to protect critical and life-saving care in their areas.\n\nThe announcement came the day after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned that Scotland's hospitals are \"almost completely full\", with bed occupancy exceeding 95% last week.\n\nRCN Scotland director Colin Poolman said it was right for the Scottish government to work to reduce delayed discharges but to achieve this ministers needed to \"recognise and address the serious workforce shortages in Scotland's communities\".\n\nHe said: \"District nursing services play a key role in supporting people to return home from hospital, and in preventing hospital admissions in the first place, but the vacancy rate for district nursing has reached 16%.\"\n\nDonald MacAskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said care homes in some areas of the country would not have enough staff available to look after additional patients who are being discharged from hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that one care home owner had told him that that 60% of his staff were off work through a combination of illness and child care needs because of the school strike.\n\nMr MacAskill added: \"The flexibility offered by this resource will enable some providers in some locations to make themselves available but it's not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution.\"\n\nThe biggest issue for hospitals just now is finding bed space to get new people in. That's because they can't get patients discharged when they no longer need the level of medical treatment that hospitals provide because of pressures in social care.\n\nHence the plan announced by the health secretary to find and fund an additional 300 beds in care homes. Patients will be moved there as an interim measure while they wait for packages of social care to be put in place. In the meantime it will create some capacity in hospitals.\n\nBut the concerns voiced by some providers is that even if they can find beds then they will struggle to get staff, with the workforce already short of district nurses and carers.\n\nIt is delayed discharge that is having the biggest impact on the numbers of people experiencing long waits in emergency departments.\n\nThere's been a seismic jump. At the start of 2016 just three patients waited more than 12 hours to be seen - compare that to the equivalent weekly figure for this year and it is more than 2,500.\n\nA&E doctors are constantly warning of \"inhumane conditions\" and patients dying while they wait in overcrowded, noisy, cluttered departments for help.\n\nFigures published earlier on Tuesday showed that 2,506 people waited more than 12 hours in emergency departments in the week ending 1 January - the highest ever figure.\n\nThat was up from 2,183 the previous week, which had also been a record high.\n\nDr Lailah Peel, deputy chair of BMA Scotland, warned at the weekend that patient safety was now \"at risk every day\" in A&E departments, and that Scotland's hospitals are \"not safe\" for patients.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives described the figures as \"truly terrifying\", and questioned why the government was devoting more time to debating independence in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon than it was to Mr Yousaf's statement on the NHS.\n\nThe party's health spokesman, Sandesh Gulhane, said: \"We heard nothing from Humza Yousaf over the festive period, only for him to hastily cobble together a statement today - shortly before another divisive debate on independence which is timetabled to last longer than this statement on healthcare.\n\n\"This is a national emergency. People are dying unnecessarily, our heroic NHS staff are overwhelmed and burning out.\n\n\"The crisis in our NHS should be a priority for this parliament, because it is a priority for the people of Scotland - and they will be appalled today.\"\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the current crisis in Scotland's hospitals should have been predicted, and that fewer patients were being seen in A&E departments than before the pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"What is unprecedented is this government's failure. The health secretary has been warned about this crisis for well over a year, and he has failed to listen and act on solutions.\n\n\"This government failed to end delayed discharge, something they promised to do in 2015, and eight years on it's at record levels.\"", "Thank you for joining our live coverage, as heavy rainfall, storms and flodding have caused huge amounts of destruction and mass evacuations in California.\n\nAt least 14 people have died as a result of the fierce storm, which damaged key infrastructure.\n\nSome areas at risk of dangerous mudslides and the National Weather Service has described it as \"the most impressive storm since January 2005\".\n\nWe're now pausing our live coverage, but you can stay up to date with key developments here.", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Tomasz Waga was found dead in Cardiff last year\n\nThree members of an Albanian gang have been jailed for beating to death a man who had tried to steal drugs from them.\n\nTomosz Waga, 23, from Dagenham, east London, tried to steal cannabis from a house-based factory in Cardiff in 2021.\n\nJosif Nushi, 27, and Mihal Dhana, 29, both from Cardiff, were jailed for his murder and will serve a minimum term of 20 and 16 years respectively.\n\nHysland Aliaj, 31, of no fixed abode, was jailed for a minimum of 10 years for manslaughter.\n\nMr Waga's sister told Newport Crown Court that her brother's body was \"dumped like a bag of rubbish\".\n\n\"Tomosz had his entire life ahead of him, including a newborn son, who is now fatherless,\" she added.\n\nJosif Nushi (left), Mihal Dhana (centre) and Hysland Aliaj have been jailed for killing 23-year-old Tomosz Waga\n\nAll three men fled to Albania after the killing, but were extradited back to the UK to stand trial.\n\nThe investigation was one of the biggest and most complex investigations ever undertaken by South Wales Police, with arrests in Albania, France and Germany.\n\n\"We were dealing with a foreign organised crime group. At one point, pretty much every available detective in South Wales Police was involved and engaged in this enquiry, along with all of our forensic capability,\" said Det Supt Mark O'Shea.\n\n\"It was the biggest forensic case that we've ever run in this force area, with links across the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe case involved organised crime groups from south-east England and Europe, with Welsh officers paying tribute to Albanian police in particular.\n\nThe court heard Aliaj was a fireman in Albania and played a significant role in a rescue operation following an earthquake in the country, receiving an award for bravery.\n\nMr Waga and another man, Carl Davies, travelled from east London to try to steal cannabis plants from a house in Newport Road, Cardiff.\n\nThe court heard Mr Waga had a previous conviction on his record for carrying out a similar crime.\n\nUpon breaking into the three-storey property - a former GP surgery on Newport Road, Cardiff, they discovered Aliaj, the gang's \"gardener\", asleep in one of the rooms.\n\nThe court heard the house contained 572 cannabis plants with an estimated yield of between 16kg and 48kg (35lb and 105lb) and a potential value of between £64,000 and nearly £250,000\n\nBut after having heard the burglars, Aliaj alerted other members, including Nushi and Dhana, who managed to get to the house within five minutes.\n\nMr Waga and Mr Davies, who had remained in the house to collect cannabis plants, tried to flee from an upstairs window but were cornered by the three defendants.\n\nThe pair were then attacked with baseball bats and bricks and Mr Waga was dragged into a Mercedes car.\n\nHis body was later found dumped in the Penylan area of Cardiff.\n\nHe suffered 25 injuries to his head and mouth, bruising to his chest and damage to his ribs, arms and a degree of swelling and bruising to his brain.\n\nHis cause of death was given as obstruction to the airways by blood.\n\nTomasz Waga and another man, Carl Davies, travelled from east London to try to steal cannabis plants from a house in Newport Road, Cardiff\n\nA statement from Tomosz Waga's sister was read to the court.\n\nShe said her mother, father and Mr Waga's partner had tried to complete statements but could not because they were too upset.\n\n\"I wouldn't wish this kind of trauma on anyone, no matter what,\" she said.\n\n\"I have been living in survival mode since and the pain of not being there to comfort him in his last moments of life as his older sister has been unimaginable.\"\n\nTomasz Waga travelled to Cardiff from Dagenham on the day he was killed\n\nMs Waga described the way her brother's body was disposed of as \"inhumane\".\n\n\"The way in which he was dumped like a bag of rubbish will haunt me for the rest of my life, as will seeing his lifeless and battered face during formal identification,\" she said.\n\n\"He was robbed of witnessing his son's countless precious moments and milestones, including taking his first steps or saying dad.\n\n\"It truly breaks my heart seeing him growing up without my brother present.\n\n\"He was my only brother, and despite the bad choices that he made on the night, he had a good heart, meant well. He loved football - and living life to the fullest.\"\n\nTwo other men - Gledis Mehalla and Mario Qato - were previously cleared of murder.", "As ambulance workers get ready to strike again, another anxious plea has gone out from the NHS: only call 999 if you really have to.\n\nWednesday's walkout will affect most ambulance services in England and Wales. The advice is to call 999 if you are seriously ill or your condition is life-threatening.\n\nThe action will involve thousands of staff, including paramedics, control room staff and support workers in a dispute over pay.\n\nAction by teachers in Scotland also continues, with secondary schools being affected on Wednesday.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThousands of members of the Unison and GMB trade unions are walking out on Wednesday across most of England and Wales. The East of England will be the only service unaffected.\n\nThe start times and lengths of the walkouts vary between ambulance services, but most will last for about 12 hours.\n\nThe action will involve all ambulance employees, including call centre and control room staff, not just emergency crews.\n\nAmbulances will still be sent to the most life-threatening calls - known as Category 1, which includes cardiac arrests. But it is up to each NHS trust in consultation with the unions to decide which calls are responded to.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"The message from the NHS to patients is clear - if you need emergency care, please come forward.\n\n\"This means continuing to call 999 for life threatening emergencies as well as using 111 online for other health needs where you will receive clinical advice on the best next steps to take.\"\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nAlmost all secondary schools across Scotland will be closed on Wednesday as teachers continue their action in a dispute over pay.\n\nIt is the second day of action after primary schools were closed all day on Tuesday.\n\nLast-ditch talks between unions and Scottish government officials held on Monday failed to prevent walkouts.\n\nThe strikes involve members of the EIS, NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputies (AHDS) unions.\n\nThey have rejected a 5% pay increase, arguing for 10%. The latest offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nIf no agreement is reached, teachers in Scotland plan to strike on a further 16 days, beginning next week.\n\nThe days of action - split across every council in Scotland - will take place throughout January and into February.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Harry Styles' album Harry's House and Top Gun Maverick starring Tom Cruise helped drive record sales in the entertainment industry last year.\n\nThe two releases sold the most in the music and video sectors respectively, early trade body figures suggest.\n\nThe total spent on home entertainment last year, including gaming, was £11.1bn - 6.9% up on 2021 and 39% up on the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.\n\nIn contrast, UK box office takings are up on 2021 but lower than pre-pandemic.\n\nThe digital entertainment and retail association (ERA) said its preliminary figures were \"a huge vote of confidence\" for the sector.\n\nLockdown habits, with more people watching films on streaming services than in the cinema, have stuck, which ERA Chairman Ben Drury described as \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"Few would have believed we would retain the huge bounce in revenues seen when the Covid lockdown kept people at home,\" he said.\n\nTom Cruise's sequel to 1986's Top Gun was the biggest-selling video title of 2022, although more than 800,000 of the 1.1 million sales were from \"electronic sell-through\" or downloads, the ERA said.\n\nSubscription platforms - like Amazon Prime, Netflix and Now TV - grew by around 18% compared with 2021 to £3.85bn, now accounting for 87% of the video market.\n\nThe gaming industry still came out on top, accounting for £4.7bn of sales in the UK in 2022 - higher than that of the film, television or music sectors - but the gap is narrowing.\n\nIn years gone by people would rush excitedly to the shops on the release day of a big triple A game but these figures show that 90% of video games are now bought digitally.\n\nWhen it comes to who the public chose to listen to, it was Harry Styles who topped the year's biggest-selling album list, as well as the single list with his hit As It Was.\n\nBritish stars were responsible for all of the UK's top 10 most popular singles in 2022, for the first time since year-end charts began over 50 years ago.\n\nMusic sales grew to their highest level since 2003. Physical sales came down but revenue from streaming sties like Spotify and Apple Music have gone up, earning the industry nearly £2bn.\n\nERA CEO Kim Bayley claimed \"music is within sight of exceeding £2bn in retail sales value for the first time in more than two decades\".\n\nThe full report will be released in March.", "Talks with ministers aimed at resolving NHS strikes have made little progress, unions have said.\n\nUnite said the meetings were \"a missed opportunity\", while the Royal College of Nursing said they were \"bitterly disappointing\".\n\nUnison said there were discussions over pay but no \"tangible concessions\" which would enable Wednesday's ambulance strikes to be called off.\n\nHowever, a government source described the talks as useful and constructive.\n\nMinisters have also been meeting teaching and rail unions in a bid to avert further industrial action.\n\nThe formal agenda of the talks was next year's pay settlements, and they were not expected to lead to an immediate breakthrough for the current pay disputes.\n\nUnions are calling for pay rises to keep up with the rising cost of living but ministers say any offer must be \"affordable\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meetings, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not deny that his government could follow Wales by offering a one-off payment to public sector workers to ease the cost of living.\n\nOnay Kasab, from the Unite union, said the government had suggested during the talks earlier that any one-off payments would have to be based on \"productivity savings\".\n\nHe said that some of his members were working 18 hour shifts and that it was \"an insult\" to discuss productivity.\n\n\"We are extremely angry,\" he added.\n\nNo 10 later said the government was \"not seeking to place extra burdens on NHS staff\" but wanted to make their work \"easier and simpler\".\n\nThe Department for Health said Health Secretary Steve Barclay had requested further discussions on ideas to make the health service work better and save staff time, that could unlock additional funding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther ambulance worker union representatives leaving the meeting were slightly more positive, with Sara Gorton from Unison saying there had been progress.\n\nShe told the BBC's PM programme \"the tone has changed\", with Mr Barclay now willing to talk about pay and acknowledging that any resolution to the current dispute \"would involve a reach-back into the current pay year\".\n\nHowever, she told the BBC there was no \"tangible offer\" of a one-off payment or backdated pay, which she said would allow the union to call off Wednesday's ambulance worker strikes.\n\n\"So it is progress, but it isn't significant until we match the new tone with some cold hard cash,\" she added.\n\nThe government has previously refused to discuss this year's pay offer for public sector workers, saying it has met the recommendations of independent pay review bodies.\n\nRachel Harrison, from the GMB union, said the talks \"fell well short of anything substantial that could stop this week's strikes\".\n\nThere was \"some engagement on pay\" but \"no concrete offer\", she said.\n\nJoanne Galbraith-Marten, from the Royal College of Nursing, said there was \"no resolution to our dispute yet in sight\".\n\nThis week's strikes - which include planned walkouts by ambulance drivers, bus drivers, teachers and driving examiners - are all expected to go ahead.\n\nNurses in England are also set to walk out for two days next week.\n\nElaine Sparkes, from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the talks were \"more constructive\" than previous meetings but \"there is nothing tangible on the table\" and the union would announce strike dates later this week.\n\nWatch Make Sense of Strikes on iPlayer and find out more about why people are striking and whether industrial action works.\n\nA government source said the health secretary discussed productivity and efficiency savings which would help decide what was affordable for the coming year's pay deal.\n\nA one-off payment for health service staff was mentioned in passing, the source said.\n\nUnions have repeatedly called for a better pay offer to be on the table before April and are said to have asked Mr Barclay to make that case to the chancellor.\n\nThe source said Mr Barclay had agreed to look at their request, without making any commitments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, there were also meetings between Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and teaching unions.\n\nFollowing the talks, Kevin Courtney, from the National Education Union (NEU), said \"no concrete progress\" was made and there was no new pay offer.\n\n\"There is nothing so far that would dissuade us from taking industrial action,\" he said.\n\nHowever, in a statement he later said there was a promise of further discussions on changes to pay for this year.\n\nTeaching unions covering England and Wales, including the NEU, the NAHT and the NASUWT, are currently balloting members on potential strike action.\n\nIn Scotland, teachers are striking for two days this week, with a week-long industrial action planned for next week.\n\nThe day of talks come as a ballot opens for junior doctors in England to decide on their own industrial action, which could begin in March.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you affected by industrial action? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazilians have woken up today still processing what on earth went on in their country's capital on Sunday.\n\nThe scenes of chaos shouldn't have come as a surprise, though.\n\nThroughout Jair Bolsonaro's term, he has repeatedly questioned the efficacy of Brazil's institutions - accusing the Supreme Federal Court of being politically against him, and the voting system of being prone to fraud, despite no evidence to support those claims.\n\nIn short, he may not have masterminded the invasion, but he cannot be separated from it. His supporters took on his narrative wholeheartedly.\n\nSince he lost the elections in October, Mr Bolsonaro has gone very quiet. He has not publicly conceded defeat - he flew off to Florida to avoid having to hand over the presidential sash to Lula - and he's allowed his most ardent supporters to remain angry over a democratic election that he legitimately lost.\n\nLast week, his former vice president said the silence of leaders sowed chaos in society - and that is what Jair Bolsonaro is guilty of, at the very least.\n\nOne Bolsonaro supporter shields another in Brasilia on Sunday\n\nTension has definitely been building these past few months. Camps were set up across the country in front of army headquarters, with protesters loyal to Mr Bolsonaro calling for military intervention.\n\nAnd then in December, supporters set fire to Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia. Another supporter was arrested for allegedly trying to set off a bomb before Lula's inauguration on 1 January.\n\nBrazilians feared what happened on Sunday was only a matter of time. Perhaps more worrying is the role the authorities played in allowing this to happen.\n\nIt's no secret that many security forces are more on the side of Mr Bolsonaro than Lula. Mr Bolsonaro's narrative throughout his term about security in Brazil - and keeping people safe - made sure he had allies within the police and the armed forces.\n\nBrasilia's governor, Ibaneis Rocha - a long-time ally of Jair Bolsonaro - has been suspended for 90 days. The Security Secretary of Brasilia, Anderson Torres, was also dismissed over yesterday's events.\n\nTo what point, then, were authorities working with protesters to allow such an invasion of top-security government buildings?\n\nAnd pressure is building outside Brazil too - with Mr Bolsonaro still in Florida, Joe Biden has already been asked to extradite the former Brazilian president to face questions back home.\n\nWhile Lula's administration tries to get to the bottom of where it all went wrong, the challenge remains - he has formidable opposition in these protesters, so could this happen again?\n\nWhile much has been said about the protesters' anger over Mr Bolsonaro's loss in October, this is more about the man he lost to - Lula.\n\nFor them, the current president - who was jailed in 2017 for corruption, and spent 18 months in prison before the convictions were annulled - is a corrupt politician who belongs in prison, not the presidential palace.\n\nThey falsely accuse him of being a communist, wanting to impose a regime like Venezuela or Cuba. They won't be convinced by anything else - and they won't give up their fight for \"democracy\" as they call it.\n\nBut there's a massive flaw in their argument in wanting freedom and democracy.\n\nThey are calling for a very undemocratic military intervention to \"save\" Brazil - an intervention that despite their best efforts, doesn't look forthcoming.", "Prince Harry has ruled out a return to the UK as a working royal\n\nPrincess Diana would have been \"heartbroken\" about the conflict with his brother Prince William, Prince Harry has told a US television interview.\n\nHe told Good Morning America their mother would have been saddened at the arguments, which he said were fuelled by briefings to a divisive press.\n\nPrince Harry said there had to be \"accountability\" before reconciliation.\n\nHe also ruled out a return to the UK as a working royal.\n\nPrince Harry told ABC News TV interviewer Michael Strahan a return to such a life within the Royal Family in the UK would be \"unsurvivable\".\n\n\"That's really sad, because that's essentially breaking the relationship between us,\" said Prince Harry, in an interview about his memoir, Spare.\n\nIn the book Prince Harry speaks about the traumatic legacy of his mother's death in a car accident in 1997 - but says Diana would now be sad to see the dispute between her sons, with Prince Harry seeing William as his \"arch nemesis\" as well as \"beloved brother\" and describing a physical altercation between them.\n\n\"I think she would be looking at it long term to know that there are certain things that we need to go through to be able to heal the relationship,\" he said in the interview.\n\nHe also spoke about his relationship with Camilla, the Queen Consort, saying they hadn't spoken for a long time, but he didn't think of her as an \"evil stepmother\".\n\nPrince Harry said he had compassion for her as the \"third person within my parents' marriage\".\n\nIt was soon presented as \"Meghan versus Kate\", says Prince Harry about the sisters-in-law\n\n\"She had a reputation and an image to rehabilitate. And whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that would be the best way of doing it,\" he told the US news show.\n\nThese claims, presenting Prince Harry's view of events, have so far not drawn a response from Buckingham Palace or Kensington Palace.\n\nIn an ITV interview on Sunday, Prince Harry had accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan - with overnight viewing figures showing it had been seen by an audience of 4.1 million viewers, behind Call the Midwife and Happy Valley which drew over 5 million that evening.\n\nPrince Harry highlighted the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column, saying the \"silence is deafening\" from the Royal Family about what he called the \"horrific\" Sun article.\n\nHe contrasted this with the quick action taken after a race row at a Buckingham Palace reception.\n\nThe Clarkson article about Meghan had described how the columnist was \"dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nLater taken down by the Sun and prompting an apology from the paper and Mr Clarkson, the article was described by Prince Harry as \"horrific and hurtful and cruel towards my wife\".\n\n\"The world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy. But the silence is deafening. To put it mildly,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything to do with my wife, after six years, they haven't said a single thing.\n\nHe also said he believed that stereotyping about Meghan - as an \"American actress, divorced, biracial\" - had been a barrier to Prince William and Catherine \"welcoming her in\" to the family.\n\n\"Very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate,\" he said of how the relationship was presented in the media, also saying it was fair to say \"almost from the get-go\" that the sisters-in-law did not \"get on\".\n\nPrince Harry accused the Royal Family of \"getting into bed with the devil\" to improve its image - which he linked to relationships between \"certain members of the family and the tabloid press\".\n\nThe prince contrasted the lack of a royal response to the Clarkson article with the events that followed an encounter at Buckingham Palace between Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani, just three weeks earlier.\n\nWhile attending an event, Ms Fulani - a black British charity founder - was challenged repeatedly by Lady Hussey about where she was \"really from\".\n\nThe controversy that followed produced a rapid apology.\n\nPrince Harry defended Lady Hussey, saying \"she had never meant any harm at all\". But he contrasted the reconciliatory meeting held between her and Ms Fulani at Buckingham Palace with the response to Prince Harry and Meghan's complaints.\n\nPrince Harry also gave an interview to Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News, which aired a few hours after ITV's show, and saw him speaking about Camilla, the Queen Consort, and her relationship with the media.\n\nCooper asked the duke about comments he made in his memoir suggesting that Camilla would be \"less dangerous\" if she was happy.\n\nPrince Harry said Camilla's need to \"rehabilitate her image\" and her \"willingness\" to forge relationships with the British press made her dangerous.\n\n\"And with a family built on hierarchy, and her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.\"\n\nThe ITV interview had also returned to Prince Harry and Meghan's previous claim - made in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey - that a member of the Royal Family had raised questions about the skin colour of their future child.\n\nPrince Harry again did not name the individual - and suggested this might have been a case of \"unconscious bias\" rather than racism.\n\nAsked if he would see the questioning as racist, he said: \"I wouldn't, not having lived within that family.\"\n\nHe rejected that he had accused members of the Royal Family of racism in the Oprah interview, saying the \"British press had said that\".\n\nPrince Harry made repeated criticisms of the tabloid press - saying that it was his \"life's work\" to change the media landscape.", "Charlene Lyons says if she passed all costs on she would have to charge £10 a pint\n\nBusinesses are still digesting a government announcement detailing how support for energy bills will change once the current scheme runs out in March.\n\nBut the initial reaction so far seems to be one of disappointment - and fear.\n\n\"Energy prices will still absolutely soar for us and for everybody else as well,\" said Charlene Lyons, chief executive at Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire.\n\nThe new \"energy bills discount scheme\" for business will differ substantially from the current arrangement in terms of how taxpayer-funded help is applied.\n\nUnder existing support, the government has capped gas and electricity bills for companies meaning that if prices rise above a ceiling, it is the state that bears the cost.\n\nThe new scheme, set to launch in April, will apply a discount to wholesale energy prices. If wholesale prices rise, it will be the business that takes the pain.\n\nBefore unveiling the new energy scheme, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called the current support \"unsustainably expensive\". It will cost £18bn over six months. In contrast, the new package will run for a year at £5.5bn.\n\nAs an energy-intensive business, Black Sheep Brewery will get a steeper discount under the new scheme.\n\nBut the company also owns five pubs which will not benefit from the bigger discount and neither will the many pubs that Black Sheep Brewery supplies.\n\nMs Lyons said: \"We know that if pubs don't get the same level of support they are going to be impacted in the same ways they have been impacted recently which is shorter opening times.\"\n\nIn its announcement, the government said that energy-intensive businesses, such as manufacturers, will get more support because they \"are often less able to pass through cost to their customers due to international competition\".\n\nBut it is not exactly easy for other businesses either.\n\n\"If we were to push all of the price increases over to the consumer across the board, whether it be energy, input costs of raw materials and everything you'd be talking about over £10 a pint, which is clearly not sustainable,\" said Ms Lyons.\n\nBoat yard owner Sarah Curtis says she is relatively lucky \"for now\" because she was able to lock-in energy prices until 2026\n\nRaoul Perfitt, who runs Herb UK, a haircare production firm in Lymington, said he has already seen huge resistance from retailers when he suggests he might need to pass on higher costs.\n\nHerb UK has seen increases across wage bills, manufacturing, raw materials and warehouse rental costs over the past year.\n\nBut Mr Perfitt is at least happy that the new energy scheme gives the company some certainty to plan beyond March when the existing arrangement ends.\n\n\"Obviously we need time to assess exactly how much this will reduce our bills by. But in the current extremely challenging economic conditions any assistance is very welcome.\" he said.\n\nSome businesses, however, might not make it at all according to Martin McTague, chair of small firm lobby group Federation of Small Businesses.\n\n\"We know there are roughly one in four businesses that are seriously considering their future,\" he said. \"I know a lot of small business owners are saying to themselves 'do I wait and see what happens in March or do I decide to cash my chips in now?'.\"\n\nThose that can stick it out find themselves facing tough choices.\n\nAdrian Hanrahan, managing director of Robinson Brothers, a chemicals producer in West Bromwich, welcomed the government's new energy support scheme: \"All help is very, very welcome.\"\n\nRobinson Brothers' managing director Adrian Hanrahan expects his energy bill to triple this year\n\nBut he said: \"We're a small company, our energy is tripling this year which means that being a small company we have one pot of money.\n\n\"I fear that redirecting our money away from innovation into basically survival is not a good thing for the business and it's not a good thing for UK plc either.\"\n\nCompanies have received billions of pounds worth of government support since Covid emerged in early 2020, including the furlough scheme.\n\nSarah Curtis, who runs a boat yard in Ipswich, concedes that state support \"has to be paid back\".\n\n\"At some point the government has to get realistic and no doubt business will share the brunt of that,\" she said.\n\nMs Curtis, who has run the business for 17 years and employs four people, said that she is relatively lucky \"for now\" because she was able to lock-in energy prices until 2026.\n\nBut that doesn't mean it's smooth sailing ahead. \"It's going to get worse for all of us before it gets better,\" said Ms Curtis.\n\nHow is your business being affected by the rising cost of energy? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Railway workers would be obliged to maintain a specified minimum service level under the new laws\n\nThe government wants to lessen the impact of strikes in half a dozen public services.\n\nBut what difference will its planned new law make, and by when?\n\nMinisters picked their moment to set out their plans: on a day when train drivers had walked out, and within hours of the Labour leader's new year speech, poaching some of Keir Starmer's limelight.\n\nThe planned new law will see the light of day early next week, I'm told, when it is given what's called its first reading in the Commons.\n\nIt is then expected that it will have its second reading - when MPs get a chance to debate it - the week after next.\n\nMinisters don't anticipate their plans encountering any significant problems in the Commons, where the government has a sizeable majority, but that is far from the end of it.\n\nThat's because its next stop will be the House of Lords, where the numbers are much less favourable for the government.\n\nAnd then there is the possibility of legal challenges too. The trades unions are incensed by the plans.\n\nSo, in short, these ideas, even if they do become law, won't make any difference as far as this winter's strikes are concerned - and they might not make any difference for rather a while.\n\nIn the short term at least, they represent a battle over principles rather than a battle over consequences.\n\nAnd it is a battle where the Conservatives and Labour have very different instincts.\n\nKeir Starmer told me if Labour wins the next election he would get rid of this new law. Ministers, though, hope their argument will be seen as pragmatic.\n\nThey have decided against outright bans on strikes in any new sector. One senior figure said such a move would have been \"very draconian\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nInstead, they want minimum service levels in crucial public services - you can read more of the detail here.\n\nCrucially, what we don't know yet is precisely what those minimum service levels might be.\n\nHow many trains would run on a day when rail workers were on strike? What category of emergency would justify an ambulance being sent to you, when ambulance workers are on strike?\n\nThese details will be worked through in consultations, due to start imminently.\n\nMeanwhile, minsters in relevant departments are inviting union leaders in to see them, about the next financial year's pay settlements.\n\nAgain, they hope to be seen to be pragmatic, but union leaders say there is nothing pragmatic about saying your door is open but having nothing to offer on the table once you're sat around it.\n\nBut the view in government is they have no option but to be tough on the strikes, because there isn't any money left.\n\nThe argument goes that ministers can't borrow the money, for fear of spooking the markets as former prime minister Liz Truss did, there is no appetite to put up taxes, they think, and there's no spare money in existing budgets.\n\nYes, it is projected the rate of inflation could fall considerably before too long.\n\nBut we should still expect, given everything you have just read, that relations between the government and trades unions will, probably, show little sign of vast improvement any time soon.", "Incheon is the only airport in South Korea where flights from China can land\n\nChina has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers.\n\nBeijing says the pause on South Korean visas will remain in place until \"discriminatory\" entry restrictions against China are lifted.\n\nJapan and South Korea are not the only countries imposing entry requirements on travellers from China, where Covid cases are surging, but their measures are among the most stringent.\n\nLast week, South Korea stopped issuing tourist visas for those coming from China, which the Chinese foreign ministry called \"unacceptable\" and \"unscientific\".\n\nJapan, meanwhile, is currently allowing Chinese visitors into the country - provided they test negative for Covid. This is similar to the UK and the US, but Japan is also restricting flights from China to certain Japanese cities.\n\nBeijing's embassies in both Seoul and Tokyo confirmed the new visa restrictions for visitors to China.\n\nChina reopened its borders on Sunday for the first time since March 2020 as part of scrapping of its \"zero-Covid\" policy.\n\nReacting to China's latest visa restrictions, South Korea's foreign ministry told the BBC that its policy towards arrivals from China was \"in accordance with scientific and objective evidence\".\n\nAccording to South Korea's Disease Control and Prevention Agency, around a third of all arrivals from China tested positive for Covid prior to the visa restrictions being put in place.\n\nAt Seoul's Incheon International airport - the only South Korean airport still allowing flights from China - arrivals are met by military personnel in personal protective equipment.\n\nThe BBC managed to speak to some of them as they were escorted to the airport testing centre.\n\n\"Personally, I think it's OK. I have been through much worse during this pandemic,\" said William, a businessman from Shanghai. \"As a traveller I just try to comply with the policies are much as possible.\"\n\n\"In my mind it's not scientific at all,\" said Emily, who arrived from Hong Kong. She, like those coming from mainland China, was required to test.\n\n\"I feel like it's a little bit unfair on this side. They must feel really unsafe, I suppose.\"\n\nMany South Koreans support the idea of protecting their country from China's coronavirus surge - but not all are convinced that the decision is a purely medical one.\n\n\"There is a political element to it and the relationship between the two countries isn't a good one. A lot of Korean people hold a lot of animosity blaming China for the coronavirus,\" said Jinsun, who was heading to Abu Dhabi.\n\nAnother woman going on her honeymoon to Paris said South Korea might not have implemented such rules if the country concerned wasn't China.\n\n\"But then again, whatever we did, China would have a problem with it,\" she said.\n\nThe South Korean curbs are supposed to last at least until the end of the month, which would give scientists time to analyse for any potential new variants coming from China.\n\n\"There's no transparency at the moment in China about any monitoring for new variants. If a new variant comes from China, it would be a very difficult situation for the whole world,\" Professor Kim Woo Joo, an infectious diseases expert at Korea University and a government adviser, told the BBC.\n\n\"It would also be a disaster for the Korean healthcare system. We currently have a lot of hospitalisations and deaths already and our elderly people are also under-vaccinated. This is what we are worried about.\"\n\nAt the moment, only a small number of business or diplomatic travellers from China are being allowed into South Korea. They must test negative before departure and also on arrival.\n\nOne Chinese man who tested positive escaped from a bus taking him to a quarantine hotel near the airport. Two days later he was caught by police in a hotel in Seoul.", "An image released believed to be of Constance Marten in Essex was released by police\n\nPolice searching for a missing couple and a newborn baby have said they are determined to establish the child \"is alive and well\".\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon have not been seen since their car broke down on the M61 near Bolton on Thursday.\n\nPolice said Ms Marten had recently given birth and neither she nor the baby had been medically assessed.\n\nEssex Police said they wanted to check the infant was \"medically well\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Huddleston said: \"As we have said previously, from our perspective this search is about the young child's welfare,\n\n\"We know some elements of the public may see police involvement as unwelcome and I would seek to assure you that we do not wish to impose ourselves for any reason other than to make sure the newborn baby is alive and well.\n\n\"I am a parent myself and I know the bond a mother and father have with their child, but I would appeal directly to Mark and Constance to put the welfare of their child first.\"\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon have been missing since last week\n\nEssex Police said officers remained \"extremely focused\" in finding the couple and had reviewed CCTV from across Colchester had number of confirmed sightings in the city.\n\nThe force said it was following several strong lines of enquiry and a leaflets identifying the couple are being delivered across the city.\n\nA CCTV image believed to be of Ms Marten near Harwich Port in Essex, was released on Saturday.\n\nIn a direct appeal to the baby's mother, Det Ch Insp Huddleston said: \"To you, Constance, medical professionals still need to assess your baby to make sure he or she is medically well and there no underlying issues for which he or she may need help for.\n\n\"Indeed, medical professionals would like to examine you for the same reasons.\n\n\"Please, get in contact any way you would like to. We are here and ready to help you.\"\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Without Taylor, we know that we're going to be a different band,\" Foo Fighters said in a statement\n\nFoo Fighters have announced their first shows since the tragic death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last year.\n\nThe band, led by Dave Grohl, will headline three US festivals this summer - Boston Calling and Sonic Temple in May, followed by Bonnaroo in June.\n\nThe announcement comes shortly after the group said they would continue to play together following Hawkins' death.\n\nThe star was found unresponsive in his hotel room last March, shortly before he was due on stage in Colombia.\n\nNo cause of death was announced, although a toxicology report showed traces of 10 substances in his body, including opioids, marijuana and anti-depressants.\n\nInvestigators did not say whether the mix of drugs was a factor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFoo Fighters previously played two tribute shows for Hawkins in London and LA in September, with guests including Queen, Paul McCartney, Alanis Morrisette, Cars, Rush and Miley Cyrus.\n\nThis summer's festival dates currently represent their return to the stage, although they may play smaller warm-up shows in advance.\n\nIn a statement on New Year's Eve the band told fans they had decided to continue without Hawkins, who had played with them since 1997.\n\n\"Foo Fighters were formed 27 years ago to represent the healing power of music and a continuation of life,\" the band wrote, referring to how Grohl's previous band, Nirvana, had ended with the death of frontman Kurt Cobain.\n\n\"For the past 27 years our fans have built a worldwide community, a devoted support system that has helped us all get through the darkest of times together. A place to share our joy and our pain, our hopes and fears, and to join in a chorus of life together through music.\n\n\"Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were - and without Taylor, we know that we're going to be a different band going forward.\"\n\nNo announcement has been made on who will take Hawkins' place.\n\nAt September's tribute concerts, his position was filled by a rotating cast of friends and family, including Blink-182's Travis Barker, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, Devo's Josh Freese and Hawkins' teenage son, Shane.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Controversial British-American online influencer Andrew Tate has lost a bid to end his detention in Romania.\n\nTate was detained alongside his brother Tristan last month as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape, which they deny.\n\nAuthorities suspect the pair, along with two Romanian nationals, of running \"an organised crime group\".\n\nPolice will continue to hold the group for their 30-day period, after a court rejected the appeal on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, Mr Tate was seen carrying what appeared to be a copy of the Quran as he walked into Bucharest Appeal Court handcuffed to his brother.\n\nAfter the arrests on 29 December, police said they had identified six people who were allegedly \"sexually exploited\" by what it called an \"organised criminal group\".\n\nPolice alleged the victims were \"recruited\" by the British citizens, who they said misrepresented their intention to enter into a relationship with the victims - which they called \"the loverboy method\".\n\nThey were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, a statement alleged.\n\nThe Tates' lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, has said his clients rejected all the allegations.\n\nBorn in the US before moving to the UK, Mr Tate, 36, went on to have a successful career as a kickboxer.\n\nIn 2016, he was removed from the British version of reality TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman. He went on to set up a \"webcam business\", which he described as \"adult entertainment\".\n\nHe found global notoriety, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.\n\nBut despite social media bans he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting an ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.", "Average petrol prices have fallen below 150p a litre for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, the AA motoring group says.\n\nPump prices hit 149.74p per litre on Monday, lower than last February and down from a record 191.53p in July.\n\nThe AA said falling global oil prices were behind the drop, calling it \"a huge relief for drivers\".\n\nBut it said diesel still cost more than last year at 172.21p a litre compared with 153.05p.\n\nAA spokesman Luke Bosdet said it now cost about £23 less to fill an average-sized 55-litre car with petrol than it did in July, at roughly £82.\n\nHowever, he said petrol prices were \"still historically way above\" what they should be and that the end of a temporary fuel duty cut this March could lead to fresh rises.\n\nPetrol stations in cities and towns are also charging up to 10p more for fuel than those in rural parts of the UK, he added.\n\nFuel prices began to rise last year as countries ended Covid lockdowns but surged higher when Russia - a major oil producer - invaded Ukraine, sparking concerns about global supplies.\n\nBy July last year, the cost of filling an average-sized car had hit £105.29, according to the RAC motoring group, while for diesel it was £109.47.\n\nThe government has cut fuel duty by 5p a litre since February last year to help drivers, with the overall cut worth 6p when VAT is factored in, the AA says.\n\nHowever, the discount is scheduled to end in March.\n\nDavid Cox, an independent energy analyst, told the BBC that concerns over global oil supplies had subsided as countries had found alternatives to Russian crude, sending prices lower.\n\nHowever, he warned oil prices were likely to rise again as China eased its strict Covid rules and fully reopened its economy.\n\n\"I think the outlook [for oil and petrol prices] is it will go back up. We're in for a prolonged period of higher prices.\"\n\nThe news comes as the RAC said the cost of rapid-charging an electric car using a public charging network had increased by about 50% in the past eight months.\n\nIt now costs an average of 70.32p per kilowatt hour to rapid charge on a pay-as-you-go basis, up from 44.55p last May and from 63.29p last September, the motoring group said.\n\nThe rises - which are being driven by increasing energy costs - mean that drivers now pay £36 to charge a typical family-sized electric car with a 64kWh battery to the level required to cover around 188 miles, it said.\n\nHowever, it added that those who charged at home were still getting \"great value\", paying about half as much.\n\nThe RAC's electric vehicles spokesman, Simon Williams, said cutting the level of VAT on electricity sold at public chargers to 5% to match what people pay at home would be one way of keeping prices under control.\n\n\"It continues to be the case that those who can charge at home or at work and who don't use the public rapid charging network very often get fantastic value - even given the relatively high domestic energy prices right now.\n\n\"Sadly, the same can't be said for people who either can't charge at home or at work, or who regularly make longer journeys beyond the range of their cars. There's no question they have to pay far more, and in some cases more than petrol or diesel drivers do to fill up on a mile-for-mile basis.\"", "The late Queen and Prince Harry, pictured in 2015, had spoken a few days before her death\n\nPrince Harry says he first found out about the death of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth from the BBC website.\n\nIn his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex says he had a phone call from his father, then Prince Charles, to say that the Queen's health was worsening.\n\nBut while Prince Harry made plans to travel to Balmoral, he says he was asked not to bring his wife Meghan.\n\nBy the time his plane landed in Scotland, he found from BBC News on his phone that the Queen had died.\n\n\"When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg: \"Call me when you get this.\"\n\n\"I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King,\" writes Prince Harry.\n\nThis account adds previously unknown detail to the events surrounding the Queen's death last September - and reveals that the news first reached Prince Harry not from his family, but from the online news on his phone, as he arrived on a charter flight from Luton airport.\n\nIt might also clarify some confusion on the day of the Queen's death, when it was first thought that Meghan was travelling with Harry, but it later emerged that she wasn't.\n\nPrince William's wife, Catherine, also did not go to Balmoral, the Scottish estate where the Queen had spent her last summer.\n\nIn Prince Harry's account, he says his father told him not to bring Meghan with explanations that \"didn't make any sense, and actually they were disrespectful. I didn't tolerate it\".\n\n\"Don't even think about speaking about my wife like that,\" Prince Harry recalls saying to his father.\n\n\"Regretful, he stammered that he simply didn't want it to fill up with people. Nobody's wife was going, not even Kate, he told me, so Meg shouldn't either.\n\n\"'Then you should have started with that,\" says Prince Harry's recollection.\n\nThe book, translated from a Spanish edition, reveals details from the prince's final conversation with the late Queen, which he thought about as he travelled up to Balmoral - including a joke about his own thinning hair.\n\n\"I spent almost the whole flight looking at the clouds, reliving the last time I'd spoken to my grandmother. We'd been chatting at length four days before.\n\n\"We touched on lots of issues. Her health of course, the chaos in Downing Street, the Braemar Games, which she was sorry not to have been able to attend because she wasn't well.\n\n\"We also spoke about the devastating drought. Meg and I were staying at Frogmore and the lawn was in a really bad state.\n\n\"It's like my head, granny, full of bald spots and brown patches!' She burst out laughing. I told her to take care of herself and that I hoped we'd see each other soon.\"\n\nBut by the time he landed he saw the news about the Queen's death.\n\n\"I put on my black tie, got out of the plane under heavy rain and raced up to Balmoral in a borrowed car.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's judicial authorities have ordered the arrest of top public officials after rioters stormed key government buildings in Brasília.\n\nOne official, the former commander of the military police, has been arrested, local media reported.\n\nThe officials also include Brasília's former public security chief Anderson Torres and others \"responsible for acts and omissions\" leading to the riots, the attorney general's office said.\n\nMr Torres denies any role in the riots.\n\nColonel Fábio Augusto, the police commander, was dismissed from his role after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court.\n\nThe rioting came a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula, was sworn in.\n\nThe dramatic scenes involved thousands of protesters, some clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and waving flags, who overran police and ransacked the heart of the Brazilian state.\n\nOf the approximately 1,500 people arrested and brought to the police academy after the riot, officials say that nearly 600 have been taken to other facilities, where police officials have five days to formally charge them.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the federal intervenor in public security accused Mr Torres of \"a structured sabotage operation\".\n\nRicardo Cappelli, who has been appointed to run security in Brasília, said there was a \"lack of command\" from Mr Torres before government buildings were stormed.\n\nLula's inauguration on 1 January was \"an extremely successful security operation,\" Mr Cappelli told CNN.\n\nWhat changed before Sunday was that, on 2 January, \"Anderson Torres took over as Secretary of Security, dismissed the entire command and travelled\", he said.\n\n\"If this isn't sabotage, I don't know what is,\" Mr Cappelli added.\n\nMr Torres said that he deeply regretted the \"absurd hypotheses\" that he played any part in the riots.\n\nHe said the scenes, which occurred during his family holiday, were lamentable and said it was \"the most bitter day\" of his personal and professional life.\n\nLula has accused security forces of \"neglecting\" their duty in not halting the \"terrorist acts\" in Brasília.\n\nPublic prosecutors asked on Tuesday for a federal audit court to freeze Mr Bolsonaro's assets in light of the riots.\n\nThe former president, who has condemned the riots, has not admitted defeat from October's tight election that divided the nation, and flew to the US before the handover on 1 January.\n\nOn Monday, he was admitted to hospital in Florida with abdominal pain relating to a stabbing attack during his election campaign in 2018. Reports say he left the hospital on Tuesday.\n\nMr Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he intended to return to Brazil, telling CNN that he would bring forward his departure from the US, which was originally scheduled for the end of January.\n\nA day after the riots, heavily armed officers started dismantling a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasília - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since the presidential election.\n\nMr Torres, who previously served as Mr Bolsonaro's justice minister, was fired from his role as Secretary of Public Security on Sunday by Brasília governor Ibaneis Rocha.\n\nMr Rocha was himself later removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nLula has also taken aim at the security forces, accusing them of \"incompetence, bad faith or malice\" for failing to stop demonstrators accessing Congress.\n\n\"You will see in the images that they [police officers] are guiding people on the walk to Praca dos Tres Powers,\" he said. \"We are going to find out who the financiers of these vandals who went to Brasília are and they will all pay with the force of law.\"\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nProtesters had been gathering since the morning on the lawns in front of the parliament and up and down the kilometre of the Esplanada avenue, which is lined with government ministries and national monuments.\n\nDespite the actions of the protesters, in the hours before the chaos, security had appeared tight, with the roads closed for about a block around the parliament area and armed police pairs guarding every entrance into the area.\n\nThe BBC had seen about 50 police officers around on Sunday morning local time and cars were turned away at entry points, while those entering on foot were frisked by police checking bags.\n\nAccording to Katy Watson, the BBC's South America correspondent, some protesters aren't just angry that Mr Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has gone very quiet since losing October's elections, she said, adding that in not publicly conceding defeat, he's allowed his most ardent supporters to remain angry over a democratic election that he legitimately lost.\n\nThe former president condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nOn Tuesday, his son, Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, said people should not try to link his father to the riots, stating that he has been silently \"licking his wounds\" since losing the election.", "The technology reduces worry by automating the process of releasing insulin into the bloodstream\n\nMore than 100,000 people in England and Wales with type 1 diabetes could soon be offered new technology to manage their condition on the NHS.\n\nThe system uses a glucose sensor under the skin to automatically calculate how much insulin is delivered via a pump.\n\nHealth assessors said it was the best way of controlling diabetes, barring a cure.\n\nA charity said it would transform lives and was the \"closest thing to a working pancreas\".\n\nThe National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the health body recommending the technology, said a more cost-effective price still had to be agreed with manufacturers.\n\nIn trials, it improved quality of life and reduced the risk of long-term health complications.\n\nApproximately 400,000 people are currently living with type 1 diabetes in the UK, including around 29,000 children.\n\nTheir pancreas produces no, or very little, insulin - an important hormone which helps turn food into energy.\n\nSo they have to closely monitor levels of sugar, or glucose, in the blood and top up levels of insulin every day of their lives using injections or an insulin pump.\n\nThis new technology does that automatically, virtually mimicking the function of a pancreas - although it still requires information on food intake to work accurately.\n\n\"This technology has been proven to give the best control for managing type 1 diabetes and should make things like amputations, blindness, and kidney problems possibly a thing of the past,\" said Prof Partha Kar, national specialty adviser for diabetes at NHS England.\n\n\"The quality of life this technology gives to those using it is huge,\" he added.\n\nIt allows someone with type 1 diabetes to go about their daily life without stressing over whether their blood sugar is too high or too low, and therefore dangerous.\n\nYasmin Hopkins, 27, from London, had struggled to maintain her blood sugar levels since she was diagnosed at the age of 12.\n\nShe took part in trials of the new technology and told the BBC she found it liberating.\n\n\"I wake up now and I can do a normal day's work, or go on a dog walk without being concerned,\" she said.\n\nThe kit has been described as a step towards an artificial pancreas.\n\nUnder draft recommendations, NICE said the system should first be offered to patients in England and Wales unable to control their diabetes, including pregnant women, which could be around 100,000 people in England alone.\n\nAnyone can have their say on the guidance until Tuesday 31 January on the NICE website.\n\nNegotiations on a cost-effective price for the technology - called a closed hybrid loop system - are still to take place, however.\n\nThe technology currently costs nearly £6,000 a year but NICE says it wants to agree a price for the NHS that \"is fair to taxpayers\".\n\nHilary Nathan, policy director at JDRF, the type 1 diabetes charity which has funded research into the system for many years, said it was \"a game-changing treatment at the forefront of health technology and artificial intelligence\".\n\nIf approved, she said, it would transform the lives of people living with type 1 in England and Wales, reduce deaths from glucose high and lows, and cut the risk of long-term health issues from the condition.\n\n\"It's the closest thing you can get to a working pancreas,\" she added.\n\nThe technology is already being rolled out in Scotland, where an additional £14.6m is being spent on making sure people with type 1 diabetes can use it.\n\nThe system has been licensed for use by the UK regulator, the MHRA.\n\nType 1 diabetes is a different condition to type 2 diabetes, which is much more common. While both cause blood glucose levels to be higher than normal, type 1 is an auto-immune condition where the body attacks cells in the pancreas.\n\nIn people with type 2, the cells in the body become resistant to insulin and so more is needed to keep blood glucose levels within a normal range. It can usually be controlled through diet, exercise and close monitoring.", "The World Bank, led by President David Malpass, says the economies of the US, Eurozone and China are all struggling\n\nThe global economy is \"perilously close to falling into recession\", according to the latest forecast from the World Bank.\n\nIt expects the world economy to grow by just 1.7% this year - a sharp decrease from the 3% it predicted in June.\n\nThe report blames a number of factors stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe effects of higher interest rates are picked out as the key challenge for policy makers to overcome.\n\nWorld Bank president David Malpass said the downturn would be \"broad-based\" and growth in people's earnings in almost every part of the world was likely to \"be slower than it was during the decade before Covid-19\".\n\nThe 1.7% growth figure would be the lowest since 1991, with the exceptions of the recessions of 2009 and 2020, which were caused by the global financial crisis and the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe World Bank said the US, the Eurozone and China - the three most influential parts of the world for economic growth - were \"all undergoing a period of pronounced weakness\", a downturn that was worsening the problems faced by poorer countries.\n\nAfter surging 5.3% in post-pandemic 2021, growth in the world's richest economies is likely to slow sharply from 2.5% in 2022 to just 0.5% this year.\n\n\"Over the past two decades, slowdowns of this scale have foreshadowed a global recession,\" the bank warned, adding that it anticipated \"a sharp, long-lasting slowdown\".\n\nIf a global recession were to occur, it would be the first time since the 1930s that there have been two global recessions within the same decade.\n\nHigher inflation is one of the main reasons that the global economy is struggling. Global food and energy prices jumped last year as the war in Ukraine led to reduced crop supplies and pushed the West to move away from Russian fossil fuels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are things so expensive? The BBC's Faisal Islam answers your inflation questions in 90 seconds\n\nThe World Bank said it expected the global pace of price rises to slow from 7.6% in 2022 to 5.2% this year, as those pressures ease.\n\nWhile some \"prices spikes are possible\". the bank said it expected energy prices to fall in general. It pointed to an increase in global production and lower demand in Europe, where an energy crisis has led businesses and households to reduce their use of gas.\n\nCrop prices are also forecast to fall by 5% this year although they will still be significantly higher than they were a few years ago, having risen by 13% in 2022.\n\nDespite those developments, inflation is expected to remain well above the 2% rate typically considered healthy.\n\nCentral banks in dozens of countries, including the US and the UK, have been raising interest rates in response to the problem, aiming to cool their economies and ease the pressures pushing up prices.\n\nBut they are navigating a delicate path as they try to address the cost-of-living crisis while not tipping their economies into recession.\n\nThe World Bank said higher borrowing costs have stifled business investments and warned that more companies were struggling with their debts. Developing economies are also being squeezed hard by US interest rates, which are expected to rise further. Many of them borrow money in US dollars.\n\nThe Bank said that even with the global economy \"under pressure\" the right government policies could offer hope. It recommended measures to boost investments and create jobs, tackle climate change, address the debts of poorer countries and facilitate international trade.", "Let's be blunt: we are not wildly closer to all these strike rows being sorted out than we were.\n\nBut it is also true that we were never likely to be, after a series of short meetings between trades union officials and government ministers earlier.\n\nThe tone, though, has undeniably shifted, on the government side and among at least some of the unions.\n\nMinisters continue to hint, both publicly and privately, that they might be willing to compromise - although the details of how they might do this don't appear worked through yet.\n\nIt is worth remembering the basis upon which today's talks between ministers and unions were convened.\n\nIt was to talk about what pay might look like in the next financial year starting in April - not the pay striking workers are receiving now, which in many instances is the root cause of the current industrial action.\n\nBut what was also hinted at over the weekend by the prime minister publicly, and other government sources privately, was that there may be scope to do something about pay now.\n\nCould a one-off hardship payment in various sectors caught up in industrial action be an option?\n\nIt is an idea being explored by the Labour government in Wales, and it is not being instantly dismissed at Westminster for England any more.\n\nAn idea that just a few short weeks ago before Christmas was flatly rejected by Downing Street and the Treasury, having been floated by Health Secretary Steve Barclay, now appears to be back in play.\n\nAnd here's another idea being discussed: backdating any pay deal for the next financial year to the start of this calendar year, giving workers another three months at whatever rate they secure in the pay settlement now being worked on.\n\nBoth of these options would allow ministers to say they haven't reopened the existing pay settlement, but would also allow them to say they have listened to what the trades unions are saying.\n\nBut they are, at least as things stand, signals of potential intent, rather than anything more concrete.\n\nHow much would a one-off payment be? \"A few hundred quid? No way. A thousand quid? Well, maybe we'd be getting somewhere,\" one union source suggested to me.\n\nWhat would be the level of pay backdated to the beginning of this year? We, and the unions, don't know.\n\nAmbulance worker strikes are set to continue later this week\n\nAll of this illustrates a subtlety playing out on both sides. There can be disagreements within government.\n\n\"A settlement needs to be arranged, and quickly,\" said one government source, pointing out there is always a resolution in the end, so it made sense to do one sooner rather than later to minimise the damage strike action can cause.\n\nAnother emphasised that the central truth, as they saw it, is there isn't any money left in government coffers and plenty of workers in sectors without a big union presence are struggling, so why should they cave into union demands?\n\nAnd, yes, there are disagreements, or at the very least differences of emphasis, between trades unions: Unite were much more angry and condemning of the government after the meeting at the Department of Health than Unison were.\n\nBut all this also highlights some simple, bald truths.\n\nThere are industrial disputes playing out in different nations of the UK, in different sectors, involving different unions and different governments. Plenty, in all the nations, look rather difficult to sort out.\n\nAs far as England is concerned, after this set of meetings, the strikes that were already in the diary are still in the diary.\n\nNext, the government moves onto the other side of its approach: introducing a new law to attempt to limit their impact in half a dozen different sectors.\n\nThe bill, the planned new law to do this, is to be published, with Business Secretary Grant Shapps heading out and about to make the case for it.\n\nA pragmatic response to strike action in some of our most vital public services? Or a draconian limitation on the capacity of workers to legally withdraw their labour?", "A recent House of Lords committee report found that those leaving the labour market were more likely to be ending their careers early\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary has unveiled plans to encourage older workers and those with medical conditions back into work.\n\nIn a speech, Jonathan Ashworth promised improved support for those who have recently left employment.\n\nHe also said more flexibility over fitness-to-work tests could help those on sickness benefits to find work.\n\nThe government says it is increasing employment support for the over-50s.\n\nA spokesperson said ministers were also expanding the \"mid-Life MOT\" service offered to workers in their forties and fifties to review their skills.\n\nSince the pandemic there has been a big rise in the number classed as \"economically inactive\", that is people who are not looking for jobs and not available for work.\n\nMr Ashworth warned of a \"monumental waste of the talents of the British people,\" with 2.5 million people out of work because of long-term ill-health.\n\nIn the address to the Centre for Social Justice, a think tank founded by former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, he said \"hundreds of thousands\" could be helped back into work with better support.\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of \"writing people off\" - and argued that better help for jobseekers is now \"urgent\".\n\nHe pledged that if it wins power at the next election, Labour would make it easier for those on sickness benefits to restart their payments if they take a job that doesn't work out.\n\nCurrently, many such claimants have to repeat the work capability assessment they initially took to determine what benefits they are eligible for.\n\nMr Ashworth argued this acts as a disincentive to taking a job. He said a Labour government would instead let them return to claiming benefits within a year without a re-assessment.\n\nMr Ashworth also promised local councils control over a proportion of the skills budget currently spent by central government, to help ensure job training is better tailored to local areas.\n\nHe said his party would introduce greater flexibility to the government grants available to people with health conditions or disabilities to help them stay in work.\n\nThis, he said, would include allowing \"in-principle\" decisions to applicants so that employers have more certainty about what help is available.\n\nDuring the event, Mr Ashworth was asked if his party would stick by its 2019 manifesto pledge to replace the Universal Credit benefits system.\n\nThe shadow minister said Labour wanted to \"fundamentally reform\" the system and would consult on ways to simplifying the process.\n\nResponding to a preview of the speech, a spokesperson for the government said it was investing an extra £22m in employment support for the over 50s.\n\nThey added that the Department for Work and Pensions was reviewing workforce participation to see what action could be taken to cut economic inactivity.", "More than 650,000 deaths were registered in the UK in 2022 - 9% more than 2019.\n\nThis represents one of the largest excess death levels outside the pandemic in 50 years.\n\nThough far below peak pandemic levels, it has prompted questions about why more people are still dying than normal.\n\nData indicates pandemic effects on health and NHS pressures are among the leading explanations.\n\nCovid is still killing people, but is involved in fewer deaths now than at the start of the pandemic. Roughly 38,000 deaths involved Covid in 2022 compared with more than 95,000 in 2020.\n\nWe are still seeing more deaths overall than would be expected based on recent history. The difference in 2022 - compared with 2020 and 2021 - is that Covid deaths were one of several factors, rather than the main explanation for this excess.\n\nSo what else might be going on?\n\nA number of doctors are blaming the wider crisis in the NHS.\n\nAt the start of 2022, death rates were looking like they'd returned to pre-pandemic levels. It wasn't until June that excess deaths really started to rise - just as the number of people waiting for hours on trolleys in English hospitals hit levels normally seen in winter.\n\nOn 1 January 2023, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine suggested the crisis in urgent care could be causing \"300-500 deaths a week\".\n\nIt is not a figure recognised by NHS England, but it's roughly what you get if you multiply the number of people waiting long periods in A&E with the extra risk of dying estimated to come with those long waits (of between five and 12 hours).\n\nIt is possible to debate the precise numbers, but it's not controversial to say that your chances are worse if you wait longer for treatment, be that waiting for an ambulance to get to you, being stuck in an ambulance outside a hospital or in A&E.\n\nAnd we are seeing record waits in each of those areas.\n\nIn November, for example, it took 48 minutes on average for an ambulance in England to respond to a suspected heart attack or stroke, compared to a target of 18 minutes.\n\nSome of the excess may be people whose deaths were hastened by the after-effects of a Covid infection.\n\nA number of studies have found people are more likely to have heart problems and strokes in the weeks and months after catching Covid, and some of these may not end up being linked to the virus when the death is registered.\n\nAs well as the impact on the heart of the virus itself, some of this may be contributed to by the fact many people didn't come in for screenings and non-urgent treatment during the peak of the pandemic, storing up trouble for the future.\n\nWe can see that the number of people starting treatment for blood pressure or with statins - which can help prevent future heart attacks - plunged during the pandemic and, a year later still hadn't recovered.\n\nThe largest jump in excess deaths was seen in men aged 50-64, most commonly caused by heart problems.\n\nThe rise in cardiac problems has been pointed to by some online as evidence that Covid vaccines are driving the rise in deaths, but this conclusion is not supported by the data.\n\nOne type of Covid vaccine has been linked to a small rise in cases of heart inflammation and scarring (pericarditis and myocarditis). But this particular vaccine side-effect was mainly seen in boys and young men, while the excess deaths are highest in older men - aged 50 or more.\n\nAnd these cases are too rare - and mostly not fatal - to account for the excess in deaths.\n\nFinally, figures up to June 2022 looking at deaths from all causes show unvaccinated people were more likely to die than vaccinated people.\n\nWhile this data on its own can't tell us it's the vaccine protecting people from dying - there are too many complicating factors - if vaccines were driving excess deaths we would expect this to be the other way around.", "Beth Matthews was a well known mental health blogger with thousands of followers\n\nA patient at a secure psychiatric hospital in Stockport died after taking a poisonous substance she ordered online, an inquest has heard.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, died a short time after taking the substance, which she told staff was protein powder, in March last year.\n\nMs Matthews, originally from Cornwall, was described in court as \"bright and vivacious\".\n\nShe was a well-known mental health blogger with thousands of followers.\n\nHer inquest heard that she was being treated on a secure ward at the Priory, Cheadle Royal for a personality disorder.\n\nThe court was told that paramedics were called on 21 March after reports Ms Matthews had taken an overdose.\n\nAssistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman told the jury Ms Matthews had \"ingested a substance that came through the post, quite quickly became unwell, was taken urgently to hospital where she sadly died\".\n\nIn a statement, paramedic Kate Barnes said that when she arrived staff at the unit told her that Ms Matthews \"had a parcel delivered to the unit, which she opened in front of them and managed to consume\".\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nMs Matthews swallowed \"an unknown amount\" of the substance it contained and had apparently told staff the package contained \"protein powder\", the inquest heard.\n\nMs Barnes was told that patients were allowed to open their own parcels if supervised by staff.\n\nThe jury was told that the package had \"foreign writing on it\" and that the substance had apparently \"been bought on the internet\".\n\nA statement from Ms Matthews' mother Jane was also read to the court.\n\nShe said her daughter was \"an incredible character\" who was \"bright and vivacious\" and who \"lit up the lives\" of everyone she met.\n\nShe loved sport and excelled at sailing, completing the gruelling Fastnet race at the age of 15.\n\nThe jury heard that in 2019 after a suicide attempt Ms Matthews suffered life-changing injuries.\n\nShe blogged about her recovery and her own mental health, gaining thousands of followers on Twitter.\n\nJane Matthews said her daughter had been able to help those who reached out to her and touched so many lives.\n\nThe inquest continues and is expected to finish next week.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Prince Harry's memoir Spare went on sale early in some bookshops in Spain\n\nIt was billed as the publishing event of the year.\n\nBut the meticulously-laid PR strategy for the launch of Prince Harry's tell-all autobiography appeared to unravel on Thursday in the face of a newspaper leak, followed by its surprise sale by some Spanish booksellers.\n\nPlans for a tightly choreographed publicity push, which would have been months in the making and involved a series of TV interviews with the prince, looked to be in ruins.\n\nBut while the publishers of Spare had gone to great lengths to keep the book under wraps to maximise the impact of its release, it's unlikely this unanticipated publicity will hurt sales.\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of trade paper The Bookseller, tells BBC News he thinks the leaks are \"70% good\" for the book and its publisher, Penguin Random House.\n\n\"I think they will be a little bit annoyed it has come out before the book is released, but I'm sure they will be delighted it is dominating the headlines around the world at a time when they want to increase pent-up demand ahead of publication on Tuesday,\" he says.\n\nHarry has conducted a string of pre-recorded broadcast interviews to promote the book\n\nDespite the publisher's efforts to keep the book secure, many journalists were able to get hold of it on Thursday, after word got out that the Spanish edition had been put on sale early in some bookshops.\n\nThat came hot on the heels of a leak in the Guardian, which broke the news of Harry's allegation in the book of a physical altercation with his brother, Prince William.\n\nThe next 36 hours saw wall-to-wall coverage of Spare as news outlets digested and distributed the revelations contained in its 416 pages.\n\nMost industry figures doubt that sales will be harmed by the leaks.\n\n\"This probably won't make any difference - they're likely going to sell the same number of books,\" says Edward Coram James, reputation management expert and CEO of digital marketing agency Go Up. \"If anything, they might sell more because they've got an additional week of coverage.\"\n\nBut he adds: \"You wouldn't have wanted a leak like this too far in advance, because you want the book to be launched at the height of the hype. If this leak had happened three weeks ago, the news cycle would have moved on and this story would have been slightly old hat.\n\n\"I would say it has happened close enough to the scheduled launch that, actually, the hype will continue until the launch itself, so it won't lose momentum.\"\n\nPenguin had carefully co-ordinated its publicity campaign. The strategy was for Harry to conduct a string of broadcast interviews (at least four that we know about so far), which will air in the 48 hours before the book's release.\n\nThe publisher otherwise kept things under wraps. They avoided doing a newspaper serialisation deal, while deliveries to many bookshops were scheduled to arrive at the last minute.\n\nThe book's publication follows the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series Harry & Meghan\n\nBut the number of people involved in the book's international production and distribution meant a leak was difficult to avoid. The Guardian, The Sun, The Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News were among the outlets which obtained the book en Español on Thursday and started ploughing through it.\n\n\"The net result has been that about every two or three hours, someone translates another chapter and then there's been another news dump of some new line,\" notes Neill Denny, joint editor of book trade news website BookBrunch. \"No publicity campaign can normally achieve that. It's almost worked better than a serialisation.\"\n\nHowever, a spokesman for the Spanish publisher, Plaza y Janes Editores (which belongs to Penguin Random House) expressed his frustration, telling Reuters: \"A very clear launch protocol was established and communicated to all customers so that the book would not be marketed before that date.\n\n\"Everything points to the fact that some customers have breached their commitment to the publisher and have put the book on sale before the agreed date.\"\n\nMr Denny dismisses any suggestion that the leak could have been co-ordinated for publicity. \"I think this is embarrassing for the publisher, because it shows they can't handle a massive worldwide release without it leaking,\" he says.\n\nHarry's memoir further exposes the strained relationship with his brother Prince William\n\nWhile the early revelations may not have been part of the original rollout plan, Mr Coram James points out: \"With PR strategies on big events like this, there is very often a half-expectation that something is going to go wrong. And so they will have prepared for this scenario, even though they won't have expected it.\"\n\nOne result of the leak, he suggests, has been that the broadcasters who had pre-recorded interviews with Harry have been rushing out more teaser clips, partly to make sure their exclusive isn't undermined.\n\n\"I think that will have been co-ordinated with Penguin and the Sussexes after the leak, and will be an attempt by all three parties to get a bit of control,\" Mr Coram James adds.\n\nHarry is due to be interviewed on ITV, CBS, Good Morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the coming days. The clips released so far suggest Harry will be given a tough ride by some of the interviewers.\n\nUnder the original PR strategy, that would have created the appearance of Harry being held to account over the book's content, getting ahead of any potential criticism.\n\nBut instead, Mr Coram James says, the leak has led to an unplanned period of exposure for the Sussexes, creating a gap that has been filled by critics appearing on media outlets to condemn parts of the book's content.\n\n\"When you are doing a release like this, you want to make sure you are setting the terms,\" he says. \"When the book is leaked, all of a sudden the narrative escapes you.\"\n\nThe book has been written with prolific celebrity ghostwriter JR Moehringer\n\nSpare might have Harry's name on the cover, but it was written with JR Moehringer, a prolific ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs who made his name writing Andre Agassi's bombshell autobiography in 2009.\n\n\"The American publishers were very smart to get him in the room with Harry,\" says Mr Denny. \"I think if Harry had written the book himself, it would have been a bit blander. But I think this guy's pulled out and worked on these themes and made the book much more interesting.\"\n\nThe publication of Spare is part of a long-running effort by Harry to get his own narrative into the public domain. That started when he sat down, alongside wife Meghan, with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 for a tell-all interview.\n\nThe couple later signed a reported $100m (£83m) deal with Netflix for a string of programmes including their recent six-part docuseries, as well as a reported $25m (£21m) deal with Spotify for a podcast hosted by Meghan. Harry reportedly received a further $25m from Penguin for the rights to Spare.\n\nThe releases of all these products have been timed so they do not clash. The Spotify podcast ran from August to November, followed by the release of the Netflix series in December, now the publication of Spare in January.\n\n\"Had they dropped all of them at once, their market will have fragmented - some will have bought the book, some will have watched the series or listened to the podcast,\" says Mr Coram James. \"But it's not just about giving consideration to their various stakeholders and employers, it's also about, how do we keep ourselves at the top of the news cycle for as long as possible?\"\n\nMany bookshops are running promotions for the release of Spare\n\nSpare is currently number one on Amazon's pre-order chart, suggesting the publicity has been beneficial. \"It's great that people want people to buy a book early,\" says Mr Jones. \"January is a difficult time to sell books and this book is great for the industry.\"\n\nPrior to the publicity from the book's leak, Spare was at number four in Amazon's weekly non-fiction chart.\n\nAhead of Harry in Amazon's most sold list were Miriam Margolyes' autobiography and two cookery books, Pinch of Nom and Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book.\n\nUltimately, no matter how much interest there is in Harry, his toughest competition may come from a recipe for a 463-calorie Red Lentil Dal.", "JR Moehringer, the writer behind Prince Harry's new memoir\n\nHe was a winner of America's most prestigious journalism prize, and his life story was turned into a movie starring Ben Affleck.\n\nHe knows George Clooney, who reportedly introduced him to the subject of his latest work.\n\nYet JR Moehringer is not among the rich, royal and famous who make appearances in Spare, Prince Harry's memoir.\n\nInstead, Mr Moehringer helped him write it.\n\nIt is not his first foray into the world of celebrity memoirs - he ghostwrote Andre Agassi's Open, and collaborated with Nike co-founder Phil Knight for his autobiography, Shoe Dog.\n\nHis services - reported by Page Six in 2021 to have been $1m (£820,000) to ghostwrite Spare - come with white-glove, all-immersive service.\n\nWhen he worked with Mr Agassi on Open, Mr Moehringer moved to Las Vegas so the two could spend 250 hours together. To get inside Mr Agassi's psyche, he read the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, he told the New York Times.\n\n\"Freud was a big help,\" he recalled. \"Especially 'Civilization and Its Discontents' and the idea of a death instinct. One of the pillars of Andre's personality was his self-destructiveness, and I realised that I had been pushing away the idea that this could be an organic part of his nature.\"\n\nBut some of Mr Moehringer's insights into Mr Agassi and, now, the prince - both complicated men with vexed parental relationships - may have arisen from his own complicated relationship with his father.\n\nMr Moehringer's own 2005 autobiography on the subject, The Tender Bar, discussed his childhood in Long Island being raised by a single mother, and finding a father figure in his Uncle Charlie and a pack of barflies at the local watering hole.\n\nHis own father - a rock'n'roll DJ in the early days of FM radio - had abandoned the family.\n\n\"The radio provided this spotty access to him. So I was always trying to dial him in,\" he told NPR's Terry Gross. \"I didn't understand that he had a certain shift every day. So I'd sit out on the stoop. And I had this transistor radio. And I was turning the dial excruciatingly slowly, trying to find his voice.\"\n\nA 2021 film version of The Tender Bar produced by Mr Clooney cast Mr Affleck as the aforementioned Uncle Charlie.\n\nBefore turning to book forms, Mr Moehringer attended Yale, and then worked at the New York Times as a news assistant. That was followed by stints in Colorado and the Los Angeles Times, in 1994. In 2000, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his feature Crossing Over, about the tensions that arose when a ferry opened up in a small segregated community in Alabama.\n\nIn addition to the Tender Bar and his ghostwriting, he has also written a novel, Sutton, about bank robber Willie Sutton.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe best ghostwriters do not just write well, they are able to embody their subjects, without ever sounding like a stand-up doing an impression.\n\n\"He's the pinnacle,\" book agent Madeleine Morel told the Observer. \"I'm sure everybody aspires to be him. He's such a brilliant writer. It's very hard to ghostwrite a book and at some level never have it sound like it was written by somebody else.\"\n\nBut being among the creme de la creme of ghostwriters often means deliberately flying under the radar.\n\nAround the release of Mr Agassi's Open in 2009, he told the New York Times: \"The midwife doesn't go home with the baby.\"", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nBuffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been discharged from a Cincinnati hospital one week after suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game.\n\nHe will continue his recovery at a hospital in Buffalo, doctors said.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who had to be resuscitated on the pitch, was released from University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) on Monday.\n\n\"He is doing well and this is the beginning of the next stage of his recovery,\" said Dr William Knight.\n\nHamlin collapsed during a match at Cincinnati Bengals after making a tackle on wide receiver Tee Higgins, and received more than 30 minutes of medical attention on the field before being moved to an intensive care unit in the city.\n\nHe spent two days on a ventilator but doctors said he was up walking the unit by Friday.\n\nThe Bills player thanked the Cincinnati medical staff in a social media post on Monday after being flown from Ohio to Buffalo to continue his care at the city's General Hospital.\n\n\"Grateful for the awesome care I received at UCMC,\" Hamlin wrote on Twitter . \"Happy to be back in Buffalo. The docs and nurses at Buffalo General have already made me feel at home!\"\n\nThe American football community rallied in support of Hamlin, raising millions of dollars for charity in his name before making tributes at NFL matches when play resumed at the weekend.\n\nHe added on Twitter : \"Headed home to Buffalo today with a lot of love on my heart. Watching the world come together around me on Sunday was truly an amazing feeling. The same love you all have shown me is the same love that I plan to put back into the world n more. Bigger than football!\"\n\nThe most poignant show of support for Hamlin came in the Bills' return to action on Sunday, when they beat the New England Patriots at home to clinch second seed in the AFC for the play-offs.\n\n'It's up to Damar' - doctor on Hamlin's chances of NFL return\n\nDr Knight, who accompanied Hamlin from UCMC to the airport before his transfer to Buffalo, believes it is too early to say whether the Bills player could resurrect his NFL career.\n\n\"It's entirely too premature to discuss his football, we're focused on his day-to-day recovery,\" Dr Knight told reporters during a briefing.\n\n\"He still has a ways to go in terms of his recovery. We're thrilled where he is today. But in terms of any kind of conjecture about his future, that's still significantly into the future. It's going to be up to Damar.\"\n\nTimothy Pritts, a physician at UCMC, said they had not yet determined the cause of his cardiac arrest .\n\n\"We anticipate that he will undergo an ongoing series of tests and evaluations,\" he added, predicting a normal recovery time could range from \"weeks to months\".\n\n\"He appears to be neurologically completely intact and there's no reason to believe that he won't continue his path to recovery.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Bengals coach Zac Taylor described Hamlin's return to Buffalo as \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"I mean, just think about it - that was one week,\" he said. \"There's no one in this room that would have expected he'd be in Buffalo. This is certainly a miracle, there's no question.\"\n• None Get American Football alerts in the BBC Sport app", "Wales captain Gareth Bale has announced his retirement from football at the age of 33 after a glittering career.\n\nThe nation's most-capped male player and record men's goalscorer announced his decision on social media.\n\nBale, a five-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid, is arguably Wales' finest ever footballer.\n\n\"After careful and thoughtful consideration, I announce my immediate retirement from club and international football,\" Bale said.\n\n\"I feel incredibly fortunate to have realised my dream of playing the sport I love.\"\n\nCardiff-born Bale's club career took him from Southampton to Tottenham Hotspur and a world record transfer to Spanish giants Real before his move to Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC in June 2022.\n\nHe was his country's talisman as they reached the 2016 and 2020 European Championships before he led Wales at their first World Cup since 1958 at Qatar 2022, ending his international career with 41 goals in 111 appearances.\n\nBale was twice named footballer of the year while at Tottenham, in 2010-11 and 2012-13, and moved to Real for what was then a world-record fee of more than £80m in September 2013.\n\nDuring his time in the Spanish capital, Bale helped Real win three league titles and five Champions League titles - a number no other British player has matched - along with three Club World Cups, three Uefa Super Cups and a Spanish cup.\n\n\"It [football] has truly given me some of the best moments of my life,\" added Bale.\n\n\"The highest of highs over 17 seasons, that will be impossible to replicate, no matter what the next chapter has in store for me.\"\n\nFrom St Mary's to the Bernabeu\n\nBale had joined Tottenham in a deal worth a reported £10m in 2007 having played 45 times for Southampton, scoring five goals.\n\nHaving been used primarily as a left-back in his early career, he really began to thrive in a Spurs shirt when operating further forward, catching the eye especially with a scintillating hat-trick in the Champions League at the San Siro against European champions Inter Milan.\n\nBale's scintillating Spurs form secured the move to Real, where his spell was not always positive despite the fact he scored 104 goals in more than 250 appearances for the club, including two in a match-winning performances in the 2018 Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nThat was one of five European titles with Real, but injuries and inconsistent form leading to fewer first-team opportunities as his time in Spain went on.\n\nIn 2019, Bale looked on the verge of moving to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning but the proposed transfer broke down, with the forward saying at the time that Real had \"blocked\" the move.\n\nHis relationship with the Spanish giants was further impacted after he celebrated Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a Welsh flag emblazoned with the words 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order'.\n\nHe returned to Tottenham on loan in 2021-22 - and scored 17 goals to give him an overall Spurs record of 72 goals in 237 games at a club where he is still adored - before making just seven club appearances for Madrid in the following campaign, his last as a Real player.\n\nAfter his Real contract expired, Bale joined LAFC on a 12-month deal, though his spell in the US was blighted by fitness issues.\n\nBale managed 13 appearances - including only two starts - for LAFC, though he did help the club lift the MLS Cup for the first time in November by scoring a last-minute equaliser in extra time to set up a penalty shootout which his side won.\n\n\"To show my gratitude to all of those that have played their part along this journey feels like an impossibility,\" Bale said.\n\n\"I feel indebted to many people for helping to change my life and shape my career in a way I couldn't have ever dreamed of when I first started out at nine years old.\n\n\"To my previous clubs Southampton, Tottenham, Real Madrid and finally LAFC, all of my previous managers and coaches, backroom staff, team-mates, all the dedicated fans, my agents, my amazing friends and family, the impact you have had is immeasurable.\n\n\"My parents and my sister, without your dedication in the early days, without such a strong foundation, I wouldn't be writing this statement right now, so thank you for putting me on this path and for your unwavering support.\n\n\"My wife and my children, your love and support has carried me through. Right beside me for all the highs and lows keeping me grounded along the way, you inspire me to be better and to make you proud.\n\n\"So I move on with anticipation to the next stage of my life, a time of change in transition and opportunity for a new adventure.\"\n\nWhile he faced criticism at times from Real fans, Bale's contribution was never questioned by Welsh fans.\n\nWales went out of the recent World Cup at the group stage, with their loss to England proving to be the final appearance of Bale's career.\n\nIt was not a fitting end for a player who achieved extraordinary feats with his country.\n\nBale made his Southampton debut as a 16-year-old in April 2006, and his first senior cap followed a matter of weeks later.\n\nThat made Bale Wales' youngest international - although that record has since been broken.\n\nThat first appearance, in a friendly against Trinidad & Tobago in May 2006, marked the start of a Wales career in which Bale inspired his country to the best spell in their history.\n\nHaving ended a 58-year wait for a major tournament appearance by qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales produced a sensational run to the semi-finals, only losing to eventual winners Portugal.\n\nThey also made it to the knockout stages of the next European Championship before last summer's play-off final win over Ukraine saw Wales clinch their long-awaited return to the World Cup.\n\n\"My decision to retire from international football has been by far the hardest of my career,\" Bale said.\n\n\"How do I describe what being a part of this country and team means to me? How do I articulate the impact it has had on my life? How do I put into words the way I felt every single time I put on that Welsh shirt? My answer is that I couldn't possibly do any of those things justice simply with words.\n\n\"But I know that every person involved in Welsh football feels the magic and is impacted in such a powerful and unique way, so I know you feel what I feel without using any words at all.\n\n\"My journey on the international stage is one that has changed not only my life but who I am. The fortune of being Welsh and being selected to play for and captain Wales has given me something incomparable to anything else I've experienced.\n\n\"I'm honoured and humbled to have been able to play a part in the history of this incredible country, to have felt the support and passion of the Red Wall and together have been to unexpected and amazing places.\n\n\"I shared a dressing room with boys that became brothers and backroom staff that became family.\n\n\"I played for the most incredible managers and felt the undying support and love from the most dedicated fans in the world. Thank you to every one of you for being on this journey with me.\n\n\"So for now I am stepping back but not away from the team that lives in me and runs through my veins after all the dragon on my shirt is all I need.\"\n• None Some of the greatest and most inspiring stories in Welsh football\n• None The transformation of the Wales football team", "Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction on child abuse charges shocked the Catholic Church before being quashed, has died at 81.\n\nThe former Vatican treasurer is Australia's highest ranking Catholic cleric, and the most senior Church figure ever jailed for such offences.\n\nHe died of heart complications after hip surgery, Church officials say.\n\nCardinal Pell served as Archbishop of both Melbourne and Sydney before becoming one of the Pope's top aides.\n\nHe was summoned to Rome in 2014 to clean up the Vatican's finances, and was often described as the Church's third-ranked official.\n\nBut the cleric left his post in 2017, returning to Australia to face trial on child sex abuse charges.\n\nA jury in 2018 found he had abused two boys while Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s.\n\nCardinal Pell, who always maintained his innocence, spent 13 months in prison before the High Court of Australia quashed the verdict in 2020.\n\nHowever a civil lawsuit - launched by the father of a choirboy who prosecutors alleged Cardinal Pell abused - is still under way.\n\nMeanwhile a landmark inquiry found that he knew of child sexual abuse by priests in Australia as early as the 1970s but failed to take action.\n\nThe Child Abuse Royal Commission ran for several years, interviewing thousands of people, and its findings relating to Cardinal Pell were released after his acquittal. Cardinal Pell denied the allegation, insisting it was \"not supported by evidence\".\n\nArchbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli paid tribute to Cardinal Pell as \"a very significant and influential Church leader\" while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his death would be a \"shock to many\".\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott - a Catholic - praised the cleric as a \"saint for our times\" and \"an inspiration for the ages\", saying the charges he'd faced were \"a modern form of crucifixion\".\n\nBut Steve Dimopoulos - a government minister in Cardinal Pell's home state of Victoria - was among those who voiced mixed feelings.\n\n\"Today would be a very difficult day for the cardinal's family and loved ones, but also very difficult for survivors and victims of child sexual abuse and their families and my thoughts are with them,\" he said.\n\nThe cardinal was a polarising figure, both in Australia and abroad, something he himself conceded.\n\nHe rose to prominence in the Church as a strong supporter of traditional Catholic values, often taking conservative views and advocating for priestly celibacy.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2020, Cardinal Pell said there was \"no doubt\" that his \"direct\" style and traditional approach to issues such as abortion had driven parts of the public against him.\n\n\"The fact that I defend Christian teachings is irritating to a lot of people,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme.", "Ambulance staff will take part in their second day of strike action this winter, on Wednesday. Alongside paramedics, call-centre staff will walk out across England and Wales in the dispute over pay. These workers play a vital role, taking calls from the public and assigning ambulance crews.\n\nAn ambulance dispatcher at the North West Ambulance Service, who wishes to stay anonymous, has described working amid the extreme pressures of this winter.\n\n\"The job is crushingly depressing, stressful and embarrassing,\" the dispatcher says. \"I feel so destroyed. The feeling of saving lives has been taken over by how many can we not kill.\n\n\"I never thought I'd leave the NHS - but I'd take a job at Aldi. I'd take a job cleaning.\n\n\"The thought of going in and having to manage those calls just fills me with absolute dread. I have seen people leave the ambulance service - they have had enough. We are physically and mentally exhausted.\"\n\nMost frustrating, the dispatcher says, is the number of crews stuck outside hospital waiting to hand patients over to accident-and-emergency staff.\n\nIn the last week of 2022, more than 40% of crews in England had waits of more than 30 minutes - it should take 15.\n\n\"I know going in that I will have to dispatch ambulance crews to hospitals to take over from other ambulance crews who have been outside for 12 hours,\" the dispatcher says.\n\n\"It just means we don't have those crews available to respond to calls and it exacerbates our shortness of resources by 10-fold, 100-fold.\n\n\"So instead of going out on jobs, the first thing they do is go to the hospitals and free the ambulance staff up to go home. Those staff could have been there the whole shift virtually. This happens every shift at virtually every hospital.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\n\"If the crews are with patients in ambulances, then we send one crew to one ambulance to swap. Effectively, if there's seven ambulances outside, then seven new pairs of crews complete with ambulances are swapping over. They then send the 12-hour old crew back to base to go home.\n\n\"It is not how things should be - and because we have so many ambulances stuck at hospital, we are putting patients at risk.\"\n\nThe problems are due to a lack of beds, the dispatcher says.\n\n\"Social care is not in place,\" they say. \"I'll give you an example - a lady had a fall and was medically fit for discharge on 21 December but because her care package wasn't in place, she was advised that it was safer if she stayed in hospital.\n\n\"That's a bed taken up for the entirety of the Christmas and new-year period by someone who is well enough to leave hospital.\"\n\nThe dispatcher is particularly concerned about category-two calls, which include people who have had strokes and heart attacks. Meant to be reached in 18 minutes on average, they are taking nearly three times as long and in some cases, they say, hours.\n\n\"We are now telling them how long they have to wait, when there are long waits,\" the dispatcher says. \"We are asking them if there is anyone who can convey them to [hospital], because time is of the essence. Sometimes, they don't have that - and three hours later, they can be dead.\n\n\"In one case, there was a man who had chest pains who drove himself to hospital and had a cardiac arrest in the hospital car park and crashed his car.\n\n\"This is not the NHS I know and love and is why we have to take action.\"\n\nIn response, the North West Ambulance Service said the service was under \"extreme pressure\" and some patients were waiting longer \"than we would like\".\n\nBut it added: \"Our staff work hard every day to ensure everyone who needs an ambulance gets one - and we continue to perform better than other parts of the country.\"\n\nThe service said it was working with other parts of the NHS to tackle handover delays and recruiting call handlers and clinicians into the call centres, as well as front-line ambulance crews.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said extra money it was investing this winter, totalling £750m, would help speed up delayed discharges, which in turn would ease the handover problems being seen.\n\n\"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tireless to ensure people get the care they need,\" he added.\n\nDo you work for the ambulance service? Are you in favour or against strike action? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "Helen and Rachael Patching died while visiting the Brecon Beacons\n\nThe families of a couple who died at waterfalls in Brecon Beacons National Park have said their \"endless laughter will be forever remembered\".\n\nRachael and Helen Patching, aged 33 and 52, from Kent, were visiting Ystradfellte, Powys, while on holiday.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 11:45 GMT on 4 January after two people were seen in the water.\n\nThe body of a woman was found on 5 January and a second body was found in a river near Glynneath on Sunday.\n\nFire services, mountain rescue and national air support services were involved in the large four-day search.\n\nIn a joint statement, their families said they were \"devastated\".\n\n\"We are devastated to have suffered such an immeasurable loss following the news of Rachael and Helen's passing at just 33 and 52,\" they said.\n\n\"They were such a devoted, selfless, and loving couple having had an immensely positive impact on all those they met.\n\n\"Their love for animals and dedication to caring for them so lovingly over the years made them a truly admirable credit to themselves and society.\"\n\nHelen and Rachael were on holiday in Wales when they went missing\n\nThey went on to say their \"endless laughter will be forever remembered by all who had the honour to know them\", adding: \"There are no words that can express enough how highly they were both thought of by family members, friends, and colleagues.\"\n\nThey thanked the emergency services and other organisations that helped.\n\nCentral Beacons Mountain Rescue Team previously said high levels of very fast-flowing water in the river along with deteriorating weather conditions provided many challenges to both the search and the recovery.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBookshops in London opened at midnight to meet demand for Prince Harry's memoir after it officially went on sale.\n\nFans queuing to buy a hardback copy described wanting to hear the story \"from the horse's mouth\".\n\nIt follows the chaotic launch of Spare with multiple leaks and copies being made available in Spain last week.\n\nWaterstones says Prince Harry's book has been one of its \"biggest pre-order titles for a decade\".\n\nThe booksellers opened their flagship Piccadilly branch early on Tuesday in expectation of high customer demand, as the book was published around the world in 16 languages.\n\nBranches of WH Smith in locations including Euston, Victoria, Heathrow and Gatwick were among those to extend their hours for the release.\n\nThe memoir is already top of the best sellers in the UK for online retailer Amazon, after days of headline-grabbing revelations from leaks - ranging from how Prince Harry lost his virginity to claims that Prince Harry was attacked by his brother, Prince William.\n\nThe 410-page memoir, revealing the conflict and personal tensions inside royal palaces, shows Prince Harry's version of growing up and then falling out with the Royal Family.\n\nSo far Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have not responded.\n\nBut the claims in the book include that Prince Harry begged his father not re-marry, that he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan, that he took psychedelic drugs, partly in response to panic attacks, and that Meghan and Catherine had a difficult relationship.\n\nThe book paints a picture of the brothers, \"Harold\" and \"Willy\" being in conflict\n\nA major theme in the book is the sense of unresolved grief for the loss of his mother, Princess Diana, with Prince Harry saying he had a \"post-traumatic stress injury\".\n\nThe press are held responsible for pursuing Diana and Prince Harry said in one of several interviews promoting the book that it would be his \"life's work\" to change the media landscape.\n\nThere are also unexpected details such as Prince Harry and Prince William calling each other \"Harold\" and \"Willy\", that Harry used to get his clothes at discount outlet TK Maxx and watched a lot of Friends on television.\n\nPrince Harry recalls he first found out from the BBC website that the late Queen Elizabeth had died, rather than from his family.\n\nThere are references to King Charles' childhood teddy bear, which travelled \"everywhere\" with him.\n\nPrince Harry says that the battered and bedraggled teddy bear had been a response the horrendous bullying faced by his father at school and reflected the \"essential loneliness of his childhood\".\n\nMembers of the Royal Family have been omitted from the acknowledgements section of the book. Instead, the duke gives special thanks to friends in the UK \"who stuck by\" him \"amongst the fog\", adding: \"Next round's on me.\"\n\nHarry also says his therapist helped him \"unravel years of unresolved trauma\".\n\nThe revelations about tensions with the Royal Family, including Camilla, the Queen Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, have provoked much controversy.\n\nBut Prince Harry said the divide between him and his family \"couldn't [have been] greater before this book\" when asked if its publication would help with, or hinder, the chance of reconciliation.\n\n\"There are things that will still anger me, but I'm not angry any more, because I am exactly where I am supposed to be,\" he told Good Morning America.\n\nDespite the leaks, many queued late into the night to buy the memoir.\n\nProfessor Chris Imafidon, from Epping, was in line at Victoria Station and said he was \"extremely curious\" to hear why Harry had stepped back from royal life.\n\n\"I really want to know from the horse's mouth,\" he said.\n\nAlso in the queue was bartender Sasha Pursell, 27, who has moved to London from Melbourne, Australia.\n\n\"I'm just intrigued,\" she said. \"I've heard so much press about the book and it's also just a bit exciting - I've never been to a midnight release.\"\n\nAnd Sarah Nakana, 46, from south London, said she had already downloaded the audiobook because she wanted to try to \"get ahead of the British press and their narratives\".\n\nShe added she needed \"to cut the noise here, read it and be like, 'fine, I can move on now'\".\n\nReporters and photographers gathered round the first customers at WH Smith. Large retailers have already been selling the book at half price\n\nOpinion polling from YouGov, published on Monday, showed an initial dip in Prince Harry's popularity in the UK.\n\nThere were 64% of people who had a negative view of Prince Harry, compared with 26% who had a positive view of him, down from 33% in the autumn, and the lowest figure in more than a decade of this regular survey.\n\nFive years ago this tracking survey, based on a sample of about 1,700 adults, showed 80% had been positive about Harry.\n\nBut the latest figures for January 2023 showed more support among young people, aged 18-24, with numbers almost evenly split between those with positive and negative views of Prince Harry.", "Mr Yousaf confirms the £8m for 300 interim care home beds will come from the existing health and social care budget.\n\nHe tells MSPs all funds have been allocated for the current financial year.\n\n“Every penny is allocated, this is not additional finance coming from central finance,” the health secretary says. “So we would have to find that money from within the health and social care budget.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The jumbo, called Cosmic Girl, and its rocket left Newquay just after 22:00 GMT\n\nThe first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure.\n\nA jumbo jet operated by the American Virgin Orbit company carried a rocket out of Newquay, Cornwall, to release it high over the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nThe rocket ignited and appeared to be ascending correctly. But word then came from the company that the rocket had suffered an \"anomaly\".\n\nThe satellites it was carrying could not be released and were lost.\n\nThe mission had been billed as a major milestone for UK space, marking the birth of a home-grown launch industry. The ambition is to turn the country into a global player - from manufacturing satellites, to building rockets and creating new spaceports.\n\nDeputy CEO of the UK Space Agency, Ian Annett, said it showed \"how difficult\" getting into orbit actually was - but predicted further launches within the next 12 months.\n\n\"We get up, we go back, we try again, that's what defines us,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMatt Archer, the agency's launch programme director, said the issue occurred in the upper segment of the rocket.\n\n\"The second-stage engine had a technical anomaly and didn't reach the required orbit,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's now part of an investigation by Virgin Orbit and a number of government departments,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMr Archer could not confirm whether the rocket had fallen back to Earth but said that if it did, it would have come down over unpopulated areas.\n\nThe satellites were insured so their manufacturers and operators will be compensated.\n\nThe Virgin Orbit system is relatively new. It's only been in operation since 2020.\n\nIt suffered a failure on its maiden outing but this was followed up by four successful flights.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, said: \"We are mindful that we failed to provide our customers with the launch service they deserve. The first-time nature of this mission added layers of complexity that our team professionally managed through; however, in the end a technical failure appears to have prevented us from delivering the final orbit.\n\n\"We will work tirelessly to understand the nature of the failure, make corrective actions, and return to orbit as soon as we have completed a full investigation and mission assurance process.\"\n\nMelissa Thorpe: \"We put so much into this, everybody has, so it is absolutely gutting\"\n\nRockets have been sent to space from the UK before, but not to put satellites in orbit. Those earlier efforts were part of military exercises or for atmospheric research, and the vehicles involved came straight back down.\n\nInternationally renowned for making satellites of all sizes, the country's space industry has always had to send its products to foreign spaceports to get them into orbit.\n\nAdding a launch capability means the sector will in future be able to do everything from first design through to mission operations.\n\nMore than 2,000 spectators and VIPs had gathered at Cornwall Newquay Airport to watch the 747 leave. They drifted away as news filtered through that something had gone wrong.\n\nTickets for the launch event were snapped up. There was great enthusiasm from the crowd\n\nMonday night's failure is a blow to all those involved: Virgin Orbit, the satellite owners and Spaceport Cornwall which organised the flight.\n\n\"It's been really emotional,\" said Melissa Thorpe, who heads the spaceport.\n\n\"We put so much into this, everybody has, so it is absolutely gutting. But it's space and the cliché is it's hard. We know it's hard.\"\n\nShe added that the first part of the mission - the drop from the plane - had gone to plan and she was confident they would be able to embark on another mission in the \"near future\".\n\nMr Hart from Virgin Orbit went to commiserate with his team in Cornwall, accompanied by UK science minister George Freeman.\n\nIn a tweet, the minister made reference to the famous quote from 1960s US President John F Kennedy: \"We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.\"\n\nAircraft and shipping have been told to stay out of the launch zone\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Joe Biden has said he was surprised to learn in November that classified files had been found at his former private office.\n\n\"I don't know what's in the documents,\" he said, indicating his lawyers had advised him not to ask about the contents.\n\nThe papers, discovered at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, reportedly contain briefings on foreign countries.\n\nA Republican congressional committee says it will investigate.\n\nThe oversight panel \"is concerned that President Biden has compromised [intelligence] sources\", James Comer, its chairman, said.\n\nThe US justice department is also reviewing the matter.\n\nMr Comer, who represents a Kentucky district, has asked the White House to turn over its documents and communications related to the classified materials.\n\nIn its request, which is not a legal summons, it also wants a list of people who had access to the office space, by 24 January.\n\nIn Mexico City, where he was attending a summit, Mr Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he was \"co-operating fully with the review.\"\n\nThe documents relate to his time as vice-president, his lawyer has said, but their level of classification or why they were there is unclear.\n\nCiting a source familiar with the matter, CNN reports that the 10 classified files include US intelligence memos and briefing materials covering topics including Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom.\n\nThey were found at a private office he used from 2017 to 2020 as it was being cleared out by one of his lawyers, in a manila folder that was labelled \"personal\", according to CNN.\n\nThe office was at the Penn Biden Centre\n\nA source familiar with the matter has told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the batch did not contain nuclear secrets.\n\nThe documents were found on 2 November last year, days before the US midterm elections, in a locked closet\n\nOfficials are reportedly investigating whether there are additional classified files in other locations tied to Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, faces his own justice department probe for taking sensitive materials to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after his presidency.\n\nRepublicans, who recently took over the US House of Representatives and have pledged to investigate the Biden administration, have accused the president of hypocrisy.\n\nIn September, President Biden appeared on CBS and, when asked for his reaction to the documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, said it was \"totally irresponsible\".\n\nThere are, however, key differences between Mr Biden and Mr Trump's cases.\n\nMr Trump's inquiry deals with more than 300 documents with classified markings, including 18 marked top secret.\n\nFederal prosecutors allege that Mr Trump's legal team did not adequately co-operate with the National Archives to properly return the documents, prompting a historic FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate last August.\n\nThe White House said Mr Biden's lawyers alerted the National Archives as soon as they recovered the materials and the agency retrieved the materials the next morning.\n\nAccording to CBS News, the FBI is involved in the inquiry and US Attorney General Merrick Garland has been asked to review the papers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has been commenting on the matter on his social media site, Truth Social.\n\n\"Why didn't the 'Justice' Department announce the Highly Classified documents found in the Biden Office before the Election?\" he posted on Tuesday.\n\n\"A V.P. cannot Declassify documents,\" he said in another post, adding: \"A President, me, can Declassify.\"\n\nNeither the Penn Biden Center nor National Archives immediately commented.", "Just one week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, thousands of supporters of the previous incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the country's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.\n\nThe president said security forces in the capital, Brasília didn't do enough to stop them. We've looked into the key moments and how the police responded.\n\nSince the narrow election win in October by the left-wing president, better known as Lula, supporters of his right-wing rival had been setting up camps in front of military barracks in many cities around the country.\n\nHis most ardent supporters have been calling for the army to intervene and overturn the election result.\n\nThen over the weekend, thousands of people gathered outside the army barracks in Brasília, many of them brought in by bus.\n\nPresident Lula called on local security forces to remove these protesters, but police had opted to not use force.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, the protesters set off on a march towards the complex of government buildings. Video footage shows the march peacefully under way, with military police escorting them along the 7km (four mile) route.\n\nWe have asked the police authorities in Brasília whether the protesters had been granted official permission to march along this route ahead of time. We haven't yet received a response.\n\nThe protesters arrived at barriers blocking access to the complex of government buildings known as \"Praça dos Três Poderes\" (Three Powers Square).\n\nA video verified by the BBC shows only a single line of metal barriers across a road through a relatively open area.\n\nOne of the policemen can be seen pulling out what appears to be pepper spray or tear gas, aiming it at the protesters, who quickly force their way through.\n\nWe have asked the police why they hadn't organised stronger barriers and mobilised more officers to control the situation once the protesters approached the government square.\n\nOnce the barriers had been breached, crowds flooded onto ramps which led to the Congress building and the presidential palace.\n\nPolice have been criticised for being too hands-off with the protesters as they streamed in.\n\nTwo videos we've verified shows policemen taking pictures of the crowds as they walk up the ramps and into the Congress building.\n\nAnother video shows a policeman being pulled from his horse by protesters as they approach the Congress building and thrown to the ground.\n\nThe National Congress and the presidential palace were breached just before 15:00 local time.\n\nVideos show protesters using security barricades to smash through several large windows before entering, spreading throughout both buildings and onto the roof of Congress.\n\nThe BBC has also verified this video which shows police standing by as protesters walk up a staircase into the Congress building through the lower floor entrance.\n\nPolice holding riot shields are standing on the right of the stairs, but they aren't protecting the main entrance and appear to be guarding a side corridor instead.\n\nOne policeman waves the protesters through and gives them a thumbs up. As the crowd move forward into the building, some of them applaud the security personnel.\n\nFrom the police uniforms seen in the video it looks like they are part of the Policia Legislativa, the Federal police group that works inside Congress.\n\nShortly afterwards, a group also smashed windows of the Supreme Court and entered the building.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nImages show that once inside the buildings, protesters destroyed furniture, equipment and works of art.\n\nSocial media posts from the afternoon of 8 January clearly show scores of protestors both outside in the plaza and milling around inside buildings, in some cases with no police or security forces visible.\n\nVideos circulating online showed protesters trashing offices, smashing windows and doors, flipping furniture, and tossing computers and printers to the ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe governor of Brasília, Ibaneis Rocha, eventually requested support from the national government - although it's not clear when exactly this was made.\n\nPresident Lula announced soon afterwards that he had authorised national forces to intervene in Brasília.\n\nEven with the involvement of additional forces, it took many more hours to bring the situation under control. The Supreme Court was the first to be cleared. Then, as more forces arrived, other buildings were also gradually emptied.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland's hospitals are \"almost completely full\", with bed occupancy exceeding 95% last week, the first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said services were facing \"truly unprecedented\" pressures.\n\nDemand for hospital beds had been driven up by \"extraordinary\" levels of winter flu, rising rates of Covid infections and cases of Strep A.\n\nMs Sturgeon said more work needed to be done to prevent unnecessary hospital attendances and to speed up discharges.\n\nStaffing of the NHS 24 helpline is to be increased, while health boards will be backed in maximising capacity by opening GP practices on Saturdays.\n\nIn a special briefing at the Scottish government's St Andrew's House headquarters, Ms Sturgeon said this was \"almost certainly the most difficult winter ever for the NHS\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had dealt a \"significant shock to the system\" and that this, coupled with \"extraordinary levels of other illnesses\", was creating unprecedented pressure.\n\nMore than 400 people with Covid-19 were admitted to hospital last week, on top of more than 1,000 patients with winter flu for the second week running.\n\nLater, the first minister told BBC Scotland that she would not use private healthcare if she was waiting in pain for an operation on the NHS.\n\nIn the briefing, Ms Sturgeon said there had been more than 100,000 calls to NHS 24 over the holiday period, the highest number in more than a decade.\n\nMeanwhile the ambulance services responded to more than 16,000 emergency incidents in the past week, up 11% on the average for the previous four weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday last week, hospital bed occupancy exceeded 95% - compared to 87% in the same week in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said hospitals were currently \"almost completely full\" and that more needed to be done to reduce \"unnecessary attendances\".\n\nThis will include an expansion of the NHS 24 helpline, with an acceleration of work on a new app and self-help guides.\n\nMs Sturgeon said services were also working on \"other options for patients who do not need to be at accident and emergency\".\n\nThe first minister added that more was being done to speed up the discharge of patients from hospital, with 1,700 people currently estimated to be stuck in hospitals.\n\nExtra funds are being given to health and social care partnerships to book extra care home beds, with the goal of freeing up capacity on wards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory health spokesman Sandesh Gulhane says Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has lost the trust of the NHS and must go\n\nHealth boards will also be given fresh guidance on the \"escalation contingencies\" they can take to protect \"critical and life-saving care\".\n\nOpposition parties at Holyrood have called for the Scottish government to take responsibility for the difficulties facing services.\n\nBoth the Conservatives and Labour have demanded the resignation of Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, with the Tories saying he had \"lost the confidence of NHS staff\".\n\nLabour's Jackie Baillie said Ms Sturgeon \"needs to sack Humza Yousaf and appoint someone who is up to the job\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon insisted that the health secretary was \"doing a very good job in very difficult circumstances\".\n\nMr Yousaf said he was \"working relentlessly, leaving no stone unturned to make sure I am providing as much support as I possibly can to the health service\".\n\nThe first minister also said that \"in a relative sense, NHS Scotland is dealing with some of these pressures in a better way than we would see elsewhere and some of the statistics bear that out\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon didn't come along today with a big new year announcement about NHS reforms or funding.\n\nAs with many of the pandemic-era briefings delivered from the same stage, this was more about being seen to be leading from the front on an issue of significant national concern.\n\nWe all learned during the Covid-19 years how important communication and messaging can be during a public health crisis.\n\nIt was in that spirit that the first minister wanted to acknowledge the pressures facing the health services, and provide some updates on what is being done about them.\n\nAnd she wanted to send a message to the public about \"unnecessary attendances at hospitals\" - something which is also the subject of a new series of TV ads fronted by another familiar pandemic-era face, Prof Jason Leitch.\n\nThe questions posed at the Q&A today will be a taster of what will follow at Holyrood tomorrow, with Humza Yousaf due to give a statement to MSPs.\n\nWith the NHS having such a prized position at the heart of public life, there is intense focus on what politicians in Edinburgh and London are doing to make sure it is prioritised and protected through these tough times.", "The Gourock site is one of two distribution centres operated in Scotland by Amazon\n\nAmazon has confirmed plans to close its distribution centre in Gourock, putting about 300 jobs at risk.\n\nThe online retail giant has launched a consultation with staff, but has yet to provide details of when the base will close.\n\nThe Inverclyde site is one of three fulfilment centres earmarked for closure in the UK.\n\nIt is understood that all workers at the sites will be offered roles at other Amazon locations.\n\nThe move comes a few days after Amazon announced plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs globally from its consumer retail business and human resources division, although it is understood the Gourock closure is separate from those plans.\n\nAn Amazon spokeswoman said: \"We're always evaluating our network to make sure it fits our business needs and to improve the experience for our employees and customers.\n\n\"As part of that effort, we may close older sites, enhance existing facilities, or open new sites, and we've launched a consultation on the proposed closure of three fulfilment centres in 2023.\n\n\"All employees affected by site closure consultations will be offered the opportunity to transfer to other facilities, and we remain committed to our customers, employees, and communities across the UK.\"\n\nThe company added that it also planned to open two new fulfilment centres in England, creating 2,500 new jobs over the next three years.\n\nBusiness minister Ivan McKee told the Scottish Parliament he would be meeting representatives of Amazon on Wednesday to \"further discuss and understand the decision\".\n\nHe said the firm's Gourock site has received a total of £2.137m in financial support from the Scottish government, with the last payment made in 2011.\n\nInverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan said he was seeking urgent talks with Amazon over its plans to close the Gourock warehouse.\n\nThe SNP MP tweeted: \"It goes without saying that in the midst of a cost of living crisis this will come as a hammer blow to the staff and their families.\n\n\"Amazon has said it will try to redeploy workers but has so far given me no hard commitments.\"\n\nScottish Conservative MSP for West Scotland Jamie Greene said the potential closure would come as a huge blow to the workforce.\n\nHe added: \"I have requested an urgent meeting with Amazon to see what can be done to either prevent closure or offer full support to the workforce.\"\n\nHe added: \"This community has been battling depopulation and economic decline for many years and this represents a worrying setback.\"\n\nThe Scottish government described the news as \"very disappointing\".\n\nA spokeswoman said Scottish Enterprise was \"in active discussion with the company to better understand the issues\", adding that the government would \"do everything in its power\" to help those affected.\n\nAmazon's only other Scottish fulfilment centre is based in Dunfermline.\n\nIts operations in Scotland include a development centre in Edinburgh, as well as delivery stations in Motherwell, Baillieston, Dundee, Bathgate and Portlethen, and an Amazon Fresh distribution site in Glasgow.\n\nAmazon is a work in progress, having displaced huge areas of conventional retail and with seemingly boundless ambition to keep growing, from groceries to television, film-making, cloud computing and beyond.\n\nNot all its gambles pay off. For instance, taking over a posh Whole Foods supermarket in Giffnock, to the south of Glasgow, was a stretch for its supply lines.\n\nWhen it moved into its Gourock \"fulfilment centre\" in 2004, it was the second such warehouse in the UK, after Milton Keynes. Back then, it had six in the US and one each in the UK, France, Germany and Japan. Turnover outside North America was less than $700m a year (£568m at today's rates).\n\nIts reach was on a more modest scale, growing out of books, CDs and DVDs, and 20 years ago, it was expanding into electronics and toys.\n\nBy 2021, it had revenue of $1.29bn (£1.06bn) a day, or $480bn (£395bn). That growth has been built with a fierce discipline on efficiency and use of data, aiming to have the fastest distribution networks, and now it is increasingly automating its warehouse operations.\n\nIn 2023, it makes less logistical sense to be located at the end of the road through Greenock and along the Inverclyde seafront, requiring delivery trucks to trundle some distance off the motorway network and away from the main population centres.\n\nWhile the other two British fulfilment centres being closed will no longer fulfil customers or local jobs, they are near other Amazon centres and numerous other English warehousing operations.\n\nFor the workforce in Inverclyde, it will be more difficult to transition into similar work - the nearest Amazon centre is near Dunfermline in Fife.\n\nIt may not feel like much consolation as Gourock closes, but turnover of staff at Amazon is particularly high. The labour market is tight and favours those searching for jobs. And although it has travelled a hard road since the decline of shipbuilding, Inverclyde has learned to adapt to economic and technological change.", "Andrew Bagshaw, pictured left, and Christopher Parry have been reported as missing in Ukraine\n\nTwo British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said.\n\nAndrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were doing voluntary work, police said, and were last seen on Friday heading to the town of Soledar - where fighting has been intense.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"supporting the families\".\n\nMr Bagshaw's parents said they \"love him dearly\" and were \"immensely proud of all the work he has been doing\".\n\nThere has been no contact with the two men since Friday.\n\nMr Parry, from Truro in Cornwall, travelled to Ukraine to do humanitarian work and had most recently been helping people evacuate Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Cornwall from Ukraine over Christmas last year, he described having a \"drive to help, as the people here are so lovely\".\n\nHe spoke about the \"continuous\" bombardment as he spent time near the front line, as well as encountering a drone \"within about 10 metres of my face\".\n\nMr Parry, who lives in Cheltenham, has written in his online crowdfunding page about raising money for vehicle repairs, fuel and equipment to help evacuate civilians, and gave examples of helping children and families to flee the front line.\n\nIn a statement issued to the media in New Zealand - where Mr Bagshaw lives - his parents described the work he has been doing \"delivering food and medicines and assisting elderly people move from near the battlefront of the war\".\n\nThe police department in the city of Bakhmut said they received a missing person's report at 17:15 local time on Saturday, and appealed for any information that could help locate the two men.\n\nThe men had been in Kramatorsk, where there have been reports of strikes in recent days.\n\nThey were last seen heading to the small, eastern town of Soledar. The UK's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that Russia was \"likely\" in control of most of Soledar after a months-long battle with Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe British Foreign Office is warning against all travel to Ukraine due to attacks on a number of different cities currently taking place, as the war continues into its 11th month.\n\nIt says there is a \"real risk to life\", adding British nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately.\n\nThere have been several cases of Britons going missing or being captured in Ukraine over the last year.\n\nLast September, five British nationals who were being held by Russian-backed forces were released after Saudi Arabia said it had brokered an exchange between Russia and Ukraine of 10 detainees.\n\nThis meant Aiden Aslin, John Harding, Dylan Healy, Andrew Hill and Shaun Pinner were all allowed to return home following months of capture.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTens of thousands of people in Brazil have held pro-democracy rallies, in an angry response to the storming of Congress by ex-President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters.\n\nIn the country's largest city of São Paulo, crowds chanted that Mr Bolsonaro must go to prison.\n\nAbout 1,500 people have been held over Sunday's riots in the capital Brasília.\n\nThey came a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in after October's election that divided Brazil.\n\nOn Monday evening, the 77-year-old new leader - widely known as Lula - visited the damaged buildings of Congress, the presidential palace and Supreme Court together with the country's governors, condemning the \"terrorist acts\" and vowing to punish the perpetrators.\n\nMr Bolsonaro, 67, has not admitted defeat in the tightly-fought election, and flew to the US before the handover on 1 January. On Monday, he was admitted to hospital in Florida with abdominal pain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: No amnesty! - On the streets with protesters calling for justice over Sunday's riots\n\nOn Monday, street rallies were held in a number of cities and towns.\n\nThe turnout at São Paulo's demonstration was impressive, the BBC's Katy Watson reports from the city. A part of Paulista Avenue, Brazil's most famous street, was blocked off as crowds filled the area, singing, dancing and chanting for justice.\n\nMany came dressed in red, the colours of Lula's Workers' Party; others waved placards saying \"No amnesty for the coup mongers\" and called for those responsible to be punished. There were also chants of \"Prison for Bolsonaro\".\n\n\"I don't agree with what happened in Brasília - it was a nightmare. I don't agree with those who believe that with democracy you can use your power to destroy democracy,\" Gabriel, who only gave his first name, told the BBC.\n\n\"I want to show to the world and our country that even though there are thousands of people who believe the elections weren't valid, here in Brazil, we have a gigantic number of people who believe we can trust our government, we can trust in our democracy,\" he said.\n\nA pro-democracy march in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, around 1,200 miles (1931km) from the capital Brasilia, where the riots happened\n\nMarina Rodrigues Carmona, another demonstrator, told the BBC: \"Polarisation is a big problem - everyone has their own ideas, and I don't think there's much dialogue between the two sides.\"\n\nThere was, however, a huge police presence. At times, the atmosphere has felt tense. People are still processing what happened in Brasilia and nerves haven't yet calmed for many, our correspondent says.\n\nSunday's dramatic scenes in Brasília saw thousands of protesters clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and flags overrun police and ransack the heart of the Brazilian state.\n\nOn Monday morning, heavily armed officers started dismantling a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasília - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since the tightly-fought presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Why the Brazil riots happened\n\nAuthorities arrested 1,200 people on Monday - in addition to 300 detained a day earlier.\n\nMr Bolsonaro condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nMeanwhile, Brasília Governor Ibaneis Rocha has been removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nJustice Minister Alexandre de Moraes accused him of failing to prevent the riot and of being \"painfully silent\" in the face of the attack.\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nBolsonaro supporters created camps in cities across Brazil, some of them outside the military barracks. That is because his most ardent supporters want the military to intervene and make good elections that they say were stolen.\n\nSome protesters are not just angry that Mr Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nLula spent 18 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption in 2017. His convictions were later annulled, after initially being sentenced to more than nine years.\n\nHeads of state around the world have also denounced the violence.\n\nLate on Monday, President Joe Biden \"conveyed the unwavering support of the United States for Brazil's democracy\" during a phone call with Lula, the White House said in a statement.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Bolsonaro.", "Online retail giant Amazon has said it plans to shut three warehouses in the UK, putting 1,200 jobs at risk.\n\nHowever, the company also said it planned to open two new centres creating 2,500 jobs over the next three years.\n\nThe three warehouses being closed are in Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster and Gourock, in the west of Scotland.\n\nThe firm said staff at the sites being closed would be offered the chance to move to other Amazon locations.\n\nLast week, Amazon said it planned to cut more than 18,000 jobs globally, the largest number in the firm's history, in an attempt to reduce costs.\n\nAn Amazon spokesperson told the BBC that the decision to close the UK warehouses was made after a review of operations in the country and was \"completely unrelated\" to the wider cuts, which primarily affect office staff.\n\nThe firm said the new warehouses would be \"state of the art\" robotic facilities located in Peddimore, West Midlands, and Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham.\n\n\"We're always evaluating our network to make sure it fits our business needs and to improve the experience for our employees and customers,\" the company said.\n\nAmazon also plans to close seven delivery stations in England, which employ dozens of workers, and open two new ones in Havant and Aylesford.\n\nThese will replace existing stations in Portsmouth and Aylesford.\n\nStations, which prepare orders for delivery, will also close in Birmingham, Hemel Hempstead, Huntingdon, Horley, and Newcastle.\n\nThe online giant, which launched in the UK in 1998, expanded rapidly during the pandemic.\n\nIt currently employs about 70,000 people in the UK, including 400 workers at the Doncaster centre, 500 at Hemel Hempstead and 300 at Gourock.\n\nThe firm operates two other warehouses in Doncaster as well as one in Dunstable, about 20 minutes drive from Hemel Hempstead, which Amazon said may be able to absorb staff affected by the closures.\n\nBut Steve Garelick, GMB union officer for Hemel Hempstead, called the moves a \"real kick in the teeth for Amazon staff who worked themselves into the ground during the festive rush\".\n\nIt may be difficult for workers to take roles further away from their homes, he added.\n\n\"Hard-up Amazon workers can't suddenly be expected to up sticks and move to a different fulfilment centre which may be many miles away,\" he said.\n\nKaty Clark, Labour MSP for West of Scotland, called the decision to shut the Gourock warehouse after 19 years in the area \"appalling\".\n\nShe added: \"This is devastating for the local community and the 300 workers who may find themselves out of a job.\n\n\"These workers have been heroic supporting households and providing vital supplies throughout the pandemic and holiday periods.\n\n\"The Scottish Government needs to intervene as a matter of urgency to support these workers back into employment.\"\n\nAmazon has faced growing pressure over workers' rights since the pandemic.\n\nHundreds of workers at a warehouse in Coventry voted last month to stage what is believed to be the first strike action at the company in the UK. The walkout, part of a row over pay, is set to happen on 25 January.", "The impact of Wednesday's ambulance strike in England and Wales is likely to be worse than that of the one before Christmas, NHS managers are warning.\n\nThousands of paramedics and support staff will walk out for the second time this winter, in the dispute over pay.\n\nNHS Providers said this strike would be harder to cope with, as the government raised fears over the lack of a national deal on emergency cover.\n\nBut union leaders said life-and-limb cover would be provided.\n\nBut there is no formal agreement of what that involves and so it has been left to local services to agree their own arrangements with the unions involved, the GMB and Unison.\n\nHow are you affected by the strike?\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe highest-category calls, for immediately life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrests, will be covered - but not every emergency in the next category down, which includes heart attacks and strokes, will be provided for.\n\nGovernment sources involved in contingency planning said the lack of agreement over emergency calls was a concern.\n\nThey said this could be covered by the minimum-service legislation ministers are considering introducing.\n\nBut union leaders said detailed plans were in place to ensure lives were not put at risk, including exemptions for some union members expected to work during the walkout.\n\nServices will also bring in other NHS staff, alongside the military, to provide support. London Ambulance Service has confirmed it aims to get to all heart attacks and strokes.\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"Last time, staff didn't hesitate to leave picket lines when someone's life was in danger.\n\n\"After a decade of refusing to bring in minimum staffing levels, it's ironic that the government is only prepared to do so during a strike.\n\n\"Every other day of the year, ambulance crews are stuck queuing for hours outside A&E departments and hospital staff are rushed off their feet. But the government isn't interested in minimum staffing levels then.\"\n\nMiriam Deakin, of NHS Providers, said her members were worried because Unison was telling call handlers and ambulance dispatchers, who remained in work during the previous strike, to walk out also.\n\n\"With more staff expected to strike this time, the NHS is in an even more precarious position,\" she said.\n\n\"Since the last strikes, delays transferring patients from ambulances to hospitals have got worse, as pressure across the whole of the NHS increases.\n\n\"Trust leaders are working hard to minimise the impact on patients and to support staff during the industrial action - but they are braced for another day of significant disruption and knock-on effects.\"\n\nAlongside paramedics, 999 call centre workers will also going on strike. One ambulance dispatcher, who wishes to remain anonymous, says for them there is no other option.\n\n\"The job is crushingly depressing, stressful and embarrassing,\" the dispatcher says. \"I feel so destroyed. The feeling of saving lives has been taken over by how many can we not kill.\"\n\nThey say the most frustrating issue is the number of crews stuck outside hospital waiting to hand patients over to accident-and-emergency staff.\n\n\"I know going in that I will have to dispatch ambulance crews to hospitals to take over from other ambulance crews who have been outside for 12 hours,\" the dispatcher says.\n\n\"It just means we don't have those crews available to respond to calls and it exacerbates our shortness of resources by 10-fold, 100-fold.\n\n\"I never thought I'd leave the NHS - but I'd take a job at Aldi. I'd take a job cleaning. The thought of going in and having to manage those calls just fills me with absolute dread.\"\n\nSome of the walkouts will start from 00:01 but the duration and scale of the disruption will vary across different parts of England and Wales.\n\nOnly the East of England Ambulance Service will remain unaffected, as neither union obtained a strike mandate in the ballot there.\n\nBut Unison, the biggest union in the ambulance service, has a mandate for walkouts in only half of the 10 regional services in England.\n\nBetween them, the two unions represent about two-thirds of ambulance staff.\n\nDuring the last walkout, on 21 December, the service saw a lower number of calls than normal.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"The message from the NHS to patients is clear - if you need emergency care, please come forward.\n\n\"This means continuing to call 999 for life-threatening emergencies as well as using 111 online for other health needs, where you will receive clinical advice on the best next steps to take.\"\n\nThe walkout comes after ambulance staff along with other NHS workers were offered a pay rise averaging 4.75%. All were guaranteed an increase of at least £1,400 a year - more than 7% for the lowest paid.\n\nUnions wanted an above-inflation pay rise, saying low pay was contributing to high vacancy rates and the problems the ambulance service was facing responding to emergency calls.\n\nIt is taking two to three times longer than it should to answer emergency calls such as for heart attacks and strokes.\n\nNHS unions met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Monday - but no agreement on pay was reached.\n\nAmbulance staff in Northern Ireland have also been on strike, while in Scotland the unions have a mandate for action but no dates have been set.\n\nOther NHS unions have also started striking or are planning to. Royal College of Nursing members will walk out on Wednesday and Thursday next week.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,500 people have been held in Brazil after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in the capital Brasília.\n\nThe rioting came a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in.\n\nHe condemned the \"terrorist acts\" and vowed to punish the perpetrators.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has not admitted defeat in October's tight election that divided the nation, and flew to the US before the handover on 1 January.\n\nOn Monday, he was admitted to hospital in Florida with abdominal pain.\n\nDemonstrators in São Paulo marched with a big banner with the words \"We are democracy\" in Portuguese\n\nTens of thousands of people are now demonstrating in Brazil's largest city São Paulo in support of democratic values.\n\nThe turnout is impressive - a part of Paulista Avenue, Brazil's most famous street, is blocked off - as crowds have filled the area, singing, dancing and chanting for justice, reports the BBC's Katy Watson in São Paulo.\n\nThere was however a huge police presence in case of any trouble. At times, the atmosphere has felt tense, our correspondent adds.\n\nThe new president - widely known as Lula - and the heads of Congress and the Supreme Court said they \"reject the terrorist acts and criminal, coup-mongering vandalism that occurred\" during Sunday's riots.\n\nThe dramatic scenes saw thousands of protesters clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and flags overrun police and ransack the heart of the Brazilian state.\n\nOn Monday morning, heavily armed officers started dismantling a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasília - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since the presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Why the Brazil riots happened\n\nAuthorities arrested 1,200 people on Monday - in addition to 300 detained a day earlier.\n\nJustice Minister Flavio Dino said some 40 buses which had been used to transport protesters to the capital had been seized.\n\nThe scale of the damage was still starkly evident on Monday afternoon, even as officials lauded the progress of the clean-up at the presidential palace, reports the BBC's Bernd Debusmann in Brasília.\n\nHe says workers were cleaning up broken glass around the building's exterior. Almost every window on the building's ground floor had been damaged, forcing crews to painstakingly remove each pane of glass and replace it with a new one.\n\nThe cobblestone pavement outside the palace also showed signs of damage, with large patches torn out by rioters on Sunday.\n\n\"They were using the rocks as missiles,\" one official said. \"To break the glass.\"\n\nIn the nearby Congress building, the damage included valuable works of art, including several high-profile pieces that were reportedly damaged by water or defaced during the riot.\n\nThe streets, however, were largely calm and devoid of noticeable military or police presence, our correspondent adds.\n\nMr Bolsonaro condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nMeanwhile, Brasília Governor Ibaneis Rocha has been removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nJustice Minister Alexandre de Moraes accused him of failing to prevent the riot and of being \"painfully silent\" in the face of the attack. Mr Rocha has apologised for Sunday's events.\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nDemonstrators were quick to defend their actions when approached by reporters.\n\nLima, a 27-year-old production engineer, said: \"We need to re-establish order after this fraudulent election.\"\n\n\"I'm here for history, for my daughters,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nOthers in the capital expressed outrage at the violence and said the attack marked a sad day for the country.\n\n\"I voted for Bolsonaro but I don't agree with what they're doing,\" Daniel Lacerda, 21, told the BBC. \"If you don't agree with the president you should just say it and move on, you shouldn't go hold protests and commit all the violence like they're doing.\"\n\nBolsonaro supporters created camps in cities across Brazil, some of them outside the military barracks. That is because his most ardent supporters want the military to intervene and make good elections that they say were stolen.\n\nIt looked like their movement had been curbed by Lula's inauguration - the camps in Brasília had been dismantled and there was no disruption on the day he was sworn in.\n\nBut Sunday's scenes show that those predictions were premature.\n\nSome protesters are not just angry that Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nHe spent 18 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption in 2017. His convictions were later annulled, after initially being sentenced to more than nine years.\n\nHeads of state around the world have also denounced the violence, with the leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico issuing a joint statement on Monday condemning \"attacks on Brazil's democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power\".\n\nLate on Monday, President Joe Biden \"conveyed the unwavering support of the United States for Brazil's democracy\" during a phone call with Lula, the White House said in a statement. It added that the Brazilian leader had accepted Mr Biden's invitation to visit Washington in early February.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Bolsonaro. Mr Biden was sworn in that day after defeating Mr Trump in presidential elections the previous November.", "Sarah Mardini is one of the 24 on trial and rescued people on board the boat she came to Greece on\n\nA group of 24 volunteers have gone on trial on the Greek island of Lesbos more than four years after they were arrested for carrying out migrant rescue missions off Greece.\n\nTheir case was denounced in a European Parliament report as Europe's \"largest case of criminalisation of solidarity\".\n\nAmong the defendants accused of a string of misdemeanours is refugee and swimmer Sarah Mardini.\n\nA movie recently told the story of how she escaped with her sister from Syria.\n\nThe volunteers were initially detained in 2018 for several months on suspicion of human trafficking, but the charges facing the group in Mytilini on Tuesday involved espionage, illegal access to state communications, money laundering and assisting criminal activity.\n\nPolice said in 2018 that the volunteers had collected information about refugee flows from the Turkish coast to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos, and provided direct assistance to organised trafficking groups.\n\nMs Mardini was not in court for the hearing as she is barred from returning to Greece, but fellow defendant and experienced diver Seán Binder told reporters that the important thing was to ensure that the rule of law would be observed: \"We need to ensure that search and rescue is permitted, we need to ensure that people have the right to seek asylum.\"\n\nThe two volunteers had joined a group called Emergency Response Centre International, which has since been disbanded. The 2021 European Parliament report pointed out that Sarah Mardini's first rescue had taken place in 2015 when she and her sister Yusra helped save others on board the boat they were travelling on.\n\nYusra Mardini went on to take part in the Rio Olympics as part of a refugee team and their story featured in the 2022 Netflix drama The Swimmers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheir escape came at the height of the influx of migrants and refugees into Greece which prompted an EU deal with Turkey to close off the sea crossing. Greece has also denied allegations in recent years that it has forcibly sent dinghies back to Turkey in so-called pushbacks.\n\nSarah Mardini told the BBC after her release in 2018 that her arrest had come as a shock as her group had wanted to help refugees with medical assistance, water and a blanket when they arrived in Greece.\n\nSeán Binder said the accusations of espionage and using encrypted communications involved nothing more than messaging via WhatsApp and listening to maritime radio.\n\nOther members of the group include volunteer lifeguard Nasos Karakitsos and retired Dutch national Pieter Wittenberg, who told Amnesty International that he faced 20-25 years in jail if convicted for standing on the beach as onlookers.\n\nTheir trial comes hard on the heels of the case of a Somali migrant called Mohamed Abdi jailed for 142 years for people-smuggling after saving more than 30 lives. Abdi said he had guided the migrant dinghy to shore after it was abandoned by a Turkish trafficker in 2020.\n\nThe court in Mytilini ruled on Monday that his sentence should be commuted and ordered his release for time served in jail.\n\nDozens of NGOs have criticised the Lesbos trial, and a group of European Parliament members have signed a letter calling on the government in Athens to drop the case.\n\nThe trial opened on Tuesday and was adjourned until Friday.", "People arriving from China in London on Wednesday. England - outside the EU - is asking for pre-departure tests for Chinese arrivals from Thursday\n\nEuropean Union officials are \"strongly\" recommending that all member states insist on negative Covid tests from Chinese arrivals before they travel.\n\nTravel in and out of China gets easier from Sunday, as part of the scrapping of the \"zero-Covid\" policy.\n\nChina is currently seeing a surge in Covid cases, with reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed.\n\nSome EU countries have already introduced testing - despite earlier advice that it was \"unjustified\".\n\nWednesday's recommendation on negative tests came from the EU's Integrated Political Crisis Response group (IPCR), a body made up of officials from the EU's 27 governments.\n\nThe recommendation comes a day after the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, said an \"overwhelming\" number of member states favoured restrictions on Chinese arrivals.\n\nFrance, Spain and Italy have already introduced testing - but others, such as Germany, had been monitoring the situation. England, outside the EU, requires pre-flight testing on China arrivals from Thursday.\n\nDespite the recommendation, it's not known if an EU-wide policy will be introduced - but individual states can set their own policy.\n\nThe advice from the IPCR is a change in tack from the body's disease prevention agency, which last week advised against the introduction of mandatory Covid tests.\n\nThe ECDC said testing was \"unjustified\", given the high rates of vaccination in Europe, and that variants circulating in China were already in the European Union.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said there was no evidence of new variants in China, despite the surge in cases. However, experts warned this could be due to a lack of testing and data.\n\nThe WHO has also said that China was under-representing the true impact of Covid in the country - in part due to what they said was a \"too narrow\" definition of a Covid death.\n\nBeijing has confirmed only 22 deaths since December, which is at odds with data from analysts.\n\nThe UK science data company Airfinity estimates there are more than two million Covid cases a day in China, and 14,700 deaths.\n\nThe Chinese government suggested earlier this week that travel restrictions on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.", "2022 was tough and the UK's problems will not go away in 2023, Rishi Sunak has warned in his New Year's message.\n\nThe prime minister said the government was taking \"difficult but fair\" decisions to \"get borrowing and debt under control\".\n\nHe promised that his government would put \"people's priorities first\".\n\nHe also said the coronation of King Charles III would give the country the chance to \"come together with pride\".\n\nMr Sunak became prime minister towards the end of a turbulent political year which saw his two predecessors - Boris Johnson and Liz Truss - brought down by Conservative backbenchers.\n\nIn the coming year, the new prime minister faces the challenge of keeping his own MPs happy, while dealing with the rising cost of living and strikes in several sectors, including nursing and the rail industry.\n\nMr Sunak acknowledged the past year had not been easy: \"Just as we recovered from an unprecedented global pandemic, Russia launched a barbaric and illegal invasion across Ukraine.\"\n\nHe said the war had created a \"profound economic impact\" which had affected people in the UK, and he promised to help the \"most vulnerable\" with their energy costs.\n\nHe also said he had taken decisive action to reduce the backlog in the NHS, and was tackling illegal migration.\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend that all our problems will go away in the new year,\" said Mr Sunak, but added that \"the very best of Britain\" would be on display as it continues to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer used his New Year's message to promise that his party would set out the \"case for change\" in 2023.\n\nOver the past year, Labour's poll ratings have risen, giving the party a consistent lead over the Conservatives.\n\nThis means Sir Keir is likely to face greater scrutiny over what he would do if he were to become prime minister.\n\nThe next general election has to be held by January 2025, but it could be sooner if Mr Sunak decides to go to the polls early.\n\nReflecting on the past year, Sir Keir acknowledged that 2022 had been \"very tough\" for millions across the country.\n\nHe also paid tribute to Ukraine for \"showing so much bravery fighting for their liberty\" and said the UK should \"once again stand by\" the Ukrainian people.\n\nTurning to the year ahead, the Labour leader said Britain needed to become a \"fairer, greener, more dynamic country and that he wanted to \"restore faith in politics as a force for good\".\n\n\"For that to happen,\" he said, \"we need a completely new way of doing politics.\"\n\nHe said his party would use the year ahead to \"set out the case for change, the case for a new Britain, the case for hope\".\n\nIn her New Year's message, First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, promised to \"keep doing everything we can for those who need it most\".\n\nShe also said her government would \"work hard to reap the massive economic benefits of our efforts to tackle climate change\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey also used his New Year message to reflect on the past year, celebrating the \"wonderful jubilee street parties\", the Lionesses winning the Euros and \"another fantastic by-election victory for the Liberal Democrats!\".\n\nIn June, his party won the previously safe Conservative seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, which became vacant after Tory MP Neil Parish resigned for looking at pornography in Parliament.\n\nSir Ed also attacked Vladimir Putin's \"appalling war\", and the Conservative government for \"inflicting economic chaos on the rest of us\".\n\n\"The New Year is an opportunity to turn the page and look ahead, and although things are tough for millions, I sense change is possible - so I look to the New Year with hope and optimism.\n\n\"So for 2023, I wish you and your family all the best. Let's hope it's a year of fresh starts - in more ways than one.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sunak makes five pledges on the NHS, economy and migrants\n\nRishi Sunak has asked people to hold him to account if NHS waiting lists in England do not fall in two years.\n\nIt is one of five pledges set out in the prime minister's first major speech of 2023, with others covering the economy and small boat crossings.\n\nMr Sunak is facing challenges this winter including a wave of strike action, a cost-of-living crisis and huge pressure on the health service.\n\nBut the PM said he was \"taking urgent action\" and increasing NHS funding.\n\nHe said the government was also increasing bed capacity and the extra money would help ensure people who are ready to be discharged can be moved into social care or looked after in the community.\n\nWith the Conservatives trailing in the polls after last year's political turmoil, Mr Sunak used his speech to set out the priorities for his premiership.\n\nHe also sought to reassure the public that he could deliver, ahead of a general election widely expected in 2024.\n\nHis speech set out five key pledges:\n\nMr Sunak said people would be able to judge his government on whether it had delivered on these priorities, \"no tricks... no ambiguity\".\n\nBut he provided little detail on how some of the pledges would be achieved and admitted \"many factors are out of my control\".\n\nDowning Street later said that halving inflation this year would be judged from the final quarter of 2022 to the final quarter of 2023.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak's pledge to \"grow the economy\" will be met if GDP is higher in the fourth quarter of 2023 than in the third quarter.\n\nRishi Sunak's speech had the feel of the party conference speech he never gave; cast as he was, briefly, last autumn, towards political oblivion, before the implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHis five promises are an attempt to provide structure and accountability to his next 12 months of governing.\n\nSome look eminently achievable, others are rather vague.\n\nAnd then there is one that reminds us how grim things are: promising the economy will grow by the end of the year would still mean months and months of recession beforehand.\n\nMr Sunak sought to set out what drives him: his passion for education and his anger at anti-social behaviour.\n\nAmid what many see as the multiple crises now, this broad vision might appear jarring to some.\n\nBut it's worth remembering the oddity of how he came to be in the job he's doing. This is a man who became prime minister in the blink of an eye, still attempting to introduce himself to the country.\n\nAnd he hasn't got much time, with the ticking clock of an election within two years, to deliver enough, quickly enough.\n\nThe speech came after senior doctors warned the NHS was on a knife edge, with some accident and emergency units in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nA sharp rise in Covid and flu admissions in recent weeks has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nThis has contributed to long waits for ambulances, emergency treatment and non-urgent care.\n\nA shortage of capacity and staff in social care also means there is often a delay in people leaving hospital when they are ready to be discharged, meaning fewer beds are available for other patients.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Chris Mason how soon things would improve in the NHS this winter, Mr Sunak said cutting waiting times was one of his priorities, adding: \"I want the country to hold me to account for delivering it.\"\n\nHe said the government was increasing funding and bringing in innovations like virtual wards, so people could be treated at home where appropriate.\n\n\"I believe in just a few months we will have practically eliminated waiting times for those waiting a year and a half,\" he said.\n\n\"We've already eliminated those waiting two years, and by next spring I think we will have eliminated those waiting a year.\"\n\nLabour said Mr Sunak's pledges were all things that were happening anyway, were easily achievable or \"aimed at fixing problems of the Tories' own making\".\n\n\"For weeks this speech was hyped up as his big vision - now he's delivered it, the country is entitled to ask: is that it?\" the party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said the prime minister was \"asleep at the wheel\", adding: \"People will be dismayed that Rishi Sunak still doesn't have a proper plan to deal with the crisis raging in the NHS.\"\n\nThe SNP accused Mr Sunak of making \"flimsy promises, whilst people in Scotland are paying the price of five Tory prime ministers over the last 13 years\".\n\nInflation is currently at a near 40-year high of 10.7%, with wages failing to keep up with prices.\n\nBased on current forecasts from the Bank of England and the independent Office for Responsibility (OBR), the aim to halve inflation this year should be achievable.\n\nHowever, some of Mr Sunak's other pledges are likely to be more challenging to achieve.\n\nThere are currently more than seven million people waiting for NHS care in England - one in eight of the population.\n\nWaiting lists have continued to grow since the height of the Covid pandemic, as more patients come forward after missing treatment during lockdowns.\n\nMr Sunak's predecessors have also struggled to tackle small boat crossings, with record numbers making the dangerous journey across the Channel last year.\n\nThe prime minister promised to introduce legislation to ensure people who arrive illegally are removed quickly - but he admitted this \"is not going to happen overnight\".\n\nProgress will depend on how quickly Parliament passes any new law, while the plans could also get bogged down in the courts as a potential breach of the UK's refugee obligations.", "Rail disruption is set to get even worse today, with only 20-25% of trains running in England because train drivers are going on strike. On some lines there will be no trains at all.\n\nBus services in London will be affected by strike action again too, and some driving tests are still being cancelled.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThere are 15 rail operating companies affected by action organised by train drivers' union Aslef. They are all in England, but some run services into Scotland and Wales.\n\nOn some lines, such as Southeastern and Avanti West Coast, no services will run at all on Thursday.\n\nOn the other lines, there will be very few trains running, and services will start later and stop earlier. For example LNER's last train south from Edinburgh will depart at 16:30 GMT.\n\nEarlier, the Rail Delivery Group estimated that only 10% of England's usual trains would run on Thursday, but it later said it believed 20-25% would run.\n\nDisruption will be made worse by the knock-on impact of strike action by RMT members that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Thursday's services starting later as a result. The RMT union, whose members are rail workers other than drivers, has another strike planned for Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe advice is to avoid travelling by train on Thursday, but if you must travel:\n\nServices are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nStrike action by driving examiners at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf you are due to take your driving test on Thursday, you can check here whether your test centre is one of those affected. But unless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up. Not all driving examiners are members of the union backing the strikes, so your test may take place as planned.\n\nExaminers are planning to be on strike until Tuesday 10 January.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nBus drivers in London are continuing their industrial action on Thursday. The routes affected are mostly in south and west London.\n\nNational Highways staff, including traffic officers who deal with the aftermath of accidents, are back at work after taking action on Wednesday, but are due to take further action on Friday and Saturday.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Meta has been fined €390m euros (£346m) for breaking EU data rules.\n\nThe Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) says the way Meta asked permission to use peoples' data for ads on Facebook and Instagram was unlawful.\n\nMeta, which owns both platforms, has three months to change how it obtains and uses data to target ads.\n\nMeta says it is \"disappointed\" and intends to appeal, stressing that the decision does not prevent personalised advertising on its platforms.\n\nThe regulator said that Facebook and Instagram can not \"force consent\" by saying consumers have to accept how their data is used, or leave the platform.\n\nAs Facebook and Instagram have European headquarters in Ireland, the DPC takes the lead in ensuring they comply with EU data law.\n\nPrivacy campaigners say the decision is a major victory and means Meta will have to give users real choice over how their data is used to target online advertisements.\n\nIt means Meta will potentially have to change the way a key part of its business works.\n\nThe bulk of the firm's money, over $118bn (£97.8bn) in 2021, comes from advertising.\n\nThe fine is the second significant penalty imposed by the watchdog in recent months.\n\nIn November it was fined €265m (£228m) by the DPC over a data breach that saw the personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users published online.\n\nAccording to the Irish Times Meta set aside €2bn (£1.7bn) to cover potential European fines in 2023.\n\nThe DPC investigation was sparked by complaints made in 2018 by privacy campaigner Max Schrems, on behalf of two users in Austria and Belgium. The complaint was brought just as the EU's new data and privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), came into operation.\n\nIn order to comply with GDPR both Facebook and Instagram asked users to click \"I accept\" to indicate that they agreed to updated terms of service setting out how their data would be used in ads.\n\nIf users did not accept, they were unable to use Facebook or Instagram.\n\nThe complainants argued that this meant Meta was \"forcing\" them to consent to their data being used in targeted ads - and this breached the GDPR.\n\nMeta's representatives argued that Facebook and Instagram are \"inherently personalised\" and that, as part of that personalisation, targeted ads are a \"necessary and essential part\" of how the platforms work.\n\nThey said Meta was not giving users an ultimatum, and that there was just no way the platforms could work without using data for advertising.\n\nBut the DPC found that is not the case, and users were forced to consent.\n\nThe DPC also found that Meta was not clear enough with users about how it was using their personal data and why.\n\nBut the decision was only arrived at after a dispute with other European data authorities.\n\nThat was finally settled in December by the European Data Protection Board.\n\nMeta's spokespeople say that it plans to challenge the size of the fines imposed, \"given that regulators themselves disagreed with each other on this issue\".\n\nThe company argues that far from forcing people to accept how it uses data, it gives consumers a number of tools to control how their data is used.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrivacy campaigner Mr Schrems wrote in response to the decision: \"This is a huge blow to Meta's profits in the EU. People now need to be asked if they want their data to be used for ads or not.\n\n\"They must have a 'yes or no' option and can change their mind at any time\".", "Emergency departments across Scotland are experiencing conditions 'worst than pandemic times', says leading doctor\n\nSeveral of Scotland's A&E departments want emergency measures brought in because of concerns about patient safety, a leading clinician has said.\n\nDr John Paul Loughrey, of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said patients were being kept in \"inhumane\" conditions due to high occupancy.\n\nA&E waiting times have been the worst on record in recent weeks and months.\n\nThe Scottish government has urged people with common winter illness to use NHS self help guides.\n\nOn Sunday, RCEM president Dr Adrian Boyle said between 300 and 500 people were dying every week across the UK as a result of delays to emergency care - this appeared to be based on research published by the Emergency Medical Journal.\n\nHe said a severe flu outbreak, which was made worse by a lack of immunity because of Covid isolation measures, has resulted in bed occupancy reaching record levels.\n\nDr Loughrey, who is RCEM vice president in Scotland, said the figure was around 50 deaths per week north of the border.\n\nA number of hospitals in England have declared critical incidents in recent days, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nDr Loughrey said similar discussions were happening in Scottish A&E departments, after NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde refused to declare a major incident at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.\n\nHe told the BBC vulnerable patients were being kept in \"frigid\" conditions in ambulances parked outside hospitals because there was no room for new admissions.\n\nOthers, he said, faced waiting on hospital trolleys for hours and becoming delirious, with risks of falling or contracting infections due to crowded waiting rooms.\n\n\"The Queen Elizabeth is not the only hospital that has considered stepping on to major incident footing,\" he said.\n\n\"Other clinicians who work in emergency departments have reported the same discussions across the whole country, not just the west of Scotland.\n\n\"We really need urgent intervention across the whole system in order to protect the patients from the harm that's befalling them just now.\"\n\nScotland recorded its worst ever performance times at A&E in the week up to 18 December, with 55% of patients seen within the government target of four hours.\n\nThis is down from 62.4% the previous week.\n\nA total of 1,821 patients spent more than 12 hours in emergency departments across Scotland.\n\nDr Loughrey suggested health boards could take emergency measures such as redeploying staff in the same way as in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic - though that would not be a catch-all solution.\n\nHe said this would put more focus on the front doors of hospitals, but may mean patients are moved to other wards that are understaffed.\n\nHowever he said A&E departments were experiencing conditions \"worse than anything seen during any of the pandemic times\" and he was \"astonished\" that so many staff continued to show up for work.\n\n\"There is no easy answer to this,\" he said. \"The people in government need to give us not the authority but the support when we feel this is a necessary step.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said pressures from the Covid-19 pandemic had not gone away while backlogs, a cold winter and \"extraordinary\" flu levels had put increased strains on the NHS.\n\nHe said the Scottish government was working with health boards to ensure people leave hospital without delay.\n\n\"Emergency care is always available for those who need it,\" he added. \"However many people are seeking help with common winter illness and NHS Inform have useful self-help guides to let everyone know when to stay home and when to seek more care.\n\n\"If you do think you think you need to visit A&E, but it is not an emergency, you can contact NHS 24 where you may be referred to a more appropriate urgent care service. Local GPs and pharmacies can be also be contacted as a first port of call for non-critical care.\"", "Many of those remaining in Bakhmut are elderly, like 86-year-old Anatolay, and searching for food\n\n\"This is the toughest operation I've ever seen. The enemy has thrown its strongest assault at Bakhmut. We haven't seen troops like this before,\" the Ukrainian commander tells us.\n\nCommander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street. It is one of the main command centres the Ukrainian military has set up in the city, and few journalists have been here.\n\nA tall, hefty man with sparkling eyes, he watches a live feed from a drone hovering outside the eastern edge of the city on a big screen in the centre of the room.\n\nOne of the battalion's units is trying to spot the location of Russian positions, to aid another unit which has just gone out to defend eastern approaches to Bakhmut under attack.\n\nIn addition to Russian armed forces, mercenaries from the private paramilitary Wagner group have been sent in their thousands to front lines around Bakhmut.\n\nCommander Skala is operating from an underground command centre in Bakhmut\n\n\"Wagner soldiers openly advance under fire towards us even if they're littering the land with their bodies, even if out of 60 people in their platoon only 20 are left. It's very difficult to hold against such an invasion. We weren't prepared for that, and we're learning now,\" Commander Skala says.\n\n\"Some weeks ago, we lost positions on the eastern approaches to the city because the enemy was constantly storming us with assaults. We moved to secondary front lines to save our soldiers,\" he adds.\n\n\"We are trying to work smartly and get those positions back. Sometimes you have to withdraw to attack the enemy properly.\"\n\nWagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has said Ukrainians have turned every house in Bakhmut into a fortress, and that there were now \"500 lines of defence\".\n\nRussia has been using all its might to try to take Bakhmut - a battle considered critical for the country after it lost ground in Ukraine in recent months, being pushed out of Kherson in the south and the Kharkiv region in the north-east. Capturing Bakhmut is also important to further Russia's aim to control the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBombs have ripped through facades of buildings everywhere in Bakhmut\n\nThroughout our conversation with Commander Skala, muffled explosions can be heard from above ground. The second you step outside, the sound is loud enough to make your heart pound - the terrifying whistle of shells flying in followed by the deafening boom of the impact.\n\nAnd the sound never stops as the bombs keep falling.\n\nOne resident described it as \"the end of the world\" and there are moments when it feels like that.\n\nBombs have ripped through the middle of apartment blocks, blown away the facades of buildings and created craters by the side of streets. It was hard to find a window in Bakhmut that was intact. The ground is littered with broken glass and debris.\n\nThis was once a quiet, ordinary town in the east, known for its sparkling wine. Now, it's become a byword for war and Ukraine's resistance.\n\nIt lies at a vital road intersection, but over the months, the battle here has gained a symbolic importance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently called it the \"fortress of our morale\".\n\nBakhmut used to be home to just over 70,000 people before the war. Just a tenth of its residents - mostly elderly or poor - remain.\n\nWhile the streets are largely empty, we see dozens of civilians in an aid centre, known here as a \"resilience centre\".\n\nIt has power, and wi-fi provided by Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. Volunteers distribute small packets of food, medicines and other basic supplies. A wood-burner in the centre keeps the room warm.\n\nThis is a lifeline for the people in Bakhmut.\n\nThis resilience centre helps those residents still in the city stay warm and charge their phones\n\nMany sit huddled around electrical points, trying to charge up their phones.\n\nWhat's remarkable is that even when shells land just a few hundred metres from the centre, people don't flinch. It's as if they've become numb, running from bombs every day.\n\nTrauma is visible on many faces though.\n\nWhy don't you leave, we asked Anatolay Suschenko, who was standing in a queue for some food.\n\n\"I have nowhere to go. I'm alone. Who would want to take an 86-year-old?\" he said. \"Here, at least sometimes when soldiers throw away food or soup, I find it and eat it. And I get free bread. In my whole life, I've never seen anything like this. All the windows of my house have been blown off, and the gate has been destroyed.\"\n\nPeople have different reasons to stay. Olha Tupikova sits in the corner of the room with her 13-year-old daughter Diana.\n\n\"I think everywhere in Ukraine is equally dangerous. Some of our neighbours left and died elsewhere. Here we have a house. We have cats and dogs. We can't leave them,\" she said.\n\n\"Our roof has 21 holes and the garage has nine. I mend them every time, and try to repair the windows too. Normally the holes are caused by shrapnel, but lately we've had stones flying in too, making holes that are the size of a head.\"\n\nOlha (left) and her daughter Diana, are staying in Bakhmut as they have a house and cats and dogs\n\n\"We live like mice. We quickly run out to get some bread, choose different routes to get back home. Before sunrise I look for wooden boards and logs [to repair my home]. In the evening I search for water because there's no water supply in town,\" Olha said.\n\n\"Of course, it's frightening. But now we do it army style, like soldiers. We joke that master chefs know nothing about cooking [compared to us]. We can make a meal out of anything on an open fire, or even a candle.\"\n\nThe local administration is trying to convince people to leave.\n\nIn a location in the city we can't disclose because it could compromise his safety, we met Oleksiy Reva, who has been the mayor of Bakhmut for 33 years.\n\n\"It's those who don't have money and don't want to face the unknown who are staying. But we are talking to them about it. Because safety is most important, safety and peace,\" he said.\n\nWhy does he continue to stay, we asked. \"This is my life, my job, my fate. I was born here, and grew up here. My parents are buried here. My conscience won't allow me to leave our people. And I'm confident our military will not allow Bakhmut to fall,\" he said.\n\nIn the fields outside the city, we see the daily grind required to keep a hold on it.\n\nThe unit of soldiers we meet try to spot Russian locations and fire artillery - Soviet-era D-30 guns - in their direction, to allow Ukrainian infantry to push ahead every day. But barely any advance is being made.\n\n\"The equipment is outdated. It works fine and does the job, but it can be better. We also have to be very economical with our shells, very precise with our targets so we don't run out of ammunition. If we had more equipment and modern weapons, we would be able to destroy more targets which would make things much easier for our infantry,\" one of the soldiers, Valentyn, said.\n\nWinter also makes things difficult. Weapons don't operate as smoothly in cold weather, they tell us.\n\nUkrainian forces say their weapons are outdated and they worry about running out of ammunition\n\n\"We simply need to overcome this period, hold on, and then execute counter-offensives and fight,\" Yaroslav said.\n\nEach side is trying to wear the other down. This is a battle of endurance.\n\nHow do you motivate yourself every day, we asked. \"We all have families to go back to. Valentyn just had a son but his family is in Germany, so he hasn't seen him yet,\" Yaroslav said as Valentyn cracked a shy smile.", "The year gone by, with the political decapitation of two prime ministers, repeatedly changed how we are governed, and by whom.\n\nBut it also radically altered the dynamic between our political parties.\n\nAs we look ahead to 2023, it's the chaos of 2022 in the rear view mirror that moulds what appears to be the political road ahead.\n\nFor a start, political leaders across Westminster don't expect 2023 to be a general election year.\n\nOnly Rishi Sunak or a significant chunk of Conservative MPs alongside opposition parties could bring about an early election, and given Tory opinion poll ratings are in the gutter, that seems unlikely, as things stand.\n\nThe widespread expectation is the Conservatives will run the clock down on this parliamentary term.\n\nThere has to be a general election by January 2025 at the latest.\n\nThe current guessing game tends to conclude that the summer or autumn of 2024 is the most likely timing.\n\nSo that means 2023 will likely be the year before an election year - and that is likely to shape how the next 12 months feel.\n\n\"The year the election is won or lost,\" as one senior Labour figure put it to me. \"The campaign probably won't make much difference. But 2023 will.\"\n\n\"It was a flipping disaster,\" one senior minister nearly said to me just before Christmas, reflecting on the months just gone.\n\nI don't want to crack your screen by quoting them verbatim.\n\nThe reaction to the toppling of first Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss has had several consequences.\n\nAfter a year of thrash metal, an interlude of mild jazz will have a contrasting appeal to some.\n\nRishi Sunak embarked on his stint as prime minister by seeking to make a virtue of a quiet seriousness.\n\nHis team decided they wouldn't be noisily picking public fights, especially with their own side.\n\nBut, as we saw in the final weeks of the year, when you're in Downing Street, noisy public fights knock on that front door nearly daily and you have to choose how to respond.\n\nTo maintain that quietness can mean conceding, as Mr Sunak did on allowing onshore wind farms in England and diluting house building targets in England after pressure from his own backbenchers.\n\nIt poses a question about how much the prime minister will be able to get done on his own terms in 2023.\n\nAnd how restive his backbenchers may become, particularly if the local elections in May are bleak for the Conservatives.\n\nBut one consequence of 2022 should help Mr Sunak.\n\nI was chatting to a Cabinet minister the other day, who was reflecting that so bonkers was the instability in the Conservative Party over the last 12 months, its appetite for insurrection, for civil war, has waned.\n\nA party which, at points, appeared to have a death wish, has had second thoughts.\n\nAs we have already seen, that doesn't mean by any means backbenchers are powerless, but talk of toppling the leaders, plotting leadership campaigns and such like feels very 2022.\n\nThe backdrop to everything is inflation pickpocketing us all and accelerating the waves of strikes we've already seen and will continue to see well into the new year.\n\nWill ministers be able to continue to resist offering public sector workers more money?\n\nWill the rate of price rises ease sufficiently quickly, or public opinion turn against strikers sufficiently fast for the government to be able to avoid this?\n\nOn this theme, in the early weeks of January, we can expect to see the government broaden out its plan to try to reduce the impact of industrial action, especially in the emergency services.\n\nThere are ministers pushing to see strikes banned for ambulance staff and firefighters.\n\nOthers say higher minimum service levels must be set down in law, to at least minimise the impact of such strikes.\n\nAnd legislation is also promised by Rishi Sunak on small boat crossings over the Channel.\n\nBoth these issues are likely to, broadly at least, bring together the Tory backbenches, and pose interesting questions for how Labour responds.\n\nSo how will Labour approach 2023?\n\n\"I go around reminding anyone in the party who'll listen that we absolutely cannot be complacent,\" one senior figure tells me over a cuppa.\n\n\"We are up against the most successful electoral force there has ever been in western democracy,\" they add, referring to the Conservatives.\n\nThe fact the word \"complacency\" and the potential dangers of it for Labour is even uttered tells you everything about just how transformative 2022 was.\n\nAs Conservative fortunes in the opinion polls cratered, Labour's headed towards the moon.\n\nMost on both sides think the current polls flatter Labour, Conservative support will pick up and things will tighten in the run in to an election.\n\nBut, nonetheless, the working assumption around Westminster is it is likely Labour will form the next government.\n\nThis assumption, even if it turns out to be wrong, is important, because it shapes the political weather of the year ahead.\n\nBeing seen as a government in waiting brings with it greater scrutiny.\n\n\"What would you do?\" Will be asked of Keir Starmer and his shadow cabinet every single day of 2023.\n\nAnd, often, they will sound circumspect; reticent to set out too many specific policies too early, for fear they are hostages to fortune (ie duds) or (so good) they get nicked from under their nose and implemented by the government.\n\nSir Keir has already spent time trying to box off potential points of vulnerability for a party seeking to persuade people who voted Conservative last time to vote Labour next time.\n\nHence his desire not to question the fundamentals of the UK's new relationship with the European Union and his claim the UK has an \"immigration dependency\" as he put it.\n\nHis challenge now, those close to him acknowledge, is to better shape people's understanding of what he stands for and make the positive case for voting Labour, rather than merely being the default alternative for those fed up of the Conservatives.\n\nExpect 2023 to be the year the party attempts to build the profile of a handful of senior shadow cabinet figures; the faces and voices making Labour's case on the telly, radio and online.\n\nDon't be surprised to see and hear more from the likes of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, the shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson and the shadow health secretary Wes Streeting among others.\n\nAnd privately, there'll be more pleas to avoid complacency.\n\n\"The polls can't predict events,\" warns one adviser. \"Who knows what might happen?\"\n\nThe story for plenty of the opposition parties at Westminster is one of confidence.\n\nThe SNP remain the overwhelmingly dominant force in Scottish politics: 15 years in government at Holyrood, and with three quarters of the nation's MPs.\n\nBut their options for securing their much dreamed about second independence referendum are running out and Labour's apparent resurgence poses interesting questions for them too.\n\nThe line \"Scotland ends up with Tory governments it doesn't vote for\" isn't quite so electorally potent if a Labour government looks increasingly likely after the next election.\n\nSo we are already seeing the SNP tilt some of its attack lines in Labour's direction as well as the Conservatives'.\n\nAnd the party at Westminster is under new leadership: Stephen Flynn has replaced Ian Blackford; the SNP will have a new face and voice in 2023.\n\nThey are tiddlers in parliamentary terms, making up just over 2% of MPs at Westminster.\n\nBut there is a fair chance they have an outsized contribution to make for the remainder of this Parliament.\n\nThat is because of their by-election performances: their win in Tiverton and Honiton in Devon in 2022, after their wins in North Shropshire and Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire in 2021.\n\nIn short, they have the capacity to frighten Conservatives in seats where Labour are miles behind and they are competitive.\n\nSir Ed is streamlining the party's campaigning effort, massively culling the number of seats the party will target at the next election.\n\nIt was miles more last time and the party went backwards, with their then-leader Jo Swinson losing her seat.\n\nThe focus is likely to be on 20 to 30 seats and trying to pick distinctive policy themes they can be seen to own.\n\nPrecisely what they are, and capturing enough attention for people to notice what they are, will be their challenge.\n\nThis is the political outfit that emerged out of first UKIP and then the Brexit Party.\n\nIt is led by Richard Tice, a former member of the European Parliament.\n\nHe detects political space, often, but not always, to the right of the government, since the arrival of Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in Downing Street.\n\nExpect policy ideas to come on education and health, with a greater involvement for the private sector in both, that will be distinctive and have the capacity to provoke a row and, so, potentially generate attention.\n\nAnd, loitering in the wings, the party's president, one Nigel Farage.\n\nThe party's promising to stand in every seat in Britain at the next general election, and even though winning any will be a tall order, they have the potential to frighten some Conservatives in some spots, by luring enough voters away to allow someone else to win.\n\nAnd there ends my scribbles.\n\nBut as for what will actually happen… let's see!", "Rishi Sunak is due to set out his plans for the year ahead in his first speech of 2023\n\nThe prime minister is looking at plans to ensure all school pupils in England study maths in some form until the age of 18.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, Rishi Sunak said he wanted people to \"feel confident\" when it came to finances.\n\nBut critics have said the plan will not be possible without more maths teachers.\n\nMr Sunak also set out the priorities for his premiership, including tackling backlogs in the health service.\n\nThe number of 16 to 18-year-olds is projected to rise by a total of 18% between 2021 and 2030.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Sunak said the UK must \"reimagine our approach to numeracy\".\n\n\"In a world where data is everywhere and statistics underpin every job, letting our children out into that world without those skills is letting our children down,\" he said.\n\nHe said he wanted people to have the skills they needed \"to feel confident\" with finances and things like mortgage deals.\n\nJust half of 16 to 19-year-olds study maths, according to Mr Sunak - but this figure includes pupils doing science courses, and those who are already doing compulsory GCSE resits in college.\n\nIt is not clear what the plans will mean for students who wish to study humanities or creative arts qualifications, including BTecs. No new qualifications are immediately planned, and there are no plans to make A-levels compulsory.\n\nThe government is instead exploring expanding existing qualifications as well as \"more innovative options\", a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nThe idea appears to be an aspiration rather than a fully developed policy, with the precise mechanics for how it would work not set out.\n\nThe government acknowledges it would not be possible to implement before the next general election, although the prime minister is expected to begin working on the plan in this Parliament.\n\nThe Autumn Statement unveiled an extra £2.3bn in core school funding for five to 16-year-olds over the next two years - reversing the real-terms cuts of the last decade.\n\nHowever, no extra funding was given to further education colleges, which teach many of the most disadvantaged 16 to 18-year-olds, nor to sixth form colleges.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity and chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, welcomed Mr Sunak's aspiration and said the focus should be \"on giving young people the practical maths skills that they need in the workplace and in their everyday lives\".\n\nHowever, the Association of School and College Leaders said there was a \"severe shortage of maths teachers\", and that the plan was \"therefore currently unachievable\".\n\nIn 2021, there were 35,771 maths teachers in state secondary schools in England. There were more English teachers (39,000) and science teachers (45,000).\n\nMaths teacher numbers are 9% higher than in 2012, but shortages have been reported across the country.\n\nA survey of secondary schools in England by the National Foundation for Educational Research found that 45% of respondents used non-specialist teachers to deliver some maths lessons in 2021.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson called on Mr Sunak to \"show his working\" on how greater participation in maths will be funded.\n\n\"He cannot deliver this reheated, empty pledge without more maths teachers, yet the government has missed their target for new maths teachers year after year,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson called the aim \"an admission of failure from the prime minister on behalf of a Conservative government that has neglected our children's education so badly\".\n\nShe added: \"Too many children are being left behind when it comes to maths, and that happens well before they reach 16.\"\n\nMr Sunak's speech emphasised the importance of family, but it was light on plans for early years education - another sector that went without extra funding in the Autumn Statement.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said it showed \"a lack of understanding\" about the importance of early years.\n\nTory MP Robin Walker, who is chairman of the education committee, urged the prime minister to focus on childcare.\n\n\"It's great to hear the prime minister today committing to maths beyond 16,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"But if we don't get the right approach to stimulating and supporting children early on, they won't have the opportunities to thrive in the school system.\"\n\nThe prime minister also said education was \"the closest thing to a silver bullet there is\".\n\nAs well as a new approach to numeracy, his proposals included better attainment at primary schools and more technical education.\n\nLast year, 59% of children leaving primary school in England reached the expected standards in reading, writing and maths.\n\nThat is well below a target announced last year of 90% by 2030.", "Mark Drakeford attended alongside two other officials for his three day trip\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has been criticised for staying in a luxury five-star hotel paid for by the Qatar government during his World Cup trip.\n\nBBC Wales has learned that two ministers and four officials stayed three nights each in the Ritz-Carlton as guests of the host nation.\n\nLiberal Democrats said accepting it meant his government potentially undermined its human rights commitment.\n\nThe Welsh government said the trip was to strengthen Wales' links with Qatar.\n\nA spokesperson said the visit enabled the Welsh government to share its values in Qatar and it was a chance to discuss trade and investment opportunities.\n\nAmnesty International challenged Welsh ministers to show they raised human rights issues in the country.\n\nLate last year a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Lib Dems showed the Welsh government had paid £13,000 for flights for the controversial trip.\n\nFollowing a subsequent FOI request by BBC Wales, the Welsh government confirmed that the trip's \"accommodation, board and transport\" in the country was provided by the Qatar government.\n\nThe Welsh government said this was part of a hospitality package offered to all delegates and their travelling parties attending the World Cup and the arrangement was used by both Mr Drakeford and Economy Minister Vaughan Gething.\n\nThe hotel used was the Ritz-Carlton, described on the company's website as a \"rich resort experience\" set on a private island.\n\nBefore the first minister went to the country Plaid Cymru's Adam Price and the Liberal Democrats had urged Mark Drakeford to call off the trip over human rights concerns.\n\nThe country has been criticised over its treatment of women, LGBT people, and migrant workers.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had raised \"serious concerns\" over the country's LGBT rights record but said the tournament gave Wales an opportunity to promote itself on the world stage and to seek investment from Qatar.\n\nMark Drakeford said in November it was a \"difficult and closely balanced decision\" to go, but said there was an \"obligation\" for ministers to support a Welsh team in its first World Cup in 64 years.\n\nThe first minister attended Wales' opening group match against the USA, while Mr Gething attended Wales v England.\n\nBoth were accompanied by a delegation of two officials, with each group staying in the Ritz-Carlton for their separate three-night long stays.\n\nThe Ritz-Carlton in Doha is described as a \"rich resort experience\" set on a private island.\n\nJane Dodds, Welsh Lib Dem leader and MS for Mid and West Wales, has previously said the Welsh government should not \"contribute to the whitewashing of Qatar's human rights record\".\n\nShe told BBC Wales: \"By accepting this gift from the Qatari government, Mark Drakeford has potentially undermined the Welsh government's commitment towards human rights, LGBTQ+ rights and women's rights.\"\n\nShe added that the government and Welsh Labour should donate the equivalent cost of the trip to human rights charities.\n\nMark Drakeford said that even deciding to go to Qatar in the first place was a \"difficult and closely balanced decision\" which had \"very uncomfortable elements\" given the country's human rights record.\n\nSo the publication of the fact that the Qatari regime funded his stay and that of his colleague Vaughan Gething, along with their officials in the Ritz-Carlton, might deepen that discomfort.\n\nMinisters always defended the decision to go on the basis that it provided an unrivalled opportunity to sell Wales to the world, but they also said they would use the visit to promote Wales' values and challenge the Qatari record.\n\nBut the decision to go is one thing - deciding to accept the hospitality of the Qatari government is another.\n\nAnd critics are questioning just how hard you can challenge the values of people who are paying for your accommodation.\n\nPlaid Cymru's sport and international affairs spokeswoman Heledd Fychan said: \"Accepting hospitality risks undermining the commitment made by the Welsh government that they condemn the record of the Qatar government on workers safety and LGBTQI+ rights.\n\n\"It's now essential that when the Senedd next meets, the first minister explains how he and the minister for the economy raised these important issues, and clearly outlines how Wales' international strategy aligns with our values as a nation.\"\n\nFelix Jakens of Amnesty International UK said: \"It would be a cause of real concern if politicians were accepting lavish hospitality - at the World Cup or anywhere else - from foreign governments and then feeling compromised when it came to raising human rights issues.\n\n\"We repeatedly called on politicians and others with influence who attended the World Cup in Qatar to raise human rights issues with their hosts and with FIFA, and we would hope that Mark Drakeford and Vaughan Gething can show that they sought to do this.\n\n\"Qatar was only able to host this highly controversial World Cup because of its systematic exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, and meanwhile LGBTQ+ people in Qatar continue to run the risk of arrest and imprisonment, and freedom of speech and women's rights are still unacceptably curtailed.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The first minister and the economy minister visited Qatar to support the Welsh men's football team as they took part in their first World Cup in 64 years.\n\n\"This was an opportunity to discuss trade and investment opportunities, meet with members of the Qatar government and the International Labour Organisation to discuss worker rights, and to take part in cultural meetings to strengthen the links between the Qatar and Wales.\n\n\"The visit also was a chance to share our values on human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, workers' rights and political and religious freedom.\"\n\nThree UK government ministers also attended the world cup - Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Sport Minister Stuart Andrew and Welsh Secretary David TC Davies.\n\nBBC Wales has asked what the arrangements were for UK ministers at the event.\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: \"The world cup was a major international event and it is right that the UK government was represented. Details of the visit will be published in the usual way\".", "Business groups are expecting government help with their energy bills to be halved after March, when the existing package of support expires.\n\nHeavy energy users will get support close to current levels.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt told business groups on Wednesday that the support would be at a \"lower level\" to protect the public finances from volatile energy markets.\n\nGas and electricity prices have been fixed for firms until the end of March.\n\nThe revised scheme is expected to run for 12 months until March 2024, with details on the level of support detailed next week\n\n\"No government can permanently shield businesses from this energy price shock,\" Mr Hunt added.\n\nThose at the meeting included the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Federation of Small Businesses, the British Chambers of Commerce, Institute of Directors, Make UK, UKHospitality, and the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nUnlike households, businesses are not covered in normal times by an energy price cap, which limits the amount suppliers can charge per unit of energy.\n\nBut after energy prices spiked last year, the government's Energy Bill Relief Scheme fixed costs, providing a lifeline for many firms that risked going bust without the support.\n\nIn October, the government said it would review the scheme due to its high cost to taxpayers, with officials considering options to extend support only for \"vulnerable businesses\".\n\nA decision on whether to extend the support had been due before Christmas, but the government postponed it until the new year.\n\nFirms and business groups reacted angrily to the delay, with Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, describing it as having \"a corrosive effect on business confidence\".\n\nThe delay is thought to have been down to the complexity of delivering the government's original ambition of separating out different sectors for different levels of support according to need.\n\nIt is impossible to accurately forecast how much the ongoing support, which ran from October, will cost the exchequer, as it depends on the difference between wholesale energy prices and the level of any cap.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility estimated the cost of the support scheme for business at nearly £20bn for the six months to March 2023.\n\nThe Treasury told businesses that extending the scheme at current levels \"could cost tens of billions of pounds, with costs potentially doubling or tripling if international energy prices increase further than expected\".\n\nAs wholesale gas prices have fallen sharply from the record highs seen a few months ago thanks in part to the very mild winter so far in Europe, the government may not need to spend as much as forecast.\n\nSeparately, household bills will also not rise as high as previously thought. Government subsidies are keeping typical annual household bills at £2500 till March when support will be scaled back.", "Some of the worst violence came in the Neukölln district of Berlin\n\nA night of new year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities has shocked Germans and prompted calls for a ban on fireworks and firecrackers.\n\nForty-one police officers were hurt in the capital alone and there were dozens of attacks on firefighters.\n\nMayor Franziska Giffey has called a youth summit, condemning the violence as \"absolutely unacceptable\".\n\nSeveral figures highlighted the migrant background of many of the youths.\n\nBut the Berlin mayor insisted the issue was more to do with the social environment in which young Berliners had grown up: \"We're not talking about immigration labels but about what went wrong in the social flashpoints.\"\n\nIt was not just Berlin that witnessed violence. There were reports of rockets, firecrackers and even a starting pistol being fired at emergency vehicles in cities including Hamburg, Bonn, Dortmund and Essen.\n\nPolice said of the 145 arrests made during the Berlin riots that the majority were men, 45 were German while 27 were of Afghan nationality and 21 were Syrians.\n\nThe revelations fed into a broader debate, and leading conservative figure Jens Spahn spoke of \"unregulated migration, failed integration\".\n\nSome commentators questioned whether breaking down the suspects' nationalities was helpful. Germany's press code makes clear that ethnic or religious background should only be reported where there is legitimate public interest.\n\nGovernment integration commissioner Reem Alabali-Radovan called for perpetrators to be judged on their actions and \"not according to their presumed origins, as some are now doing\".\n\nInterior Minister Nancy Faeser said that while a debate had to take place on the background to the riots, it should not be used to stir up \"racist resentment\".\n\nBut she told the Funke newspaper group that Germany's major cities had a significant issue with \"certain young men with a migration background, who hold our state in contempt, commit acts of violence and who can hardly be reached via education and integration programmes\".\n\nPart of the problem is thought to have stemmed from the brief lifting of a ban on sales of fireworks and firecrackers over the new year.\n\nAfter a two-year halt on sales during the Covid pandemic to prevent hospitals coming under further pressure, authorities said pyrotechnics would be allowed between 6pm on New Year's Eve and 6am on New Year's Day. One of the police unions said sales should be banned completely in future.\n\nThe Berlin district of Neukölln was worst-hit by the violence and local mayor Martin Hikel spoke of conditions similar to a civil war, with rescue workers being lured into ambushes.\n\nHe told the newspaper Die Welt that the violence was less about migration issues and more to do with socially disadvantaged areas. He warned of the risk of moving towards a situation similar to that in suburban areas of France.\n\nNeukölln's integration commissioner Güner Balci said those who took part in the attacks came from a small group of \"absolute losers\". In some inner city areas facing major social issues, she said children and young people were growing up witnessing domestic violence as part of their daily lives.", "Mortgage approvals fell to their lowest level in two years as interest rate rises put off buyers, new Bank of England figures suggest.\n\nThey slumped to just over 46,000 in November, down from under 58,000 in October, according to the central bank.\n\nOne analyst said some home-buyers were put off by a surge in mortgage rates sparked by the mini-budget turmoil.\n\nEconomists also predicted house prices, which were already down, could fall by up to 10% across the year.\n\nThe latest figures from the Bank of England show that people were also borrowing more on credit cards as cost of living pressures continue to weigh on household budgets.\n\nPeople also saved more, suggesting they are anticipating tough times ahead, one expert said.\n\nThe collapse in mortgage approvals was sparked by the mini-budget plan unveiled by previous prime minister Liz Truss and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in September, according to Andrew Wishart, an economist at Capital Economics.\n\nThe plan, which promised billions of pounds of tax cuts without explaining how they would be paid for, led to turmoil on the markets, and mortgage rates rising.\n\nMortgages had already been getting more expensive due to interest rate rises brought in by the Bank of England as it sought to tame the soaring pace of price rises.\n\nApprovals for mortgages are expected to be depressed \"for some time to come\", Daniel Mahoney, UK economist at Handelsbanken, added.\n\nThis will have a knock-on effect on house prices, which have already been falling. Handelsbanken expects house prices to fall 10% in 2023.\n\nThomas Pugh, an economist at auditing firm RSM, also predicted a 10% drop in house prices as mortgage approvals continue to fall.\n\nIn November, the actual interest rate paid on new mortgages increased by 0.26 percentage points to 3.35%.\n\nThis is likely to increase further, Mr Pugh said, \"leading to a further slump in new mortgage approvals\".\n\nHe added that households put £5.7bn into bank and building society accounts in November.\n\n\"This suggests that very weak consumer confidence is still prompting households to spend less and save more in anticipation of tough economic times ahead,\" he said.\n\nCredit card debt increased by £1.2bn and debt charity StepChange said the figures show that rising prices \"are forcing people to turn to credit to get by\" in the run-up to Christmas.\n\n\"With further net borrowing increases expected following the festive period, there is potential for an increase in the number of people vulnerable to problem debt,\" the charity said.\n\nHouseholds also stepped up borrowing against their homes in November as costs continued to spiral.\n\nAfter taking into account old loans that had been paid off, people borrowed an additional £4.4bn against their homes, compared to £3.6bn in October, the Bank of England found.\n\nHave you postponed buying a house due to higher mortgage rates? If you'd like to get in touch you can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pressure on the NHS is \"intolerable and unsustainable\", according to the British Medical Association (BMA) which represents doctors.\n\nChair of the BMA council, Professor Phil Banfield, has called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\" to solve the crisis.\n\nHospitals are facing soaring demands, which experts believe is in part driven by winter illnesses like flu and Covid.\n\nThe government said it recognised the pressures faced by the NHS.\n\nA number of hospitals have declared critical incidents in recent days, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments - the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record and some A&E departments are in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nDr Ian Higginson, the college's vice-president, said he was in \"no doubt\" there was a risk to patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live the waits being experienced by patients in emergency departments were \"appalling\" - and said he had heard of waits of up to four days.\n\n\"Emergency departments are in a really difficult and in some cases a complete state of crisis right now... and in many cases we are unable to provide care at the standard we would like.\"\n\nOn Sunday, RCEM president Dr Adrian Boyle said between 300 and 500 people were dying every week as a result of delays to emergency care.\n\nThe figures appear to be based on research published by the Emergency Medical Journal which calculated that every 82 patients whose hospital admission is delayed by more than six hours results in one death within 30 days.\n\nBut NHS England's Chris Hopson said care needed to be taken \"jumping to conclusions about excess mortality rates and their cause without a really full and detailed look at the evidence\".\n\nMr Hopson told BBC Radio 5 Live he feels \"deeply uncomfortable\" about the level of care sometimes being provided at moments of pressure.\n\nHe listed multiple factors that have contributed to pressures on NHS services including:\n\nHowever, the chief strategy officer urged people in need of medical attention to \"come forward\", but reminded patients to \"use the best route\" of support.\n\nEducation minister Robert Halfon said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was treating pressures on the NHS as a \"top priority\".\n\n\"We're increasing NHS capacity by the equivalent of 7,000 beds, spending an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharges and improve capacity, and providing an extra £150m for the ambulance service,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting blamed the situation on \"more than 12 years of Conservative mis-management\".\n\nHe said he found it \"completely inexplicable\" that no government minister had appeared in public to \"explain what they are doing to grip this crisis\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for an immediate recall of parliament and urged the government to pass an emergency health plan and declare a \"national major incident\".\n\nDr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the situation in emergency departments remains \"unbearable\".\n\n\"Unless we are able to retain and attract colleagues, and recruit new colleagues, then our situation will remain unbearable for a long time,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nAndrew Macfarlane's 90-year-old mother has been waiting more than 30 hours for an ambulance after she fell on New Year's Eve and hurt her hip.\n\n\"She's in a lot of pain but she's not on death's door, so I think there is a priority listing whereby she's down the priority list,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHis closest hospital in Torbay, Devon, is a 10-minute drive away but he was told not to move his mother in case it caused her further injury.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: \"We sincerely apologise for the delay this patient has experienced.\"\n\nThey said handover delays at emergency departments were affecting their performance. An ambulance did later arrive for her.\n\nMeanwhile, nurses and paramedics went on strike in December and the BMA has said it will ballot junior doctors this month. Nurses will again strike in England on 18 and 19 January and ambulance staff in parts of England on 11 and 23 January.\n\nThe government says it recognises the pressures being faced, and said it was providing £14.1bn in additional funding for health and social care over the next two years, as well as an extra £500m to try to speed up hospital discharges.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Energy bills could fall later this year, a forecast suggests, but households are still certain to face higher prices in a few months' time.\n\nA less generous government cap will increase the typical UK household gas and electricity bill from £2,500 a year to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nBut warm weather in Europe and high gas storage levels have led to falling wholesale prices faced by suppliers.\n\nSo a typical annual bill could fall to £2,800 in the summer, forecasters say.\n\nIf the prediction, from energy consultancy Cornwall Insight, proves to be correct, then the bill paid by 26 million households would again be governed by Ofgem's price cap, rather than the government's guarantee.\n\nThat could mean a lower-than-expected cost to the government, and ultimately taxpayers.\n\n\"We must remain cautious as the government has essentially been underwriting a volatile wholesale energy market - one which is likely to remain unstable throughout the year,\" said Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight.\n\n\"Even if energy prices continue at current levels - which is a big if - the costs to the government over the full period of the Energy Price Guarantee are still contributing to government borrowing and will ultimately fall at the feet of consumers in the form of higher taxes.\"\n\nEven if the weather stays relatively warm, domestic bills would still be far higher than they were before the pandemic, and are unlikely to fall back to that level for many years.\n\nA huge majority of households in the UK have a variable or default gas and electricity tariff. The price per unit of energy is capped in England, Wales and Scotland at what is considered an appropriate level by the energy regulator Ofgem. The cap is set every three months.\n\nHuge costs faced by suppliers meant that would have left a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity paying £4,279 a year from the start of January.\n\nSo, the government stepped in to cover some of that cost for people across the UK. Its Energy Price Guarantee means the typical household pays £2,500 a year now, rising to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nThat is still a massive hike on the bills people had been accustomed to. In the winter of 2021-22, the typical annual bill was £1,277.\n\nExtra cost-of-living payments are primarily helping the more vulnerable with those higher costs.\n\nAlthough bills are extremely high, the wholesale prices paid by suppliers - in advance of selling it on to consumers - have started to fall.\n\nThe winter in Europe has so far been unseasonably warm, hitting record temperatures in some places. Many European countries had also already filled their gas storage facilities.\n\nIf those lower wholesale prices hold, then consumers could feel the benefit later in the year, Cornwall Insight predicts.\n\nIt suggests that the typical annual household bill could fall to £2,800 in July to September, then be relatively unchanged at £2,835 between October and December.\n\nThis is far from guaranteed, as a cold snap in the coming months and more global tensions could quickly push up wholesale prices again, which spiked after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMuch of the gas which continued to flow through pipelines from Russia in 2022 has now been cut off, so analysts warn that if a cold spell in January or February depletes reserves in Europe, they will be much harder to replenish, leading to even higher prices next winter.\n\nThe cost of government support through the price guarantee is still expected to total £37bn, according to Cornwall Insight.\n\nCharities are calling on the government to offer more support to those in need, especially as the £400 discount for all billpayers this winter is unlikely to be repeated.\n\n\"While falling energy prices may offer some hope, these are not enough for consumers to feel any real gains,\" said Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition.\n\n\"We urge the government to go further in the support it is providing, especially to the elderly, disabled, those with pre-existing health conditions and those with young children.\"\n\nMeanwhile, businesses are waiting for the government to announce what it will do when a scheme fixing their energy bills expires at the end of March.\n\nFirms are expecting the government help to be halved, although it is possible heavy energy users will get support close to current levels.", "Fresh food prices rose at a record rate in December, at a time when many families would have been stocking up for Christmas, new figures suggest.\n\nFresh food inflation hit 15% in December, up from 14.3% in November, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).\n\nIt marks the highest monthly inflation rate for fresh food since records began in 2005.\n\nPrices have been pushed up by animal feed, fertiliser and energy costs.\n\nOverall, inflation for food hit 13.3% in December, the retail body said.\n\nHowever, prices for non-food items eased as retailers offered big discounts to shift stock, the retail industry body added.\n\nThe BRC looks at the change in prices of 500 everyday items every month.\n\nIts chief executive, Helen Dickinson, also warned that this year is expected to be another difficult one for consumers and businesses as \"inflation shows no immediate signs of waning\".\n\nInflation is the rate at which prices are rising. The latest official data from the Office for National Statistics showed the rate dropped back slightly, but remains close to a 40-year high.\n\nNew figures from market research firm Kantar on Wednesday also show that grocery sales hit £12.8bn in the four weeks to Christmas Day.\n\nMince pies and Christmas puddings proved popular, although Brussels sprouts were off the menu for some households as the proportion buying them fell to 45% from 48%.\n\nGed Futter, retail analyst and former senior buying manager at Asda, said Christmas dinner was always going to be more expensive, due to rising food prices.\n\n\"We've seen price rises, particularly in fresh food, for quite some time now,\" he told the BBC's Today Programme.\n\n\"It's all about feed, fertiliser and fuel, and all of last year they were going up,\" he added. \"Fresh food shows no signs of those prices coming down.\"\n\nHe suggested food prices will remain high at the start of this year, before they finally start to fall.\n\nHigher food and energy prices along with the arrival of Christmas spending bills mean shoppers will have less to spend on non-essential items in January, according to Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at NielsenIQ.\n\nThe BRC warned shoppers could be hit with even higher prices when the energy bill support scheme for businesses ends in April too.\n\nIt said that shop owners have been trying not to pass on record price rises to customers but may have no choice as bills are due to go up without future help.\n\nThe government fixed wholesale gas and electricity prices for firms for six months between October and March, but the Treasury said the scheme was being reviewed as it was \"very expensive\".\n\nThe BBC understands Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will meet with business groups at lunchtime on Wednesday to brief them on the government's plans for energy bill support after the current package expires.\n\nMs Dickson said retailers would continue to work hard to support their customers and keep prices low.\n\nBut this \"may no longer be viable\" as without the government's energy support scheme, retailers could see their bills rise by £7.5bn collectively, she said.\n\n\"Government must urgently provide clarity on what future support might look like or else consumers might pay the price,\" she added.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), UK Hospitality, the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce are all expected to attend a meeting with the chancellor on Wednesday.\n\nThe FSB said small firms \"can't plan their 2023 without assurances\".\n\nMartin Greenhow of Mojo bars said firms needed to know 'months ago' whether government energy bill support would be extended\n\nMeanwhile, UK Hospitality said it was \"vital that this support is extended\", and warned that without it, the industry was \"facing a steep cliff-edge in April\".\n\nMartin Greenhow is the managing director of Voodoo Doll which has five cocktail bars called Mojo across the north of England.\n\nHe said his fixed-term energy contract for one of the bars comes to an end in March at the same time as the energy bills support scheme.\n\nWhen the energy tariff came up for renewal at another of his premises last year, the bills more than doubled, even with the financial help from the government.\n\n\"We were looking at £17,000 per month,\" he said. \"Well, that's wholly unsustainable for any business. If we had those sort of margins, I wouldn't be here now, I'd be sat on a yacht in Monaco.\"\n\nHe said businesses needed to know \"months ago\" and \"for the long term\" whether that energy bill support would continue.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said its review was aimed at reducing the public finances' exposure to volatile international energy prices from April 2023.\n\n\"We will announce the outcome of this review in the New Year to ensure businesses have sufficient certainty about future support before the current scheme ends in March 2023,\" they said.", "Flu and Covid have put \"massive pressure\" on the NHS and reducing backlogs caused by the pandemic will \"take time\", Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said.\n\nSpeaking amid mounting concern over hospital delays, he said the government was working on freeing up beds.\n\nHe said this would relieve pressure in A&Es and on ambulance services.\n\nIt comes as a woman who waited 25 hours to be seen at an emergency department told the BBC it was \"like a war movie\".\n\nMr Barclay said people with conditions like heart disease had been reluctant to come forward for support at times during the pandemic - and this was a major factor in the demands now being seen.\n\nHe acknowledged the NHS was facing huge challenges, but said the government was providing extra funding to help.\n\nThis includes a £500m winter fund that has been set up to help hospitals discharge patients who are medically fit to leave but cannot because of a lack of support available in the community.\n\nAnd he added: \"We are so focused on getting people out of hospital who do not need to be there.\"\n\nAnnette Fury, who spent 13 hours in an ambulance and another 12 waiting in A&E, described the scene at a hospital as like 'a war movie'\n\nDowning Street said the government had been \"up front\" with the public about the pressure the NHS would face.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman acknowledged that \"for a number of people seeking to access the NHS this winter it will be very difficult\".\n\nHe said the service was facing an \"unprecedented challenge\" but insisted the government was doing \"everything possible\" to ease pressure.\n\n\"I think we are confident we are providing the NHS with the funding it needs,\" he said, adding the NHS was already \"maximising its number of beds\" to free up capacity.\n\nIn recent days, a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents, suggesting they cannot function as usual because of extraordinary pressure.\n\nSenior doctors have described the NHS as on a knife edge, with some accident and emergency units in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nOne patient, Annette Fury, described the situation in A&E after she suffered a seizure from bacterial meningitis and was blue-lighted to a hospital in the West Midlands.\n\nOnce there, she spent 13 hours in an ambulance and then another 12 waiting in A&E.\n\n\"It was like a scene from a war movie,\" she told BBC News. \"There were people sitting on the floor, people on trollies everywhere. It was just horrendous.\"\n\nShe added she wanted to \"highlight to the government how dangerous the situation is\".\n\nShe said: \"What I would like to do is invite a government minister to come in - even for six hours - and to observe what goes on here,\" she said.\n\nThere have been sharp rises in the numbers of people in hospital with Covid and flu in recent weeks - about one in eight beds in England is now occupied by patients with these infections.\n\nLabour criticised the government's management of the health service, while the Liberal Democrats called for Parliament to be recalled early.\n\nMPs are due back at Westminster next Monday, following their Christmas break.\n\nProf Phil Banfield, who chairs the British Medical Association, which represents doctors, called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\".\n\nThe situation was \"intolerable and unsustainable\", he said, with the NHS's survival on a knife edge and patients needlessly dying because of a political choice.\n\nRichard Webber, of the College of Paramedics, said the current situation was the worst in his 30-year career.\n\nDelays were causing patients \"significant harm\", he said, with ambulance services now struggling to find available crews for cardiac arrests - the highest category of emergency call.\n\n\"I've never known anything like it,\" Mr Webber said.Meanwhile, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reiterated the importance of people wearing masks if they are ill and need to go out.\n\nThe UKHSA has also asked parents to keep children off school if they have a fever.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if willing to speak to a BBC News journalist. You can also make contact in the following ways:\n\nIf reading this page but unable see the form, visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit a question or comment - or email HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location, with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNovak Djokovic is set to miss Indian Wells and the Miami Open after the United States extended its requirement for international visitors to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nProof of vaccination will be required to enter the country until at least 10 April but Serbia's Djokovic has previously said he is unvaccinated.\n\nIndian Wells and the Miami Open - two of the most prestigious tournaments on the tennis calendar outside the Grand Slams - start on 6 and 20 March respectively.\n\nFormer world number one Djokovic, 35, is currently in Australia - 12 months after he was deported from the country before the Australian Open because of his vaccination status.\n\nAustralia dropped its vaccine requirements in July and Djokovic's three-year visa ban was overturned in November.\n\nHe is through to the second round of the Adelaide International as he continues his build-up to the Australian Open, the first major of the season, which starts on 16 January.\n\nDjokovic is a nine-time champion in Melbourne and is just one Grand Slam title shy of Rafael Nadal's men's record of 22.\n\nSpeaking about his 2022 experience in Australia, in which he was detained and forced to stay at an immigration hotel, he said: \"You can't forget those events. It's one of these things that sticks with you, it stays with you for I guess the rest of your life.\n\n\"It was something that I've never experienced before, and hopefully never again.\"\n\nThe back-to-back tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami are not only extremely prestigious, but also often an important staging post to the three summer Grand Slams.\n\nIt is possible Djokovic's absence from these events last year contributed to his quarter-final defeat by Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros, although there was the added complication of not being able to play in Australia either.\n\nDjokovic could possibly return to world number one by winning the Australian Open, but forfeiting up to 2,000 ranking points in missing the US tournaments may well have a significant bearing on his ranking thereafter.\n\nAnd with every extension of the US vaccine requirement, the threat of Djokovic missing August's US Open increases.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None The girls paying for their parents' sins: Watch Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on BBC iPlayer now", "Some patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is investigating whether a delayed response contributed to the deaths of eight people in recent weeks.\n\nAll eight deaths occurred between 12 December and the start of January.\n\nThe NIAS is treating four of the deaths as serious adverse incidents, which is defined as an incident that led to unintended or unexpected harm.\n\nThe remaining four deaths are being investigated to see whether they meet that criteria.\n\nThe patients' identities have not been disclosed, but it is understood one of the eight people was a man who waited more than nine hours for an ambulance in mid-December.\n\nThe man's condition deteriorated and he died before paramedics arrived.\n\nThe BBC's Nolan Show reported on the man's case last month.\n\nAmbulance staff have been under severe pressure for months.\n\nA delay in offloading patients to emergency departments is a major problem because ambulances are not able to go on to the next call.\n\nDemand for emergency care services is outweighing capacity, say health officials\n\nSome patients have been waiting up to nine hours in ambulances outside EDs as they await admission to hospital.\n\nThe NIAS has also confirmed that in five of the eight cases, the response was not within the recommended timeframe.\n\nThe delays are a cause of \"great concern,\" but there is \"no end in sight to the pressures we are facing,\" according to the ambulance service's medical director Nigel Ruddell.\n\nHe said the ambulance service conducts an internal review whenever \"there is a delayed response to the call and a poor outcome from the call\" to see whether delays contributed to a death.\n\n\"That process involves liaising with the family and being open and clear with them about what happened on the day - whether it was because of pressures and demand on the day or whether there was something that, potentially, we could have done better.\"\n\nMr Ruddell said from 12-24 December there were five reported cases where a patient died after a delayed response and then three more cases since Christmas Eve.\n\nHe added that ambulance service staff were \"doing everything to prioritise the most critical cases but that is leading to a poor experience for some patients\".\n\n\"I recognise the frustration of patients and families who are ringing us but I have to recognise a tired and exhausted workforce, who are coming back from one call and immediately going out to the next emergency and then possibly sitting many hours outside a hospital ED waiting to hand over that patent, knowing that more calls are waiting.\"\n\nWhile the entire health and social care system is under immense pressure, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is a particular pinch point, where a delay can make a difference between life and death.\n\nAmbulances waiting outside emergency departments for hours at a time is contributing to the pressure, and not just in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is a national problem across the UK. It is also a problem in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBecause of the increase in flu cases and respiratory diseases, health authorities are forecasting that this pressure will continue throughout January and February\n\nIt is relentless not only on the system, on the number of beds that are available, on patients and families, but obviously on staff as well.\n\nAt one point on Wednesday morning 27 ambulances were queued outside emergency departments in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were 422 people awaiting admission to hospital.\n\nThe Department of Health said hospitals were \"under severe strain\" as \"demand for services outweighs capacity\".\n\nIt said the spread of flu, Covid-19 and other respiratory viruses were contributing to that pressure.\n\n\"It remains vital that services are used responsibly and that hospital discharge processes are followed when people are deemed well enough to leave,\" it said.\n\nThe NIAS inquiry comes as an emergency department nurse said he would be worried if any of his loved ones had to seek treatment there as staff continued to be overwhelmed.\n\nStephen McKenna, who spent the Christmas period working on the frontline, described conditions as \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll of Northern Ireland's health trusts are failing to meet emergency department waiting time targets.\n\nThey do not have enough beds available due to difficulty discharging patients.\n\nMany beds are being used by people who need to secure social care arrangements in order to leave hospital.\n\n\"I would be extremely worried to the point where I would probably want to be with them every step of the way,\" said Mr McKenna, a member of the Royal College of Nursing's emergency nurse network.\n\n\"I can see why people want to be there [with their relatives],\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"I would be really worried about leaving a grandparent, a mother, a sister, a brother in an emergency department for fear that they're going to be lying somewhere potentially distressed by other patients, potentially not getting the care they need because the staff are just completely overwhelmed.\"\n\nLinda Robinson of Age NI says a shortage of social care staff is contributing to the problem in hospitals\n\nMr McKenna said medical staff were \"now looking after people in corridors\" and that some people were being \"nursed head to toe, top to tail, side by side, crammed into spaces\".\n\n\"Across all emergency departments I have worked in in the north there are people literally lying and sitting side by side in conditions that would otherwise have been completely unacceptable just five years ago.\"\n\nThe charity Age NI has said the shortage of health workers in Northern Ireland's social care sector must be addressed to relieve pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe charity's chief executive said staff shortages in hospitals were the \"tip of the iceberg\" compared with the situation in social care.\n\nLinda Robinson said staff retention in the social care sector was a real problem and the rates of pay were \"appalling\".\n\nShortly before Christmas, Northern Ireland's health trusts announced new measures aimed at freeing up beds faster to accommodate the sickest patients.\n\nOn 19 December, a 48-hour time limit was introduced to discharge patients who were deemed medically fit to leave hospital.\n\nHealth authorities asked patients and families to work with staff so that hospital beds and ambulances could be reserved for those most in need.\n\nHowever Ms Robinson pointed out that deeming a patient medically fit for discharge did not necessarily mean that they were healthy and well.\n\nRetaining staff in the social care sector is a big problem, says Age NI\n\nMany older patients are extremely frail and some families are unable to care for loved ones who have complex or around-the-clock care needs.\n\nShe said that returning to contingency measures using during the Covid pandemic could be looked at as a short-term solution.\n\n\"During Covid we made significant steps in changing things,\" she said.\n\n\"If we don't have enough staff to deliver one-to-one care in the community is there something in going back to the models that we had when we looked at [discharging patients to] hotels?\n\n\"We built a system in the Odyssey [Arena] to take that pressure out of those hospital beds.\n\n\"Lots of solutions have got to come forward.\"\n\nAt midday on Tuesday, there were hundreds of people waiting for treatment in EDs across Northern Ireland - 376 of whom had waited longer than 12 hours, which is a breach of health service waiting time targets.", "Admissions among children under 5 have been high this flu season, as well as among older people.\n\nThere were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week - up from 520 a day the month before, the latest data from NHS England shows.\n\nOf these, 267 people needed specialised care in critical care beds last week.\n\nNHS England warns pressures on the health service continue to grow as viruses like flu re-circulate after a hiatus during the pandemic.\n\nThis time last year, when social mixing was low, there were only 34 patients in hospital a day with flu.\n\nProf Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"Sadly, these latest flu numbers show our fears of a 'twindemic' have been realised, with cases up seven-fold in just a month and the continued impact of Covid hitting staff hard, with related absences up almost 50% on the end of November.\"\n\nHe warned this was \"no time to be complacent\" with the risk of serious illness being \"very real\" and encouraged those eligible to take up their flu and Covid jabs as soon as possible.\n\nAdmissions among children under 5 have been high this flu season, as well as among older people.\n\nThe report suggests NHS staff have also been affected by the spread of viruses during winter, with staff absences from all causes sitting at around 63,296 a day. This compares to 52,556 at the end of last month.\n\nIn Wales, admissions with flu have been rising since the beginning of December, with 702 people in hospital with flu on Christmas day and 29 of those patients required critical care support.\n\nFlu-related hospital admissions in Scotland have also been steadily increasing over the winter with the rate at 7.5 patients per 100,000 of the population, according to the latest figures. This is the highest on record since 2017.\n\nThe latest figures published for Northern Ireland, for mid-December, show the number of positive flu tests in hospital have risen sharply compared to previous weeks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shaun Slator's tweet has been been widely criticised\n\nA councillor who said on Twitter that it was \"more likely\" a rape victim was a prostitute whose \"punter... didn't pay\" is under investigation.\n\nShaun Slator's remark was made under a post about a news report on a rape inquiry in Plumstead in the south-east London borough of Greenwich.\n\nA Bromley Council spokesperson said: \"We have received complaints relating to this matter which the council will now investigate.\"\n\nThe Met Police confirmed in a statement: \"At 03:59GMT on 30 December a female attended a police station to report that she had been raped in the vicinity of Villas Road.\n\n\"There have been no arrests and inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nA screenshot of Mr Slator's tweet, which has since been deleted, shows his account responding to a news report about the incident, saying: \"More likely that it's a punter that didn't pay.\"\n\nMr Slator, St Mary Cray ward councillor, told the BBC: \"I have no interest in being in another out-of-context political hit piece.\n\n\"I put a lot of time and energy into lobbying the local police and council for more resources to tackle the armed gangs which control the drugs and pimping in Plumstead.\n\n\"Local Labour councillors, the Labour MP and mayor of London all ignored my warnings.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Jeal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Jeal said the Labour group was \"disgusted\" by the tweet, adding: \"We call on Bromley Council Conservative group and Gareth Bacon MP to publicly and unequivocally condemn his comments and refer the matter to Bromley Council's standards committee for independent investigation.\"\n\nMr Bacon, Conservative MP for Orpington, said: \"The party takes these matters seriously and I believe an investigation will be undertaken. It would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nSarah Olney, the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park in south-west London, said: \"I expect the Conservative Party to suspend him without delay.\n\n\"These attitudes towards rape should not be tolerated anywhere in this country, and especially in our politics.\n\n\"For elected representatives to spout such offensive remarks on this crime really is shocking.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British man has died after being shot in Jamaica, police on the Caribbean island have said.\n\nSean Patterson, a personal trainer from west London, was found on Monday with gunshot wounds to his upper body and head in St James, officers said.\n\nMr Patterson, 33, was transported to hospital, but could not be revived, the force said.\n\nAccording to local media reports, he was approached by a man with a gun whilst he was standing in the pool deck at a villa in Bogue Hill around 11:45 local time (16:45 GMT) on Monday.\n\nOfficers from Montego Bay Police received reports that Mr Patterson was standing by the pool of the guest house.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said they were \"supporting the family of a British man who died in Jamaica and are in contact with the local authorities\".\n\nLocal media said a 34-year-old man has been taken into custody.\n\nThe Gleaner newspaper reported that 198 murders were recorded in St James last year.", "Mark Cavendish, pictured in October 2022, was recovering from injuries at the time of the alleged robbery\n\nOlympic cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife were subjected to a knifepoint robbery while at home with their children, a trial has heard.\n\nProsecutors say intruders made off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000, following the raid in Ongar, Essex, in November 2021.\n\nJurors were told one of the masked raiders threatened to stab the 37-year-old athlete in front of his children.\n\nTwo defendants each deny two counts of robbery.\n\n\"[It was a] well-orchestrated and well-executed planned invasion of the home of a well-known individual with the intention of grabbing high-value timepieces,\" said prosecutor Edward Renvoize, opening the first day of the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\n\"It's quite clear the assailants were interested in obtaining watches and once they got the watches they left the premises with very little else.\"\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south east London, and 28-year-old Oludewa Okorosobo, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, both deny two counts of robbery.\n\nPeta and Mark Cavendish were in bed when \"male voices\" were heard in the house\n\nMr Renvoize said Mr Cavendish and wife Peta were in bed with their three-year-old child, on 27 November 2021, when Mr Cavendish thought he heard the noise of \"male voices\".\n\nJurors were told Mrs Cavendish went to investigate because her husband was recovering from a \"number of injuries\".\n\nShe heard voices appearing to come from the kitchen and was next aware of figures running towards her, the court heard.\n\nThe suspects, who were allegedly armed with \"large knives\" and wearing balaclavas, followed her to the bedroom where they \"jumped on\" and \"began punching\" Mr Cavendish - telling him to turn his panic alarm off.\n\n\"One produced a knife and threatened to stab him up in front of his children,\" said Mr Renvoize.\n\nHe said three masked individuals were asking where \"the watches were\" and collected their mobile phones.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Cavendish kept her three-year-old under a duvet during the ordeal to prevent him witnessing the robbery.\n\nAfter ordering the gates to be opened, Mr Renvoize said the intruders left with telephones, suitcases and the watches by 02:32 GMT.\n\nThe couple found their downstairs patio door was smashed.\n\nThe prosecutor however said that Mrs Cavendish's phone was found outside the property, which was an \"error in what was a carefully planned and executed robbery\".\n\nThe jurors were told that Ali Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham in Kent - whose DNA was matched to Mrs Cavendish's phone - had already pleaded guilty to robbery.\n\nThe trial was estimated to last two weeks.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mass burial took place in Papua New Guinea in 2021 to alleviate pressure on the morgue\n\nUnclaimed bodies found decaying in an outdoor shed have been buried alongside others in a mass grave in Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby.\n\nThe burial took place after a viral social media video appeared to show excess bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue in the shed.\n\nOf the 92 bodies buried - not all found in the shed - 40 of them were children.\n\nThe hospital said the government had allocated additional funding to the mortuary for 2023.\n\nThe viral video showed at least 10 bodies, wrapped in blankets, on bunks and in hospital beds in an outdoor shed.\n\nIt is currently the wet season in Papua New Guinea, with temperatures hovering around the high 20 to mid-30C.\n\nAlthough the mortuary is based at the hospital, the local government authority, the National Capital District Commission, is responsible for it.\n\nThe morgue has struggled to keep up with demand for space as the population of Port Moresby has grown.\n\nThe president of the National Doctors' Association, James Naipo, said that despite serving a population of more than one million people, the hospital had not been upgraded since it was designed to cater for 400,000.\n\n\"Right now, no extension to Port Moresby General Hospital has been done to cater for well over 1.3 million people in the city, in spite of availability of NCD Health services, private health services and military health services on the ground,\" he said in a statement.\n\nBut the hospital said the morgue was overcrowded because of family members not collecting bodies in \"a timely manner\".\n\n\"There is accumulation of bodies, more than is removed on a daily basis,\" the hospital said in a Facebook post.\n\nMr Naipo said bodies might have been left because of economic difficulties felt by many across the country.\n\n\"Do not blame Port Moresby General Hospital management and its board for this situation crisis,\" he wrote on Facebook.\n\nThe city's deputy governor, Dadi Toka Jr, told the Guardian the public hospital needed a new mortuary facility and said the government was currently looking into options to expand it.\n\nA mass burial took place in December 2021 when the morgue became overwhelmed\n\nPort Moresby is no stranger to mass burials. During the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 200 bodies were buried to relieve pressure on the overwhelmed morgue.\n\nAnd in December 2021, 54 unclaimed bodies who had died from non-Covid related causes were also buried in a mass grave.\n\nPapua New Guinea is the most populous Pacific Island nation and has experienced outbreaks of numerous communicable diseases including polio and HIV in recent years, according to Unicef.\n\nUnicef says the nation's infant mortality rate is currently 44 per 1,000 children.\n\nThat mortality rate is more than 10 times the UK's infant mortality rate, which is 4.2 per 1000 deaths.\n\nBBC has contacted the NCDC and the Papua New Guinea Health Minister for comment.", "Wayne Erasmus praised staff for their work but criticised the set-up at the hospital\n\nA 63-year-old man had to spend nearly 24 hours in an ambulance and then slept on a hospital floor before he was moved to a ward.\n\nWayne Erasmus, from Carmarthenshire, had difficulty breathing on Christmas Day, prompting his family to call 999.\n\nHe was in the ambulance overnight at Swansea's Morriston Hospital and then moved to the acute medical unit where he spent the next night on the floor.\n\nSwansea Bay University Health Board said it would investigate.\n\nThe Welsh government has told health boards to discharge people who are well enough to leave, even without a package of care.\n\nMr Erasmus, from Hendy, told S4C's Newyddion programme the unit, known as AMU, \"was a shambles\".\n\nHe added: \"Everyone was over 60, just roughing it.\"\n\nHe was then told the following day that there would be no hot food, only sandwiches.\n\n\"There were too many patients and not enough staff,\" he said.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\n\"What I find frustrating is the amount of bed blockers there.\"\n\nMr Erasmus was diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome and was later transferred to a ward where he received oxygen, a nebuliser and steroids before being discharged on the sixth day.\n\nSince being in hospital, Mr Erasmus has written a letter to the health board complaining about his experience.\n\nHe said staff \"went above and beyond what was expected of them\", but added management needed to put better plans in place when A&E was at full capacity.\n\nA spokesperson for the health board said: \"This will be thoroughly investigated in line with our complaints procedure. Therefore it would be inappropriate for us to comment further at this stage.\n\n\"We will, however, respond directly to Mr Erasmus once the process is completed.\"\n\nDr Rhodri Edwards says there is a risk of becoming ill if patients are not discharged when they are ready to go home\n\nOn Tuesday, the health board urged families of patients waiting to be discharged to take them home as quickly as possible to free up beds.\n\nIt said that nearly 280 patients in Swansea Bay hospitals - covering Swansea and Neath Port Talbot - were currently medically well enough to leave - but for \"a number of reasons\" could not go.\n\nDr Rhodri Edwards, clinical chairman for medicine, said: \"We are asking families to get together and work out if they are in a position to help their relative to go home earlier.\n\n\"It would be really helpful if they could find ways to provide some temporary support for a short period, just while the care or reablement packages are being organised.\n\n\"This will not only be a great help to the NHS by helping us free up more beds for sick patients who are waiting for them, but it will substantially benefit their relative.\n\n\"Hospital really isn't the best place for someone who no longer needs acute care.\n\n\"There is a real risk to patients staying on in an acute hospital bed that they will catch an infection from sick patients.\"\n\nMr Erasmus' case follows a warning from the body representing all Welsh NHS organisations that the NHS is on a knife-edge in terms of its ability to cope.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board in north Wales has already declared a critical incident.\n\nDarren Hughes, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said the NHS was already struggling to cope, and the Christmas period had \"tipped it over the edge\".\n\nThe Welsh government called the situation in the NHS \"unprecedented\".", "Huge crowds turned up to say goodbye to Pele as his coffin made its way through the streets of Santos\n\nIf Monday's wake for Brazilian football legend Pele was a day of reflection, Tuesday's funeral cortege was one of carnivalesque proportions.\n\nThe 82-year-old, who many regarded as the world's best football player, died on 29 December.\n\nHis coffin arrived in Santos on Monday, where thousands of mourners came to pay their respects at the ground of his former club - some even queued overnight.\n\nOn Tuesday, supporters' club Torcida Jovem gathered outside the Urbano Caldeira stadium ahead of the casket leaving. Fans waved huge black and white banners, the colours of Santos Football Club. Many wore the number 10 shirt that Pele made so famous.\n\n\"Only Pele, 1,000 goals,\" they repeatedly chanted as people beat drums and danced in the street.\n\nHis body was then accompanied for seven kilometres through the streets of Santos while helicopters flew overhead. His coffin was carried on a fire engine, as is traditional in official parades.\n\nIt travelled along the sea front and past Pele's mother's house - she turned 100 last year. There, a relative asked for a minute's silence and the party atmosphere hushed immediately as Doña Celeste clutched her hands in prayer.\n\nThese past few days have halted the busy coastal city of Santos.\n\nMembers of supporters' club Torcida Jovem were among those who turned up to say goodbye to Pele\n\n\"He was important for the whole world, for young people too,\" said Marcia Simões, who was standing with her sons Eduardo and Mario at the road leading to Pele's burial place. \"I'm prouder than ever to be from Santos.\"\n\nThat was a feeling echoed by so many mourners - that he was the best of Brazil.\n\n\"Everyone in Brazil wants to be a football player to imitate him,\" said Thiago Silva, one of the last people in the queue before the wake ended. \"Of course, nobody can.\"\n\n\"My father was a Pele fanatic,\" said Sandra Garcia, who was with 11-year-old Enzo. \"I got really emotional remembering my father - if he was alive, no question he would have been here crying. I grew up praising Pele, talking of him and telling stories about him - so it's important to be here.\"\n\nEven for someone of Enzo's young age, Pele was a powerful influence.\n\n\"No question, he beats Cristiano Ronaldo by a long way,\" he said. \"He's the best player of all time over several decades.\"\n\nSandra Garcia and her son Enzo are among Pele's fans\n\nBeyond football, Pele united Brazilians by being their ambassador. In a country deeply divided politically and economically - people have only had good things to say about him.\n\nThe same could not be said of the country's new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who only this week took office for a third term. He arrived to pay his respects shortly before the wake ended and cheers for him competed with calls that he should be in prison.\n\nPresident Lula was released in 2019 after spending 18 months in jail for corruption. His convictions were annulled in 2021.\n\nThe coming together of a nation in grief has been a welcome relief for so many in what has been a turbulent few months since the presidential elections.\n\n\"Pele united all of us,\" said Deofilo de Freitas, waiting in the queue. He was the first one in the line on Monday but wanted another chance to see his idol before he was laid to rest. \"Not only was he the best player in the world, he was a marvellous human being.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Cuban economy has been in dire straits in recent years\n\nThe US Embassy in Cuba has resumed visa services five years after they were paused due to a spate of mysterious health incidents among its staff.\n\nAt least 20,000 visas a year will likely be issued, primarily to Cubans trying to reach family members in the US.\n\nThe reopening comes amid a record exodus from the island, as Cuba suffers one of its worst economic crises.\n\nConsular services were reduced to a minimum under the Trump Administration.\n\nThe services were closed in 2017 following reports of unexplained health incidents among embassy employees, which eventually became known as the \"Havana Syndrome\".\n\nThe syndrome was initially noted among US intelligence officers and diplomats in the Havana embassy - before being reported in other parts of the world - who first began complaining of an array of unusual symptoms about seven years ago.\n\nMany theories behind the illnesses have been now debunked but the full causes remain unclear.\n\nThe news of resumption of visa services, announced last week by the embassy, will come as relief for thousands of Cubans who are desperate to see their families in Florida and elsewhere in the US.\n\nThe step comes as Cuban migration to the United States is reaching levels not seen in decades. Under a bilateral agreement, the US will issue at least 20,000 visas a year to Cubans.\n\nHowever, that is a tiny proportion of those who are leaving or trying to leave. Border authorities in the US recorded around 225,000 Cubans entering the country illegally last year.\n\nAfter 2016, the Trump Administration implemented a whole raft of new economic sanctions on the communist-run island, following the easing of the same rules by President Barack Obama.\n\nCombined with the economic downturn from the coronavirus pandemic and economic mismanagement by the state, the economy in Cuba has been in dire straits in recent years.\n\nThe US government recently announced plans to ease tough sanctions imposed on Cuba by former President Trump.\n\nUnder new measures approved by the Biden administration, restrictions on family remittances and travel to the island will be eased.", "Martyn Armstrong, 50, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, has been sentenced to life in prison\n\nA paedophile has been jailed for life after software reversed a distortion technique he used to mask his identity.\n\nMartyn Armstrong, 50, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, admitted to multiple offences, including 20 counts of raping a child under 13.\n\nArmstrong posted a distorted video of him raping a child on the dark web but the National Crime Agency was able to identify him using new software.\n\nHe was sentenced to life with a 14-year minimum term at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nArmstrong, formerly of Derbyshire, also admitted sexual assault, causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and indecent images of children (IIOC) offences.\n\nThe court heard how the 50-year-old raped and sexually assaulted two children. He took photographs of the attacks and took indecent images of another child.\n\nOne of the victims described him as a \"monster\".\n\nArmstrong was arrested in July 2022 after the National Crime Agency (NCA) used software to identify him from images of the abuse he posted on the internet.\n\nThe judge, Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, said the offending was \"shocking\" with a \"longstanding and continuing interest in sexual abuse of the very worst kind\".\n\nShe added Armstrong did \"not have the proper understanding of the impact of the offending\" and \"paedophiles around the world continue to view the images for their sexual gratification\".\n\nArmstrong admitted multiple offences of the rape of a child under the age of 13 and sexual assault as well as making, distributing and possessing indecent images of children at hearings in September and November 2022.\n\nThe images were distributed to paedophiles around the world on the dark web.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies worldwide were aware of the series of 200 images and one video for many years, but could not identify the offender or victims.\n\nThe victims faces were visible in the images, but Armstrong had obscured his own identity by distorting and pixelating it.\n\nProsecutor Roger Griffiths told the court Armstrong's face had been \"obscured by zig zag distortion\".\n\nOne of the victims was as young as one when the abuse took place. None of the victims were aware of what had happened to them until made aware by the NCA.\n\nThe software developed by the NCA allowed them to reverse the distortion of his face in the abuse images and as a result Mr Griffiths said \"a Facebook profile of Martyn Armstrong was identified which had a strong similarity to the image of the offender\".\n\nIt was the first time this technology had resulted in a successful prosecution anywhere in the world, the NCA said.\n\nThe NCA worked with law enforcement agencies in Australia, Italy and France in order to bring Armstrong to justice. An officer in France was able to identify the precise beach location in Wales where some of the images had been taken.\n\nAfter Armstrong was arrested, a search of his home found a number of devices, including one of two cameras he used in 2010 to take indecent images.\n\nAbout 4,000 indecent images were found in total.\n\nAmong the images on his devices were images of a child being changed on a beach. Armstrong said he didn't recognise the photos but did not deny taking them. He told officers he had taken pictures of children on beaches, telling them: \"I've always got a camera on me\".\n\nMr Griffiths added some of the images were \"particularly distressing\" and were still being shared online because they could not be taken down from all sites. He said that one set of the images had featured in more than 500 UK court cases.\n\nIn a victim personal statement, one of Armstrong's victims said being told about the images had resulted in their \"whole life turned upside down\".\n\n\"I might have gone my whole life not knowing and that terrifies me,\" they said.\n\n\"How could someone commit such horrendous crimes against me. I feel like I'm living in a nightmare. It doesn't feel real.\n\n\"My entire outlook on life has changed. I can no longer find the light in life.\"\n\nThe victim said \"only a monster could ever be responsible\" for what had happened.\n\nSentencing Armstrong to life in prison with a minimum term of 14 years, Judge Lloyd-Clarke said Armstrong had \"an obsession with the sexual abuse of children and babies\" over many years.\n\nShe said it would be \"impossible to determine the time you will remain dangerous\".\n\nFollowing the sentencing, NCA operations manager Martin Ludlow said: \"It is over 17 years since Armstrong began to abuse these young children. I don't believe he thought he would ever be caught and that the distortion techniques he used would protect him.\n\n\"However, the NCA and our international partners were determined to ensure his evil actions did not go unpunished.\n\n\"Our commitment to identifying him was unwavering and ultimately, NCA officers developed a completely new programme which led to his unmasking.\"\n\nLucy Dowdall of the CPS added the investigation was \"exceptional\".", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWest Ham United co-chairman David Gold has died at the age of 86 following a short illness\n\nA lifelong Hammers fan, the club said he passed away \"peacefully\" on Wednesday morning with his fiancee and daughters by his side.\n\nGold, previously the chairman and co-owner of Birmingham City, became joint-chairman at West Ham with David Sullivan in 2010.\n\n\"I am extremely sad to hear this news,\" said manager David Moyes.\n\n\"On behalf of all of the players and my staff at the training ground, I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to David Gold's family at this very difficult time.\n\n\"Mr Gold was a regular visitor to Rush Green and always a source of great support and encouragement to myself and the players. It was clear he had a genuine and sincere love for the club and was a true supporter at heart.\n\n\"He took a great interest in the people working behind the scenes and was always keen to help in any way he could. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nGold grew up directly opposite the Boleyn Ground - West Ham's former stadium - and played for the club's boys' and youth teams.\n\n\"Of all our joint ventures, none gave us more pride and happiness than the day we took ownership of West Ham United, our club, in January 2010,\" said Sullivan.\n\n\"David had a long-standing connection with the Hammers, having grown up opposite the Boleyn Ground in Green Street, and represented the club at junior level.\n\n\"He always wanted what was best for West Ham United, and his passing is a great loss for all of us.\"\n\nBoth West Ham and Leeds players will wear black armbands during their Premier League match at Elland Road on Wednesday.\n\nGold was at Birmingham City for 16 years, selling his shares in 2009 before he and Sullivan took over at West Ham in January 2010.\n\nWest Ham said their takeover \"helped to steady the ship and protect the club's future during a period of great financial uncertainty\".\n\nHis tenure at the club oversaw its move to the London Stadium, as well as relegation and subsequent promotion back to the Premier League and playing in the Europa League.\n\nOutside of football, Gold was also the chairman of retail chain Ann Summers and previously co-owned an adult magazine company and corporate air service.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Birmingham City said it was \"devastated\" to learn of Gold's passing.\n\nWest Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady led the tributes to Gold on Twitter , saying he was a \"great man, a great friend and a complete gentleman\".\n\nFormer Hammers forward Carlton Cole said : \"Mr Gold was a favourite of mine at the club.\n\n\"Always had time for me and wanted me to win in life. A very kind and warm-hearted man.\"\n\nEx-striker Clinton Morrison said Gold \"made him feel welcome\" when he signed for Birmingham in 2002, while former Blues midfielder Curtis Woodhouse said he had \"reached out to try and help\" during difficult times at the club.\n\nPremier League chief executive Richard Masters said Gold \"will be truly missed\" having helped progress the game from his position.\n\n\"David has been around the Premier League shareholders' table for more than 20 years, with both West Ham and Birmingham, and leaves a great legacy and a host of good friends,\" said Masters.\n\n\"David's contribution to the game goes beyond the progress he oversaw at West Ham, and includes a big impact throughout football and the Premier League itself.\"\n\nTo people inside West Ham, David Gold will be thought of fondly as a kind, gentle presence, always interested in the wellbeing of staff and keen to be kept updated on events around the day-to-day running of the club.\n\nAn East Ender and West Ham fan to the core, Gold - or DG to those who knew him - was visual, standing proudly at the London Stadium last September as the statue of Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters was unveiled, watching on in May as the academy pitch was named in honour of skipper Mark Noble, who retired last season.\n\nHe would happily shake hands, say hello and wish people all the best. He was a frequent visitor to the Hammers' Rush Green training complex, particularly in the David Moyes era, chatting over lunch with the Scot and his staff.\n\nGold loved West Ham. He always did. He always felt his actions were in the best interests of the club, even when he was so heavily criticised.\n\nHe did have a thick skin, as every club owner needs, but those who knew him say Gold genuinely wanted West Ham to succeed. At the end of last season, it was a huge disappointment to see the club fall at the semi-finals in Europe, when success was so tantalisingly close.\n\nGold rose from exceptionally humble beginnings, selling buttons from a stall outside his house to being chairman of a company that owned, among other things, the Ann Summers chain, which helped earn him some rather crude nicknames.\n\nIn business terms, he was a success story.\n\nClearly, there is another view.\n\nThose West Ham fans who are committed to the 'Gold, Sullivan, Brady Out' campaign may not have Gold first in the queue for being responsible for perceived broken promises around the London Stadium move and then either bad or insufficient investment on the playing side, but they have still been vocal in saying the club would be better off under different stewardship.\n\nGold's 25.1% made him the third highest shareholder in the club, behind long-time business partner David Sullivan and new investor, Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky.\n\nIt will now be fascinating to see if those shares remain with the Gold family or if they are sold - and where to.\n• None Visit our West Ham page for all the latest Hammers news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get West Ham news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Our coverage of West Ham United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Hammers - go straight to all the best content", "Spain has seen unseasonably warm weather over the Christmas period\n\nTemperatures for January have reached an all-time high in a number of nations across Europe.\n\nNational records have fallen in eight countries - and regional records in another three.\n\nWarsaw, Poland, saw 18.9C (66F) on Sunday while Bilbao, Spain, was 25.1C - more than 10C above average.\n\nThe mild European weather comes as North America faces more severe storms, days after a deadly winter cold snap left more than 60 dead.\n\nHeavy snow and freezing rain have been forecast for parts of the northern Midwest while severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are expected in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.\n\nBut on the European side of the Atlantic, the weather has been balmy for many places at the start of the year.\n\nTemperatures in the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and Belarus broke national records.\n\nStation records were broken in Germany, France and Ukraine.\n\nThe temperature recorded in Warsaw on 1 January was 4C higher than the previous record for the month, and Belarus' record high was 16.4C, some 4.5C above the previous record.\n\nIn Spain, New Year's Day temperatures in Bilbao were equivalent to the average in July, and parts of Catalonia including Barcelona are subject to restrictions on water use.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecords are broken all the time, but it is unusual for the difference to be more than a few 10ths of a degree.\n\nIn Switzerland, temperatures hit 20C, and the warm weather has affected ski resorts across the Alps which have seen a snow shortage.\n\nIt's not all warm in Europe, though - colder temperatures and snow are forecast in parts of Scandinavia and Moscow is expected to drop to -20C by the weekend.\n\nWarm temperatures mean cherry blossom has come early to the Polish city of Szczecin\n\nJust days earlier, the UK, Ireland, France and Spain declared 2022 their hottest year on record.\n\nIn the UK, every month but December was hotter than average. December itself saw snow fall across large parts of the country, although conditions are milder and wetter now.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nHowever, warm winter events such as these do not have the same human impact as summer heatwaves, which can result in large numbers of excess deaths.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Rishi Sunak's speech had the feel of the party conference speech he never gave; cast as he was, briefly, last autumn, towards political oblivion, before the implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHis five promises are an attempt to provide structure and accountability to his next 12 months of governing.\n\nSome look eminently achievable, others are rather vague.\n\nAnd then there is one that reminds us how grim things are - promising the economy will grow by the end of the year would still mean months and months of recession beforehand.\n\nLabour claimed they were all things that were happening anyway, or solving problems of the Tories' own making.\n\nMr Sunak sought to set out what drives him:\n\nAmid what many see as the multiple crises now, this broad vision might appear jarring to some.\n\nBut it's worth remembering the oddity of how he came to be in the job he's doing - this is a man who became prime minister in the blink of an eye, still attempting to introduce himself to the country.\n\nAnd he hasn't got much time, with the ticking clock of an election within two years, to deliver enough, quickly enough.\n\nLittle wonder, even if he intentionally avoids the outwardly frenetic pace and hurtle Liz Truss so self-consciously embraced, this is a prime minister in a hurry.\n\nHe doesn't have long to prove that he should be given longer, a full term after a general election.\n\nBy contrast, when we hear from the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, there'll be much less of a sense of stamping on the accelerator.\n\nLabour strategists conclude a general election this year is highly unlikely and so now is not the time for them to be unveiling lots of shiny new policies.\n\nThe shinier the policy, the more tempting it might be for the government to nick it.\n\nSo instead it is a broader vision of how they claim they would govern better.\n\nThere'll be more talk about pushing power away from Westminster with Sir Keir as prime minister, and more talk about there not being a splurge of spending.\n\nLabour won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out again\", as he'll put it.\n\nSir Keir hopes this can help reassure former Conservative voters that they can trust Labour with the economy.\n\nSome on the left might ponder what the point of a Labour government is that isn't willing to spend more money.\n\nThe Labour leader is also heading to Stratford in east London to make his case, the very place Mr Sunak took us for his speech.\n\nBoth men are each grappling to be seen as the most competent and inspiring manager of a rather bleak era.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas could leave the capital as early as the end of October this year, officials have confirmed.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian have to return to China under the terms of a 10 year loan, which was extended by two years due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe pair, who will not be replaced, have failed to produce offspring since their arrival in December 2011.\n\nThe zoo has been paying £750,000 annually to China for the pandas.\n\nThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which runs Edinburgh Zoo, said the details of the pandas' departure would be confirmed closer to the time.\n\nIt has now announced plans to give the pandas a \"giant farewell\".\n\nDavid Field, RZSS chief executive, said as the UK's only giant pandas, they had been 'incredibly popular with visitors'\n\nRZSS members, patrons and giant panda adopters will be offered the chance to meet and feed Yang Guang through the bars of his enclosure.\n\nOther experiences available to everyone will include panda talks and brunch events.\n\nDavid Field, RZSS chief executive, said as the UK's only giant pandas, they had been \"incredibly popular with visitors\".\n\nThere will be an opportunity to feed Yang Guang through the bars of his enclosure\n\nHe said: \"Through a new range of events and experiences, we will be providing as many opportunities as possible for people to say goodbye.\n\n\"After the pandas leave, we will decide on a new species with a crucial factor being how we can support conservation in the wild,\" he added.\n\nIn total, there were eight unsuccessful attempts at artificial insemination, with the last one in 2021 when the giant panda breeding programme was stopped.", "Peta and Mark Cavendish were in bed with their son when \"male voices\" were heard in the house\n\nTwo further suspects wanted over a knifepoint robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish remain at large, a court has heard.\n\nTwo men are on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court where they deny two counts of robbery over the raid in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021.\n\nJurors have been told one masked raider threatened to stab the 37-year-old athlete in front of his children.\n\nProsecutors said the location of two more suspects was unknown.\n\n\"Although they haven't been apprehended by police, the prosecution say it's quite clear from the evidence that they were involved,\" said prosecutor Edward Renvoize.\n\nJurors were told details about the search for Jo Jobson and George Goddard - identified using telephone communication data - were \"sensitive\" and could not be shared in public.\n\nJurors have been told Mr Cavendish, pictured at the Tour de France in July 2021, was recovering from injuries at the time\n\nThe court has been told how Mr Cavendish and wife Peta were in bed with their three-year-old child when Mr Cavendish heard \"male voices\".\n\nUp to three individuals \"jumped on\" and \"began punching\" Mr Cavendish in his bedroom - jurors were told - before making off with two Richard Mille watches worth £300,000 and £400,000, suitcases and telephones.\n\nMr Renvoize said DNA from a fifth suspect - Ali Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham in Kent - was found on Mrs Cavendish's mobile phone which was left outside the house.\n\nJurors were told Sesay, who is not on trial, had already pleaded guilty to robbery.\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south east London, and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, are on trial.\n\nMr Renvoize said that Mr Okorosobo, after being arrested along with Sesay at an address in Croydon in December 2021, told police he \"had no knowledge of the robbery\", had \"never been to the location\" and was not \"capable of committing the offence because of a leg injury\" he sustained.\n\nMr Henry was arrested two days later and declined to answer police questions, the barrister said.\n\nMr Renvoize said automatic number plate recognition showed a Mercedes Benz travelling from Croydon to Mr Cavendish's home.\n\nA Mitsubishi Outlander with cloned number plates was in convoy, he added.\n\nThe trial at Chelmsford Crown Court was due to last two weeks\n\nMr Renvoize said a forensic scientist found a \"moderate\" match between footwear from the bedroom at the Croydon address, seemingly occupied by Sesay, to footprints at the scene in Ongar.\n\nHe said the \"overwhelming inference\" was that Mr Goddard, one of the pair at large, was in the property during the raid and had made physical contact with Mr Cavendish.\n\nThe trial is due to last two weeks.\n\nCavendish, originally from the Isle of Man, won four stages at the 2021 Tour de France, equalling the Tour record of 34 set by Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.\n\nHe also won a silver medal in the omnium at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and was BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2011.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ex-funeral home owner and her mother have been sentenced in Colorado after selling body parts without any consent.\n\nMegan Hess, 46, and Shirly Koch, 69, dissected some 560 corpses between 2010 and 2018, selling parts to medical training companies which did not know they had been fraudulently acquired.\n\nEntire bodies were sold in some cases, prosecutors said. It is legal in the US to donate organs, but not sell them.\n\nHess was sentenced to 20 years in jail and Koch to 15.\n\nHess - who ran the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in the town of Montrose - charged families up to $1,000 (£834) for cremations that never took place and offered them free of charge in exchange for body part donations in some cases, prosecutors said.\n\nWithout consent and using forged donor forms, she then sold body parts including arms, legs and heads through Donor Services, her side business on the same premises.\n\nSeveral relatives who had used Hess for cremations later learned they had received back ashes mixed with the remains of other people.\n\n\"These two women preyed on vulnerable victims who turned to them in a time of grief and sadness,\" Leonard Carollo, the FBI's special agent in charge in Denver, said in a statement.\n\n\"But instead of offering guidance, these greedy women betrayed the trust of hundreds of victims and mutilated their loved ones.\"\n\nThe case was triggered by a Reuters investigation, which led to an FBI raid of the home in 2018.\n\n\"When Megan stole my mom's heart, she broke mine,\" said Nancy Overhoff, according to the Denver Post. Erin Smith said: \"We came today to hear the handcuffs click.\"\n\nDescribing it as \"the most emotionally draining case I have ever experienced on the bench\", Judge Christine Arguello ordered the two women be sent to prison immediately.", "Hundreds of Moroccan football fans have been left devastated as last-minute flight cancellations look set to stop them travelling to Qatar for Wednesday's World Cup semi-final.\n\nMorocco's national airliner - Royal Air Maroc - had planned to run seven additional flights ahead of the game.\n\nIt made the decision after Morocco's FA promised to give fans 13,000 free tickets to the clash with France.\n\nBut on Wednesday, it said Qatari officials had blocked the flights.\n\n\"Following the latest restrictions imposed by the Qatari authorities Royal Air Maroc regrets to inform customers of the cancellation of their flights operated by Qatar Airways,\" the airline said in a statement to the Reuters news agency.\n\nIt is unclear why Qatari officials ordered the airline to stop the flights, and the government's central communications office has yet to respond to a BBC request for comment.\n\nIn a post on its social media channels on Monday, the airline had offered to lay on 30 additional flights as part of \"an exceptional flight schedule\" to help fans get to Qatar.\n\nBut affiliated travel agencies later said there would be just seven extra flights.\n\nThe cancellations left a number of fans who had already booked tickets and hotel rooms out of pocket.\n\nThe airline offered a full apology and said it would reimburse passengers.\n\nMeanwhile, a number of Moroccan expatriates have been arriving in Qatar, attracted by the promise of free tickets from the country's FA.\n\nAround five million Moroccans are estimated to live around the world, with many of them in France.\n\nBut as fans arrived at fan centres at the Al Janoub stadium - many covering their heads with their Moroccan flags and caps to protect themselves from the heat - they were left angered when the free tickets promised by the FA failed to materialise.\n\nZineb Nfati - who is half-French, half-Moroccan - says she is \"heartbroken\" because she hasn't got a ticket\n\nOne supporter, Zineb Nfati, told the BBC she had travelled from Paris for the game, but had been unable to find a ticket.\n\n\"This is a very symbolic game - it's Morocco against France and I'm half-French, half-Moroccan,\" she said.\n\n\"The problem is there are no reliable sources. There is no reliable information,\" Ms Nfati said. \"I came here with my brother and I don't know what we'll do… I'm heartbroken.\"\n\nThe clash is the first time an African side have reached this stage of football's biggest competition, though their French rivals are heavily tipped by pundits to advance to the final against Argentina.\n\nBut Morocco coach Walid Regragui - who grew up in Paris - says his side are confident, and don't want to \"wait another 40 years for an African team\" to shine on the world stage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFootball star Cristiano Ronaldo got the name of his new host country wrong while speaking at his first press conference in Saudi Arabia following his multi-million dollar move to Al Nassr.\n\n\"It's not the end of my career to come to South Africa,\" he said, in an earnest voice against a backdrop proudly proclaiming \"Saudi welcome to Arabia\".\n\nWhile they can't have been happy, the Saudi officials at Tuesday's press conference didn't seek to correct Ronaldo and it didn't seem to bother his new Saudi fans, who gave him a thunderous welcome as he appeared in Al Nassr's yellow and blue kit at his new home ground, Mrsool Park.\n\nAs tweeter @NVMakhanye pointed out: \"😀 You don't need to know the name of the country to make €200 million 😀... Anyways, welcome to South Africa Ronaldo 😜\"\n\nHis reported annual salary of $200m (£177m) is believed to make him the world's highest-paid footballer.\n\nWhile it was obviously a slip of the tongue, it hasn't stopped some South African football fans from dreaming of seeing one of the world's most famous stars playing for their local team.\n\nAnd the South African tourism authority is still hoping that Ronaldo will show up at the Moses Mabhida stadium, built in the coastal city of Durban for the 2010 World Cup.\n\nSouth Africa's Phakaaathi news site described it as a \"stunning blooper\", while its football editor Jonty Mark commented: \"Saudi Arabia and South Africa may have the same initial at the start of each part of their respective name, but it is still more than a little bizarre that Ronaldo couldn't pick the right country in his first presser.\"\n\nHowever, most tweeters in the Arab world overlooked his gaffe, with @alasiri_555 commenting in Arabic: \"Nothing wrong with that. Everybody makes mistakes.\"\n\nBBC Arabic producer Ahmed Rouaba says the focus of most tweets has been on football, with Al Nassr fans expecting him to win games for them - and lift the club and country.\n\nAl Nassr didn't seem too bothered, tweeting: \"Everyone is happy today 😁💛\"\n\nAnd it also posted a video of Ronaldo arriving in Saudi Arabia, just in case anyone thought he really was in South Africa:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by AlNassr FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs for Ronaldo, he is looking forward to his new life in the oil-rich kingdom.\n\n\"In Europe, my work is done. I've won everything. I've played in the most important clubs in Europe. And now for me is a new challenge,\" he said.", "Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight from the UK to India when the passenger went into cardiac arrest\n\nA doctor has described battling for five hours as he saved the life of a passenger on a long-haul flight.\n\nDr Vishwaraj Vemala, 48, a liver specialist at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was on his way to India with his mother when a fellow passenger went into cardiac arrest.\n\nAided by medical supplies on board and items from passengers, Dr Vemala twice resuscitated the 43-year-old.\n\nHe said he would remember the experience for the rest of his life.\n\n\"Obviously during my medical training, it was something I had experience dealing with, but never 40,000 feet in the air,\" he said.\n\nCabin crew on board the Air India flight from London in November frantically began searching for a doctor when the passenger suffered a cardiac arrest and was left without a pulse and not breathing.\n\n\"It took about an hour of resuscitation before I was able to get him back,\" Dr Vemala said.\n\n\"Luckily, they had an emergency kit, which to my utter surprise, included resuscitative medication to enable life support.\"\n\nHowever, other than oxygen and an automatic defibrillator, he said there was little to help monitor how the patient was doing.\n\nAfter speaking to other passengers on board the Air India flight from London, Dr Vemala was able to track down various pieces of equipment including a heart-rate monitor, pulse oximeter, glucose meter and blood pressure machine.\n\nThe patient later suffered a second cardiac arrest, requiring even more lengthy resuscitation.\n\n\"We were trying to keep him alive for five hours in total,\" he said.\n\nThe pilot arranged for landing at Mumbai Airport where emergency crews took over and the passenger was taken to safety, after thanking Dr Vemala for saving his life.\n\n\"It was also the first time in my seven years as a consultant that my mum had seen me in action, so that made it even more emotional,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA body has been found in the search for a 65-year-old former BBC editor who went missing on New Year's Eve.\n\nAled Glynne Davies, the former editor of BBC Radio Cymru, was last seen in Pontcanna, Cardiff, on 31 December.\n\nIn an Instagram post, his family said his body was found in a river on Wednesday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the body is believed to be his, and Supt Michelle Conquer added: \"We continue to support Aled's family at this very sad time\".\n\nShe said investigations were continuing \"to determine the circumstances surrounding the death\".\n\nHis son, Gruffudd Glyn, wrote: \"We are heartbroken to announce that Dad was discovered in the river this morning.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gruff.glyn This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Thank you so much for all your efforts.\n\n\"Now it's time for us all to relax. Let us all celebrate Dad's life.\"\n\nAled Glynne Davies was a former editor of BBC Radio Cymru\n\nMr Davies's family and friends had appealed for information, in particular video footage, in the search to find him.\n\nMr Glyn said the search was frustrated by the lack of footage of him that night.\n\nBBC presenter Huw Edwards, who used to work with Mr Davies, said he was a \"journalist and broadcaster of rare ability\".\n\nHe described him as a \"kind and generous man\" and offered his condolences to the family.\n\nBBC Wales Director Rhuanedd Richards said: \"Aled was an innovative, energetic and passionate editor during his time leading BBC Radio Cymru between 1995 and 2006.\n\n\"His passing is a great loss to the broadcasting world as well as to the Welsh language.\"\n\n\"We are heartbroken,\" says Aled Davies's son, Gruffudd Glyn", "Spain is one of a number of countries to ask for a negative Covid test from Chinese arrivals\n\nThe Chinese government has suggested that travel restrictions imposed by several countries on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.\n\nThe US, India and the UK are among the nations that have introduced mandatory testing for arrivals from China.\n\nThe country has recently seen a surge in Covid cases following the easing of its strict controls.\n\nAnd there are fears that cases and deaths are being vastly underreported.\n\nChina's last daily Covid update, on 24 December, reported fewer than 5,000 cases - but some analysts claim the daily caseload is already over two million, and could peak at almost four million this month.\n\nA lack of data - and China's announcement that it was easing curbs on travel from 8 January - led to more than a dozen countries announcing Covid testing on arrivals from China.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to share more real-time information and a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry on Tuesday said that Beijing was willing to \"improve communication with the world\".\n\nHowever, spokeswoman Mao Ning said the government was \"firmly opposed to attempts to manipulate the epidemic prevention and control measures for political purposes, and will take corresponding measures...according to the principle of reciprocity.\"\n\nChina's borders have been largely closed since March 2020 - meaning few foreigners were able to enter and those that did had to undergo rigorous testing and quarantine.\n\nThe European Union's disease prevention agency and Australia's Chief Medical Officer have both argued that high levels of vaccination and immunity reduce the threat that Covid poses.\n\nBut despite that, countries - including some in the EU - have imposed testing for Chinese arrivals.\n\n\"I think we're performing our duty in protecting French people by asking for tests,\" France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're doing it while respecting the rules of the World Health Organization and we will continue to do it.\"\n\nThe European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, has said an overwhelming number of member states favour introducing travel restrictions. France, Italy and Spain have already introduced their own measures but a decision on whether that will be extended to all EU countries is expected on Wednesday.\n\nThe US has also defended its testing requirements, saying that its approach is based \"solely and exclusively on science\".\n\nIt's not the first time that Beijing has been at odds with the international community over the virus. It was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019 and the government resisted attempts to investigate the origins.\n\nMeanwhile, China has on Tuesday rejected an offer from the European Union to supply an unspecified number of Covid-19 vaccines to help deal with the surge in cases, saying it has an \"adequate supply\".\n\nOfficial data shows China has given more than 3.4 billion doses - the vast majority of which are CoronaVac.\n\nThe government has so far insisted in using only Chinese-made vaccines, which have been proven to be less effective than other Western-developed mRNA vaccines against the Omicron variant.", "Pharmacies say a lack of government planning is behind a shortage of cough and cold medicines in shops.\n\nThe Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies said its members report a scarcity of \"all medicines\", in particular cough mixtures and lozenges.\n\nFlu and Covid cases have put pressure on the NHS and pharmacies said there should have been \"better\" communication with manufacturers.\n\nMinisters said availability issues were \"temporary and localised\".\n\n\"We are engaging with suppliers to investigate and help ensure that over-the-counter cold and flu medicines remain available,\" a Department of Health spokesperson added.\n\nMeanwhile, medicine manufacturers say there are no production issues.\n\nBut Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the AIMP, said there were wider logistical challenges and high demand for medicines to treat cold and flu symptoms this winter has meant the supply chain has not been able to keep up with demand.\n\nDepartment of Health officials should have recognised \"there are problems and communicate better\" with suppliers and manufacturers, she added,\n\n\"For example, with cold and flu, we knew some months ago cases were going up... So you would have thought that plans would have been in place in terms of managing this with regards to liaising with manufacturers and getting the products in.\"\n\nMs Hannbeck told the BBC: \"We have never seen this level of shortage of medicine before.\"\n\nShe said she did not want to create panic and urged people not to stockpile supplies, but said it was important to \"raise these concerns\".\n\n\"As pharmacists, we do everything we can to ensure we support patients in every way possible and try and sort alternatives, or give advice on how to manage cold and flu symptoms,\" she said.\n\nAbout one in eight hospital beds in England are now occupied by patients with Covid and flu.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay has said such patients are putting \"massive pressure\" on services and the NHS was facing huge challenges. He said the government was providing extra funding to help.\n\nThe trade association representing the manufactures of over-the-counter medicines said companies were running at \"maximum capacity\" to meet demand and \"not reporting any issues supplying\" their products.\n\nMichelle Riddalls, chief executive of the Proprietary Association of Great Britain, said: \"While some cough or cold products may be less readily available at some stores this is likely to be very sporadic and there are no reports of widespread shortages.\"\n\nShe said urged customers who cannot find their preferred brand to try alternative products or to speak to pharmacists.\n\nHigh Street pharmacists Boots and Superdrug also said patients who were unable to find their preferred products should speak with their staff.\n\nSuperdrug said it had seen a huge demand for cough and cold medicines.\n\nA spokesperson for Boots said: \"General availability of cough and cold relief at our stores across the UK is good, and enough to meet current demand.\n\n\"There may be temporary shortages in some stores of a particular brand, eg Lemsip, but there will almost always be suitable alternatives available.\"", "Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is welcomed by Pope Francis at St Peter's Square, Vatican, 2014\n\nPope Benedict was still a \"powerful presence\" in the Vatican despite his retirement - the most senior British figure there has told the BBC.\n\nThe comments, by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, have come as the reigning pope, Francis, makes final preparations for the unusual event of a pontiff presiding at the funeral of his predecessor.\n\nAfter Thursday's burial of former pope Benedict XVI, there will be just one man wearing white in the corridors of the Vatican for the first time in nearly a decade.\n\nIt is rare for a senior Vatican figure to have spoken frankly about the relationship between the two popes.\n\n\"I think it is inevitable that the fact Pope Benedict has been living during these years of Pope Francis's pontificate - it does have an effect,\" said the archbishop, who has been the Vatican's foreign secretary for much of the current papacy.\n\n\"I do not think it has obstructed Pope Francis in any way. He has done and said and decided what he wanted to do, but it is a powerful presence of your predecessor,\" he said candidly.\n\nIn 2013, Pope Benedict became the first pope in more than 600 years to step down.\n\nArchbishop Gallagher said that for Pope Francis, that was similar to the experience many other people go through doing a job in the shadow of a predecessor - and being compared to them.\n\nThe body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies in state ahead of his funeral\n\nObservers of Vatican affairs during this unusual time suggest that whether Benedict courted it or not, he became something of a lightning rod for internal criticism of Pope Francis.\n\n\"Obviously there have been, in the Church, people who have looked to Benedict to contrast certain decisions that have been made by Pope Francis,\" said Archbishop Gallagher.\n\nThe relationship between the two popes had been excellent, said the archbishop, but critics of the current pope had tried to exploit their differences.\n\nOver the past year, there has been much discussion here about the health of Pope Francis, who has cancelled some foreign trips on health grounds and spent most of his time in a wheelchair during other visits.\n\nThere was speculation that, although Pope Francis said he was prepared to step down if he felt he could not carry out the duties of the role in the way he would like to, he was reluctant to consider resigning while his predecessor was around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis foreign secretary, Archbishop Gallagher, acknowledged that events of the past week had changed the equation to potentially allow the current Pope to consider all options more freely.\n\n\"If we had three popes, that would be a little bit difficult to manage. But now that Pope Benedict has gone to the Lord, I think that Pope Francis will stick to those principles that he has established - that he will continue in this ministry as long as he believes that he is capable,\" he said.\n\nHe clarified that he did not think a decision about stepping down was in any way imminent.\n\nThe body of former Pope Benedict XVI lies in state ahead of his funeral\n\nAlthough the number of people who have come to pay their respects to Pope Benedict as he lies in state has far exceeded the figure the Vatican initially said it was expecting, it does not come close to the huge crowds that were drawn here in 2005 after the death of the popular Pope John Paul II.\n\nThat is partly, as Archbishop Gallagher acknowledges, because of Benedict XVI's style of papacy, being viewed as more of a thinker than a pastor or a skilled politician.\n\nAlthough the archbishop said he thought the writings and theological works of the Pope Emeritus would be studied long into the future.\n\nThere has also been much discussion in recent days about the complicated legacy of the former pontiff, particularly the issue of inadequately dealing with sex abuse perpetrators.\n\n\"I think that the evaluation [of Benedict XVI's legacy on abuse] is obviously going to be critical, but I do believe that the election of Pope Benedict was a game changer in how the Church looked at the reality of abuse in the church,\" said Archbishop Gallagher, suggesting that the late Pope started initiatives that Pope Francis has since moved forward with.\n\n\"Whether enough was done at the right speed, that will be left to history and I do not think anybody here would say that we have completed the job.\"", "Harry Styles' As It Was spent 10 weeks at number one and was streamed 180 million times in the UK\n\nBritish stars were responsible for all of the UK's top 10 most popular singles in 2022, for the first time since year-end charts began over 50 years ago.\n\nHarry Styles' smash hit As It Was was the biggest-seller, while last year's number one, Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits, clung on to second place.\n\nKate Bush's 1985 single Running Up That Hill, which enjoyed a new lease of life thanks to Stranger Things, came sixth.\n\nStyles also had 2022's biggest album with his third release, Harry's House.\n\nSheeran's latest album = (Equals) was at number two for a second consecutive year, while Taylor Swift's Midnights was 2022's third biggest album - and the biggest-seller on vinyl.\n\nAlmost every other album in the top 10 was a greatest hits collection, with perennial favourites by Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and Abba joined by more recent compilations by Little Mix and The Weeknd.\n\nTheir dominance reflects the fact that fans are increasingly streaming classic songs instead of new hits.\n\nRecent analysis by the Competition and Markets authority found that 86% of the songs played on services like Spotify and Amazon Music were more than 12 months old, up from 76% in 2017.\n\nThe overwhelming presence of \"best of\" albums is also explained by a quirk (some might say a bug) of the official charts rules.\n\nUnder the current system, when a fan streams Abba's Dancing Queen, it is counted as a partial sale for both the album it comes from, Arrival, and the compilation Abba Gold.\n\nBecause Abba Gold contains practically all of the band's most-popular songs, it will always outsell their studio albums - and most of the year's new releases, too.\n\nAbba's greatest hits album received another sales boost after the opening of their virtual ABBA Voyage concerts in London\n\nThe best-seller lists were unveiled by the BPI, which represents the UK's recorded music industry.\n\nIt said music consumption had increased for the eighth consecutive year in 2022, with annual audio streaming figures approaching 160 billion for the first time.\n\nHowever the era of double-digit year-on-year growth in streams appears to be over.\n\nThe total number of streams increased by 8.3% in 2022, compared to 21.5% in 2020.\n\nThe BPI said it now takes an average of 1.3 million audio streams to break into the Top 40 singles chart, and a combined 7 million audio and video streams to land a UK number one single.\n\nVinyl sales increased for the 15th year in a row, with 5.5 million record sold, the highest number since 1990, when …But Seriously by Phil Collins was the year's biggest-seller.\n\nHowever, CDs were still the major format, despite sales falling 19.3% over the last 12 months.\n\nIn total, 11.6 million discs were sold, led by Taylor Swift's Midnights, George Ezra's Gold Rush Kid and Arctic Monkeys' The Car.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thousands of Welsh fans travelled to see the team in Qatar for their first World Cup in 64 years\n\nWales' World Cup journey has ended, but many fans are in a positive mood as they enjoy the last rays of Qatari sunshine before jetting home to winter.\n\nDespite a crushing defeat, they said it was difficult to be too downbeat.\n\nMany have achieved their dreams of watching Wales in a World Cup and said they were unsure if they would see the nation appear again in their lifetime.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's loss to England, thousands of Wales fans are now leaving Doha.\n\nAfter a night to reflect, many are in a positive mood about the experience.\n\n\"We have amazing memories of being here and they can never be taken away,\" said Danny Hood, 32, from Hawarden in Flintshire.\n\nSchoolfriend David Bond, also 32, agreed, and said they cannot be too downbeat.\n\nSchoolfriends Danny and David said they have enjoyed the experience of watching Wales in the World Cup in Qatar\n\n\"Bale and Ramsey are amazing, once-in-a-generation players, they came along at the same time and gave us so much success over the past six to eight years,\" David said.\n\n\"But they're coming to the end of their careers and maybe we were expecting too much success.\n\n\"Everyone thought we would do a bit better, but if you look at the team, you kind of knew.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's just being here, being part of it. Enjoying it. We probably won't see it again in our lifetime.\"\n\nPlayers and fans have begun the journey home, including defender Ben Davies and Dafydd Osian\n\nJoe Agate, 27, from Chorley in Lancashire, was proudly wearing an England top around the Souk on Wednesday, but at the game he was \"in disguise in The Red Wall\".\n\nHe was with his wife Rachel, also 27, who is originally from Bridgend, and praised Wales' support.\n\n\"Fair play to the Welsh fans, they stayed for 45 minutes at the end to cheer the players, you could see they really wanted to be there, and were grateful to be there, while the England fans just left,\" he said.\n\n\"I went in neutral colours just in case but there was no trouble, the whole tournament has been so friendly with everyone mixing.\"\n\nRachel agreed, and added: \"We are just happy to be here, taking in the atmosphere.\"\n\nJoe and Rachel Agate said the tournament had been a friendly experience\n\nOn the winding streets around the Souk Waqif market, the party is continuing on Wednesday with thousands of Mexican supporters hoping they will not be following Wales fans out of Qatar.\n\nThey are playing against Saudi Arabia in a must-win match, and their fans are dancing and singing with people from around the world.\n\nGareth Martin, 58, from Bridgend, said he had \"enjoyed every minute\".\n\n\"We could have done a lot better with the performances, but last night they were on a different level to us.\n\n\"It just seemed a step too far for the side.\"\n\nFriend Andrew David, 61, agreed, and said: \"We won't let the result detract from the experience, we would still rather be here than not.\"\n\nMichael Sheen tweeted to say: \"Diolch Cymru! What a privilege to support you. Thank you for giving us the chance to take part in a World Cup, you brought us all together, and make us proud always.\"\n\nWrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney, whose native United States drew with Wales in their first game, also tweeted a message of support to the team in Qatar.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob McElhenney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhys Nicholas, 43, from Cardiff and Paul Kinsey, 51, from Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, had been hoping to stay longer, believing a last 16 spot was possible.\n\nBut they booked their flights Wednesday morning, Mr Kinsey said: \"Just our luck, the prices had gone up.\"\n\nRhys and Paul had hoped Wales were going to get through to the last 16, so they could stay in Doha longer, but have had to book their flights back to Wales\n\nHe said it had been a fantastic 10 days and \"the bubble had to burst some time\", adding \"It's been great seeing all the nationalities and shirts.\n\n\"Going back to the Euros now where it will be split across many different cities, it will be totally different.\"\n\n\"I felt emotional after the match, it was a step too far in the end.\n\n\"It seemed like the end of an era and this team will break up now.\"", "Mourners gather to lay flowers in memory of soldiers killed in Makiivka\n\nRussia has said a new year missile attack that killed at least 89 Russian soldiers happened because troops were using mobile phones, defying a ban.\n\nTurning on the phones and massive use of them allowed the enemy to locate its target, officials said.\n\nUkraine says 400 soldiers were killed - and another 300 wounded - in the attack on a college for conscripts in Makiivka, in the occupied Donetsk area.\n\nIt is the largest number of deaths Russia has acknowledged in the war.\n\nRussia said that at 00:01 Moscow time on New Year's Day, six rockets were fired from a US-made Himars rocket system at a vocational college, two of which were shot down. Moments earlier President Vladimir Putin had given his annual new year address on Russian TV.\n\nThe deputy commander of the regiment, Lt Col Bachurin, was among those killed, the ministry of defence said in a statement on Wednesday. A commission was investigating the circumstances of the incident, the statement said.\n\nBut it was \"already obvious\" that the main cause of the attack was the use of mobile phones by troops in range of Ukrainian weapons, despite this being banned, it added.\n\n\"This factor allowed the enemy to locate and determine the co-ordinates of the location of military personnel for a missile strike.\"\n\nLt Gen Sergei Sevryukov said officials found responsible by the investigation would be brought to justice and \"all the necessary measures are currently being adopted to prevent this kind of tragic incident in the future\".\n\nThe defence ministry's statement was striking for two reasons.\n\nThe military's official death toll is now 89. The previous figure of 63 dead already represented the highest single loss of life Moscow had admitted since the war began. The real death toll in Makiivka could be much higher, as is claimed by both Ukraine and by unofficial Russian sources.\n\nSecond, the statement said that \"responsible officials\" would be brought to justice, suggesting that something went wrong. This is highly unusual behaviour for Moscow - very rarely do authorities admit that errors have been made.\n\nThe vocational college was packed with soldiers at the time - men believed to have been among the 300,000 called up in President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation in September. Ammunition was also being stored close to the site, which was reduced to rubble.\n\nThe head of Russia's proxy authority in the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, praised the heroism of those caught up in the missile strike, who he said had tried to pull comrades out of the building. Some of those returning to the building had died in the process, he added.\n\nWith such a high official death toll, one would think the Russian military's latest update on the horrific events in Makiivka would be the top story on Russian state TV news today.\n\nNot so. There was almost no mention of the story on Rossiya-24's main bulletins this morning.\n\nOver on Channel One, the main news programme did briefly mention the defence ministry statement, but chose to bury it at the end of a report about alleged victories on the front line and losses amongst Ukrainian, not Russian, forces.\n\n\"A whole series of Russian missile attacks was unleashed on the first days of the new year against Ukrainian nationalists and foreign accomplices of the Kyiv regime,\" said the Channel One correspondent triumphantly, using common false narratives to describe Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe building housing the conscripts was all but flattened in the Ukrainian attack\n\nBut if you switch off the TV and log on to vKontakte, Russia's version of Facebook, you get a very different picture.\n\nCommunities have sprung up where soldiers' relatives are organising, appealing for information and crowdfunding for troops on the front line. Here there is anger.\n\nMany relatives of the Makiivka soldiers blame military officials for the incident, and are sceptical of reports that those guilty will be punished. Some question why Kremlin-controlled media are largely silent on the story. However, there is little direct criticism of President Putin or of the war in general.\n\nPavel Gubarev, a former leading official in Russia's proxy authority in Donetsk, said the decision to house a large number of soldiers in one building was \"criminal negligence\". \"If no-one is punished for this, then it will only get worse,\" he warned.\n\nThe deputy speaker of Moscow's local parliament, Andrei Medvedev, said it was predictable that the soldiers would be blamed rather than the commander who made the original decision to put so many of them in one place.\n\nThe defence ministry's claim that military officials who were allegedly responsible for this disaster will be punished will be seen as an attempt to defuse public anger over the disaster in Makiivka, but also to place the blame firmly on the military, and not President Putin. He has yet to respond to the disaster so far,\n\nThroughout this war, the Kremlin has been careful to distance Russia's president from any bad news coming from the front line.\n\nIn November, Russia withdrew from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a major strategic defeat for Moscow. The announcement to retreat, though, was made by Gen Sergei Surovikin, commander of Russian forces in Ukraine. President Putin was meanwhile pictured touring a neurological facility, and did not make any comment on the situation in Kherson.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday night that Moscow was \"on the eve of new mobilisation processes\".\n\nDeclaring that \"their new offensive must fail\", Mr Zelensky said Ukraine had no doubt Russia would throw everything they had left and everyone they could muster in a bid to turn the tide of the war.", "Evidence showing the grooming and sexual exploitation of a schoolgirl was handed to MI5 months before she was charged with terrorism offences, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nThe prosecution of Rhianan Rudd was later dropped after the Home Office concluded she was a victim of exploitation.\n\nRhianan, who was 15 when she became the youngest girl charged with terror offences in the UK, took her own life in a children's home in May 2022.\n\nHer mother says investigators should have treated her daughter \"as a victim rather than a terrorist\".\n\nThe case raises questions about how the UK deals with the problem of children involved in extremism, according to the senior lawyer responsible for reviewing terror laws.\n\nAt the age of 14, Rhianan Rudd became absorbed by right-wing extremism. Her mother Emily Carter remembers her as a \"lovely girl\" who adored horses. But then she began to express racist and antisemitic beliefs, Ms Carter says.\n\n\"If you didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes - Aryan as they say - she didn't want to know you, you were an inferior race, you shouldn't have been alive,\" her mother recalls.\n\nShe says her daughter was taking in extreme views \"like a sponge\". \"She was changing herself, that's not Rhianan,\" she says. \"She was a child who fixated on things.\"\n\nRhianan, who was born in Essex and later moved to Derbyshire, had difficulty building relationships and \"struggled in life\", Ms Carter says. She was also diagnosed as autistic.\n\nRhianan had run away from home in the past and there was social service involvement with the family. Her mother acknowledges she made mistakes but \"always tried to do her best\".\n\nBy September 2020, Ms Carter had become so concerned by Rhianan's mindset that she referred her to Prevent, the government de-radicalisation scheme, after she admitted downloading a bomb-making manual.\n\nThe 14-year-old was talking to American extremist Christopher Cook online\n\nWithin a month, Rhianan was arrested by counter-terror detectives and her brief engagement with Prevent had to end. She was questioned, bailed as a terrorism suspect, and was no longer able to attend school.\n\nFor some time, she had been talking to older people online, including American Christopher Cook, who promoted a terrorist form of neo-Nazism, and formed a combat cell to carry out attacks.\n\nEvidence shows the then-partner of Rhianan's mother also had an influence. Ms Carter says this was kept from her.\n\nThe partner, American Dax Mallaburn, had been part of a white supremacist prison gang in the US. He met Rhianan's mother via a pen pal system for prisoners.\n\nBefore Rhianan was arrested, Mallaburn's relationship with her mother had broken down and he returned to the US. But the BBC has discovered that Cook and Mallaburn had been in contact, with Cook telling him to teach Rhianan the \"right way\".\n\nBBC News investigates the case of Rhianan Rudd - the youngest girl charged with terror offences in the UK.\n\nDuring police interviews, Rhianan described being coerced and groomed, including sexually, and having sent explicit images of herself to Cook. The abuse she described would eventually result in a formal government finding of exploitation.\n\nUnder modern slavery laws, certain public bodies like the police are required to notify the Home Office about any potential victims of exploitation they encounter.\n\nHowever, in the months before Rhianan was charged, none of the organisations involved referred her to the specialist Home Office unit that considers such cases.\n\nThis was not due to a lack of information.\n\nThe BBC has found that, around the time of Rhianan's arrest, MI5 received evidence showing she had been exploited - including sexually - by Cook.\n\nAn FBI investigation had uncovered messages and images from Cook's devices showing Rhianan being groomed, coerced and exploited. The FBI handed the material to MI5.\n\nDax Mallaburn had also been in contact with Cook\n\nRhianan spent over six months on bail waiting for a charging decision. Her mother says this period led to a decline in Rhianan's mental health, with instances of self-harm, running away, and attempted suicide. Derbyshire social services were involved and she was moved into care.\n\nIn April 2021, more than six months after the arrest, she was charged with six terrorism offences for having earlier possessed instructions for making explosives and weapons. Prosecutors alleged one set of instructions were connected to a potential planned attack.\n\nDays after she was charged, when newly-appointed defence lawyers intervened, Derbyshire Council referred Rhianan to the Home Office as a possible victim of exploitation.\n\nIt took a further seven months for a decision to be made. When it came, the Home Office concluded she had been trafficked and exploited.\n\nIn late December 2021 the prosecution was halted.\n\nRhianan is part of a trend of growing numbers of children, often involved in online right-wing extremism, being investigated by MI5 and police.\n\nIn the case of another boy, a pre-sentence report from experts said it was \"likely that he did not see the wider ramifications of his activities, now seamlessly replaced apparently by interests such as Dad's Army\".\n\nCases involving children are complex. A child might have been groomed and exploited, but nevertheless pose a genuine risk of harm to other people.\n\nDebates about trafficking and exploitation are also taking place in immigration cases concerning young women appealing the removal of their British citizenship after they went to Syria to join the Islamic State group.\n\nIn the case of Shamima Begum, who travelled aged 15, the government has argued against claims of trafficking and said she is a security threat. Her lawyers say she was trafficked and sexually exploited.\n\nFew children who are charged with terror offences end up being imprisoned. The process of investigation, arrest and prosecution can take many months, and well over a year in some cases.\n\nJonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, says that in 2020/2021 only one child who committed a terrorism offence was jailed, with all the others \"eventually given non-custodial sentences\".\n\nHe says the question needs to be asked about whether the current approach is effective. He suggests changes in the law that would allow police to say to a child terror suspect that they would either be prosecuted or they could accept an injunction. He says these could, for example, limit mobile phone use, require the use of monitoring software and engagement with a mentor.\n\n\"That can be done really quickly, and keep them out of the criminal justice system altogether,\" he says.\n\nRhianan's mother had warned Derbyshire Council about the risk of her daughter taking her own life\n\nRhianan's mother thinks her daughter should never have been charged.\n\nShe says police \"obviously\" have to investigate and search for evidence, but she believes they should have subsequently dealt with it \"completely differently\".\n\n\"They should have seen her as a victim rather than a terrorist. She's a child, an autistic child. She should have been treated as a child that had been groomed and sexually exploited.\"\n\nA government spokesperson told the BBC: \"MI5 takes its responsibilities in relation to those who may be at risk of harm very seriously.\n\n\"In accordance with long-standing government policy, MI5 can neither confirm nor deny involvement in individual cases.\n\n\"More generally, if in the course of work to protect national security someone in MI5 obtains information that an individual is or may become at risk of death or serious harm, this will be passed to the relevant authorities.\"\n\nCook, the American who exploited Rhianan, has pleaded guilty in the US to a neo-Nazi terrorist plot along with others to destroy a power grid. He had been on bail awaiting sentencing.\n\nBut the BBC has established that the court in Ohio only recently became aware of Cook's predatory conduct towards Rhianan, which had not been part of the original case against him despite the FBI's long-standing knowledge of his abuse. After the court learned of his behaviour, Cook was placed in custody in December ahead of sentencing.\n\nAfter the prosecution of Rhianan was abandoned, she chose to continue living in her Nottinghamshire children's home and began engaging with the Prevent scheme.\n\nBut there were signs that all was not well.\n\nIn the weeks before her death, Rhianan asked her mother to help her contact a neo-Nazi extremist in the US. Her mother reported it to the children's home, which is run by private firm Blue Mountain Homes. She says she was then told social services and police had decided to let contact take place. It is unclear if it did.\n\nHer mother had warned Derbyshire Council about the risk of Rhianan taking her own life. In emails to a social worker in 2021, she wrote: \"I hope she doesn't try kill herself when in her room on her own.\"\n\nShe stated in the emails that Rhianan had access to ligatures.\n\nMs Carter says she saw Rhianan days before her death and was so concerned by her appearance that she contacted the home.\n\nShe says she warned staff that her daughter was \"going to do something\" and asked them to watch her. The manager said they would \"find out what's going on\" and told her not to worry, she says.\n\nBut later that week, she says, three police officers were \"standing in my living room telling me that my daughter died by hanging\".\n\nIn Rhianan's room at the children's home, access to items that could be used as ligatures were banned due to the risk of self-harm and suicide, but she gained access to one.\n\nAged 16, she was found dead in May over 12 hours after she retired to her room the night before.\n\nAn inquest is due to take place into her death. No date has been set.\n\nThe organisations contacted by the BBC said they could not comment on the details of our investigation until the inquest is complete.", "Politics, like so many of us, is spluttering back towards its regular rhythm this week, ahead of Parliament returning next.\n\nSo political leaders are trying to tap into that early January window of reflection, renewal, and that all too often rather brief collective desire for some sort of self-improvement.\n\nToday it is the prime minister's turn to set out his ambitions for 2023. Then tomorrow it will be the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer doing the same thing.\n\nWhat we'll get from Rishi Sunak is an attempt to speak to some of his broader interests beyond the day to day firefighting of government.\n\nThose around Mr Sunak say his instinct is that to have more than a few priorities at any one time is to have no priorities at all, and the situation in the NHS is uppermost in his mind.\n\nAnd so he will address the importance of dealing with backlogs in the health service.\n\nProblems getting an ambulance, waiting times for planned operations and social care in England are all likely to be referred to later, as critics demand immediate answers to what is widely seen as a crisis in the NHS this winter.\n\nBut it won't be the only theme in his speech - widely trailed was the idea to ensure all young people in England up to age of 18 are studying maths in some form.\n\nIt appears to be an aspiration rather than a policy idea that is fully developed - the precise mechanics for making it happen are not clear and the government acknowledges it wouldn't be possible to implement before the general election.\n\nThe PM's argument is that a growing number of jobs rely on mathematical ability and the education system needs to change to reflect that.\n\nBut critics, including the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats, point to a failure to recruit enough maths teachers.\n\nLabour say ministers have failed to recruit enough maths teachers in every year of the last decade bar one.\n\nOn the provision of childcare to pre school children in England, I understand there is nothing imminent coming from the government, but the prime minister accepts it is a difficult issue for many families.\n\nThere is irritation in Downing Street at the intervention of the former Prime Minister Liz Truss - with those around her saying the abandoning of her plans to expand the provision of free childcare and allow nursery staff to look after a greater number of children is \"economically and politically counterproductive\".\n\nNo10 sources point out Ms Truss's plans were not fully developed and would be very expensive - particularly the expansion of free childcare.\n\nAnd yes, like much of Liz Truss's agenda, it never developed beyond the embryonic, let alone reaching the toddler stage.\n\nBut this is a pointed intervention from her, after a few months of near public silence since she left Downing Street.\n\nExpect to hear more from her publicly this month or next, as she carves out a new role after the humiliation of her brief stint as prime minister.\n\nHow will she calibrate her public interventions? How helpful or otherwise will she be to Rishi Sunak? And how much attention will she generate, given her disastrous time in the highest office?\n\nThe issue of childcare though is a fascinating one - because it matters to millions of families, and plenty of Conservatives fret that they have nowhere near enough to offer the under 40s.\n\nWe saw a similar row blow up before Christmas when it comes to house building, we see it again now with childcare.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? If you'd like to get in touch you can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019 Image caption: Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019\n\nFormer President Donald Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker yesterday, but it’s unclear whether his words hold the weight they once did.\n\nEven though the 20 Republican holdouts come from the Trumpian wing of the party, they have not changed their minds and continue to oppose McCarthy.\n\nAs little as two years ago, House Republicans would likely have followed Trump’s instructions to \"VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY\".\n\nTrump is once again running for president, on the presumption that he still holds the Republican Party in the palm of his hand.\n\nBut now, out of power and under multiple federal and state investigations, some Republicans and political observers have begun to question his grip. The Speaker contest might provide one data point.\n\nAs the House’s Republican leader, McCarthy long appeased Trump during his presidency and defended him through two impeachments. McCarthy went so far as to visit Trump at his Florida estate after the 6 January attack on Congress to make peace - even after a mob of Trump supporters had chased McCarthy and his colleagues into hiding.\n\nMcCarthy was so deferential to Trump over the years that the former president gave him the moniker “My Kevin” - both an endearment and a reflection of political reality.\n\nBut right now, being Trump’s Kevin might not be enough.", "Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a NFL game in Cincinnati on Monday\n\nAmerican football player Damar Hamlin is still in critical condition but showing some improvement, his team has said.\n\nThe Buffalo Bills player suffered a cardiac arrest on the field during a primetime Monday night US National Football League game in Cincinnati.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Bills issued the brief update on his status.\n\nTributes for Hamlin have poured in from the Buffalo community, the NFL and across the sports world.\n\nThe Bills said in a post on Twitter that Hamlin showed \"signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight\".\n\n\"He is expected to remain under intensive care as his health care team continues to monitor and treat him.\"\n\nHamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during the game after tackling Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins, whose helmet appeared to hit Hamlin in the chest. After initially getting to his feet, Hamlin fell on his back.\n\nHis injury during the game came as a shock to his family and loved ones, his uncle Dorrian Glenn said.\n\n\"I've never cried so hard in my life,\" Mr Glenn told CNN. \"Just to know, like, my nephew basically died on the field and they brought him back to life. I mean, it's just heartbreaking.\"\n\nMr Glenn told CNN that Hamlin had to be resuscitated twice, once on the field and again in the hospital, though the player's friend and marketing agent Jordon Rooney later said the uncle misspoke.\n\n\"Damar's only been resuscitated once,\" Mr Rooney clarified.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where Hamlin is receiving treatment, for an update on his health but has not yet received a response.\n\nMr Glenn said his nephew is showing encouraging signs of improvement, such as doctors lowering the level of oxygen he needs. But he added Hamlin is on a ventilator and still sedated.\n\n\"They just want him to have a better chance of recovering better,\" Mr Glenn said. \"So, they feel that if he's sedated, his body can heal a lot faster.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with ESPN outside the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Mr Glenn said the family is grateful for the many tributes that Hamlin has received since his injury, including from players and fans - some of whom laid flowers, candles and signs with well-wishes outside the Cincinnati hospital.\n\n\"It really means a difference for my family to see that, and I know it'll mean a difference to Damar when he sees that.\"\n\nOn Tuesday night, players from the city's ice hockey team, the Buffalo Sabres, wore \"Love for 3\" shirts - featuring Hamlin's jersey number - as they arrived for their game against the Washington Capitals.\n\nThat same evening, Niagara Falls, located near Buffalo, was lit up blue in honour of Hamlin.\n\nAnd on Twitter, the Buffalo Bills changed their display picture to a blue backdrop with the words \"Pray for Demar\" and the number three. The league's 31 other teams soon followed suit.\n\nHamlin, 24, was drafted to the NFL in 2021 out of the University of Pittsburgh, where he played college football.\n\nPittsburgh's coach, Pat Narduzzi, posted a tribute to Hamlin on Twitter, writing that he is \"far more than just a football player\".\n\n\"He's a loving son, brother and friend,\" Mr Narduzzi wrote. \"Damar is a hero to thousands of Pittsburgh kids.\"\n\nTributes to Hamlin have hailed his extensive charity work, including annual toy drive fundraisers he has organised ahead of Christmas over the last three years.\n\nDonations to an online GoFundMe page for a toy drive launched by him in 2020 have surpassed $7m (£5.87m) as of Thursday morning.\n\nSeveral NFL players have donated to the fundraiser since Hamlin's injury, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson, who each donated $10,000.\n\nFollowing Hamlin's injury, the NFL has indefinitely postponed the game between the Bills and the Bengals, with the league saying it has made \"no decision\" on whether the game will be resumed at a later date.\n\nHamlin's team, the Buffalo Bills, is scheduled to play the New England Patriots on Sunday. The team is expected to practice on Thursday.\n\nThe Pro Football Hall of Fame also postponed its planned Tuesday announcement of finalists for the Hall's Class of 2023 to Wednesday evening, out of respect for Hamlin.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'No-one should have to carry a loved one into hospital'\n\nWhen Steve Parsons's grandfather collapsed at his Monmouthshire home, his family immediately dialled 999.\n\nHowever when they were told there were no ambulances available, they had to take measures into their own hands.\n\nIn desperation, Mr Parsons drove and then carried the 83-year-old, who had suffered a cardiac arrest, into the Grange Hospital near Cwmbran, Torfaen.\n\nA passing nurse helped save the elderly patient and the ambulance service and health board have both apologised.\n\nAneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) and Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) admitted the incident did not match the service they wished to offer - but said it was indicative of the \"unprecedented\" pressures both organisations were under.\n\nMr Parsons said: \"It was horrible. They're on the phone, you're there and he's grey in the face and looks horrendous. You just panic.\"\n\nBy the time Mr Parsons drove to the hospital, his grandfather had gone into cardiac arrest. He then carried his relative on his shoulder across the car park \"yelling for help\".\n\nA passing nurse heard his calls and was able to help save the 83-year-old's life using CPR.\n\n\"It could've been the difference of 30 seconds and I think my grandfather wouldn't be here,\" said Mr Parsons.\n\n\"I thank the staff at the Grange [hospital] for doing what they did, because without them he wouldn't be here.\"\n\nHis grandfather is now recovering at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, but Mr Parsons said his family has been traumatised.\n\n\"It makes me feel angry,\" said the 31-year-old.\n\n\"If my grandfather had that ambulance, had that oxygen, I fully believe he wouldn't have gone into cardiac arrest and my family wouldn't have gone through what they've gone through these past seven days.\"\n\nAmbulances often face long waits to discharge patients at The Grange Hospital's A&E department\n\nWAST said it was not the level of service it wishes to provide.\n\nHowever, Jeff Morris, its head of emergency medical services for the central region, added: \"Demand has been such that we have had no option other than to ask some patients to make their own way to hospital, as was the experience of this family.\"\n\nThe Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents all Welsh NHS organisations, has previously warned that the NHS was struggling to cope, and the Christmas period had \"tipped it over the edge\".\n\nABUHV admitted the experience must have been \"traumatic\" for the family and praised the actions of the nurse as an example of how staff \"go above and beyond\" to keep services running.\n\nHowever it said a \"significant\" increase in respiratory viruses was not only raising demand but also causing high levels of staff sickness.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\nA spokesman added: \"We take great pride in offering the best possible care to our patients, but this is becoming increasingly difficult at the moment.\n\n\"Our services are facing the same extreme pressures that are being reported across Wales and the UK, with large numbers of patients presenting with respiratory viruses - particularly flu and Covid-19.\"\n\nThe health board has urged people to use services \"appropriately\" and to seek care for less severe problems at minor injury units, GPs or pharmacies.\n\nThe Welsh government called the situation in the NHS \"unprecedented\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marvel stars including Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth were among those sending well wishes to Renner (pictured)\n\nUS actor Jeremy Renner has thanked fans for their support after he was seriously injured by his snow plough.\n\nSharing a picture of his bruised face on Instagram, Renner said he was \"too messed up now to type\".\n\nThe Avengers star was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after the accident outside his home in Reno, Nevada.\n\nRenner was run over by his own snow plough, which weighs at least 14,330lb (6.5 tonnes) - three times as heavy as a car - the local sheriff said.\n\nHe suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopaedic injuries, his publicist said on Monday. At that time he was in a stable but critical condition in intensive care.\n\nIn an Instagram post from his hospital bed on Tuesday evening, Renner, 51, wrote: \"Thank you all for your kind words. I'm too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jeremyrenner This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe incident happened after a new year storm left around 3ft of fresh snowfall on the ground, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said in a press conference.\n\nA family member driving Renner's car had got stuck in the snow near his house, the sheriff said. Using his snow plough, Renner successfully towed the car free.\n\nHe then got out to talk to his relative, but the snow plough began to move while empty.\n\nRenner was trying to get back into the driver's seat to stop it moving, when the \"extremely large\" piece of equipment ran him over, Mr Balaam said.\n\nThe PistenBully weighs at least 14,330lb, he said. The average weight of a car, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, is 4,289lb (2 tonnes).\n\n\"An eyewitness detailed seeing Mr Renner getting into the PistenBully and not seeing him again until the PistenBully came to a rest in a pile of snow in front of his driveway,\" Mr Balaam said.\n\nA PistenBully or Snowcat snow plough similar to the type owned by Renner\n\nRenner is a \"great neighbour\" and always uses his snow plough to clear local roads, the sheriff added.\n\n\"Throughout the community he has been very generous and he's one of those individuals that most of the time you don't know he's doing it, but he has made a tremendous impact on this community.\"\n\nA number of Hollywood figures, including several of Renner's former Marvel co-stars, posted their well wishes after Renner's latest health update.\n\nCommenting on the actor's Instagram post, Captain America star Chris Evans wrote: \"Tough as nails. Love you buddy.\"\n\nGuardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt said he was sending \"continued prayers your way brutha\", while WandaVision actor Paul Bettany added: \"Love you mate. Sending you love and healing.\"\n\nVanessa Hudgens, Heidi Klum and Orlando Bloom also sent messages of support, as talk show host Jimmy Fallon told Renner there was \"lotsa love out there for you bud\".\n\nThor star Chris Hemsworth commented: \"Speedy recovery buddy. Sending love your way!\" while Taika Waititi, who has directed two Thor films, said simply: \"My brother I love you.\"\n\nAt least 60 people in eight states were killed in the new year snowstorm. A day after Renner's accident, news emerged that rally driving champion Ken Block was killed when his snowmobile flipped at his ranch in Utah.\n\nTwo-time Oscar nominee Renner is best known for his role as Clint Barton/Hawkeye in the Marvel cinematic universe, starring in several Avengers films and in the spin-off television series Hawkeye.\n\nHe was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor for his role in The Hurt Locker in 2008, and for best supporting actor in The Town in 2010.", "Clair Ablewhite was stabbed to death at her home in Colston Bassett\n\nA man who stabbed a mother-of-three to death shortly after their relationship ended has been given a life sentence for her murder.\n\nJohn Jessop, 26, will serve a minimum of 17 years and eight months for killing 47-year-old Clair Ablewhite at her home in Nottinghamshire.\n\nJessop cycled 17 miles from his home in Newark in order to murder Ms Ablewhite in Colston Bassett, then cycled back.\n\nPolice said the attack he inflicted on her was \"brutal and relentless\".\n\n\"The nature of her injuries to the head and chest appeared very personal,\" Det Insp Mel Crutchley, of Nottinghamshire Police, said.\n\n\"In any homicide investigation I always remain open-minded and keep the information, intelligence, and evidence under constant review.\n\n\"However, I formed the opinion very early on in this investigation that Clair's killer was known to her.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Colston Bassett: Killer caught on camera before murdering ex\n\nSentencing Jessop at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said he had \"bludgeoned her repeatedly\", initially while unarmed, and then used one of Ms Ablewhite's own kitchen knives to stab her and cut her throat.\n\n\"It should be said that there are two facets to what you used the knife for,\" he said.\n\n\"The fatal injuries to her were to and around her neck, but on her chest there were a series of other injuries, none of which penetrated very far, three of which certainly were delivered in quick succession.\n\n\"Only you know why you did that. That seems to me to indicate that you were angry with her.\n\n\"Shortly after you cut her throat and did certainly kill her.\"\n\nJohn Jessop was given a life sentence at Nottingham Crown Court\n\nMs Ablewhite was brought up in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, and had spent most of her life working on the farm she shared with her husband, having married at the age of 19.\n\nThe couple had three sons together. When the marriage ended, she moved out of the family home and started renting a cottage in Hall Lane, Colston Bassett, in January 2022.\n\nPolice said she had been in an \"intimate relationship\" with Jessop from September 2021, but this ended in the middle of February 2022.\n\n\"The contact ceased mainly due to concern over the age difference, and it was evident from the communication that he had been at her Colston Bassett address during the six weeks she had resided there,\" Det Insp Crutchley said.\n\nJessop then murdered her on the evening of 25 February 2022, and she was found dead by her 74-year-old father the following day.\n\nReading his victim personal statement to the court, Graham Tinkley described walking into her home and seeing a puddle of blood, then seeing his daughter on the floor.\n\n\"I still can't understand why you brutally murdered her in this way,\" he said to Jessop.\n\nHe described having to give her CPR, as instructed by the 999 operator, even though she was already dead.\n\nTurning to face the defendant, he said: \"I could see the stab wound there where John Jessop had slashed her throat.\n\n\"I had to do this on my daughter's dead body.\"\n\nHe told the court he still wakes up at night from panic attacks and sees his daughter in his dreams.\n\nMs Ablewhite's neighbour spotted the killer on his home security footage\n\nPolice were able to trace Jessop using CCTV and dashcam footage.\n\nOfficers were initially contacted by Ms Ablewhite's neighbour - who was in France at the time and spotted a hooded man while viewing his home security camera using his mobile phone.\n\nPolice said it was an audio camera, so it also captured the sound of Ms Ablewhite screaming.\n\nOfficers then spent hours trawling through CCTV and dashcam footage in order to trace Jessop's journey.\n\nThey also found Ms Ablewhite's phone in a stream, as Jessop had taken it after the murder. It was severely water damaged but police were able to retrieve the information. They found she had been using a dating website, and also found WhatsApp messages between her and Jessop.\n\n\"He was identified as being known to Clair via social media and had been in an intimate relationship with her,\" Det Insp Crutchley said.\n\nPolice arrested him and charged him with murder on 11 March.\n\nHe pleaded guilty at Nottingham Crown Court on 12 October, on the basis that he had lost his temper and become violent, intending to kill Ms Ablewhite.\n\nThe judge reduced the sentence from 20 years because of the guilty plea.\n\nDet Insp Mel Crutchley said the attack was \"brutal and relentless\"\n\nIn mitigation, barrister Peter Joyce KC said Jessop had only gone to Ms Ablewhite's home intending to speak to her about the end of their relationship, and killed her \"on the spur of the moment\".\n\n\"To suggest there was any premeditation is wrong,\" Mr Joyce said.\n\n\"Premeditation of killing? No. Premeditation of seeking an explanation? Yes.\n\n\"He went there to see her because he was bewildered. Had he taken a knife or weapon, that would have been premeditation.\"\n\nThis was accepted by the judge, who told Jessop: \"I think, as I have said, you went to see her to try and speak to her in the hope that she would give you the explanation you wanted. In hindsight that was never, ever going to happen.\"\n\nPolice tracked Jessop's journey by bike from Newark to Colston Bassett and back again\n\nHowever, police still believe Jessop set off intending to kill Ms Ablewhite.\n\nThe court heard Jessop had left his phone at home, and the prosecution believe he did this so his movements could not be traced.\n\n\"As he set off on that 17-mile cycle ride, we believe he knew exactly the course he wanted to take,\" said Det Insp Crutchley.\n\n\"Throughout this investigation Jessop has shown no remorse for what he did to Clair. He has consistently provided no comment in interview and offered up no apology.\n\n\"The attack he inflicted on Clair was brutal and relentless, causing catastrophic injuries which finally led to her death.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil was adapted for the screen in Britain and Hollywood\n\nWriter Fay Weldon, best known for books including 1983's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, has died at the age of 91.\n\nThe author published more than 30 novels across her career, as well as collections of short stories, films for television, and pieces of journalism.\n\nWeldon was born in the UK but was brought up in New Zealand.\n\nShe published her first novel in 1967 and went on to be shortlisted for the Booker and Whitbread literature prizes for her works Praxis and Worst Fears.\n\nWeldon's witty, cutting and mischievous stories about the lives and loves of women often drew on her own colourful and turbulent private life and relationships.\n\nA family statement released by her agent said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fay Weldon (CBE), author, essayist and playwright.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAuthor Jenny Colgan led the tributes, describing Weldon as \"formidable, fierce and wonderful\".\n\nFellow writer Joanne Harris said she was \"a remarkable woman\", while TV presenter Peter Purves said she was a \"fantastic writer whose work lit up the 70's and 80's\".\n\nWeldon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979 and the Whitbread Prize in 1996\n\nBroadcaster and author Rev Richard Coles said he was \"so sorry\" to see news of Weldon's death.\n\n\"I started out as an admirer of her fiction and I ended up taking her Holy Communion,\" he tweeted. \"She was amazing. May she rest in peace.\"\n\nSophie Walker, former leader of the Women's Equality Party, recalled Weldon as \"funny and dark and clever and angry and took not one single prisoner\".\n\nIn late 2020, Weldon revealed on her website that she had suffered a stroke and broken a bone in her back, meaning she had been \"hospitalised for much of the last year\".\n\nWeldon started out as an advertising copywriter before becoming established as a novelist and scriptwriter.\n\nShe had multiple TV and radio credits to her name, and in 1971 wrote the first episode of series Upstairs, Downstairs.\n\nThe Life and Loves of a She-Devil followed Ruth Patchett, a woman who sought revenge after discovering her husband has been having an affair with an elegant novelist.\n\nIt went on to become a BBC TV series starring Dennis Waterman, Patricia Hodge and Julie T Wallace. In the US, it became a Meryl Streep film simply titled She Devil.\n\nWeldon's other best-known works included 1989's The Cloning of Joanna May, which was also adapted for the small screen and also starred Hodge, alongside Brian Cox and Peter Capaldi.\n\nShe said she deliberately wrote about women who were often overlooked or not featured in the media. Feminism played a prominent role in much of Weldon's work, although some of her views on the subject meant her relationship with feminism was complicated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. April 2017: Fay Weldon talks to Newsnight about her new book and what feminists got wrong\n\nShe was nominated for the Booker in 1979 for her sixth novel Praxis. The Times critic Clare Clark recently praised it as her best work, saying the author set herself the task of \"disabusing women of just about every comforting myth they might cling to, firing off savage truths as though it is a novelist's duty to break three taboos before breakfast\".\n\nWeldon told the Guardian in 2006: \"Praxis was the book that made my reputation, but it was only because I had gone through the original draft taking out all the jokes that anyone took it seriously. I didn't do that again with any other book, and I've since been considered rather frivolous in some circles.\"\n\nThe writer was chosen to chair the Booker judging panel in 1983. At that ceremony, she gave a speech about how badly publishers treated their writers, which angered one publisher so much that he walked over and punched her agent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Booker Prizes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by The Booker Prizes\n\nHer Whitbread Prize nomination came in 1996 for Worst Fears, in which an actress must face her fear of being cheated on by her husband.\n\nWeldon also won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award the same year for Wicked Women, a short story collection. She was also awarded a Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, and was made a CBE in 2001.\n\nIn 2017, she wrote Death of a She-Devil, a sequel to The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, in which Ruth is now 84 and has made a world with \"women triumphant, men submissive\".\n\nWeldon was also professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and Brunel University.", "Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced the closure of his app.\n\nThe Matt Hancock MP app debuted in 2018 with a promise to let his West Suffolk constituents follow his latest news and \"promote a healthy, open and impartial debate\".\n\nIn his final post he said it was \"time to bid a fond farewell\" to what he called an \"iconic\" app.\n\nBut the verdicts of its modest number of users have been more mixed, with some mocking its impact.\n\nMr Hancock was the first MP to launch an app. The then-culture secretary greeted new users with a video saying: \"Hi I'm Matt Hancock and welcome to my app.\"\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, some 243,000 people have signed up for it since.\n\nNot all of them were who they appeared to be, though. The app was initially trolled and mocked by users, with some impersonating politicians such as Ed Balls, Donald Trump and Liz Truss.\n\nIn his farewell post on the app, Mr Hancock claimed it had secured \"multiple exclusives\" - such as his backing of Rishi Sunak's leadership campaign.\n\nMr Hancock said fans concerned about being without his latest updates should \"fear not\", urging them to follow him on TikTok where he has 156,000 followers.\n\nHe signed off with \"thanks for the memories and see you all soon\" and the hashtag: #allgoodthingsmustcometoanend.\n\nThe move to shut down the app after five years comes shortly after Mr Hancock announced he would stand down as West Suffolk MP at the next election, following a backlash to his appearance on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.\n\nMr Hancock was suspended from the Conservative party for joining the I'm A Celebrity show and is currently an independent MP.\n\nThe Matt Hancock MP app was one of several which enjoyed a recent flurry of activity as users joked about it becoming an alternative to Twitter amid Elon Musk's takeover of the company.\n\nBut while decentralised social network Mastodon enjoyed millions of new users, the Matt Hancock app attracted irony-laced reviews on Apple's App Store.\n\nOne user described it mockingly as a \"truly a life changing experience\".\n\nAnother wrote wryly: \"Delete your phone, get this app instead. You won't regret it.\"", "Police divers have been at the scene of the crash\n\nThe husband of a woman killed in a helicopter crash on Australia's Gold Coast, has sought prayers for their son, who is fighting for his life.\n\n\"I ask everyone to pray for the little man. He is on life support in a critical condition,\" Simon Tadros said.\n\nHe witnessed the collision between two Sea World sightseeing helicopters on Monday, which killed his 36-year-old wife Vanessa and three others.\n\nThree people, including their 10-year-old son Nicholas, are in hospital.\n\n\"May God pull him back with me and make a good recovery,\" Mr Tadros added in his post on Facebook.\n\nAn online crowdfunder started by Ms Tadros' friend Rochelle Fajloun described Ms Tadros as a \"much-loved and highly respected mother\".\n\n\"We are praying for a miracle that our Nicky... can be brought back to his grief stricken father Simon,\" Ms Fajloun wrote on the page.\n\nAbout AU$15,000 ($10,200; £8,500) has been raised so far.\n\nIn a separate post on Ms Tadros' business page, Mr Tadros said his \"beautiful wife and mother to my son\" had been killed in the accident.\n\nInvestigators are looking at what caused the collision, particularly the situation in the two cockpits at the time.\n\nAll those killed and badly injured were in the ascending helicopter, which collided with another helicopter that was landing less than 20 seconds after taking off from a sandbar.\n\nThe other victims included British couple Diane Hughes, 57, and her 65-year-old husband Ron.\n\nThe fourth fatality was 40-year-old Ashley Jenkinson, an experienced Sea World Helicopters pilot who lived in the area. The Brisbane Times reported he was originally from England.\n\nFive of the six people on board the descending helicopter suffered minor injuries.", "Dr Karen Forshaw says the demand on GP surgeries is growing all the time\n\nGPs say they are facing massive pressures as the demands of winter illness, an ageing population and complex health issues mount up.\n\nAt 07:00 GMT on the first day back after the bank holiday, the Bentley surgery in Doncaster opens.\n\nStaff know it is going to be a busy one, particularly after the Christmas break.\n\nWithin an hour, the phone lines are ringing off the hook, busy with patients seeking help and advice.\n\n\"We're here early, we finish late, we see as many patients as we can,\" says Dr Karen Forshaw, a GP at the surgery.\n\nBy 12:00, more than 140 calls have been answered.\n\nOn reception, Sue Rushby, a care navigator, is helping to check in people with pre-booked GP appointments, blood tests and physiotherapy. It is relentless.\n\n\"There's no two ways about it, you've just got to deal with people that are coming in, they need us. And I just do it,\" she said.\n\n\"It's non-stop but keep your cool, be nice, talk to them nice, that's my motto, that's how I work.\"\n\nSue Rushby is under constant pressure to deal with patients\n\nAJ, who is 13, has come in with his mum, struggling with a sore throat and a rash on his arms and body.\n\nAfter being examined by Dr Nabeel Alsindi, he is sent home and told to keep an eye on his symptoms.\n\nIn the midst of an already busy day, suddenly there is a medical emergency in reception.\n\nAn elderly man feels unwell and there are concerns about his heart.\n\nStaff are quick to respond with doctors and nurses rushing to make sure the patient gets the right treatment.\n\nShortly after, he is well enough to be sent home.\n\nDr Forshaw says demand is simply growing all the time - not just in GP surgeries, but across the health service.\n\n\"The pressure is huge all the way through the system at the moment and that's no different in general practice,\" she said.\n\n\"We have patients constantly ringing throughout the day. And, as GPs, our days are quite decision-focused, so there's lots of decisions to be made and some of those are really important.\n\n\"And that can be quite draining actually, so the pressure is huge definitely.\n\n\"It feels like there's more demand actually, but we don't have any more patients.\"\n\nCall handlers are busy from start to finish at the surgery\n\nInstead, she says the challenge is seeing more people with complex health issues and dealing with more emergency care.\n\nNHS England has acknowledged there are multiple factors contributing to pressures on its services.\n\nThese include 18% more people coming into A&E in the last six weeks compared to the same period last year, and there are nearly 10,000 NHS staff absent at the moment because of Covid.\n\nThere is still a significant number of Covid patients in hospitals, too. In England the number has more than doubled from a few weeks ago to 9,500.\n\nDelayed discharges of medically fit patients - who could leave if there was provision in the community - is also causing bed blocking in hospital.\n\nStaff at the Bentley surgery try to make sure everyone gets an appointment, and doctors are taking on extra sessions so they can see more people.\n\nDr Forshaw says they have got to be optimistic about the future.\n\nBut she also says retaining staff, educating patients about when to access NHS services and thinking about what is both achievable and sustainable long term for the NHS have to be looked at urgently.\n\nThe government has said it is \"working tirelessly\" to ensure patient care and recognises the pressures being faced by the NHS.\n\nIt also said it was providing £14.1bn in additional funding for health and social care over the next two years, as well as an extra £500m to try to speed up hospital discharges.", "Hospitals across China are under pressure amid a fresh wave of Covid infections\n\nThe World Health Organization has warned that China is under-representing the true impact of Covid in the country - in particular deaths.\n\nThe removal of most restrictions last month has led to a surge in cases.\n\nBut China has stopped publishing daily cases data, and has announced only 22 Covid deaths since December, using its own strict criteria.\n\n\"We believe that definition [of a Covid death] is too narrow,\" WHO emergencies director Dr Michael Ryan said.\n\nDr Ryan said China's figures \"under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths\".\n\nChina last month changed its criteria for what constitutes a Covid death, meaning only those who die of respiratory illnesses are counted.\n\nThis goes against WHO guidance, which encourages countries to count the number of excess deaths - how many more people die than would normally be expected based on death figures before the pandemic hit.\n\nDr Ryan added that China had increased its engagement with the WHO in recent weeks, and said he looked forward to receiving \"more comprehensive data.\"\n\nBut he also suggested individual health workers could report their own data and experiences.\n\n\"We do not discourage doctors and nurses reporting these deaths and these cases,\" Dr Ryan said. \"We have an open approach to be able to record the actual impact of disease in society.\"\n\nThe UK science data company Airfinity estimates more than two million Covid cases a day in China, and 14,700 deaths.\n\nSince China abandoned key parts of its \"zero-Covid\" strategy almost a month ago, there have been reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed.\n\nMore than a dozen nations have introduced travel restrictions on travellers from China. Beijing has criticised these as politically motivated and threatened to retaliate.\n\nOn Wednesday, the European Union issued new guidance \"strongly\" recommending that all member states introduce the requirement that passengers flying from China provide a negative Covid test before their departure.\n\nNo new Covid variants have been detected in China, despite the surge in cases. However, the WHO has warned this could be due to a decrease in testing.\n\nThe Chinese authorities have announced they are sending medical supplies to rural hospitals before an expected wave of coronavirus infections in the countryside - where vaccination rates are patchy.\n\nDr Abdi Rahman Mahamud, director of the WHO's alert and response coordination department, has warned China may see another wave of infections as families gather for China's Lunar New Year in a few weeks - one of the country's busiest travel periods.", "Taraneh Alidoosti was given a bouquet of flowers after her release from Tehran's Evin prison\n\nAuthorities in Iran have released a top actress who was arrested last month after expressing solidarity with anti-government protesters.\n\nTaraneh Alidoosti was pictured being greeted by friends outside Tehran's Evin prison, her hair uncovered.\n\nThe 38-year-old star was freed on bail after being accused of \"posting inflammatory content\".\n\nShe had posted a picture on social media without a headscarf and condemned the first execution of a protester.\n\nMany Iranian actors, musicians and other celebrities have publicly backed the protests against the clerical establishment.\n\nThey erupted almost four months ago following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab, or headscarf, \"improperly\".\n\nAuthorities have portrayed the protests as foreign-backed \"riots\" and responded with lethal force.\n\nSo far, at least 516 protesters have been killed, including 70 children, and 19,250 others arrested, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). It has also reported the deaths of 68 security personnel.\n\nTwo protesters were executed last month after being convicted of the vaguely-defined national security charge of \"enmity against God\".\n\nHuman rights groups condemned their trials as gross miscarriages of justice. They were reportedly tortured into confessing and deprived of access to lawyers of their choosing.\n\nDays before her own arrest on 17 December, Ms Alidoosti had urged people to speak out in response to the execution of the first protester, Mohsen Shekari.\n\n\"Every international organisation who is watching this bloodshed and not taking action is a disgrace to humanity,\" she wrote on her Instagram account, which had millions of followers before it was disabled.\n\nIn November, she had posed with her hair uncovered, holding a sign saying \"Woman, life, freedom\" - the main slogan of the protest movement.\n\nState media reported that Taraneh Alidoosti had failed to provide \"any documents in line with her claims\"\n\nIran's state news agency, Irna, reported that Ms Alidoosti was arrested for failing to provide \"any documents in line with her claims\".\n\nMs Alidoosti is one of Iran's most successful actresses. She starred in The Salesman, which won an Academy Award in 2016 for the Best International Feature Film.\n\nShe has paused her career to support the families of protesters killed in the crackdown and has previously vowed to remain inside Iran at any price.\n\nTwo other Iranian actresses, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, were arrested in November for supporting the protests. They have also been released on bail.\n\nIn a separate development on Wednesday, the Iranian government vowed to give a \"decisive response\" after the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of cartoons mocking Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a Shia Muslim cleric who has the final say on all state matters.\n\nCharlie Hebdo said it had received more than 300 such cartoons and \"thousands of threats\" after it launched a competition last month in order to \"support the struggle of Iranians who are fighting for their freedom\".\n\n\"The insulting and offensive action of a French publication in releasing cartoons against [Iran's] religious and political authority will not be left without an effective and decisive response,\" Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian tweeted.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran's Supreme Court upheld death sentences handed to two men who were convicted of \"corruption on Earth\" over the alleged killing of a paramilitary member in Karaj in November.\n\nThe court rejected the appeals of Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, who have both alleged that they were tortured into making false confessions. Retrials were ordered for three co-defendants sentenced to death in the same case, including Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou.", "People with a virus should wear a face mask if they are out in public and not go to work, according to Scotland's national clinical director.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said there needed to be a \"new culture\" of making sure people do not pass diseases to others.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has urged adults to stay at home if they are ill.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has warned the NHS faces \"an extremely challenging\" next two weeks as a result of Covid and flu cases.\n\nIt comes as the number of people in the UK estimated to have Covid last week hit two million.\n\nProf Leitch also called on people to think carefully about how they access health services as winter pressures mount on A&E departments and GP practices.\n\nThe latest Public Health Scotland figures show just under 57% of A&E patients in Scotland were seen within the government's four-hour target last week - a slight improvement on the previous week.\n\nHowever, the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in emergency departments - 1,925 - was at a record high.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"There are things we can do to help each other, whether they are relatives, friends, neighbours and those around us.\n\n\"We shouldn't pass on diseases to others. This is a new culture for Scotland. This means not going to the office if you are sick, not going to drive that bus.\n\n\"If you have a virus, if you're not well, you should stay at home and not pass that virus on to others.\"\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency previously called on adults who are unwell to wear a face covering if they have to go out and avoid vulnerable people unless it is urgent.\n\nIt has also stressed the importance of washing hands and catching coughs and sneezes in tissues.\n\nProf Leitch said he understood many people would be wary of returning to widespread use of face coverings similar to that at the height of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said learning lessons from how people in south-east Asia react to viruses would be \"no bad thing\".\n\n\"One of the cultural differences there is that if you are unwell, recovering from a virus or you feel as if you've got that scratchy throat at the beginning of a virus, then you wear a face covering in the shops, in the street and on public transport,\" he said.\n\n\"That would be no bad thing for Scotland and the UK to inherit from the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"We have thrown off the shackles of Covid. We think it's over. Well let me tell you, two million people in Britain have Covid this week. There are 800 people in hospital seriously ill with Covid and often with another disease.\n\n\"So Covid is here to stay and we're going to have to live with it.\"\n\nEmergency departments across Scotland are under extreme pressure\n\nProf Leitch also urged people to think carefully about how they access health services as GP practices reopen after the holiday period.\n\nHe said those feeling ill should search the NHS inform website in the first instance, as part of efforts to ease pressure on A&E services.\n\nScotland recorded its worst ever performance times at A&E in the week up to 18 December, with 55% of patients seen within the government target of four hours.\n\nThis improved to just under 57% last week, although the latest data does not include NHS Ayrshire and Arran or NHS Borders because of technical problems.\n\nThe aim is for 95% of those attending emergency departments to be seen and then admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nThere have been calls to introduce emergency measures at some Scottish A&E departments where one medic said patients were being kept in \"inhumane\" conditions.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said he accepted the latest figures were \"not acceptable\".\n\nBut he said he hoped the public understood \"this is not a normal situation\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We've never seen such unprecedented demand and pressure on our health service.\n\n\"This winter will probably be the most challenging that the NHS has ever faced in its 74-year existence.\n\n\"That's because of not just a rise in Covid cases but in other viral infections that have come back with a vengeance that we haven't seen in the last couple of years.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said the Scottish government was working \"with relentless focus\" with health boards to ensure people leave hospital without delay.\n\nHe said: \"We need to make sure every staffed bed is being flagged up by care homes, for example, so we can get people out - even on an interim basis.\n\n\"It may not be their first choice of care home, it may not be their second choice.\n\n\"But being in a hospital that is over-occupied, that is facing significant pressure, if you're clinically safe to be discharged then that can't be an option to remain there.\"\n\nAcross the UK, there are an estimated 800 people in hospital seriously ill with Covid\n\nOpposition parties have again called on the health secretary to resign over the \"appalling\" waiting times figures.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said they laid bare the crisis in A&E under Mr Yousaf.\n\nHe added: \"Despite the Herculean efforts of frontline staff, waiting times in our emergency departments are unacceptable due to years of dire workforce planning by successive SNP health secretaries, as well as the flimsy recovery plan of the current one.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Jackie Baillie said: \"Staff are working tirelessly but the inaction of this SNP government has left them facing an impossible struggle. We are only halfway through this winter so there is still much more to come.\n\n\"This crisis has occurred on Humza Yousaf's watch and NHS staff have no confidence that he is the person capable of taking action and leading them out of this crisis. Mr Yousaf, it's time to go.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the number of people turning up at A&E was only part of the problems facing the NHS.\n\nShe told the BBC's Lunchtime Live programme: \"There are more people in hospital who are ready to be discharged but they can't be, more people needing to be admitted and that's where the pressure block is happening.\n\n\"It's not just about respiratory infection, although that's a huge part of it. There are lots of people in hospital right now with Covid and flu.\n\n\"But it's also the long-term consequences of an older population and people just becoming increasingly vulnerable.\n\n\"So we're just starting to see that perfect storm of pressure on health and social care service.\"", "Local military commander's wife Yekaterina Kolotovkina was among mourners in the centre of Samara\n\nThe deaths of dozens of Russian soldiers in a new year missile strike on a building in occupied eastern Ukraine have prompted recriminations among critics of the Russian military.\n\nRussia's defence ministry has so far conceded that 89 people were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka at around midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nOne commander's wife accused the West of trying to destroy Russia.\n\nBut elsewhere military leaders were accused of incompetence.\n\nUkraine says as many as 400 people were killed or wounded at Makiivka, and numbers into the hundreds have been given by Russian nationalists on social media.\n\nHowever, there is no way of verifying how many soldiers were killed when US-made Himars missiles hit a vocational college packed with conscripts. Ammunition was also being stored close to the site, which was reduced to rubble.\n\nWhatever the number, this is the highest number of deaths acknowledged by Russia since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022.\n\nRallies were held in several cities in Russia's south-western region of Samara, where governor Dmitry Azarov said many of the conscripts had lived.\n\nThe biggest commemoration took place in the city of Samara itself, with at least 200 people taking part. Other official events were held in the industrial city of Tolyatti and in Syzran and Novokuybyshevsk.\n\nNo criticism was reported at the Samara rally, where the main remarks came from Yekaterina Kolotovkina, who said \"neither we nor our husbands wanted war; the entire West united against us to eliminate us and our children\".\n\nHers was very much an official voice as her husband, Lt Gen Andrei Kolotovkin, commands the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army based in Samara.\n\nThe commander's wife's remarks prompted anger on social media with independent journalist Dmitry Kolezev pointing out that her husband did not die in Makiivka.\n\n\"Could we have at least some evidence?\" he asked, in response to her claim that the West intended to kill Samara's children. Another blogger condemned her comments as a \"pack of lies\".\n\nThe governor of Samara met defence ministry officials in Moscow on Tuesday and was expected to visit some of the wounded in hospital in the city of Rostov-on-Don the next day.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has so far said nothing about the attack, but did sign a decree on Tuesday for families of National Guard soldiers killed in service to be paid 5m roubles (£57,000; $69,000).\n\nThe building housing the conscripts was all but flattened in the Ukrainian attack\n\nThe soldiers sent to Makiivka were among an estimated 300,000 men signed up by Russia's military as part of the president's \"partial mobilisation\" announced last September in the face of a string of setbacks in Ukraine.\n\nA number of voices have been highly critical of the military in the aftermath of the attack on Makiivka, a city adjacent to the main city of Donetsk and some distance from the front line.\n\nPavel Gubarev, a former leading official in Russia's proxy authority in Donetsk, condemned the decision to place a large number of soldiers in one building as \"criminal negligence\".\n\nSuch mistakes were being made early in the war, he complained, and even if the conscripts did not realise the risk, the authorities should have.\n\n\"If no-one is punished for this, then it'll only get worse,\" he warned.\n\nOne theory promoted by local security officials was that Ukrainian forces had been able to detect the use of Russian mobile phones by servicemen arriving at the vocational college on New Year's Eve.\n\nThe deputy speaker of Moscow's local parliament, Andrei Medvedev, said it was predictable that the soldiers would be blamed - instead of the commander who made the original decision to position so many soldiers in one place.\n\n\"History will certainly preserve the names of those who tried to keep silent about the trouble, and those who tried to blame the dead soldier for everything,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine's armed forces said they killed or wounded 500 Russian troops in another attack on New Year's Eve, on a village in the occupied southern region of Kherson.\n\nThere was no independent verification of the attack at Chulakivka, some 20km south of the River Dnipro.\n\nRussian forces retreated across the Dnipro in November and Ukrainian officials have posted video of a flag being hoisted on an island between the eastern and western banks of the river.\n\nUkraine's southern military command has warned that it is too early to talk of Velykyi Potomkin island being completely liberated.\n\nCommander in chief Valerii Zaluzhny said on Monday that Ukraine had liberated 40% of the territories seized by Russia since last February, and 28% of all territories occupied by Russia since 2014.", "The NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record, as hospitals are being \"pressurised like never before\", health leaders have warned.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it believes this will have been the worst December for hospital bed occupancy and emergency care delays.\n\nThe warning comes as hospitals face soaring demand driven by winter infections like flu, strep A and Covid.\n\nThe government says it is \"working tirelessly\" to ensure patient care.\n\nA number of NHS trusts have declared critical incidents in recent days, signalling they are unable to function as normal due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nDr Adrian Boyle, the president of the RCEM, told the BBC that hospitals were \"too full\" and the situation was \"much worse than in previous years\".\n\nAmbulances waiting outside hospitals was the \"most obvious marker\" of this, Dr Boyle told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn November, around 37,837 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E for a decision to be admitted to a hospital department, according to data from NHS England.\n\nThis was more than triple the equivalent figure for November 2021, when an estimated 10,646 waited longer than 12 hours.\n\nIn separate remarks to the PA news agency, Dr Boyle said he \"would not be at all surprised\" if December proved to be the worst month on record for hospital occupancy rates.\n\nOver 90% of senior doctors reported there had been people waiting in their emergency department for more than 24 hours last week, he added.\n\nDr Boyle remarked: \"The gallows joke about this is now that 24 hours in A&E is not a documentary, it's a way of life.\"\n\nHe said the health service had been stretched further by a \"staff retention crisis\", as well as recent nurse and ambulance worker strikes and a \"demand shock\" caused by winter infections.\n\nFears of a \"twindemic\" of flu and Covid infections were \"sadly being realised\", added MP Steve Brine, chair of the Commons health and social care select committee.\n\nThis was \"very heavily weighted\" towards flu infections, Mr Brine said in his own interview with the BBC.\n\nFlu case numbers in Wales have put the country's hospitals in an \"unprecedented situation\", says its top doctor - and those with symptoms have been asked to stay away from hospitals.\n\nAt the same time, the 111 telephone helpline has come under \"significant pressure\", Dr Sir Frank Atherton said. People have instead been urged to consult the 111 website.\n\nMeanwhile in England, the latest figures show there were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week - up from 520 a day the month before, and just 34 a day this time last year.\n\nAmong the NHS trusts to have declared \"critical incidents\" in recent days are:\n\nOther trusts previously declared critical incidents but have since removed the status as conditions improved - including Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals, East of England Ambulance, and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.\n\nOn top of this, several ambulance services have declared critical incidents over the past two weeks - with North East Ambulance Service and East of England Ambulance Service doing so twice.\n\nNo critical incidents have been declared in Scotland, but A&E doctors have urged NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to declare one over \"grave concerns\" over patient safety, the BBC understands.\n\nIn his own comments to the PA news agency, Dr Nick Scriven, the former president of the Society for Acute Medicine, warned that UK's urgent care system was being \"pressurised like never before\".\n\nHe urged people to \"consider carefully\" whether or not their problem required emergency care before attending a hospital.\n\nDr Scriven said the NHS should consider a \"short-term moratorium\" on the pressure to ease backlogs in elective procedures - with services working together \"for the common good\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social care said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tirelessly to ensure people get the care they need, backed by up to £14.1bn additional funding for health and social care over the next two years.\n\n\"This winter, the government has provided an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharge and free up beds - and the NHS is creating the equivalent of at least 7,000 more beds to help reduce A&E waits and get ambulances back on the road.\n\n\"We're supporting and growing the health and social care workforce through training and recruitment campaigns at home and abroad, and there are record numbers of staff working for the NHS, including 9,300 more nurses and almost 4,000 more doctors compared to September 2021.\"", "44 migrants were seen disembarking in Dover on Monday - the first crossings of the year Image caption: 44 migrants were seen disembarking in Dover on Monday - the first crossings of the year\n\nTwice in Rishi Sunak’s speech, he pledged to “stop the boats”.\n\nThe prime minister did qualify this, saying: “We will pass new laws to stop small boats, making sure that if you come to this country illegally, you are detained and swiftly removed.”\n\nSo what exactly is the prime minster promising? To “stop the boats”? Or to “pass new laws to stop small boats”?\n\nHe was asked about this in the Q&A, and he conceded that “this is not an easy problem to fix and it’s not one we can fix overnight and requires lots of different things to be changed.”\n\n“The most important thing we need to do is pass new legislation,” he said. “And we want to make sure that that new legislation means that if you come here illegally to our country you will not be able to stay. You will be detained and swiftly removed back to a safe country or your own home if that is appropriate.”\n\nSo this is a case of reading the small print. What Rishi Sunak has actually promised is to pass new laws that would mean people entering the UK illegally would be detained and removed.\n\nThat is not the same as “stopping the boats.” What’s more, this new legislation may well get bogged down in the courts as a potential breach of the UK’s refugee obligations. And if it is going to work, it will have to be better than the laws passed only last year.", "The number of people on the high street in towns like Budleigh Salterton in Devon has risen\n\nA typical week in the office now runs from Tuesday to Thursday, a study of mobile phone activity suggests.\n\nAnalysts Placemake.io and Visitor Insights examined anonymised phone data from more than 500 UK high streets from 2019 to 2022.\n\nThe study found increased activity in many suburban and small towns, which it linked to the trend for working from home.\n\nSeaside towns were significantly busier than before the Covid pandemic.\n\nMark Allan, chief executive of property firm LandSec, said Tuesday to Thursday was incredibly busy in the City of London, but activity on Mondays was only 50-60% of that level, and Fridays were almost as quiet as weekends.\n\n\"We're not going back to how things were pre-Covid,\" he said. \"We certainly believe there are going to be fewer people in offices for the longer term and we are planning accordingly.\"\n\nReal estate firm CBRE Investment Management said empty office space in London has more than doubled in the last three years.\n\nThe company's head of European research, David Inskip, warned many office districts would struggle if there was nothing but a desk and a computer on offer.\n\n\"It has to be a high quality built environment that draws you in,\" he said.\n\nHowever, while city centres have seen a decline, many towns and suburbs have seen an increase in high street footfall.\n\nIn Kirkby, Merseyside, footfall appears to have increased by 160% over three years, aided by local regeneration, including the opening of a supermarket in the town centre.\n\nPlaceMake.io founder Chlump Chatkupt said: \"The places that have thrived have a more balanced, diverse mix of office, residential and retail.\n\n\"Residents are spending more time at home and in their local community and finding they can do a lot without venturing too far out.\"\n\nTowns with shops, offices and housing all within walking distance - what planners call a 15-minute city - have done well.\n\nActivity also seems to have increased in seaside towns, including Budleigh Salterton in Devon. The town which had a reputation as a place to retire, has attracted an increasing number of young families.\n\nAdam Sweet, a structural engineer who largely works from home, said when he arrived in the town in 2016 he knew of only one family with young children in his neighbourhood.\n\n\"Since then, there's 10 or 20 families in our area who've all moved in and I know a lot of people who are waiting to move in to Budleigh, it's become quite a family area,\" he said, adding: \"People can live further away now.\"\n\nMark Godfrey, who runs Deer Park Country House in Honiton, Devon, moved in to Budleigh Salterton in 2021.\n\nHe only goes in to the office twice a week.\n\n\"As soon as I finish work it takes me seven minutes to get to the sea for a swim,\" he said.\n\nSeaside towns that have seen a big boost in high street footfall include:", "Michelle Donelan said \"pursuing a sale at this point is not the right decision\"\n\nCulture Secretary Michelle Donelan has advised against the privatisation of Channel 4 in a letter to the prime minister that has leaked online.\n\nIn the letter, obtained by the News Agents podcast, Ms Donelan said there were \"better ways to ensure Channel 4's sustainability\" than privatisation.\n\nHer predecessor Nadine Dorries, who planned to sell the government-owned channel, criticised the reversal.\n\nBut Ms Donelan said \"pursuing a sale at this point is not the right decision\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) did not confirm the U-turn. \"We do not comment on speculation,\" they said.\n\n\"The DCMS Secretary of State has been clear that we are looking again at the business case for the sale of Channel 4. We will announce more on our plans in due course.\"\n\nThe plan to sell the broadcaster for a possible £1.5bn had faced opposition from Channel 4 executives and much of the TV industry. In September, the incoming culture secretary said she would \"re-examine the business case\" for privatisation.\n\nMs Donelan's recommendation to scrap the plan was made in a letter addressed to the prime minister, apparently written on Tuesday, which was obtained by The News Agents' Lewis Goodall.\n\nIn it, she wrote: \"After reviewing the business case, I have concluded that pursuing a sale at this point is not the right decision and there are better ways to secure C4C's (Channel 4 Corporation) sustainability and that of the independent production sector.\"\n\nShe added that its role in supporting the independent production sector \"would be very disrupted by a sale at a time when growth and economic stability are our priorities\".\n\nResponding to the leak, Ms Dorries said the privatisation was one of a number of \"progressive\" policies that were being \"washed down the drain\".\n\n\"Replaced with what? A policy at some time in the future to teach maths for longer with teachers we don't yet even have to do so,\" she wrote on Twitter, referring to a pledge expected to be made by PM Rishi Sunak in a speech later.\n\n\"Where is the mandate - who voted for this? Will now be almost impossible to face the electorate at a GE [general election] and expect voters to believe or trust our manifesto commitments.\"\n\nLabour's shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said: \"The Conservatives' vendetta against Channel 4 was always wrong for Britain, growth in our creative economy, and a complete waste of everyone's time.\"\n\nPact, the trade association for independent TV production companies, welcomed the likely reversal.\n\nPact chief executive John McVay said: \"The government has made the right decision to hit the stop button on Channel 4 privatisation. It was always a solution in search of a problem that didn't exist.\n\n\"Channel 4 has a unique position in the broadcasting ecosystem. Its commissioning model has supported British production companies from its inception, providing jobs for thousands of people across the UK. Moving to private ownership would have endangered this,\" he added.", "US astronaut Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the first Nasa mission to ever broadcast live TV from orbit, has died at the age of 90.\n\nApollo 7 was an 11-day manned mission in 1968 that tested the ability to dock and rendezvous in space. But the crew also won an Emmy for their broadcast.\n\nIt paved the way for the moon landing by Apollo 11 less than a year later.\n\nNasa confirmed Cunningham's death, and said that he was \"instrumental to our Moon landing's program success\".\n\nA family representative said he died at a hospital in Houston on Tuesday from natural causes \"after a full and complete life\".\n\n\"We would like to express our immense pride in the life that he lived, and our deep gratitude for the man that he was - a patriot, an explorer, pilot, astronaut, husband, brother, and father,\" the Cunningham family said in a statement shared by Nasa, the US space agency.\n\n\"The world has lost another true hero, and we will miss him dearly.\"\n\nCunningham was born in Creston, Iowa, and went on to earn a masters degree in physics from the University of California in Los Angeles. While working as a civilian at the time, he was one of three astronauts chosen for the first manned spaceflight in the Apollo programme.\n\nAs lunar module pilot for Apollo 7, he was accompanied by Navy Captain Walter Schirra and Air Force Major Donn Eisele.\n\nHe had previously served in the US Navy and Marines and flew 54 missions in a fighter jet over Korea, retiring at the rank of colonel.\n\nAfter retiring from Nasa in 1971, he became a public speaker and radio host. He also became an outspoken denier of human-caused climate change, despite the consensus from scientists that humans have contributed to warmer average temperatures on Earth.\n\nIn an interview for Nasa in 1999, he described his mindset during his time as an astronaut.\n\n\"I'm one of those people that never really looked back,\" he said.\n\n\"All I remember is just kind of keeping my nose to the grindstone and wanting to do the best I could as - I didn't realize at the time, but that was because I always wanted to be better prepared for the next step,\" he continued.\n\n\"I've always been looking to the future. I don't live in the past.\"\n\nWalter Cunningham seen through a spacecraft window during tests in 1966", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aled Davies: Son of missing BBC editor urges dad to come home\n\nThe son of Aled Davies, who went missing on New Year's Eve, has urged people to check their CCTV footage for any signs of him.\n\nGruffudd Glyn said any footage would be vital to help establish his father's movements that night.\n\nMr Glyn said that they were \"incredibly concerned\" about Mr Davies and that his disappearance was out of character.\n\nIn a message to his father, Mr Glyn said: \"We love you so much. Please come home.\"\n\nAled Glynne Davies, the former editor of BBC Radio Cymru, was last seen in the Pontcanna area of Cardiff on Saturday evening, South Wales Police said.\n\nHe is around 6ft (1.83m) tall and was last seen wearing a green puffer jacket, a dark green deer-hunter hat and glasses.\n\nMr Glyn said the search for his dad was being frustrated by the lack of footage of him that night.\n\nHe said: \"There is footage of him on people's cameras on their CCTVs. He didn't disappear. He didn't take his car. He was on foot. Just please, if you can check your cameras.\n\nBBC presenter Huw Edwards, who worked with Mr Davies during his time at the BBC, also reiterated the family's appeal for CCTV footage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ℍ𝕦𝕨 𝔼𝕕𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Glyn added that his dad is physically fragile and could be distressed.\n\n\"He has a curvature of the spine. He is on medication for a lung condition that he should be taking. He gets tired easily and can walk quite slowly.\"\n\nBecause of his physical conditions, Mr Glyn has emphasised that his dad might be resting somewhere unusual.\n\n\"If you're walking and you have a dog and you go on your usual path, maybe just go off that beaten track a little bit. Keep yourself safe as well as you're doing that. Of course don't put yourself at risk, but look to see if maybe you know he's resting somewhere.\n\n\"We just can't wait to see you again. Come home.\" Gruffudd Glyn says in a message to his father\n\n\"Check anywhere because if we all do this together we will find out and that's all we want is some answers or to develop this case further.\n\n\"If you see him approach with care, and call 999 immediately.\"\n\nMr Glyn thanked the people who had come out to help look for his father yesterday and said it showed how loved he is in the community.\n\nIn a direct message to his dad, he said: \"We all love you so much. And we just can't wait to see you again. Come home. We've got tickets to watch Wales play in the Euro qualifiers and I can't wait to be singing the anthem with you. We love you so much. Please come home.\"", "Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey were aged 16 and 15 at the time Romeo and Juliet was filmed\n\nThe stars of the Oscar-winning 1968 film Romeo and Juliet are suing Paramount Pictures for sexual abuse over a nude scene they appeared in.\n\nLeonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey were teenagers when they made the movie.\n\nIn a new legal case, the English actors, now in their 70s, claim director Franco Zeffirelli encouraged them to do nude scenes despite previous assurances that they would not have to.\n\nParamount has not yet publicly responded to the claim.\n\nThe two actors are seeking damages of more than $500m (£417m), based on suffering they say they have experienced and the revenue brought in by the film since its release.\n\nThey claim Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, initially told them they would wear flesh-coloured underwear in the bedroom scene.\n\nBut on the morning of the shoot, they allege the director told them they would wear only body make-up, while assuring them the camera would be positioned to not show nudity.\n\nWhiting and Hussey are now aged 72 and 71 respectively\n\nIn the final film, Whiting's bare buttocks and Hussey's bare breasts were briefly shown during the scene.\n\nZeffirelli told them they must act in the nude \"or the picture would fail\" and their careers would be hurt, the pair claim in the lawsuit. The actors \"believed they had no choice but to act in the nude in body makeup as demanded\".\n\nWhiting was then aged 16 and is now 72, while Hussey was 15 when the film was shot and is now 71.\n\nThe pair are suing Paramount for sexual abuse, sexual harassment and fraud.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses the Hollywood studio of sexually exploiting the two young actors and distributing nude images of adolescent children.\n\nThe court filing says Whiting and Hussey have suffered emotional damage and mental anguish for decades as a result of the way they were treated.\n\nThe film was a huge success at the time, and has been shown to generations of students studying the Shakespeare play since.\n\nIt was nominated for four Oscars, including best director and best picture, and won two - for cinematography and costume design.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed on Friday in Santa Monica Superior Court under a California law that has temporarily suspended the statute of limitations - which means action cannot normally be taken once a certain time has elapsed - for child sex abuse.\n\nThe suspension has led to a host of new lawsuits and the revival of many others that were previously dismissed.\n\nThe film was nominated for four Oscars and won two - for cinematography and costume design\n\nTony Marinozzi, a business manager for the two actors, told BBC News they had been \"betrayed\" by the director and the studio.\n\nThe pair were unable to take action sooner because they feared there would be ramifications for their careers and that they would not be believed, he said.\n\n\"There just wasn't any way for them to tell that story at that time, to get people to listen,\" he said.\n\n\"Now we've seen some movements with #MeToo and other platforms, but at that time there just wasn't a way to tell that story, and it's something that they have had to live with and probably struggle with for a lifetime.\"\n\nSolomon Gresen, a lawyer for the pair, added in a statement: \"Nude images of minors are unlawful and shouldn't be exhibited.\n\n\"These were very young, naive children in the 60s who had no understanding of what was about to hit them.\n\n\"All of a sudden they were famous at a level they never expected, and in addition they were violated in a way they didn't know how to deal with.\"\n\nThe lawsuit accuses Paramount of sexually exploiting the pair and distributing nude images of adolescent children\n\nIn a 2018 interview with Variety, Hussey defended the nude scene.\n\n\"Nobody my age had done that before,\" she said, adding that Zeffirelli shot it tastefully. \"It was needed for the film.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with Fox News, also conducted in 2018, she said the scene was \"taboo\" in the US, but that nudity was common in European films at the time.\n\n\"It wasn't that big of a deal,\" she said. \"And Leonard wasn't shy at all! In the middle of shooting, I just completely forgot I didn't have clothes on.\"", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour \"won't be able to spend our way out\" of the \"mess\" left by the Tories - even though he recognised the need for investment.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, the Labour leader is promising a \"decade of national renewal\" if he wins the next general election.\n\nBut he also says the party won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out\".\n\nThe Tories accused Sir Keir of \"yet another desperate relaunch attempt\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered his own new year address, promising to halve inflation, cut NHS waiting lists and tackle small boat crossings by the next election.\n\nIn his speech in Stratford, east London, Sir Keir also looked ahead to the election, pledging to create the \"sort of hope you can build your future around\".\n\nBut he warned voters - and his own party - not to expect big increases in public spending.\n\n\"Of course, investment is required - I can see the damage the Tories have done to our public services as plainly as anyone,\" he said.\n\n\"But we won't be able to spend our way out of their mess - it's not as simple as that.\"\n\nHe added: \"For national renewal, there is no substitute for a robust private sector, creating wealth in every community.\"\n\nIn advance of Keir Starmer's speech, reporters were told he would say a Labour government led by him wouldn't be \"getting its big chequebook out again\".\n\nThat word \"again\" was striking - implying that perhaps previous Labour governments had spent too much.\n\nBut, curiously, that word \"again\" didn't pass Sir Keir's lips in the speech itself.\n\nWhen I asked him if his promise meant he would match Conservative spending limits, he didn't answer either way.\n\nLabour want to be seen to be economically competent in the eyes of people who voted Tory last time but might be persuadable to vote Labour next time.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said government needed to \"work in partnership with business\" on things like investing in renewable energy.\n\nShe added that the health service needed \"reform\" as well as more money.\n\nAsked whether she supported the idea of using spare capacity in the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We've got to do whatever it takes to bring down waiting lists… If there's spare capacity, absolutely we've got to use it.\"\n\nMs Reeves said her party would face a \"tough inheritance\" but the \"cavalry is coming\" with a future Labour government.\n\nMs Reeves also said Labour would oppose plans to impose minimum service levels during strikes.\n\nThe government is poised to confirm new legislation covering key sectors including the health service, rail and education, according to the Times.\n\nThe paper reports that under the laws employers would be able to sue unions and sack staff who were told to work under the minimum service requirement but refused.\n\nMs Reeves said the idea that \"banning industrial action\" would improve industrial relations was \"for the birds\".\n\nThe country is facing a wave of strikes this winter by public service workers including nurses, paramedics and train drivers.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to tackle the challenges facing the NHS. In recent days, doctors have complained of \"intolerable and unsustainable\" pressure on the health service, with some A&E departments in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nA sharp rise in Covid and flu admissions has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with staff shortages, a lack of capacity to move people to social care and a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nLast year, a group of MPs said the NHS was already in the worst workforce crisis in its history. In England the NHS is short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives.\n\nLabour has pledged to deliver \"one of the biggest expansions of the NHS workforce\" in its history, by scrapping non-dom tax status for wealthy individuals to pay for the training of thousands of new nurses, doctors and other health workers.\n\nSir Keir promised to set out more new policies in the coming weeks that would form the heart of Labour's next manifesto.\n\nHis party has already pledged large-scale constitutional change, including abolishing the House of Lords.\n\nConservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi, said Sir Keir should \"unveil a plan for people's priorities\" instead of giving \"cliché-laden speeches\".\n\nLabour's poll lead is narrowing but the aggregated polls of voting intention show Labour at 46% compared to 24% for the Conservatives. This is down from a peak of Labour at 52% of intended votes compared to 22% for the Tories in the final days of Liz Truss' premiership.", "Power-sharing at Stormont has been on hold since February last year\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary has invited Stormont's five largest parties to hold more roundtable talks next week, BBC News NI understands.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris wrote to the leaders of the parties on Wednesday.\n\nThe deadline to restore an executive is 19 January or legally he will be under a duty to call an assembly election within 12 weeks.\n\nIt is understood he has invited the parties to meet at the Northern Ireland Office next Wednesday morning.\n\nIt is believed that Leo Varadkar also plans to make his first visit to Northern Ireland since being re-elected as taoiseach (Irish PM) next week.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris is expected to speak to the parties next week in another attempt to break the political deadlock\n\nMr Heaton-Harris held a first round of joint talks with the parties just before Christmas, which coincided with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making his first visit to Northern Ireland since taking over.\n\nMr Sunak met party leaders and said he would work to ensure the return of power-sharing, which has been suspended since February 2022.\n\nThe collapse of a fully functioning government occurred when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) walked out of the executive in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nUnionists argue the post-Brexit trading arrangement undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK as it keeps the nation aligned with some EU trade rules to ensure goods can move freely across the Irish land border.\n\nLast month the five main Stormont parties held talks with the NI secretary and met Rishi Sunak\n\nThere have been five failed attempts to restore the executive since the last assembly election in May, when Sinn Féin won the largest number of seats for the first time.\n\nThe DUP has repeatedly refused to vote for a new assembly Speaker - a position that must be filled before any other business can be heard.\n\nThe party maintains that it has a mandate from voters not to return to power-sharing until the protocol is changed significantly.\n\nTalks on the protocol have been happening at a technical level between the UK and EU for some months but a resolution does not appear to be imminent.\n\nTeams on both sides have said a window of opportunity exists to agree a deal but they have not specified a timetable.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is to raise pay to at least £11 per hour for 127,000 of its workers as cost of living pressures bite.\n\nThe supermarket has been in talks with shop workers' union Usdaw, which said the February pay rise will \"make a significant difference to our members\".\n\nSainsbury's, the largest supermarket so far to hike pay to £11, follows a similar move by rival Aldi.\n\nSupermarkets are currently competing for workers in a tight jobs market.\n\nSainsbury's and Argos workers will get a bump in hourly pay from from £10.25 to £11.00 per hour and from £11.30 to £11.95 per hour in London.\n\nThe pay boost will cost the supermarket £185m, on top of £20m Sainsbury's agreed to in October for pay rises.\n\nThe supermarket chain will also extend a programme where store and depot workers can get free food on-shift by six months.\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Simon Roberts said millions of households were finding life tough this winter and that after Christmas \"budgets will be tighter than ever\".\n\n\"As well as doing all we can to keep prices low for customers, it's our job to support our colleagues as they face rising costs,\" he said.\n\nUsdaw national officer Dave Gill said: \"With the cost of living continually rising, we have kept open our dialogue with Sainsbury's, and we are pleased the business has responded so positively.\"\n\nGerman discounter Aldi, which has been grabbing market share from the largest supermarkets, is now the joint-fourth largest supermarket chain. It started paying workers at least £11 per hour from the beginning of January, and £12.45 within the M25.\n\nRival discounter Lidl pays £10.90 outside of London and £11.95 inside the M25.\n\nBy comparison, Asda pays staff £10.10 outside London, and £11.27 within London.\n\nWaitrose pays a minimum of £10.30 an hour outside London, and £11.50 for workers in it.\n\nFrom April 2023, employers will have to pay workers who are over 23 years of age a minimum hourly rate of at least £10.42 per hour.\n\nThis is the third time in a year that Sainsbury's has increased pay for its 127,000 lowest-paid workers.\n\nAll the big grocers have been upping pay amid a tight labour market and the cost of living crunch.\n\nRetail workers are feeling the squeeze as much, if not more, than the shoppers they serve.\n\nThere's also a battle for staff. Sainsbury's knows it must stay competitive to retain and attract colleagues.\n\nAldi has already raised hourly pay to £11 an hour, effective from this month.\n\nStaff wages are a huge cost for the biggest grocers as they employ vast numbers of people.\n\nThis big pay boost will add to the pressure of finding savings elsewhere in the business.\n\nSupermarkets have been battling it out in a bid to attract staff for months, with many vacancies being posted since coronavirus restrictions started to ease.\n\nWhile retail job vacancies have fallen from 169,000 this time last year, between September and November there were still 148,000 vacancies, compared with 132,000 in the same period in 2019.\n\nWorkers across many sectors have been battling with employers over pay, terms and conditions in recent months.\n\nRail workers, Royal Mail postal workers, nurses and ambulance workers are among the groups that have been taking industrial action, with some unions warning that months of disruption could be ahead.", "The Republican leader had hoped to secure enough votes to be named Speaker of the House. But that's not what happened.\n\nWatch the play-by-play of how the day unfolded for America's most senior conservative politician.", "Senior Conservative MPs are urging Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to prioritise childcare reforms, arguing it is too expensive for parents.\n\nRobin Walker, chairman of the Commons education committee, said his party needed \"a serious set of policies\" on the issue.\n\nA source close to former PM Liz Truss has urged her successor not to scrap her plans to overhaul the system.\n\nNo 10 sources have denied Mr Sunak has shelved plans for reform.\n\nThe UK is among the most expensive countries for childcare in the world, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.\n\nMs Truss, a former childcare minister, had made the issue a focus of her short premiership.\n\nShe had reportedly been looking at options to overhaul the system in England, including increasing free childcare support and scrapping mandatory staff-child ratios, which limit the number of children one adult can look after.\n\nHowever, since Ms Truss was only in office for a few weeks, no new childcare policies were formally announced.\n\nA source close to Ms Truss told The Times: \"Excessive bureaucracy is making childcare in England increasingly unaffordable for many parents. The system needs to be reformed in order to boost growth and opportunity.\n\n\"Junking Liz's plans for this critical policy area seems economically and politically counterproductive.\"\n\nBBC political editor Chris Mason said there was irritation in Downing Street at the intervention by Ms Truss.\n\nDowning Street sources point out Ms Truss's plans were not fully developed and would be very expensive - particularly the expansion of free childcare.\n\nSources have said Mr Sunak is working on a series of options with the education secretary to improve the system.\n\nThe prime minister will set out the priorities for his premiership in a speech later but no policy announcements on childcare are expected imminently.\n\nSurveys suggest the idea of scrapping ratios is unpopular with parents and nurseries, with many concerned about the impact on safety and the quality of childcare.\n\nBut reports in the Telegraph that Mr Sunak has shelved plans for a major overhaul of childcare have prompted concern from some Conservative MPs.\n\nMr Walker, a former education minister, said there was a strong economic argument for making childcare reform a priority, as it allowed parents to return to work more easily.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if children were better prepared for school, this could also address any issues with speech and language development early on.\n\n\"I think any party which is aspiring to run the country now needs to set out a serious set of policies as to how we better support parents, particularly in the early years,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he believed the prime minister was \"genuinely interested in this area\" but there needed to be \"policy detail\".\n\nMr Walker said he did not believe scrapping staff-child ratios was \"the right way of pursuing this\" but \"we have to look at other mechanisms to better support the sector, better support parents with the cost of childcare\".\n\nOther Tory MPs have also expressed concerns about reports childcare reforms could be shelved.\n\nSimon Clarke, a former minister and ally of Ms Truss, said in a tweet earlier this week: \"Childcare is hugely and unnecessarily expensive in England and we should do all we can to support working mums.\"\n\nSiobhan Baillie, Conservative MP for Stroud, also said the \"complex and expensive childcare system\" needed reform.\n\nShe said Ms Truss was right to be \"bold\" on childcare, although she was not convinced changing ratios and expanding existing schemes was the right approach.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesperson said: \"We continue to review all options to improve the cost, choice and availability of high-quality childcare for working parents. It's very important for this prime minister, as is education.\n\n\"We have spent £20bn over the past five years to support families with the cost of childcare.\"", "Eleanor Williams has been convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.\n\nA woman who falsely claimed she had been raped and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice.\n\nEleanor Williams, 22, of Barrow-in-Furness, was found guilty of eight counts at Preston Crown Court.\n\nShe posted photos on social media in May 2020 of injuries she said were from being beaten but the jury heard she inflicted the wounds on herself.\n\nOne man told the court the false accusations had \"ruined\" his life.\n\nHer Facebook post was shared more than 100,000 times and sparked demonstrations in her home town, however, the court heard this was a \"finale\" to her story and she had injured herself with a claw hammer.\n\nShe pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to one count of perverting the course of justice, which related to contacting her sister and mother with requests for them to take a hammer to her solicitor.\n\nThe photos of her injuries went viral on social media\n\nJonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, said Williams had gone online to \"effectively find random names\" to present as either victims or perpetrators of trafficking.\n\nSome of the people she made allegations about were real while others did not exist, the jury heard.\n\nShe had sent some messages to herself, and in other cases manipulated real people in to sending messages she then claimed were from abusers.\n\nA Snapchat account Williams claimed belonged to an Asian trafficker called Shaggy Wood was found to be the account of a young white Essex man called Liam Wood.\n\nMr Wood worked in Tesco and had believed Williams was a friend from Portsmouth who was planning to visit him.\n\nAnother Snapchat account of an alleged abuser was created at her mother's address, police found.\n\nThe court heard she fabricated text messages from her so-called abusers\n\nWilliams had falsely claimed business owner Mohammad Ramzan had groomed her since the age of 12.\n\nWhile under cross-examination, Mr Ramzan asked defence counsel Louise Blackwell KC: \"Don't you think you have put my life through enough hell, or your client has?\"\n\nWilliams said Mr Ramzan had made her work in brothels in Amsterdam and sold her at an auction there.\n\nHowever the court heard that at the time, his bank card was being used in a Barrow B&Q.\n\nAnother man falsely accused of rape, Jordan Trengove, told the court the allegations had \"ruined\" his life.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of Royal Mail says the recent wave of strikes at the postal firm have cost it £200m so far.\n\nThe row with the Communication Workers Union over pay and conditions has led to 18 days of walkouts since August.\n\nRoyal Mail also said the number of voluntary redundancies it needed to hit job cut targets would be much lower than first expected.\n\nThe number would be \"significantly\" less than the 5,000-6,000 it had forecast last year, it said.\n\nThis was due to a combination of the company cutting the number of agency and temporary workers it used, and also down to staff turnover.\n\nRoyal Mail is trying to revamp its business as it moves away from delivering letters - which is no longer profitable - to parcel deliveries, which is a growing market thanks to the popularity of online shopping.\n\nAs well as dealing with the ongoing dispute with the CWU, this month Royal Mail has also been trying to tackle problems caused by a cyber-attack which meant it was unable to send letters and parcels overseas.\n\nWhile it is accepting new letters for overseas delivery, parcel deliveries have been disrupted.\n\nOn Thursday, Royal Mail said it would resume its International Tracked & Signed as well as International Signed services for parcels and letters to all destinations for business account customers and customers buying postage online.\n\nHowever, it continued to ask customers \"not to submit any new Tracked or Untracked (Standard/Economy) export parcels into our network just yet\".\n\nThe increasingly bitter dispute with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been going on since the summer, and the union has said it will re-ballot for industrial action.\n\nLike other current industrial action, such as the disputes in the NHS and at rail operators, pay is a key issue, with workers seeking wage rises as the cost of living soars.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at the highest level for about 40 years.\n\nRoyal Mail has offered a pay package it says is worth up to 9% over 18 months - but the CWU wants more given the rate of inflation.\n\nThe union also objects to proposed changes to working conditions, such as ending a number of allowances and the introduction of compulsory Sunday working.\n\nRoyal Mail owner International Distributions Services (IDS) said that up to 12,500 CWU employees had returned to work on strike days. About 115,000 CWU workers have been involved in the walkouts.\n\nIt also said that \"robust contingency planning\" meant it delivered more than 110 million parcels and 600 million letters in December.\n\nHowever, IDS said the letter and parcels business had lost £295m in the nine months to the end of December.\n\nRevenues in the nine-month period fell 12.8% from the year before. This was partly down to the strike action but also caused by a continued fall in the number of letters being sent and \"weaker retail trends\".\n\nIDS said that despite there having been more strikes than it expected, it still expected annual operating losses to be between £350m and £450m for the full year.\n\nHowever, it added this forecast assumed no further days of strike action in the January to March period, and that the \"CWU accept a pay settlement in line with the best and final pay offer\".\n\nHave you or your business been affected by the strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "One of four newly discovered tombs at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo\n\nArchaeologists say they have found a gold leaf-covered mummy sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years.\n\nThe mummy, the remains of a man named Hekashepes, is thought to be one of the oldest and most complete non-royal corpses ever found in Egypt.\n\nIt was discovered down a 15m (50ft) shaft at a burial site south of Cairo, Saqqara, where three other tombs were found.\n\nThe largest of the mummies that were unearthed at the ancient necropolis is said to belong to a man called Khnumdjedef - a priest, inspector and supervisor of nobles.\n\nAnother belonged to a man called Meri, who was a senior palace official given the title of \"secret keeper\", which allowed him to perform special religious rituals.\n\nA judge and writer named Fetek is thought to have been laid to rest in the other tomb, where a collection of what are thought to be the largest statues ever found in the area had been discovered.\n\nSeveral other items, including pottery, have also been found among the tombs.\n\nVarious statues and items of pottery were found in the tombs\n\nArchaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former antiquities minister, has said all the discoveries date from around the 25th to the 22nd centuries BC.\n\n\"This discovery is so important as it connects the kings with the people living around them,\" said Ali Abu Deshish, another archaeologist involved in the excavation.\n\nSaqqara was an active burial ground for more than 3,000 years and is a designated Unesco World Heritage Site. It sits at what was the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis and is home to more than a dozen pyramids - including the Step Pyramid, near where the shaft containing the mummy was found.\n\nThursday's discovery comes just a day after experts in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor said they had discovered a complete residential city from the Roman era, dating back to the second and third centuries AD.\n\nArchaeologists found residential buildings, towers and what they've called \"metal workshops\" - containing pots, tools and Roman coins.\n\nEgypt has unveiled many major archaeological discoveries in recent years, as part of efforts to revive its tourism industry.\n\nThe government hopes its Grand Egyptian Museum, which is due to open this year following delays, will draw in 30 million tourists a year by 2028.\n\nBut, critics have accused Egypt's government of prioritising media-grabbing finds over hard academic research in order to attract more tourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 4,400-year-old tomb is filled with hieroglyphs and statues", "Presenter Joanna Gosling has signed off for the final time, after 23 years at BBC News.\n\nShe thanked colleagues and the audiences that had shaped her 30-year career in journalism, allowing her to, \"give a voice, lend an ear and shine a light\".\n\n\"Lucky me to have had this great job, that has never felt like a job,\" she added.\n\nShe leaves the BBC ahead of a planned merger of the corporation's TV news channels. David Eades and Tim Willcox have also announced their departure.", "Poland has said it wants to donate Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukrainian armed forces\n\nUkraine's president has thanked Western leaders for sending tanks to support the fight against Russia, but said they needed to be delivered quickly.\n\nIn his nightly address, Volodymyr Zelensky also urged the West to send long-range missiles and fighter jets.\n\nHis comments came after the US and Germany announced they would send Abrams and Leopard tanks to Ukraine.\n\nRussia condemned the announcement as a \"blatant provocation\" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed.\n\nThe tanks would \"burn like all the rest,\" said Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman. \"They are just very expensive.\"\n\nMr Zelensky said he told Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that \"progress must be made in other aspects of our defence co-operation\" - with Ukraine seeking supplies of long-range missiles and artillery.\n\nHe pressed not only for a prompt delivery of Western tanks but also for significant numbers: \"We must form such a tank force, such a freedom force that after it strikes, tyranny will never again rise up.\"\n\nWhile Mr Zelensky is likely to focus now on equipping the Ukrainian air force with more technologically advanced fighter jets after securing the tanks, many Western governments remain opposed to such a move - fearing the aircraft could be used to strike targets inside Russia.\n\nIn his speech to the Bundestag in Berlin on Wednesday outlining the details of the tanks plan, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted there would be \"no fighter jet deliveries to Ukraine\".\n\nUS President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the US would send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nThe decision to deliver the tanks was announced hours after Germany said it would send 14 of its Leopard 2s to the Ukrainian battlefield.\n\nBerlin also cleared the way for other European countries to donate German-made tanks from their own stocks.\n\nUkraine has lobbied Western allies to send the equipment for months.\n\nIt hailed the twin announcements as a turning point that would allow its military to regain momentum and take back occupied territory almost a year after Moscow invaded.\n\nIt also said the tanks could help deter a potential Russian offensive in the spring.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says tanks are not an offensive threat to Russia\n\nAnnouncing the decision to put its tanks on the battlefield, US President Joe Biden said Mr Putin had expected Europe and the United States to \"weaken our resolve\", adding: \"He was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong.\"\n\n\"We're also giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks in battle,\" he said.\n\n\"This is about helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia.\"\n\nA Ukrainian tank battalion typically consists of 31 tanks, which is why that number has been agreed upon, Mr Biden added.\n\nThe US decision, however, marks a reversal in their position as the Biden administration has insisted for some time that the heavy M1 Abrams tanks would be difficult to deliver, expensive to maintain and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate.\n\nThe US-made military vehicle is one of the most modern battle tanks in the world and requires extensive training to operate.\n\nThe $400m (£323m) US package also includes eight recovery vehicles that can tow the tanks if they become stuck, as well as ammunition, equipment, and funding for training and maintenance.\n\nBut it is likely to be many months before the tanks reach the battlefield.\n\nWhite House national security spokesman John Kirby said there were no excess Abrams tanks in the US inventory. As such, they will have to be purchased from private contractors or bought from another country,\n\nThe German-made Leopard 2 tanks, however, will be drawn from existing inventories and are expected to arrive in two to three months. They are widely seen as one of the most effective battle tanks available.\n\nThe decision to send the heavy weapons follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling. Germany faced mounting international pressure to send the tanks, and there are reports that the eventual decision to do so was conditional on the US doing the same.\n\nWhen asked if the US decision was designed to give Germany cover to send tanks, Mr Kirby said: \"I wouldn't use the word cover. What this decision does do is show how unified we are with our allies.\"\n\nHe attributed the change in Washington's position to the conditions on the ground as well as Russia's tactics, without giving further details.\n\nUkrainian crews would soon be trained to use the Leopard tanks in Germany, officials in Berlin said.\n\nWhile the acquisition of tanks from the West will be considered a diplomatic coup for Mr Zelensky, he said on Tuesday that his country required at least 300 of them to defeat Russia.\n\nSeveral European countries have Leopard 2 tanks in their inventories, and the German decision means some of these can also be sent to Ukraine. Germany hopes around 90 will ultimately be delivered to the battlefield.\n\nPoland wants to export 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and Norway announced later on Wednesday that it would send some of its armoured vehicles - although it did not state how many.\n\nThe UK was the first Nato member to donate modern tanks to Ukraine when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government announced that 14 Challenger 2s - the British army's main battle tank - would be provided.", "Russian and Belarusian athletes could be free to compete as neutrals at the 2024 Olympics after the International Olympic Committee said it will \"explore a pathway\" for their participation.\n\nThe IOC called on federations to exclude athletes from the countries following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThis week Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian athletes should have \"no place\" at the Paris Games.\n\nBut the IOC's statement on Wednesday could clear the way for their return.\n\nIt said \"no athlete should be prevented from competing just because of their passport\".\n\nThe move has been criticised in a joint-statement from Athletes for Ukraine and athlete association Global Athlete.\n\nIt said the decision shows the IOC \"endorses Russia's brutal war and invasion of Ukraine\".\n\n\"The return of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competition, especially the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, will see the Russian state use athletes once more to bolster the war effort and distract from the atrocities in Ukraine on one of the biggest multi-sport stages in the world,\" the statement added.\n\nThe IOC said participation in competition, which would also include qualification events, would need athletes to take part as neutrals \"and in no way represent their state or any other organisation in their country\".\n\nThe athletes must not have \"acted against the peace mission of the IOC by actively supporting the war in Ukraine\".\n\nPresident Thomas Bach said in December the IOC faced a \"big dilemma\" in ensuring athletes do not suffer as a result of sporting sanctions.\n\nSome sporting federations have ignored the IOC recommendation and allowed individual athletes to compete as neutrals but others have complied.\n\nTwo Belarusian tennis players, Victoria Azarenka and Aryna Sabalenka, could meet in the Australian Open women's singles final this weekend. Both are competing as neutrals.\n\nThe Lawn Tennis Association was fined £1.4m by the ATP and WTA for banning Russian and Belarusian players from last summer's grass-court events, including Wimbledon.\n\nThe UK government says Belarus aided and abetted Russia's invasion.", "A man has been charged with assaulting former health secretary Matt Hancock on the London Underground.\n\nGeza Tarjanyi, 61 and from Leyland, Lancashire, has been charged with common assault and two public order offences, British Transport Police said.\n\nHe has been released on bail and will appear in court next month.\n\nThe MP is not thought to have been hurt in the incident, which took place on Tuesday.\n\nMr Tarjanyi was arrested the following day, after police received a report of a man being \"assaulted and harassed\" at Westminster station, close to the House of Commons. The encounter continued on a Tube train.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, Mr Hancock's spokesman praised Transport for London staff and the British Transport Police for their response to the incident.\n\nHe added that \"this sort of behaviour is a rare occurrence\".\n\nMr Tarjanyi was also charged with a second public order offence, over a separate incident related to Mr Hancock, which took place on nearby Parliament Street on 19 January.\n\nMr Hancock, the MP for West Suffolk, currently sits as an independent and announced last month that he would not seek re-election.\n\nHe was suspended as a Conservative MP last year after signing up for the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, which saw him trade Westminster for the Australian jungle.\n\nThe 44-year-old became a household name in spring 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he regularly spoke for the government as health secretary under then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nHe was forced to resign from his job the following year, after images emerged showing him kissing one of his advisers, Gina Coladangelo, who later became his partner.\n\nFollowing his appearance on I'm a Celebrity he announced that he would not be standing to be an MP in the next general election, saying he would instead \"engage with the public in new ways\".", "The five officers involved in Tyre Nichols' death were reportedly members of the Memphis Police Department's 'Scorpion' unit - a specialised group within the force that has already courted controversy.\n\nScorpion - which stands for \"Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods\" is a 50-person unit with the stated mission of bringing down crime levels in particular areas, with a focus on high-impact crimes such as car thefts and gang-related offences.\n\nIn the wake of Nichols' death, local man Cornell McKinney told WREG that he had a tense encounter with the unit on 3 January, just days before the incident took place.\n\nMcKinney alleges that the officers - who were travelling in unmarked vehicles - threatened to \"blow his head off\", pointed a weapon at his head and accused him of carrying drugs. He complained to the Memphis Police Department after the incident but says he has not heard back.\n\nA lawyer for Nichols' family, Antonio Romanucci, has accused the unit of misconduct in the latest incident.\n\n“They were in unmarked cars, why are they conducting traffic stops?” he told WREG. “This is a pretextual traffic stop, which, let’s call it what it is, it’s a racist traffic stop.\"", "A bomb disposal team was called to the hospital\n\nA man has been charged with planning a terror attack after a suspect package was found outside St James's Hospital in Leeds.\n\nMohammad Farooq, 27, was arrested last Friday after the discovery led to some parts of the hospital being evacuated.\n\nHe has been charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism and explosives and firearms offences.\n\nMr Farooq, of Hetton Road, Roundhay, Leeds, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing North East said Mr Farooq had been remanded in custody.\n\nCounter terrorism police worked with army specialists during the incident\n\nHe has been charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism, possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and keeping an explosive with intent to endanger life or property,\n\nDet Ch Supt James Dunkerley, head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, said enquiries had shown it was an \"isolated incident\".\n\nHe added: \"We are satisfied that there is currently no evidence of an increased risk to the public, within our communities or the UK hospital estate, in connection with this investigation.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says tanks are not an offensive threat to Russia\n\nThe US will send 31 powerful battle tanks to Ukraine, joining Germany in sending the vehicles to support the fight against Russia's invasion.\n\nThe decision to deliver the M1 Abrams tanks was announced just hours after Germany said it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to the battlefield.\n\nBerlin also cleared the way for other European countries to send German-made tanks from their own stocks.\n\nUkraine has lobbied Western allies to send the military equipment for months.\n\nIt hailed the twin announcements as a turning point that would allow its military to regain momentum and take back occupied territory almost a year after Moscow invaded. It also said the tanks could help deter a potential Russian offensive in the spring.\n\n\"An important step on the path to victory,\" Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said. \"Today the free world is united as never before for a common goal - liberation of Ukraine.\"\n\nRussia, meanwhile, condemned the moves as a \"blatant provocation\" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed. \"These tanks burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive,\" President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said.\n\n\"Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve,\" President Joe Biden said while announcing the decision at the White House on Wednesday. \"He was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong.\"\n\n\"We're also giving Ukraine the parts and equipment necessary to effectively sustain these tanks in battle,\" he said. \"This is about helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia.\"\n\nA Ukrainian tank battalion typically consists of 31 tanks, which is why that number has been agreed upon, Mr Biden said.\n\nThe US decision, however, marks a reversal in their position as the Biden administration has insisted for some time that the heavy M1 Abrams tanks would be difficult to deliver, expensive to maintain and challenging for Ukrainian troops to operate.\n\nThe US-made military vehicle is one of the most modern battle tanks in the world and requires extensive training to operate. The $400m (£323m) American package also includes eight recovery vehicles that can tow the tanks if they become stuck.\n\nBut it is likely to be many months before the tanks reach the battlefield, experts say, as they will be purchased from private contractors and not sent from an existing stockpile.\n\nThe German-made Leopard 2 tanks, however, will be drawn from existing stock and are expected to arrive in two to three months. They are widely seen as one of the most effective battle tanks available.\n\nThe decision to send the heavy weapons follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling. Germany faced mounting international pressure to send the tanks, and there are reports that the eventual decision to do so was conditional on the US doing the same.\n\nBoth sides participated in \"good diplomatic conversations\" that made the difference and contributed to the \"extraordinary shift in Germany's security policy\", a senior US official said on condition of anonymity earlier on Wednesday.\n\nWhen asked if the US decision was designed to give Germany cover to send tanks, national security spokesman John Kirby said: \"I wouldn't use the word cover. What this decision does do is show how unified we are with our allies.\"\n\nHe attributed the change in Washington's position to the conditions on the ground as well as Russia's tactics, without giving further details.\n\nMr Kirby also said the decision was based on the \"kinds of fighting... that we believe the Ukrainians are going to need to be capable of in the weeks and months ahead\".\n\nUkrainian crews would soon be trained to use the Leopard tanks in Germany, officials in Berlin said. Mr Biden said troops would be trained to use the American-made tanks \"as soon as possible\" but added that delivering them would take time.\n\nWhile the acquisition of tanks from the West will be considered a diplomatic coup for President Volodymyr Zelensky, he said on Tuesday that his country required at least 300 of them to defeat Russia.\n\nSeveral European countries have Leopard 2 tanks in their stocks, and the German decision means some of these can also be sent to Ukraine. Germany hopes around 90 will ultimately be delivered to the battlefield.\n\nNorway announced later on Wednesday that it would send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but did not specify how many it would deliver.", "Police in California say they have resumed a search from the air for the missing British actor Julian Sands.\n\nPrevious efforts were hampered by adverse weather conditions as the US state has been hit by deadly storms.\n\nThere has been no sign of the 65-year-old since he disappeared on 13 January.\n\nMr Sands had been hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, when he went missing.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's department tweeted that it would use a helicopter from the California Highway Patrol which carries a device that can detect matching \"reflective material, electronics, and in some cases, credit cards\".\n\nIt added that using the RECCO machine could help police \"pinpoint an area where we can focus our search efforts\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, the sheriff's department said a second hiker who had gone missing in the same area was found alive.\n\nHe was named by local media as 75-year-old Los Angeles resident Jin Chung.\n\nMr Chung was missing for about 48 hours, during which time he suffered some \"weather-related injuries and a leg injury\", said the sheriff's department.\n\nFor the past several weeks, local authorities have frequently put out statements urging hikers to avoid hazardous mountainous areas \"regardless of precautions taken\" saying that the conditions have made it \"difficult to deploy resources to that area when a hiker goes missing\".\n\nAvalanches in the area last week held back ground search and rescue efforts for Mr Sands.\n\nOne of his brothers, Nick Sands, said he had already said his \"goodbyes\".\n\n\"I have come to terms with the fact he's gone and for me that's how I've dealt with it,\" said Mr Sands, who lives in the English county of North Yorkshire where he, Julian and their three other brothers grew up.\n\nNick Sands (second from right) shared a photo of Julian (left) and their brothers Quentin, Robin and Jeremy\n\nHis family have thanked the US authorities for their efforts in trying to find the actor, who has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including the lead role in the 1985 romance A Room With A View.\n\nIn a statement, the family praised the \"heroic search teams\" who are working through the difficult weather conditions \"on the ground and in the air to bring Julian home\".\n\nMr Sands lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.", "\"Green\" claims made in advertising for household basics, such as washing-up liquid, are to be scrutinised to see if they are misleading.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it is concerned consumers are \"paying a premium for products that aren't what they seem\".\n\nIt will examine the accuracy of environmental claims on goods such as cleaning products and toiletries.\n\nCMA boss Sarah Cardell says she is concerned companies are \"greenwashing\".\n\nThis is when a firm exaggerates its environmental credentials for marketing purposes.\n\n\"As more people than ever try to do their bit to help protect the environment, we're concerned many shoppers are being misled and potentially even paying a premium for products that aren't what they seem, especially at a time when the cost of living continues to rise,\" Ms Cardell said.\n\nShe said it would be looking at both big and small firms' products to see if the environmental claims they made were true.\n\nThe investigation will also look into the accuracy of green claims made about food and drink. The CMA said last year shoppers spent £130bn on household essentials.\n\nIt said \"a significant number\" of household products are marketed as green or environmentally friendly, including almost all dishwashing items and toilet products.\n\nThe watchdog said it was worried about a number of areas including products that used \"vague and broad\" statements, such as claiming packaging is sustainable or \"better for the environment\", with no evidence.\n\nIt will also look at claims over the use of recycled or natural materials in products, as well as whether entire ranges are being incorrectly branded as \"sustainable\".\n\nIn July last year, the CMA began examining some clothing and footwear collections by fashion retailers over green claims.\n\nThey include ASOS's Responsible edit, Boohoo's Ready for the Future range and George for Good, the clothes brand sold by Asda.\n\nThe watchdog said the criteria companies used to include clothing in so-called sustainable collections might be lower than shoppers might reasonably expect.\n\n\"For example, some products may contain as little as 20% recycled fabric,\" it said.\n\nThe CMA began examining the way that companies used \"eco-friendly\" descriptions and labels to promote goods and services in November 2020.\n\nIt found that more and more shoppers wanted to help the environment through buying what they thought were \"green\" products. But the CMA was concerned it could lead some businesses \"to make misleading, vague or false claims\".", "Andrew Bridgen is threatening to sue fellow MP Matt Hancock after the former health secretary accused him on Twitter of \"antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories\".\n\nMr Bridgen was suspended as a Tory MP over a tweet likening the impact of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust.\n\nA letter sent on his behalf is claiming £100,000 in libel damages.\n\nMr Hancock - who had the Tory whip removed for his reality TV appearance - is standing by his comments.\n\nThe dispute centres on tweets posted by the two independent MPs on 11 January.\n\nAbove another Twitter message questioning the safety of Covid vaccines, Mr Bridgen wrote: \"As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.\"\n\nMr Hancock tweeted that \"disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society\".\n\nHis tweet was posted with a clip of himself asking a similarly-worded question during Prime Minister's Questions earlier that day.\n\nIn the Commons, Rishi Sunak condemned Mr Bridgen's comments as \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nOn the same day, the North West Leicestershire MP lost the Tory whip pending a formal investigation.\n\nChief Whip Simon Hart said: \"The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have.\n\n\"Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives.\"\n\nMr Bridgen said he was \"saddened\" about his suspension, but defended his original post.\n\nAndrew Bridgen has had the Conservative whip removed\n\nHe argued it was \"in no way antisemitic\" and added he would continue to ask \"reasonable questions\" about Covid vaccines.\n\nA \"letter before action\" has been sent on Mr Bridgen's behalf by a group called The Bad Law Project, with the support of the Reclaim Party, led by actor and activist Laurence Fox.\n\nAccording to the letter, Mr Bridgen believes the former health secretary's words were defamatory. He is calling on Mr Hancock to retract and delete his statement, apologise in the Commons and on Twitter, and pay £100,000 into a legal fund for people seeking vaccine damages.\n\nA spokesperson for Matt Hancock said: \"What Matt said was obviously not libellous and he stands by his comments.\n\n\"Rather than wasting his time and money on an absurd libel case he will undoubtedly lose, let's hope Bridgen does the right thing and apologises for the hurt he's caused and keeps his offensive view to himself in future.\"\n\nMr Hancock is also an independent MP. In November, he had the Conservative whip suspended for joining the cast of the ITV show, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! while Parliament was sitting.\n\nThe MP for West Suffolk, 44, announced last month that he would not stand again at the next general election.\n\nAt the height of the Covid pandemic, he was a prominent figure in news conferences and media interviews, frequently speaking for the government when he was health secretary.\n\nHe was forced to resign in June 2021, when images emerged of him kissing adviser Gina Coladangelo, in breach of social distancing guidelines.", "The brother of British actor Julian Sands has said he has come to terms with the fact \"he has gone\".\n\nMr Sands, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nHis brother Nick, who lives in Gargrave, North Yorkshire, said he had already said his \"goodbyes\".\n\nCalifornian officials have been unable to locate the actor, saying deadly storms have hampered search efforts.\n\n\"I have come to terms with the fact he's gone and for me that's how I've dealt with it,\" Nick Sands said.\n\nThe financial adviser said he preferred that to thinking of his brother lying injured on the mountain side.\n\nBut he said clearly his brother's three children and wife were still hopeful he would be found.\n\n\"We are all still hoping I guess, but I know he's gone in my mind and because of that I've already said my goodbyes.\"\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said: \"Numerous ground and air search efforts have taken place. As of this time, Mr Sands has not been found and no evidence of his current location has been discovered.\n\n\"The search will continue, weather and ground conditions permitting.\"\n\nMr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nNick Sands said he and his brothers were raised in the area around Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.\n\n\"We moved up to Cracoe in 1962 from Adel in Leeds and then to Gargrave in '63, which was Julian's home address until he went off to the London School of Speech and Drama when he was 18.\"\n\nNick Sands describes the area as a \"great place to grow up\" and four of the five brothers still live in the area.\n\n\"Julian, bless him, all the time he has lived away, has been able to find his way back to see us and his mum, he was absolutely brilliant with Brenda who died six years ago.\"\n\nMr Sands said the actor had continued to visit three or four times a year to catch up with brothers Quentin, Robin, Nick and Jeremy or the \"Monday Club\" as they called themselves.\n\nJulian Sands has previously spoken about his love of hiking and mountain climbing and Nick said he would always try to fit in some activity when visiting.\n\n\"He's done the Pennine Way in completion,\" he said.\n\n\"He just comes for one night, it's a great effort, he comes up on the train, stays the night with me and will be on the train the following day, just for a beer and a curry.\"\n\nJulian Sands lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former health secretary is standing down as an MP at the next election\n\nA man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting former health secretary Matt Hancock on the London Underground.\n\nPolice said the 61-year-old was arrested on suspicion of common assault and a public order offence.\n\nFootage posted online showed a man shouting and following Mr Hancock through Westminster station and onto a train.\n\nMr Hancock is not thought to have been hurt in the incident - described by his spokesman as an \"unpleasant encounter\".\n\n\"Matt wants to put on record his thanks to Transport for London and the British Transport Police for their extraordinary work,\" the spokesman added.\n\nMr Hancock, the MP for West Suffolk who currently sits as an independent, announced last month that he would not seek re-election next year.\n\nHe lost the Conservative whip last year after signing up for the ITV reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here, which saw him trade Westminster for the Australian jungle for weeks on end.\n\nHe ultimately finished in third place, and defended his participation in the competition by insisting that television was a \"powerful tool\" for raising awareness of issues such as dyslexia.\n\nThe 44-year-old became a household name in spring 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he regularly spoke for the government as health secretary under then prime minister Boris Johnson.\n\nHe was forced to resign from his job the following year, after images emerged showing him kissing colleague, Gina Coladangelo, who later became his partner.\n\nFollowing his appearance on I'm a Celebrity he announced that he would not be standing to be an MP in the next general election, saying he would instead \"engage with the public in new ways\", adding that it had been an honour to represent his constituency in Parliament.", "Sir Rod Stewart performed at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace last year\n\nSir Rod Stewart has called on the Conservative government to \"stand down\" and make way for Labour, in an impromptu call-in to Sky News.\n\nThe British pop star, 78, phoned in to the broadcaster's \"your say\" programme while building his model railway at home to discuss problems in the NHS.\n\nSir Rod described the state of the NHS as \"heart-breaking\" and said he had never seen the country \"so bad\".\n\nThe Maggie May singer said it was time to \"change the bloody government\".\n\nLabour welcomed his spontaneous call for political change, which was splashed across the front pages of newspapers on Friday.\n\nOne Labour source told the BBC the party under Sir Keir Starmer's leadership was \"finally giving the whole country Reason To Believe\", a nod to Sir Rod's 1971 song.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting tweeted to say \"Maggie\" - former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - \"may have been a Tory but Rod's Labour\".\n\nThe Conservative Party said it was not commenting on Sir Rod's political intervention.\n\nUnder Keir Starmer's leadership, Labour is finally giving the whole country Reason To Believe (Labour)\n\nWake up, Maggie fans, we think he's got something to say to you (Twitter)\n\nHis support for the Tories is Sailing away (Spectator)\n\nSir Rod, who said he had voted Conservative for a long time, has entered the political fray before with pointed opinions on the issues of the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Rod Stewart offering to pay for medical scans\n\nIn 2019, Sir Rod said it would be \"a shame\" if Scotland became independent, calling himself \"somewhat of a traditionalist\".\n\nHe has also criticised Brexit, telling a Spanish newspaper in 2021 that leaving the European Union was \"an enormous mistake and we're realising it too late\".\n\nSir Rod's latest political remarks come three years after he congratulated former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his landslide election victory in 2019.\n\nIn his Sky News phone-in, Sir Rod said he was prompted to call the show and express his views after hearing about the \"ridiculous\" situation in the NHS.\n\nHe said he had attended a private health clinic on Thursday that was basically \"empty\" while NHS patients were \"dying because they cannot get scans\".\n\nHe offered to pay for up to 20 scans \"to do some good\". \"If other people follow me I'd love it,\" he added.\n\nA squeeze on funding, pandemic backlogs and staffing issues have put the NHS under unprecedented pressures that doctors say could cost lives.\n\nNHS staff have been taking strike action over pay in recent months, with more walkouts planned in the coming weeks.\n\nSir Rod told the broadcaster the \"NHS needs to be rebuilt with billions and billions\" and that nurses who had been striking over the last two months over pay were \"not asking for much\".\n\nSir Rod, who has had six number-one hits in the UK charts, said: \"Poor nurses, I'm on your side.\"\n\nWhen discussing the reasons nurses were going on strike, Sir Rod said: \"I've personally been a Tory for a long time and I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour party a go.\"\n\nAt the end of the phone call, Sir Rod sang a line of his number-one single, Maggie May.\n\nA pun on the lyrics from another of his hits, Sailing, appeared on the front page of the Mirror, which ran the headline: \"We are failing\".", "A huge rockfall on Dorset's Jurassic Coast has been caught on camera.\n\nThe first sign of the collapse at West Bay started with puffs of dust before a large section of cliff crumbles on to the beach below.\n\nThe fall, on 18 January, was captured by a camera placed on a pier to monitor the beach by the Environment Agency.\n\nIt has blocked access in both directions between Burton Bradstock and West Bay - the public is being urged to avoid the area.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeremy Hunt says significant tax cuts are \"unlikely\"\n\nJeremy Hunt has warned it is \"unlikely\" that there will be room for any \"significant\" tax cuts in the Budget.\n\nThe chancellor has been under pressure recently from some in his party to cut taxes to stimulate the UK economy.\n\nBut Mr Hunt said that a pledge to halve the rate of inflation \"is the best tax cut right now\".\n\nHe admitted the UK was going through \"a difficult patch\" but insisted the country \"can get through it and we can get to the other side\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Hunt set out a plan to help lift the UK's economic growth.\n\nAfter a turbulent autumn, when financial markets pushed up the country's cost of borrowing, Mr Hunt said he was determined to show that the UK was responsible.\n\nThat meant \"showing the world, showing the markets that we are a responsible nation, that we can pay our way, that we can balance our books\", he said.\n\nHe added that \"it is unlikely that we would have the room for any significant tax cuts\" at the Budget in March.\n\nGovernment borrowing - which is the difference between spending and tax income - rose to a record £27.4bn in December. It was the highest amount for that month since 1993.\n\nBorrowing was driven by the cost of helping households and businesses with rising energy bills. Higher inflation also pushed up interest payments on debt owed by the government.\n\nThe rate of price rises - or inflation - has begun to slow, but at 10.5% remains close to a 40-year high.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the end of the year.\n\nBut some economists have said prices will begin to fall back naturally, without government policies, due to commodity prices and shipping costs decreasing towards the end of last year. Energy prices are also expected to ease in the second half of 2023.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"The biggest tax cut that we can give the British people is to halve inflation, that means the value of their weekly shop won't continue to go up, the value of their pay packet won't continue to be eroded and that's what we are focused on.\"\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a plan to grow the UK economy, though it drew a mixed reaction with some business groups criticising a lack of detail.\n\nHe said the strategy would focus on four pillars, or \"four Es\": enterprise, education, employment and everywhere.\n\nHe said that while it was not a series of measures or announcements, it would provide \"the framework against which individual policies will be assessed and taken forward\".\n\nBut the Institute of Directors (IoD) suggested Mr Hunt add a fifth E for \"empty\" after not issuing concrete plans.\n\nIoD chief economist Kitty Ussher said businesses needed \"government action to counteract the negative mood\", such as continuing the capital investment super-deduction and bringing in tax credits for employers who invest in skill shortage areas.\n\nMr Hunt said the government planned to achieve growth in multiple sectors across the UK, including digital technology, green industries, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and creative industries.\n\nThe TUC said the lack of the mention of public sector pay in the speech was the \"elephant in the room\".\n\n\"Public servants will be deeply worried about the chancellor's warnings of further restraint. We know that is usually code for cuts,\" said the union's general secretary Paul Nowak.\n\nCraig Beaumont, of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the contents of Mr Hunt's speech had \"all the right elements\", but warned the \"proof will be in the pudding in the years ahead\".\n\nBrian Palmer, founder of robotics firm Tharsus in Blyth, Northumberland, said the \"themes\" that the government was talking about were important, but said firms \"need to see the detail\".\n\n\"There is a lack of a clear long-term strategy. Without that long-term plan, businesses can't get behind it, can't have the confidence that the government's going to follow through with the policies.\"\n\nBrian, whose company makes high-tech equipment for companies such as Ocado, warned some firms were already holding back on investment because of a lack of confidence.\n\n\"The government needs to provide industry with a clear idea of what the playing field is going to look like going forward,\" he added.\n\nMany have interpreted Mr Hunt's speech as an attempt to respond to criticism that the government has no long-term plan for growth.\n\nCarmakers articulated that idea this week. On Thursday, figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed the number of new cars made in the UK has sunk to its lowest level for 66 years, with the SMMT warning that the UK was lagging behind other countries, particularly on offering state aid to manufacturers.\n\nMake UK, which represents the manufacturing industry, said there had been \"some hugely damaging big picture issues caused by the absence of an industrial strategy which are impacting on some of our strategic sectors\".\n\nMr Hunt said he wanted to tackle poor productivity and said the UK's exit from the European Union would encourage risk-taking and changing regulation.\n\nLooking at the wider picture, Mr Hunt said that \"declinism about Britain\" was wrong and praised what he called \"British genius and British hard work\".\n\n\"Some of the gloom is based on statistics that do not reflect the whole picture,\" he said.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney said: \"Jeremy Hunt's speech is cold comfort for families and pensioners facing unbearable price rises.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said that \"13 years of Tory economic failure have left living standards and growth on the floor, crashed our economy, and driven up mortgages and bills\".\n\n\"The Tories have no plan for now, and no plan for the future,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You can sit in a bedroom anywhere in the world and consume holocaust denial books, anti-Muslim books, terrorist manuals\"\n\nA rise in teenagers involved with neo-Nazi groups and far-right extremism is \"incredibly alarming\", a counter-terrorism detective has said.\n\nDet Supt Gareth Rees said police could not \"arrest our way out of\" the issue.\n\nOn Wednesday, Luca Benincasa, 20, from Cardiff, was locked up after admitting to being a member of a neo-Nazi group.\n\nExperts called it a \"hugely dangerous time\", saying Covid and the cost of living crisis could push more young people towards the far-right.\n\nThere are also concerns around how the internet is used to share material.\n\n\"In terms of the ages, we've seen the low teens - and that is an incredibly alarming thing to see,\" Det Supt Rees said.\n\n\"We have seen people engaged in attack plots, attack planning, looking at attacking locations or individuals.\n\n\"But we've also seen significant volumes of offences related to sharing, downloading and sending material, which breaches the terrorism act.\n\n\"You've got people who are very young, very impressionable, and very vulnerable who are being drawn into a very worrying area which not only affects their own wellbeing, but also ultimately presents a threat to other people.\"\n\nDet Supt Rees, the right-wing terrorism lead at Counter Terrorism Policing, said the threat has grown and \"evolved\" in recent years.\n\n\"We need to understand how we can stop young people making decisions and being drawn into an area that is both very sad and very damaging and, ultimately at the top level, very threatening.\"\n\nBenincasa was sentenced to nine years and three months in prison at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire on Wednesday for being a \"prominent\" member of the banned neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division.\n\nHe previously pleaded guilty to terrorism offences after becoming increasingly involved with far-right ideologies during the Covid lockdown.\n\nHe held at least 33 one-to-one conversations with potential recruits from across the world, some as young as 14.\n\nA Nazi dagger and documents on how to make explosives and poisons were found by police at his home.\n\nLuca Benincasa was sentenced to nine years and three months in prison for his prominent role in a neo-Nazi group\n\nIn 2021, a 16-year-old boy from Cornwall was sentenced after leading the British arm of Feuerkrieg Division.\n\nHe downloaded his first bomb-making manual when he was 13, making him one of the UK's youngest terror offenders.\n\nDet Supt Rees said extremists use political, social and economic instability to \"push narratives\" in conspiracy theories and influence young people.\n\n\"If you use Covid as an example, people were more isolated, they didn't have those core networks, whether it be sports, leisure, social, teachers other family networks to challenge some of those views,\" he said.\n\nThe most extreme British neo-Nazi organisation in recent years - National Action - was co-founded by Alex Davies, from Swansea.\n\nSome of its members openly celebrated the murder of the MP Jo Cox.\n\nThe organisation used child-like images to target and recruit young people.\n\nJoe Mulhall spent years undercover exposing neo-Nazi and far-right groups as director of research at anti-fascism organisation, Hope not Hate.\n\nThe organisation played a crucial role in preventing the murder of Labour MP Rosie Cooper by neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw.\n\nHe believes young people no longer have to search for extreme, hateful content online - rather, it comes to them.\n\n\"They're shockingly young, 13 or 14, and they're involved in very extreme, explicitly overt terrorist behaviour, and those numbers are just increasing,\" he said.\n\nJoe Mulhall says children as young as 13 are known to be involved in \"explicitly overt terrorist behaviour\"\n\nMr Mulhall said young people were \"networking and discussing race war, discussing overt terrorism, in a way that was just much rarer a few years ago\".\n\nHe said young people were now bombarded online with a \"grab-bag\" of hateful ideologies.\n\n\"Now, you can sit in a bedroom anywhere in the world and at the click of a button you can come across extreme far-right material, you can consume holocaust denial books, anti-Muslim books, terrorist manuals,\" he said.\n\n\"The hurdles for getting involved that would have often prohibited young people from being able to get into far-right groups traditionally just aren't there anymore - and you can do it anonymously.\n\n\"It can just pop up on your timeline.\"\n\nExperts are concerned that people who first engaged with the far-right during the pandemic are now susceptible to their narratives around the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nDr Lella Nouri, a leading expert on the far-right, said \"uncertainty breeds extremism\".\n\n\"I suppose with the financial crisis we are in that situation right now,\" she said.\n\nDr Nouri, a senior lecturer in criminology at Swansea University, said the confusion and lack of information around Covid played into the hands of the far-right and was a powerful tool to push their message.\n\n\"The world was in chaos, Wales was in chaos, the UK was in chaos, and at points of chaos there's uncertainty.\n\n\"And when we have uncertainty we look for answers, and the far-right were very quickly the ones to give those answers. False answers.\"\n\nDr Nouri said the far-right were now capitalising on the cost-of-living crisis and the financial difficulties people are facing.\n\n\"Certain communities are more vulnerable, specifically those who feel disillusioned, whether that be because of financial pressures, lack of employment or maybe where they've just sort of ended up in life,\" she said.\"\n\nBritish counter terrorism police have said it is a \"significant challenge\" to sift through the huge volume of extremist content online and spot what could turn into an attack.\n\nDet Supt Rees said the internet was an \"exceptionally significant\" tool for the far-right.\n\nHe added that he was keen to stress the important role local police and the public played in preventing children from being drawn into extremism.\n\n\"It's not just working with policing alone, it's a strong relationship between counter-terrorism policing experts, local policing and communities.\n\n\"You kind of need all those pillars to work together.\"", "Police believe Neil Maxwell changed his appearance between December 2018 to his death in April 2019 to evade arrest\n\nThe man suspected of murdering a teenager whose body was found three years after she vanished is likely to have changed his appearance around the time of the offence, police said.\n\nLeah Croucher's remains were found at a house in Loxbeare Drive, Milton Keynes in October.\n\nNeil Maxwell, who was found dead in April 2019, remains the only suspect.\n\nPolice have released a new image of what Mr Maxwell could have looked like around the time of the murder.\n\nDetectives said they believed Maxwell changed his appearance to evade arrest for another crime.\n\nMs Croucher, 19, was last seen walking to work on 15 February 2019. Her cause of death is \"still under investigation\", an inquest heard on Wednesday.\n\nLeah Croucher, 19, was last seen alive on CCTV on 15 February 2019 in the Buckinghamshire city\n\nAt the time Ms Croucher went missing, Maxwell was on the run from police in connection with a sexual assault in Newport Pagnell in November 2018, and he had previous convictions for sexual offences against women and children.\n\nThames Valley Police said the 49-year-old, who worked as a maintenance man for the owner of the Loxbeare Drive home owner, who lives abroad, was the only person to have keys to the house.\n\nOfficers also found Ms Croucher's rucksack and other possessions in the loft of the house in Furzton in October.\n\nMs Croucher's body was found at the house on Loxbeare Drive, Milton Keynes, along with some of her possessions\n\nPolice said they believed Maxwell changed his appearance to evade arrest as no witnesses have placed him in Milton Keynes since December 2018.\n\nThe force released an e-fit image of what they believe Maxwell may have looked like between December 2018 and April 2019.\n\nDet Ch Supt Ian Hunter said the \"complex investigation\" had \"made steady progress\" with hundreds of people interviewed and extensive forensic searches and examinations taking place, as well as CCTV reviews.\n\nHe said: \"Despite the comprehensive media reporting along with the further inquiries with acquaintances, associates and employers and the new house to house and CCTV inquiries, we have still not identified anyone who saw Maxwell in or around Milton Keynes since early December 2018.\n\n\"More pertinently, we are yet to identify anyone who had seen Maxwell in Loxbeare Drive before, after, or at any time close to when Leah went missing on 15 February 2019.\"\n\nPolice said they believed he also used false names and stopped using his mobile phone and known vehicles.\n\nOfficers appealed for people to come forward with information about Maxwell's movements and identity based on the new image.\n\n\"He is likely to have known he was returning to prison if he was arrested and convicted,\" Det Ch Supt Hunter said.\n\n\"The investigation has now also established that Maxwell is likely to have changed his appearance to avoid being recognised. He had grown a beard and may have lost weight.\"\n\nHe said the force was \"absolutely committed to establishing the truth\" and Ms Croucher's family are \"at the heart of everything we do\".\n\nCCTV footage showed the last confirmed sighting of Leah Croucher walking to work on the day she disappeared\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Nia Jones says the university will work with GPs and the health board\n\nStudents will be able to complete a full medical degree in north Wales as part of efforts to tackle a shortage of doctors in the area.\n\nThe Welsh government will fund training for up to 140 students each year at Bangor University.\n\nThe current course at Bangor is in partnership with Cardiff University, with graduates spending their first year in the capital.\n\nOne of the primary aims is to tackle recruitment issues in north Wales.\n\nFrom September 2024, medical students will be able to start their degree in Bangor and complete their full five-year degree at the university.\n\nAlthough GP numbers across the country have increased slightly over the years, it has traditionally been a challenge to attract people to work in north Wales.\n\nAccording to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB), the latest figures show more than 28 vacant full-time GP posts in the surgeries the health board manages, and the gaps are filled by locum staff.\n\nStudents in Bangor currently spend the first year of their medical degree in Cardiff\n\nProgramme director Dr Nia Jones said establishing the new medical school had been a \"long process\" and there would be challenges ahead. The university plans to tackle them by working with the health board and with existing GP partnerships.\n\n\"We also have a huge amount of support from our partners in Cardiff University who are also supportive of this,\" she added.\n\nThe course in Bangor will place greater emphasis on community medicine, with students spending a year in a GP practice.\n\nAmlwch Health Centre has received a number of students over the last few years and one of its GPs, Dr Harri Pritchard, said it has benefited from the experience.\n\nDr Harri Pritchard hopes many students will stay in north Wales\n\n\"There's certainly a recruitment problem in north Wales and certainly the students who've come to Bangor have loved it. They've loved the people, and hopefully they'll stay in north Wales.\"\n\nThird year student Erin Davies has been on placement at the Amlwch surgery and said it had probably increased the likelihood of her working somewhere more rural like north Wales.\n\n\"Before I came here I was more set on being back in south Wales but now, the more I've done with the GP in Amlwch, I'm more 50-50 and could potentially stay here for more years,\" she said.\n\nOther students said they had had lots of opportunities since moving to north Wales, including learning Welsh, and have enjoyed the variety it offers.\n\n\"You get a bit of everything - countryside, communities, also cities, going to the three main hospital sites across north Wales,\" said fellow student Gwenllian.\n\nErin Davies has been on placement at Amlwch surgery\n\nThe course in Bangor will be extended gradually to give the university a chance to develop facilities.\n\nAccording to Dr Eilir Hughes, a GP on the Llŷn Peninsula, it's vital to maintain standards.\n\n\"Not every kind of medicine is practised in north Wales, but that doesn't stop you offering a five-year medical foundation course to students\" he says.\n\n\"What's important is that we don't lower standards, that we maintain them as is expected in other medical schools.\n\n\"Yes, it'll be a challenge to attract some of the most talented students here perhaps, but there's no reason why we can't in the long run compete with some of the most well-known medical schools in Britain.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he hoped many students would choose to work in communities in north Wales following their studies.", "The baby grows for six months in the pouch until it \"starts to pop its head out\", conservationists say\n\nAnimal conservationists have described the moment a rare tree kangaroo was seen emerging from its mother's pouch as \"celebratory\".\n\nThe joey, the first of the endangered species to be born at Chester Zoo, arrived in July and has since been developing in the pouch.\n\nUnlike its famous Australian counterpart, the shy Goodfellow's species live in trees, the zoo said.\n\nZookeepers now had a \"unique position\" to record its development, it added.\n\nDavid White, team manager at the zoo, said the Goodfellow's tree kangaroo species, native to Papua New Guinea, had \"one of the most complex birthing processes in the animal kingdom\".\n\n\"When a joey is first born it's only the size of a jellybean and is incredibly underdeveloped,\" he said.\n\n\"Moments after the birth, with eyes still tightly closed, the joey knows to instinctively crawl up mum's belly and into her pouch - following a channel which she has marked out by licking her fur.\"\n\nThe joey was born to mum Kitawa and dad Kayjo in July 2022\n\nThe baby receives its nutrition while it grows for six months in the pouch until it \"starts to pop its head out\", he added.\n\nThe joey is expected to fully emerge from the pouch soon and start hopping around and learning to climb trees.\n\n\"That's when we'll be able to determine if it's male or female and give the youngster a fitting name,\" Mr White said.\n\nConservationists have been recording the joey's growth with a special endoscope camera that has been placed in the mother's pouch every few weeks.\n\nThey say the data could help tree kangaroos and other threatened species.\n\nMr White said Goodfellow's tree kangaroos were often hunted for their meat while their habitat is disappearing, as forests are cleared for timber and to make way for coffee and rice plantations.\n\nThe zoo said it was working with communities in South East Asia to boost sustainable farming practices and prevent further deforestation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elle Edwards was celebrating with her sister and friends when she was fatally wounded\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Elle Edwards on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe 20-year-old was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and assisting an offender in the Barnston area of Wirral, Merseyside.\n\nHe has been taken to a police station for questioning.\n\nMs Edwards, a 26-year-old beautician, had been celebrating with friends and family when a gunman opened fire at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village.\n\nMerseyside Police previously said she was merely a bystander and not the intended target.\n\nConnor Chapman, 22, has already been charged with the murder of Ms Edwards and is due to go on trial on 7 June.\n\nHundreds of mourners gathered at her funeral on Wednesday, where a funeral cortege led by a hearse with floral tribute saying \"Elle May\" was followed by Ms Edwards's coffin in a carriage pulled by four white horses.\n\nThe order of service asked for donations to the Elle Edwards Foundation in her memory.\n\nThe Lighthouse pub was closed on Wednesday as a mark of respect and flowers were left at the entrance.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It insists they can make all the difference - helping to push Russia back from Ukrainian territory and handing Kyiv the initiative.\n\nGermany produces the vast majority of modern heavy tanks in Europe - the Leopard 2s. Around 2,000 of them are spread out amongst European allies. And Germany owns all the export licenses for them.\n\nThis meant that while it dithered, others like Poland - desperate to deliver tanks to Ukraine as soon as possible - were prevented from doing so. They lacked the green re-export light from Berlin.\n\nUkrainian soldiers still need to be trained in how to use the vehicles, of course, and it's unclear how many and how soon they might arrive for use in Ukraine.\n\nBut Berlin's prolonged hesitance, even as Russia committed human rights abuse after human rights abuse in Ukraine, led to huge pressure amongst Western allies who, up until now, had been oh so keen to display a determined sense of unity in the face of Russian aggression.\n\nChancellor Scholz's indecision divided his country too, including his governing coalition and even his own Social Democrat Party. \"Free the Leopards!\" was the slogan shouted at regular demonstrations outside the German parliament, while inside the debate to send, or not to send tanks, raged amongst German MPs.\n\nWhat was it then, causing Olaf Scholz so much consternation?\n\nOf huge significance is the weight of history felt by German modern-day leaders. It can't be over-emphasised.\n\nThis Friday is Holocaust Memorial Day. A huge sign proclaiming \"We Will Not Forget\" hangs at the Reichstag in Berlin.\n\nAs the aggressor in two world wars, many Germans are wary of being the main provider of battle tanks in Ukraine.\n\nThe \"Zeitenwende\" or \"turning point\" in Germany, announced by Chancellor Scholz soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, is hugely significant. For Germany itself but also Europe as a whole.\n\nBerlin promised to massively invest in its depleted, outdated military and to take a far more assertive role in European defence. A real break with Berlin's post World War Two timidity and preference for allies to lead in security matters.\n\nThis \"transformation\" has been peppered by setbacks and is by no means complete but it is certainly under way and that is a big change for Germany.\n\nSince World War Two, Berlin has been reluctant to take the lead, but as the Europe's biggest economy, that's exactly what allies often look to Germany to do.\n\nGermany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has come under pressure to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks\n\nReturning to the tank debate, another sensitivity for Germany to overcome is that their Leopard 2s would be used against Russian soldiers.\n\nGermany feels deep responsibility for the slaughter of millions of Russians during World War One and Two.\n\nA further, not entirely separate issue, is that large sections of German society - particularly in the formerly communist east of the country, where many express a disappointment in how western society functions - feel traditionally close to Russia.\n\nNGOs monitoring Russian disinformation in Europe report that many Germans are fallible.\n\nThat said, the overwhelming majority of Germans sympathise with ordinary Ukrainians caught up in the current conflict.\n\nBut in a survey shortly before Christmas, 40% of Germans who took part said they understood the Kremlin's blaming of the West for its invasion of Ukraine - because of the eastward expansion of the Nato military alliance.\n\nOlaf Scholz is an avowed transatlanticist but his SPD party historically - though far from entirely, these days - looks east to Moscow, with many party members a bit suspicious of the US and its Nato dominance.\n\nFor all these reasons - and a few more I'll illustrate - Chancellor Scholz didn't want Germany to go it alone, nor be the central facilitator on the battle-tanks-to-Ukraine front.\n\nAnother German concern has been that, while European countries including the UK, Poland and the Netherlands, say it's clearly the Kremlin that is escalating this conflict, many in Germany say they fear delivering heavy tanks and other offensive weaponry to Ukraine could push Vladimir Putin to even wilder extremes. Even the use of nuclear weapons.\n\nIt's thought one of the reasons Chancellor Scholz has pushed so hard for Washington to also send tanks to Ukraine is so Europe can feel that nuclear power US on board and by its side.\n\nOverall, Olaf Scholz didn't want Germany to stand out and alone in being the main provider of heavy tanks to Ukraine.\n\nHis sudden U-turn could well be because he realised if he continued to hold those tanks back, he could find himself isolated amongst his own allies.\n\nSomething else to bear in mind is that, despite the current and previous controversies over foot-dragging by Chancellor Scholz in providing and enabling the delivery of other military equipment, Germany is amongst the top three single donors of military aid and one of the main providers of humanitarian aid to Ukraine.", "A record number of people switched their custom to a different bank in the final three months of last year.\n\nCash incentives led thousands of people to move their current accounts, as they sought extra income to help pay bills and deal with rising prices.\n\nUp to £200 was offered by some banks to switching customers.\n\nA total of 376,107 accounts were moved between October and December - the highest since a seven-day switching service began in 2013.\n\nHowever, that still only represented a fraction of the millions of current accounts being used by individuals, small businesses and charities in the UK. That suggests many less financially engaged customers - who could benefit the most from switching - may not have been involved.\n\nThe Current Account Switching Service (CASS) oversees the seven-day system, which sees details of direct debits and other regular payments automatically adopted by a moving customer's new bank.\n\nPayments accidentally made to or requested from the old account are automatically redirected to the new account.\n\nIn 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found customers did not switch unless they had a problem with their bank, and most thought they had little to gain financially by moving.\n\nThose financial gains improved last year, with a number of major banks offering cash incentives for switching just as the cost of living was soaring.\n\nRachel Springall, from the financial information service Moneyfacts, said: \"The record-breaking quarter for current account switching came at a time when several banking brands were offering a free cash sweetener amid a cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"Those customers who decided to switch accounts could well have done so for different reasons, whether that be due to a poor level of service or that their existing account was not working hard enough for them.\n\n\"On the flip side, those customers who were struggling financially may have seen a free cash incentive hard to ignore.\"\n\nShe said many people were also conscious of budgeting and maximising their income as finances were squeezed by rising bills and prices.\n\nThe figures, provided voluntarily by banks, show that switching customers using the scheme peaked in November when 157,376 accounts were moved - the highest ever monthly total. The quarterly total was also a record.\n\nDavid Piper, head of payments operations at Pay.UK, the owner and operator of Cass, said: \"It is encouraging to see the highest level of switches ever this quarter, demonstrating the continued relevance of the service to consumers and businesses across the UK.\"\n\nAlthough fewer cash incentives are available now, they have not disappeared entirely.\n\nThe current account cash offers coincided with better rates being offered to savers, after a decade of poor returns for those putting money aside in savings accounts. However, the buying power of those savings pots has been diluted by sharply rising prices.\n\nSeparate data from CASS shows Santander, HSBC, Starling and Monzo had the highest net switching gains between July and September 2022, among switchers specifically using the CASS system.\n\nIt is possible to switch current account provider outside of the scheme, but these numbers are not collected centrally.", "CCTV from on board the bus shows the driver lose control of his steering wheel before entering the lake.\n\nThe driver was trying to board a ferry before the accident. Luckily, nobody suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nThis video has no sound.", "Isla Bryson is facing a custodial sentence when she returns to court next month\n\nA trans woman who raped two women before she changed gender has been moved to a men's prison, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nIsla Bryson was remanded to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling after being convicted of the rapes when she was a man called Adam Graham. She has since been moved to HMP Edinburgh.\n\nBryson decided to transition from a man to a woman while awaiting trial.\n\nShe was taken to a male wing of HMP Edinburgh on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Bryson would not be allowed to serve her sentence at Cornton Vale.\n\nBryson is due to be sentenced next month after being convicted of the rapes on Tuesday. It is thought to have been the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nBut where that sentence should be served has been the subject of heated debate, with concerns being raised about the safety of other women in the female jail if Bryson was placed there.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament passed legislation last month aimed at making it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex, but Ms Sturgeon has said the changes did not play any part in the Bryson case.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform Bill has been blocked by the UK government over its potential impact on equalities laws that apply across Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs Isla Bryson will not serve her sentence in a female jail.\n\nSpeaking at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, Ms Sturgeon said she agreed that it was not possible to have a rapist within a women's prison.\n\nReferring directly to the Bryson case, she said: \"It would not be appropriate for me, in respect of any prisoner, to give details of where they are being incarcerated.\n\n\"But given the understandable public and parliamentary concern in this case, I can confirm to parliament that this prisoner will not be incarcerated at Cornton Vale women's prison.\n\n\"I hope that provides assurance to the public.\"\n\nThe first minister said any prisoner who posed a risk of sexual offending was segregated from other prisoners including while a risk assessment was carried out.\n\nShe said: \"There is no automatic right for a trans woman convicted of a crime to serve their sentence in a female prison even if they have a gender recognition certificate.\n\n\"Every case is subject to rigorous individual risk assessment and the safety of other prisoners is paramount.\"\n\nBryson was convicted of rapes carried out while she was known as Adam Graham\n\nMs Sturgeon said she expected that Bryson would not be at Cornton Vale in Stirling by the end of a 72-hour segregated assessment period, which ended on Thursday afternoon.\n\nThe first minister also stressed it was careful that people \"do not, even inadvertently, suggest that trans women pose an inherent threat to women\", adding: \"Predatory men, as has always been the case, are the risk to women.\"\n\nSpeaking to journalists outside the chamber, Ms Sturgeon said she had not given any \"formal direction\" to the Scottish Prison Service on removing Bryson from Cornton Vale.\n\nA spokesman for the first minister would not say if it was now Scottish government policy to bar all rapists from female prisons.\n\nScottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown said on Wednesday that he trusted the prison service to decide on the correct venue for trans prisoners.\n\nCornton Vale was until recently Scotland's only women's jail, but is being replaced by a series of smaller purpose-built facilities across the country - including HMP Stirling, which is being built on the same site.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said his party had \"warned for months\" during the debate over the gender reforms that \"violent criminals just like the sex offender, the absolute beast we are discussing today, would try to exploit loopholes in the law and attack and traumatise women.\"\n\nHe added: \"It should not have taken public disgust and a slew of negative headlines about a double rapist being sent to a women's prison for Nicola Sturgeon to realise this was completely unacceptable and wrong.\n\n\"She and her justice secretary have the power to impose a blanket ban on all rapists being sent to women's prisons, so why is she refusing to exercise it?\n\n\"It suggests Nicola Sturgeon's screeching U-turn in the Bryson case was down to fears over the political risk to herself rather than the safety risk to women prisoners.\"\n\nIt came as Bryson's estranged wife, Shonna Graham, 31, said she had a \"lot of sympathy for real trans people\" but claimed her former partner's transition was a \"sham for attention\" and that Bryson is attempting to fool the authorities.\n\nMs Graham told the Daily Mail: \"Never once did he say anything to me about feeling he was in the wrong body or anything\", and accused Bryson of being abusive in their relationship.\n\nDuring the rape trial, Bryson claimed she knew she was transgender at the age of four but did not make the decision to transition until she was 29, and is currently taking hormones and seeking surgery to complete gender reassignment.\n\nBryson said that in 2016 she was \"struggling with my sexuality and having issues emotionally\".\n\nThe first minister insists this was a decision taken by the Scottish Prison Service following its usual individual risk assessment procedures.\n\nAsked by journalists if she had intervened in the process, Nicola Sturgeon said she did not formally direct the SPS to move Isla Bryson to a male prison.\n\nBut I understand that officials were \"crystal clear\" about her views on the matter. There was no doubt in their minds that the first minister agreed with the chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, who said \"It cannot be right for a rapist to be in a women's prison.\"\n\nBryson was moved to a male wing of a male prison on Thursday afternoon. Nicola Sturgeon believes that is the right call.\n\nRishi Sunak's official spokesperson said on Wednesday that the prime minister was aware of the Bryson case and \"understood the concerns\".\n\nUK Justice Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted that \"transgender women without a Gender Recognition Certificate are sent to male prisons as a matter of course\" in England and Wales.\n\nHe added: \"Our further, common-sense changes will mean transgender women who have committed sex crimes or retain male genitalia can't be held in women's prisons, bar the most exceptional cases authorised by Ministers.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also criticised the decision to hold the rapist in a women's jail.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, Ms Cooper said: \"It should be clear that if someone poses a danger to women and committed crimes against women, they should not be being housed in a women's prison.\n\n\"That is straightforward and I think most people would agree with that.\"\n\nA spokesperson for LGBT campaigning group Stonewall said: \"It is appropriate that the prison service individually assess all prisoners and carry out detailed risk assessments that are about the safety of both the prisoner and those that they will be in contact with.\n\n\"Indeed, this is already the policy across the HM Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, and the Scottish Prison Service.\"", "The number of new cars made in the UK has sunk to its lowest level for 66 years as firms warn the country is not doing enough to attract manufacturers.\n\nThe 10% drop is the worst performance since 1956, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\n\nA struggle to get parts due to Covid and a semiconductor shortage have hit the industry worldwide, but the UK has also been hit by factory closures.\n\nCar firms warn the UK has not got a strategy to attract manufacturers.\n\nIn response, the government said it was \"determined\" to ensure the country remains a top global location for car manufacturing.\n\nIn total, the UK produced 775,014 cars last year, down from 1.3 million before the pandemic, with production having fallen every year since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016.\n\nManufacturers hope the car industry will start to accelerate again, but say getting to pre-pandemic levels would require major investment and new car makers to come to the UK.\n\nThey warn that the UK is lagging behind, particularly on offering state aid to manufacturers.\n\nIn the US, the government is planning to offer billions in subsidies to car makers who create electric vehicle supply chains in America.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of industry body the SMMT, warns this will \"hoover up\" a lot of international investment, hitting the UK industry further.\n\nThe European Union is considering retaliating by either relaxing state aid rules or by extending Covid recovery or green technology-boosting programmes.\n\nOne of the benefits of Brexit was meant to be escaping from the straitjacket of EU state aid rules which limited the amount of support governments could give to favoured industries.\n\nMr Hawes conceded the UK could be in the unenviable position of offering less support to crucial industries than before it left the EU.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said the UK needed \"something that demonstrates that the UK is open for business and open for these investments\".\n\nThe production figures were also affected by the closure of Honda's factory in Swindon in July 2021 and the fact that Vauxhall Astras have not been made at Ellesmere Port since April 2022.\n\nMr Hawes said the numbers reflected how \"tough\" 2022 was for UK car manufacturing, although the country had still made more electric vehicles than ever before, with almost a third now fully-electric or hybrid.\n\nHe warned the global car industry had already begun investing in electric vehicles and batteries and the UK only had \"a few years\" to act.\n\n\"We need to be on the front foot making sure we have a range of measures that attract investment,\" Mr Hawes said.\n\nHe called for a strategy to accelerate battery production and the shift to electric vehicles, adding that the UK was well placed to succeed given its skilled workforce and engineering expertise.\n\nUK car production was further set back by the collapse of battery start-up Britishvolt last week\n\nUK car production was further set back by the collapse of battery start-up Britishvolt last week.\n\nThe firm had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Cambois, near Blyth in Northumberland, but the project ran out of money.\n\nThe UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the EU.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are determined to ensure the UK remains one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing.\n\n\"Our success is evidenced by the £1bn investment in Sunderland in 2021, and we are building on this through a major investment programme to electrify our supply chain and create jobs.\"", "US President Joe Biden has said that the first batch of Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine \"next week\".\n\nThe US is by far the largest contributor of arms to Ukraine.\n\nPoland, which was also a major donor, recently said it would stop supplying it with weapons.\n\nIt is in a dispute with Ukraine about its exports of grain, which Poland says are flooding its market.\n\nThe amount of military aid given to Ukraine is tracked by the Kiel Institute, but the data only accounts for donations up until the end of July.\n\nThe US announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million.\n\nThe US has also confirmed it will provide cluster munitions, a controversial move which has caused unease among some Nato allies.\n\nUkraine has also received SCALP missiles from France - similar to the UK Storm Shadows missiles that were recently delivered.\n\nDozens of tanks have already been committed. Ukraine says they are urgently needed to defend its territory and to push out Russian troops.\n\nThe Leopard 2 is used by a number of European countries, and is considered to be easier to maintain and more fuel-efficient than most other Western tanks.\n\nDuring the first months following the invasion, Nato preferred member countries to supply Ukraine with older tanks - ones that had been used in the former Warsaw Pact.\n\nUkraine's armed forces know how to operate them, and how to maintain them, and had a lot spare parts for them.\n\nModern Western tanks are more complicated to operate and harder to maintain.\n\nRecent footage of a Ukrainian attack on Russian positions show that at least one Leopard tank and several Bradleys are already in use by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe UK led the way in Nato by offering to provide the Challenger 2 - its main battle tank.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than other tanks available to Ukraine's armed forces.\n\nUkraine used Warsaw Pact designed T-72 tanks prior to the invasion, and since February 2022 has received more than 200 T-72s from Poland, the Czech Republic and a small number of other countries.\n\nAnnouncing the US decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, President Joe Biden described them as \"the most capable tanks in the world\".\n\nThe US and the UK are also providing depleted uranium rounds with the tanks they are donating, which are very effective at piercing armour.\n\nHowever, depleted uranium is slightly radioactive material and there are some concerns that the rounds could contaminate the soil.\n\nMilitary professionals point out that success on the battlefield requires a vast range of equipment, deployed in co-ordination, with the necessary logistical support in place.\n\nThe Stryker is one of the many armoured vehicles that have been donated to Ukraine. The US confirmed that 90 Strykers would be dispatched.\n\nAmong the other vehicles donated by the US were Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. They were used extensively by US forces in Iraq.\n\nIn December, the US also announced it was sending the Patriot missile system to Ukraine - and Germany and the Netherlands have followed suit.\n\nThis highly sophisticated system has a range of up to 60 miles (100km), depending on the type of missile used, and requires specialised training for Ukrainian soldiers, likely to be carried out at a US Army base in Germany.\n\nBut the system is expensive to operate - one Patriot missile costs about $3m.\n\nSince the start of the conflict, Ukraine has been using Soviet-era S-300 surface-to-air systems against Russian attacks.\n\nBefore the conflict began, Ukraine had about 250 S-300s and there have been efforts to replenish these with similar systems stockpiled in other former Soviet countries, with some coming from Slovakia.\n\nThe US has also provided Nasams (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) to Ukraine. The first Nasams arrived in Ukraine in November.\n\nIn addition, the UK has provided several air defence systems, including Starstreak, designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nGermany has also provided air defence systems, including the IRIS-T air defence systems which can hit approaching missiles at an altitude of up to 20km.\n\nAmong the long-range rocket launchers sent to Ukraine by the US are the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or Himars. Several European countries have also sent similar systems.\n\nHimars are believed to have been central to Ukraine's success in pushing Russian forces back in the south, particularly in Kherson in November.\n\nHimars systems are much more accurate have a longer potential range than the Smerch system used on the Russian side.\n\nIn the months following the invasion and Russia's retreat from Kyiv, much of the war centred on the east of the country where supplies of artillery to Ukraine were in heavy demand.\n\nAustralia, Canada and the US were among the countries to send advanced M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.\n\nThe range of the M777 is similar to Russia's Giatsint-B howitzer, and much longer than Russia's D-30 towed gun.\n\nNato countries say they are planning to ramp up their supply of shells, because Ukraine has been using them much at a faster rate than they are being delivered.\n\nThey are asking their domestic manufacturers to increase production.\n\nThousands of Nlaw weapons, designed to destroy tanks with a single shot, have also been supplied to Ukraine.\n\nThe weapons are thought to have been particularly important in stopping the advance of Russian forces on Kyiv in the hours and days following the invasion.\n\nDrones have featured heavily in the conflict so far, with many used for surveillance, targeting and heavy lift operations.\n\nTurkey has sold Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, while the Turkish manufacturer of the system has donated drones to crowd-funding operations in support of Ukraine.\n\nAnalysts say the Bayraktar TB2s have been extremely effective, flying at about 25,000 feet (7,600m) before descending to attack Russian targets with laser-guided bombs.\n\nThe US had repeatedly rebuffed Ukraine's pleas for fighter jets, instead focusing on providing military support in other areas.\n\nBut in May, President Joe Biden announced the US would support providing advanced fighter jets - including US-made F-16s - to Ukraine and also back training Ukrainian pilots to fly them.\n\nThe US endorsement also allowed other nations to export their own F-16 jets, as the US legally has to approve the re-export of equipment purchased by allies.\n\nDenmark and the Netherlands have since confirmed that they will supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. Denmark has committed to sending 19 aircraft whilst it is anticipated that the Netherlands will provide more.\n\nAn initial delivery of several Danish F-16s is expected for near the end of 2023.\n\nA wider joint coalition of countries, including the UK, have also agreed to help train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s. In addition to the US, the joint coalition will also help train Ukrainian ground crew to maintain the aircraft.\n\nAdditional reporting by Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Gerry Fletcher and Sana Dionysiou.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Chinouriri sent Lewis Capaldi a hilarious video message she recorded in the back of a car\n\nAn up-and-coming singer got a support slot on Lewis Capaldi's latest tour after a drunken private message.\n\nRachel Chinouriri sent the Scottish star a one-minute video, asking if she could perform at his upcoming stadium shows, after a night out.\n\nWhen she woke up the next morning she realised what she'd done and thought she'd blown her chance.\n\nBut, after a nervous wait, she found out that she'd been added to the bill for his European tour next month.\n\nIt all started on Instagram.\n\n\"I got a follow one day off Lewis Capaldi,\" says Rachel, from London.\n\n\"I'm slightly shocked, because obviously it is Lewis.\"\n\nSome time later, Rachel says she got a notification - she'd been tagged in one of Lewis's Insta stories.\n\nIt was a video of him singing Rachel's song - I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Trying).\n\n\"He's singing my song, and he's getting into it,\" says Rachel. \"I was like, 'oh, my gosh! This is so exciting.'\"\n\nRachel's record label were also thrilled, and she says they told her to ask Lewis about going on tour.\n\nBut, feeling \"too embarrassed\", she couldn't bring herself to do it.\n\nThat's until she went on a night out.\n\nRachel Chinouriri is due to release her debut album this year\n\n\"I must have had quite a few drinks,\" says Rachel, who was in the back of a car when Lewis's profile \"popped up\" on her phone.\n\nHer memory of the next part is a bit blurry, but she recalls being egged on by her housemates.\n\n\"And I just I don't know what happened. I just started recording.\n\n\"It did not look like that individual on the video in my brain,\" says Rachel, who thought she had come across \"quite cool\" in the clip.\n\n\"And then the next day I woke up, and he was at the top of my DMs...\" she says.\n\n\"He'd seen it. And he did reply. I just went into overdrive.\"\n\nWhen Rachel's management told her there was a chance she might get to perform with Lewis, she decided to keep quiet about the video.\n\nBut she spent the next few weeks worrying she'd \"messed it up\".\n\nLewis must have seen the funny side, as he invited Rachel to perform with him\n\n\"I bet they are all working so hard speaking to his team. And then I'm here sending him drunk videos.\"\n\nBut in that time, she noticed Lewis had watched one of her Insta stories.\n\n\"Maybe he doesn't hate me,\" Rachel thought.\n\nSo when she found out she would be going on tour with Lewis, she decided to confess to her manager.\n\n\"He thought it was hilarious,\" she says.\n\n\"If I hadn't got it I definitely would never have told them. But because I got it, I was like, 'okay, here's the video and he found it in there'.\"\n\nShe's since posted the evidence in a Twitter thread, which contains some strong language.\n\nRachel, who's due to release her debut album this year, says the opportunity to travel with Lewis will be an amazing boost for her.\n\n\"A lot of music and numbers are done online,\" she says. \"But there is such power in the energy and the amount of people you can reach performing live.\n\n\"It's just also being able to see how Lewis can take on such a big stage - it's obviously a dream for so many artists like myself to eventually get to that stage one day.\"\n\nAnd has her experience taught her anything?\n\n\"Shoot your shot and follow your gut instincts without drinking,\" she says.\n\n\"Because my gut was like 'yeah, I should do this' - but it shouldn't take me being tipsy to be like 'I should do this'.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Welsh Rugby\n\nAll four regions have backed calls by a Cardiff director for Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chief executive Steve Phillips and the board to leave.\n\nBBC Wales understands the email from Hayley Parsons has been sent to WRU chair Ieuan Evans.\n\nThe message was also circulated to Cardiff, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets, who have backed its content.\n\nEvans said the WRU is \"not deaf to the observations and criticisms\" it has received.\n\nHe said: \"I thank Hayley for her constructive and heartfelt comments and I will not only write back in detail but intend to meet up in person just as I will with a number of different stakeholders from outside of the WRU.\n\n\"As I made clear in statements yesterday, I will now lead on the composition of a new externally sourced taskforce which will review our culture, systems and structures.\n\n\"We need to respond to the public scrutiny we are currently experiencing, but this is also the right thing to do. We are listening.\"\n\nParsons' email followed allegations of sexism, racism and misogyny within the organisation, highlighted by a BBC Wales Investigates programme this week.\n\nPhillips has faced mounting calls to resign over the governing body's handling of the complaints.\n\nThe 58-year-old has apologised but says he is still the best person to lead the WRU and has not considered his position.\n\nChairman Evans has backed him to continue in the role though confirmed an external taskforce will investigate the organisation.\n\nTwo women have complained of a toxic culture, while another former employee heard a racist term used in a work meeting.\n\nFormer head of Wales women's rugby Charlotte Wathan said she considered suicide and said a male colleague joked in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nThe WRU says that accusation was independently investigated and remains unsubstantiated and that it cannot comment further due to a legal settlement.\n\nParsons become the first female to serve on Cardiff's board when she was appointed a non-executive director in 2019.\n\nIn the email to Evans, she describes herself as a \"business professional and entrepreneur, who founded a multimillion-pound business that remains in Wales\".\n\nThe founder of the price comparison website GoCompare, she sold her stake in the company for almost £44m.\n\nHer correspondence urges Evans to \"take immediate and decisive action to address the issues raised in the programme, but also against a backdrop of a long-standing and deep-rooted culture of toxicity and bullying within the WRU\".\n\n\"In my role at Cardiff Rugby, I constantly witness and have to deal with the fallout of incompetence at the Welsh Rugby Union,\" wrote Parsons.\n\n\"I believe the board, in its current state, does not possess the expertise and experience to run the WRU, which is essentially a £100m company.\n\n\"As a group of individuals, they are not fit for purpose, and the future of Welsh rugby requires people with the capability and experience to turn this urgent and dire situation around.\n\n\"Many people have told me first-hand about the culture of bullying and manipulation within the WRU.\"\n\nIn his response, WRU chair Evans added: \"We must re-examine, re-evaluate, act decisively where we find wrongdoing, and move forwards.\n\n\"We will do this together, we take responsibility together. We will also seek outside influence and counsel as well as looking within to the likes of our independent board directors as Hayley suggests.\n\n\"I am already on public record, in a letter I wrote to member clubs for the new year, with my ambitions to evolve the governance structure of the WRU with the clubs and we will address this challenge with renewed vigour immediately.\n\n\"We will use the pressure we are under now, the pressure we have drawn on ourselves, to get better, to improve. I will not waver from this task.\"\n\nIt has since emerged that Amanda Blanc, who chaired Welsh rugby's professional board between 2019 and 2021, warned the WRU it had a problem before the sexism claims emerged.\n\nMs Blanc, now chief executive of Aviva insurance company, told the WRU it had \"deep-rooted\" culture and behavioural problems, that a union-commissioned review into the women's game was \"insulting to women\" and warned of an equality and diversity \"ticking timebomb\".\n\n\"How many more experienced, professional and good people need to leave Welsh rugby before you take action and say enough is enough?\" asked Parsons.\n\n\"I am pleading with you to make the right decision for the WRU, as a business and for rugby as our national sport.\n\n\"You are surrounded by amazing business professionals who already invest their time and energy into Welsh rugby.\n\n\"We need a clear overarching business strategy the whole of Welsh rugby and its regions can work towards.\n\n\"This week's crisis isn't new, it's just brought the underlying issues that we have experienced for years to the fore.\"\n\nParsons criticised what she says is the union's financial hold over the regions with no new long-term financial deal yet to be agreed.\n\n\"As regions, we have been in crisis for so long, our only strategy at present is survival. To stay afloat in the hope that the governance of the WRU is changed soon so we can make it to the next season,\" she wrote.\n\n\"This cannot carry on - we all deserve better, as do our players, staff and fans.\n\n\"As regional clubs we hold back on a range of issues, too scared to go against the Union.\n\n\"Yet still, despite allegation after allegation, mistake after mistake, sacking after sacking, statement after statement, denial after denial, the WRU does not appear to have modern governance structures or a proper strategic business plan in place to affect positive change and nurture rugby at a regional, never mind national level.\n\n\"The WRU's dedicated and hardworking staff, most of whom are a credit to the game and work tirelessly to champion it, are being failed by the WRU's continued unwillingness to accept responsibility for the failures at board level to tackle the toxic and oppressive culture within the union.\n\n\"The treatment of its staff, regional clubs and dominance and total control over the game has to change now.\n\n\"The only way to remedy these issues is to appoint a new board made up of people who know how to run a union and a business properly, with a thought out, well-executed business strategy, and stringent and clear governance system.\"\n\nParsons recognised Evans has been calling for governance reform since he took over in November 2022.\n\nThe WRU stated it was calling an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of clubs for early 2023 to try to modernise the organisation, although no date has been announced.\n\n\"We must restore confidence in the leadership of our game, and I'm sure we will all as regions, commit to supporting you in delivering those changes,\" added Parsons.\n\n\"Please don't underestimate our combined determination, frustration, disappointment, shame and despair at what is, and has been happening at the WRU.\n\n\"We will not stop campaigning until change is actioned, until the current CEO (chief executive) and the WRU board is either sacked or resign to safeguard the future of Welsh rugby.\n\n\"The WRU needs to clean up its act, listen to its staff, players, fans and work with regions to make a positive change for the future.\"\n\nIn a joint statement, all 12 Welsh Premier Division clubs said they were \"astonished and appalled\" by the allegations.\n\nThey added: \"The premier clubs expect swift and decisive action to be taken, in addressing these extremely serious and damaging allegations, that will eradicate this appalling alleged behaviour and provide a future that is accessible and comfortable, for all within Welsh rugby.\"\n\nLlantwit Fardre RFC have also sent a letter expressing no confidence in chief executive Phillips, while other clubs have revealed concerns.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Wales Investigates explores the culture of the WRU", "Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi is under pressure over his tax affairs\n\nThere are no penalties for \"innocent\" tax errors, the boss of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said.\n\nJim Harra's comments to MPs come amid pressure on Nadhim Zahawi after it emerged he paid a penalty to the tax authority.\n\nThe Tory chairman faces an inquiry into his conduct by the PM's ethics adviser.\n\nMr Harra stressed he could not comment on individual cases, but said penalties were not applied when someone had taken \"reasonable care\".\n\nMr Zahawi has said the tax authority accepted the error over previously unpaid tax was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nHe has given permission to HMRC to share details of his taxes with the investigation into his conduct, with his allies saying he believes this will back up his version of events.\n\nIndividuals must give permission for such details to be disclosed, because of taxpayer confidentiality.\n\nEarlier, Mr Harra, the chief executive of HMRC, gave evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee about managing tax compliance following the pandemic.\n\nThe MPs also quizzed him about Mr Zahawi's tax arrangements.\n\nHe said he would not comment on specific individuals, but added: \"There are no penalties for innocent errors in your tax affairs. So if you take reasonable care, but nevertheless make a mistake, whilst you will be liable for the tax and for interest if it's paid late, you would not be liable for a penalty.\n\n\"But if your error was as a result of carelessness, then legislation says that a penalty could apply in those circumstances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Zahawi resolved a multi-million pound dispute with HMRC last year, when he was chancellor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, he paid the tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asked his independent ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to look into whether Mr Zahawi broke ministerial rules over the issue.\n\nDowning Street said it wanted the investigation to be completed \"as quickly as possible\" but that the timeline was a matter for the independent adviser.\n\nMr Sunak said he would wait for the investigation to report back before making a decision on Mr Zahawi's future. Mr Zahawi has insisted he has \"acted properly throughout\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I'm not going to pre-judge the outcome of the investigation, it is important that the independent adviser is able to do his work.\"\n\nBut former Conservative Party chairman Sir Jake Berry called on Mr Zahawi to step aside while he is being investigated.\n\nSir Jake told BBC Question Time: \"The government needs to find a mechanism for ministers and MPs who under investigation in this way to step aside, to clear their name and then to come back into government if that is appropriate\".\n\nHe said Mr Zahawi stepping aside would be \"the right thing to do now\".", "The American Bully Kennel Club UK was due to hold the event in Coventry on 11 February\n\nAn international dog show showcasing American bullies has been cancelled following a BBC investigation into the trading of the popular breed.\n\nThe American Bully Kennel Club (ABKC) UK event was due to be held at Coventry Building Society Arena on 11 February.\n\nFootage gathered by undercover journalists at an ABKC UK show in Manchester showed hundreds of dogs paraded with cropped ears.\n\nABKC UK has not responded to the BBC's questions.\n\nThe undercover filming aired on the Panorama and Disclosure programmes on Monday night.\n\nThe RSCPA says ear-cropping is a painful, unnecessary procedure that should never be celebrated\n\nEar-cropping is where skin at the tops of dogs' ears is cut off to reshape them - in the case of the American bully to make them stand more upright.\n\nThe practice is illegal in the UK under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2006.\n\nBBC journalists also secretly filmed in the house of Aaron Lee, an ABKC UK qualified judge, and discovered two 10-week-old American bully puppies in a cage with freshly cropped ears.\n\nThe BBC found puppies with cropped ears in the home of judge Aaron Lee\n\nIan Muttitt, of the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, reviewed the BBC's footage of the ABKC UK show.\n\n\"It's of real concern to the RSPCA to see dogs that have been mutilated, deliberately mutilated,\" he told the programmes.\n\n\"It's totally against the law, it's illegal in the UK and it's something that we're really keen to address.\"\n\nThe RSPCA and Scottish SPCA have seen incidents of ear-cropping rise in recent years.\n\nA Coventry Building Society Arena spokesperson confirmed the previously scheduled ABCK event had been cancelled following the BBC's revelations\n\nFollowing the BBC programmes, Panorama: Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime, and Disclosure: The Dog Dealers, a spokesperson for the venue in Coventry confirmed the event was now cancelled.\n\nThey said: \"The arena has terminated its agreement with the organisers.\"\n\nThe BBC filmed undercover at an ABKC UK event in Manchester in July\n\nDr Samantha Gaines, from the RSPCA's companion animals department, said the BBC's findings raised \"big and troubling question marks\" over the welfare of dogs shown at previous events.\n\n\"Sadly, while ear cropping in the UK is illegal, a loophole still allows dogs to be imported with cropped ears,\" she added.\n\n\"The UK government's Kept Animals Bill will change that - and the findings from Panorama highlighting issues at events like this demonstrates why we need that legislation on the statute book as soon as possible.\"\n\nOne key figure of the ABKC UK was found by the programme to be a convicted drugs trafficker from Scotland. He runs a breeding business featuring dogs with cropped ears.\n\nScottish SPCA Chief Superintendent Mike Flynn said he welcomed the cancellation of the ABKC show.\n\n\"We would hope that any Scottish venues considering hosting one of these shows think carefully about whether the practices shown in the programme are ones that they want to be associated with,\" he said.\n\nHundreds of people were expected to attend the Coventry show, which was to feature a range of breeds, including American bullies, bulldogs and cane corsos.\n\nRefunds will now have to be provided to those who had already bought tickets.\n\nABKC UK has been approached by the BBC for a response.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "Dafydd Thomas died yards from his home March 2021 after inhaling blood\n\nA 45-year-old has been found guilty of killing his father after stamping on his face, causing him \"catastrophic\" injuries.\n\nDafydd Thomas, 65, died after being attacked by Tony Thomas in March 2021 in Minffordd, near Porthmadog, Gwynedd.\n\nMold Crown Court heard Thomas had a history of mental health issues and had not taken his medication for 18 months.\n\nA jury at Mold Crown Court unanimously found him guilty of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility.\n\nJudge Rhys Rowlands ordered that the jury should not consider the charge of murder after the court heard about Thomas's medical background.\n\nThe judge described this case as \"particularly tragic\".\n\nDuring the trial, Thomas has told the court he was \"overwhelmed with anger, like a fuse was blowing\" in his head when he dragged his father from his car and attacked him on 25 March 2021.\n\nHe said he put his father on the ground, kicked him in the side and the head, and stamped on him.\n\nForensic psychiatrist Dr Andrew Shepherd said he believes Tony Thomas had schizoaffective disorder when he attacked his father\n\nThe court previously heard Thomas killed his father as he believed he was working with a military unit to wipe out Covid-19 by experimenting on pigs.\n\nForensic psychiatrist Dr Andrew Shepherd said Thomas also wanted to talk to UK government medical chief, Prof Chris Whitty, about this.\n\nHe said he believed Thomas, previously diagnosed as bipolar, had schizoaffective disorder when he attacked his father, and was suffering from psychosis.\n\nThe court heard Thomas lived in a farmhouse owned by his father, about 500 yards from his parents' home, but believed he had a claim to the farmhouse and the land around it.\n\nGordon Cole KC, prosecuting, told the court Dafydd Thomas has been planning on buying some pigs for his land, which could have been a \"trigger\" for his son.\n\nAfter attacking Dafydd Thomas, the court heard Tony Thomas washed his blood-stained wellingtons\n\nThomas told the jury he was concerned about his father bringing in diseased pigs after he had spent years trying to eradicate disease from his own, adding his father \"didn't care\".\n\nThomas said after confronting his father about the pigs he \"opened the pick-up door, put him down to the ground and kicked him in the torso and head and stamped on him once\".\n\nAfter the attack Mr Thomas' wife, Elizabeth Thomas, said she approached her husband's car, looking for him, and saw Thomas walking away.\n\nShe called the emergency services after she saw her husband lying on his back by his truck bleeding with facial injuries, but Mr Thomas died at the scene.\n\nThe judge told Thomas he had been convicted on \"compelling evidence\", adding it was a particularly \"sad case\"\n\nHe said Mr Thomas lost his life when he was newly retired and looking forward to a \"long retirement after years of hard work building up his business\", and this had been denied him, and his wife.\n\nFurther psychiatric assessments will be carried out before Thomas - who is in a secure mental health hospital - is sentenced on 24 February.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Is this job too big for Rishi Sunak? - asks Sir Keir Starmer\n\nRishi Sunak defended his decision to launch an ethics inquiry into Nadhim Zahawi rather than sacking him, at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the PM was \"hopelessly weak\" for not firing the minister for \"seeking to avoid tax\".\n\n\"Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for him?\" the Labour leader asked.\n\nMr Sunak said it was Sir Keir who was weak because \"he has no principles just petty politics\".\n\nDowning Street initially said Mr Sunak's tax arrangements were \"confidential\" when asked by Labour if he had ever paid a penalty to the UK tax authorities, like Mr Zahawi.\n\nBut the PM's spokesperson later confirmed that he had not, saying: \"The prime minister has never paid a penalty to HMRC.\"\n\nThe PM will publish his tax returns \"in due course\", Downing Street has said.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Sunak said it would have been \"politically expedient\" to sack Mr Zahawi as a minister before PMQs got under way at noon but he believed in \"proper due process\".\n\nThat was why, he said, he had asked ask his ethics adviser to investigate whether the Conservative Party chairman had broken ministerial rules.\n\nIt will be up to the PM to decide whether to sack Mr Zahawi if his ethics adviser says he has broken the ministerial code.\n\nMr Zahawi was chancellor at the time the estimated £4.8m settlement was agreed with HMRC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH PMQs in 70 secs: Sunak insists he believes in \"due process\", as Starmer turns up the heat over Zahawi investigation.\n\nSir Keir asked Mr Sunak why he had said at last week's PMQs that Mr Zahawi had \"addressed this matter in full\".\n\n\"Since I commented on this matter last week more information, including a statement from the minister without portfolio [Mr Zahawi], has entered the public domain which is why it's right that we do establish the facts,\" the prime minister said.\n\nHe accused Sir Keir of \"simple political opportunism\" for urging him to appoint an ethics adviser then wanting a decision before they had investigated the case.\n\nAnd he claimed \"the difference between him [Sir Keir] and me is I stand by my values and my principles even when it is difficult,\" accusing the Labour leader of indulging in \"petty politics\".\n\nSir Keir said the PM's \"failure\" to sack Mr Zahawi showed \"how hopelessly weak he is - a prime minister overseeing chaos, overwhelmed at every turn\".\n\n\"He can't say when ambulances will get to heart attack victims again. He can't say when the prisons system will keep streets safe again. He can't even deal with tax avoiders in his own cabinet,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"Is he starting to wonder if this job is just too big for him?\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman and his senior advisers spent about 35 minutes after PMQs facing questions from the media about Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nIt became something of an endurance slalom event, his team swerving this way or that to avoid many of the questions.\n\nThey wouldn't tell us whether Rishi Sunak had talked to Mr Zahawi before last week's PMQs, when the PM said the whole thing was sorted.\n\nWe were told the PM has confidence in Mr Zahawi, even though Mr Sunak said it would have been politically expedient to sack him.\n\nTo be fair, any serving minister technically has to have the confidence of the prime minister.\n\nBut the truth is we know that confidence is draining away, if not yet entirely emptied.\n\nAnd a broader front is opening up - the weaponising of wealth, with Labour and the SNP pointing to the PM's vast wealth too.\n\nHowever admirably accumulated, for those at the top of politics who are mega rich there is always likely to be political vulnerability around a perception of being detached from the lives of ordinary folk and having concerns and issues over tax, for instance, that seem other-worldly.\n\nConservative MP Nigel Mills told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that Mr Zahawi must explain why he had to pay a penalty to the tax authorities.\n\n\"I just don't see how an investigation into the ministerial code resolves this because if he is cleared by that, that won't stop people asking questions about what on earth happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think the only way to resolve this is to make clear what the situation was that gave rise to a significant penalty.\n\n\"If that can be explained we can all move on. If it can't, then clearly his position won't be tenable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Zahawi confirmed on Saturday that he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), adding that the tax authority accepted the error was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when Mr Zahawi was chancellor under Boris Johnson, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HMRC.", "Several councils are understood to be considering education cuts to balance their budgets\n\nThe number of teaching posts in Scotland will be protected from council cuts, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.\n\nShe told Holyrood it would not be acceptable for the teaching workforce to fall and said her government would \"act to protect teacher numbers\".\n\nEducation secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville is also expected to announce within days a plan to prevent the number of school hours being reduced.\n\nIt follows reports that several local authorities, including SNP-led Glasgow city council, are considering education cuts to balance their budgets.\n\nLast week it emerged that Glasgow was considering plans that could see 800 teachers cut and primary schools closing early on Fridays.\n\nSome councils, including Edinburgh, East Lothian, Borders, Midlothian, West Lothian, and North Lanarkshire close schools early on a Friday afternoon, but these hours are made up across the week with longer days.\n\nAt present, Scottish councils tend to offer 25 hours of primary school teaching a week, and 27.5 hours to secondary school pupils.\n\nAt First Minister's Questions in Holyrood, Ms Sturgeon said her government had made a commitment to increase teacher numbers.\n\n\"Councils are being given additional funding specifically to deliver that, so it would not be acceptable to me, or to the Scottish government, to see teacher numbers fall,\" she said.\n\n\"I can confirm that the government does intend to take steps to ensure that the funding we are providing to councils to maintain increased number teachers actually delivers that outcome.\n\n\"The education secretary will set out more details to parliament in the coming days.\"\n\nShirley-Anne Somerville is expected to give more details to MSPs in the coming days\n\nLocal government body Cosla has expressed \"deep concern\" over this year's cash allocation from the Scottish government and warned of a significant funding gap.\n\nA document seen by BBC Scotland, prepared by Cosla for a meeting on Friday, states that ministers are considering introducing new regulations under the Education (Scotland) Act 2016.\n\nThese would set a minimum number of learning hours each week to prevent councils cutting the school week, and lock current pupil-teacher ratios.\n\nFinancial penalties would be put in place for local authorities that do not comply with the number of pupils per teacher - which averaged 13.2 in 2022.\n\nThe document also said that council leaders were extremely disappointed that the Scottish Government was pressing ahead without prior consultation with Cosla.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), welcomed the Scottish Government's intervention, but said there was \"persistent under-funding and under-resourcing\" of schools.\n\nAndrea Bradley, EIS general secretary, said: \"Any cuts to teacher numbers and the pupil week are untenable, and would have a serious detrimental impact on young people's education.\n\n\"Cuts to teacher numbers pile additional workload onto already severely over-burdened teaching staff, while also having profoundly damaging consequences for pupils' learning.\"\n\nLast year, the Scottish government earmarked £145m to help councils maintain and expand the teaching workforce.\n\nDespite this, annual statistics for 2022 published in December showed that the total number of teachers fell by 92 year on year to 54,193.\n\nMinisters have previously used ring-fencing to protect spending in particular areas. They also have statutory powers to direct education authorities in certain circumstances.\n\nAt Holyrood last week, Conservative leader Douglas Ross said he was \"deeply worried\" about the threat of teacher cuts in Glasgow and elsewhere.\n\nWhen he asked the first minister how many teachers would lose their jobs across Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon did not offer a specific number.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she respected the \"autonomy of democratically elected institutions\".\n\nScottish Conservative's education spokesman Stephen Kerr said it was unfair of Nicola Sturgeon to \"issue this diktat to councils\" without offering additional funding to make it deliverable.\n\nHe said it was the \"height of cynicism\" for the first minister to ring-fence council spending, as it would bring \"more savage cuts to the remaining services local authorities have to provide\".\n\nSome councils - including Glasgow - have been looking at the possibility of cutting teacher numbers to help balance their books.\n\nThe option has been on the list of savings produced by council officials, but no council has set its budget for the coming financial year.\n\nThere is one obvious way the Scottish government could prevent councils from reducing teacher numbers.\n\nCouncils get much of their money from the government and some of it is ring-fenced for specific purposes. The government could make some of this funding conditional on maintaining the same number of teachers.\n\nBut there could be practical issues to contend with. For instance, the number of teachers employed by a rural council may inadvertently fall slightly because of problems filling a vacancy in an isolated school.\n\nIf a school closes, teachers are redeployed to other schools within the area. They do not face the risk of compulsory redundancy.\n\nCouncils are finding it hard to balance their books. Some would argue that if savings in education cannot be contemplated, they would need to consider more cuts elsewhere.\n\nLurking in the background to this discussion, of course, is the ongoing teachers' strike.\n\nThis dispute is purely about pay and any moves to ensure there are no cuts in teacher numbers will not settle the dispute - even if they may be welcomed by the unions.", "Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, was nicknamed 'Putin's chef' over his Kremlin catering ties\n\nThe Treasury is considering changes to the process that allowed the head of Russia's Wagner group to get around UK sanctions and sue a UK journalist.\n\nInvestigative reporter Eliot Higgins faced action by Yevgeny Prigozhin - whose Wagner mercenaries are fighting for Russia in Ukraine - in late 2021.\n\nOpenDemocracy reported the UK issued special licences so he could override sanctions and pay his legal fees.\n\nThe case was dropped when he admitted his ties to the notorious private army.\n\nMr Prigozhin was first sanctioned by the UK in 2020 in a bid to stop anyone doing business with him.\n\nBut under a UK law defining the Russian sanction regime, provisions allow sanctioned people to cover their \"basic needs\", including the ability to apply for a licence to pay for legal fees.\n\nDecisions are taken by the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation, a department in the Treasury which reviews applications by people placed under financial measures.\n\nMr Prigozhin successfully used this route to enlist the help of Discreet Law, a London-based law firm, in order to take action against Mr Higgins, reported Open Democracy, a UK website that focuses on human rights.\n\nTreasury minister James Cartlidge told MPs on Wednesday that the guidance for these exemptions was \"longstanding\" - but said the government \"is now considering whether this approach is the right one and if changes can be made\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman also said these applications are reviewed by officials with no political involvement - with Mr Cartlidge later telling the Commons \"we are not aware of any decision being taken by a minister\".\n\nShortly before the legal case was brought, Mr Higgins's website Bellingcat had recently published a story naming businessman Mr Prigozhin - an ally of Vladimir Putin - as the man behind the Wagner Group.\n\nHe denied involvement until after the February 2022 invasion began, despite having already been sanctioned by the UK government over the group's activities in Libya in October 2020.\n\nThe journalist was personally sued in the UK for tweeting articles by his publication and other outlets. He believes the decision to target him rather than Bellingcat was designed to intimidate.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Higgins called for greater transparency about how the rules are applied. He said he was left with £70,000 in legal costs despite the case being dropped.\n\nHe said: \"For me the question is, 'What is the process?' No one seems to fully understand that. Until there has been more transparency we can't make a judgement about if it was applied correctly.\n\n\"Then the next question is, 'Do we want this sort of process in place where journalists can be sued?'\"\n\nHe added: \"How do I know some other oligarch isn't going to do the same thing again to me next week? This time the costs were five figures but it might be six or seven figures next time.\"\n\nDiscreet Law has been under investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since May 2022 following a formal complaint from Bellingcat.\n\nMr Prigozhin has been sanctioned by the UK, European Union and US. He has been accused of interfering in foreign elections by Western governments using online \"troll farms\".\n\nThe 61-year-old rose from an obscure background working as a hot dog street vendor and serving time in prison for robbery before going on to become a key Putin ally.\n\nHis lucrative catering contracts with the Kremlin earned him the nickname \"Putin's chef\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has been accused of committing atrocities in Ukraine and was involved in the recent operation to capture the town of Soledar.\n\nThe government confirmed it was conducting an internal review of the process after Labour was granted an urgent question in the Commons on Wednesday.\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy said \"the government appears to have granted a waiver for a warlord that enabled him to launch a legal attack on a British journalist\".\n\nHe described Mr Prigozhin as \"one the most dangerous and noxious members of Putin's inner circle\" and said it would be \"absolutely unconscionable\" if the Treasury played a role in \"alleviating pressure\" on the Wagner Group.\n\nMr Lammy also pointed out that Mr Sunak was chancellor at the time the application was granted by the Treasury office.\n\nDecisions on such waivers are made \"on a costs basis\", Mr Cartlidge said, and that it was up to the courts to decide on the \"substantive merits of the case rather than the government\".\n\nHe added: \"However I can confirm that in light of recent cases and in relation to this question, the Treasury is now considering whether this approach is the right one and if changes can be made without the Treasury assuming unacceptable legal risks and ensuring that we adhere to the rule of law.\"\n\nMr Cartlidge defended the government's record on sanctions and said ministers were committed to cracking down on individuals who use \"threatening tactics to silence free speech advocates who act in the public interest\".\n\nDr Sue Hawley, executive director of the campaign group Spotlight on Corruption, said the exemptions used in this case could leave the UK's anti-Kremlin sanctions policy \"so riddled with holes that it will be a laughing stock and it needs to be urgently reviewed\".\n\nA Treasury spokesperson declined to comment on the individual case, adding: \"Everyone has a right to legal representation and the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation grant licences to allow sanctioned people to cover their own legal fees, provided the costs are reasonable.\"\n\nRoger Gherson, who founded the firm Discreet Law, told the Financial Times it had \"at all times complied fully with their legal and professional obligations\". The BBC has contacted them for further comment.", "Thousands of NHS physiotherapists in England have become the latest group to join the ongoing industrial action over pay in the health service.\n\nMembers of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) at 30 NHS services - one in seven - are staging a 24-hour walkout on Thursday.\n\nThe walkout will involve both physios and support staff.\n\nAs with other striking health staff, they will continue to provide care in the most urgent cases.\n\nThis includes supporting people in critical care, those with severe respiratory problems and some stroke patients who require urgent physiotherapy.\n\nBut rehab work and discharge planning and community physio is expected to be disrupted.\n\nClaire Sullivan, CSP director of employment relations, said: \"The government must come to the table with something tangible that we can put to our members to prevent more strikes following if there is no progress.\n\n\"We're determined to secure a pay deal that helps our members cope with the cost-of-living crisis, and helps the NHS recruit and retain staff to deliver the services that patients desperately need.\"\n\nAmbulance staff who are members of the Unite union are also taking industrial action in Northern Ireland on Thursday.\n\nIt follows strikes by ambulance workers, nurses and other health staff across England and Wales in recent weeks over this year's pay award.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said it was \"regrettable\" physios were following other health staff in taking industrial action.\n\nHe said he was now working with unions to achieve a \"fair and affordable\" pay award for next year.\n\nLike the other health unions, the strike action is centred on the pay dispute. NHS physios are on the standard NHS contract that applies to all staff bar doctors and dentists.\n\nIt has seen NHS workers given an £1,400 extra this year - although some senior and specialist physios will have been given more. It works out as an average rise of 4.75%.\n\nBut all the health unions have asked for an above-inflation pay rise, arguing the past decade has seen pay fall in real terms.\n\nThey argue this is a factor in the staffing shortages being seen - one in 10 posts of all types is vacant in the NHS.\n\nBut ministers have said such rises would be unaffordable and would fuel inflation.\n\nStarting salaries for physios are just above £27,000 in England, the same as it is for nurses. The most experienced physios can earn more than twice that in the NHS, although many combine NHS commitments with private work.\n\nThis is the first of three strikes planned by the CSP, with physios and their support staff in all seven of the Welsh health boards walking out on 7 February and physios at another 33 NHS services in England taking action on 9 February.\n\nIn all, the CSP has a mandate to take strike action in more than 120 services in England, over half of the total. This includes hospital, community and mental health teams.\n\nThe union represents three-quarters of the 30,000 physios and support staff in the NHS in England.\n\nPhysios - along with midwives - are the third largest part of the workforce after nurses and doctors. They are, the CSP says, essential to every part of the health service.\n\n\"Physiotherapy staff are unsung heroes and deliver quiet miracles every day to help patients regain function and quality of life,\" Ms Sullivan added.\n\nWhile the common image of them is to support patients with sports injuries and joint problems, physios are a core part of many teams in hospitals and in the community.\n\nThey work in critical care providing support to patients with breathing difficulties and building up their physical strength. During the height of the pandemic, they played an essential role in caring for Covid patients in intensive care.\n\nThey also work with patients with respiratory problems, including children with disabilities, along with providing rehab support to patients who have suffered heart attacks and strokes.\n\nBecky Portwood, a physio in London, said she was \"proud\" of the work she and colleagues did during the pandemic.\n\n\"We were there in intensive care looking after patients. We are a vital part of the workforce. We are in A&E on the ground so patients don't have to stay too long in hospital - we work all across the NHS.\"\n\nAre you a physio taking part in the strike? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Conservative MSP Liam Kerr asks about a \"spate\" of crashes on the A96 - two people were seriously injured a fortnight ago, three people were taken to hospital following a crash last week and a further two people were taken to hospital on Wednesday.\n\nHe calls on the government to dual \"this appalling road\" to improve safety.\n\nSturgeon expresses sympathy with those affected by road traffic crashes.\n\nShe insists the government is committed to dualling and upgrading the A96 but says suitability reviews and environmental impact assessments are being carried out.", "The aftermath of a Russian strike was seen on Thursday in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv\n\nRussia launched a wave of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, a day after Germany and the US pledged tanks to aid Kyiv's fight against the invasion.\n\nEleven people died and 11 others were injured after 35 buildings were struck across several regions, the state's emergency service said.\n\nIt added the worst damage to residential buildings was in the Kyiv region.\n\nOfficials also reported strikes on two energy facilities in the Odesa region.\n\nThe barrage came as Russia said it perceived the new offer of military support, which followed a UK pledge to send Challenger 2 battle tanks, as \"direct\" Western involvement in the conflict.\n\nIn what was a sustained and wide-ranging attack, the head of the Ukrainian army said Moscow launched 55 air and sea-based missiles on Thursday.\n\nValery Zaluzhny added that 47 of them were shot down, including 20 around Kyiv.\n\nEarlier, Ukraine's air force said it had downed a cluster of Iranian-made attack drones launched by Russian forces from the Sea of Azov in the south of the country.\n\nA 55-year-old man was killed and two others wounded when non-residential buildings in the south of the capital were struck, officials reported.\n\nThe offensive was a continuation of Russia's months-long tactic of targeting Ukraine's infrastructure. The freezing winter has seen power stations destroyed and millions plunged into darkness.\n\nAfter Thursday's strikes, emergency power cuts were enforced in Kyiv and several other regions to relieve pressure on the electricity grid, said DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power producer.\n\nA day earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to provide Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 tanks, following weeks of international pressure. They are widely seen as some of the most effective battle tanks available.\n\nThe heavy weaponry is expected to arrive in late March or early April.\n\nPresident Joe Biden later announced the US would send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks, marking a reversal of longstanding Pentagon arguments that they are a poor fit for the Ukrainian battlefield.\n\nCanada has also promised to supply Ukraine with four \"combat-ready\" Leopard tanks in the coming weeks, together with experts to train Ukrainian soldiers in how to operate them.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that 12 countries had now joined what he called the \"tank coalition\".\n\nBut for tanks to be \"game-changer\", 300 to 400 of them would be needed, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The sooner we defeat Russia on the battlefield using Western weapons, the sooner we will be able to stop this missile terror and restore peace,\" Yuriy Sak said.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said sending tanks to Ukraine would make a big difference to the country's ability to win the war.\n\nHe also warned that Russia was planning a fresh offensive, just as reports began emerging from Ukraine of missile strikes following drone attacks overnight.\n\nOn Thursday, the US designated Russia's Wagner group, which is believed to have thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, a transnational criminal organisation.\n\nIt also imposed fresh sanctions on the group and their associates to \"further impede [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's ability to arm and equip his war machine\", Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Director Chinonye Chukwu has accused Hollywood of \"unabashed misogyny towards Black women\" after her film Till missed out on an Oscar nomination.\n\nTill is based on the true story of the mother who pursued justice after her son Emmett Till was lynched in 1955.\n\nThe film's star Danielle Deadwyler had been widely tipped to be named in the best actress category on Tuesday for her portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley.\n\nBut she was absent, and no black stars were on the lead acting shortlists.\n\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever's Angela Bassett is the only black actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year, in the best supporting actress category. In recent years, the Academy has nominated Cynthia Erivo, Viola Davis and Andra Day in the best actress category.\n\nJalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley in Till\n\nChukwu, who wrote and directed Till, posted a message on Instagram in an apparent reference to her film's lack of nominations.\n\nShe said: \"We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women.\n\n\"I am forever in gratitude for the greatest lesson of my life - regardless of any challenges or obstacles, I will always have the power to cultivate my own joy, and it is this joy that will continue to be one of my greatest forms of resistance.\"\n\nHer message was posted alongside a picture of herself with civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, who features in the film.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by chinonyechukwu This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmmett Till was 14 when he was brutally murdered after a white woman said he had harassed her at a store.\n\nHis death galvanised the civil rights movement, and his mother insisted the coffin remain open so his injuries could be seen by the thousands of people who paid their respects in Chicago.\n\nDeadwyler won rave reviews for her portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley. Mark Kermode that she gave \"an awards-worthy performance\", while The Times' film critic Kevin Maher that the actress was \"an Oscar cert\", adding: \"Nominations, at the very least, are due.\"\n\nShe was nominated for a Bafta last week but was overlooked by the Oscars - as was Viola Davis, who was also among the favourites to be nominated for the best actress Oscar, for The Woman King.\n\nThe nominees on the final list were Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Williams and Michelle Yeoh.\n\nMeanwhile, no women are nominated for best director, although Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley, is up for best film. The overall field is led by Everything Everywhere All At Once, about a Chinese woman, played by Yeoh, who hops through the multiverses as different versions of herself.\n\nThe BBC asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars, for a comment, but they said they were not giving a response at this time.\n\nThe Oscars have been criticised for their lack of diversity in recent years. The failure to nominate black or minority actors in 2016 led to a furious backlash, with film stars boycotting the ceremony and the growth of the #OscarsSoWhite movement in 2015.\n\nIt led to a promise from the Academy to double its female and black and ethnic minority members, a target it said it met in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's happened since the the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015\n\nThat year, the organisation also announced that films hoping to compete for the best picture Oscar would have to meet certain criteria over diversity.\n\n\"The Academy is committed to playing a vital role in helping make this a reality,\" it said at the time. \"We believe these inclusion standards will be a catalyst for long-lasting, essential change in our industry.\"", "Dr Harold Shipman was one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nA relative of one of Harold Shipman's victims has condemned a life insurance firm for using an image of the serial killer in a social media advert.\n\nDeadHappy used the image with the tagline: \"Life Insurance. Because you never know who your doctor might be.\"\n\nShipman is believed to have murdered up to 260 people during his time as a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nTim Hill, the great-grandson of one of Shipman's victims, said the \"trauma\" of the ordeal was still with his family.\n\nHe said: \"My family, most practically my mother, went through a lot of trauma during the inquiry.\n\n\"This isn't something that's in the distant past or outside living memory. It's not something that should be joked about.\n\n\"The company should be held accountable, their their modus operandi seems to be to cause offence and create public outrage.\"\n\nHyde MP Jonathan Reynolds said he was \"disgusted\" by the ad.\n\nMr Reynolds told the BBC that constituents began contacting his office on Monday night when the advert began appearing in their Facebook news feeds.\n\nThe MP contacted the Leicester-based firm on Tuesday asking that it be taken down, which it eventually was.\n\nDeadHappy apologised, saying it was \"of course never our intention to offend or upset people\".\n\nMr Reynolds said: \"I am absolutely disgusted that DeadHappy thought it appropriate to use an image of Harold Shipman in their marketing campaign, making light of what was and remains an incredibly painful period for our area.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the bereaved families for whom this gross insensitivity has opened wounds that are still healing.\n\n\"DeadHappy call themselves industry disruptors. I call them downright disrespectful. I'll be choosing insurance providers with a little dignity and empathy.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said it was reviewing more than 70 complaints about the ad.\n\nShipman was found guilty of murdering 15 patients under his care in January 2000, sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. He was found dead in his cell in Wakefield Prison in 2004.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Hancock took part in more bushtucker trials than any other contestant\n\nFormer Health Secretary Matt Hancock was paid £320,000 for taking part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity reality show.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP remains suspended from the Conservative Party for taking time off from his parliamentary duties to appear on the show.\n\nMr Hancock said he donated £10,000 to charity from the fee, revealed on the register of MPs' financial interests.\n\nThe register also shows former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was paid £510,000 as an advance for his memoir.\n\nIt follows the announcement by publishers HarperCollins earlier this month that they had acquired the rights to what was described as a prime ministerial memoir \"like no other\".\n\nMr Johnson has recorded approximately 10 hours work on the book in the MPs register.\n\nHe also registered just under £450,000 for two speeches made overseas since he stood down a prime minister.\n\nMr Hancock also received £48,000 for his Pandemic Diaries book, which was serialised in the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe has said he went onto I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! to \"show what I am like as a person\". Despite public nominations for multiple gruelling trials in the Australian jungle, Mr Hancock came in third on the show behind footballer Jill Scott and actor Owen Warner.\n\nBut Mr Hancock has faced criticism from across the political spectrum for going on the show, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying he was \"very disappointed\" by the move.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Hancock said: \"As well as raising the profile of his dyslexia campaign in front of 11-million viewers, Matt's donated £10,000 to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and the British Dyslexia Association.\"\n\nEarlier this month Mr Hancock declared he had earned £45,000 from appearing on another reality TV show - Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.\n\nHe filmed the Channel 4 show before flying out to the Australian jungle, but it will be screened later this year.\n\nThe register of members' interests shows he joined the cast of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins during Liz Truss's short-lived premiership.\n\nHe spent 80 hours on the show, which sees celebrities compete against each other in a series of challenging military training exercises, between 24 September and 8 October.\n\nParliament was in recess from 24 September, and the Conservative Party conference was held in Birmingham from 2 to 5 October.", "Now it's over, we can say it: a biggish asteroid passed by Earth a short while ago.\n\nAbout the size of a minibus, the space rock, known as 2023 BU, whipped over the southern tip of South America just before 00:30am GMT.\n\nWith a closest approach of 3,600km (2,200 miles), it counts as a close shave.\n\nAnd it illustrates how there are still asteroids of significant size lurking near Earth that remain to be detected.\n\nThis one was only picked up last weekend by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, who operates from Nauchnyi in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nFollow-up observations have refined what we know about 2023 BU's size and, crucially, its orbit.\n\nThat's how astronomers could be so confident it would miss the planet, even though it came inside the arc occupied by the world's telecommunications satellites, which sit 36,000km (22,000 miles) above us.\n\nThe chances of hitting a satellite are very, very small.\n\nThe time of lowest altitude was accurately calculated to be 19:27 EST on Thursday, or 00:27 GMT on Friday.\n\nArtwork: We still have a lot to learn about the near-Earth environment\n\nEven if 2023 BU had been on a direct collision course, it would have struggled to do much damage.\n\nWith an estimated size of 3.5m to 8.5m across (11.5ft to 28ft), the rock would likely have disintegrated high in the atmosphere. It would have produced a spectacular fireball, however.\n\nFor comparison, the famous Chelyabinsk meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere over southern Russia in 2013 was an object near 20m (66ft) across. It produced a shockwave that shattered windows on the ground.\n\nScientists at the US space agency Nasa say 2023 BU's orbit around the Sun has been modified by its encounter with Earth.\n\nOur planet's gravity pulled on it and adjusted its path through space.\n\n\"Before encountering Earth, the asteroid's orbit around the Sun was roughly circular, approximating Earth's orbit, taking 359 days to complete its orbit about the Sun,\" the agency said in a statement.\n\n\"After its encounter, the asteroid's orbit will be more elongated, moving it out to about halfway between Earth's and Mars' orbits at its furthest point from the Sun. The asteroid will then complete one orbit every 425 days.\"\n\nThere is a great effort under way to find the much larger asteroids that really could do damage if they were to strike the Earth.\n\nThe true monsters out there, like the 12km-wide rock that wiped out the dinosaurs, have likely all been detected and are not a cause for worry. But come down in size to something that is, say, 150m across and our inventory has gaps.\n\nStatistics indicate perhaps only about 40% of these asteroids have been seen and assessed to determine the level of threat they might pose.\n\nSuch objects would inflict devastation on the city scale if they were to impact the ground.\n\nProf Don Pollacco from the University of Warwick, UK, told BBC News: \"There are still asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit waiting to be discovered.\n\n\"2023 BU is a recently discovered object supposedly the size of a small bus which must have passed by the Earth thousands of times before. This time it passes by only 2,200 miles from the Earth - just 1% of the distance to the moon - a celestial near miss.\n\n\"Depending on what 2023 BU is composed of it is unlikely to ever reach the Earth's surface but instead burn up in the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball - brighter than a full moon.\n\n\"However, there are likely many asteroids out there that remain undiscovered that could penetrate the atmosphere and hit the surface to cause significant damage - indeed many scientists think we could be due such an event.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nNovak Djokovic's father Srdjan has been filmed posing for pictures with supporters of Russia president Vladimir Putin at the Australian Open.\n\nSrdjan Djokovic was pictured with a man who was holding a Russian flag carrying Putin's face, and wearing a T-shirt printed with the pro-war Z symbol.\n\nRussian and Belarusian flags and symbols have been banned at Melbourne Park since a Russian flag was displayed during a match between Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl and Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova on the opening day.\n\nThere was a show of support for Putin after Serbian Djokovic's quarter-final win over Russian Andrey Rublev on Wednesday evening.\n\nA Russian flag bearing Putin's image was displayed outside the Rod Laver Arena by a group of fans wearing Serb colours. Chanting support for Russia, some had Serbia's flag wrapped around their shoulders.\n\nIn a statement, Tennis Australia said: \"A small group of people displayed inappropriate flags and symbols and threatened security guards following a match on Wednesday night and were evicted.\n\n\"One patron is now assisting police with unrelated matters.\n\n\"Players and their teams have been briefed and reminded of the event policy regarding flags and symbols and to avoid any situation that has the potential to disrupt. We continue to work closely with event security and law enforcement agencies.\"\n\nIn 2022, Russian and Belarusian players were banned from competing at Wimbledon because of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThursday's women's semi-finals feature two Belarusian players in Victoria Azarenka and Aryna Sabalenka who could yet meet in the final.\n\nOn Friday, Russia's Karen Khachanov plays in the men's semi-finals, although all three are compelled to compete under a neutral flag.\n\nDjokovic's representatives have been approached for comment.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The man is thought to be an acquaintance of a German foreign intelligence service worker who was arrested last month\n\nA German citizen has been arrested on suspicion of treason for alleged involvement in a scheme to pass intelligence to Russia.\n\nThe man, named only as Arthur E, was arrested on Sunday at Munich airport with the help of the FBI.\n\nHe's thought to be linked to a German foreign intelligence service (BND) employee who was arrested in December for allegedly spying for Russia.\n\nProsecutors have said Arthur E doesn't work for the intelligence services.\n\nInstead, they believe he passed on information from his acquaintance - the detained BND officer known as Carsten L because of privacy rules - to the Kremlin, making him an alleged accomplice to treason.\n\nHis arrest in December was the first time a BND employee had been arrested for suspected treason since Markus Reichel was detained in 2014.\n\nReichel was later found guilty of handing over documents to the CIA and Russian intelligence, and sentenced to eight years in prison.\n\nArthur E arrived back in Germany where he was arrested after travelling from the United States.\n\nIt comes at a time of increased concerns about Russian espionage in Europe following the invasion of Ukraine last February.\n\nGermany's cybersecurity chief was fired in October after the media accused him of having had links with people involved with Russian intelligence services.\n\nThe following month, a man was found guilty of passing information to Russian intelligence services while working as a reserve officer for the German army.", "The generation is named after the HMT Empire Windrush, the first ship boarded by Caribbean immigrants\n\nThe head of the Windrush inquiry has expressed disappointment after the home secretary confirmed the government was dropping three key commitments made in the wake of the scandal.\n\nSuella Braverman told MPs she would not proceed with the changes, including establishing a migrants' commissioner.\n\nThey were put forward in the scathing report into the wrongful deportation of UK citizens of Caribbean descent.\n\nWendy Williams said \"crucial\" recommendations had been scrapped.\n\nMs Williams's formal inquiry examined how the Windrush scandal unfolded at the Home Office - when British residents, many of whom had arrived in their youth from Caribbean countries in the 1950s and 60s, were erroneously classified as immigrants living in the UK illegally.\n\nIn a written statement in the House of Commons, Ms Braverman insisted the Home Office was looking to \"shift culture and subject ourselves to scrutiny\".\n\nBut she confirmed that plans to beef up the powers of the immigration watchdog; set up a new national migrants advocate; and run reconciliation events with Windrush families would be axed, despite the Home Office originally endorsing them after the report's publication.\n\nMs Braverman added the department \"regularly reviews the best way to deliver against the intent\" of the inquiry.\n\nThe announcement comes sixth months before events to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first Windrush arrival.\n\nIt's the latest development in a saga which is believed to have impacted thousands and forced the government to formally apologise to hundreds of families.\n\nThe inquiry stopped short of accusing the Home Office of institutional racism but said there was evidence of \"institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation within the department\".\n\nThe government originally adopted all 30 of the proposals in the report but has now backtracked on three of them:\n\nThe proposed changes included compelling the government to publish its reasons if it opted to go against a recommendation made by the body.\n\nMs Williams, a solicitor who serves as an HM Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, led the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and authored the recommendations.\n\nIn a statement following Ms Braverman's announcement, she said she understood there was a \"difference in views\" about the need for outreach events.\n\nBut she criticised the decision to drop the commissioner and inspector proposals, which she said would have raised the \"confidence of the Windrush community\".\n\nShe added she was \"disappointed that the department has decided not to implement what I see as the crucial external scrutiny measures\".\n\nDavid Neal, who heads the ICIBI, described the decision as a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nJamaican immigrants were welcomed by RAF officials when they docked at Tilbury in 1948\n\nThe Windrush generation is made up of people who can trace their roots back to immigration from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971, which was encouraged to deal with post-war labour shortages.\n\nA law was passed in 1971 which gave people from the Commonwealth who arrived before 1973 the right to remain but the Home Office did not issue documentation.\n\nThe lack of paperwork left many unable to access basic services like healthcare and benefits under increasingly strict immigration rules.\n\nIn 2014, reports began to emerge of British citizens being wrongly detained, deported or threatened with deportation because they could not prove their legal right to stay in the UK.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said the department had \"paid or offered more than £64m in compensation to the people affected\".\n\nThe majority of proposals from the inquiry were being adopted, they added, saying \"we believe there are more meaningful ways of achieving the intent of a very small number of others\".", "Ukraine is pleading for Western-made, modern tanks to fight off the Russians\n\nAs the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns of Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThe explosions come every few seconds, sometimes in rapid clusters of six or more short blasts, sometimes deep and long and rib-cage-rattling, thundering across the snow-speckled hills that stretch along the front lines close to Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThen come the distant booms, the shorter punch of a mortar round blasting off on the roadside, and, occasionally, the bone-chilling, fizzing whoosh of an incoming artillery shell that sends us diving for cover on the frozen fields.\n\nThis is the daily, constant, percussive chorus of war in the Donbas, where Ukrainian and Russian artillery, rocket and tank crews are slugging it out, trading blows in a fierce, but largely inconclusive struggle to break a months-long deadlock.\n\n\"We have a target,\" said Roman, a Ukrainian tank unit commander, suddenly pulling off his gloves, clambering up onto the slippery, snow-covered turret of a dark green T-72 tank, and swinging open a heavy steel hatch.\n\nVasyl, Volodymyr and Bogdan man a Soviet-era tank - and would all like an upgrade\n\nAnother crew member, Vlad, scrambled out of a nearby fox hole, where he had been warming his grimy hands over a fresh fire, to help out.\n\nSeconds later, a skull-shaking explosion echoed across the valley and towards Bakhmut, as a US-supplied tank shell tore out of the gun barrel with a flash of orange, heading towards Russian positions on the opposite hillside.\n\n\"T-72s are old tanks - this one's the same age as me,\" said Bogdan, a 55-year-old Ukrainian volunteer, turning to pat the huge, squat, Soviet-era machine behind him. \"I used to drive one of these nearly 40 years ago - I can't believe I'm doing it again. But it works. It does the job.\"\n\n\"But a Leopard would be better,\" said Volodymr, another member of their three-man crew, with a low chuckle.\n\nPlans to send German-made Leopard tanks and UK Challengers to the front lines here in the Donbas have been greeted with visible excitement by Ukrainian forces, who have been taking heavy casualties in recent weeks, around Bakhmut, and, more particularly, during the ferocious struggle for the nearby town of Soledar.\n\n\"There were very heavy losses. It's very pitiful. It's hard,\" said Danylo, an officer in charge of repairing tanks for the 24th Mechanised Brigade. He said the current deadlock would not be broken unless foreign tanks arrived in significant numbers.\n\n\"Yes, we'll be stuck here. We need these [Western tanks] to stop Russia's aggression. With infantry, covered by tanks, we'll win for sure,\" he said.\n\n\"Leopards, Challengers, Abrams - any foreign tank is good for us! I think we need at least 300. And we need them now!\" said Bogdan.\n\nThe Ukrainians all acknowledged that Russia had more modern tanks but were scathing about their tactics.\n\n\"The Russian tanks are a bit better than ours. They're fully modernised. But mostly the Russians are strong because they push forwards en masse, advancing over the bodies of their own soldiers. Our commanders care more about the lives of their crews, so we try to destroy [the enemy] while losing as few of our own men as possible,\" said Bogdan.\n\nA more senior company commander in the 24th Brigade, with the code name Khan, took us to a rear position, past fresh trenches being dug in the fields by specialised machines, where several tanks were hidden under camouflage nets in a wooded area.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian forces are deadlocked on the eastern front lines\n\n\"These T-72s have proved effective in winter conditions. But they're old, and not really suited for modern warfare. These days it's all about drones and the latest technology.\" Khan said he believed it would take very little time for his crews to adapt to more modern European equipment.\n\n\"If you're a tank driver you're already someone of above-average intelligence. They'll be able to learn and adapt quickly,\" he said.\n\nSuddenly, an incoming Russian artillery shell landed several hundred metres away. Seconds later, another landed closer, and then closer still, sending soldiers and journalists diving for cover.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has, in many ways, been a distinctly old-fashioned conflict, based on attrition, on devastating artillery strikes, and on dug-in positions reminiscent of the trenches of World War One. But the war has also revealed the limitation of tanks - most clearly in the first weeks of the conflict when nimble Ukrainian infantry destroyed many huge Russian armoured columns with shoulder-launched rockets.\n\n\"In the old days, it was all about tanks. Now it's about these new rocket systems,\" said Volodymr. But the coming months could yet see Western tanks - if deployed quickly, and in large numbers - play a decisive role.", "The Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft that crashed nearly four years ago\n\nBoeing has told a US court it was not guilty of concealing information about flight control systems on its 737 Max aircraft, which led to two crashes, killing 346 people.\n\nFlaws in the systems were found to have led to the accidents, but Boeing avoided a trial by agreeing to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn).\n\nNow relatives of those who died are trying to reopen the settlement.\n\nThey are due to confront the aircraft giant in court.\n\nThe hearing marks the first time Boeing has been forced to answer to the fraud charge in a public court, after the judge hearing the case ruled that those killed in the planes were legally \"crime victims\" and should have been involved in settlement negotiations.\n\nFamilies of those who died say that the deal Boeing reached with the Department of Justice (DoJ) in 2021 to resolve a criminal conspiracy charge was a \"sweetheart agreement\" which violated their rights and allowed the company to avoid being held fully accountable.\n\nThe DoJ has defended its decision, insisting that the settlement was appropriate, because it could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was a direct connection between Boeing's alleged crimes and the two crashes.\n\nBoeing, which admitted responsibility as part of the deal, has opposed reopening the agreement, saying to do so would be \"unprecedented, unworkable and inequitable\". The firm declined to comment ahead of Thursday's hearing in Texas.\n\nMark Pegram, whose son Sam was working for a refugee agency when he died on the second plane that crashed, was unable to travel to Texas. But he said he was very glad the hearing was taking place.\n\n\"To us a fine and cover-up is not justice,\" he said.\n\n\"It is important a precedent is set to prevent similar loss of innocent lives, and for Boeing to understand the horrific impact their misconduct has had on so many families,\" he added.\n\nIn a court filing this week, the families asked the judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee Boeing's compliance with the deal and require public disclosure of the firm's compliance efforts.\n\nIt is still not clear whether the legal action will ultimately lead to the deferred prosecution agreement between Boeing and the DoJ being reopened.\n\nSuch a move would be highly unusual. But according to Robert A Clifford, a Chicago lawyer representing the families in a separate civil action, it could have far-reaching consequences, including action against individuals.\n\n\"These families want the maximum penalty imposed against Boeing, and they want any immunity from prosecution that senior officials at Boeing received to be lifted,\" he said.\n\nIt is nearly four years since Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. 157 people died when it plunged into farmland outside the Ethiopian capital in March 2019.\n\nThe accident involved a new design of aircraft - the 737 Max.\n\nJust months earlier, an almost identical aircraft operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air had crashed into the Java Sea on what should have been a routine flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang. 189 passengers and crew lost their lives.\n\nIt later emerged that both accidents were triggered by design flaws, in particular the use of flight control software known as MCAS.\n\nThe system was designed to assist pilots familiar with previous generations of the 737, and prevent them from needing costly extra training in order to fly the new model.\n\nBut sensor failures caused it to malfunction, and in both cases it forced the aircraft into a catastrophic dive the pilots were unable to prevent.\n\nInvestigations in the US revealed that Boeing had not included information about the MCAS system in pilot manuals or training guidance, and had deliberately sought to downplay the impact of the system in its communications with the US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration.\n\nThe 737 Max was cleared to fly again in 2020, after being grounded in March 2019\n\nBoeing 737 Max aircraft were cleared to fly again in the US in 2020 and in the UK and EU in 2021, after being grounded in 2019 following the crashes.\n\nIn January 2021, the US charged Boeing with fraud. But the company was able to avoid going on trial, by agreeing to pay $2.5bn, including $500m to the families of those killed, and promising to tighten up its compliance procedures.\n\nIf the firm complies with the terms of the deal, the DoJ has agreed to drop the charge after three years.\n\nThis settlement - known as a deferred prosecution agreement - provoked intense anger among a number of the relatives of those who died aboard ET302.\n\nThere is no doubt that for the families, including those living in the UK, the arraignment hearing itself is a major milestone.\n\nZipporah Kuria's father Joseph Wathaika was killed in the crash of ET302, and she has been a vocal campaigner for Boeing to be held to account ever since.\n\nShe is in Texas for the hearing, and says her statement will be a tribute to an \"incredible\" man who changed many lives.\n\n\"It feels like we're finally being seen,\" she said. \"It feels like the death of our loved ones, of 346 people, at least has a level of relevance now.\"", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others\n\n\"Smiling\" nurse Lucy Letby offered to take photographs of a baby girl soon after she allegedly murdered her at the fourth attempt, a court has heard.\n\nThe 33-year-old is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.\n\nMs Letby offered to take photos as the parents of Child I, who cannot be named for legal reasons, bathed her after she died, Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nMs Letby has denied all of the charges.\n\nThe court was told Child I was born prematurely in August 2015 at Liverpool Women's Hospital at the gestational age of 27 weeks and weighed 2Ibs 2oz (970g).\n\nShe was transferred to the Countess of Chester Hospital later that month.\n\nIt is alleged that before murdering Child I, Ms Letby attempted to kill the infant on 30 September and during night shifts on 12 and 13 October.\n\nThe prosecution said she harmed the premature infant by injecting air into her feeding tube and bloodstream before she eventually died in the early hours of 23 October 2015.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Child I's mother said her daughter was about six weeks old when she thought the infant might be well enough to go home.\n\n\"I started to notice that she was looking different,\" she said.\n\n\"She was looking around the room now, taking it all in.\n\n\"I was able to sit her on my knee. I remember looking at her and thinking, 'we are going home'.\n\n\"She looked like a full-term baby, she didn't look frail or small.\"\n\nThe mother recalled that around this time she was allowed to bathe her daughter for the first time, and that Ms Letby helped prepare the bath.\n\nThe mother said she was \"so pleased to be able to bathe her\" and her daughter was \"obviously enjoying it because she was smiling\".\n\n\"Lucy even offered to take some photos using my mobile, which I agreed to,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't have too much to do with Lucy. She always appeared reserved compared to other nurses. She didn't really interact with parents.\"\n\nThe prosecution said Ms Letby, originally from Hereford, went on to make her first attempt to kill Child I during a day shift on 30 September and tried again during night shifts on 12 and 13 October.\n\nChild I's mother said she was called at home in the early hours of 23 October and told she and her partner needed to go to the hospital immediately.\n\nOn their arrival, she saw Ms Letby with another nurse, Ashleigh Hudson, and consultant Dr John Gibbs, who told the couple they were \"working to try to resuscitate\" the child.\n\n\"I heard them all counting times,\" she said.\n\n\"I asked Dr Gibbs how long had they been doing this, to which he said 20 minutes.\n\n\"I remember thinking they can't keep doing it.\n\n\"I said to Dr Gibbs, 'you can't do any more'.\"\n\nChild I was being cared for on the neonatal ward at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nThe mother said she and her partner were then moved to a private room, where Ms Hudson and Ms Letby asked her if she wanted to bathe Child I's body.\n\n\"I didn't want to look back and regret not doing it so I said yes,\" she said.\n\n\"Lucy brought the bath in. She said she could come in and take some photos which we could keep.\n\n\"While we were bathing her, Lucy came back in.\n\n\"She was smiling and kept going on about how she was present at the first bath and how [Child I] had loved it.\"\n\nShe said she had \"wished she would just stop talking\".\n\n\"Eventually she realised and stopped. It was not something we wanted to hear,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember it was Lucy who packaged up [Child I's] belongings to go home.\"\n\nShe added that Dr Gibbs had \"mentioned about having an autopsy\", but she told him she did not want one \"because I wanted her leaving alone\".\n\n\"He said I didn't have a say because her death was unexpected and the results would be needed to clear the hospital,\" she said.\n\nThe court also heard how Ms Letby had searched for Child I's mother on Facebook.\n\nThe jury was told searches were carried out at about 01:15 GMT on 5 October 2015, at about 23:45 on 5 November 2015 and at about 23:00 on 29 May 2016.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joelinton admitted drink-driving after he was pulled over earlier this month\n\nNewcastle United midfielder Joelinton has been banned from the road and fined £29,000 after admitting drink-driving.\n\nPolice arrested the Brazilian player after pulling over his 2022-plate Mercedes G-Wagen in Ponteland Road, Newcastle, at 01:20 GMT on 12 January.\n\nA breath test showed the 26-year-old had 43 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath, above the legal limit of 35.\n\nThis will be reduced to nine months if Joelinton completes a rehabilitation course.\n\nThe judge calculated the fine based on documents showing the footballer's weekly wage was £43,000 and said he must also pay a £2,000 surcharge and £85 costs.\n\nHe said he took Joelinton's early guilty plea and compliance with officers into account and was convinced of his remorse.\n\n\"You placed yourself in real jeopardy and it could have had disastrous consequences for the lives of others,\" he told the player.\n\n\"I sincerely hope you have learned from this mistake and we don't see you in this court again.\"\n\nThe judge said he was convinced of Joelinton's remorse\n\nJonathan Stirland, prosecuting, said officers spotted the player's car driving at speed near St James' Park and requested the driver to stop.\n\nHis roadside breath test recorded 50 micrograms per 100ml of breath, which reduced to 43 micrograms in one of two subsequent tests at Forth Banks police station, the court heard.\n\nCharged as Joelinton Cassio, and living in Ponteland, Northumberland, the player told officers he had drunk two glasses of wine earlier in the evening.\n\nHe later apologised to fans saying he was \"truly sorry\" and would try to \"learn the lessons\" from the incident and be a \"role model\".\n\nNewcastle United manager Eddie Howe did not drop the midfielder after the charge but Joelinton's barrister told the court he would face disciplinary proceedings within the club.\n\nThe footballer, who signed for the club for £40m in 2019, has been a key part of the team's success and scored the winning goal in the Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Southampton on Monday.\n\nHe was previously fined £200 after he broke lockdown restrictions to get a haircut.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are growing fears that 2023 could see a wave of company collapses as the cost of living crisis continues.\n\nThe number of firms on the brink of going bust jumped by more than a third at the end of last year, said insolvency firm Begbies Traynor.\n\nIt expects this number to rise due to higher costs, firms repaying Covid loans and consumers cutting back.\n\nPaul Jones, co-founder of brewery Cloudwater Brew, said the pressure felt like a \"never-ending nightmare\".\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said it was receiving an increasing number of calls from businesses owners like Mr Jones who were concerned over whether they could carry on.\n\nPaul Jones says he feels like continuing his business is either not possible or not worth it\n\nMr Jones said his Manchester-based company has been in survival mode since March 2020, with high costs, debt, low consumer confidence and post-Brexit trading problems all bearing down on the business.\n\n\"The cost to me has been pretty bleak,\" he said. \"I have a heart condition from stress and I feel constantly on the edge of what I can personally cope with.\"\n\nHis thoughts have turned to closing his business \"probably once a month since 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel like continuing is either not possible or not worth it,\" he said. \"We're going to keep going. What else can we do?\"\n\nBut he remains downbeat about business prospects in 2023.\n\nBegbies Traynor said the number of companies in critical financial distress jumped by 36% in the last three months of 2022.\n\nA firm is in critical financial distress if it has more than £5,000 in county court judgments or a winding up petition against it.\n\nThe number of county court judgments served against companies in the same period jumped by 52% compared with 2021.\n\nMs Palmer said that up until now low interest rates and loans had helped firms. In the pandemic, Covid loans and a longer time to pay taxes had meant that support had continued.\n\n\"[The support] all seems to be coming to an end at the same time, with nothing really on the horizon in terms of what might replace them,\" she said.\n\nA backlog in the insolvency courts due to Covid has also delayed some company collapses.\n\n\"The courts were closed for business so nobody could take recovery action against non-payers and we are beginning to see those cases pushed through now,\" she said.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague had to close her restaurant last year\n\nThis cocktail of challenges has already proved lethal for some.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague set up a restaurant The Creameries in Manchester back in 2018. It received rave reviews and was trading well until the pandemic hit the following year, and the business never fully recovered.\n\nHigh energy costs were the final straw. She had to close the restaurant in September last year.\n\n\"It became apparent that no matter how hard I worked, how hard I tried, how many different tactics we tried to turn it around, we were just never going to get enough customers through the door to make it work. And that was a horrible moment,\" said Ms McTague.\n\nShe said running a business during such a difficult period took a huge emotional toll.\n\n\"I think it can be a really lonely experience being in that position,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are the head of a small business, you've got close relationships with your staff, your suppliers. And you don't want to worry anyone, so you don't necessarily talk to your friends, family, or even your partner about it,\" she added.\n\n\"You don't want to worry your children. There's a lot of trying to keep the worry from others, which means you hold it in yourself.\n\n\"There's still quite a lot of stigma around it, and feeling this sense of shame of things not working out, even when it's completely out of your hands.\"\n\nShe admitted that she had mixed feelings when she finally had to close the business\n\n\"Once you're at the point where you can see what's going on and you can't make it better, there is definitely a sense of relief afterwards.\"\n\nNatWest boss Alison Rose said that while the UK's biggest business lender is yet to see widespread company failures she is concerned that firms are unable or not confident enough to invest for the future.\n\n\"We are seeing very little investment thanks to very low business confidence. That for me is a real concern because it will affect future growth.\"\n\nBut there were still reasons for optimism in 2023, she said.\n\n\"If you think we have had a global pandemic, the end of low interest rates, a war in Europe, massive price rises - what we have seen is incredible resilience in UK business,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also at full employment which is really positive. We are seeing record number of start-ups and banks like ours that is in a strong position to support customers. So it is a tough environment, but we should never forget how resilient business owners have been.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a killer called a friend to confess that she had committed murder\n\nA woman who stabbed her mother's best friend to death has been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nRebecca Press, 31, stabbed 57-year-old Marc Ash in her mother's home in Long Row, Elliot's Town in July last year.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard she had been drinking heavily and using drugs, including ecstasy and benzodiazepines, on the day of the killing.\n\nPress initially denied murder but changed her plea during her trial. She must serve a minimum term of 20 years.\n\nOn the day of the murder, Press, from Trecenydd, Caerphilly county, had arrived to spend the weekend at her mother's flat after splitting up with her boyfriend.\n\nMr Ash was her mother's neighbour and best friend.\n\nRebecca Press with her mother Michelle Press and brother Gavin Press\n\nThe court heard that Press and Mr Ash had been out drinking together earlier that day at the pub and local rugby club.\n\nBut Mr Ash returned home after telling Michelle Press, her mother, over the phone that Press was \"playing up\" and adding \"I can't cope with her\".\n\nHe came back to the flat and watched a film with Press' mother.\n\nThe court heard that when Press returned to the flat she was shouting and was upset that her brother Gavin Press, a friend of her ex-boyfriend, was at the flat.\n\nRebecca Press (right) admitted murder midway through her trial at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nThe brother told the court that his sister was drunk, angry and upset about the breakup and \"said stuff in anger\".\n\nPress' mother said she asked her daughter to calm down, but that she only got more agitated and accused her mother of spitting in her face.\n\nThe mother told the court: \"She gripped my arm, I saw teeth, I thought she was going to bite me.\"\n\nThe mother told the court she went to her bedroom to call the police and treat her bleeding nose, which had caught on Press' tooth.\n\nWhile she was doing this, Mr Ash tried to calm Press down.\n\nPress' brother said that his sister took a small knife from the kitchen drawer and was threatening to stab him with it.\n\nHe said that Mr Ash \"walked into\" the blade while trying to intervene.\n\nThe court heard a 7.5cm (3in) blade was plunged into Mr Ash's chest, and the rapid blood loss led to cardiac arrest.\n\nIn a video interview played to the jury, Press' mother described how her daughter told her: \"I just stabbed your best friend to death.\"\n\nThe court was told she later left a voicemail on her ex-partner's phone saying \"I've just stabbed someone and killed them. I've just murdered someone, please phone me now.\"\n\nSentencing Press, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, the Recorder of Cardiff, said: \"It is clear you have caused the most terrible grief to Mr Ash's family.\"", "Isla Bryson, who was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow, faces a custodial sentence\n\nA transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women in attacks carried out before she changed gender.\n\nIsla Bryson committed the crimes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that the 31-year-old has now started the process of gender re-assignment.\n\nJudge Lord Scott said she had been convicted of two extremely serious charges and a significant custodial sentence was inevitable.\n\nBBC Scotland understands Bryson is being sent to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling but will not be held alongside the jail's general population.\n\nA risk assessment will then be carried out to decide where Bryson should go after that.\n\nBryson had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as Adam Graham.\n\nThe following year Bryson told jurors she had made the decision to transition from a man to a woman.\n\nAt the trial, she was then known as Isla Bryson with jurors told Adam Graham was now her \"dead name\".\n\nBryson had been on bail, but was remanded in custody by Lord Scott.\n\nShe attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, having met on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThis was immediately after Bryson's marriage to a woman had ended.\n\nThe rape occurred on 16 September 2016 after Bryson locked the door and got into bed beside the woman.\n\nIsla Bryson was remanded in custody at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nIn pre-recorded testimony played to jurors, the woman recalled repeatedly stating \"no\" as a \"muscular\" Adam forced himself upon her.\n\nThe second woman was raped at a flat in Drumchapel, Glasgow on 27 June 2019.\n\nBryson told jurors how she had shared her \"sexuality issues\" with the 34-year-old having met on the social media site Bigo.\n\nThe court heard the pair were together at the flat planning to watch a film.\n\nThe victim recalled feeling \"crushed\" as the attacker she knew as Adam raped her.\n\nShe stated: \"I told him to stop and he did not. He kept going. That is when I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to do.\"\n\nBryson denied that charge. She said: \"I would never do that. I would never hurt any woman.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, prosecutor John Keenan KC said the first rape had been reported to the authorities in 2016, but that there were no further \"proceedings at that stage\".\n\nLord Scott deferred sentencing on Bryson until 28 February in Stirling.\n\nShe already had three summary levels convictions - not for sexual matters - and has never been jailed before.\n\nThe judge told her: \"You have been convicted of two extremely serious charges. Given what you have been convicted of, a significant custodial sentence is inevitable.\"\n\nThe media and public had to watch proceedings from a viewing room elsewhere in the court building.\n\nA previous trial was abandoned due to Bryson reporting being unwell after having her photo taken as she arrived at court.\n\nSince 2014, the Scottish Prison Service's policy has been that prisoners should be accommodated on the basis of self-declared identity, subject to a risk assessment.\n\nThat accommodation must best suit \"the person's needs and should reflect the gender in which they are currently living\".\n\nInitially, Isla Bryson will be held on remand at the women's prison at Cornton Vale where it is expected she will be segregated from other inmates.\n\nThe judge has made it clear she will receive a lengthy prison sentence when she is brought back to court.\n\nAfter that, the prison service will have to work out what to do with her.\n\nA multi-disciplinary assessment will decide whether she should serve her sentence with male or female prisoners.\n\nThe assessment will gauge the risk Bryson poses to others, and the risk that would be posed to Bryson, depending on where she was sent.\n\nSandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, believes it is the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"If someone has been convicted of a serious sexual offence they should not be held with the general female population.\"\n\nThe community safety spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives Russell Findlay MSP referred to the fact that Bryson has not yet had gender reassignment surgery.\n\nHe said: \"It would be wrong to put a male-bodied rapist in a women's prison.\"\n\nDiscussing the general issue of trans prisoners in 2018, the Scottish Trans Alliance said the prison service \"isn't daft\" and scrutinises each case with great care.\n\nClearly, Bryson cannot be held in segregation - solitary confinement - forever. It would breach her human rights.\n\nAt some point she will mix and be housed with other prisoners. One commentator with extensive knowledge of Scotland's jails said the prison service \"is in a very difficult position facing very difficult choices.\"", "Former Tory cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is to host his own TV talk show on GB News, the broadcaster said.\n\nThe North East Somerset MP's new show, it added, will see him \"debate the hot topics of the day\" and interview guests from \"across the political spectrum\".\n\nThe ex-business secretary and minister of state for Brexit opportunities and government efficiency described GB News as \"a bastion of free speech\".\n\nHe joins fellow conservative MP Esther McVey on the television channel.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg - a vocal supporter of previous prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson - quit as business secretary in October, amid a major cabinet overhaul after Rishi Sunak entered No 10 Downing Street.\n\nNow a backbencher, he also previously served as leader of the House of Commons and lord president of the Privy Council from 2019 to 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I can speak \"more freely\" as a backbench MP, says Rees-Mogg\n\nSpeaking about his new role, he said: \"GB News is a bastion of free speech which clearly has its finger uniquely on the pulse of public opinion and does not talk down to its viewers and listeners.\n\n\"I have been impressed by the channel's independent-mindedness and its determination to talk to people with many different perspectives, which is exactly what I will do on my programme.\"\n\nGB News launched in June 2021, becoming the UK's first TV news start-up for 30 years, since the launch of Sky News.\n\nBut its chairman and lead presenter Andrew Neil resigned just three months after it went on air.\n\nThe channel's editorial director Mick Booker described its latest addition, Mr Rees-Mogg, as \"an authentic and authoritative voice of the Tory backbenches with his trademark common sense, refreshing directness, and an impish sense of fun\".\n\nHe added that the new programme \"will embrace a range of guests and viewpoints from all sides of politics but will also explore some of Jacob's other wide-ranging interests\".", "Palestinians throw stones amid clashes with Israeli troops during a raid in Jenin\n\nThis is the most deadly Israeli raid into Jenin refugee camp in nearly two decades.\n\nNine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp.\n\nPalestinian officials say two of the dead were civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, while militant groups claim the other seven as members.\n\nThe Israeli military says its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning \"major attacks\".\n\nThe history matters here. I have been to Jenin repeatedly over the last year as Israel's military raids have mounted, sparking increasingly fierce gunfights with a new generation of armed Palestinians.\n\nEveryone you speak to roots their experiences in comparisons to April 2002, at the height of the second intifada or Palestinian uprising.\n\nBack then, Israel launched a full-scale incursion - known as the Battle of Jenin - in which at least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. It had followed a campaign of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, many of which involved perpetrators from the city.\n\nMuch of Jenin camp was flattened in 2002. The scale of destruction, and Palestinians' stories of trying to repel the forces, are part of the collective memory there. It forms a backdrop to much that has happened since.\n\nLast spring, Israel launched operation \"Break the Wave\" amid a surge in Palestinian gun and knife attacks targeting Israelis - the deadliest in years.\n\nSome were carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel who were supporters of the so-called Islamic State group. But several were Palestinian gunmen from Jenin, including Ra'ad Hazem who shot dead three Israelis in a bar in Tel Aviv and was later killed by security forces.\n\nIt put Jenin back in focus. Israeli search, arrest and home demolition raids in the city and nearby Nablus became near nightly.\n\nThe Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was operating to prevent further attacks, and that it fired at Palestinian gunmen who targeted its troops.\n\nBut the death toll across the West Bank was much broader than this. While armed militants accounted for a significant proportion of the more than 150 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank last year, many of those shot dead were not carrying guns; sometimes they were in groups throwing stones or petrol bombs towards jeeps, sometimes they were passers by or other civilians.\n\nSome fatalities were during protests or confrontations against expansion towards their towns and villages by Israeli settlers who set up illegal outposts.\n\nIsrael was repeatedly accused by the United Nations and human rights groups of excessive use of force, a claim it consistently rejects.\n\nBut there was something else going on which added more fuel, and explains why some fear a further security collapse in the West Bank.\n\nThe Palestinian Authority (PA), which has limited governance powers in Palestinian cities, was losing control of Jenin and Nablus.\n\nThe PA is important - a legacy of the 1990s Oslo peace process - but these days its ageing leadership is badly out of touch with the Palestinian street and is seen by many as little more than a security company for Israel's occupation.\n\nIt is dominated by PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party - bitter rivals of the Palestinian Islamist militants Hamas.\n\nThe PA \"co-ordinates\" security with Israel - which means it shares information about some militants and its security forces step aside when Israel carries out arrest raids.\n\nPresident Abbas now says security co-ordination will \"end\" due to the Jenin raid - although this threat has often been made before and only rarely even partially carried out.\n\nBy late 2021, the PA's security forces were unwelcome in Jenin refugee camp and the Old City of Nablus. It was losing control. This has been a long process, but it was accelerated by several moments that year.\n\nOne was the fallout from the May war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza - which added to the PA's unpopularity.\n\nAnother was grassroots admiration for six prisoners who tunnelled their way out of an Israeli jail - before being caught within a fortnight. All the militant prisoners were from Jenin, some were figures popularised in the 2002 incursion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new generation of militants in Jenin and Nablus were rejecting the PA while Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants faced arrest. They were arming themselves, loosely affiliated with the established groups but apparently not answerable to their traditional hierarchies.\n\nThey called themselves the Jenin Battalion and, in Nablus, the Lion's Den. A grassroots following surged on TikTok and Telegram.\n\nThey appeared with American-made weapons smuggled from Jordan or stolen and sold on from IDF bases. Many were too young to remember the destruction of 2002 but were old enough to be inspired by stories from it.\n\nAs one Israeli journalist embedded with the IDF special forces in Jenin said: \"This is different. These are people who are willing to fight and willing to die.\"\n\nFrom residents in Jenin refugee camp I repeatedly heard about the depressing reality continuing: by day, diminishing work prospects, the restrictions of a military occupation, no faith in a political future, and by night, the prospect of more Israeli military raids.\n\nThe Israeli army says it has prevented attacks on civilians and soldiers. The country's president has said today an Islamic Jihad \"terror squad\" were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel. But a wider flare-up is still feared.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives in Israel on Monday, with the country experiencing mass protests against the most nationalist government in its history. He says he wants to \"preserve\" the two-state solution - the long-held international formula for peace. The reality on the ground, along with the stated policy position of the new Israeli coalition, suggests he may as well be speaking another language.", "Donald Trump will be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram, after Meta announced it would be ending its two-year suspension of his accounts.\n\nThe ban will end \"in the coming weeks\", the social media giant said.\n\nIn a statement, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the public \"should be able to hear what their politicians are saying\".\n\nThe then-US president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riots in 2021.\n\nMeta had acted following Mr Trump's \"praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol\", Mr Clegg said.\n\n\"The suspension was an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances,\" he added.\n\nHe said a review had now found that Mr Trump's accounts no longer represented a serious risk to public safety.\n\nBut because of Mr Trump's past \"violations\", he would now face heightened penalties for any future offences.\n\nMeta's Oversight Board - a body it set up to review moderation rulings - said that the decision to reinstate Mr Trump on its platforms \"sat with Meta alone - the board did not have a role in the decision\".\n\nThe board had previously told Meta that Mr Trump's suspension needed to be revisited.\n\nIt urged Meta to be transparent and to provide additional information about new policies covering public figures so that it could review their implementation.\n\nRepublicans have been pressing for Mr Trump to be allowed back on Facebook as he prepares to run for the US presidency again next year.\n\nMr Trump posted on his own social media company, Truth Social, in response on Wednesday, saying that Facebook had \"lost billions\" after banning \"your favourite president, me\".\n\n\"Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting president, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution!\" he wrote.\n\nDonald Trump now has a decision to make.\n\nTruth Social, a social media platform he set up in 2021, has vastly fewer users than Facebook, which has three billion.\n\nTruth Social may have as many as five million accounts - though it's likely it has far fewer active users.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump has an exclusivity agreement with Truth Social - that means he is legally required to post first on the platform - six hours before any other.\n\nIt means if he posts on Facebook or Twitter - there is a chance he could get sued.\n\nAnalysts also warn that if Mr Trump were to stop using Truth Social, or post content elsewhere, the platform would struggle to survive.\n\nHe could simply ignore that exclusivity agreement - and start posting content straight away.\n\nHowever, that could open him up to legal problems.\n\nWhat is also possible is that he simply waits until June, when the agreement times out.\n\nOr, he could take the decision never to go back to platforms that he has criticised consistently.\n\nHowever, if he is going to have a tilt at the White House, being on Facebook - the world's biggest social media platform - would make a lot of sense.\n\nWhatever happens next, the ball is firmly in Mr Trump's court now.\n\nIf he does decide to come back, though, he will have to follow Meta's rules. The company has left the door open for another suspension if he flouts them.\n\nIt means Mr Tump will have to hold his tongue (to a certain extent) on Facebook, in a way that he currently does not have to on Truth Social.\n\nNews of Mr Trump's reinstatement was quickly criticised by Democrats and some activist organisations who expressed concern that he could again use the platforms to repeat false claims that he won the 2020 election.\n\n\"Trump incited an insurrection,\" California Democratic representative Adam Schiff wrote on Twitter. \"Giving him back access to a social media platform to spread his lies and demagoguery is dangerous.\"\n\nDerrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP civil rights organisation, told the Associated Press that he saw the move as a \"grave mistake\" that was a \"a prime example of putting profits above people's safety\".\n\n\"It's quite astonishing that one can spew hatred, fuel conspiracies, and incite a violent insurrection at our nation's Capitol building, and Mark Zuckerberg still believes that is not enough to remove someone from his platforms,\" he said.\n\nBut the American Civil Liberties Union, a not-for-profit organisation that defends civil rights in the US, tweeted that the decision was the \"right call\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ACLU This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter had also banned the former president following the 6 January 2021 US Capitol riot, saying he had broken its rules on the glorification of violence.\n\nBut in November, its new owner Elon Musk said Mr Trump's account ban had been lifted, after running a poll in which users narrowly backed the move.\n\nMr Trump has not yet returned to Twitter, having earlier said: \"I don't see any reason for it.\"", "The BBC's Analysis Editor examines the background to Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.", "Iranian and Russian hackers are targeting British politicians and journalists with espionage attacks, officials have warned.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has issued a fresh alert about increasing attempts to steal information from specific groups and individuals.\n\nNCSC said the hackers usually target those doing research and work about Iran and Russia.\n\nIt described the hacking groups as \"ruthless\" in pursuing their targets.\n\nThe NCSC - which is part of UK cyber and intelligence agency GCHQ and gives cyber-security advice - explained the attacks were not targeting the public, but specific individuals and groups, including politicians, officials, journalists, activists and think tanks.\n\nThe hackers will often impersonate real contacts to build trust, and send fake invites to events or Zoom meetings containing malicious code. If clicked on, they can compromise accounts allowing the hacker to gain access to sensitive information.\n\nNCSC director of operations Paul Chichester said: \"These campaigns by threat actors based in Russia and Iran continue to ruthlessly pursue their targets in an attempt to steal online credentials and compromise potentially sensitive systems.\n\n\"We strongly encourage organisations and individuals to remain vigilant to potential approaches and follow the mitigation advice in the advisory to protect themselves online.\"\n\nThe number of individuals targeted in the UK is small - in the tens - with a minimal impact, officials say. But organisations have been asked to secure their online accounts, and report suspicious approaches.\n\nOfficials are not formally accusing Russia and Iran of involvement in the espionage, although two hacking groups they are warning about are widely believed to be linked to the two states.\n\nA Russian group, known as SEABORGIUM or Cold River, has previously been linked in media reports to the leaking of emails belonging to ex-MI6 head Sir Richard Dearlove and the targeting of US nuclear laboratories.\n\nGoogle has said the group has also targeted US think tanks, a Ukraine-based defence contractor and the military of multiple Eastern European countries.\n\nAn Iranian Group - known as TA453 or Charming Kitten - has been linked by independent cyber-security experts to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and is accused of targeting US politicians as well as critical infrastructure.\n\nThe campaigns are separate and not the result of collaboration, but the joint warning is being issued because they rely on similar techniques and targets.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre is part of the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency GCHQ", "Dr Harold Shipman is one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nA life insurance firm has defended using serial killer Harold Shipman in an advert after it was labelled \"beyond despicable\" by other industry leaders.\n\nDeadHappy used the image to promote its services with the tagline: \"Life Insurance. Because you never know who your doctor might be.\"\n\nThe Leicester-based firm said it wanted to \"make people stop and think\".\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) watchdog said it was reviewing more than 50 complaints about the ad.\n\nShipman is estimated to have murdered up to 260 people during his time as a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nSenior insurance advisers across the UK have slammed the advertising campaign.\n\nKathryn Knowles, founder of Cura Financial Services, tweeted: \"Please know that many of us in insurance find this beyond despicable.\"\n\nOthers called it \"shocking\" and \"absolutely appalling\".\n\nIn a statement, the firm's founder Andy Knott said: \"We are called DeadHappy and our strapline is 'Life insurance to die for' so we are aware of the provocative and to some the very shocking nature of our brand.\n\n\"But being provocative is different to being offensive and it is of course never our intention to offend or upset people. It is our intention to make people stop and think. If however you have been personally distressed by this advert we do sincerely apologise.\"\n\nShipman was found guilty of murdering 15 patients under his care in January 2000, sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. He was found dead in his cell in Wakefield Prison in 2004.\n\nAn ASA representative said it had taken \"careful note of the serious concerns being raised about this advert and we're reviewing complaints to determine whether there are grounds for further action\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank - the deadliest in years - Palestinian officials say.\n\nA woman aged 61 was reported among the dead in the flashpoint town of Jenin.\n\nThe Israeli military said its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad \"terror operatives\" planning \"major attacks\".\n\nThe Palestinian presidency accused Israel of a \"massacre\" and later announced it had ended co-ordination with Israel on security matters.\n\nA 10th Palestinian was meanwhile shot and killed during a confrontation with Israeli troops in the town of al-Ram, near Jerusalem, as residents protested against the Jenin raid, Palestinian officials said.\n\nOvernight, Israel said it carried out airstrikes against Palestinian militants in Gaza after two rockets were fired into Israel. No group in Gaza has claimed responsibility for the rockets, both of which were intercepted by Israeli air defence systems.\n\nThe scale of the bombing in Gaza is not yet clear, although the AFP news agency said there were no reported injuries on either side.\n\nTensions have recently risen in the West Bank, as the Israeli military continues what it describes as an anti-terrorism offensive that began last year following a series of deadly attacks in Israel.\n\nHeavy gunfire and explosions echoed across the crowded, urban Jenin refugee camp, as fierce battles between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces raged for three hours on Thursday morning.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry identified three of those killed as Magda Obaid, 61, Saeb Izreiqi, 24, and Izzidin Salahat, 26. Twenty people were also wounded, four of them seriously, it said.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops entered Jenin to arrest an Islamic Jihad \"terror squad\", who it accused of being \"heavily involved in planning and executing multiple major terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers\".\n\nIt said forces surrounded a building and that three armed suspects were \"neutralised\" after they opened fire, while a fourth suspect surrendered. The IDF said troops were shot at by other Palestinian gunmen and returned fire, hitting targets. It added it was looking into \"claims regarding additional casualties\".\n\nIslamic Jihad and Hamas said their fighters had targeted the troops with gunfire and improvised explosive devices.\n\nThe house which the IDF said was being used as a hideout by the Islamic Jihad cell was still smouldering where furniture inside caught fire.\n\nThe outer walls on the ground floor were reduced to rubble, leaving the taps and sink of a bathroom exposed. The upper floor was meanwhile pocked with bullet holes, while the stairwell contained a pool of blood.\n\nAisha Abu al-Naj, 73, who lives next door, told the BBC that her house shook during the raid and that she and her family feared for their lives.\n\n\"We were afraid. I saw the army and then I couldn't open or look through the window. It was a scary situation,\" she said.\n\n\"There were some young Palestinians next to our building who then came and surrounded it. They shot at them. And then there was a lot of people who were killed.\"\n\nMagda Obaid's daughter said her mother also lived near the targeted house, and that she was shot in the neck as she peered out of her window to see what was happening.\n\nThe official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that seven youths were shot and wounded while attempting to prevent the Israeli forces from entering Jenin, and that the troops \"completely destroyed\" the Jenin Camp Club.\n\nTaxi driver Mohammed Ammori said he had been talking to a friend when Israeli troops pulled up beside a building close to the club in cars and a lorry.\n\n\"We heard gunshots. We fled into the Jenin club and we stayed under siege there for three hours.\"\n\nHe added: \"After about an hour, military bulldozers destroyed cars on both sides of the road, then destroyed the club's wall.\"\n\nPalestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances were initially unable to reach the wounded because Israeli troops restricted access to the scene.\n\nThe children's ward of a local hospital was also hit by Israeli tear gas, she said. The IDF told AFP news agency that there was activity not far away and that it was possible some tear gas entered through an open window.\n\nAs funerals took place, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of national mourning in response to what his spokesman called a \"massacre\" happening \"amidst international silence\".\n\n\"This is what encourages the occupation government to commit massacres against our people in full view of the world,\" Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.\n\nJenin Deputy Governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that residents were living in a \"real state of war\" and that Israeli forces were \"destroying everything and shooting at everything that moves\".\n\nTop Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri said that \"the response of the resistance will not be late in coming\".\n\nLater, the Palestinian Authority declared that security co-ordination with Israeli authorities \"no longer exists as of now\". A statement said the decision was taken by the leadership \"in light of the repeated aggression against our people, and the undermining of signed agreements\".\n\nUnited Nations Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said he was \"deeply alarmed and saddened\" by the violence.\n\n\"Since the beginning of this year, we are continuing to witness high levels of violence and other negative trends that characterized 2022. It is crucial to reduce tensions immediately and prevent more loss of life,\" he added.\n\nAt least 30 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank so far this year, including militants and civilians, as the military continues operations there.\n\nLast year in the West Bank more than 150 Palestinians were killed, nearly all by Israeli forces. The dead included unarmed civilians, militant gunmen and armed attackers.\n\nA series of attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs targeting Israelis, as well as militant gunfire at troops during arrest raids, meanwhile killed more than 30 people including civilians, police and soldiers.", "Gareth Southgate considered stepping down as England boss because of criticism he faced before the World Cup, saying: \"The last thing you want as a manager is that your presence is divisive and inhibits performance.\"\n\nEngland were knocked out of the tournament by France in the quarter-finals, 18 months after losing the Euro 2020 final to Italy on penalties at Wembley.\n\nThe team were booed off in June following a 4-0 defeat against Hungary at Molineux in the Nations League - part of a generally poor series of results leading into the winter World Cup.\n\nExplaining for the first time how he reached the decision to stay in his job, he told BBC Sport: \"I never want to be in a position where my presence is affecting the team in a negative way.\n\n\"I didn't believe that was the case, but I just wanted a period after the World Cup to reflect and make sure that was still how it felt.\"\n\nThe 52-year-old said he asked himself: \"Is it the right thing to keep taking this project on? I wanted to make sure I'm still fresh and hungry for that challenge.\"\n\nDescribing his role as \"the greatest privilege of my life\", he said the decision to stay was ultimately \"not difficult\" because of \"the quality of performances and the progress that we're making\".\n\n\"The team are still improving. We're all gaining belief in what we're doing,\" he said.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview conducted at the team's training base St George's Park, Southgate:\n• None strongly suggested he considered announcing last year that Qatar would be his final tournament to \"free that narrative up so the support is behind the team, and not debating whether the manager should be there or not\"\n• None said getting knocked out in the quarter-final was \"really difficult to take\" but the support from players and fans \"definitely lifts you\"\n• None revealed he was \"comfortable\" with his tactics during the and had no regrets\n• None insisted England are \"really competitive against everybody now\" and is \"very confident\" about their chances at next year's European Championship in Germany\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of his team's defeat to France six weeks ago, Southgate said he felt \"conflicted\" about his future, having \"found large parts of the last 18 months difficult\".\n\nEngland went into the World Cup on the back of relegation from their Nations League group and during the Hungary defeat some England fans chanted \"you don't know what you're doing\" at the manager.\n\nAfter failing to match both the semi-final he led England to in the 2018 World Cup and the final of Euro 2020, Southgate said he would \"review and reflect\".\n\nBut a week later the FA announced he would see out the remaining two years of his contract.\n\nNow, in his first public comments since that decision, Southgate has opened up on the effect the criticism he received following the Hungary defeat had on him.\n\n\"I was worried after that game the team would be affected by the narrative about whether the manager stay or go, and when we went into the games in September we were a little bit anxious.\n\n\"At Wembley against Germany the crowd weren't against their team but they were waiting to see what happened.\n\n\"I've been around teams where that can inhibit performance, and the last thing you want as a manager is that your presence is divisive and inhibits performance.\n\n\"I knew I had support with the players and [the FA], there are bigger things at stake with England than just [that].\n\n\"My only concern… was when it feels like there might be division between what the fans want and where my position might have been, that can affect the team, and I was conscious of that leading into the World Cup.\n\n\"I felt we had great support, but I was conscious… how would things be during and after?\"\n\nSouthgate says his team recovered before the World Cup, but that he wanted to be sure after the tournament that staying was the right thing for his side.\n\n\"You need to give yourself time in these situations to make good decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's easy to rush things when emotions are high, and very often you have to sleep a little bit more and come to the right conclusions.\n\n\"The question for me was… 'is it the right thing to keep taking this project on?' Because it's not just the six years I've been with the seniors - I've been here 10 years with developing everything as well. So I wanted to make sure I'm still fresh and hungry for that challenge.\"\n\n'Trying to break through history'\n\nIn an indication of how close he had come to announcing before the World Cup that he would step down following the tournament, Southgate said: \"My thinking is always around, 'How does this affect the team?'\n\n\"Is this going to give the team the best chance going into the World Cup?\" he added.\n\n\"Do we need to free that narrative up so the support is behind the team, and not debating whether the manager should be there or not? But I think we came through that period.\"\n\nAsked whether he wavered as he weighed up whether to stay, Southgate said: \"Not after the World Cup. In the lead-in that was a little bit different.\n\n\"I wasn't quite sure how things would play out, and I think it's always right to judge an international manager on their tournaments.\n\n\"Our performances were good. With France, across the flow of the game, we should win. But football is a low-scoring game where small margins make a difference.\n\n\"And we have to make sure now those small margins are turned in our favour. We're much closer now to really having that belief to win. We've still got a small step to take - I saw progress in the team from our performances in the Euros.\n\n\"We're trying to break through history here as well as against opponents that are high-level. I feel we're really competitive against everybody now.\n\n\"Outside of France, and you could argue Croatia, we've probably been as consistent as any team in terms of our finishes. And I think people have enjoyed that journey with us.\"\n\nAsked how it would have felt to see someone else take over, Southgate replied: \"I'm never worried about somebody else taking over and benefiting, that's how it should work.\n\n\"We're talking about building a future for England for now, for the next tournament, but also beyond that.\"\n\n'Exit was difficult to take'\n\nSouthgate said the support he received from players and fans after the France defeat \"definitely lifts you\".\n\n\"The moment you depart is really difficult to take, and you know the steps you have to take for the next one,\" he said.\n\n\"But I don't think you can make decisions as a manager just on having support from everybody because you're never going to have support of everybody.\"\n\nWhile most of Southgate's selections paid off in Qatar, and his team showed more attacking intent than previously, there was some criticism that he waited until the 85th minute against France to introduce in-form Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford.\n\nWhen asked if he had any regrets about the match, he said: \"I don't really. What I've learned in this job, whenever the result doesn't go as you hope then the solution is always the things you didn't do, because of course nobody knows what they might look like.\n\n\"So I'm comfortable with that. I think we used the squad well. There can always be an argument for a different player providing something at a different time.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested to Southgate that some fans feel a new manager is needed to help deliver silverware for England, he said: \"I think if our performances weren't at the level they had been, then I think there would be a little bit more legitimacy in that argument.\n\n\"We're all gaining belief in what we're doing.\n\n\"We're really competitive against everybody now and the game with France showed we can dominate the ball against those big teams.\"\n\nIn the build-up to the World Cup Southgate was regularly asked to comment on the human rights issues that surrounded Qatar's controversial hosting of the tournament.\n\n\"There are moments where life would be more straightforward for me if it was just focusing on football,\" he said.\n\n\"You are very conscious of the impact of your words and you have got to be representing your country on a global stage.\n\n\"So there might be a view in our country of certain things, but you've also got to be an ambassador when you travel and when you're dealing with other people.\n\n\"So it is complex, but it's also been the greatest privilege of my life to lead my country and I'm very conscious of that honour. It's allowed me to have life experiences I could never have expected.\"\n\nSouthgate was speaking before the FA Cup 4th round and said the matches would play a part in helping him select his squad for the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers against champions Italy and Ukraine in March.\n\n\"A lot of the teams have been playing young English players and for a lot it's their first experience of competitive football,\" he said.\n\n\"So that's great to see young players breaking through.\n\n\"We have several players playing well. And it's interesting to watch this period because it's the first time players have had to go back from a major tournament straight into club football.\n\n\"The next few weeks are important for us to monitor, probably more so the players that perhaps haven't been with us as regularly.\n\n\"But then, as we go towards March, it's really key who is in form and who can help us to win what is a crucial game going to Naples, and then with Ukraine as well.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA ban on the sale and use of laughing gas in England and Wales is being considered by the government.\n\nThe proposed ban of nitrous oxide, which can have damaging side effects, is part of a drive to tackle anti-social behaviour.\n\nThe Home Office has asked for the findings of a report into the harm caused by laughing gas to be delivered sooner than planned.\n\nIt says in turn it will consider this review before making a decision.\n\nNitrous oxide is one of the most commonly used drugs among 16-24 year olds in England, the government says.\n\nHeavy regular use can lead to a range of side effects which include dizziness, weakness in the legs and impaired memory. Inhaling the gas directly from a large canister can be fatal.\n\nCurrent legislation bans the knowing or reckless supply of nitrous oxide for inhalation - but there have been calls for a ban on all direct consumer sales as part of a tightening up of the law.\n\nThe Times - which first reported the story - said that under the proposals, exemptions would be allowed for those with \"legitimate reasons\", such as chefs using it for whipped cream or for pain relief in hospitals.\n\nThe paper said Chris Philp, the policing minister, wanted a review already under way into nitrous oxide by the independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to be fast-tracked to April, with suggestions a formal announcement on a ban could be made as part of the government's anti-social behaviour strategy due later this year.\n\nEmma Cain, who lost her son after he inhaled butane in 2011, said she tries to stop other youngsters in the street who she sees inhaling volatile substances to warn them about the dangers.\n\n\"I tell them 'this is my son, he's in a box, stop doing it, you're hurting yourselves'.\"\n\nThe Times reported that punishment for being caught with or selling nitrous oxide is likely to be similar to sanctions for Class C drugs - those in possession face up to two years in prison or an unlimited fine and a maximum 14-year sentence for supplying or producing the substance.\n\nWidely sold in small metal canisters, nitrous oxide is a colourless gas used as a propellant - for example, in whipped-cream dispensers.\n\nHospitals and dental practices also use big cannisters of it as an anaesthetic that patients inhale.\n\nSome of those who misuse the substance - sometimes referred to as \"hippy crack\" - inhale it via a balloon or use a dispenser or \"cracker\".\n\nHeavy frequent use can lead to a vitamin deficiency that can cause serious permanent nerve damage and lasting paralysis.\n\nBut inhaling the gas directly from a large canister is particularly dangerous and can be fatal because it is under such high pressure and comes out extremely cold, which can:\n\nThe law already bans the knowing or reckless supply of nitrous oxide for inhalation under the Psychoactive Substances Act.\n\nBut in October, the British Compressed Gases Association wrote to Ms Braverman asking for a ban on all direct consumer sales.\n\nThe drug is widely perceived as lower risk than alcohol, but researchers have raised concerns over the long-term harm it could cause among chronic users.\n\nA study comparing the harms of laughing gas to other recreational substances found it was considered more harmful than \"poppers\" for drug-related dependence, environmental damage and relative impairment of mental functioning, while poppers were more harmful for drug-related mortality, injury and damage.\n\nIn the year ending June 2022, 3.9% of 16-24-year-olds reported using nitrous oxide, equivalent to about 230,000 people, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales.\n\nIn September, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for the review into harm caused by nitrous oxide.\n\nAnd earlier this month, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed the issue in a speech about anti-social behaviour and the blight of discarded \"nitrous oxide canisters in children's playgrounds\".", "Jay competed with his brother, Mark and the pair were known as The Briscoe Brothers\n\nProfessional wrestling star Jay Briscoe - whose real name was Jamin Pugh - has died aged 38.\n\nSeveral news outlets including Sports Illustrated reported that he was killed in a car crash in Laurel, Delaware but this has not been confirmed.\n\nPolice plan to release more information about a deadly crash that occurred there on Tuesday night, a spokesperson told the BBC's US partner CBS News.\n\nTony Khan, the CEO of All Elite Wrestling, announced Briscoe's death.\n\n\"Sadly, Jamin Pugh has passed away. Known to fans as Jay Briscoe, he was a star in ROH [wrestling company Ring of Honor] for over 20 years,\" he wrote on Twitter.\"\n\n\"From the first show until today, Jay and his brother Mark dominated ROH, reigning as champions to this day,\" he said.\n\nBriscoe joined ROH in 2002 and was known as one of the best tag-team wrestlers in the world. He competed with his brother, Mark and the pair were known as The Briscoe Brothers.\n\nThey were 13-time ROH World Tag Team Champions and were inducted into the inaugural class of the ROH Hall of Fame last year.\n\nWorld Wrestling Entertainment chief content officer Paul Levesque - better known by his ring name Triple H - called Briscoe an \"incredible performer who created a deep connection with wrestling fans across the globe\".\n\n\"My condolences to the family and friends of Jay Briscoe,\" he said.\n\nDelaware police tweeted about a fatal accident Tuesday evening in the town of Laurel but did not identify the victims.\n\nFollowing the incident, Laurel School District called the crash an \"unthinkable tragedy\" and asked the community to \"keep the Pugh Family in your thoughts and prayers\".", "Marc Wilkinson said although he has found the act of kindness stressful he is still glad he did it\n\nA takeaway owner who offered to give everyone in Edinburgh a free pizza says the experience has been \"very stressful\".\n\nMarc Wilkinson, 55, the owner of Pure Pizza in Morningside, started to panic when more people than he had expected started to turn up.\n\nHe now thinks that the month-long giveaway will cost him three times more than originally estimated.\n\nBut he said he was determined to see it through to the end of January.\n\nMr Wilkinson told BBC Scotland earlier this month that he wanted to carry out an act of kindness to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe said he had now given away thousands of pizzas to crowds of people who turn up every day as soon as he opens at 11:00.\n\nEmanuele Mascolo is one of the chefs at Pure Pizza\n\nHe said: \"At first it felt so exciting because everyone who was coming to the shop was saying what a great thing I was doing and it was a nice feeling, I felt like Santa.\n\n\"But as the days went on a lot more people were turning up than I thought there would be.\n\n\"I started to panic at the thought of this happening for the whole month and that I would run out of funds.\n\n\"I was dreading the moment of having to decide to put a stop to it.\"\n\nHe had budgeted to spend £12,000 on the initiative but estimated it was now going to cost three times as much.\n\nAfter a few days, he started receiving donations from well-wishers, including one local woman who turned up with a roll of notes which totalled £300.\n\nHe received hundreds of pounds from a businessman in India, as well as other smaller contributions - and donations of ingredients from suppliers. He has also started a JustGiving page.\n\nHe said: \"My brain was working overtime when I realised I might not be able to cope with this but it all changed when I started receiving donations.\n\n\"I realised that there were people all over the world willing to help me.\"\n\nMr Wilkinson said he was working in the shop 12 hours each day.\n\n\"It has been very stressful but I'm still glad I did it and I don't want to stop it,\" he said.\n\n\"My gift is out there in the psyche of Edinburgh and it seems a shame to cut it in its tracks.\"", "A polar bear has killed a woman and a boy in a remote Alaska village, authorities have said.\n\nThe bear entered the village of Wales on Tuesday afternoon, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, and began chasing people, police said.\n\nAs it attacked the woman and boy, it was shot and killed but the mauling proved to be fatal.\n\nFatal polar bear attacks in Alaska are rare but experts say encounters with humans will increase as more ice melts.\n\nWales is a small town, mainly consisting of the native Inupiaq people. Around 150 people live in the remote settlement, located over 1,185 miles (1,907km) north-west of the state capital Juneau.\n\n\"Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents,\" Alaska state troopers wrote in a despatch, according to Associated Press.\n\n\"The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male.\"\n\nThe names of the two victims were not released by police as family members were still being notified.\n\nPolice and state officials will travel to Wales to investigate further once the weather allows.\n\nStudies in the US have shown that as the animal's natural habitats begin to recede, attacks on humans were more likely as they moved inland.\n\nA 2017 study published by The Wildlife Society found that polar bear attacks on humans had increased since 2000 and were more likely to occur between July and December - when sea ice covered a smaller area.", "Mark Cavendish remembered his wife running into their bedroom, with \"figures really close behind her\"\n\nElite cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta were \"terrorised in their own home\" by balaclava-clad raiders wielding knives, a court has been told.\n\nProsecutors have said the athlete was threatened at knifepoint in front of his three-year-old son at the house in Ongar, Essex, in November 2021.\n\nTwo men are on trial and each deny two counts of robbery.\n\nClosing his case, prosecutor Edward Renvoize said the \"professionalism of the job is beyond question\".\n\n\"[The case is] quite simply about a family being terrorised in their own home,\" he added.\n\nGiving evidence earlier in the trial, Peta Cavendish said the robbers were \"very specific\" about a watch, before taking her husband's Richard Mille timepiece from a windowsill\n\nPeta Cavendish said her watch, which suspects did not initially notice, was taken from her bedside table\n\nThe trial at Chelmsford Crown Court has been told the men made off with Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000, as well as phones and a Louis Vuitton suitcase.\n\nMr Renvoize said the intruders \"appeared not to have got the watch they wanted\" but \"did make off with what they could\".\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south-east London, and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, deny two counts of robbery.\n\nAli Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham, Kent, has already admitted two counts of robbery.\n\nProsecutor Edward Renvoize said none of the suspects visible on CCTV displayed signs of an injury\n\nRomario Henry, 31 (left) and Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, both deny two counts of robbery\n\nThe prosecutor cast doubt on Wednesday over Mr Okorosobo's claim he was not at the house in Ongar in the early hours of 27 November, despite his mobile phone connecting to cell masts in the area.\n\nMr Henry admitted he was at the scene in the Mercedes Benz car, but was not aware of a robbery taking place having been \"out of it\" and \"so messed up\" after taking drugs.\n\nThe prosecutor questioned why Sesay would have \"agreed to take inebriated Mr Henry along for the ride\".\n\nShahid Rashid, defending for Mr Okorosobo, suggested that none of the four individuals seen on CCTV outside the home could be his client because they did not display the \"impediment he suffers from\".\n\nMr Okorosobo previously told jurors he struggled to walk after being stabbed in the leg in September 2021.\n\nPeta Cavendish (pictured with Mark Cavendish) told jurors, earlier in the trial, the experience was \"everyone's worst nightmare\"\n\nArchangelo Power, counsel for Mr Henry, said that his client's \"mere presence alone [at the scene] does not amount to guilt\".\n\nJudge David Turner KC sent the jury home for the day and said he would be summing up the trial evidence on Thursday before sending jurors out to deliberate their verdicts.\n\nThe trial has heard that a fourth and fifth suspect, Jo Jobson and George Goddard, remained at large.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wandering up the green-carpeted spiral staircase of Bute House, the official residence of the first minister of Scotland, pictures of those who've been able to call this place home hang from the walls.\n\nThere are five pictures: those of Donald Dewar, Henry McLeish, Jack McConnell, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nDevolution, the sharing of power around the UK, is a quarter of a century old.\n\nFor all the fault lines between the Scottish Parliament and the government at Westminster, the tensions in the wiring of devolution, I'm here to talk about a wire never before tripped.\n\nThe secretary of state for Scotland has triggered Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 - vetoing the Scottish government's plans to make it easier for people to change gender. (You can read more about that here)\n\nArguments about gender and arguments about the constitution are as complex as they are keenly fought over.\n\nBut the essence of this one is this: the issue of gender is devolved, it is a power that rests in Edinburgh.\n\nThe issue of equalities is reserved, to use the jargon, it is a power that rests in London.\n\nThe Scottish government insists its planned new law doesn't clash with the Great-Britain-wide Equality Act, while the government at Westminster insists it does - and has now set out why it thinks that.\n\nThat is the crux of the legal and political argument to come, exploring avenues never before travelled since Donald Dewar became first minister in 1999.\n\nWe can expect a judicial review, an appointment at the Court of Session in Edinburgh and, quite probably, a final calling point of the UK Supreme Court to sort this out.\n\nIn my interview with Nicola Sturgeon, she claimed the UK government's decision amounted to \"a direct attack on the institution of the Scottish parliament\" and could be the start of a \"slippery slope\" of interventions from what she described as \"an increasingly hostile UK government wanting to undermine devolution\".\n\nBut, while unprecedented, the UK government is using a lever within the existing law, a law backed by the SNP, albeit a long time ago in the late 90s.\n\nAnd it is, undoubtedly, provocative.\n\nThe language from ministers in Westminster is noticeably more emollient in public than the words of the first minister, although some senior Conservatives privately suggest the Scottish government may have seen this row coming a mile off, knowing they would either secure the change in the law they would like (and was, it should be pointed out, strongly endorsed by the Scottish parliament) or provoke a constitutional argument allowing them to point at what they would see as the inadequacies of devolution.\n\nOpponents of the reforms have protested outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nNicola Sturgeon claims bluntly the UK government is acting in \"bad faith\".\n\nWithin government at Westminster, there was agonising private debate about what to do in the days prior to the announcement.\n\nWhile there are divisions in all the big parties on the issue of transgender rights, there is a genuine difference of instinct between the Tories in Westminster, who are cautious, conservative, when it comes to significant changes to the existing law, and the SNP, which is more liberal.\n\nAnd while plenty of Tories really didn't like the Scottish bill, or the potential implications they fear around Britain, many flinched before triggering Article 35.\n\nThey knew they were creating a precedent, they knew they would be sparking a political row.\n\nOne figure suggested that, until now, the Conservative government had what was described to me as a \"Sturgeon containment strategy\" - limit the provocations that fan the flames of an argument about the constitution for as long as she remains first minister - perhaps, some suggest, another few years - and hope her successor isn't half as politically successful as she has been.\n\nSo much for that, when you then choose to open up a brand new front of constitutional anger.\n\nEqually, I suggested to the first minister, when she claimed ministers in London were weaponising the lives of trans people, was she not weaponising her language in how she chose to respond, to further an argument for independence?\n\nWas it not possible both sides had a passionate disagreement, in good faith?\n\nBut those allegations of bad faith are made in both directions.\n\nIn truth, there is a profound difference of instinct on trans rights visible here, and a significant legal disagreement too.\n\nAnd both are wrapped up in diametrically opposed visions for the future of Scotland; the SNP dream of independence and the UK government's unionist view.\n\nAnd so that imminent legal tussle will be magnified by the rhetoric of political argument on both sides, as a new frost develops between the residents of Bute House and 10 Downing Street.", "If a jury rules in favour of Tesla's shareholders, Mr Musk may be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages\n\nProspective jurors in a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk have a range of opinions of him, from \"smart, successful\" to \"off his rocker\".\n\nMr Musk, who is being sued by Tesla shareholders arguing he manipulated the firm's share price, has said he cannot get a fair trial in San Francisco.\n\nHe wanted the trial to take place in Texas - where he has moved Tesla's headquarters - but that was rejected.\n\nA jury has been selected, after jurors completed a pre-trial questionnaire.\n\nThe case centres on 2018 tweets, saying that he would take Tesla private. US regulators removed Mr Musk as Tesla chairman because of the posts.\n\nOn 7 August 2018, he tweeted that he had \"funding secured\" to take the carmaker private in what would be a $72bn (£58.7bn) buyout.\n\nIn a second tweet, Musk added that \"investor support is confirmed,\" and that the deal was only awaiting a vote by shareholders. No such deal went ahead.\n\n\"The claim is that the investors felt that they were defrauded by Musk's tweet, that he was considering taking Tesla private and critically, that he had funding secured for it,\" Robert Bartlett, law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told Reuters.\n\n\"That turned out not to be the case. So when the stock price rose after the news, they allegedly bought, and then it collapsed when the truth came out. They claimed that that was fraud.\"\n\nThe Tesla chief executive, however, argued that he believed he had secured funding from Saudi Arabia's Investment Fund, and did not commit securities fraud.\n\n\"I think he's a little off his rocker, on a personal level,\" one possible juror wrote on a questionnaire asking whether they could be impartial.\n\n\"I truly believe you can't judge a person until you walk in their shoes,\" said another possible juror, who added that Mr Musk seemed \"narcissistic\".\n\nAnother person said Mr Musk had a \"mercenary\" personality because he's \"willing to take risks… that's my image of him\".\n\nAnother called him a \"fast-rising business man\", while yet another said he was a \"smart, successful pioneer\".\n\n\"I think he is not a very likable person,\" said one person, according to Yahoo.\n\nWhen asked by the judge whether that meant she would not be impartial towards him, the woman responded: \"A lot of people are not necessarily likable people…. sometimes I don't like my husband.\"\n\nUltimately a jury of nine people was chosen, and opening arguments are set to begin on Wednesday.\n\nMr Musk argued that mass sackings at Twitter, a company he bought last year, affected many employees in the Californian city, and a fair trial couldn't take place there.\n\nHowever, on Friday the judge said the trial would go ahead in California.\n\nIf a San Francisco jury rules in the shareholders' favour, Mr Musk could be ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages.\n\nHe has already paid $20m to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the tweet, while Tesla had to pay another $20m.\n\nHis tweet has become legendary in Silicon Valley, as it showed the sheer power that Twitter can have.\n\nLegal experts said they believe it will be a difficult case for Mr Musk to win, and that the fine he paid to the SEC will be used against him in the case. However, jury trials in cases of fraud are notoriously difficult to predict.\n\nThe case may see Mr Musk give evidence under oath. The witness list includes Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and media tycoon James Murdoch. It is expected to last around three weeks.", "Nurses are walking out of more hospitals in their latest strike action on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a row over pay.\n\nThe strikes are taking place at 55 Trusts in England affecting around a quarter of hospitals and community services.\n\nIf you have a medical appointment, the advice is to go anyway unless you've been told otherwise.\n\nGP practices will run as normal as nurses working in those services are not involved in the strike action.\n\nAnd all nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work, but routine check-ups and other operations such as hip replacements may be affected.\n\nStrike action from teachers also continues in Scotland.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThe nurses' strike by Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members follows two days of action before Christmas.\n\nRoutine check-ups may have to be rescheduled, although life-preserving care must be provided.\n\nSo services such as chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and intensive care will be staffed, but other care such as knee and hip replacements and hernia repair are likely to be affected.\n\nAnyone who is seriously ill or injured should still call 999, or 111 for non-urgent care.\n\nOn Wednesday teachers in Scotland are continuing their 16-day wave of rolling strikes with every local authority affected over the period.\n\nMembers of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) will strike in two local authorities per day from 16 January until 6 February.\n\nThey want a 10% pay rise, which ministers and councils have said is unaffordable.\n\nStrikes recently closed almost every primary and secondary school in Scotland across two days.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said there are \"no accidents at war time\" after 14 people died in a helicopter crash in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nUkraine has not claimed Russian involvement, but Mr Zelensky told the World Economic Forum in Davos the tragedy was a consequence of the war.\n\nMr Zelensky also used his video address to urge allies to quickly send more weapons before new Russian offensives.\n\n\"The time the free world uses to think is used by the terrorist state to kill,\" he explained. The remark was interpreted as a request for Germany to hurry along a delivery of its much-coveted Leopard tanks.\n\nBerlin has reportedly been unwilling to send the vehicles unless the US commits to providing its own Abrams battle tanks. The UK recently pledged to send a number of its own tanks to Kyiv.\n\nThe head of the Nato military alliance said at Davos on Wednesday that Ukraine could expect to receive \"more support, more advanced support, heavier weapons and more modern weapons\".\n\nJens Stoltenberg said Nato's member states would meet on Friday to discuss what military equipment could be sent to Kyiv.\n\nWednesday's helicopter crash occurred near a nursery in Brovary, outside Kyiv, at around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT). One of the 14 who died was a child.\n\nMr Monastyrsky, 42, was one of President Zelensky's longest serving political advisers. He is the highest-profile Ukrainian casualty since the war began.\n\nHis death cuts to the heart of the government in Kyiv as the interior ministry has the vital task of maintaining security and running the police during the war.\n\nHe was a recognisable face for Ukrainians throughout the war, updating the public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes since Ukraine was invaded in February 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office said Mr Monastyrsky had been travelling to a war \"hot spot\". The head of police in Kharkiv added that the ministerial team had been on its way to meet him.\n\nThere is no indication the crash was anything other than an accident.\n\nBut the SBU state security service said it was considering several possible causes - including sabotage, a technical malfunction or breach of flight rules.\n\nKey officials are often flown by helicopter across Ukraine at tree-level to avoid detection, but that comes with risks.\n\nAll that was recognisable of the helicopter was a door panel and one of its rotors which landed on the roof of a car. Next to it were three bodies covered in foil blankets.\n\nThe remains of the helicopter were visible outside a residential building in Brovary\n\nOther officials who died in the crash included first deputy minister Yevhen Yenin and state secretary Yuriy Lubkovych, as well as Tetiana Shutiak, an aide to Mr Monastyrsky.\n\nFollowing the disaster, Ihor Klymenko - the head of Ukraine's national police force - was appointed acting interior minister.\n\nA friend of the late minister, MP Mariia Mezentseva, said it was a tragedy for everyone as the ministry had a significant role in Ukraine's response to the invasion.\n\n\"He responded 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family. He was very close to President Zelensky from day one of his presidential campaign,\" she told the BBC.\n\nParents were bringing their children to the kindergarten before going to work when the helicopter came down nearby.\n\nMany of the casualties were on the ground. As well as the child that was killed, 11 of the 25 injured on the ground were youngsters.\n\nWitnesses in Kyiv agreed with President Zelensky that the war was to blame for the disaster.\n\n\"It was very foggy and there was no electricity, and when there's no electricity there are no lights on the buildings,\" local resident Volodymyr Yermelenko told the BBC.\n\nOther witnesses said the pilot had tried to avoid high-rise buildings before the crash, and instead went down near the kindergarten.\n\n\"Parents were running, screaming. There was panic,\" said local volunteer Lidiya. Emergency services and residents rushed to evacuate the children as fire spread through the nursery building.\n\nOne resident, Dmytro, described jumping over a fence to help get children out. He said he picked up one girl whose father did not recognise her as her face was covered in blood.\n\nThe incident came four days Ukraine was hit by one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the start of the war.\n\nA Russian missile hit a block of flats in the central city of Dnipro, killing 45 people, including six children.", "Sister André, a French nun who took her vows in 1944, died at her nursing home in Toulon aged 118\n\nMs Randon - who assumed the name Sister André when she became a nun in 1944 - died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, France.\n\nBorn in 1904 in southern France, she lived through two world wars and dedicated much of her life to Catholicism.\n\n\"Only the good Lord knows\" the secret of her longevity, she told reporters.\n\nBorn when Tour de France had only been staged once, Sister André also saw 27 French heads of state.\n\nA spokesman from her nursing home, David Tavella, shared news of her death with reporters on Tuesday.\n\n\"There is great sadness but... it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it's a liberation,\" Mr Tavella said.\n\nSister André was said to have a close relationship with her brothers. She once told reporters one of her fondest memories was their safe return from fighting at the end of World War One.\n\n\"It was rare,\" she recalled. \"In families there were usually two dead rather than two alive\".\n\nDespite being blind and reliant on a wheelchair, Sister André cared for other elderly people - some of whom were much younger than herself.\n\nIn an interview last April with the AFP news agency, Sister André said: \"People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working until I was 108.\"\n\nDuring the same interview, she said she would be better off in heaven, but continued to enjoy earthly pleasures like eating chocolate and drinking a glass of wine every day.\n\nShe had been Europe's eldest for some time, but she entered the Guinness Book of Records last April as the world's oldest person following the death of Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lived until she was 119 years old.\n\nIt was not her first time in the record books. In 2021 she became the oldest person to recover from Covid-19.\n\nSister André was born into a Protestant family, but later converted to Catholicism, before being baptised when she was 26 years old.\n\nDriven by her desire to \"go further\", she joined an order of nuns known as the Daughters of Charity about 15 years after her decision to join the Catholic Church.\n\nShe was assigned to a hospital in Vichy, where she spent most of her working life, about 31 years.\n\nIn one of her last interviews, she told reporters: \"People should help each other and love each other instead of hating. If we shared all that, things would be a lot better.\"", "Nurses are striking in around a quarter of NHS services across England.\n\nStaff will continue to provide \"life-preserving\" and some urgent care but routine surgery and other planned treatment is likely to be disrupted.\n\nYou can see if an organisation is affected in your area using our interactive table below.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An attempted burglar was identified after he was caught on video trying door handles at 15 homes in a single night.\n\nPolice in Peterborough appealed for doorbell footage after receiving a number of reports about suspicious behaviour on 12 July.\n\nKennie Owen, 44, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to 15 charges of attempted burglary and was jailed for three years and two months at Huntingdon Crown Court.\n\nDet Con Matt Reed, from Cambridgeshire Police, said: \"This is a really good example of simple measures that can be put in place to prevent your home from being burgled, but also in helping us catch any offenders.\n\n\"Video doorbells can sometimes act as a deterrent, but also clearly capture anyone committing crime.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak: The north of England has won the most funding per person\n\nRishi Sunak has defended the latest allocation of levelling up money which saw the richer South East of England region get more than the north-east.\n\nThe prime minister said the north had received the most amount of cash in terms of funding per person.\n\nThe government has also argued that parts of the south are deprived and need investment.\n\nLabour claimed North East England was \"one of the big losers\" from a funding model it says is unfair.\n\nA total of 111 areas across the UK have been awarded money from the second round of the government's Levelling Up Fund.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe, Lancashire, will get £50m to help regenerate a derelict site on the seafront into an eco-tourism attraction.\n\nThere will also be a £50m grant to build a new direct train service linking Cornwall's largest urban areas.\n\nBut London boroughs will get more than both Yorkshire and the North East of England.\n\nAre you concerned about the announcement? Please get in touch.\n\nMr Sunak toured the north of England, starting in Accrington, in Lancashire, which is getting £20m to improve its town square, to promote the policy.\n\nHe said: \"Two thirds of all the levelling up funding is going to the most deprived parts of our country.\n\n\"Levelling up is about making sure people feel pride in the places they call home - it's about driving jobs and investment.\"\n\nHe also defended the £19m awarded to his own constituency of Richmond, in North Yorkshire, arguing the money would benefit armed forces personnel based in Catterick Garrison.\n\nAsked during an event in Morecambe if the distribution of funding was politically motivated, Mr Sunak replied that \"around half\" of the funds had gone to non-Conservative areas.\n\nCamden is one of the London boroughs in line for levelling up cash\n\nThe London Borough of Camden - where Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has his constituency - will receive £7m for cycling and walking infrastructure and local GP services.\n\nLabour has argued the money does not make up for past cuts made by Conservative governments.\n\nShadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"It takes an extraordinary arrogance to expect us to be grateful for a partial refund on the money they have stripped out of our communities.\"\n\nShe criticised the funding model and said her party would end the \"competitive-style bidding\" process, but would not cancel projects that had already been given the green light.\n\nThe idea of \"levelling up\" - or reducing regional inequality - was a key part of Boris Johnson's 2019 election campaign. Its aim was to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the country by improving services such as education, broadband and transport.\n\nOther projects set to get funding include:\n\nOverall this latest pot of funding sees the north-west of England receive the most money getting £354m.\n\nThe south-east comes second with £210m while London gets £151m.\n\nNorthern Ireland and the north-east are the regions allocated the least - £71m and £108m respectively.\n\nThe first pot of levelling up funding, announced in October 2021, saw £1.7bn awarded to 105 projects.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe will be a sister site to an existing attraction in Cornwall\n\nConservative party campaign headquarters have denied reports they have told MPs in marginal seats to stop using the phrase \"levelling up\" due to concerns the public do not know what it means.\n\nA Conservative source told the BBC that MPs had \"been told the precise opposite\" and had instead been told how best to use the phrase based on the party's opinion research.\n\nThe BBC has been told that, for example, MPs have been told not just to talk to constituents about how much money has been spent, but instead to talk about specific things that have changed for their area.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, former top civil servant at the now-defunct Brexit Department, described the process of distributing funding as \"completely crackers\".\n\n\"£2bn of public money is being distributed across the nation by a bunch of civil servants who have probably not been to the vast majority of the places they are distributing money to - how can this be sensible,\" he asked at a think tank Reform event.\n\nThe North West of England got the most money in both rounds of this process. The South East and South West fared better in the second round than the first while Yorkshire and the Humber did much better first time round. A third round is still to come.\n\nThe government has defended the allocations by looking at funding per head of the population in the particular areas.\n\nSo while the South East got almost twice as much money as the North East, its population is about four times as big, so its funding per person is considerably lower.\n\nBy that metric, London and the South East are near the bottom of the table along with Yorkshire and the Humber, while the North West and North East are both near the top, as is Wales.\n\nKevin Bentley from the Local Government Association (LGA) said the allocation of levelling up funding should be \"locally led by evidence\" of where investment is needed rather than \"based on costly competitive bids between areas\".\n\nHe also warned fulfilling projects had become more challenging due to rising inflation and costs.\n\nHead of the Local Government Information Unit think tank Jonathan Carr-West said: \"People will debate whether these allocations are right or fair but the real problem here is that this is a crazy way to fund local government.\"\n\nHe argued that councils were putting \"huge\" resources into applying for the funds, diverting money from \"other useful and necessary things\".\n\nCardiff is getting £50m for a new rail line between Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Central Station", "The video shows Mr Hunt explaining inflation by using coffee cups\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has been compared to Mr Bean over a social media video in which he uses coffee cups to explain inflation.\n\nIn the video, Mr Hunt orders a flat white before explaining what he is doing to tackle rising prices.\n\nHe says a cup of coffee a year ago was around £2.50, but is now £3. He then sets out the reasons for high inflation, such as the war in Ukraine.\n\nBoth Labour and Liberal Democrats criticised the chancellor's video.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year but many expect this to happen anyway largely due to a slowdown in energy price rises and as post-pandemic supply problems ease.\n\nThe government's official independent forecaster the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects inflation, which measures the rate of price rises, to fall to 3.75% by the end of this year - well below half the current level.\n\nAnd the Bank of England expects it to drop to around 5%. The Bank's target rate is 2%.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the expected fall in inflation \"does not have much to do with government policies\".\n\nInstead, he said it would largely be driven by the fall in commodity prices and shipping costs over the last six months working its way through to prices for food and other goods, along with energy bills starting to fall back in the second half of this year.\n\n\"They [government] will be able to take some credit if they stand firm on public sector pay rises, but this is just one relatively small part of the overall puzzle,\" he said. \"The biggest driver of the fall in inflation will be global developments in food, energy and goods prices.\"\n\nThe video was released after the latest inflation figures were released early on Wednesday.\n\nAlthough price rises slowed for a second month in a row, the cost of food including milk, cheese and eggs kept inflation close to a 40-year high of 10.5% in the year to December.\n\nSarah Olney, the Lib Dems' Treasury spokesperson, said the \"last thing\" families needed was a \"Mr Bean-esque video\" from the Conservative party.\n\n\"What's even more shocking is that Jeremy Hunt airbrushed one of the main causes of economic pain - Liz Truss' disastrous mini-budget that resulted in the biggest tax hike for a generation,\" she added.\n\n\"How is that supposed to help Britain with inflation?\"\n\nA Labour source added: \"The chancellors 'not me guv' explainer misses out the fundamental fact that the British public have been so exposed to economic shocks and the energy crisis because of 13 years of Tory failure.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the video, posted on early Wednesday, Mr Hunt explains there are \"lots of reasons\" inflation has gone up, citing Covid, and the war in Ukraine pushing up food and energy prices.\n\n\"All that means is the price of a cup of coffee has gone up,\" he adds.\n\nMr Bean was a British sitcom, co-created and played by Rowan Atkinson\n\nMr Hunt says the government is investing in renewable and nuclear energy and energy efficient programmes as well as taking \"difficult decisions to balance the nation's books\" to \"halve inflation\".\n\n\"That's what's happening, and that's our plan\", he adds.\n\nIn response to the clip, Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator magazine, tweeted: \"I wonder if Hunt explains that a Chancellor has no real power over inflation - and that it's expected to halve in France, Germany, US, Canada, Israel & more.\n\n\"None of whose finance ministers are trying to take credit for this global trends.\"\n\nAnother user responded: \"Who makes these? The script, camera angles, editing and even lens choices come together to create a condescending, mid-20th-century didactic tone.\"\n\nFormer Education Secretary Kit Malthouse also appeared to question the content of the message with the comment: \"Money supply?\"", "Ukraine's interior minister has been killed in a helicopter crash near a nursery in Brovary, east of Kyiv.\n\nDenys Monastyrsky, his first deputy minister and state secretary were among 14 people who died in the incident. A child was one of the other victims.\n\nOfficials often fly at low altitude to avoid Russian missiles but the cause of the crash is being investigated.", "Ministers have clashed with opposition and Conservative MPs over their plans to scrap EU-era laws copied over to UK law after Brexit.\n\nThe government's Retained EU Law Bill will see thousands of laws expire automatically after December, unless they are specifically kept or replaced.\n\nSome MPs have raised concerns the deadline will rob Parliament of a meaningful say over what is changed.\n\nBut a business minister said it would set a \"clear timeline\" to update laws.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Nus Ghani told MPs it would ensure laws inherited from the EU do not become an \"ageing relic dragging down the UK\".\n\nAmendments suggested by Labour to extend the deadline to 2026, and exempt swathes of environmental and employment legislation, were defeated after the government ordered Tory MPs to vote them down.\n\nA cross-party attempt to give MPs a bigger say over which laws are ditched was also defeated, although a handful of rebel Conservatives backed it.\n\nThe bill was given final approval by MPs on Wednesday, but is expected to run into significant opposition when it heads to the House of Lords for further scrutiny in the coming weeks.\n\nMs Ghani said that, so far, the government had identified 3,200 EU laws that were copied over to UK law to minimise disruption to businesses when the UK officially left the EU in 2020.\n\nThat figure was expected to rise to 4,000 as an official audit carried out by civil servants continued, she added.\n\nThe bill would allow ministers to amend or replace EU laws using secondary legislation, a fast-track process for making new laws, prompting concerns about a lack of scrutiny.\n\nOfficials have predicted that around 1,000 new UK laws will be required to remove or replace EU-era legislation by the December deadline.\n\nBob Neill, one of several Tory MPs backing the unsuccessful amendment to give MPs more control over ditching EU laws, said the bill as it stood would lessen Parliament's role in reviewing legislation.\n\nAnother Tory supporting the change, former Brexit secretary and leading Leave campaigner David Davis, said he wanted to avoid giving ministers the power to change laws by \"diktat\".\n\nHe added that MPs were being asked to \"sign a blank cheque\", and some EU-era legislation was too important to change or remove via a fast-track process.\n\nUnder their amendment, the government would have had until the end of September to draw up a list of laws it wanted to scrap, with MPs then able to add or remove legislation from the list after a vote.\n\nRetained EU law touches on various areas - including the labelling and marketing of chocolate products\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, shadow employment rights minister Justin Madders said pushing back the deadline was important to ensure \"vital regulation\" did not cease to be law \"by accident\".\n\nHe added that the December time limit had been \"plucked out of thin air\", branding it a \"deadline in search of a headline\".\n\nLiberal Democrat business spokesperson Sarah Olney also criticised the deadline, accusing ministers of \"running roughshod\" over Parliament by changing laws at \"breakneck speed\".\n\nThe criticism was rejected by Ms Ghani, who said the government did not plan to weaken protections, and the bill was a chance to ensure the UK economy was competitive.\n\nCampaign groups have raised the alarm over the risk posed to environmental regulation, an area where the footprint of EU-era legislation is particularly large.\n\nEU-derived legislation in this area covers huge issues such as water quality, air pollution standards and protections for wildlife, as well areas as diverse as mollusc farming, border checks on imported salamanders, and rules for importing hay.\n\nEU laws covering financial services are exempted from the deadline as they have been carved out into another bill making its way through the Commons. The same is expected for EU legislation affecting VAT and customs.\n\nSome of the EU laws affect areas areas governed by ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - but the UK government is yet to publish a breakdown.\n\nThe SNP-led Scottish government and Labour-run Welsh government have both expressed concerns about the bill, and recommended that their respective parliaments withhold their approval.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak, who promised during his unsuccessful summer leadership campaign to review or scrap EU laws within 100 days of taking office, has faced pressure from some Brexiteers not to change the end-of-year deadline.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg, who introduced the bill as business secretary under Liz Truss, said it was one of the \"really important completions of Brexit\" - and MPs opposing it had \"opposed Brexit all along\".\n\nHe added that he hoped the House of Lords would note the bill's \"strong democratic mandate\" from MPs when they came to consider it.", "Samuel Beames went to the charity Christians Against Poverty to help sort out his debts\n\n\"Deep down, you feel like a failure,\" Samuel Beames admits.\n\nAfter losing his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, he had crippling debts from loans and store cards.\n\nSamuel, 32, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, has received help from a charity to try to sort out his financial situation.\n\nBut a debt advisor has warned that many more people in Samuel's position are borrowing money to try to cope with the rising cost of living.\n\n\"I was a manager in a shoe shop in Cwmbran, and after that, it spiralled. With no job, we were unable to pay the bills properly,\" Samuel said.\n\n\"I had a previous relationship that broke down, and I found myself becoming a single parent with my two children at the time, and I just couldn't pay back any of the loans.\"\n\nHe borrowed to pay for essentials, as well as to cover the cost of his first Christmas with the children as a single parent.\n\nWhen he realised he was in above his head, he sought help from the Citizens' Advice Bureau, which suggested he speak to Christians Against Poverty.\n\nKaren Homans says she is worried for people who have paid for Christmas on their credit cards\n\n\"They make you realise that you're not in this on your own,\" Samuel said. \"There's thousands, or millions of people, in the same sort of scenario.\"\n\nChristians Against Poverty (CAP) said it helps anyone, with no pressure to be a Christian or to become involved with the religion.\n\n\"People have put Christmas on credit cards, and are not sure how they are going to pay it off,\" said Karen Homans, the Wales area manager for CAP.\n\n\"We think there will be a knock-on effect in the coming months as people get those credit card [bills] in, and begin to realise they perhaps cannot afford the monthly costs,\" Ms Homans added.\n\nDebt advisers can talk to anyone who is feeling overwhelmed\n\nThe debt charity StepChange warned money borrowed for Christmas could take years to repay.\n\nIndividuals and organisations who help people in debt said they noticed an increase in demand since prices began to rise.\n\nUK inflation fell to 10.5% in the year to December, but was still close to a 40-year high, and high prices have forced people to borrow money to pay for daily essentials.\n\nIndependent debt advisor Sorcha Kennedy said it had got \"busier and busier\" over the past twelve months.\n\nSorcha Kennedy says the people coming to her for debt advise are increasingly on middle incomes\n\n\"This is the busiest and the hardest time I think that I've seen in 20-odd years of money advice.\n\n\"It's very hard because there's an income problem, and it's an expense problem, rather than just debt and wanton spending. It's the cost of living that's really, really difficult to manage.\"\n\nMs Kennedy runs a debt advice service called Money Saviour, having previously worked for the Citizens' Advice Bureau.\n\nShe said the demographic of her clients had changed, with people on middle incomes now more likely to seek help.\n\n\"We have a lot of working families, teachers, people working with the NHS that are having to use food banks that are not able to pay bills.\n\n\"And for a lot of those types of incomes, there's not actually funding [to support them]. A lot of the gas and electricity funding was for vulnerable groups, and quite rightly so.\n\n\"But there's a lot of people that miss out on funding.\n\n\"And they're the ones that we're seeing now, and that are struggling quite a lot.\"\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "German police have denied being \"extras for Greta Thunberg\" after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged.\n\nA viral post falsely claimed the climate activist being held by police was \"all set up for the cameras\".\n\nMs Thunberg and other activists were seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.\n\nThe video of her being removed by police has gained millions of views.\n\n\"We would never give ourselves to make such recordings,\" a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg's detainment was fake.\n\nBut it is important that the police enable reporting and guarantee the protection of media workers, they added.\n\nThe viral video shows the climate campaigner flanked by police officers on either side.\n\nMeanwhile a few photographers can be seen snapping photos and moving around her, as Ms Thunberg smiles.\n\nSeveral other police officers who were also standing nearby appear to be waiting with her before walking her away from the scene.\n\nSome online have jumped onto these moments of officers and Ms Thunberg waiting around, to falsely claim that it is part of a staged photo opportunity.\n\nHowever the interior ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the BBC that the police officers and Ms Thunberg were waiting for logistical reasons.\n\n\"They had to wait for a couple of minutes before they could bring her to a certain police car,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThey added that \"the whole situation has been used by those with political motives and the real reason is entirely practical and mundane.\"\n\nThe viral post with the video of Greta Thunberg and police officers at the protest\n\nChristian Wernicke, a journalist from German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung who was there at the time, said the police officers \"were deciding how they would proceed with the identity check and waiting to take Greta to the police vehicle.\"\n\n\"My impression was that there was confusion. Greta was not the first protester who had been taken away from the sit-in,\" Mr Wernicke added.\n\n\"I've seen different reactions to the video. Some say that the footage looks like the police are setting her up to embarrass her and others say that it is all part of some propaganda.\n\n\"People are interpreting and using this footage for their own motives.\"\n\nMany online also falsely claimed it was a \"fake arrest\" but police clarified that Ms Thunberg had not been arrested but had been briefly detained.\n\nThe group of activists were detained after they \"rushed towards the ledge\" of the Garzweiler 2 mine, police had said on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers also confirmed all of those detained would not be charged.\n\nMs Thunberg has frequently been the target of conspiracy theories and false claims online, often by those who deny the existence of man-made climate change.\n\nShe tweeted: \"Yesterday I was part of a group that peacefully protested the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. We were kettled by police and then detained but were let go later that evening.", "Ch Insp Richard Watkinson, who was suspended, was being investigated for various child offences\n\nA senior Met Police officer who was being investigated over child abuse images has been found dead.\n\nThe body of Ch Insp Richard Watkinson, who was suspended from duty, was found at home in Buckinghamshire on Thursday.\n\nThe officer was being investigated for conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.\n\nHe was first arrested by police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on 9 July 2021.\n\nMr Watkinson was serving with the West Area command unit at the time of the arrest.\n\nDue to \"significant developments in the investigation\", the case was then passed on to specialist officers at the Met Police.\n\n\"Following a conduct referral from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), IOPC investigators arrested a Metropolitan Police Service officer on 9 July, 2021,\" an IOPC spokesman said.\n\n\"We decided it was in the public interest for the matter to be investigated by specialist officers from the force with the necessary skills required in this area,\" he added.\n\nThe senior officer was arrested again on 20 July on suspicion of several offences.\n\nA Met Police spokeswoman said: \"A serving officer was arrested on 9 July 2021 by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and the matter passed back to be investigated by specialist officers from the Met.\n\n\"The officer was further arrested on 20 July 2022 on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.\n\n\"The officer was bailed pending further inquiries and suspended from duty.\"\n\nLast week, Met Police officers attended Mr Watkinson's Buckinghamshire home in what is usually an area covered by Thames Valley Police.\n\nThe Met spokeswoman continued: \"Met officers attended an address in Buckinghamshire on the afternoon of Thursday, 12 January following welfare concerns and found the body of man in his 40s.\n\n\"While Thames Valley Police are dealing with this matter, we can confirm the man was a serving Met officer, based at the West Area Command Unit.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nurses in England are walking out for the second day in a row on Thursday as part of a row over pay.\n\nThe key advice is that if you are seriously injured or ill then call 999 as usual. If it's not urgent then call 111.\n\nGP practices will also run as normal as nurses working in those services are not involved in the strike action.\n\nIn total, around a quarter of hospitals and community services are affected by the strikes at 55 Trusts in England.\n\nAll nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work, as life preserving care must be maintained.\n\nWelsh ambulance workers are also striking on Thursday, but emergency calls will be covered.\n\nStrike action from teachers also continues in Scotland, and bus drivers in south and west London will walk out on Thursday.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThe nurses' strike by Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members on Wednesday and Thursday follows two days of action before Christmas.\n\nWhat you need to know about Thursday:\n\nMore than 1,000 Welsh Ambulance Service workers will strike over pay on Thursday, the Unite union said.\n\nThe strike will run for 24 hours, and there will be further action on 23 January.\n\nEmergency calls will still be answered, the union said.\n\nOn Thursday teachers in Scotland are continuing their 16-day wave of rolling strikes with every local authority affected over the period.\n\nMembers of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) will strike in two local authorities per day from 16 January until 6 February.\n\nThey want a 10% pay rise, which ministers and councils have said is unaffordable.\n\nStrikes recently closed almost every primary and secondary school in Scotland across two days.\n\nBus drivers in south and west London are staging a round of strikes in a dispute over pay.\n\nMembers of the Unite union employed by Abellio are taking action over eight days days in January after three strike days in December.\n\nAbellio London said it was offering a 12% pay deal, but the union said Abellio was \"content to hoard mountains of cash\" and called its offer \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe bus routes that are affected include local services to Heathrow airport.\n\nFerries between Dover and Calais will be disrupted by a strike in France.\n\nP&O Ferries says services to and from Calais will be suspended from 07:00 GMT for nine hours.\n\nFrom 16:00 GMT, a shuttle service between Dover and Calais will run until all traffic is cleared.\n\nDunkerque services from Dover will run as normal but passengers are being advised to allow extra time for journeys.\n\nThe strikes will affect Eurostar services too, which is running a revised timetable on Friday.\n\nThere will be cancellations between London and Paris and on services connecting London to Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.\n\nEurostar says if a service is cancelled, it will not charge passengers for a refund, or to change their tickets for another time or date.\n\nIf someone cancels their booking, they can claim a Eurostar voucher which is valid for one year.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, will tell business leaders in Davos that a Labour government would do more to draw foreign investment into Britain, especially in \"green industries\".\n\nSir Keir, attending the World Economic Forum meeting, said Labour would push to \"bring global investors back\".\n\nHe said foreign investment had declined sharply under the Conservatives.\n\nHis predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, shunned the elite gathering, which he described as a \"billionaires' jamboree\".\n\nBut Sir Keir and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is also attending the meeting of politicians, business people and other influential figures, have taken a much more pro-business stance.\n\nMs Reeves said Labour would \"work in partnership with business\" to boost investment.\n\n\"With Labour in government, Britain will be open for business,\" said Ms Reeves.\n\nLabour wanted to ensure the UK was \"a world leader in the climate transition\", she added.\n\nForeign direct investment (FDI) involves money flowing into the UK from overseas, for example when a foreign firm buys a British factory, or opens a branch in the UK. It can create jobs and boost growth and productivity.\n\nLabour said that foreign investment in the UK had declined while the Conservatives have been in power since 2010, citing United Nations figures.\n\nBetween 1997 and 2010 the UK accounted for 8% of world FDI, but that fell to 4% between 2010 and 2021, the figures show.\n\nIn 2021, UK FDI accounted for 1.7% of world FDI, the lowest since records began.\n\nLabour has been determined to burnish its pro-business credentials under Sir Keir, including courting the financial sector at Canary Wharf and promising to improve trading relations with the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government will be represented at Davos by Business Secretary Grant Shapps and International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.\n\nMr Shapps tweeted a video of himself on Wednesday saying alongside his warm jacket for Davos, he would be packing a \"vision for how we scale up Britain\" as the best place to start and grow a business.\n\nHe highlighted a survey conducted by accountancy firm PwC, published this week which suggested that Britain was the third \"most important\" place in the world for businesses to invest, behind the US and China\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"As a central part of our plan to grow the economy we are supporting business investment, including by permanently setting the Annual Investment Allowance at its highest ever level of £1m from April, and through our generous £13.6bn package of business rates support.\"\n\nThe investment allowance allows businesses to offset investment against their tax bill. The government announced the extra support for businesses that pay rates in its Autumn statement last year.", "Jonathan Edwards says he has support in his constituency to run again.\n\nAn MP who was cautioned by police for assaulting his wife said he could run against his former party at the next election.\n\nCarmarthen East and Dinefwr MP Jonathan Edwards quit Plaid Cymru last year amid a row about his status in the party.\n\nMr Edwards said he has a \"groundswell of support\" locally to stand again.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was \"entirely focused on continuing to deliver policies that make a real difference to people's lives\".\n\nIn May 2020 Mr Edwards was arrested when police were called to his home in Carmarthenshire.\n\nHe received a police caution for common assault on his wife, Emma Edwards. The pair have since divorced.\n\nAt the time he said he was deeply sorry and that it was the biggest regret of his life.\n\nTwo years later he was allowed to re-join Plaid Cymru by a disciplinary panel - triggering an argument about whether he should represent the party in the House of Commons.\n\nMs Edwards said she was \"appalled and disappointed\" that the party reinstated him.\n\nA majority of the party's ruling national executive committee recommended that he should not resume his work as a Plaid Westminster MP - meaning he would have to sit as an independent.\n\nAfter Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price called for him to leave, he quit the party altogether.\n\n\"Part of the process of deciding what to do is the support I am receiving locally, and there is a lot of support from individuals locally,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\nMr Edwards said he had received enough money to stand and fight an election \"from small donations from numerous individuals\".\n\nHe said that if he did stand he would do so on his \"record as an elected member in Carmarthenshire for over a decade-and-a-half\".\n\nAsked if he was a fit and proper person to be an MP, he said: \"That is a matter for the people to decide and determine.\n\n\"There were no procedures against me by the House of Commons at all and there was no prosecution by the police.\"\n\nHe said he completed a specialist course requested by the Plaid Cymru disciplinary panel \"faithfully\".\n\nJonathan Edwards said he was shocked by a statement made by Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price\n\nMr Edwards said he was shocked by a statement by Mr Price that said his actions \"did not represent our values and his position as an MP sends the wrong message out to domestic abuse survivors\".\n\nHe added: \"The disciplinary committee decided I met all their expectations and were happy for me to re-join. Unfortunately the leadership of Plaid Cymru enabled that process to become politicised.\"\n\nHe accused the leadership of Plaid Cymru of taking an \"absolute position\" that an individual should \"should be cancelled and destroyed and that there is no way back for that individual any more\".\n\n\"There is another group of people who believe that if an individual is honest about the mistakes they have done and recognise that they acted improperly and they have taken their punishment, then that individual deserves a second chance.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said: \"The disciplinary process in question has long concluded.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru is now entirely focused on continuing to deliver policies that make a real difference to people's lives through its co-operation agreement with Welsh government, holding the Tories in Westminster to account for their chronic neglect of Wales, and supporting public sector workers in their disputes with the Labour government.\"", "Owners of new cars, motorbikes and vans could be permitted to delay their vehicle's first MoT by a year, under plans to cut costs for drivers.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on proposals to require most vehicles to have their first MoT four years after they are registered.\n\nViews on the frequency of subsequent checks - which are now compulsory every 12 months - are also being sought.\n\nLast April, Boris Johnson's cabinet debated renewing MoTs every two years.\n\nUnder existing regulations, the vast majority of vehicles in England, Scotland and Wales that are three years old or over must have a current MoT test certificate. It must be renewed once a year, at a cost of £54.85 for a car and £29.65 for a standard motorcycle.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, tests are compulsory after four years.\n\nAn MoT tests a vehicle's safety, roadworthiness and exhaust emissions. Parts checked include lights, seatbelts, tyres and brakes.\n\nDrivers who do not have a valid certificate can be fined up to £1,000.\n\nThe DfT said it wanted to \"ensure roadworthiness checks continue to balance costs on motorists while ensuring road safety, keeping up with advances in vehicle technology, and tackling vehicle emissions\".\n\nIt said delaying the first test for new vehicles could save motorists around £100m a year.\n\n\"Major developments in vehicle technology\" had increased road safety since MoTs were introduced in 1960, officials added.\n\nDfT figures show 26 people were killed in crashes on Britain's roads in 2021 when vehicle defects were a contributory factor.\n\nThe department said the number of casualties in crashes caused by vehicle defects is \"low\" and government analysis shows delaying the first MoT \"should not impact road safety\".\n\nBut motoring organisations expressed concern about the proposed changes.\n\nAA president Edmund King said the MoT \"plays a vital role in ensuring that vehicles on our roads are safe and well maintained\".\n\n\"With one in 10 cars failing their first MoT, we strongly discourage the government from extending a car's first MOT to the fourth anniversary due to road safety concerns,\" he added.\n\nThe RAC's head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said: \"While we're not opposed to delaying a new vehicle's first MoT, we believe there should be a requirement for particularly high mileage vehicles to be tested sooner.\n\n\"If the Government is looking to improve the MoT, now is the ideal time to take into account how much a vehicle is driven alongside the number of years it's been on the road.\n\n\"We're also disappointed the government is still entertaining the idea of increasing the time between MoTs.\n\n\"Our research clearly shows drivers don't agree with this and believe it's dangerous.\"\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mohammad Mehdi Karami told his family he was tortured in detention\n\nFour young men have been executed in connection with the nationwide protests that erupted in Iran four months ago, while 18 other people have been sentenced to death. Human rights groups have said they were convicted after grossly unfair sham trials.\n\nMohammad Mehdi Karami, a 22-year-old karate champion, was hanged on 7 January, just 65 days after his arrest.\n\nSources have told BBC Persian that he had less than 15 minutes to defend himself in court.\n\nHis story shows how authorities in Iran are using show trials to strike fear into the hearts of the protesters, who are demanding freedom and an end to the clerical regime.\n\nThe protest movement began after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was detained by morality police in September for allegedly not wearing the mandatory headscarf \"properly\".\n\nAuthorities dismissed the unrest as \"rioting\" and launched a violent crackdown. At least 481 protesters have been killed by security forces, according to Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based non-governmental organisation.\n\nKarami was arrested in connection with the murder of a member of the paramilitary Basij force during protests in the city of Karaj, just west of Tehran, on 3 November.\n\nHe was later charged with the capital offence of \"corruption on Earth\" and went on trial before a Revolutionary Court in Karaj on 30 November along with 16 other people, including three children, also accused of involvement in the murder.\n\nDefendants are entitled to legal representation in Iran, but in sensitive cases like this one, or in espionage cases, they are not allowed to choose their own lawyers. Instead, the court appoints one from a list approved by the judiciary.\n\nSixteen defendants were tried in connection with the murder of a member of the paramilitary Basij force\n\nJournalists and members of the defendant's family are also barred from being in court, so the only window into what happens behind the closed doors is heavily edited footage released by the judiciary.\n\nIn one such video, Karami appears visibly distressed as he \"confesses\" to hitting the Basij member on the head with a rock. His court-appointed lawyer does not challenge or dispute this and, instead, asks the judge for forgiveness. Karami then says he was \"fooled\" and sits down.\n\nOn 5 December, Karami was convicted and sentenced to death. Four of his co-defendants were also sentenced to death, while the children and eight others were handed lengthy jail terms, according to the judiciary.\n\nNormally, defendants' family members come under pressure from authorities to stay silent.\n\nBut Mohammad's father, Mashaalah Karami, who works as a street vendor selling packets of tissues, gave an interview to the Etemad newspaper. He said his son had called him in tears the day that he was sentenced to death.\n\n\"Dad, they gave us the verdict. Mine is the death penalty. Don't tell Mum anything,\" his father recalled, reiterating his son's innocence.\n\nLater, opposition activist group 1500 Tasvir published an account on social media alleging that Karami had been tortured.\n\nIt said he had told his family during a meeting in prison that he had been beaten unconscious by guards. The guards had assumed he was dead and dumped his body in a remote area, but as they left they had realised he was still alive, it added.\n\nKarami also told his family that security agents had \"touched his genitals every day and threatened to rape him\" during interrogations, according to the account.\n\nUnder Iran's legal system, when a lower court passes a death sentence it is sent to the Supreme Court for approval. But even if the Supreme Court endorses the death penalty, it can still be appealed.\n\nKarami's father told Etemad that he had tried to contact the state-appointed lawyer multiple times, but there had been no response.\n\nThe family then tried to hire one of Iran's most prominent human rights lawyers, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi.\n\n\"Mohammad called me from prison three times and asked me to represent him. His parents also urged me to represent their son,\" Mr Aghasi said.\n\nMr Aghasi wrote to the local court and then to the Supreme Court. At every stage, his letters were ignored or rejected. And lodging an appeal against the Supreme Court decision was also ruled out by a judge.\n\nAuthorities have repeatedly said the fast-track trials of protesters and the harsh sentences handed out are meant as a deterrent.\n\nSeyed Mohammad Hosseini, a 39-year-old volunteer children's coach, was also hanged on 7 January, after standing trial alongside Karami for the same crime.\n\nHis parents are dead, so there was no family-led campaign on social media to save his life after he was sentenced. However, many Iranians shared a post saying: \"We are all Mohammad's family.\"\n\nHosseini, who was bipolar, did manage to get independent legal representation after the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence.\n\nSeyed Mohammad Hosseini also appeared in a highly edited video released by the authorities\n\nLawyer Ali Sharifzadeh Ardakani was able to visit him in prison in December and later tweeted about it.\n\n\"He cried throughout the visit. He talked about torture, being beaten while handcuffed and blindfolded, and being kicked in the head and losing consciousness,\" Mr Ardakani wrote.\n\n\"[He is] a man whose confessions have all been obtained under torture and have no legal validity.\"\n\nMr Ardakani submitted papers to appeal the Supreme Court decision and was told to return to court on 7 January. But as he was travelling there, he heard Hosseini had been hanged.\n\nThe lawyer was later detained by the authorities and is currently out on bail. A source told BBC Persian that he faced a complaint from the Karaj prosecutor related to his tweet alleging that Hosseini was tortured.\n\nHuman rights groups have condemned Iran's judicial system for relying on \"forced confessions\".\n\nA source has told BBC Persian that the state-appointed lawyers effectively act as \"interrogators\" during trials, piling the pressure on the accused, rather than defending them.\n\nIran Human Rights reports that at least 109 protesters are currently at risk of execution, having been sentenced to death or charged with capital offences. It has established the ages of 60 of those protesters, and says the average is 27, with three under 18.\n\nAfter Seyed Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Mehdi Karami were hanged, Western countries and human rights groups demanded that Iran immediately halt executions.\n\nMashaalah Karami, Mohammed Mehdi's father, was filmed mourning beside his grave\n\nBut a week later, the judiciary announced that it had hanged British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, a former top Iranian defence ministry official who was convicted of spying for the UK. In an audio recording obtained by BBC Persian last week, Akbari alleged that he had been tortured and forced to \"confess\" to crimes he did not commit.\n\nMeanwhile, yet another heart-breaking symbol of the protest movement was shared on social media.\n\nA video showed Maashalah Karami kneeling at his son's grave, wearing what appears to be his son's yellow jumper\n\nHe is seen holding a photo of his son in one hand and clutches his own throat with the other hand, mimicking a noose.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were last spotted, on CCTV, near East Ham underground station, on 7 January\n\nThe father of a newborn baby who police want to trace is a registered sex offender, US police records reveal.\n\nThe baby has been missing since their parents' car broke down and caught fire on the M61 near Bolton, on 5 January.\n\nSince then, Constance \"Toots\" Marten and Mark Gordon appear to have been avoiding police, moving to Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester and London in quick succession.\n\nMs Marten, 35, is from a wealthy family but is estranged from them, say police.\n\nKnown to her friends as Toots, she grew up in a stately home in Dorset which was used as a set for the 1996 film of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\nShe had a privileged upbringing, attending a private school, university and drama school - but after meeting Gordon, 48, everything changed.\n\n\"At that point the affluent, normal, social aspects of Constance's life, they stop,\" Det Ch Insp Payne said.\n\n\"Then it is just Mark and Constance. They're estranged from family from what we can understand.\"\n\nGordon, whom she met in 2016, has been a registered sex offender in the UK since 2010, having been convicted in Florida of a rape he committed aged 14.\n\nHe served some 20 years in prison in the United States before being deported to Britain.\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon have been missing since their car broke down on the M61 in Greater Manchester\n\n\"Our top priority is ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the newborn baby,\" Det Supt Lewis Basford, of the Metropolitan Police, said.\n\n\"We have no evidence to suggest that either Constance or the baby have been assessed by medical professionals.\"\n\nPolice do not even know if the child was born prematurely or went full term.\n\nOnly a day or so old at the time of the car fire, they could have been born in the vehicle, officers say.\n\nThe couple appear to have left their home in Eltham, south-east London, in September, when Ms Marten would have shown the first signs of pregnancy, and have since led a nomadic lifestyle, police say.\n\nAfter the fire, near Farnworth, at 18:30 GMT, they walked off the motorway embankment and flagged down a taxi, which took them to Liverpool.\n\nFrom there, they took another taxi to the Essex port of Harwich but there is no sign of them trying to board a ferry.\n\nAnd on 7 January, they took a taxi from Harwich to East Ham, spending hundreds of pounds in fares in a couple of days.\n\nTaxi drivers report hearing the baby in their cabs.\n\nThe last time they were spotted was that day, on CCTV, near East Ham underground station.\n\nThought to have lost their belongings in the fire, the couple are travelling using cash.\n\nMs Marten has inherited wealth, and officers say the couple are likely to have built up a \"considerable slush fund\" that could allow them to live off-grid for some time.\n\nWhenever they are near CCTV cameras, they look away or cover their faces, police say.\n\nDet Ch Insp Payne said the couple could be anywhere in the UK.\n\n\"We want to find this child - that is our overriding aim,\" he said.", "Lucy Letby is accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others\n\nA mother and father have told how they witnessed medics desperately trying to resuscitate their baby girl on two consecutive mornings, nurse Lucy Letby's murder trial has heard.\n\nMs Letby is accused of trying to kill the infant, referred to as Child H, on two occasions at the Countess of Chester Hospital in September 2015.\n\nShe is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others between 2015 and 2016.\n\nIn a statement read to court, Child H's mother, who is diabetic, explained that she was induced at the hospital on 22 September 2015 due to concerns about her blood sugar levels.\n\nChild H was born six weeks prematurely but doctors initially said she was \"absolutely fine\".\n\nSoon after the birth, her mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the baby \"began to look pale and began to make grunting noises\".\n\nChild H was placed on the neonatal unit, where Ms Letby worked, and was later put on a ventilator.\n\nLucy Letby denies all the charges against her\n\nThe mother said she and the child's father were \"quite annoyed\" they had not been informed about this, and said it was a \"shock\" to see their daughter on a ventilator.\n\nAfter several X-rays, it was established Child H had suffered a suspected lung puncture.\n\nThe following morning, the mother recalled that nursing staff woke her up and told her to come to the neonatal unit \"right away\" and inform the father to come too.\n\nWhen she arrived, Child H was being treated with \"lots of medical\" people surrounding her.\n\n\"It was obvious to me they were resuscitating her\", the mother's statement said.\n\n\"Staff managed to get [Child H] back and continued working on her, they were not able to explain why she suffered a cardiac collapse,\" she said.\n\nThe court was told the baby made a good recovery but later that day her parents were again contacted and told she was \"not responding\".\n\nThe parents were met with an \"almost identical scene\".\n\nFollowing this second incident, Child H was transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital on 27 September.\n\nShe \"improved dramatically\" while at Arrowe Park and was eventually discharged on 9 October, the jury heard.\n\nThere were \"no long-term complications whatsoever\" for Child H, the court was told.\n\nThe baby was being cared for on the neonatal ward at Countess of Chester Hospital\n\nJurors were also shown Facebook messages sent by Yvonne Griffiths, who was then the neonatal unit deputy manager, to Ms Letby on the morning after Child H's first collapse.\n\nMs Griffiths commended Ms Letby for \"all your hard work these last few nights\" and said it was \"nice to see your confidence grow as you advance through your career\".\n\nMs Letby thanked her, adding: \"That's really nice to hear as I gather you are aware of some of the not so positive comments that have been made recently regarding my role which I have found quite upsetting.\n\n\"Our job is a pleasure to do and just hope I do the best for the babies and their family.\"\n\nAfter Child H's second collapse on 27 September, Ms Letby exchanged messages with a former nursing colleague.\n\nMs Letby said: \"It's all just so rubbish lately and always seems to happen at night when less people.\n\n\"Everyone is pretty burnt out and unit been awful.\"\n\nThe court earlier heard from expert witnesses Dr Dewi Evans and Dr Sarah Bohin in relation to the case of Child G.\n\nMs Letby is accused of attempting to murder the infant three times at the Countess of Chester Hospital in September 2015.\n\nThe prosecution alleges Ms Letby overfed Child G with milk through a nasogastric tube or injected air into the same tube.\n\nThe court was shown a nursing note recorded by Ms Letby on the morning of 21 September 2015 which stated that Child G \"had two large projectile milky vomits\" and had \"apnoea\" for a short period.\n\nDr Evans said, in his professional opinion, Child G was given \"far more milk\" during her nasogastric tube feed than the planned 40ml.\n\nHe added: \"'If you had been given 40ml of milk then it would not explain how she had two large projectile vomits and still 30ml of milk left in her stomach\".\n\nThe expert said in his conclusion Child G had received an \"excessive amount of milk\" and \"that caused\" her collapse.\n\nThe jury has previously been told the baby survived but suffered irreversible brain damage and was left with disabilities including quadriplegic cerebral palsy.\n\nText messages sent by Ms Letby in the days after Child G's collapse to a colleague noted how busy the unit was.\n\nShe said: \"It's completely unsafe\", followed by a frowning emoji.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A mother and her husband have denied abusing and murdering an \"innocent and beautiful\" five-year old girl.\n\nNadia Zofia Kalinowska died after sustaining injuries at her home at Fernagh Drive, Newtownabbey, County Antrim in December 2019.\n\nHer mother Aleksandra Wahab, 28, and 34-year-old stepfather, Abdul Wahab, went on trial in Belfast on Wednesday.\n\nThe court heard Nadia's injuries included a fractured skull and laceration to her liver.\n\nProsecution lawyer Liam McCollum KC told Belfast Crown Court that the girl had been subjected to a \"campaign of child abuse\" and that \"a beautiful and innocent five-year-old child was tortured and killed in a place where she should have felt safe and secure\".\n\nThe couple deny murder and other alleged offences of child cruelty and of causing Nadia grievous bodily harm with intent.\n\nMr McCollum warned the jury they could find some of the evidence upsetting and unpleasant because she had suffered \"a large number of very significant injuries\".\n\nThese included a fractured skull, brain damage, injuries to Nadia's pelvis, collarbone and forearm as well as rib fractures and bleeding on the brain.\n\nShe had also sustained 70 surface bruises and abrasions.\n\nThe court heard Nadia was rushed to hospital from her home in Newtownabbey\n\nMr McCollum told the court that a postmortem also revealed injuries to the child's liver and bowel.\n\nHe explained that both the young girl's mother and stepfather claimed the injuries were accidental.\n\nHe said this was \"preposterous\" and insisted that the \"weight and magnitude\" of the injuries suggested serious abuse.\n\nThe prosecutor said Nadia was rushed to hospital after her stepfather Abdul Wahab made a 999 call in the early hours of 15 December 2019.\n\nWhen they arrived, paramedics treated the unconscious child in an upstairs bedroom and observed what they believed to be non-accidental injuries which prompted them to contact police.\n\nNadia was rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital and despite extensive medical intervention, she never regained consciousness. She was pronounced dead at 03:40 GMT.\n\nThe court heard that despite the older injuries, neither Nadia's mother nor stepfather sought any prior medical attention for her.\n\nIn the aftermath of Nadia's death both Mr and Mrs Wahab were arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nMrs Wahab claimed that in the early hours of 15 December, she was woken by something heavy falling, later claiming she saw Nadia lying at the bottom of the stairs in pain.\n\nWhen he was questioned, Mr Wahab said he was woken by his wife who said something had happened to Nadia. He also claimed to have seen Nadia at the bottom of the stairs.\n\nHe said that when he saw blood coming from Nadia's head, he washed her in the bathroom before taking her into a bedroom and calling 999.\n\nThe defendants and their defence teams will present their cases on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nWales' men's and women's senior players will be paid the same for representing their country for the first time.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales [FAW] have agreed a deal that will see equal pay come into effect immediately.\n\nThe Wales men's senior team have agreed to a 25% pay cut to enable a 25% rise for the women's team that will mean parity for representing Wales.\n\n\"I am really happy about the equal pay, it is about equality,\" Wales boss Gemma Grainger explained.\n\n\"Together Stronger has been the mantra across the Cymru national teams for us all, both on and off the pitch as we look to put Wales on the world stage,\" Wales' men's and women's teams said in a joint statement.\n\n\"As part of the FAW's strive towards equality, we are now proud to announce that together, our men's and women's teams have agreed to an equal pay structure for future international matches.\n\n\"We hope that this will allow future generations of boys and girls to see that there is equality across Welsh international football, which is important for society as a whole.\"\n\nThe new equal pay agreement runs until 2027.\n\nWales' women have never been paid the same as Wales' men for playing international football, but Grainger, who recently signed a new deal to remain national team boss until 2027, says she feels paying her side equally will send a powerful message.\n\n\"We want our players to embody Together Stronger, the collaboration with the men's team is something we want to continue,\" she told BBC Sport Wales.\n\n\"Hopefully that collaboration will continue to grow.\n\n\"Equality and making sure what we have here is equal is so important to us. The women's game is growing and will continue to grow.\"\n\nWales join other nations such as United States of America, England, Brazil, Australia, Norway and New Zealand in paying their players the same international match fee.\n\nScotland women's national football team are taking legal action against the Scottish FA in a fight over equal pay and conditions after talks broke down.\n\nDiscussions over agreeing a new pay deal to give parity to Wales' women have been going on for well over a year, with talks initially taking place in November 2021.\n\nFAW chief executive Noel Mooney has been in ongoing discussions with Wales women's senior leadership group, which includes Wales' most-capped player Jess Fishlock, women's captain Sophie Ingle and Wales' record goalscorer Helen Ward.\n\nAn agreement on equal pay was expedited by Wales' men agreeing to a cut to their international match fee, with every member of Robert Page's squad agreeing unanimously to do so.\n\n\"The FAW is a modern, progressive movement that seeks to improve each day,\" Mooney said.\n\nThis is another step towards becoming one of the world's great sports organisations and we thank both the men's and women's squads for their brilliant co-operation in getting this agreed.\"\n\nWales' slogan since before the men's incredibly successful European Championship campaign of 2016 has been 'Together Stronger.' For the first time, that slogan is a reality.\n\nThe notion of 'Together Stronger' carries significant meaning to Wales' supporters, Cymru's Red Wall, with Welsh football suddenly alive with a thriving fan culture. Wales, traditionally known as a rugby country, is now awash with bucket hats.\n\nHowever, until now, Together Stronger has been an advertising slogan, albeit an extremely effective one. Now it can genuinely be seen as an ethos.\n\nNot only have the FAW followed through on their promise to keep doing all they can to promote the women's game - which is already receiving record revenues in Wales - they are now underlining to the world that they value the women's team the same as the men's.\n\nThere is a significance in the Wales men's team agreeing to cut their match fee, because it shows they are supportive of what is hopefully going to be a landmark change in Welsh sport.\n\nWomen's football in Wales has enjoyed an explosion in terms of popularity which is reflected in increased participation and record crowds for Gemma Grainger's team.\n\nThe message to the young people of Wales is clear. Wales values the next Sophie Ingle the same as the next Aaron Ramsey.\n• None Some of the greatest and most inspiring stories in Welsh football\n• None The transformation of the Wales football team", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nGreat Britain's most successful female Olympic athlete Dame Laura Kenny and her husband Sir Jason Kenny are expecting their second child.\n\nTheir son Albie was born in 2017, but Kenny suffered a miscarriage in November 2021 and an ectopic pregnancy in January 2022.\n\nShe announced the pregnancy in a post on Instagram, saying: \"Today I felt like I couldn't hide away any more.\n\n\"I'm already starting to show and the anxiety I have felt has been unreal.\"\n\nWhen Kenny, who became pregnant at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, shared she suffered a miscarriage and had surgery last year, she said \"scared didn't even come close\" to how she felt and that \"sometimes life pushes you to an unbearable limit\".\n\nOn Wednesday she posted a photograph on her Instagram feed of two adult bikes and two children's bikes with a rainbow in the distance.\n\n\"A year ago today I was sat in A&E knowing I was really poorly but not knowing what was wrong with me,\" she said.\n\n\"When I got the news I was having an ectopic pregnancy my world felt like it crumbled. We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there searching for some sort of answers.\n\n\"I still feel this heartbreak today and I don't think it will ever go away.\"\n\nIn another story she added: \"Telling the world means I have to accept we are having another baby and this fills me with all kinds of emotions.\n\n\"I'm scared every single day that I might have to go through the pain of losing another baby. It makes you feel ungrateful for something you've so desperately wanted for the last year.\n\n\"But I also know there are going to be so many people, like I was, seeing my post and wishing I would go away with my happy ending.\n\n\"I also know when I was lying in the hospital bed I was searching for people's happy endings because it was the only thing giving me any comfort at the time. That maybe, just maybe, I would get my happy ending.\"\n\nKenny won five gold medals and a silver across three Olympic Games at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.\n\nJason is the holder of the most Olympic gold medals (seven) and medals (nine) for a British athlete.\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "Rail strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have, rail minister Huw Merriman has said.\n\nThe strikes have cost the UK more than £1bn, he conceded to a committee of MPs.\n\nHowever, Mr Merriman said no deal over pay was viable without unions agreeing to \"modernise\" working practices - a major sticking point in negotiations.\n\n\"It's the reforms that will actually pay for these pay deals,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the future of train operator Transpennine was under review.\n\nWhen quizzed by the Transport Select Committee, Mr Merriman said the rail strikes cost rail organisations £25m per day on week days, and £15m per day on weekends.\n\nHe cited a report that found the strikes had cost the wider UK economy £700m from June to Christmas.\n\nThis has added up to a more than £1bn hit to the UK, he conceded to Labour MP Ben Bradshaw.\n\n\"If you look at it [through] that particular lens, then absolutely, it's actually ended up costing more than would have been the case if it was just settled,\" Mr Merriman said.\n\nHowever, Mr Merriman added that if the government had settled with rail workers last year, it would have set a precedent for other public sector pay disputes.\n\n\"We have to look at what teachers are being given, and what nurses are being given as well,\" he said.\n\nThe UK railway system, which is heavily subsidised by the government, is a patchwork of public and private sector organisations.\n\nAlthough the train operating companies are mainly private sector, it was the taxpayer who was largely funding these pay settlements, Mr Merriman said.\n\nThe UK has been hit by waves of strikes as discontented workers in a number of sectors take action over pay and conditions.\n\nTeachers and nurses are among the public sector workers who have taken strike action, with more strikes to come.\n\nHuw Merriman said rail modernisation would pay for pay deals\n\nMr Merriman told Mps that railway use had not bounced back after the pandemic, and inflation was running higher than a few years ago, making a pay deal that is acceptable to the unions \"harder to deliver\".\n\nRail unions say any pay offer should reflect the rising cost of living, which is currently above 10%.\n\nThe RMT union, which represents rail workers, said Mr Merriman's statements amounted to an admission that \"prolonging the rail dispute was part of a deliberate strategy that was dictated by the government's concern to keep down the pay of rail workers, nurses, ambulance workers and teachers\".\n\n\"The wider economy and the business interests who relied on pre-Christmas trade were just collateral damage in that policy,\" said RMT general secretary Mick Lynch.\n\nMr Lynch also said the government had intervened just before Christmas to \"torpedo\" the talks between the unions and train firms - a charge which Mr Merriman denied to the committee.\n\nMr Merriman also said train operator Transpennine Express' contract is under review.\n\nTranspennine, which operates across the North of England and into Scotland, has been cancelling trains daily for months.\n\nThe company blames high sickness rates and a backlog of driver training due to the pandemic for cancellations.\n\nMr Merriman said that when the Transpennine Express contract comes to end in May, he is \"already looking at what needs to be done... with regards to that contract\".\n\nHe said he had weekly data on Transpennine and another troubled operator, Avanti West Coast, and was monitoring what they were doing to turn things around.\n\nThe government recently gave Avanti six months to the end of March, to urgently improve.\n\nA spokesperson for TransPennine Express said on Thursday: \"We are committed to the communities we serve and want to assure our customers that we are doing all we can to deliver a train service they can rely on.\"\n\nTranspennine \"continues to work flat-out to deliver higher levels of service delivery and to tackle the issues that are being experienced by customers,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Máirtín MacGabhann says the delay in introducing an organ donation law named after his son Dáithí is not acceptable\n\nThe father of a boy waiting for a heart transplant said he is devastated that an opt-out organ donation system will be delayed from taking effect due to Stormont's stalemate.\n\nThe new law automatically makes people organ donors unless they specifically state otherwise.\n\nIt is named Dáithí's Law, after Máirtín's six-year-old son who is on the organ transplant waiting list.\n\nIt was due to come into force this spring but cannot go forward without a functioning government.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK where an opt-out system is not yet in place.\n\nThe family of Dáithí had long campaigned for a change in the law.\n\nMr MacGabhann said the family would be writing to the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris in the hope it might be in his power to bring it forward.\n\n\"To wake up this AM to hear that it won't go live in spring 2023 as planned is devastating and unacceptable,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nThe delay in enacting the law relates to extra legislation, which must be passed by Stormont.\n\nIn a communication seen by BBC News NI, the Department of Health said that \"secondary legislation is required to clarify which organs and tissues are covered\" under the opt-out system.\n\nIt states that legislation has been \"prepared and is ready to be introduced\" in the assembly, but the ongoing political deadlock means that cannot happen yet.\n\nStormont has been without a functioning government for 11 months as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is blocking the formation over its opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSecondary legislation is commonly used to fill in the gaps of new laws to enable them to be enforced and, if needed, updated over time.\n\nThe Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill was approved by assembly members (MLAs) at Stormont last February.\n\nThere was then a built-in 12-month implementation period including the recruitment of staff, training and education with the system expected to kick in from spring 2023, following the passing of the secondary legislation.\n\nThe Department of Health said contingency plans have been activated that would allow its implementation planning to \"remain in a state of readiness pending the restoration of the assembly\".\n\nIt added that, until then, public awareness campaigns will continue to promote the forthcoming law change.\n\nBut the department said: \"It is not possible in the absence of the assembly to confirm a 'go-live' date for Dáithí's Law.\"\n\nThe bill is called Dáithí's law after six-year-old Dáithí MacGabhann, who is waiting for a heart transplant\n\nMr MacGabhann told BBC News NI it was particularly frustrating because a lot of work had gone into getting the legislation to where it is now.\n\n\"Everything that needs to happen is just a formality - the hard work has been done.\"\n\n\"This is life-saving legislation,\" he said, adding that it was devastating to see families waiting for an organ.\n\n\"It does not bother me if it's going to take someone in Westminster to push this forward.\"\n\nHe added: \"I asked Dáithí last night: 'When do we need Dáithí's Law?\" and he shouted at the top of his voice: 'Now!'\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell said he believed the law can be changed at Westminster.\n\n\"If Stormont wasn't there full stop, Westminster would have to act,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle's Breakfast Show.\n\nHe said that he and others would be raising it in Westminster to get action as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the blocking of the law \"because one party has refused to enter the assembly\" is unacceptable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw said she has written to Mr Heaton-Harris asking him to use powers, in the absence of a minister, to enable the department to enact the system.\n\nThe head of British Heart Foundation in Northern Ireland, Fearghal McKinney, said he wanted to see the legislation in place as soon as possible.\n\n\"We encourage everyone eligible to register as an organ donor and to have the conversation with their families and loves to share their wishes so they can give the gift of life to others,\" he added.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office has urged the political parties to form an executive to resolve issues within the health service.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The absence of a Northern Ireland Assembly is causing unnecessary delays in the introduction of this life-saving legislation and the secretary of state urges the Northern Ireland parties to come back to the executive, get back to work and take these decisions in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland.\"", "Abigail Wooding was still shielding after restrictions were lifted because her body didn't produce Covid antibodies\n\nA woman who shielded from Covid-19 for two-and-a-half years has spent more than £2,000 getting a drug to improve her immunity.\n\nAbigail Wooding took Evusheld because she has a weak immune system and is less protected by Covid vaccines.\n\nThere have been calls for the Covid prevention drug to be made available for free on the NHS.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was awaiting guidance from the medicines regulator.\n\nEvusheld is an antibody treatment taken twice a year to protect people like Abigail who have a weaker immune system.\n\nThe 50-year-old from Narberth, Pembrokeshire, has common variable immunodeficiency which puts her at a higher risk of getting seriously ill from Covid.\n\nThe treatment is currently only available privately after the UK government said it would not supply Evusheld due to a lack of evidence over how well it works against the Omicron variant.\n\nAbigail had six Covid vaccines but her body failed to produce the antibodies needed to fight the virus.\n\nSo she and her family remained cautious, even after restrictions ended.\n\n\"You're seeing people go out about their business and wanting to do the same and wanting to see your friends and family,\" she said.\n\nThe antibody treatment boosts protection against Covid for those whose immune systems do not respond well to vaccines\n\n\"If you are still the one shielding or wearing a mask, maybe [people may think] you're a bit hysterical, which is quite hard.\"\n\nMs Wooding's teenage daughter started home-schooling because she was was anxious about bringing the virus into their home.\n\n\"It wasn't fair to her more than anything else. It's just too difficult, it's too restrictive. So, I didn't really feel I had much of an option,\" said Ms Wooding, who said it prompted her to pay for Evusheld in November.\n\nAbigail felt it was not fair to her family to continue shielding so she bought a dose of Evusheld on her credit card\n\nAs well as the cost of the dose she had to pay for a private consultation, for the drug to be administered, and for her own travel to London, costing her around £2,000 in total.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't have the money, I had to put it on credit card. And I will have to with the next dose again.\"\n\nTesting after the Evusheld jab showed she had Covid antibodies for the first time, and she said the impact on her and her children's lives has been huge.\n\n\"Going in and out of friends' houses, having friends over for lunch, going to restaurants, cafes, the pub,\" she said.\n\n\"It's normality. But I shouldn't have to pay for normality\" she said.\n\nAbigail says not having to shield is \"normality\" something she thinks she should not have to pay for\n\nEvusheld was approved for use in March, but was reviewed after the Omicron variant emerged.\n\nData published in July last year showed people who had taken it were half as likely to get Covid-19 as those who did not take the drug.\n\nIts manufacturer AstraZeneca said there was \"ample real-world data\" that it worked. It is currently available in 32 countries, including the United States, France, and Canada.\n\nRichard Stanton, professor of virology at Cardiff University, said: \"Having these kinds of drugs available is really important to provide immunocompromised people with some confidence that, if they catch the virus, there's a way of treating it and a way of preventing them ending up in hospital.\"\n\nThe UK government announced in August that it would wait until Evusheld had been appraised by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) before deciding if it will be made available on the NHS.\n\nNICE began evaluating whether Evusheld is clinically and cost effective in August, with the full appraisal expected to take about eight months.\n\nPeople who take immunosuppressants, including leukaemia, kidney, and pulmonary fibrosis patients, could also benefit from Evusheld.\n\nSteve Jones, chair of Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis, said: \"We are in a situation now where even if it NICE are positive, it is unlikely that Evusheld will become available until after Easter. One full year after America and other developed countries. This is completely unacceptable to patients.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said there are no plans to offer Evusheld on the NHS\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"There are no plans to procure Evusheld at this time. There has been no significant new evidence to suggest it is effective against omicron variants and recent research suggests its effectiveness is compromised against newer variants this winter.\n\n\"NICE is currently considering the evidence for Evusheld and we will review the position once the guidance is published.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe three main figures in Ukraine's interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.\n\nInterior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, died alongside his first deputy minister and state secretary.\n\nFourteen people died when the helicopter came down in Brovary around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT), including one child, authorities said.\n\nThere is no indication the crash was anything other than an accident.\n\nBut the SBU state security service said it was following several possible causes for the crash, which included sabotage as well as a technical malfunction or breach of flight rules.\n\nThe helicopter came down near a kindergarten building which was left badly damaged and blackened by smoke.\n\nThe State Emergency Service had previously stated that up to 18 people were killed but later revised the death toll from the crash, saying 14 had died.\n\nMr Monastyrsky, who was one of President Volodymyr Zelensky's longest serving political advisers, is the highest profile Ukrainian casualty since the war began.\n\nThe deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said the minister had been travelling to a war \"hot spot\" when his helicopter went down.\n\nThe head of police in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, Volodymyr Tymoshko, said the ministerial team were on their way to meet him there and he had spoken to them only yesterday.\n\nThe minister's death cuts to the heart of the government in Kyiv as the interior ministry has the vital task of maintaining security and running the police during the war.\n\nAppearing via video-link at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Zelensky asked leaders to observe a minute of silence for the lives lost in the helicopter crash, and later added \"there are no accidents at war time. These are all war results absolutely.\"\n\nThe Ukrainian president added that he was not concerned for his own safety.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's national police force, Ihor Klymenko, has been appointed acting interior minister following Mr Monastyrsky's death.\n\nWitnesses in Kyiv said Russia's war was to blame for the disaster.\n\n\"It was very foggy and there was no electricity, and when there's no electricity there are no lights on the buildings,\" local resident Volodymyr Yermelenko told the BBC.\n\nKey officials are flown by helicopter across Ukraine at tree-level, but that comes with risks.\n\nAll that was recognisable of the helicopter was a door panel and one of its rotors which landed on the roof of a car. Next to it were three bodies covered in foil blankets.\n\nThe remains of the helicopter were visible outside a residential building in Brovary\n\nThe 42-year-old interior minister was a prominent member of President Zelensky's cabinet.\n\nHe was a recognisable face for Ukrainians throughout the war, updating the public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes since Ukraine was invaded in February 2022.\n\nUkrainian officials said those on board the helicopter included six ministry officials and three crew.\n\nFirst deputy minister Yevhen Yenin died along with state secretary Yuriy Lubkovych, whose task was to organise the work of the ministry.\n\nBefore he moved to the interior ministry, Mr Yenin helped represent Ukraine's government abroad.\n\nUS President Joe Biden expressed his condolences to all victims of the crash.\n\nMr Tymoshenko said the interior ministry's work would not be affected by the loss of its leaders, but government colleagues were visibly shocked as they reacted on national TV.\n\nA friend of the late minister's, MP Mariia Mezentseva, said it was a tragedy for everyone as the ministry had a significant role in Ukraine's response to the invasion.\n\n\"He responded 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family. He was very close to President Zelensky from day one of his presidential campaign,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe national police chief Mr Klymenko wrote on Facebook that the helicopter belonged to Ukraine's state emergency service, while other officials said it appeared to a be a French Super Puma aircraft.\n\nParents were bringing their children to the kindergarten before going to work when the helicopter came down.\n\n\"The pain is unspeakable,\" the president said. \"The helicopter fell on the territory of one of the kindergartens.\"\n\nThe crash caused significant damage to the kindergarten and residential buildings\n\nMany of the casualties were on the ground. As well as the child that was killed, 11 of the 25 injured on the ground were youngsters.\n\nWitnesses said the pilot had tried to avoid high-rise buildings before the crash, and instead went down near the kindergarten.\n\nOne local woman told the BBC that she had seen a terrible flash as the helicopter circled above her home. The pilot had clearly tried to avoid her 10-storey block of flats and chose to go down closer to the smaller building, she said.\n\n\"Parents were running, screaming. There was panic,\" said local volunteer Lidiya. Emergency services and residents rushed to evacuate the children as fire spread through the nursery building.\n\nResident Dmytro described jumping over a fence to help get children out. One girl he picked up was called Polina, but when her father ran in calling her name he did not recognise her as her face was covered in blood.\n\nTetiana Shutiak, an aide to Mr Monastyrskyi, also died in the crash.\n\nInterior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said the three men were friends and statesmen who had worked to make Ukraine stronger.\n\n\"We will always remember you. Your families will be cared for,\" he said on Facebook.\n\nMs Mezentseva said she had initially thought that the disaster was fake news: \"But unfortunately it's true.\"\n\nIt was only four days ago that Ukraine was hit by one of the worst attacks since the start of the war in which 45 civilians were killed.\n\nA Russian missile hit a block of flats in the central city of Dnipro killing 45 people, including six children.\n\nUkraine has appealed to the West to provide tanks to help respond to any expected new Russian offensive.\n\nA decision is likely to be made later this week when Western allies discuss the war at Ramstein air base in Germany.", "Downing Street insists that using Section 35 of the Scotland Act to veto this Holyrood bill is not a political choice but a legal necessity.\n\nThat argument is complicated by the fact that when the mechanism was proposed in 1998, the Conservatives’ Constitutional Affairs Spokesman Michael Ancram was highly critical of it.\n\nThe MP for Devizes invoked the notion of colonialism by referring to it as a “governor-general clause” which appeared “to place draconian powers in the hands of the Secretary of State”.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is now trying to frame the decision to use Section 35 (confusingly known at the time as Clause 33) as an attack on devolution itself.\n\nBut her position is complicated by the fact that SNP MPs voted for the Scotland Act after abstaining on Ancram’s amendment\n\nIt sought to raise the bar for invoking Section 35 albeit in a way that would probably not have made a difference in this case as it simply required the minister to seek legal advice before making a decision, which the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack appears to have done.\n\nLabour, which designed the devolutionary framework, is in more of a pickle about the gender law itself. UK leader Sir Keir Starmer expressed concerns about it on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg even though Scottish Labour MSPs had voted for it.\n\nSo we are now heading for the courts. In the meantime, you might want to ask Ancram for his lottery numbers because, in the House of Commons debate on 12 May 1998, he made this prediction:\n\n“…the purpose of the Opposition throughout the passage of the Bill has been to try to identify the areas in it that could lead to dramatic confrontation between the Parliament and Government in Edinburgh and the Parliament and Government in London.\n\n\"I can see within this draconian power—were it used in a way that ran counter to the wishes of the Scottish Parliament—the epitome of such a confrontation.”", "Nadhim Zahawi ignored questions from reporters in Downing Street\n\nFormer Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has not denied a report he has agreed to pay millions of pounds in tax to settle a dispute with Revenue and Customs.\n\nIt comes after the Sun on Sunday claimed Mr Zahawi's representatives would pay a \"seven-figure sum\" to HMRC.\n\nBBC News has not been able to verify the Sun story but a representative for Mr Zahawi did not issue a denial when asked if it was true.\n\nHis tax affairs \"were and are fully up to date and paid in the UK\", they said.\n\nHMRC said it would not comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers.\n\nLabour says Mr Zahawi, who now chairs the Conservative Party, has \"serious questions\" to answer about his tax affairs.\n\nThe questions centre on whether Mr Zahawi tried to avoid paying tax by using an offshore company to hold shares in polling company YouGov.\n\nThe minister, who has a personal fortune estimated at up to £100m, co-founded YouGov in 2000, before he entered politics.\n\nAt the time, his co-founder was given just over 40% of the shares in the company.\n\nUnusually, Mr Zahawi did not take any shares himself. However, a similar size shareholding was allocated to Balshore Investments Ltd, based in Gibraltar.\n\nDan Neidle, a Labour-supporting tax lawyer, who has looked into Mr Zahawi's affairs, last year described his decision not to take any YouGov shares himself as \"surprising and unusual.\" He questioned why the arrangement had been put in place.\n\nYouGov's 2009 annual report said: \"Balshore Investments Ltd is the family trust of Nadhim Zahawi, an executive director of YouGov PLC.\"\n\nA representative for Mr Zahawi said: \"Neither he nor his direct family are beneficiaries of Balshore Investments or any trust associated with it.\n\n\"Mr Zahawi has always said that he will answer any questions from HMRC, which he has always done.\"\n\nBy 2018, YouGov had become a very successful business and Mr Neidle says company accounts suggest Balshore Investments Ltd had sold shares it had held in the company for a total of up to £27m.\n\nMr Neidle has estimated the tax due, if this had been liable to UK capital gains tax, would have been in the region of £3.7m.\n\nBBC News asked Mr Zahawi's spokesman whether any sum had been paid, or was planned to be paid, by Mr Zahawi, or a representative, to HMRC - but he declined to comment.\n\nIt also asked whether any such sum had been to settle a tax matter identified by HMRC and whether that had been in relation to YouGov but did not receive an answer.\n\nReacting to the reports about a payment to HMRC, Anneliese Dodds, who chairs the Labour Party, said: \"If true, this is another nail in the coffin of the honesty, integrity and accountability promised by Rishi Sunak.\n\n\"Not for the first time, Rishi Sunak's judgement has been called into serious question. The question remains is he strong enough to sack Nadhim Zahawi?\"\n\nMr Zahawi ignored reporters' questions on his way in and out of a cabinet meeting, in Downing Street, on Tuesday morning.\n\nAsked if the public had a right to know if Mr Zahawi had made a large payment to the tax authorities, his cabinet colleague Gillian Keegan said: \"He is paying tax, so that's the important thing.\n\n\"His tax affairs are up to date,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.", "Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry.\n\nIt will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs.\n\nMicrosoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were now choosing to \"exercise caution\".\n\nHe said the firm would continue to hire in key areas.\n\nBreaking the news in a memo to staff, Mr Nadella said many parts of the world were in recession or anticipating one, while \"at the same time, the next major wave of computing is being born, with advances in AI\".\n\nMicrosoft is considering a multi-billion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), according to the Financial Times.\n\nWe didn't have to wait very long for the next round of lay-offs from big tech.\n\nMicrosoft is the latest but it won't be the last, as the giants seek to tighten their belts following the boom time of the pandemic, when lockdowns meant people were stuck at home, wanting to spend their cash on digital entertainment and devices.\n\nThat's not to say the sector is stagnating, though - reports suggest Microsoft is considering a $10bn investment in the company behind ChatGPT, the chatbot that's not only captivated the millions of people who have tried it out but is also predicted by some experts to be the future of search.\n\nMicrosoft knows from its search engine, Bing, that you only need a fraction of that market for it to prove very lucrative.\n\nAnd let's not forget its proposed acquisition of the games giant Activision Blizzard, which would bring a whole new portfolio of high-profile gaming titles under its wing.\n\nThat's small comfort, though, for the thousands of staff facing redundancy in the early days of 2023.\n\nHundreds of tech firms, including some of the sector's biggest names like Amazon and Instagram-owner Meta, have revealed lay-offs in recent weeks.\n\nAt the start of this year, Amazon announced that it planned to cut more than 18,000 jobs because of \"the uncertain economy\" and rapid hiring during the pandemic.\n\nIn November, Meta announced that it would cut 13% of its workforce, a total of 11,000 employees.\n\nBut Jason Wong, a tech industry analyst with consultants Gartner, warned against assuming redundancies in \"enterprise\" businesses like Microsoft and Amazon happened for the same reasons as the cuts by big social media firms, some of which had faced additional challenges because of \"where they intend to take the business\".\n\nIn the case of Twitter, that was moving to \"a model away from pure advertising\", and for Facebook he pointed to its pursuit of the metaverse.\n\nLike other tech companies, Microsoft's business boomed during the pandemic, fuelled by the increase in remote work and other online activity.\n\nIts workforce grew by roughly 40,000 between June 2021 and June 2022, when it reported having about 221,000 full-time employees, including 99,000 outside the US.\n\nAs business slowed last year, the firm embarked on a series of job cuts.\n\nThe latest 10,000 are expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2023.\n\nThe memo said some staff would be notified immediately.\n\nMr Nadella promised to \"treat our people with dignity and respect and act transparently\".\n\nMore than 1,000 tech companies laid off 154,336 employees in 2022 alone, according to Layoffs.fyi which tracks redundancies.\n\nThis year, including the latest Microsoft losses, the site says 26,061 tech sector employees have already been made redundant.\n\nExperts say there is still demand for job hunters with the right skills, particularly engineers experienced in AI and data science.\n\nBut Kevin Poulter, an employment lawyer at law firm Freeths, warns \"employees affected by these cuts may struggle to secure alternative work in light of similar reductions already announced across Meta, Amazon, Salesforce and across the wider tech sector\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nJurgen Klopp said he has waited \"ages\" for Liverpool to win a game with a positive performance, after the Reds booked their place in the FA Cup fourth round with a gutsy victory over Wolves at Molineux.\n\nHarvey Elliott's stunning first-half drive earned Klopp's team their first win since the turn of the year, just three days after a dismal defeat at Brighton in the Premier League.\n\nWolves applied heavy pressure in the latter stages but the much-changed visitors held on to book a fourth-round meeting with the Seagulls on Sunday, 29 January.\n\n\"It feels like ages ago we had that feeling of winning and playing well,\" Klopp told BBC One afterwards.\n\n\"We had to fight hard at the end but we controlled the game for long periods. It's great and the reaction we wanted to see.\"\n\nTuesday's triumph was Liverpool's third since the resumption of domestic football after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nA 3-2 League Cup loss at Manchester City on 22 December was followed by hard-fought victories over Aston Villa and Leicester in the Premier League, before humbling defeats at Brentford and Brighton either side of the 2-2 draw with Wolves at Anfield.\n\n\"We had a few man-of-the-match performances today,\" Klopp continued. \"We played a really good first half, had good periods in the second and in the end it was just about passion to block the shots.\"\n\nWolves' improvement under Julen Lopetegui has been clear to see but the home side failed to seriously threaten Caoimhin Kelleher's goal until late on, when Ruben Neves, Raul Jimenez and Matheus Cunha all went close to an equaliser.\n• None Go straight to all the best Wolves content\n\nThere was a brief stoppage in play within the first minute due to a power cut inside the stadium, but Liverpool's visiting supporters did not have to wait much longer for teenager Elliott to light up Molineux with a goal of the highest quality.\n\nThe 19-year-old - one of eight changes from Saturday's loss at Brighton - collected a pass from Thiago Alcantara, advanced unchallenged into the Wolves half and unleashed a ferocious 30-yard effort which sailed over the dive of goalkeeper Jose Sa and into the net.\n\nThe goal appeared to settle Liverpool, who continued to attack with pace and intensity while forcing the hosts into errors in possession.\n\nFabio Carvalho had the ball in the Wolves net again 10 minutes before half-time, but the former Fulham forward was in an offside position from Naby Keita's through-ball and the goal was disallowed.\n\nWolves' best opportunity of the first half fell to the lively Adama Traore, who raced on to Neves' pass but failed to hit the target from a tight angle.\n\nLopetegui introduced Matheus Nunes and Nelson Semedo at half-time in an effort to give his team fresh impetus, but the hosts continued to labour in the final third until Cunha and Daniel Podence entered the fray with 25 minutes remaining.\n\nJimenez and Cunha both failed to hit the target from promising positions, before the latter sent a tame header into Kelleher's arms from deep inside the penalty area.\n\nFellow second-half substitute Curtis Jones missed an opportunity to double Liverpool's advantage when he dragged a shot just past the far post in the 90th minute, but the holders held on for a first clean sheet in eight games and a place in the fourth round.\n\n\"It's not easy playing against Liverpool, but in my opinion we deserved more from the second half,\" Lopetegui said. \"We had two or three clear situations - not chances but clear situations.\n\n\"We're sad of course. The most important is the Premier League, but while competing in the cup we had a big will to win in it.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Curtis Jones (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt missed. Matheus Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Diego Costa.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raúl Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Adama Traoré with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "Doing puzzles or playing chess are good ways of keeping the brain sharp\n\nPeople of all ages are being encouraged to do more to look after their brains to try to reduce their dementia risk.\n\nA new brain check-up tool from Alzheimer's Research UK offers tips on staying sharp, keeping active and connecting with others.\n\nGetting regular hearing checks in your 40s and 50s is one way to prevent social isolation, it says.\n\nBut most cases of dementia cannot be prevented, so early detection and better treatments are still vital.\n\nResearch suggests there are 12 risk factors for dementia which, if modified, could stop four in 10 people developing memory loss, confusion and communication problems.\n\nAdvice based on these risk factors is to stop smoking, do regular exercise, cut back on alcohol and challenge your brain - and it is never too early or too late to start doing it, experts say.\n\nAnyone can take the brain check, which has been based on the latest research, to find out how to lower their individual chances of dementia.\n\nBut it is particularly aimed at adults aged 40-50 because this is seen to be an important window for taking action to look after brain health.\n\nProf Jonathan Schott, chief medical officer at the charity, said it would \"provide a practical and easy means to allow people to take action to reduce their risk of dementia\".\n\nBut he said only a third of people realised that was possible, which needed changing.\n\nThe brain check-in tool from Alzheimer's Research UK gives personalised advice and tips\n\nAlzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, which affects nearly one million people in the UK and 55 million worldwide.\n\nNumbers are forecast to rise sharply over the coming decades as more people live longer and their risk of dementia goes up with age.\n\nDr Sarah Bauermeister, senior scientist at Dementia Platforms UK, said several studies had found a link between hearing loss and dementia risk.\n\n\"Why is not clear,\" she said, \"but a probable factor is they are working harder to hear conversations rather than focusing on cognitive tasks - and their world shrinks.\"\n\nShe said it was a good idea to get your hearing checked and corrected with a hearing aid if needed.\n\nOur individual risk of developing dementia is linked to a combination of our age, the genes we inherit and the lifestyle we lead.\n\nMany of those things cannot be changed, which is why there is no foolproof way of preventing dementia in 60% of cases.\n\n\"It's important not to blame people for getting dementia,\" said Dr Charles Marshall, clinical senior lecturer in dementia at Queen Mary University of London.\n\nSome groups, such as those from poorer background and those with less education, are at higher risk.\n\nBut he said the NHS Health Check, a service for those aged 40-74, could be used to test brain health and give people advice on how to improve it, while also identifying those with early signs of dementia.\n\nAt present it takes an average of three years to get a diagnosis of dementia and there are very few treatments for symptoms.\n\n\"We need the same diagnostic process for dementia as for cancer, and that means redesigning services,\" Dr Marshall said.\n\n\"We need to prepare now for delivering new treatments when they come.\"\n\nA drug called lecanemab has recently shown promise at slowing the decline of the brain in people with Alzheimer's.\n\nHilary Evans, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"With 40% of dementia cases potentially being preventable, there's an enormous opportunity to reduce the personal and societal impact of this heart-breaking condition.\n\n\"It's time for the nation to wake up to the idea of brain health and how looking after our brains can reduce the risk of dementia.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said driving conditions remain hazardous with a weather warning in place until noon on Thursday\n\nDozens of schools in Northern Ireland are closed as snow and icy conditions hit Northern Ireland for a second day.\n\nMost of the affected schools are in the north west, including primary and secondary schools in Londonderry, Limavady and Strabane.\n\nPolice said driving conditions remain hazardous across Northern Ireland due to the snow and freezing temperatures.\n\nA yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been extended until noon on Thursday.\n\nTranslink are advising passengers to expect some disruption to services across Northern Ireland.\n\nEarly morning bus services in Derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Dungannon, Castlewellan, Larne and Antrim are among those affected. There is no major disruption to train services, Translink added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Translink This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has urged commuters to check for updates online.\n\nTranslink also said the entrance to a park and ride in Newry, County Down, is restricted after an overhead barrier was damaged in a crash.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council said it also anticipates some disruption to its services on Wednesday.\n\nWith the weather warning continuing until Thursday, showers of rain and hail are expected around the coast on Wednesday, with sleet and snow mainly inland.\n\nThe Met Office is warning that a further 2-5cm of snow could fall over some higher ground, but ice is expected to be the main hazard with temperatures on Wednesday night falling below freezing in many areas.\n\nRaymond Barr, an independent councillor on Derry City and Strabane District Council, told BBC Radio Foyle driving had been challenging early on Wednesday.\n\nHe made the journey to Strabane on the main Derry road before 07:00 GMT.\n\n\"It is passable but dangerous in parts, but secondary roads are treacherous.\"\n\nResidents in Broughshane, County Antrim, woke to snow on Wednesday morning\n\nMr Barr said he had been inundated with complaints from people in the north west about the lack of gritting on the roads network\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure (DfI) said salting had been carried out across the \"entire scheduled network\" on Tuesday evening and again overnight in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nRoads Service engineer Peter McParland told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme it had been another \"very busy night\" for its winter service teams.\n\nHe said \"many of the drivers have been facing heavy snow showers along their routes\".\n\n\"They have been working in shifts almost continually over the past couple of days, in many areas to try and keep the main road network open and passable, but it is fair to say that the situation does remain difficult, and the road temperatures are currently below freezing almost everywhere.\"\n\nThere's been heavy snow near Slemish Mountain in County Antrim\n\nHe said despite the service's best efforts \"you can't guarantee that roads are free of snow and ice at all times\".\n\nAnyone that has to travel on Wednesday, he said, should \"leave lots of extra time for their journey and drive with extreme care\".\n\nHe said drivers should be \"extremely cautious\" on the rural road network that has not been treated.\n\n\"Snow may be heaviest in the north, but right down to the south of the province and to the west, it is still very icy anyway, so please everyone take extra care if you have to travel,\" he said.\n\nLouise Coyle, from the Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network, lives outside Cookstown, County Tyrone - she said it was a \"winter wonderland\" to look at on Wednesday morning, but that the road conditions on Tuesday had been \"absolutely treacherous\".\n\n\"It's very clear that it has been a while since we have all had to think about how we drive when it is snowy and there were a lot of cars being abandoned - there was one particular hill I had to drive up and the four cars in front of me did not get up that hill and had to leave their cars and vans.\"", "With so many bills rising where people have no choice but to pay higher prices like energy, personal finance expert Martin Lewis has offered some advice to cut down on monthly mobile phone or broadband internet bills, currently available to millions of people.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Martin explains that most mobile and internet companies are likely to raise their charges in April.\n\nHe says many have specific policies in their contracts to hike prices by an amount based on the previous December inflation figure - in this case 10.5% - plus three to four per cent or so.\n\nUnfortunately, for those tied into a long-term contract there is likely no way to avoid this price hike without paying a penalty charge.\n\nBut Martin advises those interested in saving money to shop around for a new deal, if they are on a rolling contract which can be broken at any time - as they could be able to find a better deal than their current provider offers.\n\nOnce you've found a deal which looks appealing, he says you can either make the switch, or use it to negotiate directly with your current service provider for a better deal.\n\nMartin adds that most people are \"massively overpaying\" for the value of their phone contract in particular, with people still on high prices even after paying off the balance of the handset itself.\n\nQuote Message: If you're thinking 'yeah, well, that's not going to help me with the price rise when it comes' - you are right, it will not stop the price rise. But a 15% price rise on £20 pounds is £3.00 and a 15% price rise on £40 a month is £6.00. If you're thinking 'yeah, well, that's not going to help me with the price rise when it comes' - you are right, it will not stop the price rise. But a 15% price rise on £20 pounds is £3.00 and a 15% price rise on £40 a month is £6.00.\n\nQuote Message: So even though you'll still have a price rise, if you sign up now to a new deal that is cheaper - because you're on a lower base - the price rise will be less.\" So even though you'll still have a price rise, if you sign up now to a new deal that is cheaper - because you're on a lower base - the price rise will be less.\"\n\nYou can listen to Martin's advice in full on his podcast by clicking here.", "A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a man stabbed to death outside an Asda supermarket.\n\nIan Kirwan, 53, was attacked at the store in Redditch, Worcestershire, on 8 March after challenging teenagers for messing about in the customer toilets.\n\nTwo youths aged 14 and one of 16 were cleared of killing Mr Kirwan, but were found guilty of violent disorder. A fifth, 16, was cleared on all counts.\n\nThe jury heard the killer was part of a masked gang that \"terrorised\" people.\n\nNone of the four boys can be legally identified because of their ages and are due to be sentenced on 15 February.\n\nMr Kirwan, an artificial intelligence engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, in Coventry, died after being stabbed in the heart.\n\nBirmingham Crown Court was told he had gone to Redditch to buy a light switch from B&Q and had simply used the toilets at Asda.\n\nMr Kirwan's wife paid tribute to him in a statement released following the verdict, describing him as \"a big kid\" and adding she would never recover from his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe killer, from Birmingham, aged 14 at the time, had travelled with other youths by train to the town on the day and subjected Mr Kirwan to a minute-long attack near the entrance to the store.\n\nHe had admitted the stabbing, but claimed diminished responsibility. However, jurors unanimously convicted him of murder.\n\nMr Kirwan was an \"unfortunate member of the public in the wrong place at the wrong time\", the court was told during the 10-week trial.\n\nThe fifth defendant was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and violent disorder, having claimed he was not involved in the fatal confrontation and could not have predicted it.\n\nHigh Court judge Mr Justice Fraser told the 15-year-old who was convicted of murder he was \"going to be sentenced to the youth equivalent of a life sentence\".\n\n\"But I am not going to pass that sentence [now] because I have to fix the minimum term. I am going to do that on the 15th of February.\"\n\nA statement by Mr Kirwan's family said he was passionate about the world, peace and education\n\nThe youth, who appeared via a video-link from a secure unit, showed little reaction as the jury returned its guilty verdict, glancing to his left and then at a floor, before watching other verdicts being returned.\n\nTurning to Mr Kirwan's wife and family in court, the judge said: \"The court is well aware none of this process can bring him back or reduce the impact of his loss on all of your lives.\"\n\nMr Kirwan's wife said after the verdicts: \"Normally when a person dies, they are surrounded by loved ones and family. But because of the tragic circumstances of Ian's death, he died alone surrounded by strangers who were kind enough to help him.\n\n\"Nobody should ever have to die like that.\"\n\nShe described her husband as \"a wonderful person who was full of love, kindness and generosity\".\n\n\"I miss his ways that would drive me crazy but he always made me and our family and friends happy and there was never a day that we wouldn't laugh when he was with us.\n\n\"Ian would always make us feel protected, secure and safe.\n\n\"Ian was the better half in our relationship. He gave people chances, was a fountain of knowledge and was passionate about the world, peace, politics, animals, health and education.\"\n\nFamily friend Joe Fitzpatrick, 75, described him as \"the nicest man you could ever meet\".\n\n\"He'd help anybody out. My son, who has a car business, had problems with his computers and he went [and] sorted that out and wouldn't take a penny for it, just a lovely guy.\"\n\nJoe Fitzpatrick described Mr Kirwan as \"the nicest man you could ever meet\"\n\nDet Supt Leighton Harding, senior investigating officer for West Mercia Police, said it had been \"an appalling attack on an innocent man going about his daily life\".\n\n\"I'm pleased that justice has been done today for Ian and our thoughts remain with his family and friends, who have shown incredible strength throughout the investigation and the trial.\"\n\nHe said the force had had an \"incredible\" response to its appeals after the murder, which led to critical information being gathered and convictions being secured in an \"incredibly complex\" case.\n\nPeter Martin, an anti-crime campaigner in Redditch, said the killing had had a huge impact on the local community and witnesses had been offered free counselling.\n\n\"This was just a guy, just going shopping - so the impact on the community was massive,\" he said.\n\nMany local residents had been affected, he added, particularly other shoppers who had witnessed the stabbing.\n\nLucy Myatt, from the Crown Prosecution Service, described it as a \"senseless\" murder but the defendant \"went out looking for trouble\".\n\n\"This encounter cost a man his life and no outcome can replace the terrible loss his family has suffered,\" she said.\n\n\"I hope the outcome of today's hearing serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of carrying and using a knife.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kaylea Titford was found to be morbidly obese, jurors were told\n\nA 16-year-old girl who died after becoming morbidly obese in lockdown and lived in conditions \"unfit for any animal\" was seriously neglected by her parents, a court has heard.\n\nKaylea Louise Titford's body was found on soiled sheets and police noted an \"unbearable\" rotting smell.\n\nHer father Alun Titford, from Newtown, Powys, denies manslaughter by gross negligence at Mold Crown Court.\n\nCaroline Rees KC told the jury Kaylea had spina bifida which left her with little feeling from the waist down, limiting her mobility, and had used a wheelchair from a young age.\n\nWhen she was found dead at her home she was morbidly obese, weighing nearly 23 stone (146 kg), the court heard.\n\nMs Rees said: \"Kaylea Titford was living in conditions unfit for any animal, let alone a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who depended entirely on others for her care.\"\n\nKaylea's hair was dirty and matted and she was unwashed with ulcerated skin, the court was told.\n\nOn the morning of October 10 2020, the court heard a 999 call was made by Mr Titford's mother before paramedics were sent to her house and Kaylea's body was found.\n\nAs well as lying on soiled bedclothes, she had numerous sores and areas of infection.\n\nAlun Titford is accused of failing in his duty of care to Kaylea\n\nMs Rees added: \"The prosecution say that the scene - as witnessed by those that attended - together with the state in which Kaylea's body was found demonstrate clearly that this vulnerable girl, who relied heavily on others for her welfare needs, was seriously neglected by not just one but both of her parents, who owed her a duty of care.\"\n\nA pathologist's report said her physical state suggested she had not been properly washed in many weeks, jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecution said Kaylea died because her parents failed in their duty of care and that gave rise to an obvious and serious risk of death.\n\nMs Rees said: \"Their serious failures were hidden from the scrutiny of the outside world from March 2020 by reason of the national lockdown during the global Covid pandemic.\n\n\"We further say that the parents' negligence was so gross as to be properly characterised as criminal.\"\n\nWhen Mr Titford was interviewed by police, he told them he was \"not a very good dad\" and his wife looked after Kaylea and did the housework, the court heard.\n\nHe said his daughter had outgrown her wheelchair and he did not think he had seen her out of bed since before lockdown.\n\nHe told police the family would have takeaways five nights a week.\n\nAsked when he last asked Kaylea how she was, he said: \"I didn't ask her. Like I say, I'm not the best of people. Nobody ever thinks their child is going to end up like that.\"\n\nThe prosecution said Mr Titford's case was that although he lived at the same address, Kaylea's mother was primary carer and he was not aware of the state of his daughter's living conditions or the deterioration in her physical state.", "The Church of England has been debating the issue for years\n\nChurch of England bishops have refused to back a change in teaching to allow priests to marry same-sex couples, sources have told BBC News.\n\nThey met on Tuesday to finalise their recommendations after five years of consultation and debate on the Church's position on sexuality.\n\nTheir proposal will be debated at the Church's equivalent of a parliament - the General Synod - next month.\n\nBBC News spoke to several bishops present at the meeting who said the Church's teaching that Holy Matrimony is only between one man and one woman would not change and would not be put to a vote.\n\nBut the Church confirmed \"prayers of dedication, thanksgiving or for God's blessing\" on same-sex couples will be offered following a civil marriage or partnership.\n\nSame-sex marriage has been legal in England and Wales since 2013. But when the law changed, the Church did not change its teaching.\n\nIn 2017, the Church of England began an extended consultation period called \"Living in Love and Faith\".\n\nIn November last year, the Bishop of Oxford became the most senior Church of England bishop to publicly back a change in the Church's teaching. Although a handful of others supported him, they remained in the minority.\n\nThe refusal to propose a vote on allowing same-sex marriage is likely to anger campaigners for change within the Church.\n\nSome have already told BBC News they will ask the synod to strike out the bishops' proposals next month.\n\nThe bishops' decision puts the Church of England at odds with its Anglican equivalent in Scotland, The Scottish Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which both allow same-sex weddings.\n\nThe Anglican Church in Wales has provided an authorised service of blessing for gay couples but does not allow same-sex weddings in church.\n\nEnglish bishops will recommend that some \"prayers for God's blessing\" for gay couples in civil marriages be adopted, the BBC expects.\n\nA controversial church document from 1991 that says clergy in same-sex relationships must remain celibate will be scrapped. And the Church will also issue an apology for the way it has excluded LGBT+ people, BBC News was told by several bishops.\n\nOne liberal bishop present at the meeting said there had been \"substantial progress\".\n\n\"It's evolutionary,\" they said. \"It's not the end of the road.\"\n\nA conservative bishop said: \"We're being honest about the fact we're not of one mind in these issues. But we're not going to give up walking together.\"\n\nCharlie Bell (right) and his partner Piotr said they would continue to campaign for the Church to change its teaching on marriage\n\nCharlie Bell, 33, and his partner Piotr Baczyk, 27, live in south east London, where Charlie is a priest. They have been waiting to marry until the church allows gay weddings.\n\nHe said they felt a \"deep disappointment\" that the bishops weren't proposing a vote on same-sex marriages.\n\n\"It leaves same-sex couples in a bit of a limbo and also as second-class citizens,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"We're still saying to gay couples that their relationships are less than relationships between people of opposite sexes.\"\n\nHowever, he said they would continue to campaign for the Church to change its teaching on marrying gay couples.\n\nHe said: \"This isn't over. If the bishops think this will resolve the current situation they are very much mistaken.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of York, the Most Rev'd Stephen Cottrell, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a friend who was gay had died before he was able to have his civil partnership acknowledged in any way by the Church.\n\n\"All that now changes,\" he said. \"For the first time, people in same-sex marriages, in civil partnerships, they can come to the Church, their relationships can be acknowledged, dedicated, they can receive God's blessing.\n\n\"No, it's not same-sex marriage, it's not everything that everybody wants.\"\n\nBut he said it was a \"real step forward\" for the Church.\n\n\"What I want to emphasise is that with these proposals, people who have entered into a same-sex marriage or who are in a civil partnership will be welcomed into the Church at a service of dedication and acknowledgment of that relationship,\" he said. \"That is a change from where we are at the moment.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev'd Justin Welby, said the position \"reflects the diversity of views in the Church of England on questions of sexuality\".\n\nHe said: \"I am under no illusions that what we are proposing today will appear to go too far for some and not nearly far enough for others, but it is my hope that what we have agreed will be received in a spirit of generosity, seeking the common good.\n\n\"Most of all I hope it can offer a way for the Church of England, publicly and unequivocally, to say to all Christians and especially LGBTQI+ people that you are welcome and a valued and precious part of the body of Christ.\"", "The mayor of Amiens, northern France, has asked Madonna if the city can borrow a painting previously believed to have been destroyed.\n\nThe artwork - Diana and Endymion by Jérôme-Martin Langlois - was exhibited from 1878 but went missing during World War One.\n\nMayor Brigitte Fouré now believes the renowned US pop star owns it.\n\nShe said displaying the artwork would help the city's bid to become the 2028 European Capital of Culture.\n\nDiana and Endymion was commissioned by King Louis XVIII of France for a room in the Palace of Versailles and was bought by the state in 1873.\n\nMs Fouré said the painting was likely loaned to the Amiens museum by the Louvre in Paris before the war began.\n\nFrench paper Le Figaro reported that the painting - or one that was almost identical - was bought in a New York auction in 1989 by none other than Madonna herself for £1m ($1.3m; €1.1m)\n\n\"I would like it if on this occasion you could lend us your painting so locals can rediscover this work and enjoy it,\" Ms Fouré said in a video posted to Facebook.\n\nShe added there was no suggestion it had been obtained illegally.\n\nMadonna has just announced a world tour which will include a performance in Paris, which is less than two hours by train from Amiens, this November.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Madonna's agent for comment.", "The owner of a dog vying for the dubious title of ugliest in the UK said she chose to adopt the quirky canine as she looked so \"unloved and unusual\".\n\nFour-year-old Peggy, believed to be a Pug and Chinese Crested cross - or Pugese - belongs to Holly Middleton from Leven, East Yorkshire.\n\nMrs Middleton said while Peggy may cause a stir in the street she is a much-loved member of the family.\n\n\"She's like Marmite, you either love her or you don't,\" she said.\n\nShe has lived with her owners in East Yorkshire since she was adopted four years ago\n\nMrs Middleton, 36, adopted Peggy when she was just six months old. Describing her, she said: \"She has tufts of hair on her head and her feet and her tongue hangs out.\n\n\"It has always been like that but it doesn't stop her from doing anything, she can eat she can drink, it does go in her mouth, it just doesn't stay there!\"\n\nPeggy's owner, Holly Middleton, said her pet is \"like Marmite\"\n\n\"We were looking for a dog and we knew we wanted something small, something that would fit in our life quite easily, but we didn't necessarily go looking for a quirky dog,\" she said.\n\n\"I just love anything that is a bit unloved and unusual, so when I saw her on the adoption website I knew I wanted to take care of her.\"\n\nWhile she instantly knew she wanted to give Peggy a home, choosing a name was a little harder.\n\n\"We really struggled with a name because nothing seemed to suit her, but my grandma was here and she said she reminded her a bit of her mum, so we went for that,\" Mrs Middleton said.\n\nPeggy is one of seven dogs in the competition\n\nShe added: \"Sometimes I forget that she doesn't look like a normal dog and then we walk down the street and you can hear people whispering and saying 'Oh wow, look at that!'.\n\n\"My eldest was a bit embarrassed of her at first because his friends all had nice-looking dogs like cockapoos, but he thinks she's pretty cool now.\"\n\nThe winner of the competition will be announced next month\n\nMrs Middleton said she has got used to the way Peggy looks\n\nPeggy is one of seven dogs taking part in the competition run by photography printing firm Parrot Print, with the winning receiving a grooming session and photo shoot.\n\nMatt Dahan, Parrot Print founder, said: \"We received hundreds of entries and these seven were the ones who made our eyes hurt when we looked at them.\n\n\"There really are some ugly mutts out there in the UK and we hope our contest will celebrate the best of them.\"\n\nSeven dogs have been shortlisted for the competition, including Roger (l) and Marnie\n\nOther contenders include Roger - a Pug, Toy Poodle and Ugly Boi cross - from Brighouse, in West Yorkshire, and Marnie - a French Bulldog - from Swindon, in Wiltshire.\n\nThe winner is due to be announced next month.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: As far as pranks go it was a good one - Gary Lineker tells Newsnight\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has laughed off the moment sex noises transmitted by a YouTube prankster disrupted the show's live coverage.\n\nNoises from a porn clip were heard as Lineker presented pre-match build-up before the Wolves v Liverpool fixture.\n\nA frenzied studio hunt uncovered a planted mobile phone - and YouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis claimed he was behind the stunt on Tuesday's show.\n\nThe BBC apologised to any viewers who were offended.\n\nBut Lineker, who later tweeted a picture of the mobile phone he said was \"taped to the back of the set\", said he thought there was nothing to apologise for.\n\nCalling it a \"good prank\", he said: \"As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.\"\n\nThe prank played out as Lineker presented the programme in a studio at Wolverhampton's Molineux Stadium alongside pundits Paul Ince and Danny Murphy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Two's Newsnight later on Tuesday, Lineker explained that he initially thought a video had been sent to one of the pundits' phones that they had inadvertently left switched on.\n\nBut it was \"too loud\", he said, and he noticed that every time the producers cut away from the studio to show a video clip, the noises immediately stopped.\n\nSo he reasoned that it must be someone watching on TV who was triggering them remotely.\n\nAsked by Newsnight how loud the sound effect was in the studio, the broadcaster said he was unable to hear what any of the producers were telling him in his earphones, making it \"quite difficult\" to carry on with the pre-match build-up.\n\nAt one stage he had to explain what he thought was going on to viewers and said \"Somebody's sending something on someone's phone, I think.\n\n\"I don't know whether you heard it at home.\"\n\nWhen the coverage of the match itself started - and the studio knew they had a clear 45 minutes off air before Lineker and the pundits would be back to discuss the first half action, a detailed search began.\n\nIt was not long before Lineker was able to share the explanation on Twitter as he shared a picture of a mobile phone on Twitter and three laughing emojis alongside the words: \"Well, we found this taped to the back of the set.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gary Lineker 💙💛 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC issued an official statement which read: \"We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening. We are investigating how this happened.\"\n\nLess than an hour after coming off air on BBC One, Lineker was back on BBC Two to discuss what had happened on Newsnight.\n\nHe said he could see the funny side and he questioned why the BBC had issued an apology.\n\n\"We've certainly got nothing to [be sorry] for,\" he told the BBC's Kirsty Wark, while travelling back from the FA Cup match.\n\n\"If you told me this morning that tonight I'd be on Newsnight talking about a porn scandal,\" he added, laughing, \"I would have been terrified.\"\n\nThe incident did not go unnoticed by viewers, with clips of the moment widely shared on social media on Tuesday evening.\n\nYouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis claimed he was behind the stunt, posting a video on Twitter that appeared to show him at Molineux.\n\nJarvis was handed a suspended sentence last October after being convicted of aggravated trespass over an incident in which he collided with England cricketer Jonny Bairstow while invading the Oval pitch in south London during Test Match.\n\nHe was given an eight-week prison sentence suspended for two years and was banned from attending any venue where a sporting fixture is being held in England and Wales for two years.\n\nHe was also banned from travelling abroad for 12 months and made subject to a rehabilitation activity requirement.", "Ambulance workers are among those striking this winter\n\nThe head of the UN's agency for workers' rights has denied that the organisation backs the UK's tough new strike laws.\n\nIt comes after UK ministers repeatedly suggested the International Labour Organisation (ILO) supported government plans to enforce \"minimum service levels\" during public sector strikes.\n\nThe new laws are meant to protect the public from the impact of walkouts.\n\nBut unions have called them \"undemocratic, unworkable and illegal\".\n\nThe US labour secretary Marty Walsh has also told the BBC he disagrees with the idea of \"minimum service agreements\" for public sector workers, and suggested they may be detrimental to workers.\n\nThe UK's Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give the government the power to unilaterally assert levels of service provision from striking workers in certain sectors, and could lead to workers losing their jobs or unions being sued.\n\nIt follows a wave of industrial action by frontline public sector workers such as ambulance staff, firefighters and railway workers, which the government says puts the public at risk.\n\nUK ministers, including the prime minister, have repeatedly said that the ILO supports these \"minimum service agreements\" around the world.\n\nBut when asked about this at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Gilbert Houngbo, the ILO's director general, said that while the organisation did not want to interfere in national discussions, \"social dialogue\" between employers and employees was especially important during the current economic downturn.\n\nMr Houngbo added that he was \"very worried about workers having to accept situations\" due to being faced with the threat of losing their jobs.\n\nHe also told the BBC that British trade unions were able to file a complaint with the ILO to ascertain whether the UK was breaching international worker rights laws. The ILO \"has been in discussions with the trade unions\" over this, he said.\n\nHearing these answers from the ILO, US labour secretary Marty Walsh asked the BBC to ask him the same question about supporting \"minimum service agreements\".\n\nMr Walsh replied: \"No. I don't know about the legislation. But I certainly will work with the ILO, [the United States] is a board member of the ILO as well… I would not support anything that would take away from workers.\"\n\nMr Walsh is the first former union leader to serve as US labour secretary for 45 years, and is President Biden's Cabinet minister responsible for workers' rights.\n\nThis autumn he spent 20 hours negotiating to avoid the prospect of a strike on freight train services.\n\nAfter some unions did not back a negotiated settlement over a lack of sick pay, President Biden did ban their strike, imposing the settlement. Many individual US states also maintain restrictions on US public sector strikes.\n\nThe UK government has said it is introducing its anti-strike bill \"to ensure that striking workers don't put the public's lives at risk and prevent people getting to work, accessing healthcare, and safely going about their daily lives\".\n\nEarlier in January, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told parliament \"the International Labour Organisation (ILO) supports minimum service levels… they're present in France, in Italy, in Spain\".\n\nAnd Business Secretary Grant Shapps added Germany to this list, also claiming the ILO \"says that minimum service levels are a proportionate way of balancing the right to strike with the need to protect the wider public\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, in a recent blog for the London School of Economics, Dr Ewan McGaughey, an expert on labour law at King's College London, said that these claims were untrue.\n\n\"In France, the so called 'minimum service' laws simply require 48 hours' notice for transport unions to strike, or five days for health workers. This is purely so that employers can find other staff to cover... There is no sacking or suing,\" Dr McGaughey wrote.\n\nHe added that rules in Italy, Spain and Germany were also less stringent than the UK's, and that the ILO did not \"support\" minimum service levels as Mr Sunak had claimed.\n\n\"It has never said a plan like [the UK's new bill] is a 'proportionate' balance. It requires that for any minimum service levels at all, unions 'must be able to participate' in setting them\".\n\nLabour deputy's leader Angela Rayner, said: \"\"Grant Shapps has been ludicrously claiming that his Sacking Nurses Bill has the international seal of approval, but the ILO and the US labour secretary clearly beg to differ.\"\n\nUnions are in talks about legal challenges to the UK's new bill, based on human rights law, but may also seek a judgement over whether the legislation conflicts with ILO labour rights conventions.\n\nThe post-Brexit trade deal with the EU mandates the UK and EU \"respect\" the ILO's conventions, including on freedom to strike.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy said YouGov polling suggested broad public support for the new laws, with 56% of those surveyed backing the government.\n\nHe added that the ILO recognised minimum service levels were a sensible solution to protect the public from serious consequences of strikes.\n\n\"We must keep the public safe, which is why we are introducing minimum service and safety levels across a range of sectors to ensure that lives and livelihoods are not lost,\" the spokesman said.", "As a helicopter carrying top officials crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, near Kyiv, some residents filmed the aftermath through their flat windows.\n\nBrovary is a commuter town and saw fierce fighting in the early days of Russia's invasion, before Moscow's forces were pushed out of the capital area.\n\nFollow our live coverage on the crash here.", "Bianca Williams and her partner, fellow athlete Ricardo Dos Santos, were stopped by police in Maida Vale\n\nAn investigator has revealed she quit her job at the police watchdog over the handling of a complaint about the stop and search of two black athletes.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos were stopped by police in July 2020 while driving through west London.\n\nThe Met Police referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nTrisha Napier, who assessed the actions of the officers involved, said her investigation was later \"watered down\", something the IOPC vehemently denies.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, she told BBC Newsnight: \"It felt very odd. It felt very unusual. It upset me greatly.\"\n\nMs Williams and Mr Dos Santos were stopped by police in west London on 4 July 2020.\n\nThe couple, whose three-month-old son was in the car, were handcuffed and searched for weapons and drugs, and footage of the incident was then widely shared on social media.\n\nAfter searching the couple, and the vehicle, nothing was found and no arrests were made. Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos said they had been racially profiled and stopped because they were black.\n\nTrisha Napier was put in charge of deciding if officers had done something wrong - but she resigned three months later\n\nThree days later, the case was referred to the IOPC, which oversees police complaints and investigates the most serious incidents involving officers.\n\nMs Napier, as lead investigator, was in charge of deciding whether any of the officers involved may have done something wrong.\n\nHowever, she told Newsnight she felt her boss, the former director general of the IOPC, Michael Lockwood, later \"interfered\" with the case by requesting to see footage and documents. She said this hadn't happened with any of her previous cases.\n\nOn 30 July, after requesting documents relating to the investigation, she said he assigned the IOPC's regional director for London, Sal Naseem, to oversee the case and replace the person who had already been in that role.\n\nThis is disputed by Mr Lockwood and the IOPC, who say it was Sal Naseem's decision to take the role.\n\nIt came just days after the then Commissioner of the Met Police, Dame Cressida Dick, had publicly defended the officers involved in the stop and search during an interview on LBC radio. Dame Cressida told the station she did not \"personally accept\" the video footage had revealed racism.\n\nWeeks later, in September, Ms Napier was told her assessment of the officers' actions, based on viewing footage of the stop and search, would be downgraded from possible gross misconduct to the lower charge of misconduct.\n\nRicardo Dos Santos said he and Ms Williams were stopped by police because they were both black and were driving a Mercedes.\n\nMs Napier told Newsnight: \"I was supposed to be leading an investigation and my decisions were overturned by senior managers.\" Ms Napier, who had been at the watchdog for 17 years, and four as lead investigator, said that was \"unprecedented\".\n\nThe BBC understands her assessment was supported by colleagues who had worked on the case. It was also disputed by others.\n\nMr Lockwood said he wasn't involved in the decision to downgrade.\n\nMs Napier raised a formal complaint, stating the decision to overrule her assessment may have been \"politically motivated\". \"In other words, what the investigation was going to be based on was watered down,\" she told Newsnight. \"It casts serious doubt on its [IOPC] independence.\"\n\nAn internal inquiry into her claim concluded in the IOPC's favour, saying there was no evidence to support her allegations, and that even though it might be unusual to change a lead investigator's decision, it was allowed in the IOPC rules.\n\nThe inquiry did accept Mr Naseem had taken over decision-making on several occasions because the case would going to attract a lot of attention and was high profile.\n\nIt said senior staff taking over assessment decisions was allowed within IOPC rules, but acknowledged it was unusual.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the stop was shared widely on Twitter, after being posted by ex-Olympic champion Linford Christie\n\nMs Napier resigned from her post in November 2020 and is taking the watchdog to an employment tribunal.\n\n\"I felt I could no longer trust the organisation,\" she said. \"The integrity of the organisation, in my view, was completely diminished and I could just no longer...work for them anymore.\"\n\nIn April last year, the IOPC announced that the five officers involved in the stop-and-search would face gross misconduct proceedings. No date has been set for them to be heard.\n\nBianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos were unavailable for comment.\n\nThe Met told Newsnight it was \"not aware of any conversations\" taking place between the force and the IOPC, while the IOPC said it was \"not unusual, or unique\" for the organisation's director general to review evidence himself.\n\nIt strongly denied decisions \"were influenced by anything other than the evidence during this investigation\".\n\nThe public comments made by Dame Cressida on LBC were not investigated by the IOPC, which Ms Napier says she requested. The IOPC said there was \"no indication\" the commissioner \"behaved in a manner which would justify the bringing of disciplinary proceedings\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said it was also not unusual that assessments of police officer conduct \"change as the evidence develops\".", "Ruan Crighton, pictured in Finland in 2015, was praised by his former schools and ballet theatres for his talent and commitment\n\nA dance school director said she and her colleagues were \"shattered\" following news their successful former student was on board the plane that crashed in Nepal.\n\nRuan Crighton, 34, from Essex, was one of 72 people on the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed near Pokhara airport.\n\nHe had toured Europe as a professional ballet dancer having studied and worked in London, Finland and Slovakia.\n\nBrentwood's Central School of Dance's Hazel Smith said \"we are devastated\".\n\n\"We have wonderful fond memories of Ruan in class, assisting and inspiring younger pupils, performing and working backstage,\" said Ms Smith.\n\n\"Central followed Ruan's career, which grew from strength to strength, and we are so totally proud and feel privileged to have known Ruan - to watch him grow into the most wonderful, caring young man.\"\n\nThe national opera in Finland picked out several of Ruan Crighton's highlights, including Romeo and Juliet (Ruan pictured far left)\n\nRuan Crighton performed hundreds of times for the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, including Demis Volpi's duet Little Monsters (pictured)\n\nMs Smith said he achieved \"outstanding\" ballet exam results as a child, having initially joined for gymnastics, and later graduated from the Central School of Ballet in London in 2008.\n\n\"Ruan was a dynamic, energetic and engaged student,\" said Central School of Ballet executive director Mark Osterfield.\n\n\"His passion and talent were enjoyed by international dance audiences.\"\n\nRuan was completing a placement at a spinal injury clinic in Kathmandu\n\nHe worked at the Ballet of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) for the next five years, and despite telling the BBC he was nervous about not speaking the language, he spoke it \"almost fluently\" after two years.\n\nKohút Kristián, head dramaturg of the SND ballet, counted Mr Ruon as one of his best friends and said on behalf of the theatre: \"Ruan was a boy with a big heart and an incredible sense of humour whose laughter and positive energy could light up the spaces of the theatre.\"\n\nRuan spent a further six years, 2013-19, at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.\n\nHe enrolled at the European School of Physiotherapy in Amsterdam after his 30th birthday - a career change - and was completing a placement at a spinal injury clinic in Kathmandu at the time of Sunday's plane crash.\n\nRuan's name and passport number was published by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal shortly after the crash.\n\nAuthorities were not expecting to find any survivors.\n\nHundreds of rescuers were rushed to the site of the crash\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: \"The smell of smoke still hangs in the air here\"\n\nA UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesman said it was supporting the family of a British man.\n\nIn a joint statement, Ruan's friends Danny, Tom, Goz and Jono, who he met at the Central School of Ballet, said: \"He was the one who flew the furthest and highest, having the biggest ambitions out of all of us.\n\n\"His death has left a hole in our friendship group that will never be filled.\"\n\nMs Smith, who said Ruan continued to return and perform for the school's annual prize giving in Brentwood, added: \"Thank you Ruan for the catch-ups and laughter over tea. They will always be remembered\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The rhetorical battle to be seen as trustworthy custodians of the NHS.\n\nSir Keir Starmer sought to crystallise the realities of a struggling NHS: the time it would take someone with a suspected heart attack to get an ambulance.\n\nHis examples were from across England; the prime minister pointed out he wasn’t mentioning Wales, where Labour run the devolved government.\n\nBut, Rishi Sunak also - while making that political point - tried to suggest it wasn’t primarily a political problem.\n\nThe challenges the health service face around the UK were driven by underlying factors such as flu and the consequences of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt is undeniable that regardless of their political stewardship the NHS was always likely to have a difficult winter.\n\nBut, the scale of the problems asks awkward questions of the Conservatives given their longevity in office, and questions for Labour about how quickly things might change - or not - were they to be in government at Westminster after the next election.", "Travellers heading to Dover are being urged to allow extra time for journeys\n\nFerries between Dover and Calais are being disrupted by a national strike in France.\n\nP&O Ferries services to and from the French port have been suspended since early morning.\n\nDover is still open with Dunkerque services running as normal but travellers are being urged to allow extra time for journeys.\n\nA day of strike action across France is being staged to protest about plans to raise the official pension age.\n\nP&O did release an optimised schedule, but said it could not anticipate the extent of disruption to services, adding that \"it is possible that our wider operations could be affected during the day\".\n\nThe company said it hopes to resume services from Dover to Calais later this afternoon.\n\nThere will be a shuttle service between Dover and Calais until all traffic is cleared.\n\nSailings to Calais are being loaded hours prior to departure to make available space at the port.\n\nDanish ferry company DFDS has told customers due to travel from Dover to Calais that alternative arrangements are being made via Dunkerque.\n\nIrish Ferries said that while crossings from Calais are affected, drivers with freight are still able to access that port and \"check-in as normal\".\n\nThe strike is affecting Eurostar rail services - a reduced number of trains is running due to staff shortages.\n\nThere are cancellations between London and Paris and on services connecting London to Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.\n\nThere will also be a reduced Eurostar service on Friday.\n\nIn France, the action affects much more than the ferries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters held flares and played drums in strikes across France\n\nIntercity and commuter train services are badly disrupted. Many schools and other public services are shut. At Orly airport in Paris, one-in-five flights has been cancelled.\n\nOn the Paris metro only the two driverless lines are working normally. Large demonstrations are being staged in Paris and other major cities.\n\nDover was the scene of lengthy queues last July for travellers heading for the port and the Eurotunnel terminal.\n\nUK and French officials could not agree on the cause of the disruption - some UK critics blamed a lack of French border staff but some French politicians said extra checks post-Brexit and a lack of capacity at the port were behind the delays.\n\nThe AA motoring group issued its first amber traffic warning, as thousands of families faced gridlock while attempting to travel.\n\nAre there any queues or chaos at the ports? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What caused the travel chaos at Dover?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClimate campaigner Greta Thunberg was among those briefly detained by police at a protest in western Germany.\n\nShe was protesting with activists seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.\n\nPolice clarified that Ms Thunberg had not been arrested, and later said she had been released after an ID check.\n\nThe Swedish activist was detained after a group \"rushed towards the ledge\" of the Garzweiler 2 mine, police said.\n\nOfficers also confirmed all of those detained would not be charged.\n\nVideo from the scene showed three officers carrying Ms Thunberg from the protest as she smiled.\n\nPolice also told Reuters news agency that one man jumped into the mine, which is located some 9km (5.6 miles) from Lützerath.\n\nThe Swedish campaigner is seen sitting in a bus following her detention by police\n\nThe government has pledged to bring forward the phase-out of coal in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which the mine lies, to 2030. The national target is 2038.\n\nLignite is the dirtiest form of coal, and the area around Lützerath yields 25 million tonnes of it each year.\n\nThe village, owned by energy company RWE after residents abandoned it, is expected to be the final one demolished for the lignite mine. RWE has said the coal under the village is needed as early as this winter.\n\nThe government argues it needs to expand the mine to keep up with German energy demand as it deals with the interruption of gas from Russia.\n\nOrganisers of the protest said around 35,000 demonstrators attended on Saturday while police said the number was closer to 15,000.\n\nPolice said they had managed to remove all activists from the town over the weekend. Footage from Sunday showed Ms Thunberg and other protesters being moved along by police.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Suella Braverman - More shocking cases may come to light in the short-term\n\nMore shocking cases involving police officers may emerge, the home secretary warns after Met officer David Carrick admitted he was a serial rapist.\n\nSuella Braverman urged police forces to \"double down\" on their efforts to root out corrupt officers and reform police vetting processes.\n\nBut Labour said ministers had failed to heed repeated calls for reform.\n\nCarrick was sacked from the force after admitting to dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women over decades.\n\nThe 48-year-old, who was an armed officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, used his role to instil fear in his victims.\n\nHe admitted four counts of rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault relating to a 40-year-old woman in 2003, at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.\n\nCarrick had already pleaded guilty to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, in December.\n\nMs Braverman told MPs that Monday was a \"dark day\" for British policing and the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"It is intolerable for them [the victims] to have suffered as they have,\" she said, in a statement to the House of Commons after his formal dismissal.\n\n\"They were manipulated and isolated and subjected to horrific abuse.\n\n\"For anyone to have gone through such torment is harrowing, but for it to have happened at the hands of someone they entrusted to keep people safe is almost beyond comprehension,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had been \"encouraged\" by the work Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley had already undertaken to \"root out officers not fit to wear the badge\" before warning more cases could soon emerge.\n\n\"It is vital that the Metropolitan Police and other forces double down on their efforts to root out corrupt officers. This may mean more shocking cases come to light in the short-term,\" she said.\n\nThe home secretary announced an internal review into police dismissals to make sure the system was fair and effective at removing officers not fit to serve.\n\n\"Bureaucracy and process appear to have prevailed over ethics and common sense,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the case would now also be considered in the Angiolini Inquiry, which was set up to look into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens.\n\nBut shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused the government of failing to address \"appalling failures in the police vetting and misconduct processes\".\n\n\"Her statement is very weak and it shows a serious lack of leadership on something that is so grave and affects confidence in policing as well as serious crimes,\" she added.\n\nEarlier, Sir Mark Rowley apologised for the failings of the Met Police and said opportunities to remove Carrick from policing were missed.\n\n\"We have failed. And I'm sorry. He should not have been a police officer,\" he said.\n\nIn an interview with Good Morning Britain, he admitted he could not promise women that Met Police officers to whom they report crimes were not themselves a sex offender.\n\nHe said most of his officers were \"fantastic\" but warned there were some who should not be in the Met he had to \"identify and get rid of\".\n\nHe has previously said the force is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers.", "Court proceedings were suspended last year after Mr Jeremy's lawyer said his client had been unable to recognise him\n\nUS adult film star Ron Jeremy has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial for alleged sex crimes.\n\nMr Jeremy was indicted on 34 counts of sexual assault - including 12 of rape - over a period of more than 20 years.\n\nA Los Angeles judge said on Tuesday that Mr Jeremy could not face the charges, as he was in a state of \"incurable neurocognitive decline\".\n\nThe 69-year-old has been in prison since his arrest in 2020. He denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name.\n\nHe was not present for the latest hearing.\n\nMr Jeremy - whose legal name is Ronald Hyatt - became one of the most prolific performers in the adult film industry during a career that began in the 1970s.\n\nHe is believed to have featured in hundreds of titles, and looked to extend his profile in the world of showbiz more widely.\n\nProsecutors said he attacked 21 women - who ranged in age from 15 to 51 - between the years 1996 and 2019.\n\nThe alleged offences took places at bars and nightclubs in the Los Angeles area, and at Mr Jeremy's home.\n\nHe was first charged in 2020. Other allegations emerged, resulting in the indictment issued the following year through a grand jury - a similar tactic to that used against Harvey Weinstein.\n\nMr Jeremy denied the charges against him.\n\nCourt proceedings were suspended last year after Mr Jeremy's lawyer said his client had not been able to recognise him during a visit to his cell.\n\nThe Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that Mr Jeremy had \"severe dementia\".\n\nFollowing the judge's declaration on Tuesday, the same lawyer told the AP news agency: \"It is unfortunate due to mental condition he will not go to trial and have the the opportunity to clear his name.\"\n\nA hearing on whether to put Mr Jeremy in a state-run hospital was set for next month, AP reported.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nRafael Nadal's Australian Open title defence is over after a second-round defeat by American Mackenzie McDonald in which he struggled with an injury.\n\nThe Spaniard, 36, was trailing by a set and a break when he pulled up with what appeared to be a hip problem.\n\nHe took a medical timeout towards the end of the second set and continued with the match, but ultimately slipped to a 6-4 6-3 7-5 defeat.\n\nIt is Nadal's earliest exit at the Australian Open since 2016.\n\nIt was a cruel end for Nadal after his stunning 2022, where he came back from two sets down to beat Daniil Medvedev in last year's final in Melbourne and won a record-extending 14th French Open crown in June.\n\nHowever, a typically battling display in the Wimbledon quarter-finals led to him picking up an abdominal injury that hampered him for the rest of the season.\n\nHe arrived in Melbourne having lost his only two singles matches of the season and never looked fully comfortable before he seemed to jar his hip against McDonald.\n\nNadal's wife was left in tears and his support team also looked emotional in the player box as the two-time champion struggled to move on Rod Laver Arena.\n\nAfter seeing the match through to the end he left to a standing ovation from the crowd, with top seed Nadal turning to wave to each corner before exiting the stadium.\n• None Follow live coverage of day three of the Australian Open\n\nNadal, bidding for a men's record-extending 23rd Grand Slam singles title, arrived at the first major of the year having lost six of his past seven matches and with further questions about his future.\n\nIt is the latest in a long series of physical problems for Nadal, who admitted he had no feeling in his left foot during his victory at Roland Garros last year because of painkilling injections for the chronic injury.\n\nHe ignored his support box's pleas for him to retire from his Wimbledon quarter-final against Taylor Fritz, where he somehow managed to win despite being unable to serve or move properly. He subsequently withdrew from the tournament before his semi-final against Nick Kyrgios.\n\nThe abdominal injury he picked up at SW19 then hampered him at the US Open, where he suffered a fourth-round exit against Frances Tiafoe and appeared to injure his rib.\n\nHe came through a tough first-round test in Melbourne against Britain's Jack Draper but against 65th-ranked McDonald his movement and speed appeared off.\n\nNadal was running out wide to pick up a forehand when he appeared to jar his left hip, immediately touching the area and dropping to his haunches.\n\nHe limped through the rest of the game and then left court for a medical timeout, returning to see out the second set.\n\nDespite being unable to chase down any deep shots, Nadal somehow managed to hold serve until 5-5 in the third set before McDonald secured the inevitable break.\n\nAssuming Nadal's injury is not a cause for long-term concern, expect him to return to the day job at the earliest opportunity.\n\nLast year he recovered from a stress fracture of the rib at Indian Wells to win the French Open, and later from the abdominal injury that cost him a shot at the Wimbledon title.\n\nBut his biggest worry last year was the chronic pain in his left foot, which could have signalled an early end to his career, but now seems under control.\n\nThese injuries are becoming all too frequent for his liking, but that's to be expected at the age of 36.\n\nThere seems no dimming of his passion for the sport and he will absolutely believe he can win a 15th Roland Garros title come the spring.\n\nElsewhere on day three, Canada's sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime battled back from two sets down to secure a 3-6 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 win over Alex Molcan.\n\nThe 22-year-old looked set for an early exit in Melbourne as his error-strewn play - featuring 25 unforced errors - enabled his Slovak opponent to take the upper hand.\n\nBut after irately complaining to the umpire about the state of the balls at the start of the third set, the world number seven was able to turn his fortunes around, wrapping up the match in just over three hours.\n\n\"It's quite simple, you have to put the ball in the court without missing,\" said Auger-Aliassime, who came from behind to win a five-setter for the fifth time in his career.\n\n\"At the end of the day, it's not rocket science. So I was just trying to put one more ball in the court and make it simple, make it work.\"\n\nThe second round proved a much easier affair for Greek third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and Russian seventh seed Daniil Medvedev.\n\nTsitsipas took 92 minutes to end home wildcard Rinky Hijikata's tournament in a 6-3 6-0 6-2 demolition, while 2021 finalist Medvedev beat Australian John Millman 7-5 6-2 6-2.\n\nItaly's 15th seed Jannik Sinner eased to a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win over Tomas Etcheverry and American 16th seed Frances Tiafoe beat Shang Juncheng 6-4 6-4 6-1.\n\nTiafoe will play 18th seed Karen Khachanov next after the Russian defeated Australian Jason Kubler 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-2.\n\nPolish 10th seed Hubert Hurkacz had to fight for almost four hours to beat Italy's Lorenzo Sonego 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 2-6 6-3 6-3 in a match that finished just after 01:00 local time.\n\nPlay was initially delayed by six hours on the outside courts because of rain on day three, with matches taking place late in the evening to make up for the schedule disruption after downpours had also forced postponements on Tuesday.\n\nAustralian Thanasi Kokkinakis will play Britain's Andy Murray in the second round after coming through his interrupted match against Italian Fabio Fognini, needing just three minutes and six points to complete a 6-1 6-2 6-2 win after returning to court almost 24 hours after starting the match.\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "High Street stationery chain Paperchase has lined up administrators and put itself up for sale.\n\nThe firm said it has a number of buyers interested in the business but was also talking to the insolvency experts Begbies Traynor about options for its future.\n\nPaperchase was only recently sold to a consortium led by retail investor Steve Curtis.\n\nAnother investor group had bought it out of administration in January 2021.\n\nThe chain, which is 50 years old, has 106 stores in the UK and Ireland and 820 staff.\n\nPaperchase confirmed that it had hired Begbies Traynor and consultants PwC to advise it after Sky News first reported the story.\n\nBegbies is being lined up in case the firm goes bust, and PwC is handling the sale of the business, a source told the BBC.\n\n\"Talks are continuing with a number of interested parties,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"All Paperchase stores and the website will continue to trade as normal during this period.\"\n\nPaperchase has had a challenging couple of years. In 2021 it was bought out of administration in a deal which rescued 90 of its then-127 stores, with 500 of its 1,500 employees losing their jobs.\n\nAt the time, the firm said its trade had slumped due to coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nLast August the chain was taken over by Steve Curtis, a retail investor and chairman of investment vehicle Quilam Capital.\n\nMr Curtis is also chairman of clothing shop Jigsaw, which again struggled during the pandemic.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have launched an investigation into \"two disturbing incidents\" of antisemitism during their north London derby win against rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.\n\nThe Gunners say one Arsenal supporter reported another for making \"grossly offensive\" comments.\n\nMeanwhile, antisemitic chants were also alleged to have been heard at a pub in Islington.\n\n\"Any kind of discriminatory abuse is not welcome at our club,\" Arsenal said.\n\nThe Premier League leaders added in a statement: \"We have been made aware of two disturbing incidents over the weekend involving antisemitism which are now under investigation.\n\n\"There was an incident at the north London derby on Sunday involving Arsenal supporters in which one of our fans overheard grossly offensive antisemitic statements made by another Arsenal fan.\n\n\"On the same afternoon, we were appalled to hear of an incident at The Cally pub in Islington, involving other antisemitic chants.\n\n\"We recognise the impact this behaviour has on our many Jewish supporters and others and condemn the use of language of this nature, which has no place in our game or society.\"\n\nArsenal said that anyone identified would receive a lengthy club ban and their details would be passed to the police to commence legal proceedings.\n\nThe Gunners won the game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium 2-0 to move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League.\n\nThe game was also marred by an incident involving Aaron Ramsdale after the Arsenal goalkeeper was attacked by a supporter.\n• None Visit our Arsenal page for all the latest Gunners news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Arsenal news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Our coverage of the Gunners is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Arsenal - go straight to all the best content", "Getting enough food to eat and keeping the cold at bay is a daily challenge\n\nIn a country where women are barred from university and secondary schools, and banned from many workplaces, the world's biggest aid operation is now at risk of failing those who desperately need it.\n\nAnd it's happening in the cruellest depths of winter when famine and frostbite are knocking at the door.\n\nIn the middle of a deepening crisis, the most senior UN delegation to visit Afghanistan since the Taliban swept to power in 2021 has flown into Kabul.\n\nThe UN secretary general dispatched his deputy Amina Mohammad, the UN's most senior woman, with a team which also includes the head of UN Women, Sima Bahous.\n\nThey've been tasked with speaking to senior Taliban leaders at the highest-possible level about reversing restrictions, including a new ban on female aid workers, now seen to endanger urgent life-saving humanitarian operations.\n\nThe UN delegation have met the Taliban's acting foreign minister\n\n\"People are freezing and time is running out,\" emphasises Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Afghanistan in a statement which emphasises the all too obvious.\n\n\"We need to build shelters now but, in this conservative society, if we don't have female aid workers to speak to women in the families, we can't do this work.\"\n\nIt's not just that the UN has sent a senior delegation, they've also sent one headed by women with decades of experience.\n\n\"If there are women in the room, there is a greater chance that the uncomfortable conversations about women will take place,\" said one aid official who often sits in the room during efforts to reconcile the Taliban government's demands with international norms on human rights.\n\nThere's often been criticism that, all too often, foreign delegations send men-only teams which reinforce conservative Taliban views of their world.\n\nThe world's top table, the UN Security Council, recently condemned with unusual unanimity the \"increasing erosion for the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms\".\n\nThe first Taliban official to meet the visiting delegation in Kabul was acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.\n\nOn social media, his spokesman said the meeting began with the minister expressing hope that the \"delegation would portray Afghanistan's true picture to the world\".\n\nHe also reiterated the Taliban argument that the absence of international recognition of their rule, along with sanctions, was hindering their ability to govern effectively.\n\nAcross Afghanistan, temperatures are plunging to as low as -17C and even lower in mountainous areas.\n\nElectricity is erratic or absent, and millions of families are struggling to make it through the night. Hardscrabble lives in one of the world's poorest countries have always been harsh - but not as harsh as this.\n\n\"We cannot provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan without the participation of half the society,\" is the urgent mantra of aid agencies struggling to respond to the new Taliban government edict restricting Afghan female aid workers.\n\nSome aid agencies have temporarily suspended their operations. The ruling is the latest in a raft of rules in recent months which also banned women from attending university, socialising in public parks, or even going to women-only gyms.\n\nTaliban leaders say conditions compliant with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and Afghanistan's conservative traditions must first be readied.\n\nDespite earlier promises, the Taliban have steadily pushed women out of public life since they swept back to power\n\nThere's been some movement on this latest ban.\n\nWithin the Taliban system, some officials understand the gravity of these new rules.\n\nThe Health Ministry has now clarified that women can work in the health sector where women doctors and nurses are absolutely essential. That's triggered the resumption of some vital health programmes.\n\n\"While the majority of our programmes remain on hold, we are restarting some activities - such as health, nutrition and some education services - where we have received clear, reliable assurances from relevant authorities that our female staff will be safe and can work without obstruction,\" announced Save the Children in a statement this week.\n\nSamira Sayed Rahman, of the International Rescue Committee in Kabul, underlined the need for Afghan women to work everywhere, from door-to-door surveys in the field to desks in the office.\n\n\"We are taking a pragmatic approach, working with Taliban officials' sector by sector,\" she told the BBC.\n\nWith the economy on its knees, growing numbers of Afghans rely on food aid\n\nThese aren't just concerns of the outside world. In one province after another, tribal leaders and religious scholars have been imploring Taliban leaders to open girls' secondary schools and provide more opportunities for work.\n\nOn our visit to the remote central highlands of Ghor last summer, we heard from farmers and their families how timely interventions by the UN World Food Programme last winter pulled some districts from the brink of famine.\n\n\"We feel the world is now forgetting us,\" one farmer lamented, as he brandished dried shafts of wheat, a painful symbol of years of punishing drought which have deepened the hardship.\n\nThis high-level UN delegation started their mission by first visiting Afghanistan's neighbours, as well as to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to underscore what the UN has called \"the importance of the international community speaking with one voice with a unified approach\".\n\nThis UN visit, at this time, is an important signal to many Afghans and their allies who feel much of the world seems to have forgotten a country where they once invested so much commitment and cash.\n\n\"Where are the Nato countries that rushed through the door in 2021?\" demanded Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.\n\nIn a message posted last week on Twitter during his own visit to Afghanistan, he discarded any niceties about the US-led pull out which played a part in the Taliban takeover. \"You left 40 million Afghans with us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "David Carrick is due to be sentenced in February\n\nAll police forces will be asked to check staff against national databases to identify if anyone \"slipped through the net\", the Home Office says.\n\nIt follows the case of David Carrick who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met Police officer.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) will ask forces to check current staff recruited before tougher vetting of recruits was introduced in 2006.\n\nThe College of Policing will also be asked to strengthen vetting procedures.\n\nCarrick, 48, was officially sacked on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women over two decades.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said Carrick's crimes were an \"absolutely despicable\" abuse of power which needed to be \"addressed immediately\".\n\nSpeaking after a joint visit to a London police station with Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, the prime minister said: \"All police forces across the country have been told to check all of their serving officers and staff against national police databases to identify and root out anybody who shouldn't be serving.\n\n\"The government has done a huge amount already to protect the safety of women and girls, but we will keep going and doing whatever it takes to ensure that women and girls feel safe and can go about their lives, freely and without fear.\"\n\nThe NPCC, which works with police forces on staffing, says the checks will help identify \"anyone who has slipped through the net\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the move for tougher checks as the \"bare minimum\" and called the government's response \"completely underwhelming\".\n\n\"All we get are warm words from the home secretary and prime minister while in practice they have walked away from taking national action to improve police standards,\" she said.\n\nThis is just the latest call for tougher vetting checks in policing.\n\nThe current guidelines for checking applicants when they join a police force were set in 2006 and require a series of background checks that look at everything from past convictions, behaviour of family and friends, or financial problems that may leave an applicant open to corruption.\n\nThe College of Policing introduced the national guidelines to ensure all forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were checking new recruits in the same way.\n\nThen in 2019 the police watchdog, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, gave all forces in those three nations a deadline of July 2020 to retrospectively vet all their officers and staff to those 2006 guidelines, no matter how long they had been serving.\n\nThat deadline passed and in 2021, the BBC's File on Four programme checked with the forces whether it had been complied with - and revealed that a quarter had not met the deadline.\n\nNow two-and-a-half years on from the deadline, it is not clear how many forces have still to complete the checks. The Home Office has yet to reveal how many background checks are missing at this stage, but has been approached by the BBC for a comment.\n\nPolice Scotland is not bound by College of Policing guidance but said it was \"watching developments\" and would consider taking action as a result of the Carrick case.\n\nThe prime minister called on police to restore public confidence\n\nIt comes as the Home Office also launched a review of the police disciplinary system to make sure officers who \"are not fit to serve the public\" and \"fall short of the high standards expected of them\" can be sacked.\n\nOfficials will look at decision-making at police disciplinary hearings, as well as checking forces have the power they need to take action against rogue officers. The review is expected to be completed within four months.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said in a statement: \"David Carrick's sickening crimes are a stain on the police and he should never have been allowed to remain as an officer for so long.\n\n\"We are taking immediate steps to ensure predatory individuals are not only rooted out of the force, but that vetting and standards are strengthened to ensure they cannot join the police in the first place.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Carrick could be stripped of his state-funded pension, as the Home Office has said it will consider a minister's application for its forfeiture.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been issued across Northern Ireland from noon on Tuesday until noon on Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office has warned of further disruption due to snow and ice over the next few days.\n\nA yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been issued across Northern Ireland until noon on Wednesday.\n\nSnow showers are forecast to continue overnight on Tuesday and into Wednesday.\n\nPolice have advised drivers to reduce speed as the cold snap continues to make roads hazardous.\n\nA number of schools are closed, particularly in the north west.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure also asked drivers to exercise caution and said salting was under way on the road network on Tuesday evening and would continue overnight.\n\nThe Met Office expects several centimetres of snow in some low level areas with 5-10cm in some higher areas.\n\nUp to 15cm could fall over the highest spots, with a risk of ice forming where the showers have fallen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Snowboarder John Spence takes to the slopes of Derry\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, warnings for snow and ice have also been issued across counties Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo.\n\nThe coldest temperatures recorded overnight in Northern Ireland were in Katesbridge, County Down, (-8.4C) and Castlederg, County Tyrone, (-7.1).\n\nThere were 20 road crashes across Londonderry and Strabane, police said earlier on Tuesday, as icy conditions moved in.\n\nSDLP assembly member for Foyle Mark H Durkan described conditions on some roads in the north west as \"shambolic\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Mr Durkan said his office was inundated with calls for assistance and that the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) had \"come up short\".\n\nEmergency services dealt with a crash on the Creggan Road in Derry on Monday night\n\nRoads Service engineer Peter McParland defended the response to the conditions, saying staff had been working in salting shifts over the past 24 hours and that there were \"no major incidents to report\".\n\n\"All gritters have made it safely back to the depots and currently all main roads are open and passable with care, but I would stress that we can't guarantee roads will be free of ice even after they've been salted,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nDunloy, County Antrim was the scene of heavy snowfall\n\nSome areas in the north coast also experienced snowy spells on Tuesday\n\n\"The department salts around 7,000km of road - that equates to about 25% of the entire road network, but it carries 80% of the traffic.\"\n\nHe said he was satisfied that everything was done that could have been done by his department.\n\n\"The gritters were out from 15:00 yesterday, in the north west they went out again after 20:00 after the snow showers and again at 02:00 this morning. There's plenty of salt on the road, but salt needs traffic to activate it, so I expect that the roads will clear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Police Derry City and Strabane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTranslink bus services have also been affected by snow, with delays and disruption expected.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Emma McGinley said driver safety had to take priority over the inconvenience to travellers.\n\n\"The priority is not just the safety of the residents, but the bus drivers, their health and safety has to be taken into account.\n\n\"If it's not safe to them to be driving in it, that needs to take priority - we can't have a situation where someone is putting their life at risk essentially.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Translink This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council also warned residents of possible disruption to a number of services, including bin collection.\n\nIt advised people to leave their bin out as normal and that those not emptied today will be emptied as conditions improve later this week.\n\nAll council cemeteries are also closed to the public on Tuesday except to facilitate burials.\n\nRecycling centres and parks will be opened \"when it is safe to do so\", the council added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by BBC NI Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nBritish number one Emma Raducanu is out of the Australian Open after losing in straight sets to Coco Gauff in a gripping second-round match.\n\nRaducanu, ranked 77th in the world, acquitted herself very well against the American seventh seed but a lack of matches told in a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) defeat.\n\nThe 20-year-old had battled an ankle injury before the Melbourne major.\n\nCameron Norrie, Britain's leading men's player, reached the third round after a late-night win over Constant Lestienne.\n\nAt 01:28 local time, 11th seed Norrie completed a 6-3 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-3 victory over the French world number 55, who was making his Grand Slam main-draw debut at the age of 30.\n\nAndy Murray and Dan Evans could join Norrie in the third round when they play on Thursday, but Raducanu's exit means there is no British interest left in the women's singles.\n• None Raducanu has 'no doubts' she can beat the best\n• None How boxing sessions helped me knock out Raducanu - Gauff column\n• None Reaction to Gauff's win over Raducanu in Melbourne\n\nRaducanu has not reached the third round of a Grand Slam since her stunning 2021 US Open win.\n\nHad she been able to take one of two set points at 5-4 in the second - which would have forced a deciding set - it might have led to a different outcome.\n\n\"I think I had a lot of chances and I was creating quite a few. Losing obviously sucks a bit,\" said Raducanu.\n\n\"Coco is a great mover, great athlete. She puts another ball in play, so you feel like you have to squeeze it closer to the line and then she teases errors out of you.\"\n\nTeenager Gauff, who famously reached the Wimbledon last 16 as a 15-year-old in 2019, is among the favourites to win the title at Melbourne Park.\n\n\"I told myself to hang in there, Emma played really good tennis towards the end of the match,\" said 18-year-old Gauff.\n\n\"It was a good quality match for the most part. This was a long anticipated match-up so I'm glad it was a good match for the crowd.\"\n\nRaducanu can take pride and positivity from performance\n\nRaducanu conceded it has been a \"great achievement\" even getting on to court at Melbourne Park this week following the ankle injury she sustained in Auckland 13 days ago.\n\nRolling the left ankle meant she had to retire from the match against Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova, leaving Raducanu in tears when she left the court.\n\nBefore her opening match against Germany's Tamara Korpatsch, she said she \"fully trusted\" the ankle but her movement was always going to be tested more against Gauff.\n\nThe issue did not appear to be factor as Raducanu went toe-to-toe with the French Open finalist in a match packed with intense baseline rallies.\n\nRaducanu grew in confidence as the match went on, playing on the front foot and pinning Gauff back with her aggressive and accurate groundstrokes.\n\nHowever, her lack of court time also told with some loose shots letting Gauff off the hook at pivotal moments, including when the Briton missed those two set points by hitting a slightly-impatient backhand long and then a drop-shot into the net.\n\nWhile any defeat hurts, Raducanu will undoubtedly look back on this performance with plenty of pride and positivity for the future.\n\nEyes were instantly drawn to this potential match-up when the draw for the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2023 season was made last week - and the contest between two of the sport's most exciting prospect did not disappoint.\n\nTrue, lots of errors flowed from both racquets. But there was plenty of quality in an entertaining match which will have left many keen to see this develop into a long and enduring rivalry.\n\nGauff is the younger player with the greater experience, but Raducanu is the one who is already a major champion - a tag which Gauff is keen to add to her resume this season.\n\nThat is what made this match such an intriguing prospect.\n\nGauff warmed up for the Australian Open by winning a WTA event in Auckland and looked to be cruising towards victory when she was a set and a break up.\n\nBut doubts begin to creep into her game - particularly on her forehand side - as Raducanu rallied in the second set.\n\nAn old failing returned when a double fault provided three break chances for Raducanu at 4-3 and the American handed over the first one with an unconvincing forehand into the net.\n\nHowever, Gauff showed her greater experience to regroup mentally and come through the tie-break.\n\nAiming for her first Grand Slam triumph, she will face fellow American Bernarda Pera in the third round on Friday.\n\nRoll on episode two. There was more than a hint of the rivalry this may hopefully one day become, especially in a barnstorming climax to the match.\n\nWith Raducanu thumping the ball in all-out attack mode, Gauff's defence was phenomenal and it was this that turned the all important tie-break her way.\n\nRaducanu says she was playing through a fair amount of pain, having pushed her body \"over the limit\" here in Melbourne.\n\nHer plans for the next few weeks are yet to be decided, but the 20-year-old says she is in no rush to return to competition. Her instinct is that she first needs more time on the practice court.\n\nNorrie's wild celebrations signalled his relief and delight at securing victory in a match which he thought he may not even get the chance to play on day three.\n\nA backlog of matches after long rain delays meant play on the outside courts did not start until 17:00 local time (06:00 GMT) and Norrie did not take to the court until 22:15.\n\nThe match was played under floodlights in cold and windy conditions - described by Norrie as \"nails\" - and some rowdy fans were removed from the stands during an entertaining night's play.\n\nNorrie was a break down in the third set as Lestienne tried to disrupt his rhythm with some unorthodox shots and colourful antics, but the Wimbledon semi-finalist fought back to win the tie-break.\n\nNorrie broke for a 5-3 lead in a tight fourth set before serving out victory in three hours and 13 minutes.\n\nIt ensured he matched his best run at Melbourne Park, with his reward a third-round match against Czech youngster Jiri Lehecka.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "Pier Antonio Panzeri ran lobby group Fight Impunity after he left the European Parliament\n\nAn alleged leader of a criminal network involved in an EU corruption scandal has agreed to reveal which countries were involved and how it operated.\n\nA lawyer for Pier Antonio Panzeri said his client had agreed to \"tell all\" after reaching a deal with prosecutors.\n\nThe former member of the European Parliament is one of four suspects being held in Belgium.\n\nThey are suspected of accepting bribes from Qatar and Morocco in return for influencing the Parliament in Brussels.\n\nQatar has strenuously denied that it tried to gain influence through gifts and money while Morocco has also strongly rejected allegations that it sought influence on issues such as fishing rights and the disputed status of Western Sahara.\n\nThe four suspects were charged last month after police seized around €1.5m (£1.3m) in cash during a series of raids on a flat, a house and a hotel. Pictures of stashes of €200, €50, €20 and €10-denomination notes were released by police, including a suitcase found in the hotel which was stuffed with cash.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Panzeri agreed the plea deal under an informant law used only once before in Belgium.\n\nHis lawyer Marc Uyttendaele said he admitted \"criminal responsibility\", adding: \"It is important to know that this is a man who is destroyed and he doesn't have much of a life left.\"\n\nBut his client hoped to \"secure his situation\" by agreeing to \"tell all he knows about the case\", Mr Uyttendaele added.\n\nBelgian police released pictures of the cash seized in last month's raids\n\nThe other suspects include a serving Greek MEP, Eva Kaili, who has been stripped of her role as a vice-president of the Parliament, her partner Francesco Giorgi, and lobbyist Niccolò Figà-Talamanca.\n\nAfter Mr Panzeri, 67, left the Parliament, he became the head of a lobby group called Fight Impunity. Mr Figà-Talamanca worked from the same building in Brussels for a separate NGO.\n\nAccording to a statement from Belgium's federal prosecutor, the former MEP agreed to the plea bargain under a law modelled on an Italian provision for repentant mafia members or \"pentiti\" to turn state witnesses.\n\nA spokesman said he faced a year in jail, rather than a \"much heavier prison sentence\", as well as a fine and confiscation of €1m in assets.\n\nIn return he would be required to give details of how the network operated, what the financial arrangements were with the countries concerned, and \"the involvement of known and unknown persons within the investigation, including the identity of the persons he admits to having bribed\".\n\nThe plea deal was released a day after an Italian court agreed to extradite the ex-MEP's daughter, Silvia Panzeri, 38, on suspicion of involvement in the scandal.\n\nThe same court in the northern city of Brescia ruled last month that Mr Panzeri's wife, Maria Colleoni, could also be extradited, but Italy's top appeal court will give a final ruling on their case. The two women are currently under house arrest and deny allegations of corruption and money laundering.\n\nGreek MEP Eva Kaili, who also denies involvement in the case, is suspected along with the others of taking bribes from Qatar in return for influencing EU policy-making.\n\nHer partner Francesco Giorgi was reported to have confessed last month to his role in the affair.\n\nHowever, a reference to \"unknown\" people within the investigation suggests more revelations are due to emerge.\n\nProsecutors have already sought to lift the immunity of two more centre-left MEPs, Belgian Marc Tarabella and Italian Andrea Cozzolino.\n\nLawyers for both MEPs have denied that they played any part in the scandal, but the request is being reviewed by Parliament's legal affairs committee.\n• None Four in EU-Qatar bribery inquiry to stay in custody", "Nadhim Zahawi is facing questions about his tax affairs\n\nRishi Sunak came under pressure at Prime Minister's Questions over former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs.\n\nMr Zahawi is reported to have paid more than £1m to Revenue and Customs to settle a tax dispute.\n\nHe has so far declined to say whether the story, in The Sun, is correct.\n\nMr Sunak said the minister, who is now Conservative Party chairman, had \"already addressed this matter in full\", in response to a Labour MP's question.\n\nMr Zahawi is facing questions from opposition parties about whether he tried to avoid paying tax by using an offshore company to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Zahawi has said his taxes are \"properly declared\" and that he \"has never had to instruct any lawyers to deal with HMRC on his behalf\".\n\n\"He is proud to have built a British business that has become successful around the world,\" the spokesman added.\n\nIn a letter to HMRC, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said she understood the department's position was not to comment on the \"tax affairs of individuals\", but argued this was a unique case.\n\nShe said \"given the public interest\", as well as the \"serious questions raised about a potential conflict of interest at the heart of government\", the British public \"require answers\".\n\nAt PMQs, Labour MP Alex Sobel said Mr Zahawi was \"forced to pay millions to HMRC to settle a tax dispute\".\n\nHe asked Mr Sunak if he was \"aware of an investigation when he appointed him to his cabinet and as chairman of the Conservative Party\".\n\nHe added: \"Will the prime minister demand accountability from his cabinet members about their tax affairs?\"\n\nThe prime minister said Mr Zahawi \"has already addressed this matter in full and there's nothing more that I can add\".\n\nMr Sunak's official spokeswoman said Mr Zahawi \"has spoken and been transparent with HMRC\".\n\nOn whether Mr Sunak believes the matter is now closed, she said: \"I don't know whether the prime minister has reviewed it in full, but I do know that he takes Nadhim Zahawi at his word.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Sunak is confident he knows everything he needs to know, she responded \"yes\" and said the prime minister had full confidence in Mr Zahawi.\n\nHome Office minister Robert Jenrick said it was a \"private matter\" for Mr Zahawi, adding the \"important factor\" was that Mr Zahawi's tax affairs are now up to date.\n\nLabour has called on the prime minister to launch an inquiry into whether Mr Zahawi broke the ministerial code or misled the public over his tax affairs during his time as chancellor.\n\nThe party's chairwoman, Anneliese Dodds, said: \"The allegations around Nadhim Zahawi are deeply concerning. If he has not been straight with the British people, or with HMRC, he should have no place in the government.\"\n\nThe BBC has repeatedly asked Mr Zahawi's representatives if he has paid a tax bill to settle a dispute with HM Revenue and Customs but has yet to receive an answer.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nGreek sixth seed Maria Sakkari avoided a shock as she fought back to beat Russian teenager Diana Shnaider in the Australian Open second round.\n\nShnaider, 18, is still to join the professional ranks as she plays in the American college system, but threatened an upset by winning the first set.\n\nBut Sakkari regrouped to win 3-6 7-5 6-3, taking her third match point.\n\nPolish top seed Iga Swiatek and American third seed Jessica Pegula had fewer problems in straight-set wins.\n\nSwiatek beat Colombia's Camila Osario 6-2 6-3, while Pegula was a 6-2 7-6 (7-5) winner against Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich.\n\nPegula played with the number three on her skirt in support of NFL player Damar Hamlin, who was discharged from hospital nine days after suffering a cardiac arrest while playing for the Buffalo Bills - the franchise owned by her parents.\n\n\"He's recovered, it's amazing and awesome to see,\" Pegula said.\n\nRussia's Daria Kasatkina became the first top-10 seed to lose in the women's draw at this year's tournament as the eighth seed was thrashed 6-1 6-1 by compatriot Varvara Gracheva.\n\n'Maybe she should consider not going to college'\n\nShnaider is a freshman at North Carolina State University in the United States but the bandana-wearing left-hander, who possesses a ferocious forehand, has shown in Melbourne she can compete with the very best.\n\nShe had come through three rounds of qualifying before winning in straight sets on her Grand Slam main draw debut to set up the meeting with Sakkari, pushing the Greek all the way in a two-and-a-half-hour encounter.\n\n\"She is very young and very promising, maybe she should consider not going to college and turning pro,\" joked Sakkari, who is a two-time Grand Slam semi-finalist.\n\n\"It is difficult when you have not played someone before and I was hesitant. She was swinging hard and playing aggressively. I tried to find solutions and that's what I think I'm good at.\n\n\"It was a very high level from both of us.\"\n\nEarlier, Petra Kvitova, the 2019 finalist and 15th seed, became the first top-20 seed to fall, losing 7-5 6-4 to Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina.\n\nWimbledon champion Elena Rybakina took just 59 minutes to beat Kaja Juvan of Slovena 6-2 6-1 and set up a meeting with Danielle Collins, who finished runner-up to Ashleigh Barty in Melbourne last year.\n\nAmerican Collins fought past Czech Karolina Muchova 6-7 (1-7) 6-2 7-6 (10-6) but mistakenly celebrated too early in the match tie-break, not realising it was first to 10 points rather than seven.\n\nThere was also a win for two-time champion Victoria Azarenka, with the Belarusian thrashing Nadia Podoroska of Argentina 6-0 6-1.\n\nHowever, former US Open champions Sloane Stephens and Bianca Andreescu both lost. American Stephens fell 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 to Russia's Anastasia Potapova, while Canada's Andreescu was beaten 2-6 7-6 (9-7) 6-4 by Spanish qualifier Cristina Bucsa.\n\nPlay was initially delayed by six hours on the outside courts because of rain, with matches taking place late in the evening to make up for the schedule disruption after downpours had also forced postponements on day two.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "Google will shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK on Thursday, as it issues refunds to gamers.\n\nStadia was touted as a \"Netflix for games\" when it launched, in November 2019, allowing players to stream games online without a PC or console.\n\nThe service will be inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January in the UK, with gamers telling BBC News they are \"heartbroken\" to see it go.\n\nGoogle has promised refunds to anyone who made Stadia purchases.\n\nThat includes people who bought controllers, games or downloadable content, with Google previously estimating those refunds would be completed by mid-January.\n\nGoogle has marked the closure by releasing one final Stadia game, Worm Game, which the developers used to test the service before its public release.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stadia ☁️🎮 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has also unveiled plans to make its Stadia controllers capable of using Bluetooth, which would allow them to be used on PCs wirelessly to play any game, even after Stadia's closure.\n\nGoogle said in September it was shutting Stadia because it \"hadn't gained the traction with users\" the company had hoped.\n\nBut fans have reacted with sadness, with many pointing out some games developed exclusively to be played on Stadia could be lost forever once the service closes.\n\nSplash Damage, a London-based developer that made multiplayer game Outcasters, said last year it had no plans to bring the game elsewhere.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Outcasters This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Q-Games founder and chief executive Dylan Cuthbert told BBC News his team had spent two years developing Stadia exclusive PixelJunk Raiders and he wanted to make sure it was not \"gone forever\".\n\n\"It's a real shame when people can't play a game you've spent years making,\" he said.\n\n\"We're hoping to talk to publishers who can help us get it on to a PC or even PS5 [PlayStation 5] or other platforms. The IP is ours, so we're trying to find a way to do that.\"\n\nMr Cuthbert said he was discussing how this might work with Google, which had been \"forward thinking\" about finding a resolution. But there is another problem.\n\n\"I'd want to rework the game a little bit as well,\" he said.\n\n\"At the time when we launched it, we did have to rush it a bit at the end. I wanted to spend like a bit more time - maybe another eight months or so - reworking a few things.\n\n\"If I was going to relaunch it, I'd do that and I'd want to find a publisher who can help us do that. But there's nothing on the books yet.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Q-Games 🔜 Taipei Game Show This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJordy, 30, from Gosport, told BBC News she owned three Stadia controllers and was \"heartbroken\" it was closing.\n\n\"I honestly loved Stadia,\" she said. \"One of the things I found the best about Stadia was the fact I could game anywhere.\n\n\"I was able to play games like Destiny 2 with my partner via my iPad whilst he was playing on the PS5. The Stadia controller was the best controller I'd used. I loved it.\"\n\nBut Jordy praised Google for leaving nobody out of pocket.\n\n\"The refunds enabled me to get myself a new gaming device and Ubisoft even gave me the games we already purchased, for free,\" she said.\n\n\"Even the hardware was refunded, so we essentially got controllers and 4K Chromecasts for free. It is a shame that Stadia had to close but I am happy I was able to experience it.\"\n\nDan, 30, in Kent, got his Stadia hardware on launch. It was the first time he had played any games in eight years, he told BBC News.\n\n\"I picked up the Stadia because of the ease of use,\" he said. \"There were no downloads, no updates to install... just when you wanted to play a game, it was there.\n\n\"I probably spent £800 or £900 on games. I recently picked up an Xbox because I needed something to replace it.\"\n\n\"I honestly loved it. It brought me back to gaming.\"\n\nSome contributors asked that their surnames be withheld", "Denys Monastyrsky, who has died aged 42 in a helicopter crash near Kyiv, is the most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began almost a year ago.\n\nHowever, he had not long been a member of the Ukrainian government.\n\nHe became the country's interior minister in July 2021, just six months before Russia invaded the country.\n\nBorn in the western city of Khmelnytsky in 1980, he initially pursued a legal career in private practice, but entered politics in 2014.\n\nRecruited as a legal expert, he was part of the team behind Volodymyr Zelensky's successful longshot bid for the presidency in 2019.\n\nAs a member of the president's Servant of the People party, he was elected to the parliament that same year and swiftly assumed a prominent role as head of the parliamentary committee on law enforcement affairs.\n\nBut his move to front-bench politics came in the wake of the sudden and unexpected resignation of the previous interior minister, Arsen Avakov, a political heavyweight who had held the post under four different administrations.\n\nThere had been rumours that Mr Zelensky was preparing to fire Mr Avakov, who was seen as standing in the way of the president's attempts to tackle corruption.\n\nAt the time, the appointment of Mr Monastyrsky was interpreted as consolidating the president's grip on power.\n\nAs interior minister, Mr Monastyrsky was responsible for the police and security inside Ukraine.\n\nWhen Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he rose to the challenge of rallying international support for Kyiv's fightback.\n\nHe gave interviews to the world's press warning of a \"humanitarian catastrophe\" and highlighting the challenges faced by Ukraine's emergency services, which also come under the interior ministry's control.\n\nHe also played a key role in updating the Ukrainian public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes.\n\nHis friend and MP Mariia Mezentseva said it was \"a tragedy for everyone\" as Mr Monastyrsky's ministry was playing a key role in Ukraine's response to the invasion.\n\n\"He responded 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family. He was very close to President Zelensky from day one of his presidential campaign,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We will always remember him as a very bright, smiley, friendly, patriotic person and a civil servant of Ukraine,\" she added.\n\n\"I have no words. I'm trying to keep calm but this is very hard, this is very hard because this is a tragedy for everyone.\"\n\nAlso killed in the same helicopter crash was Mr Monastyrsky's deputy, Yevgeny Enin, a former intelligence officer and top lawyer who had been in his post since September 2021.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hailed the men as \"true Ukrainian patriots\" and said their deaths were a \"huge loss for us all\".", "A new EU border control IT system which sparked fears of summer holiday queues at Dover has been delayed again.\n\nThe Entry/Exit System was due to be introduced in late May, having already been pushed back from last year.\n\nA new timetable will aim to have the technology in place by the end of 2023.\n\nUnder the scheme people entering the bloc from non-EU countries - including the UK - will need to register fingerprints and a photo with their passport details.\n\nOnce travellers have given their fingerprints and details, that registration will be valid for three years.\n\nDuring that time it must be validated every time someone crosses the border. This will replace passport-stamping.\n\nThe Port of Dover previously warned the time taken for initial registration at the port could cause queues.\n\nThe former boss of Eurostar, who left in the autumn, had also expressed concern.\n\nRecords from an EU agency's board meeting last week said the May 2023 date was \"considered no longer achievable\", blaming contractor delays.\n\nThe EU-LISA agency, which is based in Tallinn and deals with big IT programmes for the bloc, is now planning a revised timetable.\n\nA summary from a meeting last Thursday said: \"Border crossing points should be fully equipped for the use of the Entry/Exit System by the end of the year.\"\n\nThe European Commission has been approached for comment.\n\nWhen travelling from Dover, entry to France is checked by passport officers at the UK port.\n\nIn September, Doug Bannister, chief executive of the Port of Dover, warned that it could take 10 minutes to register one car carrying four people.\n\nThe technology to be used was unclear, but if it was a tablet computer, it could cause delays as it was passed round in a car, he said at the time.\n\nHe warned the system seemed designed for an airport environment, rather than people travelling in vehicles, and the port had safety concerns around people being made to get out of their vehicles in the busy terminal.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for the UK government said on Tuesday that passengers would \"not experience unnecessary delays at the border\".\n\nThe government is \"working closely with port authorities, operators and the French government to make sure passengers are prepared,\" the spokesperson said.", "Germany's Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, says his country no longer imports energy directly from Russia\n\nGermany no longer depends on Russian imports for its energy supply, the country's finance minister has told the BBC.\n\nChristian Lindner said Germany had completely diversified its energy infrastructure since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.\n\nFollowing the invasion, Russia turned off the gas taps to Europe, leading to fears of blackouts this winter.\n\nBut Germany had found new sources of energy, Mr Lindner said.\n\n\"Yes, of course Germany is still dependent on energy imports, but today, not from Russian imports but from global markets,\" he said.\n\nGermany previously imported around half of its gas from Russia and more than a third of its oil.\n\nBut Russia cut off the country's gas supply in August, while Germany halted Russian oil imports at the start of the year.\n\nIn its race to find alternate sources of energy, the country has reopened coal-fired power plants, delayed plans to shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants, and pushed to increase capacity to store natural gas imported from other countries such as Norway and the US.\n\nAt the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Lindner pointed to the speed with which a new liquefied natural gas terminal had been built in Germany - in a record of around eight months, he said. More infrastructure investments were planned, he added.\n\n\"This is only [one] example of the enormous change in German policies,\" he said.\n\n\"We have understood that we have to foster our competitiveness after the era of Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. That era was focused on, well, strengths of the past, and now we are developing strengths of the future,\" he said.\n\nMr Lindner struck an optimistic note, suggesting there was \"some evidence\" that inflation in Germany had reached its peak last year.\n\n\"Probably there's a faster recovery of the global economy and European economies than expected,\" he said.\n\nHowever, potential for a damaging trade row between the EU and the US over green subsidies remains.\n\nThe US last year approved a massive $370bn (£299bn) in investments for climate-friendly technologies, including tax credits for electric cars that are made in America.\n\nHowever, the law includes some \"made in America\" rules, which have raised concerns in Europe that businesses outside the US will be put at a disadvantage.\n\nIn a visit to Washington last month, French president Emmanuel Macron criticised the US rules as \"super aggressive\".\n\nMr Lindner said he did not want to see the European Union start a trade war with the US over those rules.\n\n\"We have to avoid any kind of competition - who is able to pay more subsidies,\" he said. \"It mustn't happen.\"\n\nMr Lindner's comments signal the challenges that lie ahead as Europe tries to develop a response to the US climate law, which is officially called the Inflation Reduction Act.\n\nFrance has proposed responding with rival \"buy European\" incentives, and European Union officials this week also promised \"decisive\" steps.\n\nMr Lindner said maintaining a level playing field was important, but he wanted to see the two sides negotiate exemptions for companies or develop a new trade deal, rather than try to out-subsidise each other.\n\n\"There is a threat for the level playing field and I take this seriously but... we are spending and investing much more than the US-side so we don't have to be afraid,\" he said.\n\n\"Some in the European context, they see the Inflation Reduction Act as the occasion to introduce policies they've proposed in the past, and I think it is an occasion to strengthen our competitiveness at the European level, make further progress on capital markets union, to negotiate with the US side a free trade agreement - but not pay more subsidies,\" he said.\n\nUnlike the big French car companies, many German firms already have a big presence in the US, including manufacturing plants.\n\nThe \"made in America\" rules have prompted a pushback even from some American companies, many of which rely on parts manufactured in other countries.", "If you work in an office, you know the drill. It's someone's birthday and the unwritten rules mean they or a generous boss supplies cake (or cakes) for all.\n\nBut is it time to kick the cupcakes, to get the gateaux away? A food adviser says workers should not bring in sweet treats - to avoid tempting colleagues.\n\nFood Standards Agency chairwoman Prof Susan Jebb compared being around cake in the office to passive smoking.\n\nShe said: \"If nobody brought cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes.\"\n\nInterviewed by the Times newspaper, and speaking in a personal capacity, she said workers should stop testing the willpower of colleagues.\n\nBut speaking to the BBC, GP Dr Helen Wall said people had to take responsibility for their own health.\n\nThe family doctor who practises in Bolton said: \"If someone's got a cake next to you, you don't have to eat it, do you?\"\n\nProf Jebb, also a professor of diet and population at the University of Oxford, said eating cake was a choice but colleagues could help each other by providing \"a supportive environment\".\n\nShe argued that being around cake in the office was like passive smoking, which though not identical also inflicted harm on others.\n\nLou Walker, who authored a report on office cake culture, told BBC 5 Live that it was becoming an everyday occurrence and was \"no longer special\".\n\n\"[It] comes from a place of generosity and kindness, wanting to share,\" she said. \"There's something very important about sharing food with colleagues.\n\n\"But what is happening now is it's happening every single day and that means that it's no longer special.\"\n\nShe said her research showed people \"aren't wanting it all the time, but people are worried about sticking their head above the parapet.\"\n\nIn many workplaces cake, biscuits and sweets - brought by colleagues returning from holiday or to celebrate last days and birthdays - can start a scramble as hungry and sweet-toothed colleagues try to get their hands on the treats.\n\nIt is a rare workplace that breaks the tradition and supplies a fruit platter. And who wants to be known as the one staff member who brings in healthy nuts rather than chocolates as they regale colleagues about their weekend in Switzerland?\n\nDr Wall said it was fine to have some pleasures in the workplace.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she said: \"It does feel like we're trying to control everything. At the end of the day you've got to have a little bit of willpower.\"\n\nFor one worker, a love of sweet treats in the office did not go down well with his colleagues.\n\nWhile temping in an office in south London, Mick used to bring in biscuits, doughnuts, and chocolate bar multipacks, which he would \"munch on\" all day as well offering them out.\n\nBut he claimed he was told by management his diet was \"aggressive\" to his female co-workers who were trying to be health conscious.\n\n\"The ladies would say 'no, they're watching their weight',\" he said.\n\nAs to the government's official position, the prime minister's official spokesman said Rishi Sunak believed \"personal choice should be baked into our approach\".\n\nHe added: \"We want to encourage healthy lifestyles and are taking action to tackle obesity, which has cost the NHS £6bn annually.\n\n\"However, the way to deal with this issue is not to stop people from occasionally bringing in treats for their co-workers.\"\n\nMr Sunak's spokesman added that the prime minister was \"very partial to a piece of cake\" and most enjoyed carrot and red velvet cake.\n\nAccording to the NHS website, a majority of adults in England are overweight. Regularly consuming foods and drinks high in sugar increases your risk of obesity and tooth decay.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency is responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Jebb, who is on the Times Health Commission, a year-long inquiry by the paper into the future of health and social care in the UK, expressed frustration at ministers' decision to delay the introduction of a TV watershed for junk food advertising.\n\nThe Department of Health said the plans would be deferred for a year while officials assessed the impact on household finances as families struggled with the increasing cost of living.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of presiding over \"lethal chaos\" in the NHS as the two clashed over ambulance waiting times during PMQs.\n\nThe Labour leader said ambulances were supposed to respond to emergency calls in 18 minutes, but some people were waiting more than two and a half hours.\n\nThe PM said the NHS was dealing with the \"unprecedented challenges\" of Covid and a \"very virulent\" flu season.\n\nHe added that extra money from government would help reduce the waits.\n\nThe prime minister also attacked Sir Keir for opposing the government's bill which would enforce minimum service levels during strike action including for ambulance staff, firefighters and railway workers.\n\n\"It's absolutely right that people can rely on the emergency services when they need them,\" he said.\n\n\"That's why we are rapidly implementing measures to improve the delivery of ambulance times and, indeed, urgent and emergency care, but I'd say, if he cares about ensuring that patients get access to life-saving emergency care when they need it, why won't he support our minimum safety legislation?\"\n\nThe exchange came as the GMB union announced its ambulance staff would be striking on four new dates, including 6 February when nurses will also be taking industrial action.\n\nThe Labour leader accused Mr Sunak of avoiding answering his questions and noted that if someone in Plymouth suffering from chest pains had phoned 999 at the start of Prime Minister's Questions at midday, the ambulance wouldn't arrive until 14:40 GMT.\n\nHe said the prime minister should \"stop blaming others\" and apologise for the \"for the lethal chaos under his watch\".\n\nData released by NHS England last week revealed a sharp deterioration in 999 response times in December, as well as record waits in accident and emergency departments.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine believes 300 to 500 people a week could be dying because of the problems accessing emergency care.\n\nThe rhetorical battle to be seen as trustworthy custodians of the NHS was at the heart of this PMQs.\n\nSir Keir Starmer sought to crystallise the realities of a struggling NHS: the time it would take someone with a suspected heart attack to get an ambulance.\n\nHis examples were from across England; the prime minister pointed out he wasn't mentioning Wales, where Labour run the devolved government.\n\nBut, Rishi Sunak also - while making that political point - tried to suggest it wasn't primarily a political problem.\n\nThe challenges the health service face around the UK were driven by underlying factors such as flu and the consequences of the Covid pandemic.\n\nIt is undeniable that regardless of their political stewardship the NHS was always likely to have a difficult winter.\n\nBut, the scale of the problems asks awkward questions of the Conservatives given their longevity in office, and questions for Labour about how quickly things might change - or not - were they to be in government at Westminster after the next election.\n\nMr Sunak acknowledged ambulance waiting times were bad but argued that the situation was worse in Wales where the NHS is run by the Labour-led government.\n\n\"This is not about politics, this is about the fact that the NHS in Scotland, in Wales, in England is dealing with unprecedented challenges, recovering from Covid, dealing with a very virulent and early flu season, and everyone is doing their best to bring those wait times down,\" he said.\n\n\"Because of the extra funding we are putting in to relieve pressure in urgent and emergency care departments, because of the investment we are putting in in ambulance call handling, we will improve ambulance times as we are recovering from the pandemic and, indeed, the pressures of this winter.\"\n\nThe Labour leader also used Prime Minister's Questions to raise the case of Stephanie, a 26-year-old woman who died waiting for an ambulance.\n\n\"As a dad, I can't even fathom that pain, so on behalf of Stephanie and her family, will he stop the excuses, stop shifting the blame, stop the political games and simply tell us when will he sort out these delays and get back to the 18-minute wait?\" Sir Keir said.\n\nMr Sunak said Stephanie's case was \"a tragedy\" adding: \"People are working as hard as they can to make sure people get the care they need.\"\n\nKeir Starmer gave the example of someone suffering from chest pains and worried they're having a heart attack ringing 999 at 12:03 (the time he asked his question at PMQs).\n\nHe said: \"If our heart attack victim had called for an ambulance in Peterborough at 12:03, it wouldn't arrive until 10 past two. If they were in Northampton, it wouldn't arrive until 20 past two. If they were in Plymouth, it wouldn't arrive until 20 to three.\"\n\nThe example he gave would fall into a Category 2 ambulance call which covers serious conditions such as chest pains. The target to respond to these calls in England is 18 minutes on average.\n\nHis timings are supported by the latest figures for average Category 2 wait times for different regions of England.\n\nIn the East of England (Peterborough) the average wait was 2 hours and 6 minutes, in the East Midlands (Northampton) it was 2 hours 16 minutes and in South-West England (Plymouth) it was 2 hours 39 minutes.\n\nRishi Sunak responded by saying Sir Keir hadn't mentioned Wales where ambulance wait times \"are even worse than they are in England\".\n\nIt's very difficult to compare the two countries on this as ambulance calls and data are measured differently in Wales but what we can say is that ambulance waits there are at historically bad levels (as they are in England).", "A woman and child walk through the snow in Eglinton, Northern Ireland\n\nParts of the UK have been hit by snow and ice, with warnings from police in some areas to only travel if \"absolutely essential\".\n\nYellow alerts for snow and ice are in place across large areas of all four nations and an amber alert for snow has been issued for northern Scotland.\n\nIn Somerset, a double-decker bus with 70 people on board overturned in icy conditions, injuring dozens.\n\nOvernight temperatures dropped as low as -9.8C and some schools have shut.\n\nBBC forecaster Nick Miller said: \"Widespread cold has returned to the UK with lows of -7 to -10C across the four home nations last night.\"\n\nNorthern Scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of north-west England and Wales are likely to see further snow, he said.\n\nConditions in the Highlands were expected to \"deteriorate\", he said, and travel disruption was likely.\n\n\"Temperatures across much of the UK will only rise a degree or so above freezing today with another widespread frost tonight\", he added.\n\nAn amber alert for snow is in place for parts of north and north-east Scotland until midnight meaning travel disruption is expected and rural communities are likely to become cut off.\n\nA yellow alert for snow and ice across parts of the UK until midday on Wednesday means travel delays are likely and icy conditions which could lead to slips and falls.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTemperatures dropped to -9.8C in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, overnight and to -8C across Scotland and Northern Ireland on what was the coldest night of the year so far.\n\nAt Loch Glascarnoch in the Scottish Highlands, 32cm (12.5in) of snow fell on Tuesday morning, according to the Met Office.\n\nIt will remain cold for the rest of the week, but BBC forecasters say it will turn milder by the weekend.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police warned drivers to \"only travel if absolutely necessary\" after the force said it received more than 100 reports in five hours due to \"treacherous conditions\".\n\nThe A39 near Cannington is closed after a crash involving a motorcyclist resulted in a bus overturning.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said conditions were \"extremely icy and dangerous\" as a result of freezing overnight temperatures and residual water on the road from last week's wet weather.\n\nOver in the South East, Kent County Council highways manager Toby Howe warned of flooding issues on the roads after an \"awful night\" of heavy rainfall.\n\nCars overturned on icy roads in Wales on Tuesday\n\nIn Wales, icy conditions on the roads caused cars to overturn, with nine road incidents being reported but no serious injuries.\n\nIn Cornwall, more than 80 schools have been shut and some roads are blocked after heavy snow fell in parts of the county.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police tweeted, urging drivers to \"travel with caution as heavy snow showers sweep through the region\".\n\nSchools in Shetland have been closed for a second day and more than 200 have been shut in the Highlands.\n\nThe Met Office said a further 10 to 15cm of snow could fall in a short space of time across northern parts of Scotland.\n\nThere have been 19 road crashes across Londonderry and Strabane as snow and icy conditions came in overnight in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office has issued the following weather alerts:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A look ahead at the week's UK weather forecast\n\nA level three cold alert was issued on Monday by the UK Health Security Agency and is in place until 09:00 on Friday.\n\nThe government health agency warned the severe cold weather could cause health risks to vulnerable people and disrupt services.\n\nLondon's mayor Sadiq Khan activated the city's Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) on Monday to provide emergency accommodation for rough sleepers as temperatures fell.\n\nThe cold spell comes after widespread flooding left parts of the UK submerged over the weekend. More than 82 flood warnings and at least 116 flood alerts are still active across England.\n\nBreakdown service the AA said it has been responding to around 12,500 incidents on the roads a day this week due the colder conditions damaging road surfaces and creating potholes.\n\nIt added this is an increase of about 25% since Saturday.\n\nAA spokesman Tony Rich said: \"We advise drivers to adjust their speed to suit the conditions, especially when driving on wet or icy roads and to leave more room between their car and the one in front.\"", "'We didn't start the war but we have to end it'\n\nZelensky finishes his speech and is straightaway greeted by applause from delegates in Davos. He is now facing questions and is asked about what the war looks like to him on the frontlines right now. \"I think the war doesn't look good, which has not been good since the beginning,\" the president answers in Ukrainian. \"How it looks? It looks as follows: we are standing strongly in the east of our country. \"It is very important to know that we are strong, not just in the east but also inside the country. \"It was not us who started the war but it is us who will have to end it.\" Zelensky thanks countries for their help since the conflict began but adds that Ukraine still needs help from allies to support air defence systems. He says the world must outpace Russia and adds that Ukraine's defence systems must outpace Russia's missiles.", "Price rises in the UK slowed for a second month in a row but the cost of food including milk, cheese and eggs kept inflation at a 40-year high.\n\nInflation, which measures the rate of price rises, fell to 10.5% in the year to December from 10.7% in November.\n\nPetrol and diesel costs eased last month but food prices continued to soar, reaching the highest since 1977.\n\nRestaurants and hotel prices also jumped in December along with a record rise in air fares.\n\nMillions of people are struggling with the cost of living which has been rising steadily as Covid restrictions eased and Russia launched its assault on Ukraine.\n\nFood prices rose 16.8% in the year to December as many families splashed out for Christmas, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBasics such as milk, cheese and eggs saw the largest increases. Prices for sugar, jam, honey and chocolate as well as soft drinks and juices also jumped. However, price growth slowed for bread and cereals.\n\nInflation is the increase in the price of something over time and to calculate it, the ONS keeps track of the prices of hundreds of everyday items.\n\nIf it falls, it does not mean the prices of goods are going down, it just means prices are rising more slowly.\n\nSome analysts believe that the cost of living may now slowly be beginning to ease after hitting what is believed to be the peak, of 11.1%, in October.\n\nBut at 10.5%, UK inflation is still way above the 2% target the Bank of England is charged with meeting.\n\nHow are you being affected by the rising cost of living? Get in touch.\n\nGrant Fitzner, chief economist at the ONS, told the BBC's Today programme that a driver behind inflation dipping was because petrol prices had dropped 8p per litre last month, while diesel had fallen by 16p per litre.\n\nAverage petrol and diesel prices stood at £1.55 and £1.79 per litre in December 2022.\n\n\"It is important to point out although we've seen a second consecutive easing, it is fairly modest fall and inflation is still at a very high level with overall prices rising strongly,\" he added.\n\nThere are some barriers to a sharp fall in inflation.\n\nMr Fitzner said that private sector pay, which grew 7.2% in the three months to November, was at the \"strongest for many decades\". Average pay overall has grown at the fastest rate in more than 20 years, but is still failing to keep up with rising prices.\n\nCoach and air fares also showed grew strongly in December, with the cost of plane travel up 44.1% - the largest recorded rate since January 1989.\n\nDespite inflation dipping for the second month in a row, Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown said there was still a \"long way to go before the price spiral is under control\".\n\n\"With the jobs market still tight, energy set to stay elevated and relentless food price rises continuing it will mean inflation stays stickier for longer,\" she added.\n\nShannon McIntyre, a florist who runs Feather & Fern in Hawes, North Yorkshire, said that she has had to raise the costs of the flowers she sells. A shortage of roses, for example, had caused prices to double.\n\nFlorist Shannon McIntyre said recent price rises had been \"ridiculous\"\n\nShe described the increases as \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"[The price] does go up. It does peak at Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas but it's the highest we've ever seen it,\" she said.\n\nRoses will now cost upwards of £6 per stem, compared to a previous price of £3 each.\n\n\"We're trying to work out what else we can do,\" said Ms McIntyre.\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interests since December 2021 to quell rising prices - the are currently 3.5%. The Bank will hold its next rate-setting meeting in February.\n\nIncreasing interest rates is one way to try and control inflation as it raises borrowing costs and should encourage people to borrow and spend less.\n\nMs Streeter said the UK should be braced for further interest rate rises from the Bank, adding that a half a percentage point rise \"is still firmly on the cards\".\n\nInflation is forecast to more than halve over the coming year, not because of any government action, but because it compares prices now with a year ago.\n\nThe big jump in fuel prices began last February. Once we get to March the difference between current prices and those 12 months before won't look quite as striking.\n\nSo far, the official forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility have proved relatively accurate, anticipating inflation would peak at around 11%, which it did last autumn, before falling back.\n\nIt has forecast the rate of inflation will fall to less than 7% by this summer and 4% by the end of the year, but what's hard to imagine now is that it also forecasts inflation will turn negative in the middle of 2024.\n\nWhile that may mean the cost of living falls a little, it won't be anything like enough to make up for the drop in living standards this inflation is expected to cause - the worst in over four decades.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt said while any fall in inflation was \"welcome\", it was \"vital\" that the government took \"difficult decisions\" to try to bring it down further.\n\nBut Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: \"Each passing day brings more and more evidence that people are feeling worse off under the Tories.\"\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation this year, but many forecasters have predicted this will happen as the cost of energy falls.\n\n\"High inflation is a nightmare for family budgets, destroys business investment and leads to strike action, so however tough, we need to stick to our plan to bring it down,\" Mr Hunt said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nJust last week Rishi Sunak was joking with Nicola Sturgeon about stealing the chips that came with her steak at dinner.\n\nThe prime minister was said to be on a charm offensive as he visited the Highlands for private talks with Scotland's first minister.\n\nNow, say Ms Sturgeon's supporters, the Conservative leader's true attitude has been revealed in what she calls a \"full-frontal attack\" on the will of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nNonsense, say UK government sources, insisting robustly that they have no desire whatsoever for a constitutional clash, and that blocking the Gender Recognition Reform bill passed at Holyrood last month by 86 votes to 39 is both essential and purely a matter of procedure.\n\nThey point to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack's stated hope of finding \"a constructive way forward\", respecting both devolution and the operation of Westminster legislation.\n\nHowever, whatever the reason and whomever may be at fault, the fact is we do now have a clash.\n\nIn truth, the architecture of devolution set out in the Scotland Act 1998 probably made one inevitable in the end, even if it took a long time to occur.\n\nSurely a day was always going to come when the Scottish Parliament passed a law which UK ministers reckoned stepped on their toes?\n\nThe fact that it has arrived, after nearly a quarter of a century, on such a hot-button topic adds an additional layer of jeopardy.\n\nThe law passed at Holyrood last month would remove medical, legal and administrative hurdles which must currently be cleared before someone in Scotland can change the sex recorded on their birth certificate. It would also cut the age limit to do so from 18 to 16.\n\nIts opponents have argued that allowing someone, in essence, to self-identify in their gender would impinge on Westminster equalities legislation by, for example, making it more difficult for women-only spaces to exclude people who were born biologically male.\n\nThe Scottish National Party (SNP), the Conservatives and Labour are all, to a greater or lesser extent, divided on the merits of the legislation itself. Even some senior figures in the SNP worry that the controversial nature of the subject makes it a risky centrepiece for a \"democracy denied\" campaign.\n\nThere are also concerns within the party hierarchy that the relevant passage of the Scotland Act is narrowly-enough drawn that the UK government might win in the courts.\n\nSection 35 of the law provides for the Scottish secretary to veto Holyrood legislation \"as a matter of last resort\" if it would have an \"adverse effect\" on the operation of the law as it applies to matters reserved to Westminster (as opposed to devolved to Holyrood). Gender recognition is devolved. Equality law is reserved.\n\nA successful challenge would involve proving that Mr Jack did not have \"reasonable grounds\" for believing that there would be such an adverse effect.\n\nIf and when they take their case up the Royal Mile from Holyrood to the Court of Session - and perhaps ultimately to the UK Supreme Court in London - those closest to Nicola Sturgeon sound confident of victory.\n\nEven if they lose, campaigners for liberalisation argue that the SNP is placing itself on the right side of history.\n\nA poll conducted for the BBC last year suggested that younger voters were far more likely than older voters to support making it easier to change gender. Oddly enough, polling also suggests higher support for independence among younger voters.\n\nIs this the case of the SNP aligning itself with what it perceives as its future base? Or is that too cynical a view?\n\nIn the meantime, Whitehall lawyers may have to consider cancelling their Easter holidays, for this is far from the only issue involving the UK government which looks like ending up in court.\n\nMigrants facing potential removal to Rwanda have been granted permission to challenge the Home Office.\n\nMr Sunak and Ms Sturgeon held talks in Inverness last week\n\nUnions have threatened legal action over plans by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department to enforce minimum service levels during industrial action, a move which would restrict the right of some workers to strike.\n\nExpanding the powers of the police to tackle public protest in England and Wales also has the potential for a challenge.\n\nThat's a lot of conflict for a government which was supposed to have replaced the turbulence of the Liz Truss and Boris Johnson years with plain sailing.\n\nWill voters approve of tough talking on these controversial topics? Is this the way to win a general election? To secure the union? We shall see.\n\nAs for what happens immediately, there are limited options.\n\nThe Scottish Secretary suggested the Scottish government could consider amending its law but it is difficult to envisage a draft that would satisfy Mr Jack without gutting the bill of its original purpose. In private, even some on the UK side acknowledge this.\n\nLabour have an interesting role. Sir Keir Starmer's comments on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg in which he expressed concerns about the legislation, to the discomfort of many in Scottish Labour who supported it, may have provided some political cover for the Tories on the issue.\n\nThat in itself is an indication that Labour remains torn, both about the fundamental principles at stake and about the political implications of siding with either the Conservatives or the SNP in a row over gender and the constitution.\n\nIn the words of the shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray: \"These issues are too important to be reduced to the usual constitutional fight.\" Although Mr Murray knows as well as anyone that the fight has been raging in Scotland for some years, sucking in almost every issue imaginable regardless of its perceived importance.\n\nWith that in mind, you can certainly overstate the friendliness between Mr Sunak and Ms Sturgeon in Inverness last week.\n\nAfter an initial convivial conversation, the meeting quickly turned serious with plenty of disagreement about key issues - strikes, the NHS, renewable energy and more. The two leaders did talk gender but, at that point, the discussion about parliamentary procedure was abstract.\n\nNow it is very real. The stakes have been raised.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan in the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column.\n\nIn an ITV interview, the Duke of Sussex said the \"silence is deafening\" about the \"horrific\" Sun article last month.\n\nHe contrasted this with the quick action taken after a race row at a Buckingham Palace reception.\n\nPrince Harry also said he did not believe comments about his son's skin tone, by an unnamed royal, were racist.\n\nThe Clarkson article about Meghan had described how the columnist was \"dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nIt was later taken down by the Sun and prompted an apology from the paper. Mr Clarkson said he was \"horrified\" for the hurt he caused.\n\nThe article was described by Prince Harry as \"horrific and hurtful and cruel towards my wife\".\n\n\"The world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy. But the silence is deafening. To put it mildly,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything to do with my wife, after six years, they haven't said a single thing.\"\n\nPrince Harry accused the Royal Family of \"getting into bed with the devil\" to improve its image - which he linked to relationships between \"certain members of the family and the tabloid press\".\n\nMeghan faced \"stereotyping\" by some of the Royal Family, including himself at one stage, Prince Harry said\n\nThe prince contrasted the lack of a royal response to that article with the events that followed an encounter at Buckingham Palace between Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani, just three weeks earlier.\n\nWhile attending an event, Ms Fulani - a black British charity founder - was challenged repeatedly by Lady Hussey about where she was \"really from\".\n\nMs Fulani complained about how the exchange had offended her, prompting a rapid apology from the Palace.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace described the remarks as \"unacceptable and deeply regrettable\". Lady Hussey ultimately resigned as a lady of the household.\n\nPrince Harry, speaking to interviewer Tom Bradby ahead of the publication of his memoir Spare this Tuesday, defended Lady Hussey, saying \"she had never meant any harm at all\".\n\nBut he pointed to the contrast between the treatment given to Ms Fulani and to his wife after the language used about her by Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nPrince Harry also gave an interview to Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News, which aired a few hours after ITV's show, and saw him speaking about Camilla, the Queen Consort, and her relationship with the media.\n\nCooper asked the duke about comments he made in his memoir suggesting that Camilla would be \"less dangerous\" if she was happy.\n\nPrince Harry said Camilla's need to \"rehabilitate her image\" and her \"willingness\" to forge relationships with the British press made her dangerous.\n\n\"And with a family built on hierarchy, and her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.\"\n\nThe ITV interview returned to Prince Harry and Meghan's previous claim - made in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey - that a member of the Royal Family had raised questions about the skin colour of their future child.\n\nPrince Harry again did not name the individual - and suggested this might have been a case of \"unconscious bias\" rather than racism.\n\nAsked if he would see the questioning as racist, he said: \"I wouldn't, not having lived within that family.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe rejected that he had accused members of the Royal Family of racism in the Oprah interview, saying the \"British press had said that\".\n\nThe wide-ranging interview also discussed the tensions that followed Meghan's introduction into the Royal Family.\n\nBradby said there was an impression that Prince William and Catherine \"almost from the get-go\" did not \"get on\" with Meghan.\n\nAsked if that was a fair observation, Prince Harry replied: \"Yeah, fair.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he and Meghan had been portrayed as the \"new kids on the block\" who had threatened to \"steal the limelight\" from other royals - and that led to problems in those relationships.\n\nOf brother Prince William and his wife Catherine, he said: \"I always hoped that the four of us would get on.\n\n\"But very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate.\n\n\"And that, when it plays out so publicly, you can't hide from that,\" he told Bradby.\n\nIn the 95-minute interview, he recalled the days when he was the \"third wheel\" at official engagements and other outings - but his relationship with Prince William and Catherine was particularly warm at that time.\n\nHe imagined that would continue when he found his own partner and they became a foursome, but it was not to be.\n\nHe said stereotypes about Meghan - as an \"American actress, divorced, biracial\" - were heightened by a hostile press.\n\nAnd those stereotypes about the new woman in his life had been a barrier to his brother and sister-in-law \"welcoming her in\" to the family.\n\nPrince Harry said that while Prince William never tried to dissuade him from marrying Meghan he did \"air some concerns\" and warned Harry: \"This is going to be really hard for you\".\n\n\"I still to this day don't truly understand which part… he was talking about. But maybe, you know, maybe he predicted what the British press's reaction was going to be.\"\n\nIn the CBS interview, Cooper asked Prince Harry about claims he made in his memoir that unspecified members of the Royal Family were uneasy towards Meghan when she was first introduced to them.\n\nAsked what that \"mistrust\" was based on, Prince Harry said: \"The fact that she was American, an actress, divorced, black, bi-racial, with a black mother.\n\n\"Those were just four of the typical stereotypes that becomes a feeding frenzy for the British press.\"\n\nThe prince said the Royal Family reads the tabloids, adding: \"So whether you walk around saying you believe it or not it's still leaving an imprint in your mind.\n\n\"So if you have that judgement based on a stereotype right at the beginning, it's very, very hard not to get over that.\"\n\nAs was typical at that time in 2016, Harry appeared at the Patron's Lunch celebrations for the Queen's 90th birthday alongside Catherine and William\n\nIn the ITV interview, Harry also spoke of the emotional impact of the death of his mother and in his book describes returning to the scene of the car accident in Paris - and asking to be driven through it at the same speed as she was in 1997.\n\nHe said he had always imagined the tunnel as being \"some treacherous passageway\" but \"it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel\".\n\nHe saw no point in reopening inquiries into the car accident - but questioned the official conclusions about the night of the crash.\n\nA 2008 inquest found Diana was unlawfully killed partly due to the \"gross negligence\" of her driver who had been drunk and driving at excessive speed.\n\nPrince Harry also said that, after Diana's death, he and his brother William were sat down in a room and told that the events leading to the car crash were \"like a bicycle chain\".\n\n\"If you remove just one of those links from the chain, the end result doesn't happen,\" Harry recalled being told.\n\nWhen William asked what might have happened had the paparazzi not been chasing Diana's car, he was told that \"the result wouldn't have been the same.\"\n\nThe interview was recorded in California, where Prince Harry lives with his family\n\nDuring the interview, Harry also expressed his hope that he might one day reconcile with his father and brother.\n\n\"Forgiveness is 100% a possibility, because I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, I don't recognise them, as much as they probably don't recognise me.\"\n\nHe blamed the tabloid press as the \"antagonist\", who he said \"want to create as much conflict as possible\".\n\nThe ITV interview is the first of four broadcast appearances to be aired over the coming days to promote Spare - but all the others were in the US.\n\nAs well as Anderson Cooper from CBS News, he spoke to Michael Strahan of Good Morning America, for a show that will be broadcast later on Monday. He will also appear as a guest on Stephen Colbert's Late Show on CBS on Tuesday.\n\nAlthough Spare is not due to be published until Tuesday, extracts were leaked after some copies went on sale early in Spain. BBC News has obtained a copy and has been translating it.\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment on the contents of the book.", "Nearly 1,800 patients were ready but unable to leave hospital just this week, health boards revealed\n\nIn a relatively slim manifesto, Welsh Labour made a very clear promise on the NHS and social care.\n\nA \"health supremo\" would be appointed to \"break down the barriers\" between the two services in order to eliminate \"wasteful 'bed blocking'\".\n\nBed blocking is the term used for patients who are medically fit enough to leave hospital but cannot be discharged because of a lack of suitable social care closer to home which has a knock-on effect through the NHS.\n\nIt is a real issue, so you might well expect it to be included in a party's election manifesto.\n\nIn fact, it was an election promise made by Welsh Labour almost a quarter of a century ago.\n\nMuch has changed since the very first election to what was then the Welsh Assembly in 1999, but the issue of bed blocking is as bad today, if not worse, than it has ever been.\n\nThis week, with nearly 1,800 patients ready but unable to leave hospital, senior NHS staff were advised to discharge the healthiest, even without a care package in place at home or in a care home.\n\nEven the head of the Welsh NHS described it as a policy presenting \"huge dilemmas\".\n\nThe NHS and social care are two sides of the same coin, but can social care be considered the poor relation?\n\n\"It is very much an undervalued service - it lives in the shadow of general hospitals,\" said Steve Thomas, who ran the Welsh Local Government Association for more than a decade.\n\nSteve Thomas: \"Nothing's changed. It's one of those systems that lives on a rolling crisis\"\n\nHe pointed to a review of Welsh health and social care, published in 2003 by Derek Wanless, which talked of \"widespread under-performance associated with systemic defects\".\n\nMr Thomas said: \"All the problems social care and the health service are facing are set out in the Wanless report in 2003.\n\n\"Nothing's changed. It's one of those systems that lives on a rolling crisis.\n\n\"It has good times but it generally has bad times,\" he added.\n\n\"I could plaster the floor of the Principality Stadium with the plans and the cunning ideas that political parties have had over the years to fix social care,\" said Mr Thomas.\n\n\"It's like that old saying, 'to govern is to choose'.\n\n\"When it comes to social care, 'to govern is to kick the can down the road',\" he said.\n\nKate Young, director of Wales Carers Alliance, said politicians had not fixed social care issues because \"it doesn't have the same status that the NHS has\".\n\nStaffing issues, particularly regarding pay and working conditions, have been at the heart of the sector's problems.\n\nResearch by Cardiff University published in August 2020 found that fewer than half of the Welsh social care workforce were paid the Real Living Wage, calculated as the minimum salary needed to meet the cost of living.\n\nIn its manifesto for the 2021 Senedd election, Welsh Labour pledged to pay social care workers the Real Living Wage, although some workers will not receive the new rate of £10.90 an hour until June.\n\nBut even Wales' deputy social services minister has admitted the Real Living Wage is \"not really enough\" when the sector is competing against, for example, supermarkets who are offering higher hourly wages.\n\nMs Young said: \"Without a well-paid and respected workforce there is no social care.\n\n\"We need to stop tinkering around the edges of funding social care workers and properly look to plan a way of getting social care wages on to a level of parity with similar roles within the NHS.\n\nKate Young: \"If we don't fund the social care workforce now, we will see more people leave\"\n\n\"We know the Welsh government is pressed for money but the reality is, if we don't fund the social care workforce now, we will see more people leave, we will see it being even more difficult to recruit new people into that system, we will see greater crises,\" she added.\n\nDemand for social care is likely to increase significantly.\n\nAccording to the 2021 Census, 21.3% of the Welsh population (662,000) were aged 65 years and over, up from 18.4% (562,544) in 2011.\n\nAs part of a co-operation agreement between the Welsh Labour government and Plaid Cymru in the Senedd, the parties have been working towards the aim of creating a National Care Service, free at the point of need.\n\nIt would mark a significant departure from the current means-tested system.\n\nBut it is not a short-term solution and likely to take \"at least 10 years\" to achieve, according to an expert group established to consider the policy.\n\nAnd a change of system would not necessarily result in better outcomes.\n\nMs Young, joint chair of the expert group, said: \"I think if you change the model to be more preventative... it will make a difference to the outcomes people receive.\n\n\"But if you just create an office, if we just create a National Care Service but nothing underneath it changes, will it change outcomes?\n\n\"No, it will just have a title,\" she added.\n\nFewer than half of Welsh social care workforce were paid the Real Living Wage in 2020, a Cardiff University study found\n\nTo illustrate the point, the expert group pointed to a social services law passed in Wales in 2014, hailed at the time as an \"historic\" and \"landmark\" act.\n\nAlmost a decade later, the expert group found \"that the consistent translation of the act into practice has fallen short of its ambition\".\n\nIf Wales was to move towards a National Care Service that delivers on its promises, Ms Young said: \"The reality is, unless you pump-prime quite a considerable amount of extra resource it will be difficult to see some of these changes.\"\n\nFrom a Welsh perspective, where is that money coming from when the NHS already accounts for more than half of the Welsh government's budget and it would take a brave politician to stop directing money towards health?\n\nOn top of that, the UK government has recently reversed its original plan to use an increase in national insurance - a UK-wide tax on earners - in order to provide long-term funding for social care - and slower growth in public spending is expected from 2025.\n\nIs it therefore time to dust off a 2018 report by economists Prof Gerald Holtham and Tegid Roberts?\n\nThe idea: an income tax increase of between 1% and 3% specifically to fund elderly social care in Wales.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford and Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price have said recently that the idea merited a revisit.\n\nBut Mr Thomas said the Welsh government had \"missed the boat\".\n\n\"I think there was an opportunity to do something on tax and on social care a few years back, probably before the pandemic, and it would've been in the system by now,\" he said.\n\n\"You now say to people that you're going to tax them during the middle of a cost-of-living crisis and it's not going to be very popular, is it?\"\n\nMs Young, however, said a case could be made for higher taxes if people develop a sense of \"national ownership... a national pride around social care\" and its importance.\n\n\"The principle, 'I pay for something, I get something in return' is a fair one but then you have to feel like it's worthwhile what you're paying for,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Social care plays a very important role in people's lives - supporting people to live independently in their own home and in the community. It also supports the wider health service.\n\n\"We continue to invest in both the NHS and social care together and greatly value everyone working across our health and care services, with Wales spending more per person than any other UK country.\n\n\"We have invested in the Real Living Wage in social care and are working with the sector to improve terms and conditions to support recruitment and retention.\"\n\nA lot of long-term thinking is taking place behind the scenes.\n\nBut with social care in Wales currently stretched to breaking point, a series of quick fixes are needed to ease the pressure on this vital if sometimes under-appreciated service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dorset Police have issued an updated photo of the man and said it believed his first language was Latvian\n\nPolice have renewed an appeal for help in identifying a man who could not tell them who he is or where he is from.\n\nThe man was found near the seafront in Weymouth, Dorset, on 28 September and speaks with an eastern European accent.\n\nHe is about 50 years old, 5ft 9in (175cm), slim and had long, curly, matted, brown hair and a long, brown beard when he was found.\n\nDorset Police have issued an updated photo and said it believed his first language was Latvian.\n\nThe man had curly, matted, brown hair and a long, brown beard when he was found in Weymouth in September\n\nWhen he was found with a black rucksack, he was wearing a black motorcycle helmet with no visor, a black shirt, black leather jacket, black trousers and brown boots.\n\n\"We have been continuing to conduct inquiries to try and establish the identity of this man, which have included contact with Interpol and other partner agencies,\" PC Becky Barnes, of Dorset Police, said.\n\n\"However, we have still been unable to confirm an identity for this man and he has not been able to tell us who he is or provide any information about where he is from, or his family.\"\n\nShe added that he remained in the safe care of the health service and his appearance has changed since he was first found, as he had now cut his hair and beard.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Police want help to identify man found in town\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambulances were called out to 800 people suffering from hypothermia during freezing weather in Scotland.\n\nFigures from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), published by The Herald newspaper, showed that about 44 people a day were taken to hospital between 1 and 18 December.\n\nDuring that period temperatures plummeted to minus double figures while households faced soaring energy costs.\n\nCharity Age Scotland said this was a \"recipe for disaster\" for older people.\n\nThe first half of December saw an Arctic blast hit the UK with freezing temperatures and snow across Scotland.\n\nBraemar in Aberdeenshire, was the coldest place in the UK at -15.7C, the lowest minimum temperature since February 2021.\n\nDuring December's cold spell, Braemar had its coldest night since February 2021\n\nAccording to the SAS figures, 799 people were taken to hospital from 1 December to 18 December with hypothermia - defined as a temperature of less than 35C.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had the highest number with 170 taken to hospital.\n\nOrkney and Shetland had the lowest number of cases, where fewer than five people were admitted.\n\nAdam Stachura, Age Scotland's head of policy and communications, told BBC Scotland the charity was \"taken aback\" by the figures.\n\nHe said: \"We have been concerned for months that a particularly cold winter, coupled with the energy crisis, would mean that large numbers of older people would experience hypothermia or other serious issues linked to a low body temperature - such as heart attacks and strokes.\n\n\"It has laid bare the stark reality of spiralling energy and living costs on our population.\"\n\nA recent survey by Age Scotland found 62% of older people had cut back on heating to make ends meet.\n\nThe charity said the low temperatures and high cost of heating homes was a \"recipe for disaster\" for health and wellbeing.\n\nHypothermia develops when the body temperature (37C/98.6F) falls by just two degrees. It can affect anyone and even develop indoors in a cold room.\n\nFalling into cold water can trigger it, even on a hot day, as can drinking lots of alcohol. Hypothermia can be a medical emergency and the elderly are especially vulnerable, as are young babies.\n\nSigns of hypothermia include: Shivering and pale, cold, dry skin. Disorientation, apathy or irrational behaviour. Impaired consciousness or lethargy. Slow and shallow breathing. Slow and weakening pulse.\n\nMr Stachura said: \"We know that hundreds of older people on low incomes are not heating their homes to comfortable levels, missing hot meals, or have been staying in cold homes alone for long periods of time.\n\n\"There are no easy solutions this winter, but there have been payments from government to help with energy costs - perhaps helping to give people some confidence that they can use their heating more frequently.\"\n\nTwo energy assistance payments totalling £650 have been made to more than eight million low-income households.\n\nAn extra £900 in three instalments will be paid to households on means-tested benefits in spring, autumn and spring 2024.\n\nHowever, an estimated 850,000 UK pensioner households do not claim Pension Credit, which is a gateway to these extra payments.\n\nAge Scotland said its helpline on 0800 12 44 222 can offer information and advice on energy issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLiverpool and Wolves were forced to settle for an FA Cup third-round replay after a thrilling encounter finished level at Anfield.\n\nWolves led after Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson horrifically gave the ball away and Goncalo Guedes tapped home.\n\nHwang Hee-chan then came off the bench to earn Wolves a replay, with the ball ricocheting in off his side.\n\nWolves thought they had won the game when Toti flicked home, but the linesman had ruled it offside earlier in the move.\n\nA replay is likely to anger Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, who reiterated his opposition to them as recently as Friday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How to follow the FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nLiverpool started the game sharply, but Klopp will be concerned that his side found themselves behind for the third successive game.\n\nRather than a tactical issue like in previous games, this was purely a personal error.\n\nAlisson rolled the ball out to Thiago, who tried to dribble past his man 25 yards from his own goal, but was intercepted. The ball ended up back at Alisson, who tried to pass it out to Trent Alexander-Arnold, but Guedes intercepted and slotted in.\n\nWolves were buoyed and pressed for a second, with Guedes having a shot tipped away, before Raul Jimenez was inches away from tapping home a dragged Adama Traore shot.\n\nThe leveller, and timing of it, will annoy Wolves. A rash clearance from Nathan Collins found Alexander-Arnold, and his clipped pass found Nunez, who side-footed into the far corner on the stroke of half-time.\n\nSalah's goal was clinical. He latched onto a poor headed clearance from Toti, and slotted into the corner.\n\nLiverpool's defensive issues reared their head again when Rayan Ait-Nouri broke in behind the defence, but his effort was saved by the outstretched leg of Alisson.\n\nWolves got their deserved equaliser when Matheus Cunha's slide cross hit Ibrahima Konate and then Hwang's side before going in.\n\nThere was confusion around Toti's disallowed goal, with Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui outraged by the decision.\n\nThe linesman flagged for offside against the initial corner taker, after he received the clearance. The VAR then had no camera angle available with any evidence to overturn the decision.\n\nDespite that, Lopetegui will be happy with the performance, with Wolves worthy of a draw and causing Liverpool numerous problems throughout the game.\n• None Attempt missed. Ben Doak (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Hwang Hee-Chan tries a through ball, but Matheus Nunes is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nathan Collins (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matheus Nunes with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Check out the stellar selection of films on BBC iPlayer\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer", "Prince Harry has revealed he cried only once over the death of his mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, in 1997.\n\nIn a new interview clip promoting the publication of his autobiography Spare, Prince Harry recounts how he and Prince William were unable to show any emotion as they met mourners in public.\n\nHe told ITV's Tom Bradby he had cried when his mother was buried.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex said he had felt \"some guilt\" walking among crowds who left flowers outside Kensington Palace.\n\nThe absence of Princess Diana in Prince Harry's life is highlighted as a theme throughout Spare.\n\nThe book is not due to be published until 10 January, but extracts were leaked after some copies went on sale early in Spain. BBC News has obtained a copy and has been translating it.\n\nIn the ITV interview, due to be broadcast on Sunday evening, Prince Harry said \"everyone knows where they were\" when his mother died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.\n\nHe said he had looked back on the footage of him and his brother meeting mourners a few days later.\n\n\"I cried once, at the burial, and you know I go into detail [in Spare] about how strange it was and how actually there was some guilt that I felt, and I think William felt as well, by walking around the outside of Kensington Palace,\" he said.\n\n\"There were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother and there we were shaking people's hands, smiling...\n\n\"And the wet hands that we were shaking, we couldn't understand why their hands were wet, but it was all the tears that they were wiping away.\"\n\nPrince Harry adds: \"Everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment.\"\n\nSpare includes details of Prince Harry's walk behind his mother's coffin at her funeral, where crowds reached out to him and how he felt unable to cry in public.\n\nHe also writes about getting a driver to take him through the road tunnel in Paris where his mother died, hoping for closure from a \"decade of unrelenting pain\".\n\nAnd he says his father did not hug him when he broke the news Princess Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.\n\nA number of sensational claims from Prince Harry's autobiography Spare have leaked out ahead of its publication\n\nPrince Harry's ITV interview will be the first of four broadcast appearances to be aired over the coming days to promote Spare. He also spoke to three US TV networks - Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News on Sunday night, Michael Strahan of Good Morning America on Monday and Stephen Colbert on the Late Show on CBS on Tuesday.\n\nAmong the other revelations in Spare are a claim by Prince Harry that he was physically attacked by his brother; information on how Harry lost his virginity; details about drug taking; and a claim he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan.\n\nA number of high-profile military veterans have criticised his claim of killing Taliban fighters.\n\nEx-colonel Tim Collins, best known for delivering the Eve-of-Battle speech during the Iraq War in which he called on his officers to \"show respect\", said Prince Harry had \"badly let the side down\" and \"we don't do notches on the rifle butt\".\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment on the contents of the book.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties in 2020, saying they intended to become financially independent.\n\nIn February last year, they spoke to Oprah Winfrey about their difficult relationship with other members of the Royal Family, and a Netflix documentary series about the pair - released last month - revealed further strife.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: William and Harry, a life in the spotlight\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme on Sunday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked if the institution of the monarchy has been damaged by Prince Harry's book.\n\nHe said he \"wouldn't get into talking about the Royal Family but it's something that I'm most proud of when I think about what it is to be British\".\n\nHe added he believed the public have \"enormous regard for the Royal Family\", and the King's coronation \"will be another fantastic occasion for the country to come together\".\n\nKing Charles was seen on Sunday for the first time since revelations from the book were released.\n\nAttending morning service at Castle Rising Church in Norfolk, near to his Sandringham estate, he smiled and spoke to those gathered on his arrival.\n\nKing Charles greeted members of the public in Norfolk on Sunday morning", "Northern Ireland's lack of power-sharing government for four of the past six years has been catastrophic for the health service, a former chief of the Health and Social Care Board has said.\n\nJohn Compton said that a functioning system relied on political leadership.\n\nIt comes after a week in which the health service has been described as being under unprecedented pressure.\n\nMost health trusts have cancelled some non-urgent operations to increase bed capacity.\n\nIt has also been reported that an inquiry is taking place into eight deaths after ambulance delays while an emergency department nurse told BBC News NI that his ward resembled a war zone.\n\nBBC News NI health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly described the past week as hellishly difficult for health care staff across Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Compton stepped down as leader at the Health and Social Care Board in 2014 after 40 years of working in health care.\n\nAmbulance delays at backed-up emergency departments have been a major issue in the last week\n\nThe organisation, which arranged health and social care services, shut down last year, with its functions coming under the responsibility of the Department of Health.\n\nIn 2011, his report, Transforming Your Care, spelled out major reform for Northern Ireland's health service.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday with Steven Rainey, he said the political stalemate was creating a long-term deficit of services.\n\n\"We've had an assembly for two of the last six years, I mean that is fairly catastrophic for the health service because we are a tax-funded system that relies on political leadership,\" he said.\n\n\"When you don't have political leadership, you don't get decisions and when you don't get decisions, then you get the outworkings of what you see today in our health service.\"\n\nMr Compton warned that if change was not implemented soon, the system will continue to operate as it has for the last four to six weeks.\n\nThere has been no functioning government since February after the DUP withdrew from the executive in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nPreviously, government collapsed between 2017 and 2020 after a split between the two largest power-sharing parties Sinn Féin and the DUP.\n\nOn Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris will hold roundtable talks with five of the largest parties at Stormont.\n\nThe deadline to restore an executive is 19 January, or legally he will be under a duty to call an assembly election within 12 weeks.\n\nMr Compton said during this discussion, politicians should ask for a transition fund to reform the health care system.\n\n\"If you're trying to change it and reform it... you also need to have that ability to make that change over a three to five-year period,\" he said.\n\n\"I would really encourage a debate about a transition fund to enable proper reform and then to get back into Stormont where you're taking those decisions and you're using that transition fund to drive that reform.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak refuses to to say if he is registered with private GP\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to say whether he uses private healthcare, insisting it is \"not really relevant\".\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that his healthcare was \"a personal choice\".\n\nNursing union leader Pat Cullen said the PM \"needed to come clean as a public servant\".\n\nAnd when asked the same question, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said he did not use private healthcare.\n\nIn the interview, Laura Kuenssberg suggested there was huge public interest in Mr Sunak's decisions and that former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher was open about her choice to use a private GP.\n\nMr Sunak said healthcare was \"something that is private\", adding he \"grew up in an NHS family\", with a dad who was GP, and a mum who was a pharmacist.\n\nBut when pressed again, Mr Sunak did not answer the question and instead said, in general, \"we should be making use of the independent sector\" so patients could choose where they have treatment.\n\nA newspaper report in November last year suggested Mr Sunak was registered with a private GP practice that offers on-the-day appointments and charges £250 for a half-hour consultation.\n\nThe latest NHS figures show that, in November last year, 58% of NHS patients were not seen on the day they made an appointment.\n\nAt the same time, a record high of more than seven million people are waiting for hospital treatment, as the NHS faces one of the worst winters in its history.\n\nMs Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said public servants \"ought to be clear with the public whether or not you are using private health cover\".\n\n\"That's about being open, it's about being transparent and it's about honesty,\" she said.\n\nMr Streeting said the PM's answer to the question about his healthcare showed him to be someone who did not understand the biggest crisis in NHS history.\n\nHe said private healthcare created a two-tier system, but patients were free to make their own choices about treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: PM gives impression that he doesn't use NHS - Wes Streeting\n\nMr Sunak has said he has a policy of not commenting on his family's healthcare arrangements, when asked previously.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg said there was likely to be a political row over Mr Sunak's personal healthcare choices.\n\nOne former minister told the BBC presenter: \"[Mr Sunak's] lack of transparency shows he thinks going private is a problem. It is - he's taking decisions on public spend that affect a version of 'the public' that he's not willing to be part of.\"\n\nSome of Mr Sunak's predecessors have made a point of drawing attention to their use of the NHS when they were prime minister.\n\nDavid Cameron often spoke about how the NHS cared for his disabled son, while Boris Johnson said the health service saved his life after he fell seriously ill with Covid.\n\nBut when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister she was candid about her use of private health insurance, which she said was vital for her to \"go into hospital on the day I want, at the time I want, and with a doctor I want\".\n\nThe prime minister says how he arranges his personal life should not matter, what's important is how his government manages the NHS. Many would agree.\n\nBut refusing to be transparent leaves him politically vulnerable.\n\nFirst there's the charge, already levelled, that he's not being open and honest about his arrangements. That's damaging in itself.\n\nSecond, some may infer that perhaps the prime minister does have private healthcare but doesn't want to admit it. If so, perhaps he's worried about giving any impression that he may think NHS is not good enough for him and his family.\n\nAnd perhaps what could be most harmful is the perception that leaves. When the NHS is under enormous stress, is Mr Sunak distanced from the reality of the service most are using?\n\nMr Sunak was interviewed as senior doctors warn of a NHS on a knife edge, with health workers striking over pay and some hospitals in crisis.\n\nA sharp rise in Covid-19 and flu admissions in recent weeks has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nIn Sunday's interview, Mr Sunak acknowledged the NHS was \"undeniably under enormous pressure\".\n\nWhen asked if the NHS was \"in crisis\", he said while recovering from the pandemic \"was going to be tough\", he was optimistic \"we can get to grips with this problem\".\n\nIn his new year speech this week, Mr Sunak said bringing down NHS waiting lists was one of his five top priorities and has since held talks with health leaders to alleviate the crisis.", "While Jair Bolsonaro may not have been the mastermind behind the invasion, he cannot be separated from it.\n\nThroughout his term, he has repeatedly questioned the efficacy of Brazil's institutions - accusing the Supreme Federal Court of being politically against him, and the voting system of being prone to fraud, despite no evidence to support those claims.\n\nHis supporters took on his narrative wholeheartedly.\n\nSince he lost the elections in October he flew off to Florida to avoid having to hand over the presidential sash to Lula - and he's allowed his most ardent supporters to remain angry over a democratic election that he legitimately lost.\n\nTension has definitely been building. Camps were set up across the country in front of army headquarters, with protesters loyal to Bolsonaro calling for military intervention. And then in December, supporters set fire to Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia. Another supporter was arrested for allegedly trying to set off a bomb before Lula's inauguration on 1 January.\n\nIt's no secret that many security forces are more on the side of Bolsonaro than Lula.\n\nFor Bolsonaro's supporters, Lula - who was jailed in 2017 for corruption, and spent 18 months in prison before the convictions were annulled - is a corrupt politician who belongs in prison, not the presidential palace.\n\nThey falsely accuse him of being a communist, wanting to impose a regime like Venezuela or Cuba. They won't be convinced by anything else - and they won't give up their fight for \"democracy\" as they call it.\n\nBut there's a massive flaw in their argument in wanting freedom and democracy.\n\nThey are calling for a very undemocratic military intervention to \"save\" Brazil - an intervention that despite their best efforts, doesn't look forthcoming.", "The drive from Kostyantynivka to Bakhmut is like dropping off a cliff of civilisation.\n\nThe \"pops\" of outgoing tank fire tell you you're getting close to one of the most active parts of the front line in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.\n\nThey also show that Russia's declared 36-hour ceasefire is in name only.\n\n\"They promised there would be one, but we don't see or feel it,\" says Oleksandr, a Ukrainian soldier.\n\nThe constant bangs of incoming artillery reinforce his point. Then, a shell lands 50 metres away from where we are speaking.\n\nI jump. Oleksandr doesn't flinch. \"What is it all for?\" he asks. A perfectly reasonable question while standing in the almost destroyed main square.\n\nOleksandr says he has seen no real impact of the ceasefire on the ground\n\n\"Everything is being ruined. Civilians are killed, soldiers are killed, our people are dying.\"\n\nRussian forces are on the eastern edge of the city a little over a mile away. They've thrown everything at trying to take Bakhmut since the summer in an attempt to push further west, but the city hasn't fallen.\n\nOn Thursday, Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire which he said his troops would observe across the front line.\n\nIt would run from Friday at midday until midnight on Saturday. He claimed it was so Orthodox Christians could celebrate Christmas.\n\nUkraine almost immediately rejected it. It certainly doesn't seem like a day worth marking for those left in Bakhmut.\n\nAs he rakes leaves into a bin, Sergiy - a civilian - proves me wrong.\n\n\"You wouldn't wish this even to your enemy, but we've celebrated Christmas as usual,\" he says.\n\n\"We had a Christmas tree and decorations, but it was in the basement though.\"\n\nSergiy is one of the few civilians left in Bakhmut\n\nYou don't expect to meet anyone who isn't a soldier inside the city. Only a couple of thousand people are left here out of an original population of 50,000.\n\nMilitary vehicles drive with urgency along the icy roads. We can't stay in the same place for more than five minutes. Hanging around would make us a target.\n\nIt's hard to imagine the shelling being more intense, but Sergiy claims it's relatively calm.\n\n\"Do you see that missing roof?\" he asks. \"That was loud. Where the bus depot was hit, that was loud. When this lamp post was hit, that was loud. So, this is quiet.\"\n\nAs a tip of the iceberg, Vladimir Putin's declaration of a truce was significant. It's the first time such language has been used by either side since the start of the full-scale invasion.\n\nEastern Ukraine, however, is no stranger to war. It's been the focal point of Russia's aggression since 2014 after Moscow first backed separatist militants here.\n\nThere have been numerous attempted ceasefires over the years too. Most have failed, and few in Bakhmut expected any respite on this occasion.", "Detectives returned to the Silverwood Green and Kiln Road area to speak to motorists and pedestrians\n\nPolice have revisited the scene of Natalie McNally's murder in Lurgan exactly three weeks on from her killing.\n\nMs McNally, 32, was 15-weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Silverwood Green in Lurgan.\n\nDetectives returned to the Silverwood Green and Kiln Road area to speak to motorists and pedestrians.\n\nThey also handed out leaflets to the public, appealing for information that may assist the investigation.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they had carried out a number of house-to-house inquiries in the Lisburn area and seized a car.\n\nTwo arrests have been made in connection with her murder but no-one has been charged.\n\nA 32-year-old man arrested on Monday, 19 December was released the next day and is no longer a suspect.\n\nAnother 32-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, 21 December and has been released on police bail while detectives continue their inquiries.\n\nHundreds of house-to-house enquiries have been carried out and over 3,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized, police said.\n\nOn Friday, detectives conducted a search of the council-owned Silverwood Golf Club grounds beside Ms McNally's home.\n\nEarlier this week, a weapon believed to be used in the murder was recovered by police and is said to have come from her home.\n\nOfficers believe Ms McNally knew her killer, that they had a pre-existing relationship and she felt comfortable inviting them into her home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness said the PSNI remained \"absolutely steadfast\" to bringing Ms McNally's murderer to justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows a man leaving Natalie McNally's street on the night she was killed\n\nCCTV footage of a suspect in Ms McNally's murder was released previously by police.\n\nIt shows a man entering Silverwood Green at 20:52 GMT on Sunday, 18 December and leaving again at 21:30.\n\nThe charity Crimestoppers have offered a £20,000 reward for information about Ms McNally's killing.", "The bans come as 2 billion in China are expected to travel for the Lunar New Year over the next 40 days\n\nChina has taken down more than 1,000 social media accounts - some with millions of followers - that criticised the government's Covid policies.\n\nSocial media platform Weibo said it had suspended or banned accounts for what it described as personal attacks against Chinese Covid specialists.\n\nWeibo did not specify which posts had prompted the action.\n\nChina scrapped its strict zero-Covid policy in December and has seen a rapid surge of infections and deaths.\n\nOnline criticism has until recently largely focused on the strict enforcement of Covid regulations, including lockdowns that required people to stay at home in isolation for weeks.\n\nBut recent posts have taken aim at experts who have defended the sudden decision to drop restrictions, despite supporting them just weeks ago.\n\nWeibo said it had spotted almost 13,000 violations, including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers. Temporary or permanent bans have been handed to 1,120 accounts.\n\n\"It is not acceptable to hurl insults at people who hold a different point of view, or publish personal attacks and views that incite conflicts,\" Weibo said in a statement.\n\nAny kind of move that is destructive to the [Weibo] community would be handled in a serious manner.\"\n\nSince China abandoned key parts of zero-Covid following historic protests against the policy, there have been reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed.\n\nBut China has stopped publishing daily cases data and has announced only 22 Covid deaths since December, using its own strict criteria.\n\nOn Saturday, China marked the first day of the 40-day period of Lunar New Year, known as the world's largest annual migration of people.\n\nThe Ministry of Transport said it expects more than two billion passengers to travel over the next 40 days, an increase of 99.5% year-on-year and reaching 70% of trip numbers in 2019.\n\nThis has led to widespread concerns that the festival may see another wave of infections, especially in rural areas that are less well-equipped with ICU beds and ventilators.\n\nFrom Sunday, China will drop a requirement for travellers coming from abroad to quarantine, meaning many Chinese will be able to travel abroad for the first time in almost three years.", "Steve Barclay is in his second spell as health secretary\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay has suggested health workers could get a bigger pay rise in April - if they agree to \"efficiencies\" in the NHS.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Barclay said he remains \"ready to engage\" with striking unions on how the government can \"support the workforce\".\n\nThe NHS has seen widespread strikes in a dispute over this year's pay offer.\n\nUnion leaders say ministers must act on the current dispute, and this month's walkouts will go ahead.\n\nMeanwhile, shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said a decade of underfunding by Tory governments had stretched the NHS.\n\nIt comes a day after health leaders held talks with the government about tackling the challenges faced by the NHS - which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described as \"highly valuable\".\n\nOn Monday, health unions have been invited to meet Mr Barclay to discuss pay for 2023-24 from April - and in his Telegraph opinion piece he argued \"we should be moving forward and having constructive conversations about what is affordable this coming year, rather than going back retrospectively\".\n\nBut speaking to the BBC's Today programme on Saturday, Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Pat Cullen said the pay increase nurses would receive in 2022-23 was \"fundamental\" to the ongoing dispute.\n\nNHS staff in England and Wales - including nurses - have been given an average pay rise of 4.75% this year but are calling for an increase to keep up with inflation, which is currently running at more than 10%.\n\nAmbulance workers are set to walk out again this week, and nurses later in the month. And from Monday, junior doctors in England will be balloted on strike action.\n\nMr Barclay - who was reappointed as health secretary by Mr Sunak in October after a short spell earlier in the year - admitted the recent strikes had disrupted the health service, causing more than 30,000 appointments to be rescheduled.\n\n\"While those who kept working did a formidable job - supported brilliantly by our armed forces - we know the quality of care patients received suffered as a result,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government's plans to introduce new legislation to ensure minimum levels of staff in emergency services was \"pragmatic\", and would be similar to actions taken in countries such as France and Germany.\n\nHowever, he also hinted at space for negotiation with the unions, saying he was keen to hold talks to see if a settlement could be agreed on any revised pay offer.\n\nHe described a recent visit to one of the 42 new NHS system control centres that use live hospital data and digital notifications to ensure the typical time a bed remains empty is being cut from three hours to one hour.\n\nHe said that when the NHS trusts can find and widely introduce \"productivity and efficiency opportunities\" that would make it \"affordable\" for the government to fund revised pay offers for staff.\n\nAcknowledging challenges within the health service, Mr Barclay also said he would make an announcement on Monday to \"improve the flow through our hospitals\".\n\n\"This is the kind of work we're determined to keep doing, fixing people's problems and taking the country forward, rather than being stuck on repeat with the unions,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first £600 energy payment vouchers will start arriving from 16 January, the Post Office has said.\n\nMark Gibson, external affairs manager at Post Office NI, said the rollout will be staggered over four weeks.\n\nCustomers have been urged to redeem the voucher soon after getting it to ensure post office branches have enough cash.\n\nThe vouchers are being distributed to about 500,000 people who pay their electricity bills quarterly or use pre-payment meters.\n\nDirect debit energy customers will receive the money directly to their bank account.\n\nEnergy companies have been tasked with distributing that money and the payments are expected to arrive between mid-January and late March.\n\nMr Gibson told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that those who are flagged by energy firms as the most financially vulnerable customers will receive their payments in the first phase.\n\nThe voucher is redeemable for cash up until the end of March at any Post Office branch in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe money is intended to help with energy bills but people can use the cash payment as they see fit.\n\nMr Gibson advised that in order to redeem the voucher, customers will need to bring the letter from their energy supplier, the voucher, proof of address and a photographic ID.\n\nKeypad customers will also need to bring their top-up card or app.\n\nPeople with no direct debit arrangement and those with a prepaid meter will receive the voucher from their energy supplier which can then be redeemed at their local post office\n\n\"Even if you know the postmaster, which many of our customers do, you still need to bring this information along,\" he added.\n\nMr Gibson said: \"We are asking customers, for security reasons more than anything else, is that they would immediately deposit that cash into their bank account which they can do at every Post Office in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nTo ensure that Post Office branches have appropriate cash flow, customers are being urged to redeem the vouchers as soon as they receive them.\n\nKevin Higgins, the head of policy at Advice NI, said customers unable to get to a post office can nominate a person to redeem the voucher on their behalf.\n\nThey will need to fill out an authorisation slip and bring the required identification documents of the person entitled to the voucher.\n\nThe public has also been warned of potential scams that may accompany the rollout of the voucher scheme.\n\nMr Gibson said the Post Office and energy suppliers will not be sending out texts and emails or calling customers ahead of the scheme.\n\n\"You will simply receive this voucher and this letter,\" he added.\n\nMr Higgins said it is his understanding that direct debit customers can expect the £600 payment to be paid into their bank accounts to by the end of January.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme that those waiting on the vouchers may need to be patient with the rollout.\n\n\"It's a bit of managing expectations here as well,\" he continued.\n\n\"They'll not hit people's doorsteps next week - it will start to be paid out from Monday 16 [January] and then that will continue over a number of weeks.\"\n\nYou can listen to Inside Business at 17:30 GMT on BBC Radio Ulster or catch up later on BBC Sounds.", "Braemar had its coldest night since February 2021\n\nScotland is on course for its coldest December in over a decade after the UK's lowest maximum temperature for 12 years was recorded in Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the highest temperature recorded in Braemar was -9.3C after overnight temperatures plummeted to -15.7C.\n\nBBC Weather's Simon King said it was the coldest night since February 2021.\n\nA yellow warning for ice and snow currently covers northern Scotland with the cold spell set to last for 10 days.\n\nA further yellow warning has been issued for the same area from midnight on Tuesday until 12:00 on Thursday.\n\nSnow ploughs were out in force in the Cairngorms National Park near Aviemore\n\nBBC Scotland Weather reporter Kirsteen Macdonald said the 10-day cold spell would make it the coldest December since 2010.\n\nShe added: \"Cold weather isn't at all unusual for the time of year but, given that we experienced a record-breaking mild November, this continued cold spell may come as a shock to people, at a time of great worry regarding energy bills and the cost of living crisis.\"\n\nMeanwhile, about 2,000 properties across Shetland were without electricity on Monday evening after a power cut.\n\nResidents faced a bitterly cold night as SSEN said supplies may only be restored by 11:00 on Tuesday.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was aware that people in the Burravoe and Bressay areas may not be able to make 999 calls from their landline but added that mobile phones should not be affected.\n\nThe extreme cold has also forced the closure of all schools and early learning settings across the isles on Tuesday, with the sole exception of Fair Isle.\n\nShetland Island Council confirmed the precautionary measure due to uncertainty over the impact the weather may have on school transport and power supplies.\n\nThe Met Office is also warning of ice and fog around the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nIt has led to a number of school closures in the Highlands and disruption to rail services.\n\nNetwork Rail said icicles in tunnels were causing overhead line and signalling faults at Edinburgh Haymarket before they were cleared by staff.\n\nScotRail has reported \"disruption across the network\".\n\nMany rural areas saw temperatures dip to minus double figures.\n\nBalmoral came in at -13.5C, followed by Aviemore at -13.0C, Dalwhinnie at -12.0C, Kinbrace at -11.2C, Fyvie Castle at -11.0C, Altnaharra at -10.5C, and both Tulloch Bridge and Drumalbin at -10.1C.\n\nIn Glasgow temperatures fell to -7.2C and to -6.7C in Edinburgh.\n\nSnow gates were closed on the A939 overnight\n\nSnowfall caused the closure of the snow gates at the A939 at Cock Bridge and the A939 at Tomintoul.\n\nIn Dumfries and Galloway, Drummore School near Stranraer and Penpont School have been closed due to snow and ice issues, while police are warning people not to try to walk on parts of the River Nith which have frozen in Dumfries.\n\nGraeme McLatchie told BBC Scotland how he was forced to spend the night at Luton airport after his flight to Glasgow was cancelled.\n\nHe said: \"We were supposed to be on the 6pm from Luton back to Glasgow, with EasyJet. They eventually cancelled the flight after 11pm with little-to-no communication, along with other flights to Inverness and Aberdeen.\n\n\"I understand the weather conditions made it difficult but it was all done so late that there was no option but to sleep at the airport.\"\n\nMr McLatchie, 44, who lives in Paisley, is now on the train back to Scotland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Coldest night of 2022 as Scots struggle with bills", "With timing that Labour is gleefully pointing out, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's promise to sort out the NHS came on the anniversary of a different vow from one of his predecessors.\n\nThe Conservative leader then was David Cameron who promised in 2010 that he would sort out the nation's finances, and \"cut the deficit, not the NHS\".\n\nThe promise came after a long stint of hard work by his tribe of Tory modernisers to \"detoxify\" the party's brand, to use the language of the day.\n\nAbsolutely core to that was to persuade the public to trust the Conservatives with the health service - which is never far from the top of the list of voters' concerns.\n\nFast-forward to the start of 2023 and the NHS is again high on the list of the public's concerns. It is creaking and struggling with the data nearly all pointing in the wrong direction.\n\nDay after day stories emerge of delays and distress in emergency departments around the country, with doctors warning that people are dying unnecessarily because they just cannot treat them in time. Countless families around the country have their own horror stories.\n\nThe Conservative Party has been spending enormous amounts of taxpayers' cash on the NHS and Mr Sunak is keen to talk about the steps that he is trying to take, including Saturday's meeting of health leaders which he convened at No 10 to work out what could ease the strain.\n\nBut again, there is a pressure on him and his party to demonstrate to the public that they can translate the cash and pledges of commitment into a service that really provides for patients when they need it - that they can get the sick out of ambulances, into beds, and given the treatment they need.\n\nProving that though looks hard, very hard. That's not just because of the significant hangover from the pandemic, nor down to the serious outbreak of flu this winter.\n\nBut it is worth remembering that a high level of demand was one of the possible scenarios the NHS planned for.\n\nThere have been months of warnings from health leaders going into this winter, with one senior official saying \"ministers cannot have been surprised\".\n\nMore cash has gone in, but as our health correspondent Nick Triggle explains here, the huge cheques for health spending have not kept pace with demand or inflation.\n\nThe problems have been brewing for a long time: the Accident and Emergency target which says people should be seen within four hours has not been met since 2015.\n\nMr Sunak might want to fix the problems of today but their roots stretch back further than the pandemic. There are fewer beds and more staff shortages.\n\nOne of our viewers who got in touch with us won't be the only person in the country to be asking \"how have they allowed this to happen?\".\n\nSecond, there's perhaps a mismatch between the sense of the action the government wants to take now and the scale of the issues.\n\nThe government disputes the suggestion that at least 300 people are dying every week because of delays and overcrowding.\n\nBut it is indisputable that patients are suffering because of what is going on.\n\nMinisters have promised 7,000 extra beds to help cope. But according to NHS sources only around 3,000 of them are available now, with some of them so-called \"virtual beds\" that help people to be treated at home.\n\nThat may well be a smart policy to help in the future but it is hard to see how it can relieve the significant pressure that is in plain sight right now.\n\nMinisters also point to another £500m to deal with social care - but that was promised in the summer and only around half the cash has reached the front line.\n\nThere's another question right now that is being asked of Mr Sunak's government too.\n\nCan the way the health service works really last into the next decade and beyond?\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nScores of politicians would say privately that we need to have a conversation as a country about whether our way of providing health care can survive as medical advances create more amazing but expensive treatments and demand goes up and up as the population lives longer.\n\nThat is a conversation few politicians are willing to have in public - yet.\n\nThere was good reason why David Cameron wrapped himself in affection for the NHS. Even starting a conversation about how it works is politically deeply awkward for the Conservatives.\n\nWhether or not a change to the fundamentals is required, one health leader told me this week it is imperative that we have that debate. But there simply is not much sign of it right now.\n\nIn his first TV interview of the year - his first full-length TV interview since he got the job - I asked the prime minister about whether he can get a grip on what is happening and if the NHS can go on as it is.\n\nYou can watch his response from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer this Sunday.\n\nMr Sunak says he wants to be held to account about what happens, but knowing that even though there are no easy answers, he will be judged.", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "This was the dramatic moment when tensions flared on the floor of the US House of Representatives - after 14 rounds of voting for a new Speaker.\n\nLawmaker Mike Rogers - a supporter of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker - had to be physically restrained as he bellowed and jabbed his finger at a fellow Republican who was not supporting Mr McCarthy.\n\nRead more about the moment Mr McCarthy was finally elected.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That was easy, huh?\" Kevin McCarthy makes first speech after becoming Speaker\n\nKevin McCarthy has been elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow Republicans come to blows.\n\nIt took 15 rounds of voting for Mr McCarthy to win the job, despite his party having a majority in the chamber.\n\nIt came after a dramatic pressure campaign played out live on the House floor as party rebel Matt Gaetz was urged to vote for Mr McCarthy.\n\nThe Florida Congressman was among six holdouts who relented late on Friday.\n\nEarlier, amid heated scenes in the chamber, Mr Gaetz had almost come to blows with Rep Mike Rogers - a supporter of Mr McCarthy. The Alabama congressman had to be physically restrained by colleagues as he bellowed and jabbed his finger at Mr Gaetz.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Speaker sets the House agenda and oversees legislative business. The post is second in line to the presidency after the US vice-president.\n\nSpeaking after his confirmation, Mr McCarthy wrote on Twitter: \"I hope one thing is clear after this week: I will never give up. And I will never give up for you, the American people.\"\n\nMr McCarthy told reporters that former President Trump had helped him get the final votes: \"I don't think anybody should doubt his influence\".\n\n\"He was with me from the beginning... he would call me and he would call others,\" he said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden congratulated Mr McCarthy for his win and said he looked forward to co-operating with the Republican Party.\n\n\"The American people expect their leaders to govern in a way that puts their needs above all else, and that is what we need to do now,\" he said.\n\nRepublicans have already pledged to launch investigations into Mr Biden's family business dealings and administration.\n\nIn a remarkable turnaround in the 12th round of voting, Mr McCarthy was able to persuade 14 Republican holdouts to cast their vote for him. A 15th rebel followed suit for the 13th ballot.\n\nAfter the 13th ballot was adjourned, Mr McCarthy insisted to reporters that he would \"have the votes\" to take the speakership on the next round.\n\nBut the California congressman was still three votes short of the 217 he needed to take the prized gavel, and in chaotic and dramatic scenes, he again failed to win on the 14th ballot.\n\nThe dissidents included members of the House Freedom Caucus, who argue that Mr McCarthy is not conservative enough to lead them as they work to try to oppose Democratic President Joe Biden's agenda.\n\nMr McCarthy has offered various concessions to the rebels, including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber.\n\nHe also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the Speaker, to only one House member, leading to the possibility that the Republican coalition could easily fracture again even after Mr McCarthy's victory.\n\nAs the last politician on the roll - Montana's Ryan Zinke - voted, the House floor erupted in applause as it became clear Mr McCarthy had finally emerged victorious.\n\nMr McCarthy hugged other representatives and signed autographs, but across the room the Democrats' side was completely silent. No democrat applauded.\n\nSenior Democratic Party lawmakers accused Mr McCarthy of ceding power to an extreme wing of his party and likened the stand-off to the riot exactly two years ago on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters who disrupted Mr Biden's certification as president.\n\n\"Two years ago insurrectionists failed to take over the Capitol,\" Congressman Eric Swalwell wrote on Twitter. \"Tonight Kevin McCarthy let them take over the Republican Party.\"\n\nAnd Virginia Congressman Don Beyer referred to the angry scenes among Republicans that followed the 14th count.\n\n\"Unsettling that this process ends in threats of violence in the House Chamber, on this of all days,\" he said. \"Maybe it didn't determine the outcome, but that is no way to conduct the people's business. A dark and sobering moment will probably be remembered long after this session ends.\"\n\nAfter finally after being handed the Speaker's gavel Mr McCarthy hugged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries\n\nThe minority Democrats had continued to vote in unison for their leader, New York's Hakeem Jeffries, the first black person ever to lead a party in Congress.\n\nFriday was the first day that Mr McCarthy's vote count actually surpassed that of Mr Jeffries.\n\nMr McCarthy opened his acceptance speech joking; \"that was easy, eh?\". He outlined a range of Republican policy objectives that included lowering prices, securing the US-Mexico border and combatting what he described as a \"woke indoctrination\".\n\nHe said one of his primary goals was to stop \"wasteful Washington spending\".\n\nThe lawmakers began leaving the Congress around 02:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday morning - 14 hours after the gavel first rang at noon.\n\nNot since 1860 in the build-up to the American Civil War has the lower chamber of Congress voted this many times to pick a speaker. Back then it took 44 rounds of ballots.\n\nIn November's midterm elections, Republicans won the House by a weaker-than-expected margin of 222 to 212. Democrats retained control of the Senate.", "The image is believed to be of new mother Constance Marten\n\nPolice searching for a missing couple and their newborn baby have released a CCTV image believed to be of the mother amid fears for their safety.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) has appealed for Constance Marten to make contact and seek medical assistance.\n\nMs Marten, Mark Gordon and their child have been missing since their vehicle broke down near junction 4 of the M61, near Bolton, on Thursday.\n\nThe image is thought to show the new mother outside Harwich Port in Essex.\n\nAfter breaking down, GMP said the family left the vehicle safely and walked towards Anchor Lane bridge which links the Highfield and Little Hulton areas.\n\nGMP believes the new image shows Ms Marten, wrapped in a large red scarf, outside Harwich Port at 09:00 GMT, more than 250 miles (400km) away.\n\nMs Marten and Mark Gordon left their car safely with their newborn near to junction 4 of the M61\n\n\"Our concern is make sure that Constance, Mark and baby are safe and well,\" the force said.\n\nIt said evidence suggests Ms Marten had \"very recently given birth and neither her or the baby have been assessed by medical professionals\".\n\nGMP said Ms Marten and Mr Gordon were both originally from London.\n\nMr Gordon was described as wearing dark clothing while Ms Marten was wearing a burgundy coat. The baby was swaddled.\n\nCh Supt Michaela Kerr previously said: \"As a mum, I would like to make a direct appeal to Constance.\n\n\"Constance, I know this is an exceptionally hard time for you and you are likely feeling scared, but I promise that our number one priority is the same as yours - to keep your beautiful newborn safe.\n\n\"As you know, it's really important that both you and your baby are assessed by medical professionals as soon as possible, so please make contact with emergency services or make your way to your nearest hospital, wherever that may be.\"\n\nShe also appealed to members of the public with any information about the family's whereabouts to \"please do nothing more than contact emergency services\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Couple missing with newborn last seen on motorway\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Penguins that were isolating due to avian flu have been given the all-clear to return to their enclosure\n\nPenguins that had been put into isolation due to bird flu have been give the all-clear, a zoo has said.\n\nMarwell Zoo, in Hampshire, put seven of the birds into isolation after an outbreak of avian flu in December.\n\nFour other penguins died while a further four tested positive and, by law, had to be euthanised.\n\nNow the seven in isolation have tested negative for the disease and will be returned to their enclosure, along with the centre's flamingo population.\n\nOn 6 December, the (HPAI) H5N1 strain of avian flu was confirmed near Highclere and Colden Common and a 3km (1.86 mile) monitoring zone was set up around both premises.\n\nThe seven penguins were put into isolation for their own safety, as were the flamingos as a precaution.\n\n\"We are delighted that the outbreak was contained swiftly,\" said a spokeswoman Marwell Zoo, near Colden Common.\n\nShe added it had been working with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).\n\n\"Our flamingos have now been given access to the whole of their enclosure again and we are working with the relevant authorities to get the penguins back in their enclosure as soon as possible,\" she continued.\n\nShe said access to the walk-through aviaries and Energy For Life: Tropical House would continue to be restricted.\n\n\"The sooner the penguins return to their enclosure the better, from a welfare perspective,\" Justine Shotton, veterinary services manager, said.\n\nPenguins kept indoors are at risk of pododermatitis - a condition affecting the birds' feet, and aspergillosis - a potentially fatal fungal infection, according to Ms Shotton.\n\nShe said all of the zoo's penguins were on antifungal medication and their condition was being regularly monitored.\n\nRisk assessments will continue as avian influenza remains an issue all year round, Ms Shotton added.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Salva Kiir became the first president of South Sudan - Africa's newest country - in 2011.\n\nSix journalists in South Sudan have been arrested over the circulation of footage appearing to show President Salva Kiir wetting himself, media rights groups say.\n\nIn December, a video shared on social media appeared to show Mr Kiir urinating on himself as the national anthem played at a function.\n\nSix staff from the state broadcaster were detained this week.\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is now calling for their release.\n\nPatrick Oyet, president of the South Sudan Union of Journalists, told Reuters that the journalists \"are suspected of having knowledge on how the video of the president urinating himself came out\".\n\nThe South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation says the footage was never aired.\n\nThe arrests match \"a pattern of security personnel resorting to arbitrary detention whenever officials deem coverage unfavourable\", said CPJ's sub-Saharan Africa representative, Muthoki Mumo, calling for their unconditional release.\n\nSouth Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei told Voice of America radio that people should wait to learn why the journalists were detained.\n\nRights groups have frequently called on the South Sudanese authorities to stop harassing and threatening journalists.\n\nMr Kiir became the first president of South Sudan - Africa's newest country - in 2011.\n\nBut the country has suffered numerous crises since then, enduring brutal conflict, political turmoil, natural disasters and hunger.", "Staff on the front line are becoming increasingly frustrated with those behind the scenes\n\nIt's a week where I have run out of adjectives to describe the crisis that's engulfing the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nEven the word crisis doesn't do justice to what's happening and while disaster seems excessive, calamity belittles the enormity of what's going on.\n\nIf I was allowed to sum it up in my own words - I'd say it's been a hellishly difficult week.\n\nHeadlines, while shocking, capture a system that's beyond broken.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine warned that delays in emergency care could be causing the deaths of up to 500 people in the UK each week.\n\nLocally, BBC News NI revealed an inquiry into eight deaths after ambulance delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A nurse who spent Christmas on the front line describes the pressure\n\nAn emergency department nurse told me his ward resembled a war zone where patients were treated amid scenes of chaos.\n\nAfter I was given access to film inside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast last month, I can verify his words are true.\n\nAmid all the adjectives and numbers, often we forget we are talking about people.\n\nSome patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy\n\nAt the time of writing, 403 men and women were waiting on a hospital bed - that number could fill a small hospital.\n\nOf those, 378 were waiting more than 12 hours.\n\nSpace is limited and staff are trying their best but are exhausted.\n\nThere are many unsettling aspects about this week including that this no longer feels like a temporary glitch.\n\nInstead, the daily reports of trolleys lying head-to-toe, side-by-side is becoming the norm.\n\nIf that continues the shock factor will wear off and overcrowded emergency departments could become acceptable.\n\nThose on the front line are also becoming increasingly and openly frustrated with those behind the scenes who are attempting to fix the problem.\n\nThis week, the Royal College of Emergency Doctors said mitigating measures were \"not working\".\n\nAnother called on commissioners to take four hours to \"road test\" their solutions before introducing them to the \"front-facing team on the shop floor\".\n\nA charity also said decision makers should sit down with those involved in domiciliary care to come up with solutions to tackle the ongoing problems in community care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurses on the picket line last month\n\nBeing outspoken and challenging the system isn't the norm in Northern Ireland. Recent outbursts, however, are an indication of just how much those on the front line are at the end of their tether.\n\nThe problems are 10-fold and I have yet to mention the political stand-off.\n\nHaving a power-sharing executive wouldn't make things perfect, but it would make a difference.\n\nThere would likely be a recurrent budget and people with the authority who can legislate for change.\n\nThe system and those who run it would also be accountable for their actions - at present that's not the case.\n\nIn the meantime, those running the hospitals are firefighting, without making any real proactive changes.\n\nAt the end of a long week, our overwhelmed health service is in much need of some of its own intensive care.\n\nIn fact, some might argue that it's beyond that stage and instead the system against all odds is struggling to be revived in resus.\n\nAs I said earlier, finding the right words to describe such an emotive situation that involves frail elderly people is difficult.\n\nI will sign off by saying at present it feels bleak.", "There were reports of strikes overnight in Kramatorsk, but Moscow has given no evidence to support its claim it killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers\n\nUkraine has labelled as \"propaganda\" a Russian claim that it killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers in an attack.\n\nMoscow claimed, without providing any evidence, that a \"mass missile strike\" in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had killed more than 600 Ukrainian forces.\n\nIt said it was in retaliation for a Ukrainian attack on a Russian base that killed dozens of Russian soldiers on New Year's Day.\n\nBut the Ukrainian military says this is untrue.\n\n\"This is another piece of Russian propaganda,\" Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, told the BBC.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had killed more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a strike on buildings temporarily housing Ukrainian forces. More than 1,300 Ukrainian troops were housed in two buildings, Moscow said.\n\nIt called the attacks a \"retaliatory strike\" to avenge the deaths of 89 Russian troops killed in Makiivka. Ukraine says as many as 400 people were killed or wounded in that incident, while numbers into the hundreds have been given by Russian nationalists on social media.\n\nMoscow is yet to offer any proof of its claim about the Kramatorsk deaths.\n\nBy matching pictures of the attack published by local officials to Google satellite imagery and other images online, the BBC has confirmed the location of two sites about a mile apart in Kramatorsk.\n\nThe strikes happened near two school buildings - vocational schools number 28 and 47 - which match with the dormitory numbers provided by Russia. Moscow says the buildings were housing Ukrainian military personnel.\n\nHowever, there's no visual evidence that shows these two buildings were badly hit or that there has been mass deaths on the scale claimed by Russia.\n\nNot that Russia's 36-hour ceasefire remotely resembled a truce, but almost immediately after it ended, we felt seven or so explosions in the city of Kramatorsk.\n\nThe rattle of the windows made us decide to head to the shelter. Until then, we'd only heard faint thuds and a few sirens. This marked a return to the almost daily missile strikes which Kramatorsk has had to endure.\n\nMoscow's truce had only led to the faintest of let ups in the city, which can't be said for the surrounding area.\n\nThe local mayor posted images of damaged buildings and said two educational sites, eight apartment blocks and garages were damaged from the explosions.\n\nThere were no reported casualties, contrary to the claims from the Kremlin.\n\nThere was further shelling in various parts of Ukraine overnight after the end of what Russian President Vladimir Putin said was a 36-hour ceasefire by Russian forces so Orthodox Christians could celebrate Christmas. Evidence suggests this so-called ceasefire was not adhered to by Moscow.\n\nUkrainian officials said at least one person was killed in the Kharkiv region in the north-east.\n\nExplosions were also reported in the southern cities of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol.\n\nSeparately, Russia's defence ministry said that Ukraine had returned 50 captured Russian soldiers after negotiations. Kyiv confirmed that it had received the same number of soldiers in return from Russia.", "Protesters opposed to Lula's election have been camped out outside the barracks\n\nFollowing the arrest in Brasilia of a supporter of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly trying to set off a bomb to create chaos ahead of the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil's new president, the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson examines the risks that hardcore Lula opponents pose for his presidency.\n\nOutside the military barracks in the centre of São Paulo, there is a small group of about 50 people protesting.\n\nDraped in Brazil's flag, they are chanting: \"Armed forces, save Brazil.\" Some are waving banners with the words: \"Our flag will never be red - out with communism\".\n\nAround them, dozens of tarpaulin tents have been set up, most of them green, blue and yellow, the colours of the national flag, which are now associated with the country's far-right.\n\nOne young man who introduces himself as Rodrigo is camping out in one of them, along with four other people.\n\nRodrigo says he is willing to stay outside the barracks long-term if need be\n\nHe pitched up just after October's presidential election in which the far-right candidate he was backing - incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro - narrowly lost to left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\n\n\"It's a greater cause,\" he says, explaining that he is here to stay and not considering returning home.\n\nWhen asked whether Jair Bolsonaro is the driving force behind his decision to stay on and protest, he admits he is.\n\n\"He's influential on social networks - the things he posts about family, God, liberty, which are our principles, make us stay here.\"\n\nBut fellow protester Luca Oliveira disagrees - he says their movement is bigger than the soon-to-be former leader.\n\n\"Our voting system? It's a fraud,\" says Luca. He claims Brazil's electronic voting system is prone to irregularities and that the \"biased\" Supreme Court is doing nothing about it.\n\nIt is a familiar argument. Jair Bolsonaro made it throughout the election campaign, providing no proof to back it up. But repeat the allegations over and over again, and that is enough to keep this group of people on the streets.\n\n\"We are calling for something different,\" Luca says, without defining exactly what that is.\n\nThe truth is, people here want the military to get involved.\n\n\"I come here mainly because we have reason to believe that the elections were not done in a clean manner,\" explains 22-year-old Sofia, a law student who did not want to give her surname.\n\nSofia is a law student who thinks the army should intervene\n\n\"Lula da Silva is an ex-convict. Having him become president is basically saying it's OK for you to be a criminal here in Brazil,\" she says referring to the time the president-elect served in jail before his conviction was annulled.\n\nSofia argues that under Brazil's constitution, it falls to the army to intervene to take care of national security in cases when there is something wrong with the elections or the electronic voting machines.\n\nShe says that the armed forces should take \"whatever measures necessary\" to ensure \"the election is correct\".\n\nBut there is no sign that Brazil's military wants to intervene.\n\nA report by the armed forces on the security of Brazil's electronic voting system found no evidence of fraud during the elections, although it did point out some vulnerabilities that it said could be exploited.\n\nThat sliver of doubt is enough to keep these protesters hoping for a radical U-turn from the authorities.\n\nIt is a scene replicated across Brazil since Lula won the presidential elections at the end of October.\n\nOne demonstrator is carrying a sign which reads \"#Brazilianspring\" in a reference to the mass protests in 2013, when more than a million people took part in anti-government protests in about 100 cities across the country.\n\nThe demonstrators believe the election was \"stolen\" by Lula\n\nPolitical scientist Jonas Medeiros says these protests are nothing like on the scale of the unrest the country experienced back then.\n\nBut he does caution that what is happening now is worth paying attention to. \"There is a tendency in the progressive camp as well as the media to minimise their [the protests'] importance,\" says Mr Medeiros.\n\n\"That they are just a minority of interventionist pariahs, so don't give them any attention. But these people are building networks, possible civil organisations and this is the seed for the future of the opposition that Lula will have to deal with for the next four years.\"\n\nMichele Prado is also a political scientist. She knows first-hand how these protesters operate, because until recently she was one of them.\n\nShe voted for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 and talks about having become \"radicalised\" before she realised that many of arguments she had read on right-wing WhatsApp groups \"weren't democratic\".\n\nShe says she fell for the narrative which \"appeared to defend democracy and liberty\".\n\nBut even though Ms Prado may have had a change of heart, she insists Mr Bolsonaro's influence remains strong.\n\n\"Just look at his behaviour until now. He's still not given a declaration [after Lula's victory],\" she says referring to the fact that the outgoing president has not admitted defeat.\n\nJair Bolsonaro has not been seen in public much since he lost in the election\n\n\"He left the door open for extremist mobilisation to continue. He legitimises this radicalisation and the extreme right because he himself spent his entire mandate attacking democratic institutions, disrespecting minorities, the separation of power,\" she explains.\n\nLaw student Sofia is one of those still holding out for the armed forces to somehow prevent the handover of power from happening.\n\nShe says she believes \"the armed forces will actually do something\" to stop Lula from taking office.\n\nIt is an unlikely outcome that those protesting alongside her outside the army barracks may still be holding out for, but one that few Brazilians truly believe will occur.", "We chose to focus in our interview with the prime minister on the NHS because right now, it's one of his biggest problems.\n\nThere was an element of \"crisis, what crisis?\" despite what's happening right now in A&Es around the country being considered that serious by many in the health sector. Rishi Sunak was obviously reluctant to use that word.\n\nAnd he was adamant he was not going to divulge whether he pays for healthcare.\n\nWhether or not you think that's an issue, there is likely to be a political row about it, not least because he does not want to give detail.\n\nOne former minister told me: \"His lack of transparency shows he thinks going private is a problem. It is - he's taking decisions on public spend that affect a version of 'the public' that he's not willing to be part of.\"\n\nIt was though noteworthy that he did signal a willingness to talk to nurses about this year's pay.\n\nHe's a million miles away from telling nurses he'll open the cheque book but it was a clear softening of the fraught tone of the public conversation of the last few weeks.\n\nPat Cullen, the leader of the nurses' union told us on the show she thought it was a \"chink of light\".", "Single-use items like plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene trays will be banned in England, the government has confirmed.\n\nIt is not clear when the ban will come into effect but it follows similar moves by Scotland and Wales.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the move would help protect the environment for future generations.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the ban, but called for a wider-ranging plastic reduction strategy.\n\nGovernment figures suggest that 1.1 billion single-use plates and more than four billion pieces of plastic cutlery are used in England every year.\n\nPlastic waste often does not decompose and can last in landfill for many years.\n\nAlthough it might be useful in terms of food hygiene, it can also end up as litter, in turn polluting soil and water.\n\nThe confirmation of the move from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) follows a long consultation, which will be published on Saturday 14 January.\n\nEach person in England uses an average of 18 single-use plastic plates and 37 items of plastic cutlery every year, according to Defra, while just 10% of those are recycled.\n\nMs Coffey is set to ban a range of single-use plastic items mainly relating to takeaway food and drink.\n\n\"I am determined to drive forward action to tackle this issue head on. We've already taken major steps in recent years - but we know there is more to do, and we have again listened to the public's calls,\" she said.\n\n\"This new ban will have a huge impact to stop the pollution of billions of pieces of plastics and help to protect the natural environment for future generations.\"\n\nSimilar bans have already been made in Scotland, while single-use plastic straws, stirrers and plastic stemmed cotton buds were already banned in England in 2020.\n\nScotland introduced a ban on businesses using a range of single-use plastic goods in June last year. Laws for a similar ban in Wales were approved in December and will come into force later in 2023.\n\nThis latest measure does not, however, cover items found in supermarkets or shops. The government said it would address those by other means.\n\nMegan Randles, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said that the organisation welcomed the ban but further action was needed.\n\nShe said: \"We're dealing with a plastic flood, and this is like reaching for a mop instead of turning off the tap.\"\n\nShe called on the government to deliver a \"meaningful\" strategy on how to reduce plastic use, which would also include stringent targets and \"a proper reuse and refill scheme\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak says he will talk to nurses about pay\n\nRishi Sunak's openness to talks has offered a \"chink of optimism\" that a deal can be reached over nurses' pay, the head of the nursing union has said.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he was open to a pay deal that is \"responsible\" and \"affordable\".\n\nPat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"The prime minister talked about coming to the table. Now that's a move for me.\"\n\nBut she said strikes will go ahead as this year's pay was still in dispute.\n\nThe health secretary is due to hold a meeting with unions on Monday, but the government has so far only agreed to discuss a settlement for the next financial year.\n\nNurses are already set to receive a rise for the current year, 2022-23, an average of 4.75%. This is in line with a recommendation by the independent NHS Pay Review Body in July - but the RCN says the figure is not enough to cushion the rising cost of living.\n\nIn an interview on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Sunak was asked if he would be willing to talk about nurses' pay for this year.\n\n\"The government has always been clear that it's happy to talk about pay that is responsible, that's affordable for the country. That's always been clear,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to have a reasonable, honest, two-way conversation about pay and everything else that is relevant.\n\n\"The most important thing is that we are talking.\"\n\nLast month saw nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland stage a walkout for the first time in the RCN's 106-year history. The Royal College of Nursing Scotland says it is planning industrial action while the RCN has announced further strike dates in England on 18 and 19 January.\n\nThe RCN has said nurses should receive a pay increase of 5% above inflation this year, which at the peak rate of inflation would have equated to a 19% rise, although reports last week suggested it would accept 10%.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We are about to start a new pay settlement round... we're about to start that independent process, and before that process starts the government is keen to sit down with the unions and talk about pay and make sure they understand where we're coming from.\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Ms Cullen repeated her call for the prime minister to meet her \"halfway\", and said the RCN had made a \"significant move\" by signalling a willingness to compromise.\n\n\"There was a chink of optimism and there was a little shift in what the prime minister was saying,\" she said.\n\n\"However, and this is really important, tomorrow's meeting... is not about negotiations, it's not about nurses' pay, and it's not addressing the issues that are our dispute.\n\n\"The prime minister talked about coming to the table. Now that's a move for me. But it must be about addressing pay for 2022-23.\"\n\nAhead of Monday's meeting, Health Secretary Steve Barclay suggested health workers could get a bigger pay rise in the next financial year if they agree to \"efficiency\" savings in the NHS.\n\nMr Sunak was also asked about the growing numbers of people waiting for treatment and whether the NHS was in a crisis.\n\nThe prime minister, who hosted a forum of health leaders and experts on Saturday to discuss how key issues in the health service could be addressed, said: \"The NHS is undeniably under enormous pressure.\n\n\"But actually I came away from all my meetings with a renewed sense of confidence and optimism that we can get to grips with this problem.\n\n\"We've got a plan that we've got in place that we're making sure that we can actually deliver.\"\n\nHe repeatedly refused to reveal whether he uses private healthcare, saying the question was \"not really relevant\" to his role as prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We will phase out GP running practices - Labour's Wes Streeting\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the NHS was \"not just on its knees, it's on its face\".\n\nHe said a Labour government would implement a 10-year plan to reform the health service but defended his backing of the use of the private sector to lower NHS waiting lists.", "An image released on Saturday is believed to be of Constance Marten in Essex\n\nA couple and their newborn baby who went missing three days ago were last seen after travelling inland from a port, police have said.\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon left their vehicle when it broke down on the M61, near Bolton, on Thursday.\n\nA CCTV image thought to be of Ms Marten near Harwich Port in Essex, more than 250 miles (400km) away, was released on Saturday.\n\nThe couple were seen later that day in Colchester, about 20 miles (35km) away.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the most recent report of a sighting came shortly after 10:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA force spokesperson said \"officers are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of the newborn baby which is everyone's priority\".\n\nThey added: \"Evidence suggests that Constance has very recently given birth and neither her nor the baby have been assessed by medical professionals.\"\n\nThe force appealed for the new mother \"to reach out to ensure they are safe and well\".\n\nConstance Marten (left) and Mark Gordon, together with their newborn baby, left their vehicle safely near to junction four of M61 at Farnworth, Bolton.\n\nAfter breaking down close to junction four of the M61, the family walked towards Anchor Lane bridge which links the Highfield and Little Hulton areas, GMP said.\n\nMr Gordon was described as wearing dark clothing while Ms Marten was wearing a burgundy coat. The baby was swaddled.\n\nThe CCTV still released on Saturday appeared to show Ms Marten wrapped in a large red shawl.\n\nMs Marten and Mr Gordon are both originally from London.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have been hanged in Iran for killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year.\n\nMohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini had appealed against their sentences, saying they had been tortured into making false confessions.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the executions were \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe total number of protesters known to have been executed in the aftermath of the unrest is now four.\n\nDemonstrations against the clerical establishment erupted in September following the death in custody of a woman detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab, or headscarf, \"improperly\".\n\nIran's judicial news agency, Mizan, said the two men were the \"main perpetrators\" in the killing of paramilitary officer Ruhollah Ajamian. Prosecutors say he was stripped naked and killed by a group of mourners paying their respects to a recently killed protester.\n\nThe men were first sentenced to death in December 2022 but they launched appeals after saying they had been tortured.\n\nMohammad Mehdi Karami's family pleaded with authorities to spare his life\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International denounced what it described as a \"sham\" trial and said Iranian authorities were seeking the death penalty for at least 26 others.\n\nThe family of 22-year-old Mr Karami say they were not permitted to meet him before he was killed on Saturday. They had also pleaded with the judiciary to spare his life. \"I beg you please, I ask you... to remove the death penalty from my son's case,\" his father said.\n\nThe UK's James Cleverly urged the Iranian authorities to \"end the violence against its own people\", while the EU said it was \"appalled\" by the use of the death penalty against protesters.\n\nAt least 516 demonstrators including 70 children have been killed so far in the unrest and 19,262 others have been arrested, according to the foreign-based Human Rights Activists' News Agency. It has also reported the deaths of 68 security personnel.\n\nMany of those who have been detained after protests have reportedly been subjected to enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment.\n\nIranian officials describe the protests as \"riots\" and have accused foreign powers of fuelling the unrest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protests against regime in Iranian city of Zahedan\n\nThree other men have been sentenced to death in the same case, while another 11 received prison sentences.\n\nThe latest hangings follow last month's executions of two other men allegedly involved in attacks on security forces.", "Supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the presidential palace could be seen dressed in Brazilian colours and waving flags inside the building.\n\nThousands of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters invaded the country's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital Brasília.\n\nLive updates on this story here", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Joy and relief for arrivals in China as quarantine ends for overseas travellers\n\nChina has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since it imposed travel restrictions in March 2020.\n\nIncoming travellers will no longer need to quarantine - marking a significant change in the country's Covid policy as it battles a surge in cases.\n\nThey will still require proof of a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours of travelling.\n\nThe move has been welcomed by many eager to reunite with family.\n\nIn Hong Kong, 400,000 people are expected to travel into mainland China in the coming weeks with long queues for flights into cities including Beijing and Xiamen.\n\nOn Sunday, double-decker coaches packed with travellers arrived at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge to catch buses to the Guangdong province - among them were college students returning home.\n\nOne man told the BBC he hadn't seen his extended family in three years and could not hold back his excitement, having just bought a ticket back to the mainland.\n\nA woman told news agency Reuters she had not seen her parents in years - despite one of them suffering from colon cancer - and said she was \"so, so happy\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of people are expected to travel to China in the coming weeks\n\nThe country's reopening comes at the start of \"Chunyun\", the first period of Lunar New Year travel. Before the pandemic, it was the largest annual worldwide migration of people returning home to spend time with family.\n\nTwo billion trips are expected to be made this Lunar New Year, double the number that travelled last year.\n\nLi Hua, who travelled from the UK to China - where her family lives - for the festival said it had been \"too long\" since she had returned, \"I'm so happy to be back, and breathe Chinese air. So happy, so happy\".\n\nMark Clayton returned home to Zhuhai, in Guandong, with his wife and baby after visiting Hong Kong. He told the BBC his trip home had been \"nearly as smooth as it used to be pre-Covid\".\n\n\"We didn't even show them the PCR, we simply scanned a code and put in a very quick customs declaration... And then straight through,\" he said.\n\nBut there is concern from some that opening the borders will result in more transmission of Covid-19.\n\nSome local bus drivers told the BBC they are worried they might get the virus from incoming travellers, and want their companies to provide them with more protection.\n\nOver the past three years, China had one of the world's strictest Covid health policies that saw numerous lockdowns, frequent testing requirements and had a significant impact on the nation's economy.\n\nThe government recently walked back that policy after protests across the country, triggered by a fire in a high-rise block in the Xinjiang region that killed 10 people. Many Chinese believed the long-running Covid restrictions contributed to the deaths, but authorities denied this.\n\nSince China abandoned the key elements of its Covid zero policy there have been reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed, but the country has stopped publishing its case numbers and reported only two deaths on Saturday.\n\nOn the same day, the Chinese government banned over 1,000 social media accounts critical of its handling of the virus.\n\nThe anticipated surge in cases and travel out of China has prompted many countries - including the UK - to impose requirements for a negative Covid-19 test on people arriving from China, drawing the ire of the Chinese government.\n\nListen to more on what we know about China's Covid numbers: More or Less- Behind the Stats - Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted- on BBC Sounds", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Last year, The Crown star Emma Corrin called for gender-neutral categories at major film awards.\n\nDirector Sam Mendes has told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he has \"total sympathy\" with the idea.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeague Two Stevenage produced an incredible late comeback to stun Premier League Aston Villa at Villa Park and reach the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nThe visiting players and manager Steve Evans celebrated with their supporters at full-time after two goals in the final two minutes clinched a magnificent victory.\n\nSubstitute Dean Campbell fired in a superb 90th-minute winner after Jamie Reid's equaliser from the penalty spot - the spot-kick awarded after last man Leander Dendoncker was shown a straight red card for bringing down Campbell.\n\nMorgan Sanson's first goal for Villa had given Unai Emery's side a half-time lead over a side ranked 59 places below them in the football pyramid.\n\nBut the hosts, despite their overall superiority, were unable to extend their advantage and they were made to pay in a remarkable conclusion to the match.\n\nFourth tier Stevenage's reward is a trip to Championship outfit Stoke City in the fourth round, which takes place from 27 to 30 January.\n\nFor 84 minutes, it all appeared rather straightforward for Aston Villa.\n\nBut their bid to end their worst ever FA Cup losing run - which extends to an eighth match - unravelled from the moment Dendoncker was dispossessed on the edge of his own box and grabbed the shirt of Campbell.\n\nReferee Graham Scott appeared to initially award a free-kick but then produced a red card and pointed to the spot, allowing a video assistant referee review to confirm the penalty.\n\nReid held his nerve to send Robin Olsen the wrong way and put Stevenage on course for a replay - a feat which would have been a fantastic achievement on its own.\n\nBut the League Two side were not done yet and some quick thinking from Jake Reeves to pass his corner to Campbell resulted in the 21-year-old Scot drilling a shot into the bottom corner and sending the away fans into raptures.\n\nVilla have now progressed from just one FA Cup tie since reaching the 2015 final. Stevenage, meanwhile, are the first fourth tier side to beat a Premier League team in an away FA Cup tie for four years.\n\nA manager with a rich history in cup competitions, four-time Europa League winner Emery made his intentions clear this week as he announced he was preparing his side for this match with the objective of \"winning the FA Cup\".\n\nFive years after he joined Barcelona in a £142m move from Liverpool in January 2018, Brazilian Philippe Coutinho started among eight changes from Villa's midweek Premier League draw with Wolves.\n\nThe hosts dictated from the start - they ended the match having averaged 78.6% possession - but Douglas Luiz's long-range effort was the only test for goalkeeper Taye Ashby-Hammond before Stevenage offered their first warning.\n\nLuke Norris was unlucky to marginally mistime his run before he provided a great assist to set up Danny Rose for what the visitors momentarily believed was a shock opener.\n\nAn intricate passing move produced Villa's opener, Ings teeing up Frenchman Sanson for his first goal for the club, but Stevenage stuck to their task and almost had a stunning equaliser when Norris skimmed the top of the crossbar with an excellent curled attempt.\n\nThey continued to defend resolutely as Villa increased the pressure after the break.\n\nPerhaps too keen to impress in his first start under Emery, the misfiring Coutinho left the field after 65 minutes, having had a match-leading five attempts but landing just one on target.\n\nThere had been little to suggest the match would end as it did. After all, Stevenage scored with their only two shots on target. But what unfolded will live long in the memory of the 3,000 travelling fans present to witness a truly memorable fightback.\n• None Offside, Stevenage. Michael Bostwick tries a through ball, but Jordan Roberts is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Amoo (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Roberts.\n• None Attempt missed. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.\n• None Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Stevenage 2. Dean Campbell (Stevenage) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jake Reeves following a corner.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Stevenage 1. Jamie Reid (Stevenage) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Leander Dendoncker (Aston Villa) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Emiliano Buendía.\n• None Substitution, Aston Villa. Lucas Digne replaces Ludwig Augustinsson because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Stevenage. Dean Campbell tries a through ball, but Luther Wildin is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Check out the stellar selection of films on BBC iPlayer\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer", "The nursing union has not ruled out further action after some staff took part in strikes before Christmas\n\nHealth service workers are being offered a one-off payment in an attempt to end the NHS strikes, the first minister has revealed.\n\nMark Drakeford said the Welsh government had written to trade unions, inviting them to meetings.\n\nHe said ministers could not afford to keep including extra money in people's pay packets after this financial year, which ends in April.\n\nThe Royal College of Nurses (RCN) has not ruled out further strikes.\n\nMr Drakeford said he hoped the one-off payment would be \"a basis for negotiations\".\n\nA letter sent to unions on Friday \"includes an offer of a one-off payment in the current financial year\", Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"What we cannot do - just simply haven't got the money to do - is to raise this year's offer in a way that gets consolidated in people's pay packets and goes on having to be paid for future years,\" he added.\n\nCabinet ministers met over Christmas and discussed how to \"free up money\", he said.\n\n\"Now that's a basis for negotiation, I hope, and we invite our trade union colleagues to come in and be around the table with us next week.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has offered NHS staff a pay rise of between 4% and 5.5%, but the RCN is seeking a 19% increase.\n\nThe RCN Wales said earlier this week it was willing to meet the Welsh government halfway in a pay deal.\n\nMinisters have previously said paying more would mean diverting money from front-line services at a time when hospitals face long waiting lists.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan told BBC Radio Cymru's Bore Sul programme that cabinet ministers had been \"working hard on a package for this financial year\".\n\n\"We've looked again at our budgets to see if there's anything extra we can offer, and we'll be discussing this with the unions next week,\" she said.\n\n\"What we can't do is offer any additional money for next year.\"\n\nLast week, the chief executive of NHS Wales apologised to patients who have had a poor experience.\n\nTo ease the pressure, the Welsh government has advised senior NHS staff to discharge people who are well enough to leave hospital, even if arrangements to care for them at home have not been finalised.\n\nSocial care issues have been blamed for forcing people to endure long stays in hospital.\n\nMr Drakeford said the Welsh government would look again at the idea of asking people to pay more social care through a special levy, or tax.\n\nThe idea was drawn up a few years ago by the economist Gerald Holtham, but was later shelved.\n\n\"We will be looking at it,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"It's not without its complexities. Again, nobody should think that it's a simple solution.\n\n\"But I think it has some attractiveness about it because people would know that the money they are contributing is not being used for today's needs or for general purposes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said it was \"a matter of priorities\".\n\nHe added: \"A one-off payment does not address the long-term undervaluing of our NHS workforce and does nothing to address the crisis of recruitment and retention.\n\n\"We will simply be back again to square one when next year's pay negotiations begin in a matter of a few weeks.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThere has been \"little progress\" in recent efforts at tackling barriers to participation in sport and physical activity in England, says an influential group of MPs.\n\nIn a report, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it was \"not convinced\" the government's approach is effective.\n\nIt claims the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) \"lacks compelling vision for integrating physical activity into everyday life\".\n\nThe PAC scrutinises the value for money of government contracts and spending.\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs says that a refocusing of strategy by funding agency Sport England in 2015 on local-based efforts to target the least active \"shows some signs of working\".\n\nBut it adds \"disappointingly\" it has \"not yet resulted in meaningful change in national rates\".\n\nThe MPs said: \"Despite Sport England spending an average of £323m of taxpayers' money each year since 2015, the percentage of active adults increased by only 1.2% between November 2016 and November 2019.\n\n\"Nearly two in five adults in England still do not meet the chief medical officer's guidelines for recommended activity.\"\n\nThe committee report also says:\n• None Hopes for a boost to grassroots sport from London 2012 \"failed to materialise\", with the proportion of adults participating at least once a week falling in the first three years following the event\n• None Sport England's spending data \"is not sufficiently granular to assess how well it targets spending at the least active\"\n• None The DCMS has applied \"some, but not all\" of its learning from the 2012 London Olympics to the hosting of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, with no mechanisms in place to monitor the long-term participation legacy from the Birmingham event\n• None Sport England \"recognises the fragile financial position of some leisure providers, but lacks understanding of the support the sector may need. Leisure facilities also face longer-standing challenges\" and the DCMS \"should urgently review the condition of leisure facilities\"\n\nDame Meg Hillier MP, chair of the committee, said: \"After the short-term financial boost there's been precious little to show by way of legacy, even in my immediate area of East London where the 2012 Games were held.\n\n\"Resets since 2015 have not begun to bring the levelling-up benefits intended.\n\n\"More waste, more loss of desperately needed public money. As the cost-of-living crisis bites hard, DCMS must set out what it will do differently to achieve change where it has not succeeded.\"\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesperson said it had \"made the nation's health and fitness a priority, and people's activity levels were at all-time highs before the pandemic\".\n\nThey added: \"Through the pandemic we provided £1bn to support leisure sectors such as public pools and leisure centres, as well as grassroots and professional sports, and we continue to drive up participation, particularly for under-represented groups.\n\n\"Activity levels for young people have now returned to pre-pandemic levels and we continue to work with Sport England to invest in sport for all, having recently announced £320m for schools and more than £260m to build or upgrade thousands of grassroots facilities.\n\n\"We will shortly be publishing a new sport strategy setting out our ambition to continue to increase activity rates.\"\n\nA Sport England spokesperson said: \"Activity levels were at record highs across England before the pandemic - participation in sport and activity continues to recover.\n\n\"Sport England invests public money responsibly and transparently, recording and publishing data on all grant recipients - including location data right down to postcode level.\n\n\"This is all clearly available online, with information on where every pound that we spend goes.\"\n\nShadow sports minister Jeff Smith MP said: \"Our elite athletes do us proud in sporting completions, yet with budgets slashed and grassroots sporting facilities under threat of closure as a result of the Conservative cost-of-living crisis, that pipeline of talent is blocked, and wider participation is under threat. This tired government has failed to deliver a sporting legacy.\"\n\nHitesh Patel, of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The inquiry calls for a more compelling vision for grassroots participation in sport, and nowhere is this more evident than across [our] growing UK-wide network of charities and organisation, using sport to address key societal issues.\"\n\nHuw Edwards, chief executive of ukactive, which represents the leisure industry, said: \"The focus must shift from major sports events to more credible and targeted strategies that support the drivers of physical activity in the UK - walking, fitness, swimming, running and cycling.\n\n\"We need to see a new, comprehensive plan from the government that fully leverages physical activity for the national good, beginning by supporting our sector with regulatory and tax reform.\"\n• None Young will miss out on sport, community groups warn", "The billionaire founder of Ant Group, Jack Ma, is to give up control of the Chinese fintech giant after a regulatory crackdown.\n\nAnt Group said that after the change no-one would have overall control.\n\nThe formerly flamboyant Mr Ma has seldom been seen in public since criticising China's financial sector in 2020.\n\nFollowing that criticism, Ant Group's planned stock market flotation was abruptly halted.\n\nAnt Group runs Alipay, the main online payment system in China, which has eclipsed cash, cheques and credit cards.\n\nMr Ma, a former English teacher who founded e-commerce giant Alibaba, directly and indirectly controls more than 50% of Ant Group.\n\nHowever, after the changes in governance structure, he will control just over 6%, according to an Ant Group statement.\n\nIn November 2020 Ant's £26bn stock market flotation, which would have been the world's largest, was cancelled at the last minute.\n\nAt the eleventh hour Chinese authorities cited \"major issues\" over regulating the firm.\n\nSome analysts saw it as an attempt by the Chinese government to humble a company that had become too powerful and a leader who had become too outspoken.\n\nThe regulatory intervention came after Mr Ma had told a financial conference that traditional banks had a \"pawn-shop mentality\".\n\nHe also lauded the merits of the digital banking system, and stressed that future lending decisions should be based on data, not collateral.\n\nAfter the collapse of the stock market flotation, which was set to make Mr Ma the richest person in China, he disappeared for three months, prompting speculation as to his whereabouts.\n\nHe eventually resurfaced, according to reports, but has been avoiding the spotlight since then.\n\nMr Ma controls Ant through his stake and by acting in concert with other shareholders.\n\nBut Ant said shareholders had agreed to no longer act together when using voting rights, and would only vote independently.\n\nThe shareholding structure will also change.\n\nHowever, Ant said shareholders' economic interests would not change.\n\n\"Jack Ma's departure from Ant Financial, a company he founded, shows the determination of the Chinese leadership to reduce the influence of large private investors,\" said Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research.\n\n\"This trend will continue the erosion of the most productive parts of the Chinese economy.\"\n\nAnt Group is nearing the completion of a two-year restructuring which has been driven by regulators, and Chinese authorities are poised to impose a fine of more than $1bn on the firm, according to the Reuters news agency.\n\nThe expected penalty is part of a sweeping crackdown on China's technology giants over the past two years that has cut hundreds of billions of dollars off their values and shrunk revenues and profits.\n\nHowever, the authorities have softened their tone recently amid efforts to bolster the Chinese economy, which has been hit by the Covid pandemic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Crowds celebrate in Brazil as Lula is sworn in as president\n\nLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil - the third time he has held the country's highest office.\n\nThe veteran left-wing politician, known widely as Lula, also led the country between 2003 and 2010 - and defeated Jair Bolsonaro in October's poll.\n\nIn his first speech, Lula vowed to rebuild a country in \"terrible ruins\".\n\nHe decried the policies of his predecessor, who went to the US on Friday to avoid the handover ceremony.\n\nA sea of Lula supporters gathered in front of Congress since early in the morning - decked out in the red colour of his Workers' Party. They travelled to see their leader sworn in - but also for a celebration.\n\nMore than 60 artists - including Samba legend Martinho da Vila - were booked to perform on two giant stages decorated in the national flag as part of a music festival dubbed \"Lulapalooza\".\n\n\"Love has won over hate,\" read one banner carried by a man dressed as Lula - complete with a presidential sash.\n\nThere was evident joy as Lula was sworn in\n\n\"Brazil needed this change, this transformation,\" said another backer of the incoming leader as she queued for Sunday's festivities.\n\nJuliana Barreto - who is from Lula's home state Pernambuco - told the BBC that her country was \"a disaster\" previously.\n\nLula and incoming Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin paraded through the city on an open-top convertible before proceeding to the Congress building - where the swearing-in occurred at the start of the formal inauguration ceremony.\n\nThe men have spent the past days selecting their cabinet and appointing supporters to key state-owned businesses.\n\nShortly after being sworn in, Lula sought to instil a sense of hope in the people of Brazil and promised to \"rebuild the nation and make a Brazil of all, for all\".\n\nThere were several instances when he got out his hanky. His most emotional moment came when speaking to the Brazilian people after the swearing-in ceremony - he started sobbing when talking about those who beg at traffic lights, desperate for food.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lula broke down in tears as he talked about poverty in his country\n\nProbably not even Lula thought this day would ever come - a return to the top job after two decades, despite a spell in prison after being convicted of corruption. The convictions were subsequently annulled in 2021.\n\nMuch of his speech to Congress was about unity and reconstruction. The two words are crucial in such a deeply divided country, hit hard by the pandemic and hugely polarised politically.\n\nLula knows that his ultimate challenge will be to convince those who feel he is a corrupt politician who belongs in jail that he does now belong in the presidential palace again and can be their leader too.\n\nHe pledged to undo the legacy of his predecessor's government, which he said involved depleting funding for education, health and the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nTo huge cheers from those watching in Congress, he also promised to revoke Mr Bolsonaro's controversial gun laws immediately.\n\nLula went on to state that his government would not be motivated by \"a spirit of revenge\", but that those who had made mistakes would answer for their errors.\n\nLula lost his little finger decades ago when he was working as a metal worker\n\nIn particular, he singled out Mr Bolsonaro's Covid-19 policies, accusing him of causing a \"genocide\" of deaths in Brazil during the pandemic, which would need to be fully investigated.\n\nIn another noted change of policy from the Bolsonaro administration, Marina Silva - one of Brazil's best known climate activists - was re-appointed to head the environment and climate ministry. She will be expected to achieve Lula's pledge - which was repeated during his speech - to reach \"zero deforestation\" in the Amazon by 2030.\n\nThe atmosphere in Brasilia couldn't be more different than when Mr Bolsonaro was in power. Lots of people were waving banners or wearing T-shirts with the words \"Love conquers hate,\" a reference to the narrative many felt came from Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nBut diversity and inclusion too was a big part of today's inauguration. With Mr Bolsonaro abandoning his final official duty of passing on the presidential sash, it was left to Eni Souza, a rubbish picker, to do the honours. And standing next to Lula was an indigenous leader, a black boy and a disabled influencer. In this country where racism is all too common, it was an important image that will endure.\n\nThe state of Brasilia deployed \"100%\" of its police force - around 8,000 officers - to the city amid fears that some supporters of Mr Bolsonaro could seek to disrupt proceedings.\n\nOne man was arrested trying to enter the area of the inauguration carrying a knife and fireworks earlier on Sunday, Brazil's military police said.\n\nLast week, authorities arrested a supporter of Mr Bolsonaro who had allegedly placed explosives on a fuel truck near an airport in the capital on Christmas Eve. The man said he hoped to \"sow chaos\" ahead of Lula's inauguration.\n\nAnd other supporters of the former leader have remained camped outside army headquarters, where they have been urging the army to launch a coup. Police attempted to remove the demonstrators on Thursday, but withdrew after they reacted violently.\n\nHowever, Mr Bolsonaro has condemned the protests against his defeat, urging his supporters to \"show we are different from the other side, that we respect the norms and the Constitution\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vowed to punish supporters of the country's ex-leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after they stormed Congress.\n\nSupporters of the ousted far-right leader also stormed the Supreme Court and surrounded the presidential palace.\n\nBut police regained control of the buildings in the capital Brasilia on Sunday evening after hours of clashes.\n\nBrasilia's Civil Police said 300 people have been arrested and officials have vowed to track down others involved.\n\nThe justice minister, Flavio Dino, has said the government is seeking information on \"terrorist attacks\".\n\nOn Monday morning, heavily armed officers in the city gathered outside a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since October's election.\n\nMeanwhile, Brasilia's governor, Ibaneis Rocha, has been removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nJustice Alexandre de Moraes accused him of failing to prevent the riot and of being \"painfully silent\" in the face of the attack. Mr Rocha has apologised for Sunday's events.\n\nPro-democracy rallies are being called by leftist leaders and groups across Brazil.\n\nThe dramatic scenes - which saw thousands of protesters clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and flags overrun police and ransack the heart of the Brazilian state - come just a week after Lula's inauguration.\n\nHe toured the Supreme Court building on Sunday night to see the damage for himself.\n\nThe veteran left-wing leader was forced to declare emergency powers before dispatching the national guard into the capital to restore order.\n\nHe also ordered the closure of the centre of the capital - including the main avenue where governmental buildings are - for 24 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazilian President Lula says Congress invaders will be punished\n\nMr Dino said some 40 buses which had been used to transport protesters to the capital had been seized and he called the invasion an \"absurd attempt to impose [the protesters'] will by force\".\n\nMr Bolsonaro has repeatedly refused to accept that he lost October's election and last week left the country instead of taking part in inaugural ceremonies, which would have seen him hand over the iconic presidential sash.\n\nThe 67-year-old - who is believed to be in Florida - condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nSpeaking before he arrived in Brasilia, Lula said there was \"no precedent in the history of our country\" for the scenes in Brasilia and called the violence the \"acts of vandals and fascists\".\n\nAnd he took aim at security forces whom he accused of \"incompetence, bad faith or malice\" for failing to stop demonstrators accessing Congress.\n\n\"You will see in the images that they [police officers] are guiding people on the walk to Praca dos Tres Powers,\" he said. \"We are going to find out who the financiers of these vandals who went to Brasilia are and they will all pay with the force of law.\"\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nSome protesters smashed windows, while others reached the Senate chamber, where they jumped on to seats and used benches as slides.\n\nVideos on social media show protesters pulling a police officer from his horse and attacking him outside the building.\n\nFootage broadcast by national media show police detaining dozens of protesters in their yellow jerseys outside the presidential palace.\n\nOther suspects - whose hands were bound behind their backs - are also seen being led out of the building.\n\nProtesters had been gathering since the morning on the lawns in front of the parliament and up and down the kilometre of the Esplanada avenue, which is lined with government ministries and national monuments.\n\nDespite the actions of the protesters, in the hours before the chaos, security had appeared tight, with the roads closed for about a block around the parliament area and armed police pairs guarding every entrance into the area.\n\nThe BBC had seen about 50 police officers around on Sunday morning local time and cars were turned away at entry points, while those entering on foot were frisked by police checking bags.\n\nDemonstrators were quick to defend their actions when approached by reporters.\n\nLima, a 27-year-old production engineer, said: \"We need to re-establish order after this fraudulent election.\"\n\n\"I'm here for history, for my daughters,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nOthers in the capital expressed outrage at the violence and said the attack marked a sad day for the country.\n\n\"I voted for Bolsanaro but I don't agree with what they're doing,\" Daniel Lacerda, 21, told the BBC. \"If you don't agree with the president you should just say it and move on, you shouldn't go hold protests and commit all the violence like they're doing.\"\n\nAnd many are drawing comparisons with the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nBolsonaro supporters vandalising the interior of the presidential palace\n\nBolsonaro supporters created camps in cities across Brazil, some of them outside the military barracks. That is because his most ardent supporters want the military to intervene and make good elections that they say were stolen.\n\nIt looked like their movement had been curbed by Lula's inauguration - the camps in Brasilia had been dismantled and there was no disruption on the day he was sworn in.\n\nBut Sunday's scenes show that those predictions were premature.\n\nAccording to Katy Watson, the BBC's South America correspondent, some protesters aren't just angry that Jair Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nHe spent 18 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption in 2017. His convictions were later annulled, after initially being sentenced to more than nine years.\n\nPolice used tear gas in an attempt to repel protesters\n\nLeaders from Latin America have condemned the violence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said \"fascism [had] decided to stage a coup\" while Colombia and Mexico have offered their full support to President Lula.\n\nThese sentiments have been echoed in other countries. US President Joe Biden said he condemned \"the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil\", while Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the \"attack on democracy...cannot be tolerated\".\n\nThe UK, China and Turkey are among other countries that have also condemned the rioters' actions.", "Supporters of Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed the Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.\n\nThis footage shows supporters of Mr Bolsonaro storming the court building.\n\nLive updates on this story here", "A deep seam of unresolved grief runs through Prince Harry's book, with repeated references to Princess Diana\n\nFrom losing his mother, losing his trust in his family to losing his virginity, Prince Harry's bombshell memoir, Spare, leaves few royal stones unturned.\n\nPrince Harry's life story describes fighting his brother, taking psychedelic drugs, his love affairs and not wanting his father to re-marry.\n\nIt's sex, drugs and rucks and royals.\n\nBut there is also a deep seam of unresolved grief, with repeated references to Princess Diana.\n\nPrince Harry's view is clear from the very outset of the book, in its dedication - to his wife Meghan, their children Archie and Lilibet, and \"of course\" his mother.\n\nNothing for his brother Prince William, his father King Charles, or his sister-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales.\n\nAs an aside, it also reveals that the sparring brothers called each other Harold and Willy.\n\nAnd in another detail emerging, Prince Harry says that he first found out that his grandmother Queen Elizabeth had died from the BBC News website on his phone.\n\nThe launch of this controversial book has been overtaken by multiple leaks and a premature appearance in Spain, which allowed media outlets, including the BBC, to get a copy ahead of official publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"He [William] wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to\"\n\nTaken as a whole what's apparent is the anger that Prince Harry still feels about much of his life as a young royal and how that bitterness continues to shape his difficult relations with the Royal Family.\n\nHe talks in the book of being left with a legacy of \"terrifying panic attacks\" and the sweat-drenched anxiety he felt about appearing and speaking in public.\n\nA clue to understanding Prince Harry's clear sense of unfinished business comes from a quote from US writer William Faulkner that's used to start a chapter: \"The past is never dead. It's not even past.\"\n\nIt was a line used by Barack Obama before he became president - and it runs through this memoir like the writing in a stick of rock. It's a past that dominates his present - the sense of losing his mother and then failing to find the support he expected.\n\nThis is Prince Harry's version of events - Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have declined to comment.\n\nDiana, in her absence, is one of the biggest characters in this story.\n\nPrince Harry, who speaks of Diana as \"mummy\", goes to see a woman with special powers who might make contact with his mother.\n\nThe prince gets a driver to take him through the tunnel in Paris where his mother died in a car crash in 1997, hoping for closure from a \"decade of unrelenting pain\", and this only makes him feel an even keener sense of grieving.\n\nHe went back through the tunnel with Prince William and claims that neither of them were convinced by the official account of the accident, which he calls an \"insult\" and raised more questions than answers.\n\nThe aftermath of her death seems to have left a divide between Harry and his father, now King Charles. Harry remembers that his father didn't hug him when he broke the news that Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.\n\nAnd he describes the traumatising walk behind her coffin, the crowds reaching out to him and how he felt unable to cry in public.\n\nPrince Harry still dreamt about his mother returning, maybe turning up in secret wearing a blonde wig and dark glasses. \"Perhaps she will appear this morning,\" he thought.\n\nThe book makes claims about tensions between members of the Royal Family\n\nWhen his father introduces Camilla to his sons, Harry talks of fearing a wicked stepmother and seems desperate to avoid seeing anyone else married to his father.\n\nThe impact of his early years - and the challenge of growing up in public - are described, including taking cocaine at the age of 17.\n\nIn lines unlikely to have appeared in any previous royal memoir, he also lost his virginity in a field behind a pub, with an \"older woman who really liked horses and treated me like a young stallion\".\n\nSuch was the strangeness and scrutiny of his young life that he says he welcomed serving in Afghanistan. \"I savoured the sense of normality,\" he writes, about being without titles or bodyguards.\n\nHe says he killed 25 Taliban fighters. \"It wasn't a fact that filled me with satisfaction, but it didn't make me ashamed either.\"\n\nMuch attention has been paid to the more domestic conflict, between Prince Harry and Prince William, and suggesting the tensions in their relationship, Prince Harry describes his brother as both \"beloved\" and his \"arch-nemesis\".\n\nThis conflict culminates in the claim that Prince William physically attacked his brother, pushing him to the ground after a row in which William is reported to have called Meghan \"difficult\", \"rude\" and \"abrasive\".\n\nAlso previously untold was his account of finding out about Queen Elizabeth's ill-health and death. He says he was called by his father to say that his grandmother's health had worsened, but as Harry made plans to go to Balmoral he says he was told not to bring Meghan.\n\nWhen his plane was coming into land in Scotland he says: \"I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.\"", "Most train services are back to normal on Monday, for the first time since Christmas.\n\nBut one train operator, Chiltern Railways, is still warning passengers to expect disruption.\n\nThe main strike action on Monday is by driving examiners.\n\nLooking ahead, ambulance workers in England and Wales will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\nSome bus drivers, and teachers in Scotland, will also strike this week.\n\nWe'll bring you another update on Tuesday to explain how these may affect you.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nMonday and Tuesday this week will be affected by ongoing strikes by driving examiners over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms.\n\nStrike action is continuing at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action, by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nCar, motorcycle, lorry, bus and minibus tests are among those that may be affected, according to the DVSA.\n\nIf your driving test is due to take place on Monday, you can check here whether your test centre is affected.\n\nNot all examiners are members of the PCS union so your test may go ahead as planned.\n\nUnless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nWorkers at the DVLA will launch a five-day strike on Monday over pay, pensions and jobs.\n\nMembers of the PCS union based in Swansea and Birmingham will be taking action.\n\nSome 600 workers who are responsible for things like maintaining the database of everyone's driving record and of all of the vehicles in the UK, are expected to take part.\n\nIt forms part of the union's national campaign after 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments voted for action.\n\nAmbulance workers in England and Wales will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\nServices in London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West of England will take action over pay and staffing.\n\nThe strikes will each last for 24 hours from midnight, the Unison union has said, and will involve all ambulance employees, not just 999 response crews.\n\nLife-threatening calls to 999, as well as the most serious emergency calls, will still be responded to, the union has said.\n\nTeachers in Scotland will also strike on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Abellio bus drivers will strike on Tuesday and Thursday.\n\nGovernment ministers are due to meet a number of unions on Monday for talks, including teachers unions and health unions. These meetings will be about pay next year.\n\nCurrently there are no further rail strikes scheduled. Meetings between the rail minister, industry representatives and union leaders will take place on Monday in a bid to break the deadlock over pay and conditions.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bangladesh is the second largest garments exporter in the world\n\nMajor high street fashion brands have paid factories in Bangladesh less than the cost of producing their clothes, researchers claim.\n\nA survey of 1,000 factories found many were paid the same prices as before the pandemic two years ago - despite soaring costs of materials.\n\nOne in five said they struggled to pay Bangladesh's £2.30 a day minimum wage.\n\nThe report looked at the period from March 2020 to December 2021.\n\nIt found 90% of larger high street brands buying from four or more factories were reported as engaging in unfair purchasing practices.\n\nThese practices included cancellations, failure to pay, delays in payment and discount demands, with knock-on effects including forced overtime and harassment.\n\nSeveral retailers denied the claims made in the report.\n\nMuhammad Azizul Islam, professor of sustainability accounting and transparency at Aberdeen University, led the project .\n\nHe said: \"Two years on from the start of the pandemic, Bangladeshi garment workers were not being paid enough to live on, with one in five manufacturers struggling to pay minimum wage while many fashion brands which use Bangladeshi labour increased their profits.\n\n\"Inflation rates soaring around the world are likely to have exacerbated this even further.\"\n\nThe garment industry accounts for 85% of Bangladesh export income,\n\nHe said larger brands buying from many factories were engaging in unfair purchasing practices more frequently than smaller brands, according to suppliers.\n\nThe garment industry accounts for 85% of Bangladesh export income, with more than 12 million Bangladeshis dependent on the sector.\n\nThe study also found that after the pandemic, factories only employed 75% of the workers they had before, suggesting that up to 900,000 could have lost their jobs.\n\nProf Islam has spent 17 years looking into the lives of workers in Bangladeshi fashion factories. He grew up in Dhaka city surrounded by them.\n\nHe hopes that policy makers in the UK will listen to his findings.\n\nProf Islam added: \"Retailers say in their reports that they have a commitment to the workers and they have made progress, but transparency is a big problem in the sector and it is difficult to establish if certain products are ethically produced.\"\n\nShe told the BBC: \"When retailers treat suppliers badly by breaching previously arranged terms, it's workers who suffer.\n\n\"If a retailer fails to pay the agreed amount, or delays payments, the supplier has to cut costs some other way, and this is frequently passed on to their workers, who have the least power in the supply chain.\n\n\"We need a fashion watchdog to regulate UK garment retailers, along the same lines as the existing supermarket watchdog.\"\n\nA Fashion Supply Chain parliamentary bill was tabled with cross party support in July last year.\n\nIt proposed the establishment of a watchdog to oversee fair purchasing between UK clothing retailers and suppliers around the world.", "A new scheme to support firms with their energy bills will be announced in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nThe current scheme which caps the unit cost of gas and electricity for all businesses expires at the end of March.\n\nIt will be replaced with a new scheme that offers a discount on wholesale prices rather than a fixed price.\n\nVery heavy energy-using sectors, such as steel, glass and ceramics, are expected to get a larger discount than others, Treasury sources said.\n\nThe BBC understands the definition of what counts as an energy-intensive user will also be broadened as part of Monday's announcement.\n\nThe business group, the CBI, has been calling for sectors including car manufacturing and chilled food processing to be included in the definition.\n\nLast week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told industry leaders that the current scheme to support businesses was \"unsustainably expensive\".\n\nThe energy support scheme is mainly used by businesses, but is also for charities, and public sector organisations such as schools and hospitals.\n\nFirms have been warning of a \"cliff-edge\" when the current support stops at the end of March, and the new scheme is expected to run until March 2024 to avoid this.\n\nBut the total level of government support is expected to fall sharply - by more than half - from the £18.4bn the current six-month scheme is estimated to have cost by the time it ends.\n\nThis is partly due to wholesale energy prices falling very sharply in recent months.\n\nEuropean gas reserves have held up better than expected thanks to an unusually mild winter in northern Europe.\n\nWholesale gas prices are now below the level they were before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but still three to four times higher than their long-term average.\n\nAnnette Dolan, managing director at Bath Aqua Glass, a glass-blowing company, said that even with the fall in prices she is looking at an annual energy bill of £119,000 a year. \"And that's before they put the standing charge on so it is still unobtainable,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe said that the government should have capped wholesale prices from the beginning, and she warned that if prices don't come down further she will have to start letting staff go.\n\n\"I'm going to have to work with the smallest amount of people to keep going because that's the only way a small business can keep going.\"\n\nAll businesses can expect their energy bills to rise after March. However, Matt Snell, chief executive at Gusto Restaurants, told the BBC that the current help from the government \"has not really touched the sides\".\n\nHe said his company normally spends around £750,000 on energy a year. \"And even with the so-called government support in place our bill went up by over £800,000 so it is forecast to be £1.5m for this year,\" he said.\n\nHe questioned whether providing a discount on wholesale prices would help businesses who face other major energy costs. He said that energy companies are asking for \"ridiculous\" deposits to enter into contracts with businesses: \"We ourselves at Gusto had to pay £150,000 just to enter a contract.\"\n\nMeanwhile the cost of actually delivering energy to businesses was high and he called for Ofgem, the regulator, to get involved.\n\n\"What a lot of people don't understand is that the cost for delivery to your building can almost double what the wholesale cost of gas is and that is completely unregulated,\" he said.\n\nAt the same time that help for businesses is changed, government support for households will become less generous.\n\nThe bill for a typical household could rise from £2,500 a year to £3,000 a year from April - although energy analysts cautiously forecast that average bills may fall to £2,800 a year next October if current market conditions continue.\n\nThat would be a crumb of comfort for households and could save the government billions in subsidies.\n\nBut the bottom line is that energy prices are going up this year for businesses at the same time as their customers' incomes are being squeezed even further.", "Prince Harry's memoir Spare went on sale early in some bookshops in Spain\n\nIt was billed as the publishing event of the year.\n\nBut the meticulously-laid PR strategy for the launch of Prince Harry's tell-all autobiography appeared to unravel on Thursday in the face of a newspaper leak, followed by its surprise sale by some Spanish booksellers.\n\nPlans for a tightly choreographed publicity push, which would have been months in the making and involved a series of TV interviews with the prince, looked to be in ruins.\n\nBut while the publishers of Spare had gone to great lengths to keep the book under wraps to maximise the impact of its release, it's unlikely this unanticipated publicity will hurt sales.\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of trade paper The Bookseller, tells BBC News he thinks the leaks are \"70% good\" for the book and its publisher, Penguin Random House.\n\n\"I think they will be a little bit annoyed it has come out before the book is released, but I'm sure they will be delighted it is dominating the headlines around the world at a time when they want to increase pent-up demand ahead of publication on Tuesday,\" he says.\n\nHarry has conducted a string of pre-recorded broadcast interviews to promote the book\n\nDespite the publisher's efforts to keep the book secure, many journalists were able to get hold of it on Thursday, after word got out that the Spanish edition had been put on sale early in some bookshops.\n\nThat came hot on the heels of a leak in the Guardian, which broke the news of Harry's allegation in the book of a physical altercation with his brother, Prince William.\n\nThe next 36 hours saw wall-to-wall coverage of Spare as news outlets digested and distributed the revelations contained in its 416 pages.\n\nMost industry figures doubt that sales will be harmed by the leaks.\n\n\"This probably won't make any difference - they're likely going to sell the same number of books,\" says Edward Coram James, reputation management expert and CEO of digital marketing agency Go Up. \"If anything, they might sell more because they've got an additional week of coverage.\"\n\nBut he adds: \"You wouldn't have wanted a leak like this too far in advance, because you want the book to be launched at the height of the hype. If this leak had happened three weeks ago, the news cycle would have moved on and this story would have been slightly old hat.\n\n\"I would say it has happened close enough to the scheduled launch that, actually, the hype will continue until the launch itself, so it won't lose momentum.\"\n\nPenguin had carefully co-ordinated its publicity campaign. The strategy was for Harry to conduct a string of broadcast interviews (at least four that we know about so far), which will air in the 48 hours before the book's release.\n\nThe publisher otherwise kept things under wraps. They avoided doing a newspaper serialisation deal, while deliveries to many bookshops were scheduled to arrive at the last minute.\n\nThe book's publication follows the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series Harry & Meghan\n\nBut the number of people involved in the book's international production and distribution meant a leak was difficult to avoid. The Guardian, The Sun, The Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News were among the outlets which obtained the book en Español on Thursday and started ploughing through it.\n\n\"The net result has been that about every two or three hours, someone translates another chapter and then there's been another news dump of some new line,\" notes Neill Denny, joint editor of book trade news website BookBrunch. \"No publicity campaign can normally achieve that. It's almost worked better than a serialisation.\"\n\nHowever, a spokesman for the Spanish publisher, Plaza y Janes Editores (which belongs to Penguin Random House) expressed his frustration, telling Reuters: \"A very clear launch protocol was established and communicated to all customers so that the book would not be marketed before that date.\n\n\"Everything points to the fact that some customers have breached their commitment to the publisher and have put the book on sale before the agreed date.\"\n\nMr Denny dismisses any suggestion that the leak could have been co-ordinated for publicity. \"I think this is embarrassing for the publisher, because it shows they can't handle a massive worldwide release without it leaking,\" he says.\n\nHarry's memoir further exposes the strained relationship with his brother Prince William\n\nWhile the early revelations may not have been part of the original rollout plan, Mr Coram James points out: \"With PR strategies on big events like this, there is very often a half-expectation that something is going to go wrong. And so they will have prepared for this scenario, even though they won't have expected it.\"\n\nOne result of the leak, he suggests, has been that the broadcasters who had pre-recorded interviews with Harry have been rushing out more teaser clips, partly to make sure their exclusive isn't undermined.\n\n\"I think that will have been co-ordinated with Penguin and the Sussexes after the leak, and will be an attempt by all three parties to get a bit of control,\" Mr Coram James adds.\n\nHarry is due to be interviewed on ITV, CBS, Good Morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the coming days. The clips released so far suggest Harry will be given a tough ride by some of the interviewers.\n\nUnder the original PR strategy, that would have created the appearance of Harry being held to account over the book's content, getting ahead of any potential criticism.\n\nBut instead, Mr Coram James says, the leak has led to an unplanned period of exposure for the Sussexes, creating a gap that has been filled by critics appearing on media outlets to condemn parts of the book's content.\n\n\"When you are doing a release like this, you want to make sure you are setting the terms,\" he says. \"When the book is leaked, all of a sudden the narrative escapes you.\"\n\nThe book has been written with prolific celebrity ghostwriter JR Moehringer\n\nSpare might have Harry's name on the cover, but it was written with JR Moehringer, a prolific ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs who made his name writing Andre Agassi's bombshell autobiography in 2009.\n\n\"The American publishers were very smart to get him in the room with Harry,\" says Mr Denny. \"I think if Harry had written the book himself, it would have been a bit blander. But I think this guy's pulled out and worked on these themes and made the book much more interesting.\"\n\nThe publication of Spare is part of a long-running effort by Harry to get his own narrative into the public domain. That started when he sat down, alongside wife Meghan, with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 for a tell-all interview.\n\nThe couple later signed a reported $100m (£83m) deal with Netflix for a string of programmes including their recent six-part docuseries, as well as a reported $25m (£21m) deal with Spotify for a podcast hosted by Meghan. Harry reportedly received a further $25m from Penguin for the rights to Spare.\n\nThe releases of all these products have been timed so they do not clash. The Spotify podcast ran from August to November, followed by the release of the Netflix series in December, now the publication of Spare in January.\n\n\"Had they dropped all of them at once, their market will have fragmented - some will have bought the book, some will have watched the series or listened to the podcast,\" says Mr Coram James. \"But it's not just about giving consideration to their various stakeholders and employers, it's also about, how do we keep ourselves at the top of the news cycle for as long as possible?\"\n\nMany bookshops are running promotions for the release of Spare\n\nSpare is currently number one on Amazon's pre-order chart, suggesting the publicity has been beneficial. \"It's great that people want people to buy a book early,\" says Mr Jones. \"January is a difficult time to sell books and this book is great for the industry.\"\n\nPrior to the publicity from the book's leak, Spare was at number four in Amazon's weekly non-fiction chart.\n\nAhead of Harry in Amazon's most sold list were Miriam Margolyes' autobiography and two cookery books, Pinch of Nom and Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book.\n\nUltimately, no matter how much interest there is in Harry, his toughest competition may come from a recipe for a 463-calorie Red Lentil Dal.", "The Lebanese Cedar, which predated Queen Victoria, fell during high winds, English Heritage said\n\nA tree at Queen Victoria's seaside retreat has fallen down in bad weather.\n\nOne of the cedars of Lebanon, in the grounds of Osborne House, East Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, came down in high winds on Friday, English Heritage said.\n\nIt added the tree was set to be felled due to its bad health but \"nature beat us there\".\n\nThe Lebanese cedar was planted in the 1770s by Robert Pope Blachford - Osborne's owner before the Queen and Prince Albert.\n\nBefore the fall, the Lebanese Cedar had been on a \"noticeable lean\" after a previous storm\n\nThe tree was retrained by Prince Albert, when he made improvements to the gardens but had been on a \"noticeable lean\" since a storm in either 1987 or 1990, according to the organisation.\n\nThere are other Lebanese Cedars still at Osborne, and English Heritage said it would plant another on the same spot as the one that had fallen as a replacement.\n\nQueen Victoria's daughter Princess Beatrice buried her dog Bleny in 1893 at the base of the tree.\n\nThe memorial headstone has been disturbed by the tree's fall but will be reinstated next to the newly planted tree.\n\nQueen Victoria died at Osborne in 1901. The estate was given to the nation by King Edward VII on his Coronation Day the following year.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak found a meeting with health leaders to tackle the pressures in the NHS \"highly valuable\", Downing Street has said.\n\nThe prime minister, health secretary and Treasury ministers met health experts from across England on Saturday to discuss \"crucial challenges\".\n\nReports have emerged of patients spending days on trolleys because of shortages of beds in some hospitals.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer urged the PM to \"give Britain its NHS back\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Sunak told health and social care leaders he recognised the \"tough time\" they had experienced over the last couple of years.\n\nThe PM also praised the \"boldness and radicalism\" employed by medical professionals during the pandemic, adding that \"we need that same bold and radical approach now because a business-as-usual mindset won't fix the challenges we face\".\n\nMr Sunak said hearing examples of parts of the health service where \"things are going well\" gave him \"enormous confidence\", and added that \"together today, we can figure out the things that will make the biggest difference to the country and everyone's family, in the short and medium term\".\n\nFollowing the Downing Street talks, a government spokeswoman said the prime minister and his health ministers had \"found today's discussions highly valuable for sharing ideas and best practices that could be spread nationwide to improve care for patients throughout the country\".\n\nHowever, Labour's leader Keir Starmer criticised the government's approach, saying that people who face long waits for doctor's appointments, test results or ambulances need \"urgent action\" and criticised \"sticking plaster politics\".\n\nMr Starmer urged the PM to use Labour's plan to slash waiting times by temporarily ramping up partnerships with private providers - a measure which he said would provide \"vital\", though short, reprieve.\n\nHe also argued that a Labour government could provide a longer-term fix and \"give Britain its NHS back, through a decade-long programme of renewal and reform, to make the health service fit for the future\".\n\nRepresentatives from the public and private sectors attended Saturday's forum, alongside chief executives and clinical leaders of NHS organisations, local areas and councils from across the country, plus medical and social care experts.\n\nAmanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, and Sir Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, also took part in the meeting.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nA government spokeswoman reiterated that Mr Sunak had made it one of his top five priorities to reduce NHS waiting lists and said that \"the government is investing a record amount in the health service, including in recruiting a record number of doctors and nurses\".\n\nShe added: \"Next steps will be set out in due course.\"\n\nSenior doctors have said the NHS is on a knife-edge, with long waits for emergency care, routine operations, GP appointments and care for patients when they are discharged from hospital.\n\nHigh levels of flu and Covid, a wave of strike action and a cost-of-living crisis are also putting huge pressure on the health service.\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Chris Witty takes part in a roundtable meeting of senior health service officials in Downing Street\n\nThe government in England has already announced plans to roll out virtual ward beds so that more people can be treated at home, a new service to save thousands of ambulance call-outs to people who have fallen, and more funding to improve emergency care and adult social care.\n\nMore than 90 diagnostic hubs, housed in venues such as football stadiums and shopping centres, have also been opened to reduce the queues for tests, checks and scans.\n\nThe hubs enable GPs to refer patients for procedures like MRI and CT scans without the need for a hospital visit.\n\nThe government says it wants 40% of all diagnostic activity to take place in the hubs by 2025. It also aims to eliminate 18-month waits by April 2023 and 12-month waits by March 2025.\n\nAlthough two-year waits for routine treatment have shrunk since the pandemic, experts say there is still a mountain to climb before the numbers of patients waiting longer than a year start coming down.\n\nMore than seven million people are currently on a hospital waiting list for a non-urgent operation or treatment in England - one in eight of the population.\n\nOn Monday, health unions have been invited to meet Health Secretary Steve Barclay to discuss pay for 2023-24 from April - but union leaders say the government must act on the current pay dispute for this year, and the talks will not stop planned strikes in January.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme on Saturday, Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Pat Cullen said the pay increase nurses would receive in 2022-23 was \"fundamental\" to the ongoing dispute.\n\n\"We'll of course go to the meeting... but it's sadly not what's going to prevent strike action that's planned for 10 days' time,\" she said.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nTwo-time champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from this year's Australian Open just eight days before the start of the tournament.\n\nOsaka, a winner in Melbourne in 2019 and 2021, has not played on the WTA Tour since September and has slipped to 42 in the world rankings.\n\nNo reason was given for the 25-year-old Japanese player's withdrawal.\n\nOrganisers have promoted Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska to the main draw in her place.\n\nA number of star names, including 42-year-old seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, and Spain's world number one Carlos Alcaraz, 19, have already withdrawn from the tournament which begins on 16 January in Melbourne.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether British number one Emma Raducanu will compete at the Australian Open after she rolled her ankle at the ASB Classic on Thursday and was forced to quit midway through a match.\n\nFour-time Grand Slam champion Osaka retired from her second-round match as she defended the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September.\n\nShe had been beaten in the first round of three tournaments including the US Open, prior to the Tokyo event. She also lost in the first round of the French Open in May and withdrew from Wimbledon in June because of an Achilles tendon injury, and reached the third round at last year's Australian Open.\n\nIn May 2021, Osaka pulled out of the French Open after revealing she had \"suffered long bouts of depression\" since winning her first Grand Slam title in 2018, and in September of that year she announced she would take a break from the sport.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The launch window will open on Monday night\n\nInformation about how people can watch the first orbital space launch from the UK has been released.\n\nThe Start Me Up mission will be livestreamed on Virgin Orbit's YouTube channel from 21:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nAll tickets for the viewing area at Cornwall Airport Newquay were snapped up shortly after becoming available.\n\nThe launch window opens at 22:16 and Spaceport Cornwall said \"we are making history, and we want to make sure you can witness it happen\".\n\nThe viewing area is located across the runway from the Spaceport hangar and there will also be a big screen, refreshments, toilets and a silent disco on site.\n\nThe Spaceport said: \"Although it will be dark, you'll still be able to witness some aspects of the launch and experience the sounds and smells that come with it.\"\n\nCosmic Girl will carry the rocket out over the ocean, attached to the underside of the left wing\n\nThere will not be parking on site and the viewing area will only accessible via a park and ride system.\n\nThe two park and ride sites are at Tregunnel Hill in Newquay, and Watergate Bay, and will be operating from 18:00.\n\nA number of road closures will also be in place throughout the evening.\n\nPeople who have secured tickets are advised to bring warm clothes and seating but umbrellas are not permitted next to the active airfield.\n\nCosmic Girl, the repurposed 747 which will carry the rocket containing the satellites, is expected to take off between 21:45 and 22:45.\n\nThe rocket, LauncherOne, will then be released off the coast of Ireland between 22:54 and 23:54.\n\nCosmic Girl will return to the spaceport between midnight and 01:00 on Tuesday.\n\nHowever, those hoping to travel to watch the event in person have been warned \"there is no guarantee the launch will take place on the first attempt\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nBuffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has thanked fans for their \"overwhelming\" love when he posted on social media for the first time since suffering cardiac arrest in a NFL game on Monday. The Bills have said Hamlin, 24, is making \"continued progress\" yet remains in a \"critical condition\". The Las Vegas Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs showed support for Hamlin in the first game since his collapse. Players wore 'Love for Damar 3' T-shirts during their warm-ups. Hamlin, who collapsed on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals, wrote on Instagram: \"When you put real love out into the world it comes back to you three times as much. \"The love has been overwhelming, but I'm thankful for every single person that prayed for me and reached out. \"If you know me you know this is only going to make me stronger. On a long road - keep praying for me.\" Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes wore a top with a graphic of the Bills player and 'Hamlin strong' written on it before their final regular season game at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday. Hamlin's name and his number - three - was displayed on screens inside and outside the stadium, while the '3' on the 30-yard mark had a painted blue outline, as it is one of the Bills' colours. The Chiefs won 31-13 to secure top seed in the American Football Conference and a first-round bye in the play-offs. They end the regular season with a 14-3 record and are looking for their third Super Bowl appearance in four seasons. \"This week it's been hard for a lot of guys,\" said Mahomes. \"But to have him being able to talk and be able to be with his family, it gave us that motivation that we can come out here and still enjoy this game that we all love. \"Hopefully, he can continue to get better and better and know that we are all still praying for him. We all send love to him and hopefully he is back on the field sooner rather than later.\" In Saturday's win, Mahomes set a new NFL record of 5,608 total yards for the season, surpassing Drew Brees' mark of 5,562 from 2011 with the New Orleans Saints. Elsewhere, the Jacksonville Jaguars clinched their first play-off berth since the 2017 season with a 20-16 victory over the Tennessee Titans to win the AFC South. That game, like all in the NFL this weekend, showed support for Hamlin, with players wearing t-shirts, fans holding banners, the number three painted on the field and 'pray for Damar 3' shown on the big screen prior to kick-off. The Bills will wear number three patches on their jerseys when they host the New England Patriots on Sunday in their first game since Hamlin collapsed against the Bengals in Ohio. Hamlin has had his breathing tube removed and in a tweet the Bills cited his doctors by saying his neurologic function remains intact and that he has been able to talk to his family and care team. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes paid tribute to Hamlin during his warm-up The number three on the 30-yard line will be outlined in either Bills blue or red throughout the weekend Support was shown at the Jaguars' TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville The NFL cancelled the Bills' game against the Bengals in the wake of the incident. NFL owners subsequently approved changes to the AFC play-off structure given the outcome of the game would have affected play-off seedings, with both sides already having secured post-season spots. The Bills and Bengals will have their post-season positions determined by their winning percentage over their completed 16 games - instead of the full 17 - after the final round of games take place this weekend. The AFC Championship game could be played at a neutral site if the home team ordinarily would have been decided by the result of the cancelled game between the Bengals and Bills. Hamlin, who has been in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, joined a meeting with his team via Facetime on Friday and said \"Love you, boys\". He suffered cardiac arrest after tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Hamlin fell on his back to the ground after the collision and received more than 30 minutes of on-the-field medical care, during which he was resuscitated once, according to the player's friend and marketing agent Jordon Rooney. Support for the second-year Bills player has poured in since the accident. A GoFundMe page for a toy drive launched by Hamlin has amassed more than $7m (£5.9m). Several NFL players have donated to the cause, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson. Hamlin was drafted to the NFL in 2021 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he played college football. The Allegiant Stadium displayed Damar Hamlin's name and number in the colours of the Bills Damar Hamlin is in his second year in the NFL and started 13 games for the Bills this season\n• None Check out the stellar selection of films on BBC iPlayer\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to impose a 36-hour ceasefire on the Ukrainian front line.\n\nThe ceasefire - from 12:00 Moscow time (09:00 GMT) - coincides with the Russian Orthodox Christmas.\n\nMr Putin asked Ukraine to reciprocate, but Kyiv quickly rejected the request.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the truce was an attempt to stop his country's military advances in the east of the country.\n\nThe Kremlin statement appeared to stress that President Putin ordered his troops to stop fighting not because he was de-escalating - Putin never de-escalates - but because he had listened to an appeal from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.\n\nPatriarch Kirill had, earlier in the day, called for a Christmas truce to allow believers to attend services for Orthodox Christmas.\n\nMr Putin's order called on Ukraine to reciprocate so that the \"large numbers of Orthodox believers [who] reside in areas where hostilities are taking place\" could celebrate Christmas Eve on Friday and Christmas Day on Saturday.\n\nBut in his nightly video address, President Zelensky said that Russia wanted to use the truce as a cover to stop Ukrainian advances in the eastern Donbas region and bring in more men and equipment.\n\nThe Russian Orthodox Church - the largest of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - celebrates Christmas Day on 7 January, according to the Julian calendar.\n\nSome people in Ukraine celebrate Christmas on 25 December, others on 7 January. Both days are public holidays in the country.\n\nThis year, for the first time, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine said it would allow its congregations to celebrate Christmas on 25 December, as do some other denominations in western Ukraine.\n\nThe Church split with the similarly named Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in 2018.\n\nThe UOC itself was tied to Moscow's religious leadership until Russia's invasion, and some of its top clergy have been accused of still covertly supporting Moscow.\n\nUS President Joe Biden believes Mr Putin was simply \"trying to find some oxygen\".\n\nThe Kremlin's ceasefire fits in nicely with a common narrative in Moscow, one that is aimed primarily at the domestic audience. That is - that the Russians are the good guys, and it is Ukraine and the West that are threatening Russia.\n\nThe truce is also a handy tool that can be used to demonise Ukraine - as the Ukrainians have dismissed the proposal, Moscow will claim that Kyiv does not respect religious believers and has no desire for peace.\n\nBut it should not be forgotten that it was Russia who started this war by launching an unprovoked invasion of its neighbour.\n\nThe move also comes just a few days after a large number of Russian troops were killed in a Ukrainian strike on a temporary barracks in the occupied Ukrainian city of Makiivka.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry put the death toll at 89, making it the highest single loss of life admitted by Moscow since the war began.\n\nRelatives of the dead, as well as some politicians and commentators, expressed anger over what happened in Makiivka and blamed incompetent military officials. The incident happened on New Year's Eve - the most important holiday in the Russian calendar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... How Ukraine’s deadly New Year attack unfolded\n\nPolitical analyst Tatyana Stanovaya says that it is possible the Kremlin wants to ensure no more major loss of life occurs on another important Russian holiday.\n\n\"Putin really does not want a repetition of that on Orthodox Christmas Day,\" she wrote.\n\nA few hours after Russia's ceasefire announcement, Germany said it would follow the US in providing a Patriot air defence missile system to Ukraine. Germany also announced, in a joint statement with the US, that both countries would send armoured vehicles.\n\nFrance said on Wednesday that it would send armoured fighting vehicles.\n\nKyiv has repeatedly called for more aid from its international allies in the face of continuing Russian aggression.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rain and powerful winds are pounding the northern California coast and forecasters have warned people to expect more flooding and mudslides.\n\nThe powerful storm system known as a bomb cyclone has killed at least two people, including a toddler who died when a redwood tree fell on his home.\n\nCalifornia has been under a state of emergency since Wednesday. Over 160,000 home and businesses have lost power.\n\nOfficials say the rain is falling on ground already soaked by past rainfall.\n\nMuch of the state has been hit by atmospheric rivers - an airborne current carrying dense moisture from the ocean - bringing heavy rain to low-lying areas, powerful winds to San Francisco and snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Forecaster Louise Lear looks at the storms still heading for the west coast\n\nThe National Weather Service said California will continue to be impacted by atmospheric river conditions through Thursday, \"with heavy to excessive rainfall, flooding with debris flows and landslides near recent burn scar areas, heavy mountain snow and high winds.\"\n\nEvacuation orders and advisories were in place in parts of northern California, and local authorities have warned of threats to life and property, especially around San Francisco and Sacramento.\n\nA toddler died in Sonoma County north of San Francisco when a tree fell on his home on Wednesday evening.\n\nChief Ronald Lunardi of the Occidental Volunteer Fire Department said the child was between one and two years old. The child's parents were in the home but were unharmed.\n\nA 19-year-old woman also died in a nearby county after her car slid on a flooded road and crashed into a light pole, according to reports.\n\nBars and restaurants closed in San Francisco and nearby communities on Wednesday, as officials have cautioned against driving on the roads. Over 100 flights have been cancelled at San Francisco International Airport since Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, sandbags were distributed to residents to help curb the flooding.\n\n\"We're very worried about it,\" Deepak Srivastava told BBC's US partner CBS in San Francisco.\n\n\"(I) just spent all day putting sandbags in front of the garage at every entering point and we're just crossing our fingers and hoping we won't have more damage,\" he said.\n\nRivers along the coast are forecast to see widespread flooding due to tidal surges. The storm is expected to dump up to 6in (15cm) of rain in coastal areas, and gust up to 80mph (128km/h) in the coastal hills and mountains.\n\nRains and winds are expected to die down on Thursday night, before ramping up again over the weekend and into next week.\n\nAn evacuation order has been issued in Santa Cruz County, south of San Francisco, because of the \"high probability\" that some neighbourhoods will become inaccessible due to flooding.\n\nFurther south, in Santa Barbara County, officials also ordered residents living near burn scars from previous forest fires to leave the area. The order affects the affluent community of Montecito, home of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, and Oprah Winfrey.\n\nClasses have been cancelled for Thursday in school districts throughout northern California, including for 8,000 pupils enrolled in south San Francisco public schools.\n\nThe city of San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, reported a mudslide on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nA giant eucalyptus tree fell into a three-story apartment building in Oakland, forcing five families to flee.\n\nA California Highway Patrol officer was injured when a 60-ft tree fell on him while he was responding to the scene of a car crash, according to ABC.\n\nPublic evacuation centres have opened for residents forced to leave their homes.\n\nIn a statement declaring a state of emergency on Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom said his order would \"allow the state to respond quickly as the storm develops and support local officials in their ongoing response\".\n\nThe storm comes just a year after California recorded one of its driest years on record. On Saturday, San Francisco saw its second-wettest day in over 170 years.\n\nMore than 105 million people across the US are currently at risk of severe weather, according to the NWS.\n\nFurther east, some 30 million people are facing large storms that have already produced tornadoes in several states.", "Last year was the UK's warmest year on record, the Met Office has confirmed.\n\nThe average annual temperature in 2022 was more than 10C for the first time, the national weather service said.\n\nThe mean temperature across the 12 months was 10.03C - topping the previous all-time high of 9.88C in 2014.\n\nIt means 15 of the UK's top 20 warmest years on record have all occurred this century - with the entire top 10 within the past two decades.\n\nDr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said: \"Although an arbitrary number, the UK surpassing an annual average temperature of 10C is a notable moment in our climatological history.\n\n\"This moment comes as no surprise, since 1884 all the 10 years recording the highest annual temperature have occurred from 2003.\n\n\"It is clear from the observational record that human-induced global warming is already impacting the UK's climate.\"\n\nAll four nations set records for heat in 2022, with England seeing the highest average temperature at 10.94C, followed by Wales (10.23C), Northern Ireland (9.85C) and Scotland (8.50C).\n\nA spell of heatwaves in June 2022 led to the UK experiencing its fourth warmest summer on record - and temperatures broke the 40C mark for the first time, leading the Met Office to issue its first-ever red warning for extreme heat.\n\nThe record of 40.3C was recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire on 19 July.\n\nThe hot summer and months of low rainfall also dried up rivers, damaged crops and fuelled wildfires, with an official drought declared in large parts of England.\n\nA firefighter attempts to contain a wildfire that encroached on homes near Sheffield in July 2022\n\nThe Met Office said that a UK mean temperature of 10C would have been expected once in 500 years in a natural climate - before humans started producing the emissions responsible for climate change with activities such as burning fossil fuels.\n\nBut it said this was now likely to occur every three to four years.\n\nIt isn't just the UK that is feeling the heat.\n\nWe'll get the figures for global average temperatures next week and last year is expected to have been the fourth or fifth hottest year on record.\n\nAnd this year is expected to be even hotter worldwide.\n\nThat is not just because greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, it is also because we are expecting a change in a weather system in the tropical Pacific, known as the El Nino.\n\nLast year it was in a cooling phase - La Nina - but this year it will switch into its warming phase, with unusually warm water off the coast of South America.\n\nA recent report on climate extremes in the UK found that recent years have seen both higher maximum temperatures and longer warm spells.\n\nThat trend is predicted to continue. It is possible that by 2100, the UK could see 40C days every three to four years.\n\nBy this point, the Met Office said - with medium levels of greenhouse gas emissions - the 10C average temperature could occur almost every year.", "Some patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is investigating whether a delayed response contributed to the deaths of eight people in recent weeks.\n\nAll eight deaths occurred between 12 December and the start of January.\n\nThe NIAS is treating four of the deaths as serious adverse incidents, which is defined as an incident that led to unintended or unexpected harm.\n\nThe remaining four deaths are being investigated to see whether they meet that criteria.\n\nThe patients' identities have not been disclosed, but it is understood one of the eight people was a man who waited more than nine hours for an ambulance in mid-December.\n\nThe man's condition deteriorated and he died before paramedics arrived.\n\nThe BBC's Nolan Show reported on the man's case last month.\n\nAmbulance staff have been under severe pressure for months.\n\nA delay in offloading patients to emergency departments is a major problem because ambulances are not able to go on to the next call.\n\nDemand for emergency care services is outweighing capacity, say health officials\n\nSome patients have been waiting up to nine hours in ambulances outside EDs as they await admission to hospital.\n\nThe NIAS has also confirmed that in five of the eight cases, the response was not within the recommended timeframe.\n\nThe delays are a cause of \"great concern,\" but there is \"no end in sight to the pressures we are facing,\" according to the ambulance service's medical director Nigel Ruddell.\n\nHe said the ambulance service conducts an internal review whenever \"there is a delayed response to the call and a poor outcome from the call\" to see whether delays contributed to a death.\n\n\"That process involves liaising with the family and being open and clear with them about what happened on the day - whether it was because of pressures and demand on the day or whether there was something that, potentially, we could have done better.\"\n\nMr Ruddell said from 12-24 December there were five reported cases where a patient died after a delayed response and then three more cases since Christmas Eve.\n\nHe added that ambulance service staff were \"doing everything to prioritise the most critical cases but that is leading to a poor experience for some patients\".\n\n\"I recognise the frustration of patients and families who are ringing us but I have to recognise a tired and exhausted workforce, who are coming back from one call and immediately going out to the next emergency and then possibly sitting many hours outside a hospital ED waiting to hand over that patent, knowing that more calls are waiting.\"\n\nWhile the entire health and social care system is under immense pressure, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is a particular pinch point, where a delay can make a difference between life and death.\n\nAmbulances waiting outside emergency departments for hours at a time is contributing to the pressure, and not just in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis is a national problem across the UK. It is also a problem in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBecause of the increase in flu cases and respiratory diseases, health authorities are forecasting that this pressure will continue throughout January and February\n\nIt is relentless not only on the system, on the number of beds that are available, on patients and families, but obviously on staff as well.\n\nAt one point on Wednesday morning 27 ambulances were queued outside emergency departments in Northern Ireland.\n\nThere were 422 people awaiting admission to hospital.\n\nThe Department of Health said hospitals were \"under severe strain\" as \"demand for services outweighs capacity\".\n\nIt said the spread of flu, Covid-19 and other respiratory viruses were contributing to that pressure.\n\n\"It remains vital that services are used responsibly and that hospital discharge processes are followed when people are deemed well enough to leave,\" it said.\n\nThe NIAS inquiry comes as an emergency department nurse said he would be worried if any of his loved ones had to seek treatment there as staff continued to be overwhelmed.\n\nStephen McKenna, who spent the Christmas period working on the frontline, described conditions as \"absolutely horrific\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll of Northern Ireland's health trusts are failing to meet emergency department waiting time targets.\n\nThey do not have enough beds available due to difficulty discharging patients.\n\nMany beds are being used by people who need to secure social care arrangements in order to leave hospital.\n\n\"I would be extremely worried to the point where I would probably want to be with them every step of the way,\" said Mr McKenna, a member of the Royal College of Nursing's emergency nurse network.\n\n\"I can see why people want to be there [with their relatives],\" he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"I would be really worried about leaving a grandparent, a mother, a sister, a brother in an emergency department for fear that they're going to be lying somewhere potentially distressed by other patients, potentially not getting the care they need because the staff are just completely overwhelmed.\"\n\nLinda Robinson of Age NI says a shortage of social care staff is contributing to the problem in hospitals\n\nMr McKenna said medical staff were \"now looking after people in corridors\" and that some people were being \"nursed head to toe, top to tail, side by side, crammed into spaces\".\n\n\"Across all emergency departments I have worked in in the north there are people literally lying and sitting side by side in conditions that would otherwise have been completely unacceptable just five years ago.\"\n\nThe charity Age NI has said the shortage of health workers in Northern Ireland's social care sector must be addressed to relieve pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe charity's chief executive said staff shortages in hospitals were the \"tip of the iceberg\" compared with the situation in social care.\n\nLinda Robinson said staff retention in the social care sector was a real problem and the rates of pay were \"appalling\".\n\nShortly before Christmas, Northern Ireland's health trusts announced new measures aimed at freeing up beds faster to accommodate the sickest patients.\n\nOn 19 December, a 48-hour time limit was introduced to discharge patients who were deemed medically fit to leave hospital.\n\nHealth authorities asked patients and families to work with staff so that hospital beds and ambulances could be reserved for those most in need.\n\nHowever Ms Robinson pointed out that deeming a patient medically fit for discharge did not necessarily mean that they were healthy and well.\n\nRetaining staff in the social care sector is a big problem, says Age NI\n\nMany older patients are extremely frail and some families are unable to care for loved ones who have complex or around-the-clock care needs.\n\nShe said that returning to contingency measures using during the Covid pandemic could be looked at as a short-term solution.\n\n\"During Covid we made significant steps in changing things,\" she said.\n\n\"If we don't have enough staff to deliver one-to-one care in the community is there something in going back to the models that we had when we looked at [discharging patients to] hotels?\n\n\"We built a system in the Odyssey [Arena] to take that pressure out of those hospital beds.\n\n\"Lots of solutions have got to come forward.\"\n\nAt midday on Tuesday, there were hundreds of people waiting for treatment in EDs across Northern Ireland - 376 of whom had waited longer than 12 hours, which is a breach of health service waiting time targets.", "And that's it for our live coverage of Pope Benedict's funeral.\n\nThe service will be remembered for being the first in living memory to be presided over by a sitting Pope.\n\nWe've heard from those who came to pay their respects to the former Pope, but we've also learned that his legacy is a mixed one for the Catholic Church.\n\nAnd there's also speculation now that his passing may mean the current Pope, Francis, could consider following in his predecessor's footsteps and retire. Although there is no suggestion such a move is imminent.\n\nYou can read our correspondent Bethany Bell's full write-up of the former Pope's funeral here.\n\nOur live page was edited by Rob Corp and written by Anna Boyd, Aoife Walsh and Andre Rhoden-Paul.\n\nThank you for joining us.", "People arriving from China in London on Wednesday. England - outside the EU - is asking for pre-departure tests for Chinese arrivals from Thursday\n\nEuropean Union officials are \"strongly\" recommending that all member states insist on negative Covid tests from Chinese arrivals before they travel.\n\nTravel in and out of China gets easier from Sunday, as part of the scrapping of the \"zero-Covid\" policy.\n\nChina is currently seeing a surge in Covid cases, with reports of hospitals and crematoriums being overwhelmed.\n\nSome EU countries have already introduced testing - despite earlier advice that it was \"unjustified\".\n\nWednesday's recommendation on negative tests came from the EU's Integrated Political Crisis Response group (IPCR), a body made up of officials from the EU's 27 governments.\n\nThe recommendation comes a day after the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, said an \"overwhelming\" number of member states favoured restrictions on Chinese arrivals.\n\nFrance, Spain and Italy have already introduced testing - but others, such as Germany, had been monitoring the situation. England, outside the EU, requires pre-flight testing on China arrivals from Thursday.\n\nDespite the recommendation, it's not known if an EU-wide policy will be introduced - but individual states can set their own policy.\n\nThe advice from the IPCR is a change in tack from the body's disease prevention agency, which last week advised against the introduction of mandatory Covid tests.\n\nThe ECDC said testing was \"unjustified\", given the high rates of vaccination in Europe, and that variants circulating in China were already in the European Union.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said there was no evidence of new variants in China, despite the surge in cases. However, experts warned this could be due to a lack of testing and data.\n\nThe WHO has also said that China was under-representing the true impact of Covid in the country - in part due to what they said was a \"too narrow\" definition of a Covid death.\n\nBeijing has confirmed only 22 deaths since December, which is at odds with data from analysts.\n\nThe UK science data company Airfinity estimates there are more than two million Covid cases a day in China, and 14,700 deaths.\n\nThe Chinese government suggested earlier this week that travel restrictions on Chinese arrivals are politically motivated - and has warned that it may retaliate.", "Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is welcomed by Pope Francis at St Peter's Square, Vatican, 2014\n\nPope Benedict was still a \"powerful presence\" in the Vatican despite his retirement - the most senior British figure there has told the BBC.\n\nThe comments, by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, have come as the reigning pope, Francis, makes final preparations for the unusual event of a pontiff presiding at the funeral of his predecessor.\n\nAfter Thursday's burial of former pope Benedict XVI, there will be just one man wearing white in the corridors of the Vatican for the first time in nearly a decade.\n\nIt is rare for a senior Vatican figure to have spoken frankly about the relationship between the two popes.\n\n\"I think it is inevitable that the fact Pope Benedict has been living during these years of Pope Francis's pontificate - it does have an effect,\" said the archbishop, who has been the Vatican's foreign secretary for much of the current papacy.\n\n\"I do not think it has obstructed Pope Francis in any way. He has done and said and decided what he wanted to do, but it is a powerful presence of your predecessor,\" he said candidly.\n\nIn 2013, Pope Benedict became the first pope in more than 600 years to step down.\n\nArchbishop Gallagher said that for Pope Francis, that was similar to the experience many other people go through doing a job in the shadow of a predecessor - and being compared to them.\n\nThe body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lies in state ahead of his funeral\n\nObservers of Vatican affairs during this unusual time suggest that whether Benedict courted it or not, he became something of a lightning rod for internal criticism of Pope Francis.\n\n\"Obviously there have been, in the Church, people who have looked to Benedict to contrast certain decisions that have been made by Pope Francis,\" said Archbishop Gallagher.\n\nThe relationship between the two popes had been excellent, said the archbishop, but critics of the current pope had tried to exploit their differences.\n\nOver the past year, there has been much discussion here about the health of Pope Francis, who has cancelled some foreign trips on health grounds and spent most of his time in a wheelchair during other visits.\n\nThere was speculation that, although Pope Francis said he was prepared to step down if he felt he could not carry out the duties of the role in the way he would like to, he was reluctant to consider resigning while his predecessor was around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis foreign secretary, Archbishop Gallagher, acknowledged that events of the past week had changed the equation to potentially allow the current Pope to consider all options more freely.\n\n\"If we had three popes, that would be a little bit difficult to manage. But now that Pope Benedict has gone to the Lord, I think that Pope Francis will stick to those principles that he has established - that he will continue in this ministry as long as he believes that he is capable,\" he said.\n\nHe clarified that he did not think a decision about stepping down was in any way imminent.\n\nThe body of former Pope Benedict XVI lies in state ahead of his funeral\n\nAlthough the number of people who have come to pay their respects to Pope Benedict as he lies in state has far exceeded the figure the Vatican initially said it was expecting, it does not come close to the huge crowds that were drawn here in 2005 after the death of the popular Pope John Paul II.\n\nThat is partly, as Archbishop Gallagher acknowledges, because of Benedict XVI's style of papacy, being viewed as more of a thinker than a pastor or a skilled politician.\n\nAlthough the archbishop said he thought the writings and theological works of the Pope Emeritus would be studied long into the future.\n\nThere has also been much discussion in recent days about the complicated legacy of the former pontiff, particularly the issue of inadequately dealing with sex abuse perpetrators.\n\n\"I think that the evaluation [of Benedict XVI's legacy on abuse] is obviously going to be critical, but I do believe that the election of Pope Benedict was a game changer in how the Church looked at the reality of abuse in the church,\" said Archbishop Gallagher, suggesting that the late Pope started initiatives that Pope Francis has since moved forward with.\n\n\"Whether enough was done at the right speed, that will be left to history and I do not think anybody here would say that we have completed the job.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Sunak makes five pledges on the NHS, economy and migrants\n\nRishi Sunak has asked people to hold him to account if NHS waiting lists in England do not fall in two years.\n\nIt is one of five pledges set out in the prime minister's first major speech of 2023, with others covering the economy and small boat crossings.\n\nMr Sunak is facing challenges this winter including a wave of strike action, a cost-of-living crisis and huge pressure on the health service.\n\nBut the PM said he was \"taking urgent action\" and increasing NHS funding.\n\nHe said the government was also increasing bed capacity and the extra money would help ensure people who are ready to be discharged can be moved into social care or looked after in the community.\n\nWith the Conservatives trailing in the polls after last year's political turmoil, Mr Sunak used his speech to set out the priorities for his premiership.\n\nHe also sought to reassure the public that he could deliver, ahead of a general election widely expected in 2024.\n\nHis speech set out five key pledges:\n\nMr Sunak said people would be able to judge his government on whether it had delivered on these priorities, \"no tricks... no ambiguity\".\n\nBut he provided little detail on how some of the pledges would be achieved and admitted \"many factors are out of my control\".\n\nDowning Street later said that halving inflation this year would be judged from the final quarter of 2022 to the final quarter of 2023.\n\nAnd Mr Sunak's pledge to \"grow the economy\" will be met if GDP is higher in the fourth quarter of 2023 than in the third quarter.\n\nRishi Sunak's speech had the feel of the party conference speech he never gave; cast as he was, briefly, last autumn, towards political oblivion, before the implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHis five promises are an attempt to provide structure and accountability to his next 12 months of governing.\n\nSome look eminently achievable, others are rather vague.\n\nAnd then there is one that reminds us how grim things are: promising the economy will grow by the end of the year would still mean months and months of recession beforehand.\n\nMr Sunak sought to set out what drives him: his passion for education and his anger at anti-social behaviour.\n\nAmid what many see as the multiple crises now, this broad vision might appear jarring to some.\n\nBut it's worth remembering the oddity of how he came to be in the job he's doing. This is a man who became prime minister in the blink of an eye, still attempting to introduce himself to the country.\n\nAnd he hasn't got much time, with the ticking clock of an election within two years, to deliver enough, quickly enough.\n\nThe speech came after senior doctors warned the NHS was on a knife edge, with some accident and emergency units in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nA sharp rise in Covid and flu admissions in recent weeks has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nThis has contributed to long waits for ambulances, emergency treatment and non-urgent care.\n\nA shortage of capacity and staff in social care also means there is often a delay in people leaving hospital when they are ready to be discharged, meaning fewer beds are available for other patients.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Chris Mason how soon things would improve in the NHS this winter, Mr Sunak said cutting waiting times was one of his priorities, adding: \"I want the country to hold me to account for delivering it.\"\n\nHe said the government was increasing funding and bringing in innovations like virtual wards, so people could be treated at home where appropriate.\n\n\"I believe in just a few months we will have practically eliminated waiting times for those waiting a year and a half,\" he said.\n\n\"We've already eliminated those waiting two years, and by next spring I think we will have eliminated those waiting a year.\"\n\nLabour said Mr Sunak's pledges were all things that were happening anyway, were easily achievable or \"aimed at fixing problems of the Tories' own making\".\n\n\"For weeks this speech was hyped up as his big vision - now he's delivered it, the country is entitled to ask: is that it?\" the party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said.\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said the prime minister was \"asleep at the wheel\", adding: \"People will be dismayed that Rishi Sunak still doesn't have a proper plan to deal with the crisis raging in the NHS.\"\n\nThe SNP accused Mr Sunak of making \"flimsy promises, whilst people in Scotland are paying the price of five Tory prime ministers over the last 13 years\".\n\nInflation is currently at a near 40-year high of 10.7%, with wages failing to keep up with prices.\n\nBased on current forecasts from the Bank of England and the independent Office for Responsibility (OBR), the aim to halve inflation this year should be achievable.\n\nHowever, some of Mr Sunak's other pledges are likely to be more challenging to achieve.\n\nThere are currently more than seven million people waiting for NHS care in England - one in eight of the population.\n\nWaiting lists have continued to grow since the height of the Covid pandemic, as more patients come forward after missing treatment during lockdowns.\n\nMr Sunak's predecessors have also struggled to tackle small boat crossings, with record numbers making the dangerous journey across the Channel last year.\n\nThe prime minister promised to introduce legislation to ensure people who arrive illegally are removed quickly - but he admitted this \"is not going to happen overnight\".\n\nProgress will depend on how quickly Parliament passes any new law, while the plans could also get bogged down in the courts as a potential breach of the UK's refugee obligations.", "Trains are set to be disrupted yet again on Friday, as rail workers in the RMT union begin their second 48-hour strike this week.\n\nThe advice to rail passengers remains to travel only if \"absolutely necessary\", with four out of five trains set to be cancelled.\n\nNetwork Rail said about 20% of Britain's usual train services are expected to run under the reduced strike-day timetable in place on Friday.\n\nDriving examiners and road workers are also striking in some parts of the country.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nStrike action by the UK's largest rail union, the RMT, resumes again, with the second 48-hour walkout this week beginning on Friday and continuing on Saturday.\n\nThe action is part of a long-running dispute over pay, job security and conditions.\n\nSome areas will have no trains at all and services that do run will start later and finish much earlier than usual, typically running between 7:30am and 6.30pm on the days of the strike.\n\nChiltern Railways is not running any trains at all on Friday.\n\nThe advice is to avoid taking trains on Friday if you can, but if you must travel:\n\nSunday is the only strike-free day on the railways this week, but services are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nDriving examiners in the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union are striking at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf you are due to take your driving test on Friday, you can check here whether your test centre is one of those affected. But unless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up. Not all driving examiners are members of the union backing the strikes, so your test may take place as planned.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nSome National Highways workers in the East Midlands and eastern England are striking on Friday. The action involves control centre staff and traffic officers who deal with the aftermath of accidents.\n\nThe PCS union says about 16 workers in the two regions are walking out.\n\nNational Highways says the strikes have caused \"minimal\" impact so far, adding that it has \"well-rehearsed resilience plans in place\".\n\nHowever, it warns roads in general could be busier than usual because of the walkouts taking place on the railways.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A third day of voting got underway on Thursday but it is unclear if the US House of Representatives is any closer to electing a Speaker. Will fresh concessions that emerged overnight break the deadlock?\n\nRepublicans won the chamber in the midterm elections but Kevin McCarthy, who has served as the party's House minority leader for four years, has 20 Republicans standing between him and the gavel - and they aren't budging.\n\nMatt Gaetz, one of those so-called \"Never Kevins\", described Mr McCarthy as a \"desperate guy\" and said his request was simple: \"For him to drop out of the race.\"\n\nBut Mr McCarthy is still in the running despite being defeated in two further rounds of voting on Thursday.\n\nHere are three ways the situation could unfold:\n\nThe current strategy from Kevin McCarthy appears to be to fight a war of attrition. His supporters will keep placing his name in nomination until those in opposition get tired of voting against him. Doing the same thing but expecting different results may be the definition of madness, but it may also be their only option until they can figure out what the rebels really want.\n\nOvernight on Wednesday, Mr McCarthy offered a number of concessions including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber. He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the speaker to only one House member.\n\nWhile these offers may be able to win over some of the holdouts, they may not be enough to get him all the way to the finish line. His hope is that momentum toward victory would increase the pressure for those opposing him to throw in the towel and placate rank-and-file members on his side who are getting increasingly frustrated at the ongoing deadlock.\n\nThe ultimate challenge is that these concessions will weaken his hold on power should he win, making it more likely that he could face multiple votes to dethrone him when the really tough fights - on things like the budget and raising the debt ceiling - take place later in the year.\n\nMr McCarthy could also hope that Democrats tire of the fight and stop showing up for the speaker votes, lowering the margin necessary for him to win a majority. At least so far, however, Democrats appear to be relishing the Republican chaos.\n\nSurrender has to be considered a possible, even likely, outcome for Mr McCarthy after more than two days of failure. At some point, the Republicans who are currently supporting Mr McCarthy may decide the best move is to give the hardline Republicans their scalp and try to move on.\n\n\"We're starting to get some open conflict on the floor as well as behind closed doors,\" Mr Buck, who has voted for Mr McCarthy all six times, said on Wednesday afternoon. \"We have to choose a speaker and move forward.\"\n\nSteve Scalise, the Republicans' chief vote-counter, is perhaps the choice best positioned to be a candidate acceptable to both the conservative hardliners and the rest of the House Republicans. He is considered a staunch, southern conservative and has literally bled for the party, having been seriously wounded in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice. The biggest obstacle at the moment is that he doesn't seem to want the job.\n\nOther possibilities include firebrand congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, the head of the conservative Republican Study Committee. Neither seems capable of unifying the entire party behind them, however. (Byron Donalds of Florida was the nominee of the anti-McCarthy Republicans three times on Wednesday, but the novice congressman has been more of a vessel for anti-McCarthy sentiment than a serious candidate.)\n\nDemocrats and Republicans in the Ohio state House of Representatives joined together on Tuesday to reject a more conservative speaker and elect a moderate compromise candidate. Could such a thing happen in the US House of Representatives, as well?\n\nThere's been plenty of such speculation, as Mr McCarthy's predicament became clearer in recent days. Some of that has been fanned by his supporters as a warning for conservative hard-liners to fall in line, but some of it is real.\n\nA group of Republicans, including Matt Gaetz (R), huddle in the House chamber\n\nDon Bacon, a centrist Republican from Nebraska, has previously expressed an openness to working with Democrats to elect a compromise speaker if Mr McCarthy fails. Fred Upton, a former Republican congressman from Michigan with moderate credentials, has expressed an openness to presenting himself as a coalition pick (there is no requirement that a speaker has to be a current member of Congress). And there's been some talk of sweeteners for Democrats, like rule changes that would allow them to introduce legislation or more committee power.\n\nAll of this would require a sizeable number of Democrats to go along with the plan, which in today's sharply divided partisan environment seems unlikely in the extreme. And any Republican who works with Democrats will instantly be persona non grata among most conservatives.\n\nGiven that the House is already in uncharted territory by modern standards, however, no options are too far-fetched at this point.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Previous scanning had revealed only a small portion of the Beauly elm was still living\n\nA tree believed to be Europe's oldest wych elm has fallen down in a Highland village after succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease.\n\nThe so-called Beauly Elm - which was believed to be almost 800 years old - had stood at the entrance to Beauly Priory.\n\nAn event to celebrate its life was held in the village last October.\n\nReferences to the tree have been found in records going back to medieval times.\n\nLocal artist Isabel McLeish, who recently worked on a project on the Beauly Elm, said it was \"very unexpected and very sad\" to hear the tree had come down.\n\nShe said; \"It really is a spectacular tree and that is what inspired me to want to learn more about it.\n\n\"We've had a whole host of different responses - everything from drawings and photographs to personal anecdotes and memories from when people were younger.\n\n\"The tree has been in people's lives for such a long time. It is astonishing to think what it would have witnessed through its 800 years of life.\"\n\nHistoric Environment Scotland (HES) previously laser-scanned the elm as part of work to document ancient Scottish trees.\n\nThe Beauly elm was previously laser-scanned to create digital images of the tree\n\nThe laser scanning led to the creation of a digital 3D model which can be viewed online, with viewers able to see the elm from different angles.\n\nWych elm is the only elm regarded as being truly native to the UK, according to the Woodland Trust.\n\nIt usually grows in hilly or stony woodlands, or near streams and ditches and is hardier than the English elm. Its name refers to how easily the wood can be bent.", "Sir Keir Starmer has predicted the UK's \"best years are still to come\", as he delivered his first New Year message as Labour leader.\n\nHe said he would fight for \"prosperity, fairness and opportunity\" as the country \"rebuilds\" following Covid.\n\nTwenty million more people in England have entered the toughest - tier four - coronavirus restrictions, amid a surge in infections.\n\nBut the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been given the go-ahead for next week.\n\nThere will be 530,000 doses available from Monday, on top of the Pfizer-BioNTech jabs which began earlier this month.\n\nA further 50,023 new Covid cases were recorded in the UK on Wednesday, as well as 981 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test - more than double the previous day's total.\n\nIn his message, Sir Keir said the UK - which has seen an 8% contraction in gross domestic product (GDP) since January - had suffered more than any other major economy during the pandemic, but vaccines would eventually improve the situation.\n\nHe added: \"Until then, it is all of our duty to stay safe, to look after neighbours, keep up the national effort that has got us this far.\n\n\"Because when this crisis ends, and it will end, we will rebuild our country, together.\"\n\nAt a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government would \"shift heaven and earth\" to vaccinate people as quickly as possible.\n\nBut, with the new strain of coronavirus spreading, it was important to \"redouble our efforts\" to prevent this, he added.\n\nThe prime minister traditionally releases a New Year's message to the nation on 31 December.\n\nOn Wednesday, Sir Keir - Labour leader since April - ordered his MPs to back the government's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, arguing that to do otherwise would raise the chances of no deal, which he said would damage the economy even more than the PM's \"thin\" agreement.\n\n\"The United Kingdom is forging a new path in the world,\" he said in his message.\n\n\"And the Labour Party that I lead will focus on ensuring that path leads to greater prosperity, fairness and opportunity for every nation and region, every village, every town and city that makes up our great United Kingdom.\n\n\"I believe this can once again be the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in.\n\n\"And with that hope and that vision, I believe that our best years are still to come.\"\n\nThree members of Labour's shadow ministerial team resigned on Wednesday rather than vote for the government's deal, which the House of Commons passed by a majority of 448.", "Rail disruption is set to get even worse today, with only 20-25% of trains running in England because train drivers are going on strike. On some lines there will be no trains at all.\n\nBus services in London will be affected by strike action again too, and some driving tests are still being cancelled.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThere are 15 rail operating companies affected by action organised by train drivers' union Aslef. They are all in England, but some run services into Scotland and Wales.\n\nOn some lines, such as Southeastern and Avanti West Coast, no services will run at all on Thursday.\n\nOn the other lines, there will be very few trains running, and services will start later and stop earlier. For example LNER's last train south from Edinburgh will depart at 16:30 GMT.\n\nEarlier, the Rail Delivery Group estimated that only 10% of England's usual trains would run on Thursday, but it later said it believed 20-25% would run.\n\nDisruption will be made worse by the knock-on impact of strike action by RMT members that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Thursday's services starting later as a result. The RMT union, whose members are rail workers other than drivers, has another strike planned for Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe advice is to avoid travelling by train on Thursday, but if you must travel:\n\nServices are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nStrike action by driving examiners at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf you are due to take your driving test on Thursday, you can check here whether your test centre is one of those affected. But unless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up. Not all driving examiners are members of the union backing the strikes, so your test may take place as planned.\n\nExaminers are planning to be on strike until Tuesday 10 January.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nBus drivers in London are continuing their industrial action on Thursday. The routes affected are mostly in south and west London.\n\nNational Highways staff, including traffic officers who deal with the aftermath of accidents, are back at work after taking action on Wednesday, but are due to take further action on Friday and Saturday.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Steve Parsons's grandfather suffered a cardiac arrest while being driven to hospital\n\nWales' NHS chief executive has apologised to patients who suffered a poor experience as hospitals struggled with demand.\n\nJudith Paget denied that the service had underprepared for the \"unprecedented\" pressure in the service.\n\nHer comments come after a man spoke of having to carry his grandfather into A&E after he suffered a cardiac arrest.\n\nMs Paget apologised to him for the \"hugely distressing\" situation.\n\nShe said a controversial decision to support the discharge of people without a care package was taken to \"try to improve things\" for patients, their families and staff.\n\nMeanwhile First Minister Mark Drakeford denied there was a lottery for emergency care.\n\n\"I would like to apologise to patients and their families who've had very poor experience over the last couple of weeks,\" Ms Paget told BBC Wales said.\n\n\"It's not anything any of us want to see. And we carry the burden of those concerns with us.\"\n\nJudith Paget said 27 December was \"one of the busiest days in our system\"\n\nSix hospitals had been effectively classed as suffering a \"critical incident\" by Wednesday, although the pressure has since lessened.\n\nMs Paget said the 27 December was \"one of the busiest days in our system\" with 8,500 calls to 111 and 210 serious 'red' calls to 999.\n\nThe challenge for the NHS that day was \"unprecedented\", she said, as had been the week prior to Christmas, with 800 more patients in hospital on Christmas Day than in 2021.\n\nResuscitation and emergency departments were full, ambulance handovers were delayed, and responses in the community to 999 calls were \"longer than we wanted,\" Ms Paget explained.\n\n\"We were in surge for critical care for that time, so we had to open additional critical care beds, and staff were putting extra patients on wards to make sure they could try and keep the system going.\"\n\nOn Wednesday it emerged the Welsh government had told senior NHS staff they could discharge people who were well enough to leave, even if they did not have a package of care ready.\n\nMs Paget said the decision was taken on a \"balance of risks\".\n\nShe acknowledged that it presented \"huge dilemmas\", but argued that staff told her they needed to discharge more people from hospital to open-up capacity.\n\n\"From a hospital point of view we need to make sure that we use the space we've got for the people who are the highest risk and in need for care, and support the people who are the lowest in risk to leave our hospitals.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has denied that the public faces an emergency care lottery\n\nThe head of the Welsh government, Labour's First Minister Mark Drakeford, denied that people in Wales face an emergency care lottery.\n\nHe said because hospitals are full of \"low-risk\" patients, high-risk patients \"are struggling to get through the front door\".\n\nMr Drakeford said there was a \"real urgency\" to reform social care, but said short term changes were also required.\n\n\"We have vacancies in care homes here in Wales, we have people waiting in a hospital bed simply waiting for tests to be carried out, which could just as easily be carried out by people being at home, and coming in when the test is needed for them.\n\n\"So the system needs to change those immediate things to relieve the pressure and then in the longer run we need to find a different way to pay for social care.\"\n\nHe added that an ageing population and fewer people of working age meant it was a problem that was not going to go away.\n\nHealth boards across Wales have said they have hundreds of patients well enough to leave\n\nMr Drakeford said thousands of people in Wales who needed emergency care were attended to right across the system and it was not a lottery.\n\n\"Every single day people get help here in Wales, not simply through hospitals and through ambulances arriving, but the fantastic work our GPs do in the community - the 111 system, all those other ways the system can help.\n\n\"But the system is under enormous pressure, there are things every one of us can do to help with that, the system itself needs to take those immediate actions that have actually helped to stabilise the position in Wales over the last couple of days.\"\n\nWelsh Conservatives' spokesman for health, Russell George, said: \"It is very surprising to hear to Mark Drakeford deny reality, reading a horror story about people in pain not able to receive it is a daily occurrence in Labour-run Wales.\n\n\"The latest figures say the ambulance response times are the worst on record, with less than half of ambulances arriving at red-calls in the target time, meanwhile, Wales consistently records worse A&E waits than England and Scotland.\n\n\"This is not the fault of hard-working NHS staff but 25 years of Labour mismanagement in Wales.\"\n\nAdam Price said the NHS in Wales is in crisis\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"The NHS in Wales is in crisis - to claim otherwise is to do a great disservice to the many hard-working health and care staff that are telling us otherwise.\n\n\"When there is too much work for too few people, it is inevitable that service levels will start to vary wildly around the nation. But to refute this is to deny there is crisis. To refer to 'pressures' is to ignore the many stories around Wales that testify that the system is broken. \"Our health service needs healing and it will take more than 'hope' and good wishes for it to get better.\n\n\"The Welsh government must use all the levers at their disposal to do something - anything - to show they understand the scope of the problem, and that our NHS is a priority for them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, ambulance and rail services, under planned anti-strike laws.\n\nVoluntary agreements would cover other sectors including health, education, other transport services, border security and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nThe measures will not resolve the current wave of strikes.\n\nUnions have condemned the restrictions and threatened legal action, while Labour says it would repeal them.\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps said the measures were being introduced to \"restore the balance between those seeking to strike and protecting the public from disproportionate disruption\".\n\nThe legislation is expected to be published next week, with MPs debating it for the first time the week after. It will apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is likely to face significant opposition in the House of Lords, as only transport strikes were mentioned in the Conservatives' 2019 manifesto pledge to introduce minimum service levels.\n\nThe Times newspaper quoted a government source saying striking workers who defied minimum service rules could face dismissal for breach of contract.\n\nBut a business department source told the BBC it was \"not our intention to penalise individuals\".\n\nUnder existing laws, people who take illegal strike action can already be sacked.\n\nThe business department also called on the unions to cancel upcoming strikes in a bid to resolve the current disputes \"constructively through dialogue\".\n\nIt said it would invite unions to meet for \"honest, constructive conversations\" about what was \"fair and affordable\" in public sector pay settlements for 2023/24.\n\nBut a number of unions have cast doubt on their continued involvement in the independent pay review process.\n\nGary Smith, GMB general secretary, said: \"There are huge questions over the NHS Pay Review Body, as ministers' actions have consistently undermined its independence. The process needs real reform.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner described the minimum-service proposals as \"unworkable and unserious from a dead-end government\".\n\n\"At every stage the government has sought to collapse talks and throw in last minute spanners. Now the prime minister is wasting time on shoddy hurdles that even his own transport secretary admits won't work,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters have said they will consult on and then set an \"adequate level of coverage\" for the fire and ambulance services and on the railways. For the other sectors, the government says it expects to be able to reach voluntary agreements.\n\nA wave of industrial action is affecting sectors from the health and postal services to driving examinations, as people seek pay rises that keep up with the fast-rising cost of living.\n\nRail workers in the RMT and other unions have taken part in a series of large-scale strikes over more than six months, with Thursday marking the sixth day of action since last summer by members of Aslef, which represents most train drivers.\n\nTUC general secretary Paul Nowak condemned the proposed bill as \"wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal\".\n\n\"This is an attack on the right to strike. It's an attack on working people, and it's an attack on one of our longstanding British liberties.\n\n\"This government has gone from clapping key workers to threating them with the sack if they take lawful action for a pay rise. It will only push more people away from essential jobs in public services,\" he added.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"Safe staffing levels that are set in law are what we want to see year-round not just in these extreme circumstances.\n\n\"We've long campaigned for governments to be accountable for safe and effective staffing levels in NHS and social care to prevent one nurse being left with 15, 20 or even 25 sick patients... Today's highly unsafe situation is what is driving our members to say 'enough is enough'.\"\n\nEarlier, Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, said he did not think new legislation would make life harder for his union.\n\nHe suggested it would lead to unions having to organise more strikes locally, instead of nationally.\n\nMr Whelan said: \"There have been minimum [service] levels in European countries for several years. They have never been enacted because they don't work.\"\n\nHe added that employers could already sack workers, if they went on strike for more than six weeks.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said the UK already had some of the most restrictive anti-union laws in the western world.\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of being \"clearly hellbent on criminalising and victimising trade unions with this threatened onslaught on the right to strike\".\n\n\"The Tories are badly misjudging the public mood with these attacks on the pay and conditions of key workers, who kept Britain going during the pandemic,\" he added.", "Harry: The Interview on ITV1 at 9pm on 8 January Prince Harry is set to release his autobiography Spare on 10 January\n\nPrince Harry has said \"I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back,\" in a trailer for an interview ahead of the release of his upcoming memoirs.\n\nIn a trailer for the sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, he says \"they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,\" although it is not clear who he is referring to.\n\nThe prince also said he was \"betrayed\" in a trailer for US broadcaster CBS.\n\nCBS and ITV have only released short trailers for their programmes. Both interviews will be broadcast on 8 January, two days before his memoir, Spare, is published.\n\nIn the CBS trailers, Prince Harry - the Duke of Sussex - speaks to CBS 60 Minutes journalist Anderson Cooper in a chat the broadcaster described as \"explosive\".\n\nThe duke claims he was \"betrayed\" along with \"briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife\".\n\nHe said: \"The family motto is 'never complain, never explain', but it's just a motto.\n\n\"They will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.\n\n\"But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.\n\n\"So when we're being told for the last six years, 'we can't put a statement out to protect you', but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.\"\n\nIn a second trailer released by CBS, Prince Harry said he could not see himself returning to the institution as a full-time royal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nITV said its interview would cover Prince Harry's personal relationships and \"never-before-heard details\" surrounding the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nFilmed in California where the Sussexes live, the ITV sit-down will also see the duke refer to \"the leaking and the planting\" of stories, before adding: \"I want a family, not an institution\".\n\n\"They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains,\" he adds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ITV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpare, which is anticipated to give details about disagreements with his brother the Prince William, will be released on 10 January.\n\nPublisher Penguin Random House has called it \"a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief\".\n\nThe book follows the release of Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, in which Prince Harry said it was \"terrifying\" to have his brother \"scream and shout\" at him during a summit to discuss the couple's future in the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims made in the programme.\n\nThe Sussexes also talked about why they decided to give up royal duties and move to the US, criticising the British press and the inner workings of the royal institution.\n\nNow we have Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper.\n\nThe new trailers from ITV and CBS 60 Minutes tease the two big TV interviews Prince Harry has done ahead of his book \"Spare\" coming out.\n\nThe themes discussed are largely what we've heard from both Harry and Meghan so far - an institution that didn't support them, a family breakdown proving hard to fix, and a media that is manipulated by Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe difference this time may be the two people conducting the interviews.\n\nSo far, the story shared has been from the perspective of Harry and Meghan.\n\nThey have shared their sadness and frustration.\n\nWith no comment from Buckingham Palace, it is difficult to present another side of the story.\n\nBut both Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper are respected journalists.\n\nIt is hard to imagine that they wouldn't want this to be a more challenging, questioning conversation with Prince Harry compared to anything we've heard so far.\n\nWe will know for sure next Sunday.", "Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019 Image caption: Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019\n\nFormer President Donald Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker yesterday, but it’s unclear whether his words hold the weight they once did.\n\nEven though the 20 Republican holdouts come from the Trumpian wing of the party, they have not changed their minds and continue to oppose McCarthy.\n\nAs little as two years ago, House Republicans would likely have followed Trump’s instructions to \"VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY\".\n\nTrump is once again running for president, on the presumption that he still holds the Republican Party in the palm of his hand.\n\nBut now, out of power and under multiple federal and state investigations, some Republicans and political observers have begun to question his grip. The Speaker contest might provide one data point.\n\nAs the House’s Republican leader, McCarthy long appeased Trump during his presidency and defended him through two impeachments. McCarthy went so far as to visit Trump at his Florida estate after the 6 January attack on Congress to make peace - even after a mob of Trump supporters had chased McCarthy and his colleagues into hiding.\n\nMcCarthy was so deferential to Trump over the years that the former president gave him the moniker “My Kevin” - both an endearment and a reflection of political reality.\n\nBut right now, being Trump’s Kevin might not be enough.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS National Football League star Damar Hamlin has had his breathing tube removed and is able to talk, his team said on Friday.\n\nThe Buffalo Bills player also joined a meeting with his team via Facetime and said: \"Love you boys.\"\n\nHamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field during Monday night's primetime game in Ohio, causing an outpouring of grief from fans.\n\nHe is now able to breathe on his own and \"continues to progress remarkably\".\n\nThe Bills cited his doctors in a tweet saying Hamlin's neurologic function remains intact and he has been able to talk to his family and care team.\n\nThe news comes after physicians treating Hamlin said on Thursday he had woken up and asked doctors if his team had won the game against the Cincinnati Bengals.\n\nThe doctor responded: \"Damar, you won - you won the game of life.\"\n\nHe had been communicating with doctors by writing after waking up.\n\nHe has been in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was on a ventilator to help his breathing.\n\nHamlin's doctors have said his lungs have continued to heal and the NFL star has made \"steady progress\", according to updates from his team.\n\n\"We are grateful for the love and support we have received,\" the Bills said.\n\nShortly before Hamlin's team issued the latest statement on Thursday, his teammate Kaiir Elam wrote in a tweet: \"Our boy is doing better, awake and showing more signs of improvement.\"\n\n\"Keep the prayers coming please,\" he added.\n\nHis agent, Ron Butler, confirmed to CNN that Hamlin was awake and had been holding hands with his family in the hospital.\n\nHamlin, 24, suffered a cardiac arrest during the primetime game after tackling Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. He fell on his back to the ground after the collision.\n\nHe received more than 30 minutes of on-the-field medical care, during which he was resuscitated once, according to the player's friend and marketing agent Jordon Rooney.\n\nSupport for the second-year Bills player has poured in since the accident.\n\nA GoFundMe page for a toy drive launched by Hamlin has amassed more than $7m (£5.9m).\n\nSeveral NFL players have donated to the cause, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson.\n\nHamlin was drafted to the NFL in 2021 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he played college football.\n\nThe NFL has cancelled the Bills' game against the Bengals in the wake of the incident.", "One of the helicopters landed safely after the mid-air collision\n\nA survivor of a deadly helicopter collision in Australia had tried to warn a pilot of impending danger, a video appears to show.\n\nIn the footage, a passenger in the backseat of the aircraft is seen tapping the pilot's shoulder.\n\nPilot Michael James turns his head in response, while the passenger then grips his seat.\n\nThe helicopter and another collided a moment later, killing a UK couple and two Australians on the other aircraft.\n\nThe footage - obtained by Australia's 7 News - was filmed on board a Sea World sightseeing helicopter that was descending on the Gold Coast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr James managed to land the helicopter safely after the rotor blade of an ascending helicopter crashed through its windscreen.\n\nFive of the six people on board the descending helicopter suffered minor injuries.\n\nThree other people on board the other aircraft were badly injured, after it fell rapidly to the ground.\n\nThe four people killed were Sydney resident Vanessa Tadros, British couple Diane Hughes, 57, and her 65-year-old husband Ron, and 40-year-old Sea World Helicopters pilot Ashley Jenkinson, who was originally from Birmingham.\n\nThe Hugheses' family put out a statement saying they were \"still in a state of shock\", ABC News reported. Ms Tadros' husband, Simon, sought prayers on social media for their 10-year-old son Nicholas, who is one of those badly injured and in intensive care.\n\nBoth helicopters were operating tourist flights for Sea World, a popular theme park on the Gold Coast.\n\nThe company that owns Sea World, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, offered condolences, and said Sea World Helicopters is an independent operator.\n\nInvestigators say they are looking into what caused the collision, including the situation in the two cockpits. \"What we do need to know now is what was occurring inside those two cockpits at the time,\" air safety commissioner Angus Mitchell told reporters on Wednesday.", "Almost 200,000 people paid homage to former Pope Benedict XVI during his lying in state over the last three days, the Vatican says.\n\nHis body has been sealed in a coffin ahead of his funeral on Thursday.\n\nPope Francis will preside over the funeral - the first time a sitting Pope has led his predecessor's funeral in over 220 years, the Vatican says.\n\nThe former Pope died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95, almost a decade after standing down because of ill-health.\n\nTens of thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral in St Peter's Square, in front of St Peter's Basilica, at 9:30 local time (8:30 GMT).\n\nThe event will be marked by simplicity, in line with what Benedict had asked for, the Vatican says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Pope Francis expresses thanks for the life and service of Benedict XVI\n\nBecause Benedict was no longer a head of state when he died, only official delegations from Italy and Benedict's native Germany will attend.\n\nOther leaders will be there in unofficial capacities - including King Philippe of Belgium and Queen Letizia of Spain, as well as the leaders of Poland and Hungary, the Catholic news agency reports.\n\nThe Pope Emeritus will be laid to rest in the tombs beneath the Basilica - where more than 90 pontiffs are buried - according to his final wishes.\n\nBefore being laid in the crypt, his body will be sealed in a zinc coffin, which will then be put in a wooden case. Items symbolising his time in the papacy will also be placed alongside his body.\n\nA day of national mourning has been declared in Portugal, while in Italy flags will be flown at half-mast on public buildings throughout the country.\n\nChurch bells will ring at 11:00 in Germany (10:00 GMT) to commemorate the German-born former Pope's memory.\n\nIn 2013, Benedict became the first Pope in more than 600 years to step down.\n\nBut he was still a \"powerful presence\" in the Vatican after his retirement, according to the most senior British figure there, Archbishop Paul Gallagher.\n\nObservers of Vatican affairs suggest that whether Benedict courted it or not, he became something of a lightning rod for internal criticism of Pope Francis.\n\n\"Obviously there have been, in the Church, people who have looked to Benedict to contrast certain decisions that have been made by Pope Francis,\" Archbishop Gallagher told the BBC. But he added that the two pontiffs had had an excellent relationship.\n\nArchbishop Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign secretary, also acknowledged that events of the past week had changed the equation to potentially allow Pope Francis to consider his own retirement more freely.\n\n\"If we had three Popes, that would be a little bit difficult to manage. But now that Pope Benedict has gone to the Lord, I think that Pope Francis will stick to those principles that he has established - that he will continue in this ministry as long as he believes that he is capable,\" he said, adding that he did not think a decision about stepping down was in any way imminent.\n\nDuring the past three days of lying in state, mourners travelled from all over the world to pay their respects to the former Pope.\n\nOne Catholic pilgrimage organiser who travelled to Rome with his family to pay his respects described the experience of entering the basilica as \"beautiful\" and \"humbling\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mountain Butorac described Benedict as a \"very gentle\" and \"humble\" man, who had been like a \"papal grandfather\" to him.\n\nBenedict XVI's body lay in state in St Peter's Basilica for public viewing\n\nOther mourners paid their respects in their own countries, such as at this Mass in the Dominican Republic\n\nAnother mourner, Father Callistus Kahale Kabindama, a priest from Zambia, told Reuters news agency Benedict had been \"a great Pope, a marvellous Pope\".\n\nBut Benedict was a controversial figure who was criticised by some for failing to adequately tackle allegations of clerical sexual abuse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPope Francis has led tributes to his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who has died, aged 95.\n\nBenedict had been \"noble\" and \"kind\" - and \"gifted\" to the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Lula are among dozens of leaders to praise the former pontiff.\n\nBenedict resigned in 2013 because of poor health - the first pope to do so in 600 years. His funeral service will be held at the Vatican on 5 January.\n\nThe 265th leader of the Catholic Church, Benedict was a controversial figure. While some mourners hailed him resolute defender of the faith, others criticised his tenure for a failure to tackle allegations of the clerical sexual abuse.\n\nBut hours after the announcement of his death, Pope Francis praised his \"dearest\" predecessor, emphasising \"his sacrifices offered for the good of the Church\".\n\nIn the US, the White House released a statement from President Joe Biden - who is only the second Catholic after John F Kennedy to hold the nation's highest office.\n\nRecalling spending time with Benedict at the Vatican in 2011, the president said that he would \"be remembered as a renowned theologian, with a lifetime of devotion to the Church, guided by his principles and faith\".\n\nLeaders of countries with large Catholic populations across the world also paid tribute, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailing Benedict as a \"giant of faith and reason\" and \"a great man whom history will not forget\".\n\nIreland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described the former pope as a \"humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord\".\n\nIn Brazil - the largest Catholic nation in the world - incoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wished \"comfort to the faithful and admirers of the Holy Father\".\n\nAnd his predecessor - President Jair Bolsonaro - hailed Benedict's \"masterful work as a great theologian\" and said he left an \"immense legacy for the Catholic Church, for all Christians and for humanity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Pope Francis expresses thanks for the life and service of Benedict XVI\n\nIn the UK, the new monarch King Charles III said that he received news of the former Pope's death with \"deep sadness\".\n\nSending a message of condolence to Pope Francis, he highlighted Benedict's \"constant efforts to promote peace and goodwill to all people\" and his actions to strengthen bonds between Catholics and Anglicans.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak called Benedict XVI \"a great theologian whose UK visit in 2010 was an historic moment for both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout our country\".\n\nThe head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said Benedict transformed his image in the UK when he visited.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Cardinal Nichols said he arrived with a reputation of being \"God's Rottweiler\", but left being compared to \"everybody's favourite great-uncle or just uncle\".\n\nUN chief Antonio Guterres praised the former pontiff for his \"tenacious commitment to non-violence and peace\".\n\nGermany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the late pope as \"a formative figure of the Catholic Church, a forthright personality and a clever theologian\".\n\nBenedict was born in Bavaria as Joseph Ratzinger and in 1977 was appointed archbishop of Munich.\n\nReaction to his death in the city was varied - with one resident describing him as \"conservative\", while taking pride from the fact that he was German.\n\nAnother was more critical.\n\n\"I thought when he came to power he would finally bring some fresh air into the Catholic Church and bring an end to celibacy. But unfortunately, he disappointed me,\" Christa Herwig told Reuters news agency.\n\nIn 2019 Benedict blamed clerical sexual abuse on the sexual freedom of the 1960s and the rejection of God's teaching.\n\nFor much of his papacy, the Catholic Church faced allegations, legal claims and official reports into decades of child abuse by priests.\n\nEarlier this year the former pope acknowledged that errors had been made in the handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.\n\nThe admission came after a German legal probe into the Catholic Church alleged that he failed to act over four child sex abuse cases.\n\nIn a letter released by the Vatican, the former pontiff asked forgiveness for any \"grievous fault\" but denied personal wrongdoing.\n\nWith the death of Pope Benedict XVI the Catholic world has lost an unrivalled receptacle of theological knowledge, intellectualism and lived experience.\n\nWhile little has changed in terms of doctrinal discussion at the Vatican in the nearly 10 years since he stepped down, what has changed is the spirit of the papacy.\n\nPope Francis is widely regarded to have had a more pastoral approach and his appointments of cardinals show a clear shift towards Asia and Latin America.\n\nIn recent years, though he has not appeared to court it, the Pope Emeritus became something of a lightning rod for some opposed to the new Pope.\n\nThere had been speculation that Pope Francis, who himself has been suffering ill health, had been contemplating stepping down, but was reluctant to do so if it meant there would be three popes in Rome.\n\nIt was not quite \"The Two Popes\", but in spite of their differences, there was by all accounts immense respect shown between predecessor and successor. We are likely to hear about that in the coming days and particularly in Pope Francis's homily at the funeral on Thursday.", "What did we learn from Sir Keir Starmer's new year speech?\n\nHe wants to ram home again and again that Labour has changed.\n\nBut when it comes to details, often, there aren't that many.\n\nSenior Labour figures conclude a general election isn't very likely this year - so they want to make the case that they're not the party they were under Jeremy Corbyn, but they don't want announce stuff that turns out to be a hostage to fortune or is nicked by the government and implemented by the Conservatives instead.\n\nSo let's unpick a few of the most eye-catching elements of what Keir Starmer had to say.\n\nFirstly, he is cloaking himself in the language of the Brexit campaign.\n\nA man who campaigned for Remain and then wanted a second EU referendum is now dressing up a planned law to push power away from Westminster as the \"Taking Back Control Bill\" - and so adopting the very effective slogan of the victorious Leave campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says he expects to inherit a \"very badly damaged economy\" from the Conservatives if he wins the next election.\n\nLabour desperately want to win back seats that voted Leave and subsequently abandoned them, and so we can see this use of language as the equivalent of Keir Starmer shimmying up every stairwell he can find and shouting \"we get it!\" from the roof tops.\n\nHe is also attempting to not just court, but \"seal the deal\" as one of his advisers put it to me, with voters who backed the Conservatives last time but are now disillusioned with them, but perhaps not convinced by Labour either.\n\nHence his reassurance, as he hopes some will see it, that Labour's solution to the country's problems won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out.\"\n\nThat they can be trusted with the public finances, so often an Achilles' heel for Labour with crucial floating voters who decide elections.\n\nCuriously, as a sidenote, in the extracts from the speech shared with reporters beforehand, we were told he would use the word \"again\" at the end of that sentence, implying he believed the previous Labour government may have spent too much.\n\nBut that word didn't pass Sir Keir's lips when he delivered the speech.\n\nNonetheless, the words he did use prompt the question as to whether Labour would spend more, less, or the same as the Conservatives.\n\nI asked Sir Keir this, and he ducked it - a hostage to fortune perhaps that he doesn't want to create.\n\nSome might ask what the point of a Labour government is if it's not willing to spend more money than the Conservatives.\n\nSir Keir seems willing for that to be a question for some, if it helps convince others who might be suspicious of what they see as Labour's big-spending instincts of old.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are in the same contest: the contest to be prime minister after the next election.\n\nBut expect their strategies this year to be different.\n\nRishi Sunak, as I wrote yesterday, will want to give the immediate impression of getting stuff done.\n\nKeir Starmer, calculating an election isn't imminent, will take his time - and be judicious, as he sees it, in his unveiling of the specifics of how he might govern if he wins power.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'No-one should have to carry a loved one into hospital'\n\nWhen Steve Parsons's grandfather collapsed at his Monmouthshire home, his family immediately dialled 999.\n\nHowever when they were told there were no ambulances available, they had to take measures into their own hands.\n\nIn desperation, Mr Parsons drove and then carried the 83-year-old, who had suffered a cardiac arrest, into the Grange Hospital near Cwmbran, Torfaen.\n\nA passing nurse helped save the elderly patient and the ambulance service and health board have both apologised.\n\nAneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) and Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) admitted the incident did not match the service they wished to offer - but said it was indicative of the \"unprecedented\" pressures both organisations were under.\n\nMr Parsons said: \"It was horrible. They're on the phone, you're there and he's grey in the face and looks horrendous. You just panic.\"\n\nBy the time Mr Parsons drove to the hospital, his grandfather had gone into cardiac arrest. He then carried his relative on his shoulder across the car park \"yelling for help\".\n\nA passing nurse heard his calls and was able to help save the 83-year-old's life using CPR.\n\n\"It could've been the difference of 30 seconds and I think my grandfather wouldn't be here,\" said Mr Parsons.\n\n\"I thank the staff at the Grange [hospital] for doing what they did, because without them he wouldn't be here.\"\n\nHis grandfather is now recovering at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, but Mr Parsons said his family has been traumatised.\n\n\"It makes me feel angry,\" said the 31-year-old.\n\n\"If my grandfather had that ambulance, had that oxygen, I fully believe he wouldn't have gone into cardiac arrest and my family wouldn't have gone through what they've gone through these past seven days.\"\n\nAmbulances often face long waits to discharge patients at The Grange Hospital's A&E department\n\nWAST said it was not the level of service it wishes to provide.\n\nHowever, Jeff Morris, its head of emergency medical services for the central region, added: \"Demand has been such that we have had no option other than to ask some patients to make their own way to hospital, as was the experience of this family.\"\n\nThe Welsh NHS Confederation, which represents all Welsh NHS organisations, has previously warned that the NHS was struggling to cope, and the Christmas period had \"tipped it over the edge\".\n\nABUHV admitted the experience must have been \"traumatic\" for the family and praised the actions of the nurse as an example of how staff \"go above and beyond\" to keep services running.\n\nHowever it said a \"significant\" increase in respiratory viruses was not only raising demand but also causing high levels of staff sickness.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\nA spokesman added: \"We take great pride in offering the best possible care to our patients, but this is becoming increasingly difficult at the moment.\n\n\"Our services are facing the same extreme pressures that are being reported across Wales and the UK, with large numbers of patients presenting with respiratory viruses - particularly flu and Covid-19.\"\n\nThe health board has urged people to use services \"appropriately\" and to seek care for less severe problems at minor injury units, GPs or pharmacies.\n\nThe Welsh government called the situation in the NHS \"unprecedented\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many of those remaining in Bakhmut are elderly, like 86-year-old Anatolay, and searching for food\n\n\"This is the toughest operation I've ever seen. The enemy has thrown its strongest assault at Bakhmut. We haven't seen troops like this before,\" the Ukrainian commander tells us.\n\nCommander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street. It is one of the main command centres the Ukrainian military has set up in the city, and few journalists have been here.\n\nA tall, hefty man with sparkling eyes, he watches a live feed from a drone hovering outside the eastern edge of the city on a big screen in the centre of the room.\n\nOne of the battalion's units is trying to spot the location of Russian positions, to aid another unit which has just gone out to defend eastern approaches to Bakhmut under attack.\n\nIn addition to Russian armed forces, mercenaries from the private paramilitary Wagner group have been sent in their thousands to front lines around Bakhmut.\n\nCommander Skala is operating from an underground command centre in Bakhmut\n\n\"Wagner soldiers openly advance under fire towards us even if they're littering the land with their bodies, even if out of 60 people in their platoon only 20 are left. It's very difficult to hold against such an invasion. We weren't prepared for that, and we're learning now,\" Commander Skala says.\n\n\"Some weeks ago, we lost positions on the eastern approaches to the city because the enemy was constantly storming us with assaults. We moved to secondary front lines to save our soldiers,\" he adds.\n\n\"We are trying to work smartly and get those positions back. Sometimes you have to withdraw to attack the enemy properly.\"\n\nWagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has said Ukrainians have turned every house in Bakhmut into a fortress, and that there were now \"500 lines of defence\".\n\nRussia has been using all its might to try to take Bakhmut - a battle considered critical for the country after it lost ground in Ukraine in recent months, being pushed out of Kherson in the south and the Kharkiv region in the north-east. Capturing Bakhmut is also important to further Russia's aim to control the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBombs have ripped through facades of buildings everywhere in Bakhmut\n\nThroughout our conversation with Commander Skala, muffled explosions can be heard from above ground. The second you step outside, the sound is loud enough to make your heart pound - the terrifying whistle of shells flying in followed by the deafening boom of the impact.\n\nAnd the sound never stops as the bombs keep falling.\n\nOne resident described it as \"the end of the world\" and there are moments when it feels like that.\n\nBombs have ripped through the middle of apartment blocks, blown away the facades of buildings and created craters by the side of streets. It was hard to find a window in Bakhmut that was intact. The ground is littered with broken glass and debris.\n\nThis was once a quiet, ordinary town in the east, known for its sparkling wine. Now, it's become a byword for war and Ukraine's resistance.\n\nIt lies at a vital road intersection, but over the months, the battle here has gained a symbolic importance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently called it the \"fortress of our morale\".\n\nBakhmut used to be home to just over 70,000 people before the war. Just a tenth of its residents - mostly elderly or poor - remain.\n\nWhile the streets are largely empty, we see dozens of civilians in an aid centre, known here as a \"resilience centre\".\n\nIt has power, and wi-fi provided by Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. Volunteers distribute small packets of food, medicines and other basic supplies. A wood-burner in the centre keeps the room warm.\n\nThis is a lifeline for the people in Bakhmut.\n\nThis resilience centre helps those residents still in the city stay warm and charge their phones\n\nMany sit huddled around electrical points, trying to charge up their phones.\n\nWhat's remarkable is that even when shells land just a few hundred metres from the centre, people don't flinch. It's as if they've become numb, running from bombs every day.\n\nTrauma is visible on many faces though.\n\nWhy don't you leave, we asked Anatolay Suschenko, who was standing in a queue for some food.\n\n\"I have nowhere to go. I'm alone. Who would want to take an 86-year-old?\" he said. \"Here, at least sometimes when soldiers throw away food or soup, I find it and eat it. And I get free bread. In my whole life, I've never seen anything like this. All the windows of my house have been blown off, and the gate has been destroyed.\"\n\nPeople have different reasons to stay. Olha Tupikova sits in the corner of the room with her 13-year-old daughter Diana.\n\n\"I think everywhere in Ukraine is equally dangerous. Some of our neighbours left and died elsewhere. Here we have a house. We have cats and dogs. We can't leave them,\" she said.\n\n\"Our roof has 21 holes and the garage has nine. I mend them every time, and try to repair the windows too. Normally the holes are caused by shrapnel, but lately we've had stones flying in too, making holes that are the size of a head.\"\n\nOlha (left) and her daughter Diana, are staying in Bakhmut as they have a house and cats and dogs\n\n\"We live like mice. We quickly run out to get some bread, choose different routes to get back home. Before sunrise I look for wooden boards and logs [to repair my home]. In the evening I search for water because there's no water supply in town,\" Olha said.\n\n\"Of course, it's frightening. But now we do it army style, like soldiers. We joke that master chefs know nothing about cooking [compared to us]. We can make a meal out of anything on an open fire, or even a candle.\"\n\nThe local administration is trying to convince people to leave.\n\nIn a location in the city we can't disclose because it could compromise his safety, we met Oleksiy Reva, who has been the mayor of Bakhmut for 33 years.\n\n\"It's those who don't have money and don't want to face the unknown who are staying. But we are talking to them about it. Because safety is most important, safety and peace,\" he said.\n\nWhy does he continue to stay, we asked. \"This is my life, my job, my fate. I was born here, and grew up here. My parents are buried here. My conscience won't allow me to leave our people. And I'm confident our military will not allow Bakhmut to fall,\" he said.\n\nIn the fields outside the city, we see the daily grind required to keep a hold on it.\n\nThe unit of soldiers we meet try to spot Russian locations and fire artillery - Soviet-era D-30 guns - in their direction, to allow Ukrainian infantry to push ahead every day. But barely any advance is being made.\n\n\"The equipment is outdated. It works fine and does the job, but it can be better. We also have to be very economical with our shells, very precise with our targets so we don't run out of ammunition. If we had more equipment and modern weapons, we would be able to destroy more targets which would make things much easier for our infantry,\" one of the soldiers, Valentyn, said.\n\nWinter also makes things difficult. Weapons don't operate as smoothly in cold weather, they tell us.\n\nUkrainian forces say their weapons are outdated and they worry about running out of ammunition\n\n\"We simply need to overcome this period, hold on, and then execute counter-offensives and fight,\" Yaroslav said.\n\nEach side is trying to wear the other down. This is a battle of endurance.\n\nHow do you motivate yourself every day, we asked. \"We all have families to go back to. Valentyn just had a son but his family is in Germany, so he hasn't seen him yet,\" Yaroslav said as Valentyn cracked a shy smile.", "Michelle Donelan said \"pursuing a sale at this point is not the right decision\"\n\nThe government has confirmed it will not go ahead with a controversial plan to privatise Channel 4.\n\nFormer Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries had said government ownership was \"holding Channel 4 back\".\n\nBut her successor Michelle Donelan has now said the broadcaster \"should not be sold\", instead proposing other reforms because \"change is necessary\".\n\nChannel 4 welcomed the news, saying the decision \"allows us to be even more of a power in the digital world\".\n\nThe plan to sell the broadcaster for a possible £1.5bn had faced opposition from Channel 4 executives and much of the TV industry.\n\nMs Donelan said she had reached her decision \"after reviewing the business case and engaging with the relevant sectors\".\n\nHer alternative reforms include allowing the broadcaster to make and own the rights to some of its own programmes - many of which are currently made by independent production companies - and moving more jobs outside London.\n\n\"This announcement will bring huge opportunities across the UK with Channel 4's commitment to double their skills investment to £10m and double the number of jobs outside of London,\" Ms Donelan said.\n\n\"The package will also safeguard the future of our world leading independent production sector. We will work closely with them to add new protections such as increasing the amount of content C4C [Channel 4 Corporation] must commission from independent producers.\"\n\nThe news comes a day after a letter, in which Ms Donelan recommended the move to the prime minister, was leaked.\n\nThat sparked an angry response from Ms Dorries, who said the privatisation was one of a number of \"progressive\" policies that were being \"washed down the drain\".\n\nNadine Dorries, Donelan's predecessor as culture secretary, expressed frustration over the sale being dropped\n\nResponding to the confirmation that privatisation would not go ahead, Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon said: \"The principle of public ownership for Channel 4 is now set for the foreseeable future, a decision which allows us to be even more of a power in the digital world.\n\n\"Channel 4 is innovative, editorially brilliant and loved by audiences that others don't reach, most of all the young and underrepresented. In the analogue world, we did this spectacularly. Now, in the digital era, we are doing it again.\"\n\nChannel 4 has been owned by the government but funded by advertising since it was set up in 1982.\n\nDuring Ms Dorries' tenure as culture secretary, the government said that declining advertising revenues and traditional TV viewing, and rising programme budgets, meant Channel 4 was being held back from competing with other TV services.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would continue with the privatisation plan during his leadership campaign last year. But he has now accepted Ms Donelan's decision to scrap it.\n\nA statement from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on Thursday said: \"However, doing nothing also carries risks and the government believes change is necessary to ensure the corporation can thrive now and long into the future in a rapidly changing media landscape.\"\n\nChannel 4's most popular programmes include Gogglebox, Derry Girls (pictured), First Dates and The Great British Bake Off\n\nChannel 4 has not previously been allowed to make its own programmes - meaning it also doesn't own the rights to hits, which can be lucrative when the shows are sold to other broadcasters or streamers.\n\nUnder the new proposals, it will be able to make some programmes and therefore make money from those rights.\n\nMs Donelan has also promised to protect independent production companies by offering to raise the proportion of shows they make for Channel 4.\n\nThe broadcaster currently has a quota to commission at least 25% of its programmes from those independent producers, but in practice the real figure is around 60%, according to Channel 4's latest annual report.\n\nPact, the trade association for independent TV production companies, welcomed the government's decision not to go ahead with privatisation.\n\n\"However, we are disappointed that the government will be relaxing Channel 4's publisher-broadcaster status and permitting Channel 4 to produce its own programmes in-house,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our main opposition to privatisation was the proposals around in-house production. Any relaxation of Channel 4's publisher-broadcaster status will be a blow to the sector, who are already facing increased production and business related costs.\"", "Diane and Ron Hughes married in 2022 and were visiting Australia to see relatives in the country\n\nA couple who died in a helicopter crash on Australia's Gold Coast had arrived in the country days before to visit relatives \"after being separated by Covid\", their family has said.\n\nDiane Hughes, 57, and husband Ron, 65, were killed when two helicopters collided in Queensland on 2 January.\n\nThe \"fun-loving\" couple from Neston, Cheshire, had \"a zest for life\", their family said in a statement.\n\nThey added that they were \"still in a state of shock\" over what had happened.\n\nOfficials have said the fatal crash near Sea World, a popular theme park on the Gold Coast, happened less than 20 seconds after one helicopter took off from a sandbar and collided with another aircraft that was landing.\n\nMr and Mrs Hughes were killed, along with Sydney resident Vanessa Tadros, 36, and 40-year-old Sea World Helicopters pilot Ashley Jenkinson, who was originally from Birmingham.\n\nThree others, including two children, were badly injured and remain in hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, the couple's relatives said Mr and Mrs Hughes, who married in 2022, had \"arrived last week [to visit] our family on the Gold Coast after being separated by Covid for the last few years\".\n\n\"We are deeply saddened and still in a state of shock from the events that unfolded on Monday,\" they said.\n\n\"They were the most generous, loyal, fun-loving couple, who had a zest for life and were loved and adored by everyone they met.\n\n\"Tragedies like this happen to 'other people' and we are all struggling to come to terms with our loss.\n\n\"They leave a huge hole in our family and will be survived by parents, brothers, sons, daughters, and their cheeky grandkids.\"\n\nThey also thanked \"all the first responders, emergency services and Sea World staff for their heroics in trying to save our loved ones\".\n\n\"Our thoughts are with everyone impacted and we pray for the recovery of survivors still in hospital,\" they added.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the crash has begun, with officials saying they were looking into the situation in the helicopters.\n\n\"What we do need to know now is what was occurring inside those two cockpits at the time,\" air safety commissioner Angus Mitchell told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Forget, for one moment, the allegation of a physical attack by his brother reportedly set out in Prince Harry's upcoming memoir Spare. Put to one side claims of shouting matches and William criticising Harry's new wife.\n\nIt's all good juicy stuff and it reveals - if true - the depths to which the relationship between the brothers fell.\n\nIt is unsurprising that the Palace has held its nose, refusing to comment on private experiences that a fair number of families might have gone through one way or another. The Royal Family, most people agree, deserves some privacy.\n\nBut at the heart of his story is one allegation that has gone entirely unanswered by the Palace - that his family leaked and planted negative stories \"against me and my wife\" to the press.\n\nIn a clip previewing this Sunday's sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex is asked how his desire for privacy sits alongside his tell-all biography.\n\n\"That,\" Harry says, \"would be the accusation from people that don't understand or don't want to believe that my family have been briefing the press.\"\n\nIn happier times: The brothers came together to unveil a statue they commissioned of their late mother Princess Diana in 2021\n\nThe duke said the same sort of thing in last year's Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. There was a deal, he said, between him and William that they would never brief against each other.\n\nHe explained the deal was born out of their experience of their separated parents - Diana and Prince Charles - feeding vicious briefings to the media through third parties.\n\nThen, Harry says, he found out the office they shared, the Kensington Palace communications team that was supposed to speak for and defend both him and his brother, was feeding negative stories to the media. The couples officially split their offices in January 2020.\n\nNo details have emerged as to which stories he means but it's perhaps not hard to guess. Just after the Sussexes' wedding, tales began to emerge about Meghan's behaviour towards Palace staff, about demands she reportedly made over the 2018 ceremony, about how she had made Kate, now the Princess of Wales, cry.\n\nThe brothers and their wives came together briefly for a walkabout in Windsor last year following Queen Elizabeth II's death\n\nHarry's deep dislike of the media, in particular Britain's best-selling newspapers, is well chronicled. But this allegation is something different.\n\nIf you are a member of the Royal Family the deal is you suck up the criticism and let the Palace communications people deal with the flak. You don't speak out, you don't tell your side of the story.\n\nBut Harry claims the very people he was told to rely on to defend him and Meghan were actually feeding negative stories about them to the media.\n\nThere was, in his eyes, no way for the truth to be told while he remained within the Palace machinery. His and Meghan's side of the story, he says, never got told.\n\nAnd worse, behind their backs, he says Palace staff - the people paid to speak for them - were in fact undermining them.\n\nIf this were an allegation made against a government department, a political party, a business or a football team in the public eye, a response would be expected.\n\nThe lack of any response or denial would be taken by many as an admission that the allegation was true.\n\nSo is it true that the office of William and Catherine briefed against Harry and his wife?\n\nNo comment, says the Palace.\n\nCorrection: Prince William and Catherine's office is funded by the Duchy of Cornwall and not taxpayers, as an earlier version of this article said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA body has been found in the search for a 65-year-old former BBC editor who went missing on New Year's Eve.\n\nAled Glynne Davies, the former editor of BBC Radio Cymru, was last seen in Pontcanna, Cardiff, on 31 December.\n\nIn an Instagram post, his family said his body was found in a river on Wednesday.\n\nSouth Wales Police said the body is believed to be his, and Supt Michelle Conquer added: \"We continue to support Aled's family at this very sad time\".\n\nShe said investigations were continuing \"to determine the circumstances surrounding the death\".\n\nHis son, Gruffudd Glyn, wrote: \"We are heartbroken to announce that Dad was discovered in the river this morning.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gruff.glyn This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Thank you so much for all your efforts.\n\n\"Now it's time for us all to relax. Let us all celebrate Dad's life.\"\n\nAled Glynne Davies was a former editor of BBC Radio Cymru\n\nMr Davies's family and friends had appealed for information, in particular video footage, in the search to find him.\n\nMr Glyn said the search was frustrated by the lack of footage of him that night.\n\nBBC presenter Huw Edwards, who used to work with Mr Davies, said he was a \"journalist and broadcaster of rare ability\".\n\nHe described him as a \"kind and generous man\" and offered his condolences to the family.\n\nBBC Wales Director Rhuanedd Richards said: \"Aled was an innovative, energetic and passionate editor during his time leading BBC Radio Cymru between 1995 and 2006.\n\n\"His passing is a great loss to the broadcasting world as well as to the Welsh language.\"\n\n\"We are heartbroken,\" says Aled Davies's son, Gruffudd Glyn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPope Francis has joined pilgrims in St Peter's Square to preside over the funeral of his predecessor, who resigned from the papacy in 2013.\n\nThe dome of St Peter's basilica at the Vatican was shrouded in mist as the cypress-wood coffin containing Pope Benedict XVI's body was brought out and placed on the steps.\n\nThere was applause from the faithful who had gathered for the funeral.\n\nBenedict was then interred in a tomb beneath the basilica.\n\nClergy from around the world had come - cardinals in red vestments, nuns and monks in their dark robes.\n\nPope Francis was brought out on to the dais in a wheelchair.\n\nLatin chants sung by the Sistine Chapel choir echoed across the square. The mood was solemn and subdued.\n\nThousands of people gathered to pay their respects to the former Pope\n\nDaniele, a teacher, who had met the former pontiff at a church in Rome, told me the weather matched the occasion. \"The fog represents the mystery of Pope Benedict, the mystery of death and life.\"\n\nDuring the Mass, concelebrated by cardinals, bishops and priests, Pope Francis spoke of \"wisdom, tenderness and devotion that he bestowed upon us over the years\".\n\n\"Benedict, faithful friend of the Bridegroom,\" he said referring to Jesus, \"may your joy be complete as you hear his voice, now and forever.\"\n\nSome 50,000 mourners came to the funeral, according to police. Official delegations were there from Italy and from former Pope Benedict's home country of Germany. Other leaders, including the king and queen of Belgium attended in a private capacity.\n\nBenedict's death brings to an end the era of a pope and a former pope living side by side in the Vatican - an unprecedented situation brought about by Benedict's resignation almost a decade ago.\n\nIn February 2013, I stood watching in St Peter's Square as he flew away from the Vatican in a helicopter, at the end of his pontificate.\n\nThe ceremonies surrounding his death have been simpler than those for a sitting pope.\n\nPope Benedict was laid out in coffin made of cypress wood enclosed first by zinc with a further wooden coffin inside\n\nOver the past few days, some 200,000 people came to the Vatican to pay their respects to the former pontiff, as he lay in state in front of the main altar in St Peter's Basilica.\n\nOn the day before the funeral, I joined the long line of visitors and mourners queuing to view his body. Dressed in red and gold vestments, he had a rosary clasped in his white, waxy hands.\n\nThere was no display of usual papal regalia like the silver staff, a sign that he was no longer Pope when he died.\n\nBut in line with tradition, a lead tube containing an account of Benedict's papacy, as well as other items, including Vatican coins minted during his reign, were placed in the coffin.\n\nAt the end of the service, the choir sang \"May the angels lead you into paradise.\" Pope Francis placed his hand on the wooden coffin in a final prayer, before it was carried away, to be sealed and placed in another coffin of zinc and an outer one of wood.\n\nIt was buried in the crypt under St Peter's Basilica, where Pope John Paul II was originally interred in 2005 before his body was moved up to a chapel, after his beatification.\n\nClergy from around the world joined Pope Francis at Pope Benedict XVI's funeral\n\nWhile many leading figures have praised Benedict since his death - paying tribute to his theological studies - there has also been criticism, particularly by victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.\n\nThe Snap Survivors network said the former pope \"virtually ignored the burning problem of clergy sexual abuse during his tenure in office\".\n\n\"In his more than 25 years as the world's most influential religious figure, Pope Benedict XVI fell short in protecting children and adults around the world.\"\n\nIn St Peter's Square, feelings about the former pope were mixed. Gaia from Sardinia said that while Benedict had been \"a very good pope, I prefer Pope Francis. I think that he's closer to people in 2023\".\n\nSimona from Monza in northern Italy told me she was concerned that Francis might follow Benedict's example and retire. \"I'm worried he is sick, and I really do hope that he still has the strength to keep the Church united and to go on and give hope to this world.\"\n\nChristopher Lamb, Vatican correspondent of the Catholic magazine The Tablet, said Francis now faced a new moment in his pontificate but he expected him to continue his pace of reform within the Church.\n\n\"The death of Benedict does leave it open for Francis to step down if he wishes but I wouldn't bet on it because this Pope really has a lot to accomplish in terms of reforms.\"", "Rishi Sunak is due to set out his plans for the year ahead in his first speech of 2023\n\nThe prime minister is looking at plans to ensure all school pupils in England study maths in some form until the age of 18.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, Rishi Sunak said he wanted people to \"feel confident\" when it came to finances.\n\nBut critics have said the plan will not be possible without more maths teachers.\n\nMr Sunak also set out the priorities for his premiership, including tackling backlogs in the health service.\n\nThe number of 16 to 18-year-olds is projected to rise by a total of 18% between 2021 and 2030.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Sunak said the UK must \"reimagine our approach to numeracy\".\n\n\"In a world where data is everywhere and statistics underpin every job, letting our children out into that world without those skills is letting our children down,\" he said.\n\nHe said he wanted people to have the skills they needed \"to feel confident\" with finances and things like mortgage deals.\n\nJust half of 16 to 19-year-olds study maths, according to Mr Sunak - but this figure includes pupils doing science courses, and those who are already doing compulsory GCSE resits in college.\n\nIt is not clear what the plans will mean for students who wish to study humanities or creative arts qualifications, including BTecs. No new qualifications are immediately planned, and there are no plans to make A-levels compulsory.\n\nThe government is instead exploring expanding existing qualifications as well as \"more innovative options\", a Downing Street spokesperson said.\n\nThe idea appears to be an aspiration rather than a fully developed policy, with the precise mechanics for how it would work not set out.\n\nThe government acknowledges it would not be possible to implement before the next general election, although the prime minister is expected to begin working on the plan in this Parliament.\n\nThe Autumn Statement unveiled an extra £2.3bn in core school funding for five to 16-year-olds over the next two years - reversing the real-terms cuts of the last decade.\n\nHowever, no extra funding was given to further education colleges, which teach many of the most disadvantaged 16 to 18-year-olds, nor to sixth form colleges.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust social mobility charity and chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, welcomed Mr Sunak's aspiration and said the focus should be \"on giving young people the practical maths skills that they need in the workplace and in their everyday lives\".\n\nHowever, the Association of School and College Leaders said there was a \"severe shortage of maths teachers\", and that the plan was \"therefore currently unachievable\".\n\nIn 2021, there were 35,771 maths teachers in state secondary schools in England. There were more English teachers (39,000) and science teachers (45,000).\n\nMaths teacher numbers are 9% higher than in 2012, but shortages have been reported across the country.\n\nA survey of secondary schools in England by the National Foundation for Educational Research found that 45% of respondents used non-specialist teachers to deliver some maths lessons in 2021.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson called on Mr Sunak to \"show his working\" on how greater participation in maths will be funded.\n\n\"He cannot deliver this reheated, empty pledge without more maths teachers, yet the government has missed their target for new maths teachers year after year,\" she said.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson called the aim \"an admission of failure from the prime minister on behalf of a Conservative government that has neglected our children's education so badly\".\n\nShe added: \"Too many children are being left behind when it comes to maths, and that happens well before they reach 16.\"\n\nMr Sunak's speech emphasised the importance of family, but it was light on plans for early years education - another sector that went without extra funding in the Autumn Statement.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said it showed \"a lack of understanding\" about the importance of early years.\n\nTory MP Robin Walker, who is chairman of the education committee, urged the prime minister to focus on childcare.\n\n\"It's great to hear the prime minister today committing to maths beyond 16,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"But if we don't get the right approach to stimulating and supporting children early on, they won't have the opportunities to thrive in the school system.\"\n\nThe prime minister also said education was \"the closest thing to a silver bullet there is\".\n\nAs well as a new approach to numeracy, his proposals included better attainment at primary schools and more technical education.\n\nLast year, 59% of children leaving primary school in England reached the expected standards in reading, writing and maths.\n\nThat is well below a target announced last year of 90% by 2030.", "A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings.\n\nBen Bacon analysed 20,000-year-old markings on the drawings, concluding they could refer to a lunar calendar.\n\nIt led to a specialist team proving early Europeans made notes about the timing of animals' reproductive cycles.\n\nMr Bacon said it was \"surreal\" to work out for the first time what hunter-gatherers were saying.\n\nCave paintings of animals such as reindeer, fish and cattle have been found in caves across Europe.\n\nBut archaeologists had been stumped by the meaning of dots and other marks on the paintings. So Mr Bacon decided he would try to decode them.\n\nDots like these from 23,000 years ago helped Ice Age hunter-gatherers survive\n\nHe spent numerous hours on the internet and in the British Library consulting pictures of cave paintings and \"amassed as much data as possible and began looking for repeating patterns\".\n\nIn particular, he examined a 'Y' sign on some paintings, which he felt might be a symbol for \"giving birth\" because it showed one line growing out from another.\n\nThese hand stencils and wild horses were created about 30,000 years ago\n\nWith his research advancing, he brought in friends and senior academics. They encouraged him to continue with his investigations despite Mr Bacon being \"effectively a person off the street\".\n\nHe collaborated with a team including two professors from Durham University and one from University College London and, by working out the birth cycles of similar present-day animals, they deduced that the number of marks on the cave paintings was a record, by lunar month, of the animals' mating seasons.\n\nDots and other markings were used to record animals' reproductive cycles\n\nThe team's findings were published in the Cambridge Archeological Journal.\n\nProf Paul Pettitt, of Durham University, said he was \"glad he took it seriously\" when Mr Bacon contacted him.\n\n\"The results show that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a systemic calendar and marks to record information about major ecological events within that calendar.\"\n\nThese drawings and markings were made 15,000 years ago\n\nHe added: \"In turn, we're able to show that these people, who left a legacy of spectacular art in the caves of Lascaux [in France] and Altamira [in Spain], also left a record of early timekeeping that would eventually become commonplace among our species.\"\n\nMr Bacon said our ancestors were \"a lot more like us than we had previously thought. These people, separated from us by many millennia, are suddenly a lot closer\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Some of the worst violence came in the Neukölln district of Berlin\n\nA night of new year rioting and attacks on emergency services in Berlin and other cities has shocked Germans and prompted calls for a ban on fireworks and firecrackers.\n\nForty-one police officers were hurt in the capital alone and there were dozens of attacks on firefighters.\n\nMayor Franziska Giffey has called a youth summit, condemning the violence as \"absolutely unacceptable\".\n\nSeveral figures highlighted the migrant background of many of the youths.\n\nBut the Berlin mayor insisted the issue was more to do with the social environment in which young Berliners had grown up: \"We're not talking about immigration labels but about what went wrong in the social flashpoints.\"\n\nIt was not just Berlin that witnessed violence. There were reports of rockets, firecrackers and even a starting pistol being fired at emergency vehicles in cities including Hamburg, Bonn, Dortmund and Essen.\n\nPolice said of the 145 arrests made during the Berlin riots that the majority were men, 45 were German while 27 were of Afghan nationality and 21 were Syrians.\n\nThe revelations fed into a broader debate, and leading conservative figure Jens Spahn spoke of \"unregulated migration, failed integration\".\n\nSome commentators questioned whether breaking down the suspects' nationalities was helpful. Germany's press code makes clear that ethnic or religious background should only be reported where there is legitimate public interest.\n\nGovernment integration commissioner Reem Alabali-Radovan called for perpetrators to be judged on their actions and \"not according to their presumed origins, as some are now doing\".\n\nInterior Minister Nancy Faeser said that while a debate had to take place on the background to the riots, it should not be used to stir up \"racist resentment\".\n\nBut she told the Funke newspaper group that Germany's major cities had a significant issue with \"certain young men with a migration background, who hold our state in contempt, commit acts of violence and who can hardly be reached via education and integration programmes\".\n\nPart of the problem is thought to have stemmed from the brief lifting of a ban on sales of fireworks and firecrackers over the new year.\n\nAfter a two-year halt on sales during the Covid pandemic to prevent hospitals coming under further pressure, authorities said pyrotechnics would be allowed between 6pm on New Year's Eve and 6am on New Year's Day. One of the police unions said sales should be banned completely in future.\n\nThe Berlin district of Neukölln was worst-hit by the violence and local mayor Martin Hikel spoke of conditions similar to a civil war, with rescue workers being lured into ambushes.\n\nHe told the newspaper Die Welt that the violence was less about migration issues and more to do with socially disadvantaged areas. He warned of the risk of moving towards a situation similar to that in suburban areas of France.\n\nNeukölln's integration commissioner Güner Balci said those who took part in the attacks came from a small group of \"absolute losers\". In some inner city areas facing major social issues, she said children and young people were growing up witnessing domestic violence as part of their daily lives.", "Mick Whelan told the BBC his union now had a stronger mandate than before.\n\nTrain drivers may intensify their campaign of industrial action as they seek a breakthrough in an ongoing dispute over pay, their union leader has said.\n\nDrivers at 15 train companies are walking out on Thursday, leaving some operators unable to run any trains.\n\nMick Whelan told the BBC that Aslef now had a stronger mandate than before.\n\nFrustrated members of the union had told him was currently \"not going hard and fast enough\", he said.\n\nA wave of industrial action is affecting sectors from the health and postal services to driving examinations, as people seek pay rises that keep up with the rising cost of living.\n\nRail workers in the RMT and other unions have taken part in a series of large scale strikes over more than six months.\n\nThursday marks the sixth day of action since last summer by members of Aslef, which represents most train drivers with 12,500 drivers at 15 train companies expected to take part.\n\n\"It may be we have to take greater action going forward, to make people listen,\" the union boss said.\n\n\"There is a vast will among our membership to continue,\" Mr Whelan added. \"We're in this for the long haul.\"\n\nThe Aslef leader said that a pay rise was years overdue.\n\nOne report suggested Aslef members could be offered a new pay deal worth £2,000 extra per year, but Mr Whelan told the BBC's Today Programme that he hadn't seen any such offer.\n\nHe added: \"If that turns out to be an offer, and they've leaked it to the press... I think that's self defeating. It breaches the trust and honourability of the negotiations we're in.\"\n\nMr Whelan insisted no offer at all has yet been made by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), the body which represents train companies.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the RDG, said they were getting closer to being able to put forward an offer but added that \"sensible and reasonable reform\" had to be on the table.\n\n\"I think we have done work with Aslef that can get us there,\" he told the BBC. \"But it does mean both sides have got to start having meaningful discussions. So I do think we are closer but there's still further work to be done.\"\n\nWhen an offer does materialise, it is expected to be similar to proposals the RMT rejected which involved a 4% pay rise for 2022 and 4% for 2023, conditional on a list of changes.\n\nRail Delivery Group chair Steve Montgomery is seeking \"sensible and reasonable reform\" from union members\n\nThe two sides are seeking a broad brush agreement that would then have to be agreed at local level with all 15 train companies involved. Mr Whelan said it was possible no agreement would be reached within the next year.\n\nAslef and the RMT are expected to meet rail employers and the rail minister on Monday to try and find a way forward.\n\nThe government and the rail operators said changes are needed to working practices, to modernise the railway and make it more efficient - in order to fund higher pay.\n\nBut Mr Whelan said what had been discussed did not, in his view, amount to reforms. \"They've spoken to us about a long wish list of productivity-for-nothing,\" he said.\n\nMr Montgomery said they were not asking drivers to \"do longer hours and receive less pay for it\" but \"asking people to be more flexible within that 35 hour week\".\n\nAsked about the unions' claims that the government was holding back a settlement, Mr Montgomery said there was \"restraint\" but said \"it's because of the fact we are using taxpayers' money at this stage.\" He added: \"We believe we can bring sensible reform that will not cost the taxpayer anything further.\"\n\nMr Whelan said that because inflation had \"gone through the roof\" since Aslef first sought an offer, what was acceptable six months ago \"may not be acceptable to our members now\".\n\n\"We're chasing a pay rise that at least puts a dent in that inflation,\" he said.\n\nA Department for Transport spokesperson said that both the transport secretary and the rail minister have so far had \"polite, constructive\" meetings with a range of union leaders.\n\n\"Passengers have rightly had enough of rail strikes and want the disruption to end. Unions should step back from strike action so we can start 2023 by ending this damaging dispute.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the rails strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rishi Sunak's speech had the feel of the party conference speech he never gave; cast as he was, briefly, last autumn, towards political oblivion, before the implosion of Liz Truss's premiership.\n\nHis five promises are an attempt to provide structure and accountability to his next 12 months of governing.\n\nSome look eminently achievable, others are rather vague.\n\nAnd then there is one that reminds us how grim things are - promising the economy will grow by the end of the year would still mean months and months of recession beforehand.\n\nLabour claimed they were all things that were happening anyway, or solving problems of the Tories' own making.\n\nMr Sunak sought to set out what drives him:\n\nAmid what many see as the multiple crises now, this broad vision might appear jarring to some.\n\nBut it's worth remembering the oddity of how he came to be in the job he's doing - this is a man who became prime minister in the blink of an eye, still attempting to introduce himself to the country.\n\nAnd he hasn't got much time, with the ticking clock of an election within two years, to deliver enough, quickly enough.\n\nLittle wonder, even if he intentionally avoids the outwardly frenetic pace and hurtle Liz Truss so self-consciously embraced, this is a prime minister in a hurry.\n\nHe doesn't have long to prove that he should be given longer, a full term after a general election.\n\nBy contrast, when we hear from the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, there'll be much less of a sense of stamping on the accelerator.\n\nLabour strategists conclude a general election this year is highly unlikely and so now is not the time for them to be unveiling lots of shiny new policies.\n\nThe shinier the policy, the more tempting it might be for the government to nick it.\n\nSo instead it is a broader vision of how they claim they would govern better.\n\nThere'll be more talk about pushing power away from Westminster with Sir Keir as prime minister, and more talk about there not being a splurge of spending.\n\nLabour won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out again\", as he'll put it.\n\nSir Keir hopes this can help reassure former Conservative voters that they can trust Labour with the economy.\n\nSome on the left might ponder what the point of a Labour government is that isn't willing to spend more money.\n\nThe Labour leader is also heading to Stratford in east London to make his case, the very place Mr Sunak took us for his speech.\n\nBoth men are each grappling to be seen as the most competent and inspiring manager of a rather bleak era.", "Russell Causley, the murderer who was questioned at the UK's first public parole hearing, is set to be released from prison.\n\nThe 79-year-old murdered wife Carole Packman in Bournemouth in 1985 but has always refused to reveal the whereabouts of her body.\n\nThe Parole Board said it was satisfied that Causley was suitable for release.\n\nJustice Secretary Dominic Raab said he was looking at whether to ask for the decision to be reconsidered.\n\nThe Parole Board's conclusion comes after the hearing was held last month, when Causley told judges it was his ex-lover Patricia Causley, whose name he took, who carried out the killing.\n\nMs Causley was never tried over the killing. Under questioning, Causley agreed that he was a \"habitual liar\".\n\nFormer aviation engineer Causley claimed he burned Mrs Packman's body in a fire, in his garden, that lasted \"three or four days\".\n\nMs Packman's daughter Samantha Gillingham, from Northamptonshire, said she was \"disappointed\" at the decision and branded the parole process a \"tick-box exercise\".\n\n\"Of course he was going to get released,\" she added.\n\n\"It is what it is and there's nothing that I can do about it.\"\n\nBut she said she still hoped to meet her father, after decades of asking to confront him about her mother's disappearance.\n\nRussell Causley was jailed for fraud after a botched attempt to fake his own death\n\nThe Parole Board said it examined more than 600 pages of material and considered the circumstances of Causley's offending and time on licence.\n\nIt also looked at the progress he had made while in custody, and the evidence presented at hearings, before concluding it was satisfied he was \"suitable for release\".\n\nIn an official note, the Parole Board also said the panel reviewed professional reports that identified a low risk of further offending and it was advised by the witnesses that Causley would present a low risk of harm to the public.\n\nThe panel examined the release plan provided by his probation officer and \"weighed its proposals against assessed risks\".\n\nIt concluded that \"this plan was robust enough to manage Mr Causley in the community at this stage\".\n\nFollowing the decision, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said Causley was \"a calculated killer\" who \"callously prolonged the suffering of Carole Packman's loved ones by refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her body\".\n\n\"I am carefully looking at whether to ask the Parole Board to reconsider this decision,\" he added.\n\nCausley was previously released in 2020 after serving more than 23 years in custody, but was recalled to prison a year later for breaking his licence conditions.\n\nHe was not in his approved accommodation on one night and failed to answer calls from his probation officer.\n\nMrs Packman's family previously said they feared Causley had used his release as an opportunity to visit her body and have since campaigned for him to remain behind bars.\n\nCarole Packman disappeared in 1985, aged 40, and her body has never been found\n\nThe Parole Board noted Causley previously admitted responsibility but he now maintained he was innocent of the murder of his wife, although he did accept he had disposed of her body.\n\nCausley's release is subject to a number of conditions including residing at a designated address and disclosing developing relationships.\n\nHe must also \"be of good behaviour\" and will be required to submit to an enhanced form of supervision or monitoring, including signing-in times, GPS tagging and a specified curfew.\n\nThe Parole Board said the panel could only release Causley if it was satisfied that it was no longer necessary for the protection of the public that he remained confined in prison.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas could leave the capital as early as the end of October this year, officials have confirmed.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian have to return to China under the terms of a 10 year loan, which was extended by two years due to the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe pair, who will not be replaced, have failed to produce offspring since their arrival in December 2011.\n\nThe zoo has been paying £750,000 annually to China for the pandas.\n\nThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), which runs Edinburgh Zoo, said the details of the pandas' departure would be confirmed closer to the time.\n\nIt has now announced plans to give the pandas a \"giant farewell\".\n\nDavid Field, RZSS chief executive, said as the UK's only giant pandas, they had been 'incredibly popular with visitors'\n\nRZSS members, patrons and giant panda adopters will be offered the chance to meet and feed Yang Guang through the bars of his enclosure.\n\nOther experiences available to everyone will include panda talks and brunch events.\n\nDavid Field, RZSS chief executive, said as the UK's only giant pandas, they had been \"incredibly popular with visitors\".\n\nThere will be an opportunity to feed Yang Guang through the bars of his enclosure\n\nHe said: \"Through a new range of events and experiences, we will be providing as many opportunities as possible for people to say goodbye.\n\n\"After the pandas leave, we will decide on a new species with a crucial factor being how we can support conservation in the wild,\" he added.\n\nIn total, there were eight unsuccessful attempts at artificial insemination, with the last one in 2021 when the giant panda breeding programme was stopped.", "Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced the closure of his app.\n\nThe Matt Hancock MP app debuted in 2018 with a promise to let his West Suffolk constituents follow his latest news and \"promote a healthy, open and impartial debate\".\n\nIn his final post he said it was \"time to bid a fond farewell\" to what he called an \"iconic\" app.\n\nBut the verdicts of its modest number of users have been more mixed, with some mocking its impact.\n\nMr Hancock was the first MP to launch an app. The then-culture secretary greeted new users with a video saying: \"Hi I'm Matt Hancock and welcome to my app.\"\n\nAccording to the Wall Street Journal, some 243,000 people have signed up for it since.\n\nNot all of them were who they appeared to be, though. The app was initially trolled and mocked by users, with some impersonating politicians such as Ed Balls, Donald Trump and Liz Truss.\n\nIn his farewell post on the app, Mr Hancock claimed it had secured \"multiple exclusives\" - such as his backing of Rishi Sunak's leadership campaign.\n\nMr Hancock said fans concerned about being without his latest updates should \"fear not\", urging them to follow him on TikTok where he has 156,000 followers.\n\nHe signed off with \"thanks for the memories and see you all soon\" and the hashtag: #allgoodthingsmustcometoanend.\n\nThe move to shut down the app after five years comes shortly after Mr Hancock announced he would stand down as West Suffolk MP at the next election, following a backlash to his appearance on ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.\n\nMr Hancock was suspended from the Conservative party for joining the I'm A Celebrity show and is currently an independent MP.\n\nThe Matt Hancock MP app was one of several which enjoyed a recent flurry of activity as users joked about it becoming an alternative to Twitter amid Elon Musk's takeover of the company.\n\nBut while decentralised social network Mastodon enjoyed millions of new users, the Matt Hancock app attracted irony-laced reviews on Apple's App Store.\n\nOne user described it mockingly as a \"truly a life changing experience\".\n\nAnother wrote wryly: \"Delete your phone, get this app instead. You won't regret it.\"", "The Duke of Sussex's memoir will be published on 10 January, his publisher Penguin Random House has said.\n\nThe book by Prince Harry will be titled Spare and will include his full account behind his decision to give up royal duties and move to the US.\n\nRandom House said: \"As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out...\n\n\"For Harry, this is his story at last.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said it would not comment on the book announcement.\n\nSome of the proceeds from the book go to charity. The publisher confirmed this was in the form of two donations of $1.5m (£1.3m) and £300,000 respectively to the charities Sentebale and WellChild.\n\nSentebale, co-founded by Prince Harry in 2006, helps children and adolescents in Lesotho and Botswana struggling to come to terms with their HIV status. WellChild is a British charity that gives grants so young people with exceptional health needs can be cared for at home instead of in hospital.\n\nSpare, the title of Prince Harry's memoir, is presumably a nod to the phrase that monarchies need an \"heir and a spare\".\n\nPrince William is the heir and Prince Harry will tell his version of his life in that ambiguous territory of the \"spare\", the younger royal sibling unlikely to ever be on the throne and therefore looking for their own sense of purpose.\n\nThis book, a guaranteed best-seller before a page has been printed, promises \"raw, unflinching honesty\", and the cover shows a steely-looking Prince Harry.\n\nBut it will also have to be a delicate balancing act. Much has changed since this book was first announced. Queen Elizabeth II has died, his father is King, Camilla is Queen Consort. The book itself is now later than expected.\n\nThere will be more of an appetite for tell-all tales, rather than therapy speak about self-discovery. But how many bridges will be burned by saying too much? How many of the incendiary grievances raised by Prince Harry and Meghan in the Oprah TV interview will get another rerun?\n\nWho will he spare in the process?\n\nWhen the deal for Prince Harry to write his story was announced in 2021, the prince promised he would reflect \"the highs and lows\" and be \"accurate and wholly truthful\".\n\nIn its press release for the 38-year-old's memoirs, Random House said: \"Spare takes readers immediately back to one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow and horror.\"\n\nPrince Harry, 12 at the time, attended his mother's funeral with his father and brother after her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan attended Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral in London on their most recent visit to the UK\n\nThat theme is picked up in the publicity statement for the book, which says: \"With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.\"\n\nThe book will be published on the same date worldwide and it will be available in 16 languages.\n\nThe audio edition of the book is read by Prince Harry.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced that they would step back from royal duties and work to become financially independent in 2020. At the time, Buckingham Palace and senior royals expressed their disappointment and hurt at the announcement.\n\nHarry and Meghan now live in the US with their two children, son Archie and daughter Lilibet.\n\nThe publisher's description of the book's author, which is likely to appear in the book, reads: \"Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is a husband, father, humanitarian, military veteran, mental wellness advocate, and environmentalist. He resides in Santa Barbara, California, with his family and three dogs.\"\n\nIn June, Prince Harry was seen playing polo in Santa Barbara\n• None Harry promises to share 'highs and lows' in memoir", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 42-year-old man shot seven members of his family before killing himself in the US state of Utah after his wife filed for divorce, police said.\n\nThe family of eight were found dead inside a rural home in Enoch City on Wednesday night during a welfare check at the property.\n\nPolice say the victims included the man's wife, his five children and his mother-in-law.\n\nCity manager Rob Dotson said the town of about 8,000 people was in shock.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, city officials said 42-year-old insurance salesman Michael Haight had opened fire on his wife, 40-year-old Tausha, his 78-year-old mother-in-law Gail Earl, and his five children before he killed himself.\n\nThe five children, who were not named, include three girls, 17, 12 and 7, and two boys, 7 and 4.\n\nEnoch City manager Rob Dotson said their bodies had been discovered by police at around 16:00 (23:00 GMT) on Wednesday, after someone reported that the wife had missed a scheduled appointment, prompting a welfare check on the family's home.\n\nMr Dotson said each of the victims appeared to have sustained a gunshot wound.\n\nOfficials also confirmed that Tausha Haight had filed for divorce on 21 December.\n\n\"Tausha was the most kind and generous person and she never ever said anything ill about anyone,\" Tina Brown, a friend of the family, told KSTU-TV. \"She would give the shirt off of her back for anyone and she served people tirelessly.\"\n\nCity officials, including mayor Jeffrey Chestnut, appeared emotional as they provided their latest update to media.\n\n\"It's not too often something like this hits very close to home,\" Mr Chestnut said, adding that the Haight family had been his neighbours.\n\n\"The youngest children played in my yard with my sons,\" he said.\n\nEnoch City is a small agricultural town in the south-western part of the state, about 245 miles (394 km) south of Salt Lake City.\n\nThe five children attended four schools across the Iron County School District, which released a statement expressing its sorrow.\n\nThe school district has since mobilised a crisis response team and made counsellors and therapists available.\n\nTwo unidentified women wept at a news conference in Enoch on Thursday\n\nA police crime scene trailer sat outside the victims' home on Thursday\n\nFestive decorations could be seen in the property's porch\n\nUtah Governor Spencer Cox tweeted his condolences for those affected by the \"senseless violence\".\n\nPresident Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden also offered their condolences, calling the incident a \"tragic shooting\".\n\n\"Less than one month after we marked 10 years since the Sandy Hook tragedy, another mass shooting has claimed the lives of five more children in Enoch City,\" White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.\n\nMayor Chestnut said his community had received offers of support from state and federal governments, including from the US National Security Council.\n\n\"We're very grateful to the greater world at large who are mindful of us at this time,\" Mr Chestnut said.", "Instant-messaging service WhatsApp is letting users connect via proxy servers so they can stay online if the internet is blocked or disrupted by shutdowns.\n\nThe technology giant, owned by Meta, said it hoped blackouts such as those in Iran \"never occur\" again.\n\nThey denied human rights and \"cut people off from receiving urgent help\".\n\nWhatsApp is urging its global community to volunteer proxies to help people \"communicate freely\" and said it would offer guidance on how to set one up.\n\n\"Connecting via proxy maintains the same high level of privacy and security that WhatsApp provides,\" it blogged.\n\n\"Your personal messages will still be protected by end-to-end encryption - ensuring they stay between you and the person you're communicating with and are not visible to anyone in between, not the proxy servers, WhatsApp or Meta.\"\n\nJuras Juršėnas, from proxy and online data collection company Oxylabs, told BBC News: \"For people with government restrictions on internet access, such as was the case with Iran, usage of a proxy server can let people retain connection to WhatsApp and the rest of the free, uncensored internet.\n\n\"It will allow people around the world to stay connected even if their internet access is blocked by some malicious actors.\"", "Next, Starmer is asked by a journalist from the Sun whether - given he appears to be using his New Year message to champion Brexit voters - he regrets in the past having advocated for a second Brexit referendum.\n\n\"Should vote leave voters now believe you?\", he is asked.\n\nStarmer says that even in the turbulent years from 2016 to 2019 he was \"making the argument that there was always something very important sitting behind the Leave vote\".\n\nHe says the Leave campaign's slogan - take back control - was \"really powerful\", it \"got into people\".\n\n\"The more they asked themselves 'do I have enough control?' the more they answered themselves 'no',\" he says.\n\n\"If you can't make ends meet in your family, you don't have control, if you don't have a secure job, you don't have control, if you feel you can't go out after dark because of anti-social behaviour, you don't have control - I've always accepted that argument,\" he says.\n\nHe says that we're now \"many years on\" from the referendum and it's time to embrace the argument.\n\n\"We intend to turn that slogan into a solution,\" he says, and again mentions Labour's proposed Take Back Control bill to spread power out of Westminster, which he says will \"deliver it in action\".", "A criminal investigation was launched following a visit by Ofsted inspectors to Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley\n\nSix women have been arrested over the \"suspicious\" death of a one-year-old boy at a nursery in the West Midlands.\n\nA criminal investigation was launched following a visit by Ofsted inspectors to Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley, in the wake of the death on 9 December.\n\nTwo of those arrested are being held on suspicion of corporate manslaughter, police have confirmed.\n\nThe nursery, on Bourne Street, along with other linked premises, is closed.\n\nThe corporate manslaughter suspects were detained on Wednesday, along with another woman held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nOfsted said it was supporting the police inquiry\n\nThe three are aged 51, 53 and 37, says West Midlands Police, adding it is treating the death as suspicious.\n\nThree others, aged 20, 23 and 50, were arrested on 16 December on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. They have been released on police bail.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place, but further tests will be needed to establish the cause of death, according to police.\n\nThe boy's family is being supported, the force adds.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said paramedics and an air ambulance were called to Bourne Street at about 15:20 GMT on 9 December.\n\nCrews found a child in a critical condition and advanced life support was administered, which continued on the way to Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital by ambulance.\n\nThe nursery's website stated that the Bourne Street site was established in 2003\n\nBefore the nursery's closure, Ofsted said it had received concerns on 14 December that it was not meeting some safeguarding and welfare requirements, and its registration was suspended amid fears by officials \"children may be at risk of harm\".\n\nA regulatory visit a day later revealed the nursery had failed to notify Ofsted of a change in manager, which is an offence, and was not meeting some other requirements.\n\nAs a result of that it was told to make several improvements, including training for staff caring for babies, as well as other actions around babies' sleeping routines, risk assessments and safeguarding procedures.\n\nA spokesperson for Ofsted told BBC News on Thursday it would be inappropriate to comment on the circumstances surrounding the death while a police investigation was under way.\n\nHowever, the watchdog said it was supporting the police inquiry.\n\nThe nursery was rated \"good\" by Ofsted in 2019, and \"outstanding\" three years earlier.\n\nIts website details several awards it has won, including SME News UK Enterprise Award for best childcare provider in the West Midlands in 2022, expert-recommended top three nursery in Dudley in 2021 and Greater Birmingham Apprenticeship Awards Small Employer Of The Year 2022.\n\nIt added the Bourne Street site was established in 2003, with two others in St James's Road from 2006.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new partnership between the satellite phone firm Iridium and chip giant Qualcomm will bring satellite connectivity to premium Android smartphones later in the year.\n\nIt means that in places where there is no mobile coverage, handsets can connect with passing satellites to send and receive messages.\n\nQualcomm's chips are found in many Android-powered smartphones.\n\nApple announced a satellite feature for the iPhone 14 in September 2022.\n\nThe service is currently only available for sending and receiving basic text messages in an emergency.\n\nBritish smartphone maker Bullitt was the first to launch its own satellite service, beating Apple to the post. It is also for emergency use, and will be available in selected areas when first rolled out.\n\nThe new partnership will make the same service accessible to millions more smartphone users, without tying them to a particular brand - but it will be down to the manufacturer to enable it.\n\nIridium is the original satellite phone system, sending its first satellite in to orbit in 1997. It completed a refresh of its network of 75 spacecraft in 2019.\n\nThe satellites cover the entire globe and fly in low orbit, around 485 miles (780km) above the Earth, and groups of them can communicate with each other, passing data between them.\n\nQualcomm said that at first the new feature, called Snapdragon Satellite, will only be incorporated into its premium chips so is unlikely to appear in budget devices.\n\nBut it will eventually be rolled out to tablets, laptops and even vehicles, and also become a service that is not restricted to emergency communication - although there is likely to be a fee for this.\n\nSatellite connectivity is broadly considered to be the next frontier for mobile phones because it tackles the problem of \"not-spots\" - areas where there is no existing coverage. These tend to be more common in rural or remote places.\n\nIt has already been successfully deployed to provide broadband coverage by services such as Elon Musk's Starlink.\n\nSatellite broadband is fast and generally reliable, but more expensive than cable or fibre connections.\n\nUse of the the feature will be subject to local government regulations, as countries including India and China ban the use of satellite phones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Buses burn and block roads on the streets of Culiacan, Mexico\n\nAt least 29 people were killed during the bloody operation to arrest of the son of Mexican drugs kingpin \"El Chapo\", the Mexican authorities say.\n\nOvidio Guzmán-López, 32, alleged to be a leader of his father's former cartel, was captured in Culiacán and flown to Mexico City on Thursday.\n\nBut during and after the arrest, 10 soldiers and 19 suspects were killed.\n\nFurious gang members set up road blocks, set fire to dozens of vehicles and attacked planes at a local airport.\n\nA further 35 military personnel were injured and 21 gunmen were arrested, Defence Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday.\n\nMr Guzmán-López - nicknamed \"The Mouse\" - was extracted by helicopter and flown to the capital before being taken to a maximum security federal prison.\n\nHe is accused of leading a faction of his father's notorious Sinaloa cartel - one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world.\n\nHis father, Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, is serving a life sentence in the US after being found guilty in 2019 of drug trafficking and money laundering. His trial revealed some of the brutal details of how Mexico's drug cartels operate.\n\nThe US announced an award of $5m for information leading to Mr Guzmán-López's arrest\n\nThe six-month surveillance operation to capture Mr Guzmán-López had the support of United States officials, Mr Sandoval said.\n\nThe US had put out a reward of up to $5m (£4.2m) for information leading to his arrest or conviction, as well as that of three of his brothers who are also thought to have kept their positions of command in the group.\n\nBut a federal judge in Mexico has now suspended any extradition process against him, according to local media.\n\nThe operation, which began at dawn in Culiacán, in Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico, sparked a wave of violence from armed cartel members.\n\nBurning vehicles are seen blocking a road following the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán-López.\n\nDozens of vehicles were set alight and at least two planes at Sinaloa airports were hit by gunfire, in attacks blamed on the Sinaloa cartel. More than 100 flights were cancelled at local airports as a result.\n\nTwo Mexican Air Force aircraft were forced to make emergency landings after they were hit by gunfire from the cartel, Defence Minister Sandoval said.\n\nHelicopter gunships were deployed from the authorities to support the ground operation.\n\nMexican President Andrés López Obrador said Mexican forces had acted responsibly to look after the civilian population and avoid innocent victims. No civilian deaths have yet been reported.\n\nA further 1,000 troops are being sent to Sinaloa to help with ongoing security measures.\n\nVideos on social media have shown burning buses blocking roads in Culiacán.\n\nJustine Goldbas, 32, was travelling on a bus through Sinaloa on her way back home to Los Angeles with her husband and eight-year-old son - just before the riots began on Thursday.\n\nThey were then told the bus was \"at risk\" and the driver was informed he needed to \"stop and hide\". The vehicle was parked off the main road for 16 hours in Caborca, in the neighbouring state of Sonora, before being allowed to move again.\n\n\"There was a lot of fear, people were scared,\" Ms Goldbas said.\n\n\"Our bus had just passed a spot where it happened - literally, if we had waited another 30 minutes before passing, we would have been in the cross of it.\n\n\"We've also seen security guards, some in cars and some in big tanks going south. We may have been far from it but we were close enough to see many people driving pretty fast in the opposite direction.\"\n\nThe fuselage of a plane scheduled to fly from Culiacán to Mexico City was hit by gunfire during the operation on Thursday morning as it was preparing for take-off, Mexican airline Aeromexico said.\n\nNo customers or employees were harmed, it said. A video posted on social media appears to show passengers crouching and cowering in their seats.\n\n\"As we were accelerating for take-off, we heard gunshots very close to the plane, and that's when we all threw ourselves to the floor,\" one of the passengers, David Tellez, told Reuters news agency.\n\nUS President Joe Biden is due to visit Mexico for a North American leaders' summit next week. He will now arrive on Sunday, a day earlier than previously expected, according to a tweet by Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. No reason was given for why he was arriving early.\n\nThere were blockades in different parts of the city and residents were urged to stay at home. Many shops were also looted and gunfire exchanges took place between security forces and gang members.\n\nAll schools across the whole state of Sinaloa were closed on Friday, the local government body overseeing education said.\n\nMexican security forces had previously arrested Mr Guzmán-López in 2019 but released him to avoid the threat of violence from his supporters.\n\nThe US State Department says he and his brother Joaquín are currently overseeing approximately 11 methamphetamine labs in the state of Sinaloa, producing an estimated 1,300- 2,200kg (3,000-5,000lb) of the drug per month.\n\nThey have also said that information indicates Mr Guzmán-López ordered the murders of informants, a drug trafficker and a popular Mexican singer who refused to sing at his wedding.\n\nAre you in Mexico and have been affected by the issues raised in this story? Tell us my emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford says he emphasised human rights in his meetings in Qatar\n\nWales' First Minister said he did not regret accepting a free five-star hotel stay in Qatar during the World Cup.\n\nBBC Wales revealed on Wednesday that Qatar paid for two ministers and four officials to stay at the Ritz-Carlton.\n\nMark Drakeford said he had to take the hospitality package for security reasons and could not go to meetings without it.\n\n\"While it wasn't the way we would have chosen to go to Qatar, it was unavoidable,\" he said.\n\nNews of the hospitality package prompted concerns it may have undermined the Welsh government's stance on human rights, while Amnesty International challenged ministers to show they raised the issues.\n\nQatar has been criticised for its treatment of LGBT people, women and migrant workers.\n\nMr Drakeford said he raised human rights concerns at \"every conceivable opportunity\" while he was in the country.\n\nWhile the Welsh government paid £13,000 for flights, a BBC Freedom of Information request found that Qatar paid for Mr Drakeford, Economy Minister Vaughan Gething and four officials to stay at the five-star hotel.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford faced calls not to attend the tournament amid human rights concerns\n\nThe two ministers attended separate games alongside two officials each, with the two separate trips each lasting three nights.\n\nMr Drakeford's trip came despite Sir Keir Starmer's decision to stay away from the tournament.\n\nUK government ministers also attended the World Cup, including Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, but it is not clear under whether they accepted the same package.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales: \"I don't regret it, because it was the only way in which it was possible to discharge the purposes for which I went to Qatar.\n\n\"The security regime that surrounded the games simply meant that unless you were prepared to accept the arrangements that were there on the ground, you wouldn't have had physical access to the places where I needed to be [and] the meetings I needed to attend.\n\n\"While it wasn't the way we would have chosen to go to Qatar, it was unavoidable, if the visit was to discharge the purposes that were there for it.\n\n\"At every meeting that I attended, whether that was government ministers, businesses, arts organisations, interviews with local media there in Qatar, the issue of human rights, human values, workers' rights - those things were covered in every conceivable opportunity.\"\n\nThe Qatar government put Mark Drakeford and his economy minister up at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel\n\nThe Welsh government has repeatedly defended the trip, saying said the tournament gave it an opportunity to promote Wales on the world stage and to seek investment from Qatar.\n\nMr Drakeford said in November it was a \"difficult and closely balanced decision\" to go.\n\nAsked about the arrangements for UK ministers, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"The World Cup was a major international event and it is right that the UK government was represented.\n\n\"Details of the visit will be published in the usual way\".\n\nMark Drakeford said he had to accept a five-star hospitality package to carry out his meetings in Qatar", "Non-binary Welsh speakers have said they feel unable to express their identities in the language due to its gendered nature.\n\nThey want to see more awareness and use of inclusive LGBTQ+ language.\n\nLike many European languages, Welsh nouns are gendered, which changes their mutations, and professions also tend to be gendered.\n\nOne tutor working for the government-funded Welsh learning programme, Dysgu Cymraeg, has altered his teaching.\n\nTomos Hopkins said it has led to more inclusivity towards a non-binary student but he added first-language Welsh speakers are less likely to encounter gender-neutral Welsh.\n\nMany non-binary people use the plural \"nhw\" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun.\n\nPlural mutations can be used to talk about a person in the singular - eliminating gendered mutations for many words.\n\nHowever, many professions are gendered, such as the word \"athro\" for a male teacher and \"athrawes\" for a female.\n\nTomos Hopkins said the Welsh language needs to evolve and be inclusive\n\nThe lack of knowledge of LGBTQ+ terms in Welsh means when people use \"nhw\" sometimes they are unable to be understood, according to Rowan Gulliver, a 22-year-old teacher in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nWorking in a Welsh-speaking school, Rowan - who uses the non-binary Mx prefix and they/them pronouns - had to come out to colleagues in English because they did not feel they could be understood in Welsh, nor did they have the vocabulary to do so.\n\n\"You should be able to speak about your identity and other people in your first language,\" they said. \"It's like a little part of you is dying when you have to say it in English.\"\n\n\"It just makes you feel like... you're some strange thing that doesn't belong or have value within society,\" they added.\n\nThough the vocabulary does exist, it is not in common use.\n\nMx Gulliver said Welsh-speakers will understand if terms are explained, but the language barrier stops non-binary people from being confident in talking about their identity.\n\n\"It's like you have to come out twice,\" they added.\n\nWhile dictionaries lack many words which would help to describe LGBTQ+ identities, Stonewall Cymru has an inclusive Welsh glossary to fill these gaps.\n\n\"There needs to be more awareness, more representation in the media like S4C and it needs to be taught in schools,\" Mx Gulliver explained.\n\nFor those learning Welsh, there are more opportunities to learn non-gendered ways of speaking.\n\n\"The gendered nature of the language makes me feel excluded and not sure where I fit in,\" Ems Rixon, 38, from Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, said.\n\n\"Often I feel like I am causing problems in my speaking classes when I say that I don't want to say one gender or another.\"\n\nMx Rixon said non-binary people were often told to use the plural but were also corrected by others when they did.\n\nMx Rixon's Welsh tutor Mr Hopkins changed lesson material for new learners to be inclusive to non-binary identities.\n\nThe Learn Welsh textbooks used by Dysgu Cymraeg are also updated every two years, meaning they are able to update the way it is taught to be more inclusive.\n\nMr Hopkins said the way to increase knowledge of correct pronouns is to increase representation in the media.\n\n\"I think it is certainly getting better with programmes like S4C Hansh,\" he added. \"I think they're doing a brilliant job of showing lots of queer identity content.\n\n\"It's extremely important the Welsh language evolves and is inclusive, the language dies if it gets stuck in a box that stays with the old ways.\n\n\"There's new words for everything everyday. Over the pandemic there had to be new terminology to describe technology, so this is just a natural step for the language.\"\n\nLGBTQ+ words have been coined in Welsh for several years, but have not yet passed into common usage, said Dr Gareth Evans Jones, of Bangor University, who is editing the first Welsh-language anthology of LGBTQ+ rights.\n\n\"I think because Welsh is so deeply rooted in gendered terms, it would be difficult to try to de-gender the language,\" he said. \"But if newer terms were coined as alternatives to these gendered terms, that certainly is a possibility.\"\n\nTo help other non-binary Welsh speakers, Ella Peel, the founder of Heart of Wales LGBTQ+ set up Cymuned Cymraeg, a fortnightly Welsh speaking group in east Carmarthenshire and Powys.\n\n\"The purpose of language is to understand each other and to communicate, so if you're saying words and people don't understand you, that's when language breaks down,\" Ms Peel said.\n\nThe class practices using \"-ydd\" for gender neutral endings. This is already in use for some professions such as commissioner which is \"comisiynydd\" in Welsh and has no gender.\n\nMx Rixon added: \"Representation is so important. You can only be what you see and can talk about.\"", "The new scheme will see farmers paid more public money for environmental work\n\nFarmers in England will be paid more public money for protecting the environment and producing food more sustainably, the government has said.\n\nIt is hoped the increase in payment rates will encourage more farmers to sign up to new environmental land management schemes (ELMS).\n\nELMS is designed to replace the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP).\n\nFarmers' union the NFU welcomed the rise but warned it could be \"too little too late\" in the economic climate.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the new system would put \"money into farmers' pockets\" while enhancing nature and driving innovation in agriculture.\n\nThe announcement comes amid rises in the cost of food production, with farmers hit particularly hard by increases in the cost of animal feed, fertilizers and fuel.\n\nThe increased rates under ELMS will come from existing money, reallocated from the previous direct payment subsidies given to farmers under the EU scheme.\n\nNFU vice president David Exwood said it was still unclear what work farmers - who will be losing direct payments - would actually be paid for under ELMS.\n\nHe said: \"While some of these latest changes are welcome… it risks being too little too late, especially given the current economic challenges we are experiencing and the rapid erosion of direct payments.\"\n\nConcerns had previously been raised that the new nature-friendly payments system would not offer smaller farms enough to stay in business.\n\nNow 30,000 farmers who have signed up to a countryside stewardship scheme - which is being expanded under ELMS - will see an average increase of 10% to the money they receive for ongoing environmental work, such as habitat management.\n\nBigger, one-off green schemes, such as hedgerow creation, will see an average payment increase of 48%.\n\nIt is hoped the higher payments will enable smaller farms to take part\n\nUp to an extra £1,000 a year will be available under ELMS' sustainable farming incentive to help smaller businesses, including tenant farmers, cover the administrative cost of taking part.\n\nBut the focus on smaller schemes was met with caution by environmental and conservation groups that had previously raised concerns over the government's commitment to ELMS, including the National Trust.\n\nHarry Bowell, the organisation's director of land and nature, is concerned that money will be taken away from more ambitious environmental projects.\n\nHe said: \"The risk is that a large proportion of the overall budget will now be spent on attracting farmers into the sustainable farming incentive scheme, at the cost of more stretching measures and schemes.\"\n\nTim Field, who leads a group of 120 farms across the Cotswolds, which is already piloting a larger-scale landscape recovery scheme under ELMS, said he did welcome any help for smaller farms to take up environmental work.\n\nBut he added that more had to be done to ensure domestic food production was supported too.\n\n\"Public money is essential to catalysing food and farming into restorer, not destroyer, of ecosystem services.\n\n\"However, cheap imports produced to lower standards continue to undermine the price of home-grown sustainably produced food, and this pump-priming public money will be insufficient to bridge the price discrepancy at the farm gate,\" he said.\n\nThe rate increase was announced by the farming minister Mark Spencer at the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday.\n\nHe said: \"As custodians of more than 70% of our countryside, the nation is relying on its farmers to protect our landscapes as well as produce the high-quality food we are known for, and we are increasing payment rates to ensure farmers are not out of pocket for doing the right thing by the environment\".\n\nA Defra spokesperson added the schemes would help the UK meet its legally-binding environmental targets and its aim of halting biodiversity decline by 2030 \"while supporting the industry to farm more home-grown produce\".\n\nBefore ELMS, under the EU's CAP system, farmers received subsidies based on how much land they held, meaning larger landowners benefited the most.\n\nThe new system is being phased in by 2027/28 and more details on the environmental work that will be paid for are to be announced at the end of the month.\n\nAgricultural policy in the UK is a devolved responsibility and each nation is implementing its own subsidy schemes.", "Big brands including Next, B&M and Greggs have reported a sales boost over Christmas despite rising prices, rail strikes and severe weather.\n\nHigh Street giant Next said that sales rose by 4.8% in the nine weeks to 30 December after a \"dramatic boost\" from the cold snap last month.\n\nGreggs and discount chain B&M also performed better than expected.\n\nSome analysts suggested that customers were opting for cheaper options as prices continue to soar.\n\nBoots, which is owned by US firm Walgreens, said it had seen a \"very strong\" Christmas too, with demand up for for its cheaper \"Everyday\" range of products.\n\nBut Next still warned that higher energy bills and mortgage rates would dampen demand from shoppers in the year to come.\n\nWhile it faces its own rising costs and supply chain issues, Next confirmed that it will increase prices for its spring and summer clothes and home goods by 8%.\n\nShoppers will also see prices rise in the autumn and winter, the retailer said, but the increase will not be as sharp.\n\nWhile Next reported strong sales for the Christmas period, it gave a \"cautious\" outlook for the year ahead.\n\nElsewhere on Thursday, there was more evidence that customers sought out cheaper treats on the High Street over the holidays.\n\nBoots reported that retail sales jumped by about 15% in December when compared with one year ago with demand for its basics range up by a third.\n\nGreggs said sales surged by nearly a quarter over 2022 as it added about 150 shops to its empire.\n\nThe bakery chain said that it had seen huge demand for its mince pies and festive drinks, as well as more customers looking to take advantage of offers on its app in a bid to save money.\n\nDiscount retailer B&M said that comparable sales rose across its shops by 6.4%, suggesting that more customers are prioritising value as prices continue to rise at their fastest rate for almost 40 years.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said that High Street staples Greggs, B&M and Next are \"united by having a presence on retail parks where business has been better than expected in general\".\n\nHe pointed out that widespread train strikes in December will have prevented a lot of people from travelling to city centre shops.\n\nWith about 500 stores across the UK, the Next group said sales across its brick-and-mortar shops were strong across the festive trading period.\n\nNext said sales across its brick-and-mortar shops were strong across the key festive trading period.\n\nIt said that it might have previously underestimated how much the pandemic had put customers off travelling to its High Street locations.\n\nNew figures from research firm Springboard also suggest that shoppers provided retail and hospitality firms with a much-needed boost ahead of Christmas.\n\nShopper footfall in December was up 5.8% on the month before and 9.9% higher than a year before, it said.\n\nNext is one of the first major retailers to report on Christmas trade, and some experts have described the performance as \"a pleasant surprise\".\n\nMark Crouch, analyst at social investing network eToro, said: \"At a time when real incomes are coming under pressure, Next has managed to beat expectations.\"\n\nBut he pointed out Next now anticipates a drop in both sales and profits for the coming year. \"The retailer expects the real pain to come in 2023,\" he said.\n\nNext reckons profits will fall by as much as 7.6% to £795m in the year to January.\n\nMr Crouch said: \"Next is often seen as a bellwether of the High Street... you can guarantee many retailers will be in much worse positions.\"\n\nDuring the last year it added several brands to its portfolio of shops, including Joules and furniture retailer Made.com, which it bought out of administration in November.\n\nIt already owned the likes of Lipsy, as well as taking over online operations for Gap in the UK and ensuring it kept up a High Street presence as the brand struggled.\n\nWith all the disruption this Christmas, it is retailers like Next with a well-run multi-channel operation - including online, store shopping and click and collect - who are likely to have navigated all the challenges of this festive period the best.\n\nNext also has a lot of modern out-of-town stores which has seen the biggest footfall as shoppers returned to the shops in search of the best deals. It's often described as a bellwether for the high street but it's one of retail's strongest performers.\n\nNext is warning about tougher times ahead, with a drop in sales and profits for the next financial year. But this retailer, at least, is well placed to handle the likely recession.", "Power-sharing at Stormont has been on hold since February last year\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary has invited Stormont's five largest parties to hold more roundtable talks next week, BBC News NI understands.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris wrote to the leaders of the parties on Wednesday.\n\nThe deadline to restore an executive is 19 January or legally he will be under a duty to call an assembly election within 12 weeks.\n\nIt is understood he has invited the parties to meet at the Northern Ireland Office next Wednesday morning.\n\nIt is believed that Leo Varadkar also plans to make his first visit to Northern Ireland since being re-elected as taoiseach (Irish PM) next week.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris is expected to speak to the parties next week in another attempt to break the political deadlock\n\nMr Heaton-Harris held a first round of joint talks with the parties just before Christmas, which coincided with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making his first visit to Northern Ireland since taking over.\n\nMr Sunak met party leaders and said he would work to ensure the return of power-sharing, which has been suspended since February 2022.\n\nThe collapse of a fully functioning government occurred when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) walked out of the executive in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nUnionists argue the post-Brexit trading arrangement undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK as it keeps the nation aligned with some EU trade rules to ensure goods can move freely across the Irish land border.\n\nLast month the five main Stormont parties held talks with the NI secretary and met Rishi Sunak\n\nThere have been five failed attempts to restore the executive since the last assembly election in May, when Sinn Féin won the largest number of seats for the first time.\n\nThe DUP has repeatedly refused to vote for a new assembly Speaker - a position that must be filled before any other business can be heard.\n\nThe party maintains that it has a mandate from voters not to return to power-sharing until the protocol is changed significantly.\n\nTalks on the protocol have been happening at a technical level between the UK and EU for some months but a resolution does not appear to be imminent.\n\nTeams on both sides have said a window of opportunity exists to agree a deal but they have not specified a timetable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'Take Back Control' bill will turn slogan into solution, says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nSir Keir Starmer has promised a new \"take back control\" bill to transfer powers from Westminster to communities.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, the Labour leader - a former Remain supporter - said he wanted to turn the Brexit campaign slogan \"into a solution\".\n\nHe pledged to devolve new powers over employment support, transport, energy, housing, culture and childcare.\n\nSir Keir said the legislation would be \"a centrepiece\" of Labour's plans if it wins the next general election.\n\nWith the country facing severe pressure on the NHS, a wave of strike action and a cost-of-living crisis, Sir Keir said he was \"under no illusions about the scale of the challenges we face\".\n\nIn his speech in east London, he promised a \"decade of national renewal\" under Labour and \"hope\" for the future.\n\nBut the Labour leader warned his party \"won't be able to spend our way\" out of the \"mess\" he said would be left by the Conservatives.\n\nSetting out his priorities for a future Labour government, Sir Keir said he wanted to give communities \"the chance to control their economic destiny\".\n\n\"The decisions which create wealth in our communities should be taken by local people with skin in the game, and a huge power shift out of Westminster can transform our economy, our politics and our democracy,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer tells Chris Mason he expects to inherit a \"very badly damaged economy\" from the Conservatives if he wins the next election\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign of 2016, Sir Keir said he \"couldn't disagree with the basic case so many Leave voters made to me\".\n\n\"It's not unreasonable for us to recognise the desire for communities to stand on their own feet. It's what 'take back control' meant,\" he said.\n\n\"So we will embrace the 'take back control' message but we'll turn it from a slogan to a solution. From a catchphrase into change.\"\n\nKeir Starmer - a man who voted Remain and campaigned for a second referendum - is cloaking himself in the language of Brexit.\n\nHis promise of what he calls a '\"take back control bill\", a planned new law pushing powers away from Westminster, is nothing if not unsubtle.\n\nTaking the highly effective slogan of the victorious Brexit campaign and claiming it as his own.\n\nLabour needs to win back dozens and dozens of seats that voted Leave and Sir Keir might as well be screaming \"I get it\" from every rooftop he can clamber on.\n\nIt does mean critics will ask what he really believes: it might be savvy politics to court Brexit voters, but who is the real Keir Starmer?\n\nSir Keir was Labour's shadow Brexit secretary under Jeremy Corbyn between 2016 and 2020, when he unsuccessfully campaigned for a second EU referendum.\n\nAsked by reporters whether he now regretted supporting a fresh vote, Sir Keir said: \"Even in those turbulent years, 2016 to 2019, I was always making the argument that there was always something very important sitting behind that leave vote.\n\n\"That phrase 'take back control' was really powerful, it was like a Heineken phrasing, got into people.\n\n\"And the more they ask themselves, do I have enough control, the more they answer that question, no.\"\n\nLabour said the bill would give English towns and cities the tools to develop long-term plans for economic growth, creating high-skilled jobs in their areas.\n\nThe party said there would be \"a presumption towards moving power out of Westminster\", with local leaders able to bid for any powers which had already been devolved elsewhere.\n\n\"Take back control\" was used by the Vote Leave campaign, including Boris Johnson\n\nElsewhere in his speech, Sir Keir accused the Conservatives of \"sticking plaster politics\", saying they had failed to address long-term issues.\n\nAlthough he acknowledged investment was needed after the \"damage\" done by the Conservatives to public services, he warned Labour would not be \"getting its big government chequebook out\".\n\nBy suggesting a move away from big increases in public spending, Sir Keir appeared to distance himself from his predecessor as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn.\n\nPressed by the BBC's Chris Mason over whether a Labour government would spend any more than the Conservatives, Sir Keir said he would make \"different choices\" but any commitments would be fully costed.\n\nHe said the party would inherit \"a broken economy\" and with the tax burden already high there was not scope for big tax increases.\n\nSir Keir also said he wanted a Labour government to work with business to deliver its aims.\n\nAsked by reporters whether there was more scope for private sector involvement in public services, Sir Keir said trying to deliver everything through the state did not work and he was instead proposing a \"partnership model\" with private business.\n\nSir Keir's speech made no mention of abolishing the House of Lords - a proposal which was unveiled by Labour in a report last month.\n\nBut the Labour leader denied he had \"gone cool\" on the idea, saying it was a \"key part\" of the party's report on constitutional change.\n\nThe speech provoked criticism from some on the left of the Labour Party.\n\nFormer shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who is a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said a \"take back control\" bill was an \"empty promise\" without new money to go with it.\n\nLabour councillor Martin Abrams, a committee member of the Momentum campaign group, said Sir Keir's speech was \"totally out of step with the scale of the crisis facing us\" and the reference to private sector partnerships \"makes people's hearts sink\".\n\nThe speech came a day after Rishi Sunak set out his own priorities for government at a venue just a short distance away.\n\nIn his new year speech, the prime minister promised to halve inflation, grow the economy, ensure national debt falls, cut NHS waiting lists and pass new laws to stop small boat crossings.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Sunak's five pledges were in contrast to Sir Keir's speech, which he claimed made \"no firm commitments\".\n\nOn Labour's \"take back control\" plan, Mr Cleverly said the Conservatives had already given local communities more power through regional mayors.", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour \"won't be able to spend our way out\" of the \"mess\" left by the Tories - even though he recognised the need for investment.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, the Labour leader is promising a \"decade of national renewal\" if he wins the next general election.\n\nBut he also says the party won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out\".\n\nThe Tories accused Sir Keir of \"yet another desperate relaunch attempt\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered his own new year address, promising to halve inflation, cut NHS waiting lists and tackle small boat crossings by the next election.\n\nIn his speech in Stratford, east London, Sir Keir also looked ahead to the election, pledging to create the \"sort of hope you can build your future around\".\n\nBut he warned voters - and his own party - not to expect big increases in public spending.\n\n\"Of course, investment is required - I can see the damage the Tories have done to our public services as plainly as anyone,\" he said.\n\n\"But we won't be able to spend our way out of their mess - it's not as simple as that.\"\n\nHe added: \"For national renewal, there is no substitute for a robust private sector, creating wealth in every community.\"\n\nIn advance of Keir Starmer's speech, reporters were told he would say a Labour government led by him wouldn't be \"getting its big chequebook out again\".\n\nThat word \"again\" was striking - implying that perhaps previous Labour governments had spent too much.\n\nBut, curiously, that word \"again\" didn't pass Sir Keir's lips in the speech itself.\n\nWhen I asked him if his promise meant he would match Conservative spending limits, he didn't answer either way.\n\nLabour want to be seen to be economically competent in the eyes of people who voted Tory last time but might be persuadable to vote Labour next time.\n\nShadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said government needed to \"work in partnership with business\" on things like investing in renewable energy.\n\nShe added that the health service needed \"reform\" as well as more money.\n\nAsked whether she supported the idea of using spare capacity in the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We've got to do whatever it takes to bring down waiting lists… If there's spare capacity, absolutely we've got to use it.\"\n\nMs Reeves said her party would face a \"tough inheritance\" but the \"cavalry is coming\" with a future Labour government.\n\nMs Reeves also said Labour would oppose plans to impose minimum service levels during strikes.\n\nThe government is poised to confirm new legislation covering key sectors including the health service, rail and education, according to the Times.\n\nThe paper reports that under the laws employers would be able to sue unions and sack staff who were told to work under the minimum service requirement but refused.\n\nMs Reeves said the idea that \"banning industrial action\" would improve industrial relations was \"for the birds\".\n\nThe country is facing a wave of strikes this winter by public service workers including nurses, paramedics and train drivers.\n\nThe government is also under pressure to tackle the challenges facing the NHS. In recent days, doctors have complained of \"intolerable and unsustainable\" pressure on the health service, with some A&E departments in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nA sharp rise in Covid and flu admissions has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with staff shortages, a lack of capacity to move people to social care and a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nLast year, a group of MPs said the NHS was already in the worst workforce crisis in its history. In England the NHS is short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives.\n\nLabour has pledged to deliver \"one of the biggest expansions of the NHS workforce\" in its history, by scrapping non-dom tax status for wealthy individuals to pay for the training of thousands of new nurses, doctors and other health workers.\n\nSir Keir promised to set out more new policies in the coming weeks that would form the heart of Labour's next manifesto.\n\nHis party has already pledged large-scale constitutional change, including abolishing the House of Lords.\n\nConservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi, said Sir Keir should \"unveil a plan for people's priorities\" instead of giving \"cliché-laden speeches\".\n\nLabour's poll lead is narrowing but the aggregated polls of voting intention show Labour at 46% compared to 24% for the Conservatives. This is down from a peak of Labour at 52% of intended votes compared to 22% for the Tories in the final days of Liz Truss' premiership.", "A man has been jailed for 12 years for sending Covid relief grants he received from a London council to fund so-called Islamic State terrorists in Syria.\n\nBarber shop owner Tarek Namouz, 43, was given thousands of pounds of bounce back loans which he transferred abroad.\n\nKingston Crown Court heard at the time of the offences Namouz was on licence for raping a woman, 18, in a north London pub where he was the landlord.\n\nAfter he was sentenced, Namouz shouted \"may Allah destroy you\" at police.\n\nThe court was told Namouz ran Boss Crew Barbers, in Hammersmith, west London, and received coronavirus relief grants from Hammersmith and Fulham Council during the pandemic.\n\nHowever, he sent the funds via a money transfer bureau to help organise terror attacks in Syria.\n\nNamouz was found guilty of the offences following a trial at Kingston Crown Court\n\nThe court heard that during the investigation police found transfers totalling about £11,280 - but Namouz then told a friend he sent £25,000 to Yahya Ahmed Alia, who he described as an \"ex-fighter with Islamic State\" who could buy sniper rifles.\n\nAnother £3,000 was found in his bedroom drawer in the flat above his barber shop in Blyth Road.\n\nOn 25 May 2021 he was arrested and recalled to prison to serve the rest of a 10-year sentence for raping an 18-year-old woman in The Prince pub, where he was the landlord, in 2014.\n\nNamouz denied knowing the money would be used for terrorism, telling police he sent the funds to \"help... the poor and needy in Syria\".\n\nBut following a trial last month, he was found guilty of eight counts of entering into a funding arrangement for terrorism between November 2020 and May 2021.\n\nHe was also convicted of two counts of possessing terrorist information after videos were found on his phone detailing how to make an improvised explosive device with ball bearings, and using knives to carry out a lone wolf attack.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Peter Lodder KC told Namouz he was \"entitled to Covid bounce back loans\", but \"you sent that money, and other money, through a west London transfer and currency exchange, to terrorists in Syria\".\n\nHowever, Namouz interrupted the judge from the dock, claiming \"I never sent that money\".\n\nJudge Lodder KC jailed the 43-year-old for 12 years with a further year on extended licence, saying he had demonstrated a \"commitment to terrorism\" and planned to \"re-establish a state run in accordance with extreme Islamic principles\".\n\nNamouz replied \"thank you, your honour\" after he was sentenced, but before he was taken down to the cells he turned to police officers sitting in court and said: \"May Allah destroy you.\n\n\"We will meet on judgment day. You're a kafir (non-believer) and you will end up in hell.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry has claimed his brother Prince William physically attacked him, according to the Guardian, which says it has seen a copy of the Duke of Sussex's memoir, Spare.\n\nThe newspaper reported that the book sets out an argument between the pair over Harry's wife Meghan.\n\n\"He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor,\" the Guardian quotes Harry.\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment.\n\nThe palaces - which represent William, now Prince of Wales, and the King respectively - seem to have adopted the strategy that any controversial claims will fizzle out faster without a response.\n\nMeanwhile, in a new clip previewing an interview with ITV, Harry refuses to commit to attending the King's coronation in May.\n\nHe says there is a lot \"that can happen between now and then\" and the \"ball is in [the Royal Family's] court\".\n\nHarry's memoir will not be published until next Tuesday, but the Guardian said had it obtained a copy amid what it called \"stringent pre-launch security\".\n\nBBC News has not yet seen a copy of Spare.\n\nThe book was, however, on sale in Spain five days ahead of its anticipated publish date - entitled En La Sombra, which translates as \"In the shadow\".\n\nBook shops in the UK say they are under a strict embargo to ensure the autobiography is not released early.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, the book claims the row was sparked by comments William made to Harry at his London home in 2019.\n\nHarry, the paper says, writes that his brother was critical of his marriage to Meghan Markle - and that William described her as \"difficult\", \"rude\" and \"abrasive\".\n\nHe reportedly writes that his brother was \"parrot[ing] the press narrative\" as the confrontation escalated.\n\nHarry is said to describe what happened next, including an alleged physical altercation.\n\n\"He set down [a glass of] water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast.\n\n\"He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.\n\n\"I landed on the dog's bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.\"\n\nHarry writes that William left but returned \"looking regretful, and apologised\", the Guardian says.\n\nWhen William left again, Harry is said to write that his brother \"turned and called back: 'You don't need to tell Meg about this.'\n\n\"'You mean that you attacked me?'\n\n\"'I didn't attack you, Harold,'\" William is said to have responded.\n\nHarry's name is not short for Harold - his actual full name is Henry Charles Albert David.\n\nPhotographs suggest Harry regularly wore a dark necklace at events such as the Invictus Games, and on foreign tours with Meghan, as recently as September 2019.\n\nHarry, wearing a distinctive necklace, alongside Meghan in South Africa, months before they stepped back from royal duties\n\nThe revelations create the bleak impression of a family fight, right at the centre of the monarchy, that shows no sign of being reconciled.\n\nThis is still the territory of an acrimonious divorce rather than the reconciliation.\n\nSeparately, the memoir claims William \"howled with laughter\" when he saw his brother dressed in a Nazi costume before a fancy dress party in 2005, the New York Post reports.\n\nHarry was 20 when a picture of him in the outfit was published in the UK press.\n\nThe New York Post reports Harry asked William, and his future wife Catherine, whether he should wear the costume, or dress as a pilot - and claims the pair laughed and said the Nazi uniform.\n\nMartin Pengelly, a journalist for the Guardian's US website who wrote its report on Harry's book, said he had not approached William's communication team.\n\nThe reporter said that his article was \"a report on Harry's book, which he's written - it's Harry's account\".\n\nMr Pengelly told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We carefully, obviously in reporting it, didn't call it a fight because Harry says he didn't fight back.\"\n\nHarry's book has been seen on sale in a bookstore in Barcelona, Spain, before its official release date\n\nWhile publishers at Penguin Random House are yet to confirm whether the leaked excerpts from the book are genuine, Harry has recently spoken of his troubled relationship with his brother.\n\nAnd the duke calls William his \"beloved brother and arch-nemesis\" in his memoir, an interview with Good Morning America reveals.\n\nIn that interview, Harry says there has \"always been this competition\" between the pair, and it played into the \"heir/spare\" dynamic which formed the basis of the book's title.\n\nThe concept of the \"heir and the spare\" dates back centuries in royal circles and refers to the continuation of the royal bloodline: the first son and heir the one who inherits the throne, the second son therefore a spare should anything happen to the first-born.\n\nIn Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary, the prince recounts a meeting he attended with his brother, father - the now King - and the late Queen, his grandmother.\n\nDescribing the conference in early 2020, he says: \"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren't true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in.\"\n\nThe Guardian says Harry details a meeting with Charles, then Prince of Wales, and William after the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Phillip, in April 2021.\n\nIf this leak is accurate, perhaps the most poignant image is of King Charles caught in the middle, asking his warring sons not to make his life a \"misery\".\n\nSpare, ghostwritten by memoirist JR Moehringer and part of a multi-million dollar book deal, was previously believed to be subject to the utmost secrecy with few details known about its content.\n\n\"For Harry, this is his story at last,\" Penguin Random House said in a publicity statement back in October.\n\nArchewell, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's company, has not commented on news of the book.\n\nIn a trailer for a sit-down interview, which will be broadcast on 8 January ahead of the book's release, Harry said: \"I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back\".\n\nHowever, Harry told ITV's Tom Bradby \"they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,\" although it was not clear who he was referring to.\n\nBuckingham Palace has declined to comment on this.\n• None Prince Harry details physical attack by brother William in new book - Books - The Guardian The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prince Harry says the door's always open, the ball is in their court\n\nPrince Harry has not confirmed whether he would accept an invitation to his father's coronation in May, according to a trailer for an ITV interview.\n\n\"There's a lot that can happen between now and then. But the door is always open. The ball is in their court,\" he told interviewer Tom Bradby.\n\nThe coronation of King Charles will be held at Westminster Abbey on 6 May.\n\nThe interview is expected to discuss conflicts between the Duke of Sussex and members of the Royal Family.\n\n\"There's a lot to be discussed and I really hope that they're willing to sit down and talk about it,\" said Prince Harry, in an interview linked to his upcoming memoir, Spare.\n\nReports in the Guardian of leaks from this \"unflinching\" memoir include claims of angry and physical altercations with his brother William, the Prince of Wales.\n\nIn Prince Harry's reported version of events, Prince William had called Harry's wife Meghan \"difficult\", \"rude\" and \"abrasive\".\n\nA row had followed, after which Prince Harry says his brother \"grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor\".\n\nAdding to the sense of family tensions, in a US trailer for the Good Morning America show, an interviewer asks Prince Harry about calling Prince William both his \"beloved brother and arch nemesis\" in the memoir.\n\nBuckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Archewell, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's company, have all declined to comment on the prince's book, due to be published next week.\n\nIn the ITV trailer, Prince Harry is asked about the merits of bringing such family arguments into the public sphere.\n\n\"I don't know how staying silent is ever going to make things better,\" Prince Harry tells Tom Bradby.\n\nPrince Harry also rejects suggestions that by revealing such personal disputes he was \"invading the privacy\" of others in his family.\n\n\"That would be the accusation from people that don't understand or don't want to believe that my family have been briefing the press,\" says Prince Harry, in an interview to be broadcast at 9pm on Sunday.\n\nDespite being unwilling to commit to going to his father's coronation, Prince Harry said that he still believed in the monarchy.\n\nAsked whether he had a part to play in its future, he replied: \"I don't know.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been expected to have been invited to the coronation, even though Prince Harry is no longer a \"working royal\".\n\nNot attending the coronation events to be held in May would be likely to be seen as a snub and a measure of the scale of the family rift.\n\nPrince Harry came to the UK for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations last year, but was not allowed to take part in the appearances on the Buckingham Palace balcony.", "DNA from Bryan Kohberger, a suspect in the Idaho murders, was found at the crime scene, according to police\n\nThe DNA of the man accused of murdering four students at the University of Idaho was found at the crime scene, according to allegations in newly released court documents.\n\nSuspect Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested last week in Pennsylvania.\n\nHe has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary in connection to the crime.\n\nAn attorney representing Mr Kohberger has previously said he is eager to be exonerated.\n\nMr Kohberger did not enter a plea in a court appearance in Idaho on Thursday.\n\nHe answered yes to questions from the Latah County Magistrate judge about whether he understood his rights and the charges against him, and was denied bail.\n\nThe documents, unsealed shortly before his court appearance, provide the latest insights into the arrest of the criminology graduate student as well as the murders that shocked the small Idaho college town of Moscow.\n\nThe probable cause affidavit indicates Mr Kohberger's DNA matched a sample found on a knife sheath at the apartment where University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were killed in November.\n\nAt the scene of the crime, police were able to collect a male DNA sample from a tan leather sheath found on the bed next to Ms Mogen, according to the affidavit, which was written by Moscow police corporal Brett Payne.\n\nAuthorities later matched this sample to a DNA profile taken from the trash at Mr Kohberger's Pennsylvania family home.\n\nTwo other roommates were present in the home at the time of the murders but were unharmed in the attack.\n\nThe probable cause affidavit - which summarises evidence and circumstances of an arrest - also alleges that one of those two roommates saw a masked man dressed in black in the house the morning of the murders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe roommate - identified by the initials \"DM\" - said she was woken up at 04:00 local time by what she thought was Ms Goncalves playing with her dog in one of the upstairs bedrooms.\n\nWhen she opened her door, she thought she heard crying coming from Ms Kernodle's room and heard a male voice saying: \"It's OK, I'm going to help you.\"\n\nThe third time the roommate opened her door, she said she saw a black-clad figure.\n\nThere is also new information about a white sedan - a Hyundai Elantra - seen near the crime scene, which was a major breakthrough in an investigation that had not produced a suspect or a murder weapon six weeks after the crime.\n\nAuthorities were able to locate a car matching that description at Washington State University, where Mr Kohberger was a student, registered under his name.\n\nPolice say the murder weapon - described as a \"fixed blade knife\" - has still not been found.\n\nInvestigators did not share a motive for the murders nor did they say whether the suspect knew the victims.\n\nMr Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania on 30 December.\n\nHe was transferred to Idaho on Wednesday after agreeing to be extradited to face the murder charges.", "Elle Edwards was celebrating with her sister and friends when she was fatally wounded\n\nA coroner has described the victim of a fatal shooting outside a pub on Christmas Eve as a \"beautiful young woman\" who had a \"bright future ahead\".\n\nElle Edwards, 26, was shot outside The Lighthouse in Wallasey, Wirral, at about 23:50 GMT on 24 December.\n\nAt her inquest at Liverpool's Gerard Majella Courthouse, coroner Anita Bhardwaj said her death was \"tragic\".\n\nShe added that gunshot wounds to the head had been given as a provisional cause of Ms Edwards' death.\n\nMs Edwards, who police have said was not the target of the attack, died after several shots were fired towards the entrance of the pub.\n\nFour men were also injured in the incident, including a 28-year-old who was critically hurt. Merseyside Police have said his condition was no longer life-threatening.\n\nThree people who were arrested over the shooting have since been released.\n\nFloral tributes to Ms Edwards were left close to the scene of the shooting\n\nOpening the hearing, Ms Bhardwaj said that \"as parents, nothing can prepare us for the death of a child in any way, shape or form and I think we can only imagine what the parents and family are going through\".\n\n\"This is such a tragic death of a beautiful young woman who clearly had a bright future ahead of her and so much to offer both in her career as well as personally,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest heard Ms Edwards, whose occupation was given as dental nurse and beautician, was pronounced dead at Arrowe Park Hospital on Christmas Day after being taken there from the pub.\n\nMs Bhardwaj said others \"were also shot at that location, but sadly Elle was the one that lost her life\".\n\nShe said a provisional cause of death had been given as gunshot wounds to the head and she would release Ms Edwards' body to her family, but further toxicology analysis would be carried out before a full post-mortem examination report.\n\nShe then adjourned the inquest to 5 May, when she said there would be an update on the police investigation.\n\nOn Tuesday, Merseyside Police said it had received nearly 150 pieces of intelligence from the public, including information about individuals and wider tensions.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sean Patterson was shot and killed in St James, Jamaica\n\nThe murder of a British tourist in Jamaica was a \"contract killing\" by \"unknown assailants\", police have said.\n\nSean Patterson, a personal trainer from Shepherd's Bush, west London, was found with gunshot wounds to his upper body and head in St James, officers said.\n\nHe was found at midday on Monday near the pool of his holiday accommodation in Bogue Hill, St James.\n\nJamaica Constabulary's deputy commissioner called it \"a contract killing that emanated from Britain\".\n\nIn a video statement on Wednesday, Fitz Bailey went on to say Mr Patterson, 33, had arrived in Jamaica on 29 December with another man who was also from London.\n\nThe pair had spent several days at an apartment before checking into the villa in Bogue Hill on New Year's Day.\n\nLater that day, the commissioner said, the two Brits had met up with a third man - from Kingston - who would be present when Mr Patterson was shot and killed.\n\nAll three men had stayed at the guest house in separate rooms and the following day at around noon, Mr Patterson and the Jamaican man had gone to the villa's pool deck.\n\n\"[The Kingston man] reported that his back was turned to [Mr] Patterson when he heard several loud explosions [which] sounded like gunshots,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"He reported that he looked around and saw a lone man dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt with a handgun shooting [Mr] Patterson.\"\n\nThe witness reportedly fled and hid in bushes.\n\nThe commissioner concluded by saying local authorities were working with their international partners - including UK police - and were making \"significant progress\" in the case.\n\nThe Foreign Office previously said it was \"supporting the family of a British man who died in Jamaica and are in contact with the local authorities\".\n\nThe Gleaner newspaper reported that 198 murders were recorded in St James last year.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Members of the iconic heavy metal group Iron Maiden have joined a select few musicians with the honour of having their own postage stamps.\n\nThe new collection, available for pre-order from Thursday, includes 12 stamps.\n\nEight stamps feature pictures from their tours across the world over the years, and feature all current members of the band.\n\nThe band's popular mascot Eddie is also pictured on four of the stamps.\n\nThey are only the fifth group to be honoured with a stamp issue, following on from The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen and the Rolling Stones.\n\nThe images used in the collection range from 1980 to 2018 and include a photo from their 1983 gig in Hammersmith, and a 2008 gig at Twickenham Stadium.\n\nThere are also group shots, such as one of Dave Murray, Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers in Rio de Janeiro, January 2001.\n\nA stamp of Eddie shows an image from the cover of the band's first album, while another depicts him as a Samurai warrior echoing the cover art of the latest album.\n\nThe eight stamps of the band are priced at £11.70, and the four of Eddie at £5.60.\n\nBoth sets have a mixture of first class and £1.85 stamps, and will be available from January 12.\n\nOther items are being released as part of the collection, including postcards.\n\nThe stamp of Eddie, which is also the artwork of the band's first album\n\nFounding member and bassist, Steve Harris, said the band was astounded with the project and were speechless when they saw the stamps for the first time.\n\nHe continued: \"They look superb and I think they really capture the essence and energy of Maiden. We're all very proud that Royal Mail has chosen to honour the band's legacy like this and we know our fans will feel the same way.\"\n\nFormed by Steve Harris in east London in 1975, Iron maiden have sold more than 130 million copies of their albums worldwide and are considered one of the most influential rock bands of all time.\n\nThey have received Grammy's, Brit Awards and recently finished their Legacy Of The Beast World Tour where they played to over 3 million fans.\n\nThe band's last album Senjutsu was released in September and debuted at number one in 27 countries.\n\nIron maiden recently announced their next tour, The Future Past Tour, which will kick off in Europe this summer.\n\nDavid Gold, director of external public affairs and policy at Royal Mail, added: \"Few bands in the history of rock music can be called bona fide rock legends - but Iron Maiden are just that - and more.\n\n\"With legions of devoted fans of all ages and from every corner of the globe, not only have they changed the way rock music sounds, but they have also changed the way it looks. We fully expect their fans will love these stamps as much as we do.\"", "The Catholic Church has strict protocols in place following the death of its leader, but with the death of former Pope Benedict, it is unclear whether those same protocols will apply to a retired pope.\n\nWhen Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 citing old age, he became the first Pope in 600 years to step down from the role. Born Joseph Ratzinger, the German cardinal was elected in April 2005 and chose to go by the name of Benedict.\n\nFor almost a decade there were in effect two popes living at close quarters in the Vatican, because Benedict stayed in the Vatican Gardens at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, appearing occasionally alongside his successor.\n\n\"We've never had this before where a living pope will help bury a dead pope,\" Catholic historian John McGreevy said.\n\nEven the Middle Ages do not provide a template, because when Gregory XII resigned in 1415 his aim was to bring an end to years of division involving rival challengers to the papacy.\n\nBenedict was pictured on 1 December 2022 at a meeting of the 2022 Ratzinger Awards\n\nThe person who runs the Vatican from the death of one pope to the election of another is called a \"camerlengo\", currently Cardinal Kevin Farrell. But because Benedict was no longer pope some of the cardinal's tasks may no longer be appropriate.\n\nNormally, the camerlengo has the role of officially confirming the pope's death, traditionally by tapping his head three times with a small silver hammer and calling out his name. He would also oversee the destruction of the pope's fisherman's ring, sealing the papal apartments, organising the funeral and preparing a conclave to elect a successor.\n\nAs Francis is already Pope, there is considerable uncertainty about what the camerlengo will now do.\n\nA papal funeral is typically presided over by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. But in this case, Pope Francis will officiate over the funeral, to be held in St Peter's Square.\n\nEach pope can specify their own funeral arrangements, and although Benedict's family is buried in Germany, his biographer Peter Seewald said he wanted to be buried in the tomb that belonged to his predecessor John Paul II before he was canonised and moved elsewhere in the Vatican.\n\nThe most significant ritual that usually happens following the death of a pope - electing a new one - will not happen.\n\nVatican affairs writer Massimo Franco told the BBC that all the procedures would have to be \"written from scratch\", and that following Benedict's resignation in 2013 the Catholic Church did not specify what would be done when he died.\n\nHe also warned the death of Benedict could have unforeseen consequences on the papacy, such as normalising the resignation of a pope.\n\n\"For some within the Catholic Church, the resignation of Benedict represents a unique circumstance that will never have to be repeated,\" he said.\n\n\"For others it may represent a precedent and therefore could be repeated. But this remains a big question mark, just like everything surrounding the death and funeral of Benedict XVI.\"\n\nAs Benedict was previously the head of state of Vatican City - an independent city-state surrounded by Rome and governed by the Pope - it is possible there will be a state funeral with foreign leaders invited, but even that to date is uncharted territory.\n\nThis article was first published on 29 December and updated following the death of Benedict XVI.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu criticised the \"slippery\" courts at the ASB Classic in Auckland after retiring from her second-round match with an ankle injury.\n\nThe Briton left the court in tears after rolling her ankle during the second set against Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova, with the score 6-0 5-7.\n\nIt is just 11 days before the Australian Open begins in Melbourne.\n\n\"The courts are incredibly slick, so to be honest it's not a surprise that this happened to someone,\" said Raducanu.\n\nThe British number one, who didn't drop a game in the opening set, told New Zealand website Stuff : \"It's difficult to take. I've put a lot of physical work in the last few months and I've been feeling good and optimistic.\n\n\"So to be stopped by a freak injury, rolling an ankle, is pretty disappointing.\"\n\nThe match was played on an indoor court because of persistent rain in Auckland.\n\nRaducanu, who said she would assess the injury over the next few days, tried to play on after receiving medical attention but withdrew two points into her opening service game at the start of the third set.\n\nThe 2021 US Open champion had an injury-blighted 2022 season, retiring from five matches, but said she was injury-free and feeling \"good\" following an exhibition match in December.\n\nShe began 2023 with victory over teenager Linda Fruhvirtova in her opening match in New Zealand in preparation for the season's first major.\n\nElsewhere, Coco Gauff beat fellow American and former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 6-4 6-4 to reach the Auckland quarter-finals.\n\nThe 18-year-old number one seed will next play China's Zhu Lin, who defeated seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams 3-6 6-2 7-5 in a rain-interrupted match that had to be moved on to an indoor court.\n\nZhu won the final four games of the match as she came from 5-3 down in the deciding set. Williams served for the match at 5-4 but the Chinese world number 84 broke and saved four break points as she held serve to move 6-5 ahead before again breaking serve.\n\n\"Outside it was really tough, it was rainy, windy. It was tennis, but it was more about surviving instead of playing great,\" said Williams, who has been given a wildcard entry to the Australian Open.\n\n\"Indoors it was completely different but I got to hit a lot of balls, so that's important.\"\n\nAt the Adelaide International, the Czech Republic's Linda Noskova, 18, set up a quarter-final with Belarus' two-time Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka, 33. Noskova beat the United States' Claire Liu 6-2 6-2, while Azarenka overcame China's Zheng Qinwen 6-2 7-5.\n\nTunisia's world number two Ons Jabeur also reached the last eight with a 7-6 (7-3) 6-1 win over Romania's Sorana Cirstea, while 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko was beaten 6-3 6-0 by Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None The girls paying for their parents' sins: Watch Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on BBC iPlayer now", "The woman was caught up in flooding after the River Tweed burst its banks at Walkerburn\n\nA woman has died in hospital after being rescued from flood waters in the Borders.\n\nThe 55-year-old was one of two women rescued from the water in Walkerburn early on 31 December.\n\nFire crews and water rescue teams went to their aid after the emergency services received reports of people stuck in flood water at about 00:20.\n\nBoth women were taken to hospital. Police said one died in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Monday.\n\nA report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.\n\nArea commander Hilary Sangster, who is the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's senior officer for the Borders, said crews had been called out to reports of people in difficulty near to Caberston Road in the village.\n\n\"Operations control mobilised two fire appliances and water rescue resources to the area and firefighters assisted in the rescue of two casualties from flood water and handed them into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service,\" she said.\n\n\"Sadly, after being airlifted to hospital, one woman passed away.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with her family, friends and the wider community at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe incident happened after a period of prolonged rainfall across much of the south of Scotland.\n\nIt caused flooding issues across the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway with a string of alerts put in place by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.", "People with a virus should wear a face mask if they are out in public and not go to work, according to Scotland's national clinical director.\n\nProf Jason Leitch said there needed to be a \"new culture\" of making sure people do not pass diseases to others.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency has urged adults to stay at home if they are ill.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has warned the NHS faces \"an extremely challenging\" next two weeks as a result of Covid and flu cases.\n\nIt comes as the number of people in the UK estimated to have Covid last week hit two million.\n\nProf Leitch also called on people to think carefully about how they access health services as winter pressures mount on A&E departments and GP practices.\n\nThe latest Public Health Scotland figures show just under 57% of A&E patients in Scotland were seen within the government's four-hour target last week - a slight improvement on the previous week.\n\nHowever, the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in emergency departments - 1,925 - was at a record high.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"There are things we can do to help each other, whether they are relatives, friends, neighbours and those around us.\n\n\"We shouldn't pass on diseases to others. This is a new culture for Scotland. This means not going to the office if you are sick, not going to drive that bus.\n\n\"If you have a virus, if you're not well, you should stay at home and not pass that virus on to others.\"\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency previously called on adults who are unwell to wear a face covering if they have to go out and avoid vulnerable people unless it is urgent.\n\nIt has also stressed the importance of washing hands and catching coughs and sneezes in tissues.\n\nProf Leitch said he understood many people would be wary of returning to widespread use of face coverings similar to that at the height of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said learning lessons from how people in south-east Asia react to viruses would be \"no bad thing\".\n\n\"One of the cultural differences there is that if you are unwell, recovering from a virus or you feel as if you've got that scratchy throat at the beginning of a virus, then you wear a face covering in the shops, in the street and on public transport,\" he said.\n\n\"That would be no bad thing for Scotland and the UK to inherit from the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"We have thrown off the shackles of Covid. We think it's over. Well let me tell you, two million people in Britain have Covid this week. There are 800 people in hospital seriously ill with Covid and often with another disease.\n\n\"So Covid is here to stay and we're going to have to live with it.\"\n\nEmergency departments across Scotland are under extreme pressure\n\nProf Leitch also urged people to think carefully about how they access health services as GP practices reopen after the holiday period.\n\nHe said those feeling ill should search the NHS inform website in the first instance, as part of efforts to ease pressure on A&E services.\n\nScotland recorded its worst ever performance times at A&E in the week up to 18 December, with 55% of patients seen within the government target of four hours.\n\nThis improved to just under 57% last week, although the latest data does not include NHS Ayrshire and Arran or NHS Borders because of technical problems.\n\nThe aim is for 95% of those attending emergency departments to be seen and then admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nThere have been calls to introduce emergency measures at some Scottish A&E departments where one medic said patients were being kept in \"inhumane\" conditions.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said he accepted the latest figures were \"not acceptable\".\n\nBut he said he hoped the public understood \"this is not a normal situation\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"We've never seen such unprecedented demand and pressure on our health service.\n\n\"This winter will probably be the most challenging that the NHS has ever faced in its 74-year existence.\n\n\"That's because of not just a rise in Covid cases but in other viral infections that have come back with a vengeance that we haven't seen in the last couple of years.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said the Scottish government was working \"with relentless focus\" with health boards to ensure people leave hospital without delay.\n\nHe said: \"We need to make sure every staffed bed is being flagged up by care homes, for example, so we can get people out - even on an interim basis.\n\n\"It may not be their first choice of care home, it may not be their second choice.\n\n\"But being in a hospital that is over-occupied, that is facing significant pressure, if you're clinically safe to be discharged then that can't be an option to remain there.\"\n\nAcross the UK, there are an estimated 800 people in hospital seriously ill with Covid\n\nOpposition parties have again called on the health secretary to resign over the \"appalling\" waiting times figures.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said they laid bare the crisis in A&E under Mr Yousaf.\n\nHe added: \"Despite the Herculean efforts of frontline staff, waiting times in our emergency departments are unacceptable due to years of dire workforce planning by successive SNP health secretaries, as well as the flimsy recovery plan of the current one.\"\n\nScottish Labour's Jackie Baillie said: \"Staff are working tirelessly but the inaction of this SNP government has left them facing an impossible struggle. We are only halfway through this winter so there is still much more to come.\n\n\"This crisis has occurred on Humza Yousaf's watch and NHS staff have no confidence that he is the person capable of taking action and leading them out of this crisis. Mr Yousaf, it's time to go.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the number of people turning up at A&E was only part of the problems facing the NHS.\n\nShe told the BBC's Lunchtime Live programme: \"There are more people in hospital who are ready to be discharged but they can't be, more people needing to be admitted and that's where the pressure block is happening.\n\n\"It's not just about respiratory infection, although that's a huge part of it. There are lots of people in hospital right now with Covid and flu.\n\n\"But it's also the long-term consequences of an older population and people just becoming increasingly vulnerable.\n\n\"So we're just starting to see that perfect storm of pressure on health and social care service.\"", "Dr Vishwaraj Vemala was on a flight from the UK to India when the passenger went into cardiac arrest\n\nA doctor has described battling for five hours as he saved the life of a passenger on a long-haul flight.\n\nDr Vishwaraj Vemala, 48, a liver specialist at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was on his way to India with his mother when a fellow passenger went into cardiac arrest.\n\nAided by medical supplies on board and items from passengers, Dr Vemala twice resuscitated the 43-year-old.\n\nHe said he would remember the experience for the rest of his life.\n\n\"Obviously during my medical training, it was something I had experience dealing with, but never 40,000 feet in the air,\" he said.\n\nCabin crew on board the Air India flight from London in November frantically began searching for a doctor when the passenger suffered a cardiac arrest and was left without a pulse and not breathing.\n\n\"It took about an hour of resuscitation before I was able to get him back,\" Dr Vemala said.\n\n\"Luckily, they had an emergency kit, which to my utter surprise, included resuscitative medication to enable life support.\"\n\nHowever, other than oxygen and an automatic defibrillator, he said there was little to help monitor how the patient was doing.\n\nAfter speaking to other passengers on board the Air India flight from London, Dr Vemala was able to track down various pieces of equipment including a heart-rate monitor, pulse oximeter, glucose meter and blood pressure machine.\n\nThe patient later suffered a second cardiac arrest, requiring even more lengthy resuscitation.\n\n\"We were trying to keep him alive for five hours in total,\" he said.\n\nThe pilot arranged for landing at Mumbai Airport where emergency crews took over and the passenger was taken to safety, after thanking Dr Vemala for saving his life.\n\n\"It was also the first time in my seven years as a consultant that my mum had seen me in action, so that made it even more emotional,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amazon plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs, the largest number in the firm's history, as it battles to save costs.\n\nThe online giant, which employs 1.5 million people globally, did not say which countries the job cuts would hit, but said they would include Europe.\n\nMost of the job losses will come from its consumer retail business and its human resources division.\n\nBoss Andy Jassy cited the \"uncertain economy\" for the cuts, saying it had \"hired rapidly over several years.\"\n\n\"We don't take these decisions lightly or underestimate how much they might affect the lives of those who are impacted,\" he said in a memo to staff.\n\nHe said the announcement had been brought forward due to one of the firm's employees leaking the cuts externally.\n\n\"Companies that last a long time go through different phases. They're not in heavy people expansion mode every year,\" he added.\n\nReacting to the announcement, one Amazon Fresh store worker told the BBC: \"We're not allowed to speak about it, even to each other.\n\n\"I'd like to keep my job, obviously,\" the employee said. But they were aware that there are a number of vacancies at the moment in the UK and if this job was axed, they would simply apply for another.\n\nAmazon has seen sales slow after business boomed during the pandemic when customers at home spent a lot online.\n\nA potent combination of a downturn in advertising revenues due to businesses seeking to save cash, alongside consumers spending less as the cost of living crisis bites, is hitting tech firms hard.\n\nRetail analyst Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, tweeted that the Amazon job cuts were \"a big number\" but the company - across its entire operation - had taken on about 743,000 more people since 2019, \"some of which was based on irrational exuberance during the pandemic\", he said.\n\n\"We're now in a different era and Amazon is on a diet,\" said Mr Saunders, adding more cuts are likely in the months and years ahead.\n\nOther big tech firms including Meta - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - and cloud-based business software firm Salesforce have also both recently announced big cuts.\n\nAmazon has already announced that it is cutting back on projects like the Echo (better known as Alexa) and delivery robots - which were nice-to-haves but not actually making money.\n\nAnecdotally, there is a tendency in Silicon Valley for firms to hire and retain talented workers on attractive salaries, even if they're not immediately needed, primarily in order to stop them working for rivals. This culture is a luxury which big tech can no longer afford to maintain.\n\nAmazon employees affected by the cuts will be told by 18 January.\n\nThe move comes after the technology giant said last year that it would reduce its headcount without saying how many jobs would be cut.\n\nThe company had already stopped hiring new staff and stopped some of its warehouse expansions, warning it had over-hired during the pandemic.\n\nAmazon started laying off staff as early as November, according to LinkedIn posts by workers who said they had been impacted by job cuts.\n\nPosts seen by the BBC included those from employees in Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant business, Luna cloud gaming platform division and Lab126 - the operation behind the Kindle e-reader.\n\nIt has also taken steps to shut some parts of its business, cancelling projects such as a personal delivery robot.\n\n\"Prior to the pandemic, tech companies would often remove only the bottom 1% to 3% of their workforce,\" Ray Wang from the Silicon Valley-based consultancy Constellation Research told the BBC.\n\nDan Ives from investment firm Wedbush Securities said he believes Amazon will face \"more pain ahead\" as customers tighten their belts.\n\nTens of thousands of jobs are being shed across the global technology industry, amid slowing sales and growing concerns about an economic downturn.\n\nIn November, Meta announced that it would cut 13% of its workforce.\n\nThe first mass lay-offs in the social media firm's history will result in 11,000 employees, from a worldwide headcount of 87,000, losing their jobs.\n\nMeta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts were \"the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history\".\n\nThe news followed major layoffs at Twitter, which cut about half its staff after multi-billionaire Elon Musk took control of the firm in October.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Amazon depot in Dartford has been processing millions of orders\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? If you'd like to get in touch you can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The growing number of Chinese public figures whose deaths are being made public is prompting people to question the official Covid death toll.\n\nThe death of Chu Lanlan, a 40-year-old opera singer, last month came as a shock to many, given how young she was.\n\nHer family said they were saddened by her \"abrupt departure\", but did not give details of the cause of her death.\n\nChina scrapped its strict zero-Covid policy in December and has seen a rapid surge of infections and deaths.\n\nThere are reports of hospitals and crematoria becoming overwhelmed.\n\nBut the country has stopped publishing daily cases data, and has announced only 22 Covid deaths since December, using its own strict criteria.\n\nNow only those who die from respiratory illnesses such as pneumonia are counted.\n\nOn Wednesday the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that China was under-representing the true impact of Covid in the country - in particular deaths.\n\nBut the deaths of Chu Lanlan and others is sparking speculation about greater losses than those reported on official accounts.\n\nAccording to the specialist news website Operawire, Chu Lanlan was a soprano who specialised in Peking Opera - a theatrical art in which performers use speech, song, dance and combat movements to tell stories - and was also involved in charitable causes.\n\nOn New Year's Day news of the death of actor Gong Jintang devastated many Chinese internet users.\n\nGong Jintang was known for his performance in the country's longest-running TV series, In-Laws, Out-laws.\n\nGong, 83, was known to many households for his performance in the country's longest-running TV series, In-Laws, Out-laws. His portrait of Father Kang had captivated fans for more than two decades since the show first aired in 2000.\n\nThe cause of his death is unclear, but many social media users linked it to the recent deaths of other older people.\n\n\"Please god, please treat the elderly better,\" his co-star Hu Yanfen wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo.\n\n\"R.I.P Father Kang. This wave have really claimed many elders' lives, let's make sure we protect the elderly in our families,\" one user wrote on Weibo.\n\nAcclaimed scriptwriter Ni Zhen was also among recent deaths. The 84-year-old was famous for his work on the 1991 film Raise the Red Lantern, which is widely considered to be one of the best Chinese films by critics.\n\nMeanwhile Hu Fuming, a former journalist and retired professor of Nanjing University, died on 2 January at the age of 87.\n\nHe was the main author of a famous commentary published in 1978 that marked the start of the China's \"Boluan Fanzheng\" period - a time of eliminating chaos and returning to normal after the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution under the country's first Communist leader Mao Zedong.\n\nHu Fuming was a well known scholar and author\n\nAccording to a tally by Chinese media, 16 scientists from the country's top science and engineering academies died between 21 and 26 December.\n\nNone of these deaths were linked to Covid in their obituaries, but that hasn't prevented speculation online.\n\n\"Did he also die of 'bad flu'?\" one of the top-rated comments under news of Mr Ni's death said.\n\n\"Even if you trawl through the whole internet you can't find any reference to his cause of death,\" said another internet user.\n\nBut there was also criticism of demonstrators who took to the streets in November in rare political protests calling for the end of leader Xi Jinping's zero-Covid policy.\n\n\"Are those people happy now, seeing old people... now paving the way for their freedom?\" asked one social media user.\n\nMr Xi appeared to refer obliquely to the protests in his New Year's address, saying it was natural in such a big country for people to have different opinions.\n\nBut he urged people to come together and show unity as China entered a \"new phase\" in its approach to Covid.\n\nThe Chinese authorities are aware of the widespread scepticism although they continue to play down the severity of this wave of Covid sweeping the country.\n\nIn an interview with state TV, the director of Beijing's Institute of Respiratory Diseases admitted the number of deaths of elderly people so far this winter was \"definitely more\" than in past years, while also stressing that critical cases remained a minority of the overall number of Covid cases.\n\nThis week the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper, urged citizens to work towards a \"final victory\" over Covid and dismissed criticism of the previous zero-Covid policy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The body of a woman has been recovered after police were called to waterfalls in the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police were called at 11:45 GMT on Wednesday after two people were spotted in the river by a walker at Ystradfellte Falls, in Powys.\n\nHigh, fast-flowing water saw a \"large-scale search\" called off but it resumed on Thursday.\n\nThe women's families have been informed and are receiving specialist support, police added.\n\nA Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said its wading crew from Neath and swift water rescue team from Swansea Central attended.\n\nA fire service boat and underwater camera were used to assist in the recovery.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police recovered the body of one woman and are searching for another\n\nThere has been flooding in parts of mid and west Wales following heavy rainfall this week, with several alerts issued and firefighters carrying out rescues after people were left stranded in cars.\n\nThe Ystradfellte Falls are a series of four waterfalls set within the Brecon Beacons National Park, which are linked by a walking path which is popular with tourists and day-trippers.", "A bomb disposal team was called to the hospital\n\nA student nurse accused of taking a homemade bomb to the Leeds hospital he worked at has appeared in court.\n\nMohammad Farooq was said to have the device outside the maternity ward of St James's Hospital on 20 January.\n\nMr Farooq, 27, who was also said to have undertaken reconnaissance outside an RAF base, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of preparing a terrorist act.\n\nHe did not enter a plea and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 3 February.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Farooq, of Hetton Road, Roundhay, Leeds, was found with a pressure cooker bomb outside the ward.\n\nThey also argue that, inspired by radical Islam, he carried out \"hostile reconnaissance\" of an RAF base on 10 and 18 January after carrying out online research.\n\nProsecutors say he chose the target because of online encouragement to carry out a \"lone wolf\" attack at the site.\n\nCounter-terrorism police worked with Army specialists during the incident\n\nMr Farooq was arrested outside the maternity ward on 20 January.\n\nIt is alleged he had constructed a viable bomb, containing about 30lb (13.7kg) of a homemade low-explosive mixture and a length of pyrotechnic fuse.\n\nProsecutors added he also had an imitation firearm on him, a Gediz 9mm PAK semi-automatic pistol, at the time of his arrest.\n\nHis actions at the hospital, where he was due to work a shift, are not alleged to have been motivated by terrorism but by a grudge towards another member of staff.\n\nThe incident prompted part of the hospital to be evacuated.\n\nThe defendant appeared via videolink, speaking only to confirm his name, date of birth and address and did not enter any plea.\n\nMr Farooq is charged with one count of engaging in conduct with the intention of committing acts of terrorism between 12 July last year and 20 January.\n\nProsecutor Mark Luckett said he allegedly had instructions to assemble a homemade explosive device, bought equipment and made the bomb, researched the RAF base online, and engaged in reconnaissance of the alleged target.\n\nHe is also charged with possessing an explosive substance on 20 January with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.\n\nHe faces a further count of possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence on the same date.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of four newly discovered tombs at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo\n\nArchaeologists say they have found a gold leaf-covered mummy sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years.\n\nThe mummy, the remains of a man named Hekashepes, is thought to be one of the oldest and most complete non-royal corpses ever found in Egypt.\n\nIt was discovered down a 15m (50ft) shaft at a burial site south of Cairo, Saqqara, where three other tombs were found.\n\nThe largest of the mummies that were unearthed at the ancient necropolis is said to belong to a man called Khnumdjedef - a priest, inspector and supervisor of nobles.\n\nAnother belonged to a man called Meri, who was a senior palace official given the title of \"secret keeper\", which allowed him to perform special religious rituals.\n\nA judge and writer named Fetek is thought to have been laid to rest in the other tomb, where a collection of what are thought to be the largest statues ever found in the area had been discovered.\n\nSeveral other items, including pottery, have also been found among the tombs.\n\nVarious statues and items of pottery were found in the tombs\n\nArchaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former antiquities minister, has said all the discoveries date from around the 25th to the 22nd centuries BC.\n\n\"This discovery is so important as it connects the kings with the people living around them,\" said Ali Abu Deshish, another archaeologist involved in the excavation.\n\nSaqqara was an active burial ground for more than 3,000 years and is a designated Unesco World Heritage Site. It sits at what was the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis and is home to more than a dozen pyramids - including the Step Pyramid, near where the shaft containing the mummy was found.\n\nThursday's discovery comes just a day after experts in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor said they had discovered a complete residential city from the Roman era, dating back to the second and third centuries AD.\n\nArchaeologists found residential buildings, towers and what they've called \"metal workshops\" - containing pots, tools and Roman coins.\n\nEgypt has unveiled many major archaeological discoveries in recent years, as part of efforts to revive its tourism industry.\n\nThe government hopes its Grand Egyptian Museum, which is due to open this year following delays, will draw in 30 million tourists a year by 2028.\n\nBut, critics have accused Egypt's government of prioritising media-grabbing finds over hard academic research in order to attract more tourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 4,400-year-old tomb is filled with hieroglyphs and statues", "Firefighter Barry Martin, 38, remains in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries\n\nA firefighter who is critically ill in hospital following a fire at the former Jenner's department store has been named as Barry Martin.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the 38-year-old from Fife was still in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.\n\nFour other firefighters were treated in hospital after the blaze and have now been discharged.\n\nDozens of emergency service crews were sent to the fire on Monday.\n\nA police officer was also treated for smoke inhalation in the hospital before being released.\n\nAt its height, 22 fire appliances were at the scene, with more than 100 firefighters working to tackle what Interim Chief Officer Ross Haggart has described as a \"serious and complex fire\".\n\nHe added: \"Our thoughts are very much with Barry and his family, and indeed with all of our colleagues who were injured in responding to this incident.\n\n\"We continue to provide all possible support to our colleagues and their families, as well as all staff involved.\n\n\"We are liaising with appropriate partners to ensure a full and thorough investigation is undertaken into this incident.\"\n\nInterim Chief Officer Haggart added his thanks to his \"dedicated crews and staff for their professionalism in responding to this challenging incident\".\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Scotland issued a statement which said its officials were \"already addressing this incident and together with FBU head office are making urgent arrangements on the immediate steps required\".\n\nTwo of the other firefighters who were taken to hospital were treated for smoke inhalation, and two were treated for burns.\n\nOne fire engine remains in attendance at the landmark building to monitor for potential hotspots.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.\n\nThe east end of Rose Street is still closed between South St David Street and Rose Street Lane North, while two nearby business premises on Rose Street also remain shut.\n\nThe building is owned by property firm AAA United, which is renovating the site.\n\nDirector Anders Krogh Vogdrup told BBC Scotland the owners were \"devastated\" about the fire.\n\n\"Our thoughts and appreciation are with the rescue team,\" he said.\n\nMr Vogdrup added that initial investigations indicated only \"very localised damage\" in the lower north side of the building.\n\n\"The overall building is intact, but we still await further investigations over the following days which will reveal the total extent of the damage,\" he said.\n\nThe owners described the blaze as a \"temporary setback\" in the project to refurbish the building.\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing a restoration which was due to take four years. Under the plan, disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Edinburgh City Council leader Cammy Day said: \"I'm sure I say this on behalf of the whole city, that our thoughts are with the firefighters who risked their lives to save the building and save the people around the city as well, so our thoughts are with their families.\"\n\nHe said the council would assess the building's structural integrity, adding: \"That is a question we don't have the answer to yet.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nNovak Djokovic says it was \"not pleasant\" to deal with the controversy surrounding his father Srdjan before his Australian Open semi-final victory.\n\nSrdjan Djokovic watched his son's 7-5 6-1 6-2 win over American Tommy Paul at home to avoid causing \"disruption\".\n\nOn Wednesday he was pictured at the tournament with supporters of Russian president Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"He [my dad] had no intention to support any kind of war initiative,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"It's unfortunate the misinterpretation of what happened escalated.\"\n\nDjokovic's father was photographed with the Putin supporters after his son's quarter-final win over Russia's Andrey Rublev.\n\nThe images also featured a man wearing a T-shirt printed with the letter ' Z' - a pro-war symbol of President Putin's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSpeaking after his win over Paul, and for the first time since the incident, Djokovic said he \"could not be angry\" with his father.\n• None Djokovic sees off Paul to set up Tsitsipas final\n\nDjokovic said his father was walking through a gathering of the player's fans outside Rod Laver Arena and had been \"misused\" by the Russian fans before quickly continuing past.\n\n\"There was a lot of Serbian flags around. That's what he thought. He thought he was making a photo with somebody from Serbia. That's it. He moved on,\" said Djokovic.\n\nHowever, the nine-time Australian Open champion conceded the row had \"got to\" him in the lead-up to his semi-final at Melbourne Park.\n\nDjokovic also courted controversy last year when he was stopped from defending his title after being deported following a row over his coronavirus vaccination status.\n\n\"I was not pleased to see that,\" said Djokovic, who will earn a record-equalling 22nd major men's title if he beat Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas on Sunday.\n\n\"Of course, it's not pleasant for me to go through this with all the things that I had to deal with last year and this year in Australia. It's not something that I want or need.\n\n\"I hope that people will let it be, and we can focus on tennis.\"\n\nWhat happened to get to this point?\n\nRussian and Belarusian flags and symbols have been banned at the Australian Open since a Russian flag was displayed during a match between Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl and Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova on the opening day.\n\nBut Russian flags - including one with Putin's face on it - were seen at Melbourne Park on Wednesday.\n\nFour spectators were later questioned by police after the flags were waved and security guards were allegedly threatened.\n\nThe video of Srdjan Djokovic with the fans emerged on Thursday.\n\n\"I was outside with Novak's fans as I have done after all of my son's matches to celebrate his wins and take pictures with them,\" he said.\n\n\"I had no intention of being caught up in this.\n\n\"My family has lived through the horror of war, and we wish only for peace.\"\n\nBefore Srdjan Djokovic confirmed he would not be attending the semi-final, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated the country's stance on pro-Russian protests.\n\n\"I will make this point, that Australia stands with the people of Ukraine. That is Australia's position and Australia is unequivocal in our support for the rule of international law,\" Albanese said at a news conference on Friday.\n\n\"We do not want to see any support given to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\"\n\nTennis Australia said in a statement it \"stands with the call for peace and an end to war and violent conflict in Ukraine\".\n\nUkrainian player Marta Kostyuk has been one of the most vocal in speaking out about the war and she said seeing Russian flags being waved by supporters of Putin at Melbourne Park \"hurts a lot\".\n\n\"I don't understand how this can be possible,\" added the 20-year-old, who was beaten in the women's doubles semi-finals on Friday.\n\nKostyuk was born in Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which has been a focal point of Russian attacks since the country invaded its neighbour in February 2022.\n\nThe world number 61 has regularly highlighted the devastating impact on Ukrainians caused by Russia's actions.\n\n\"It hurts a lot because there were specific rules; you're not allowed to bring in the flags,\" said Kostyuk, who also reached the third round of the singles.\n\n\"It really hurts that they were there for quite some time. These kind of things should not be seen. It's very upsetting.\"\n\nKostyuk also wants the ban imposed by Wimbledon last year on Russian and Belarusian players to remain in place this year.\n\nThe All England Club has yet to announce a decision for the Championships, which begin on 3 July.\n\nAsked if Russian and Belarusian players should be stopped from competing again, she said: \"I think yes. Because I cannot imagine if someone Russian or Belarusian wins the tournament and then royal family has to hold the trophies with them.\n\n\"I hardly imagine this. This is one of the big reasons they actually banned them. So I think yes.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Here are nine amazing facts to help you improve the quality of your sleep\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture", "The director of the museum Piotr Cywinski spoke out against the Ukraine war in his speech at the event\n\nFor the first time a Russian delegation was not invited to a ceremony marking the liberation of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in modern-day Poland.\n\nRussia is usually represented at the event, as the camp in occupied Poland was liberated by the Soviet Army.\n\nBut this year, following Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum declined to invite Russian officials and its director likened the Ukraine war to the horrors of the Holocaust.\n\nIn response, Russia accused the museum of attempting to \"rewrite history\".\n\nAt the event on Friday, museum director Piotr Cywinski said Auschwitz was created by Nazi \"megalomania\" and a \"similar sick megalomania\" and \"similar lust for power\" had driven Russia's destruction of Mariupol and Donetsk.\n\nSpeaking to an audience including camp survivors, he warned that \"once again, innocent people are being killed en masse in Europe\".\n\n\"Russia, unable to conquer Ukraine, has decided to destroy it. We see it every day, even as we stand here. And so it is difficult to stand here today.\"\n\nReacting to the decision, Russia said Soviet soldiers who freed Auschwitz would not be forgotten.\n\n\"No matter how our European 'non-partners' contrived in their attempts to rewrite history in a new way, the memory of the Soviet heroes-liberators and horrors of Nazism cannot be erased,\" Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a pointed social media post.\n\nAuschwitz survivors also expressed their fears over the fallout of the war in Ukraine at the event.\n\nPolish survivor Zdzislawa Wlodarczyk said she was \"scared to hear what is happening in the East\".\n\nShe told the audience that she had arrived in Auschwitz as an 11-year-old following the Warsaw Uprising, a failed attempt by the Polish resistance in 1944 to liberate the city from the German occupiers.\n\nShe and her 7-year-old brother remained in the camp until the Soviet army liberated it.\n\n\"The Russian armies that liberated us are now waging war on Ukraine. Why? Why? That's what politics is,\" she said.\n\nThe Polish nation has stood firm in its support for Ukraine during the conflict, with Poles housing hundreds of thousands of refugees in their own homes and offering military support to its neighbour.\n\nRussian officials have taken part in their own commemorative events, with Vladimir Putin meeting Russia's top rabbis on the eve of the remembrance day on Thursday.\n\nThe Russian leader said he was \"pursuing a policy meaning nothing like this in the history of mankind will ever happen again\".\n\nRussia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has spoken about his regret that Russia has been excluded from the commemoration, warning that \"these political games have no place on Holocaust day\".\n\nChief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar attends a candle lighting ceremony at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow\n\nHe told AFP: \"For us, this is clearly a humiliation because we perfectly know and remember the role of the Red [Soviet] Army in the liberation of Auschwitz and in the victory over Nazism.\"\n\nFriday's event marks the 78th anniversary of the Soviet army liberating the concentration and extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where more than one million people were murdered by the Nazis.\n\nAuschwitz-Birkenau was created as a part of the Holocaust, a process that started with discrimination against Jewish people, and ended with six million Jews being killed because of who they were.\n\nIn total, 1.1 million people died in the camp, around one million Jews from across Europe as well as Poles, Soviet POWs, Roma and Sinti.", "The number of new cars made in the UK has sunk to its lowest level for 66 years as firms warn the country is not doing enough to attract manufacturers.\n\nThe 10% drop is the worst performance since 1956, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.\n\nA struggle to get parts due to Covid and a semiconductor shortage have hit the industry worldwide, but the UK has also been hit by factory closures.\n\nCar firms warn the UK has not got a strategy to attract manufacturers.\n\nIn response, the government said it was \"determined\" to ensure the country remains a top global location for car manufacturing.\n\nIn total, the UK produced 775,014 cars last year, down from 1.3 million before the pandemic, with production having fallen every year since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016.\n\nManufacturers hope the car industry will start to accelerate again, but say getting to pre-pandemic levels would require major investment and new car makers to come to the UK.\n\nThey warn that the UK is lagging behind, particularly on offering state aid to manufacturers.\n\nIn the US, the government is planning to offer billions in subsidies to car makers who create electric vehicle supply chains in America.\n\nMike Hawes, chief executive of industry body the SMMT, warns this will \"hoover up\" a lot of international investment, hitting the UK industry further.\n\nThe European Union is considering retaliating by either relaxing state aid rules or by extending Covid recovery or green technology-boosting programmes.\n\nOne of the benefits of Brexit was meant to be escaping from the straitjacket of EU state aid rules which limited the amount of support governments could give to favoured industries.\n\nMr Hawes conceded the UK could be in the unenviable position of offering less support to crucial industries than before it left the EU.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said the UK needed \"something that demonstrates that the UK is open for business and open for these investments\".\n\nThe production figures were also affected by the closure of Honda's factory in Swindon in July 2021 and the fact that Vauxhall Astras have not been made at Ellesmere Port since April 2022.\n\nMr Hawes said the numbers reflected how \"tough\" 2022 was for UK car manufacturing, although the country had still made more electric vehicles than ever before, with almost a third now fully-electric or hybrid.\n\nHe warned the global car industry had already begun investing in electric vehicles and batteries and the UK only had \"a few years\" to act.\n\n\"We need to be on the front foot making sure we have a range of measures that attract investment,\" Mr Hawes said.\n\nHe called for a strategy to accelerate battery production and the shift to electric vehicles, adding that the UK was well placed to succeed given its skilled workforce and engineering expertise.\n\nUK car production was further set back by the collapse of battery start-up Britishvolt last week\n\nUK car production was further set back by the collapse of battery start-up Britishvolt last week.\n\nThe firm had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Cambois, near Blyth in Northumberland, but the project ran out of money.\n\nThe UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the EU.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are determined to ensure the UK remains one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing.\n\n\"Our success is evidenced by the £1bn investment in Sunderland in 2021, and we are building on this through a major investment programme to electrify our supply chain and create jobs.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is in the former Jenners building, which has been undergoing a restoration.\n\nStreets in Edinburgh city centre remain sealed off as emergency crews deal with a fire in the Jenners building.\n\nFire crews, police and ambulance staff were dispatched to the empty department store on Rose Street at about 11:30.\n\nNo casualties have been officially reported but the BBC understands a number of firefighters received treatment at the scene.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent 22 fire engines and said the fire was well-established when they arrived.\n\nEyewitnesses have described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the department store.\n\nThe police cordon was later extended to cover the whole of St Andrew Square. Staff from nearby offices have been evacuated.\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulance crews were dispatched to the scene\n\nThe fire service said it deployed 22 appliances and other \"specialist resources\" to the scene, where crews remain.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said a number of roads had been closed in the surrounding area, adding: \"Please avoid the area if possible and heed advice re alternative routes.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service is also at the scene. A spokesperson said: \"We received the call at 11:49 and have dispatched 14 resources.\"\n\nEyewitnesses spoke to BBC Scotland about the response of emergency services on Princes Street.\n\nSarah Mullins, 34, manager at Wagamama in St Andrew Square, said she first saw smoke at about 11:30.\n\n\"It got so bad we couldn't see out across the square,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The police told us to stay inside because the smoke was so bad it would have affected our lungs. They said it was safer to stay inside.\n\n\"It's very sad this has happened to such an iconic building.\"\n\nPaul Kelly, 63, who works as a consultant engineer in the neighbouring building, said: \"At first when we were evacuated we didn't think it was a big deal.\n\nSarah Mullins was near the scene when the fire broke out\n\n\"There was smoke but it was nothing like it ended up.\n\n\"There was smoke belching out of the front entrance and the whole of St Andrew Square with thick with smoke.\"\n\n\"There were about 60 of us who left,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"I've been outside now for two hours with no coat and my house keys are inside the building.\n\n\"I can see the smoke is starting to pour out of the building again.\"\n\nSmoke can still be seen coming from the Jenners building which has been sealed off by a large police cordon.\n\nAt its height flames could be seen spreading from the lower windows into the street.\n\nFirefighters tackled the blaze with hoses while colleagues in breathing apparatus came and went from the building.\n\nThe equipment lying on the nearby pavement is one sign of the large operation by the Fire and Rescue Service with multiple police and ambulance blue lights also at the scene.\n\nWorkers from nearby offices were asked to leave and are now among the the crowds of passers by standing at the police cordon watching things unfold at this iconic Edinburgh landmark.\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing restoration due to take four years. Under the plan, about 10,000m2 of disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nThe current building was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie in the Victorian renaissance revival style and opened in 1895 - after the original building was destroyed by fire in 1892.\n\nThe building was sold to private investors in 2005 after House of Fraser bought the Jenners brand and property.\n\nIt was then bought by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen in 2017 for a reported £53m.", "Tyre Nichols loved to photograph sunsets, and was father to a four-year-old son\n\nThe family of Tyre Nichols, a black man whose death following a traffic stop in Tennessee has placed a fresh spotlight on police brutality in the United States, describes him as a \"beautiful soul\" with a passion for skateboarding, sunsets and photography.\n\n\"Nobody's perfect, but he was damn near,\" his mother RowVaughn Wells said at a news conference flanked by family members and supporters.\n\nA visibly grieving Ms Wells broke into a rare smile as she described her son having a tattoo of her name on his arm.\n\n\"That made me proud,\" she said. \"My son loved me to death, and I love him to death.\"\n\nTyre Nichols, 29, was born in Sacramento, California, but moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 2020 just before the pandemic hit to be closer to his mother.\n\nHe was the father to a four-year-old son, and worked for FedEx for the past nine months, with his stepfather, Rodney Wells.\n\nMr Nichols had loved skateboarding since he was six years old, and his favourite activity was to head to the local skate park. A video montage uploaded 12 years ago on YouTube shows him coasting around and doing tricks for the camera in the Californian sunshine.\n\nMr Wells said he had recently joked to his stepson that he was too old to skateboard.\n\n\"You've got to put that skateboard down. You've got a full-time job now,\" he remembered saying. \"He looked at me like 'yeah right' because that was his passion.\"\n\nTyre Nichols' death has renewed calls for police reform in the US\n\nMr Nichols' took his photography seriously, and had his own website dedicated to it.\n\nPhotography \"helps me look at the world in a more creative way. It expresses me in ways I cannot write down for people,\" he wrote, signing off: \"Your friend, Tyre D. Nichols.\"\n\nEach night, he would go to nearby Shelby Farms Park, on the eastern outskirts of Memphis, to take pictures of the setting sun, his mother said.\n\nThat was where Mr Nichols was driving home from when he was stopped by police on 7 January. He died three days later, and five now-fired police officers - who like Mr Nichols are all black - are facing murder charges.\n\nThree Memphis emergency workers - two paramedics and a driver - have also been fired for not providing Mr Nichols with adequate care at the scene, officials said.\n\nBodycam footage of the encounter with police was released on 27 January, and showed Mr Nichols being severely beaten by police.\n\nIn distress, he can be heard calling out \"Mom!\" as the officers kick, punch, pepper spray and taser him not far from her house, where he also lived.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said he was \"outraged\" by the \"horrific\" video, adding that it was \"another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that black and brown Americans experience every single day\".\n\nRowVaughn Wells is supported by civil rights attorney Ben Crump (left) and her husband Rodney Wells (right) while speaking to the media\n\nOn the eve of his funeral, Mr Nichols' family and friends in Sacramento held a vigil at one of his favourite skate parks, in the suburb of North Natomas.\n\n\"He just had overwhelming urge just make everyone else around him smile,\" fellow skater Ryan Wilson said.\"We just need to remember the good that he did, the person that he was. Carry that in your heart, not what happened,\" Kandi Green, Mr Nichols' aunt told the crowd.\n\nAngelina Paxton, who first met Mr Nichols when they were about 13 years old at a local church youth group, said she had avoided watching the bodycam video, and only wants to remember her friend as the \"happy\" and \"goofy\" man that he was.\n\n\"He was just very laidback... everybody describes him as being goofy because he was kind of like the class clown,\" Ms Paxton told the BBC. \"And he was just always cracking jokes and poking fun at you, and it was never in a mean way.\"\n\nIn Memphis, Mr Nichols quickly made a solid group of friends, and they would meet up most mornings at the local Starbucks café and talk about sports and his beloved San Francisco 49ers football team.\n\nHe was a \"free spirited person, a gentleman who marched to the beat of his own drum,\" Nate Spates Jr told CNN. \"He liked what he liked. If you liked what he liked - fine. If you didn't - fine.\"\n\nCandlelit vigils have been held at several skateparks in Sacramento, California\n\nThe 29-year-old also had Crohn's disease, a condition where parts of the digestive system become inflamed, often causing severe weight loss. While he stood at 6'3\" (190.5cm), Mr Nichols only weighed about 150 pounds (68kg) - \"fairly light\", as his mother said.\n\nHis slight statue is also raising questions about the force shown by the police officers.\n\n\"That's why this is so troubling to me, because you had five officers' combined weight of over a thousand pounds beating up on a young man that's only a buck fifty,\" Ms Wells told Democracy Now.\n\nSpeaking to the media hours before the distressing police video was released, she described the unbearable grief her family is going through.\n\n\"All I know is my son Tyre is not here with me anymore. He will not walk through that door again,\" she said.\n\n\"He will never come in and say 'Hello parents', because that's what he would do. I'll never hear that again.\"\n\nMs Wells added that she would work tirelessly for justice because \"no son deserves this\".\n\nMr Nichols' stepfather described his stepson as \"a good kid\" who was the baby of the family - he had two older brothers and one older sister.\n\n\"I was Tyre's stepfather, but you can take the 'step' out of it because that was my son,\" Mr Wells said of their relationship.\n\nMr Wells said he had watched the police incident video, describing it as \"horrific\" and something which \"no father, mother should have to witness\".\n\nHe said the family would do everything they could to seek justice, but added that anyone holding protests in Mr Nichols' name should do so peacefully, and should not loot or damage property.\n\n\"That's not what Tyre wanted and that's not going to bring him back,\" he said.", "William Beer was sentenced at Newport Crown Court after knocking over Illtyd Morgan\n\nA 96-year-old driver who killed an 84-year-old pedestrian after being warned he should not drive by an optician has been jailed for more than two years.\n\nWilliam Beer pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving after hitting Illtyd Morgan on Bedwas Road, Caerphilly, on 6 April 2021.\n\nBeer, of Llanbradach, Caerphilly, was sentenced to two years and four months at Newport Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard Beer told police Mr Morgan appeared \"at the last minute\".\n\nHe failed a roadside eye test carried out by police after hitting Mr Morgan and was only able to read a number plate 7m (23ft) away.\n\nDrivers should be able to read a registration plate from 20m (66ft) away.\n\nIn March 2019 his reading ability was described as \"very poor\" due to bilateral cataracts.\n\nIlltyd Morgan was on a crossing on Bedwas Road, Caerphilly, when he was struck\n\nBut in November that year he renewed his licence because he believed regular injections had improved his vision.\n\nHe failed to declare his medical conditions to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).\n\nThe court heard there was nothing in his medical records to suggest the injections would improve his sight, instead saying they would stabilise it.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Mr Morgan's son, Gareth, said his father's death had affected him deeply.\n\n\"I am not convinced I will fully recover,\" he said.\n\nHe said his late father had voluntarily given up his driving licence due to his failing eyesight and health despite the impact on his independence.\n\nHe said: \"That was my father. He would do the right thing regardless of the impact that this would cause.\"\n\nIn her victim impact statement, Mr Morgan's widow, Hazel, said they had been happily married for 58 years.\n\n\"They were 58 happy years,\" she said.\n\n\"I still cannot believe he won't be coming home to me.\"\n\nJudge Richard Williams said the defendant knew his eyesight was not good enough to drive.\n\n\"It must have been obvious to you,\" he said.\n\nJudge Williams said he believed Beer had not mentioned his medical treatment to the DVLA in order to care for his late wife who had dementia.\n\nAs well as sentencing him to 28 months in prison he disqualified Beer, who turns 97 next month, from driving for six years and two months.\n\nIlltyd Morgan died in the crash on Bedwas Road, Caerphilly in 2021\n\nHis wife Miriam died at Christmas and her funeral was held 10 days ago.\n\n\"He is loved by his family and friends,\" said his barrister Malcolm Galloway.\n\n\"He is a father, grandfather and great-grandfather and his only concern has been for the family of the deceased and his own family,\" he said.\n\nMr Galloway told the court Beer wished to express his apologies for the death of Mr Morgan.\n\n\"That remorse is genuine and that remorse is heartfelt,\" said Mr Galloway.\n\nThere were tears from members of Beer's family in the public gallery as he was led down to the cells.\n\nAfter the case Anthony Clarke, of the CPS, said Beer's decision to ignore medical advice had resulted in \"the worst possible consequences\".\n\nHe called the case a \"tragic reminder\" to motorists to ensure they were fit to drive.\n\n\"Mr Morgan's family have endured a heart-breaking loss and our thoughts remain with them,\" Mr Clarke said.", "Wynter's parents Sarah and Gary attended the hearing on Friday\n\nAn NHS trust has been fined £800,000 after admitting failings in the care of a baby who died after 23 minutes.\n\nNottingham University Hospitals (NUH) pleaded guilty over the care of Wynter Andrews, who died after being born in 2019 at the Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nThe fine is the largest handed out to an NHS trust over maternity care.\n\nNottingham Magistrates' Court heard a \"catalogue of failings\" exposed Wynter and her mother Sarah to \"a significant risk of harm\".\n\nHowever, District Judge Grace Leong said she was \"acutely aware\" the fine would be paid for by funding that would usually be used for patient care.\n\nThe criminal prosecution is one of only two the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has brought against an NHS maternity unit.\n\nWynter died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy - a loss of oxygen flow to the brain - which could have been prevented had staff delivered her earlier.\n\nAn inquest into her death, held in 2020, heard Sarah Andrews, 33, had been admitted to hospital on 14 September, six days after initially suffering contractions.\n\nThe trust's chief executive Anthony May reiterated the trust's apology on Wednesday\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the maternity unit was \"busy\" when Mrs Andrews arrived, with information on her patient history not handed over properly to other staff at shift changes.\n\nAfter her arrival, Mrs Andrews was \"misdiagnosed\" as being in the latent phase of labour, when there were \"clear clinical signs\" she was in established labour, which meant she did not receive the level of care that she needed.\n\nThe inquest heard there were \"missed opportunities\" to move labour along and begin one-to-one care.\n\nIt also heard of missed chances to \"provide additional monitoring\" of the baby's wellbeing, \"and to have taken action if that monitoring had shown that baby Wynter was in distress\".\n\nA doctor seeing her the following morning did not pick up on concerns raised by midwives about a possible infection or over a trace examination of Wynter, the inquest was told.\n\nWynter was delivered \"in poor condition\" at 14:05 on 15 September 2019, with the umbilical cord \"wrapped tightly around her leg and neck\", and efforts to resuscitate her were abandoned 23 minutes later. She died in her parents' arms.\n\nThe coroner, Laurinda Bower, said \"systemic issues\" contributed to the neglect of Wynter, adding the unit was so short staffed, midwives were looking after a number of high-risk patients simultaneously.\n\nBefore her conclusion was delivered, Ms Bower said she had received an anonymous letter from midwives on the unit - dated 10 months before Wynter's death - addressed to bosses at the trust outlining concerns over staffing levels as \"the cause of a potential disaster\".\n\nCalling it a \"clear and obvious case of neglect\", the coroner said: \"If [Wynter] had been delivered earlier, it is likely that her death would have been avoided.\"\n\nPassing sentence on Friday, the district judge said: \"The catalogue of failings and errors exposed Mrs Andrews and her baby to a significant risk of harm which was avoidable, and such errors ultimately resulted in the death of Wynter and post-traumatic stress for Mrs Andrews and Mr Andrews.\"\n\nIn a statement, Wynter's parents said the fine had \"demonstrated the seriousness\" of the trust's failings.\n\nThey added: \"These criminal proceedings are designed to act as a punishment and a deterrent. No financial penalty will ever bring Wynter back.\n\n\"We hope [the fine] sends a clear message to the trust managers that they must hold patient safety in the highest regard.\n\n\"Sadly, we are not the only family harmed by the trust's failings. We feel that this sentence isn't just for Wynter, but it's for all the babies who have gone before and after her.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Sarah and Gary Andrews said they hoped the prosecution would \"result in meaningful change\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the trust pleaded guilty to two charges.\n\nThe first of the two charges related to the trust's failures in Sarah's care, while the other was for its failures in Wynter's care.\n\nThe fine was reduced from £1.2m due to the guilty pleas, with the trust given two years to pay it, in addition to £13,668 in costs and a victim surcharge of £181.\n\nTrust chief executive Anthony May said he was \"truly sorry for the pain and grief\" caused, adding: \"We let them down at what should have been a joyous time in their lives.\"\n\nThe trust said it had worked to address the findings and had implemented a number of changes to its maternity services, including increased investment in training and equipment.\n\nIts maternity units have been rated inadequate since 2020 and are the subject of a wider review by senior midwife Donna Ockenden, who published a report into the biggest NHS maternity scandal in Shropshire last year.\n\nThe CQC, which also prosecuted East Kent NHS Trust for failures in the case of Harry Richford, called the death of Wynter \"an absolute tragedy\".\n\nDirector of operations Lorraine Tedeschini said: \"Mothers have a right to safe care and treatment when having a baby, so it is unacceptable that their safety was not well managed by the trust.\n\n\"I hope this prosecution reminds care providers they must always take all reasonable steps to ensure people's safety, including responding appropriately when our inspections identify areas needing improvement.\"\n\nMs Ockenden said the suffering of Wynter's family should be \"at the forefront of everyone's mind\".\n\nWith more than 900 families and 400 staff speaking to her review about concerns over maternity care at the trust, she urged more to contact the investigation.\n\n\"The more staff that come forward, the more families we are able to include, the more robust our findings will be and the more relevant our findings will be, and the stronger our findings will be,\" she said.\n\nIn this case, the judge acknowledged there was a delicate balance between fining a publicly-funded organisation and sending out a message that acts as both a punishment and a deterrent to other hospital trusts.\n\nShe signalled the fine would have been much higher had it been a private organisation.\n\nThe trust has been given two years to pay the fine and the money will go to the Treasury.\n\nAt the moment when the CQC brings a prosecution, the maximum sanction available to the courts is an unlimited fine.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daniel Harris was described as \"highly dangerous\"\n\nA British man who posted far-right videos that influenced the gunman behind a US mass shooting has been given an 11-and-a-half-year sentence.\n\nDaniel Harris, 19, uploaded racist videos calling for the \"total extermination of subhumans\", Manchester Crown Court heard.\n\nThey were shared by Payton Gendron, who killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York.\n\nHarris, from Glossop in Derbyshire, was found guilty of terrorism offences following a trial last year.\n\nAs well as serving his sentence in a young offenders institution, he must also serve three years on extended licence once released.\n\nPayton Gendron pleaded guilty to a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York\n\nThe court heard Harris, of Lord Street, made videos about the Christchurch mosque shootings, the killer of MP Jo Cox and other far-right figures.\n\nThe videos were uploaded to the internet between February 2021 and March 2022.\n\nOn Thursday it emerged some were shared online by Payton Gendron, who has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 10 black people at a supermarket in May.\n\nLinks between Harris and Anderson Lee Aldrich, the only suspect in a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado, were also made while Harris was on trial.\n\nHarris's video was posted on a website with links that appeared to show Aldrich preparing to carry out the attacks, in which five people were killed and 25 were injured.\n\nDaniel Harris was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Friday\n\nHarris was convicted in December of five counts of encouraging terrorism and one count of possession of material for terrorist purposes.\n\nJudge Patrick Field KC, sentencing, said Harris \"created a series of videos\" where he \"glorified mass murderers\" and \"encouraged other people to emulate them\" having \"provided specific instructions\".\n\n\"In these videos you expressed and repeated vile antisemitic, racist, misogynistic and homophobic views,\" he said.\n\n\"You intended to encourage terrorism, and it's plain that what was being encouraged was lethal, racist and anti-Semitic violence, as well as violence against the gay community.\"\n\nAt the sentencing hearing on Friday, the court also heard Harris was producing his videos after he had been sentenced for defacing a memorial in Manchester of George Floyd, who was killed by an American police officer in 2020.\n\nJudge Field said the defendant had portrayed the incident as \"no more than a blip\" and told \"a series of lies\".\n\nThe judge also referred to an incident where Harris attempted to make a firearm through a 3D printer, which he said could have been used in a deadly attack.\n\n\"That you failed in this task was a matter of good fortune,\" he said.\n\n\"I have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that you are highly dangerous.\"\n\nThe court heard Harris had tried to make a firearm with a 3D printer\n\nDet Insp Chris Brett, from Counter-Terrorism Policing in the East Midlands, said Harris was behind \"a concerted effort to generate a following and influence people\".\n\n\"On the face of it, [he] presents as an unassuming, quiet young man, but scratch the surface and it's a more sinister picture,\" he said.\n\n\"While efforts were made to support him - with a referral to establish if he had been groomed, and attempts to engage with him through the Prevent programme - the extent of his views and intentions were exposed through his continued efforts to post and create online content of an extreme nature throughout.\n\n\"Harris was ultimately deemed not to have been groomed, rather his provocative words and inflammatory films were potentially radicalising others.\n\n\"The threat he posed became such that we had to act in order to ensure the safety of the wider public.\"\n\nNick Price, head of special crime and counter terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, also welcomed the sentencing.\n\n\"Harris sought to encourage others to commit terrorist acts through his violent, anti-Semitic and racist videos which would have been watched by many,\" he said.\n\n\"These videos were not harmless entertainment - in them he glorified mass murderers.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Harold Shipman was one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history\n\nA relative of one of Harold Shipman's victims has condemned a life insurance firm for using an image of the serial killer in a social media advert.\n\nDeadHappy used the image with the tagline: \"Life Insurance. Because you never know who your doctor might be.\"\n\nShipman is believed to have murdered up to 260 people during his time as a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester.\n\nTim Hill, the great-grandson of one of Shipman's victims, said the \"trauma\" of the ordeal was still with his family.\n\nHe said: \"My family, most practically my mother, went through a lot of trauma during the inquiry.\n\n\"This isn't something that's in the distant past or outside living memory. It's not something that should be joked about.\n\n\"The company should be held accountable, their their modus operandi seems to be to cause offence and create public outrage.\"\n\nHyde MP Jonathan Reynolds said he was \"disgusted\" by the ad.\n\nMr Reynolds told the BBC that constituents began contacting his office on Monday night when the advert began appearing in their Facebook news feeds.\n\nThe MP contacted the Leicester-based firm on Tuesday asking that it be taken down, which it eventually was.\n\nDeadHappy apologised, saying it was \"of course never our intention to offend or upset people\".\n\nMr Reynolds said: \"I am absolutely disgusted that DeadHappy thought it appropriate to use an image of Harold Shipman in their marketing campaign, making light of what was and remains an incredibly painful period for our area.\n\n\"My thoughts are with the bereaved families for whom this gross insensitivity has opened wounds that are still healing.\n\n\"DeadHappy call themselves industry disruptors. I call them downright disrespectful. I'll be choosing insurance providers with a little dignity and empathy.\"\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said it was reviewing more than 70 complaints about the ad.\n\nShipman was found guilty of murdering 15 patients under his care in January 2000, sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. He was found dead in his cell in Wakefield Prison in 2004.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Alan Cumming was made an OBE by Princess Anne in Buckingham Palace in 2009\n\nActor Alan Cumming has returned the OBE he was awarded in 2009 as part of the Queen's birthday honours list.\n\nThe X-Men star said although he had been \"grateful\", his eyes were now \"opened\" over \"the toxicity of empire\".\n\nCumming, who also hosts the US version of TV show The Traitors, said the OBE was for his acting, but also for \"activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community [in the] USA\".\n\n\"Thankfully, times and laws in the US have changed,\" he added.\n\nThe Scottish actor, writer and presenter said he was returning the award on his 58th birthday, and it was something he \"recently did for myself\".\n\nHe added that in the US in 2009, \"the Defence of Marriage Act ensured that same sex couples couldn't get married or enjoy the same basic legal rights as straight people, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell ensured that openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people were barred from serving in the military (incidentally both these policies were instituted by the Clinton administration).\"\n\nAlan Cumming: \"I returned my award, explained my reasons and reiterated my great gratitude for being given it in the first place\"\n\nWhen he was made an OBE, he said: \"The fight for equality for the LGBT community in the US is something I am very passionate about, and I see this honour as encouragement to go on fighting for what I believe is right and for what I take for granted as a UK citizen.\"\n\nBut Cumming said that 14 years later, the death of the Queen and the \"ensuing conversations about the role of monarchy and especially the way the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples across the world really opened my eyes\".\n\nHe added: \"Also, thankfully, times and laws in the US have changed, and the great good the award brought to the LGBTQ+ cause back in 2009 is now less potent than the misgivings I have being associated with the toxicity of empire.\n\nOBE stands for Officer of the Order of the British Empire.\n\n\"So I returned my award, explained my reasons and reiterated my great gratitude for being given it in the first place. I'm now back to being plain old Alan Cumming again. Happy birthday to me!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by alancummingreally This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said in 2019 he was proud of starring in the first ever network drama on US television to have a gay leading character, playing Dr Dylan Reinhart in Instinct, which is shown on Sky Witness in the UK.\n\nCumming posted a message on Instagram at the time, saying he was proud to have been part of a show in which \"millions of people will have seen a same-sex marriage portrayed for the first time\".\n\nThe actor's roles across stage and screen have ranged from BBC comedy The High Life and playing Hamlet for the English Touring Theatre, to US shows such as the Good Wife and a Broadway version of Cabaret.\n\nCumming, who has dual UK and US citizenship, also recently hosted a travel show on Channel 4 with his friend and fellow actor Miriam Margolyes.\n\nHe received an honorary degree from the Open University in 2015, for his contribution to education and culture.", "South Wales Police received a report of the theft at 18:30 GMT on Thursday evening\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap and theft after a car was stolen while a child was in the back seat.\n\nThe child walked home unharmed a short time after the car was taken from Crwys Terrace in Penlan, Swansea, at about 18:30 GMT on Thursday.\n\nA 39-year-old man from Fforestfach, Swansea, has been arrested and taken into custody.\n\nThe car was found abandoned and has been seized for forensic examination by South Wales Police.\n\nDet Insp Gareth Jones, of South Wales Police, said: \"This was clearly a terrifying incident, as it would be for any parent, and we are investigating this incident as a child abduction as well as a motor vehicle theft.\"", "Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, quit after reports he moved his family into a mansion\n\nIt's been a political reshuffle with a difference.\n\nAt the time of typing this, 11 officials have either resigned or been sacked as Kyiv tries to tackle government corruption.\n\nIt's led to some politicians in the US calling for aid to Ukraine to be restricted.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to quickly restore public faith, but the allegations are serious, and the timing is bad.\n\nSeveral claims have surfaced thanks to Mykhaylo Tkach, an investigative journalist for the news website Ukrayinska Pravda.\n\nHe has recently reported that the company of a senior official's personal trainer allegedly received millions of pounds since the full-scale invasion, as well as a story about President Zelensky's deputy head of office.\n\nKyrylo Tymoshenko quit two months after Tkach reported that he'd moved his family to the mansion of a well-known property developer.\n\nThe journalist also published footage which appeared to show the official driving an expensive Porsche for a few months.\n\nMr Tymoshenko has denied doing anything wrong.\n\n\"Quite often, with MPs and officials, if the source of their money isn't clear, they register assets to people close to them,\" explains Tkach.\n\nMykhaylo Tkach is an investigative journalist who has reported on some of the alleged corruption\n\n\"These are signs of non-transparency, at a time when every step of an official should be clear for society.\"\n\nThe reporter concedes corruption exists in many countries. It's why he thinks the reaction to it is most important.\n\nFrom her bakery in Vorzel, near Kyiv, Ivanna is less than impressed with her government being accused of agreeing to pay inflated prices to an unknown firm, a deputy minister allegedly accepting a bribe worth £300,000 ($372,000), and an official's expensive taste in cars.\n\n\"I don't like it,\" she says, while her husband Vyacheslav stirs dough in the back room.\n\n\"It would be better for this money to go towards something good for Ukraine.\"\n\nShe pauses: \"We need to replace all those politicians who've been there for many years. They've got used to it; it feeds them.\"\n\nFor Ukraine, receiving billions of dollars in military, humanitarian and financial aid brings responsibility and scrutiny.\n\nIt also increases the likelihood of money ending up in the wrong hands.\n\n\"We are talking about Ukraine's existence,\" says Tkach. \"It's not just some ordinary year for our country. So, I think this wave of resignations, initiated by the president, is an important acknowledgement and necessary action.\"\n\nIvana wants to replace politicians who have been in power for years\n\nEver since Ukraine declared independence 31 years ago, corruption has plagued its public services and most of all its politics.\n\nIn 2014, a popular revolution toppled the last Moscow-leaning government because people wanted to finally live under a democracy.\n\nEver since, Ukraine has attempted a series of reforms, notably driven by Russia's subsequent campaign of aggression towards the country. Change was seen as essential to securing the West's continued support.\n\nNew anti-corruption agencies were then set up, along with new systems for government spending, a new police force, and politicians were forced to disclose their wealth - often with eye-watering confessions.\n\n\"We wanted results,\" Yaroslav Yurchyshyn tells me. He's an MP and deputy head of the parliamentary anticorruption committee.\n\n\"Yes, we have some leftovers from corruption in the past, but at least now we are not silent about it. The next stop will be prevention.\"\n\nWe have some leftovers from corruption in the past, but at least now we are not silent about it\n\nMr Yurchyshyn believes there's no better time to expose ministerial wrongdoing, even with Western help being put at risk.\n\n\"Western partners understand we have two wars,\" he says. \"The first is against Russia, then there's our internal war for the future of Ukraine.\"\n\nBefore the full-scale Russian invasion of February 2022, Western allies like the European Union and the US weren't happy with the pace of Kyiv's efforts to combat corruption.\n\nWhile it's not clear what the political damage of the 2023 allegations will be for President Zelensky, his response to them this time has been described as \"quick and decisive\" by the US.\n\nWith more allegations expected to surface, he'll be hoping other supporters feel the same.", "More civil servants intended to lodge complaints against Dominic Raab over his behaviour but allegedly pulled out for fear of being identified.\n\nSenior lawyer Adam Tolley KC is investigating a number of complaints about the deputy PM's behaviour.\n\nBut the BBC understands a number of civil servants who had intended to lodge formal complaints did not.\n\nMr Raab, who was reappointed by Rishi Sunak as a cabinet minister, has denied allegations of bullying.\n\nThe MP for Esher and Walton previously served as justice secretary and deputy prime minister under Boris Johnson.\n\nA close ally of Mr Sunak, Mr Raab was sacked from those roles when Liz Truss became prime minister in September.\n\nMr Raab was reappointed as both justice secretary and deputy prime minister, after Mr Sunak became PM.\n\nHe is facing multiple complaints from his first stint at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and his time as Brexit secretary in 2018. He is the subject of a single complaint from his tenure as foreign secretary.\n\nThe BBC has found that other civil servants who allegedly planned to file complaints did not. This decision came after they were told they would have been identified to Mr Raab as part of the investigation by Mr Tolley.\n\nIt is understood this is standard practice for an investigation not to take testimony from anonymous sources.\n\nIt is suggested some feared being identified in case Mr Raab were to remain in post, and he would know they had complained against him.\n\nConservative MP David Davis, a former minister, said it was \"entirely right and proper, under British law, that serious accusations cannot be made under a shield of anonymity\".\n\n\"Otherwise the accusations could not be tested against the facts and there would be a serious risk of miscarriage of justice,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe prime minister will decide the justice secretary's political future when Mr Tolley concludes his investigation.\n\nThe BBC understands some staff who have not directly complained are now offering to act as witnesses to the inquiry. Mr Tolley has been conducting interviews about Mr Raab's alleged conduct since the start of the year.\n\nWhitehall sources say that Mr Raab has modified his alleged behaviour on his return to the MoJ last autumn.\n\nThe senior civil servants' union, the FDA, wants to see the complaints process overhauled.\n\nConfidence in the system was all but destroyed after former home secretary Priti Patel remained in post after she was investigated for bullying, the union has claimed. The FDA believes this had led to a reluctance by some of their members to make complaints.\n\nThe government has promised that Mr Tolley \"will have access to all the information he wishes to see\" and that his report on Mr Raab's conduct will be made public.\n\nWhen the inquiry was announced last November, Mr Raab said he would \"thoroughly rebut and refute\" the claims against him in a \"fair and formal\" setting.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" he had behaved \"professionally throughout\".", "In the aftermath of two attacks, Israeli military are boosting their forces in the occupied West Bank\n\nIsraeli police have arrested 42 people in connection with a deadly shooting at a synagogue in East Jerusalem on Friday.\n\nSeven people were killed, and at least three more injured, in the deadliest attack of its kind in years.\n\nTwo people were also injured on Saturday in a separate attack outside the Old City.\n\nIsraeli police said the gunman in Saturday's attack was a 13-year-old boy.\n\nThey said he had been \"neutralised\", but did not give further details.\n\nThe attack took place in the Silwan neighbourhood, just outside Jerusalem's Old City. The injured pair were a father and son who were in a \"moderate to serious condition\", police added.\n\nIn response to the two attacks, authorities have positioned officers from a counter-terrorism unit \"permanently\" in the Jerusalem area to \"promptly respond to exceptional events whenever necessary\".\n\nThe man who attacked the synagogue on Friday was identified by local media as a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, who police described as a \"terrorist\".\n\nSpeaking at the scene of the attack on Friday, Israeli police commissioner Kobi Shabtai called it \"one of the worst attacks we have encountered in recent years\".\n\nIsraeli worshippers had gathered for prayers at the start of the Jewish Sabbath in a synagogue in the city's Neve Yaakov neighbourhood and were leaving when the gunman opened fire, at about 20:15 local time (18:15 GMT).\n\nPolice said that officers then shot him dead.\n\nPalestinian militant groups praised the attack, but did not say one of their members was responsible.\n\nTensions have been high since nine Palestinians - both militants and civilians - were killed during an Israeli military raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.\n\nThis was followed by rocket fire into Israel from Gaza, which Israel responded to with air strikes.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the scene of the attack on Friday\n\nThe synagogue shooting happened on Holocaust Memorial Day, which commemorates the six million Jews and other victims who were killed in the Holocaust by the Nazi regime in Germany.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote on Twitter: \"To attack worshippers at a synagogue on Holocaust Memorial Day, and during Shabbat, is horrific. We stand with our Israeli friends,\"\n\nPresident Joe Biden talked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and offered all \"appropriate means of support\", the White House said.\n\nShortly after the incident, Mr Netanyahu visited the site, as did the controversial far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.\n\nA spokesperson for the Israeli military said on Saturday that they were boosting their forces in the occupied West Bank.\n\nMr Ben-Gvir promised to bring safety back to Israel's streets but there is rising anger that he has not yet done so, says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem.\n\nIsraeli emergency service personnel and security forces attended the scene of Friday's shooting\n\nUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was \"deeply worried about the current escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This is the moment to exercise utmost restraint,\" said Stephane Dujarric.\n\nIsrael has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community.\n\nPalestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.\n\nAre you affected by the issues discussed here? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Drew Barrymore starred in the 1984 version of Firestarter\n\nHollywood star Drew Barrymore has criticised organisers of the Razzies awards for \"bullying\" a child actor.\n\nThe parody awards, which honour the worst films and performances, caused controversy by nominating 12-year-old Ryan Keira Armstrong for her role in the film Firestarter.\n\nBarrymore, a former child star, said on CBS's Talk of the Table \"when talking about children all bets are off\".\n\nRazzies organisers have apologised and introduced an age limit for the awards.\n\nJohn Wilson, Razzies co-founder, apologised and said on 25 January: \"Sometimes, you do things without thinking, then you are called out for it. Then you get it. It's why the Razzies were created in the first place.\n\n\"As a result, we have removed Armstrong's name from the final ballot that our members will cast next month. We also believe a public apology is owed to Ms Armstrong and wish to say we regret any hurt she experienced as a result of our choices.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CBS Mornings This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Razzies, which calls itself the \"ugly cousin to the Oscars\" always reveals its winners a day before the actual Oscars. It is no stranger to controversy, having upset many actors, directors and fans over the years.\n\nBarrymore, 47, also played Armstrong's character in the first adaption of the film Firestarter in 1984 when she was nine.\n\nShe has plenty of experience of being a child actor, having starred in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Irreconcilable Differences.\n\n12-year-old Ryan Keira Armstrong appears in the new Firestarter adaptation\n\nBarrymore also previously interviewed Armstrong on her US daytime TV show, The Drew Barrymore Show, saying the 12-year-old \"could not have been lovelier\".\n\n\"I don't like it because she is younger,\" she went on to say on Talk of the Table.\n\n\"We do want to be cautious about how we speak to or about people, because it encourages other people to join on that bandwagon.\n\n\"I'm glad to see people didn't jump on the 'let's make fun of her' wave, instead people said, 'this isn't right'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeremy Hunt says significant tax cuts are \"unlikely\"\n\nJeremy Hunt has warned it is \"unlikely\" that there will be room for any \"significant\" tax cuts in the Budget.\n\nThe chancellor has been under pressure recently from some in his party to cut taxes to stimulate the UK economy.\n\nBut Mr Hunt said that a pledge to halve the rate of inflation \"is the best tax cut right now\".\n\nHe admitted the UK was going through \"a difficult patch\" but insisted the country \"can get through it and we can get to the other side\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Hunt set out a plan to help lift the UK's economic growth.\n\nAfter a turbulent autumn, when financial markets pushed up the country's cost of borrowing, Mr Hunt said he was determined to show that the UK was responsible.\n\nThat meant \"showing the world, showing the markets that we are a responsible nation, that we can pay our way, that we can balance our books\", he said.\n\nHe added that \"it is unlikely that we would have the room for any significant tax cuts\" at the Budget in March.\n\nGovernment borrowing - which is the difference between spending and tax income - rose to a record £27.4bn in December. It was the highest amount for that month since 1993.\n\nBorrowing was driven by the cost of helping households and businesses with rising energy bills. Higher inflation also pushed up interest payments on debt owed by the government.\n\nThe rate of price rises - or inflation - has begun to slow, but at 10.5% remains close to a 40-year high.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to halve inflation by the end of the year.\n\nBut some economists have said prices will begin to fall back naturally, without government policies, due to commodity prices and shipping costs decreasing towards the end of last year. Energy prices are also expected to ease in the second half of 2023.\n\nMr Hunt said: \"The biggest tax cut that we can give the British people is to halve inflation, that means the value of their weekly shop won't continue to go up, the value of their pay packet won't continue to be eroded and that's what we are focused on.\"\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a plan to grow the UK economy, though it drew a mixed reaction with some business groups criticising a lack of detail.\n\nHe said the strategy would focus on four pillars, or \"four Es\": enterprise, education, employment and everywhere.\n\nHe said that while it was not a series of measures or announcements, it would provide \"the framework against which individual policies will be assessed and taken forward\".\n\nBut the Institute of Directors (IoD) suggested Mr Hunt add a fifth E for \"empty\" after not issuing concrete plans.\n\nIoD chief economist Kitty Ussher said businesses needed \"government action to counteract the negative mood\", such as continuing the capital investment super-deduction and bringing in tax credits for employers who invest in skill shortage areas.\n\nMr Hunt said the government planned to achieve growth in multiple sectors across the UK, including digital technology, green industries, life sciences, advanced manufacturing and creative industries.\n\nThe TUC said the lack of the mention of public sector pay in the speech was the \"elephant in the room\".\n\n\"Public servants will be deeply worried about the chancellor's warnings of further restraint. We know that is usually code for cuts,\" said the union's general secretary Paul Nowak.\n\nCraig Beaumont, of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the contents of Mr Hunt's speech had \"all the right elements\", but warned the \"proof will be in the pudding in the years ahead\".\n\nBrian Palmer, founder of robotics firm Tharsus in Blyth, Northumberland, said the \"themes\" that the government was talking about were important, but said firms \"need to see the detail\".\n\n\"There is a lack of a clear long-term strategy. Without that long-term plan, businesses can't get behind it, can't have the confidence that the government's going to follow through with the policies.\"\n\nBrian, whose company makes high-tech equipment for companies such as Ocado, warned some firms were already holding back on investment because of a lack of confidence.\n\n\"The government needs to provide industry with a clear idea of what the playing field is going to look like going forward,\" he added.\n\nMany have interpreted Mr Hunt's speech as an attempt to respond to criticism that the government has no long-term plan for growth.\n\nCarmakers articulated that idea this week. On Thursday, figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed the number of new cars made in the UK has sunk to its lowest level for 66 years, with the SMMT warning that the UK was lagging behind other countries, particularly on offering state aid to manufacturers.\n\nMake UK, which represents the manufacturing industry, said there had been \"some hugely damaging big picture issues caused by the absence of an industrial strategy which are impacting on some of our strategic sectors\".\n\nMr Hunt said he wanted to tackle poor productivity and said the UK's exit from the European Union would encourage risk-taking and changing regulation.\n\nLooking at the wider picture, Mr Hunt said that \"declinism about Britain\" was wrong and praised what he called \"British genius and British hard work\".\n\n\"Some of the gloom is based on statistics that do not reflect the whole picture,\" he said.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney said: \"Jeremy Hunt's speech is cold comfort for families and pensioners facing unbearable price rises.\"\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said that \"13 years of Tory economic failure have left living standards and growth on the floor, crashed our economy, and driven up mortgages and bills\".\n\n\"The Tories have no plan for now, and no plan for the future,\" she added.", "The family of a woman who lay dead in a flat for more than three years have told how they were unable to have any contact because of privacy laws, and how they eventually found her body.\n\nLaura Winham, 38, had schizophrenia and had refused contact with family who she believed were trying to harm her.\n\nHer brother Roy said the family were unable to get information about her.\n\nAfter repeated attempts to contact her, they found her when they peered through the letter box of her Woking flat.\n\nLaura's body was discovered in May 2021 but is thought to have died in November 2017.\n\nHer siblings said she grew up in a loving family and attended school and university, but developed mental health problems and did not return home after the first time she was sectioned.\n\nThe family took a decision to limit contact because it put her under \"enormous stress\", but believed she would have a care plan.\n\nHowever, they could not get any information.\n\n\"She refused contact from the mental health team with her family, which she was allowed to do, which prevented doctors from speaking to us, or hospitals,\" her sister Nicky said.\n\nRoy told the PM programme on Radio 4 it had been \"very difficult\", adding: \"Thirty-six years of all of that and then it's taken away from you because of privacy.\"\n\nLaura's body was discovered by her brother on the first floor flat of this building\n\nWhen their father became ill, they stepped up attempts to make contact. After he died, they continued to call at her flat.\n\nOn their last visit, they were about to leave when Roy decided to take another look.\n\n\"When I peered through the letter box, it looked like blankets were there, but as I looked down I thought I saw a foot,\" he said.\n\n\"There was a top, that hoodie she had on, that I thought was in with the blankets and things.\n\n\"That's when I managed to get a little bit more of an angle, really pushing the brushes aside, and you could see the face, the body, which, after calling the ambulance, they said 'do you think she's still alive?'.\"\n\nHe said: \"Something made me go back up the stairs that day, but unfortunately it's left me with something that haunted me for a long time.\"\n\nA pre-inquest review is due to be held on Monday.\n• None Woman lay dead in flat for three years, says family\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Taylor Swift drops album hints in the music video for Lavender Haze\n\nTaylor Swift surprised fans on Thursday by announcing a music video was being released for her song Lavender Haze.\n\nIt is taken from her 10th studio album Midnights, which came out in October last year.\n\nThe song is the second official single from the album, but the third to be made into a music video.\n\nLike many Swift videos, it contains several Easter Eggs - hidden messages for fans to decipher about what the singer's next move could be.\n\nThe video has already been dissected by the singer's fans (known as Swifties) who think they've cracked which album the pop artist could be releasing next.\n\nThe 33-year-old has committed to re-recording her first six albums, after the rights to her original masters were sold to an investment fund for a reported $300m (£242m).\n\nThe singer's first record deal, with Nashville's Big Machine Recordings, did not give her full control of her music, which meant the master recordings could be sold when her deal with them expired.\n\nAs a result, Swift re-recorded her second album Fearless in 2021 and fourth album Red in 2022.\n\nFans believe the next album to be re-recorded will be her third, Speak Now, which was first released in 2010.\n\nThe meaning behind the title Lavender Haze was explained by the singer before the release of Midnights last year, where she explained it came from watching the Emmy award-winning TV show Mad Men.\n\n\"I looked up [the phrase] because I thought it sounded cool. And it turns out that it's a common phrase used in the '50s where they would describe being in love,\" she said in an Instagram video.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If you're in the 'lavender haze,' then that meant you were in that all-encompassing love glow,\" she said. \"And I thought that was really beautiful.\"\n\nSwift went on to explain that she and many others living in the age of social media know what it's like being in love while in the spotlight.\n\n\"Like my relationship for six years we've had to dodge weird rumours, tabloid stuff, and we just ignore it. This song is about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff,\" she added.\n\nSwift describes the video as a \"sultry sleepless 70s fever dream\" and says story boarding the music video for Lavender Haze helped her \"conceptualise the world and mood of Midnights\".\n\nSo of course, there are lots of lavender references in the video (which contains explicit language) - Swift is seen swimming in a purple pool, whilst her home appears in lilac hazy hues.\n\nPurple might even be a clue pointing towards the re-recording of Speak Now, the original album cover for which saw Swift wearing a purple dress.\n\nThe colour was also one of the themes in Swift's previous music video, Bejewelled, which saw the singer in an elevator pressing a purple-coloured button for the third floor - a possible reference to her third album.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt could be a tenuous link, but there's another possible clue in the shape of a fish.\n\nOn her Speak Now world tour, Swift often performed with a guitar that had koi carp fish painted on it and in both the Bejewelled and Lavender Haze videos, koi fish pop up a few times too.\n\nThere are lots of other Easter Eggs in the music video that aren't related to Speak Now but just Swift in general, meaning you have to watch it several times to get a sense of what's going on.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by scarlet witch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOf course, there are lots of Midnights themed scenes in the video - an alarm clock strikes midnight (and no points for guessing what time the video itself came out).\n\nAt another point, the camera pans to a stack of vinyl album covers. The top one is titled Mastermind, which is the name of the 13th and final song on Midnights.\n\nThe vinyl cover has its own album art - which sees a Sagittarius star sign (Swift's) aligning with a Pisces one (her partner Joe Alwyn's sign).\n\nThe fish imagery seen elsewhere in the video could also be a possible reference to the Pisces sign.\n\nThe number 13 is referenced in almost all Swift videos in some way and is her lucky number because she was born on 13 December.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ale 🧣💎 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a scene in the video, she is watching the weather forecast on TV and Nashville, where she lives, appears to be 13 degrees.\n\nAs Americans measure temperature in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius, that would be pretty cold.\n\nIf that's not enough of an Easter Egg - the weather forecast also says 'Midnight Rain'.\n\nThis is not the first time Swift has been in the news this week, as away from her music videos, her upcoming Eras Tour has attracted lots of unwanted attention.\n\nTicketmaster and Live Nation were in charge of selling tickets for the tour in the US but left thousands of fans disappointed after system crashes meant they failed to buy tickets in November 2022.\n\nThe company apologised on Wednesday to both fans and Swift herself, saying \"we need to do better\".\n\nIt comes after the US Senate committee on consumer rights launched an investigation into Ticketmaster.\n\nPoliticians and fans have argued the company - which sells 70% of tickets in the US - has too much control over the live music market.\n\nSwift is yet to announce tour dates for the UK and Europe.", "Nicola Elliott said she initially thought her cars had been targeted\n\nPolice are appealing for information after eight cars were torched in two areas of Glasgow in about 45 minutes.\n\nThe vehicles were burnt out in neighbouring Penilee and Hillington between 04:22 and 05:05 on Thursday.\n\nNicola Elliott, 37, told the BBC her own car and one she had recently sold to a friend were among those destroyed.\n\nShe said that on seeing the flames, she ran to get her 10-year-old daughter, two dogs and two guinea pigs out the back of the house.\n\nA neighbour had raised the alarm at about 04:45.\n\nThe two cars outside Ms Elliott's home were among eight torched within 45 minutes\n\nMs Elliott said she jumped over a wall at the back of the house in Clavens Road, Penilee, because the fire was too close to the gate at the front of the house.\n\nHer Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Fiesta she had sold to a friend were among the eight vehicles burnt out.\n\nShe said her legs had been \"like jelly\" as she ran to the upstairs window and saw \"the two cars were engulfed in flames and making big booming noises.\"\n\nShe added that her daughter was terrified and coughing due to the smoke.\n\nAnother car was torched on Penneld Road\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the first call they received was about a car on fire on Penneld Road at 04:22 with the last report being about a vehicle on fire in Tweedsmuir Road at about 05:05.\n\nThere were no reported casualties.\n\nMs Elliott, who praised the fire service for its quick response, said she thought the cars outside her home may have been targeted until hearing other vehicles nearby were also set alight.\n\nShe added that from her neighbour's CCTV it looked like the culprit may have been burned.\n\nA police spokeswoman said: \"Around 4.30am on Thursday, 26 January, officers were called to a report of eight vehicles set on fire at separate addresses in the Penilee area.\"\n\nShe confirmed that the incidents were being linked and urged anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Isla Bryson was convicted of the rapes of two women carried out before she changed gender\n\nSending a transgender rapist to a women's prison was an \"unnecessary shambles\", its former governor said.\n\nRhona Hotchkiss, who ran Cornton Vale until 2017, said she would have refused to have Isla Bryson at the prison.\n\nBryson, 31, was remanded to the jail in Stirling after being convicted of raping two women before she changed gender. Bryson began transitioning from a man to a woman while awaiting trial.\n\nShe was moved to HMP Edinburgh men's prison on Thursday.\n\nIt came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Bryson would not be allowed to serve her term at Cornton Vale.\n\nShe is due to be sentenced next month for raping a woman in 2016 and another in 2019, with concerns being raised about the potential safety implications of housing her alongside female prisoners.\n\nIt has also emerged that Bryson had enrolled on a beauty course at Ayrshire College after being charged with the two rapes.\n\nA female student who was on the same course told the Daily Record newspaper that students had been unaware Bryson was awaiting trial, with others saying Bryson had been \"overpowering\" and \"disruptive\".\n\nThe newspaper reported that classmates were repeatedly being branded homophobic by Bryson, who was finally asked to leave the course.\n\nOne of the students said: \"Being a beauty course, you need to take your clothes off for some of it. We were doing spray tanning at one point and I was a model. You need to stand practically naked.\"\n\nThe college said it too had been unaware of the allegations against Bryson during her three months on the course in 2021.\n\nBryson was initially held at Cornton Vale during a 72-hour segregated assessment period this week after being convicted of rape on Tuesday.\n\nMs Hotchkiss said the row over her detention was an \"unnecessary shambles\" that could have been avoided with specialist units for transgender inmates.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"I would have refused to have this person in Cornton Vale, I'm afraid. It just goes against all natural justice.\n\n\"I would have insisted there was no reason for this person to be assessed in Cornton Vale.\n\n\"It's wrong to use segregation when it's not strictly necessary and in my opinion that's what has happened here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhona Hotchkiss, who ran Cornton Vale until 2017, said: \"I think that this has been an unnecessary shambles.\"\n\nIsla Bryson was arrested by police after committing the crimes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThe case is believed to be the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said it considers the risks posed by and to the individual prisoner when deciding where they are sent.\n\nUnder a policy introduced by the Scottish Prison Service in 2014, the question of where trans prisoners are housed should \"usually\" be based on the gender which they identify as.\n\nBut the guidelines, which were developed with the Scottish Trans Alliance, do not give an automatic right for transgender prisoners to be accommodated according to their acquired gender, with decisions made on a case-by-case basis subject to risk assessments.\n\nBryson was known as Adam Graham at the time of the attacks on two women\n\nMs Hotchkiss, a longstanding critic of the Scottish government's gender reforms, suggested situations such as Bryson's would become a \"bigger problem\" if the Gender Recognition Reform Bill was enacted.\n\nThe bill has been blocked by the UK government over its potential impact on equality laws that apply across Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nMs Hotchkiss said: \"If you can get a Gender Recognition Certificate within three months (instead of the current two years), lots of male prisoners will do it.\"\n\nShe added: \"We need third units for trans people and they should be in male prisons.\"\n\nMs Hotchkiss said it was \"simply not acceptable\" to allow all trans prisoners to go to a jail matching their gender identity.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It's unbalancing rights. They are not considering the rights of women, they are only considering one side of this equation. It seems to me quite wrong.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs Isla Bryson will not serve her sentence in a female jail.\n\nAnother former Scottish prison governor, David Wilson, told BBC Scotland's the Nine that he had been involved in managing a number of transitioning prisoners during his career, which had been done on an \"ad-hoc basis\" - a strategy he said could no longer be coped with.\n\nHe added: \"There's going to have to be a much more concerted plan in relation to how to deal with transitioning prisoners, and that probably means setting up a special unit for those prisoners or a special wing.\n\n\"It's not something that's so unusual - we now have special units that are basically being run in our prisons as hospices because we now have so many older prisoners in our prison population. I don't see this as any different from that.\"\n\nSarah Armstrong, a professor of criminology at Glasgow University, said she was surprised that concern over the safety of women in prison was \"focused on this one, very exceptional case\" given the \"scathing\" reports from the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture after previous visits to Cornton Vale.\n\nProf Armstrong said: \"We hear the committee saying women are being held in segregation for such long periods and with no mental health support - one women gnawed her arm to the bone. I'd love to hear those who care about the safety of women showing up for the issues that are really facing women in prison.\"\n\nScottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown said on Wednesday that he trusted the SPS to decide on the correct venue for trans prisoners.\n\nAnd Nicola Sturgeon said her government had given no \"formal direction\" to the prison service on where Bryson should be held.\n\nShe added: \"This individual case is not about whether they are trans or not, in this individual case this is a person who's been convicted of rape, so this individual is a rapist and a sex offender and that is what's important.\"\n\nSpeaking on the News Agents podcast on Friday, Ms Sturgeon also claimed that some critics of her government's gender recognition reforms had \"decided to use women's rights as a sort of cloak of acceptability to cover up what is transphobia\".\n\nAn SPS spokesman said decisions on where transgender prisoners were located were made \"by a multi-disciplinary assessment of both risk and need\".\n\nHe added: \"Such decisions seek to protect both the wellbeing and rights of the individual as well as the welfare and rights of others around them, including staff, in order to achieve an outcome that balances risks and promotes the safety of all.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nNine-time champion Novak Djokovic steamrolled another opponent as he beat Tommy Paul to set up an Australian Open final against Stefanos Tsitsipas.\n\nSerbia's Djokovic, 35, overcame a wobble in the opening set, re-establishing his authority to earn a 7-5 6-1 6-2 victory over the American.\n\nTsitsipas, 24, has another chance to land his first Grand Slam title after beating Russian Karen Khachanov.\n\nTsitsipas booked his place in Sunday's final after recovering from 18th seed Khachanov saving two match points in the third-set tie-break.\n\nAnother tight forehand saw a third chance disappear in what proved to be the final game, before Tsitsipas regained his composure to convert his fourth when Khachanov batted long a first serve.\n\nTsitsipas lost to Djokovic in the 2021 French Open final and now has the opportunity to avenge that defeat in his first appearance in the Australian Open showpiece.\n\nBut to lift the trophy, he must become the first player to beat Djokovic at Melbourne Park since 2018.\n\nDjokovic, who beat Paul to set a new landmark of 27 consecutive wins in the men's singles here, is aiming for a record-extending 10th title which would equal Rafael Nadal's tally of 22 major men's titles.\n\nThe winner will also become the new world number one.\n\nDjokovic had raced through the previous rounds without any major incident and, after a couple of days where his father Srdjan had captured headlines for posing with supporters of Russia president Vladimir Putin, he looked set for more minimal fuss on the court against Paul.\n\nSpending as a little time on court as possible appeals to the Serb as he tries to limit the impact on a hamstring injury which has bothered him all tournament.\n\nAfter he thrashed Australian hope Alex de Minaur and Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev in little over two hours, an even quicker defeat looked to be heading Paul's way on his first appearance in a major semi-final.\n\nDjokovic led 5-1 in the opening set but it took him another half an hour to seal the advantage.\n\nServing for the set, Djokovic allowed his progress to be derailed by a row with umpire Damien Dumusois over the French official starting the 25-second shot clock while he was still using his towel.\n\nThe exchange signalled a change of momentum. Djokovic won just three of the next 16 points as Paul fought back to level at 5-5.\n\nBut the former world number one regained his focus when it mattered at the business end of the set to break again.\n\nDjokovic celebrated by cocking his ear to the crowd and, with a steely focus back, broke twice in each of the next two sets to secure victory after two hour and 20 minutes.\n\nAt a tournament with a hard-court surface on which he thrives, and in a city where he is warmly backed by its large Greek population, Tsitsipas has long appeared destined for success at the Australian Open.\n\nThe towering youngster announced his arrival there with a famous 2019 win over defending champion Roger Federer in the fourth round, only for a captivating run to be ended when he was crushed by Rafael Nadal in his first semi-final appearance.\n\nLong-time rival Daniil Medvedev ended his dreams at the last-four stage in both 2021 and 2022, with another Russian - the powerful Khachanov - standing in his way this time.\n\nBacked by a vocal crowd who waved Greek flags after virtually all of his winning points, Tsitsipas started confidently against a player who he had beaten in all of their five previous encounters.\n\nKhachanov could not cope with Tsitsipas' pounding groundstrokes and dynamic athleticism as the world number four moved two sets ahead.\n\nWhen Tsitsipas broke early in the third set and moved into a 5-4 lead which left him serving for the match, few on Rod Laver Arena expected anything other than a straight-set win.\n\nHowever, nerves kicked in for Tsitsipas, who suddenly looked unsure with his groundstrokes, and Khachanov cut loose to extend the contest.\n\nAfter a bathroom break before the fourth set, Tsitsipas returned free of the weight of expectation and broke Khachanov's serve at the first opportunity.\n\nDominant service games from that point ensured there would be no repeat of the previous set as he finally reached the final of what he calls his \"home\" Grand Slam event.\n\n\"I feel blessed for the fact I'm able to play tennis at this level and for many years I've wanted to put Greek tennis on the map - Maria [Sakkari] and I have done that, I think,\" Tsitsipas said.\n\n\"Coming from a small country like Greece I feel so grateful I get support like this.\n\n\"I never thought I would be treated so well here so I'm extremely happy I'm in the final now - let's see what happens.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Here are nine amazing facts to help you improve the quality of your sleep\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture", "A mentally ill woman was discovered in a \"mummified, almost skeletal state\" after lying dead for more than three years in her flat, her family say.\n\nLaura Winham, 38, was \"abandoned and left to die\" by the NHS and social services before her body was found by her brother in May 2021, they claim.\n\nShe is thought to have died in November 2017 after being referred to social care twice in the previous years.\n\nSurrey council said it was a \"truly tragic case\".\n\nThe NHS has also been approached for comment.\n\nMs Winham, who had schizophrenia, lived in social housing in Woking, Surrey, and had become estranged from her family.\n\nIn 2014, a referral was made to Woking Community Mental Health Recovery and her GP, flagging that she appeared to have \"untreated mental health issues\", her family said. This was not followed up, they claimed.\n\nAfter visiting Ms Winham in October 2017, in what was probably the last time anyone saw her alive, Surrey Police officers reported to Surrey County Council that she had been \"self-neglecting, had little food, and appeared unaware of how to access local services for help\".\n\nShortly after this visit, the markings on Ms Winham's calendar stopped. One of the last entries read: \"I need help.\"\n\nLaura's body was discovered by her brother on the first floor flat of this building\n\nHer sister Nicky said the family were unable to maintain contact with her after years of schizophrenia caused her to believe they would harm her.\n\nShe said despite the \"warning signs\" about her deteriorating mental health, \"everyone seems to have turned a blind eye\".\n\nShe added: \"Everybody who was in contact with Laura and had a duty to her at some stage simply wiped their hands of her and forgot her.\n\n\"She was abandoned and left to die.\n\n\"It's just heart-breaking to think of how she lived in her last few years, unable to ask for help, without anyone there for her.\"\n\nIftikhar Manzoor, of Hudgell Solicitors, who are acting for the family, said: \"Laura was referred to adult social care teams twice, firstly in 2014 and then by the police in October 2017.\n\n\"Assessments of her needs were not carried out. Without doubt these were clear missed opportunities to intervene and carry out a welfare check.\"\n\nSurrey Police said that after they received a concern for safety report at an address in Woking on 24 May 2021 they attended the property and found the body of a woman in her 30s.\n\nOfficers felt satisfied that there was no third-party involvement in the death following an investigation. A file was also passed to the coroner.\n\nA force spokesperson added: \"Officers previously attended the address in October 2017. No offences were identified and a report was completed and shared with adult social care at that time.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Surrey County Council said it was a \"truly tragic\" and complex case, and that \"every aspect\" of it should be reviewed.\n\n\"We're committed to participating fully in the inquest process,\" they added.\n\nThey confirmed they would provide any information needed to support the coroner's inquiries.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A hospital trust will not contest a criminal prosecution over the death of a baby, NHS bosses have confirmed.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) decided last month that it would prosecute Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust over the death of Wynter Andrews.\n\nWynter died 23 minutes after she was born by Caesarean section in September 2019.\n\nA coroner said her death was \"a clear and obvious case of neglect\".\n\nHealth watchdog the CQC has launched an investigation looking into the care of baby Wynter and her mum Sarah Andrews at the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham.\n\nThe probe comes after an inquest heard that Mrs Andrews had been admitted to hospital six days after initially suffering contractions.\n\nSarah and Gary Andrews described their daughter's death as \"the disaster that was foreseen\"\n\nDoctors decided to perform a Caesarean section but the baby died less than half an hour after she was born.\n\nIn a document seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the trust, which runs the QMC and City Hospital, said it will \"accept whatever outcome the court sees fit, with a sincere apology and a commitment to ongoing improvement\".\n\nThe document added that NUH does \"not intend to contest this prosecution\".\n\nMedical Director Keith Girling told the Local Democracy Reporting Service after the trust's board meeting: \"We accept the findings of the CQC in relation to Wynter Andrews.\n\n\"It's an awful case for which we are very sorry. We let the Andrews family down and we didn't give the care that we should've done. We recognise that the things the CQC found were right and we accept.\"\n\nDonna Ockenden will lead an investigation into services in Nottingham from September\n\nChair of the board Nick Carver added: \"We issue our deep and profound apologies and our absolute determination to improve in the future.\n\n\"Sadly we can't change the situation. What we can do is be absolutely committed to making change as soon as possible.\"\n\nNUH, where maternity units are rated inadequate, is also facing a wider inquiry by experienced midwife Donna Ockenden, who will start work in September.\n\nMr Carver said he and the incoming Chief Executive Anthony May, who is due to start in September, have written to Ms Ockenden \"assuring her of our full support\".\n\nHe added: \"We are keen that we learn from past experiences and improve services for women of the future.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The police report says Renner attempted to enter the snowplough's cab in an effort to stop the vehicle moving\n\nActor Jeremy Renner was trying to stop a snowplough from crashing into his nephew when he became trapped and it crushed him, a police report discloses.\n\nThe Marvel star was using the six-tonne PistenBully plough to help Alexander Fries free his car from the snow.\n\nBut the large vehicle then began to roll down the hill, a Washoe County sheriff's department report said.\n\nRenner sustained injuries to his \"torso, face, extremities and head\" during the accident.\n\nThe actor, known for playing bow-wielding Marvel superhero Hawkeye, has been recovering in hospital since.\n\nRenner previously said he had broken more than 30 bones in the incident, but they would \"grow stronger, just like the love and bond with family and friends deepens\".\n\nThe accident occurred around the new year, near the Mount Rose Highway, which links Lake Tahoe and south Reno as it straddles the Nevada-California border in the US.\n\nRenner, pictured in 2021, is well-known for playing Marvel superhero Hawkeye\n\nA report by deputy Garret Leone, obtained by the Press Association, said that after Renner had arrived at the scene, he had spoken to his nephew - who had been the only one present.\n\n\"Jeremy is his uncle and was helping him get the Ford pickup truck out of the driveway. The pickup truck got stuck multiple times, so they used the PistenBully to pull the truck out of the driveway,\" Deputy Leone's report said.\n\n\"They had a chain connected to the back of the PistenBully and to the front of the Ford pickup. They got the pickup truck out of the driveway and Alexander parked in the middle of the street.\n\n\"Jeremy turned the PistenBully around further west on Drive. Once turned around, Jeremy exited the PistenBully in an attempt to speak to Alexander.\n\n\"Alexander observed the PistenBully traveling eastbound on Drive directly towards him with nobody inside driving the vehicle.\n\n\"While running towards the truck, Alexander observed Jeremy jumping on the tracks of the PistenBully to get in the cab of the vehicle. Alexander said Jeremy got caught on the PistenBully trucks and was ultimately run over by the PistenBully.\"\n\nMr Fries had begun \"screaming for help\" as he did not have his phone, and was assisted by two neighbours who provided towels and assistance to Renner while medical personnel arrived.\n\nRenner pictured filming the Hawkeye TV series with co-star Hailee Steinfeld in 2020\n\nAnother report from deputy Jonathan Miller added that \"in an attempt to keep the PistenBully from striking his nephew, [Renner] attempted to step up on the track in order to divert the PistenBully or get it stopped.\n\n\"Renner was pulled under the PistenBully, and the track rolled over him,\" the report said.\n\nThe actor has kept fans updated with his recovery process since the accident. On Saturday, he thanked those who sent him messages of support.\n\nAs Hawkeye, Renner has appeared in Marvel films including Thor, Black Widow, Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Endgame, as well as the character's eponymous TV series.\n\nHis other film credits include The Hurt Locker, Arrival, 28 Weeks Later, American Hustle and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.\n\nRenner also starred in 2012's The Bourne Legacy - the only film of that franchise not to feature Matt Damon in the lead role - and recently made a cameo appearance in Knives Out sequel Glass Onion.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew Zealand's largest city has declared a state of emergency after torrential rain prompted widespread flooding and evacuations.\n\nFriday's downpour in Auckland shifted houses, stalled traffic and cut power to homes and businesses.\n\nThe city is said to have received 75% of its usual summer rainfall in just 15 hours.\n\n\"The impacts of the last 24 hours will be felt by many in Auckland for a long time,\" said the national forecaster.\n\nAuckland's mayor, Wayne Brown, has confirmed media reports that a body had been found in Wairau Valley on Auckland's North Shore. Mr Brown has said he is \"deeply saddened\" by the news. Police have not confirmed whether the death is linked to the flooding.\n\nHe has also said infrastructure and emergency services had been \"overwhelmed\" by the impacts of the storm. In a statement, Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it had been dealing with roughly 1,500 calls for assistance.\n\nThe New Zealand Defence Force is helping with evacuations and emergency shelters have been set up across the city.\n\nMeanwhile, the mayor has defended himself against criticism that he was too slow to declare a state of emergency, saying he followed advice from experts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ricardo Menéndez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRicardo Menendez March, a Green MP and Auckland resident, told the BBC that the area he lived in was quickly flooded and he had to evacuate, but was given shelter by a friend nearby.\n\n\"There were people who were unfortunately not as lucky - low-income communities, disabled people, migrant communities as well,\" he said.\n\nMajor roads were also blocked off by the floods, causing long traffic queues on highways, with several traffic accidents reported.\n\nThe flooding also disrupted travel to and from Auckland Airport. Domestic and international flights have now been grounded until at least 05:00 on Sunday.\n\nAn Elton John concert, expected to be attended by 40,000 fans, was cancelled minutes before it was due to start. Other public events planned for the weekend have been cancelled.\n\nFootage online showed people trapped in waist-deep floodwater and rescuers carrying out evacuations on kayaks.\n\nOther pictures showed grocery items floating down the aisles of several flooded supermarkets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Emily Handley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNew Zealand's new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, has tweeted to say the \"Beehive Bunker\" - a reference to the country's parliament building in the capital, Wellington - is helping with the co-ordination of the emergency response. Mr Hipkins is expected to travel to Auckland on Saturday.\n\nThe National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the country's climate science body, has said Friday was the wettest day on record for a number of locations in Auckland. Heavy rains have been forecast in various parts of the city for at least the next five days.\n\n\"It goes without saying that we need to have a conversation about how climate change is making these events more frequent and how cities like Auckland are massively underprepared,\" said Mr March.\n\nWhile climate scientists have cautioned against attributing individual weather events to climate change, research by NIWA has found the warming planet is leading to more extreme weather events in New Zealand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Forecaster Helen Willetts looks at the record breaking rainfall affecting Auckland", "The head of the UK's biggest business group has said most bosses \"secretly\" want all of their staff to return to working in offices.\n\nTony Danker, director-general of the CBI, said the \"whole world of work\" had \"gone crazy\" since the pandemic.\n\nMany companies have changed policies on remote working since Covid restrictions eased, with staff offered the chance to work from home and offices.\n\nMr Danker said working patterns would be talked about \"for a few years\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, the boss of the CBI, which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said he had \"no idea\" where working patterns were \"going to land\".\n\n\"You ask most bosses, everybody secretly wants everyone to come back into the office,\" he said.\n\n\"I just don't think that's going to happen overnight. I think we are all coping with this....but we're going to be talking about this for a few years.\"\n\nCompanies in many industries have been wrestling with whether to allow remote work practices to continue since Covid restrictions have been removed.\n\nSome sectors, such as banking, signalled early on that they would expect staff to return to the office, while others allow remote working indefinitely. Many places have opted for a mix.\n\nRecent research by the online recruitment platform LinkedIn found a third of companies in the UK were planning to cut back on flexible working in the coming months, although nearly two-thirds of workers said they were more productive in a hybrid or remote work environment.\n\nDo you work from home? How do you feel about returning to the office? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nMr Danker made the comments about office working in response to a discussion about the UK's labour market. Currently, businesses are short of staff, with many leaving the workforce since the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, the number of people who are economically inactive - which is people aged between 16 and 64 not looking for work - has been at a higher level since the start Covid.\n\nThe House of Lords' economic affairs committee highlighted retirement, increased sickness, changes to migration and the UK's aging population was also contributing to the current tightness in the labour market.\n\nMr Danker said he wanted to create \"pathways\" for people to return to work for those who were on universal credit, or had been unable to work due to sickness.\n\n\"We are going to work with companies to make sure that they can bring you health support and wraparound care to absorb yourself back into work,\" he added.\n\nWhen the economy reopened following the Covid lockdowns, job vacancies surged. The number of openings on offer has dropped since, but it is still above pre-pandemic levels.\n\nOne way to attract new staff other than to offer pay rises has been to offer flexible working. In December last year, the government proposed employees be given the right to ask for flexible working from their first day at a new job.\n\nAsked about board members and executives playing golf on Fridays and joking about only working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday stunting Britain's economic growth, Mr Danker said: \"You want me to launch an all out attack on Friday golfers?\n\n\"Look. Yeah, you might be right. I think the whole world of work is totally gone crazy. We have no idea where it's going to land.\"\n\nYou can listen to Tony Danker's full interview on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson on BBC Sounds.", "Gareth Southgate considered stepping down as England boss because of criticism he faced before the World Cup, saying: \"The last thing you want as a manager is that your presence is divisive and inhibits performance.\"\n\nEngland were knocked out of the tournament by France in the quarter-finals, 18 months after losing the Euro 2020 final to Italy on penalties at Wembley.\n\nThe team were booed off in June following a 4-0 defeat against Hungary at Molineux in the Nations League - part of a generally poor series of results leading into the winter World Cup.\n\nExplaining for the first time how he reached the decision to stay in his job, he told BBC Sport: \"I never want to be in a position where my presence is affecting the team in a negative way.\n\n\"I didn't believe that was the case, but I just wanted a period after the World Cup to reflect and make sure that was still how it felt.\"\n\nThe 52-year-old said he asked himself: \"Is it the right thing to keep taking this project on? I wanted to make sure I'm still fresh and hungry for that challenge.\"\n\nDescribing his role as \"the greatest privilege of my life\", he said the decision to stay was ultimately \"not difficult\" because of \"the quality of performances and the progress that we're making\".\n\n\"The team are still improving. We're all gaining belief in what we're doing,\" he said.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview conducted at the team's training base St George's Park, Southgate:\n• None strongly suggested he considered announcing last year that Qatar would be his final tournament to \"free that narrative up so the support is behind the team, and not debating whether the manager should be there or not\"\n• None said getting knocked out in the quarter-final was \"really difficult to take\" but the support from players and fans \"definitely lifts you\"\n• None revealed he was \"comfortable\" with his tactics during the and had no regrets\n• None insisted England are \"really competitive against everybody now\" and is \"very confident\" about their chances at next year's European Championship in Germany\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of his team's defeat to France six weeks ago, Southgate said he felt \"conflicted\" about his future, having \"found large parts of the last 18 months difficult\".\n\nEngland went into the World Cup on the back of relegation from their Nations League group and during the Hungary defeat some England fans chanted \"you don't know what you're doing\" at the manager.\n\nAfter failing to match both the semi-final he led England to in the 2018 World Cup and the final of Euro 2020, Southgate said he would \"review and reflect\".\n\nBut a week later the FA announced he would see out the remaining two years of his contract.\n\nNow, in his first public comments since that decision, Southgate has opened up on the effect the criticism he received following the Hungary defeat had on him.\n\n\"I was worried after that game the team would be affected by the narrative about whether the manager stay or go, and when we went into the games in September we were a little bit anxious.\n\n\"At Wembley against Germany the crowd weren't against their team but they were waiting to see what happened.\n\n\"I've been around teams where that can inhibit performance, and the last thing you want as a manager is that your presence is divisive and inhibits performance.\n\n\"I knew I had support with the players and [the FA], there are bigger things at stake with England than just [that].\n\n\"My only concern… was when it feels like there might be division between what the fans want and where my position might have been, that can affect the team, and I was conscious of that leading into the World Cup.\n\n\"I felt we had great support, but I was conscious… how would things be during and after?\"\n\nSouthgate says his team recovered before the World Cup, but that he wanted to be sure after the tournament that staying was the right thing for his side.\n\n\"You need to give yourself time in these situations to make good decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's easy to rush things when emotions are high, and very often you have to sleep a little bit more and come to the right conclusions.\n\n\"The question for me was… 'is it the right thing to keep taking this project on?' Because it's not just the six years I've been with the seniors - I've been here 10 years with developing everything as well. So I wanted to make sure I'm still fresh and hungry for that challenge.\"\n\n'Trying to break through history'\n\nIn an indication of how close he had come to announcing before the World Cup that he would step down following the tournament, Southgate said: \"My thinking is always around, 'How does this affect the team?'\n\n\"Is this going to give the team the best chance going into the World Cup?\" he added.\n\n\"Do we need to free that narrative up so the support is behind the team, and not debating whether the manager should be there or not? But I think we came through that period.\"\n\nAsked whether he wavered as he weighed up whether to stay, Southgate said: \"Not after the World Cup. In the lead-in that was a little bit different.\n\n\"I wasn't quite sure how things would play out, and I think it's always right to judge an international manager on their tournaments.\n\n\"Our performances were good. With France, across the flow of the game, we should win. But football is a low-scoring game where small margins make a difference.\n\n\"And we have to make sure now those small margins are turned in our favour. We're much closer now to really having that belief to win. We've still got a small step to take - I saw progress in the team from our performances in the Euros.\n\n\"We're trying to break through history here as well as against opponents that are high-level. I feel we're really competitive against everybody now.\n\n\"Outside of France, and you could argue Croatia, we've probably been as consistent as any team in terms of our finishes. And I think people have enjoyed that journey with us.\"\n\nAsked how it would have felt to see someone else take over, Southgate replied: \"I'm never worried about somebody else taking over and benefiting, that's how it should work.\n\n\"We're talking about building a future for England for now, for the next tournament, but also beyond that.\"\n\n'Exit was difficult to take'\n\nSouthgate said the support he received from players and fans after the France defeat \"definitely lifts you\".\n\n\"The moment you depart is really difficult to take, and you know the steps you have to take for the next one,\" he said.\n\n\"But I don't think you can make decisions as a manager just on having support from everybody because you're never going to have support of everybody.\"\n\nWhile most of Southgate's selections paid off in Qatar, and his team showed more attacking intent than previously, there was some criticism that he waited until the 85th minute against France to introduce in-form Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford.\n\nWhen asked if he had any regrets about the match, he said: \"I don't really. What I've learned in this job, whenever the result doesn't go as you hope then the solution is always the things you didn't do, because of course nobody knows what they might look like.\n\n\"So I'm comfortable with that. I think we used the squad well. There can always be an argument for a different player providing something at a different time.\"\n\nWhen it was suggested to Southgate that some fans feel a new manager is needed to help deliver silverware for England, he said: \"I think if our performances weren't at the level they had been, then I think there would be a little bit more legitimacy in that argument.\n\n\"We're all gaining belief in what we're doing.\n\n\"We're really competitive against everybody now and the game with France showed we can dominate the ball against those big teams.\"\n\nIn the build-up to the World Cup Southgate was regularly asked to comment on the human rights issues that surrounded Qatar's controversial hosting of the tournament.\n\n\"There are moments where life would be more straightforward for me if it was just focusing on football,\" he said.\n\n\"You are very conscious of the impact of your words and you have got to be representing your country on a global stage.\n\n\"So there might be a view in our country of certain things, but you've also got to be an ambassador when you travel and when you're dealing with other people.\n\n\"So it is complex, but it's also been the greatest privilege of my life to lead my country and I'm very conscious of that honour. It's allowed me to have life experiences I could never have expected.\"\n\nSouthgate was speaking before the FA Cup 4th round and said the matches would play a part in helping him select his squad for the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers against champions Italy and Ukraine in March.\n\n\"A lot of the teams have been playing young English players and for a lot it's their first experience of competitive football,\" he said.\n\n\"So that's great to see young players breaking through.\n\n\"We have several players playing well. And it's interesting to watch this period because it's the first time players have had to go back from a major tournament straight into club football.\n\n\"The next few weeks are important for us to monitor, probably more so the players that perhaps haven't been with us as regularly.\n\n\"But then, as we go towards March, it's really key who is in form and who can help us to win what is a crucial game going to Naples, and then with Ukraine as well.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "A 16-year-old girl who died after becoming morbidly obese in lockdown had been a \"fiercely independent\" child, a court has heard.\n\nKaylea Titford, who had spina bifida, was covered in sores and had been left in squalor when she was found dead at her home in Newtown, Powys.\n\nKaylea's former learning support assistant (LSA) told jurors she had been active in sports.\n\nKaylea's mother, Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 39, has pleaded guilty to the same offence.\n\nLSA Belinda Jones told Mold Crown Court she began helping Kaylea at Newtown High School in 2016.\n\nKaylea had enjoyed sports like basketball, she said, using an adapted wheelchair.\n\nAlun Titford is accused of failing in his duty of care to Kaylea\n\n\"She participated at the beginning. When she first came I think she was looked at by the Paralympics for either basketball or tennis\", Ms Jones said.\n\nBut over the next few years, she said Kaylea put on weight and \"didn't look comfortable in her chair\".\n\nMadeline Ottoway, another support worker at the school, told the court she was Facebook friends with Lloyd-Jones in September 2020, when Kaylea turned 16.\n\nShe said she was shown a social media post from Lloyd-Jones that said: \"It's that time of year again only she's a year older. I can't believe she's 16.\n\n\"Happy birthday, hope you have a lovely birthday. Lots of love as always.\"\n\nMs Ottoway said the photos of Kaylea on the post showed her as she remembered her.\n\nAlun Titford and Sarah Jane Lloyd-Jones arriving at Mold Crown Court at an earlier hearing\n\nThe jury heard about calls from staff at Newtown High School to Lloyd-Jones regarding Kaylea's welfare during the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020.\n\nA log was kept of the calls which showed that staff always dealt with Lloyd-Jones and not Alun Titford.\n\nOne entry in June said: \"Mum struggling to support Kaylea at home while juggling work as a carer.\"\n\nLloyd Jones explained Kaylea's absences from lessons were because her daughter had a cold. She often said she expected her daughter to be back in by the following Monday.\n\nShe said the same in a call recorded on 9 October 2020, the day before Kaylea died.", "Tracking what shoppers buy, via loyalty-card data, can help spot those with early signs of cancer, doctors who have been running a study say.\n\nFrequent purchases of over-the-counter painkillers and indigestion tablets revealed a higher risk of ovarian cancer, they found.\n\nThere is no reliable screening test and the symptoms, such as bloating, can be vague and confused with other common, harmless conditions.\n\nFiona Murphy was 25 when she was diagnosed and treated for a rare type of ovarian cancer.\n\nShe had been having stomach cramps and indigestion for a couple of years, which other doctors had repeatedly thought might be irritable-bowel syndrome.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"I lived on Gaviscon for months and months before my ovarian cancer diagnosis. It went everywhere with me. I couldn't leave the house without it.\n\n\"My symptoms were vague but they were frequent and continuous. That's what you need to be looking for.\"\n\nHer symptoms continued and a scan revealed a large mass or growth.\n\nNow 39, Fiona has been helping the team at Imperial College London with their research.\n\n\"I wanted to help with developing this study because I had the wrong diagnosis for nearly two years,\" she said.\n\n\"If there is a way to get an earlier diagnosis, I want to help people who are in the same position I was in.\n\n\"Getting diagnosed early is vital. Had my cancer been spotted sooner, I might have had far less surgeries and better fertility options.\"\n\nDr James Flanagan, lead author of the Cancer Research UK-funded work, said: \"The cancer symptoms we are looking for are very common - but for some women, they could be the first signs of something more serious.\n\n\"Using shopping data, our study found a noticeable increase in purchases of pain and indigestion medications among women with ovarian cancer, up to eight months before diagnosis, compared with women without ovarian cancer.\n\n\"This suggests that long before women have recognised their symptoms as alarming enough to go to the GP, they may be treating them at home.\"\n\nThe researchers worked with two big High Street retailers and 283 female customers, who agreed to share their shopping data going back over six years.\n\nMore than half had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.\n\nMore research is needed to confirm the findings. The team now plans to test if shopping data can help spot other cancers too - such as stomach, liver and bladder cancer.\n\nThe latest work is published in the journal JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A firefighter who was injured battling a blaze at the former Jenners department store in Edinburgh has died.\n\nBarry Martin, 38, died on Friday at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.\n\nHe was one of five firefighters taken to hospital after emergency services were called to the building on Princes Street on Monday morning.\n\nMr Martin is the first Scottish firefighter to die in the line of duty since Ewan Williamson, who died after being injured in Edinburgh in 2009.\n\nInterim Chief Officer Ross Haggart, of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, expressed \"profound sadness\" at Mr Martin's death.\n\n\"I speak for the entire service when I say that we are all devastated by the loss of Barry and our thoughts remain with his family, friends and colleagues at this deeply distressing time,\" he said.\n\n\"Both Barry's family and the service have been overwhelmed with the messages of support we have received, and we thank everyone for the time they have taken to share these.\n\n\"Barry's family would also like to thank all the medical staff who have cared for him. I would now ask that we allow Barry's family, friends and colleagues to grieve in private.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left at the scene on Princes Street\n\nThe general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack said firefighters in Scotland and across the UK would be devastated by news of Mr Martin's death.\n\n\"Our hearts go out to Barry's family, colleagues and friends, and to all those who mourn his loss,\" he said.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted her condolences, adding that the tragedy was a \"reminder of the selfless courage our firefighters demonstrate in the line of duty each and every day\".\n\nAnd City of Edinburgh council leader Cammy Day said his death was a reminder of the service and dedication of emergency service workers across the country.\n\nHe spoke on Saturday as floral tributes were laid outside the former Jenners building by well-wishers.\n\n\"We're absolutely devastated that one of the city's firemen have just been killed doing their duty, that they do every day, saving lives, protecting us,\" Mr Day said.\n\n\"Of course my thoughts are with his family, his friends, his colleagues here in Edinburgh and of course the fire fighting service across the country who are out today paying their respects to Barry.\"\n\nMr Day said there would be a Health and Safety Executive investigation as well as by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland.\n\nPolice said inquiries were ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\n\nSupt David Robertson, of Police Scotland's Edinburgh division, added: \"Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of Barry at this very difficult time.\"\n\nAt its height, more than 100 firefighters and 22 fire appliances were at the scene of the \"serious and complex fire\" at the Jenners building.\n\nTwo of the other firefighters who were taken to hospital were treated for smoke inhalation, and two were treated for burns. A police officer also received treatment.\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world.\n\nIt has been undergoing a four-year restoration project during which disused rooms were being turned into a hotel.", "The regulator said the trust's mistakes meant Wynter and her mother did not receive safe care\n\nA hospital trust has pleaded guilty to care failures after the death of a baby in Nottingham.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) prosecuted Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust over the death of Wynter Andrews.\n\nWynter died 23 minutes after she was born by Caesarean section in September 2019 at the Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nThe criminal prosecution is one of only two the CQC has brought against an NHS maternity unit.\n\nThe trust entered its pleas at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and will be sentenced at the same court on Friday.\n\nThe trust has admitted it let the Andrews family down\n\nAn inquest in 2020 found Wynter died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy - a loss of oxygen flow to the brain - which could have been prevented had staff delivered her earlier.\n\nThe court heard the CQC brought the charges after the trust's mistakes meant Wynter and her mother Sarah Andrews did not receive safe care and treatment in its maternity services.\n\nThe first of the two charges relate to the trust's failures in Sarah's care, while the other is for its failures in Wynter's care.\n\nThe court was told a specialist obstetrician, commissioned by the CQC, raised a number of concerns in relation to Mrs Andrews's care.\n\nConcerns should have been noted earlier by midwives on the day of Wynter's birth, he said, and the court heard the eventual birth took place past the 60-minute Caesarean section target set by the NHS.\n\nThe expert added there were issues with the systems and training used by the trust.\n\nAfter the hearing, Sarah and Gary Andrews said in a statement they hoped the prosecution would \"result in meaningful change\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr and Mrs Andrews said: \"As first-time parents, all we ever wanted was to bring our precious baby home.\n\n\"We hope that this criminal prosecution against the trust for its unsafe care will finally be the jolt they need to prioritise patient safety and result in meaningful change.\n\n\"It remains the case that no medical professionals or managers have been professionally disciplined for their failures of care.\n\n\"Until there is proper accountability and learning from mistakes, babies and mothers will continue to be harmed and families will continue to have their hearts broken.\"\n\nThe chief executive of the trust, Anthony May (right), was seen arriving at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday\n\nThe CQC has the power to prosecute health and social care providers across England.\n\nSince it was formed in 2009, it has mounted 85 criminal prosecutions, but only six of those have previously involved NHS trusts.\n\nIn 2021, East Kent NHS Trust was fined £733,000 for failures in the case of Harry Richford, a baby boy who died seven days after an emergency hospital delivery.\n\nProsecutions draw the public's attention to serious failings but they don't bring individual accountability.\n\nThe fines involve public money and they are set at a level with this in mind.\n\nThe trust's maternity units have been rated inadequate since an inspection in 2020.\n\nIt is also the subject of a wider review by midwife Donna Ockenden, which started in September.\n\nThe trust said in June it did not intend to contest the prosecution.\n\nWynter Andrews died 23 minutes after being born on 15 September 2019\n\nIt said there had been a lack of adequate processes and systems to ensure staff managed all risks to patients' health and wellbeing.\n\nAfter the hearing, chief executive Anthony May said: \"We are truly sorry for the pain and grief that we caused Mr and Mrs Andrews due to failings in the maternity care we provided. We let them down at what should have been a joyous time in their lives.\n\n\"Today, we pleaded guilty and will accept, in full, the findings of the court.\n\n\"While words will never be enough, I can assure our communities that staff across NUH are committed to providing good quality care every day and we are working hard to make the necessary improvements that are needed for our local communities, including engaging fully and openly with Donna Ockenden and her team on their ongoing independent review into our maternity services.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A serving member of the British Army has been charged with a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nDaniel Abed Khalife, 21, was charged over two incidents including attempting to \"elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism\" in 2021.\n\nHe is due to appear at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe Met's Counter-Terrorism Command said Mr Khalife was also charged with placing an article \"with the intention of inducing in another a belief that the said article was likely to explode or ignite and thereby cause personal injury or damage to property\" at Beaconside, Stafford, on or before 2 January of this year.", "Elle Edwards was celebrating with her sister and friends when she was fatally wounded\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Elle Edwards on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe 20-year-old was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and assisting an offender in the Barnston area of Wirral, Merseyside.\n\nHe has been taken to a police station for questioning.\n\nMs Edwards, a 26-year-old beautician, had been celebrating with friends and family when a gunman opened fire at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village.\n\nMerseyside Police previously said she was merely a bystander and not the intended target.\n\nConnor Chapman, 22, has already been charged with the murder of Ms Edwards and is due to go on trial on 7 June.\n\nHundreds of mourners gathered at her funeral on Wednesday, where a funeral cortege led by a hearse with floral tribute saying \"Elle May\" was followed by Ms Edwards's coffin in a carriage pulled by four white horses.\n\nThe order of service asked for donations to the Elle Edwards Foundation in her memory.\n\nThe Lighthouse pub was closed on Wednesday as a mark of respect and flowers were left at the entrance.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rick Astley's 1987 single Never Gonna Give You Up was a huge worldwide hit\n\nRick Astley is suing rapper Yung Gravy for using an alleged impersonation of his voice on a recent single.\n\nThe singer's 1987 worldwide hit Never Gonna Give You Up is interpolated in Yung Gravy's song Betty (Get Money).\n\nThe song features an alleged imitation of Astley's vocals, something the singer said had not been agreed.\n\nThe lawsuit claims that Astley's distinctive voice is a resource that needs to be carefully managed. Yung Gravy has not yet commented.\n\nThe rapper and his team allegedly cleared the use of the underlying musical composition of Never Gonna Give You Up, which was written by Stock Aitken Waterman.\n\nThis allowed them to recreate music and lyrics from the original song for their own track, a process known as interpolating.\n\nHowever, Astley's lawyers said: \"A license to use the original underlying musical composition does not authorise the stealing of the artist's voice in the original recording.\"\n\nLawyers for Astley say the alleged impersonation violated his right to publicity, by mimicking the distinctive voice he used in the song.\n\nThe legal papers claim Yung Gravy and his producers, including Dillon Francis, \"conspired to include a deliberate and nearly indistinguishable imitation of Mr Astley's voice throughout the song\".\n\nThis was done, the lawsuit alleges, \"in an effort to capitalise off of the immense popularity and goodwill of Mr Astley\".\n\nAstley is also suing Nick Seeley (also known as Popnick), the alleged vocal impersonator.\n\nRapper Yung Gravy, pictured at the MTV Video Music Awards last year\n\nThe legal action was filed in Los Angeles on Thursday and first reported by Deadline.\n\nRepresentatives for Astley in the UK confirmed to the BBC: \"There was a case filed yesterday [Thursday] in a US court of law by a firm representing Rick.\"\n\nThe lawyers added that Astley is \"extremely protective over his name, image, and likeness,\" meaning the unauthorised use of the similar-sounding voice had caused him \"immense damage\".\n\nThe legal documents also claim Astley had been looking for a way to incorporate his voice in a future project in collaboration with another artist, a project that he says is now ruined.\n\nIt has not been confirmed how much money Astley is suing for, however Deadline has described it as a \"multi-million dollar\" lawsuit.\n\nYung Gravy, whose real name is Matthew Raymond Hauri, appeared to acknowledge the use of the impersonator in an interview with Billboard last August.\n\nThe 26-year-old told the publication: \"We basically remade the whole song. Had a different singer and instruments, but it was all really close because it makes it easier legally.\"\n\nLawyers for Astley, pictured in 2022, said he was \"extremely protective over his name, image, and likeness\"\n\nNever Gonna Give You Up was a worldwide number one hit upon its release and has enjoyed significant cultural impact since.\n\nIt was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, the trio responsible for several other classic hits from the same era by artists such as Kylie Minogue and Dead or Alive.\n\nNever Gonna Give You Up is the subject of an internet meme known as \"rickrolling\" - whereby unsuspecting users are redirected to the song's music video when they click on misleading links.\n\nThe song has been covered on many occasions over the years by acts including rock group Smash Mouth, US singer Barry Manilow and British boyband 911.\n\nThe track has also been interpolated several times - Danish dance artist Calvin attracted more than 23 million Spotify streams to his 2016 re-imagining of the song, titled Give U Up.\n\nBetty (Get Money) is Yung Gravy's most successful track to date, reaching gold status in the US, equating to 500,000 sales. The song and its accompanying video were released in June 2022.", "Conservative Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi is under pressure over his tax affairs\n\nThere are no penalties for \"innocent\" tax errors, the boss of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said.\n\nJim Harra's comments to MPs come amid pressure on Nadhim Zahawi after it emerged he paid a penalty to the tax authority.\n\nThe Tory chairman faces an inquiry into his conduct by the PM's ethics adviser.\n\nMr Harra stressed he could not comment on individual cases, but said penalties were not applied when someone had taken \"reasonable care\".\n\nMr Zahawi has said the tax authority accepted the error over previously unpaid tax was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nHe has given permission to HMRC to share details of his taxes with the investigation into his conduct, with his allies saying he believes this will back up his version of events.\n\nIndividuals must give permission for such details to be disclosed, because of taxpayer confidentiality.\n\nEarlier, Mr Harra, the chief executive of HMRC, gave evidence to the Commons Public Accounts Committee about managing tax compliance following the pandemic.\n\nThe MPs also quizzed him about Mr Zahawi's tax arrangements.\n\nHe said he would not comment on specific individuals, but added: \"There are no penalties for innocent errors in your tax affairs. So if you take reasonable care, but nevertheless make a mistake, whilst you will be liable for the tax and for interest if it's paid late, you would not be liable for a penalty.\n\n\"But if your error was as a result of carelessness, then legislation says that a penalty could apply in those circumstances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands Mr Zahawi resolved a multi-million pound dispute with HMRC last year, when he was chancellor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, he paid the tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nEarlier this week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asked his independent ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to look into whether Mr Zahawi broke ministerial rules over the issue.\n\nDowning Street said it wanted the investigation to be completed \"as quickly as possible\" but that the timeline was a matter for the independent adviser.\n\nMr Sunak said he would wait for the investigation to report back before making a decision on Mr Zahawi's future. Mr Zahawi has insisted he has \"acted properly throughout\".\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I'm not going to pre-judge the outcome of the investigation, it is important that the independent adviser is able to do his work.\"\n\nBut former Conservative Party chairman Sir Jake Berry called on Mr Zahawi to step aside while he is being investigated.\n\nSir Jake told BBC Question Time: \"The government needs to find a mechanism for ministers and MPs who under investigation in this way to step aside, to clear their name and then to come back into government if that is appropriate\".\n\nHe said Mr Zahawi stepping aside would be \"the right thing to do now\".", "George Santos (right) and drag queen Trixie Mattel have engaged in a Twitter feud\n\nHe admitted he was guilty of \"embellishing\" his biography and resume - but Republican lawmaker George Santos said he was definitely never a drag queen.\n\nOr at least that was until photos and videos of what appears to be the New York congressman performing in drag during his younger days in Brazil surfaced online.\n\n\"I was young and had fun at a festival,\" Mr Santos, 34, insisted to the pack of reporters chasing after him at the airport on Saturday.\n\nMore evidence has since circulated, further corroborating that the performer known to friends in the Rio de Janeiro area as \"Kitara Ravache\" is in fact the newly elected member of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marisa Kabas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn unbowed Mr Santos took to Twitter on Monday, calling those impersonating him on late-night television \"embarrassing\" and then feuding with drag personality Trixie Mattel.\n\nThe congressman was only sworn in barely three weeks ago, but is already facing multiple calls to step down. He has allegedly lied about his college degrees, his work experience, his campaign finances, his animal charity and even his faith. He has also falsely claimed that his grandparents survived the Holocaust and that his mother died in the 9/11 terror attack.\n\nOn Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Mr Santos would be removed from Congress if the House Ethics Committee finds he broke the law.\n\nBut the revelations of his apparent drag queen past have left even more questions to answer as he settles into the ranks of a Republican Party increasingly hostile to drag culture.\n\nWhile no Republican members of Congress have directly addressed the Santos drag allegations, drag has become a hot-button issue in the party.\n\nAt least eight states have introduced Republican-backed legislation to restrict or censor drag shows, according to the Pen America free-speech group.\n\nRight-wing groups across the country have targeted drag story hours - in which drag queens read stories to children in libraries, schools and bookstores - and parental rights' activists have opposed drag events, which many in conservative media claim are \"grooming\" and \"sexualising\" children.\n\nMoms for Liberty, one conservative group, argues drag should be confined to \"adult spaces\" and that \"bringing drag into our children's schools is intentionally provocative. They want to provoke people to react to this.\"\n\nMr Santos' own colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has said the drag \"agenda\" is \"targeting our children\".\n\nCritics of that position argue it sits within a long history of anti-LGBT rhetoric.\n\n\"It's a backlash to 50 years of increasing freedom of dress and increasing visibility for the LGBTQ community,\" says Michael Bronski, a Harvard University professor who has written extensively on sexuality and LGBT politics.\n\nOrganised opposition of this kind was last seen in the 1970s, he says, when activists and evangelical Christian leaders launched a \"moral panic\" that came to be known as the Save Our Children coalition.\n\nDrag opponents today are employing the same \"old line of attack\", Mr Bronski notes, but are up against an LGBT community that has made \"inescapable\" advances woven into the fabric of American culture.\n\nThere is little indication yet of where Mr Santos, who ran his campaign as an openly gay Republican, stands on the right's anti-drag legislation and rhetoric - but he has embraced other anti-LGBT talking points prevalent in some Republican circles. In 2020, he said same-sex couples are \"an attack on the family unit\" and children raised in such households tend to grow up \"troubled\". He is also an enthusiastic supporter of the Florida law that restricts LGBT education in primary schools, labelled \"Don't Say Gay\" by its critics.\n\nJeff Livingston, a drag queen from Long Island - a portion of which is represented by Mr Santos - has performed for nearly a decade at clubs and story hours under the name Annie Manildoo. As Republicans have ramped up their rhetoric against the drag community, he has encountered more protests at his drag events in the past year and typically does not leave events in full drag anymore, for safety reasons, he said.\n\n\"Drag has become so mainstream that it's an easier target now,\" he says. \"Any time a minority group grabs any kind of power, the majority gets a little anxious about it.\"\n\nAlex Heimberg's drag performers are more in demand than ever\n\nWith a background in acting and education, he also works regularly at theatres and summer camps. \"There are a lot of queer folks who work regularly with kids of all ages with no issues ever arising, despite the image conservatives try to paint of us being sexual deviants,\" he said.\n\nAt the New York-based Screaming Queens company, Alex Heimberg manages over 100 drag performers, who he says are more in demand than ever, for everything from birthdays to fundraising galas.\n\n\"The country is very divided [but] it's not like everybody hates drag and is protesting,\" he said.\n\nMr Heimberg, 55, who performed in the 1990s and 2000s as the prominent drag queen Miss Understood, says he thinks it is hypocritical for Republicans to keep George Santos in Congress while decrying drag.\n\n\"His misdeeds are more important than the fact that he was a drag queen,\" he added. \"The fact that he was a drag queen is just an extra reason to have a giggle at his expense.\"", "We're pausing our live coverage of the attack on a synagogue in East Jerusalem.\n\nSeven people were shot dead and at least three more people were injured in the attack.\n\nIsrael's police department described it as a \"terrorist incident\" and said the attacker had been \"neutralised\".\n\nUN chief Antonio Guterres called it \"abhorrent\" particularly because it occurred at a place of worship and \"on the very day we commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day\".\n\nThe attack in East Jerusalem comes one day after nine Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank - the deadliest in years.\n\nYou can follow the latest developments to this story here.", "The capsule went missing after being transported from a mine near Newman in Western Australia\n\nAn urgent search is under way in Western Australia after a tiny capsule containing a radioactive substance went missing.\n\nThe casing contains a small quantity of radioactive Caesium-137, which could cause serious illness if touched.\n\nIt was lost between the town of Newman and the city of Perth in mid-January - a distance of roughly 1,400km (870 miles).\n\nThe public has been warned to stay away from the capsule if they see it.\n\nIt was being transported on a truck between a mine site north of Newman in the Pilbara region and the north-eastern parts of Perth between 10-16 January when it was mislaid. Caesium-137 is a substance commonly used in mining operations.\n\nThe Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) has said the capsule cannot be weaponised but could cause radiation burns and have other longer-term risks like cancer.\n\nThe object emits a \"reasonable\" amount of radiation, Dr Andrew Robertson, the state's chief health officer and Radiological Council chair, said.\n\n\"Our concern is that someone will pick it up, not knowing what it is,\" he said. \"They may think it is something interesting and keep it, or keep it in their room, keep it in their car, or give it to someone.\"\n\nThe missing capsule is tiny but said to contain a \"reasonable\" amount of radiation\n\nDFES has released an illustration of the object, which measures 6mm by 8mm.\n\nThe sites where the transportation began and ended have been searched and efforts are under way to figure out the exact route and stops that were made to narrow down the field of search.\n\nAnyone who sees the object is asked to call the DFES and to seek urgent medical assistance if they think they have come into contact with it.", "A winch was used to free the man but he was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man died after he was crushed and trapped underneath a telescopic public urinal while working on the device in central London.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene at Cambridge Circus during a rescue effort at the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road.\n\nPop-up toilets are stored underground and raised hydraulically to street level at night for people to use.\n\nCrews were sent to the scene at 13:05 GMT and the man was freed by 15:40.\n\nFire crews used a winch to release him. Despite the efforts of emergency services he was pronounced dead, the Met Police said. The man's next of kin have been informed.\n\nAbout 25 firefighters were in attendance, as well as police, paramedics and air ambulance workers.\n\nFour fire engines and about 25 firefighters were deployed\n\nA Westminster City Council spokesperson said: \"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the friends and family of the worker who tragically died earlier today at this site in the West End.\n\n\"We have been on site supporting our contractor and the emergency services and will assist all investigations in any way we can.\"\n\nThe telescopic urinal is close to the Palace Theatre in London's West End\n\nThe telescopic urinal is close to the Palace Theatre, home to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.\n\nThe devices were brought into use by Westminster City Council about 20 years ago in an attempt to discourage street urination.\n\nSome roads were closed and buses diverted, with restrictions expected to remain in place for a number of hours, police at the scene said\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Hancock took part in more bushtucker trials than any other contestant\n\nFormer Health Secretary Matt Hancock was paid £320,000 for taking part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity reality show.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP remains suspended from the Conservative Party for taking time off from his parliamentary duties to appear on the show.\n\nMr Hancock said he donated £10,000 to charity from the fee, revealed on the register of MPs' financial interests.\n\nThe register also shows former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was paid £510,000 as an advance for his memoir.\n\nIt follows the announcement by publishers HarperCollins earlier this month that they had acquired the rights to what was described as a prime ministerial memoir \"like no other\".\n\nMr Johnson has recorded approximately 10 hours work on the book in the MPs register.\n\nHe also registered just under £450,000 for two speeches made overseas since he stood down a prime minister.\n\nMr Hancock also received £48,000 for his Pandemic Diaries book, which was serialised in the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe has said he went onto I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! to \"show what I am like as a person\". Despite public nominations for multiple gruelling trials in the Australian jungle, Mr Hancock came in third on the show behind footballer Jill Scott and actor Owen Warner.\n\nBut Mr Hancock has faced criticism from across the political spectrum for going on the show, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying he was \"very disappointed\" by the move.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Hancock said: \"As well as raising the profile of his dyslexia campaign in front of 11-million viewers, Matt's donated £10,000 to St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and the British Dyslexia Association.\"\n\nEarlier this month Mr Hancock declared he had earned £45,000 from appearing on another reality TV show - Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.\n\nHe filmed the Channel 4 show before flying out to the Australian jungle, but it will be screened later this year.\n\nThe register of members' interests shows he joined the cast of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins during Liz Truss's short-lived premiership.\n\nHe spent 80 hours on the show, which sees celebrities compete against each other in a series of challenging military training exercises, between 24 September and 8 October.\n\nParliament was in recess from 24 September, and the Conservative Party conference was held in Birmingham from 2 to 5 October.", "Now it's over, we can say it: a biggish asteroid passed by Earth a short while ago.\n\nAbout the size of a minibus, the space rock, known as 2023 BU, whipped over the southern tip of South America just before 00:30am GMT.\n\nWith a closest approach of 3,600km (2,200 miles), it counts as a close shave.\n\nAnd it illustrates how there are still asteroids of significant size lurking near Earth that remain to be detected.\n\nThis one was only picked up last weekend by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, who operates from Nauchnyi in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014.\n\nFollow-up observations have refined what we know about 2023 BU's size and, crucially, its orbit.\n\nThat's how astronomers could be so confident it would miss the planet, even though it came inside the arc occupied by the world's telecommunications satellites, which sit 36,000km (22,000 miles) above us.\n\nThe chances of hitting a satellite are very, very small.\n\nThe time of lowest altitude was accurately calculated to be 19:27 EST on Thursday, or 00:27 GMT on Friday.\n\nArtwork: We still have a lot to learn about the near-Earth environment\n\nEven if 2023 BU had been on a direct collision course, it would have struggled to do much damage.\n\nWith an estimated size of 3.5m to 8.5m across (11.5ft to 28ft), the rock would likely have disintegrated high in the atmosphere. It would have produced a spectacular fireball, however.\n\nFor comparison, the famous Chelyabinsk meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere over southern Russia in 2013 was an object near 20m (66ft) across. It produced a shockwave that shattered windows on the ground.\n\nScientists at the US space agency Nasa say 2023 BU's orbit around the Sun has been modified by its encounter with Earth.\n\nOur planet's gravity pulled on it and adjusted its path through space.\n\n\"Before encountering Earth, the asteroid's orbit around the Sun was roughly circular, approximating Earth's orbit, taking 359 days to complete its orbit about the Sun,\" the agency said in a statement.\n\n\"After its encounter, the asteroid's orbit will be more elongated, moving it out to about halfway between Earth's and Mars' orbits at its furthest point from the Sun. The asteroid will then complete one orbit every 425 days.\"\n\nThere is a great effort under way to find the much larger asteroids that really could do damage if they were to strike the Earth.\n\nThe true monsters out there, like the 12km-wide rock that wiped out the dinosaurs, have likely all been detected and are not a cause for worry. But come down in size to something that is, say, 150m across and our inventory has gaps.\n\nStatistics indicate perhaps only about 40% of these asteroids have been seen and assessed to determine the level of threat they might pose.\n\nSuch objects would inflict devastation on the city scale if they were to impact the ground.\n\nProf Don Pollacco from the University of Warwick, UK, told BBC News: \"There are still asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit waiting to be discovered.\n\n\"2023 BU is a recently discovered object supposedly the size of a small bus which must have passed by the Earth thousands of times before. This time it passes by only 2,200 miles from the Earth - just 1% of the distance to the moon - a celestial near miss.\n\n\"Depending on what 2023 BU is composed of it is unlikely to ever reach the Earth's surface but instead burn up in the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball - brighter than a full moon.\n\n\"However, there are likely many asteroids out there that remain undiscovered that could penetrate the atmosphere and hit the surface to cause significant damage - indeed many scientists think we could be due such an event.\"", "The bodycam footage briefly cuts out at one point in the fourth video Image caption: The bodycam footage briefly cuts out at one point in the fourth video\n\nThe fourth and final video is from the bodycam of another unnamed officer. It shows the same incident as the third video.\n\nThe footage begins with a brief chase that ends with the officers tackling Tyre Nichols.\n\nIt appears that the bodycam becomes detached from the officer, as for the first few minutes nothing can be seen and we can only hear what sounds like a scuffle and conversation.\n\nWe again hear Mr Nichols calling out for his mother, and officers using expletives while ordering him to give them his hands.\n\nAt one point, the officers can be heard telling one another that they thought Mr Nichols was \"on something\" - seeming to indicate that they believed he had been using drugs. There is no known evidence that this was the case.\n\nOnce the officer's bodycam is back on, we get a clearer view of Mr Nichols as he's slumped against the unmarked police car.\n\nHe appears to be injured and blood is visible around his mouth. He does not speak. One officer pulls him up after he slumps to the side. He is variously seen sitting up, leaning on the car or slumped on the ground.\n\nA significant portion of the video shows officers speaking to one another and recounting details of the incident. Some of the officers claim that Mr Nichols \"swung\" at them or reached for their guns. Neither allegation is supported by the released video.\n\nAnother officer later claims Mr Nichols swerved and almost struck his police vehicle. Officers can also be heard discussing the fact that nothing was found in in his car.", "There are growing fears that 2023 could see a wave of company collapses as the cost of living crisis continues.\n\nThe number of firms on the brink of going bust jumped by more than a third at the end of last year, said insolvency firm Begbies Traynor.\n\nIt expects this number to rise due to higher costs, firms repaying Covid loans and consumers cutting back.\n\nPaul Jones, co-founder of brewery Cloudwater Brew, said the pressure felt like a \"never-ending nightmare\".\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said it was receiving an increasing number of calls from businesses owners like Mr Jones who were concerned over whether they could carry on.\n\nPaul Jones says he feels like continuing his business is either not possible or not worth it\n\nMr Jones said his Manchester-based company has been in survival mode since March 2020, with high costs, debt, low consumer confidence and post-Brexit trading problems all bearing down on the business.\n\n\"The cost to me has been pretty bleak,\" he said. \"I have a heart condition from stress and I feel constantly on the edge of what I can personally cope with.\"\n\nHis thoughts have turned to closing his business \"probably once a month since 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel like continuing is either not possible or not worth it,\" he said. \"We're going to keep going. What else can we do?\"\n\nBut he remains downbeat about business prospects in 2023.\n\nBegbies Traynor said the number of companies in critical financial distress jumped by 36% in the last three months of 2022.\n\nA firm is in critical financial distress if it has more than £5,000 in county court judgments or a winding up petition against it.\n\nThe number of county court judgments served against companies in the same period jumped by 52% compared with 2021.\n\nMs Palmer said that up until now low interest rates and loans had helped firms. In the pandemic, Covid loans and a longer time to pay taxes had meant that support had continued.\n\n\"[The support] all seems to be coming to an end at the same time, with nothing really on the horizon in terms of what might replace them,\" she said.\n\nA backlog in the insolvency courts due to Covid has also delayed some company collapses.\n\n\"The courts were closed for business so nobody could take recovery action against non-payers and we are beginning to see those cases pushed through now,\" she said.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague had to close her restaurant last year\n\nThis cocktail of challenges has already proved lethal for some.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague set up a restaurant The Creameries in Manchester back in 2018. It received rave reviews and was trading well until the pandemic hit the following year, and the business never fully recovered.\n\nHigh energy costs were the final straw. She had to close the restaurant in September last year.\n\n\"It became apparent that no matter how hard I worked, how hard I tried, how many different tactics we tried to turn it around, we were just never going to get enough customers through the door to make it work. And that was a horrible moment,\" said Ms McTague.\n\nShe said running a business during such a difficult period took a huge emotional toll.\n\n\"I think it can be a really lonely experience being in that position,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are the head of a small business, you've got close relationships with your staff, your suppliers. And you don't want to worry anyone, so you don't necessarily talk to your friends, family, or even your partner about it,\" she added.\n\n\"You don't want to worry your children. There's a lot of trying to keep the worry from others, which means you hold it in yourself.\n\n\"There's still quite a lot of stigma around it, and feeling this sense of shame of things not working out, even when it's completely out of your hands.\"\n\nShe admitted that she had mixed feelings when she finally had to close the business\n\n\"Once you're at the point where you can see what's going on and you can't make it better, there is definitely a sense of relief afterwards.\"\n\nNatWest boss Alison Rose said that while the UK's biggest business lender is yet to see widespread company failures she is concerned that firms are unable or not confident enough to invest for the future.\n\n\"We are seeing very little investment thanks to very low business confidence. That for me is a real concern because it will affect future growth.\"\n\nBut there were still reasons for optimism in 2023, she said.\n\n\"If you think we have had a global pandemic, the end of low interest rates, a war in Europe, massive price rises - what we have seen is incredible resilience in UK business,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also at full employment which is really positive. We are seeing record number of start-ups and banks like ours that is in a strong position to support customers. So it is a tough environment, but we should never forget how resilient business owners have been.\"", "The Education Authority board previously said it could not make £110m in savings without \"highly unacceptable and detrimental risks\" to children\n\nThe Education Authority (EA) has been asked to model cuts of up to 10% of its 2023/24 budget.\n\nBBC News NI understands the Department of Education has asked the authority to assess the potential impact of cuts of 3%, 5% and 10%.\n\nThe Education Authority is responsible for spending the bulk of the £2.5bn education budget.\n\nCuts of up to 10% could mean it has to find hundreds of millions pounds worth of savings.\n\nThe Education Authority is responsible for funding schools, staff, transport, meals, maintenance and support for children with special educational needs as well as youth services.\n\nHowever, BBC News NI understands that any current modelling the authority is undertaking is for information only and no decisions have been made.\n\nIn a statement, the authority said it was \"very concerned about the growing, unprecedented pressures facing education\".\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker recently warned that Stormont's budget for next year will be very difficult.\n\nSir David Sterling, a former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, also told BBC Northern Ireland's The View programme that Stormont departments could be facing up to £1bn in financial pressures and cuts in the next financial year.\n\nThe Education Authority board has already said it cannot make what it called \"devastating\" savings of about £110m in the current financial year without \"highly unacceptable and detrimental risks\" to children and young people.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Mervyn Storey, who sits on the board of the Education Authority, warned that the shortfall by April \"could be upwards on £500million\".\n\nSpeaking on The View, the former finance minister said 80% of the education budget was spent on staff.\n\nHe said: \"There is clearly burnout in our teachers, who feel the pressure to try to manage an impossible situation in regards to their budget.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his November 2022 budget, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris warned the Department of Education needed to make significant cuts to its \"current spending trajectory\".\n\nBut the authority has also been asked to look at its budget for 2023/24.\n\nNorthern Ireland Office Minister Steve Baker recently warned that Stormont's budget for next year will be very difficult\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, the chief executive of the Education Authority, Sara Long, said: \"The financial position is anticipated to be significantly more challenging in 2023-24.\n\n\"This will have a potentially detrimental and profound impact, for example, on the day-to-day running of schools, special educational needs support, transport and catering, and ultimately on the educational experience and outcomes of our children and young people.\n\n\"Considerations are ongoing in conjunction with the Department of Education and the EA Board in relation to potential areas where spend could be reduced to address the predicted substantial funding gap in 2023/24.\"\n\nMs Long added that any proposals to reduce expenditure on a significant scale would have \"very grave and unacceptable consequences for the educational outcomes of our children and young people\".\n\nEducation Authority board chairman, Barry Mulholland, also said there had been \"chronic under investment in education over the last 10 years\".\n\nAccording to previous analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Northern Ireland spends less on each school pupil's education than any other part of the UK.\n\nThe Department of Education said it has been considering various planning scenarios in \"anticipation of what is likely to be a very challenging budget settlement for 2023-24\" including some that would require reductions in expenditure in some areas.\n\n\"This is a normal part of departmental financial planning at this point in the year,\" the department said.", "Palestinians throw stones amid clashes with Israeli troops during a raid in Jenin\n\nThis is the most deadly Israeli raid into Jenin refugee camp in nearly two decades.\n\nNine Palestinians were killed when troops reportedly encircled buildings amid a storm of gunfire, grenades and tear gas in the packed urban camp.\n\nPalestinian officials say two of the dead were civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, while militant groups claim the other seven as members.\n\nThe Israeli military says its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning \"major attacks\".\n\nThe history matters here. I have been to Jenin repeatedly over the last year as Israel's military raids have mounted, sparking increasingly fierce gunfights with a new generation of armed Palestinians.\n\nEveryone you speak to roots their experiences in comparisons to April 2002, at the height of the second intifada or Palestinian uprising.\n\nBack then, Israel launched a full-scale incursion - known as the Battle of Jenin - in which at least 52 Palestinian militants and civilians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed. It had followed a campaign of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, many of which involved perpetrators from the city.\n\nMuch of Jenin camp was flattened in 2002. The scale of destruction, and Palestinians' stories of trying to repel the forces, are part of the collective memory there. It forms a backdrop to much that has happened since.\n\nLast spring, Israel launched operation \"Break the Wave\" amid a surge in Palestinian gun and knife attacks targeting Israelis - the deadliest in years.\n\nSome were carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel who were supporters of the so-called Islamic State group. But several were Palestinian gunmen from Jenin, including Ra'ad Hazem who shot dead three Israelis in a bar in Tel Aviv and was later killed by security forces.\n\nIt put Jenin back in focus. Israeli search, arrest and home demolition raids in the city and nearby Nablus became near nightly.\n\nThe Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was operating to prevent further attacks, and that it fired at Palestinian gunmen who targeted its troops.\n\nBut the death toll across the West Bank was much broader than this. While armed militants accounted for a significant proportion of the more than 150 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank last year, many of those shot dead were not carrying guns; sometimes they were in groups throwing stones or petrol bombs towards jeeps, sometimes they were passers by or other civilians.\n\nSome fatalities were during protests or confrontations against expansion towards their towns and villages by Israeli settlers who set up illegal outposts.\n\nIsrael was repeatedly accused by the United Nations and human rights groups of excessive use of force, a claim it consistently rejects.\n\nBut there was something else going on which added more fuel, and explains why some fear a further security collapse in the West Bank.\n\nThe Palestinian Authority (PA), which has limited governance powers in Palestinian cities, was losing control of Jenin and Nablus.\n\nThe PA is important - a legacy of the 1990s Oslo peace process - but these days its ageing leadership is badly out of touch with the Palestinian street and is seen by many as little more than a security company for Israel's occupation.\n\nIt is dominated by PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party - bitter rivals of the Palestinian Islamist militants Hamas.\n\nThe PA \"co-ordinates\" security with Israel - which means it shares information about some militants and its security forces step aside when Israel carries out arrest raids.\n\nPresident Abbas now says security co-ordination will \"end\" due to the Jenin raid - although this threat has often been made before and only rarely even partially carried out.\n\nBy late 2021, the PA's security forces were unwelcome in Jenin refugee camp and the Old City of Nablus. It was losing control. This has been a long process, but it was accelerated by several moments that year.\n\nOne was the fallout from the May war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza - which added to the PA's unpopularity.\n\nAnother was grassroots admiration for six prisoners who tunnelled their way out of an Israeli jail - before being caught within a fortnight. All the militant prisoners were from Jenin, some were figures popularised in the 2002 incursion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new generation of militants in Jenin and Nablus were rejecting the PA while Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants faced arrest. They were arming themselves, loosely affiliated with the established groups but apparently not answerable to their traditional hierarchies.\n\nThey called themselves the Jenin Battalion and, in Nablus, the Lion's Den. A grassroots following surged on TikTok and Telegram.\n\nThey appeared with American-made weapons smuggled from Jordan or stolen and sold on from IDF bases. Many were too young to remember the destruction of 2002 but were old enough to be inspired by stories from it.\n\nAs one Israeli journalist embedded with the IDF special forces in Jenin said: \"This is different. These are people who are willing to fight and willing to die.\"\n\nFrom residents in Jenin refugee camp I repeatedly heard about the depressing reality continuing: by day, diminishing work prospects, the restrictions of a military occupation, no faith in a political future, and by night, the prospect of more Israeli military raids.\n\nThe Israeli army says it has prevented attacks on civilians and soldiers. The country's president has said today an Islamic Jihad \"terror squad\" were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel. But a wider flare-up is still feared.\n\nUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives in Israel on Monday, with the country experiencing mass protests against the most nationalist government in its history. He says he wants to \"preserve\" the two-state solution - the long-held international formula for peace. The reality on the ground, along with the stated policy position of the new Israeli coalition, suggests he may as well be speaking another language.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Lowe said she would not judge someone for stealing food to feed their family\n\nThe politician in charge of policing in West Yorkshire says she would not judge someone for stealing food to feed their family amid the cost of living crisis.\n\nDeputy Mayor Alison Lowe told the BBC she understood how poverty could push people to break the law.\n\nShe said: \"You can't feed your family and stealing a loaf of bread can do that, you know, I'm personally not judging.\"\n\nThe force said it was committed to investigating reports of theft.\n\nSome police forces have reported a rise in shoplifting as prices soar.\n\nMs Lowe, the West Yorkshire deputy mayor for policing and crime, said thefts due to desperation were a \"curse of the cost of living crisis\" that society had to address.\n\n\"Crime is one of the things that tends to go up during a cost of living crisis,\" she told Politics North.\n\n\"If you've got to feed your family and you can't feed your family and stealing a loaf of bread can do that [feed them], you know, I'm personally not judging.\n\n\"I'm not the police, thankfully, so I don't have to arrest them.\n\n\"The police might have to arrest them, but I am not a police officer.\"\n\nFresh food prices rose at a record rate of 15% in December, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs all surging last year.\n\nNeighbouring force South Yorkshire Police has reported growing numbers of people, including young mothers, stealing out of desperation, while the chair of Merseyside's Police and Crime Panel has linked a \"massive rise\" in supermarket shoplifting to the cost of living crisis.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police recorded 14,752 shoplifting offences in the 2011/22 financial year, up from 10,515 in the previous 12 months.\n\nLast year's figures were down from 18,196 in 2019/20 but may have been affected by the Covid pandemic and pre-date the current cost of living crisis.\n\nA West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said it was \"broadly acknowledged that poverty and deprivation can be a factor affecting crime rates\".\n\nThey added: \"It is important that all agencies work together to provide help and support to members of our communities who are in need.\n\n\"West Yorkshire Police is committed to investigating reports of theft and taking appropriate action where suspects are identified.\"\n\nYou can see the full interview on Sunday 29 January on Politics North (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire) on BBC One from 10:00 GMT or via the BBC iPlayer afterwards.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Survivors and world leaders are marking Holocaust Memorial Day with remembrance services and events.\n\nIt honours the six million Jewish people murdered, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups.\n\nThe day also marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in what was then Nazi-occupied Poland.\n\nSet up in 1940, Auschwitz was initially intended to house Polish political prisoners - but it eventually became the largest of the Nazis' extermination camps, where Adolf Hitler's plan to kill all Jewish people - the \"Final Solution\" - was put in to practice.\n\nAbout 1.1 million people were murdered there, mostly Jewish.\n\nHere are some of the memorial events that took place during this year's Holocaust Memorial Day.\n\n(Above and below) King Charles III and the Queen Consort lit candles at Buckingham Palace, London, alongside Holocaust survivor Dr Martin Stern and a survivor of the Darfur genocide, Amouna Adam.\n\nIn a statement, the King said: \"Over many years, I have been deeply touched to have met so many Holocaust survivors, all of them extraordinary people who faced unimaginable horror.\n\n\"Their strength and determination to share their testimonies is an inspiration to us all.\n\n\"The theme for this year's Holocaust Memorial Day - Ordinary People - reminds us how it was ordinary people who were the perpetrators, bystanders, rescuers, and witnesses to the Holocaust, and its victims.\"\n\nThe British actress was handing out memorial candles, alongside Holocaust survivor Joan Salter (below, left) and Rwandan genocide survivor Antoinette Mutabazi (below, right).\n\nIn Berlin, Klaus Schirdewahn (above and below), a representative of the LGBTQ+ community, spoke during a memorial ceremony commemorating the victims of the Holocaust at the lower house of the parliament or Bundestag.\n\nRozette Kats, an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor whose parents were murdered in Auschwitz, also spoke at the Bundestag.\n\nThe German national flag flew at half mast outside the Bundestag.\n\nMusician Carmelo Leotta played an improvisational piece on a contrabass at the Gleis 17 memorial in Berlin.\n\nThe Gleis 17 memorial is located at the train platform from which the Nazis deported thousands of Berlin Jews by rail to the Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps.\n\nUS Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy laid flowers at the Memorial to the victims of Nazi persecution at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo.\n\nA member of the guard of honour of the Serbian Army stood at attention during a memorial service at the monument of victims of the Nazi concentration camp Sajmiste, in Belgrade, Serbia.\n\nIn Oswiecim, Poland, Second Gentleman of the US Douglas Emhoff (below, left) walked through the main gates of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.\n\nThe husband of US Vice President Kamala Harris also laid a wreath at the \"death wall\", where Nazi SS soldiers shot and killed several thousands.\n\nOn the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, visitors toured the Auschwitz II-Birkenau former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.\n\nYoung visitors were also seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem.\n\nHolocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld was photographed at her home in north London (below).\n\nMs Schaufeld was born in Prague in 1930 and transported via the Kindertransport to the UK in 1939 where she lived with a family in Bury St Edmunds.\n\nNone of her family who remained in central Europe survived the war.\n\nOn Wednesday, 600 candles were laid out in the shape of the Star of David in York Minster's Chapter House.", "An elite police unit in Memphis whose ex-officers are charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols has been disbanded after its tactics came under scrutiny.\n\nScorpion - which stands for \"Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods\" - is a 50-person unit with the mission of bringing down crime levels in particular areas.\n\nMemphis Police said it would \"permanently deactivate\" the unit.\n\nThis is not the first time the Scorpion unit has attracted controversy.\n\nIt was launched in October 2021 with a focus on high-impact crimes such as car thefts and gang-related offences.\n\nBut some community activists say its focus on hot spots within the city contributes to officers' bias and brutality.\n\nAntonio Romanucci - a lawyer for the family of Mr Nichols - accused the unit of misconduct and racism and called for it to be disbanded.\n\n\"They were in unmarked cars, why are they conducting traffic stops?\" he told CBS, the BBC's US partner.\n\n\"This is a pretextual traffic stop, which, let's call it what it is, it's a racist traffic stop.\"\n\nThe Scorpion programme was touted by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland in a speech a year ago. He said the city used crime data \"to determine where the unit will conduct its enforcement activities within the city\".\n\nFrom October 2021 until January 2022, the unit made 566 arrests, he said. They also seized over $100,000 in cash, 270 vehicles and 253 weapons.\n\nIn the wake of Mr Nichols' death, one local man Cornell McKinney told a Memphis-area TV network that he had a tense encounter with the unit on 3 January, just days before the incident involving Mr Nichols.\n\nMr McKinney alleges that the officers - who were travelling in unmarked vehicles - threatened to \"blow his head off\", pointed a weapon at his head and accused him of carrying drugs.\n\nHe complained to the Memphis Police Department after the incident, but says he has not heard anything back.\n\nOne of the officers that arrested Mr Nichols had previously been sued by a man who accused him of beating him when he was a prisoner eight years ago.\n\nCordarlrius Sledge said that he was attacked by Demetrius Haley, who was a prison guard at the time, and two other officers after he was found with a contraband mobile phone in jail.\n\n\"They picked me up and slammed my head into the sink, and I blacked out,\" he told NBC News on Thursday.\n\nThe lawsuit was dismissed in 2018 after a judge found the prisoner had failed to complete the necessary legal paperwork.", "Sarah Andrews previously told the inquest she felt her concerns during labour were \"dismissed\" by midwives\n\nA baby girl who died 23 minutes after being born may have survived if \"multiple missed opportunities\" were spotted by staff, an inquest found.\n\nWynter Andrews was delivered by Caesarean section on 15 September 2019 at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard concerns over the conditions of the baby and mother were not acted on.\n\nAssistant coroner Laurinda Bower said it was \"a clear and obvious case of neglect\".\n\nThe inquest heard Sarah Andrews had been admitted to hospital on 14 September, six days after initially suffering contractions.\n\nMidwives had previously told the hearing the maternity unit was \"busy\" when the patient arrived, with information on the patient's history not properly handed over to other staff at shift changes.\n\n\"The early care of [Ms] Andrews was littered with departures from local and national guidance which led to multiple missed opportunities to seek earlier medical care for baby Wynter,\" Ms Bower said.\n\nA doctor seeing Ms Andrews the following morning did not pick up on concerns raised by midwives over a trace examination of Wynter, or worries about a possible infection, and it was not until 13:35 on 15 September that a Caesarean section was requested.\n\nMs Bower said \"repeated failures by all staff\" to consult notes was \"perpetuated by incoming professionals who relied upon an inadequate and insufficient handover of the patient situation\", leading to risk factors \"being omitted from their clinical decision making\".\n\nWynter was delivered \"in poor condition\" at 14:05, with the umbilical cord \"wrapped tightly around her leg and neck\", and efforts to resuscitate her were abandoned 23 minutes later.\n\nMs Bower said: \"If [she] had been delivered earlier, it is likely that her death would have been avoided.\"\n\nA pathologist previously told the inquest an infection was likely to have caused Wynter's death\n\nThe medical cause of death was given as a lack of oxygen to the brain caused by a combination of infection and \"umbilical cord compression during labour\".\n\nMs Bower said \"systemic issues\" contributed to the neglect of Wynter, adding the unit was so short staffed midwives were looking after a number of high-risk patients simultaneously.\n\nShe said that meant Ms Andrews \"was not afforded the care and attention that she clinically required\".\n\nAs well as staff shortages, the trust \"had failed to create an environment where professional challenge was promoted and encouraged\", both of which Ms Bower said \"led to corners being cut and unsafe practices prevailing within the unit\".\n\nMs Bower issued a prevention of further deaths report, which will be referred to the Care Quality Commission and the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.\n\nShe cited a 2018 letter from midwives on the unit to bosses at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) outlining concerns over staffing levels as \"the cause of a potential disaster\".\n\n\"[It] makes for troubling reading, as the grim predictions of a potential disaster were indeed realised some 10 months later when Wynter died as a result of the unsafe practices warned about by midwifery staff,\" she said.\n\n\"Wynter was a victim of the trust's failure to adequately address the concerns that clearly existed many months before [Ms] Andrews' arrival at the hospital.\"\n\nFollowing the conclusion of the inquest, a statement on behalf of the Andrews family called for Health Secretary Matt Hancock to start an inquiry into the trust's maternity services.\n\n\"We know Wynter isn't an isolated incident - there have been other baby deaths arising because of the trust's systemic failing,\" the statement said.\n\nMandie Sunderland, NUH's chief nurse, apologised for the failings in Wynter's care, adding the trust is \"determined to learn from this experience\".\n\n\"[We have] already implemented a programme of work to ensure that we do everything in our power to ensure that this does not happen again,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US court has authorised the release of footage showing the hammer attack on the husband of former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nBody-camera footage shows the moment police arrive at Paul Pelosi's door and confront the attacker last October.\n\nIts release follows a San Francisco court ruling that the district attorney's office must make the materials public.\n\nAlleged attacker David DePape has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges.\n\nThe video shows San Francisco police entering Mr Pelosi's home on the night of 28 October, where they see Mr DePape and Mr Pelosi both holding a hammer.\n\nThey direct him to drop the hammer before the attack occurs.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Mrs Pelosi said she has \"absolutely no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband's life\".\n\n\"I won't be making any more statements about this case, as it proceeds, except to again, thank people [for well-wishes] and inform them of Paul's progress,\" she said.\n\nCourt documents filed last year allege Mr DePape had planned to hold Mrs Pelosi - a Californian congresswoman who was not home at the time of the attack - hostage and break \"her kneecaps\" if she \"lied\" to him.\n\nMr DePape told police at the scene that he was sick of the \"lies coming out of Washington DC\".\n\nPolice have previously said Mr DePape told them he was on a \"suicide mission\" when he smashed in the glass backdoor of the Pelosi home in the upmarket Pacific Heights neighbourhood.\n\nHe is facing numerous charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder.\n\nThe 42-year-old Canadian national also pleaded not guilty to federal charges of attempting to kidnap a federal official and assaulting a federal official's family member filed by the US Department of Justice.\n\nNo trial date has been set for Mr DePape.\n\nMr Pelosi was sent to the hospital after the attack, where he underwent surgery for a skull fracture. He also sustained injuries to his hands and right arm.\n\nHe was discharged within six days and has been making a slow recovery, and had his first public appearance in early December.", "In 1938, fearing for their lives amid rising Jewish persecution, Karl and Rosi Adler fled Nazi Germany for then-unoccupied Europe.\n\nIn order to pay for their short-term visas, they sold one of their prized possessions - a 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso called Woman Ironing.\n\nThat painting eventually made its way into the collection of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City.\n\nNow, the heirs of the Adlers want the painting back.\n\n\"Adler would not have disposed of the painting at the time and price that he did, but for the Nazi persecution to which he and his family had been, and would continue to be, subjected,\" lawyers for the heirs wrote in a lawsuit filed in a New York City court last week.\n\nSeveral Jewish organisations and non-profits are also named as co-plaintiffs in the suit.\n\nThe painting was originally bought from Heinrich Thannhauser in 1916, a Jewish gallery owner living in Munich at the time.\n\nWhen the Adlers fled Germany, they sold the painting back to Thannhauser's son, Justin, who had already left the country for Paris, for approximately $1,552 (roughly $32,669 today, or £26,417).\n\nThat price, the suit argues, was far below market value - just six years before, Adler had offered the painting for about $14,000, but decided not to sell it.\n\nSoon after acquiring the painting, Thannhauser insured it for $20,000.\n\nThannhauser left his large art collection to the Guggenheim when he died, including Woman Ironing. Prior to his death, as part of the museum's research process to confirm the painting's provenance, the Guggenheim reached out to Eric Adler, the son of Karl and Rosi, the museum said in a statement to the BBC.\n\nMr Adler \"confirmed the dates of his father's ownership, and did not raise any concerns about the painting or its sale to Justin Thannhauser\", and the museum has repeatedly acknowledged the elder Adler's previous ownership, the statement said.\n\nThe painting has stayed in the collection to this day, and went unchallenged by descendants of the Adlers for decades, until 2014, when the grandson of one of the Adler's other children, Carlota, learned about his family's history with the painting.\n\nFor several years, lawyers for the Adler heirs and the Guggenheim went back and forth over who actually owned the painting, which culminated in this lawsuit.\n\nGuggenheim told the BBC it \"takes provenance matters and restitution claims extremely seriously\" but \"believes the claim to be without merit\".\n\nWhat to do with artworks sold or looted during Nazi-era Germany has long been a concern. Many Jews and others fleeing persecution were forced to sell assets, including treasured works of art, in order to flee. Others had their artwork outright stolen.\n\nIn 1998, 44 nations signed the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, which says that \"steps should be taken expeditiously to achieve a just and fair solution, recognising this may vary according to the facts and circumstances surrounding a specific case\".\n\nWoman Ironing, however, should not be considered a piece of Nazi-Confiscated Art, the Guggenheim said.\n\nThe painting was not sold in Germany, but after the Adlers had left, and it was sold to a Jewish art collector, not a member of the Nazi Party, the museum noted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: HS2 will run into central London, says Hunt\n\nThe HS2 rail line will go all the way to London Euston, the chancellor has said, following a report the scheme may no longer reach the capital's centre.\n\nThe Sun reported that rising inflation and construction costs mean trains may terminate in west London instead.\n\nThe paper said bosses were considering pushing back its Euston terminus to 2038, or scrapping it completely.\n\nJeremy Hunt said he did not \"see any conceivable circumstances\" why it would \"not end up at Euston\".\n\nHS2, or High Speed 2, was originally intended to connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.\n\nThe leg to Leeds has since been scrapped.\n\nThe Sun had reported that the move would mean trains would run from a new hub at Old Oak Common, about five miles (8km) away, and commuters would have to use the Elizabeth Line or Tube to travel to central London.\n\nWhen asked if he, and the government, were committed to HS2 going all the way to London Euston, Jeremy Hunt said: \"Yes we are and I don't see any conceivable circumstances to why that will not end up at Euston.\"\n\nEarlier, in a speech setting out his long-term vision for economic growth, the chancellor said HS2 was a \"specific priority for me in the Autumn Statement\".\n\nHe said the government was \"absolutely committed to showing that we can deliver big important infrastructure projects\".\n\n\"That is why in the Autumn Statement we protected key projects like HS2, East West Rail and core Northern Powerhouse Rail\", he said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government was \"committed to delivering on the plans it's announced with rail\".\n\nThe Sun also reported that a two to five-year delay to the entire project is also being considered.\n\nSpeaking at Bloomberg's European HQ, in London, Mr Hunt said he was \"incredibly proud that under a Conservative government for the first time we have shovels in the ground\".\n\n\"But large infrastructure projects still take too long and if we are to deliver our ambitions we need to find a way to speed them up.\"\n\nMartin McTague from the head of the Federation of Small Businesses said HS2 was an \"enormous boost\" for economic prospects in the Midlands.\n\n\"It's part of the levelling up process and I think if it falls short in west London then that defeats many of the objectives of the line,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHS2 Ltd has cleared land near to London's Euston mainline station in preparation for the terminus of the scheme\n\nWork on the first phase of the project - between London and Birmingham - is well under way and that part of the line is due to open by 2033.\n\nBut the project has faced delays and mounting concerns over the exact route and its potential environmental impact.\n\nThe estimated cost of HS2 was between £72bn and £98bn at 2019 prices. A budget of £55.7bn for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015 - but this was made before the Leeds leg was cancelled.\n\nA report published last October found it was unlikely that the £40.3bn target for the first section of the line would be met.\n\nTransport Secretary Mark Harper said HS2 was \"experiencing high levels of inflation\" and it was working with \"suppliers actively to mitigate inflationary increases\".\n\nResearch from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for National Statistics published in September showed that construction materials across the UK experienced inflation of 18% from August 2021 to August 2022.\n\nMr Harper said inflation was not affecting the \"overall affordability of HS2 in real terms\" but it was \"creating pressures against its existing annual funding settlements\".\n\nHenri Murison, CEO of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said that if the HS2 rail link did not go to Euston, this would have \"a number of significant disadvantages\".\n\n\"Because actually people in the north of England, people in Birmingham, will want to get access to central London - that's what they currently have through the normal mainline network\", he told the BBC.\n\nHowever, Lord Tony Berkeley questioned whether more services to London were needed and said money would be better spent on local and regional services.\n\nThe Labour peer, who in 2019 was deputy chairman of a government review into HS2, said: \"My view is that we should aim for the regions - the north and the Midlands - to have a commuter service as good as in the south-east.\"\n\nThe head of the National Infrastructure Commission, Sir John Armitt, told BBC News in November that cutting back on the HS2 rail route would be \"silly\".\n\n\"I think you've got massive investment, which has happened in Birmingham ahead of HS2 - it just shows what can happen.\n\n\"And Manchester of course equally is now seeing investment off the back of HS2. I think that would be a very strange decision,\" he said.\n\nPressure group Stop HS2 said it believed the project would increase carbon emissions and damage areas of natural beauty. Protesters, including veteran eco-protester Swampy, have built tunnels in an attempt to disrupt HS2 construction.\n\nA senior figure at the Department for Transport warned last week that \"quite tough decisions\" could lie ahead for the scheme.", "Sir Rod Stewart performed at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace last year\n\nSir Rod Stewart has called on the Conservative government to \"stand down\" and make way for Labour, in an impromptu call-in to Sky News.\n\nThe British pop star, 78, phoned in to the broadcaster's \"your say\" programme while building his model railway at home to discuss problems in the NHS.\n\nSir Rod described the state of the NHS as \"heart-breaking\" and said he had never seen the country \"so bad\".\n\nThe Maggie May singer said it was time to \"change the bloody government\".\n\nLabour welcomed his spontaneous call for political change, which was splashed across the front pages of newspapers on Friday.\n\nOne Labour source told the BBC the party under Sir Keir Starmer's leadership was \"finally giving the whole country Reason To Believe\", a nod to Sir Rod's 1971 song.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting tweeted to say \"Maggie\" - former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - \"may have been a Tory but Rod's Labour\".\n\nThe Conservative Party said it was not commenting on Sir Rod's political intervention.\n\nUnder Keir Starmer's leadership, Labour is finally giving the whole country Reason To Believe (Labour)\n\nWake up, Maggie fans, we think he's got something to say to you (Twitter)\n\nHis support for the Tories is Sailing away (Spectator)\n\nSir Rod, who said he had voted Conservative for a long time, has entered the political fray before with pointed opinions on the issues of the day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Rod Stewart offering to pay for medical scans\n\nIn 2019, Sir Rod said it would be \"a shame\" if Scotland became independent, calling himself \"somewhat of a traditionalist\".\n\nHe has also criticised Brexit, telling a Spanish newspaper in 2021 that leaving the European Union was \"an enormous mistake and we're realising it too late\".\n\nSir Rod's latest political remarks come three years after he congratulated former Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his landslide election victory in 2019.\n\nIn his Sky News phone-in, Sir Rod said he was prompted to call the show and express his views after hearing about the \"ridiculous\" situation in the NHS.\n\nHe said he had attended a private health clinic on Thursday that was basically \"empty\" while NHS patients were \"dying because they cannot get scans\".\n\nHe offered to pay for up to 20 scans \"to do some good\". \"If other people follow me I'd love it,\" he added.\n\nA squeeze on funding, pandemic backlogs and staffing issues have put the NHS under unprecedented pressures that doctors say could cost lives.\n\nNHS staff have been taking strike action over pay in recent months, with more walkouts planned in the coming weeks.\n\nSir Rod told the broadcaster the \"NHS needs to be rebuilt with billions and billions\" and that nurses who had been striking over the last two months over pay were \"not asking for much\".\n\nSir Rod, who has had six number-one hits in the UK charts, said: \"Poor nurses, I'm on your side.\"\n\nWhen discussing the reasons nurses were going on strike, Sir Rod said: \"I've personally been a Tory for a long time and I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour party a go.\"\n\nAt the end of the phone call, Sir Rod sang a line of his number-one single, Maggie May.\n\nA pun on the lyrics from another of his hits, Sailing, appeared on the front page of the Mirror, which ran the headline: \"We are failing\".", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 20 and 27 January.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nColin Denholm took this picture looking into the jaws of a swan in Seaton Park in Aberdeen.\n\nJamie Ballantine said he saw this mountain hare in its winter coat in Glenshee.\n\nJoanna Gilpin said these two curlews were battling it out on Sandy Bay at Innellan, Argyll.\n\nAmelia Wallace took this picture at The Hermitage near Dunkeld.\n\nBrian Gallagher could see this Robin's song in the chilly air at RSPB Lochwinnoch.\n\nIan Woodrow knitted piper and chef with haggis on a postbox outside Thornwood Post Office on Dumbarton Road, Glasgow on Burns Day.\n\nHamish McIlwraith saw this fox in his Edinburgh garden.\n\nJim Hughes took this photograph from his walk on a beautiful winter afternoon around Dalmahoy Hill on the outskirts of Edinburgh.\n\nSusan Morrison says she loves this door in Birnam with its highly-polished, pristine brass fittings while the owners have chosen to leave the paintwork in a state of glorious urban decay.\n\nAlasdair Ross took this picture of the band stand in Nairn.\n\nPaul Climie took this picture looking towards the summit of Sgùrr na h-Uilaidh in Glencoe.\n\nJane Sayliss took this picture of a heron at Stornoway Harbour.\n\nLinda MacMillan took this photo of Thomas Coats Memorial Church on High Street in Paisley.\n\nJamie Fyfe captured the sunset behind Tay rail bridge in Dundee.\n\nHeather McLeod captured Stirling Castle taken just after sunrise.\n\nDerek Skinner took this at Seacliff Beach, near North Berwick at sunrise.\n\nElaine Dowding captured this pair of gannets on the Bass Rock in North Berwick.\n\nDavid Moxey saw this White Tailed Sea Eagle in Mull.\n\nMichael Daw took this photograph of Ineos plant at Grangemouth.\n\nBrian Welsh took this just below the summit of Am Bodach (Aonach Eagach) in Glencoe.\n\nAngela Martin said a forecast of dark clouds and high winds did not materialise on the Fife Coastal Trail.\n\nTheresa Wills said she saw this trio of Redshank at Portmahomack harbour.\n\nGraham Paton said Grangemouth refinery was looking like a space age metropolis.\n\nNikki Mowat watched the sun setting on Strathpeffer Golf Course.\n\nIan Thompson took this picture of Belinda and Emma hiking up to the Carn Aosda Summit for the last run down of the day at Glenshee ski centre.\n\nNigel Longstaff said the barges in the Union Canal - which runs from Falkirk to Edinburgh - could not move as it had frozen.\n\nPat Christie took this picture of the sunrise over the Bass Rock at North Berwick in East Lothian.\n\nNicci Buckley said her kids celebrated reaching the top of a steep climb in the Ochils with cartwheels.\n\nJane West took this picture of a Highland cow at Banknock, Bonnybridge.\n\nSteven Williamson took this picture from Ben Ledi in Stirling.\n\nLorna Donaldson captured the beauty of these swans at Airthrey Loch .\n\nNicola Orr wonders if you can spot the stag in this picture of Glencoe?\n\nColin Hattersley took this picture of curators setting up the 142nd Open Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in the Royal Scottish Academy on The Mound in Edinburgh - a showcase of 315 paintings by more than 150 artists.\n\nDavid May took this picture of a very still Loch Leven looking towards the Pap of Glencoe.\n\nDavid McErlane managed to capture the sunrise, peering over Glasgow City Centre\n\nHuw Rees Lewis took this shot of wild swimmers in silhouette at Portobello.\n\nGlenys Norquay often sees this female kestrel when she's out walking in Liberton, Edinburgh. \"She spends many hours hunting for voles in the long grass,\" she said.\n\nSusan Cuthbertson said there was a \"stunning\" sunrise at Pathhead Sands, Kirkcaldy.\n\nIain Percival took this shot under the Tay Rail Bridge.\n\nColin Mackie said Glasgow's Old Fruit Market was looking suitably atmospheric for the Treacherous Orchestra gig during the opening weekend of Celtic Connections.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBodycam footage of 29-year-old father Tyre Nichols calling for his mother as he is beaten by police in Memphis has been released.\n\nMr Nichols died in hospital three days after being pulled over for alleged reckless driving. He was pepper sprayed, kicked and punched by five officers who have since lost their jobs and been charged with his murder.\n\nVideo of the arrest, taken from body cameras and a surveillance camera mounted to a pole, was released in four instalments made public on Friday.\n\nThe BBC has reviewed the footage, which is graphically violent and full of expletives.\n\nThis article contains descriptions that some people may find distressing\n\nOnly a small number of people had seen the videos before Friday evening, including Mr Nichols' family, their legal team and several officials.\n\nThe first video released shows the initial traffic stop that led to Mr Nichols' fatal encounter with police. None of the videos released show what prompted police to perform a traffic stop.\n\nBut within a minute of being pulled over, officers can be heard yelling profanities and threats, and ordering him out of his car.\n\n\"I didn't do anything!\" he says.\n\nThe officers then force him to the ground as he protests his innocence. An officer can be heard threatening to break his arms as they instruct him to get on his stomach and lie flat.\n\nA scuffle appears to ensue in which Mr Nichols breaks free of the officers and flees on foot.\n\nThe officers deploy pepper spray and at least one taser in an unsuccessful attempt to stop him.\n\nHe is not seen again in this first portion of the video. The rest of the footage shows officers using water to spray their eyes after being hit with pepper spray.\n\nThe officer wearing the bodycam - who is white and does not appear to be one of the five facing charges - can be heard saying that he hopes his fellow officers \"stomp\" Nichols when they find him.\n\nThe officers catch up with Mr Nichols, who is quickly taken to the ground.\n\nAs two officers are working to restrain him, a third can be seen walking up to him and kicking him in the head twice.\n\nMoments later, a fourth officer - it is unclear who - pulls out an expandable baton and strikes Mr Nichols several times. Officers also punch him several times.\n\nHe appears to be stumbling by this time and is offering no resistance.\n\nAt the five-minute mark, Mr Nichols is on the ground and appears to be writhing. By this point, officers are no longer striking him.\n\nHe is then taken to one of the unmarked police vehicles, where he is leaned against the door. Officers are shining their torches at him and it is unclear if he is still responsive.\n\nThis video, taken from a police-worn body camera, captured the same brutal encounter, but from a different angle, and contained audio.\n\nAbout a minute into the video, two officers can be seen wrestling with Mr Nichols. The officer wearing the bodycam threatens to spray him.\n\nSoon after, another scuffle ensues as the police call for Mr Nichols to \"give them your hands\". The officer wearing the bodycam walks away, apparently having been hit with pepper spray during the confrontation.\n\nIn the background, officers can still be heard yelling at Mr Nichols to give them his hands and lie flat.\n\nThe officer wearing the bodycam returns and pulls out his expandable baton - which we also saw clearly in the second video from the pole cam. Using an expletive, he yells at Mr Nichols and makes clear he plans to strike him with the baton.\n\nHe strikes him several times, and another officer can be seen punching Mr Nichols in the face while his hands are restrained behind him.\n\nThe officer wearing the bodycam calls in their location, and officers can be seen struggling with Mr Nichols as more police arrive. The officer can be heard telling another that Mr Nichols made him spray himself.\n\nThe other officer replies that he tazed him, using an expletive.\n\nThe video ends with the officer wearing the bodycam walking away and panting from exhaustion.\n\nThe fourth and final video is from the bodycam of another unnamed officer. It shows the same incident as the third video.\n\nThe footage begins with a brief chase that ends with the officers tackling Mr Nichols.\n\nIt appears that the bodycam becomes detached from the officer, as for the first few minutes nothing can be seen and we can only hear what sounds like a scuffle and conversation.\n\nWe again hear Mr Nichols calling out for his mother, and officers using expletives while ordering him to give them his hands.\n\nMemphis police officers Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III, Justin Smith and Tadarrius Bean have been charged with murder\n\nAt one point, the officers can be heard telling one another that they thought Mr Nichols was \"on something\" - seeming to indicate that they believed he had been using drugs. There is no known evidence that this was the case.\n\nOnce the officer's bodycam is back on, we get a clearer view of Mr Nichols as he is slumped against the unmarked police car.\n\nHe appears to be injured and blood is visible on his head. He does not speak. One officer pulls him up after he slumps to the side. He is variously seen sitting up, leaning on the car or slumped on the ground.\n\nA significant portion of the video shows officers speaking to one another and recounting details of the incident. Some of the officers claim that Mr Nichols \"swung\" at them or reached for their guns. Neither allegation is supported by the released video.\n\nAnother officer later claims Mr Nichols swerved and almost struck his police vehicle. Officers can also be heard discussing the fact that nothing was found in his car.\n\nTowards the end of the footage, we get a clear view of Mr Nichols, who appears to be seriously injured and in pain.\n\nAn officer - it is unclear who - repeatedly asks him what \"he had\" - again suggesting that they believed he was using drugs at the time of the incident.\n\nIt doesn't appear that Nichols is able to answer.\n\nThe officer repeatedly tells him that \"you can't go nowhere\".\n\nIn total, about 10 people stand by, with no one offering to help Mr Nichols, who is in visible distress.\n\nSome of the last few minutes of video are blurred out and redacted - officials had said that some parts would be redacted according to the state's public records laws.", "Isla Bryson is facing a custodial sentence when she returns to court next month\n\nA trans woman who raped two women before she changed gender has been moved to a men's prison, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nIsla Bryson was remanded to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling after being convicted of the rapes when she was a man called Adam Graham. She has since been moved to HMP Edinburgh.\n\nBryson decided to transition from a man to a woman while awaiting trial.\n\nShe was taken to a male wing of HMP Edinburgh on Thursday afternoon.\n\nIt came after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Bryson would not be allowed to serve her sentence at Cornton Vale.\n\nBryson is due to be sentenced next month after being convicted of the rapes on Tuesday. It is thought to have been the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nBut where that sentence should be served has been the subject of heated debate, with concerns being raised about the safety of other women in the female jail if Bryson was placed there.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament passed legislation last month aimed at making it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex, but Ms Sturgeon has said the changes did not play any part in the Bryson case.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform Bill has been blocked by the UK government over its potential impact on equalities laws that apply across Scotland, England and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs Isla Bryson will not serve her sentence in a female jail.\n\nSpeaking at First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, Ms Sturgeon said she agreed that it was not possible to have a rapist within a women's prison.\n\nReferring directly to the Bryson case, she said: \"It would not be appropriate for me, in respect of any prisoner, to give details of where they are being incarcerated.\n\n\"But given the understandable public and parliamentary concern in this case, I can confirm to parliament that this prisoner will not be incarcerated at Cornton Vale women's prison.\n\n\"I hope that provides assurance to the public.\"\n\nThe first minister said any prisoner who posed a risk of sexual offending was segregated from other prisoners including while a risk assessment was carried out.\n\nShe said: \"There is no automatic right for a trans woman convicted of a crime to serve their sentence in a female prison even if they have a gender recognition certificate.\n\n\"Every case is subject to rigorous individual risk assessment and the safety of other prisoners is paramount.\"\n\nBryson was convicted of rapes carried out while she was known as Adam Graham\n\nMs Sturgeon said she expected that Bryson would not be at Cornton Vale in Stirling by the end of a 72-hour segregated assessment period, which ended on Thursday afternoon.\n\nThe first minister also stressed it was careful that people \"do not, even inadvertently, suggest that trans women pose an inherent threat to women\", adding: \"Predatory men, as has always been the case, are the risk to women.\"\n\nSpeaking to journalists outside the chamber, Ms Sturgeon said she had not given any \"formal direction\" to the Scottish Prison Service on removing Bryson from Cornton Vale.\n\nA spokesman for the first minister would not say if it was now Scottish government policy to bar all rapists from female prisons.\n\nScottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown said on Wednesday that he trusted the prison service to decide on the correct venue for trans prisoners.\n\nCornton Vale was until recently Scotland's only women's jail, but is being replaced by a series of smaller purpose-built facilities across the country - including HMP Stirling, which is being built on the same site.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said his party had \"warned for months\" during the debate over the gender reforms that \"violent criminals just like the sex offender, the absolute beast we are discussing today, would try to exploit loopholes in the law and attack and traumatise women.\"\n\nHe added: \"It should not have taken public disgust and a slew of negative headlines about a double rapist being sent to a women's prison for Nicola Sturgeon to realise this was completely unacceptable and wrong.\n\n\"She and her justice secretary have the power to impose a blanket ban on all rapists being sent to women's prisons, so why is she refusing to exercise it?\n\n\"It suggests Nicola Sturgeon's screeching U-turn in the Bryson case was down to fears over the political risk to herself rather than the safety risk to women prisoners.\"\n\nIt came as Bryson's estranged wife, Shonna Graham, 31, said she had a \"lot of sympathy for real trans people\" but claimed her former partner's transition was a \"sham for attention\" and that Bryson is attempting to fool the authorities.\n\nMs Graham told the Daily Mail: \"Never once did he say anything to me about feeling he was in the wrong body or anything\", and accused Bryson of being abusive in their relationship.\n\nDuring the rape trial, Bryson claimed she knew she was transgender at the age of four but did not make the decision to transition until she was 29, and is currently taking hormones and seeking surgery to complete gender reassignment.\n\nBryson said that in 2016 she was \"struggling with my sexuality and having issues emotionally\".\n\nThe first minister insists this was a decision taken by the Scottish Prison Service following its usual individual risk assessment procedures.\n\nAsked by journalists if she had intervened in the process, Nicola Sturgeon said she did not formally direct the SPS to move Isla Bryson to a male prison.\n\nBut I understand that officials were \"crystal clear\" about her views on the matter. There was no doubt in their minds that the first minister agreed with the chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, who said \"It cannot be right for a rapist to be in a women's prison.\"\n\nBryson was moved to a male wing of a male prison on Thursday afternoon. Nicola Sturgeon believes that is the right call.\n\nRishi Sunak's official spokesperson said on Wednesday that the prime minister was aware of the Bryson case and \"understood the concerns\".\n\nUK Justice Secretary Dominic Raab tweeted that \"transgender women without a Gender Recognition Certificate are sent to male prisons as a matter of course\" in England and Wales.\n\nHe added: \"Our further, common-sense changes will mean transgender women who have committed sex crimes or retain male genitalia can't be held in women's prisons, bar the most exceptional cases authorised by Ministers.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also criticised the decision to hold the rapist in a women's jail.\n\nSpeaking to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, Ms Cooper said: \"It should be clear that if someone poses a danger to women and committed crimes against women, they should not be being housed in a women's prison.\n\n\"That is straightforward and I think most people would agree with that.\"\n\nA spokesperson for LGBT campaigning group Stonewall said: \"It is appropriate that the prison service individually assess all prisoners and carry out detailed risk assessments that are about the safety of both the prisoner and those that they will be in contact with.\n\n\"Indeed, this is already the policy across the HM Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, and the Scottish Prison Service.\"", "Lockdowns due to the pandemic disrupted the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years\n\nThere was a significant rise in absences in the first full school year following lockdowns.\n\nThat is according to attendance figures for the 2021/22 academic year published by the Department of Education (DE).\n\nLockdowns due to the pandemic disrupted the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years with many pupils not in school for extended periods.\n\nBut absence rates from schools were higher in 2021/22 than during the pandemic or the year before it.\n\nThe 2021/22 attendance statistics in Northern Ireland show that almost 10% of school days were missed by pupils due to absence.\n\nBy comparison, the absence rates in 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 were all around 6%.\n\nHowever, as most pupils were not in school from 23 March 2020 until the summer of that year, attendance for most was not fully recorded during that period.\n\nDuring a subsequent lockdown, which began in January 2021, pupils learning remotely at home were marked present.\n\nPupil illness was the main cause of absence in the 2021/22 school year, accounting for over half of all days pupils were off school.\n\nAbsence due to Covid was a significant factor, but the majority of sickness absences were for other illnesses.\n\nHowever, around a third of absences were unauthorised - in which the school did not receive any reason why a pupil was off or approve their absence.\n\nIn post-primaries, for instance, no reason was provided for a quarter of pupil absences.\n\nSpecial schools had the highest rate of absence with around 15% of school days missed by pupils, but rates also rose in both primaries and post-primaries.\n\nFiona Smart said more pupils are displaying anxieties at home and in school\n\nThe vice-principal of Brooklands Primary in Dundonald, Fiona Smart, told BBC News NI there were likely to be a number of reasons why absences had risen.\n\n\"All of the educational and health services that parents and schools rely on to help pupils are under pressure,\" she said.\n\n\"We're definitely seeing more pupils who have anxieties presenting at home and in school, so there is an increased need for our school counsellor's support of pupils, parents and staff.\"\n\nShe added: \"We're also seeing far more children presenting with special educational needs and it's taking longer to get children the right levels of support.\n\n\"The educational psychologists we work with are under immense pressure and we have less access to their time and expertise due to increased demands.\"\n\nMs Smart said that difficulties and delays in accessing specialist supports and provision could also impact a child's attendance.\n\n\"Parents have also been more wary of sending their children to school at times where we saw increased levels of viruses or infections, as highlighted in the news.\"\n\nGeoff Dunn said the issues highlighted the need for services such as school counselling and nurture groups\n\nThe head of Ballysally Primary in Coleraine, Geoff Dunn, said that if more pupils were missing school due to issues such as anxiety that meant services to help them were vital.\n\n\"I think that highlights the importance of things like nurture groups in school,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nNurture groups are special classes in schools, which provide extra help for small groups of pupils.\n\n\"If any children have increased anxiety we can work in school to address those,\" Mr Dunn said.\n\n\"With all of the ongoing education funding problems, we need services like school counselling and nurture groups to continue.\n\n\"Both of those services help pupils and ultimately save education money.\"\n\nThere is no data yet from the department on attendance rates in the current school year.\n\nThe children's commissioner in England, Dame Rachel de Souza, previously highlighted a rise in the number of children regularly missing school there.\n\nHer investigation followed concerns that some pupils never fully returned to lessons after lockdowns.", "On the issue of the HS2 rail line, the chancellor says the government is \"absolutely committed to showing that we can deliver big important infrastructure projects\" when asked about the project's future.\n\nThe Sun reports that rising inflation and construction costs means HS2 trains may terminate in the suburbs of west London - instead of central London.\n\nHunt does not comment on the detail of the report and the possibility that HS2 could be scaled back.\n\nHe says: \"HS2 was a specific priority for me in the Autumn Statement. I think it is a national embarrassment that the Japanese opened their first high speed line between Tokyo and Osaka in 1974, or two years before I was born.\n\n\"And I am incredibly proud that under a Conservative government for the first time we have shovels in the ground for the London to Birmingham part of HS2 and we are absolutely committed to showing that we can deliver big important infrastructure projects...I think they are very important for levelling up.\"\n\nBelow is a reminder of what the HS2 route looks like between Birmingham and London - despite reports this morning that the Euston terminus may not go ahead as planned.", "Imagery of young children carrying out sexual acts on camera has risen by more than tenfold since the pandemic lockdowns, new data suggests.\n\nThe Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) says its data highlights how predators took advantage of the situation.\n\nSocial media websites exploded in popularity in early 2020 when the pandemic began.\n\nLast year the IWF logged more than 63,000 webpages showing the material compared to 5,000 before the pandemic.\n\n\"During the pandemic, the internet was a lifeline but we are only now unpacking the full effects,\" said IWF chief executive Susie Hargreaves.\n\n\"What is clear to us is that younger children are being pulled into abusive situations by rapacious predators, often while they are in their own bedrooms.\"\n\nOverall the IWF tracks, investigates and attempts to remove hundreds of thousands of incidents of child sexual abuse material from around the internet worldwide.\n\nThe charity says it is confident that the rise in self-generated material it is seeing is because of an increase in activity, because reporting levels have remained relatively similar in recent years.\n\nSelf-generated child abuse videos and images now make up two-thirds of imagery investigated by analysts.\n\nThis refers to imagery of children sexually abusing themselves on camera while coerced by a predator over the internet.\n\nResearchers say many of the videos are recorded or livestreamed from bedrooms or bathrooms, with sounds of a busy household in the background.\n\nThey are often done on a live chat, and recorded without the child's knowledge to be shared and sold by paedophiles.\n\nIWF is a UK-based organisation and says it is often hard to ascertain where the children are based from the videos. However, it passes on cases to authorities if a school uniform or other identifiers are visible.\n\nOf the imagery, which the charity estimates is of seven to 10-year-olds, more than 8,000 items contained what is classed as Category A material.\n\nThis is the most severe kind, and can include penetrative sexual activity, images involving sexual activity with an animal, or sadism.\n\nIn one video seen by IWF analysts, a nine-year-old girl is instructed by adults over an online platform to perform sex acts while in her bedroom surrounded by cuddly toys.\n\nShe is asked to perform \"super dirty\" dares over a webcam, and is interrupted when a presumed family member, who is oblivious to the abuse taking place, calls up to ask her to run a bath for her (presumed) little brother.\n\nThe IWF is calling on the UK government to do more to protect children through the long-delayed Online Safety Bill.\n\nThe bill is currently being amended to potentially make tech platform bosses criminally liable for any failures to prevent, identify and remove child sexual abuse and exploitation content.\n\nBut the IWF says the material it processes is coming from all over the world and most of it is not hosted in the UK.\n\nThe United States National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children did not have figures for 2022, but reported an increase of child sexual abuse material in 2021. The charity's CyberTipline received 29.4 million reports, up from 21.7 million in 2020.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has carried out air strikes on Gaza in response to rocket fire as tensions soar in the wake of a deadly army raid in the occupied West Bank.\n\nSix rockets were fired, reports from Israel say, with Israel attacking what it said were militant sites.\n\nThere were no reports of injuries on either side.\n\nMilitants warned of a response after nine Palestinians were killed in the Jenin raid, which Israel said was to thwart \"imminent terrorist attacks\".\n\nTwo rockets were fired around midnight (22:00 GMT Thursday) but were intercepted by Israel's anti-rocket Iron Dome system, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. Air strikes swiftly followed, targeting what the IDF said was an \"underground rocket manufacturing site\" in the central Gaza Strip belonging to the Islamist militant group Hamas, which governs the territory.\n\nA second salvo of rockets was fired hours later, landing in open ground, shot down or falling back down in Gaza, the military said. Israel subsequently hit a site which it said was \"a significant centre of Hamas terrorist activities\" in the northern Gaza Strip.\n\nA leader of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza said the group had fired the rockets, Reuters news agency reported. Israel's policy is to hold Hamas responsible for all attacks from there.\n\nThe overnight exchange followed the deadliest incident of its kind in years after Israeli forces entered the West Bank city of Jenin to arrest a PIJ \"terror squad\". The IDF said it was acting on \"precise intelligence\" about plans by the cell to attack Israelis.\n\nForces surrounded a building in the city's urban refugee camp where an intense gun battle erupted. Israel said three armed suspects were \"neutralised\" after they opened fire, while a fourth suspect surrendered. The IDF said troops were shot at by other Palestinian gunmen and returned fire, hitting targets.\n\nPIJ and Hamas said their fighters had targeted the troops with gunfire and improvised explosive devices.\n\nThe Palestinian health ministry said two civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, were among those killed. Twenty people were also wounded, four of them seriously, it said.\n\nThe Palestinian presidency accused Israel of a \"massacre\" and later announced it had ended co-ordination with Israel on security matters.\n\nA 10th Palestinian was meanwhile shot and killed during a confrontation with Israeli troops in the town of al-Ram, near Jerusalem, as residents protested against the Jenin raid, Palestinian officials said.\n\nAt least 30 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank so far this year, including militants and civilians, as the military continues operations there.\n\nLast year in the West Bank more than 150 Palestinians were killed, nearly all by Israeli forces. The dead included unarmed civilians, militant gunmen and armed attackers.\n\nA series of attacks by Palestinians and Israeli Arabs targeting Israelis, as well as militant gunfire at troops during arrest raids, meanwhile killed more than 30 people including civilians, police and soldiers.", "The aftermath of a Russian strike was seen on Thursday in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv\n\nRussia launched a wave of missiles at Ukraine on Thursday, a day after Germany and the US pledged tanks to aid Kyiv's fight against the invasion.\n\nEleven people died and 11 others were injured after 35 buildings were struck across several regions, the state's emergency service said.\n\nIt added the worst damage to residential buildings was in the Kyiv region.\n\nOfficials also reported strikes on two energy facilities in the Odesa region.\n\nThe barrage came as Russia said it perceived the new offer of military support, which followed a UK pledge to send Challenger 2 battle tanks, as \"direct\" Western involvement in the conflict.\n\nIn what was a sustained and wide-ranging attack, the head of the Ukrainian army said Moscow launched 55 air and sea-based missiles on Thursday.\n\nValery Zaluzhny added that 47 of them were shot down, including 20 around Kyiv.\n\nEarlier, Ukraine's air force said it had downed a cluster of Iranian-made attack drones launched by Russian forces from the Sea of Azov in the south of the country.\n\nA 55-year-old man was killed and two others wounded when non-residential buildings in the south of the capital were struck, officials reported.\n\nThe offensive was a continuation of Russia's months-long tactic of targeting Ukraine's infrastructure. The freezing winter has seen power stations destroyed and millions plunged into darkness.\n\nAfter Thursday's strikes, emergency power cuts were enforced in Kyiv and several other regions to relieve pressure on the electricity grid, said DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power producer.\n\nA day earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to provide Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 tanks, following weeks of international pressure. They are widely seen as some of the most effective battle tanks available.\n\nThe heavy weaponry is expected to arrive in late March or early April.\n\nPresident Joe Biden later announced the US would send 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks, marking a reversal of longstanding Pentagon arguments that they are a poor fit for the Ukrainian battlefield.\n\nCanada has also promised to supply Ukraine with four \"combat-ready\" Leopard tanks in the coming weeks, together with experts to train Ukrainian soldiers in how to operate them.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that 12 countries had now joined what he called the \"tank coalition\".\n\nBut for tanks to be \"game-changer\", 300 to 400 of them would be needed, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"The sooner we defeat Russia on the battlefield using Western weapons, the sooner we will be able to stop this missile terror and restore peace,\" Yuriy Sak said.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said sending tanks to Ukraine would make a big difference to the country's ability to win the war.\n\nHe also warned that Russia was planning a fresh offensive, just as reports began emerging from Ukraine of missile strikes following drone attacks overnight.\n\nOn Thursday, the US designated Russia's Wagner group, which is believed to have thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, a transnational criminal organisation.\n\nIt also imposed fresh sanctions on the group and their associates to \"further impede [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's ability to arm and equip his war machine\", Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "British windsurfer Sarah Jackson says she has relocated from the south coast of England to Tenerife for the winter because she was \"surfing in sewage everyday\".\n\nIn November, Havant Borough Council expressed concern over pollution detected off the north coast of Hayling Island, where Jackson was training.\n\nJackson, 24, told Adrian Chiles on BBC Radio 5 Live the sewage in the UK was the \"worst\" she had encountered.\n\nShe added: \"And that is across Europe.\"\n\nCampaigners have blamed Southern Water, which is permitted to release untreated sewage during periods of heavy rain to stop drains backing up.\n\nJackson said: \"I was living on Hayling Island in 2020 to 2021, throughout that winter, and that was when I really started to understand the situation.\n\n\"So I relocated to Tenerife last winter and then I have come out here again this year, just for the winter.\n\n\"You break pretty quickly when you're having to surf in sewage everyday.\n\n\"I need wind to be able to be in the water and invariably in winter, when it's windy, it's also raining - and that's when they have free license to just throw sewage into the sea.\"\n\nJackson, who is a two-time slalom silver medallist at the world championships, said while Tenerife is \"not perfect\", the issues surfers face in the UK are more severe.\n\n\"The south coast is super tidal,\" she said. \"So even if there is sewage coming out in X location, because the tides are so strong across the south coast, it's moving that water super quick and spreading it out very quickly.\n\n\"While that slightly dilutes it because it is being spread, that just means the problem is being spread further and further.\n\n\"What I've learnt more recently is that almost everywhere we go, there is a problem in some level - but the level in the UK is definitely the worst we are seeing - and that is across Europe.\"\n\nJackson said she was inspired to become an advocate for ocean conservation at 14 years old when she first started out in the sport.\n\n\"I went to a lake in Oxford and it was so polluted, off the back of that I got really sick for 12 weeks,\" she said. \"I ended up in hospital and it was a complete nightmare.\"\n\nIn a statement to BBC Radio 5 Live, Southern Water said that while they have an \"important role to play\" in maintaining water quality, it was also key that \"all parties work together\" to create a clean and safe coastline.\n\nWhile Jackson agrees, she also believes there should be consequences for the amount of sewage the water company is disposing of.\n\nShe added: \"What I would love to see is greater punishments - especially this summer - as it was dry and dry and yet there was still raw sewage being pumped.\n\n\"They are taking such big bonuses at the end of each year, such big profits; put that back in, reinvest it and actually improve the infrastructure.\n\n\"It's the one that we can control and that would make the biggest difference.\"", "Nearly 400,000 self-employed people on low incomes are being penalised for filing their tax returns late when most of them don't owe any tax.\n\nPenalties can build up until people owe thousands of pounds, according to Tax Policy Associates.\n\nThe non-profit called for penalties to be cancelled if HMRC finds people have no taxable income.\n\nHMRC said new rules would mean people who sometimes miss a filing deadline would not be penalised.\n\nTax Policy Associates revealed that Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi paid a penalty over previously unpaid tax while he was chancellor.\n\nThe boss of HMRC told MPs on Thursday there were no penalties for \"innocent\" tax errors.\n\nNearly 12 million self-employed people need to fill out self-assessment tax returns each year.\n\nThrough Freedom of Information requests to HMRC, Tax Policy Associates found that nearly 400,000 people earning less than £13,000 received a penalty for not filing a tax return on time between 2018 and 2020.\n\nThe vast majority of those had no tax to pay anyway because they earned less than the tax-free personal allowance - which was £12,500 in 2019/20 or £11,850 in 2018/19.\n\nThe lower people's income, the more likely they are to be penalised, the not-for-profit firm said.\n\nFines of £100 are automatically issued to people if they fail to file an online return by 31 January each year.\n\nTax Policy Associates founder Dan Neidle said: \"It's astonishing and unjust that hundreds of thousands of people are being charged penalties for late filing of their tax returns, when in fact their income is so low they have no tax to pay.\"\n\nFor most of those affected, the £100 penalty represents more than half their weekly income.\n\nPenalties can build up if they a not paid, and after a year, can be more than £1,600.\n\nWhile recipients of the fines can appeal to HMRC on the grounds that their income is too low, tax agents say many simply pay the fines.\n\nHMRC said it can cancel a late-filing penalty \"if we accept that a person does not need to send a self-assessment return or that they have a reasonable excuse for filing late\".\n\nMr Neidle said HMRC was acting in good faith but needed to realise the impact its heavy fines were having on people who may not realise they earn too little to owe any tax.\n\nThe data also revealed that the penalties are imposed disproportionately on the bottom 30% of the population by income, who earn less than £13,000 a year.\n\nOn the bottom tenth, the proportion receiving penalties is more than twice the level in higher income brackets.\n\n\"HMRC has sophisticated computerised systems. And those systems have not been distinguishing between people who have tax to pay and haven't filed and people who have no tax to pay and haven't filed,\" said Mr Neidle.\n\n\"I don't think it's right to have a system which puts the onus on people in low income to fill out forms for HMRC to avoid penalties.\n\n\"What should happen is that if you're late filing, and then it turns out you have no tax to pay, your penalty should be cancelled. That is how it used to work many years ago and I think that's how it should work.\"\n\n\"Parliament needs to change the law and make it to the penalties are cancelled or refunded if in fact, you've no tax to pay,\" he added.\n\nHMRC said automatic penalties \"are necessary for the efficient functioning of HMRC as it means public services can be funded on time\".\n\n\"We are reforming penalties so taxpayers who occasionally miss the filing deadline will not face financial penalties,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nHMRC said that 95% of people pay their tax on time.\n\n\"We encourage anyone who does not need to file a return to tell HMRC, the steps of how to do so are included in reminders sent direct to customers every year,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nHave you been wrongly fined? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Grade II* listed church in north-west London has been destroyed in a fire overnight.\n\nEighty firefighters were deployed to St Mark's church in Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, at 23:20 GMT on Thursday.\n\nVideos on social media showed the entire two-storey building alight, while witnesses said the roof of the ornate Victorian building had caved in.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said there were no injuries and the cause of the fire was not known.\n\nThe National Churches Trust has described St Mark's as an \"architectural and historical treasure\".\n\nThe building, which is more than 170 years old, has links to author Lewis Carroll and Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold and is situated near Abbey Road Studios and Lord's Cricket Ground.\n\nThe vicar of St Mark's, the Reverend Kate Harrison, told the BBC the fire was \"heart-breaking for us as a church and a local community\".\n\n\"We remain in deep shock, but are so grateful for the prayers and messages that continue to come in, and commit to continuing to serve the local community as best we can,\" she added.\n\nFirefighters used a crane to inspect the damage to the smouldering building\n\nSophia Tennant, who witnessed the fire, said she was getting ready for bed when she looked out of the window and saw flames rising from inside a building which she later realised was the church.\n\nAfter calling the fire brigade, she said she \"came and watched and it was really flaming, most of the roof seemed to be on fire\".\n\n\"You could see the fire inside the church going up what would have been the stained glass window at the east end, so it's pretty disastrous,\" she said.\n\nThree ladders were used by fire crews to spray water on to the building\n\nReema Raisinghani, 32, lives in Hamilton Terrace directly opposite the church and said residents living on the ground floor of nearby buildings were told to evacuate as the flames spread.\n\nShe said the building was fully alight, including the spire, by 00:30 and \"pieces of the church were actually falling down the façade\".\n\n\"It's an iconic church, I'm used to waking up to it every single morning. It's one of those massive community churches, it's just a centre point for the whole terrace as well,\" she said.\n\n\"The beautiful stone colour is now all black, it's a black shell. There's ash everywhere, including outside my whole flat.\"\n\nAnother witness described seeing \"lots of flames\" which became \"much bigger before the roof caved in\".\n\nWitnesses said the roof of the church caved in during the blaze\n\nMore than 10 fire engines were deployed to the scene, with crews from North Kensington, Paddington and West Hampstead working to put out the flames.\n\nFirefighters used three ladders to spray water on to the building, including two 34m (111 ft) ladders and one 64m (209 ft) ladder that is the tallest of its kind in Europe.\n\nEddie Tulasiewicz, from the National Churches Trust, said it was a tragedy that such a \"beautiful, historic church\" had been struck by fire, but he hoped \"a lot of the interior can be saved\".\n\n\"Churches are full of wood and most have fire detectors, but what they need is sprinkler systems,\" he said.\n\nFirefighters remained on site on Friday morning, making the scene safe and salvaging items from the church\n\nHouseholds in the area were previously advised to keep windows and doors closed, and police asked the public to avoid the area to allow emergency services to work.\n\nLFB said fire teams remained on site making the scene safe and were carrying out investigations into the cause of the blaze.\n\nWestminster City Council said there would be local road closures until late morning, but all residents were \"safe and accounted for\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British-American influencer is being investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape, which he denies\n\nA judge in Romania has described the \"particular dangerousness\" of Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan in terms of their ability to target women. He also pointed to what he called their \"capacity and effort to exercise permanent psychological control over the victims… including by resorting to constant acts of violence\".\n\nThe comments came in a written statement from the main court in Bucharest, in which the judge laid out his reasons for extending the brothers' detention last week.\n\nAs well as safeguarding the investigation and ensuring the suspects' presence at any future trial, the detention was justified by the need to manage social tensions and public order around this case, it said.\n\nThe Tates are being held in custody for an extra 30 days, until 27 February, while police investigate allegations of rape and human trafficking. Both deny the charges.\n\nIn his explanation, the judge highlighted what he said was the Tate brothers' ability to identify vulnerable victims, and to \"consider them to be the culprits, rather than the traffickers who obtain huge profits from exploiting them\".\n\nHis statement included prosecutors' claims that women recruited by the Tates were forced to work continuously for 12 hours, with only a five-minute break, he said.\n\nIt also outlined behaviour consistent with the \"loverboy method\" often used by traffickers to draw women into the sex industry for profit, saying that all the alleged victims in this case had \"asked the defendant[s] for attention and affection\", which was made conditional on them carrying out activities that would bring the brothers income.\n\nThis statement justifying the brothers' continued detention is the clearest indication yet of the evidence prosecutors have presented in the case so far.\n\nProsecutors had not \"fully clarified\" the facts of the case, the judge's statement said, but added that this did not eliminate \"a reasonable suspicion\" that the defendants had committed the crimes they were being investigated for, which justified their detention on legal grounds.\n\nAndrew Tate and his brother are being held along with two Romanian women closely associated with them - Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu.\n\nInvestigators allege that in early 2021, the four constituted an organised criminal group, set up to \"recruit.. shelter and transport victims…in order to obtain large sums of money by forcing victims to perform pornographic events\" distributed on websites such as TikTok and Only Fans.\n\nEarlier this week, as the brothers were taken in for computer searches by Romania organised crime unit, Andrew Tate reiterated his innocence, telling journalists that the case file against him was \"completely empty\".\n\nSocial media accounts belonging to the two men have continued to remain active while they have been in detention.\n\nAn appeal against their continued detention is expected next week.", "The Ministry of Justice will not contest the decision to release a man who killed his wife and was subject to the UK's first public parole hearing.\n\nRussell Causley, 79, murdered Carole Packman in Bournemouth in 1985 and has always refused to reveal the whereabouts of her body.\n\nThe Parole Board ruled it was safe for Causley to be let out of prison after he argued for his release last month.\n\nThe MoJ confirmed it had decided not to challenge the decision.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have thoroughly examined the Parole Board's decision but detailed legal advice concluded there were no grounds to ask them to reconsider.\n\n\"We know this will be incredibly difficult for Carole Packman's family, but Russell Causley will be under close supervision for the rest of his life and can be recalled to prison if he breaches the strict conditions of his release.\n\n\"Our parole reforms will stand up for the rights of victims in cases like this, making public safety the overriding factor in parole decisions and adding a Ministerial veto on release of the most serious offenders.\"\n\nCausley's parole hearing at HMP Lewes made UK legal history, with the media and public invited to watch proceedings for the first time.\n\nA panel of three parole judges were told how the former aviation engineer had initially been released in 2020 after serving 23 years of a life sentence - but was recalled to jail for breaking his licence conditions.\n\nCausley admitted he had lost contact with his probation officers and failed to stay at his approved accommodation, something he put down to a \"silly mistake\".\n\nThe Parole Board said it recognised Causley was a \"self-confessed liar\" but found he was at \"low risk of further offending\".\n\nCarole Packman disappeared in 1985, aged 40, and her body has never been found\n\nCausley was twice jailed for Mrs Packman's murder - in 1996 and, after a quashed conviction, again in 2004.\n\nHe had initially evaded justice for the best part of a decade and was only exposed when he made a botched attempt to fake his own death as part of an elaborate insurance fraud.\n\nCausley has repeatedly changed his account of what happened to his wife, most recently pleading his innocence and claiming his role was limited to disposing of her body on a bonfire in his garden.\n\nAt last month's parole hearing he blamed the killing on his ex-lover Patricia Causley, whose name he took.\n\nPatricia Causley was never tried over the killing and the parole judges said \"no credible evidence\" was found against her after a police investigation.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Syms was a highly versatile actress who was seen in both gritty dramas and comedies\n\nBritish actress Sylvia Syms, a star of stage and screen for six decades, has died at the age of 89.\n\nShe shot to fame in the 1950s in Ice Cold in Alex, and was nominated for Bafta Awards for Woman in a Dressing Gown and No Trees in the Street.\n\nLater, she was in TV shows like Peak Practice and EastEnders, and in 1991 played the former prime minister in ITV's Thatcher: The Final Days.\n\nIn 2006, she played the Queen Mother in The Queen opposite Dame Helen Mirren.\n\nSyms (right) was a memorable Queen Mother in the Oscar-winning The Queen\n\nA statement from her children, Beatie and Ben Edney, said: \"Our mother, Sylvia, died peacefully this morning.\n\n\"She has lived an amazing life and gave us joy and laughter right up to the end. Just yesterday we were reminiscing together about all our adventures. She will be so very missed.\"\n\nThey also thanked the staff at Denville Hall, a care home in London for those in the entertainment industry, for \"the truly excellent care they have taken of our Mum over the past year\".\n\nSyms was born in London on 6 January 1934. At the age of five, she became one of thousands of children evacuated from London, moving first to Kent and then, in 1940, to Monmouthshire.\n\nShe later recalled the trauma of being separated from her mother, who was to die of a brain tumour when Sylvia was just 12.\n\n\"Sending me away from home gave me the impression I was not loved, which was unfair but it's the truth,\" she said. \"It's why I became a performer and never stopped working.\"\n\nShe featured in a number of BBC productions in the 1950s\n\nAt 16, she suffered a nervous breakdown and contemplated suicide but, at the insistence of her stepmother, had psychotherapy which helped her through the crisis.\n\nHer ambition to act led her to drama school Rada and, like many aspiring actors, she cut her teeth in the West End, where she understudied roles in a variety of plays including the Apple Cart with Noel Coward.\n\nShe excelled as the femme fatale in The Woman in a Dressing Gown\n\nBut she became a victim of the British studio system, which sucked in young actors on long contracts, paid them peanuts and hired them out at exorbitant rates.\n\nShe earned just £30 a week for her first major film role, playing the part of Jane Carr in My Teenage Daughter, a gritty tale of delinquent behaviour.\n\nA year later, she appeared in The Woman In A Dressing Gown, where she played a woman having an affair with an older man.\n\nSyms, Richard Attenborough (left) and Max Bygraves showing off their Variety Club awards in 1959\n\nBy now she was married to her childhood sweetheart Alan Edney and balancing her film career with the demands of domesticity.\n\nShe later said marriage gave her the the stability she had missed as a child, and allowed her to use a wedding ring to fend off unwanted advances in the studio.\n\nShe purported to be unaware of her growing reputation as an actress, remarking later that the praise showered on her by directors was \"because they wanted to get into your knickers\".\n\n\"There was an assumption that because you were blonde and an actress you were available.\"\n\nShe showed she was as adept at handling dramatic roles as she was at playing in fluffy comedies.\n\nIn 1958, still contracted at £30 per week, she appeared in Ice Cold In Alex alongside John Mills, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews, all of whom were earning far more than her.\n\nThe film later gained cult status, particularly after one famous scene with three dusty soldiers and her attractive blonde nurse in a bar in Alexandria was used in a commercial for a certain Danish lager.\n\nThe Tamarind Seed brought her a third Bafta nomination in 1975\n\nIt was not until 1960, when her co-star in The World of Suzie Wong, William Holden, discovered how little she was being paid and lobbied the studio, that her earnings increased.\n\nShe gave a powerful performance as the wife of a condemned prisoner in the screen version of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow in 1962 and played Tony Hancock's wife in The Punch & Judy Man.\n\nSyms appeared in some controversial films including the role as the bigot's daughter in Flame In The Streets, which earned her a ban by the apartheid government in South Africa.\n\nBut too many of her films in the 1960s were in run-of-the-mill studio fillers, denying her the chance to show her full ability as an actress.\n\nShe had already turned down the chance to go to Hollywood, preferring to stay in England with her husband and two children.\n\nThe 1974 film The Tamarind Seed saw her playing the wife of a gay diplomat, a role that earned her another Bafta nomination.\n\nWhile she continued to appear in a host of films, this was the high-water mark of her cinema career.\n\nBut she kept working, with roles on stage, film and television, including her memorable performance as Margaret Thatcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Sylvia Syms on looking after older people\n\nHer other film roles included 2003's What A Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes, while on TV she made occasional appearances as dressmaker Olive Woodhouse in EastEnders between 2007 and 2010.\n\nShe also appeared in an episode of BBC One drama series Gentleman Jack in 2019, and was in ITV's family drama At Home with the Braithwaites and BBC Two's gentle religious comedy Rev.\n\nSyms was a gifted actress who, unlike many of her contemporaries, possessed the drive and talent to maintain her career for more than 60 years.\n\nSyms was made an OBE by the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2007\n\nSome felt she deserved more recognition for her achievements. She did get an OBE, but that was for her charity work rather than her acting.\n\n\"I'm not dame material really,\" she said in an interview with the Guardian. \"An Oscar's very useful if you want to be a dame.\"\n\nIf she had not turned down the opportunities to experience the bright lights of Hollywood, she might have achieved the international fame that eluded her.\n• None 'I am definitely a gaga old loony'", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nManager Pep Guardiola called Nathan Ake an \"exceptional guy\" after he sent Manchester City into the FA Cup fifth round with the winning goal in a narrow victory over Premier League title rivals Arsenal.\n\nThe Gunners have established an impressive lead in the league but it was City who shaded a tight contest thanks to Ake's precise 64th-minute finish after good work from Jack Grealish.\n\nArsenal had chances of their own, especially in the first half when City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, deputising for Ederson, saved well from Takehiro Tomiyasu and new signing Leandro Trossard.\n\nThere was little to choose between the sides and their Premier League battle will come into focus once more when they meet at Emirates Stadium on 15 February.\n\n\"We were definitely better in the second half. Arsenal have taken a step forward. It was a tight game and you realise how good a side they are,\" Guardiola said.\n\n\"What a season he [Ake] is playing. He controlled one of the toughest opponents in the Premier League because Bukayo Saka is in an incredible moment. He is really good in the duels in the box, defending the far post and set-pieces is an extra bonus.\n\n\"He is an exceptional guy, there was a period where he didn't play and he never complained once. As a manager you want players like Nathan. He deserves all the good things in life.\"\n• None Reaction as Manchester City beat Arsenal in the FA Cup\n\nCity will view this as a psychological blow aimed in the direction of Arsenal, who manager Pep Guardiola has publicly recognised as the biggest threat to their hopes of retaining their title.\n\nCity were again short of their fluid best but have a squad so rich in quality and versatility that there is invariably a match-winning moment, on this occasion provided by Grealish's weaving run into the area and a clever finish from Ake.\n\nErling Haaland was quiet but the fact that City got over the line against opponents who have become so formidable, and who have lost only one league game this season, will delight Guardiola.\n\nIt was victory that came at a cost, however, with defender John Stones - so outstanding for his club this season and for England at the World Cup - forced off on the stroke of half-time after pulling up clutching his hamstring.\n\nStones has been an influential presence for City and Guardiola will hope the medical bulletin does not present a long-term problem.\n\nFor Arsenal, this was a rare taste of defeat this season - but there was enough for manager Mikel Arteta to be encouraged by as they turn attentions back to the league.\n\nThe Gunners put the shackles on goal machine Haaland, and in the first half - with recent £21m arrival Trossard prominent - they were a real threat going forward, with Ortega the busier goalkeeper.\n\nIt was all achieved with key men Martin Odegaard, Oleksandr Zinchenko, William Saliba, Gabriel Martinelli and goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale held back from the starting line-up.\n\nArsenal pushed to the end and it required real bravery from Ortega to keep them at bay in tight goalmouth situations.\n\n\"I think we could have got much more out of the game,\" Arteta told ITV.\n\n\"We had big situations in the game and we didn't put them away. We can take a lot of positives, I think the way we approached the game and competed. It is really difficult to win against this team but we went head to head with them.\n\n\"In the big moments, in big matches, you have the make the difference. That is how you win these games.\"\n\nWhile Arteta will be hurt by the defeat there was plenty in Arsenal's performance to not regard this as too much of a setback.\n\nGuardiola and Arteta were not drawing too many conclusions from the first big battle between the clubs this season when they spoke to the media afterwards.\n\nBoth will take away a measure of satisfaction, City with another FA Cup win to follow up their third-round victory against Chelsea, while Arteta's understandable disappointment in defeat will be tempered somewhat by a good performance.\n\nOn the downside, both managers were left to rue injuries to key men.\n\nArsenal will hope Thomas Partey's rib injury, which requires a scan, will not prove a major problem for the hugely influential midfield man - although it is likely to increase their urgency to conclude a deal for Brighton's Moses Caicedo, having had a £60m bid turned down.\n\nCity's worry will be around Stones, who came off late in the first half with a hamstring injury. Guardiola has strength in that central defensive department but Stones has been one of his outstanding and consistent performers this season.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Julián Álvarez (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Rodri.\n• None Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Are you in need of a good night's sleep? Here are nine amazing facts to help you improve the quality of your sleep\n• None Steve Coogan chats to Nihal Arthanayake about British humour and cancel culture", "Gen Gerasimov has been Russia's chief of the general staff since 2012\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has removed Russia's top commander in Ukraine, just three months after he was installed.\n\nChief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov will now lead what Mr Putin terms a \"special military operation\".\n\nGen Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin who has overseen recent brutal attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.\n\nThe reshuffle comes as Russians claim they are making progress in eastern Ukraine after suffering a series of military defeats in recent months.\n\nRussia launched its invasion into Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nGen Gerasimov, who has been in post since 2012, is the longest-serving Russian chief of general staff of the post-Soviet era.\n\nGen Surovikin - now his deputy - has been dubbed \"General Armageddon\" for his brutal tactics in previous wars, including Russia's operations in Syria and the heavy bombardment of the city of Aleppo in particular.\n\nShortly after he was appointed to lead the operation in October, Russia began its campaign to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainian civilians without power or running water for extended periods in the depths of winter. He also oversaw Russia's withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson - a major success for the Ukrainians.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said the decision to replace Gen Surovikin was aimed at organising \"closer contact between different branches of the armed forces and improving the quality and effectiveness of the management of Russian forces\".\n\nBut the move has been seen by some as a sign that he may have gained too much power.\n\n\"As the unified commander in Ukraine, Surovikin was becoming very powerful, and was likely bypassing [Russian Defence Minister Sergei] Shoigu and Gerasimov when talking to Putin,\" military analyst Rob Lee wrote on Twitter.\n\nSome of Russia's hawkish military bloggers, who support the war but frequently criticise the way it is being carried out, have been highly critical of Russia's military leadership, including the new head of the special operation, Gen Gerasimov.\n\nWednesday's announcement comes as fighting continues in Soledar.\n\nThe fall of Soledar may help Russian troops in their assault on the strategic city of Bakhmut, about 10km (six miles) to the south-west, providing them with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nSoledar also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nRussia's mercenary Wagner Group has taken full credit for \"storming\" it.\n\nOn Tuesday night, the group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his forces were in full control of Soledar. However, on Wednesday the Russian defence ministry released a statement appearing to contradict his claim - or that only Wagner group troops were involved.\n\nThis led to Mr Prigozhin repeating the claim on Wednesday evening. In a short statement on Telegram, he boasted that his mercenaries had killed around 500 pro-Ukraine troops. \"The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers,\" he wrote.\n\nUkraine has recently made similar comments about piles of Russian bodies.\n\nThere is no independent confirmation.\n\nThe US-based Maxar Technologies company has published pictures of Soledar from August and early January, showing the scale of destruction during the recent fighting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maxar Technologies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe apparent differences in Russia's official narrative surrounding the latest events around Soledar hint at divisions in the country's military leadership, particularly between the Wagner Group and the defence ministry.\n\nFor his part, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky denied that Soledar had fallen.\n\n\"The terrorist state and its propagandists are trying to pretend\" to have achieved some successes in Soledar, Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Wednesday, \"but the fighting continues\".\n\n\"We do everything, without stopping for a single day, to strengthen Ukrainian defence. Our potential is growing,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows fighting in Soledar, Ukraine, but the BBC has been unable to confirm the date these videos were filmed", "Demi Lovato performing the tour for her new album in California\n\nA poster of Demi Lovato wearing a bondage-style outfit and lying on a crucifix-shaped bed has been banned for causing offence to Christians.\n\nThe title of the singer's new album clearly alluded to a swear word and, together with the image, linked sexuality to a sacred symbol, the UK's advertising watchdog found.\n\nPolydor Records said it was artwork designed to promote the album and did not believe it to be offensive.\n\nIt was removed after four days.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had received complaints relating to the \"image of Ms Lovato bound up in a bondage-style outfit whilst lying on a mattress shaped like a crucifix\".\n\nThe singer was \"in a position with her legs bound to one side which was reminiscent of Christ on the cross,\" it added.\n\nTogether with the album title, which is a play on a swear word, the ASA found the poster was \"likely to be viewed as linking sexuality to the sacred symbol of the crucifix and the crucifixion\". This was likely to cause serious offence to Christians, it said.\n\nDemi Lovato's eighth album, released in August 2022, documents her complicated journey through alcohol and drug addiction, mental health issues, treatment and recovery.\n\nShe started writing it after a voluntary stint in rehab in December 2021 and told the BBC: \"I'm not playing pop music anymore. This is a rock album.\"\n\nThe singer is not the first to spark controversy in religious circles. Madonna's Like a Prayer video was condemned by Christian organisations as blasphemous when it was released in 1989.\n\nIt showed the singer dancing around burning crosses and kissing a black Christ-like figure in a church. In 1992, her Erotica video saw her banned from the Vatican and the video could only be shown in the early hours.\n\nThe ASA also received complaints that the poster promoting Demi Lovato's album was irresponsibly placed where children could see it.\n\nIt was put up in six places across London before being taken down on 23 August 2022.\n\nThe ASA found that the title of the album would be clear to most readers that this alluded to a swear word.\n\nAs the poster appeared in a public place where children were likely to be able to see it, the ASA \"considered that the ad was likely to result in serious and widespread offence and had been targeted irresponsibly\".\n\nPolydor Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Ltd, said that before publication, they had checked with agency Brotherhood Media that the poster was acceptable to run on the proposed sites. The agency had provided an assurance that it was, and Polydor had proceeded on that basis, it said.\n\nThe BBC has approached Brotherhood Media for comment.\n\nThe ASA ruled that the poster must not appear again in the form complained of unless it was suitably targeted. It told Universal Music Operations Ltd to ensure their adverts did not cause serious or widespread offence in future.\n• None Demi Lovato is back, and this time she's angry", "James Cleverly was joined by Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris at Wednesday's meeting\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly has denied excluding Sinn Féin from an all-party meeting in Belfast.\n\nSinn Féin said its leader, Mary Lou McDonald, was told she could not attend the meeting on Wednesday.\n\nBut Mr Cleverly, who met with political and business leaders, said the party's deputy leader, Michelle O'Neill, was invited and \"chose not to come\".\n\nMs McDonald said the government's decision to \"exclude\" her was \"bizarre\" and \"unacceptable\".\n\nFollowing the meeting, the foreign secretary said he wanted to meet the parties in Northern Ireland and would meet Irish politicians at another date.\n\nHe said: \"My meeting here this morning was to meet the elected representatives of the people of Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I will of course be going to Ireland in the near future and I'll be meeting Irish politicians but I very much wanted to hear from the representatives of Northern Ireland.\"\n\nMr Cleverly described his visit to Northern Ireland as useful and welcomed the opportunity to speak to businesses impacted by the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nEarlier, the UK government said the meeting was \"for Northern Ireland politicians to talk through issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol\".\n\nIt is understood Ms McDonald was not invited as she is the leader of the opposition in the Dáil (lower house of Irish Parliament) and that the UK government considers it against protocol for Mr Cleverly to meet her before he meets his counterpart in the Irish government.\n\nThe UK government also pointed out that there had been meetings with Northern Ireland political parties in the past where Ms McDonald had not attended, including when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Belfast in December.\n\nJames Cleverly held a meeting with the Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist Party and Alliance\n\nHowever, Ms McDonald, who had travelled to Belfast for the talks said: \"Apart from this being beyond bizarre, it's a very bad message and a bad signal if the British Tories are now behaving in this petulant fashion.\n\n\"We're at a time where we need maximum cooperation, we need politics that is civil that is based on respect and that recognises the democratic mandate and responsibility of every party including Sinn Féin,\" she told reporters in Belfast.\n\n\"We are now eight months on from the election and people here had to endure a stalemate that is frankly not acceptable.\n\n\"The protocol is that when you host a leading of party leaders, you do not exclude one party leader from that meeting. This is a political meeting to assess progress.\n\n\"We are here in good faith - we want to get the work done.\"\n\nAs a result of the exclusion, the party said it would not be taking part in the talks at all.\n\nMary Lou McDonald, left, and Michelle O'Neill outside the talks in Belfast\n\nThe Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) also said it will not attend the talks unless Ms McDonald is allowed to take part.\n\nStormont's power-sharing government collapsed almost a year ago when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) pulled its first minister out of office in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News NI at the talks venue, SDLP assembly member Matthew O'Toole called it an \"absolutely daft\" and \"surreal\" decision to exclude Ms McDonald from the talks.\n\nHe said his party could not \"in good faith\" attend the discussions as they should be about \"maximum inclusion\".\n\nAlliance's Andrew Muir and Paula Bradshaw said the row was a \"distraction\" and that it was up to individual parties to decide who they send to the talks.\n\nSir Jeffrey Donaldson said who was invited to the talks was a matter for the Northern Ireland Office\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with the foreign secretary, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said the talks were useful and productive.\n\nAsked about the row over Mary Lou-McDonald's involvement in the talks, Sir Jeffrey said he would \"not intrude on their grief on that matter\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar will hold separate talks in Northern Ireland on Thursday.\n\nMr Varadkar said he hopes the decision to exclude Ms McDonald is not a \"new precedent\".\n\n\"It's never been our practice to tell other people who should be on their delegation. If you ask to meet somebody or somebody comes to meet you, it really should be for them to decide who's on their delegation and who leads it,\" he said.\n\n\"That's the approach that we take, it had been the approach that the British Government took in the past, so I hope this was a one-off and that doesn't represent a change of policy.\"\n\nThursday's visits follow a UK agreement with the EU on customs data sharing.\n\nThat agreement was reached in talks on Monday between Mr Cleverly and the Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Šefčovič, which both sides said provided a \"new basis\" for talks.\n\nAhead of his Belfast visit, Mr Cleverly said issues remained with the protocol - part of the UK-EU Brexit deal that keeps Northern Ireland aligned with some EU trade rules - that risked and undermined the place of Northern Ireland in the UK.\n\n\"My preference is for a negotiated solution, but the UK's priority is protecting the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and preserving political stability in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"I am listening to the concerns of people and businesses in Northern Ireland and am keenly aware that the current situation isn't working.\n\nStormont has not had a fully-functioning executive since February last year, when the DUP withdrew as part of its ongoing protest against the protocol.\n\nIt keeps Northern Ireland aligned with the EU's single market for goods, avoiding the need for a hard border with the Irish Republic after Brexit.\n\nHowever, it also creates a new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, something the EU accepts is causing difficulties for many businesses.\n\nSome unionists say it is also undermining Northern Ireland's place in the UK.\n\nThe UK says the protocol is not working and plans to override most of the agreement if the EU does not agree to changes.\n\nA majority of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in May 2022 are in favour of the protocol, in some form, remaining.\n\nSinn Féin, Alliance and the SDLP have said improvements to the protocol are needed to ease its implementation.\n\nUnionist politicians want it replaced with new arrangements.\n\nThe foreign secretary and the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris were due to hold round-table talks with representatives from Sinn Féin, the DUP, Alliance, the Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP.\n\n\"What people in Northern Ireland want most is to see their elected politicians back at work,\" he said.\n\n\"Accountable political leadership is fundamental to secure a sustainable future for all in NI.\"\n\nJames Cleverly and Chris Heaton-Harris met Maros Šefčovič on Monday to discuss protocol issues\n\nThe next deadline for restoring an executive runs out on Thursday 19 January.\n\nIt is highly unlikely to be met, which means Mr Heaton-Harris is expected to trigger another 12-week period to allow the protocol negotiations to make progress.", "Around 100,000 civil servants are to strike on 1 February, the Public and Commercial Services union has announced.\n\nUnion members in 124 government departments along with several other bodies will walk out.\n\nThe action is an escalation of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nPCS has been calling for a 10% pay rise, better pensions, job security and no cuts to redundancy terms.\n\nIt said a further 33,000 union members in five more government departments, including HMRC, are re-balloting next week to join the strike action.\n\nMark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, said he would have a meeting with Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin.\n\nIf that led to the government putting \"some money on the table\" there was a \"chance\" the dispute could be resolved.\n\n\"If he doesn't, then he'll see public services from benefits to driving tests, from passports to driving licences, from ports to airports, affected by industrial action,\" he said.\n\n\"We warned the government our dispute would escalate if they did not listen - and we're as good as our word.\"\n\nEmployees of public sector bodies including Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will take part in the action.\n\nThe PCS also represents thousands of workers who will strike at organisations such as Ofsted, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and the Home Office.\n\nThe PCA said the action would be \"the largest civil service strike for years\", adding it coincided with the Trade Union Congress's \"protect the right to strike\" day, which was announced on Tuesday to protest against new powers in strike laws.\n\nIf the dispute is not resolved, there could be further days of strike action on this scale, the BBC understands.\n\nThis announcement marks a significant escalation in strike action by the PCS union.\n\nIts 100,000 members voted to strike back in November. But since then only a fraction - around 5,000 - have walked out.\n\nThey've included Border Force officials, driving examiners and National Highways Agency staff. But this latest action on 1 February will involve all of the membership.\n\nThe dispute is predominantly over pay. The government has offered civil servants a 2% to 3% pay rise, but the union has been calling for a rise of 10%, in line with inflation.\n\nFor weeks, Mark Serwotka has been threatening to escalate strike action if the government did not enter pay negotiations.\n\nThe union says it is setting up a multi-million pound strike fund which it says could sustain its members over months of industrial action. The membership has been invited to pay £5 a month into the fund.\n\nBorder Force staff, who are also represented by the PCS union, went on strike over Christmas and Mr Serwotka said then action could go on for months.\n\nThere has been a wave of strikes across the UK in sectors ranging from healthcare to railways as pay rises fail to keep pace with high inflation.\n\nThousands of ambulance workers held a second day of strikes on Wednesday, while many schools in Scotland were closed due to teachers walking out.", "Johnny Vegas said ADHD for him related to a \"sense of disorganisation and doing basic tasks\"\n\nComedian and actor Johnny Vegas has revealed he has recently been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at the age of 52.\n\nThe comic told BBC Breakfast that getting the diagnosis before Christmas \"answers a lot of questions about behavioural issues in the past\".\n\nHis comments came after presenter Sue Perkins recently disclosed that she had also received a similar diagnosis.\n\nShe wrote last week that \"suddenly everything made sense\" afterwards.\n\nVegas said he and Perkins have the same agent, who suggested he get assessed too.\n\nPerkins said things now made sense \"to me and those who love me\"\n\n\"A lot of things make sense\" now, Benidorm and Still Open All Hours star Vegas told Breakfast on Wednesday.\n\nAsked what the condition meant for him, he said: \"It's that sense of disorganisation and doing basic tasks. Everybody has an element of it - it's how strong your filter is, I think.\n\n\"When you don't have a filter at all, very simple things become very time consuming. It's like, [I'll say] I'll shift that cup, and then you have 10 other ideas and you haven't shifted that cup, and then three weeks later that cup's still there and somebody's like, why haven't you shifted that, and it's become this monumental task and it's built up.\n\n\"It's just, I suppose, how your brain organises itself. I always knew I was disorganised... but it [the diagnosis] helps make sense of a lot of things at school. I'm just on the verge of learning about it.\"\n\nHe added that, in some ways, \"it's made me who I am\" and wondered whether \"that chaos helped me be a better stand-up\".\n\n\"In some respects you can go back and look at it with regret, but I've had a bit of a charmed life, so it's no regrets,\" he said. \"I know now and it helps you make changes, I suppose, as you want to get more responsible later in life. I don't see it as defining me.\"\n\nOther celebrities who have been diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood include presenters Ant McPartlin and Richard Bacon, comedian Rory Bremner and model Erin O'Connor.\n\nTony Lloyd, chief executive of the ADHD Foundation, told Breakfast that one in 20 people have the condition but it is \"significantly under-identified and under-diagnosed in the UK\".\n\n\"There's been a lot of stigma and enduring myths about ADHD,\" he said.\n\n\"There are many adults out there who have struggled for years with lots of different sort of characteristics of ADHD, but didn't think they had ADHD because they didn't identify with that enculturated belief that we were all given in school - that if you had ADHD, you were less intelligent, less able, badly behaved. And of course, that's all complete nonsense.\n\n\"So there are a lot of adults who, now that ADHD is much better understood, are beginning to realise that maybe a lot of the reasons that they've struggled were in fact ADHD. Many have been treated for years for things like anxiety and depression, and realise that actually, now they have a better understanding of what ADHD really is, perhaps that's the reason why.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Prince Harry speaks on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\n\nPrince Harry has said claims that he was boasting when he wrote in his new book about killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are a \"dangerous lie\".\n\nThe prince has been criticised for discussing killings in Spare, with some military figures saying it was wrong to refer to the dead as \"chess pieces\".\n\nBut on US TV, Harry accused the press of taking his words out of context and said the spin endangered his family.\n\nHe also defended his remarks, saying he had wanted to reduce veteran suicide.\n\nSpare, which was published on Tuesday, has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever in the UK.\n\nSome 400,000 copies of the memoir have been bought, despite many excerpts being leaked in the press ahead of its official release.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show - the first conducted after details from the book were published - Harry suggested there had been attempts to undermine his book, spoke of his fractured relationship with his brother, and attacked the \"bigoted\" British press.\n\nHarry said writing the book had been a \"cathartic\" experience and the \"most vulnerable I have ever been in my life\", while also leaving him feeling stronger.\n\nBut he added: \"The last few days have been hurtful and challenging, not being able to do anything about those leaks.\"\n\nIn his condemnation of the media coverage, Harry claimed outlets had intentionally chosen to \"strip away the context\" of his account.\n\n\"Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told, is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan,\" he said.\n\n\"If I heard anyone boasting about that kind of thing, I would be angry. But it's a lie.\n\n\"It's really troubling and very disturbing that they can get away with it... My words are not dangerous - but the spin of my words are very dangerous to my family. That is a choice they've made.\"\n\nHe said he had wanted to be honest about his experience in Afghanistan, and to give veterans the space to share theirs \"without any shame\".\n\n\"My whole goal and my attempt with sharing that detail is to reduce the number of [veteran] suicides,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHarry also claimed Buckingham Palace attempted to undermine the stories told in his memoir, assisted by the British press.\n\nNo names were mentioned but host Colbert asked if there had been attempts by the palace to undermine the book.\n\n\"Of course, and mainly by the British press,\" he replied, without going into more detail.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman declined to comment on the claim, and other allegations made by Harry in the book.\n\nWhen asked about his brother Prince William allegedly pushing him over during an argument, he showed the audience the necklace that was broken in the incident.\n\n\"This one - which is now fixed. We've got my kids' heartbeats [engravings of their cardiogram readings] which my wife gave me,\" he explained.\n\nIn lighter moments during the interview, Harry drank tequila with Colbert and joked that it felt like \"group therapy\". He was asked questions about getting frostbite on his penis on a trip to the North Pole and performed a skit introducing the show with Hollywood actor Tom Hanks.\n\nThe prince also admitted he watched Netflix series The Crown - the drama based on the Royal Family - and joked about fact-checking it.\n\nOn his late grandmother the Queen, he said he most remembers her sharp wit, sense of humour and her \"ability to respond to anybody with a completely straight face - but totally joking\".\n\nIn Spare, Prince Harry reveals for the first time that he killed 25 enemy fighters during two tours in the Helmand region of Afghanistan.\n\nPrince Harry claimed the media \"stripped away the context\" of his account of his time in Afghanistan\n\n\"So, my number: 25. It wasn't a number that gave me any satisfaction. But neither was it a number that made me feel ashamed,\" he writes.\n\n\"Naturally I'd have preferred not to have that number on my military CV, on my mind, but by the same token I'd have preferred to live in a world in which there was no Taliban, a world without war...\n\n\"While in the heat and fog of combat, I didn't think of those 25 as people. You can't kill people if you think of them as people. You can't really harm people if you think of them as people.\n\n\"They were chess pieces removed from the board, Bad taken away before they could kill Goods.\n\n\"I'd been trained to 'other-ize' them, trained well. On some level I recognised this learned detachment as problematic.\n\n\"But I also saw it as an unavoidable part of soldiering. Another reality that can't be changed.\"\n\nHarry served as an Apache helicopter pilot in 2012-13\n\nHe goes to say he would never forget watching people jump from the World Trade Centre on 9/11 and the war was \"avenging one of the most heinous crimes in world history\".\n\nSubsequent media coverage of the comments, which were leaked to the press ahead of the book's publication, drew criticism from figures in the military.\n\nEx-army officer Col Richard Kemp, who oversaw forces in Afghanistan, told the BBC he was concerned at references to dead Taliban insurgents as chess pieces, saying such descriptions could give \"propaganda to the enemy\".\n\nAnd ex-colonel Tim Collins, who gained worldwide fame for an eve-of battle speech to troops in Iraq, said: \"He has badly let the side down. We don't do notches on the rifle butt. We never did.\"", "The world's richest man, Bernard Arnault, has appointed his daughter to head up fashion house Dior.\n\nMr Arnault promoted Delphine Arnault, 47, as part of a reshuffle at LVMH, Europe's most valuable company.\n\nIt owns a portfolio of high-end brands including Fendi and Louis Vuitton and is worth about £336bn.\n\nThe outgoing head of Dior, Pietro Beccari, will move to replace long-time Louis Vuitton chief executive Michael Burke.\n\nBoth Ms Arnault and Mr Beccari \"are well respected\", so these are \"logical promotions within the group,\" said Credit Suisse analyst Natasha Brilliant.\n\nAll five of Mr Arnault's children hold management positions at brands in the group.\n\nThe changes, which come into effect in February, follow the recent appointment of Antoine Arnault, Bernard Arnault's eldest son, to head the family's holding company.\n\nAlexandre Arnault, 30, is in charge of products and communication at Tiffany, while Frederic Arnault, 28, is chief executive of another group brand, Tag Heuer.\n\nThe youngest child, Jean Arnault, 24, heads marketing and product development for Louis Vuitton's watches division.\n\nMr Arnault's companies sell goods including luxury suitcases by Louis Vuitton and Moet and Chandon champagne.\n\n\"Succession planning in strategic roles has been instrumental to the success of LVMH's key brands over the past 20 years, hence today's moves are significant,\" said Thomas Chauvet, an analyst at Citi.\n\nChristian Dior's catwalk presentations in Paris are attended by global celebrities including K-pop star Jisoo and singer Rihanna, drawing enthusiastic crowds of fans.\n\nDelphine Arnault will leave her position as LVMH's executive vice president for Louis Vuitton, which she has held since 2013.\n\nLouis Vuitton set new sales records under Ms Arnault's leadership, LVMH said.\n\nSimilar succession plans have happened at other major fashion companies in recent years.\n\nHigh Street fashion giant Inditex, which owns brands including Zara and Massimo Dutti, appointed the founder's daughter as its new chairwoman in 2021. Marta Ortega was 37 at the time.\n\nThe boss of fashion house Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, recently said he expects to hand the reins of the company to his son Lorenzo within two years.\n\nBernard Arnault overtook Elon Musk in December 2022 to become the world's richest man.", "Train operating companies are set to make a new offer to striking rail workers this week, after receiving a revised mandate from the government.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG), representing the firms, needs government backing for any deal.\n\nRDG chair Steve Montgomery said he had received a revised mandate, which would be \"used\" in talks with the TSSA and RMT unions on Thursday.\n\nDetails could not be shared for confidentiality reasons, he said.\n\nTrain operators and unions are at loggerheads over pay and conditions.\n\nThe new offer could represent a breakthrough if the government's position has changed enough to satisfy unions' demands.\n\nHowever, unions may still reject any offer that comes with what they see as unacceptable changes to working practices and conditions attached.\n\nLast week strikes led to widespread service cancellations across the network, and union leaders warned members had voted to continue their industrial action, which could continue for months. But currently no further strikes are scheduled.\n\nMr Montgomery told parliament's transport select committee on Wednesday he believed there was an opportunity to \"try and move forward\" with the RMT union, the largest rail union.\n\n\"I think we're within reasonable areas of where I think we can get a deal. But we have to work through it with them,\" he said.\n\nHowever he acknowledged the dispute with rail drivers' union Aslef was further behind.\n\n\"We need to do more work with [Aslef] and try and get back round the table,\" he said.\n\nAslef leader, Mick Whelan, told MPs on the select committee he believed the two sides were \"further away than we started\".\n\nWhen asked by MPs how close a resolution was on a scale of one to 10, Mr Whelan said: \"I think you can include zero.\"\n\nOn Friday the RDG made their first official offer to drivers, a backdated 4% pay rise for 2022 and another 4% rise in 2023, contingent on changes to working practices.\n\nBut Mr Whelan said he could not recommend \"any one element of it\", adding it could \"destroy the ability to go back to talks in future\".\n\nThe Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (Aslef), representing train drivers, has previously said it was \"chasing a pay rise that at least puts a dent\" in the impact from rising prices, after inflation rose above 10%.\n\nUnions representing workers other than drivers, including the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, are also campaigning for better pay and conditions for their members.\n\nFrank Ward, interim general secretary of the TSSA, told the committee hearing he agreed with Mr Whelan that agreement was still further away than ever.\n\nHowever, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said the prospects of a deal depended on discussions, adding \"until we get an agreement, we're not close to it\".\n\nHe said \"we're a long way on pay\", highlighting that offers made so far were well below inflation. Last year the RMT rejected rail companies' offer of 8% over two years.\n\nMr Lynch also said conditions attached to the offer from train companies - which included ticket office closures and the expansion of driver only trains, which the RMT says threatens the role of guards - involved \"such profound changes that they'll be very difficult for any union to accept\".\n\nMr Montgomery, defended the RDG's plan to have more drivers operating train doors. He said it was aimed at improving punctuality and reliability, and not about removing other staff altogether. There would be a second person on board \"on a lot of occasions\" he said.\n\nThe industry was not trying to cut wages or increase workers' hours, Mr Montgomery said. Instead it wanted to improve productivity, making the railway more cost effective, he said.\n\nTim Shoveller, chief negotiator for Network Rail, also struck an optimistic note, rating his organisation's closeness of a deal with the RMT as seven out of 10.\n\nIn December Network Rail, which owns and operates the UK's rail infrastructure, offered to raise pay for its staff by around 9% over two years, but with changes to working conditions attached.\n\nMr Shoveller said he believed many staff felt they had not had enough time to consider the proposal before voting.\n\nHe said some employees had already returned to work meaning more trains would run during any future RMT walkouts \"because our capability to do that is growing\".\n\nOnly a couple of thousand more RMT members at Network Rail would need to vote in favour of the deal that had been offered, for it to meet the threshold for acceptance, he said.\n\nNetwork Rail was not seeking a revised mandate from the government Mr Shoveller said, as its existing offer had been based on what the organisation could afford.", "The 26-year-old was shot outside outside The Lighthouse in Wallasey\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the fatal shooting of a woman at a pub on Christmas Eve.\n\nElle Edwards, 26, was shot outside The Lighthouse in Wallasey, Wirral, shortly before midnight on 24 December.\n\nMerseyside Police previously said she was not believed to have been the target of the shooting.\n\nThe force said a 22-year-old man from Wirral had been arrested \"following enquiries in mid-Wales\".\n\nA 23-year-old woman, also from Wirral, has been held on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nThree people who were previously arrested over the shooting have since been released.\n\nMs Edwards died from gunshot wounds to the head after several shots were fired towards the entrance of the pub.\n\nFour men were also injured, including a 28-year-old who was critically hurt. The force said his condition was no longer life-threatening.\n\nOpening Ms Edwards' inquest at Liverpool's Gerard Majella Courthouse on 5 January, coroner Anita Bhardwaj said the dental nurse and beautician had been a \"beautiful young woman\" who had a \"bright future ahead\" and her death was \"tragic\".\n\nThe hearing was told Ms Edwards was pronounced dead at Arrowe Park Hospital on Christmas Day after being taken there from the pub.\n\nPaying tribute to her on social media, her younger sister Lucy described Ms Edwards as her \"soulmate\" who was \"beautiful, inside and out\".\n\nDet Supt Sue Coombs said the two new arrests brought the number held \"in connection with the tragic death of Elle to five\".\n\nShe added that although extensive work was going on \"from our dedicated teams\" and a \"great deal of intelligence\" had been gathered, she still wanted \"anyone who has information and has yet to come forward\" to do so.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 90-year-old lorry driver from Sheffield is set to carry on trucking for another year after being given a clean bill of health by his doctor.\n\nBrian Wilson has chalked up more than 70 years on the road, and could be the UK's oldest HGV licence-holder.\n\nLike his 1993, 'L-reg' lorry, Mr Wilson also requires a full health check each year, which he said he passed just before Christmas.\n\nHe told the BBC his GP was \"very pleased\" with him.\n\nMr Wilson has long been invited to submit a bid to be recognised as the world's oldest HGV driver\n\nThe BBC caught up with Mr Wilson, who turns 91 in March, at 09:30 GMT on Tuesday as he completed his second drop of the day in Doncaster.\n\n\"I started at 7 o'clock today,\" he laughed. \"I'm just taking a rest.\"\n\nHe said he plans to take stock in December when he may then finally apply the handbrake on a remarkable career.\n\n\"We'll see how I feel then,\" said Mr Wilson. \"At the moment, though, I feel fine and the doctor is very pleased with me.\"\n\nMr Wilson drove US troop carriers in Germany while stationed in Germany, where he completed his National Service\n\nMr Wilson said if and when retirement does eventually come it will likely involve a lengthy trip to Thailand.\n\n\"Me and the wife would eventually like to spend some time out there,\" he said. \"We have a son living out there. Unfortunately, because of Covid, we have not been able to get over there recently to see him.\"\n\nMr Wilson, though owning his late father's haulage company E. Wilson & Son, occasionally completes work for Ember Transport.\n\nManager Matthew Hibberb describes Mr Wilson as \"fit as a fiddle\", adding he doubts his friend will ever retire.\n\nMr Wilson previously told the BBC he shuns sat-navs and even road atlases, insisting the nation's road network is committed to memory.\n\nHe conceded a lot had changed over the decades, not least the cost of fuel. When starting out, he paid just under two shillings for a gallon of diesel, he revealed.\n\nAccording to Guinness World Records, the oldest male HGV licence-holder is the UK's Jack Fisher, at 88 years and four days, as of 27 January 2021. Mr Wilson has long been encouraged to make his own claim on the record by submitting proof of age and occupation but has yet to do so.\n\n\"I don't really think about it,\" he previously told the BBC. \"I just go out to work.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian troops have been defending areas in the east of the country, including the town of Soledar\n\nRussia has not taken a key town or city in Ukraine for months, despite intense efforts to achieve military gains.\n\nIf Russian forces seize the eastern town of Soledar, their hope is that the course of the war could change.\n\nWhen Russian mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin announced his Wagner units had taken control of the entire territory of Soledar, the images produced looked convincing.\n\nBut Wagner fighters are not part of the regular Russian armed forces and the defence ministry in Moscow says the battle is still going on.\n\nUkraine's president also says the fight is continuing and Kyiv is adamant the Russians are not succeeding in their push to capture the town.\n\nThe fall of Soledar may help Russian troops in their assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, about 10km (6 miles) to the south west, providing them with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nSoledar also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nIn video posted on a Russian Telegram channel, which the BBC has not yet been able to verify, Mr Prigozhin is apparently seen alongside Wagner soldiers in a Soledar salt mine.\n\nThe mines have an extensive underground network of tunnels, which could be of strategic importance as Russian forces attempt to penetrate Ukrainian-controlled territory.\n\nIt is not clear, however, how much of this network is accessible and where it might lead.\n\nWagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin in a picture claiming to show the mercenaries in a Soledar salt mine\n\nSoledar's mines also contain valuable salt and gypsum, which could provide an important source of revenue for anyone who controls and is able to extract resources from it.\n\nBut perhaps one of the most important factors in the battle for Soledar is a symbolic one.\n\n\"The reason they are throwing everything at it,\" says the BBC's James Waterhouse in Ukraine, \"is that there is a big propaganda win here… a vital trophy for President Vladimir Putin to present to critics back in Russia\".\n\nTaking control of the nearby city Bakhmut would certainly be a prize for Russian forces in the region.\n\n\"This would be a much needed boost for Russian forces in the east who have been under real pressure since September,\" says Edward Arnold, a European security researcher at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).\n\nHowever, he adds that \"the seizure of Bakhmut will have little strategic significance for the outcome of the war\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has become increasingly influential in the Ukraine conflict and Mr Prigozhin has been behind its advance on the battlefield.\n\nHe claims his fighters are the only ones fighting in Soledar, although the Russian defence ministry says its forces are also taking part.\n\nThe battle for Soledar and Bakhmut is only part of the front line and the broader campaign is not going well for Vladimir Putin.\n\nRussia again replaced the head of its regular forces in Ukraine only three months after he was put in place, in another sign of dissatisfaction at the lack of progress.\n\n\"[Prigozhin will] continue to use both confirmed and fabricated Wagner Group success in Soledar and Bakhmut,\" says the Institute for the Study of War \"to promote [it] as the only Russian force in Ukraine capable of securing tangible gains.\"\n\nWagner has also been prominent in conflict zones in Africa, invited in by governments battling insurgent rebel forces. In doing so, the mercenaries have often taken control of valuable mining resources.", "We'll be wrapping up our live coverage soon but before then, here's a recap of the day's events.\n\nGround control: A number of US domestic flights were grounded earlier for several hours due to a technical glitch with one of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s systems.\n\nNOTAM: The system, called Notice to Air Missions but often referred to as NOTAM, alerts pilots to potential hazards on their route.\n\nWord from the White House: US President Joe Biden spoke to reporters, saying the issue was being investigated and his administration would provide an update when it had one.\n\nDelays, delays, delays: Major US airports, including JFK Airport in New York and LAX Airport in Los Angeles, warned passengers to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport. More than 6,100 flights were delayed within, into or out of the US, according to flight tracking website FlightAware .\n\nOrder lifted: Following an update in which the FAA said services were slowly resuming, officials lifted the ground stop. A ground stop is an air traffic control measure that slows or grounds aircraft at a given airport. Delayed flights across the US began taking off as a result.\n\nReview ordered: A US Senate committee will now examine what caused the FAA's system glitch. A statement released by the White House said there was no evidence of a cyber-attack.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's said people are shopping more in-store, as they want to see what they are buying amid the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIts boss, Simon Roberts, said customers are being \"really careful\" about where they spend, \"and they wanted to come in and see the deals and offers we had\".\n\nIt came as the grocer, which also owns Argos, reported strong sales over Christmas.\n\nOverall sales were up by 7.1% in the six weeks to 7 January, the firm said.\n\nClare Bailey, an independent retail expert, said higher prices rather than people buying more would have boosted the sales figures.\n\n\"It's a natural consequence of inflation\", she told the BBC.\n\nHowever, Sainsbury's said volumes - the amount people bought - had also been \"relatively resilient\".\n\nIndustry body the British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday that December's rise in sales was largely due to goods costing more.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest pace in 40 years, putting pressure on household budgets.\n\nMany people are struggling with rising food prices, as well as higher energy bills.\n\nBut Sainsbury's said people were still keen to treat themselves at Christmas, buying festive snacks and drinks and taking advantage of deals.\n\nHe added that many people find it easier to shop around for the best deals in store, rather than online.\n\n\"For all of us, I'm sure it's just much easier to do that when you go into a shop and see it all,\" he said.\n\nIn Christmas week, walk-in sales in Argos stores were up 50% compared with last year.\n\nTotal sales over the 16 weeks to 7 January, excluding fuel, rose 5.2%, compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe group said customers watching the World Cup at home had helped increase sales.\n\nIt also said it was seeing rising sales of own-label goods as people seek deals.\n\nClare Bailey, an independent retail expert, said Sainsbury's rise in sales looked robust, but noted that the growth is still below the rate of inflation.\n\n\"Inflation is running at more than 10%, so arguably you'd expect their sales to have been even stronger,\" she said.\n\nShe said Sainsbury's would probably have also benefitted from people going out less, due to the rising cost of living, rail strikes and cold weather.\n\n\"Supermarkets as whole did well at the expense of hospitality this Christmas,\" she said.\n\n\"People held more parties at home, and some workplaces switched to having their Christmas gatherings in offices rather than outside, picking up party treats and drinks from supermarkets instead.\"\n\nSainsbury's boss Mr Roberts also said that people had looked to entertain at home this festive period, with large gatherings once again permitted following the pandemic.\n\n\"Customers shopped early, buying Christmas treats and fizz more than once and looked for deals, taking advantage of Black Friday and other seasonal offers,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the UK's second biggest supermarket said it remained \"cautious\" on the outlook for consumers.\n\n\"We understand money will be exceptionally tight this year, particularly as many people wait for Christmas bills to land,\" Mr Roberts added.\n\nLast week the supermarket announced it would raise pay to at least £11 per hour for 127,000 of its workers as cost-of-living pressures bite.", "Prince Harry reaches the royal parts never reached before\n\nThis must be the strangest book ever written by a royal.\n\nPrince Harry's memoir, Spare, is part confession, part rant and part love letter. In places it feels like the longest angry drunk text ever sent.\n\nIt's the view from inside what he calls a \"surreal fishbowl\" and \"unending Truman Show\".\n\nIt's disarmingly frank and intimate - showing the sheer weirdness of his often isolated life. And it's the small details, rather than the set-piece moments, that give a glimpse of how little we really knew.\n\nThere are glimpses of him as a royal stoner, smoking a joint after dinner and worrying the smoke was going to blow over to his elderly neighbour the Duke of Kent.\n\nWhat other royal recollection would cover losing his virginity behind a pub, or go into such prolonged detail about a frost-bitten penis? This royal appendage gets more lines than many of his relatives. Maybe there should be a spoiler alert for the special cushion that's made.\n\nHe was also keenly conscious of girls with \"throne syndrome\", who would be \"visibly fitting herself with a crown the moment she shook my hand\".\n\nOr there's the story about when he's in Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee concert and listening to Brian May playing on the roof - and notices his grandmother Queen Elizabeth is wearing earplugs.\n\nHis pre-Meghan life in London was ostensibly full of luxury, but it also feels as though he was undercover in his own life.\n\nHarry suffered from appalling panic attacks, awful for anyone, but debilitating for someone expected to speak and appear in public.\n\nHe describes his lonely life at home, self-medicating with psychedelic drugs, drying his clothes on a radiator and planning shopping trips like military raids, to be carried out in disguise and at speed.\n\nPrincess Diana and Harry: The book describes the trauma he felt at her loss\n\nHe doesn't have an Amazon account, but he hits TK Maxx for clothes, and carries out a weekly food shop in a supermarket, rehearsing exactly where to find his favourite salmon and yoghurts. When he's in there one day he overhears shoppers debating whether he's gay.\n\nBut it's a profoundly odd life, moving suddenly between this lack of glamour to time with the international jet set.\n\nHarry says he watches the TV show Friends on a loop, identifying with the funny guy character of Chandler. But then on a trip to the US he is at a party with Courteney Cox, the actress who plays Chandler's on-screen wife, Monica.\n\nAnd this really is a trip, because he ends up taking hallucinogenic drugs and watches a pedal-bin coming to life. It's a long way from the commentary for Trooping the Colour.\n\nThe ghost-written work is a fast-paced, quickfire account, looking out from the inside, always scratchily aware of the bodyguards outside the door and the cameras waiting to catch him. As a schoolboy, smoking cannabis with his friends, he watches the police outside there to guard him.\n\nLeaks of the book revealed the scale of the conflict between Prince William and Prince Harry\n\nAt the very centre of this story, permeating almost every page, is the huge trauma that seems to have distorted the rest of his life - the death of his mother Princess Diana.\n\nHe adored her unreservedly and an overwhelming sense of unresolved grief is at the hub of all his other anxieties, like spokes on a wheel.\n\nHe really, really hates the press, blaming them for chasing his mother so relentlessly, including in the events leading to her death in Paris, with Harry returning obsessively to the scene of the car accident.\n\nHis anger at the news media is wide ranging, but Rupert Murdoch is singled out in particular and one of his executives is only described in anagram form, so much is his allergic reaction.\n\nThe rows with his brother Prince William are often framed by references to the closeness they had previously had with their mother.\n\nHis paralysing anxiety and self-destructiveness also seem to be consequences of the loss of his mother, taking away an emotional anchor that, until meeting Meghan, he had never replaced.\n\nKing Charles tried to offer support to Harry after the death of his mother\n\nWarning: Some strong language is used in the following paragraphs\n\nThere is also something of a death obsession. Going into Westminster Abbey for his brother's wedding he cheerfully thinks about the 3,000 people buried in the church over the centuries.\n\nWhat's missing from the book is any sense of awareness of any wider context of the rest of the world outside. It's as if he has been blinded by the paparazzi flashlights. No one worries about paying gas bills in this book. He's back and forth to Africa like he was going a few stops on the Northern Line.\n\nAlthough, that would have been more exotic for him because he says the only time he got on a Tube train was on a school trip.\n\nWhile copiously indiscreet about the interior of royal life - yes, that's his father doing physio exercises in his boxers - it remains strangely silent on any views about the outside world, even though he's no longer a working royal.\n\nThere are some glimpses. Harry talks about Prince William making what he calls a \"vaguely anti-Brexit speech\" which seems to annoy the tabloids.\n\n\"Brexit was their bread and butter. How dare he suggest it was bullshit,\" he writes.\n\nThe other royals are claimed by Prince Harry to be obsessing over the score sheets of how many visits they've carried out compared with other family members, looking over their shoulders in case anyone should question their purpose.\n\nBut he is also unmistakably a creature of his own upbringing, describing shooting a deer in a way that doesn't feel like the new-age therapy version of Californian Harry.\n\nSo who will be most upset about all these revelations in his book?\n\nNetflix mostly. They paid a prince's ransom for six hours of TV waffle and the smug contents of an Instagram feed, whereas the book crackles like a burning log with something bizarre on almost every page.\n\nPlenty of the book will get people irritated too, particularly its self-absorption. He talks about a row over people parking near his palace accommodation with more detail than you'd expect from a small war.\n\nThere are some off-the-wall claims too, such as comparing the Spice Girls' \"crusade against sexism\" with \"Mandela's struggle against apartheid\".\n\nThe leaks of the book have focused on the family conflicts and Harry's resentment at a lack of support for him and Meghan.\n\nCamilla arrives in the story to become his stepmother, with the narrative exuding a mixture of suspicion and a determined effort to be polite. But mostly suspicion really. It feels a bit divorced dad telling everyone he's not bitter, he doesn't mind that he paid for everything, really, not bitter at all, just wishing them both well...\n\nBut taken as a whole, beyond the excerpts, a much warmer picture emerges of his father, King Charles, even when it seems that the narrator is giving him a hard time.\n\nCharles is seen padding around in his slippers, listening to his audio-books, obsessed with Shakespeare, wearing Dior scent and falling asleep at his desk. He's seen as having faced terrible school bullying, still keeping a teddy bear as a totem of a lonely childhood.\n\nHis father tries to provide some emotional support for Harry after Diana's death, sitting up with him until he falls asleep at night, but it feels as though his good intentions had to navigate some tricky barriers.\n\nCharles leaves notes for him trying to say nice things - but Harry questions why he couldn't say them in person. He goes to see Harry in a school play and laughs uproariously and is then criticised by his son for laughing in the wrong places.\n\nWhen the adult brothers are feuding, Charles begins to sound like something of a Shakespearean figure himself, King Lear in tweed, begging his sons not to make his old age a misery.\n\nThe King is presented as old fashioned and rather unworldly. But he might be learning a new bit of text speak. TMI. Too much information...", "Andrew Bridgen has been suspended as a Conservative MP for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccination.\n\nIt comes after the North West Leicestershire MP posted a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust.\n\nTory chief whip Simon Hart said the comments had \"crossed a line\" and caused great offence.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also condemned the remarks, calling the comparison \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nMr Hart said Mr Bridgen would lose the party whip - meaning he will sit as an independent - while a formal investigation takes place.\n\n\"As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme,\" the chief whip added.\n\n\"The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Bridgen for a comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The comments were also condemned by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock\n\nThe MP is currently serving a five-day suspension from Parliament for breaching parliamentary rules on registering financial interests.\n\nMr Bridgen was previously critical of policies like lockdown and vaccine passports but he praised the development of Covid vaccines, and tweeted proudly when he received his doses.\n\nHowever, last autumn he began to make increasingly baseless claims including that vaccines were killing many people and that the damage was being covered up.\n\nAt first, he began highlighting some real, but rare, instances of genuine vaccine injury and misinterpreting real data to suggest these cases were more common than the research suggests.\n\nIn recent weeks, this rhetoric has increased.\n\nPosting a link to an article on vaccines earlier, he said: \"As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.\"\n\nExtensive independent research shows that Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing deaths.\n\nSerious side effects involving Covid vaccines, including approximately 60 deaths in England and Wales according to the Office for National Statistics, are rare, given the tens of millions of doses administered.\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, called Mr Bridgen's comments \"highly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate\".\n\nLord Mann, an independent peer and former Labour MP who advises the government on antisemitism, said Mr Bridgen should be barred from standing for the Tories at the next election.\n\n\"He cannot claim that he didn't realise the level of offence that his remarks cause,\" he added.\n\nConservative chairman Nadhim Zahawi, a former vaccines minister, said he was \"proud\" of the UK's response to the pandemic, and he was \"appalled\" by Mr Bridgen's remarks.\n\n\"Any comparison made to the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, belittling one of the greatest horrors ever committed by humanity,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that suspending the whip had been \"the right thing to do\" and accused Mr Bridgen of \"whipping up anti-vax conspiracy theories\".\n\nHe said it was \"regrettable\" that the prime minister had not acted sooner to \"slap down what he has been saying\".\n\nAsked whether he thought the MP's remarks were antisemitic, Sir Keir's spokesman said: \"A one word reference to the Holocaust would not meet the definition of antisemitism, but it is unacceptable\", adding that he would \"defer to others who may be better placed to judge this\".", "With timing that Labour is gleefully pointing out, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's promise to sort out the NHS came on the anniversary of a different vow from one of his predecessors.\n\nThe Conservative leader then was David Cameron who promised in 2010 that he would sort out the nation's finances, and \"cut the deficit, not the NHS\".\n\nThe promise came after a long stint of hard work by his tribe of Tory modernisers to \"detoxify\" the party's brand, to use the language of the day.\n\nAbsolutely core to that was to persuade the public to trust the Conservatives with the health service - which is never far from the top of the list of voters' concerns.\n\nFast-forward to the start of 2023 and the NHS is again high on the list of the public's concerns. It is creaking and struggling with the data nearly all pointing in the wrong direction.\n\nDay after day stories emerge of delays and distress in emergency departments around the country, with doctors warning that people are dying unnecessarily because they just cannot treat them in time. Countless families around the country have their own horror stories.\n\nThe Conservative Party has been spending enormous amounts of taxpayers' cash on the NHS and Mr Sunak is keen to talk about the steps that he is trying to take, including Saturday's meeting of health leaders which he convened at No 10 to work out what could ease the strain.\n\nBut again, there is a pressure on him and his party to demonstrate to the public that they can translate the cash and pledges of commitment into a service that really provides for patients when they need it - that they can get the sick out of ambulances, into beds, and given the treatment they need.\n\nProving that though looks hard, very hard. That's not just because of the significant hangover from the pandemic, nor down to the serious outbreak of flu this winter.\n\nBut it is worth remembering that a high level of demand was one of the possible scenarios the NHS planned for.\n\nThere have been months of warnings from health leaders going into this winter, with one senior official saying \"ministers cannot have been surprised\".\n\nMore cash has gone in, but as our health correspondent Nick Triggle explains here, the huge cheques for health spending have not kept pace with demand or inflation.\n\nThe problems have been brewing for a long time: the Accident and Emergency target which says people should be seen within four hours has not been met since 2015.\n\nMr Sunak might want to fix the problems of today but their roots stretch back further than the pandemic. There are fewer beds and more staff shortages.\n\nOne of our viewers who got in touch with us won't be the only person in the country to be asking \"how have they allowed this to happen?\".\n\nSecond, there's perhaps a mismatch between the sense of the action the government wants to take now and the scale of the issues.\n\nThe government disputes the suggestion that at least 300 people are dying every week because of delays and overcrowding.\n\nBut it is indisputable that patients are suffering because of what is going on.\n\nMinisters have promised 7,000 extra beds to help cope. But according to NHS sources only around 3,000 of them are available now, with some of them so-called \"virtual beds\" that help people to be treated at home.\n\nThat may well be a smart policy to help in the future but it is hard to see how it can relieve the significant pressure that is in plain sight right now.\n\nMinisters also point to another £500m to deal with social care - but that was promised in the summer and only around half the cash has reached the front line.\n\nThere's another question right now that is being asked of Mr Sunak's government too.\n\nCan the way the health service works really last into the next decade and beyond?\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nScores of politicians would say privately that we need to have a conversation as a country about whether our way of providing health care can survive as medical advances create more amazing but expensive treatments and demand goes up and up as the population lives longer.\n\nThat is a conversation few politicians are willing to have in public - yet.\n\nThere was good reason why David Cameron wrapped himself in affection for the NHS. Even starting a conversation about how it works is politically deeply awkward for the Conservatives.\n\nWhether or not a change to the fundamentals is required, one health leader told me this week it is imperative that we have that debate. But there simply is not much sign of it right now.\n\nIn his first TV interview of the year - his first full-length TV interview since he got the job - I asked the prime minister about whether he can get a grip on what is happening and if the NHS can go on as it is.\n\nYou can watch his response from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer this Sunday.\n\nMr Sunak says he wants to be held to account about what happens, but knowing that even though there are no easy answers, he will be judged.", "The crowd at an Elvis tribute concert could not help falling in love with an 80-year-old superfan, who even got a kiss from \"the King\" himself.\n\n\"I've got to pinch myself. Did it really happen?\" Carole Davies from Blaenau Gwent told BBC Radio Wales after the concert at Cardiff's St David's Hall.\n\nShe was invited up to speak to the tribute act during the show, giving him a peck and telling him: \"I've been a fan of yours for over 80 years babe,\" before being serenaded with his rendition of Are You Lonesome Tonight.\n\nCarole said it was a \"wonderful experience\" to hear the Elvis songs her late-husband used to sing to her performed live, although she did have one gripe: \"He's not as tall as the real Elvis, though. But he was a gentleman, he was really lovely to me.\"", "EIS members took part in a demonstration outside Bute House in Edinburgh\n\nPreliminary exams have had to be rescheduled for some Scottish pupils as secondary teachers go on strike in an ongoing pay dispute.\n\nThe walkout follows the closure of almost all primary schools on Tuesday.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville told MSPs on Tuesday that she would leave \"no stone unturned\" to bring about a quick resolution to the strikes.\n\nBut she admitted that there was still \"some distance\" between the two sides.\n\nThe strikes involve members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes (AHDS) unions.\n\nThey have rejected a 5% pay increase, arguing for 10%.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government and councils have said that is unaffordable.\n\nThe latest offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nEdinburgh S5 pupil Idun Curran's maths prelim was postponed from today due to the secondary school strikes.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that the teachers' strike had made her prelims more stressful and drawn out, but she supported the reasons for it.\n\n\"I think it's important that they get paid enough because either we lose a day now or we lose good teachers for the rest of our lives,\" she said.\n\n\"It's important that they have the right to protest for what they want and what they need. Otherwise, our education won't be at a high enough level with teachers that want to be there and are happy to be there.\"\n\nTommy Hurrell said it was a stressful time for pupils\n\nTommy Hurrell, an S6 pupil, said the disruptions were stressful but pupils were given adequate resources and technology to revise for their exams during the strikes.\n\n\"I think people do understand the importance of teachers being off for strikes like these,\" he added.\n\nCraig Howison, a teacher at Broughton High School in Edinburgh, said the profession is struggling to attract new teachers.\n\n\"I've only been a teacher here for 11 years and even I've noticed the reduction in the standards of our working conditions and our pay in that time,\" he said.\n\nPamela Tosh, who also teaches at Broughton, blamed the cost of living crisis for worsening the issues.\n\n\"It affects the teachers the same way it affects everybody else,\" she said.\n\n\"We're no different, we're just trying to get a fair pay deal like other people in other unions are as well.\"\n\nTeachers on the picket line at Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen\n\nRecent negotiations have been described as positive and the unions are hoping a new offer will be made soon.\n\nHowever, teachers plan to strike on a further 16 days, beginning next week.\n\nThe consecutive days of action - split across every council in the country - will take place throughout January and February.\n\nTeachers in two local authorities will strike on each of the 16 days.\n\nSSTA general secretary Seamus Searson joined secondary school teachers on the picket line in Edinburgh on Wednesday.\n\nWhen asked if no new offer from the government meant that next week's strikes would go ahead, he said: \"Yes - and more strikes would be added.\"\n\nSome pupils were due to sit preliminary exams on Wednesday. They have now been postponed while revision schedules have also been disrupted.\n\nSpeaking in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday, Ms Somerville said: \"No-one wants to see strike action in our schools.\"\n\nLast-ditch talks between unions and Scottish government officials held on Monday failed to prevent the strike action.\n\nConservative MSP Stephen Kerr claimed pupils were being \"denied\" access to vital exams and accused the government of a \"staggering\" lack of urgency.\n\nHowever, referring to \"anti-trade union\" legislation at Westminster, Ms Somerville said: \"I will take no lectures from Mr Kerr or any other Conservative member of this parliament, saying that we should be doing more to actually settle disputes.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems' Willie Rennie asked if there would be a new offer for teachers, saying: \"The education secretary does seem to be very chilled out and relaxed.\"\n\nMs Somerville said both sides in the dispute would have to compromise in order to reach a resolution, adding: \"We will, of course, leave no stone unturned to try and do that as quickly as possible.\"\n\nShe previously told BBC Scotland the union pay demands were \"simply unaffordable\".\n\nAndrea Bradley, the general secretary of the EIS, said primary school teachers on the picket lines had received \"strong support\" parents on Tuesday.\n\nShe said there had been \"slight progress\" in discussions over the past week but the unions were still waiting for an improved pay offer from the Scottish government and local government body Cosla.\n\n\"The reality is that only a substantially improved offer can end this dispute - and it is down to the Scottish government and Cosla to deliver that improved pay offer to teachers,\" she added.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mike Corbett, national Scotland official of NASUWT, said there was \"quite a distance\" between the offer and what teachers are looking for.\n\nMr Corbett said that historically teacher pay had been getting \"worse and worse\" since 2010 and that was reflected in the recruitment and retention figures.\n\nSolving industrial disputes amicably nearly always means both sides compromising. So what scope is there for reaching a settlement on teachers' pay?\n\nThe gulf between the two sides is wide: a 10% pay claim and an offer worth between 5% and 6.85% for most.\n\nUnions are hopeful a new pay offer will be made later this week.\n\nThe question is how the unions may respond.\n\nIf the new offer is a significant improvement on the current one, they may call off next week's strikes as a token of goodwill and ask their members to vote on whether to accept it.\n\nBut if the new offer is disappointing and dismissed quickly, it could actually inflame the dispute.\n\nThe industrial action follows the biggest Scottish teachers' strike in decades in November.\n\nMost state-school teachers in England and Wales were given a 5% pay rise in 2022. In Northern Ireland many teachers have been offered 3.2% for 2021/22 and 2022/23.\n\nBut unions argue that inflation above 10% means these increases amount to pay cuts.\n\nTeaching unions in England and Wales are balloting members over pay.\n\nAnd teachers from five unions in Northern Ireland are continuing to take action short of a strike - affecting meeting attendance and administrative tasks.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you a parent who is affected by the industrial action? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Steve Bland and Lauren Mahon hosted the show with Dame Deborah James, left (pictured in 2019)\n\nThe presenters of a BBC podcast about living with cancer have said they are ready to \"hang up their headphones\".\n\nLauren Mahon and Steve Bland said they planned to stand down from presenting the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C.\n\nThe show launched in 2018 with Mahon presenting alongside BBC Radio 5 Live newsreader Rachael Bland and Dame Deborah James.\n\nThe podcast takes a candid look at cancer, discussing matters such as telling your family and friends as well as practical matters, such as hair loss and tips for dealing with finances.\n\nSteve Bland, Rachael's husband, took her place on the podcast after she died.\n\nSpeaking to BBC North West Tonight, Mahon, who is five years clear of cancer, said: \"I have struggled over the last year getting back in that studio without their seats being filled.\"\n\nThe Londoner said: \"I'm still processing it all.\n\n\"In what other job than the army would you go into work thinking you may lose colleagues, and so it's very hard because there's not many people who get it. It's challenging.\"\n\nShe said she has had \"so many chats\" with Steve about the podcast continuing as it is a \"public service\" but \"we don't feel like it's for us to continue it\".\n\n\"How do we get back into that studio without these two remarkable women that began this podcast?\n\n\"People are getting diagnosed everyday - that's not going to change. The world of cancer changes. So I think it would be more appropriate and probably more poignant and relevant to get people that are going through it now.\"\n\nSteve said there would not be many more episodes from them and it would be a \"long goodbye\".\n\nJames co-hosted You, Me and the Big C with Rachael Bland (left) and Lauren Mahon (centre)\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"We'd like the podcast to carry on because it's a really important thing for so many people.\n\n\"It just takes a toll and it's heavy and it's hard to kind of keep talking about this stuff - particularly when we've had to deal with obviously Rachel and Deborah over the last few years.\n\n\"There aren't many people doing podcasts where two people have died from the subject matter. It's a tough thing to keep talking about.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as the pair announced they will record an episode with a live audience later this month. Those wanting to be a part of the audience can enter an online ballot for a ticket.", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "'People seem to have got the message to stay away'\n\nBarnsley, South Yorkshire, is a town with a rich history when it comes to strikes. But the paramedic unloading an elderly patient from his ambulance today is not in a union - he's \"just not that type\" - so he's on shift and answering this emergency call as usual. He says it’s quiet in A&E today as \"people seem to have got the message to stay away\". But the pressure he’s under at work is definitely worse than ever. Four-hour waits outside Barnsley Hospital are frequent now – time spent waiting to hand over a patient which means he has to leave other calls for life-saving help unanswered. \"It doesn't feel good,\" he tells me. So what does he think of his colleagues out on the picket line today? \"It's their right of course. But I don't think it will make any difference.\" Nearby, a lady wheels her elderly father into A&E, his fractured wrist in a homemade bandage. They wouldn’t have called an ambulance anyway she says, but she still has no sympathy for the strikers. As a teacher, she tells me she’d never leave the pupils who need her like that, adding: “If you don’t like the pay, you can go and get a different job.”", "The government has said it will not create a specific offence for spiking, arguing a new law is unnecessary.\n\nMinisters said they were looking into the issue last year.\n\nBut on Wednesday, Home Office Minister Sarah Dines said there were already several offences which covered spiking incidents and the government had not found \"any gap in the law\".\n\nSupporters of the idea argue it could help increase reporting of incidents and improve police data.\n\nMPs on the Home Affairs Committee were among those calling for new legislation to target spiking - when someone puts alcohol or drugs into another person's drink or body without their knowledge of consent.\n\nMs Dines confirmed the government's position in a letter to the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Diana Johnson, which was written in December but published on Wednesday.\n\nShe said the government had considered the case for legislation but had decided a new offence was not required.\n\n\"The existing offences cover all methods of spiking, including by drink, needle, vape, cigarette, food or any other known form,\" she said.\n\n\"Police are yet to encounter a case where they could not apply an existing offence.\"\n\nShe added that a specific spiking offence would not increase the powers available to judges in such cases or the likelihood of charging or prosecuting an offender.\n\nMs Dines said the government had concluded its focus should be on non-legislative measures to tackle spiking and it would consult on potential changes to statutory guidance to include \"explicit reference to spiking being illegal and give examples of such spiking\".\n\nThe committee had previously argued a specific offence would have several benefits, including increased reporting of incidents, facilitating police work by improving data and \"sending a clear message to perpetrators that this is a serious crime\".\n\nLast year, then-Home Secretary Priti Patel told the committee the government was looking into \"a specific criminal offence to target spiking directly\".\n\nDuring a Westminster Hall debate earlier, she called for existing legislation to be amended so there was a \"coherent approach\" in addressing spiking.\n\nDame Diana said she was disappointed by the government's decision as existing legislation was \"clearly not working\" and not being used.\n\n\"Reporting is low, and prosecution rates are very rare indeed,\" she added.\n\nLabour's shadow Home Office minister Sarah Jones said: \"We should call a spade a spade in this case and introduce a specific offence for spiking.\"\n\nConservative MP Richard Graham also criticised the government's response, accusing it of \"various straw man arguments\".\n\n\"In almost 13 years as an MP I have not read such an extraordinary letter,\" he said.\n\nAlmost 5,000 cases of needle and drink spiking incidents were reported to police in England and Wales in the 12 months to September 2022, according to the National Police Chiefs Council.\n\nIt said forces had increased their focus on spiking, with high visibility patrols across town and city centres, following a rapid rise in spiking reports during the autumn of 2021.\n\nSpiking is illegal under current laws, for example the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which says it is an offence to administer a substance to another person without their consent, with the intention of \"stupefying or overpowering\" them so as to enable any other person to engage in sexual activity with them.\n\nSection 23 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 also makes it an offence to maliciously administer poison so as to endanger the life of someone or inflict grievous bodily harm.", "Many of those remaining in Bakhmut are elderly, like 86-year-old Anatolay, and searching for food\n\n\"This is the toughest operation I've ever seen. The enemy has thrown its strongest assault at Bakhmut. We haven't seen troops like this before,\" the Ukrainian commander tells us.\n\nCommander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street. It is one of the main command centres the Ukrainian military has set up in the city, and few journalists have been here.\n\nA tall, hefty man with sparkling eyes, he watches a live feed from a drone hovering outside the eastern edge of the city on a big screen in the centre of the room.\n\nOne of the battalion's units is trying to spot the location of Russian positions, to aid another unit which has just gone out to defend eastern approaches to Bakhmut under attack.\n\nIn addition to Russian armed forces, mercenaries from the private paramilitary Wagner group have been sent in their thousands to front lines around Bakhmut.\n\nCommander Skala is operating from an underground command centre in Bakhmut\n\n\"Wagner soldiers openly advance under fire towards us even if they're littering the land with their bodies, even if out of 60 people in their platoon only 20 are left. It's very difficult to hold against such an invasion. We weren't prepared for that, and we're learning now,\" Commander Skala says.\n\n\"Some weeks ago, we lost positions on the eastern approaches to the city because the enemy was constantly storming us with assaults. We moved to secondary front lines to save our soldiers,\" he adds.\n\n\"We are trying to work smartly and get those positions back. Sometimes you have to withdraw to attack the enemy properly.\"\n\nWagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has said Ukrainians have turned every house in Bakhmut into a fortress, and that there were now \"500 lines of defence\".\n\nRussia has been using all its might to try to take Bakhmut - a battle considered critical for the country after it lost ground in Ukraine in recent months, being pushed out of Kherson in the south and the Kharkiv region in the north-east. Capturing Bakhmut is also important to further Russia's aim to control the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBombs have ripped through facades of buildings everywhere in Bakhmut\n\nThroughout our conversation with Commander Skala, muffled explosions can be heard from above ground. The second you step outside, the sound is loud enough to make your heart pound - the terrifying whistle of shells flying in followed by the deafening boom of the impact.\n\nAnd the sound never stops as the bombs keep falling.\n\nOne resident described it as \"the end of the world\" and there are moments when it feels like that.\n\nBombs have ripped through the middle of apartment blocks, blown away the facades of buildings and created craters by the side of streets. It was hard to find a window in Bakhmut that was intact. The ground is littered with broken glass and debris.\n\nThis was once a quiet, ordinary town in the east, known for its sparkling wine. Now, it's become a byword for war and Ukraine's resistance.\n\nIt lies at a vital road intersection, but over the months, the battle here has gained a symbolic importance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently called it the \"fortress of our morale\".\n\nBakhmut used to be home to just over 70,000 people before the war. Just a tenth of its residents - mostly elderly or poor - remain.\n\nWhile the streets are largely empty, we see dozens of civilians in an aid centre, known here as a \"resilience centre\".\n\nIt has power, and wi-fi provided by Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. Volunteers distribute small packets of food, medicines and other basic supplies. A wood-burner in the centre keeps the room warm.\n\nThis is a lifeline for the people in Bakhmut.\n\nThis resilience centre helps those residents still in the city stay warm and charge their phones\n\nMany sit huddled around electrical points, trying to charge up their phones.\n\nWhat's remarkable is that even when shells land just a few hundred metres from the centre, people don't flinch. It's as if they've become numb, running from bombs every day.\n\nTrauma is visible on many faces though.\n\nWhy don't you leave, we asked Anatolay Suschenko, who was standing in a queue for some food.\n\n\"I have nowhere to go. I'm alone. Who would want to take an 86-year-old?\" he said. \"Here, at least sometimes when soldiers throw away food or soup, I find it and eat it. And I get free bread. In my whole life, I've never seen anything like this. All the windows of my house have been blown off, and the gate has been destroyed.\"\n\nPeople have different reasons to stay. Olha Tupikova sits in the corner of the room with her 13-year-old daughter Diana.\n\n\"I think everywhere in Ukraine is equally dangerous. Some of our neighbours left and died elsewhere. Here we have a house. We have cats and dogs. We can't leave them,\" she said.\n\n\"Our roof has 21 holes and the garage has nine. I mend them every time, and try to repair the windows too. Normally the holes are caused by shrapnel, but lately we've had stones flying in too, making holes that are the size of a head.\"\n\nOlha (left) and her daughter Diana, are staying in Bakhmut as they have a house and cats and dogs\n\n\"We live like mice. We quickly run out to get some bread, choose different routes to get back home. Before sunrise I look for wooden boards and logs [to repair my home]. In the evening I search for water because there's no water supply in town,\" Olha said.\n\n\"Of course, it's frightening. But now we do it army style, like soldiers. We joke that master chefs know nothing about cooking [compared to us]. We can make a meal out of anything on an open fire, or even a candle.\"\n\nThe local administration is trying to convince people to leave.\n\nIn a location in the city we can't disclose because it could compromise his safety, we met Oleksiy Reva, who has been the mayor of Bakhmut for 33 years.\n\n\"It's those who don't have money and don't want to face the unknown who are staying. But we are talking to them about it. Because safety is most important, safety and peace,\" he said.\n\nWhy does he continue to stay, we asked. \"This is my life, my job, my fate. I was born here, and grew up here. My parents are buried here. My conscience won't allow me to leave our people. And I'm confident our military will not allow Bakhmut to fall,\" he said.\n\nIn the fields outside the city, we see the daily grind required to keep a hold on it.\n\nThe unit of soldiers we meet try to spot Russian locations and fire artillery - Soviet-era D-30 guns - in their direction, to allow Ukrainian infantry to push ahead every day. But barely any advance is being made.\n\n\"The equipment is outdated. It works fine and does the job, but it can be better. We also have to be very economical with our shells, very precise with our targets so we don't run out of ammunition. If we had more equipment and modern weapons, we would be able to destroy more targets which would make things much easier for our infantry,\" one of the soldiers, Valentyn, said.\n\nWinter also makes things difficult. Weapons don't operate as smoothly in cold weather, they tell us.\n\nUkrainian forces say their weapons are outdated and they worry about running out of ammunition\n\n\"We simply need to overcome this period, hold on, and then execute counter-offensives and fight,\" Yaroslav said.\n\nEach side is trying to wear the other down. This is a battle of endurance.\n\nHow do you motivate yourself every day, we asked. \"We all have families to go back to. Valentyn just had a son but his family is in Germany, so he hasn't seen him yet,\" Yaroslav said as Valentyn cracked a shy smile.", "What did we learn from Sir Keir Starmer's new year speech?\n\nHe wants to ram home again and again that Labour has changed.\n\nBut when it comes to details, often, there aren't that many.\n\nSenior Labour figures conclude a general election isn't very likely this year - so they want to make the case that they're not the party they were under Jeremy Corbyn, but they don't want announce stuff that turns out to be a hostage to fortune or is nicked by the government and implemented by the Conservatives instead.\n\nSo let's unpick a few of the most eye-catching elements of what Keir Starmer had to say.\n\nFirstly, he is cloaking himself in the language of the Brexit campaign.\n\nA man who campaigned for Remain and then wanted a second EU referendum is now dressing up a planned law to push power away from Westminster as the \"Taking Back Control Bill\" - and so adopting the very effective slogan of the victorious Leave campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says he expects to inherit a \"very badly damaged economy\" from the Conservatives if he wins the next election.\n\nLabour desperately want to win back seats that voted Leave and subsequently abandoned them, and so we can see this use of language as the equivalent of Keir Starmer shimmying up every stairwell he can find and shouting \"we get it!\" from the roof tops.\n\nHe is also attempting to not just court, but \"seal the deal\" as one of his advisers put it to me, with voters who backed the Conservatives last time but are now disillusioned with them, but perhaps not convinced by Labour either.\n\nHence his reassurance, as he hopes some will see it, that Labour's solution to the country's problems won't be \"getting its big government chequebook out.\"\n\nThat they can be trusted with the public finances, so often an Achilles' heel for Labour with crucial floating voters who decide elections.\n\nCuriously, as a sidenote, in the extracts from the speech shared with reporters beforehand, we were told he would use the word \"again\" at the end of that sentence, implying he believed the previous Labour government may have spent too much.\n\nBut that word didn't pass Sir Keir's lips when he delivered the speech.\n\nNonetheless, the words he did use prompt the question as to whether Labour would spend more, less, or the same as the Conservatives.\n\nI asked Sir Keir this, and he ducked it - a hostage to fortune perhaps that he doesn't want to create.\n\nSome might ask what the point of a Labour government is if it's not willing to spend more money than the Conservatives.\n\nSir Keir seems willing for that to be a question for some, if it helps convince others who might be suspicious of what they see as Labour's big-spending instincts of old.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are in the same contest: the contest to be prime minister after the next election.\n\nBut expect their strategies this year to be different.\n\nRishi Sunak, as I wrote yesterday, will want to give the immediate impression of getting stuff done.\n\nKeir Starmer, calculating an election isn't imminent, will take his time - and be judicious, as he sees it, in his unveiling of the specifics of how he might govern if he wins power.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service are staging their second walkout in a month\n\nMore than 1,000 ambulance workers in Wales have gone on strike for the second time in a month in a pay dispute.\n\nGMB members - about a quarter of the Welsh Ambulance Service - will only respond to life-threatening calls.\n\nHealth bosses fear it will be worse than the strike before Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh government plans to discuss a one-off payment offer with unions on Thursday, but said anything more would require further funds from Westminster.\n\nGMB officer for NHS Wales, Nathan Holman, said members were not taking a stand against the public but against the government, adding that life-threatening calls - about 15% of all calls - would be responded to.\n\n\"We have data for category one calls from the last time we took this action and the percentage of calls that were responded to nationally increased on strike day because vehicles were not being held [at hospitals],\" Mr Holman said.\n\nHe said the Welsh government was considering an offer.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking for an inflation-busting pay rise, but any offer we get we want at least the same as . £1,000 or more on top of what we have now.\"\n\nWhen the GMB took action in December, Unison, which also represents ambulance staff, had not reached the threshold to do the same, but has since re-balloted and will strike on 19 and 23 January.\n\nThe strike is for 24 hours from midnight on Tuesday but the union has made it clear staff working night shifts would not leave patients and compromise care.\n\nParamedic Jamie Stone said they were seeing people in car parks arriving having had strokes\n\nJamie Stone, 31, from Newport, is a paramedic in Cardiff and believes what people were dealing with was \"inhumane\".\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing people turn up in cars that are having heart attacks, patients having strokes in the back of cars and then we're having to deal with it in the car park of a hospital, because they are being told they have to wait eight hours-plus for an ambulance.\n\n\"It's rare that it's been a patient who is critically ill, but it has happened a number of times, where we've had to drag somebody out of a car on to a stretcher and take them straight into the emergency department for the life-saving treatment they need.\"\n\nUrgent responder Laura Morton, 40, has experienced 19-hours waits with patients outside Cwmbran's Grange Hospital.\n\nShe said ambulances were becoming like \"mini-hospitals\" due to the lack of hospital beds.\n\nEmergency medical ambulance technician in Powys, Gyles George, said staff were working late because they felt compelled to stay with patients.\n\n\"You can't just abandon them and you don't know what time you are going to get home,\" he said.\n\n\"Healthcare used to be a vocation and it has become a chore.\"\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan says the Welsh government can only afford a one-off payment\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens said his staff had not been trained to nurse patients for long periods.\n\nEating, drinking and using the toilet was also problematic when parents were in ambulances.\n\n\"I would prefer not to start to train our staff and equip our vehicles to be nursing patients in them for very long periods of time and I think what we should be doing is focusing on solutions to the problem.\"\n\nHe said some paramedics were being trained to treat patients at their homes in a bid to ease problems at hospitals - last month more than a third of the emergency fleet was lost to delays outside hospitals.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan is meeting healthcare unions on Thursday about a one-off payment.\n\nShe said: \"It's very difficult for us to go beyond commitments this year - it will be only an offer of a one-off payment.\"\n\nCat and her dog Vince were part of the picket line in Colwyn Bay\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has urged people to only call 999 if there is an immediate risk to life, while other patients may have to make their own way to hospital.\n\nWhile some 999 call handlers are striking, all calls will be answered and it was agreed the most urgent calls would get responses.\n\nNon-emergency patient transport will also be affected, though exemptions include patients being taken to renal dialysis and oncology.\n\nStrikers at Colwyn Bay say they are taking action for future generations\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Russell George, said: \"It is welcome that the Labour government has finally recognised that it has responsibility for funding the NHS in Wales and that they are now, at last, willing to talk pay with the unions, it should not have taken this long for it to happen.\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised the \"anger and disappointment\" of public sector workers, adding: \"We will continue to work with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised.\n\n\"But it is vital that all of us to do all we can to minimise pressure on our health service during the industrial action and consider carefully what activities we take part in.\"", "Police are investigating after metal contaminated with uranium was found at London's Heathrow Airport last month.\n\nOfficers of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command responded to the security alert which was triggered on 29 December.\n\nThe Sun, which first reported the news, said the uranium came from Pakistan.\n\nOne line of inquiry is whether it was the result of \"poor handling\" in the country, the BBC was told. Police say there was no threat to the public.\n\nIt was found in a shipment of scrap metal, a source said.\n\nA Pakistan foreign ministry spokesperson told BBC News that the reports were \"not factual\", adding that no information to this effect had been shared with Pakistan officially.\n\nA former commander of the UK's defence forces said \"a very small sample\" was found and offered assurances that \"there are people looking out for this 24 hours a day\".\n\nColonel Hamish De Bretton-Gordon said the incident \"should not worry the public\".\n\nHowever, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, in light of recent nuclear threats, he could see why the public was concerned.\n\nHe said uranium could potentially be used for nuclear fuel in power stations and, when highly enriched, it could be used for nuclear weapons.\n\nAlarms were triggered at Heathrow after specialist scanners detected the substance as it was ferried to a freight shed owned by handling firm Swissport, the Sun said.\n\nThe shipment's intended destination is not clear. No-one has been arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said: \"We can confirm officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command were contacted by Border Force colleagues at Heathrow after a very small amount of contaminated material was identified after routine screening within a package incoming to the UK.\"\n\nCommander Richard Smith from the force's counter terrorism team separately told the BBC: \"Although our investigation remains ongoing, from our inquiries so far, it does not appear to be linked to any direct threat.\n\n\"As the public would expect, however, we will continue to follow up on all available lines of inquiry to ensure this is definitely the case.\"\n\nStrict protocols must be followed in order to fly dangerous cargo, including uranium, being loaded onto the base of units in the cargo hold and ensuring a minimum distance is kept between the nuclear material and cabin above.\n\nUranium is an element which occurs naturally. It can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.\n\nHighly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nCabinet minister Steve Barclay said he hoped for more information in \"due course\" and it was right an investigation \"looks at all the issues\".\n\n\"I'm learning about this this morning,\" he told Sky News.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"We do not comment on live investigations.\"\n• None The element that causes arguments", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows fighting in Soledar, Ukraine, but the BBC has been unable to confirm the date these videos were filmed\n\nRussia's mercenary Wagner Group has claimed control over the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine - but Kyiv says its soldiers are holding out.\n\nRussia's media carried a statement purported to be by the Wagner head, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who said Ukrainians were now encircled in the city centre.\n\nUkraine's Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar earlier said that \"heavy fighting is continuing\".\n\nThe claims by both sides have not been independently verified.\n\nIn the reported statement late on Tuesday, Mr Prigozhin said: \"Wagner units took control of the entire territory of Soledar. A cauldron has been formed in the centre of the city in which urban fighting is going on.\"\n\nThe statement stressed that only Wagner fighters - who are not part of the Russian armed forces - were taking part \"in the storming\" of Soledar.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Maliar said a few hours before that \"the enemy does not pay attention to the large losses of its personnel and continues to actively storm\".\n\n\"The approaches to our positions are simply strewn with the bodies of dead enemy fighters. Our fighters are defending bravely,\" she added.\n\nThe fall of Soledar - a small salt-mining town in the Donetsk region - could help Russian troops to encircle the nearby strategic city of Bakhmut.\n\nThe UK said earlier on Tuesday that Russian troops and the mercenary Wagner Group were \"likely\" to now be in control of the town.\n\nOn Monday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said there was \"almost no life\" left in Soledar and \"no whole walls left\".\n\n\"This is what madness looks like,\" he added.\n\nAnd in a new address late on Tuesday, Mr Zelensky praised the resilience of Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe strategic importance of Soledar is debated, but its capture would be significant for two reasons.\n\nFirst, it would allow Russian forces to inch closer to the regional city of Bakhmut. Russia could use access to Soledar's deep, city-like network of salt mine tunnels, dormant since April, to penetrate Ukrainian-controlled territory.\n\nSecondly, invading forces would be able to give Ukraine a taste of its own medicine.\n\nOne thing that has helped Kyiv liberate territory has been its ability to target Russian supply lines.\n\nLong-range missile strikes have often left thousands of invading troops unable to replenish personnel, ammunition, fuel, and rations, and stopped them freely moving military hardware.\n\nThe capturing of Soledar - which had a population of 10,000 before the war - would effectively cut Bakhmut off from a major supply line from nearby Sloviansk.\n\nThe UK said it believed Soledar was close to falling to Russia - but added that the Kremlin was \"unlikely\" to take Bakhmut immediately due to Ukraine's \"stable defence lines\".\n\nA senior military official from the US Department of Defense said earlier on Monday there was a \"good portion\" of Soledar in Russian hands.\n\nFighting around Bakhmut has been going on for months, and the US official described the most recent exchanges as \"savage\".\n\nTwo British nationals have gone missing in the region and were last seen heading to Soledar.\n\nUK nationals Andrew Bagshaw (L) and Christopher Parry (R) were doing voluntary work, police said, but have not been heard of since Friday\n\nDespite the long and intense battle, Oleh Zhdanov - a highly respected military analyst in Ukraine - believes that neither Soledar nor Bakhmut are especially important from an operational point of view.\n\nMr Zhdanov said in an interview on Monday with the Ukrainian newspaper Gazeta that Russia \"is trying to prove to the whole world that its army is capable of winning\".\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think-tank, has said that Mr Prigozhin, \"will continue to use both confirmed and fabricated Wagner Group success in Soledar and Bakhmut to promote the Wagner Group as the only Russian force in Ukraine capable of securing tangible gains\".\n\nRussia has suffered several major setbacks in Ukraine since its invasion nearly a year ago, including losing control of the only regional capital in the south it had managed to capture.\n\nCapturing Soledar would just as much be a propaganda victory for the Kremlin as a military one.\n\nThe gains for Russia are relatively small and costly, but the town would be a much-needed trophy to present to critics back home.", "The area in north west Wales is said to have \"roofed the 19th Century world\"\n\nYoung workers are needed to support growing demand for slate from Wales, a quarry firm has said.\n\nWelsh Slate is expanding its operations at Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda, Gwynedd, and reopening two quarries in Blaenau Ffestiniog.\n\nIt will mean 29 new jobs in a part of Wales where slate has been a big employer since the 13th Century, when roofing slate was first quarried there.\n\n\"In the long term we are looking for even more,\" the company said.\n\nIts director, Michael Hallé, said the company needed young people to apply for jobs.\n\n\"We work with local colleges and schools, and we've got programmes to encourage apprenticeship schemes,\" he said.\n\n\"We need youth coming into the quarry.\"\n\nPlans to extract 250,000 tonnes of Penrhyn purple slate were approved in November, extending the life of the quarry to the end of 2035.\n\nTen of the new jobs will be at Penrhyn, which already employs 115 people.\n\nThe remaining 19 jobs will be at the Ffestiniog and Cwt y Bugail quarries, near Blaenau Ffestiniog, which reopen at the end of January after being closed for more than a decade.\n\nDemand for slate around the world is driving growth at Welsh quarries, says Penrhyn quarry manager Mike Ford\n\n\"There's a huge demand for slate here in the UK and all over the world,\" said Mike Ford, operations manager at Penrhyn quarry.\n\n\"We currently export 40% of our roofing slate to Australia, we need to expand to keep up with the market demand.\"\n\nMark Briggs, who has been splitting roof stones at Penrhyn quarry for 26 years, said he is proud to see Welsh slate on roofs around the world.\n\n\"It's good to see our slates on buildings in places like Australia, slate from Wales. From little Bethesda.\"\n\nMark Briggs has worked 26 years at Penrhyn quarry and says it is hard work\n\nBut he said \"not many young people want to work in the quarry anymore\".\n\n\"It's too much hard work,\" he said with a smile.\n\n\"Most of our staff are local people,\" said Mr Ford. \"They come from Bethesda, Bangor and Caernarfon.\n\n\"We have established a partnership with Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen and Coleg Menai to try to expand the skill base here in Penrhyn.\"\n\nWelsh Slate operates an industrial minerals plant in Blaenau Ffestiniog already, with full extraction to restart on 23 January.\n\nThe slate will be processed at Penrhyn and Cwt-y-Bugail, another slate quarry with a production history going back to 1840.\n\nFor hundreds of years Welsh quarries have produced heather (purple) or blue-grey slate, considered by many to be the best natural slate in the world.\n\nSlate is taken from ledges along the quarry walls called extraction benches\n\n\"A recent building we've completed is St Marys cathedral in Sydney... [and] the parliament house in Trinidad and Tobago,\" Mr Hallé added.\n\nSlate is extracted from Penrhyn quarry by blasting. That means just 3% of the material is flat and uniform enough to be sold as roofing tiles, Welsh Slate said.\n\n\"The big advantage of when we expand the quarry is potentially we can use other methods of extraction like wire sawing,\" he added.\n\n\"That could increase the yield we get from the quarry from 3% to 6%, if not more, so in effect that would double the life of the quarry or enable us to produce more slates.\"", "Women's experiences of care when giving birth have worsened in the last five years, says a report by England's health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\n\nA survey of 20,000 women found \"a concerning decline\" in getting help when most needed during labour and after childbirth.\n\nOverall satisfaction is high and mental health support in pregnancy is rising.\n\nThe safety of maternity services has come under scrutiny in recent years.\n\nA BBC analysis recently showed that more than half of maternity units in England fail consistently to meet safety standards, with 48% requiring improvement and 7% posing a high risk of avoidable harm.\n\nA report from March 2022 into one hospital trust found that more than 200 babies might have survived if better maternity care had been given.\n\nThe CQC asked thousands of women about their experience of giving birth in February 2022, and compared the results with previous years.\n\nFrom the responses, it found:\n\n\"These results show that far too many women feel their care could have been better,\" said director of secondary and specialist care at the CQC, Victoria Vallance.\n\nShe said it was vital for staff at individual trusts to understand what makes a good experience, and what needs to improve.\n\nBut there was also recognition that the survey results reflected \"increasing pressures on front-line staff\" as they try to provide high-quality care with available resources.\n\nThe CQC said a new programme of maternity inspections had recently begun in NHS hospitals across England which will have \"a strong focus on capturing the experience of women and families\".\n\nFewer than half of those who responded to the survey said their partners, or someone close to them, were able to stay with them when they were giving birth - compared with 74% before the pandemic.\n\nThe National Childbirth Trust said this was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"Trusts must immediately enable partners' presence at in-hospital postnatal care so that mothers are never left without food and water, emotional support, access to a bathroom and help to lift and feed their baby,\" chief executive Angela McConville said.\n\nThe CQC report says mental health support during pregnancy and after childbirth is improving, with 96% of respondents saying a midwife or health visitor asked them about their state of mind after their baby was born.\n\nAreas for improvement include pregnant women's concerns being taken more seriously during labour, more women being given advice and support at the start of their labour, and explanations of the care they need in hospital.\n\n\"Maternity services in England are categorically falling short of women's expectations,\" Ms McConville said.\n\n\"This is not all the impact of the Covid pandemic, but is directly associated with long-term underinvestment in the staffing of maternity services.\"\n\nMinister for mental health and women's health strategy Maria Caulfield said: \"No one should feel their maternity experience was impacted by poor care and I am determined to make the NHS the safest place in the world to give birth - while many areas of maternity services continue to receive positive feedback, there's still more that needs to be done.\"\n\nShe said £127m had already been invested into the maternity working and improving neonatal care, on top of funding for 1.200 more midwives and 100 more obstetricians.\n\nUpdated training is also being introduced for those working in maternity services to improve safety across all areas of England.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sometimes the personal becomes political.\n\nAnd the thing is there was the beginning of a pattern emerging: the prime minister bristled when it did.\n\nOn a human level, plenty will sympathise with this: an individual runs for public office, not their family.\n\nThere must surely be, most would accept, lines over which public scrutiny shouldn't cross.\n\nBut there is always public interest in a political leader's own private decisions. And a strand of that interest in Rishi Sunak relates to his colossal family wealth.\n\nPoliticians are often considerably better off than the average Briton. But Mr Sunak's wealth is off the scale compared to his political peers.\n\nThe Sunday Times Rich List said he and his wife were worth around £730m.\n\nAnd so questions are asked about the extent to which he can relate to the concerns of ordinary families, given his own financial situation is so, so different from so many.\n\nMr Sunak's reticence to get into this stuff was first evident in the row over his wife's tax affairs.\n\nHe initially described reporting of his wife Akshata Murty's decision to claim non-dom status, meaning she did not have to pay UK tax on her overseas income, as amounting to \"unpleasant smears\".\n\nThe BBC estimated Ms Murty would have avoided - perfectly legally - around £2.1m a year in UK tax through being a so-called non-dom.\n\nBut she then changed her tax status, acknowledging it was a \"distraction\".\n\nThen, there was the issue of private healthcare.\n\nMr Sunak has repeatedly ducked the question about whether he used it, most recently in his BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday.\n\nAgain, he bristled, saying it was \"not really relevant.\"\n\nAgain, there will be sympathy from some - why should he get drawn into answering questions about his health or that of his family?\n\nTwenty years ago, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to say whether his then young son, Leo, had had a vaccine that was a matter of some debate at the time.\n\nBut there is a public interest in whether a prime minister, ultimately in charge of public services that millions of people rely on, actually has to rely on them himself.\n\nAnd now, another shift of position from Mr Sunak: after it appears Downing Street calculated that his evasion on private healthcare, or to put it another way, how much he used the NHS, left him politically vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The prime minister confirms he's registered with an NHS GP\n\nSo, we were told, he has always been registered with an NHS GP, he has used private healthcare in the past but he doesn't have private medical insurance now.\n\nHis team wouldn't tell us when he last used private healthcare, nor answer when we asked if he might use it again.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer mocked the prime minister's admission, saying he would \"enjoy the experience of waiting on hold every morning at 8am to get a GP appointment\".\n\nAnd yes, the nature of a prime minister's job and this prime minister's wealth might make that scenario seem unlikely.\n\nBut No 10 can at least now argue Mr Sunak has that same basic connection so many have with the NHS, being registered with a family doctor.\n\nAnd they can push back against at least some of the previous claims of his slipperiness on the issue.\n\nBut don't be surprised if there are further examples down the track for Mr Sunak where the personal becomes political and it becomes awkward.\n• None Rishi Sunak says he is registered with NHS doctor", "Benjamin Mendy, 28, denies seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and one count of sexual assault\n\nJurors in the trial of rape-accused footballer Benjamin Mendy can return a majority verdict, a judge has ruled.\n\nThe Manchester City footballer and his friend Louis Saha Matturie, 41, have been on trial at Chester Crown Court since 10 August, accused of various sex offences against young women.\n\nProsecutors claim Mr Mendy, 28, was a \"predator\" who turned the pursuit of women into a \"game\".\n\nBoth men deny all offences and say any sex with women was consensual.\n\nThe jury has been deliberating for 12 days.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A number of defects in the systems of working at a luxury hotel contributed to a fire which claimed the lives of two guests, an inquiry has found.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and his partner Richard Dyson, 38, died in the blaze at Cameron House on the banks of Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nA fatal accident inquiry was held last year to establish if lessons could be learned from the tragedy.\n\nThe fire broke out after night porter Christopher O'Malley left a plastic bag of ash in a concierge's cupboard at the reception area which contained newspapers and kindling.\n\nIn his 122-page findings, Sheriff McCartney said there were precautions which could realistically have avoided the fire breaking out at the five-star hotel near Balloch, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThese were a \"clear system of work\" for the safe cleaning and removal of ash from the open fires at the hotel, and the installation of a sprinkler system.\n\nSheriff McCartney also said there were \"a number of defects in systems of working which contributed to the accident resulting in the deaths\".\n\nThe sheriff made six recommendations in his report, which included the need for hotels to have up-to-date procedures in place to ensure that ash from open fires is removed and disposed of safely.\n\nHe said the Scottish government should consider introducing a requirement for sprinkler systems to be installed when historic buildings are converted to hotels.\n\nAnd he said there should be \"robust arrangements\" to ensure that everyone is accounted for in the event of evacuation, and that all staff have experience of evacuation drills.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would consider the report's recommendations and respond \"in due course\".\n\nThe fire claimed the lives of Simon Midgely (right) and Richard Dyson\n\nThe sheriff's findings highlighted the delay in obtaining a guest list to obtain an accurate roll call.\n\nThe resort's night manager Darren Robinson told the inquiry he had activated the hotel's full alarm at about 06:40 after smoke was detected on a fire control panel at reception.\n\nMoments later, night porter O'Malley opened the concierge cupboard, just off of the reception area, and was confronted with flames and smoke.\n\nMr Robinson, who was also fire warden at the time, said he left the building without the list of guests in the hotel - which he only realised when he was about to start the roll call.\n\nIn the \"chaotic\" scenes that followed, more than 200 people were evacuated from the hotel to its nearby Boat House restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHotel guests had to be physically stopped from going back into the burning building to help a couple and their baby.\n\nThe family were rescued when firefighters arrived and taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nMeanwhile, a roll call of the 214 guests was carried out in the Boat House.\n\nBut it was not until 08:09 that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson, who were staying in a suite above reception, were recorded as missing.\n\nSheriff McCartney said: \"The fact that it took about one-and-a-half hours from the activation of the full fire alarm until identification that there were two hotel guests unaccounted for is of serious concern.\"\n\nHe said this was due to the initial unavailability of a guest list, which he put down to human error.\n\nAerial photographs show the extent of the damage to Cameron House\n\nAs the flames took hold, Mr Midgely and Mr Dyson tried to use a picture frame to break a laminated double-glazed window.\n\nBoth men were found with cuts on their arms, which the court heard was consistent with their failed bid to smash the window.\n\nMr Dyson, a TV producer, was found on a landing at the top of a staircase. Mr Midgley, a freelance journalist, was discovered lying in a fire escape passageway.\n\nThe couple died from inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nSheriff McCartney said: \"They were clearly talented young men with a great deal to contribute. They were committed to each other and to their families.\n\n\"It is not surprising that their passing has had a devastating impact on family and friends.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland's Crown Office had initially said an FAI was not needed because the circumstances of the fatalities had been established.\n\nBut a review overturned the decision after Mr Midgley's mother Jane, from Leeds, called for wider lessons to be learned.\n\nThe inquiry finally got under way at Paisley Sheriff Court last August.\n\nFire investigator Gary Love said more than 75% of the main building of the 128-room hotel was \"severely damaged\" in the incident.\n\nHe concluded that the fire was accidental and was most probably caused by a careless act.\n\nMr Love said it was \"not rare\" for people to believe ashes were dead, while they still contained hot or smouldering embers.\n\nNight porter Christopher O'Malley gave evidence to a Fatal Accident Inquiry over the Cameron House blaze\n\nThe court was also show CCTV footage of the moment the fire was discovered by O'Malley.\n\nDuring his evidence, O'Malley said it did not occur to him that putting a bag of ash in a cupboard could have started a fire.\n\nHe said the ash bins outside had been full, and he had reported this to the night manager both on the morning of 18 December 2017 and the previous morning.\n\nHe also said that he had received \"no training whatsoever\" on disposing of ashes.\n\nThe court also heard bosses at the hotel - which reopened in September 2021 - were told before the fire about the danger of storing combustible materials in certain cupboards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage from the days before the fatal fire shows ash being emptied into external bins\n\nThe FAI heard that in August 2017 James Clark, a fire inspector, had highlighted some concerns about the resort in a routine inspection.\n\nCameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd was previously ordered to pay £500,000 after admitting to breaches of fire safety rules.\n\nO'Malley, 35, who admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, was given a community payback order.\n\nCameron House resort director Andy Roger said the report was an \"an important milestone for everyone involved\", especially the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe added: \"In all our dealings with them over the past five years, they have borne their grief with great bravery and dignity.\"\n\nHe said the hotel had been rebuilt to \"the most exacting fire safety standards possible\" and that there had been \"intensive\" staff training.", "Royal Mail has asked people to stop sending mail abroad due to a \"cyber incident\" causing severe disruption.\n\nIt said it was temporarily unable to send letters and parcels overseas, and was \"working hard\" to resolve the issue.\n\nThere are also minor delays to post coming into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.\n\nThe incident has been reported to the UK's cyber intelligence agency and police who deal with serious crime.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised and said its teams were \"working around the clock to resolve this disruption\". It said it would update customers when it had more information.\n\nThe company is calling it a \"cyber-incident\" rather than a cyber attack because it does not know what has caused the problem, the BBC has been told.\n\nComputerised systems for sending letters and parcels abroad had been \"severely disrupted\", Royal Mail said.\n\n\"We immediately launched an investigation into the [cyber] incident and we are working with external experts,\" it added.\n\nThe back office system that has been affected is used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.\n\nIt is in use at six sites, including Royal Mail's huge Heathrow distribution centre in Slough, which has been affected by the incident.\n\nIt is unclear how long the disruption will continue, and mail that has already been shipped for export may be delayed.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of the UK's cyber intelligence agency GCHQ, is involved in trying to work out what has happened, alongside the National Crime Agency.\n\nRegulators have also been told of the incident.\n\nDetails are often scarce when it comes to cyber incidents, but Royal Mail is being especially vague about what is happening inside its international mail centres.\n\nThe company has called in the National Cyber Security Centre and the Information Commissioners Office, which are the bodies you'd usually call if there's a cyber attack - the NCSC for help, and the ICO because you have to inform them of any potential data theft.\n\nBut Royal Mail has also called the National Crime Agency, which suggests the incident might have a different angle to it.\n\nThey are also being careful not to call it a cyber-attack, which opens up the possibility that it might be a large scale technical glitch, or even some sort of sabotage to the system.\n\nEither way it seems to be a major incident with far-reaching effects as the backlog of packages builds up.\n\nThere have been a number of high-profile cyber-security incidents in recent weeks in the UK.\n\nThe Twitter accounts of two Cabinet ministers have been hacked, and the Guardian newspaper was hit with a suspected ransomware attack.\n\nIn the year to March, Royal Mail sent 152 million parcels abroad which equates to around 200,000 items a day.\n\nHowever, that was a small fraction of the number of parcels it sent domestically.\n\nRoyal Mail has faced a number of challenges over the past year, including a series of strikes by postal workers as part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents more than 115,000 postal workers at Royal Mail, is planning further industrial action, with a fresh ballot due to open later this month.", "The fire tore through Cameron House Hotel on 18 December 2017\n\nA fatal accident inquiry into a fatal fire at Cameron House hotel has finished hearing evidence.\n\nThe December 2017 fire at the Loch Lomond hotel claimed the lives of Simon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38 - a couple from London who were on holiday.\n\nAn architect told the inquiry mandatory fire suppression or sprinkler systems should be considered when historic buildings were converted into hotels.\n\nThe sheriff's determination will be published in due course.\n\nThe fire broke out after night porter Christopher O'Malley left a plastic bag of ash in a concierge's cupboard containing newspapers and kindling.\n\nCameron House was later ordered to pay £500,000 after it admitted to breaches of fire safety rules, while O'Malley admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act and was given a community payback order.\n\nArchitect Peter Drummond was tasked with writing a report on the fire and looking at any lessons for the future.\n\nHe told the 11th day of the inquiry that, in his view, when historic buildings were converted into hotels in the future, making the installation of fire suppression or sprinkler systems mandatory should be considered.\n\nThe fire claimed the lives of Simon Midgely (right) and Richard Dyson\n\nThe inquiry at Paisley Sheriff Court was held to determine if lessons could be learned to minimise the risk of future deaths.\n\nOn Friday, the court heard how management at Cameron House did not hold fire drills at night prior to the fatal blaze. It usually held them in the mornings or afternoons.\n\nThe inquiry was also previously told about the hotel's fire plan which, under its general section, stated: \"Combustible material of any kind must not be stored in general electrical or boiler rooms.\"\n\nThe Crown Office initially said an FAI was not needed because the circumstances of the fatalities had been established - but a review overturned the decision after Simon Midgley's mother Jane called for wider lessons to be learned.\n\nShe has attended the inquiry every day.\n\nA coroner in England ruled that the couple were unlawfully killed and raised concerns that he had not been allowed access to documents and CCTV footage by Scottish authorities.", "The battles around Bakhmut are among the fiercest of the war\n\nRussia's defence ministry says its forces are taking part in the battle for Soledar, a town north of Bakhmut in east Ukraine which has been the focus of recent fighting.\n\nIt comes after the head of Russia's notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed his fighters were in full control there and boasted that only his troops took part.\n\nMr Prigozhin will most likely use any victory to bolster the reputation of Wagner as an effective fighting force in the eyes of President Putin.\n\nBut the Russian defence ministry appeared to contradict the controversial oligarch's claims.\n\nSpokesman Igor Konashenkov said in the military's daily update that: \"Soledar has been blockaded from the north and the south by units of the Russian Airborne Forces.\n\n\"The Russian Air Force is carrying out strikes on enemy strongholds. Assault troops are taking part in battles inside the town.\" There was no mention of Wagner forces.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry also said on Wednesday that heavy fighting continues, and Wagner forces have had no success in breaking through its defences.\n\nIf Soledar falls, it will be a boost to Mr Prigozhin. In a statement released on Tuesday night, he boasted that \"no other units took part in the storming of Soledar apart from Wagner\". Ukrainian and US officials have said that Wagner units make up a large part of forces fighting in the area.\n\nAnalysts have long spoken of tensions between the military and Wagner, and Mr Prigozhin has publicly criticised generals for allegedly being out of touch with the realities of the war in Ukraine.\n\nWhile it is difficult to know for sure exactly whether infighting is going on in the corridors of power, there are some clues.\n\nYesterday, news agency Tass reported that Colonel-General Alexander Lapin was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces. Russian media quoted sources who claimed that the announcement of Gen Lapin's position - he was one of those slammed by Mr Prigozhin last year - was made as a warning to the oligarch: don't mess with the military.\n\nBut many here have been quick to praise Mr Prigozhin and Wagner for their apparent progress in Soledar. Influential media boss Margarita Simonyan gushed about how \"polite\" he is, signing off with a thanks to Wagner fighters, who she called \"my little darlings!\"\n\nLikewise, pro-Kremlin military bloggers on Telegram lavished praise on the mercenary group. One blogger thanked them for \"the emotions you've given us tonight\".\n\nAnother said \"When Soledar and [Bakhmut] are liberated, it will be a new chapter in Russian military history. The first time that a private military company has shown such results in a highly intensive military conflict\".\n\nThe strategic significance of Soledar is disputed by military analysts. But if Russian forces do succeed in establishing full control over the town, it will certainly be a symbolic victory for the Kremlin. That is because Moscow's troops have failed to take a single significant town from Ukrainian forces since the summer of 2022.", "The brick was thrown through the bus window on Battlefield Road in the southside\n\nA baby has been hit on the head by a brick that was thrown through a bus window in Glasgow.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene on Battlefield Road, in the city's southside, at about 18:45 on Tuesday.\n\nThe 15-month-old was taken to hospital where she was checked over and later released.\n\nPolice said she was not seriously injured, but her mother was \"extremely upset and distressed\".\n\nThe baby was sitting in her pram on the a number five First bus with her mother when the brick came through the window.\n\nIt landed on the pram and hit the infant on the head while glass from the broken window also landed on the pram.\n\nDet Insp Darren Munogee said inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.\n\nHe urged anyone with information to get in touch via Police Scotland's non emergency line.\n\nA spokesperson for First Glasgow added: \"We are shocked and saddened by this incident and are working closely with the relevant authorities to find those responsible.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the injured passenger and their family, and we wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNormal air traffic operations are slowly resuming in the US after flights were halted on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.\n\nThe disruption was due to a \"damaged database file\", the FAA said, adding that \"at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack\".\n\nFlights began taking off again around 09:00 ET (14:00 GMT), though airlines have warned of further delays.\n\nAirports nationwide were affected, from Denver to Atlanta to New York City.\n\nAs of Wednesday night east coast time, nearly 10,000 flights in and out of the US had been delayed and more than 1,300 were cancelled.\n\nThe technical issues marked the first time in nearly two decades that flights across the US were grounded.\n\nOperations have since resumed - but delays are expected to continue through at least Thursday and possibly longer, as airlines try to get planes in and out of crowded gates. Limits on how long staff can work may also have an impact.\n\nCaptain Chris Torres, vice-president of the Allied Pilots Association, told Reuters delays could last into Friday: \"This thing was lifted at 9am Eastern. That doesn't mean the problem stops at 9am This is going to cause ripple effects.\"\n\nPresident Joe Biden had called for a \"full investigation\", the White House press secretary said.\n\nUS Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview with CNN that the FAA had grounded flights out of \"an abundance of caution\" after it noticed irregularities with its Notice to Air Missions System.\n\n\"My primary interest, now that we've gotten through the immediate disruptions of the morning, is understanding exactly how this was possible and what steps are needed to make sure it doesn't happen again,\" Mr Buttigieg said.\n\nThe system provides real-time safety information to pilots \"about closed runways, equipment outages, and other potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the flight\", according to the FAA.\n\nOfficials said they are still working to determine the root cause of the issue.\n\nMajor US airlines said they were closely monitoring the situation. American Airlines, which carries the most passengers annually in North America, said it was working with the FAA to minimise customer disruption.\n\nUnited Airlines said it would waive change fees and any difference in fare for customers rescheduling flights departing on or before 16 January 2023.\n\nDelta said it was \"safely focused on managing our operation during this morning's FAA ground stop for all carriers\", adding it would provide updates as soon as possible.\n\nFor international passengers, Air Canada - the foreign carrier with the most flights into the US - said the outage would impact on cross-border operations on Wednesday, but it couldn't initially say to what degree. The carrier said it would put in place a \"goodwill policy\" so affected passengers can change their travel plans.\n\nMeanwhile, airports in Paris - Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly - said they expected delays to US flights. Air France said it was monitoring the situation.\n\nFor UK passengers, British Airways said its flights to and from the US would operate as planned, and Virgin Atlantic said it was continuing to operate its schedule of US flights departing from the UK. However, some US departures, the airline said, might be affected by delays.\n\nGermany's Lufthansa and Spain's Iberia said they were still operating flights to and from the US as normal for now.\n\nPassengers have posted on social media that they were experiencing delays.\n\n\"This wasn't the best day to fly. The FAA grounded flights this morning causing our first flight to be delayed, then cancelled,\" wrote Brittney Gobble on Facebook. She added that American Airlines said they were not able to reschedule her flight until Thursday.\n\n\"Just another reminder of why I prefer to drive,\" Ms Gobble wrote.\n\nJavan Gonzales, who lives in Wichita, Kansas, said his Wednesday evening connecting flight to Portland via Denver had already been delayed three times. \"I'm trying not to let this disrupt my vacation,\" Mr Gonzalez told the BBC.\n\nMichael Remy arrived at an airport in Virginia at 06:00 ET planning to head to North Carolina for vacation, but his flight was delayed right before boarding.\n\n\"It is what is, so, you can only get so upset,\" he told the BBC. \"I may have seen it differently if I was headed to a wedding or a funeral, though.\"\n\nHas your journey been impacted by the FAA glitch? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Computer glitch leaves planes grounded across US. Video, 00:00:31Computer glitch leaves planes grounded across US", "Controversial British-American online influencer Andrew Tate has lost a bid to end his detention in Romania.\n\nTate was detained alongside his brother Tristan last month as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape, which they deny.\n\nAuthorities suspect the pair, along with two Romanian nationals, of running \"an organised crime group\".\n\nPolice will continue to hold the group for their 30-day period, after a court rejected the appeal on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, Mr Tate was seen carrying what appeared to be a copy of the Quran as he walked into Bucharest Appeal Court handcuffed to his brother.\n\nAfter the arrests on 29 December, police said they had identified six people who were allegedly \"sexually exploited\" by what it called an \"organised criminal group\".\n\nPolice alleged the victims were \"recruited\" by the British citizens, who they said misrepresented their intention to enter into a relationship with the victims - which they called \"the loverboy method\".\n\nThey were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, a statement alleged.\n\nThe Tates' lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, has said his clients rejected all the allegations.\n\nBorn in the US before moving to the UK, Mr Tate, 36, went on to have a successful career as a kickboxer.\n\nIn 2016, he was removed from the British version of reality TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman. He went on to set up a \"webcam business\", which he described as \"adult entertainment\".\n\nHe found global notoriety, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.\n\nBut despite social media bans he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting an ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.", "Helen and Rachael Patching died while visiting the Brecon Beacons\n\nThe families of a couple who died at waterfalls in Brecon Beacons National Park have said their \"endless laughter will be forever remembered\".\n\nRachael and Helen Patching, aged 33 and 52, from Kent, were visiting Ystradfellte, Powys, while on holiday.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 11:45 GMT on 4 January after two people were seen in the water.\n\nThe body of a woman was found on 5 January and a second body was found in a river near Glynneath on Sunday.\n\nFire services, mountain rescue and national air support services were involved in the large four-day search.\n\nIn a joint statement, their families said they were \"devastated\".\n\n\"We are devastated to have suffered such an immeasurable loss following the news of Rachael and Helen's passing at just 33 and 52,\" they said.\n\n\"They were such a devoted, selfless, and loving couple having had an immensely positive impact on all those they met.\n\n\"Their love for animals and dedication to caring for them so lovingly over the years made them a truly admirable credit to themselves and society.\"\n\nHelen and Rachael were on holiday in Wales when they went missing\n\nThey went on to say their \"endless laughter will be forever remembered by all who had the honour to know them\", adding: \"There are no words that can express enough how highly they were both thought of by family members, friends, and colleagues.\"\n\nThey thanked the emergency services and other organisations that helped.\n\nCentral Beacons Mountain Rescue Team previously said high levels of very fast-flowing water in the river along with deteriorating weather conditions provided many challenges to both the search and the recovery.", "Ben Stead told the manager \"come near me and I'll stab you\"\n\nA fleeing shoplifter pulled out a supermarket manager's front teeth in a bid to escape, a court has heard.\n\nBen Stead, 28, of Rhymney, Caerphilly county, tried to walk out of Morrisons with a trolley-full of alcohol worth more than £300 in December 2021.\n\nHe became violent after a manager attempted to stop him.\n\nStead was jailed for two years and eight months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft.\n\nThe court heard that Stead attempted to walk out of the Ebbw Vale Morrisons in Blaenau Gwent with £325 worth of alcohol.\n\nProsecutor Peter Donnison said when the supermarket manager confronted Stead, he said: \"Come near me and I'll stab you.\n\n\"He then became violent and there was a physical struggle between them.\n\n\"While struggling on the floor, Stead bent his fingers right back and then proceeded to put his hand into his mouth and he pulled at his teeth causing them to break.\n\n\"His front facing teeth were pulled out.\n\n\"He also put his finger into Mr Thomas' eye and applied pressure. Mr Thomas described the pain as being excruciating.\"\n\nBen Stead tried to walk out of Morrisons with a trolley full of alcohol\n\nFellow shop workers stepped in to help Mr Thomas.\n\nAs well as losing his teeth, Mr Thomas suffered a broken finger and was bleeding from the ear and mouth.\n\nThe court was told he has since left his job causing him \"a significant decrease in salary\" since the attack in December 2021.", "Kelly Williams, 42, with her mum, Gwen Booth, who was 67 when she died\n\nA woman whose mother died of pancreatic cancer says more needs to be done urgently to raise awareness of symptoms of low-survival-rate cancers.\n\nGwen Booth died in 2015 of pancreatic cancer aged 66, just two weeks after being diagnosed.\n\nHer daughter said that although her mother had been unwell, the diagnosis was \"completely shocking\".\n\n\"I didn't even know what pancreatic cancer was at that time,\" said Kelly Williams from Sarn, Gwynedd.\n\n\"You look back at all the symptoms now and it's there,\" the 42-year-old said. \"It's in the pancreatic cancer leaflet. If only we'd known about it, maybe it would have helped.\"\n\nShe said people needed to be more aware of those symptoms, and has been raising funds for Pancreatic Cancer Action.\n\nLung, liver, brain, stomach, pancreatic and oesophageal cancer account for about half of all cancer deaths.\n\nBut only 1% of respondents in Wales could identify all the symptoms of oesophageal cancer in a survey by the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT).\n\nAround 2% knew the symptoms of liver cancer, 4% recognised stomach cancer symptoms and 9% of respondents knew all the symptoms of lung cancer.\n\nSymptom awareness of those cancers is \"shockingly\" low, the head of Tenovus Cancer Care said.\n\nGwen Booth had been on medication for indigestion for a year, but did not suspect cancer\n\n\"The difference between being diagnosed early with lung cancer and being diagnosed late has a significant impact in terms of treatment options that are possible,\" said Judi Rhys, chief executive of Tenovus Cancer Care, one of the charities supporting the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce.\n\n\"We urgently need to improve the shockingly low symptom awareness of the six less survivable cancers, but we also need to address the need for more screening programmes and preventative work.\"\n\nMore people in Wales die from lung cancer than any other cancer.\n\nTenovus successfully campaigned for the introduction of a lung cancer screening project in Wales which will begin this year.\n\nIt has also called for the Welsh government to do more to improve survival rates.\n\n\"We want to see the cancer plan enacted so that we can have far more people having access to early diagnosis for these less survivable cancers,\" said Ms Rhys.\n\n\"We need more staff, we need more early diagnostic hubs and we just need the treatment pathways to be speeded up so that we can get people diagnosed early, treated and save hundreds of live.\"\n\nMs Williams said her mother had been ill for months, with some symptoms she now recognises such as indigestion and nausea.\n\nGwen's health deteriorated and she returned to the doctor several times. She was taking tablets to treat her indigestion but there was no improvement, and she became increasingly tired.\n\n\"It wasn't until the April she got a scan,\" said Ms Williams. \"By that time she was really ill. Everything was going through her, she was vomiting.\n\n\"She was so poorly one night that we just begged her, 'please will you just go to A&E'. She was told by a junior doctor in A&E that she had pancreatic cancer.\n\n\"Looking back they should have investigated, because it was just going on and on. It wasn't clearing up.\"\n\nThe Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce says close to a third of people in Wales have a friend or loved one who has delayed seeking medical advice when experiencing symptoms of a less survivable cancer.\n\nOf those, 66% were told by medical professionals that this delay had an impact on their treatment options.\n\nBuilder Dai Davies, 62, from Narberth, Pembrokeshire, was planning his retirement when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.\n\n\"I'd started experiencing a short, annoying cough, tightness of the chest and chest pains from the centre, which extended to the left lung area. This went on for months. Then, I caught Covid-19 and thought my symptoms were down to that.\n\n\"When I finally went to the GP, she thought I had a chest infection and prescribed antibiotics. The antibiotics did nothing, and I was then sent for a chest X-ray and blood test. A large tumour was found on my left lung, and the cancer had also spread to my lymph nodes.\"\n\nMr Davies added: \"Unfortunately, my body is not responding well to treatment but I'm staying positive and hopeful - I just wish I'd checked out my symptoms earlier, and would urge anyone else to before it's too late.\"\n\nTypical symptoms will vary but red flags for less survivable cancers could include any of the following: indigestion, abdominal pain, unexplained weight loss, a loss of appetite, difficulty swallowing, a persistent cough, unexplained tiredness, headaches or nausea.\n\n\"Diagnosing cancers that affect the GI tract, such as oesophageal, stomach, liver and pancreatic cancers, can be difficult because they present either with very vague symptoms or with none at all,\" said Dr Dai Samuel, consultant hepatologist and clinical lead for gastroenterology at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"We need to improve our screening strategies for patients at risk of these cancers, but also ensure that those with early symptoms have timely access to diagnostic services to ensure they get the best change of cure or good treatment outcomes.\n\n\"We need to change the public fear of cancer and reinforce that our treatments are becoming more effective day by day.\"\n\nIn response, the Welsh government said: \"We have set out a comprehensive approach to improving cancer outcomes, including important commitments to detect cancer at earlier stages, recover from the impact of the pandemic and meet the suspected cancer pathway waiting time.\n\n\"Health boards and trusts will plan and deliver cancer services in response to these commitments.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's judicial authorities have ordered the arrest of top public officials after rioters stormed key government buildings in Brasília.\n\nOne official, the former commander of the military police, has been arrested, local media reported.\n\nThe officials also include Brasília's former public security chief Anderson Torres and others \"responsible for acts and omissions\" leading to the riots, the attorney general's office said.\n\nMr Torres denies any role in the riots.\n\nColonel Fábio Augusto, the police commander, was dismissed from his role after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court.\n\nThe rioting came a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as Lula, was sworn in.\n\nThe dramatic scenes involved thousands of protesters, some clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and waving flags, who overran police and ransacked the heart of the Brazilian state.\n\nOf the approximately 1,500 people arrested and brought to the police academy after the riot, officials say that nearly 600 have been taken to other facilities, where police officials have five days to formally charge them.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, the federal intervenor in public security accused Mr Torres of \"a structured sabotage operation\".\n\nRicardo Cappelli, who has been appointed to run security in Brasília, said there was a \"lack of command\" from Mr Torres before government buildings were stormed.\n\nLula's inauguration on 1 January was \"an extremely successful security operation,\" Mr Cappelli told CNN.\n\nWhat changed before Sunday was that, on 2 January, \"Anderson Torres took over as Secretary of Security, dismissed the entire command and travelled\", he said.\n\n\"If this isn't sabotage, I don't know what is,\" Mr Cappelli added.\n\nMr Torres said that he deeply regretted the \"absurd hypotheses\" that he played any part in the riots.\n\nHe said the scenes, which occurred during his family holiday, were lamentable and said it was \"the most bitter day\" of his personal and professional life.\n\nLula has accused security forces of \"neglecting\" their duty in not halting the \"terrorist acts\" in Brasília.\n\nPublic prosecutors asked on Tuesday for a federal audit court to freeze Mr Bolsonaro's assets in light of the riots.\n\nThe former president, who has condemned the riots, has not admitted defeat from October's tight election that divided the nation, and flew to the US before the handover on 1 January.\n\nOn Monday, he was admitted to hospital in Florida with abdominal pain relating to a stabbing attack during his election campaign in 2018. Reports say he left the hospital on Tuesday.\n\nMr Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he intended to return to Brazil, telling CNN that he would bring forward his departure from the US, which was originally scheduled for the end of January.\n\nA day after the riots, heavily armed officers started dismantling a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasília - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since the presidential election.\n\nMr Torres, who previously served as Mr Bolsonaro's justice minister, was fired from his role as Secretary of Public Security on Sunday by Brasília governor Ibaneis Rocha.\n\nMr Rocha was himself later removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nLula has also taken aim at the security forces, accusing them of \"incompetence, bad faith or malice\" for failing to stop demonstrators accessing Congress.\n\n\"You will see in the images that they [police officers] are guiding people on the walk to Praca dos Tres Powers,\" he said. \"We are going to find out who the financiers of these vandals who went to Brasília are and they will all pay with the force of law.\"\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nProtesters had been gathering since the morning on the lawns in front of the parliament and up and down the kilometre of the Esplanada avenue, which is lined with government ministries and national monuments.\n\nDespite the actions of the protesters, in the hours before the chaos, security had appeared tight, with the roads closed for about a block around the parliament area and armed police pairs guarding every entrance into the area.\n\nThe BBC had seen about 50 police officers around on Sunday morning local time and cars were turned away at entry points, while those entering on foot were frisked by police checking bags.\n\nAccording to Katy Watson, the BBC's South America correspondent, some protesters aren't just angry that Mr Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has gone very quiet since losing October's elections, she said, adding that in not publicly conceding defeat, he's allowed his most ardent supporters to remain angry over a democratic election that he legitimately lost.\n\nThe former president condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nOn Tuesday, his son, Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, said people should not try to link his father to the riots, stating that he has been silently \"licking his wounds\" since losing the election.", "Jeff Beck performing at Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2022\n\nJeff Beck, one of the most influential rock guitarists of all time, has died at the age of 78.\n\nThe British musician rose to fame as part of the Yardbirds, where he replaced Eric Clapton, before forming the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart.\n\nHis tone, presence and, above all, volume redefined guitar music in the 1960s, and influenced movements like heavy metal, jazz-rock and even punk.\n\nBeck's death was confirmed on his official Twitter page.\n\n\"On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing,\" the statement said.\n\n\"After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeff Beck performs on the BBC in 1974\n\nDescribing his playing style in 2009, Beck said: \"I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible.\"\n\n\"That's the point now, isn't it? I don't care about the rules.\n\n\"In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song, then I'm not doing my job properly.\"\n\nBeck performing with Johnny Depp at the Helsinki Blues Festival in 2022\n\nBorn Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, south London, the musician fell in love with Rock and Roll as a child, and built his first guitar as a teenager.\n\n\"The guy next door said, 'I'll build you a solid body guitar for five pounds',\" he later told Rock Cellar Magazine. \"Five pounds, which to me was 500 back then [so] I went ahead and did it [myself].\n\n\"The first one I built was in 1956, because Elvis was out, and everything that you heard about pop music was guitar. And then I got fascinated. I'm sure the same goes for lots of people.\"\n\nAfter a short stint at Wimbledon Art College, he left to play with shock-rocker Screaming Lord Sutch and the Tridents.\n\nWhen Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965, Jimmy Page suggested hiring Beck - and he went on to play on hits like I'm A Man and Shapes Of Things, where his pioneering use of feedback influenced musicians like Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.\n\nThe Yardbirds, backstage at Top Of The Pops, in 1965\n\n\"That [technique] came as an accident,\" he later told BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker.\n\n\"We played larger venues, around about '64-'65, and the PA was inadequate. So we cranked up the level and then found out that feedback would happen.\n\n\"I started using it because it was controllable - you could play tunes with it. I did this once at Staines Town Hall with the Yardbirds and afterwards, this guy says, 'You know that funny noise that wasn't supposed to be there? I'd keep that in if I were you.'\n\n\"So I said, 'It was deliberate mate. Go away'.\"\n\nThe guitarist stayed with The Yardbirds for nearly two years, before declaring he was quitting music altogether... then releasing his first solo single Hi Ho Silver Lining.\n\nRecorded in just three hours, the song was his only top 20 hit in the UK, charting in both 1967 and 1972. But the singer was famously ambivalent about it.\n\nHe was persuaded to record the song by producer Mickie Most who, Beck said, \"wasn't the slightest bit interested in recording my sort of music\".\n\n\"I couldn't say to him, 'Look, you don't know what's going on,' because he had 20,000 gold disks on the wall saying 'I do know what's going on',\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1971. \"So for a couple of years I wasted my career doing junk tunes.\"\n\nWhen he left the studio after cutting the track, the receptionist was already singing it. \"That,\" he said, \"was when I knew it was a disaster\".\n\nHe went to describe the song as a \"pink toilet seat around my neck\", but eventually made his peace with it, even performing it on Jools Holland's TV show in 2015.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter that brief brush with fame, he formed the Jeff Beck Group, whose first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969), took a ferocious approach to the blues that laid the groundwork for heavy metal.\n\nBut the band were unhappy - with a US tour regularly descending into arguments and physical fights.\n\nSinger Rod Stewart and bassist Ronnie Wood quit in 1970 to join the Small Faces (later The Faces), and when Beck was injured in a car accident, he had to put his career on hold.\n\nWhen he recovered, Beck assembled a second line-up of his band but their albums were commercially unsuccessful and Beck went solo in 1975.\n\nThat year, he recorded an album, Blow By Blow, with Beatles producer George Martin. Entirely instrumental, Beck's lyrical, mellifluous guitar playing essentially replaced the parts of a lead vocalist, an approach he would take for most of the rest of his career.\n\nBlow By Blow made the US top 10 and was awarded a platinum disc, and Beck quickly followed it up with 1976's Wired (also produced by George Martin) and the 1977 concert album Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live.\n\nAfter the tour documented on the album, the musician retired to his estate outside of London and remained quiet for three years.\n\n\"The pitch I play at is so intense that I just can't do it every night,\" he later explained.\n\nThe 1980s saw him collaborate with Nile Rodgers on an album called Flash, which contained his first US hit single - a cover of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready with Rod Stewart on lead vocals - and earned him a Grammy Award.\n\nIn 1987, he played on Mick Jagger's solo album Primitive Cool, and continued to work with artists like Roger Waters and Jon Bon Jovi in the 1990s, as well as contributing to Hans Zimmer's score for the Tom Cruise movie Days Of Thunder.\n\nBeck performing in a charity concert in New York in December 1983\n\nBut his solo output slowed down, until the release of 1999's You Had It Coming, featuring Imogen Heap on vocals, followed in 2003 by an album he simply called Jeff.\n\nAround this time, he started incorporating more electronic and hip-hop elements to his music; culminating in his fourth Grammy victory for the tempestuous, shape-shifting instrumental Plan B.\n\nHe toured extensively in the 2010s, including a joint-headline venture with Beach Boy Brian Wilson.\n\nThe duo had hoped to record together but those plans fell apart. Instead, Beck ended up befriending actor Johnny Depp, with whom he released a full-length album, 18, in 2022.\n\nBeck was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1992 as a member of the Yardbirds, then as a solo artist in 2009.\n\nHis legacy lies in the balance between the fluidity and aggression of his playing, a technical brilliance equalled only by his love of ear-crunching dissonance.\n\n\"It's like he's saying, 'I'm Jeff Beck. I'm right here. And you can't ignore me',\" wrote Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers in an essay for Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitar Players of All Time, where Beck placed seventh.\n\n\"Even in the Yardbirds, he had a tone that was melodic but in-your-face - bright, urgent and edgy, but sweet at the same time. You could tell he was a serious player, and he was going for it. He was not holding back.\"\n\n\"He'd just keep getting better and better,\" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page once recalled. \"And he leaves us, mere mortals\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on 5 Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nFour-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka has announced she is pregnant.\n\nThe Japanese former world number one, 25, withdrew from the Australian Open earlier this week, having not played since September.\n\n\"2023 will be a year that'll be full for lessons for me,\" said Osaka, adding that she hopes to return in 2024.\n\n\"One thing I am looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, 'that's my mom'.\"\n\nOsaka won the last of her four Grand Slams at the Australian Open in 2021.\n\nHowever, she has spoken of the problems she has faced since that memorable title win.\n\nIn May 2021, after pulling out of the French Open, she revealed she had \"suffered long bouts of depression\" ever since winning her first major title, the US Open, in 2018.\n\nIn September 2021 she took a five-month break from the sport.\n\nShe lost in the third round of the Australian Open on her return, then the first round of the French Open, missed Wimbledon because of injury and lost in the opening round of the US Open.\n\nOsaka played last at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September and has dropped to 47 in the world rankings.\n\n\"The past few years have been interesting to say the least, but I find that it is the most challenging times in life that may be the most fun,\" added Osaka, announcing her pregnancy on social media.\n\n\"These few months away from the sport have really given me a new love and appreciation for the game I've dedicated my life to.\n\n\"I realise that life is so short and I don't take any moments for granted, every day is a new blessing and adventure.\n\n\"I know I have so much to look forward to in the future.\"\n\nOsaka is the latest high-profile player to take a break from tennis due to pregnancy.\n\nGermany's three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber revealed her pregnancy in August, suggesting she will return after giving birth, while former world number three Elina Svitolina is expected to make her comeback this year after giving birth last October.\n\nSerena Williams took a break to give birth in 2017 and returned later the same year, continuing to play before retiring in 2022.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can they identify The Traitors to win £120,000?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The prime minister confirms he's registered with an NHS GP\n\nThe prime minister has told MPs he is registered with an NHS GP but has used \"independent healthcare in the past\".\n\nRishi Sunak had previously refused to say whether he uses private healthcare, insisting it was \"not really relevant\".\n\nThe PM has been under pressure over the issue, followed a press report that he was registered with a private GP practice.\n\nAt PMQs, Mr Sunak praised his local hospital \"for the fantastic care they have given my family\".\n\n\"That's why I'm passionately committed to protecting it with more funding, more doctors and nurses, and a clear plan to cut the waiting lists,\" he added.\n\nMr Sunak had told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that his healthcare was \"a personal choice\".\n\n\"As a general policy I wouldn't ever talk about me or my family's healthcare situation … it's not really relevant,\" he told the programme.\n\nRegistering with an NHS GP does not exclude someone from using private healthcare.\n\nThe prime minister's spokeswoman said Mr Sunak did not have private cover, and that while she would \"not get into timelines\", he had always been registered with an NHS GP.\n\n\"In principle, he believes that the personal health details of individuals should remain private, but given the level of interest and in the interests of transparency he has set out that he is registered with a NHS GP,\" she said.\n\nA newspaper report in November suggested Mr Sunak was registered with a private GP practice that offers on-the-day appointments and home visits.\n\nCritics have accused Mr Sunak of not understanding the pressures faced by the NHS, and Royal College of Nursing general secretary, Pat Cullen, told the BBC: \"I think as a public servant, you ought to be clear with the public whether or not you are using private health cover.\"\n\nLatest NHS figures show that in November last year, 58% of NHS patients were not seen on the day they made an appointment.\n\nAt the same time, a record high of more than seven million people are waiting for hospital treatment.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said in response to Mr Sunak's comments that the prime minister \"will find out what it's like to wait on hold at 08:00 as you call for an appointment\".\n\nSir Keir's spokesman confirmed the Labour leader had never used private healthcare.\n\nHe said he was \"not going to comment on individual health choices\" and Labour was focused on \"ensuring we have the best possible NHS\" for everyone in the country.\n\nSir Keir also clashed with Mr Sunak over the government's plan for new legislation to enforce minimum service levels in the NHS and other key sectors during industrial action.\n\nUnions have criticised the proposals as \"undemocratic, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal\", pointing out they would mean some employees would be required to work during a strike and could be sacked if they refuse.\n\nThe Tories had gone \"from clapping nurses to sacking nurses\", Sir Keir said, adding that nurses and ambulance workers would not be on strike if the prime minister had negotiated.\n\nThe prime minister said Sir Keir would not agree to minimum service levels in the NHS \"because he's on the side of his union paymasters, not patients\".\n\nMr Sunak added that he wanted \"to have constructive dialogue with the unions\" and had accepted the recommendations of independent pay review bodies.\n\nEarlier, health unions announced they are pulling out of the NHS Pay Review Body process to determine pay for next year.\n\nThe 14 unions - representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses and other NHS workers in England - have called for direct negotiations with ministers about pay.\n\nMr Sunak's comments followed Health Secretary Steve Barclay confirming he used an NHS doctor.\n\nPressed on whether he has NHS care during an interview on LBC, Mr Barclay replied: \"Yes, I don't subscribe to private provision.\n\n\"But I don't have a problem with people, with their own money, who wish to spend that money on private healthcare.\"\n\nSome of Mr Sunak's predecessors have made a point of drawing attention to their use of the NHS when they were prime minister.\n\nDavid Cameron often spoke about how the NHS cared for his disabled son, while Boris Johnson said the health service saved his life after he fell seriously ill with Covid.\n\nBut when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister she was candid about her use of private health insurance, which she said was vital for her to \"go into hospital on the day I want, at the time I want, and with a doctor I want\".", "The Met has announced plans to use \"counter terrorism and organised crime\" tactics to target the most dangerous male predators\n\nThe Met Police will start using data to identify the 100 \"most dangerous\" men in London who prey on women and children.\n\nThe plans aim to gather data on tens of thousands of men recently convicted of domestic assault, rape, sex offences, stalking, and harassment.\n\nIt comes amid plans to reform the force following several damning reviews.\n\nMet Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announced the details in a speech on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Westminster, Sir Mark said the force has \"a practical plan for turning things around\", adding: \"I expect to be held accountable for how that transformation of London's police service evolves in the weeks, months and years ahead.\"\n\nSir Mark said the Met would focus on three priorities including \"targeting men who perpetuate violence against women and children\", building \"the strongest ever neighbourhood policing\", and \"taking an increasingly proactive approach to reducing crime\".\n\nHe stressed the force would be \"cracking down on men who are violent predators\", by adopting \"counter terrorism and organised crime\" tactics, including using intelligence to build a list of tens of thousands of violent male offenders and to target the 100 most dangerous men.\n\n\"Most crimes are committed by a small number of individuals, and a small number of victims and areas are the most impacted by crime,\" Sir Mark explained.\n\nIn addition, the commissioner highlighted \"countless examples\" of where the Met's stop-and-search programme had intercepted criminals, but said the force's goal was to \"create better data\" by identifying hotspots of violence in order to minimise unnecessary stop-and-search activity.\n\nIt comes after figures from the London mayor's office last month showed black Londoners are still three times more likely to be stopped by police.\n\nSir Mark says the Met also wants to minimise unnecessary stop-and-search activity by creating data showing hotspots\n\nSir Mark added the plans would also see an \"overhaul\" of neighbourhood policing, \"becoming more visible, more engaged and more responsive to local crime and anti-social behaviour - precisely targeting priorities identified with local people\".\n\nAs part of his mission to modernise policing, Sir Mark said the force's recruitment and pay systems must also be improved to attract officers with \"core traditional skills\" who also specialise in areas like cyber security and fraud.\n\nThe public outcry over the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, along with a series of cases of misogyny within the Metropolitan police, has put the force under pressure to take tougher action on male violence against women and girls.\n\nBut why this approach, using science and technology - and why hasn't it been tried before?\n\nIt's being driven by commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who took up his post in September 2022, and spoke about the difficulties of what he calls \"Woolworths policing in an Amazon age\".\n\nAs a former counter-terror chief he says the same work that goes on there - ranking which individuals present the most risk to the public - can be applied to predatory male offenders.\n\nWill it work? Could it stop men like Jordan McSweeney, who murdered Zara Aleena? He had a string of previous convictions for offences such as assault on a young woman, as well as a restraining order - but police said he didn't fit the normal profile for someone later labelled \"a danger to any woman.\"\n\nIt's not yet clear exactly what criteria will be used to measure risk, and Sir Mark says it'll take a few months yet for the data to be pulled together.\n\nThe commissioner also emphasised the Met's progress in making policing more \"innovative\" and \"efficient\" such as decisions to issue every officer a mobile phone, put more 'fast response' patrol cars on the streets and build a new Met leadership academy.\n\nLondon's mayor Sadiq Khan responded to the plans on Twitter, saying: \"Sir Mark is right - the Met must change for our communities and for our officers and for our staff who serve them.\n\n\"I am committed to holding the Met to account as we work together to build a safer city for all Londoners.\"\n\nA draft version of the policing plans is set to be published in the next few days, after which the force will seek community and partner feedback.\n\nA further version of the plan will then be published before April.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bridgen's suspension was recommended by the cross-party Commons Standards Committee\n\nConservative MP Andrew Bridgen has been suspended from the House of Commons for five sitting days.\n\nThe MP for North West Leicestershire was handed the sanction after the parliamentary watchdog concluded he had breached the MP's code of conduct.\n\nMr Bridgen's attempt to overturn the recommendation was dismissed in December.\n\nA motion was approved by Parliament on Monday and the suspension is due to start on Tuesday.\n\nIn November, the cross-party Commons Standards Committee found Mr Bridgen had breached rules by failing to declare his financial interests in Mere Plantations when writing to ministers about the company.\n\nThe Cheshire-based firm had donated money to Mr Bridgen's local party and funded a trip to Ghana.\n\nFollowing an investigation, the committee concluded the MP had shown a \"careless and cavalier\" attitude to the rules and recommended suspending Mr Bridgen from the House of Commons for two days.\n\nThey also advised a further three day suspension for his \"unacceptable attack\" on the parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone.\n\nAppealing the decision, Mr Bridgen criticised the investigation as \"flawed\" arguing it had not fully considered the motivations of the person who had made the initial complaint.\n\nHe also defended his actions, saying he had been carrying out the duties of a constituency MP.\n\nThe Independent Expert Panel asked to consider his appeal concluded that the motivations of the complainant were \"completely irrelevant\" and that an exemption for an MPs constituency duties did not apply in his case.\n\nTheir report added that the sanctions \"could properly and fairly have been more severe\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Picking up where they left off at the end of last year, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer clashed over strikes and the NHS.\n\nThe prime minister seemed a bit more confident and bullish than he has done in previous PMQ sessions, but his answers and his opponent's questions had a familiar ring to them.\n\nStarmer again sought to blame successive Tory governments for the problems in the NHS but the prime minister repeatedly said Covid was a major cause.\n\nSunak accused his opponent of flip-flopping on strikes and being in the pocket of \"union paymasters\" but the Labour leader said the government was trying to legislate its way out of failure with new anti-strike laws.\n\nRishi Sunak seemed a bit more confident than he has done in previous PMQs sessions, landing his attack lines more clearly.\n\nSir Keir Starmer appears to be emboldened by his continued attacks on the government's record on the NHS.\n\nBut the first PMQs of 2023 reminds us that these two politicians are relatively similar in style and approach - more managerial than crowd-pleasing parliamentary performers.", "The family of a British man missing in Ukraine say they are \"very worried\" about his health and whereabouts.\n\nChris Parry, 28, was last seen on Friday with Andrew Bagshaw, 48, heading to the town of Soledar, which has seen intense fighting in recent days.\n\nThe two men had been working as volunteers helping people evacuate from the frontline of the war.\n\nMr Parry's family and partner say he is an extraordinary person who is \"compassionate and caring\".\n\nThey added he \"would not be dissuaded from his work in Ukraine liberating elderly and disabled people, which we are very proud of\" and that they \"all love him very much\".\n\nMr Parry, originally from Truro in Cornwall but living in Cheltenham, had travelled to Ukraine last year to do humanitarian work after the Russian invasion.\n\nHe said he had a \"drive to help\" during an interview with BBC Cornwall from Ukraine over Christmas last year.\n\nHe also described the \"continuous\" bombardment, as well as recalling the time he had a drone \"within about 10 metres of my face\" while he was on the front line.\n\nA missing person's report was filed for the two men from the police department in the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region at 17:15 local time on Saturday.\n\nUkrainian police said the men had been in Kramatorsk - where there have been reports of strikes in recent days - but were last seen heading to the small, eastern town of Soledar.\n\nThe UK's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that Russia was \"likely\" in control of most of Soledar following a months-long battle with Ukrainian forces.\n\nGaining control of Soledar would be Russia's biggest gain since last August if it is confirmed.\n\nThe capture would be significant as it would allow Russia to gain access to Soledar's deep, city-like network of salt mine tunnels, which have been dormant since April.\n\nIt would also allow Russian troops to get closer to the nearby larger city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces have been fighting for months to capture.\n\nThe family of Mr Bagshaw, who is also missing, described their son as \"a very intelligent, independently minded person, who went there as a volunteer to assist the people of Ukraine\".\n\nIn a statement issued to the media in New Zealand - where Mr Bagshaw lives - his parents described the work he has been doing as delivering food and medicines and helping elderly people move from \"near the battlefront of the war\".\n\nThe British Foreign Office is warning against all travel to Ukraine due to attacks on a number of different cities currently taking place, as the conflict continues into its 11th month.\n\nIt says there is a \"real risk to life\", adding that British nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately.", "Ambulance staff will take part in their second day of strike action this winter, on Wednesday. Alongside paramedics, call-centre staff will walk out across England and Wales in the dispute over pay. These workers play a vital role, taking calls from the public and assigning ambulance crews.\n\nAn ambulance dispatcher at the North West Ambulance Service, who wishes to stay anonymous, has described working amid the extreme pressures of this winter.\n\n\"The job is crushingly depressing, stressful and embarrassing,\" the dispatcher says. \"I feel so destroyed. The feeling of saving lives has been taken over by how many can we not kill.\n\n\"I never thought I'd leave the NHS - but I'd take a job at Aldi. I'd take a job cleaning.\n\n\"The thought of going in and having to manage those calls just fills me with absolute dread. I have seen people leave the ambulance service - they have had enough. We are physically and mentally exhausted.\"\n\nMost frustrating, the dispatcher says, is the number of crews stuck outside hospital waiting to hand patients over to accident-and-emergency staff.\n\nIn the last week of 2022, more than 40% of crews in England had waits of more than 30 minutes - it should take 15.\n\n\"I know going in that I will have to dispatch ambulance crews to hospitals to take over from other ambulance crews who have been outside for 12 hours,\" the dispatcher says.\n\n\"It just means we don't have those crews available to respond to calls and it exacerbates our shortness of resources by 10-fold, 100-fold.\n\n\"So instead of going out on jobs, the first thing they do is go to the hospitals and free the ambulance staff up to go home. Those staff could have been there the whole shift virtually. This happens every shift at virtually every hospital.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\n\"If the crews are with patients in ambulances, then we send one crew to one ambulance to swap. Effectively, if there's seven ambulances outside, then seven new pairs of crews complete with ambulances are swapping over. They then send the 12-hour old crew back to base to go home.\n\n\"It is not how things should be - and because we have so many ambulances stuck at hospital, we are putting patients at risk.\"\n\nThe problems are due to a lack of beds, the dispatcher says.\n\n\"Social care is not in place,\" they say. \"I'll give you an example - a lady had a fall and was medically fit for discharge on 21 December but because her care package wasn't in place, she was advised that it was safer if she stayed in hospital.\n\n\"That's a bed taken up for the entirety of the Christmas and new-year period by someone who is well enough to leave hospital.\"\n\nThe dispatcher is particularly concerned about category-two calls, which include people who have had strokes and heart attacks. Meant to be reached in 18 minutes on average, they are taking nearly three times as long and in some cases, they say, hours.\n\n\"We are now telling them how long they have to wait, when there are long waits,\" the dispatcher says. \"We are asking them if there is anyone who can convey them to [hospital], because time is of the essence. Sometimes, they don't have that - and three hours later, they can be dead.\n\n\"In one case, there was a man who had chest pains who drove himself to hospital and had a cardiac arrest in the hospital car park and crashed his car.\n\n\"This is not the NHS I know and love and is why we have to take action.\"\n\nIn response, the North West Ambulance Service said the service was under \"extreme pressure\" and some patients were waiting longer \"than we would like\".\n\nBut it added: \"Our staff work hard every day to ensure everyone who needs an ambulance gets one - and we continue to perform better than other parts of the country.\"\n\nThe service said it was working with other parts of the NHS to tackle handover delays and recruiting call handlers and clinicians into the call centres, as well as front-line ambulance crews.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said extra money it was investing this winter, totalling £750m, would help speed up delayed discharges, which in turn would ease the handover problems being seen.\n\n\"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tireless to ensure people get the care they need,\" he added.\n\nDo you work for the ambulance service? Are you in favour or against strike action? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "As ambulance workers get ready to strike again, another anxious plea has gone out from the NHS: only call 999 if you really have to.\n\nWednesday's walkout will affect most ambulance services in England and Wales. The advice is to call 999 if you are seriously ill or your condition is life-threatening.\n\nThe action will involve thousands of staff, including paramedics, control room staff and support workers in a dispute over pay.\n\nAction by teachers in Scotland also continues, with secondary schools being affected on Wednesday.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThousands of members of the Unison and GMB trade unions are walking out on Wednesday across most of England and Wales. The East of England will be the only service unaffected.\n\nThe start times and lengths of the walkouts vary between ambulance services, but most will last for about 12 hours.\n\nThe action will involve all ambulance employees, including call centre and control room staff, not just emergency crews.\n\nAmbulances will still be sent to the most life-threatening calls - known as Category 1, which includes cardiac arrests. But it is up to each NHS trust in consultation with the unions to decide which calls are responded to.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"The message from the NHS to patients is clear - if you need emergency care, please come forward.\n\n\"This means continuing to call 999 for life threatening emergencies as well as using 111 online for other health needs where you will receive clinical advice on the best next steps to take.\"\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nAlmost all secondary schools across Scotland will be closed on Wednesday as teachers continue their action in a dispute over pay.\n\nIt is the second day of action after primary schools were closed all day on Tuesday.\n\nLast-ditch talks between unions and Scottish government officials held on Monday failed to prevent walkouts.\n\nThe strikes involve members of the EIS, NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputies (AHDS) unions.\n\nThey have rejected a 5% pay increase, arguing for 10%. The latest offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nIf no agreement is reached, teachers in Scotland plan to strike on a further 16 days, beginning next week.\n\nThe days of action - split across every council in Scotland - will take place throughout January and into February.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sepideh Qolian says a wing of Evin prison has been turned into a 'torture and interrogation' building\n\nOne of Iran's most prominent female activists has described how confessions are forced out of prisoners, in a letter written inside a notorious jail.\n\nSepideh Qolian has been serving a five-year sentence since 2018 after being convicted of acting \"against national security\" for supporting a strike.\n\nWriting from Evin prison, she describes the brutal treatment of her and other detainees by interrogators.\n\nTheir forced confessions are later broadcast on state-run television.\n\nAlluding to the current anti-government protests sweeping the country, Ms Qolian writes: \"In the fourth year of my imprisonment I can finally hear the footsteps of liberation from all across Iran.\n\n\"The echoes of 'Woman, Life, Freedom' can be heard even through the thick walls of Evin prison.\"\n\nMs Qolian is currently studying law in prison. In her letter she describes how Evin's \"cultural\" wing - where she takes her exams - has been turned into a \"torture and interrogation\" building, and says she has witnessed young detainees being interrogated there.\n\n\"The exam room is filled with young boys and girls and the shouts of torturers can be heard,\" she writes.\n\nMs Qolian describes a scene she witnessed on 28 December 2022 as she was taken to the wing for her exam.\n\n\"It's freezing cold and snowing, near the exit door of the building, a young boy blindfolded and wearing nothing but a thin grey T-shirt is sat in front of an interrogator.\n\n\"He's shaking and pleading: 'I swear to God I didn't beat anyone.' They want him to confess. As I am passing I shout: 'DO NOT confess,' and 'Death to you tyrants.'\"\n\nSo far, at least 519 protesters - including 69 children - have been killed and 19,300 arrested, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA). Thousands have been imprisoned.\n\nMany of those arrested face the death penalty and so far four protesters have been hanged after their confessions were shown on TV.\n\nHuman rights activists and lawyers say their trials were held without legal representation, and after the defendants were tortured. Authorities deny these claims.\n\nSince the start of the mass protests in September last year, dozens of forced confessions of detained protesters have been broadcast.\n\nIn her letter, Sepideh Qolian recalls her own interrogation and forced confession in 2018, after she was arrested for supporting the workers' strike and protest at a sugar factory in Iran's Khuzestan province.\n\nMs Qolian describes being interrogated by a woman who she hoped might be softer on her than her male interrogators and \"at least she won't sexually assault me\".\n\nBut she writes that her hopes were short lived - the female interrogator \"kicked the leg of the desk and shouted 'you communist whore, who did you sleep with?'\"\n\nIn December last year, Narges Mohammadi, a female human rights activist who is serving a 34-year prison sentence, gave a detailed account of how women arrested in recent protests are being sexually abused in prison.\n\nMs Qolian says her female interrogator lifted her blindfold and ordered her to describe her alleged sexual relations on camera. Ms Qolian refused to cooperate.\n\nShe describes that after hours of being interrogated, she begged to be taken to the toilet. Once they got to the women's toilets the female interrogator shoved her inside and locked her in.\n\nAccording to Ms Qolian, the toilet she was locked in was inside an interrogation room, and she could hear a man being tortured and whipped.\n\n\"The sounds of torture continued for hours or maybe a day, maybe more, I lost track of time,\" she writes.\n\nMs Qolian explains that after being released from the toilet, sleep-deprived after three days of continuous interrogation, she was taken to a room where a camera was set up.\n\n\"I took the script from her as I was half-conscious and sat in front of the camera and read it,\" she writes. Based on those very confessions, she was sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nIn 2019 Ms Qolian was in Qarchak prison and recognised her interrogator while she was watching the forced confessions of another prisoner on TV.\n\nIn a public letter she identified the interrogator as Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour, an \"interrogator-journalist\" with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.\n\nIn November 2022, the US Treasury department sanctioned Ms Zabihpour for her role in obtaining and broadcasting forced confessions of dual nationals and other prisoners.\n\nMs Zabihpour sued Ms Qolian, who received an additional eight-month sentence because of her accusations.\n\nMs Qolian ends her letter describing the protests as a \"revolution\".\n\n\"Today the sounds we hear on the streets of Marivan, Izeh, Rasht, Sistan and Baluchistan and across Iran is louder than the sounds in interrogation rooms, this is the sound of a revolution, the true sound of woman, life, freedom.\"", "Could a one-off payment to striking workers be the way to resolve all this industrial action?\n\nI reported before Christmas that it was an idea doing the rounds within government and among senior trades unionists.\n\nBut it all went quiet. There didn't seem to be appetite for it in Downing Street or the Treasury.\n\nNow, it appears to be back.\n\nThe Guardian is reporting that the idea is in the mix for striking health workers.\n\nI am told it is not a fully worked up plan, but tellingly it is not being dismissed out of hand, and senior figures talk in terms along the lines of \"there may be scope\" to consider ideas like this if compromises come from the unions.\n\nThis morning, union leaders are heading to meet ministers in Westminster.\n\nThe formal agenda for the meetings of health unions with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, and education unions with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, is next financial year's pay settlements, rather than this year's, which have led to strikes among nurses and ambulance workers or the prospect of them in schools in England and Wales from next month.\n\nSenior government figures say it is not a negotiation that is happening today, but an information sharing exercise about what factors are feeding into the government's calculations for what those pay awards should be.\n\nBut senior union voices tell me they sense a snicket of opportunity for movement on this year's deal given the prime minister's language when he was talking to Laura Kuenssberg over the weekend.\n\nTo put it gently, Rishi Sunak was at least a hop and a step away from crystal clarity about what he was saying, but unions publicly and privately took some encouragement from what he said.\n\nA one-off payment may allow both sides to save face.\n\nThe government could say that it hasn't reopened the pay deal. The unions could point to a win from their campaigning.\n\nAnd there are those in the trades unions who appear open to it.\n\nBut there are a million questions.\n\nHow much would a one off payment be? To whom? By when?\n\nWould it be politically tenable to offer it to some striking workers and not to others?\n\nNurse union leader Pat Cullen has said there is \"a chink of optimism\" ahead of talks with the government\n\nAs union leaders head into their meetings, one tells me they fear today amounts to \"smoke and mirrors\" - it is an invite they can't turn down, for fear of looking churlish, but they fear it might not add to anything concrete, at least yet.\n\nOn the government side, there is a nervousness that industrial action on this scale, and with no prospect of ending, poses the most awkward question to ministers - who is in charge?\n\nSome fear the unions smell weakness in government and are determined to capitalise on it, hence ministers' desire to give the impression of being pragmatic and wanting to talk.\n\nThis is the latest staging post in a tussle between unions and the government that has plenty of mileage in it yet.", "University tuition fees in England are to stay frozen at £9,250 for the next two years, says the government.\n\nBut students face a further squeeze on living costs with maintenance loans rising by 2.8% from this autumn.\n\nThe Save the Student money advice website said it was a \"devastating blow\" after loans rose just 2.3% this year.\n\nIn addition, the government has said it will give a further £15m to hardship funds at universities.\n\nThe National Union of Students (NUS) welcomed financial help for students but said hardship funds were \"a quick fix to a long-term problem\".\n\nThe NUS, which represents students across the UK, urged the government to go further by offering larger loans and grants for student living costs, and tackling \"spiralling student rent\".\n\nThe government confirmed on Wednesday that maintenance loans and grants for undergraduate and postgraduate students would go up 2.8% for the 2023/24 academic year.\n\nThis rise falls below the current inflation rate of 10.7%. The NUS called the increase \"woefully inadequate\" and said it would mean students were £1,500 worse off than if support had been increased in line with inflation.\n\nThe University and College Union, which represents more than 120,000 education staff in the UK, said the increase would \"barely touch the sides\" in the face of \"high inflation, rising energy bills, transport costs, rents, and falling wages\".\n\nNUS research published in July suggested a third of students had just £50 to live on after paying rent and bills.\n\nIn a written statement, Robert Halfon, higher education minister, said the government recognised \"students continue to face financial challenges\".\n\nHe also said this was the sixth year in a row tuition fees had been frozen for full-time undergraduate courses.\n\nIn Wales, tuition fees are capped at £9,000, while in Northern Ireland, home students pay a maximum of £4,630 but those from other UK nations can be charged up to £9,250.\n\nIn Scotland, Scottish students are eligible for free tuition, while those from elsewhere in the UK can pay up to £9,250.\n\nMr Halfon said: \"I'm really pleased to see that so many universities are already stepping up efforts to support their students through a variety of programmes.\n\n\"These schemes have already helped students up and down the country and I urge anyone who is worried about their circumstances to speak to their university.\"\n\nIn October, the University of York announced that students concerned about the rising cost of energy would receive financial support of £150.\n\nLast year, an official survey also suggested that half of students in England were facing money problems as the cost of living soared.\n\nMore than three-quarters were also worried rising costs would affect their academic success, according to the research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).", "Colin Farrell was named best actor in a musical or comedy film for his performance in The Banshees of Inisherin\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin has won three major prizes at the Golden Globes' comeback ceremony in Los Angeles.\n\nThe film took home best comedy or musical film and best screenplay, as well as best comedy actor for its star, Irish actor Colin Farrell.\n\n\"I never expect my films to find an audience, and when they do it's shocking for me,\" Farrell said.\n\nSteven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans was also one of the big winners, scooping best drama film.\n\nSchool-based comedy Abbott Elementary, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and satirical dark comedy The White Lotus were among the winners in the television categories.\n\nMost of the winners collected their awards in person, despite speculation that many stars would stay away from this year's ceremony due to controversy surrounding the organisation behind the Globes.\n\nThe event has been under a cloud since its organisers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), were accused of ethical lapses and a lack of diversity two years ago.\n\nSet on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, The Banshees of Inisherin tells the story of two friends who fall out after one decides to abruptly end their relationship.\n\nThe film sees Farrell reunite with director Martin McDonagh and co-star Brendan Gleeson. The trio previously worked together on the 2007 cult film In Bruges.\n\nSpielberg was named best director for The Fabelmans, which follows a young boy - loosely based on Spielberg himself - who falls in love with film-making.\n\n\"I put a lot of things in my way with this story,\" he said in his acceptance speech. \"I told this story in parts and parcels all through my career but I never had the courage to hit the story head-on.\"\n\nMichelle Yeoh was named best musical or comedy actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once\n\nOther big film winners included Everything Everywhere All at Once, which saw acting prizes for two of its stars, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.\n\nThe madcap sci-fi movie sees Yeoh play a laundrette worker who hops through the multiverse exploring different versions of herself.\n\nAccepting her award, Yeoh said: \"I turned 60 last year. And I think all of you women understand this: as the days, the years and the numbers get bigger, it seems like opportunities start to get smaller.\n\n\"And I probably was at a time when I thought, 'well hey, you had a really good run, you worked with some of the best people... then along came the best gift - Everything Everywhere All at Once.\"\n\nJennifer Coolidge was recognised for her performance in the dark comedy series The White Lotus\n\nJennifer Coolidge gave one of the most memorable acceptance speeches, entertaining the audience for almost four minutes after winning one of the TV acting awards for The White Lotus, which was also named best limited TV series.\n\n\"I had such big dreams and expectations as a younger person, but they get sort of fizzled by life,\" the 61-year-old said. \"I thought I was going to be queen of Monaco, even though someone else did it. I had these giant ideas, and then you get older...\"\n\nCoolidge said show creator Mike White had \"given me hope, a new beginning\".\n\nAustin Butler's recognition for his portrayal of Elvis Presley marks his first Golden Globe nomination and win\n\nElsewhere, Austin Butler held off stiff competition to be named best film drama actor, for his portrayal of singer Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's biopic.\n\n\"I owe this to a bold, visionary film-maker who allowed me the experience to take risks and I always knew I would be supported. Baz Luhrmann, I love you,\" Butler said. \"And lastly, Elvis Presley himself. You were an icon and a rebel.\"\n\nCate Blanchett was named best drama actress for her performance in Tar, but was not present to collect the prize because she is working on a production in the UK.\n\nKevin Costner, who won best actor in a drama series for Yellowstone, said beforehand he was \"so sorry\" he wouldn't make it because of the major flooding currently affecting California.\n\nSupporting actress winner Angela Bassett is hotly tipped to win an Oscar for her performance in Wakanda Forever\n\nOther winners who were not at the ceremony included Zendaya, who won best TV drama actress for Euphoria.\n\nJay Ellis, who announced her award, told the audience: \"She's busy, she's working, y'all. It's a good thing.\"\n\nAngela Bassett was there to accept the best supporting film actress award for her performance in Wakanda Forever, and used her speech to pay tribute to her late Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman.\n\n\"We were surrounded each and every day by the light and the spirit of Chadwick Boseman,\" she said. \"With this historic Black Panther series, it is part of his legacy that he helped to lead us to. We showed the world what black unity, leadership and love looks like beyond, behind and in front of the camera.\"\n\nKe Huy Quan was named best supporting actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once\n\nQuan, who acted as a child alongside Harrison Ford in the Steven Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, became emotional as he accepted the trophy for best supporting film actor.\n\n\"I was raised to never forget where I came from, and to always remember who gave me my first opportunity. I am so happy to see Steven Spielberg here tonight,\" he said.\n\nEddie Murphy accepted the prestigious Cecil B DeMille award, one of the Globes' outstanding achievement honours, and referenced Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at last year's Oscars as he gave advice to younger actors.\n\n\"To achieve success, prosperity and longevity... you just do these three things,\" Murphy said. \"Pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep Will Smith's wife's name out of your mouth.\"\n\nAbbott Elementary was named best comedy series, while two of its stars, Tyler James Williams and Quinta Brunson, took home acting prizes.\n\nOther acting winners in the TV categories included The Bear's Jeremy Allen White and Ozark's Julia Garner, who said playing her hugely popular character Ruth Langmore has \"been the greatest gift in my life\".\n\nIt wasn't a great night for the UK - there were plenty of nominations for British actors including Olivia Colman, Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Lesley Manville, Bill Nighy and Emma Thompson but all lost out.\n\nInventing Anna star Julia Garner was named best TV supporting actress for playing Ruth Langmore in Ozark\n\nThere was a mixed response to first-time host Jerrod Carmichael on social media\n\n\"I'll tell you why I'm here, I'm here because I'm black,\" joked first-time host Jerrod Carmichael as he opened the ceremony - referencing the lack of diversity within the Globes' voting body which came to light in and expose in the LA Times in 2021.\n\nThe US comic's opening monologue was otherwise quite awkward and short on gags - Carmichael spent much of his time telling the audience to be quiet. But his performance became more assured as the show went on.\n\nMany viewers said they appreciated his willingness to create awkward moments in the room with his often savage and brutally honest one-liners, but others felt his jokes were offensive or in poor taste.\n\nCarmichael referenced the ceremony being held at the Beverly Hilton, describing it as \"the hotel that killed Whitney Houston\". He spoke to some stars directly from the stage, telling Rihanna to ignore pressure from fans and take her time with recording her long-awaited next album.\n\nThe most risqué jibe came when he suggested that the three Golden Globes which Tom Cruise returned should be \"exchanged for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige\" - a reference to Scientology leader David Miscavige's wife, who has not been seen in public since 2007.\n\nElsewhere, Carmichael recalled the Oscars slap, joking that Smith had won \"the Rock Hudson award for best portrayal of masculinity on television\".\n\nIn the end, there was a big turnout for an event that has been under a cloud of controversy over its ethics and a lack of diversity.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's ceremony, the publication wrote: \"The industry collectively signalled it is ready to forgive, if not forget, and get back to the business of receiving awards...\n\n\"A spirit of acceptance - and the power of awards season promotion - won out.\"\n\nHollywood publication Variety decided the Globes' comeback as a televised ceremony \"made for a surprising success\", but Rolling Stone said the \"messy\" event \"failed to justify its existence\".\n\nIn the musical categories, composer Justin Hurwitz was recognised for his Babylon score, while best original song went to Naatu Naatu from the Indian action film RRR.\n\nThe tune held off competition from pop heavyweights Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.\n\nThere was a surprise win for Argentina, 1985 in the best non-English language film category. It beat RRR, Decision to Leave, and the Oscar-tipped All Quiet on the Western Front.\n\nDuring the ceremony, actor Sean Penn also introduced a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said that it was \"clear\" that the \"tide was turning\" in the ongoing war in his country, and that Ukraine would be triumphant in its struggle.", "Shamima Begum has said she accepts that she joined a terror group when she fled Britain as a schoolgirl for Islamic State (IS) - and said she understands the public anger towards her.\n\nIn interviews spanning more than a year, Ms Begum - who was stripped of British citizenship as a national security risk - revealed that she was fed detailed instructions by IS members, but also undertook her own planning for the journey in 2015.\n\nGiving her first full account of her flight to Syria, she told the BBC podcast The Shamima Begum Story that she had been \"relieved\" to make it out of the UK and said that when she left, she expected never to return.\n\nMs Begum said she knows the public now see her \"as a danger, as a risk, as a potential risk to them, to their safety, to their way of living\".\n\nBut she said that \"I'm not this person that they think I am\".\n\nMs Begum is the best-known case among thousands of men, women and children who have been held in Syrian detention camps and prisons since the IS \"caliphate\" was defeated in 2019. Many come from countries that do not want them back.\n\nNow the 23-year-old - who had three children in Syria, all of whom died - is in a legal battle with the British government to try to have her citizenship restored so she can return to London.\n\nThe tribunal hearing has centred on whether she was a victim of trafficking for sexual exploitation, or a committed IS volunteer who is a threat to the UK.\n\nIS has been notorious for atrocities such as mass killings, abductions and beheadings. Its terror cells were responsible for targeted attacks in Paris in 2015 and Brussels in 2016, and the group also claimed responsibility for attacks in the UK, including the Manchester Arena bombing and the London Bridge attack in 2017.\n\nAcknowledging that the public see her as a potential danger if she should return, Ms Begum said she is \"not a bad person\" and blamed her portrayal in the media. She said: \"I'm just so much more than ISIS and I'm so much more than everything I've been through.\"\n\nDoes she understand society's anger towards her? \"Yes, I do understand,\" she said.\n\n\"But I don't think it's actually towards me. I think it's towards ISIS,\" she added, using another name for IS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. \"When they think of ISIS they think of me because I've been put on the media so much.\"\n\nChallenged that the media coverage was a consequence of her decision to join IS, she said: \"But what was there to obsess over, we went to ISIS that was it, it was over, it was over and done with, what more is there to say?\n\n\"Like, they just wanted to continue the story because it was a story, it was the big story.\"\n\nPressed further on whether she accepts that she did join a terror group, she said: \"Yes, I did.\"\n\nMs Begum is one of thousands living in camps since IS was defeated, unwanted by their former countries\n\nFormer children's minister Tim Loughton told the BBC it was still not clear why Ms Begum joined IS as a teenager and \"what forces brainwashed her\", but he said public sympathy for her when she first went missing had increasingly been replaced by anger.\n\nHe said many people were justifiably suspicious that she was now \"putting on an act\" in appearing to \"transition from a heavily veiled Muslim young woman to somebody wearing Western clothes\" as if she had \"stayed in east London as a normal British teenager\".\n\n\"I think most people will say that, frankly, we owe her nothing. She got herself into this mess and frankly it's down to her to work out how she's going to get out of it,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Ms Begum's account, the preparation for her and two other girls from Bethnal Green to join IS in Raqqa involved their own research as well as explicit instructions from the terror group's members. One of the girls later died and the other is also believed to have been killed in Syria.\n\nShe said there were \"people online telling us and, like, advising us on what to do and what not to do\", with \"a long list of detailed instructions\", including what cover story to use if they were caught.\n\nBut she added the information they searched for on the internet themselves included travel costs and bits of Turkish language they would need before they crossed over the border to IS-controlled Syria.\n\nTasnime Akunjee, a lawyer who represented the families of the girls, told the BBC that he searched their rooms after they fled, looking for clues: receipts, phone bills, texts, emails.\n\n\"I've never seen anything so thoroughly dry-cleaned of evidence or information as these young teenagers managed to do themselves,\" said Mr Akunjee, a criminal lawyer with 20 years' experience. \"They must have had a great deal of trust in whoever it is that they were speaking to, to follow that, to follow their advice very, very carefully.\"\n\nHe said just one scrap of paper was found in Ms Begum's house. It was a shopping list, detailing items they would need for their trip to the IS caliphate and how much they cost - a phone for £75, socks for £4, taxi for £100 - with a name or an initial of one of the girls next to each.\n\nMs Begum, centre, says she \"probably looked guilty\" passing through Gatwick Airport, but no one noticed\n\nMs Begum denied the list was hers, saying it had been left by Amira, one of the other girls.\n\n\"We tried so hard to clear up our tracks and just one of us was stupid,\" she said.\n\nMs Begum said they tried to pack light for the journey. \"People used to say like, pack nice clothes so you can dress nicely for your husband but I don't know,\" she said, referring to the fact that they were expected to marry IS fighters.\n\nWhile they showed sophistication in concealing their intentions to join IS, other aspects of their planning betrayed the age of the teenage runaways.\n\nMs Begum said she stocked up with chocolate bars that she knew she would not be able to buy in Syria: \"about 30\" mint Aero bars.\n\n\"You can find a lot of things in this country but you cannot find mint chocolate,\" she said.\n\nOne woman who went to school with Ms Begum said she had been \"a ghost\", who was quiet and kept to a small friendship group.\n\nMs Begum says her family \"thought I was too, like, weak to do something so crazy, so they did not think in a million years I could do that\" - referring to her recruitment by IS.\n\n\"I've always been a more secluded person. That's why it's so hard the way my life has turned out being all over the media because I'm not a person that likes a lot of attention on me,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe Shamima Begum Story podcast is available on BBC Sounds and a feature length documentary will be on BBC iPlayer from early February.", "Alireza Akbari says he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes that he did not commit\n\nThe family of a British-Iranian dual national sentenced to death in Iran have told BBC Persian that authorities are preparing to execute him.\n\nAlireza Akbari's wife, Maryam, said the family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" and that he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nThe UK urged Iran to halt the planned execution and immediately release him.\n\n\"This is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that has total disregard for human life,\" Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted.\n\nEarlier, a Foreign Office spokesperson told the BBC that it was supporting Mr Akbari's family and had repeatedly raised his case with Iranian authorities.\n\nIt has requested urgent consular access, but Iran's government does not recognise dual nationality for Iranians.\n\nBBC Persian also broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he says he was tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nHe says that he was living abroad a few years ago when he was invited to visit Iran at the request of a top Iranian diplomat who was involved in nuclear talks with world powers.\n\nOnce there, he adds, he was accused of obtaining top secret intelligence from the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, \"in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt\".\n\nMr Akbari served under Mr Shamkhani when the latter was defence minister during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who was in office for two terms between 1997 and 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Akbari alleges in the audio message that he was \"interrogated and tortured\" by intelligence agents \"for more than 3,500 hours\".\n\n\"During all those 3,500 hours, which took more than 10 months, they were recording my confessions with 10 cameras to make their Hollywood-style film,\" he says, adding that he was also given \"psychedelic drugs\".\n\n\"By using physiological and psychological methods, they broke my will, drove me to madness and forced me to do whatever they wanted. By the force of gun and death threats they made me confess to false and corrupt claims.\"\n\nHe also accuses Iran of seeking \"to take revenge on the UK by executing me\".\n\nHours after the audio message was broadcast, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency confirmed for the first time that Mr Akbari had been found guilty of espionage, and that the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal.\n\nIt cited Iran's intelligence ministry as saying that Mr Akbari had been \"one of the most important infiltrators of the country's sensitive and strategic centres\" for the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, and that he had been \"compiling and consciously transferring sensitive information\".\n\nThe ministry claimed that its agents uncovered Mr Akbari's spying by feeding him false information.\n\nAt the end of November, Iranian state media reported that authorities had hanged four men convicted of \"co-operating\" with Israeli intelligence.\n\nFour other men have been executed since December after being sentenced to death in connection with the anti-government protests engulfing the country.\n\nAlicia Kearns, chair of the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said the news from Mr Akbari's family was \"awful\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, it is another horrifying example of the Iranian regime - because they feel they are cornered, because there is such significant pressure from sanctions on them - weaponising British nationals and industrialising hostage taking,\" she told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nShe speculated that Mr Akbari might have been singled out by hard-liners in the establishment in order to undermine Mr Shamkhani, who she described as a \"moderate voice... [who] has been calling for discussions and dialogue\" in response to the current protests. Iran's current leaders have portrayed them as \"riots\" and cracked down on them with lethal force.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention beside Mr Akbari, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "The impact of Wednesday's ambulance strike in England and Wales is likely to be worse than that of the one before Christmas, NHS managers are warning.\n\nThousands of paramedics and support staff will walk out for the second time this winter, in the dispute over pay.\n\nNHS Providers said this strike would be harder to cope with, as the government raised fears over the lack of a national deal on emergency cover.\n\nBut union leaders said life-and-limb cover would be provided.\n\nBut there is no formal agreement of what that involves and so it has been left to local services to agree their own arrangements with the unions involved, the GMB and Unison.\n\nHow are you affected by the strike?\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe highest-category calls, for immediately life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrests, will be covered - but not every emergency in the next category down, which includes heart attacks and strokes, will be provided for.\n\nGovernment sources involved in contingency planning said the lack of agreement over emergency calls was a concern.\n\nThey said this could be covered by the minimum-service legislation ministers are considering introducing.\n\nBut union leaders said detailed plans were in place to ensure lives were not put at risk, including exemptions for some union members expected to work during the walkout.\n\nServices will also bring in other NHS staff, alongside the military, to provide support. London Ambulance Service has confirmed it aims to get to all heart attacks and strokes.\n\nUnison general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"Last time, staff didn't hesitate to leave picket lines when someone's life was in danger.\n\n\"After a decade of refusing to bring in minimum staffing levels, it's ironic that the government is only prepared to do so during a strike.\n\n\"Every other day of the year, ambulance crews are stuck queuing for hours outside A&E departments and hospital staff are rushed off their feet. But the government isn't interested in minimum staffing levels then.\"\n\nMiriam Deakin, of NHS Providers, said her members were worried because Unison was telling call handlers and ambulance dispatchers, who remained in work during the previous strike, to walk out also.\n\n\"With more staff expected to strike this time, the NHS is in an even more precarious position,\" she said.\n\n\"Since the last strikes, delays transferring patients from ambulances to hospitals have got worse, as pressure across the whole of the NHS increases.\n\n\"Trust leaders are working hard to minimise the impact on patients and to support staff during the industrial action - but they are braced for another day of significant disruption and knock-on effects.\"\n\nAlongside paramedics, 999 call centre workers will also going on strike. One ambulance dispatcher, who wishes to remain anonymous, says for them there is no other option.\n\n\"The job is crushingly depressing, stressful and embarrassing,\" the dispatcher says. \"I feel so destroyed. The feeling of saving lives has been taken over by how many can we not kill.\"\n\nThey say the most frustrating issue is the number of crews stuck outside hospital waiting to hand patients over to accident-and-emergency staff.\n\n\"I know going in that I will have to dispatch ambulance crews to hospitals to take over from other ambulance crews who have been outside for 12 hours,\" the dispatcher says.\n\n\"It just means we don't have those crews available to respond to calls and it exacerbates our shortness of resources by 10-fold, 100-fold.\n\n\"I never thought I'd leave the NHS - but I'd take a job at Aldi. I'd take a job cleaning. The thought of going in and having to manage those calls just fills me with absolute dread.\"\n\nSome of the walkouts will start from 00:01 but the duration and scale of the disruption will vary across different parts of England and Wales.\n\nOnly the East of England Ambulance Service will remain unaffected, as neither union obtained a strike mandate in the ballot there.\n\nBut Unison, the biggest union in the ambulance service, has a mandate for walkouts in only half of the 10 regional services in England.\n\nBetween them, the two unions represent about two-thirds of ambulance staff.\n\nDuring the last walkout, on 21 December, the service saw a lower number of calls than normal.\n\nNHS medical director for secondary care Dr Vin Diwakar said: \"The message from the NHS to patients is clear - if you need emergency care, please come forward.\n\n\"This means continuing to call 999 for life-threatening emergencies as well as using 111 online for other health needs, where you will receive clinical advice on the best next steps to take.\"\n\nThe walkout comes after ambulance staff along with other NHS workers were offered a pay rise averaging 4.75%. All were guaranteed an increase of at least £1,400 a year - more than 7% for the lowest paid.\n\nUnions wanted an above-inflation pay rise, saying low pay was contributing to high vacancy rates and the problems the ambulance service was facing responding to emergency calls.\n\nIt is taking two to three times longer than it should to answer emergency calls such as for heart attacks and strokes.\n\nNHS unions met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Monday - but no agreement on pay was reached.\n\nAmbulance staff in Northern Ireland have also been on strike, while in Scotland the unions have a mandate for action but no dates have been set.\n\nOther NHS unions have also started striking or are planning to. Royal College of Nursing members will walk out on Wednesday and Thursday next week.\n• None Keep children off school if unwell with fever - advice", "Elon Musk has broken the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history.\n\nFrom November 2021 to December 2022 he lost around $165bn, Guinness World Records said in a blog on its website.\n\nThe figures are based on data from publisher Forbes, but Guinness said other sources suggested Mr Musk's losses could have been higher.\n\nIt follows a fall in value of shares in Mr Musk's electric car firm Tesla after he bought Twitter last year.\n\nHis $44bn (£36bn) takeover of the social media company has sparked concerns among investors that Mr Musk is no longer giving Tesla enough attention.\n\nMr Musk's losses since November 2021 surpass the previous record of $58.6bn (£47bn), suffered by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son in 2000.\n\nThe estimated loss is based on the value of his shares, which could regain their value, meaning Mr Musk's wealth would increase again.\n\nIn December, the Tesla boss lost his position as richest person in the world to Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of French luxury goods company LVMH, which owns fashion label Louis Vuitton.\n\nThe value of Tesla shares dropped around 65% in 2022, in part because of Tesla's performance. The firm delivered just 1.3 million vehicles during the year, falling short of Wall Street expectations.\n\nHowever, Mr Musk's takeover of Twitter - where he has sparked controversy by firing large numbers of staff and changing content moderation policies - is behind most of the share slump.\n\nMany Tesla investors believe he should be focusing on the electric vehicle company as it faces falling demand amid recession fears, rising competition and Covid-linked production challenges.\n\n\"Long-term fundamentals [at Tesla] are extremely strong. Short-term market madness is unpredictable,\" Mr Musk tweeted after the stock markets closed for the year in December 2022.\n\nMr Musk is now worth about $178bn (£152bn), according to Forbes, while Bernard Arnault has an estimated value of $188bn (£155bn).", "Amateur fossil hunters dream of finding the ancient and the rare. One little girl spoke it into existence.\n\nMolly Sampson, nine, was on a Christmas Day visit to Calvert Beach in Maryland, and told her mother she was \"looking for a Meg\".\n\nWading in knee-deep waters, that's exactly what she found: a tooth belonging to the now-extinct Otodus megalodon shark species.\n\nThe megalodon - ancient Greek for \"big tooth\" - lived in seas worldwide until it died out at least 3.5 million years ago.\n\nGrowing to more than 66ft (20m) long, the species was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist.\n\nThe tooth Molly found was 5in long, as big as her hand, according to her mother Alicia Sampson, who shared news of the find on Facebook.\n\nMrs Sampson wrote that her daughters, Molly and Natalie, wanted to \"go sharks tooth hunting like professionals\" and had asked for insulated chest waders as a Christmas present.\n\nAlmost as soon as they received their gifts and finished their breakfasts on Christmas morning, they headed to the shores of nearby Calvert Cliffs with her husband Bruce, she told the BBC's US partner CBS News.\n\n\"She told me she was wading in knee deep water when she saw it and dove in to get it,\" Mrs Sampson said of her daughter's find. \"She said she got her arms all wet, but it was so worth it.\"\n\nHer husband had hunted for fossils in the area since he was a child, and Molly had found over 400, much smaller teeth in her own right, she said, but neither had ever encountered a tooth so large.\n\n\"She has always wanted to find a 'Meg', but for whatever reason, she spoke it into existence on Christmas morning,\" Mrs Sampson told CBS.\n\nThe family took the tooth to the Calvert Marine Museum, whose paleontology department confirmed the shark's identity and congratulated the \"future paleontologist\" on Facebook.\n\n\"People should not get the impression that teeth like this one are common along Calvert Cliffs,\" Stephen Godfrey, the museum's curator of paleontology, said.\n\n\"And she didn't have to dig into the cliffs to find the tooth, it was out in the water.\"", "Six people have been injured with one in a critical condition after a stabbing at Paris's international Gare du Nord station early on Wednesday.\n\nInterior Minister Gerald Darmanin said a man was stopped by two off-duty police officers who were returning home from a shift.\n\nHe said the suspected attacker was shot three times and taken to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nAuthorities are trying to establish if there was a motive for the attack.\n\nThe attack took place at 06:42 (05:42 GMT) - within one minute all six people were injured and the attacker was stopped.\n\nMr Darmanin thanked for police for their \"brave and effective\" intervention, which he said saved many lives.\n\nHe added that among the injured was one French border police officer.\n\nPolice are yet to name the man, who did not have identity documents on him at the time he was taken to hospital.\n\nMr Darmanin told reporters the man attacked people in the station with what looked like a home-made weapon.\n\nPolice earlier said the man used a knife or blade.\n\nCriminal investigators have taken control of the case for now, rather than anti-terror police, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThe incident caused major delays to trains at the station in the early morning rush, with police cordoning off the station and setting up large white curtains around the attack scene.\n\nParis Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international railway stations in Europe - with about 700,000 travellers a day.", "Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction on child abuse charges shocked the Catholic Church before being quashed, has died at 81.\n\nThe former Vatican treasurer is Australia's highest ranking Catholic cleric, and the most senior Church figure ever jailed for such offences.\n\nHe died of heart complications after hip surgery, Church officials say.\n\nCardinal Pell served as Archbishop of both Melbourne and Sydney before becoming one of the Pope's top aides.\n\nHe was summoned to Rome in 2014 to clean up the Vatican's finances, and was often described as the Church's third-ranked official.\n\nBut the cleric left his post in 2017, returning to Australia to face trial on child sex abuse charges.\n\nA jury in 2018 found he had abused two boys while Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s.\n\nCardinal Pell, who always maintained his innocence, spent 13 months in prison before the High Court of Australia quashed the verdict in 2020.\n\nHowever a civil lawsuit - launched by the father of a choirboy who prosecutors alleged Cardinal Pell abused - is still under way.\n\nMeanwhile a landmark inquiry found that he knew of child sexual abuse by priests in Australia as early as the 1970s but failed to take action.\n\nThe Child Abuse Royal Commission ran for several years, interviewing thousands of people, and its findings relating to Cardinal Pell were released after his acquittal. Cardinal Pell denied the allegation, insisting it was \"not supported by evidence\".\n\nArchbishop of Melbourne Peter Comensoli paid tribute to Cardinal Pell as \"a very significant and influential Church leader\" while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his death would be a \"shock to many\".\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott - a Catholic - praised the cleric as a \"saint for our times\" and \"an inspiration for the ages\", saying the charges he'd faced were \"a modern form of crucifixion\".\n\nBut Steve Dimopoulos - a government minister in Cardinal Pell's home state of Victoria - was among those who voiced mixed feelings.\n\n\"Today would be a very difficult day for the cardinal's family and loved ones, but also very difficult for survivors and victims of child sexual abuse and their families and my thoughts are with them,\" he said.\n\nThe cardinal was a polarising figure, both in Australia and abroad, something he himself conceded.\n\nHe rose to prominence in the Church as a strong supporter of traditional Catholic values, often taking conservative views and advocating for priestly celibacy.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2020, Cardinal Pell said there was \"no doubt\" that his \"direct\" style and traditional approach to issues such as abortion had driven parts of the public against him.\n\n\"The fact that I defend Christian teachings is irritating to a lot of people,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme.", "The Church of England is pledging £100m to \"address past wrongs\", after its investment fund was found to have historic links to slavery.\n\nThe funding will be used to provide a \"better and fairer future for all, particularly for communities affected by historic slavery\".\n\nA report last year found the Church had invested large amounts of money in a company that transported slaves.\n\nJustin Welby said it was \"time to take action to address our shameful past\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury previously called the report's interim findings a \"source of shame\" in June 2022.\n\nThe investigation, which was initiated by the Church Commissioners, a charity managing the Church's investment portfolio, looked into the Church's investment fund, which back in the 18th century was known as Queen Anne's Bounty.\n\nIt found that by 1777, Queen Anne's Bounty had investments worth £406,942 (potentially equivalent to around £724m in today's terms) in the South Sea Company.\n\nThe report estimated that the South Sea Company transported 34,000 slaves \"in crowded, unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane conditions\" during its 30 years of operation.\n\nAs a result, the Church Commissioners announced on Tuesday it was committing £100m over the next nine years to a new programme of investment, research and engagement.\n\nIt said it will also fund further research, including into the Church Commissioners' history, to support dioceses, cathedrals and parishes to research and address their historic links with slavery.\n\nGrowth made on the fund will also be spent into grants for projects helping communities adversely impacted by historic slavery.\n\nMr Welby said: \"The full report lays bare the links of the Church Commissioners' predecessor fund with transatlantic chattel slavery.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for these links.\n\n\"It is now time to take action to address our shameful past.\"\n\nThe Bishop of Manchester, the Right Reverend Dr David Walker, deputy chairman of the Church Commissioners, also said he is also \"deeply sorry\" for the fund's \"shaming\" historic links to the slave trade.\n\nHe added: \"We hope this will create a lasting positive legacy, serving and enabling communities impacted by slavery.\"", "Simon Midgley, right, had been on a winter break in Scotland with Richard Dyson, left\n\nA man who died with his partner in a fire at a luxury hotel on Loch Lomond told his mother he was \"drowning in dreams\" the day before the blaze, an inquest has heard.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, was on a winter break with Richard Dyson, 38, when the fire engulfed Cameron House Hotel on 18 December 2017.\n\nA coroner has ruled the men, from north London, were unlawfully killed.\n\nEarlier this year, the hotel admitted breaches of fire safety rules.\n\nIt was fined £500,000 and a hotel porter was given a community payback order to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.\n\nThe fire started after night porter Christopher O'Malley, 35, placed a plastic bag of ash in a cupboard containing kindling and newspapers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nO'Malley admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nMr Midgley's mother Jane told the inquest in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, that her son phoned her from the hotel on 17 December 2017 saying the couple were \"having a fabulous time\".\n\nShe told the hearing that he had said: \"I'm drowning in dreams, mother dear. And I promise you life is going to be good from now on.\"\n\nMrs Midgley, from Pudsey, Leeds, said her son also told her: \"I'm so looking forward to spending Christmas with you. Don't forget my pigs-in-blankets.\"\n\nSimon Midgley told his mother Jane he was having a fabulous time the day before the fire\n\nWakefield senior coroner Kevin McLoughlin expressed frustration and \"puzzlement\" that he had not been granted access to thousands of pages of documents from the investigation by Scottish authorities.\n\nOther evidence included 1.2 terabytes of CCTV footage, which was withheld due to \"confidentiality\" rules.\n\nThe coroner also said he did not know why Scottish prosecutors had taken three years to conclude a criminal case when it was clear from footage shown on media reports how the fire had started.\n\nMrs Midgley told the court she was still waiting to hear whether there would be a fatal accident inquiry in Scotland but she would continue to campaign for one to take place.\n\nShe said the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) insisted she could not have documents relating to the case due to confidentiality, which the coroner told her would not happen in England.\n\nAerial photographs show the extent of the damage to Cameron House\n\nMr Dyson's father Roger, from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, told the coroner his family also wanted a fatal accident inquiry but this was \"in limbo\".\n\nHe said his son was a \"gentle, loving person who was living life and loving life\".\n\nRoger Dyson told the inquest he thought the fine handed to the hotel company was \"derisory\".\n\nThe coroner said he was concerned by evidence about how the guest list was left inside the hotel during the evacuation.\n\nThere was also a gap of more than an hour between firefighters arriving and discovering that Mr Dyson and Mr Midgley, who lived in the Finsbury Park area of north London, were missing.\n\nMr Dyson's father told the inquest this delay \"was fatal, in my view\".\n\nHotel night porter Christopher O'Malley admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act\n\nThe coroner said he had no power to make recommendations to Scottish authorities about the matter but he would be writing to UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and other relevant bodies.\n\nMr McLoughlin said: \"It cries for a technological solution.\"\n\nThe coroner said he would copy Scottish authorities into his report, while saying the issue \"deserves explanation and consideration\".\n\nMr McLoughlin said he had decided he could safely conclude both men had been unlawfully killed, despite there being no prosecution over their deaths in Scotland.\n\nHe said one key element of this decision was that the hotel had been \"expressly warned\" about slack procedures for dealing with embers from open fires.\n\nThe inquiry was told that more than 200 guests were evacuated from the building during the fire, including a family of two adults and a child who were rescued by ladder and taken to hospital.", "Model Tatjana Patitz has died, aged 56, her modelling agency has announced.\n\nNo cause of death has been revealed. The German-born model was living in California at the time of her death.\n\nPatitz, who rose to fame in the 1990s, became one of the decade's most prominent supermodels. She also appeared in music videos for Duran Duran and George Michael.\n\nIn a 1988 interview with Vogue magazine, she attributed her success to \"not looking like anyone else\".\n\n\"People always said that I looked special... And I was going to make it because of that,\" she said at the time.\n\nPatitz was born in Hamburg in 1966, to an Estonian mother and a German father.\n\nHer family soon relocated to Sweden, where she entered a contest at the age of 17. She came third and it took several years for her career to take off.\n\nBy 1988, however, she was being shot by high-profile fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh.\n\nPatitz also featured on the famous 1990 British Vogue cover alongside fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, cementing her status as one of the five \"original\" supermodels of the 1990s.\n\nShe also starred in George Michael's Freedom! '90 music video and worked on campaigns for Chanel, Calvin Klein and Versace.\n\nAnna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue, said: \"Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti... She was far less visible than her peers - more mysterious, more grown-up, more unattainable - and that had its own appeal.\"\n\nThe Peter Lindbergh Foundation paid tribute to \"Tatjana's kindness, inner beauty and outstanding intelligence\".\n\n\"She will be immensely missed,\" a Twitter statement by the Foundation said.\n\nPatitz's most recent catwalk appearance was in the Etro show in February 2019 as part of Milan fashion week, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nShe is survived by her 19-year-old son, Jonah.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to a formidable eight points with an outstanding performance and win in the north London derby at Tottenham.\n\nThe Gunners took full advantage of Manchester City's loss at Manchester United on Saturday with an impressive show of style in the first half and steel after the break to claim a vital three points.\n\nArsenal were helped by a blunder from hapless Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris when he fumbled Bukayo Saka's cross into his own net after 14 minutes, but it was no more than Mikel Arteta's side deserved as captain Martin Odegaard drilled in a second from outside the area nine minutes before the break.\n\nSpurs, so poor in the first half, did have their chances but found visiting keeper Aaron Ramsdale in top form as he saved twice either side of half-time from Harry Kane and also stopped Ryan Sessegnon's angled effort.\n• None Go straight to all the best Tottenham content\n\nArsenal were handed a huge opportunity to take a stronger grip on the title race after closest rivals Manchester City were beaten at Old Trafford, but with the expectation also came pressure in the hothouse of a north London derby.\n\nThe Gunners, as they have so often this season, rose to the challenge by over-running Spurs to take control in the opening 45 minutes, then hold their nerve in the face of an expected rally from Antonio Conte's men after the break.\n\nArsenal were simply irresistible in the first half as they outclassed Spurs - the own goal from Lloris and captain Odegaard's strike scant reward for their vast superiority.\n\nOdegaard was class personified in midfield, while Saka ran Spurs ragged down Arsenal's right flank, creating the first goal and posing constant problems.\n\nAnd the visitors showed they were prepared to do the dirty work when Spurs tried to mount a recovery. Keeper Ramsdale was outstanding and his defenders prepared to throw themselves in front of everything to protect the lead.\n\nThere was some ill-feeling and ugly scenes at the end when Ramsdale and Richarlison had a flare-up, before a Spurs fan appeared to aim a kick at the England keeper.\n\nArsenal's players were eventually dragged away to enjoy their thoroughly-deserved celebrations with their own ecstatic supporters.\n\nSpurs may have created chances and moments of anxiety for Arsenal, especially in the second half, but this was a sobering game for Conte and his players as they looked well off the pace until it was too late.\n\nThey were trailing once again at half time for the ninth time this season, the seventh in the Premier League, after a first period in which their mediocrity was a sharp contrast to the excellence of their rivals.\n\nSpurs have made a habit of slow starts and occasionally been able to dig themselves out of the hole, but they left themselves too much to do against this super-confident Arsenal outfit.\n\nKane was attempting to equal Jimmy Greaves' record of 266 goals for Spurs, but found Ramsdale at his best. At the other end, though, Lloris produced yet another of those errors that happen far too often to a goalkeeper of his reputation.\n\nSaka's cross took a deflection of Sessegnon but the French keeper had to do so much better than just let the ball drop behind him into his own net.\n\nIt summed up Spurs' first-half display and they remain in fifth place, five points behind Manchester United in the Champions League places having played a game more.\n• None Attempt saved. Dejan Kulusevski (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Yves Bissouma with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "A cordon has been set up outside St Aloysius Church\n\nPolice have released details of a car they want to trace after a seven-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries in a drive-by shooting at a London church.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nPolice said on Sunday they were seeking information on a black Toyota.\n\nThe seven-year-old is in a stable but life-threatening condition.\n\nSuspects fired from a shotgun during a memorial service attended by hundreds of people at the Roman Catholic church on Phoenix Road at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were seeking information about a black Toyota\n\nSupt Jack Rowlands said officers \"found multiple people with injuries caused by pellets from a shotgun\".\n\n\"Four women, aged 21, 41, 48 and 54, were taken to central London hospitals. Thankfully their injuries were assessed as non-life threatening,\" he said.\n\n\"Two children were also injured. A 12-year-old girl sustained a leg injury. She was treated at hospital before being discharged yesterday afternoon. She is expected to make a full recovery.\n\n\"A seven-year-old girl was more seriously injured. She remains in hospital in a stable but life-threatening condition, and our thoughts are with her and her family.\n\n\"We believe the suspects discharged a shotgun from a moving vehicle, which was a black Toyota C-HR, likely a 2019 model or similar.\"\n\nThe memorial service was being held for Sara Sanchez and her mother\n\nFather Jeremy Trood, who conducted the memorial service, said it was for 20-year-old Sara Sanchez, who died from leukaemia in November and her mother, who died the same month.\n\nHe said the Mass, which had more than 300 people attending, had just finished and people were leaving, when he heard an \"enormous bang\".\n\n\"It was a very strange, long and prolonged noise I heard,\" Father Trood told BBC London.\n\n\"Doves were going to be released at the end of the service and I think people were going out to see that.\n\n\"I remember the screams and shouts, and the people who were making their way out of the church all coming back in.\n\n\"There was confusion as people were getting away from the windows and doors.\n\n\"I've been here nine years and I've never known anything like this... it's very shocking.\"\n\nPolice shared a stock image of the Toyota model they are seeking\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with detectives to determine what happened.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on Twitter that she was \"deeply concerned by the shocking shooting\".\n\nA police cordon is in place outside the church\n\nSupt Rowlands appealed for anyone with information on the \"shocking incident\" to contact police urgently.\n\n\"People came here to attend a funeral, to be with friends and loved ones and to mourn together,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead they were the victims of a senseless act of violence.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said 100 cars were gathered on Selden Way on Saturday\n\nA motorcyclist has been seriously injured in a crash at a \"car meet\" on an industrial estate, police have said.\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police said a motorcycle and a VW Golf collided near the McLaren Composites Technology Centre on Selden Way in Rotherham at about 20:30 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe force said about 100 cars had gathered for an \"organised\" event.\n\nIt said a man, who was believed to have been in the Golf, has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving.\n\nA representative said the 35-year-old motorcyclist was \"found with serious injuries\" and was taken to hospital.\n\nThey said Selden Way was currently closed and was \"expected to be for some time whilst an investigation is carried out\".\n\nAppealing for footage and witnesses, PC Gary Richards said the crash had \"led to a man ending up in hospital... and we believe there were a number of people at the scene who were filming at the time\".\n\n\"Whilst we carry out enquiries to understand what happened, we would urge anyone who has any dash-cam, mobile footage or any information... to come forward,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: \"The smell of smoke still hangs in the air here\"\n\nThe pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report \"anything untoward\" as the plane approached the airport, a spokesman said.\n\nAnup Joshi said that the \"mountains were clear and visibility was good\", adding there was a light wind and \"no issue with weather\".\n\nThere were 72 passengers and crew aboard the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara which crashed on Sunday.\n\nNo one is believed to have survived.\n\nIt is the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.\n\nOn Monday, fragments of the Yeti Airlines plane were scattered across the riverbank, on both sides, like pieces of a broken toy.\n\nOne portion of the aircraft lay on its side, the windows still intact. A few metres away, blue airline seats, now mangled.\n\nThe thick stench of smoke hung in the air, the scorched grass on the bank a reminder of the fireball that engulfed the aircraft after it crash landed.\n\nMobile phone footage showed the plane rolling sharply as it approached the runway. It then hit the ground in the gorge of the Seti River, just over a kilometre from the airport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nThe pilot asked for a change from the assigned runway 3 to runway 1, which was granted by the airport, Mr Joshi said.\n\n\"We could operate from both runways. The plane was cleared for landing.\"\n\nIt was \"very unfortunate\" that the incident happened just 15 days after the airport had opened for business, he added.\n\nAs members of Nepal's police scoured through the wreckage, they told us they had found the black box flight recorder. The voice recorder has also been recovered.\n\nThey have given up hope of finding any survivors. Now the focus was on finding any clues as to how this tragedy happened.\n\nThe government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the disaster and the prime minister declared Monday a national day of mourning.\n\nHundreds of rescuers were rushed to the site of the crash\n\nOn both sides of the vast gorge where the plane crashed, hundreds of people who live nearby watched on.\n\nIndra Prasad Saptoka said he saw the plane turn to its side before it crashed. He was thankful it landed away from the houses close by.\n\nAnother local resident, Divya Dhakal, told the BBC how she rushed to the crash site after seeing the aircraft plunge from the sky shortly after 11:00 local time (05:15 GMT).\n\n\"By the time I was there, the crash site was already crowded. There was huge smoke coming from the flames of the plane. And then helicopters came over in no time,\" she said.\n\n\"The pilot tried his best to not hit civilisation or any home,\" she added. \"There was a small space right beside the Seti River and the flight hit the ground in that small space.\"\n\nAviation accidents are not uncommon in Nepal, where remote runways and sudden weather changes can make for hazardous conditions.\n\nThis Himalayan nation, home to some of the most breathtaking mountains in the world, has some of the most difficult terrain to navigate.\n\nA lack of investment in new aircraft and poor regulation have also been blamed in the past.\n\nThe European Union has banned Nepalese airlines from its airspace over concerns about training and maintenance standards.\n\nIn May 2022, a Tara Air plane crashed in northern Nepal, killing 22 people. Four years earlier, 51 people were killed when a flight travelling from Bangladesh caught fire as it landed in Kathmandu.\n\nJournalist Tribhuvan Paudel was a passenger on the crashed plane\n\nChiranjibi Paudel, whose journalist brother Tribhuvan was on the flight, said action had to be taken to improve aviation safety in Nepal.\n\n\"The airlines should be penalised and the regulatory body of the government also should be held accountable,\" he said.\n\nThe Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara left the Nepalese capital just after 10:30 (04:45 GMT) for what should have been a short trip.\n\nOf the passengers, 53 were said to be Nepalese. There were also five Indians, four Russians and two Koreans on the plane. There was one passenger each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France among others.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Environmental activists Just Stop Oil are among those to use tactics like blocking roads\n\nPolice could be allowed to shut down protests before they cause serious disruption, under new government plans.\n\nDowning Street said the proposals would help officers clamp down on \"a disruptive minority\" who use tactics like blocking roads and slow marching.\n\nIt said the changes seek to give police greater flexibility and clarity over when they can intervene.\n\nBut human rights group Liberty said the proposals amounted to an attack on the right to protest.\n\nThe plans will be set out in an amendment to the Public Order Bill, due to be introduced on Monday.\n\nIts aim is to crack down on disruptive protests by groups like environmental activists Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, which have used tactics including blocking roads.\n\nThe bill, which covers England and Wales, is currently being scrutinised by the House of Lords and any changes at this stage could be blocked by peers before they become law.\n\nThe proposals are likely to provoke strong opposition from some peers, who have been critical of previous attempts to increase police powers to shut down protests.\n\nNo 10 said the changes would mean police would not have to wait for disruption to take place to shut down a protest.\n\nIt said forces could also consider the \"total impact\" of a series of protests by the same group, rather than seeing them as standalone incidents.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"The right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy, but this is not absolute. A balance must be struck between the rights of individuals and the rights of the hard-working majority to go about their day-to-day business.\n\n\"We cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public.\"\n\nChief Constable BJ Harrington, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for public order and public safety, said: \"This will support officers in confidently and quickly taking action and making arrests where appropriate.\"\n\nAll we know about the proposals to stop what the government calls \"disruptive protests\" is a press release issued by Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 says an amendment to the Public Order Bill will give police \"greater flexibility and clarity\" in their ability to stop demonstrators using \"guerrilla tactics\" and causing \"chaos\".\n\nBut, as things stand, we have little in the way of clarity because everything hinges on a definition of \"serious disruption\" and we do not yet have one.\n\nOpposition parties and civil liberty campaigners argue the police already have powers to deal with dangerous or highly disruptive protest. The Public Order Bill would introduce serious disruption orders, allowing police to place restrictions on individuals and greater stop and search powers.\n\nHowever, senior police officers argue there is a need for greater clarity given the complexity of case law. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, says he wants to know \"where the balance of rights should be struck\". The policing of the vigil for Sarah Everard inspired legal action which saw the High Court rule in March last year that the handling breached the rights of the organisers.\n\nBut Martha Spurrier, director of human rights group Liberty, said the proposals were \"a desperate attempt to shut down any route for ordinary people to make their voices heard\".\n\nShe said allowing the police to shut down protests before any disruption had taken place \"sets a dangerous precedent\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the tactics of Just Stop Oil activists were wrong and \"deeply arrogant\" but police already had the power to take action against them.\n\nHe told LBC officers could be given greater clarity over when to intervene without the need for legislation.\n\nLabour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a former director of Liberty, said police already had adequate powers to arrest people obstructing highways and the government's proposals gave officers \"a blank cheque\".\n\n\"This, I fear, is about treating all peaceful dissent as effectively terrorism,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"This degree of pre-emption will basically shut down the kind of dissent that isn't even causing disruption at all because their definition will set such a low bar.\"\n\nThe Just Stop Oil group described the proposal as \"a sinister and authoritarian attempt to undermine the basic human rights that underpin our democracy\".\n\nThe Public Order Bill already included provisions to create a new criminal offence for interfering with key national infrastructure like oil refineries and railways and for \"locking on\".\n\nThat tactic - where someone locks themselves to an object or building - has been used by some climate protesters.\n\nThe bill builds on the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, which passed last year and was criticised by some groups for introducing curbs on the right to protest.\n\nUnder this existing legislation, if the police want to restrict a protest, they generally have to show it may result in \"serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. '16 is too young to change legal gender', says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer believes 16-year-olds are too young to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nThe UK Labour leader voiced \"concerns\" about the Scottish government's reforms to the process, citing a potential impact on UK-wide equalities law.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of backing a challenge to the Holyrood legislation, something UK ministers are considering.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said any move to block the bill passed by MSPs would be \"an outrage\".\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will \"vigorously\" contest any challenge.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, passed by MSPs, removes the need for people to get a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria before starting the change process.\n\nIt also drops the age limit to 16, and cuts the amount of time the process takes from two years to a matter of months.\n\nScottish Labour supported the reforms, and almost all of its MSPs voted for the finalised bill.\n\nBut Sir Keir told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: \"I have concerns about the provision in Scotland, in particular the age reduction to 16 and, in particular, the rejection of our amendment in relation to the Equalities Act.\"\n\nPressed on whether you are old enough at 16 to decide to change gender, he replied: \"No, I don't think you are.\"\n\nScottish Labour had tabled an unsuccessful amendment that sought to clarify the application of UK-wide equality laws.\n\nSupporters of the lower age limit previously argued that the age of legal capacity in Scotland was already 16 and that should be no different when it came to changing gender.\n\nSir Keir also told the programme a respectful debate was needed on the issue and said he believed it was currently being treated as a \"political football\".\n\nAsked to clarify his position, the Labour leader replied: \"Modernise the legislation to take out the indignities.\"\n\nThe UK government is considering challenging the legislation, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying it is \"entirely reasonable\" for ministers to examine the potential legal impact of the bill on the rest of the UK.\n\nSir Keir would not be drawn on whether he would back a challenge, saying he wanted to wait and see what UK ministers decided to do.\n\nAuthor JK Rowling has been an outspoken critic of the reforms in Scotland\n\nThe UK government is currently considering legal advice about whether to use its powers to block the bill from becoming law.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke during a visit to Scotland last week about the concerns he has over the changes it would enact.\n\nDowning Street officials said on Saturday that the full legal advice to ministers had not yet been reviewed and no decisions had been made.\n\nBBC Scotland understands a decision may be announced on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Mark Harper was also asked about the gender self-identification laws being changed in Scotland.\n\nHe said ministers were awaiting \"detailed analysis\" of how Scotland's gender law would affect UK legislation.\n\nMr Harper told the BBC: \"We are not proposing to make those changes for England, but what we have to do is make a decision about whether that legislation impacts on legislation elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"One of those pieces of legislation is the Equalities Act.\n\n\"That is why we need a detailed analysis of that, and that is the information the government needs before it can take a decision.\"\n\nMr Harper added that transgender people had received abuse and their rights should be respected but women also had concerns about risks to their safety.\n\nThe minister also described criticism of the author JK Rowling, who has condemned the legislation in Scotland, as unfair.\n\nMaking it easier to legally change gender has been one of the most contentious issues to come before the Holyrood parliament.\n\nIt has exposed sharp divisions within all the major political parties and prompted the biggest ever rebellion in the SNP since the party took power.\n\nThose divisions within parties are underlined by the stance Sir Keir Starmer has now taken against extending the right to switch gender to 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nThe official position of the Scottish Labour Party was to support that change, albeit that some of their MSPs refused to back the bill at the final stage.\n\nIf, in the week ahead, the UK government decides to use its powers to block the Scottish bill, Labour will have another decision to make.\n\nDo they think such an intervention is justified or not? Sir Keir has not ruled out backing a UK veto even if his Scottish party helped pass the legislation.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"What we have is a right-wing UK Conservative government which is seeking to row back on the democratic powers of the Scottish Parliament. That's an outrage.\n\n\"And the people who should be most outraged by that are the Conservative and Labour politicians who voted in favour of the GRR (Gender Recognition Reform) who must recognise the fact this is the UK parliament overstepping massively.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens criticised the Labour leader and said his comments were a \"shameful intervention\".\n\nEqualities spokeswoman Maggie Chapman said: \"Starmer is ignoring the views of the vast majority of the Scottish Parliament, including the Labour MSPs who rightly backed the bill.\n\n\"A lot of people in Scotland will never forgive him if he lines up with the Tories to block what is a small but important step for equality.\"\n\nScottish actor Brian Cox, 76, also spoke in favour of the legislation but said he was unsure about 16-year-olds being allowed to change gender.\n\nI'm very, very proud of Scotland for doing the gender identification act, because I think that's long needed and it's a debate that has to happen,\" he told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.\n\n\"And I do question the 16 thing, but that's my own personal feeling, but I do feel we need to address that and I think that's absolutely right.\"\n\nHe also said he did not like the way JK Rowling was treated over the issue as she was \"entitled to her opinion\".\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Passengers have been asked to check the latest information before they travel until advised otherwise\n\nThe 144ft-long (44m) landslip, which happened near Hook, in Hampshire, has damaged the main line from London Waterloo to Basingstoke.\n\nNetwork Rail has asked passengers not to travel between London and south or west of Basingstoke on Monday.\n\nIt also said there would be \"major changes to train services for some time\" while repairs take place.\n\nThe slip, which left one track hanging in mid-air, means only two of the railway's four tracks are passable, with both the intact tracks designed to be used by London-bound trains only.\n\nNetwork Rail Wessex route director Mark Killick said it would have \"a massive effect on customers\".\n\nHe said the main line to Basingstoke was the spine of the railway and there would be \"knock-on impacts across the route\".\n\n\"We're still assessing the damage and it's difficult to put a detailed timescale in place, but we know it's going to be at least a week,\" he said.\n\nThe slip happened when the soil gave way along a section of the embankment\n\nApologising for the \"scale of the disruption\", he said passengers should check before they travel, not just on the affected section but all the way up the line to London Waterloo.\n\n\"We will need to stabilise the embankment, essentially stopping it moving, and then rebuild the railway where it has slid away,\" he said.\n\nThe slip happened when the soil gave way along a section of the embankment to the north-east of Hook station and slide out from underneath the tracks.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was working on designs for the work needed to repair the railway, which would then give a clearer idea of timescales involved.\n\nIt added that a plan to provide journey options was set to be published \"as soon as possible\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "State-owned CalMac, which operates 34 vessels, has the largest fleet in the UK\n\nFares on ferries serving some of the most remote communities in Scotland will be frozen for six months, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nTicket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides ferry networks will be held at current levels from April until the end of September.\n\nThe move is designed to help people and businesses recover from recent disruptions to services.\n\nCancellations have resulted in issues with delivering supplies to islands.\n\nLast month, a Holyrood consultation said provision of ferries for Scotland's island communities was \"well below\" reasonable levels.\n\nAnd in June, a group of island community representatives vented their anger over unreliable ferry services to the transport committee.\n\nMargaret Morrison, chairwoman of the Harris Transport Forum, said it had \"reached an all-time critical situation\".\n\nTwo ferries are being built in Port Glasgow but these have suffered serious delays and controversy over the last few years.\n\nThe fare freeze will allow state-run operator CalMac to release its timetables for April onwards.\n\nIts chief executive Robbie Drummond said: \"We welcome this decision, which will be good news for island communities.\n\n\"Now that we have the decision on the 2023 fares from the transport minister, we will be able to complete the work required on our systems to enable us to open bookings.\n\n\"As previously announced, we will open bookings as soon as possible and certainly before the end of January. The opening date for bookings will be advertised very shortly.\"\n\nTransport Minister Jenny Gilruth said: \"The Scottish government is acutely aware of the particular challenges faced by our island communities, where the ongoing cost-of-living impacts are arguably more challenging than in any other part of the country.\n\n\"Ministers are also mindful of the disruption on the ferry network in recent times - particularly in relation to the Clyde and Hebrides network.\n\n\"This fares freeze is the right thing for our island communities and I hope it will go some way to encouraging tourism this summer as island businesses continue to recover from the pandemic.\"\n\nMs Gilruth added that the government would consider fares policy in the longer term as part of both the Island Connectivity Plan and its wider fair fares review in a bid to address the needs of Scotland's islands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia launched fresh waves of missile attacks across Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 20 people in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro.\n\nA number of other cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, were also hit.\n\nMuch of Ukraine is now under an emergency blackout after missiles hit power infrastructure in several cities.\n\nEarlier, the UK said it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to help the country's defence.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Challengers, the British army's main battle tank, would help Kyiv's forces \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nRussia responded by saying that providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties.\n\nLater on Saturday - a day when Ukrainians celebrate the Old (or Orthodox) New Year - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian attacks on civilian targets could be stopped only if Ukraine's Western partners supplied necessary weapons.\n\n\"What is needed for this? Those weapons which are in the depots of our partners and which our soldiers are waiting for so much,\" he said in his nightly video address, adding that his forces shot down more than 20 out of 30 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine.\n\nRescue teams work in the rubble of the damaged residential building hit by shelling in Dnipro\n\nThe devastating strike in Dnipro hit the entrance of a nine-storey building, turning several floors into smouldering rubble, and leaving 73 injured, including 14 children, Ukrainian officials said, in what is likely to be the worst attack in months.\n\nA sizeable crowd gathered to watch the rescue effort at the site of the strike, while others joined rescue workers in a desperate search for survivors. There were urgent calls, human chains of volunteers clearing rubble and torch beams piercing thick clouds of dust and smoke.\n\nIn his address, Mr Zelensky said debris clearance in Dnipro would continue all night: \"We are fighting for every person, every life.\" So far, 38 people have been rescued from the building, including six children, officials say.\n\nThere is no information yet on why the apartment block was the object of such devastation, as it is some distance from the nearest power facility.\n\nOn a day when Russia seemed intent, once again, on targeting Ukraine's energy grid, this could have been one of the less accurate missiles in Russia's arsenal, or something brought down by Ukraine's air defences - although on the face of it, this seems a less likely explanation.\n\nIt has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid. Mr Zelensky said of the energy infrastructure facilities hit on Saturday that the most difficult situation was in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions.\n\nUkrainian state energy company Ukrenergo earlier said round-the-clock consumption limits had been set for all regions until midnight local time.\n\nOfficials, in the West and in Ukraine, had begun to wonder if Russia's \"energy war\" might be coming to an end, due to a possible shortage of suitable missiles and the evident fact the strategy has yet to break Ukraine's spirit.\n\nSaturday's attacks suggest Moscow still thinks it is a tactic worth pursuing.", "Mexico has brought into force one of the world's strictest anti-tobacco laws by enacting a total ban on smoking in public places.\n\nThe step, which was first approved in 2021, also includes a ban on tobacco advertising.\n\nSeveral other Latin American countries have also passed legislation to create smoke-free public spaces.\n\nHowever, Mexico's legislation is considered to be the most robust and wide-ranging in the Americas.\n\nIt amounts to one of the most stringent anti-smoking laws in the world. Mexico's existing 2008 law - which created smoke-free spaces in bars, restaurants and workplaces - is now extended to an outright ban in all public spaces. That includes parks, beaches, hotels, offices and restaurants.\n\nThere will also be a total ban on the advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products, meaning that cigarettes cannot even be on show inside shops.\n\nVapes and e-cigarettes are also subject to tighter new restrictions, particularly indoors.\n\nThe Pan American Health Organisation has welcomed the step and applauded the Mexican government for implementing the ban.\n\nThe organisation says that tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death in the world, responsible for nearly a million deaths in the Americas each year, either through direct consumption or exposure to second-hand smoke.\n\nHowever, some smokers are dismayed at the draconian nature of the new law.\n\nIn essence, it means that many will only be allowed to smoke in their homes or other private residences.\n\nOthers have raised questions about the practicalities of enforcing the law.\n\nWith police corruption so rampant in Mexico, many fear that rather than issuing real fines or punishments for smoking in public, some officers will use it as a pretext for taking bribes.", "The research was an \"observational study\" rather than a clinical trial\n\nHormone replacement therapy (HRT) could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease among some higher-risk women, researchers say data has suggested.\n\nAbout a quarter of women in the UK are thought to carry a gene called APOE4, which is known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe new, early, research found HRT - which can help control menopause symptoms - was associated with better memory and larger brain volumes for those with the gene.\n\nThe researchers said it was too early to say for sure whether HRT reduced dementia risk in women, but the results highlighted its potential importance.\n\nThe research was an \"observational study\" rather than a clinical trial.\n\nAnd it did not measure whether the women it looked at went on to develop dementia.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK said the findings were encouraging. but that more and larger studies were needed to help understand the link between HRT and changes to the brain.\n\nThe study, led by Professor Anne-Marie Minihane, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, with Professor Craig Ritchie at the University of Edinburgh, was published in in the Alzheimer's Research & Therapy journal.\n\nIt looked at data from 1,178 women involved in the European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia initiative, which studies participants' brain health over time.\n\nAll women who took part in the European initiative were over 50 and had no dementia diagnosis when joining it.\n\nThis study then looked at results of cognitive tests and brain volumes as recorded by MRI scans.\n\nDr Rasha Saleh, from UEA's Norwich Medical School. said the findings suggested HRT use was associated with \"better memory and larger brain volumes\" among the APOE4 gene carriers.\n\nIf confirmed in a clinical trial, she said, the effects of HRT would \"equate to a brain age that is several years younger\".\n\nProf Minihane said the results of the study were a \"very nice finding\" that would encourage them to run further studies.\n\nThe next stage will be to go on to a clinical trial, she said.\n\n\"We'll recruit people who are E4 and non-E4,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Put women on HRT, follow them up, study them in quite a lot of detail, and hopefully that will provide us with a definitive answer as to whether HRT is a really effective therapy in women who carry this E4 gene.\"\n\nShe added: \"The other major news I suppose was that the earlier the better - that HRT use seemed to be particularly beneficial in women who started it during the perimenopausal or early post-menopausal period.\"\n\nDr Sara Imarisio, head of strategic initiatives at the Alzheimer's Research UK, said the study provided evidence that HRT could have some cognitive benefits, but the findings needed to be confirmed with trials that directly tested it.\n\n\"The next step is to investigate this in more detail. Importantly, this study didn't measure whether women went on to develop dementia.\n\n\"So, its findings need to be confirmed, first in trials that directly test whether giving HRT affects women's cognitive abilities and changes in their brain, particularly carriers of the APOE4 gene.\n\n\"This will then help pave the way for finding possible interventions, for example clinical trials to see if it could eventually prevent dementia, and to help understand why dementia disproportionately affects women in the UK.\"\n\nAlzheimer's Society's associate director of research Dr Richard Oakley also said more studies were needed.\n\nHe said: \"Studies of this kind are important as they hint at a link between HRT and the changes to the brain.\n\n\"We need more studies, on a larger scale, to better understand this link.\"\n\nAlzheimer's is more common in women than in men - almost two thirds of Alzheimer's patients in the UK are women.\n\nAlthough the APOE4 gene is known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, people with the gene will not necessarily develop the condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\n\"It was bad. Really bad.\"\n\nJurgen Klopp's immediate reaction to Liverpool's heavy defeat by Brighton on Saturday was short and to the point.\n\nThe visitors were outplayed from start to finish at Amex Stadium, producing an alarmingly disjointed, toothless and lop-sided display that leaves them way off the pace in the Premier League.\n\nBrentford's win at home to Bournemouth on Saturday evening saw the Reds drop to ninth in the table, 16 points behind league leaders Arsenal having played a game more.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport after the 3-0 loss on the south coast, Klopp said: \"I can't remember a worse game. I honestly can't.\n\n\"Brighton played very well. They deserved to win. It was a very organised team against a not very organised team.\n\n\"Of course we're very concerned. How can you not be after a game like this?\"\n\nAfter 18 league games, Liverpool have scored fewer goals, conceded more, won fewer points and have a worse goal difference than at this stage of any previous full top-flight campaign under Klopp, who was appointed manager in October 2015.\n\nThey have dropped 26 points in the league this season - four more than across the entire 2021-22 campaign.\n\nKlopp fielded a 4-3-1-2 formation on Saturday, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain operating behind a front two of Mohamed Salah and Cody Gakpo, but there was an imbalance to their play which Brighton were only too keen to exploit.\n\nLiverpool fans will argue, with some justification, that injuries to Virgil van Dijk, Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and several others have had a major impact, but recent defensive frailties cannot be explained away.\n\nCareless mistakes were to blame for the 3-1 defeat at Brentford two weeks ago, and the 2-2 draw at home to Wolves in the FA Cup third round last Saturday.\n\nBrighton's opener in particular was entirely self-inflicted, Alexis Mac Allister intercepting Joel Matip's loose pass in the build-up to Solly March's 46th-minute effort.\n\nAsked what went wrong, captain Jordan Henderson simply said: \"Everything.\n\n\"It hasn't been right for a little while now. Everybody knows that. I'll take responsibility and the lads will too. We have to try to put it right.\n\n\"We're pretty low on confidence. The energy level is low. We have to keep fighting and hopefully we can change it sooner rather than later.\"\n\nRank out of seven seasons under Klopp\n\nKlopp delivered an angry response when asked during Friday's pre-match news conference why he has yet to bring in further reinforcements during the January transfer window, telling reporters that the \"transfer market is not the solution for us\".\n\nWhile Liverpool continue to be linked with Moises Caicedo - who delivered another midfield masterclass for Brighton on Saturday - and England international Jude Bellingham, Gakpo remains their only signing since the World Cup in Qatar.\n\nFormer England and Arsenal defender Martin Keown told Final Score a \"rebuilding job\" is required to pull Liverpool out of their current slump.\n\n\"I think Jurgen Klopp's a magnificent manager - we know that,\" he said. \"It just looks a bit old in midfield.\n\n\"If Liverpool can't press you - they were the best in Europe last year - then they're not the same. They just don't have that same energy.\"\n\nKlopp, however, believes better organisation remains the key to improving the Reds' fortunes.\n\n\"The same players have played outstanding football matches, but if things aren't properly organised then it can look like that,\" he said.\n\n\"Today is a really low point. From this game we can pick up absolutely nothing apart from things that did not work.\n\n\"To improve on today should not be too difficult.\"\n• None Visit our Liverpool page for all the latest Reds news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Liverpool news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n• None Podcast: The Red Kop - listen to the latest episode on BBC Sounds\n• None Our coverage of Liverpool is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Liverpool - go straight to all the best content", "Polina reads in the window of her room on the cruise ship\n\nWhen Andriy gathered his family together and fled the war in Ukraine with only what they could carry, the last place he thought he would end up was on a cruise ship.\n\nBut for the past five months, the MS Ambition, docked in Glasgow, has been home.\n\nThe unconventional accommodation has turned out to have provided the bridge into Scottish life that the families needed.\n\nAfter six months, more than 1,000 Ukrainians, including 400 children, are preparing to go on the move again - this time to something more long term.\n\n\"It was very exciting during the first few weeks,\" Andriy told BBC Scotland. \"I have three kids and we have two small cabins.\n\n\"The conditions are good and we are very grateful. We have everything we need for temporary accommodation.\n\n\"We have a job centre on the ship, the Scottish government and city council advise us how to integrate here.\n\n\"We also have English courses and on the ship we made our own community. There are people who like to sing together, it was like a small social experiment, a small community of Ukrainians.\n\n\"But on a ship, you are quite isolated from society.\"\n\nAndriy and his family want to find jobs, earn money and pay for their own accommodation\n\nAndriy, his wife Natalia, Maria aged 10, and twins Oleksiy and Polina, eight, have been part of a community onboard the MS Ambition.\n\nBut it was only ever going to be a temporary measure and the Scottish government announced this week that the ship's contract will end on 31 March.\n\nThe contract for a second ship, the MS Victoria I docked in Edinburgh, has however been extended by five months.\n\nAndriy said: \"We are very grateful for the people of Scotland welcoming us here and giving us the opportunity to bring our kids and families to a safe environment.\n\n\"There were rumours the contract would end in March so everyone expected that and at least now we have a deadline. There is uncertainty over what will happen next but Ukrainians are used to uncertainty and we will get through it somehow.\"\n\nThe family would love to go home. But with the war in Ukraine still volatile, and constant Russian attacks, that is not yet possible.\n\n\"There is no better place than home,\" said Andriy. \" We understand we cannot go back to that immediately but I agree maybe it's time for another phase.\"\n\nMS Ambition has been home to more than 1,000 Ukrainians including 400 children\n\nAndriy worked in HR for a tech company in Lviv. He has been job hunting and like many on the ship who have already got work, he wants to help himself too.\n\n\"We are not expecting something will just be given to us. We want to be employed and to earn and pay for our accommodation. I hope we will manage that.\"\n\nSome have already moved on from MS Ambition, organising their own rented accommodation. Andriy has tried.\n\n\"It is quite challenging for us because we don't have any credit history here, we need a guarantor to co-sign a contract with you and I have no idea who that would be,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a bottleneck in the system, how to integrate, and we don't know how to overcome it.\"\n\nAndriy's daughter Polina has lived on a ship for almost five months\n\nThe Scottish government is working with Glasgow City Council and other local authorities to get longer term accommodation arranged.\n\nVolunteer hosting is still part of the plan.\n\nThe Scottish government's minister for Ukrainian refugees, Neil Gray, has urged potential hosts to come forward.\n\n\"There have been a number of people that have already moved on from the ships who have been matched into alternative accommodation by us, who have moved into social housing or their own private rented accommodation,\" he said.\n\n\"We expect that to continue.\n\nThe contract for the MS ambition will end on 31 March\n\n\"We have matching teams from the local authority and Scottish government on board the ship to look at what people's needs are to give them as much choice as possible and to present to them offers of accommodation from generous people opening up their homes across Scotland.\n\n\"That will be intensified now.\"\n\nAndriy appreciates the generosity of such hosts and sees it as an opportunity to be part of a Scottish community.\n\n\"That is incredible,\" he said. \"I can't imagine what kind of people they are and what kind of culture and kindness they have to do that.\n\n\"This is an opportunity to connect and learn the real culture, to learn English and to make friends.\"\n• None Ukrainian refugees on cruise ship to be rehomed", "Dr Jassy Drakulic: 'We don't have names for most of the fungi that exist'\n\n\"I find them absolutely stunning,\" says Dr Jassy Drakulic, pointing to a fungus emerging from a log.\n\n\"There's a whole series of stripes from browns to blacks to a pale edge.\"\n\nMushrooms aren't known for their ornamental value, but for this scientist they are a thing of beauty.\n\nThe plant pathologist is on a mission to spread the word that fungi need conservation just as much as plants and animals.\n\n\"They're abundant in gardens but until you start looking for them you don't appreciate how prevalent and how beautiful they are,\" she says.\n\nThis fungus is named for its resemblance to a turkey's tail. It belongs to the class of saprophytic fungi, which feed on dead wood, or other decaying matter, and are vital for life on earth.\n\n\"Saprophytic fungi are still very much understudied and underloved,\" says Dr Drakulic.\n\nTurkey tail fungi are a common sight on dead logs, trunks and fallen branches across the UK. But rather than springing up of their own accord, these specimens have been grown from scratch in a first for the Royal Horticultural Society.\n\nExperts grew the fungus in the lab, then transplanted the spores into silver birch logs in the wildlife garden at Wisley Gardens, Surrey. It's part of a drive to convince the public that fungi play an important role in ecosystems.\n\n\"There's a lot of mycophobia towards fungi in the UK,\" says Dr Drakulic. \"A lot of people are afraid of poisonous mushrooms, but if you're not going to go eating the things you find, none of them are going to harm you in anyway\".\n\nClimate change means more fungi due to increasing warm and damp weather\n\nWorking on the likes of turkey tail fungus is a departure for the scientist, who has spent years researching honey fungus. Honey fungus is a killer of hedgerows, shrubs and trees and there is no cure.\n\nBut only a very small proportion of the thousands of species of fungi in the world can cause disease in plants and animals. The vast majority are harmless and often beneficial.\n\nSaprophytic fungi provide food and shelter for wildlife, help plants absorb water and nutrients and break down dead organic matter. Other types of fungi grow on the roots of trees and plants, forming a vast underground network that helps nourish trees.\n\nTrees and many other species rely on fungi\n\nIn the UK there are thought to be around 25,000 species of fungi - five or six times more than plants.\n\n\"We don't have names for most of the fungi that exist, so you can't protect what you don't know about,\" says Dr Drakulic.\n\n\"With fungi, we're really playing catch up trying to study what we have.\"\n\nAn estimated two million fungal species - more than 90% of all fungi - have yet to be described by science. Scientists are trying to identify biodiversity hotspots and find out more about this largely unexplored world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. To retain staff after Covid hospitality businesses have had to offer more benefits\n\nDiscounted accommodation and shorter working weeks are some of the perks being offered to hospitality staff as it faces a recruitment crisis.\n\nUnsociable hours and low pay have been cited as reasons behind an exodus of staff after the Covid pandemic.\n\nAnd insiders say staff retention could be the difference between staying open and shutting up shop in 2023.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had announced £460m in non-domestic rates support for struggling businesses.\n\nFigures from industry body UK Hospitality say the sector employed 140,000 people and contributed about £3.6bn a year to the Welsh economy pre-pandemic, but it is believed these figures have since shrunk.\n\nThe closure of businesses and furloughing of staff at the start of the pandemic is thought to have contributed to workers in the industry considering a change in career, which has led to a shortfall.\n\nDirector of operations for the Seren Collection, a group which includes the Grove of Narberth hotel and restaurant in Pembrokeshire, said this combined with a labour shortage following Brexit had created a \"perfect storm\" for businesses.\n\nThe Grove in Narberth is offering staff four-day working weeks\n\n\"What's nice about what's happened actually is it has made us and the industry in general look at how we remunerate staff, at working conditions and benefits,\" Thomas Ferrante said.\n\n\"Hospitality had been getting better, and there was a push to being a generally happier, nicer place to work; taking consideration that sometimes it is long or antisocial hours, and compensating for that.\n\n\"But nowadays we've gone even further.\"\n\nFollowing the pandemic, Mr Ferrante said the Seren Group introduced a four-day working week with staff able to opt-in but still retain their weekly hours and wage.\n\nFrom this year, the group has also launched a profit-sharing scheme for staff.\n\nMr Ferrante said the industry was on a \"knife-edge\" in terms of worker numbers and that retaining staff was crucial \"to allow you to keep taking in business\".\n\nHeaneys restaurant in Cardiff is one business providing accommodation for staff after office space above its premises in Pontcanna was renovated into a three-bed flat.\n\nThe accommodation is being let to employees at more than 50% below market rates, which owner Tommy Heaney said had helped attract workers from outside the area.\n\nThe business has also reduced the length of shifts for staff, with some also working four-day weeks.\n\nThere is accommodation for Heaneys restaurant staff above the premises\n\n\"It's helped with retaining staff and it's benefitted all parties, really,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at the bigger picture. If I've got guys coming in doing five 16-hour days, yes it saves you money.\n\n\"But in the long term, they're not going to stay. So you've spent time, energy and money on their training, but you're going to lose them.\"\n\nThe Celtic Collection group, which includes the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, has focused on promoting employee benefits like free access to online GP appointments and financial advice, while introducing more flexible shift patterns.\n\nHannah Elliott, the group's talent and development director, said: \"We've probably had to adapt and try more initiatives to attract and retain people in the last two years than we ever have.\n\n\"We've had to evolve in terms of trying to get rid of some of the traditional ways of working in hotels such as split shifts, which no longer exist.\n\n\"From a people perspective, if you stay still with your resourcing and your talent attraction strategy, you will not survive.\"\n\nBut other businesses have found that extending incentives and addressing work-life balance has been unable to attract people back into the sector.\n\nJohn Evans owns the Black Boy Inn pub and hotel in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, and said this was the most difficult period he had known for recruiting staff.\n\nHe offers staff flexible hours and accommodation after late shifts but said he had several vacancies he had been unable to fill.\n\n\"We have tried offering different incentives but they just don't seem to work,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay more than other similar businesses in the area but we're still having serious problems recruiting, and we're far from alone. I know other pubs and hotels just can't get the staff.\n\n\"Brexit has undoubtedly had an impact but many people now want to work from home or only want limited hours.\"\n\nDavid Chapman, executive director of industry body UK Hospitality in Wales, said there had been a \"radical reboot\" of what the sector offers workers since Covid, but that it was still experiencing a difficult time.\n\n\"I can't sugar-coat the bitter pill that we're suffering at the moment, particularly with the news on energy support. And I fear there will be a lot of businesses that will either cut back, reduce staff or even close once it goes past April and that support changes.\n\n\"On the positive side the industry is incredibly resilient. It keeps bouncing back, it will bounce back. And I think we are, once we do come back, in a better position and shape than we were before Covid in some ways.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said it recognised the \"extremely challenging situation for businesses\", adding it had previously announced £460m in non-domestic rates support for the next two financial years to help all businesses struggling with rising costs.‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‍‌​‌‌‌​‌​‍‌​‌‌‌​‌​", "10,000 GMB ambulance workers went on 24-hour strike last week over pay\n\nThe health secretary said \"voluntary arrangements\" for emergency cover during recent ambulance strikes could not \"ensure patient and public safety\".\n\nIn a letter to the GMB, Steve Barclay acknowledged unions that walked out had agreed to answer the most serious category one 999 calls.\n\nBut he said the lack of cover for category two calls, including strokes, in some areas put lives at risk.\n\nThe GMB has accused the government of \"demonising\" its striking workers.\n\nThe union represents more than 10,000 ambulance workers who went on strike on Wednesday across nine ambulance services in England and Wales.\n\nOn Saturday, in an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the GMB said his government had \"singled out ambulance workers as part of a crude attempt to remove our right to strike\".\n\nIt added: \"You are making us and our ambulance colleagues feel demonised.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Barclay wrote on Sunday that he recognised the right to strike and accepted \"that a certain amount of disruption is inherent to any strike\".\n\nHe said he \"greatly\" valued the \"vital work ambulance workers do\" but criticised the \"volatile\" assurances given to him about cover by trade unions during December's industrial action.\n\nThe government's anti-strike bill is due to be considered by MPs again on Monday.\n\nThe legislation would set minimum service levels for fire, ambulance and rail services during industrial action and could leave unions at risk of legal action if they fail to comply.\n\nIn his letter, seen by the BBC, the health minister set out why national minimum service levels should be set in law during \"blue light\" strikes, which he said had the potential to \"put lives at immediate risk\".\n\n\"During recent action I have not been reassured that the current system of voluntary arrangements can be relied upon to ensure patient and public safety,\" Mr Barclay wrote.\n\nThe military helped to drive ambulances during the strike on Wednesday\n\nHe said the controversial Strikes Bill would provide the public with \"much needed assurance that a certain level of urgent and time-critical care will always continue throughout strike action\".\n\nMr Barclay denied it deprive workers of the right to strike, but instead would \"reflect that some individuals will not be able to strike at certain times so that a minimum service level can be maintained\".\n\nUnder the new legislation, employers would be required to issue work notices seven days before strike action and only after consulting with trade unions.\n\nThe GMB said its ambulance committee planned to discuss the health secretary's letter at its meeting on Monday and would consider its response.\n\nAmbulance staff are scheduled to walk out again on 23 January.", "The boy was aged six when he was thrown from the Tate Modern viewing platform in 2019\n\nA boy who is recovering from life-changing injuries he received when he was thrown from the Tate Modern viewing platform has made \"considerable progress\", his family have said.\n\nThe boy, who was six at the time of the fall in 2019, was \"delighted\" to take part in adapted archery and a form of Judo, his family said in a statement.\n\nThey also said his sight and memory was improving.\n\nJonty Bravery was convicted of attempted murder and jailed in 2020.\n\nDuring Bravery's sentencing, the court heard the boy, who had been visiting London from France, would require round-the-clock care until at least 2022 as he had suffered a bleed to the brain and fractures to his spine.\n\nIn a post on a GoFundMe page, which has raised almost 400,000 euros (£354,000) towards his recovery, the boy's family said he was increasingly taking part in physical activity as part of his treatment.\n\nThey said they had spoken to specialists in Paris, who had recommended appropriate physical activity, and as a result, they had registered him \"for equine therapy and the swimming pool with his specialised educator\".\n\nThe family said the boy had taken up a gentle form of Judo in October and had occasionally taken part in adapted archery.\n\n\"Our son has always loved sports, he is delighted to do all this,\" they said.\n\nThey said the youngster's sight and memory was also improving and he had made \"considerable progress in swallowing and breathing\".\n\n\"He remembers more and more things he did or was told during the day,\" they said.\n\nThey added that he had received \"very positive\" school results and \"manages to follow in class despite his difficulties, because he is extremely courageous and hardworking\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Starmer asked if he is 'quietly ruthless'\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the NHS must reform in order to survive.\n\nHe told the BBC the NHS should always be free at the point of use but there was also a role for the private sector, including to help clear waiting lists.\n\nHe also proposed allowing patients to make self-referrals for conditions like back pain to cut bureaucracy.\n\nSenior doctors have warned the NHS is in crisis, with services under huge pressure this winter.\n\nAsked if any reforms for the health service were off the table, Sir Keir told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: \"No, we want to look at all sorts of reform.\"\n\n\"The reason I want to reform the health service is because I want to preserve it. I think if we don't reform the health service we will be in managed decline,\" he added.\n\n\"It will always have to be free at the point of use, it of course should be a public service. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't use effectively the private sector as well.\"\n\nSir Keir said the NHS was facing \"the worst crisis we've ever seen\".\n\nWith more than seven million people waiting for NHS treatment in England, he said a Labour government would make more use of the private sector to help clear waiting lists.\n\nThe Labour leader also criticised the \"bureaucracy\" in some parts of the health service, adding: \"Anybody who's been on the 8 o'clock call trying to get a GP appointment knows exactly what I'm talking about.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to \"lift the burden\" on the NHS by considering allowing patients to self-refer to specialists for some conditions like back pain.\n\nThe interview came after the Labour leader set out his vision for the health service in an article for the Sunday Telegraph.\n\nHe argued the idea the NHS is still the envy of the world is \"plainly wrong\" and that the situation for patients was \"intolerable and dangerous\".\n\nSir Keir also said his party would double the number of graduating doctors and district nurses, increase training placements for nurses and midwives, and gradually turn family doctors into direct employees of the health service.\n\n\"It's time for us to think about a new, sustainable system, one that allows GPs to focus on caring for patients rather than the admin that comes with effectively running a small business,\" he wrote.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care source said Labour's plan for GP services was \"an expensive top-down reorganisation\" and that it was \"uncosted and unfunded\".\n\n\"We are growing the GP workforce, have a record number of doctors in training and we have recruited over 21,000 additional staff into general practice,\" the source said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast month Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the health service was in an \"existential\" crisis.\n\nAttempts to reform the NHS have proved politically contentious, especially for Labour. Some Labour MPs are ideologically opposed to private-sector involvement in the health service.\n\nBut now Sir Keir has appeared to take a hit at some on the left of his party, and its previous leadership under Jeremy Corbyn, arguing that the NHS should not be \"off-limits [or] treated as a shrine rather than a service\".\n\nLabour's proposals come against a backdrop of winter pressures on the health service and strikes by nurses and ambulance workers.\n\nLast week, figures showed the proportion of patients seen within four hours in England's A&Es fell to a record low of 65% in December.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the NHS is a priority for his premiership and earlier this month promised to cut waiting lists.\n\nThe government is also giving the health service £200m to buy thousands of beds in care homes to free up space in hospitals.\n\nMeanwhile, it is pushing forward with controversial legislation which would give ministers the power to enforce minimum service levels during strike action for sectors including the NHS, education and the railways.\n\nElsewhere in his interview, Sir Keir told the BBC he had some concerns over a bill passed in Scotland, which would make it easier for people to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nThe new rules lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate to 16, and remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nThe Labour leader said he did not believe 16 was old enough for someone to change their gender.\n\nHe did not rule out supporting the UK government in potentially blocking the Scottish legislation but said he would \"wait and see\" what the government proposes.\n\nHe added that Labour's position was it wanted to \"modernise\" the legislation to remove \"some of the indignities\" in the process of changing gender.\n\nSir Keir also refused to recommit to abolishing university tuition fees if Labour wins power - a pledge he made when he successfully ran to be party leader in 2020.\n\nAsked if he would stick to the promise, he told the BBC the tuition fees system \"needs to be changed\" but given the state of the economy, every commitment made by Labour had to be \"fully costed\" and affordable.\n\nHe added that the party was \"looking at the options\" in relation to tuition fees and \"haven't got a settled view\".", "More nurses will be asked to strike next month in a bid to raise pressure on the government, union leaders warn.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says if progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January the next set of strikes will include all eligible members in England for the first time.\n\nIt comes as ministers push for new laws on strike days.\n\nNursing staff from more than 70 NHS trusts in England are set to take industrial action this week.\n\nThe RCN has said nurses should receive a pay increase of 5% above inflation this year, which at the peak rate of inflation would have equated to a 19% rise, although reports have suggested it would accept 10%.\n\nThe government says the demands are unaffordable and pay rises were decided by independent pay review bodies.\n\nGeneral secretary Pat Cullen described Rishi Sunak's position in their negotiation deadlock as \"baffling, reckless and politically ill-considered\".\n\nShe said: \"The prime minister gave nursing staff a little optimism that he was beginning to move, but seven days later he appears entirely uninterested in finding a way to stop this.\n\n\"Nursing staff just wanted to be valued and recognised.\n\n\"Without, they will keep leaving in record numbers with consequences for patients that Robert Francis documented in painful detail.\"\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"We have accepted the recommendations of the independent NHS Pay Review Body in full and have given over one million NHS workers a pay rise of at least £1,400 this year.\n\n\"This is on top of a 3% pay increase last year when public sector pay was frozen and wider government support with the cost of living.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Sunak said he hopes to \"find a way through\" the deadlock with unions to avert further industrial action.\n\nThe government also wants to bring in controversial legislation that would impose a legal duty of minimum service levels on strike days for workers in health, education, transport and several other sectors.", "A Romanian police officer was seen behind the wheel of a Ferrari at Andrew Tate's property\n\nSeveral luxury cars have been seized from British-American influencer Andrew Tate's property in Bucharest.\n\nMr Tate was detained alongside his brother Tristan last month as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape, which they deny.\n\nCars, including a Rolls-Royce, BMW and Mercedes-Benz were removed from the property on Saturday, Reuters reported.\n\nMr Tate's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Tate lost a bid to end his detention in Romania after a court rejected his appeal and said he should remain in custody.\n\nMr Tate was seen carrying what appeared to be a copy of the Quran as he walked into Bucharest Appeal Court handcuffed to his brother.\n\nAfter the arrests on 29 December, police said they had identified six people who were allegedly \"sexually exploited\" by what it called an \"organised criminal group\".\n\nPolice alleged the victims were \"recruited\" by the British citizens, who they said misrepresented their intention to enter into a relationship with the victims - which they called \"the loverboy method\".\n\nThey were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, a statement alleged.\n\nThe Tates' lawyer, Eugen Vidineac, has said his clients rejected all the allegations.\n\nBorn in the US before moving to the UK, Mr Tate went on to have a successful career as a kickboxer.\n\nIn 2016, he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman. He then set up a \"webcam business\", which he described as \"adult entertainment\".\n\nHe went on to gain global notoriety, with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.", "The execution of British-Iranian man Alireza Akbari, who had been sentenced to death, has been widely condemned.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nUK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his execution was a \"callous and cowardly act, carried out by a barbaric regime\".\n\nFrance summoned Iran's top diplomat in Paris, warning that Tehran's repeated violations of international law could not go unanswered.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has imposed sanctions on Iran's Prosecutor General, saying it would hold the regime to account \"for its appalling human rights violations\".\n\n\"Sanctioning him today underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari's execution,\" UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said.\n\nIn a further diplomatic move, the foreign secretary has temporarily withdrawn Britain's ambassador to Iran, Simon Shercliff, \"for further consultations\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's official news outlet Mizan reported on Saturday that Mr Akbari, 61, had been hanged. It did not specify the date when the execution took place.\n\nIran posted a video of Mr Akbari earlier this week showing what appeared to be forced confessions, and after the country's intelligence ministry had described the British-Iranian as \"one of the most important agents of the British intelligence service in Iran\".\n\nHowever, BBC Persian broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he said he had been tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nMr Akbari's family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" on Wednesday and his wife said he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nHis nephew, Ramin Forghani, has told the BBC of his shock at his uncle's execution, describing it as the sign of a \"desperate\" regime.\n\nHe said his uncle was an Iranian patriot devoted to the country - a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, consultant to the Iranian government on nuclear talks with the West and also a former deputy defence minister.\n\nMr Akbari returned to Tehran at the request of Ali Shamkhani (centre), secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, his nephew told the BBC\n\nMr Akbari had moved to the UK with an investment visa and become a naturalised citizen, his family say.\n\nBut Mr Forghani said his uncle had returned to Tehran from the UK following a request from his former boss, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from Luxembourg, Mr Forghani said: \"He was devoted to the country, which is why he went back.\n\n\"He was involved with the system from its foundation, and would not contemplate causing harm either to the regime or the population.\n\n\"I can only speculate that there has been some power struggle at the very highest levels of the government and they have decided to create this plot against my uncle.\"\n\nMr Forghani links the timing of his execution to the UK's plans to designate Iran's powerful IRGC - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - as a terrorist organisation. \"This cannot be unrelated,\" he said.\n\nHuman rights group Amnesty International called on the UK to investigate claims Mr Akbari was tortured before his death. The group accused Iran of showing \"pitifully little respect\" for human life.\n\nDr Sanam Vakil, Iran expert at international affairs think-tank Chatham House, said Mr Akbari's death would be used by the Iranian regime to suggest a \"heavy outside hand\" was stoking the anti-government unrest - linking the protests with the accusation that Western nations were trying to \"destabilise the Islamic republic\".\n\n\"Keeping the narrative of the West being involved is a way to maintain unity among the political establishment,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nTies between the UK and Iran have deteriorated in recent months since London imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police and other top security figures, in response to the country's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a longstanding debt owed to Tehran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "He is miles ahead in the polls. He faces a rival party with a serious habit of knocking lumps out of itself. Wages run out more quickly every week. And there's a sense among the public that nothing works any more.\n\nPut all that together, and then ask yourself, is Keir Starmer going to be the next prime minister? It's a slam-dunk, surely? Hold on - whether that prospect thrills you, appals you, or leaves you cold, don't make that assumption.\n\n\"No-one believes we are really 20 points ahead,\" says one shadow minister.\n\nThe simple gap polls suggest between the two big parties doesn't capture the many voters who aren't sure who to back - showing up right now as a sizeable and mysterious chunk of \"don't knows\".\n\nThe election might be only 18 months or so away, but political years are like dog years, so it's a metaphorical lifetime until 2024.\n\nAnd while the Tories' specialist subject in the last few years has been messy turmoil, their campaign machine will crank up before too long, determined to do Labour a lot of damage.\n\nRemember too, the arithmetic of the existing Parliament. Boris Johnson's win in 2019 was so huge that Labour would have to achieve one of the biggest swings in living memory to end up with a measly majority of one.\n\nThat's why one shadow cabinet member says Keir Starmer's \"overwhelming message in our meetings is: don't be complacent\".\n\nAnother says, \"You won't find anyone sensible who thinks we have sealed the deal.\"\n\nIt is far, far too early to say if the Labour leader will become the next prime minister.\n\nBut let's ask, as this crucial year begins, is Labour's advantage a side-effect of total Tory meltdown - or a political achievement that has persuaded voters to a shift which will really last?\n\n\"We don't think it's all down to our brilliant genius,\" one of Labour's top team jokes.\n\nUnless you've been living on Planet Zog, you'll be well aware that the Conservatives have worked pretty hard in recent times to destroy their reputation as being the natural party of government in the UK.\n\nTheir former leader got into trouble over whether he was telling the truth and breaking the law under his own roof.\n\nHis successor's financial moves more or less crashed the pound, and \"trashed their reputation for looking after our cash\", says one shadow minister.\n\nRecession is expected. Inflation is historically high, and hurts. And although taxes are at record levels, public services are visibly stretched too thin in many areas, with strikes to boot.\n\nThey have a new leader, prime minister number three, who is trying hard to stop the rot.\n\nYet digest that list for a moment, and it is little surprise that right now, the opposition are on top. As another shadow minister says though, \"It is not good enough just to say we're not the other guys\".\n\nJust as the Tories have chaotically been going about the business of eroding their credibility, Keir Starmer has, piece by piece, been deadly serious about rebuilding Labour's.\n\nJust as it's worth remembering how huge the Conservative victory was in 2019, remember too how broken the Labour party was then.\n\nThat's not just about the car crash at the ballot boxes, but the fear and loathing inside the party, administrative problems, conflicts over antisemitism, financial issues.\n\nThree years on, Starmer's backers point to a party that's been totally transformed. His moves have angered many on the left who feel that he misled them during his leadership campaign by ditching several of the promises he made then.\n\nLegal disputes and resentments simmer, but there's no question it is a different party, a more focused and efficient machine with a different character and far less internal strife.\n\nSome who were devotees of Jeremy Corybn have left in fury. One shadow minister told me \"at party conference there were plenty of people shouting at us on the way in, but at least they're no longer inside the hall\".\n\nThere's a familiar criticism of Keir Starmer that he's a bit, well, dull - or cautious, to be more diplomatic.\n\nBut the change to the party is dramatic.\n\nThe shadow minister says while Starmer \"didn't do a Blair, make a speech about clause 4 on stage\" - when he controversially changed a key clause in Labour's constitution - the change in the party is \"profound\", and achieved by Starmer's \"steeliness\" to get it done.\n\nOne Labour MP who hung on to their seat in 2019 says that after the changes the leadership has made, the party \"isn't something to be frightened of anymore\", concluding if Keir Starmer hadn't taken on the battles inside the party, even at their wits' end with the Tories, voters would not have been willing to take a look.\n\nAll that, inevitably, feeds into the public's perception of Labour, which shows up so clearly in the polls.\n\nEven in the darkest days of Theresa May, when sometimes it felt like the government might not last the day, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn only edged slightly ahead.\n\nBut unsure if this advantage will last, the party's leadership wants to make the most of the moment - using the chance, and a seeming new-found confidence, to talk about immigration, about making changes to the NHS, seeming almost to delight in talking up issues that could cause consternation on the inside, like use of the private sector in health care.\n\nAnd almost trolling Brexiteers by stealing their \"take back control\" slogan when talking about the normally worthy subject of devolution.\n\nPolitics can (I promise) be fun, and with several months of a polling lead, Keir Starmer looks like he might be beginning to have some.\n\nLabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer leaves after delivering a New Year's speech at University College London\n\nYet there are plenty of pitfalls ahead - what position should his party take over the looming constitutional clash over trans rights? How would the Labour party, with its historic ties to the unions, deal with industrial unrest?\n\nThere are always calls from the backbenches for him to \"get off the sidelines\", as one senior MP bemoans, calling for urgency, clarity, a stronger sense of standing up for those suffering in this tough winter.\n\nThe same MP reports a \"real sense of trepidation and anxiousness\" about the Starmer project. \"I'm really twitchy about the whole thing.\"\n\nAnother backbencher says that while \"voters think we are credible, they don't think we are exciting yet\".\n\nWhile the party is consistently far ahead of the Conservatives, that's not the same as Starmer's personal ratings against Rishi Sunak.\n\nIt is impossible to divide up the reason why Labour has been so far ahead for so long neatly into the by-product of the Tory chaos and the changes the party has undergone itself.\n\nOne shadow minister wonders if it matters. Yet surely the reasons for the lead will make a difference to how sticky that support is during the battle of the next year - how easy or hard will it be for Keir Starmer to make this poll lead permanent and concrete, or for Rishi Sunak to peel it back?\n\nThe Conservatives' implosion has, in the words of one senior Labour figure, \"unlocked\" the electorate.\n\nKeir Starmer's plan was always a three-stage sequence - to sort out his party, then take the shine off the Conservatives, and then to explain to the country what he would do.\n\nWithout question the Tories have done much of the second part of his plan on his behalf. But part three is perhaps just truly beginning.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about profiting permanently from your opponents' disaster. And with Rishi Sunak determined to get his party back on track, Keir Starmer can't rely on the Conservatives giving it away.\n\nYou can watch from 09:00 GMT on BBC One and iPlayer this Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 80,000 Israeli protesters have rallied in Tel Aviv against plans by the new right-wing coalition government to overhaul the judiciary.\n\nThe reforms would make it easier for parliament to overturn Supreme Court rulings, among other things.\n\nProtesters described Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed changes as an attack on democratic rule.\n\nIt follows the instalment of the most religious and hardline government in Israeli history.\n\nRallies were also held outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and in the northern city of Haifa, local media reported.\n\nOne group of protesters clashed with police while attempting to block a major road, Ayalon highway, in Tel Aviv.\n\nCritics say the reforms would cripple judicial independence, foster corruption, set back minority rights and deprive Israel's court system of credibility.\n\nBanners referred to the new coalition led by Mr Netanyahu as a government of shame.\n\nIsraeli security forces with left-wing protesters during the rallies in Tel Aviv\n\nAmong those opposed are Israel's Supreme Court chief justice, Esther Hayat, and the country's attorney-general.\n\nThe BBC's Samantha Granville in Tel Aviv saw protesters draped in Israeli flags, carrying posters in Hebrew, and pictures of Mr Netanyahu with X's over his mouth.\n\nThere was a group of young girls with red-painted hand prints over their mouths. They wanted to tell the government they won't be quiet.\n\nOne woman, who asked not to use her name, said through her tears she was a second-generation Holocaust survivor.\n\n\"My parents immigrated from non-democratic regimes to live in a democracy,\" she said. \"They came from the totalitarian regime to live freely. So seeing that destroyed is heart-breaking.\"\n\nShe and her friend said they expected Mr Netanyahu to try radical changes, but never thought they would come so fast.\n\nThese are the largest demonstrations since Mr Netanyahu's new coalition government was sworn in, in December.\n\nOpposition parties had called on Israelis to join the rallies to \"save democracy\" and in protest at the planned judicial overhaul.\n\nUnder the plans announced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin earlier this month, a simple majority in the Knesset (parliament) would have the power to effectively annul Supreme Court rulings. This could enable the government of the day to pass legislation without fear of it being struck down.\n\nCritics fear the new government could use this to scrap Mr Netanyahu's ongoing criminal trial, although the government has not said it would do that.\n\nMr Netanyahu is being tried on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust - something he strongly denies.\n\nA huge crowd gathered in Tel Aviv to protest at the judicial reforms to reduce Supreme Court powers\n\nThe reforms would also give politicians more influence over the appointment of judges, with most members of the selection committee coming from the ruling coalition.\n\nIf it passes into law, the plan could make it easier for the government to legislate in favour of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank without worrying about challenges in the Supreme Court.\n\nIsrael has previously highlighted the power of the court to rule against it, as a way of blunting international criticism of such moves.", "People on an early morning walk in the snow near Hexham\n\nParts of the UK have been hit with snow and ice, amid warnings the cold weather is set to stay.\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place for Northern Ireland, northwest England and north Wales from midday until 12:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nDrivers were warned to leave extra time for morning commutes due to icy roads, with more travel disruption expected.\n\nA sharp widespread frost, with lows of -4C to -8C, is expected overnight into Tuesday.\n\nSnow has hit south-east England and a yellow warning for snow and ice is in place for Scotland until Wednesday.\n\nThe Met Office said snow showers and icy conditions might \"bring some disruption\" and warned it could lead to longer journeys for train passengers and drivers.\n\nBBC forecaster Billy Payne said a few centimetres of snow had fallen in parts of Scotland and northern England overnight, even on low ground - with 18cm (7in) recorded at Loch Glascarnoch in Scotland.\n\nFurther frost and ice risks are expected over the next few nights and daytime temperatures should stay low, he said.\n\nBut BBC forecasters said major weather disruption, like in December, was not expected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Craig Snell warned Monday morning commuters to leave plenty of time for their journeys, due to \"a risk of snow on high ground and slippery surfaces on lower areas\".\n\nHe added: \"This could be a problem during rush hour, it could cause a few problems on the roads. The risk of flooding is still there.\"\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice, covering Northern Ireland, northern Wales, northern England, northern Midlands and southern Scotland, was in place until 10:00.\n\nSnow has also fallen across the south east of England after a yellow warning was in place for Kent and Canterbury until 08:00.\n\nBBC forecasters said the snow in south east and northern England would ease throughout the morning.\n\nMr Snell said most of the nation would be dry with sunny spells through the rest of Monday.\n\nThe rest of the week is predicted to be cold with patchy showers, particularly in northern areas, until temperatures rise at the weekend.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has also been issued for south west England from midnight until 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nA woman walks her dog through snow in Hexham\n\nIn northern Scotland, a yellow warning for snow and ice covers the area until 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAll schools and nurseries in Shetland have closed after overnight snow fell across most of the islands.\n\nThe cold snap comes after widespread flooding left parts of the UK submerged over the weekend - with more than 106 flood warnings and 172 flood alerts still active across England.\n\nSarah Cook, from the Environment Agency, said workers on Monday would continue dealing with flooding in the areas which were worst hit by the weekend deluge.\n\nShe added the rain on Sunday night in the south of England could give rise to the possibility of a minor risk of flooding to isolated properties, and she advised people to to stay away from swollen rivers and to avoid driving through flood water.\n\nThe Met Office's Rachel Ayres said a widespread frost expected overnight could see some flood water on roads freezing.\n\nThis \"could pose an ice risk\" on Tuesday, she said.\n\nRod Dennis from the RAC said that after the floods last week \"it's now ice that poses the biggest danger to drivers\".\n\nHe warned motorists on rural roads which have not been gritted to be careful and slow down.\n\n\"Although this week's cold snap will be much briefer than the freezing conditions we saw in December that led to the RAC's busiest week ever, we're still expecting to see a big increase in breakdowns\", he added.\n\nThe scene in York at the weekend where rescue workers needed a boat to navigate floodwaters", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"When you see their faces, you can't put it into words... we still tear up\"\n\nLynsey Summers says she dreams about seeing her son walk.\n\nJacob, 19, has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which affects his arms and legs and means he uses a wheelchair.\n\nBut thanks to a new machine at his school, Jacob has now stood upright and moved his legs for the first time.\n\n\"I have dreams where he walks and that's emotional, so to actually see that start to be real, I suppose it's the closest I can ever hope for a dream coming true,\" said Lynsey.\n\n\"It's a sensation he could never have experienced before.\"\n\nJacob, from Cardiff, cannot sit unaided so most of his movement has traditionally come from physiotherapy sessions.\n\n\"We'd try to do a little bit in the morning, just to loosen him up,\" Lynsey said, describing doing ankle turns and leg movements with him, which could be quite \"stilted\".\n\nLynsey said you can see how happy it makes Jacob to be able to move his legs while using the machine\n\n\"It's also very tiring for the person doing it, so it can only be done for a short time, especially because Jacob's an adult now,\" she added.\n\n\"So to have a machine he can go in for a longer period and give him the sensation of walking that he's never experienced before... he goes on there and you see the smile on him.\"\n\nYsgol y Deri is a special school in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, which caters for students aged between three and 19 with a range of learning and physical needs and autism.\n\nPhysiotherapists at the school trialled the Innowalk device to see if it could help pupils.\n\nIt looks a bit like a cross trainer that you would find in a gym, but with lots of extra support\n\nEighteen months on, paediatric physiotherapist Amelia Stubbs, 31, said they had seen real benefits for pupils.\n\n\"In the basic terms, it's their wellbeing,\" said Ms Stubbs.\n\n\"They're up and doing something active, which they wouldn't normally be able to do.\n\n\"We notice they're much happier when they come to physiotherapy and really like engaging with us.\"\n\nAmelia Stubbs has been using the Innowalk machine with pupils like Jacob to give them the sensation of walking\n\nLynsey said Jacob looks forward to his sessions: \"He gets an endorphin rush when he's been on it, so he's in a much better mood.\n\n\"He's happy and jokey. He sleeps really well when he's been on it. It helps with his personal care, bowel movements and achy-ness in his muscles. He really, really enjoys it.\"\n\nFellow pupil Seren, 14, also enjoys using the device.\n\n\"It's actually kind of nice. It's fun if you have something fun to do in it,\" she said.\n\nThe school's assistive technology technician, Aaron Hawxwell, had the idea of introducing virtual reality (VR) headsets to the experience.\n\nVirtual reality (VR) is used to offer a realistic walking experience\n\nUsing the perspective of children who used to be able to walk but cannot any longer, they tested a series of VR videos to determine which one offered the most realistic walking experience to the user.\n\n\"Some of the kids who can't talk, when you see their faces... you can't put it into words,\" said Mr Hawxwell.\n\n\"Even us, who've been here a long time, we still tear-up. You go home and think about it. It just makes your day.\"\n\nThe school chose to purchase two machines after seeing positive results.\n\nNineteen-year-old Jacob Summers has stood up and moved his legs for the first time thanks to a machine bought by his school\n\n\"For us, we need to invest as much in pupils' wellbeing as we do in their education,\" said head teacher Chris Britten.\n\n\"When the kids are well and they're in a good place they can learn, and that benefits all of us - and that means our whole community, not just me, not just the teachers, but the parents as well and their families.\"\n\nThe second series of A Special School - based at Ysgol y Deri - begins on Monday at 20:30 on BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nDozens of people have been killed after a plane with 72 people on board crashed near an airport in central Nepal.\n\nThe Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing before catching fire.\n\nVideos posted on social media show an aircraft flying low over a populated area before banking sharply.\n\nAt least 68 people are confirmed to have died, officials said. Several critically injured survivors were taken to hospital, unconfirmed reports said.\n\nLocal resident Divya Dhakal told the BBC how she rushed to the crash site after seeing the aircraft plunge from the sky shortly after 11:00am local time (05:15 GMT).\n\n\"By the time I was there the crash site was already crowded. There was huge smoke coming from the flames of the plane. And then helicopters came over in no time,\" she said.\n\n\"The pilot tried his best to not hit civilisation or any home,\" she added. \"There was a small space right beside the Seti River and the flight hit the ground in that small space.\"\n\nThe flight set out with 68 passengers on board, including at least 15 foreign nationals, and four crew members.\n\nAccording to flight tracking website Flightradar24, the 15-year-old twin-engine ATR 72 stopped transmitting position data at 05:05 GMT and the last signal from the aircraft was received at 05:12.\n\nHundreds of Nepalese soldiers were involved in the operation at the crash site in the gorge of the Seti, just one and a half kilometres from the airport.\n\nThe search operation has been suspended for the day, officials say.\n\nVideo taken where the plane came down showed thick billowing black smoke and burning debris.\n\n\"We expect to recover more bodies,\" an army spokesman told Reuters, saying the plane \"has broken into pieces\".\n\nPrime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal called an emergency meeting of his cabinet and urged state agencies to work on rescue operations. A panel to investigate the cause of the crash has been set up.\n\nOf the passengers, 53 are said to be Nepalese. There were five Indian, four Russians and two Koreans on the plane. There was also one passenger each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France among others.\n\nAviation accidents are not uncommon in Nepal, often due to its remote runways and sudden weather changes that can make for hazardous conditions.\n\nA Tara Air plane crashed in May 2022 in the northern Nepalese district of Mustang, killing 22 people.\n\nIn early 2018, 51 people were killed when a US-Bangla flight travelling from Dhaka in Bangladesh caught fire as it landed in Kathmandu.\n\nThe European Union has banned Nepalese airlines from its airspace over concerns about training and maintenance standards in the country's aviation industry.", "Kathryn Dumphreys said BMW's decision to stop providing police with the cars was \"too little, too late for Nick\"\n\nThe widow of a police officer who died in a faulty car said a decision to stop selling the models to forces \"should have been taken years ago\".\n\nPC Nick Dumphreys, 47, died while responding to an emergency call on the M6 near Carlisle in 2020.\n\nBMW is closing its division selling to UK forces after many restricted the use of its cars with the same engine.\n\nKathryn Dumphreys said it was \"the first step in the right direction\" but \"too little, too late for Nick\".\n\n\"It is glaringly obvious that these cars were not and, in my view, are still not fit or safe for UK policing purposes,\" she said.\n\nAn inquest found a broken part in the N57 engine of the BMW police car PC Dumphreys had been driving had cut the supply of oil, which then ignited.\n\nIt heard there had been similar incidents involving police cars with the same type of engine.\n\nCarlisle coroner Robert Cohen recorded a conclusion of accidental death and said PC Dumphreys, who was an advanced driver, could not have prevented the crash.\n\nMrs Dumphreys has criticised the National Police Chiefs' Council for not withdrawing existing models from service immediately\n\nMrs Dumphreys said: \"The rate of the engine failures in these BMWs, which was between five and seven a month from 2014 to 2017, was described by the independent engineering expert as 'extraordinary' and by the coroner as 'startling'.\n\n\"I firmly believe that had these cars been withdrawn from UK policing years ago, as they should have been, Nick would still be alive.\"\n\nBMW said the problem with the engine was down to the \"particular way\" police use the cars and there was \"no need for action on any civilian vehicles\".\n\nMrs Dumphreys has criticised the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) for not withdrawing existing models from service immediately.\n\n\"Why do they still require our officers to drive these cars, which have proved to be dangerous, nearly three years after Nick's death?\" she said.\n\nNPCC head of police driving Deputy Chief Constable Terry Woods said vehicles assessed as \"at risk and unsuitable for police use\" had been removed from service.\n\n\"Any remaining usable BMWs with the engine type identified are subject to rigorous monitoring,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flooding in the centre of York has forced rescue workers to navigate parts of the city in boats\n\nPeople across the UK are facing more rain, flooding and cold weather in the coming days.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 119 flood warnings - mainly in west and south-west England and Yorkshire - as well as 193 flood alerts.\n\nThe bad weather has already damaged hundreds of homes and left many without power.\n\nAn alert for severe cold weather has also been issued for England from Sunday evening, as temperatures drop.\n\nIt will remain in place across much of the UK until Thursday morning, with the warning the cold could increase health risks for vulnerable people and disrupt some services.\n\nYellow Met Office warnings for rain, wind and ice are in place across parts of northern England, Northern Ireland, and most of Scotland.\n\nBBC Weather's Matt Taylor said while the persistent rain would ease away on Saturday, the weather was going to turn \"much colder\" in the days ahead.\n\nThe Environment Agency said conditions in the West Midlands will worse before improving - the River Severn is expected to peak in Bewdley, Worcestershire, on Saturday night and Worcester on Sunday.\n\nRiver levels have been high at Atcham Bridge in Shropshire\n\nSeveral football matches have been cancelled across Devon and Cornwall because of severe weather conditions.\n\nIn Somerset, Keynsham Town's Crown Field has been shut, along with other sports venues across the county, and the football club said water levels at the ground were the worst since Christmas 2013.\n\nBath's rugby game against Toulon was postponed and moved to Kingsholm stadium in Gloucester, after The Rec failed a safety inspection.\n\nThis is the scene around Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire where flood waters have crept close\n\nRoad users have also been affected in Apperley, Gloucestershire, where the River Severn burst its banks\n\nNatural Resources Wales has issued dozens of flood alerts around Wales, and seven flood warnings concentrated in the south.\n\nThe bad weather has caused travel disruption across much of Wales. The River Ely has burst its banks, causing flood to many areas, including a golf driving range near Cowbridge, west of Cardiff.\n\n\"If we had more rain... I think we'd have been underwater,\" manager and pro golfer Aled Griffiths told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is flooding across Wales following stormy conditions\n\nFlood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - include those for groundwater flooding, along with areas close to rivers like the Avon and Wye.\n\nSome flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - are also in place further north, including in Keswick in the Lake District, and areas of Yorkshire.\n\nThis is the panoramic view where the River Parrett has flooded field in Somerset\n\nDrivers in the Dumfries area have been having to cope with challenging conditions\n\nThere are also one flood warning in place in Scotland for Callander and Ayr to Troon, and seven flood alerts across the country.\n\nForecasters are warning that bus and train services will probably be affected, while spray and flooding on roads is set to make journey times longer.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a 70% chance of severely cold weather, icy conditions and heavy snow from 18:00 GMT Sunday until 09:00 Thursday.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The next UK general election was to be an independence showdown - a substitute for another referendum, if all routes to that were blocked.\n\nThat, at least, was how it seemed when Nicola Sturgeon first alighted on the idea, in June last year.\n\nShe might still try it. Then again, she might not. It depends what SNP members decide at a special conference in Edinburgh on Sunday 19 March.\n\nThe party's ruling body has now unanimously agreed a \"draft resolution\" that offers a choice between the next UK election (probably in 2024) and the next Holyrood vote in 2026.\n\nIf they opt for Westminster, the proposal is for the SNP to make clear they would consider every vote for them as a \"yes\" to the question: \"Should Scotland be an independent country?\".\n\nThe party would claim a mandate to negotiate independence with the UK government if it won more than 50% of the votes cast.\n\nThey say votes for other independence-supporting parties could count too but only if there was an agreement with the SNP in advance.\n\nIt's relatively easy to see that kind of deal being struck with the Greens. Less so with Alex Salmond's party - Alba.\n\nIf SNP members opt for Holyrood, the idea is much the same although the party has not specified whether they would count constituency votes, regional list votes or both in their independence calculations.\n\nBefore getting to that, there would be a further attempt to persuade Westminster to agree to a referendum.\n\nIf the SNP were to win the most seats in the next UK general election, they would demand the power to hold a referendum and only if that was refused would they take the fight into the Holyrood campaign.\n\nOne consideration is that 16 and 17-year-olds, EU nationals and legally resident foreign nationals get to vote in Holyrood elections but not for Westminster.\n\nIt's not so long since the SNP leadership rubbished talk of trying to bring about independence via an election - with Ms Sturgeon at one point suggesting that discussing alternatives to an actual referendum was a \"unionist trap\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has called for a full and open debate\n\nAn official referendum remains her preference but there is no obvious prospect of securing one and no agreed route to doing so.\n\nWhile \"yes\" supporters say democracy is being denied, \"no\" backers say the democracy of 2014 should be respected and that if a settled majority for independence emerges, there could be another referendum then.\n\nIn 2014, the referendum rejected independence by 55% to 45%. The SNP think Brexit is a significant change of circumstances that justifies another vote.\n\nWinning a majority for indyref2 with the Greens in the 2021 Holyrood election did not persuade Westminster to agree terms. Plan A failed.\n\nThe UK Supreme Court rejected the argument that Holyrood has the power to hold a referendum without UK government consent. Plan B failed.\n\nThat is why the SNP moved on to Plan C - to target one election or another.\n\nNicola Sturgeon clearly specified the next UK general election last June but in her SNP conference speech in October she talked about using \"an\" election without saying which one.\n\nWhen I pointed this out on social media and raised the potential flexibility in her wording, a senior SNP source told me I was \"over interpreting\". Maybe not.\n\nWhile the SNP still describe using the next Westminster vote to test support for independence as the \"principal\" alternative to the referendum they really want, it is no longer the only one.\n\nAnd if SNP members don't like the idea of using either the next UK or Scottish general election, they are invited to submit further options of their own.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has called for a \"full and open\" debate and has not yet specified which option she prefers.\n\nGiven that she has previously described a UK election as the \"best\" opportunity to put the independence question - my guess is that remains her starting point.\n\nIf the party prefers to defer this showdown that could be seen as a rare and significant rejection of her leadership.\n\nThe SNP say using either election as an independence vote would be \"credible and deliverable\" except that it does not have buy-in from their opponents.\n\nThere can be any number of issues at play in an election and unionist parties do not accept that it can be a legitimate route to Scottish statehood.\n\nTreating an election as a referendum would be a huge gamble. The SNP has never won a majority of votes in an election before, although they came very close in 2015.\n\nFailure would be a major setback for the independence campaign. It would demand new thinking and - presumably - new leadership.\n\nSuccess would increase democratic pressure on the UK government but it would not necessarily deliver independence. That would still require Westminster consent.\n\nWithout an agreed referendum, the SNP leadership has concluded that election results are their best chance of breaking the deadlock - that there is nowhere else for them to go.", "Flooding and mudslides have blocked access to some homes\n\nAround 25 million people in California are under a flood watch this weekend as the latest in a parade of deadly storms drenches the state.\n\nSeveral waterways have flooded, at least 19 people have died and thousands have been told to evacuate their homes.\n\nIn Montecito, a town 84 miles (135km) north-west of Los Angeles, locals say the rain aggravates their trauma.\n\nA mudslide here killed 23 people in 2018 and many are afraid it could happen again.\n\nRita Bourbon credits Italian stone masons with saving her life. The craftsmen built her home more than a century ago and she says it's like a fortress.\n\nShe survived the storm five years ago, crying inside with her daughter and some friends as they listened to the sound of boulders and other houses ripped from their foundations crashing into her home.\n\nThe next day, the neighbourhood up the coast from Los Angeles was wrecked and almost two dozen were dead, including her neighbour whom she found in her garden in the mud.\n\nLandslides triggered by the storms have damaged roads\n\n\"It's a sound I used to love,\" she says of the creek burbling in her garden, which is now bursting with ripe citrus and persimmon trees, as a blue heron drinks from her muddy pool.\n\n\"Now I know what it can do. We all have a bit of PTSD.\"\n\nMontecito creek became a violent, raging flow again this past week, prompting fire officials to issue a \"Leave Now!\" warning to the entire community, which includes some of California's most famous residents such as Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\n\nThe evacuation order in Montecito has been lifted, but residents remain on edge. And with so much of the land already saturated, the risk of flooding and landslides is very real.\n\nAbe Powell is the co-founder of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, formed in 2018 to mobilise volunteers to clean up after the deadly mudslide.\n\nThis week, Powell led volunteers around the community, filling sandbags and digging trenches. He took us on a perilous drive up a narrow mountain road where giant boulders and mud blocked access to some homes.\n\n\"We don't want to hang around here,\" he said, looking at the fresh boulders.\n\nPlastic sheets were placed on a hillside which slid away for the first time this week\n\nFilm producer Steve McGlothen is one of the volunteers. He has lived in the area for half a century and in his cliff top home for 27 years.\n\nHelping others, he said, takes his mind off the problems at his own property and the despair he feels as the rain keeps falling. Plastic sheets cover the hillside, which slid away for the first time this week - an attempt to stop this latest deluge from making the slide worse.\n\n\"We're looking at earth that has never moved,\" he said. \"Close to 50 years - this has never moved. It's never been a problem before.\"\n\nThe Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, joined the volunteers filling sandbags in Santa Barbara. He says the area is a \"hot spot\" he's concerned about in the coming days.\n\n\"We've experienced some 24 trillion gallons of water falling on this state in the last 16 days in the middle of a mega drought,\" Governor Newsom told the BBC. He says California needs to reimagine the way it manages water, because the infrastructure here was built for a time which no longer exists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From droughts and wildfires to flooded streets - is California's extreme weather the new norm?\n\nCalifornians are used to extreme weather - wildfires, drought and the threat of earthquakes, with many awaiting the \"Big One\" that so many experts predict. But the \"storm parade\" pummelling California is new.\n\nAt least 19 people have died in these storms, which began in late December. A five-year-old boy is still missing after he was ripped from his mother's arms in fast-moving flood water in central California, when they got trapped while driving to school.\n\nIn Northern California, vineyards are under water. In Capitola, the historic wharf has been destroyed and the beach town battered. In the storied Salinas Valley, the river is rising and threatening California's famed agricultural heartland.\n\nUS President Joe Biden has now ordered federal aid for Sacramento, Merced and Santa Cruz counties.\n\nNasa climate scientist Kimberley Rain Miner says the challenge with having this many huge storms, back to back, is that the ground is already saturated and can't absorb the amount of water falling quickly.\n\nItalian stone masons built Rita Bourbon's home more than a century ago and she describes it as a fortress\n\n\"If we are unable to slow the warming of the atmosphere, we can expect to see more and more extreme events happening more and more frequently,\" Miner told the BBC, while surveying storm damage on a beach in Ventura. \"And that's global. That's not just in California.\"\n\nIn California everyone is watching their phones, waiting to hear if they should evacuate and wondering where it might be safe to go if they do need to leave town.\n\nFor Rita Bourbon, she decided not to wait. Even though she's confident her house will survive, she doesn't want to relive the trauma of another landslide. She opted to visit friends in Los Angeles this weekend.\n\n\"I just don't want to go through another mudslide,\" she said, adding that she would be a \"nervous wreck\" if she stayed. \"Just hearing the creek and the cracking together of boulders. It's better for everyone if I just go.\"", "The transport secretary said he hoped there would be a deal. But he was careful not to put a timescale on it.\n\nIn the RMT’s dispute, things have definitely moved. But it’s worth recalling what the union’s Mick Lynch said before the select committee on Wednesday.\n\nHe criticised the way the government had acted in the past couple of months and said “until we get an agreement, we’re not close to it”.\n\nMark Harper said today he had made sure “a better deal” was on the table, while once again emphasising it had to come with “reform”.\n\nThe government - which ultimately holds the purse strings - has allowed the group acting for train companies to put new proposals on the table. They’re designed to be more acceptable to unions in terms of the pay offer and conditions attached.\n\nHowever the RMT’s view is that no offer has officially been made until it’s put to them in writing. And the details are still being worked through in talks.\n\nSo the devil will be in those details.\n\nWhether the expansion of the driver-only operation - which puts the future of guards in doubt - is included explicitly or implicitly, is one key area.\n\nThe RMT could decide to give members a vote on whatever offer is eventually made instead of accepting or rejecting it outright.\n\nIt'll also be interesting to see if the RMT is prepared to allow members a new vote on Network Rail’s most recent offer, which the organisation has called for.\n\nEven with things moving around the RMT, a resolution in the dispute with train drivers’ union Aslef looks much, much further away.", "Forensic officers have worked at the crime scene following the shooting\n\nA seven-year-old girl has suffered life-threatening injuries in a suspected drive-by shooting outside a central London church.\n\nA remembrance service was being held at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were reportedly fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Police said a 12-year-old girl and four women - aged 21, 41, 48 and 54 - were also injured.\n\nThe 48-year-old may have life-changing injuries, police said.\n\nThe three other women's injuries are not life-threatening and the 12-year-old girl has been treated for a minor leg injury, said the force.\n\nThe seven-year-old, who was taken to a central London hospital at about 14:05 GMT, \"remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition\".\n\nIn a statement, the Met said an urgent investigation was under way and details of the incident were still emerging.\n\n\"At this early stage, there have been no arrests,\" it said.\n\nSupt Ed Wells said any shooting incident was \"unacceptable, but for multiple people, including two children, to be injured in a shooting in the middle of a Saturday afternoon is shocking\".\n\nThe shooting happened close to a church while a funeral was taking place, police say\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all the victims, but in particular with the seven-year-old girl. An investigation into this dreadful attack is already well under way,\" he said.\n\n\"I can assure the communities of Camden and beyond that we will do everything we possibly can to identify and bring to justice those who were responsible.\"\n\nHe added that there would be \"an increased visible police presence in the area through the weekend and into the days ahead\".\n\nDetectives have urged anyone with video footage or CCTV to contact the force.\n\nRoad closures were put in place and buses were diverted to allow investigation work to take place.\n\nFather Jeremy Trood conducted the remembrance service at St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, just before the shooting unfolded.\n\nHe confirmed the service was held for Sara Sanchez, 20, who had died from leukaemia, and her mother. They had died within a month of each other in November.\n\nFather Trood said: \"I was inside the church. I heard the bang and people ran back into the church. They knew something had happened outside.\n\n\"They were very scared, people sheltered in the church until the police said they can leave but some of them were so scared they had to wait a while to get their confidence back up to go outside.\"\n\nA forensics officer works at the scene of the shooting\n\nA resident on an estate near the church, who did not want to give her name, said: \"I heard the gunshots.\n\n\"I was having a quiet day on my balcony and I heard this almighty bang and I thought this was not normal, and the next minute everyone was screaming and shouting.\n\n\"Neighbours came in and said there has been a shooting. What a terrible thing.\"\n\nPhotographer Simon Lamrock said when he first arrived at the church, people had been evacuated through a side entrance.\n\n\"It's a very busy area. All the local residents had come out to find out what was going on,\" Mr Lamrock said.\n\n\"There was shock and surprise. That was the mood of people trying to work out what had happened.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with the Met Police.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Equipment bought by a school is allowing disabled pupils to experience the sensation of walking for the first time.\n\nFourteen-year-old wheelchair user Seren, a pupil of Ysgol y Deri in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, said of using the machine: \"It's actually kind of nice, it's kind of fun.\"\n\nAaron Hawxwell, who works for the school, said it made staff emotional seeing the reaction of pupils using the machine.\n\n\"When you see their faces, you can't put it into words... we still tear up and say 'it's amazing',\" he said.\n\nThe second series of A Special School - based at Ysgol y Deri - begins on Monday at 20:30 on BBC One Wales.", "SNP members are to be given the choice of using the next UK general election or the next Holyrood election as a de facto independence referendum.\n\nThe party says its first choice is still for the UK government to agree to a referendum.\n\nBut if that is not possible it could use the general election as a vote.\n\nThe second option would be to treat the UK election result as a mandate for the party to contest the 2026 Holyrood election as an independence vote.\n\nThe UK government said now was a time to focus on \"shared challenges\" such as the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe SNP's national executive committee met on Saturday to agree the motion.\n\nIt will now be put to members at a special party conference in March.\n\nLeader Nicola Sturgeon said the second option had been included in the motion in the interests of having a \"full and open debate\".\n\nShe said: \"Given the significance of this decision for both the party and the country, it is important that this debate is a full, free and open one - which is what the draft resolution seeks to enable.\n\n\"It sets out - as I did last June - the option of contesting the next Westminster election as a de facto referendum.\n\n\"However, in the interests of a full and open debate, it also sets out the alternative option of contesting the next Scottish Parliament election on this basis.\"\n\nShe added: \"While this will be a debate on the process of securing independence, it is one that will be guided by a fundamental principle - that the future of Scotland must and will be decided by the people of Scotland, not by Westminster politicians.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon last year said the independence movement had to find a new way forward in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling\n\nIn November, the first minister announced the SNP intended to use the next general election as an attempt to show that a majority of people in Scotland supported independence.\n\nShe spoke after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled she did not have the power to hold a referendum this year.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she respected the ruling but admitted it was a \"tough pill to swallow\".\n\nShe also said the independence movement would now have to find a new way forward.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak had welcomed the \"clear and definitive ruling\" from the Supreme Court.\n\nOn Saturday, a UK government spokeswoman said: \"People in Scotland want both their governments to be concentrating on the issues that matter most to them - like growing our economy, getting people the help they need with their energy bills, and supporting our NHS.\n\n\"As the prime minister has been clear, we will continue to work constructively with the Scottish government to tackle our shared challenges.\"\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon first raised the possibility of using an election as a substitute referendum last June, she clearly targeted the next UK general election.\n\nWhen she returned to the idea in her SNP conference speech in October, she talked about using \"an\" election without specifying which one.\n\nWhen I pointed this out on social media and raised the potential flexibility in her wording, a senior SNP source told me I was \"over interpreting\". Maybe not.\n\nWhile the SNP still describe using the next Westminster vote to test opinion on independence as the \"principal\" alternative to the referendum they really want, party members are to be given a choice.\n\nThey can either opt for Westminster in (presumably) 2024 or for the Holyrood election planned for 2026 or even suggest further possibilities of their own.\n\nThe SNP say using either election to judge support for independence would be \"credible and deliverable\" but their opponents refuse to accept this is a legitimate route to Scottish statehood.", "The snakes were found by a member of the public at a fly-tipping spot\n\nAn animal welfare charity has issued an appeal after three dead snakes were found dumped near a loch in Glasgow.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA said the boa constrictors were discovered by a member of the public at a fly-tipping spot near Carbeth Loch in Blanefield.\n\nSSPCA inspector Mairi Wright said the reptiles were lying close together, next to bags of rubbish.\n\nBoa constrictors, which kill their prey by crushing them, are usually found in South America and the Caribbean.\n\nHowever, they are also kept as pets in other countries.\n\nThe SSPCA described the discovery as \"very concerning\"\n\nMs Wright added: \"We are unsure of the cause of death for these reptiles, but the circumstances they were found in are very concerning.\n\n\"We are keen to ascertain what happened to these snakes and how they came to be there.\n\n\"If anyone recognises these reptiles, please contact our confidential animal helpline on 03000 999 999.\"\n\nThe SSPCA said the snakes were discovered at one of the entrances to Carbeth Huts, next to the loch.\n• None Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - SSPCA The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Seren said receiving a kidney transplant was \"such a huge gift\"\n\nA father has donated a kidney to a stranger after his own daughter received her own life-changing kidney from a donor.\n\nArfon Jones, from Cardiff, joined a living donor scheme although he found he was not a match for daughter Seren, 19, who became seriously unwell and ended up having both kidneys removed.\n\nHe became a donor last month after she received a donor kidney in April.\n\n\"I felt that I had given someone a nice Christmas present,\" he said.\n\nAfter months of Seren being on dialysis for 10 hours every night, Arfon took an early morning call last April to say that a suitable kidney had become available.\n\n\"It's such a huge gift,\" she said.\n\n\"Without the kidney I wouldn't be alive today, possibly, or I would certainly have had to continue with 10 hours of dialysis.\"\n\nArfon said the phone call was \"amazing\".\n\n\"They operated overnight and it has all changed our life completely.\"\n\nArfon Jones says he felt compelled to donate a kidney after daughter, Seren, received a transplant\n\nWhile Seren was awaiting a kidney, the family came across the NHS's living donor scheme and, although Mr Jones was not a match, he felt compelled to help others.\n\nHe said he did not know who had received his kidney but he understood that their health was improving.\n\n\"After Seren got her new kidney, she was told that I could get off the living donor list and that's when I had a very strange experience,\" said Arfon.\n\n\"It was as if I heard a voice telling me 'there is someone else who needs your kidney' and I just felt that I had to stay on the list.\"\n\nHe had the procedure in December and said: \"It felt like I'd given someone quite a nice Christmas present and it was nice to know that I'm healthy enough to donate a kidney given that I'm almost 70.\"", "An additional five pages of classified material has been found in US President Joe Biden's family home in Delaware, the White House has said.\n\nMr Biden's lawyer Richard Sauber said he discovered the additional documents on Thursday which were immediately handed to the Justice Department.\n\nMr Biden's lawyers have said the documents relate to his time as Barack Obama's vice-president.\n\nA special counsel is investigating Mr Biden's handling of the files.\n\nThe discovery of documents throughout the investigation has been called a political embarrassment for Mr Biden, as it comes during an ongoing investigation into former President Donald Trump's own alleged mishandling of classified files.\n\nOne document with classified markings had already been found in the garage of Mr Biden's Delaware family home this week, where he keeps his 1960s Chevrolet Corvette sports car.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Biden says documents weren't sitting out on the street\n\nBut now, the White House has said an additional five pages of classified documents were found at Mr Biden's residence on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a statement shared on Twitter, Mr Sauber said the president's lawyers did not have security clearance and therefore stopped searching the immediate area where the first page of classified material was found on Wednesday.\n\nBut Mr Sauber, who has security clearance, says he returned to Mr Biden's Delaware home on Thursday evening to get the documents ready to hand to the Justice Department.\n\nThat was when Mr Sauber found the additional classified material.\n\n\"While I was transferring it to the DOJ [Department of Justice] officials who accompanied me, five additional pages with classification markings were discovered among the material with it, for a total of six pages,\" Mr Sauber said.\n\nHe added that the White House will co-operate with the newly appointed special counsel.\n\nThe six pages found in Mr Biden's home this week are in addition to documents found in Mr Biden's garage in December and at his former offices at the Penn Biden Center in November.\n\nOn Friday, CBS News reported that around 10 documents discovered at the Penn Biden Center, and marked as classified, included top secret material.\n\nThere are three basic levels of US classification: confidential, secret and top secret. A leak of top secret information could cause \"exceptionally grave damage\".\n\nRepublicans are calling on the White House to release visitor logs of Mr Biden's homes, but the White House has refused to say if such information will be divulged.\n\nDuring his time in office, Mr Biden has spent nearly 200 days - or more than a fourth of his presidency - in his home state of Delaware, according to an Associated Press tally, including a stay in Wilmington this weekend.\n\nMr Trump is also under investigation by the Justice Department after he kept more than 300 classified files - including some marked secret and top secret - at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.\n\nSome of these were seized by FBI agents executing a search warrant last August.\n\nThe papers only began to come to light in news reports last Monday, but the first batch was found at Mr Biden's former institute, the Penn Biden Center in Washington DC, back in November.", "A clash between the UK and Scottish governments could be coming this week.\n\nThe cause? The two governments are going in different directions on the process for allowing someone to change legal gender.\n\nBut look a bit deeper, and it's fast becoming a constitutional quarrel.\n\nWhen Holyrood passed legislation to enable Scots to change their gender more easily, many campaigners hoped it would draw a line under a debate that's simmered away in Scottish politics for years.\n\nCurrently, someone looking to change their legal gender in the UK must live in their acquired gender for two years and get a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nMSPs backed a move towards a self-identification system last month, meaning that Scots will no longer require a medical diagnosis to change gender, and the timescale will also be cut to a matter of months.\n\nBut, as it turned out, that vote in Edinburgh was not the end of the issue.\n\nThe UK government is considering using its own powers to block the Scottish legislation, and ministers are uneasy about the new system that could soon operate in Scotland.\n\nSo what's their justification for potentially challenging laws coming from Holyrood?\n\nThey have concerns that a simplified Scottish system for changing gender could come into conflict with UK-wide equalities law (something Holyrood is not responsible for).\n\nAnd this is prompting a number of Conservative MPs to ask questions about what the implications could be for the rights these people would have in any other part of the UK.\n\nWhat does it mean for accessing certain spaces reserved for just one sex, such as women's shelters or prisons? What's the impact on collecting and reporting data on the gender pay gap?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The passing of controversial gender reform laws receive mixed reaction in the Scottish Parliament\n\nThe Scottish government insists that the bill does not undermine any aspect of the UK-wide Equality Act, saying that the new system doesn't give any additional rights to anyone who gets a gender recognition certificate that they can't already enjoy today.\n\nRishi Sunak told BBC Scotland on Friday that his main concern was the bill's impact across the UK, saying it was \"completely standard practice\" to look at the effect legislation passed at Holyrood could have.\n\nDowning Street said no final decision had been taken on whether or not to block the legislation.\n\nAnd the PM's spokesman said they believed the UK's 2004 Recognition Act struck \"the correct balance\" and allowed for \"proper checks\".\n\nConservative MP Rachel Maclean is a vice-chair of the party, and while she may represent a seat in England, she's taken an interest in this Scottish legislation, arguing it could have enormous impacts on other parts of the UK.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We want to be compassionate to people who feel that they want to change their sex and their legal gender, but at the same time we have to make sure that we protect particularly single-sex spaces for women.\n\n\"They are there for a reason - to protect those vulnerable women and girls.\"\n\nShe's sceptical about the streamlining of the process in Scotland, saying it is effectively allowing self-identification - which creates \"a huge number of consequences\".\n\nShe says she worries about knock-on effects when it comes to participation in sport, the arts, and business.\n\nShe adds: \"That's before we really start talking about where we have vulnerabilities at play, such as in prisons or in rape and domestic abuse shelters.\"\n\nShe argues it has \"enormous impacts across the whole of our protection framework and our understanding of what does it mean to be a man or a woman\".\n\nThis is an issue that divides a number of parties. Even within the SNP, the Scottish legislation has its critics.\n\nThough the SNP-led government in Scotland spearheaded the bill, it sparked the biggest rebellion the party had ever seen at Holyrood.\n\nAsh Regan resigned as a Scottish government minister in order to oppose the legislation, and said the bill \"sent a message to the women and girls of Scotland that your rights to privacy, dignity and safety don't matter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellie is a long time advocate of reforms which would allow Scots to change their gender more easily.\n\nBut supporters of the bill see it differently. Campaigner Ellie Gomersall, who is president of the National Union of Students in Scotland, and a Scottish Green Party activist, has been a vocal advocate for a change to gender laws in Scotland.\n\nShe came out as trans when she was 18, and is hoping to legally change her gender and obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (a GRC).\n\nEllie says it was \"such a relief\" when the bill was passed in Scotland.\n\n\"One of the hardest parts about being trans is the admin,\" she explains, saying that she's faced a five-year wait to access an NHS gender identity clinic.\n\nShe says the trans community will fight any UK government attempts to obstruct the new Scottish system.\n\nShe sees their response as \"an attack ultimately on devolution, on trans people, and on Scotland's right to make our country fairer and more equal\".\n\nKade lives in England and, as a transgender man, believes UK government policies contribute to a difficult atmosphere for trans people.\n\n\"Nobody is going to be transgender for fun,\" he says, adding that he was hospitalised after a transphobic attack two years ago.\n\n\"We don't feel safe, we don't feel valid, and we're afraid I think. Although we try not to let this fear impact us on a daily basis, there is that underlying fear for both our mental wellbeing and our physical wellbeing.\"\n\nRather than block the Scottish legislation, he wishes the UK government would emulate it.\n\nIf the UK government does want to act, it doesn't have a lot of time. The Scotland Act stipulates a four-week time limit to intervene after MSPs pass a bill. That gives them until the middle of next week.\n\nSo what are the UK government's options?\n\nUnder Section 35 of the Scotland Act, UK ministers can stop a bill getting royal assent.\n\nThe secretary of state for Scotland can do so if they think a Holyrood bill would modify laws reserved to Westminster and have an \"adverse effect\" on how those laws apply.\n\nThis would be the nuclear option - a section 35 order has never been used. And it's entirely possible there could be a legal challenge in response from the Scottish government.\n\nOne Scottish government source said using a Section 35 Order would be \"chilling\". Scottish ministers would see this as the UK government muscling in on a devolved area.\n\nThe UK government has also not ruled out the possibility of referring the Scottish bill to the Supreme Court, who could decide if Holyrood legislated beyond its powers in passing this act.\n\nThis whole debate is - on the surface - about gender issues.\n\nBut like so many disagreements between governments in London and Edinburgh it has the constitution at its heart.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mont Blanc rises to 4,810m (nearly 16,000ft) - the highest peak in western Europe\n\nA British woman, 45, has died after getting caught in an avalanche while hiking with two other people in the French Alps, rescue services have said.\n\nThe accident happened on Saturday on the Argentière Glacier, one of Mont Blanc's biggest glaciers.\n\nThe specialist high-mountain search and rescue unit of the French police in Chamonix said it was alerted by a guide at around 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).\n\nRescue workers and a doctor were sent by helicopter to rescue her.\n\nBut they were unable to revive the woman, said Col Bertrand Host of the mountain rescue unit.\n\nPolice have launched an investigation into the woman's death.\n\nThe local public prosecutor's office said the woman and her partner had been Nordic skiing with a high-mountain guide and were going up the Col du Tour Noir when the avalanche happened.\n\nThe office confirmed there was an avalanche warning risk of three on a scale of five in place on Saturday.\n\nThe prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation to determine the circumstances of the woman's death and has ordered a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe woman was hiking with a guide and another person on the Argentière Glacier\n\nMont Blanc, western Europe's highest mountain at 4,810m (nearly 16,000ft), attracts 20,000 hikers and skiers every year.\n\nWarmer temperatures in recent years have melted permafrost - permanently frozen ground - raising the risk of rockfalls on the most popular routes.\n\nLast August, authorities closed down two popular mountain shelters used by Mont Blanc climbers because of potentially deadly drought-related rockfalls.\n\nMelting snow is also believed to help trigger avalanches.\n\nThe Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office said it was providing assistance to the woman's family.\n• None Two dead in avalanche near Mont Blanc", "ADF attacks in eastern DR Congo have become more frequent since March 2020\n\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo government has blamed Islamic State group-affiliated rebels for a bomb attack at a Pentecostal church in Kasindi, in the east of the country.\n\nAt 17 people were killed and 39 wounded as church-goers attended Sunday worship, officials say.\n\nThe Congolese military blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).\n\nThe ADF is one of the most notorious active rebel groups in eastern Congo.\n\nA Kenyan national has been arrested in connection with the attack, the military says\n\nIn a statement, the Congolese government expressed its \"deepest condolences\" to the bereaved families.\n\nThe UN mission in DR Congo condemned \"the cowardly and despicable attack\" in Kasindi.\n\nIts comments were echoed by Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi, who said: \"It is clear that this is a terrorist act perpetrated by the ADF terrorists who have suffered casualties in several battlefields by the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.\"\n\nMr Mualushayi added that an \"improvised explosive device\" was used in the attack.\n\nKasindi is roughly 8 kilometres (5 miles) away from Beni where the ADF is active.\n\nBack in December, the top UN representative in the country told the Security Council security was \"one of the most significant challenges\" faced by DR Congo.\n\nThe ADF, an Islamist militant group, was formed in the 1990s primarily over domestic grievances within Uganda.\n\nBut since it re-emerged in DR Congo - with a series of attacks on Congolese civilians and a more global jihadist dimension - the ADF has increasingly claimed attacks in the name of the so-called Islamic State group.\n• None How Islamic State has expanded into Central Africa", "Moffat Mountain Rescue Team was called to assist the multi-agency response\n\nAn injured walker was airlifted to hospital with multiple injuries after being swept down a burn and over a waterfall.\n\nThe man lost his footing and fell into the burn at the Grey Mare's Tail waterfall near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nMoffat Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) said he was swept downstream and fell 10-15m over one of the upper waterfalls.\n\nHe was then swept further along the burn.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 10:30 on Saturday.\n\nA coastguard rescue helicopter and a helimed trauma team were called in along with the mountain rescue team, police and fire service.\n\nThe man, who had broken bones, was winched from the water onto a path where he was assessed and given pain relief before being flown to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThe rescue took four hours with the teams battling 40mph winds.\n\nJames Coles, Moffat MRT team leader, said: \"He lost his footing and slipped in. The main waterfall is huge, fortunately he didn't go over that one, but there is a series of upper waterfalls.\n\n\"He was swept along the burn then over the waterfall and was then swept further along the burn and somehow he managed to stop himself.\n\n\"He was there with friends and they raised the alarm. It was a bit of bad luck, they were trying to take photos of the lovely scenery and it appears he slipped and ended up in the burn.\"\n\nThe main waterfall, which is further downstream from where the man ended up, is one of the highest in the UK and plunges 60m (197ft) from Loch Skeen.\n\nA Moffat MRT spokesman said: \"With gusts of wind up to 40mph, all teams involved had a challenging day on the hill before being stood down at 2.30pm.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Border Force officers discovered uranium with a shipment of scrap metal in a routine screening on 29 December\n\nA man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after traces of uranium were found at Heathrow Airport in December.\n\nIt comes after counter-terrorism officers searched an address in Cheshire on Saturday.\n\nThe man was arrested under Section 9 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which covers the making and possession of radioactive devices and materials.\n\nHe was released on bail until April.\n\nCdr Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said that \"based on what we currently know\", the incident \"still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public\".\n\nHe said officers were continuing to investigate to \"ensure this is definitely the case\".\n\nThe search of the Cheshire property had been completed and police said no material that could be a threat to the public was found.\n\nBorder Force officers discovered the radioactive material with a shipment of scrap metal during a routine screening on 29 December.\n\nUranium is an element which occurs naturally. It can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.\n\nHighly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.", "Last updated on .From the section Chelsea\n\nChelsea have completed the signing of Ukraine forward Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk in a deal worth up to £89m.\n\nThe 22-year-old has agreed an eight-and-a-half-year deal for 70m euros (£62m), plus a further 30m euros (£27m) in bonuses.\n\n\"I'm so happy to sign for Chelsea,\" said Mudryk.\n\nArsenal also wanted Mudryk, who scored seven goals in 12 league appearances for Shakhtar this season.\n• None Mudryk - the Chelsea new boy with a Ballon d'Or dream\n\n\"This is a huge club, in a fantastic league and it is a very attractive project for me at this stage of my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm excited to meet my new team-mates and I'm looking forward to working and learning under Graham Potter and his staff.\"\n\nMudryk, who has made eight appearances for Ukraine since making his debut in June 2022, was at Stamford Bridge to watch for Chelsea's Premier League game against Crystal Palace on Sunday.\n\n\"He is a young player with exciting quality in the final third. He is very fast and direct and I think the crowd will like him,\" said Potter.\n\nHe looked set to sign for Arsenal, but Shakhtar club president Rinat Akhmetov met with Chelsea co-owner Behdad Eghbali on Saturday to discuss a Chelsea move.\n\n\"I am convinced Mykhailo will win the respect, sympathy and love of all connoisseurs of world football with his speed, his technique, his bright and beautiful game,\" said Akhmetov.\n\nMudryk is Chelsea's fifth signing of the January transfer window following the arrival of Joao Felix on a loan deal from Atletico Madrid, plus the permanent signings of Benoit Badiashile, David Datro Fofana and Andrey Santos.\n\nChelsea have spent more than £400m on transfers since a consortium led by American businessman Todd Boehly took control of the club in May 2022.\n\nClub chairman Boehly and co-controlling owner Behdad Eghbali said: \"We are delighted to welcome Mykhailo to Chelsea.\n\n\"He's a hugely exciting talent who we believe will be a terrific addition to our squad both now and in the years to come. He will add further depth to our attack and we know he'll get a very warm welcome to London.\"\n• None Visit our Chelsea page for all the latest Blues news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Chelsea news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.\n• None Our coverage of Chelsea is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Chelsea - go straight to all the best content", "Rescue workers use a boat to navigate the floodwater in the centre of York\n\nPeople across the UK are facing a week of colder weather, with warnings of frost and snow in the coming days.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for ice from Sunday, affecting parts of northern and central England, northern Scotland, Northern Ireland and north and mid-Wales.\n\nA cold snap is expected to continue well into next week.\n\nAnd there are 89 flood warnings in place in England, with floods having damaged hundreds of homes already.\n\nThe Environment Agency has also issued 158 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nBut the wetter weather is expected to subside as the cold snap - expected to last until Thursday - sweeps across the UK.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice will cover northern Scotland from Sunday afternoon through to Wednesday morning, while the ice warning is in place from Sunday evening until 10:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThere is a further warning for snow across parts of south-east England in place from 02:00 to 08:00 on Monday.\n\nAcross north and parts of mid-Wales the Met Office has issued a yellow warning for ice.\n\nBBC Weather forecaster Susan Powell said: \"We're swapping the wet, relatively mild weather for colder conditions which will bring the risk of frost and snow.\n\n\"While it is drier in the days ahead, there are still numerous flood warnings in place across the UK.\"\n\nIn Somerset, firefighters rescued a mother and her six-month-old baby from a vehicle stuck in flood waters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople are urged to take care as there may be some icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths and some roads and railways are likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services.\n\nThe Met Office said: \"A few centimetres of snow are likely at low levels over a given 24-hour period, with the potential for 10-15cm (4-6in) above 200m, especially across parts of the Highlands.\"\n\nIt said the ice would be an additional hazard, especially on Tuesday night. The Met Office also warned of widespread frost by Monday night, with overnight temperatures below 0°C (32F) in many parts of the UK.\n\n\"Temperatures could get down to -10°C in sheltered glens, or across high-ground areas of Scotland where there is lying snow,\" the Met Office said.\n\nThe spell of cold weather follows a weekend of flooding.\n\nThe floods have submerged parts of York city centre, with the banks of the River Ouse bursting after intense rainfall on Saturday.\n\nRescue workers wade through York after the River Ouse burst its banks\n\nCity of York Council said it had taken the measure to keep the area \"safe and open\" as it urged visitors to plan their journeys in advance.\n\nDrivers are also being warned to expect a surge in potholes after the freezing weather in December.\n\nSeveral football matches have been cancelled across Devon and Cornwall because of severe weather conditions there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A woman is pulled from the rubble of the Dnipro apartment block hit by a missile\n\nThe mayor of Dnipro has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday's Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city.\n\nA whole section of the nine-storey block collapsed and authorities say at least 40 people died. Rescue efforts are continuing.\n\nSeveral others are still missing and 75 survivors were injured.\n\nThere is \"minimal\" chance of finding others alive, Mayor Borys Filatov said.\n\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman insisted that the Russian military did not strike at residential buildings.\n\n\"Attacks are made on military targets, either obvious or disguised,\" Dmitry Peskov told journalists.\n\nUkraine said the building was hit by a Russian Kh-22 missile, which it does not have the capability to shoot down. The missile is also known to be extremely inaccurate, according to the office of Ukraine's prosecutor general.\n\nBut Mr Peskov suggested the strike on the building could have been the result of Ukrainian air defence.\n\nKyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa were also hit on Saturday in attacks which Moscow said were targeted at Ukraine's military and energy infrastructure.\n\nPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the missile strikes \"inhuman\", adding that \"Russia intentionally keeps on committing war crimes against civilians\".\n\nRescue teams work in the rubble of the damaged residential building hit by shelling in Dnipro\n\nPresident Putin said \"everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defence and the general staff\".\n\nBelarus, on Ukraine's northern border, is beginning joint air force drills with Russia on Monday. The Belarusian defence ministry insists they will be defensive, but there are concerns that Moscow is pressuring Minsk to join the war in Ukraine. Belarus was one of Russia's launchpads for the invasion last February.\n\nIn his evening address on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted he had received many messages of sympathy from around the world and condemned the Russian people's \"cowardly silence\" over the Dnipro attack.\n\nSwitching to Russian during his message, he said he wanted to address those \"who even now could not utter a few words of condemnation of this terror\".\n\n\"Your cowardly silence, your attempt to 'wait out' what is happening, will only end with the fact that one day these same terrorists will come for you.\"\n\nHe added the victims of the strike included a 15-year-old girl and that two children had been left orphans.\n\nIt has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid. On Saturday, Mr Zelensky said energy infrastructure in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions had been badly hit.\n\nFollowing the attacks, Ukrainian state energy company Ukrenergo temporarily imposed round-the-clock consumption limits for all regions. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said the next few days would be \"difficult\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Ukraine could expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries.\n\n\"Recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important - and I expect more in the near future,\" Mr Stoltenberg told German media.\n\nRussia's missile barrage came on the same day that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government would give Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv's armed forces in a bid to help \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nIn response, Moscow said providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties.\n\nAsked about the supply of British tanks to Ukraine, Mr Peskov replied: \"These tanks are burning and will burn just like the rest.\"", "A Challenger 2 tank being used during a military parade in the UK\n\nThe UK is to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nHe spoke to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call on Saturday, during which he confirmed he would send the equipment and additional artillery systems, No 10 said.\n\nDowning Street said the move shows \"the UK's ambition to intensify support.\"\n\nThe government is to issue 14 tanks to Ukraine.\n\nAround 30 AS90s, which are large, self-propelled guns, are also expected to be delivered.\n\nPresident Zelensky has thanked the UK, saying that the decision to send the tanks \"will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners\".\n\nHe said the UK's support was \"always strong\" and was \"now impenetrable\".\n\nNo 10 said that during the call, Mr Sunak and Mr Zelensky also discussed recent Ukrainian victories, as well as the \"need to seize on this moment with an acceleration of global military and diplomatic support\".\n\nThe announcement came as a series of missile attacks were launched across Ukraine on Saturday, including in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa.\n\nAt least 14 people were killed in a strike on an apartment block in the eastern city of Dnipro.\n\nMr Sunak said the Challengers, the British Army's main battle tank, would help Kyiv's forces \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nBuilt in the late 1990s, the Challenger tank is more than 20 years old, but it will be the most modern tank at Ukraine's disposal. The tanks will provide Ukraine with better protection, and more accurate firepower.\n\nThe UK will begin training the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use the tanks and guns in the coming days.\n\nWhile the donation alone is not considered a game-changer, it is hoped that the UK's move will inspire other countries to donate more modern equipment to help Ukraine.\n\nChair of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said he welcomed the UK \"getting serious about the hardware it supplies Ukraine\", but that international assistance had been \"far too slow\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"That's exactly what Russia wants us to do - to remain hesitant.\n\n\"Unless we step forward and support Ukraine, Russia will not go away - and that will mean the bully has won.\"\n\nHe stressed that he wanted to see an arms factory in Eastern Poland which would allow Ukraine to procure its own weapons for the long term.\n\nAs it stands, Poland has plans to send 14 of its German-made Leopard tanks.\n\nBut the tanks, which are in greater supply and used by a number of European armies, need approval from Germany to be exported to Ukraine.\n\nUkraine also has hopes that the US will supply some of its Abrams tanks, which use the same ammunition as the Leopard.\n\nEarlier this month, Germany and the US agreed to join France in sending armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine - a move seen as a significant boost to its military's capability on the battlefield.\n\nShadow defence secretary John Healey said the government had \"Labour's fullest backing\" for the decision to send the Challengers.\n\nHe said: \"Modern tanks are crucial to Ukraine's efforts to win its battle against Russian aggression.\"\n\nResponding to the news of the Challenger tanks, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: \"As we've said previously, weapons supplies are legitimate targets for Russian strikes.\"\n\nSoledar has been devastated by Russia's bombardment, as shown by this satellite image from Tuesday\n\nEarlier on Saturday, Russia's military announced it had captured the salt-mining town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an \"important\" step for its offensive.\n\nThe victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said.\n\nBut Ukrainian officials said the fight for Soledar was still going on and accused Russia of \"information noise\".\n• None Ukraine to get Patriot missile training in Oklahoma", "Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estate over alleged unpaid rent for their London headquarters.\n\nThe Estate - which oversees a property portfolio belonging to the King - filed a claim against Twitter in the High Court in London last week, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThe alleged arrears relate to office space near Piccadilly Circus in central London, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe social media giant has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nIt comes after Elon Musk, the world's second richest man, paid $44bn (£36bn) to take control of Twitter in October last year before slashing more than half of the firm's global workforce of around 7,000.\n\nThe Crown Estate took legal action after previously contacting Twitter about rental arrears over office space at Air Street.\n\nThe Estate is one of the UK's largest landowners and an independent commercial business, generating profit for the Treasury for public spending. The monarch is then given 15% of the annual surplus of the estate, known as the Sovereign Grant, to support official duties\n\nIt owns 10 million sq ft of property in London's West End, as well as the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland among other properties.\n\nMr Musk, who also owns Tesla and Space X, said Twitter now employs 2,300 people.", "World Athletics has proposed continuing to allow transgender women to compete in female international track and field events.\n\nIn a statement it said its \"preferred option\" was to tighten the sport's eligibility rules, but still use testosterone limits as the basis for inclusion.\n\nA policy document suggesting the amendments has been sent to World Athletics' member federations as part of a consultation process before a vote in March.\n\nIt comes despite other sports banning transgender women from participating in elite female competition amid concerns they have an unfair advantage.\n\nWorld Athletics has faced some criticism over its stance, but said it was \"the best way to gather constructive feedback\" and insisted a final decision had not yet been made.\n\nIn June 2022 World Athletics president Lord Coe welcomed the move by Fina - swimming's world governing body - to stop trans athletes from competing in women's elite races if they had gone through any part of the process of male puberty, insisting \"fairness is non-negotiable\".\n\nFina's decision followed a report by a taskforce of leading figures from the world of medicine, law and sport that said that going through male puberty meant trans women retained a \"relative performance advantage over biological females\", even after medication to reduce testosterone.\n\nFina also aimed to establish an 'open' category at competitions, for swimmers whose gender identity is different than their birth sex.\n\nAt the time, Coe hinted his sport could follow suit: \"We have always believed that biology trumps gender and we will continue to review our regulations in line with this.\"\n• None What do the scientists say?\n\nHowever in policy documents seen by the BBC, World Athletics has now told member federations that its \"preferred option\" is to allow transgender women - and athletes with differences in sex development (DSD) such as South Africa's Caster Semenya - to continue to compete in the female category in international track and field.\n\nThey would have to reduce their amount of blood testosterone from the current maximum of five nanomoles per litre to below 2.5, and stay below this permitted threshold for two years rather than just one, as is the case now.\n\nIn their policy document, World Athletics concludes that \"this preferred option would allow significant (but not full) reduction of anaerobic, aerobic performances, and body composition changes, while still providing a path for eligibility of trans women [and DSD athletes]…to compete in the female category\"\n\nThe proposal would also see such rule changes apply to DSD athletes in every track and field discipline, rather than just events ranging from 400m to a mile.\n\nStudies have shown that male puberty results in increased muscle mass, bone density, changes to the shape of the skeleton, and the haemoglobin levels, all of which are significant contributors to performance.\n\nSome sports scientists maintain that lowering the testosterone level has some effect on those systems, but is not complete, and performance advantages over females can be retained.\n\nIn a statement, World Athletics said: \"We will follow the science and the decade and more of the research we have in this area in order to protect the female category, maintain fairness in our competitions, and remain as inclusive as possible.\n\n\"In reviewing a number of new and existing studies and observations from the field, we have put forward a preferred option for consultation with our member federations.\n\n\"Once we have this feedback at the end of January, we will consult, in a targeted way, more widely.\n\n\"Putting forward a preferred option is the best way to gather constructive feedback, but this does not mean this is the option that will be presented to Council or indeed adopted.\"\n\nThe suggested changes are in line with amendments made last year by the UCI, cycling's world governing body.\n\nWhat has been the reaction?\n\nHowever, World Athletics' proposal has drawn criticism from British shot putter Amelia Strickler, who told the Telegraph: \"If this happens I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a lot of world records fall to trans athletes.\n\n\"I am genuinely worried,\" she added. \"This is about protecting women at the end of the day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, British two-time European indoor 800m medallist Jamie Webb tweeted: \"Lost a lot of faith in the sport. Sad to see. Make the male category open. Male athletes won't be affected whatsoever.\"\n\nLast year British Triathlon become the first British sporting body to establish a new 'open' category in which transgender athletes can compete. The Rugby Football League and Rugby Football Union also banned transgender women from competing in female-only forms of their games.\n\nIt followed World Rugby becoming the first international sports federation to say transgender women cannot compete at the elite and international level of the women's game in 2020.\n\nWhile such moves have been praised for protecting female sport, some critics have said that these rules are discriminatory. Olympic diving champion Tom Daley said he was \"furious\" at Fina's decision to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite events, saying: \"Anyone that's told that they can't compete or can't do something they love just because of who they are, it's not on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Hemming claims this young pup is worth more than £1m.\n\nThe identity of the man behind one of the UK's most controversial dog breeding programmes is revealed in a new BBC documentary.\n\nHe is Gary Hemming, an Edinburgh man with multiple convictions for violence spanning 20 years.\n\nHemming uses the name Gari Ferrari to breed hairless French Bulldogs.\n\nAnimal welfare experts have called his breeding programme \"simply unacceptable\", \"intentionally harmful\" and \"against the law\".\n\nHemming is part of a world of extreme breeders who specialise in dogs such as American bullies and English bulldogs.\n\nThe French bulldog is the second most popular breed in the UK but Hemming's dogs are being bred to extremes.\n\nDogs with the most marketable characteristics have become one of the biggest criminal commodities being traded and sold on a scale never seen before.\n\nIn February last year, there was outrage from animal rights groups at reports that breeders in Scotland had announced the first litter of hairless French Bulldogs in the UK.\n\nBBC Disclosure has discovered that the man behind the dogs is Hemming, a violent thug with convictions for robbery, domestic assault, and grievous bodily harm.\n\nHe has a breeding arrangement with the wife of an organised crime figure in prison for drugs.\n\nHemming deals in dogs across the UK but his big money market is abroad.\n\nGary Hemming and Checkmate, the rarest dog he has managed to produce so far\n\nBBC Scotland's Sam Poling spent months infiltrating the massive UK network of extreme breeders and dog dealers.\n\nAs part of her undercover investigation, she began looking into Hemming's activities.\n\nShe contacted him posing as a representative of a wealthy overseas investor interested in his breeding line.\n\nHe told her: \"There's not a hairless breeder in the world that can achieve or can deliver what I've got. It's only going to get better.\"\n\nThe following week Poling met Hemming at an upmarket hotel just outside Edinburgh.\n\nHe claimed he had a licence for more than 100 breeding dogs but Edinburgh City Council has no record of him being licensed to breed dogs.\n\nHemming said: \"You've got to understand the valuation of what the dog can produce. Outright, I've sold females, obviously, in the margin of between 100 and 250 (thousand pounds).\"\n\n\"And then on males, I only co-own them, I don't sell them.\"\n\nHemming says his ultimate goal is the \"unicorn dog\" - the rarest dog in the world.\n\nHis extreme dog breeding programme seeks to combine every marketable characteristic in just one dog.\n\n\"Every bit of DNA in a dog, in one dog, as in colours and patterns,\" he says. \"Like, pink comes from other breeds. Chocolate comes from other breeds, merle comes from other breeds. You can turn them pink.\"\n\nOutside the hotel, he shows Poling one of his most extreme dogs - Checkmate.\n\nFerrari has managed to breed a merle pattern into Gamer, which animal experts say is a genetic defect that is linked to blindness and deafness in dogs\n\nThe four-month-old dog is the rarest dog he has managed to produce so far. He claims the dog is worth more than a million pounds and turns up with a security team made up of his associates.\n\nHe also shows the BBC reporter another pup that is the result of his experiments - a hairless French Bulldog called Gamer which, despite looking completely bald, did have some hair.\n\nHemming has managed to breed a \"merle\" pattern into him, which animal experts say is a genetic defect that is linked to blindness and deafness in dogs.\n\nDisclosure asked for the opinion of veterinary surgeon Jane Ladlow of Cambridge University's Department of Veterinary Medicine.\n\nShe is one of the country's leading experts in brachycephalic breeds. These are dogs which have short skulls and flat faces - like French and English bulldogs.\n\nLooking at the dogs Hemmings showed us, Ms Ladlow said: \"They're not French bulldogs, okay? So they're obviously cross breeds, but I don't know the health of these dogs. And it worries me that people are breeding these combinations purely to make puppies that are more expensive. So it's all about money.\n\n\"These are people that are trying to make their dogs look different so that they can have a premium on the price. It's unusual to find people that are health conscious breeders breeding these kind of dogs.\"\n\nAsked whether a line had been crossed into animal cruelty, she said that was the case with some of the animals she had seen.\n\nShe added: \"The public has the choice, choose healthy, well-bred dogs or choose this kind of exaggerated mutant. I wouldn't buy any of these dogs. I feel really sorry for them.\"\n\nThe British Veterinary Association, together with the Scottish SPCA and leading animal welfare experts are calling for greater regulation of the breeding industry and say the legislation needs to be strengthened to protect the dogs.\n\nWithout this, they say, organised crime and unscrupulous breeders will continue to flourish.\n\nThe BBC Disclosure programme also goes undercover at the American Bully Kennel Club (ABKC) UK show, with Poling witnessing a parade of extremely bred dogs with illegally cropped ears.\n\nShe manages to capture on camera two 10-week-old pups with freshly cropped ears at the home of Aaron Lee, one of the ABKC judges.\n\nThis is a practice the RSPCA calls \"appalling\".\n\nThe ABKC in the UK is run by convicted heroin trafficker William Byrne, from Wemyss Bay, and Sean Main, from Glasgow, who was cleared of running a £6m drugs racket. Heroin was found in 160 boxes of dog food delivered to his wife's grooming parlour. A jury found the charges against him not proven.\n\nAs part of her investigation into the dog trade, Poling exposes one of the UK's most well-known dog dealers Thomas Rayment.\n\nHe was jailed in 2021 for running a county lines drugs gang in the north of England.\n\nShe infiltrates their breeding network and discovers lucrative deals are being done by him from prison. His business partner, Ryan Howard, confirms to Poling that Rayment is in prison but is the one who has been negotiating the deals with her.\n• None Inside the world of organised crime and extreme dog breeding", "One fan was carrying a symbolic trophy which they had bought at a store\n\nAt least eight Arsenal fans have been arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club's win against Manchester United in the English Premier League.\n\nThe fans were wearing the club's red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy.\n\nPolice said they didn't have a permit to hold the procession which is a public order offence.\n\nArsenal scored a dramatic last-minute goal to win 3-2 in Sunday's match against a fierce rival.\n\nThe result gave the Gunners a five-point cushion at the top of the table, giving hope to fans around the world that the club could end its 19-year wait to win the English Premier League.\n\nThe Arsenal fans were travelling in a convoy of five vehicles on Monday morning when they were intercepted by police. One of them was carrying a trophy they had bought at a local store.\n\n\"I don't know what we have done but we were simply celebrating our victory over rivals Manchester United,\" Arsenal fan Baker Kasule is quoted as saying by the local Daily Monitor news site.\n\nJames Mubi, the regional police boss and a self-declared Arsenal fan, told the BBC he had not reviewed the fans' charges but wondered why they were celebrating when only half of the matches in the season had been played.\n\n\"What would happen if an altercation with rival fans broke out? They did not inform police to provide security for their procession,\" Mr Mubi said, dismissing the suggestion that the arrest was linked to the frequent arrest of members of an opposition party who also wear red.\n\nRights groups say the Public Order Management Act has given police discretionary powers that have been used to stifle citizens' rights.\n\nAgather Atuhaire, a lawyer and rights activist, told the BBC that Uganda's police continue \"to be high-handed even after the Constitutional Court nullified all the draconian provisions that gave them unfettered powers to restrict the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association and assembly\".\n\nArsenal and Manchester United enjoy huge support in Uganda, and across Africa, and when they play makeshift video halls in Uganda are always packed to the rafters.\n\nThere were also huge celebration in the stadium when Eddie Nketiah scored the late winner", "The European eel, shown here in a file photo, is an endangered species\n\nSweden's prime minister has been caught up in a political row after it emerged he hired a top aide who went eel fishing illegally, and misled the police about it.\n\nUlf Kristersson has admitted he knew Peter Magnus Nilsson had broken the law before appointing him last October.\n\nThe aide's behaviour was \"stupid\", but did not mean Mr Nilsson was unsuitable for the job, the PM said.\n\nThe opposition Social Democrats are calling on Mr Nilsson to resign.\n\nThe centre-left party's justice spokesperson Ardalan Shekarabi told public broadcaster SVT it was unacceptable for a chief aide of the prime minister to lie to the police, given \"the problems we have with serious crime in Sweden\".\n\nPeter Magnus Nilsson, a finance journalist turned prime ministerial aide, was appointed after Sweden's new centre-right coalition government took office in October 2022, backed by a far-right party.\n\nThe illegal eel fishing incident took place a year earlier, in 2021, on an autumnal day off Sweden's southern coast.\n\nIt is against the law to go eel fishing in Sweden without a permit. The European eel, a local delicacy, is critically endangered according to the Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Nilsson said he had been trying to sort out his equipment and throw small eels which had been caught in his fish-traps back to sea.\n\nAccording to an official report seen by SVT, Mr Nilsson had four traps containing 15 eels, weighing 11kg (24lb) in total.\n\nMarine officials apprehended him and asked if the equipment was his, but he said it was not.\n\nOver a year later, a \"friendly man\" from the local police force called, Mr Nilsson says. Once again, he denied possession of the traps.\n\nHe later called the police back to correct his statement, he adds, and has now been fined 38,800 kronor ($3,800; £3,060).\n\n\"I am extremely sorry about all of this,\" Mr Nilsson said, admitting it was \"inappropriate\" to neither own up during the incident nor the following year.\n\nSpeaking to SVT, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was critical of Mr Nilsson not telling the truth immediately, but argued that was weighed up by his subsequent admission and acceptance of the fine.\n\nMr Kristersson has now been reported to the parliamentary committee that reviews ministerial behaviour.\n\nThe Social Democrats are seeking details on the process of Mr Nilsson's appointment and security clearance.\n\nThe committee will review the case over the next few months.", "St Mary's Cathedral in Newcastle is operated by the diocese\n\nAn \"unscheduled\" safeguarding audit and review has been launched in the Catholic church following claims of lockdown gatherings in Newcastle.\n\nThe Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency will carry out the review into the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.\n\nThe BBC understands it involves claims from a whistleblower that men were regularly drinking on the St Mary's Cathedral complex during lockdown 2021.\n\nThe inquiry is also expected to examine the suicide of Canon Michael McCoy.\n\nFr McCoy, Dean of St Mary's Cathedral, killed himself in April 2021, days after police began an inquiry into a historical child sex abuse allegation made against him.\n\nThe diocese said it remains \"fully committed\" to safeguarding.\n\nThe Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency (CSSA) was set up to advise on and audit the work of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and is able to sanction clergy who do not meet standards.\n\nThe review, first reported by the Sunday Times, is backed by the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon, who oversees the Hexham and Newcastle diocese.\n\nThe diocese said it had previously invited the CSSA to conduct a review following the resignation of the former Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, the Right Reverend Robert Byrne, in December 2022.\n\nHe quit the role after three years saying it had become \"too great a burden\", and had resigned \"with great sorrow\" and a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThere is no suggestion that the retired bishop participated in any of the alleged lockdown gatherings.\n\nCanon Michael McCoy was being investigated by police after a historical child sex abuse allegation\n\nOn Thursday, the diocese said trustees had met and have had contact with the chief executive and representatives of the CSSA.\n\n\"They have discussed how the review, originally scheduled to happen in May 2023, will be undertaken and how the findings will be published,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Prior to Bishop Byrne's resignation in mid-December, trustees were working with the Charity Commission, following their self-referral to that organisation.\n\n\"The diocese will continue to work productively and swiftly with both organisations, learning where it needs to, not from rumours and misinformation, but from the facts and evidence provided.\"\n\nThe Archbishop of Liverpool wrote a letter to clergy and staff confirming that safeguarding work began on 19 January.\n\n\"There has been much speculation and heightened interest from the press and others regarding some of the issues here,\" he said.\n\nThe Right Reverend Robert Byrne quit as bishop in December after three years in the role\n\nHe added that he had been asked to prepare \"an in-depth report into the events leading up to Bishop Byrne's resignation\".\n\nStephen Ashley, CSSA chief executive, said: \"We will publish our independent recommendations publicly, as soon as possible, once our team has completed its investigatory work and satisfied all lines of inquiry.\"\n\nNazir Afzal, CSSA chair and the former chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, added: \"The review is fully supported by the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon and we appreciate his commitment to safeguarding.\n\n\"Naturally, we cannot yet speak to the detail of investigatory work which is ongoing, but there should be no doubt that we will leave no stone unturned to when it comes to keeping people safe, and this includes investigating the safeguarding culture in Hexham and Newcastle.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former head of Welsh women's rugby has said she considered suicide because of what she claims is a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\nCharlotte Wathan also said a male colleague told her, in a busy office, that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nAnother former female WRU employee, a mum of one, said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union have said that both cases were investigated and proper procedures were followed.", "The man was found unresponsive in the car park of Tesco on Stratford Road in Stroud\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was thought to have been robbed of his mobility scooter.\n\nThe man in his 60s was found unresponsive in the car park of Tesco on Stratford Road in Stroud early on Sunday morning.\n\nPolice said the man was taken to hospital but died later that day.\n\nA woman from Stroud has been arrested on suspicion or murder and robbery and remains in police custody.\n\nGloucestershire Police believe that the victim was the subject of a robbery and his mobility scooter was taken.\n\nA mobility scooter was found abandoned on Bisley Old Road by a member of the public later that morning.\n\nThe man was found without the mobility scooter he used to get around\n\nPolice would like to hear from anyone who saw a black mobility scooter being used in the Paganhill area between 02:00 and 04:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe scooter is described as having four wheels, a basket on the front and arm rests.\n\nInvestigating officers are asking for anyone who lives in the area to review their doorbell cameras and CCTV to see if they have any footage of the mobility scooter.\n\nPolice would also like to hear from any motorists who were driving in the area who may have dashcam footage.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Met Police is appealing for witnesses\n\nA bus driver has been arrested after a 40-year-old pedestrian died following a collision in west London.\n\nThe man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being struck in Hounslow on Saturday evening, but later died.\n\nThe collision happened at the junction of Cranford Lane and Armytage Road.\n\nThe driver of a bus, a 59-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene.\n\nPolice know the identity of the deceased man and have informed his family, who police said were being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThe crash happened at about 19:19 GMT and police asked any witnesses to come forward.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Mashal says he will protest against the ban on women's education even if it means his death\n\n\"I call on fathers to take the hands of their daughters and walk them to school, even if the gates are shut.\"\n\nProfessor Ismail Mashal, who runs a private university in Kabul, says he has had enough of the restrictions women face in Afghanistan.\n\nSlender and well dressed, he is a mixture of defiance and raw emotion.\n\n\"Even if they're not allowed in - they should do this daily. It's the least they can do to prove they are men,\" he tells me, holding back tears.\n\n\"This is not me being emotional - this is pain. Men must stand up and defend the rights of Afghan women and girls.\"\n\nIn December the Taliban government announced female students at universities would no longer be allowed back - until further notice.\n\nThey said they were doing this to enable them to create an Islamic learning environment aligned with Sharia law practices, including changes to the curriculum.\n\nNot long after the ban was announced, Prof Mashal went viral on social media after tearing up his academic records live on television, saying there was no point in gaining an education in today's Afghanistan.\n\nHe says he won't stay silent.\n\n\"The only power I have is my pen, even if they kill me, even if they tear me to pieces, I won't stay silent now,\" Prof Mashal says.\n\n\"I know what I am doing is risky. Every morning, I say goodbye to my mother and wife and tell them I may not return. But I am ready and willing to sacrifice my life for 20 million Afghan women and girls and for the future of my two children.\"\n\nProf Mashal's university had 450 female students studying there and they took courses in journalism, engineering, economics and computer science. The Taliban's education minister says these degrees should not be taught to women because they are against Islam and Afghan culture.\n\nProf Mashal ran a private university in Kabul where 450 female students studied journalism, engineering and economics among other subjects.\n\nProf Mashal says he could have kept his institution open for male students only - but instead decided to shut it completely.\n\n\"Education is either offered to all, or no one. The day I closed the doors of my institution, I was in a lot of pain.\n\n\"These people are playing with the future of our girls. My students call me and ask me when I think they'll be able to go back.\n\n\"I have no answers for them. I have no answers for my 12-year-old daughter who won't be able to go to high school next year. She continues to ask me what crime she has committed?\"\n\nSince he went on TV, he has received many threats. Despite this, Prof Mashal appears on local media almost daily.\n\nHe's hoping his advocacy will lead to a nationwide campaign. But in this deeply conservative society, how likely is it that other men will join him?\n\nEven within the Taliban government, there are those who oppose the ban on girls' education - but most have not gone public\n\nIn response to the decrees, Afghan women across the country have continued to come out onto the streets to demand their rights.\n\nWhile the protests have been predominantly led by Afghan women, male students and professors over the past few weeks have also begun risking their lives by speaking out - either by refusing to sit their final exams or by resigning from their positions.\n\nProf Mashal says since the Taliban took over the country, he can't understand their focus on restricting women.\n\n\"Leave these poor women alone. It's enough. There are much bigger issues that need to be dealt with. There is no law and order in this country, it's like being in a jungle.\"\n\nThe former journalist, 37, says he keeps in regular contact with his female students who are heartbroken by these decisions and he worries about their mental health.\n\nOne of his students, Shabnam, who was studying economics - a degree the Taliban say is inappropriate for women - says she'll never forget the day armed Taliban soldiers arrived at their school to tell them it would be the last day they could attend classes.\n\n\"We were so afraid and left our classrooms with heavy hearts not knowing when or if we'd ever return. I haven't been able to sleep properly since. I have three sisters and many female cousins and they're all in the same situation. We feel we are trapped inside a cage or prison. Afghanistan is no country for women.\"\n\nAnother student, Shabana, who was in her first semester of journalism - another degree disapproved of by the Taliban - says she is struggling to cope with the transformation the past year and a half has brought to the lives of women and girls.\n\n\"My heart is shattered. I was hoping to be a newsreader, a good reporter some day but it feels like that dream is over. For as long as I remain in this country, I don't think we will be going back to our universities.\n\n\"We changed the way we dressed. Classrooms were segregated. We did exactly as we were told. But it was still not enough. We feared they would do this to us and they did.\n\n\"Everything feels incredibly bleak for me and my sister now. We are stuck at home, night turns to day and it all feels dark and bleak.\"\n\nDespite Shabana's anguish, she praised Prof Mashal for taking a stance.\n\n\"It is a very lonely time for the women and girls of my country. There aren't many men who have spoken out. We worry about his safety but we are also so grateful for his support.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I had to put myself first and be happy' - Ellie Downie on retiring age 23\n\nGreat Britain's Ellie Downie has said she chose to retire from gymnastics because her mental health \"was taking a beating\". Downie, 23, announced her retirement with a statement on social media on Monday. Downie won 12 medals during her senior career, including a historic all-round European Championship gold in 2017. \"It wasn't the sport itself, I still very much love gymnastics,\" Downie told BBC Sport's Laura Scott. \"I want to stay within realms of it, but it was how people were treating me.\" In 2020, Downie and her sister Becky spoke out about abusive behaviour in British Gymnastics, saying it was \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\". Last year, the Whyte Review found systemic abuse in the sport in Britain, but Downie says speaking out hindered her further selection. \"At the time I was pretty confident to [speak out],\" she said. \"Ultimately it did really hinder us a lot, we both didn't make the Tokyo Games. But I really wanted to make a positive change. \"When I got to the last trial [before Tokyo], I decided to pull out. But the whole scenario around it, no-one came up to me, I sat on the bench crying, the coaches ignored me. \"I went home without anyone speaking to me before I left, - that was absolutely heart-breaking.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellie Downie This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDownie, an Olympian at Rio in 2016, said she had been considering retirement since October, shortly before the World Championships. \"I got asked to be a reserve before trials, but then to not get picked it put me in a very low state. \"Ultimately I knew I couldn't carry on, because I didn't think I would ever get picked again.\" Downie lost her brother Josh in 2021 after he suffered a heart attack during cricket training, and while she says she \"lost direction\" following his death, she felt it was used as a \"narrative\" to justify her non-selection for the Tokyo Games. \"I was coming in as a reigning world medallist, with the potential to do well in Tokyo if they would help me along the way,\" she said. \"I didn't speak on it at the time, it was too painful to talk about. It's only been until now that I've felt like I can and strong enough to do so.\" Chief executive of British Gymnastics Sarah Powell said Downie was a \"trailblazer in how she has reflected on her experiences to challenge and push the sport of gymnastics forward.\" \"Her bravery and honesty, privately and publicly, helps shape the future of our sport,\" she said.\n\nPowell added that Downie \"produced history making performances on the world stage\" and \"helped lead a ground-breaking group of British women's artistic gymnasts and in doing so inspired generations of younger gymnasts to reach their goals.\" In announcing her retirement, Downie also shared an interview with her on Dr Alex George's podcast Stompcast., external, where she spoke in depth about her reasons to retire and experiences she had in her career. In that interview Downie also said:\n• None Throughout her career her weight was ridiculed with coaches blaming injuries on how \"heavy\" she was. \"If I am sad I want to eat and I feel that is because I was told I couldn't,\" she said. \"Some people go to drink or drugs when they are highly emotional and I turn to food. It has given me a tough relationship with food at times.\"\n• None Downie claimed she experienced a lack of support and communication from the governing body after she failed to qualify for the Olympics and the death of her brother.\n• None Felt \"worthless\" after only being selected as a reserve for the 2022 World Championships, despite meeting the criteria that was set out for her and it left her \"mentally battered\".\n• None Claims an email sent to those who competed at the World Championships by national coach David Kenwright said: \"We finally put the naysayers to rest\". She that added a performance director called the language in the email \"not acceptable\".\n• None Said the \"wrong person\" is in charge of the national programme at the moment.\n\nSpeaking later to the BBC, Downie also added that she felt she had \"nothing to lose now\" in speaking out about the issues. She said that \"ultimately' she didn't feel like \"they wanted me back that much\". In response to the claims in the podcast, British Gymnastics said in a statement: \"She's raised issues that we are already aware of and are being addressed, particularly around the conduct and communication of a member of our coaching team. \"As part of the wide reform of gymnastics being undertaken, we must ensure appropriate behaviours and attitudes are maintained and always reinforced.\" In response to the email claim, the governing body said it \"did not meet our standards or reflect our values as an organisation\" and a disciplinary process was ongoing. \"Our Performance Director immediately sent correspondence to recipients outlining that some of the language and tone was unacceptable and not in line with our culture and commitment to reform,\" British Gymnastics added: \"A subsequent discipline and education process took place and this is being monitored as an ongoing process.\" British Gymnastics put together an action plan called Reform '25 to deliver on the findings of the Whyte Review. \"Our Reform '25 action plan makes it abundantly clear that abuse, mistreatment, and a culture of fear have no place in gymnastics, and that nothing is more important than the safety and wellbeing of gymnasts and everyone involved in the sport,\" the statement continued. \"The reforms we have already put in place in bringing in two new Performance Directors in Tracy Whittaker-Smith and David Hart, together with Scott Hann as Technical Advisor, were made to ensure these kinds of issues were addressed. \"We still need to go further and faster over the next two years of delivering our plans, but the immediate response and subsequent action to deal with this email is a demonstration that progress is being made.\" If you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which has not yet approved Sweden's bid to join Nato\n\nSweden should not expect Turkey to back its Nato membership bid, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, days after a copy of the Quran was burned in a Stockholm protest.\n\nSweden applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine - but needs Turkey, already a member, to approve.\n\nKurdish protesters in Sweden hung an effigy of Mr Erdogan this month, followed by the Quran burning.\n\n\"Sweden should not expect support from us for Nato,\" Erdogan said in response.\n\n\"It is clear that those who caused such a disgrace in front of our country's embassy can no longer expect any benevolence from us regarding their application.\"\n\nSaturday's protest - but not the burning of the book itself - was given prior approval by Swedish authorities.\n\nErdogan condemned the latest protest, carried out by a far-right politician from a Danish party, as blasphemy not to be defended by free speech.\n\nThe Swedish governments also criticised the protest.\n\n\"Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish government, or myself, support the opinions expressed,\" Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Saturday.\n\nResponding to Mr Erdogan's remarks on Monday, Mr Billstrom said that he wanted to understand exactly what the Turkish leader said before commenting.\n\n\"Sweden will respect the agreement that exists between Sweden, Finland and Turkey regarding our Nato membership,\" he added.\n\nSweden, along with Finland, applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine, but the recent protests have heightened tensions.\n\nNato's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said that freedom of expression was a \"precious commodity\" in Nato countries, and that these acts, while inappropriate, were not \"automatically illegal\".\n\nTurkey, a majority Muslim country, denounced the Swedish government's decision to allow the protest as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"No one has the right to humiliate the saints,\" said Mr Erdogan in his televised remarks on Monday.\n\n\"When we say something, we say it honestly, and when someone dishonours us, we put them in their place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From May: Sweden and Finland formally submit Nato applications\n\nDefence Minister Hulusi Akar said Turkey cancelled a visit by his Swedish counterpart Pal Jonson after \"observing that no measures were taken over the... disgusting protests\".\n\nA flurry of earlier visits by Sweden's top ministers to Turkey's capital Ankara raised hopes the trip could ease objections to Sweden's accession.\n\nAs Turkey is already a Nato member, it can block another country from joining, and has made several demands of Sweden already. That includes the extradition of some Kurds that it claims are terrorists.\n\nEarlier this month, the Swedish prime minister said Kurdish protesters in Stockholm who hung an effigy of Turkey's president from a lamppost were trying to sabotage Sweden's Nato application.\n\nA Swedish minister branded the stunt as \"deplorable\", but Turkey said the condemnation was not enough.", "The process of hiring BBC chairman Richard Sharp is to be reviewed by the watchdog that oversees how public appointments are made.\n\nIt follows claims that shortly before being given the job, Mr Sharp helped the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, secure a loan guarantee agreement.\n\nWilliam Shawcross, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, said the review would ensure the hiring followed rules.\n\nMr Sharp said he \"simply connected\" people and did not arrange financing.\n\nAccording to The Sunday Times, Mr Sharp was involved in discussions about a loan worth up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson in December 2020.\n\nThe paper reports that multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. Mr Sharp then introduced Mr Blyth to Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, the Times says.\n\nMr Johnson, Mr Sharp and Mr Blyth later had dinner together, the Times reports.\n\nA few weeks later, in January 2021, Mr Sharp - a former Goldman Sachs banker - was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman. His role entails upholding and protecting the BBC's independence and ensuring it fulfils its mission.\n\nThe timing of these reported events has led to questions about how Downing Street decided he should have the job and whether the process was fair.\n\nThe government's choice for the BBC chairman job is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nMr Sharp, Mr Johnson and the government all deny there was a conflict of interest. On Monday, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin described the appointment as an \"incredibly robust process\".\n\nMr Shawcross - who is in charge of regulating how people are hired to public roles, such as the Bank of England governor or BBC chairman - announced his review on Monday, after Labour had written to him over the weekend calling for him to do so.\n\nHe said his job was to \"ensure appointments are made fairly, openly and on merit\".\n\nMr Sharp said he welcomed the commissioner's review. The top civil servant at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Sarah Healey, has already said she has been asked to submit documents about the hiring to Mr Shawcross in the next 10 days.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sharp announced that the BBC Board - which he chairs - would hold a review into any potential conflicts of interest when it next meets, without giving a timeline.\n\nThis BBC review is not an investigation into what led to his appointment - but will look at whether any declarations of personal of interests are accurate, up to date and whether they affect his role.\n\nThe body that will look at this is the BBC Nominations Committee, which is headed by Mr Sharp as chairman. However, the BBC understands he would recuse himself from this exercise in due diligence.\n\nIn an email to BBC staff on Monday, Mr Sharp said: \"I believe firmly that I was appointed on merit, which the Cabinet Office have also confirmed.\"\n\nGiving his account of events, Mr Sharp said his \"old friend\" Mr Blyth became \"aware of the financial pressures on the then prime minister, and being a successful entrepreneur, he told me he wanted to explore whether he could assist\".\n\n\"He spoke to me because he trusts me and wanted to check with me what the right way to go about this could be. I told him that this was a sensitive area in any event, particularly so as Sam [Blyth] is a Canadian, and that he should seek to have the Cabinet Office involved and have the cabinet secretary advise on appropriateness and indeed whether any financial support Sam might wish to provide was possible.\n\n\"Accordingly Sam asked me whether I would connect him with the cabinet secretary.\"\n\nMr Sharp added: \"I went to see the cabinet secretary and explained who Sam was, and that as a cousin of the then prime minister he wanted to help him if possible. I also reminded the cabinet secretary that I had submitted my application for the position of BBC chairman.\n\n\"We both agreed that to avoid any conflict that I should have nothing further to do with the matter. At that point there was no detail on the proposed arrangements and I had no knowledge of whether any assistance was possible, or could be agreed.\"\n\n\"Since that meeting I have had no involvement whatsoever with any process,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: MPs question appointment of BBC chairman. 'It's all a bit banana republic, is it not?'\n\nIn the Commons on Monday, SNP MP John Nicolson brought up the issue in an urgent question, saying: \"Mr Sharp appeared before the Culture Select Committee on which I sit.\n\n\"We grilled him about his £400,000 gift to the Conservative Party. However he did not disclose his role in getting the man appointing him a huge loan….\n\n\"Even by the grubby standards of this government, it's all a bit banana republic is it not?\"\n\nIn response, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin described the appointment as an \"incredibly robust process\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"There was a very robust process in place for the appointment of the chairman at the BBC, including a pre-appointment hearing.\"\n\nFormer BBC broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby said: \"I have no reason at all to doubt Richard Sharp's integrity. The problem is the manner of the appointment. In times when the public is alarmingly lacking in trust of our public institutions, everything has to be crystal clear and transparent.\n\n\"It does not mean, of course, there was a conflict of interest, but the appearance of a conflict of interest is what is important.\"\n\nMr Johnson described any claims of improper behaviour as \"a load of complete nonsense\".\n\nHe told Sky News on Monday: \"Let me just tell you, Richard Sharp is a good and wise man but he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances - I can tell you that for 100% ding dang sure.\"\n\nDowning Street has rejected allegations of \"cronyism\" and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also defended the BBC appointment process as \"rigorous\" and \"transparent\".\n\nMr Sharp was an unpaid adviser on the government's business loan scheme during the pandemic, and was an economic adviser to Mr Johnson during his time as London mayor. Mr Sharp and Mr Sunak also worked together at Goldman Sachs investment bank.\n\nIt is not the first time there have been questions about a BBC chairman's links with the government. Many former politicians or people with close political ties have been appointed over the years.\n\nBut also there have been times where a an BBC chairman has clashed with government, like Labour appointment Gavyn Davies who resigned over a clash with Tony Blair's government.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there were \"clearly serious questions to answer\" on the loan row and said \"we need to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe job of BBC chairman is different to that of BBC director general Tim Davie, who is the BBC's editor-in-chief, as well as creative and operational leader responsible for its global workforce.", "The alert follows the latest forecast from Imperial College London, Sadiq Khan says\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan has issued a high air-pollution alert across the capital for Tuesday.\n\nMr Khan said people needed \"to be careful over the next few days\" and avoid unnecessary car journeys.\n\nThe capital has experienced moderate air pollution since Saturday with the continuing cold, still and foggy conditions resulting in poor dispersion of vehicle emissions.\n\nMessages will be displayed across the Transport for London (TfL) network.\n\nSchools and boroughs will be notified, the mayor's office said.\n\nMr Khan said he was doing \"everything in my power to tackle\" toxic air.\n\n\"Following the latest forecast from Imperial College London, I am issuing a 'high' air-pollution alert,\" he explained.\n\n\"We all need to be careful over the next few days. I'm urging Londoners to look after each other by choosing to walk, cycle or take public transport where possible, avoiding unnecessary car journeys, stopping engine idling and not burning garden waste, all of which contributes to high levels of pollution.\n\n\"This is particularly important in order to protect those who are more vulnerable to high pollution.\"\n\nPeople are being asked to avoid unnecessary car journeys\n\nMr Khan said the alert showed why it was \"so vital\" to adopt the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) London-wide \"to reduce toxic air pollution in our city\".\n\nLast week he was accused of having provided \"false and misleading\" information about the widened zone, which comes into force in August. The mayor denied any wrongdoing.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beyoncé made her on-stage return at the opening of a new luxury hotel in Dubai\n\nBeyoncé has returned to the stage for her first live performance in five years - but not everyone's excited.\n\nThe US megastar headlined the private concert in Dubai to mark the opening of luxury hotel Atlantis The Royal.\n\nDespite a strict no-phones policy at the exclusive, 1,500-seat gig, footage of the show flooded the internet.\n\nMany fans were thrilled to see the return of Queen B, but others weren't happy because Dubai has strict laws against same-sex relationships.\n\nRenaissance, her latest album, has been celebrated for \"honouring black queer culture\" and taking inspiration from LGBT icons.\n\nIt pays tribute to dance music that emerged out of the gay community and also references drag ballrooms in Harlem, New York.\n\nThis might explain why some fans are uncomfortable about her making her live return in Dubai - and reportedly receiving $24m for it.\n\n\"It seems like a really misguided choice from her,\" says Abigail.\n\n\"She's obviously a multimillionaire anyway, she didn't really need to do this, she didn't really need the money.\n\n\"That's probably where some of the backlash is stemming from as well.\"\n\nDubai is part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a Middle Eastern country made up of seven regions that follow strict laws and have rules against homosexuality.\n\nNearby Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup, has similar rules.\n\nIt was criticised for its attitude to LGBT people, its human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers.\n\nBeyoncé invited her daughter Blue Ivy on stage for part of the performance\n\nDavid Beckham faced backlash - most famously from comedian Joe Lycett - for signing a big-money deal with the Qatari government to advertise the event.\n\nLike Beyoncé, he has been celebrated within the LGBT community and posed on the cover of best-selling gay magazine Attitude in 2002.\n\nDrag Race UK star Kitty Scott-Claus referred to the backlash against Beckham in a tweet, asking if there was \"one rule for one and one rule for another\".\n\nSo far, criticism of the singer hasn't been as fierce.\n\n\"People feel a little bit reluctant to give Beyoncé any kind of backlash because of how appreciated she is by the LGBT community,\" says Abigail.\n\n\"But she doesn't necessarily get a free pass.\"\n\nLawrence Barton, who runs a chain of gay bars in Birmingham, says it was \"truly disappointing\" to see Beyoncé performing in Dubai.\n\nBut he says he wants to hear from the singer about why she chose to do the show.\n\n\"Beyoncé is considered by the LGBTQI community as an ally,\" he says.\n\n\"But we don't actually know whether she even considered the LGBTQI legislation over there, it might not have even been a consideration.\n\n\"We need to hear from Beyoncé herself about how she feels about the situation that our community faces over there,\" he says.\n\n\"Because she has fans all over the world that adore her, some will be upset and some will think it's an amazing thing.\"\n\nAaron Carty is a drag queen who performs as Beyoncé\n\nBut not all fans have been critical - some have said the UAE and surrounding countries aren't alone in their stance on LGBT rights and shouldn't be singled out.\n\nAnd others have pointed out differences, such as Beyoncé being paid by a business for a private event, while Beckham was paid by the government to actively promote the country.\n\n\"We can't be pointing the finger at other countries before we look at ourselves,\" says Aaron Carty, a drag queen from the Beyoncé Experience.\n\n\"Beyoncé performing in Dubai is a statement in itself,\" he says, adding that the singer is \"a change-maker\".\n\n\"We are only going to make a change by talking about it,\" says Aaron, adding: \"She loves us gays. She loves the LGBT community.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Beyoncé for comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is in the former Jenners building, which has been undergoing a restoration.\n\nA firefighter has been critically injured in a blaze at the Jenners building in Edinburgh.\n\nEmergency service crews were sent to the former department store on Rose Street at 11:30 on Monday.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it dispatched 22 fire engines to the scene. It said five firefighters were taken to hospital.\n\nEyewitnesses described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the landmark Edinburgh building.\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue Service interim chief officer, Ross Haggart, said the fire was \"serious and complex\".\n\nHe said: \"Regrettably I can confirm five of our colleagues have been taken to hospital and one remains in a critical condition.\"\n\nThe cordon around the Jenners building was reduced on Tuesday but emergency services remain on the scene\n\nA police cordon was put in place which covered the whole of St Andrew Square, and staff from nearby offices were evacuated.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said it was aware of the reports of injuries to firefighters during the incident.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC Scotland about the response of emergency services on Princes Street.\n\nSarah Mullins, 34, manager at Wagamama in St Andrew Square, said she first saw smoke at about 11:30.\n\n\"It got so bad we couldn't see out across the square,\" she said.\n\n\"The police told us to stay inside because the smoke was so bad it would have affected our lungs. They said it was safer to stay inside.\n\n\"It's very sad this has happened to such an iconic building.\"\n\nOn Tuesday City of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said the rear of the building was the main part affected by the fire.\n\nHe added four appliances remained at the scene overnight but confirmed the blaze had been extinguished.\n\nBut while businesses in the area reopen Mr Day said there would still be some disruption to transport near the scene.\n\nMr Day told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I'm sure I say this on behalf of the whole city, that our thoughts are of course with the firefighters who risked their lives to save the building and the people around the city as well.\"\n\nAsked if there was a chance the building might not survive, he said: \"That will be subject to these surveys.\n\n\"I am hopeful that where we saw the fire yesterday was towards the rear of the building and I hope that can be salvaged.\"\n\nEyewitnesses described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the former department store\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulance crews were dispatched to the scene\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing a restoration which was due to take four years. Under the plan, disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nThe current building was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie in the Victorian renaissance revival style and opened in 1895 - after the original building was destroyed by fire in 1892.\n\nThe building was sold to private investors in 2005 after House of Fraser bought the Jenners brand and property.\n\nIt was then bought by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen in 2017 for a reported £53m.", "Government likely to insist all questions about Zahawi wait till inquiry is over\n\nLabour have an urgent question in the Commons shortly that will allow them to press the government on Nadhim Zahawi and his taxes. Opposition parties have been calling for the prime minister to sack the Conservative Party chairman over the revelation that he paid a penalty over previously unpaid tax while serving as chancellor. But the prime minister's announcement that he wants his ethics advisor to investigate whether there were any breaches of the ministerial code actually gives Zahawi some breathing space. Though the prime minister says there are \"questions that need answering\", Nadhim Zahawi will stay in post while he's being investigated. Any final decision from Rishi Sunak has been delayed. The Conservative Party chairman has said he's confident he's \"acted properly throughout\". Investigations can sometimes take the immediate pressure off – they kick a decision into the long grass. When this issue makes its way to the floor of the Commons shortly, we can expect the government minister who's responding to insist that all questions should wait until the inquiry is done. An answer that works for now, but won’t work forever.", "Margus Laidre had been Estonia's representative in Russia since 2018, and had previously worked in Finland and the UK\n\nThe Estonian ambassador in Russia has been ordered to leave the country by 7 February after the Kremlin accused the country of \"Russophobia\".\n\nIn a statement, the Russian foreign ministry said Estonia had \"purposefully destroyed\" relations with Moscow.\n\nMargus Laidre is the first ambassador Russia has expelled since invading Ukraine last year.\n\nEstonia responded by asking the Russian ambassador to leave by the same date.\n\nRussia's move against Mr Laidre comes after Estonia recently ordered a reduction in the size of the Russian Embassy in Tallinn.\n\nMoscow was told to reduce its embassy from 17 to eight by the end of January. In a statement in January, Estonia said embassy staff had stopped seeking to advance relations between the countries since the conflict broke out.\n\nTensions were also raised last week after representatives from 11 Nato nations gathered at an army base in Estonia to discuss a range of new packages to help Ukraine recapture territory and fend off any further Russian advances.\n\nLatvia's foreign ministry has also asked the Russian ambassador to leave by 24 February and said the country would support Estonia by reducing diplomatic relations with Russia.\n\nMr Laidre has been appointed to the Russian Federation since 2018 and has previously held the role in the UK and Finland.\n\nHe was working from the Estonian Embassy in Moscow, and will now be replaced with a chargé d'affaires - a diplomat of a lower rank acting in place of an ambassador.\n\nThe statement from the Russian foreign ministry said: \"In recent years, the Estonian leadership has purposefully destroyed the entire range of relations with Russia. Total Russophobia, the cultivation of hostility towards our country has been elevated by Tallinn to the rank of state policy.\n\n\"Now Estonia has taken a new unfriendly step to radically reduce the number of personnel of the Russian embassy in Tallinn, confirming the line towards the collapse of relations between our countries. As a response, the Russian side decided to downgrade the diplomatic representative in both countries to chargé d'affaires.\"\n\nThe press release added that Mr Laidre was summoned to the ministry on Monday where he was asked to leave the country. The statement ended by stating that the development of the two countries' relationship now lies with Estonia.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He joked he wanted to rape me,\" claims Charlotte Wathan\n\nA former boss at Welsh women's rugby said she considered suicide because of what she claimed was a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\nCharlotte Wathan also said a male colleague said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, a mum of one, said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\nThe WRU said that both cases were investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nOne MP, also a former Wales player, warned the allegations against a major UK sporting organisation were \"on a level\" with the racism scandal that rocked Yorkshire Cricket Club.\n\nTonia Antoniazzi has written to the Prince of Wales as patron of the WRU for a meeting to \"create a better future for women and girls in rugby in Wales\".\n\nMs Wathan, the former general manager of Welsh women's rugby, said she cried after the alleged rape comment was made towards her at the WRU's Vale of Glamorgan training base in 2019.\n\n\"Someone referring about me in an office environment that they wanted to rape me,\" she told the BBC Wales Investigates programme.\n\n\"Take me back to the hotel, tie me to the bed and rape me. I remember feeling sick, like a punch to the stomach. I remember standing in shock thinking, 'did I just hear that?'\n\n\"And everyone's laughing, and there was a senior member of staff there. I left the room and I burst into tears. I thought 'crikey, is this what it's come to?'\"\n\nThe Welsh team are ninth in the women's rugby world rankings\n\nThe comment was eventually investigated by an external lawyer after Ms Wathan raised it with the WRU as part of a wider grievance, but the BBC has discovered a number of key witnesses, who she said could corroborate her allegations, were not spoken to as part of that investigation.\n\nThe man who allegedly made the comment also was not spoken to as part of the grievance. He still works at the WRU.\n\nMs Wathan, hired to help transform its struggling women's game in 2018, later started legal proceedings against the WRU.\n\nBut the WRU and Ms Wathan, who left the organisation early in 2022, reached an \"amicable resolution\" last month and a planned employment tribunal case was withdrawn.\n\nThe WRU told the BBC Ms Wathan's allegations remained unsubstantiated following a thorough independent legal investigation and that it could not comment further because her case had been settled since her interview with the BBC.\n\nBut it added it took any allegations from staff regarding behaviour, attitude and language seriously and if any allegations were substantiated it would act swiftly. It said such behaviour had no place in the WRU or Welsh rugby.\n\nMs Wathan said she told the WRU in 2021 the culture was \"toxic\" and she was too ill to return to work due to the impact on her mental health.\n\nCharlotte Wathan helped develop a strategy for the women's game in Wales\n\n\"They'd beat me down. They'd won,\" she said.\n\n\"You just, at that point, think there's no hope. And nobody wants to take this seriously.\n\n\"This was probably one of the worst experiences of my life and it was dark. It was grim. And it could have cost me my life.\n\n\"I could have left my children without a mum, just because I was trying to develop the women's game.\"\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, who wants to remain anonymous, also alleged she suffered sexism and bullying by a manager within the organisation and left in 2018.\n\nThe second woman described her time at the organisation as \"an open wound\" and said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\n\"This wasn't about an incident here and an incident there,\" she said.\n\n\"It was constant undermining of me or my gender by nit-picking at irrelevant stuff.\n\n\"It takes you to a very dark, dark place when you can genuinely look at your husband and think 'you're young enough to meet someone else and my daughter is young enough to get another mother'.\n\n\"I went as far as to start drafting a manual for my husband and what to do in the event that I died.\"\n\nShe said she told HR that bullying and sexism at work had left her feeling suicidal and was advised to put in a grievance against the manager concerned and was told she could move to another office in the same building.\n\nBut she feared that complaining would make her life more difficult, so ended up leaving the WRU without raising a grievance.\n\nShe said she did give the name of the accused manager to HR and considered taking the WRU to an employment tribunal but the organisation argued she had left it too late to make a claim and there were no grounds.\n\nThe accusations come just days before the start of Wales' 2023 Six Nations campaign\n\n\"They bullied me by saying they would put in a costs order against me,\" she added.\n\n\"On the balance of what was most important for that time - my family and livelihood, or trying to fix an organisation I no longer work for? I chose my family and my livelihood.\"\n\nThe WRU told the BBC her case was investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nNew WRU chief executive Steve Phillips said in December the union would \"never be complacent\" on fighting discrimination and said \"the expectations are very high and rightly so, on everybody in the WRU - and we will maintain those standards.\"\n\nMs Antoniazzi, a former Wales rugby international, has said women from inside the WRU had also raised concerns with her.\n\nShe said she wanted the Welsh government to set up an independent body to oversee complaints about Wales' sports governing bodies.\n\nFounded in 1881, the WRU is responsible for running the sport in Wales from grassroots to international rugby\n\n\"This is on a level of what's happened in cricket,\" said the Labour MP for Gower.\n\n\"I have great, great concerns about the future of women's rugby in Wales.\n\n\"Unless you are a woman and, excuse the expression, but with balls and deep pockets, how on Earth do you take on somebody like the WRU and stand up to them without there being financial detriment, reputational detriment?\n\n\"Nobody holds them to account. They hold themselves to account, but they're marking their own homework. So what is the point? How do we know that this scandal now will [not] be resolved?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warren Gatland says he does not 'know a lot about' WRU sexism claims\n\nThe claims were revealed on the day Wales' men's squad meet up to prepare for this year's Six Nations tournament ahead of their opener with Ireland on 4 February in Cardiff.\n\nWarren Gatland has returned as Wales coach and, on his first day with his players, was asked about the allegations and how it would affect his team's preparations.\n\n\"For me it's something I don't know a lot about, I've been away since the World Cup in 2019,\" Gatland told the BBC.\n\n\"I've not really read too much of the press about things. It's like anything there's two sides to every story and I hope you'd get a balance in terms of both sides being represented in the proper way.\"\n\nIt was not just sexism claims against the WRU - the BBC has spoken to two people who say they witnessed the \"P-word\" being used in an online staff meeting attended by a senior manager.\n\n\"A colleague was watching cricket in his living room on silent while on his laptop and the senior manager on the call asked what the score was,\" recalled witness Marc Roberts, a former manager in Welsh rugby's community game.\n\n\"That person used a racist term to describe who was in the lead of that cricket game.\n\n\"The conversation was between the manager and the individual who used that word. And nothing was said. I actually brought it up and said that term was unacceptable and inappropriate.\n\n\"At no stage did a senior manager, stop and say, 'you cannot use that term that's not an appropriate term'.\"\n\nMr Roberts worked for the WRU for 20 years and said the culture had got worse in the past five years and he had warned bosses about what he had seen and heard from a number of women in the organisation.\n\nHe eventually quit the WRU this month.\n\nHe said: \"I have seen no change in our culture. It's not a culture that likes to be challenged.\"\n\nThe WRU said how sad it was to hear how individuals in this programme felt and it would continue to work with staff to ensure they feel valued and listened to.\n\nThe WRU has previously spoken of its commitment to the women's game and last year gave Wales' women players professional contracts for the first time.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Food suppliers have hit back at claims by Tesco's chairman that they are using high inflation as an excuse to raise prices unnecessarily.\n\nTesco's John Allan told the BBC it was \"entirely possible\" that suppliers were taking advantage of poorer households.\n\nBut the Food & Drink Federation (FDF) called his comments \"difficult\" and said the suppliers it represents have seen a \"massive\" rise in their costs.\n\nFDF boss Karen Betts said supermarkets are already \"very tough\" on suppliers.\n\n\"Most supermarkets are asking suppliers to open their books to justify exactly line-by-line where the cost increases are coming in,\" Ms Betts told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"So I think it is difficult for Tesco to come out and say they think companies might be profiteering.\"\n\nGed Futter, a former senior buyer at supermarket Asda and now a retail analyst, said Mr Allan's comments were \"outrageous\".\n\nHe said that some retailers have been raising their prices above the rate of inflation, which was 10.5% in December. \"So I would say it is quite disingenuous to be talking about suppliers profiteering at this time,\" Mr Futter said.\n\nTesco chairman John Allan said the firm had \"fallen out\" with suppliers over prices\n\nTesco expects its full-year operating profit to reach up to £2.5bn. It would be below the £2.8bn it reported for the previous 12 months when Covid restrictions continued to boost online trade for the UK's big supermarkets.\n\nMr Allan told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Tesco had \"fallen out\" with suppliers in the past over price rises.\n\nThe supermarket temporarily removed Heinz products from its shelves last year, including baked beans and tomato ketchup, after Kraft Heinz tried to raise its prices. At the time, the US giant said it was becoming more expensive to manufacture its goods.\n\nIn the end, Tesco and Kraft Heinz reached an agreement and the products returned. \"We do try very hard I think to challenge cost increases,\" said Mr Allan.\n\nMs Betts said that food and drink manufacturers were dealing with unprecedented cost pressures. \"Those increases are rooted in the disruption caused by Covid-19, by the war in Ukraine, [and] by the cost of Brexit, where moving food stuffs across the border has become much more complicated and expensive.\"\n\nShe said companies cannot \"operate at a loss so they are having to go to the supermarkets and say 'we need to pass through some of these price rises' and the supermarkets are very tough on this\".\n\nCommenting on Mr Allan's views, Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers' Union, said it is \"almost like he was living in a parallel universe\".\n\nShe told the BBC's Wake Up to Money: \"We're seeing a wholesale gas price 650% higher than it was back in 2019 and the cost inflation on the back of that has been absolutely unprecedented.\n\n\"It has dwarfed any price increases to date.\"\n\nThe rate of price rises - or inflation - for food and drink hit 16.9% in December, according to the Office for National Statistics. It is the highest pace of food and drink price rises since 1977 and was driven by higher prices for milk, cheese and eggs as well as sugar, jam, honey and chocolate.\n\nJust three years ago, in December 2020, food and drink prices were falling at an annual rate of 1.4%.", "Erin Reid's kit contains a menstrual cup and antibacterial wipes sealed in an adventure-proof casing\n\nA woman has developed a portable period kit designed to be used outdoors when there is no access to toilets or handwashing facilities.\n\nErin Reid, 25, came up with the concept when she took on the 96 mile (154km) West Highland Way from Milngavie, near Glasgow, to Fort William.\n\nThe ex-Napier University student now hopes to launch the product in 2024.\n\nMs Reid, from East Kilbride, said it was aimed at hikers, kayakers and military personnel.\n\nBut she told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme the flask-style design may also appeal to festival goers who were concerned about using portable toilets.\n\nThe kit contains a reusable menstrual cup and antibacterial wipes, allowing the cup to be cleaned on the go.\n\nIt also has an applicator which can be used without the need for clean hands, so in situations where there is no access to toilets or running water.\n\nMs Reid, a product design graduate, was inspired by her own experiences on the West Highland Way.\n\nShe added: \"I was due my period the entire time and it was just such a hassle.\n\n\"I am aiming to reduce the hassle and give people more confidence to get outdoors while they are on their period.\"\n\nMs Reid says she has always been a fan of the great outdoors and enjoys hiking and cycling\n\nMs Reid said women in remote locations could be at risk from urinary tract infections (UTIs), toxic shock, or infertility due to poor hygiene when there was no access to toilets, handwashing facilities, or places to dispose of used sanitary products.\n\nThe keen hillwalker and cyclist is now looking for funding to bring her LU Innovations menstrual hygiene kit to the market.\n\nThe new product is being developed with support from Converge, which helps universities and research institutes bring forward new products for sale.\n\nLU Innovations is currently working with Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to further develop product design, with experts from the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University advising on relevant healthcare standards.\n\nLast year, the company won Converge's Create Change Challenge, as well the Rose Award prize sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland to help women starting a businesses.\n\nMs Reid is now seeking to raise £200,000 in seed funding and to bring on board a business partner and a non-executive director to help LU Innovations grow.\n\nDr Claudia Cavalluzzo, executive director of Converge, said: \"Erin Reid and her LU Innovations are great examples of the drive that lies at the heart of Converge, to give everyone the chance to solve a problem, no matter their background or gender.\n\n\"Erin spotted a problem that she wanted to fix and teaming up with Converge and our university partners will help her to make a difference in the lives of women around the world.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A search for the driver is under way after the vehicle failed to stop\n\nSix pedestrians have been injured after being hit by a car on a high street in north London.\n\nA search for the driver is under way after the vehicle failed to stop in Green Lanes, near to the junction with Salisbury Road, Harringay, on Sunday evening.\n\nPolice said the incident was being treated as a road traffic collision.\n\nFour people were taken to hospital and two were treated at the scene. None have life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said officers were called at 19:13 GMT and London Ambulance Service and the London Fire Brigade also went to the scene.\n\nSome road closures were put in place and a highways team has since worked to repair damage to traffic lights near a pedestrian crossing.\n\nA highways team were called to repair damage the following morning\n\nLeader of Haringey Council, councillor Peray Ahmet, said it was \"absolutely disgusting\" the driver had failed to stop.\n\nShe said: \"I'm pleased to hear there were no serious injuries, but we absolutely have to make sure the perpetrator is caught because not stopping at a scene like that is just not acceptable.\n\n\"If any witnesses were there I urge them to get in contact with the police.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak's trio of promises on becoming prime minister have just careered into a trio of incidents that pose him big questions.\n\nBack in October, moments before he went into Downing Street for the first time as prime minister, he promised: \"this government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.\"\n\nNow he confronts three issues testing those promises: the seat belt, the BBC Chairman and the taxman.\n\nNot wearing a seatbelt and getting fined for it.\n\nNo prime minister wants a reputation for harbouring a stash of fixed penalty notices gathered while in office.\n\nThe one the other day was his second after his one during the pandemic as chancellor.\n\nThen there are the cases of the two chairmen: the BBC Chairman and the Conservative Party Chairman.\n\nBoth, to varying degrees, amount to the exhaust fumes of the Boris Johnson era - Richard Sharp's appointment entirely so, even if the revelations in the Sunday Times prompt questions for the government now.\n\nBut Nadhim Zahawi presents Rishi Sunak with a live and present case - and the decision he faces is simple: sack him, or keep him?\n\nThe Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday amounted to him saying \"search me guv, I haven't the foggiest\" when he was pressed for any detail about Mr Zahawi's taxes.\n\nIt meant Mr Cleverly did not personally commit himself to saying anything that could amount to a hostage to fortune.\n\nBut it also meant plenty of big questions remain unanswered about the claims, which were first reported in the Guardian last week.\n\nWe now have some answers, but there is plenty we still do not know.\n\nIn practical terms it seems difficult to see how Mr Zahawi can fulfil the public role of party chairman with all this still swirling.\n\nBoris Johnson faces claims over his appointment of Richard Sharp as BBC Chairman when he was prime minister\n\nHe is determined to, but that is different from actually being able to do so.\n\nFor as long as he ducks the questions in public, they will perch upon his shoulder.\n\nAnd as and when he does choose to answer them, it is likely to be uncomfortable for him, and the answers might not be politically palatable to many.\n\nMeanwhile, all these things are oxygen snatchers for Rishi Sunak: attention and credibility grabbers when he would much rather be talking about the health service, for instance, a topic he will attempt to turn to this week.\n\nBut instead the prime minister will face questions grounded in that initial promise when he took office: the extent to which his government has integrity, professionalism and accountability.", "Port Talbot in Wales is home to the UK's biggest steelmaking plant\n\nThe government is expected to announce hundreds of millions of pounds of support to help Britain's two biggest steelmakers go green.\n\nThe funding for British Steel and Tata Steel UK is likely to be unveiled by the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, this week.\n\nEach is expected to receive around £300m of grants to help pay for a switch away from coal-fired blast furnaces and help with energy costs.\n\nIt will also protect thousands of jobs in Britain's industrial heartlands.\n\nCentral to the offer of support are the companies' blast furnaces. These use vast quantities of coking coal, a treated form of coal, to smelt iron from ore-bearing rock. As a result they produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which drives global warming.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy told the BBC it was working closely with the steel industry to secure what it describes as \"a sustainable and competitive future\". Sources told the BBC last week that a £300m funding package was being considered for British Steel.\n\nThis follows a request by British Steel, which is owned by Chinese company Jingye, for hundreds of millions of pounds of grants to prevent the closure of its blast furnace at Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire.\n\nHowever, sources close to Tata Steel, the Indian-owned company which runs the UK's largest steel plant in Port Talbot in South Wales, say £300m may not be enough to persuade it to make the vast investment needed.\n\nInternal company estimates are understood to put the cost of switching the company's Port Talbot works to producing emissions-free \"green steel\" at up to £3bn.\n\nOne industry expert said an offer to cover 10% of the costs may not be sufficient.\n\nA deal needs to come soon, the head of the Unite Union, Steve Turner, has told Business Secretary, Grant Shapps.\n\nThe steel industry is \"a whisker away from collapse\" Mr Turner said in a letter last week.\n\nLast year Tata warned it could be forced to close its UK operations if it did not receive support to help it move to less-carbon intensive production. Henrik Adam, the CEO of Tata's operations in Europe, has told the BBC the company needs \"the same support\" as its competitors abroad.\n\nHe said government investment was necessary to help the Port Talbot works transition to the production of green steel. He said on-going assistance was also needed to ensure energy costs were similar to those of its rivals, particularly in Europe.\n\nThe UK can not depend on steel from abroad, he warned. \"Recent geopolitical events\" have shown the risks of relying on imports only, said Dr Adam.\n\nTata produces about 3.6m tonnes of steel a year in the UK, a process which uses enough energy to power more than 600,000 UK homes.\n\nIt has a correspondingly huge carbon footprint. The Port Talbot plant is responsible for 2% of UK carbon emissions and more than 15% of Wales' emissions.\n\nIt has long been recognised that traditional steel production, with its reliance on coal to produce iron, is not compatible with the UK's legally binding commitment to massively reduce CO2 emissions in the coming decades.\n\nThere are two main options for the production of low-carbon or \"green steel\". A plant in Sweden is already making iron using hydrogen instead of coal. But to do so in the UK would require a huge investment in green hydrogen to ensure supplies of the gas from renewable sources.\n\nThe more likely option for the two UK plants is a switch to electric arc furnaces. These could recycle the large amount of scrap steel the UK produces and could be powered by electricity from renewable sources.\n\nBoth options would mean the future of British steel won't involve coal, says Tata's Henrik Adam. That raises questions about another aspect of the government's industrial policy, the viability of a proposed new coal mine in Cumbria.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining, the owners of the new mine, refused to comment on the implications of a switch to coal-free steel in the UK.\n\nThe government's cash is expected to be dependent on pledges of investment from the two steel companies and a guarantee that their plants will continue to operate to 2030.\n\nTata's Laura Baker: 'We can really be part of the UK's net zero future'\n\nWorkers at the Tata plant say they are optimistic about the plans for low-carbon production.\n\n\"It is so exciting to think about the future of this plant and the impact that we can have on decarbonisation for the whole of the UK\", said Laura Baker, who creates the \"recipes\" that ensure the steel made in the Port Talbot plant meets the precise requirements of its customers.\n\n\"Our customers are really wanting us to decarbonise so that they can decarbonise their own supply chains', she said.\n\nBut should hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money go to help private companies like Tata and British Steel upgrade their facilities?\n\n\"I think there is a role for government to provide targeted support in the first stages of a completely new technological deployment\", said Lord Adair Turner, the chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission, a group of business leaders who want to speed up the decarbonisation of the global economy.\n\n\"We can't be purist about this, the US is now doing this on a massive scale\", he said, referring to the Inflation Reduction Act which involves almost $400bn of funding for low-carbon energy and climate change.\n\nJustin Rowlatt explores the debate around the cost of tackling climate change, or not.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I can't say out loud what I saw because I don't want other people to have to picture it either\"\n\nThe mother of a 10-year-old boy killed by a dog has said she continues to picture the image of him after he died.\n\nJack Lis's mother Emma Whitfield said: \"Every time I shut my eyes I try and tell myself that's not the last image I've got of him.\n\n\"I try and tell myself it was when he shut the door with his skateboard in his hands but that's not true.\"\n\nJack received \"unsurvivable\" injuries at a house in Caerphilly in 2021.\n\nA man and a woman were jailed in June 2022 for owning or being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog.\n\nThe dog, called Beast, was an American XL bully which was not a banned breed.\n\nIt attacked Jack when he went into a house on 8 November 2021 after playing nearby.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Panorama, Ms Whitfield said the dog only attacked Jack's face and neck.\n\n\"They kept saying they're working on him, they're working on him and then the paramedic came back with a blanket and I knew,\" she said.\n\nThe dog named Beast was an American XL bully which was not a banned breed\n\n\"I can't say out loud what else I saw because I don't want other people to have to picture it either.\"\n\nThe BBC Panorama investigation has uncovered how organised crime is moving into the world of extreme dog breeding.\n\nFrench and English bulldogs and the new American bully breed are being bred with hugely exaggerated characteristics - such as excessive skin folds or large, muscular frames - and they are selling for tens of thousands of pounds on social media.\n\nAlthough American bullies such as Beast are not banned, historically they have been cross-bred with pitbulls, which have been banned in the UK since 1991.\n\nHope Rescue, a dog rescue centre in Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, cares for abandoned or abused dogs, and its founder, Vanessa Waddon said it was regularly receiving animals which were victims of extreme breeding.\n\n\"This is torture, you know what these dogs are going to look like, but you're still breeding them to get more and more exaggerated features,\" she said.\n\n\"We're seeing this every single week. This is the day-to-day life for us here at the rescue now.\"\n\nPanorama's Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime is on BBC iPlayer and on BBC One Wales at 22:40 GMT", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton says he had bananas thrown at him and was regularly the subject of racial abuse at school.\n\nThe Mercedes driver, 38, says his school days were \"probably the most traumatising and most difficult part of my life\".\n\nHamilton said: \"I was already being bullied at the age of six.\n\n\"At that particular school, I was one of three kids of colour and just bigger, stronger, bullying kids were throwing me around a lot of the time.\"\n\nSpeaking to the On Purpose podcast, the seven-time Formula 1 champion detailed a number of racially abusive terms that he was referred to at school.\n\nHamilton added: \"Not knowing where you fit in, that for me was difficult.\n\n\"When you go into history classes and there are no people of colour in the history they were teaching us. I was thinking, 'Where are the people who look like me?'\n\n\"In my [secondary] school there were six or seven black kids out of 1,200 kids and three of us were put outside the headmaster's office all the time. The headmaster just had it out for us - and particularly me.\n\n\"I really felt the system was up against me and I was swimming against the tide. There were a lot of things I suppressed.\n\n\"I didn't feel I could go home and tell my parents that these kids kept calling me [racist terms], or I got bullied or beaten up at school today. I didn't want my dad to think I was not strong.\"\n\nIn recent years, Hamilton has embarked on a campaign to increase diversity in motorsport.\n\nHe set up a commission to study why ethnic minorities are under-represented in the sport, established his Mission 44 campaign to look at ways of supporting young people from under-served backgrounds, and is working with Mercedes on increasing diversity within their team, and in F1.\n\nHamilton embarks on his 17th season in F1 in March and is entering the final year of his latest Mercedes contract.\n\nTeam principal Toto Wolff said earlier this month that he was confident Hamilton would agree a new contract to continue racing beyond the end of this year.\n\n\"We have a full year to go,\" Wolff said. \"We are so aligned - in the last 10 years our relationship has grown.\n\n\"It's just a matter of him physically being back in Europe, sticking our heads together, wrestling a bit, and then leaving the room with white smoke after a few hours.\"\n• None Why did Gabby Logan get into sport? The broadcaster looks back at her career and shares her favourite music\n• None Amanda Holden and Alan Carr set out to renovate two crumbling properties in sun-drenched Sicily", "A small trickle of mourners came to pay their respects at the entrance of Star Dance Studio on Monday morning, some softly uttering their condolences as ever-present media helicopters buzzed overhead.\n\nBy mid-morning, several bouquets, candles, and other tributes had accumulated in front of a gate. One bundle of roses came with a note: “Victims and families, you are in our prayers.”\n\nJovita and Alfonso Matematico left whispered prayers for the victims. The married couple, both Catholics, had driven to Monterey Park from downtown Los Angeles to pay their respects.\n\n“We went to church today, at eight o'clock, and we prayed for them - may they rest in peace,” said Jovita, 64.\n\nMako Seto, a 44-year-old Baptist pastor from neighboring Montebello, and his son, Jordan, came to the scene.\n\nHe had woken up on Sunday morning to a flurry of texts and news alerts about the shooting, and had to address his congregation at Evergreen Church soon after.\n\n“People were sad, they were afraid,” he said. “A lot of our church members are from Monterey Park. They were shocked.”\n\n“We’re mourning,” Seto said. “We never thought this would happen, in a million years.”", "What began as a night of celebration to mark the Lunar New Year quickly turned into tragedy as a shooting spree left at least 10 people dead and 10 others wounded.\n\nIt happened as thousands had gathered in the majority Asian-American city of Monterey Park, California, for the festival.\n\nMany expressed shock and fear on learning that a gunman had entered the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a popular dance hall, and fired multiple rounds at patrons before fleeing the scene.\n\nHe has been identified as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old of Asian descent. His motive remains unclear.\n\nWong Wei told the Los Angeles Times that his friend was at the club but had been in the bathroom when the shooting began.\n\nHe said that when she came out, she saw the gunman firing indiscriminately from a long gun, and she also saw three people lying dead, including a boss of the club. She escaped to Mr Wei's nearby home, he said.\n\nThe attack on the dance studio took place on Garvey Avenue, home to several Asian-owned businesses.\n\nSeung Won Choi, the owner of a seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from the club, told the newspaper that three pedestrians had run inside and asked him to lock the door.\n\nThey said they had seen a man with a semi-automatic gun and multiple rounds of ammunition, he said.\n\nMonterey Park is home to about 60,000 people, of which roughly two-thirds are of Asian descent. Many locals were still digesting the news on Sunday, and what it meant for the community.\n\nConnie Chung Joe, who runs Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, which had a booth at the festival, told Associated Press the impact has been profound, regardless of the motive.\n\n\"Having this tragedy on one of our most important holidays... it feels very personal to our community,\" she said. \"There is still that feeling of being targeted, and being fearful, when we hear about a shooting like this.\"\n\nMonterey Park City Council member Thomas Wong, whose district is where the shooting occurred, told the Washington Post he was in shock, and anxiously waiting for news about the victims.\n\nAlso uppermost in his mind was the rise in anti-Asian violence in recent years, he said.\n\n\"Regardless of the motive and whether this was a hate crime, the fact of the matter is this type of violence is sparking fear in our community, in our Asian American community.\"\n\nPastor and writer Raymond Chang said this tragedy was another shock to a community still reeling from the spike in anti-Asian hate.\n\n\"We have not had enough time and space to heal from all the collective trauma and loss our communities have gone through,\" Mr Chang, who is also president of the Asian-American Christian Collaborative, told USA Today.\n\n\"Incidents like these add to the unprocessed pain and trauma that has piled up over the years.\"\n\nRepresentative Judy Chu, who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and is a former mayor of the city, tweeted: \"My heart is broken for the victims, their families, and the people of my hometown Monterey Park.\"", "Organised crime is moving into the lucrative market of extreme dog breeding, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nBulldogs, including the new American Bully breed, are being bred with hugely exaggerated characteristics - such as excessive skin folds or large, muscular frames.\n\nThe RSPCA warns criminals are breeding and selling these dogs to launder money and make huge sums, often at the expense of animal welfare.\n\nReporter Sam Poling went undercover to investigate the extreme dog breeding trade.\n\nI'm shocked when my phone pings with a message from the Facebook account of Thomas Rayment - a convicted county lines drug dealer I know to be in prison.\n\n\"Hi. Is it a male or female you are wanting. We have some pups available.\"\n\nFor months, I'd been using a false name, pretending to be bulldog-loving businessman Stefan Delaney, hanging out in Facebook groups dedicated to bulldogs and American bullies.\n\nMy goal was to find out who the main players were in the world of extreme dog breeding.\n\nNow it looked like it was beginning to pay off.\n\nRayment has been in prison since 2021, serving six years for running a prolific county lines drugs gang, supplying heroin and crack cocaine to the north of England.\n\nBut could he really be brokering dog deals from behind bars?\n\nRayment claims to run the UK arm of a big international dog breeding business called Muscletone Bullys UK. He's frequently tagged in posts by other prominent figures in the American Bully network.\n\nFrom his Facebook account I'm sent photos of two extreme American bullies - Brandon Blockhead and Kleo - who have just had a litter of puppies.\n\n\"This boned-up Gorilla is no joke he's extreme as they come,\" reads the description of Brandon Blockhead on Rayment's website. He has \"one of the best headpieces we have ever seen all on a super short compact frame\".\n\nThe tops of his ears have been cut off - an illegal practice in the UK called ear cropping.\n\nThe penalty for doing this can be up to five years in prison for causing suffering to an animal. It's a practice I see time and time again during my months of investigating.\n\nReporter Sam Poling goes undercover to reveal the increasingly close relationship between organised crime and dog dealing.\n\nIn the past three years, more than 1,000 incidents of illegal ear cropping have been reported to the RSPCA. Some dealers do the cropping themselves, without using anaesthetic on the dogs. Most cases involve American bullies.\n\nThis kind of extreme dog breeding is big business. On the Muscletone Bullys UK website, pups are on sale for tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nAfter some back and forth with Rayment's account, I finally receive the message to my fake Facebook profile that I've been desperately waiting for. My alter ego Stefan Delaney is invited to a meeting in Wigan to discuss a deal.\n\nMy plan is to pose as Stefan's girlfriend and say he's running late.\n\nI arrive at the address. It's a dog fertility clinic. A man lets me in and shows me around. He's called Ryan Howard. He tells me he's Rayment's business partner.\n\nI feign confusion about Rayment and that's when Howard breaks the news.\n\n\"Tom's not here because he's in jail,\" he tells me.\n\n\"I don't tell everybody but you lot know who he is so I'm not going to lie to you. You have been speaking to Tommy.\"\n\nRyan Howard said he has about 120 dogs in his business\n\nHoward tells me he has about 120 dogs in his business but he only looks after 15 of them.\n\nThe other dogs are housed through a network of what's known as \"co-owns\".\n\nIn a co-own, a dealer gets someone else to house the dog. That person then gets paid a percentage from the sale of any pups.\n\nIt means the dealer can have a massive network of dogs which they can continue to profit from without the authorities having any idea how many they have.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Muscletone Bullys UK said:\n\n\"We are well-known for breeding the highest quality extreme American bullies without compromising the dogs' health or well-being. Thomas Rayment does not communicate with anyone illegally and has others running his socials. We do not condone or take part in illegal ear cropping.\"\n\nThe statement added that the business has \"never co-owned a dog as a deliberate ploy to… escape the scrutiny of the licensing authorities.\"\n\nIan Muttitt, a chief inspector with the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, says over the past five years organised crime gangs have become increasingly involved in the extreme dog breeding trade.\n\nBut what is the appeal of dog dealing to criminals? First, he says, it's lucrative. Second, it's useful for money laundering.\n\n\"It's anything where illegal money has been obtained. So drugs, firearms, other organised crime.\n\n\"It can then be laundered through the sale of these dogs or vice versa.\"\n\nThe legal risks are also far less serious. Muttitt explains that dealing drugs, for example, carries much higher penalties than animal cruelty offences.\n\nI logout of Stefan Delaney's fake Facebook profile one last time. It's clear the network I've uncovered is not only huge, but sophisticated. That's going to make cleaning up this trade very difficult for the authorities as profit-driven dealers continue to put wealth over health at all costs.", "Nadhim Zahawi was made chancellor in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nNadhim Zahawi is determined to stay on as Conservative party chairman, allies have told the BBC, amid calls for his resignation after details of a multi-million pound tax dispute emerged.\n\nMr Zahawi paid a penalty to HMRC over unpaid tax while he was chancellor.\n\nHe has described the error as \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nMeanwhile Labour is calling on Rishi Sunak to \"come clean\" about his knowledge of the deal and called Mr Zahawi's position \"untenable\".\n\nMr Zahawi's allies have insisted he would continue in the role Mr Sunak appointed him to less than three months ago.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Zahawi said he made a payment to settle the issue. But while it had previously been reported this included a penalty, it had not been confirmed.\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, as previously reported.\n\nPressure has been growing on Mr Zahawi to give more details about his finances after reports emerged this week he had agreed to pay millions of pounds to HMRC to settle his tax affairs.\n\nThe Guardian had previously reported that Mr Zahawi paid back tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HM Revenue & Customs.\n\nLabour said there were questions that still needed answering - and called on him to publish all his correspondence with HMRC \"so we can get the full picture\". Labour also said there are questions over the timing.\n\nAlthough the BBC has been told the issue with HMRC was resolved while Mr Zahawi was chancellor - and the minister ultimately responsible for HMRC - it is still not clear when he originally became aware of it.\n\nHis allies claim he told the government's Propriety and Ethics Team - which is in charge of ensuring ethics across government departments - about it before his appointment as chancellor.\n\nAnd after having become chancellor, Mr Zahawi did not seek to challenge HMRC's demands, but instructed his accountants to pay all of what they said was due, the BBC has been told.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith urged Mr Zahawi on Sunday to release \"the absolute facts\", adding he did not believe he was \"deceitful\". Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it was for Mr Zahawi to decide \"how much detail to put in the public domain\".\n\nLater on Sunday, Conservative MP Tim Loughton told the BBC's Westminster Hour it was fair to let Mr Zahawi put his side of the case but he should have given a fuller account earlier on.\n\n\"The more transparency, as early as possible, might have avoided all this speculation.\n\n\"If there's more to it then he will absolutely have to stand up and take the consequences and the prime minister, I'm sure, will take the appropriate action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was previously told on Saturday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account and has confidence in him as chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nA former child refugee who fled Iraq with his parents in the 1970s, Mr Zahawi went on to co-found the successful online polling company YouGov.\n\nHe is now believed to be one of the richest politicians in the House of Commons, after being elected as Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010.\n\nHe gained public recognition for his role as vaccines minister during the pandemic and later served as education secretary.\n\nBetween July and September 2022, he served briefly as chancellor under Boris Johnson, after the resignation of Mr Sunak.\n\nWhen Liz Truss took over as prime minister, he was made chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, minister for equalities and minister for intergovernmental relations.\n\nIn October Mr Sunak appointed him Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet as part of his role.", "Jake Davison killed five people and injured two others during a mass shooting in Plymouth in August 2021\n\nThe shotgun licence application for a man who later used his weapon to kill five people was not referred to the manager in charge of the police department, an inquest has heard.\n\nJake Davison, 22, killed five people in the Keyham area of Plymouth in 2021.\n\nA Devon and Cornwall Police manager in charge of the gun licensing department at the time told the hearing his application was not passed to her.\n\nMichelle Moore said it should have been because it was high-risk.\n\nMs Moore was head of Devon and Cornwall Police and Dorset Police's firearms and explosives licensing unit at the time.\n\nShe told the inquest jury since the shootings she had been \"put to one side\" and a superintendent had been brought in to head the department.\n\nHowever, she was the current decision maker for high-risk decisions, she said.\n\nMaxine Davison was Jake Davison's first victim and was killed at her property on Biddick Drive\n\nDavison killed his mother Maxine, 51, after a row at their home on the evening of 12 August.\n\nHe then shot dead Sophie Martyn, three, her father Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66.\n\nThe inquests into their deaths in Exeter has heard Davison applied for a shotgun certificate in July 2017, with one issued by Devon and Cornwall Police in January 2018 that was valid for five years.\n\nThe force revoked Davison's licence and seized his shotgun in 2020 but returned them in 2021 - weeks before the killings.\n\nBridget Dolan, counsel to the inquest, asked what should happen if a firearms enquiry officer (FEO) became aware of an application from a 19-year-old, who had a reported history as a child of having assaulted three other people in school.\n\nMs Moore said it would from \"the outset be a high-risk application\", which meant it should have been referred to herself for a decision.\n\nShe said she believed that was clear to the FEOs and they \"generally\" referred such applications to her.\n\nMs Dolan said: \"Generally but not all the time?\"\n\nMs Moore said: \"Well, clearly not.\"\n\nMs Dolan asked if Ms Moore had read the reports compiled in the wake of the shootings, including by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nShe said: \"You're still reviewing high-risk decisions ignorant of what the Durham and IOPC reports say?\"\n\nWhen questioned further, Ms Moore said she had been provided with a list of recommendations and actions from both reports.\n\nShe added she was currently making more than one high-risk decision per day.\n\nThe inquests are being held at Exeter Racecourse\n\nJurors were also told a review of 123 cases where shotgun licences had been seized and reviewed between 1 January 2020 and 8 August 2021, found of the 42 times those licences had been returned, in 20 of them guidance had not been followed.\n\nDominic Adamson, representing the Martyn, Washington and Shepherd families, said data suggested there was \"regular non-compliance with standards\" for gun licensing in the force.\n\nCh Supt Roy Linden, who was giving evidence on the data showing the number of applications dealt with by the department, said: \"The qualitative decision-making was below the standard that was expected.\"\n\nHe added the data indicated \"the application of those standards within Devon and Cornwall Police was not as rigorous compared to the national picture\".\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brandon Tsay, 26, came face to face with the gunman before disarming him.\n\nThe 26-year-old man credited with disarming the California shooting suspect had never seen a real gun before.\n\nLate on Saturday evening, working at his family-run dance hall in Alhambra, Brandon Tsay found himself staring at one pointed directly at him.\n\n\"My heart sank, I knew I was going to die,\" Mr Tsay told the New York Times.\n\nHe did not know the gunman was believed to have killed 11 people just minutes earlier at another dance hall.\n\nMr Tsay lunged at the man and eventually disarmed him, averting another tragedy.\n\nThe gunman, identified as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran, later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a van, according to police.\n\nThe mass shooting is one of the deadliest in California's history. It began at around 22:22 local time on Saturday (06:22 GMT on Sunday) at the popular Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, about seven miles (11km) east of central Los Angeles.\n\nCelebrations for Lunar New Year had been under way in the area, known for its large Asian population.\n\nAbout 30 minutes after the shooting, the gunman arrived at a second location - the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio in the nearby town of Alhambra - which is where Mr Tsay confronted him.\n\nHe was in the office near the lobby when he saw the gunman's semi-automatic assault pistol pointed at him.\n\nMr Tsay, a computer coder, told ABC's Good Morning America he did not recognise the man.\n\n\"It looked like he was looking for targets, people to harm,\" Mr Tsay said.\n\nWhen the gunman started prepping his weapon, Mr Tsay said \"something came over him\" and he knew he had to \"disarm him otherwise everyone would have died\".\n\n\"When I got the courage, I lunged at him with both my hands,\" he said.\n\nWhen Mr Tsay finally wrestled away the weapon, he pointed it at the man and yelled: \"Go, get the hell out of here!\" After a moment, Mr Tsay said the man left and jogged to his van.\n\n\"Immediately I called police with the gun still in my hand,\" he added.\n\nInitially, Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said it had been two people who wrestled the gun away, but CCTV shows only one person - Mr Tsay.\n\nThe Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio was closed on Sunday in the wake of the tragedy, but will reopen for classes on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is in the former Jenners building, which has been undergoing a restoration.\n\nStreets in Edinburgh city centre remain sealed off as emergency crews deal with a fire in the Jenners building.\n\nFire crews, police and ambulance staff were dispatched to the empty department store on Rose Street at about 11:30.\n\nNo casualties have been officially reported but the BBC understands a number of firefighters received treatment at the scene.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent 22 fire engines and said the fire was well-established when they arrived.\n\nEyewitnesses have described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the department store.\n\nThe police cordon was later extended to cover the whole of St Andrew Square. Staff from nearby offices have been evacuated.\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulance crews were dispatched to the scene\n\nThe fire service said it deployed 22 appliances and other \"specialist resources\" to the scene, where crews remain.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said a number of roads had been closed in the surrounding area, adding: \"Please avoid the area if possible and heed advice re alternative routes.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service is also at the scene. A spokesperson said: \"We received the call at 11:49 and have dispatched 14 resources.\"\n\nEyewitnesses spoke to BBC Scotland about the response of emergency services on Princes Street.\n\nSarah Mullins, 34, manager at Wagamama in St Andrew Square, said she first saw smoke at about 11:30.\n\n\"It got so bad we couldn't see out across the square,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The police told us to stay inside because the smoke was so bad it would have affected our lungs. They said it was safer to stay inside.\n\n\"It's very sad this has happened to such an iconic building.\"\n\nPaul Kelly, 63, who works as a consultant engineer in the neighbouring building, said: \"At first when we were evacuated we didn't think it was a big deal.\n\nSarah Mullins was near the scene when the fire broke out\n\n\"There was smoke but it was nothing like it ended up.\n\n\"There was smoke belching out of the front entrance and the whole of St Andrew Square with thick with smoke.\"\n\n\"There were about 60 of us who left,\" he told BBC Scotland. \"I've been outside now for two hours with no coat and my house keys are inside the building.\n\n\"I can see the smoke is starting to pour out of the building again.\"\n\nSmoke can still be seen coming from the Jenners building which has been sealed off by a large police cordon.\n\nAt its height flames could be seen spreading from the lower windows into the street.\n\nFirefighters tackled the blaze with hoses while colleagues in breathing apparatus came and went from the building.\n\nThe equipment lying on the nearby pavement is one sign of the large operation by the Fire and Rescue Service with multiple police and ambulance blue lights also at the scene.\n\nWorkers from nearby offices were asked to leave and are now among the the crowds of passers by standing at the police cordon watching things unfold at this iconic Edinburgh landmark.\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing restoration due to take four years. Under the plan, about 10,000m2 of disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nThe current building was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie in the Victorian renaissance revival style and opened in 1895 - after the original building was destroyed by fire in 1892.\n\nThe building was sold to private investors in 2005 after House of Fraser bought the Jenners brand and property.\n\nIt was then bought by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen in 2017 for a reported £53m.", "Sir Keir Starmer says Nadhim Zahawi is not going to resign and the PM should sack him.\n\nThe Labour leader said \"everybody knows it is wrong\" that he could not discuss his tax affairs with a body he is running, and that Rishi Sunak \"should show some leadership\".", "Richard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021\n\nThe government has insisted all the correct processes were followed in the appointment of the BBC's chairman, Richard Sharp, in early 2021.\n\nIt follows claims that shortly before being given the job, Mr Sharp helped the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, secure a loan guarantee agreement.\n\nMr Sharp, Mr Johnson and the government all deny there was a conflict of interest.\n\nBut Labour has asked the parliamentary standards watchdog for an inquiry.\n\nLabour has suggested that Mr Johnson could have breached the code of conduct for MPs \"through failing to appropriately declare the arrangement\" on his Parliamentary register of interests.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, which first reported the claims, Mr Sharp was involved in helping to arrange a guarantor on a loan of up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson in late 2020.\n\nMr Sharp said he had \"simply connected\" people, while Mr Johnson's spokesman said the report was \"rubbish\" and insisted his financial arrangements \"have been properly declared\".\n\nOn Sunday, the Cabinet Office also rejected the accusations there had been a conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest are when there might be a clash between an MP or minister's public duties, and their private interests.\n\n\"Richard Sharp was appointed as chairman of the BBC following a rigorous appointments process including assessment by a panel of experts, constituted according to the public appointments code,\" a Cabinet Office spokesperson said.\n\n\"There was additional pre-appointment scrutiny by a House of Commons Select Committee which confirmed Mr Sharp's appointment. All the correct recruitment processes were followed.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times story centres on events in late 2020, when Mr Johnson was reported to be in financial difficulty.\n\nIt says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. It is not clear where the loan agreement itself came from.\n\nMr Sharp - a Conservative Party donor who at the time was applying to be the chairman of the BBC - contacted Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and head of the civil service. The paper says a due diligence process was then instigated.\n\nOn Sunday a Cabinet Office spokesperson backed this up, saying: \"Mr Sharp reminded the cabinet secretary about the BBC appointment process and asked for advice given his existing relationship with Boris Johnson.\n\n\"They agreed that he could not take part in discussions involving the then prime minister, given the appointment process. This was accepted by Mr Sharp to avoid any conflict or appearance of any conflict of interest and the then prime minister was advised accordingly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, Mr Sharp, Mr Blyth and Mr Johnson had dinner together at Chequers before the loan guarantee was finalised, although they deny the PM's finances were discussed then.\n\nMr Sharp - a former Goldman Sachs banker - was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman in January 2021.\n\nThe government's choice is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nAs BBC chairman, Mr Sharp is responsible for upholding and protecting the BBC's independence, and ensuring it fulfils its mission to inform, educate and entertain. Candidates for publicly-appointed roles such as the chairman job are required to declare any conflicts of interest.\n\nMr Sharp said: \"There is not a conflict when I simply connected, at his request, Mr Blyth with the cabinet secretary and had no further involvement whatsoever.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"Richard Sharp has never given any financial advice to Boris Johnson, nor has Mr Johnson sought any financial advice from him. There has never been any remuneration or compensation to Mr Sharp from Boris Johnson for this or any other service.\n\n\"Mr Johnson did indeed have dinner with Mr Sharp, whom he has known for almost 20 years, and with his cousin. So what? Big deal.\n\n\"All Mr Johnson's financial arrangements have been properly declared and registered on the advice of officials.\"\n\nLabour's chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg - who is in charge of regulating MPs' conduct - asking for \"an urgent investigation into the facts of this case\".\n\nMs Dodds said she was concerned that Mr Johnson may have breached rules \"by asking for an individual to facilitate a guarantee on a loan whom he would later appoint to a senior public role\".\n\nShe said that a \"lack of transparency\" may \"give the impression that this was a quid pro quo arrangement, something which would undermine the integrity of the democratic process, and calls into question the process by which the chairman of the BBC was appointed\".\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Sharp was appointed on merit.\n\nMr Sharp declined to appear on BBC One's Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday but told the programme \"the claim that there was anything financial involved is not true\".\n\nThe BBC has said that it \"plays no role in the recruitment of the chairman and any questions are a matter for the government\".", "Fans visit the grave of Lisa Marie Presley during her memorial\n\nA public memorial service has been held for Lisa Marie Presley following her death at the age of 54.\n\nFamous faces including the Duchess of York attended the service, which took place at her father's Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday.\n\nThe US singer, who was the only child of Elvis Presley, died on 12 January, hours after being taken to hospital.\n\nLisa Marie has been buried at Graceland next to her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: My icon, my role model, my superhero - Lisa Marie's daughter\n\nArtists such as Alanis Morissette and Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose performed as they joined her children as well as others including Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York and the former mayor of Memphis, in paying tribute to Lisa Marie.\n\nCrowds of mourners were pictured holding up pictures of Lisa Marie after members of the public were invited to attend the service.\n\nHer mother, Priscilla Presley, thanked everyone for coming to honour her daughter as she stood on the stage on the front lawn of the estate.\n\nShe also read a poem written by her granddaughter Harper - one of Lisa Marie's three daughters - which said: \"Mama was my icon, my role model, my superhero, and much more ways than one.\"\n\nA poem by Lisa's daughter Riley was read out, which said: \"I hope I can love my daughter that way you loved me. The way you love my brother and my sisters. Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humour.\"\n\nSarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, speaking during the public memorial\n\nThe Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson also gave a tribute to her \"sissie\", where she offered her support to the late singer's children.\n\nShe said: \"My late mother-in-law used to say that nothing can be said, can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments, because grief is the price we pay for love, and how right she was.\"\n\nThe service featured a number of musical tributes, including from Alanis Morissette, who delivered an emotional rendition of her song Rest.\n\nAxl Rose performed the band's song November Rain, and Billy Corgan sang To Sheila by The Smashing Pumpkins.\n\nAxl Rose made a speech before performing Guns N' Roses song \"November Rain,\" as a musical tribute to the singer\n\nBilly Corgan performed a rendition of the Smashing Pumpkins song \"To Sheila.\"\n\nAlanis Morissette was accompanied by a pianist for an emotional rendition of her song Rest\n\nThe Blackwood Brothers Quartet, who performed at her father's funeral in 1977 with different members, then sang the gospel song How Great Thou Art, followed by Sweet, Sweet Spirit.\n\nElvis and other members of the Presley family are also buried at Graceland.", "Congresswoman Judy Chu has said it was horrible the mass shooting in Monterey Park occurred during a time of celebration as the Lunar New Year was rung in.\n\nShe said the Californian city was \"resilient\" and that the community would get through it together.\n\nAt least ten people were shot dead at a ballroom dance studio.", "One of Lisa Marie Presley's daughters has paid tribute to her late mother at a memorial service in Graceland, Tennessee.\n\nIt was read out by Lisa Marie's mother, Priscilla, to a crowd of mourners.\n\nWatch to hear the emotional tribute in full.", "Some food firms may be using inflation as an excuse to hike prices further than necessary, the chairman of Tesco has said.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if food producers were taking advantage of the poorest in society, John Allan said it was \"entirely possible\".\n\nHe said Tesco was trying \"very hard\" to challenge price hikes it thinks are illegitimate.\n\nFood costs including milk and cheese are rising at their fastest since 1977.\n\nMr Allan said all supermarkets were challenging cost increases from suppliers where they could - and Tesco was confronting companies it believed were increasing prices beyond what was necessary.\n\n\"We do try very hard to challenge [price hikes], I think,\" Mr Allan said.\n\n\"We have a team who can look at the composition of food, costs of commodities, and work out whether or not these cost increases are legitimate.\"\n\nHe said it was something Tesco's buying teams were dealing with \"every day of the week\".\n\nTesco, which has a 27.5% share of the Great Britain grocery market, had \"fallen out\" with \"a number of suppliers\" after \"robust\" discussions over price hikes that the supermarket had challenged, he said.\n\n\"There have been some dramatic increases in commodity costs, energy costs and labour costs. On the other hand, if you don't want to pay £1.70p for... soup in Tesco or any other supermarket, there are own-label alternatives,\" he said.\n\nHeinz beans and tomato ketchup were among the products Tesco temporarily removed from shelves last year in a row over pricing. Kraft Heinz said at the time it was becoming more expensive to make its products.\n\nMillions of people continue to struggle with the cost of living which rose steadily as Covid restrictions eased and after Russia launched its assault on Ukraine.\n\nInflation, which measures the rate of price rises, fell to 10.5% in the year to December from 10.7% in November - but remains at levels not seen for 40 years.\n\nFood prices rose 16.8% in the year to December, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBasics such as milk, cheese and eggs saw the biggest increases. Prices for jam, honey and chocolate also jumped. However, price growth slowed for bread and cereals.\n\nConsumer group Which? has also been tracking how much major retailers have put up their prices compared with their competitors.\n\nTesco was sixth in the list of supermarkets with the highest price rises, the group said.\n\nWhich?'s supermarket food and drink inflation tracker records the annual price rises of tens of thousands of food and drink products across three months at eight major supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose and Ocado.\n\nIt found that despite being the cheapest supermarkets overall, Lidl's prices went up the most in December at 21.1% since this time last year, followed closely by Aldi at 20.8%.", "Labour is calling for a parliamentary investigation into claims the chairman of the BBC helped Boris Johnson secure a loan guarantee, weeks before the then-PM recommended him for the role.\n\nThe Sunday Times says Richard Sharp was involved in arranging a guarantor on a loan of up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Sharp said he had \"simply connected\" people and there was no conflict of interest.\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman said he did not receive financial advice from Mr Sharp.\n\nHe also dismissed Labour's suggestion Mr Johnson could have breached the code of conduct for MPs \"through failing to appropriately declare the arrangement\" on his Parliamentary register of interests.\n\nOn Sunday the Cabinet Office said Mr Sharp was appointed following a \"rigorous appointments process\" and all the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\nLabour's chairwoman Anneliese Dodds has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, asking for \"an urgent investigation into the facts of this case\".\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that \"of course perception matters\". But he added Mr Sharp was an \"incredibly accomplished, incredibly successful individual\", and there was \"no doubt he was appointed on merit\".\n\nHe also said it was not \"unusual for someone to be politically active prior to their appointment to senior BBC positions\".\n\nMr Sharp declined to appear on Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday but told the show \"the claim that there was anything financial involved is not true\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson travelled to Ukraine on Sunday to visit parts of Kyiv and meet with President Zelensky.\n\nMr Johnson was reported to be in financial difficulty in late 2020.\n\nThe Sunday Times says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. It is not clear where the loan agreement itself came from.\n\nMr Sharp - a Conservative Party donor who at the time was applying to be the chairman of the BBC - contacted Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and current head of the civil service. The paper says a due diligence process was then instigated.\n\nThe Cabinet Office later wrote a letter telling Mr Johnson to stop seeking Mr Sharp's advice about his personal finances, given the forthcoming BBC appointment, the Times says. BBC News has not seen the letter.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Mr Sharp reminded the cabinet secretary about the BBC appointment process and asked for advice given his existing relationship with Boris Johnson.\n\n\"They agreed that he could not take part in discussions involving the then prime minister, given the appointment process. This was accepted by Mr Sharp to avoid any conflict or appearance of any conflict of interest and the then prime minister was advised accordingly.\"\n\nAccording to the Times, Mr Sharp, Mr Blyth and Mr Johnson had dinner together at Chequers before the loan guarantee was finalised, although they deny the PM's finances were discussed then.\n\nFormer Goldman Sachs banker Mr Sharp was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman in January 2021. The government's choice is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nThe BBC chairman heads the board that sets the corporation's strategic direction and upholds its independence.\n\nCandidates for such publicly-appointed roles are required to declare any conflicts of interest.\n\nAppointed for a four-year term on the recommendation of the culture secretary through the PM, and with a salary of £160,000 a year, the BBC chairman's role is to uphold and protect the independence of the BBC.\n\nAfter a 40-year career in finance, since February 2021 Richard Sharp has led the BBC board, responsible for setting the corporation's strategic vision and budgets as well as ensuring BBC decisions are made in the interests of the public.\n\nMr Sharp is often the public face of the corporation; only a few days ago, he was making a speech about the financial pressures on the BBC World Service and the importance of impartiality.\n\nNow he is accused of helping his old friend, Boris Johnson to secure a loan guarantee.\n\nCrucially, during the application process to be chairman, Mr Sharp didn't declare a potential conflict of interest and Mr Sharp insists there was none.\n\nThe post is a political appointment, but the story is damaging not just to Mr Sharp personally but could also be to the BBC more widely.\n\nThe corporation is making a highly visible effort, in a polarised media landscape, to put impartiality and transparency at the heart of its attempts to earn people's trust.\n\nWhatever the truth of what happened, perceptions matter - particularly with the corporation facing a review of its charter by the government ahead of renewal in 2027.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sharp said: \"There is not a conflict when I simply connected, at his request, Mr Blyth with the cabinet secretary and had no further involvement whatsoever.\"\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: \"Richard Sharp was appointed as chairman of the BBC following a rigorous appointments process including assessment by a panel of experts, constituted according to the public appointments code.\n\n\"There was additional pre-appointment scrutiny by a House of Commons Select Committee which confirmed Mr Sharp's appointment. All the correct recruitment processes were followed.\n\n\"The recruitment process is set out clearly and transparently in the governance code on public appointments and overseen by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour had already written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards calling for an investigation into the reports Mr Blyth had set up the loan guarantee.\n\nThe guarantee is a promise by one party - known as a guarantor - to assume the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.\n\nIn her letter to the commissioner, Ms Dodds cites the Sunday Times story, saying she was concerned that Mr Johnson may have breached rules \"by asking for an individual to facilitate a guarantee on a loan whom he would later appoint to a senior public role\".\n\nShe said that a \"lack of transparency\" may \"give the impression that this was a quid pro quo arrangement, something which would undermine the integrity of the democratic process, and calls into question the process by which the chairman of the BBC was appointed\".\n\nRichard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021\n\nShadow culture minister Lucy Powell has also sent a letter to the Commissioner for Public Appointments to look into the selection process for the chair of the BBC.\n\nShe wrote: \"It is vital that the public and Parliament can have trust in this process and it is free from any real or perceived conflict of interest.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"Richard Sharp has never given any financial advice to Boris Johnson, nor has Mr Johnson sought any financial advice from him. There has never been any remuneration or compensation to Mr Sharp from Boris Johnson for this or any other service.\n\n\"Mr Johnson did indeed have dinner with Mr Sharp, whom he has known for almost 20 years, and with his cousin. So what? Big deal.\n\n\"All Mr Johnson's financial arrangements have been properly declared and registered on the advice of officials.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC plays no role in the recruitment of the chair and any questions are a matter for the government.\"", "As Mohe is China's northernmost city, it is often nicknamed 'China's North Pole'\n\nChina's northernmost city, Mohe, has recorded its lowest temperature since records began.\n\nMohe - known as \"China's North Pole\" - is in the province of Heilongjiang, close to the Russian border.\n\nOn Sunday, its local meteorological station recorded a record-low temperature of -53C (-63F) at 7am. The previous coldest temperature on record in the city was -52.3C, in 1969.\n\nHowever, the temperature is probably still shy of China's national record.\n\nThe coldest temperature ever recorded in China is -58C, in the city of Genhe, Inner Mongolia in December 2009, according to media reports of a visit by government meteorologists.\n\nOther records, however, have the 1969 cold snap in Mohe as the lowest - meaning Sunday's -53C temperature could be China's lowest ever.\n\nBy contrast, the lowest temperature recorded in the UK is -27.2C, set in different parts of Scotland in 1895, 1982 and 1995.\n\nMohe is no stranger to cold weather: China Daily says the city is regarded as the coldest in China, and that its winter period \"usually lasts eight months\".\n\nAs a result, it attracts tourists throughout the year with its \"North Pole\", ice and snow parks, and skiing venues. In previous years, it has also hosted winter marathons.\n\nThis time of year, it is common for the city to see average temperatures of -15C.\n\nIn the past week, China's meteorological authority issued alerts for plunging temperatures and cold winds in the region.\n\nThe Xinhua News Agency said a number of areas in the Greater Khingan mountain range, which spans Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, saw new record low temperatures over the weekend.\n\nSince Friday, temperatures dipped below -50C in Mohe for three consecutive days, which outlets have said is unprecedented.\n\nBeijing News reported on Friday that coal consumption has increased by a third in the city, as the cold weather bites.\n\nCar companies also told the paper they had taken advantage of the cold to test the braking performance of vehicles.\n\nOne resident told Kanji Video that his hands had been numb within 10 seconds of stepping outdoors, but that he had seen very few other people around.\n\n\"It becomes hazy about 100m in front of you, you can't see anyone,\" he said.\n\nA tourist, surnamed Li, told Beijing News that he had made a special trip from China's southernmost province, Guangdong, to experience the extreme weather.\n\n\"I didn't expect it to get below -50C this year, it was quite a surprise,\" he told the paper.\n\nMeanwhile, the official broadcaster, CCTV, showed a journalist breaking an egg on an outdoor surface - causing the egg to freeze within seconds.\n\nMore generally, the media are paying tribute to essential workers - including police officers, firefighters, soldiers and street cleaners - who are continuing to work outdoors during the cold.\n\nChina has seen record temperatures over the past year, for heat as well as cold.\n\nEarlier this month, the Xinhua news agency said that the country had recorded the hottest summer and autumn in 60 years, with multiple cities breaking records.\n\nClimate change increases the likelihood of extreme weather generally - and while scientists agree global temperatures are rising, that doesn't mean we will stop having periods of very cold weather.\n\nChinese audiences have watched a cracked egg freeze within seconds on state TV", "We're going to close this page shortly but first, let's take stock of what's been happening today.\n\nFirst energy-saving scheme rollout: Outside of trials, today marked the first time some energy customers could earn money for cutting back on the electricity they used.\n\nHow it works: Officially dubbed the Demand Flexibility Service , it sees energy suppliers pay customers a small bonus if they use less electricity than usual, at a particular time (today was between 17:00 and 18:00 GMT). The money earned is then taken off a customer's bill.\n\nPeople who can partake: You must have an electricity smart meter installed and be with a provider signed up to the scheme (there are 26 in total, including British Gas and E.ON Next). Providers must also offer you the chance to take part.\n\nUser experience: Some of our readers, who took part in today's session, documented their experience. You can catch up on their stories by scrolling down.\n\nWhat happens next... There'll be another energy-saving session tomorrow, which is due to last for an hour and a half (between 16:30 and 18:00). We're yet to hear details about more dates.\n\nFor more information, including how much of a discount can be made, read our main story.", "Chris Hipkins has said the abuse Jacinda Ardern received while Prime Minister doesn't represent New Zealand as a country\n\nNew Zealand's incoming prime minister has vowed to protect his family from what he called the \"abhorrent\" abuse that his predecessor, Jacinda Ardern, received while in office.\n\nMs Ardern announced that she was quitting as the country's leader on Thursday, citing burnout.\n\nThreats against her became more frequent in recent years and included a man claiming he had the right to \"shoot the prime minister\" for treason and treachery in a YouTube video.\n\nChris Hipkins, who was speaking on Sunday after MPs from his ruling Labour Party voted unanimously to endorse him, said a \"small minority\" of Kiwis were responsible for abusing Ms Ardern.\n\nHe said that \"it does not represent who we are as a country\".\n\nMen had a responsibility to call out misogyny, he added.\n\nHe said he realised that putting himself forward as leader meant that he was \"public property\" - but that his family were not, and he wanted his children to have a \"typical Kiwi kid life\".\n\nData released in June showed that threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years, and local media reported that at least eight threats against her had entered the legal system - including the man who filmed the threatening YouTube video.\n\nPolice also had to investigate after handwritten fliers vowing to \"eradicate\" Ms Ardern were delivered to several homes in January 2022.\n\nRadio New Zealand spoke to a former intelligence worker, Paul Buchanan, who said he believed Ms Ardern would need more ongoing security and protection than any former New Zealand prime minister.\n\nMr Hipkins, 44, was New Zealand's Covid response minister and has extensive political experience.\n\nHe is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Wednesday after Ms Ardern formally steps down.\n\nHe received a standing ovation from his colleagues after they gave him their backing on Sunday, and shared a hug with Ms Ardern, whom he described as \"my very good friend\".\n\nCarmel Sepuloni is New Zealand's first deputy prime minister of Pasifika descent\n\nMr Hipkins has named Carmel Sepuloni as his deputy, making her the first person of Pasifika descent to hold the role.\n\n\"I am proudly Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European, and represent generations of New Zealanders with mixed heritage,\" she said. \"I want to acknowledge the significance of this for our Pacific community.\"\n\nAround eight percent of New Zealand's population identify themselves as being Kiwis with Pacific island descent.\n\nMr Hipkins will announce his full Cabinet later but has said he plans to keep the former deputy prime minister, Grant Robertson, on as finance minister.\n\nOutlining his priorities as prime minister, he promised to help Kiwi families and businesses through the country's cost of living crisis - which will be a key issue in the general election later this year.", "The festival said Jones's influence has made her \"a towering figure of pop for over six decades\"\n\n\"Cultural icon\" Grace Jones has been announced as the headliner of the next Bluedot festival.\n\nThe singer, actress and model, who curated London's Meltdown in 2022, will play under the gaze of the Lovell Telescope at Cheshire's Jodrell Bank Observatory in July.\n\nLo-fi pioneers Pavement and electropop queen Roisin Murphy will also headline.\n\nIt will be the sixth time the four-day festival, which celebrates music and science, has been staged.\n\nA festival representative said that as \"one of the most influential musicians of her generation\", Jones needed no introduction.\n\n\"Her influence has made her a towering figure of pop for over six decades,\" they said.\n\n\"From the classic beats of Slave To The Rhythm and Pull Up To The Bumper to her gold-selling most recent album Hurricane, [she] has become synonymous with a unique fusion of music, art and fashion that has inspired a new generation of artists.\"\n\nThe festival said Murphy would open the weekend with \"a cosmic dance party\"\n\nThey said Pavement's appearance would be the American band's only UK festival show in 2023, while Murphy's headline slot would be the first time she has topped a festival bill.\n\nThey said the festival's organisers were delighted to give her the top slot, as the \"de facto queen of electropop\" would open the weekend with \"a cosmic dance party\".\n\nMurphy tweeted it was an \"incredible line up\" in a \"fascinating place\".\n\nOrganisers added that the festival's opening night, which traditionally sees an unexpected act top the bill, would see composer Max Richter deliver \"a unique orchestral performance beneath the iconic Lovell Telescope\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso announced for the festival are dance duo Leftfield, Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers, art rockers Django Django, post-punk four piece Dry Cleaning and experimental rockers Black Country, New Road.\n\nAway from the music, the event will once again host talks from numerous scientific luminaries, including BBC Sky at Night's Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock, climate change researcher and author Mike Berners-Lee, the UK Space Agency's Libby Jackson and the Open University's Professor of Planetary and Space Science Monica Grady.\n\nFestival director Ben Robinson said the festival had always been \"ambitious in its programming and mission\".\n\n\"Looking at the scale of iconic talent, breadth of genres and one-off moments, it really has matured into a very special event,\" he said.\n\n\"We look forward to gathering together again beneath the telescope.\"\n\nBluedot will take place at the Cheshire observatory from 20 to 23 July.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Integrity and accountability are really important to me\", says Rishi Sunak\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the disclosures made about the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nMr Sunak said there were \"questions that need answering\" over the case.\n\nTory party chairman Mr Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC over previously unpaid tax while he was chancellor, as part of a multi-million pound dispute.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" he had \"acted properly throughout\".\n\nOn a visit to a hospital in Northamptonshire, Mr Sunak told reporters: \"Integrity and accountability is really important to me and clearly in this case there are questions that need answering.\n\n\"That's why I've asked our independent adviser to get to the bottom of everything, to investigate the matter fully and establish all the facts and provide advice to me on Nadhim Zahawi's compliance with the ministerial code.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Zahawi would remain Tory Party chairman during the investigation and had agreed to \"fully cooperate\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Zahawi said he welcomed the investigation and looked forward to \"explaining the facts of this issue\" to Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister's independent adviser on minister's interests.\n\nHe added: \"In order to ensure the independence of this process, you will understand that it would be inappropriate to discuss this issue any further, as I continue my duties as chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.\"\n\nHowever, opposition parties called for Mr Zahawi to be sacked from his role straight away.\n\nAllies of Mr Zahawi have told the BBC he is determined to stay on as Tory Party chairman, despite growing pressure over his tax affairs.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Zahawi confirmed he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when he was chancellor, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.\n\nThe Guardian had previously reported that Mr Zahawi paid the tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nMr Zahawi said HMRC accepted the error was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HMRC.\n\nAlthough the BBC has been told the issue was resolved while Mr Zahawi was chancellor - and the minister ultimately responsible for HMRC - it is still not clear when he originally became aware of it.\n\nHis allies claim he told the government's Propriety and Ethics Team - which is in charge of ensuring ethics across government departments - about it before his appointment as chancellor.\n\nAfter he became chancellor, Mr Zahawi did not seek to challenge HMRC's demands, but instructed his accountants to pay all of what they said was due, the BBC has been told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi is not going to resign and the PM should sack him, says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said launching an investigation was \"not enough\" and Mr Zahawi could not stay on as Tory Party chairman.\n\nHe said the idea that Mr Zahawi could be discussing his own tax affairs with HMRC while he was chancellor was wrong.\n\n\"The prime minister should sack him, and sack him today and show some leadership,\" he said.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon accused Mr Sunak of \"kicking [the issue] into the long grass\" by launching an inquiry.\n\nThe SNP leader said Mr Zahawi's position was \"untenable\" and he should resign or be sacked.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also called for Mr Zahawi to be sacked, or suspended while the investigation continued.\n\n\"The gear-change from 'nothing to see here' to ordering a major ethics investigation in just a few days, puts Sunak's own judgment in the spotlight once again,\" the party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions last week, Mr Sunak said Mr Zahawi had already addressed the matter of his tax affairs \"in full\".\n\nDowning Street said Mr Sunak was not aware last week that Mr Zahawi had paid a penalty to settle his dispute with HMRC.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the investigation by his ethics adviser would focus on \"potential breaches of the ministerial code relating to ministerial declarations\".\n\nHowever, he said the investigation could also look at whether Mr Zahawi's tax arrangement was suitable for a minister.\n\nHe added that Mr Sunak still has confidence in Mr Zahawi and hoped the investigation would be completed \"as quickly as possible\", although he could not give a timeline.\n\nWhat could have happened is that Nadhim Zahawi decided to resign, or the prime minister decide to sack him.\n\nBut neither did, and nor has Mr Zahawi appeared in front the cameras to answer the questions he faces.\n\nWhich means this row will trundle on, while the Prime Minister's Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests pokes around the affair.\n\nThe prime minister's public outlook on his party chairman's conduct has pointedly shifted in just days; as Downing Street acknowledged it didn't know until this weekend Nadhim Zahawi had been charged a penalty by Revenue and Customs.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak has chosen to define his commitment to integrity as seeking out the facts - \"do things professionally\" as he put it - rather than get rid of Mr Zahawi now.\n\nWestminster inquiries can act as a fire blanket on controversy, smothering the intensity of the political flames by allowing their subject to swerve questions for as long as they take.\n\nBut for Number 10 - and Mr Zahawi - this is a problem deferred, at best; not resolved.", "The South West ranked highest in NHS England's figures which showed time lost to ambulance handover delays\n\nAmbulance response times will improve when patients can be handed over more quickly to hospitals, says the head of the South Western Ambulance Service.\n\nStaff were \"desperately trying to do the job that they joined the ambulance service to do\", said Will Warrender.\n\nThe South West recently ranked highest in NHS England's figures which showed time lost to ambulance handover delays.\n\nHours measured from 14 November 2022 to 8 January 2023 show 892.4 hours were lost in the service's region.\n\nWill Warrender said there was a glimmer of hope for faster responses with recent improvements\n\nMr Warrender, the service's chief executive, told the BBC: \"The quicker response times will be returned to once we are able to handover our patients into hospitals quicker than we can at the moment.\n\n\"So, in December, we lost about a third of our ambulances across the month because they were sat outside hospital waiting to offload patients.\n\n\"That's a problem clearly for the patients in the ambulances, and it's a problem for patients in the community who we can't get to.\n\n\"And it's a problem for my own team who were sat there desperately trying to do the job that they joined the ambulance service to do.\"\n\nHe added: \"A slight glimmer of hope is that we've seen a real improvement in the last two weeks or so with a drop in activity levels or improvement in handover delays.\n\n\"It's no fault of any one part of the system.\n\n\"This is why we keep talking about all the different parts of the system coming together, pulling together to resolve the situation that we find ourselves in.\"\n\nWill Warrender said there had been an improvement in response times\n\nHe said that ahead of strike days ambulance staff had \"worked really hard with colleagues across the health and social care sector, to ensure that we're able to provide as safe a service as we possibly can\" while the industrial action was carried out.\n\nEmergency care assistant Chris Kent told BBC Radio Cornwall of the long waits: \"It can be very frustrating for the patients, they can become quite agitated ... It's very uncomfortable.\n\n\"Likewise, for us as crews ... many of us are starting to suffer from muscular-skeletal injuries from sitting at the hospital for so long.\"\n\nHe said the situation was \"demoralising\" and had got \"drastically\" worse over the past four years he had been in the job.\n\nThe South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust (SWASFT) covers Bristol and the former Avon area, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.\n\nAmbulance staff belonging to three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - are on strike on Monday in a dispute over pay.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Cavendish, pictured with wife Peta two months' before the robbery, told jurors how he was threatened at knifepoint in his home\n\nOne man has been found guilty of a knifepoint robbery at the family home of elite cyclist Mark Cavendish.\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green in Lewisham, south-east London, broke into Mr Cavendish's home in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021.\n\nHenry was found guilty of two counts of robbery and will be sentenced on 7 February.\n\nOludewa Okorosobo, 28, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, was found not guilty by the same jury.\n\nHenry was convicted by a majority verdict of 10 jurors to two, following 14 hours and 35 minutes of deliberation at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nAli Sesay, 28 of Holding Street in Rainham, Kent, had already pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery at an earlier hearing.\n\nMark Cavendish remembered his wife running into their bedroom, with \"figures really close behind her\"\n\nJurors were told how a group of masked intruders made off with two Richard Mille watches, worth a combined £700,000, as well as phones and a Louis Vuitton suitcase.\n\nProsecutors said Mr Cavendish and wife Peta were in bed with their three-year-old child when they heard \"male voices\" from downstairs.\n\nMrs Cavendish said her husband, who had been out of hospital for about four days after breaking his ribs in a cycling crash, was \"dragged\" from his feet by the intruders who then \"started punching him\".\n\n\"One of them held a large black knife to his throat and they said 'where's the watches?' and 'do you want me to stab you?',\" she told the court, describing it as a \"Rambo-style\" knife.\n\nShe said she covered her child with a duvet so they could not witness the robbery.\n\nRomario Henry, 31 (left), was found guilty of two counts of robbery, but Oludewa Okorosobo, 28, (right) was cleared of both charges\n\nShe said they took her husband's £400,000 Richard Mille watch, which he wore racing, from a windowsill and her bespoke one-of-a-kind £300,000 Richard Mille watch from a bedside table.\n\nThe 37-year-old athlete, who jointly holds the record for most stage wins in the Tour de France, was a brand ambassador for the designer.\n\nThe couple later found the downstairs patio door smashed and called police at 02:35 GMT.\n\nDetectives said they found Mrs Cavendish's mobile phone was left outside the home, with Sesay's DNA on it.\n\nMs Cavendish said the robbers were \"very specific\" about a watch, before taking her husband's watch from a windowsill\n\nHenry, giving evidence, admitted being in the Mercedes Benz that travelled from London to Ongar, but claimed he was \"out of it\" after taking drugs and was not aware of a crime being committed.\n\nMr Okorosobo said in a prepared statement to police that he was \"unable to do any\" of the alleged offences, and that \"any human could see I'm incapable of doing this\", having been stabbed in the leg in September 2021\n\nHe said he had loaned his mobile phone to Sesay, before it connected that night with cell masts in the Ongar area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJudge David Turner KC, pictured listening to evidence from Peta Cavendish, told jurors they needed to consider whether both defendants were guilty by joint enterprise\n\nMr Okorosobo - who told the court he previously worked as a delivery driver, in hospitality at the Olympic Stadium in 2012 and as a personal trainer - held his head in his hands when he was found not guilty.\n\nIn a statement after the court hearing, Mr and Mrs Cavendish said \"reliving\" the experience had been \"incredibly difficult\".\n\n\"What happened that night is something that no family should ever have to go through,\" they said.\n\n\"Although nothing can ever erase what our family went through, there is now some comfort that two men who broke into our family home and stole from us, assaulted Mark and terrified our children, are now convicted and will be facing what we hope will be an appropriate sentence for their actions and we hope moves some steps in preventing this horror happening to another innocent family.\"\n\nTwo further men, Jo Jobson, from Plaistow, east London, and George Goddard, from Loughton in Essex, were named as suspects during the trial but have yet to be apprehended.\n\nEssex Police believe George Goddard is the man pictured in this shop CCTV image\n\nJo Jobson, who prosecutors say is pictured in this CCTV image, is also wanted by police\n\nDet Insp Tony Atkin said he would \"pursue\" George Goddard and Jo Jobson\n\nSpeaking after the trial, Det Insp Tony Atkin said his team at Loughton CID would \"not stop\" looking for Mr Jobson and Mr Goddard.\n\n\"Although I can't go into significant detail, we are following a number of lines of inquiry in order to locate them,\" he said.\n\n\"To Jobson and to Goddard, I say this - we will pursue you. It is in your interests to hand yourselves in. You can only hide for so long.\"\n\nMr Cavendish, who hails from the Isle of Man, was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2011.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He joked he wanted to rape me', said former Welsh Rugby women's general manager Charlotte Wathan\n\nRugby bosses were warned of an equality and diversity \"ticking timebomb\" before claims were raised about a sexist culture at the Welsh Rugby Union.\n\nWelsh women's rugby former manager Charlotte Wathan said she considered suicide due to what she described as a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the WRU.\n\nNow it has emerged a top businesswoman who chaired Welsh rugby's professional board warned the WRU it had a problem.\n\nThe WRU says it is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.\n\nAmanda Blanc, now chief executive of Aviva insurance company, told the WRU it had a \"deep rooted\" culture and behavioural problems - and that a union-commissioned review into the women's game was \"beyond disappointing\" and verged on \"insulting to women\".\n\nIn her WRU leaving speech, Ms Blanc, on the 2021 Forbes most influential women in the world list, said she was questioned whether she had \"sufficient business experience\" to be the chairwoman of the WRU's professional board.\n\nMs Blanc, a UK Government women in finance champion and Sunday Times Businessperson of the Year, quit after two years as Wales' Professional Rugby Board chairwoman in November 2021 because she felt she was \"not being listened to\" and the WRU \"needed modernisation\".\n\nIn her leaving speech, Ms Blanc recalled a \"truly offensive discussion\" about reducing the sanctions for an elected WRU member after he had made misogynistic comments in public, including that \"men are the master race\" and women should \"stick to the ironing\".\n\nAmanda Blanc was named as one of the Financial Times' 25 most influential women of 2022\n\n\"To have to sit in a room and listen to some of you say that taking away too many free tickets from this man would be completely unfair, was beyond insulting,\" Ms Blanc said in her speech.\n\n\"I would say that some of you need to sit down, pause and reflect on what answer you would give to a Select Committee if this evidence was put in front of you? What would you say to the nation when an MP asks, 'does the WRU respect women?'\"\n\nMs Blanc, who was an independent chairwoman of Wales' professional game board with the WRU and Wales' four regional sides, also described her own experience saying she had raised issues about behaviour.\n\nThe WRU has also resisted calls to publish its 2021 review of the the women's game in Wales but extracts of it have been seen by the BBC Wales Investigates TV programme.\n\nIn it, women players at the time described the culture then as draining and demoralising, while some senior staff said it was underfunded.\n\nIn the review, past players described Welsh rugby's culture as toxic and called for an end to \"inequality\" and \"empty promises\".\n\nThe Welsh team are ninth in the women's rugby world rankings\n\nThe women's review also warned of risks to the WRU's reputation and finances if it didn't address its perceived reluctance to fully commit to women's rugby.\n\nMs Blanc's comments emerge after Welsh women's rugby's former general manager said a male colleague said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nCharlotte Wathan and another female former WRU employee said they both considered suicide because of the \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the organisation.\n\nThe WRU said that both cases were investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nOne MP, also a former Wales player, warned the allegations against a major UK sporting organisation were \"on a level\" with the racism scandal that rocked Yorkshire Cricket Club.\n\nCharlotte Wathan helped develop a strategy for the women's game in Wales\n\nTonia Antoniazzi has written to the Prince of Wales as patron of the WRU for a meeting to \"create a better future for women and girls in rugby in Wales\".\n\nThe WRU said how sad it was to hear how individuals in the BBC Wales Investigates programme felt and it would continue to work with staff to ensure they feel valued and listened to.\n\nThe WRU has previously spoken of its commitment to the women's game and last year gave Wales' women players professional contracts for the first time.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Julian Sands has been missing for 11 days\n\nThe family of missing British actor Julian Sands has thanked the Californian authorities for their efforts in trying to locate him.\n\nThey also said they were \"deeply touched\" by the \"outpouring of love and support\" they had received.\n\nMr Sands, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nLast week, his car was found next to where he was reported missing.\n\nIn the statement - put out on the 11th day since Mr Sands went missing - the family praised the \"heroic search teams\" who are working through the difficult weather conditions \"on the ground and in the air to bring Julian home\".\n\nCalifornia has been battered by deadly storms, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said it had responded to more than a dozen calls on Mount San Antonio, known locally as Mount Baldy, and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. It warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,\" the department said. Earlier in January, a mother of four whom friends described as an experienced hiker died after sliding more than 500ft (152m) down Mount Baldy.\n\nLast week, a spokesperson for the sheriff's department told the PA news agency that conditions were still too dangerous for ground crews to operate due to wintry weather, and that searches would be conducted by helicopter only.\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Mr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nHe lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nMr Sands has talked in the past about his love of hiking and mountain climbing.\n\nWhen asked in 2020 what made him happy, he replied: \"Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton have sacked manager Frank Lampard after less than a year in charge at Goodison Park.\n\nDefeat at fellow strugglers West Ham United on Saturday was Everton's ninth loss in 12 Premier League games.\n\nThey are second from bottom of the table with 15 points from 20 matches, above Southampton on goal difference.\n\nFormer England midfielder Lampard, 44, replaced Rafael Benitez in January 2022 with the team 16th in the table and helped Everton avoid relegation.\n\nEverton are now looking for their sixth permanent manager in five years.\n\nThe club thanked Lampard and his coaching staff \"for their service during what has been a challenging 12 months\".\n\n\"Frank and his team's commitment and dedication have been exemplary throughout their time at the club, but recent results and the current league position meant this difficult decision had to be taken,\" added a club statement.\n\nCoaches Joe Edwards, Paul Clement, Ashley Cole and Chris Jones have also left Everton, but Alan Kelly stays on as goalkeeping coach.\n\nEverton said they had \"started the process to secure a new manager\".\n\nFormer Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa is on the list of candidates under discussion as a potential successor to Lampard.\n\nThe 67-year-old Argentine, who is admired by Everton owner Farhad Moshiri, has not worked since being sacked by Leeds in February last year, although he remains a hero at Elland Road for taking the club back into the Premier League.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether Bielsa would take a job in mid-season while former Burnley boss Sean Dyche is sure to be discussed.\n\nFormer Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl was discussed by Everton's board before Lampard's appointment a year ago and is available after leaving St Mary's in November.\n\nAnd an outside candidate who has admirers at Goodison Park is West Bromwich Albion manager Carlos Corberan, who has overseen a revival at The Hawthorns since his appointment in October.\n\nThe former Huddersfield Town boss also worked on Bielsa's staff at Leeds.\n\nPaul Tait and Leighton Baines will take training until a new manager is appointed.\n• None Visit our Everton page for all the latest Toffees news, analysis and fan views\n• None You can now get Everton news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nAfter a 1-1 draw at reigning champions Manchester City on 31 December, Everton have lost 4-1 to Brighton at Goodison Park, were knocked out of the FA Cup with a 3-1 defeat at Manchester United and were then beaten by Southampton despite taking the lead, before the latest defeat by West Ham.\n\nThey have managed only three wins all season.\n\nThere have been widespread and vocal protests from fans against the board in recent games, and supporters staged a sit-in demonstration after the loss to Southampton.\n\nEverton's board of directors missed that game because of what the club claimed was a \"real and credible threat to their safety\".\n\nMerseyside Police said no threats or incidents had been reported to officers prior to the fixture before Everton announced \"enhanced security procedures\" would be put in place.\n\nThat was also in response to some supporters confronting defender Yerry Mina and midfielder Anthony Gordon as they left Goodison Park in their cars last weekend.\n\nEverton owner Farhad Moshiri attended his first game in 14 months at West Ham, along with much-criticised long-serving chairman Bill Kenwright. Moshiri suggested, when questioned by Sky Sports at the game, that it was not down to him decide on Lampard's future.\n\nThe club are yet to sign anyone in the January transfer window but spent in excess of £80m in the summer, including the £33m signing of Amadou Onana from Lille and £20m purchase of Dwight McNeil from Burnley, after receiving £60m for Brazil forward Richarlison from Tottenham.\n\nLampard took his first steps in management with Derby in 2018. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nHe replaced Maurizio Sarri as Chelsea manager in July 2019, but was sacked after 18 months.\n\nLampard took over at Goodison with Everton 16th in the table, six points above the relegation zone.\n\nEverton had 10 defeats in the remaining 18 games of the season, but secured their survival with a 3-2 comeback victory against Crystal Palace on what Lampard called \"one of the greatest nights\" of his career.\n\nLampard won only 12 of his 44 matches in charge in all competitions, a win percentage of 27.27 that is far worse than his record at Derby (42.1%) and Chelsea (52.4%).\n\n'Everton are staring the obvious in the face'\n\nFormer Everton captain Alan Stubbs and forward Kevin Campbell both expressed sympathy for Lampard but told BBC Radio 5 Live they understand the sacking.\n\n\"I feel for Frank Lampard because he's come into a situation where he's having to deal with a lot of problems from previous decisions from the board and managers,\" said Stubbs, who captained Everton to a fourth-place finish in 2004-05.\n\n\"Ultimately it got to the stage where it was inevitable. His record hasn't been great this season and unfortunately he's lost his job as a result of it.\"\n\nCampbell added: \"Results probably in the end got the better of Frank Lampard but this sacking puts the magnifying glass on the football club, and the board are going to be scrutinised for what they do next.\"\n\nHowever, despite agreeing with the decision, both said the situation highlighted deeper issues at Goodison Park.\n\n\"There is no doubt [that the problems are deeper].\" said Stubbs.\n\n\"The problem that Everton fans find themselves with now is that the same people are going to be making the decision. There is certainly a vote of no confidence in the people that are making the decisions for Everton going forward.\n\n\"From top to bottom, there are things that are not right for the football club. Everton, I think, are staring the obvious in the face as we speak. Whoever comes in, and I have to be honest I don't know who it will be that can save them, they've got a monumental job to keep them up this season.\"\n\nCampbell, who played for the club between 1999 and 2005, added: \"There has to be a plan. Everton Football Club having no footballing foundation is crazy.\n\n\"I just think to myself you cannot build anything on sand. The fans know it, ex-players know it, people in football know you have to build from a foundation. It is going to be interesting to see what the board and owner do because all the eyeballs are on them right now.\"\n\nFormer Everton captain Kevin Ratcliffe thinks the club are heading for relegation.\n\n\"The most disappointing thing is we have a week of the transfer window to go, no manager in charge,\" Ratcliffe, who played 493 times for the club between 1980 and 1992, told BBC Radio Merseyside. \"No-one at the football club, I think, has asked: 'What do we do after Frank?'\n\n\"We can't keep replacing managers. We have to start looking deeper. The players, they aren't good enough; recruitment, it's not been good enough. The recruitment has been shocking.\n\n\"The way we are going, we will be relegated. The form we are in, it's relegation form.\n\n\"As an ex-player and ex-captain, it's been frustrating to watch.\"\n\n'Everton have to get it right, but track record inspires no confidence' - Phil McNulty analysis\n\nFrank Lampard's sacking as Everton manager is the latest chapter in a story of dysfunction and instability under owner Farhad Moshiri and a board of directors who are facing open revolt from supporters.\n\nHe is Moshiri's sixth managerial sacking, with Carlo Ancelotti quitting to rejoin Real Madrid, underscoring the chaos at Goodison Park, where a transfer spree of more than £500m has left Everton working within Financial Fair Play limitations.\n\nOf more immediate concern is who can Everton's board tempt to a club lying 19th in the Premier League amid a toxic atmosphere?\n\nIt is a huge task for any incoming manager, with morale at rock bottom and Everton again fighting relegation to the Championship.\n\nMoshiri and Everton have to get it right - the problem being their dismal track record does not inspire confidence that they will.\n• None Our coverage of Everton is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Everton - go straight to all the best content", "Sally Azar became the Holy Land's first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church\n\nIn many parts of the Christian world, female church leaders are no longer unusual. But until now, the Holy Land - where events in the Bible are set - had not seen a local woman ordained.\n\nOn Sunday, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, Sally Azar, became its first woman pastor at an event at the Lutheran church in the heart of the Old City, attended by hundreds of international well-wishers.\n\n\"I got more excited seeing the excitement of other people,\" Reverend Azar told me. \"It's an indescribable feeling to take this step with the support of the church.\"\n\n\"I hope that many girls and women will know this is possible and that other women in other churches will join us. I know it will take a long time, but I think it could be exciting if this changes in Palestine.\"\n\nChristians make up a minority in the Palestinian Territories, Israel and Jordan. Most Christians here belong to the Greek Orthodox and Latin Catholic Churches, which do not allow women priests.\n\nHowever, the ordination of women has been taking place in a growing number of Protestant Churches in the past few decades. These have small local congregations and run schools and hospitals in the Holy Land.\n\n\"Everywhere where you have a patriarchal society and culture this is a major step,\" says the recently retired Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelen.\n\nFormer Archbishop of the Church of Sweden Antje Jackelen\n\n\"Since I've been ordained for over 40 years, I've met many people who didn't think it was possible. But now they've seen women actually serving as pastors, as bishops, as archbishops, we know it works and we know that it's actually in accord with the Bible.\"\n\nIn the Middle East, churches in Lebanon and Syria have already conferred holy orders on women, while at least one Palestinian woman is known to serve in the US.\n\nMs Azar was ordained by her father Bishop Sani Azar. She insists that while his example inspired her, she never felt pressured into studying theology.\n\n\"It's what I wanted, what I was called to do,\" she says.\n\nAs a pastor she will take on different duties including leading services and bible studies in Jerusalem and in Beit Sahour, in the occupied West Bank, for English speaking congregations.\n\n\"It's a big, big day for the life of our Church, it's an important step forward and it's overdue,\" comments Reverend Dr Munther Isaac, Lutheran Pastor of Bethlehem and Beit Sahour.\n\nHe says he looks forward to introducing Reverend Azar as a role model at local Lutheran schools - which teach children who are Christians of all traditions and Muslims.\n\nRev Dr Isaac has written a book in Arabic about women's leadership in the Bible and in support of women's ordination.\n\n\"We accept women ministers, we accept women professors, we accept to go in surgery performed by women and it's strange that we still have to argue that women can teach the Bible or perform the sacraments,\" he says.\n\n\"This tells me that despite the progress we've made as Palestinians, when it comes to empowering women and women rights, that there is still work to be done.\"\n\nSupporters of Rev Azar believe she is the right person to challenge stereotypes and break the mould.", "Swedish music-streaming giant Spotify says it will cut 6% of its about 10,000 employees, citing a need to improve efficiency.\n\n\"In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth,\" boss Daniel Ek wrote on the company's blog.\n\nSpotify has never posted a full-year net profit, despite its popularity in the online music market.\n\nIt follows last week's announcements of losses at Microsoft and Alphabet.\n\nAlphabet, which owns Google, said it would shed 12,000 jobs, while Microsoft said up to 10,000 employees would lose their jobs.\n\n\"I take full accountability for the moves that got us here today,\" Mr Ek added.\n\nThe company also said its chief content and advertising business officer, Dawn Ostroff, would depart as part of a broader reorganisation.\n\nSpotify, which had about 9,800 full-time employees last year, said it expected to incur at least €35m (£30m) in severance-related charges.\n\nThe Swedish company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has invested heavily since its launch, to fuel growth with expansions into new markets and, in later years, exclusive content such as podcasts.\n\nThe company had said in October it would slow down hiring for the rest of the year and into 2023.\n\nSpotify's announcement comes at a time when technology companies are facing downturn after two years of pandemic-driven growth during which they had hired aggressively.\n\nHundreds, including some of the sector's biggest names, have revealed redundancies in recent weeks.\n\nAt the start of this year, Amazon announced it planned to cut more than 18,000 jobs because of \"the uncertain economy\" and rapid hiring during the pandemic.\n\nIn November, Meta announced it would cut 13% of its workforce, a total of 11,000 employees.", "Richard Sharp became chairman of the BBC in February 2021\n\nRichard Sharp says the BBC board will review any potential conflicts of interest he may have amid scrutiny over his links with Boris Johnson.\n\nClaims have emerged that the BBC chairman was involved in securing a loan of up to £800,000 for the then-PM.\n\nMr Sharp said he had not been involved in making a loan, a guarantee or arranging any financing.\n\nIn a statement, he apologised to staff, calling the row \"a distraction for the organisation, which I regret\".\n\nHe said he had never hidden his longstanding relationship with the former PM and insisted he had been appointed fairly.\n\nAccording to The Sunday Times, Mr Sharp was involved in discussions about a loan worth up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson in late 2020.\n\nMr Sharp - a former Goldman Sachs banker - was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman in January 2021.\n\nThe government's choice is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nMr Sharp told BBC staff in an email on Monday: \"I believe firmly that I was appointed on merit, which the Cabinet Office have also confirmed\".\n\nHe said his personal interests would be reviewed by the BBC Board's nominations committee \"when it next meets\", without giving a timeline.\n\nHe also committed to having the findings of the review published \"in the interest of transparency\".\n\nMr Sharp confirmed that he introduced Sam Blyth, who he described as an \"old friend\" that also happened to be a distant cousin of the then-PM, to Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary.\n\nHe said Mr Blyth had offered to support Mr Johnson \"having become aware of the financial pressures\" on him and asked for advice on how to do so within the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak: Sharp was made BBC chairman after two \"transparent and rigorous\" appointment processes\n\nMr Sharp's statement confirmed he met with Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to discuss Mr Blyth and \"reminded\" the official that he had applied for the BBC role.\n\nHe said: \"We both agreed that to avoid any conflict that I should have nothing further to do with the matter.\"\n\nThe BBC chairman added: \"Since that meeting I have had no involvement whatsoever with any process.\"\n\nMr Johnson described claims of any impropriety as \"a load of complete nonsense\".\n\nHe told Sky News on Monday: \"Let me just tell you, Richard Sharp is a good and wise man but he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances - I can tell you that for 100% ding dang sure.\n\n\"This is just another example of the BBC disappearing up its own fundament.\"\n\nDowning Street has rejected allegations of \"cronyism\" and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the BBC appointment process as \"rigorous\" and \"transparent\".\n\nMr Sharp and Mr Sunak worked together at one stage during their time at Goldman Sachs investment bank.\n\nAccording to the BBC's Amol Rajan, Mr Sharp once described Mr Sunak to a friend as the best young financial analyst he had seen.\n\nMr Sharp was an unpaid adviser on the government's business loan scheme during the pandemic.\n\nHe was also an economic adviser to Mr Johnson during his time as London mayor.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there were \"clearly serious questions to answer\" on the loan row and said \"we need to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible\".\n\nMr Sharp sits on the BBC's nominations committee alongside four other members, including director-general Tim Davie.\n\nIt is unclear when it is due to sit next - BBC rules say it \"meets as required to deal with appointment issues\".", "Dr Jo Wilson has died, aged 69, after living with dementia\n\nA woman with dementia, who the BBC has followed for months as her husband battled to secure care for her, has died.\n\nDr Jo Wilson, from Newcastle, was a business executive before she was diagnosed in 2020.\n\nAfter weeks of delays, she moved into residential care earlier this month but died on Saturday, aged 69.\n\nHer husband, Bill, said he wanted their case to highlight health and social care issues.\n\nDr Wilson trained as a nurse but went on to become a high-achieving international businesswoman before her illness took hold.\n\nThe couple had been together for almost 50 years but, as the dementia tightened its grip, Mr Wilson had to look after his wife around the clock.\n\nHe previously described the care system as \"broken\".\n\nHe told BBC News: \"I've done all this because I want to see change happen. Change can only happen if people stand on the rooftop and shout about dementia.\n\n\"There's a huge disparity between being ill - that is treatable by the NHS - and the illness of dementia. Nothing is free, we have to pay for everything.\"\n\nBill Wilson documented his struggles as he cared for his wife, Jo, round the clock at their home in Newcastle\n\nMr Wilson said it had taken two years to initially get a care package put in place for his wife, but only after she suffered a fall and ended up in hospital was one was finally agreed.\n\nHe found home visits from carers frustrating due to frequent changes of staff, unreliable timekeeping and a lack of understanding of dementia.\n\nSpeaking in October, he said estimates for residential care for his wife were around £1,500 a week which would have seen their savings used to cover the cost.\n\nCurrent rules meant their local council would fund a place in a care home only when their owns funds had been exhausted.\n\nTyneside-based charity Dementia Matters was eventually able to step in to provide a residential bed.\n\nChanges designed to help people cover their personal care costs were due to come into effect in October, including a more generous means-test and a lifetime cap on care costs of £86,000.\n\nHowever, in November the move was postponed until 2025. after local authorities warned adult care services could worsen if the rollout was not delayed.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four year old boy joins Mensa, counts to 100 in six non-native languages\n\nA boy who taught himself to read as a toddler has been accepted as the UK's youngest member of Mensa.\n\nFour-year-old Teddy, from Portishead in Somerset, can count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin.\n\nMensa accepts people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on an approved intelligence test.\n\nTeddy's mother, Beth Hobbs, said he learned to read at just 26 months old \"by watching children's television and copying the sounds of letters\".\n\nTeddy was three years old when Mensa granted him membership\n\n\"He started tracing the letters and so when we sent him back to nursery after Covid lockdown we told them we thought he'd taught himself how to read,\" she said.\n\n\"We had a phone call back from the nursery, who'd sent a pre-school teacher to check, who said 'yes he can read!'\"\n\nTeddy's mum Beth said he \"chooses a topic to be interested in every couple of months or so, and sometimes it's numbers, it was times tables for a while, which was intense, countries and maps, then learning to count in different languages\"\n\nIt was the latter that particularly astounded Teddy's parents.\n\n\"He was playing on his tablet, making these sounds that I just didn't recognise, and I asked him what it was, and he said \"Mummy, I'm counting in Mandarin,\" said Mrs Hobbs.\n\nTeddy taught himself to read by watching children's television aged two\n\nTeddy has learned to count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin\n\nTeddy was made a member of Mensa when he was three years old, making him the youngest current member of the organisation in the UK.\n\nBut his parents said they want him to have a rounded childhood.\n\n\"He's starting to figure out that his friends can't read yet and he doesn't know why, but it's very important for us to keep him grounded,\" Mrs Hobbs said.\n\n\"If he can do these things, then fine, but he sees it like 'yes I can read, but my friend can run faster than me', so we've all got our individual talents.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People on low incomes will receive a Cold Weather Payment from the government as freezing temperatures sweep parts of the UK.\n\nBenefit claimants across hundreds of postcodes in England and Wales will receive £25 over the next two weeks.\n\nThe Cold Weather Payment is triggered if average temperatures hit freezing or below for seven days in a row.\n\nPayments will be made to homes across north-east England, Cumbria, west Wales and as far south as Oxfordshire.\n\nPeople can check here to see if they are entitled to the money.\n\nIn December, many homes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received money when there was a run of extremely cold weather.\n\nThe recent cold snap sent temperatures plunging as low as -9.7C in Benson, Oxfordshire, while some parts of Scotland have been relatively mild at 10.1C.\n\nSeparately, up to one million households in England. Scotland and Wales will be paid to use less electricity on Monday and Tuesday to avoid blackouts.\n\nNational Grid is running its Demand Flexibility Service, which gives people a discount on their bills if they delay energy intensive tasks such as using the washing machine or the oven at peak times.\n\nOn Tuesday, people who have signed up to the scheme will be compensated for using less power between 16:30 and 18:00 GMT.\n\nIn total, 26 suppliers are involved in providing the service.", "Jared O'Mara served as MP for Sheffield Hallam from June 2017 to November 2019\n\nA former South Yorkshire MP tried to submit fake invoices for nearly £30,000 in a bid to fund his \"extensive cocaine habit\", a court has heard.\n\nJared O'Mara, who represented Sheffield Hallam, is on trial at Leeds Crown Court and denies eight counts of fraud.\n\nProsecutors allege part of the fraud involved creating a false organisation called \"Confident About Autism South Yorkshire\" to try to claim payments.\n\nMr O'Mara, 41, and two other men deny the charges.\n\nOpening the case for the prosecution, Mr James Bourne-Arton described it as a \"very straightforward case of fraud\".\n\n\"In 2019 the defendants Jared O'Mara and Gareth Arnold submitted a series of invoices for payment that were false - that is to say that the services that the invoices related to were a fiction and the defendants knew that,\" he said.\n\n\"They were deliberately making dishonest claims for work that hadn't been done in order to receive the money for themselves.\"\n\nAs well as submitting claims for £19,400 relating to the \"fictitious\" organisation it is also claimed he submitted two invoices totalling £4,650 from his \"chief of staff\" Mr Arnold for media and PR work that prosecutors say was never carried out.\n\nThe jury was also told Mr O'Mara, who appeared in court by videolink on Monday, submitted a false contract of employment for his friend John Woodliff, 43, \"pretending\" that Mr Woodliff worked for him as a constituency support officer in an effort to \"generate money for the two of them\".\n\nGareth Arnold, left, and John Woodliff, pictured at a previous hearing, are on trial alongside Mr O'Mara\n\nThe jury heard the invoices were submitted to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), an independent body which was established to restore public confidence following the 2009 MP expenses scandal.\n\nMr Bourne-Arton continued: \"Jared O'Mara viewed IPSA, and the taxpayers' money that they administered, as a source of income that was his to claim and use as he wished, not least in the enjoyment of his extensive cocaine habit.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Arnold, 30, alerted South Yorkshire Police by phone on 2 July 2019 \"after reaching a point at which he was no longer willing to participate in the fraud\".\n\n\"He described an undoubtedly sad state of affairs in which O'Mara was plainly unable to cope with the office he held, was in poor mental health and was heavily addicted to cocaine that he was abusing in prodigious quantities,\" Mr Bourne-Arton told the court.\n\nProsecutors said genuine members of staff Mr O'Mara employed had not heard of Mr Arnold or Mr Woodliff, with all of the invoices either rejected or not processed.\n\nThe court heard financial investigations revealed Mr O'Mara was \"living to or beyond his means and in dire need of cash\".\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"The reason for that appears to have been that he was funding a significant cocaine habit of which both Gareth Arnold and John Woodliff were plainly aware.\"\n\nMr O'Mara, of Walker Close, Sheffield, was elected to Parliament in June 2017 after a shock victory in Sheffield Hallam over former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Nick Clegg.\n\nHe quit Labour in 2018 but remained in office as an independent MP before standing down at the 2019 general election.\n\nMr Arnold, of School Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, denies six counts of fraud, with Mr Woodliff, of Hesley Road, Shiregreen, denying one charge.\n\nThe trial, which is due to last 10 days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways has had to cancel about 80 flights on Monday\n\nDozens of flights have been cancelled at Heathrow due to freezing fog.\n\nBritish Airways, the largest carrier at the UK's busiest airport, has axed around 80 flights.\n\nAirlines were told on Sunday night they would have to reduce the number of flights they are operating by about 15% due to the weather and Air Traffic Control restrictions.\n\nHeathrow Airport said the weather has now lifted and flights are operating as normal.\n\nMonday was the coldest night at the airport in more than a decade, with temperatures falling to -8.4C.\n\nIt was the lowest temperature recorded since December 2010, and the coldest January night since 1987.\n\nAcross the UK the lowest temperature was in Santon Downham, Suffolk, where it dropped to -9.8C.\n\nTemperatures in the UK were warmest in Scotland, with temperatures of 10.1C in Kinlochewe in the Scottish Highlands.\n\nOnline departure boards at Heathrow showed cancellations to destinations including Berlin, Amsterdam and Miami.\n\nServices on Sunday evening were also impacted.\n\nA Met Office yellow weather warning for fog was in place until 11:00 GMT on Monday for parts of southern and eastern England.\n\nPassengers voiced their frustrations over the travel disruption on social media.\n\n\"I was supposed to fly yesterday, got cancelled and rebooked to today. Cancelled again, rebooked to tomorrow. What's happening?\" wrote one user on Twitter.\n\n\"My flight to Milan cancelled! No seats available on alternative flights, now had to cancel a week's worth of business in Italy! #Heathrow\" Said another passenger.\n\nIn a statement, British Airways said it had \"apologised to customers whose flights have been affected\" and it was \"doing everything we can to get them on their way as quickly as possible\".\n\nIt advised customers to check its website before travelling to the airport. A number of afternoon British Airways flights have been cancelled, despite the weather clearing.\n\nIt said customers affected by the cancellations are being offered refunds or the option to book onto an alternative flight. Where necessary the airline has also provided refreshments and hotel accommodation, it said.\n\nA spokesman for Heathrow said poor visibility was forecast for Monday morning at the airport and across the south-east of England.\n\n\"While there may be minor changes to [Monday's] schedule as a result of the weather, we want to reassure passengers that our colleagues are working in close collaboration with our airline and air traffic control partners to get them safely away on their journeys as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nBy the afternoon, the airport said the weather had lifted and a normal service had resumed.\n\nThe BBC's lead weather presenter Simon King said freezing fog is \"defined as the situation when the visibility is less than one kilometre combined with an air temperature of less than 0C\".\n\n\"Despite the air temperature being freezing, water droplets in the fog will remain as water and not ice - called supercooled water droplets. However, when these water droplets hit frozen surfaces, it turns to ice, creating hazardous conditions,\" he explained.\n\n\"It causes delays at airports in particular as the freezing fog forms a layer of thin ice on airplanes which will need to be de-iced.\"\n\nBBC Weather said the freezing fog overnight on Sunday evening and Monday morning developed due to a combination of \"light winds and clear skies\".\n\nIt added the fog would disperse as the day goes on, but would remain in some places.\n\nIf your plans have been affected by the weather conditions at London Heathrow, you can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are my rights if my flight is cancelled or delayed?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Status quo' on gun debate not working, LA County Sheriff says\n\nCalifornia police have identified the gunman suspected of killing 11 people in a ballroom dance studio near Los Angeles as Huu Can Tran, 72, who was later found dead in a white van.\n\nHe had a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was declared dead at the scene, LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said.\n\nCelebrations for Lunar New Year had been under way in Monterey Park, known for its large Asian population.\n\nPolice do not yet know the motive.\n\nTen victims were pronounced at the scene. On Monday, officials from LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles confirmed that an eleventh had succumbed to their wounds and died at the hospital.\n\nAnother 10 people were wounded in the shooting, and seven were still in hospital - some in a critical condition - the sheriff said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon in Monterey Park.\n\nHe added that the people who died were still being identified, but they seemed to be in their 50s and 60s and some perhaps older.\n\nEarlier, officials said five women and five men had been killed, all \"probably\" of Asian descent.\n\nThe mass shooting, one of the deadliest in California's history, began at around 22:22 local time on Saturday (06:22 GMT on Sunday) at the popular Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, about seven miles (11km) east of central Los Angeles.\n\nPolice Chief Scott Wiese said that what his officers found was a \"scene of carnage\", and that the first officers to get there were some of the youngest on his squad, having only just finished their training a few months ago.\n\n\"They came across a scene none of them have prepared for,\" he said. \"There were injured people inside and dead people inside. My young officers did their job.\"\n\nAbout 30 minutes later, the gunman arrived at another dance studio in the nearby town of Alhambra.\n\nHe entered the studio, but according to police, two people managed to wrestle the weapon off him before he escaped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrandon Tsay, a 26-year-old coder and the operator of the family-run dance hall, told the New York Times it was he alone who disarmed the gunman. He said Tran was \"looking at me and looking around, not hiding that he was trying to do harm\".\n\nSheriff Luna said he believed the weapon used - a semi-automatic assault pistol with an extended magazine - was illegal in California, although he added he needed to investigate that further.\n\nHe praised the \"two community members, who I consider to be heroes. They saved lives, this could've been much worse,\" the sheriff said, adding that he believes Tran intended to kill more people.\n\nFor hours on Sunday, authorities scoured the Los Angeles area in search of the gunman.\n\nPhotos of the suspect were issued by police during the manhunt\n\nJust before 13:00 local time (21:00 GMT) - about 12 hours after the shooting - a SWAT team swarmed a white van in a car park in Torrance, about 30 miles (48km) from the Monterey Park shooting scene.\n\nSheriff Luna said they heard a single shot from inside the van as they approached, and then found the suspect slumped over the steering wheel. Evidence including a handgun was recovered, and the man was identified as the gunman.\n\nThe sheriff said the gunman is believed to have acted alone, and there were no other suspects.\n\nHe said police \"assume\" the number plates on the van were stolen.\n\nMonterey Park's population is about 65% Asian American - it has been called America's first \"Chinese suburb\". It became the first mainland US city to have a majority of residents with Asian ancestry.\n\nThe dance studio where the deadly shooting happened was known locally as a popular venue, especially on Saturday nights.\n\nThe second venue where Brandon Tsay tackled the gunman\n\nOne man who taught ballroom dancing there, Alex Satrain, told the Washington Post that the studio's regulars were \"like a family\".\n\nSome residents reportedly mistook the gunshots for fireworks. Tiffany Chiu, whose parents live near the venue, told Reuters: \"A lot of older people live here, it's usually really quiet.\"\n\nWith a community in mourning, the Monterey Park celebrations of Lunar New Year were cancelled. Businesses have taken down the red lanterns and festive banners that had adorned the streets.\n\nThe attack was the nation's deadliest since 21 people were gunned down at a school in Uvalde, Texas, last May.\n\nThe definition of a mass shooting varies. According to not-for-profit US Gun Violence Archive, a mass shooting is made up of four people injured or killed.\n\nBy that count, Saturday's shooting would be the 33rd in just 23 days.", "Valentina says that while the town of Lyman has been liberated, the missile attacks continue\n\nTwo Ukrainian fighter jets roar low overhead as we emerge from a dense, snow-bound forest and drive into the railway junction town of Lyman, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.\n\nIt is nearly four months since Russian troops were forced to retreat from here, pushed back some 25km (about 15 miles) to the east. But the boom of artillery fire, close to the front lines, is still audible every few minutes, and this town - much of it in ruins - is not yet safe from Russian missiles.\n\n\"I live on the seventh floor. The rocket hit the fifth floor, early this morning, at around five. But I'm fine,\" says Alexander Rogovitz, a 73-year-old retired businessman and the only remaining resident of a large apartment block on the edge of town.\n\nHe bends over to share out some dried food to the eight cats - seven of them strays, abandoned by neighbours - he now looks after.\n\nThat resilience, and a strong collective spirit, seem to be widespread here, among those who have clung on amid the snow and rubble.\n\nValeri Dmitrenko has been sheltering in a basement with 21 neighbours for the past nine months\n\nIn a nearby courtyard, beside a giant bomb crater, a 45-year-old railway technician named Valeri Dmitrenko is busy chopping wood to heat the basement where he and 21 neighbours have been sheltering for the past nine months. Lyman still has no running water or central heating system, and the daytime temperature has been hovering around freezing.\n\n\"What can we do?\" Valeri shrugs, stroking the head of a stray dog he and his wife, Ira, recently adopted and named Princess Diana. When he's not busy with his axe, Valeri helps neighbours repair broken doors and windows in their badly damaged apartment building.\n\nIra walks past, hurriedly, with buckets of water she has pumped from a well in the yard.\n\n\"I still find it stressful to stay outside, in the open, for long,\" says Ira, a 41-year-old accountant, before heading down a dark flight of stairs and into the cramped cellar of 6 Railway Street.\n\nDespite heavy fighting continuing in the Donbas, civilians are trickling back to liberated Ukrainian towns close to the front line - against the advice of local authorities. In Lyman, devastated by Russian forces last year, some 13,000 residents are living, precariously, in gruelling winter conditions.\n\nAn apartment block in Lyman, which has been part-destroyed by Russian missile strikes\n\nAs Russia's forces approached Lyman last June, 41,000 civilians fled, leaving about 10,000 people behind. Many of those were elderly, or poor - or, like Ira and Valeri, had sick relatives who refused to leave. For the next four months, about 60 people squeezed into the same cellar on Railway Street.\n\n\"It was difficult at times. People are different. Some became aggressive - we're not used to living all together like this,\" says Ira. Adding to that stress was the fact that, by Ira's reckoning, about a third of those who had chosen to stay in the cellar were pro-Russian, actively hoping that Ukraine would lose the war.\n\n\"Yes, there were people who supported Russia. But they left when Ukraine started liberating territory. When the so-called Russian authorities moved out, they went with them, taking their children. Probably because they were scared of what would happen to them here,\" adds Ira.\n\nOn 3 October, Lyman was liberated by Ukrainian forces and soon afterwards the town's mayor, Alexander Zhuravlov, returned to discover that \"80%, maybe 90%\" of the buildings had been damaged or destroyed. The railway lines that pass through the centre of town are still a mass of broken overhead cables and blocked tracks.\n\nIn recent months, the mayor and his team have managed to restore electricity to most of the town and the surrounding villages. Pensions are now being paid, on time, and some shops have reopened.\n\nIra, one of those sheltering in a basement, says she finds it stressful being outside\n\nThe government and humanitarian groups have brought in wood stoves and distributed logs. Every day one aid group brings in hundreds of packed lunches to distribute free of charge. There are roughly 700 children living in Lyman and the mayor estimates that another 3,000 residents have returned since the town was liberated. But he's urging the rest to stay away.\n\n\"At the moment we do not recommend people to return here. On the contrary, they're better off in safer places and cities. There are no comfortable living places here, for now. People will be accepted in other regions and will be provided with accommodation and food,\" he says, driving to the site of a two-week-old missile attack that ripped the entire wall off a nine-storey apartment block.\n\nThe mayor says local police are still dealing with \"a handful\" of Lyman's residents suspected of working for the Russian occupiers. But he believes the experience of the past year has persuaded many pro-Russian residents to change their views.\n\n\"I think those people now understand that they made a mistake. They were led astray by the media - watching Russian propaganda on television every night and thinking it was the truth. They were in a minority, and they have already changed their minds. They see that this Russian world is not the one they'd been led to expect,\" says Zhuravlyov.\n\nAid groups provide food, which is distributed free of charge, to those in need in Lyman\n\nA 62-year-old woman called Valentina, queueing for food at the local hospital, seems to reflect that change of heart, when asked about the security situation in Lyman since it was liberated. In recent months, pro-Russian civilians have often hinted at their allegiance by implying that both sides are equally guilty of shelling towns, and that it is therefore impossible to assign blame.\n\n\"The bombardment hasn't stopped. The shells still hit the town. We don't know who is firing,\" she begins.\n\nBut then, unprompted, Valentina changes her mind.\n\n\"I suppose it must be the Russians. Yes, no doubt,\" she says, adding: \"We're Ukrainians. This is a Ukrainian town. The shops are open. Our pensions come on time. The state has not abandoned us.\"", "Metro stations in Lahore were closed by the power cut\n\nPakistan suffered a huge power cut early on Monday following a breakdown in its national grid, leaving millions of people without electricity.\n\nPower was out in all major centres, including the biggest city, Karachi, and the capital, Islamabad, as well as Lahore and Peshawar.\n\nPower minister Khurrum Dastagir said the grid failure followed a \"frequency variation\" in southern Pakistan.\n\nElectricity had still not been restored in many areas as night fell.\n\nPakistan often suffers from power cuts, which are blamed on mismanagement and a lack of investment in infrastructure. The last major blackout in October took hours to restore.\n\nThe energy ministry said that at about 07:30 local time (02:30 GMT) the grid \"experienced a loss of frequency, that caused a major breakdown\", adding that \"swift work\" was taking place to revive the system.\n\nMr Dastagir insisted this was \"not a major crisis\" and said officials had begun restoring power across the country - but many homes and businesses remained without electricity more than 12 hours after the blackout began.\n\nHe told Geo TV that parts of the electricity were turned off overnight because the demand for energy during winter was less than in summer, when much of the country experiences very high temperatures and people use air conditioning and fans.\n\n\"In winter, the demand for electricity reduces nationwide, hence, as an economic measure, we temporarily close down our power generation systems at night,\" he said.\n\nWhen they were turned on in the morning, \"frequency variation and voltage fluctuation\" were observed in southern Pakistan \"somewhere between Dadu and Jamshoro\" and subsequently \"power generating units shut down one by one\", he told the TV channel.\n\nIt meant that across the country, traffic lights went down, fans stopped and lights went off.\n\nRapid transit trains in Lahore - the driverless Orange Line metro - were suspended because of the power cut, transport officials told the BBC.\n\nVolunteers at the Edhi social welfare programme work in a control room in Karachi amid the power cut\n\nMany in Pakistan are used to dealing with fluctuating power supplies and load shedding - where electricity to some areas is temporarily reduced in order to prevent the failure of the entire system - is common.\n\nBusinesses, industries and homes often have their own generators which kick in when the electricity is cut. Airports operated normally on Monday because they have their own standby power systems, a spokesman for the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority said.\n\nOfficials at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told the BBC that hardly any department had been affected by the power cut because generators had been used to provide electricity.\n\nHowever, while hospitals and larger industries may have bigger generators, other smaller organisations or private homes will not necessarily have enough power to last for many days.\n\nEarlier this month, the government ordered all malls and markets to shut by 20:30 and restaurants by 22:00 under a new energy-saving plan.\n\nThe cabinet said that this was expected to save the country about 62bn Pakistani rupees ($270m; £220m). Federal departments have been told to reduce their electricity usage by 30%.\n\nPakistan generates most of its power using imported fossil fuels.\n\nAs global energy prices have increased in the last year, further pressure has been put on the country's finances and its foreign reserves which it needs to pay for energy imports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Boris Johnson says he'll be a foot soldier or spear carrier to President Zelensky\n\nFormer UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.\n\nMr Johnson visited the outskirts of the city on Sunday before being received by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nThe Conservative MP said it was a \"privilege\" to visit the country at the invitation of Mr Zelensky.\n\nThe unannounced visit came as fresh questions over the former prime minister's personal finances emerged in the UK.\n\nThey stem from claims the BBC's chairman Richard Sharp helped Mr Johnson secure a loan guarantee while he was prime minister. Mr Sharp went on to be appointed to his BBC role by the government.\n\nDuring Mr Johnson's visit to Ukraine, in which he made no mention of the claims, he was received by Mr Zelensky and other Ukrainian ministers in Kyiv.\n\n\"I welcome Boris Johnson, a true friend of Ukraine, to Kyiv. Boris thanks for your support!\" wrote Mr Zelensky on Telegram.\n\nHe also visited the towns of Bucha and Borodyanka, to the north-west of Kyiv, which were occupied by Russian forces in March last year.\n\nAfter Russian troops were repelled, scenes of mass destruction were discovered in the two towns, including the bodies of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha.\n\nMr Johnson said \"the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on for too long\".\n\n\"The only way to end this war is for Ukraine to win - and to win as fast as possible,\" Mr Johnson said. \"This is the moment to double down, and to give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to finish the job.\n\n\"The sooner Putin fails, the better for Ukraine and for the whole world.\"\n\nCurrent UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was said to be \"supportive\" of Mr Johnson's visit.\n\nMr Sunak is \"always supportive of all colleagues showing that the UK is behind Ukraine and will continue to support them,\" his press secretary said.\n\nMr Johnson's visit comes as increased pressure is being put on allies of Ukraine, including Germany, to supply more tanks to the war-torn country.\n\nEarlier this week, the UK confirmed it would send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort, a decision Mr Johnson's spokesman said he supported.\n\nMr Johnson has made several visits to Ukraine, both as prime minister and since he left Downing Street.\n\nJust a few days ago, he took part in a panel discussion on Ukraine at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which Mr Zelensky attended via video link.", "Police have surrounded a white van in Torrance, California more than 12 hours after a deadly shooting in nearby Monterey Park.\n\nAerial video shows the reported stand off which police say may hold the suspect but details are still very unclear.", "England's Kenneth Parr shooting during the 50m Rifle Prone Men at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Carnoustie, during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.\n\nScottish ministers were concerned over whether shooting events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow would be controversial due to sensitivities around the Dunblane shooting.\n\nCabinet papers published by National Records of Scotland reveal a discussion among Jack McConnell's ministers.\n\nThomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and a teacher at Dunblane Primary School before shooting himself in March 1996.\n\nTighter gun measures in the UK were introduced following the tragedy.\n\nCabinet papers from February 2007, when Lord McConnell led a Labour/LibDem coalition, noted that planning for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was under way, and that shooting had been included as one of the additional sports in the programme.\n\n\"Although this decision could prove to be controversial, given the sensitivities that remained in Scotland following the Dunblane tragedy, it was clear that, without it, Glasgow would have lost votes on its bid,\" the papers said.\n\nSubsequently ministers decided the sport would take place at existing training facilities for the military or police.\n\nWhen the games took place in 2014, shooting was held at the Barry Buddon training camp near Dundee, which is owned by the Ministry of Defence.\n\nCabinet papers published by National Records of Scotland show ministers were concerned about NHS staff being \"victimised as a group\" after the Glasgow Airport attack in 2007.\n\nOther Scottish cabinet papers published by National Records of Scotland show that ministers were concerned about NHS staff being \"victimised as a group\" after the Glasgow Airport attack because one of the attackers was a doctor.\n\nThe attack on 30 June 2007, where two men rammed a car filled with propane tanks into the doors of the airport, resulted in the death of one of the attackers and injuries to five people.\n\nOne of the terrorists, Bilal Abdullah, was working as a doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley as a diabetes specialist when the attack was committed.\n\nDetails from a cabinet meeting on 3 July 2007 discussed the potential demonisation of NHS staff and possible background checks for healthcare workers coming in from abroad. Abdullah was born in England but qualified as a doctor in Iraq.\n\nThe ministers - now led by Alex Salmond in the first months of the SNP minority government - discussed potential impacts on the health service following the attack.\n\nThe papers said: \"It would be important to get the strong messages across publicly that NHS staff, like the other emergency services involved in these incidents, had shown huge professionalism in dealing with the aftermath of the events and that health professionals from overseas played an important role in the NHS in Scotland.\"\n\nSolicitor General Frank Mulholland KC also spoke to ministers at the time of the potential impact on ethnic minority communities more widely.\n\nHe told them the police were \"working closely with minority communities who might feel vulnerable and offering the reassurance that any incidents of a racial nature would be rigorously pursued\".\n\nBoth men involved in the Glasgow Airport bombing were also linked to car bombs discovered in London the previous day.\n\nAbdullah was eventually convicted of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 32 years.\n\nThe other attacker, Kafeel Ahmed, was badly burned and died of his injuries at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.", "Thank you for joining us for our new year live coverage: we've had a night of watching fireworks from New Zealand to the west coast of the USA and some of the Pacific islands.\n\nFrom displays at the London Eye to Sydney’s harbour front, people around the world have enjoyed bringing in the new year without Covid restrictions for the first time in a couple of years.\n\nThis page was brought to you by Alexandra Fouché, Chris Giles, Gem O'Reilly, Jeremy Gahagan, Matt Murphy, Emma Owen, Nathan Williams and Francesca Gillett.\n\nHappy New Year from us all!", "Cody Fisher played for several non-league Midlands clubs, most recently Stratford Town\n\nTwo men have been charged with murder following the stabbing of footballer Cody Fisher at a nightclub in Birmingham on Boxing Day.\n\nKami Carpenter, 21, and Remy Gordon, 22, both from Birmingham, have been remanded in custody, police said.\n\nThe men, who were also charged with affray, will appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 2 January.\n\nMr Fisher, 23, a non-league footballer and a school sports coach, was attacked at the Crane nightclub in Digbeth.\n\nA man, 22, also arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released on bail.\n\nAnd four other people arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been released on bail.\n\nDetective Chief Inspector Ian Ingram, from West Midlands Police, said the arrests were \"a significant development in our investigation,\" as the force \"seeks to get justice for Cody, his family and friends\".\n\nHe added officers were keen to hear from anyone with further information about the incident.", "Anita Pointer, from the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters, has died aged 74, her publicist has announced.\n\nShe died surrounded by her family at her Beverley Hills home in California.\n\nHer family said they were deeply saddened by her passing. \"Heaven is a more loving beautiful place with Anita there,\" they said in a statement.\n\nThe second oldest of the four sisters, Ms Pointer and her siblings rose to fame with hits including Jump (For My Love) and Fire.\n\nWith a blend of funk, soul and R&B, the group released their eponymous debut album in 1973. Yes We Can Can, a funky tune which called for unity and tolerance at a time of racial unrest in the US, became the album's breakout hit.\n\nAnd in 1975, their hit song, Fairytale, won a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance. The win remains a rarity in a category dominated by white acts.\n\nThe group almost disbanded in 1979 after Bonnie Pointer left to pursue a solo career, but the remaining sisters regrouped and went on to shed their previously retro image for a modern pop sound.\n\nThroughout the 1980s, they remained a powerhouse in the US charts, and their hits, which included He's So Shy, Jump (For My Love) and Neutron Dance, have stood the test of time, remaining heavily streamed to this day.\n\nBut Pointer's personal life was marked by tragedy. In 2003, her only child - Jada Pointer - died from cancer aged just 37. She went on to raise her granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer.\n\nHer family said they were \"comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace\".", "President Vladimir Putin delivers his New Year's address surrounded by people in uniform\n\nThe clock in the Kremlin's Spassky Tower strikes midnight.\n\nThen Channel One TV kicks off 2023 with a pop song: \"I'm Russian and I will go all the way…I'm Russian, to spite the world.\"\n\nNext on Top of the (patriotic) Pops: \"I was born in the Soviet Union, I was made in the USSR!\"\n\nI change channels. At the Russia-1 New Year party, one of the station's most famous war correspondents is holding a champagne glass, toasting 2023 and wishing for \"more good news than bad from the front line\".\n\nSitting with him are men in military fatigues. A Moscow-installed official from Russian-occupied Ukraine declares: \"I wish us all peace. But peace will only come after our victory.\"\n\nYou get the gist. This year's festive extravaganzas on Russian TV are a strange mixture of let's party and let's win on the battlefield.\n\nThis is not normal TV fare for a New Year's night in Russia. Then again, this is not a normal New Year's night. \"Normal\" disappeared 10 months ago when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThere was nothing \"normal\" about Vladimir Putin's New Year address to the Russian people. For his annual speech the president normally stands alone outside the Kremlin. This year, standing behind him, were men and women in combat uniforms.\n\nIn his speech last year, the Kremlin leader pointed out that \"New Year's Eve is literally filled with good cheer and happy thoughts\".\n\nGood cheer and happy thoughts were in short supply this time round.\n\nPresident Putin used the address to promote the Kremlin's alternative reality: that in this conflict Russia's the hero and Ukraine and the West are the villains.\n\n\"For years, Western elites hypocritically assured us of their peaceful intentions…but in fact, they encouraged the neo-Nazis in every possible way,\" President Putin said.\n\n\"Defending our Motherland is the sacred duty we owe to our ancestors and descendants.\"\n\nWhen the Kremlin talks about \"defending our Motherland\", keep in mind that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Not the other way around.\n\nThe Russian President claims his country is benefiting enormously from the dramatic events of 2022: \"It was a year of… important steps towards Russia's full sovereignty.\"\n\n\"We lay the foundation for our common future, our true independence.\"\n\nThe assertion that, in this war, Russia is fighting for its sovereignty and independence is puzzling, to say the least.\n\nFor a start Russia has long been a sovereign, independent nation. Even if you accept Vladimir Putin's premise that Russia never achieved \"full sovereignty\" the question arises: why not? Mr Putin's been in power for 23 years. Long enough, you may think, to sort that.\n\nThe other thing President Putin does in his new year address is to divide Russians into us and them, into those who support his \"special military operation\" and those who don't.\n\n\"It was a year that put many things in their place,\" the Kremlin leader said, \"and drew a clear line between courage and heroism, on the one hand, and betrayal and cowardice on the other…\"\n\nIn 2023 we're likely to see the Kremlin drawing this line ever more clearly. The Russian authorities have mobilised all the country's resources for the \"special military operation\".\n\nThere is no room for debate or discussion: the government expects the public to rally round and to support the president. Those Russians who don't will be made to feel they're betraying their Motherland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Hispaniolan common tree frog is common in the Dominican Republic, the RSPCA says\n\nA frog that travelled 4,000 miles (6,400km) in a bunch of bananas was among one of the strangest animal rescues of the year, according to the RSPCA.\n\nIn 2022, its officers responded to some \"weird and wonderful\" animal rescues.\n\nThe charity was called to thousands of incidents where birds, wildlife, pets and farm animals found themselves in tricky spots.\n\nThe RSPCA said it was an \"honour\" to lend a helping hand to animals in need.\n\nThe Old Lock and Weir The six-month-old seal pup was underweight and had puncture wounds on his flippers\n\nOne of the first to be rescued in 2022 was Nacho, a six-month-old seal pup who appeared next to a riverbank by the Old Lock & Weird Inn in Keynsham, Bristol, on 2 January.\n\n\"The River Avon runs from the coast all the way along through Keynsham where the pub is situated at the water's edge, so it's likely he found his way there swimming upstream from the coast,\" said RSPCA wildlife supervisor Paul Oaten.\n\nTwo days later, on 4 January, a fellow seal pup was found on a cliff in Weybourne, Norfolk, 50ft (15m) from the beach next to a brick wartime pillbox.\n\n\"I was quite surprised to find this seal so far up - he must have just taken a wrong turn and then followed the coastal path before ending up on the cliff edge,\" said the RSPCA's Amy Pellegrini, who took the pup down to a safe spot on the nearby beach.\n\nFoxes with their heads stuck in things was a recurring theme in 2022\n\nThe RSPCA responded to several incidents of foxes getting their heads stuck, including an incident in February where a vixen became trapped in a watering can in Colchester, Essex.\n\nLater that month, a fox was found with a large tin can of dog food in Barking, London.\n\nRSPCA inspector Dale Grant said it proved \"how dangerous litter can be\".\n\nA fox with its head stuck in a car wheel in south-east London\n\nIn London, several foxes were rescued in the space of a month after getting their heads stuck in the central hole of wheels, including a cub which had found its way into a shed in Orpington.\n\n\"The residents had also discovered his sister in the shed, anxiously watching her brother,\" explained rescuer Rodney Kenny of the incident in April.\n\nMr Kenny said there was \"no time to spare\" as it was likely the fox had been stuck for several days without food or water, but it was quickly extracted with soapy water and both cubs were taken in to care.\n\nThe exotic snake was collected by the RSPCA's Hannah Nixon\n\nIn July, customers eating at a McDonald's in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, found a 5ft (1.52m) boa constrictor slithering through the fast food restaurant.\n\nThe non-venomous snake was passed on to staff, who placed it in a box before it was collected by the RSPCA.\n\nIn August, rescuers used barbecue tongs to pull a hedgehog free from an open drain in Hull, East Yorkshire.\n\n\"It was great teamwork... it involved a little bit of gentle persuasion and the use of some BBQ tongs to carefully ease him out of the drain,\" said the RSPCA's Gary Cotton, who checked the hedgehog over with fellow rescuer Laura Barber before releasing it back into the wild.\n\nCrews had to clamber down the well to rescue the hedgehog\n\nIn September, fire crews were called to help another hedgehog, after it tumbled 25ft (7.62m) into an historic ice house on The Dawnay Estates near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.\n\n\"The deep well was dug and used to store ice during the summer in the 1800s and, while no longer used, has been preserved for visitors,\" said Insp Thomas Hutton, who was called to help.\n\nThe frog hitchhiked to the UK in a bunch of bananas\n\nThe RSPCA was called in September after a Hispaniolan common tree frog travelled 4,300 miles (6,920km) from the Dominican Republic to the UK in a bunch of bananas.\n\n\"We were unpacking the shopping in the kitchen and my wife turned to me and said 'look there's a frog in the bananas' and I said 'sorry, there's a what in the bananas?',\" said Iain Holloway from Tamworth, Staffordshire.\n\nRescuer Jonny Wood said the frog was in good condition, despite its long journey.\n\nThe finch was eventually caught behind some men's coats on the top floor\n\nIn Newcastle, a small finch flew through the open window of a Next store on 13 November, and was finally caught two days later.\n\n\"She just couldn't fly back out and was flitting around the displays over three floors,\" said rescuer Rachael Hurst.\n\n\"No doubt the bright decorations in the Christmas displays attracted her and at one stage she'd landed on top of a tree and seemed very happy to stay there too.\"\n\nRSPCA inspectorate commissioner Dermot Murphy said: \"With our teams out rescuing animals from danger and suffering 365 days a year, we are often their only hope.\n\n\"It's an honour to be able to lend a hand to animals in desperate need and we hope people enjoy seeing some of the weird and wonderful places animals have found themselves in need of our help.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people gathered in central London for the annual New Year's Day parade, the first full one in three years.\n\nThe event, which has been taking place since 1987, saw more than 8,000 performers entertain flag-waving crowds along the route.\n\nThe parade, which was cancelled in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, is thought to have attracted more than 500,000 spectators.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan said there was \"no better place to welcome in the New Year than London\".\n\nFeathers, sequins and fun all featured at this year's event\n\nPerformers from more than 20 countries were involved\n\nThe three-hour parade takes place in the heart of London, covering Regent Street and Trafalgar Square\n\nLast year, just 600 ticket holders attended a pared-back production in a temporary outdoor arena, largely due to Covid restrictions on international performers and Londoners.\n\nThis year the three-hour parade took place in the heart of London, a kaleidoscope of colour covering well-known areas including Regent Street and Trafalgar Square.\n\nThe route began at Piccadilly, then headed east to Piccadilly Circus, before moving south down Regent Street and St James's, passing Pall Mall, to the finish point at Westminster.\n\nPearly Kings and Queens took part in the event\n\nMaximalism was a clear theme at this year's event\n\nThe cold weather did not stop the marching bands as they paraded from Piccadilly to Parliament Street\n\nIt seems the performers had one motto - the bigger costume the better\n\nIt was hard to tell who was the more excited, the performers or the crowd.\n\nParade director, Joe Bone, believes this year's event will bring a much-needed lift amid the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"We are all in it together,\" he said. \"The parade can be enjoyed by communities across the capital - and on TV around the world - it's our gift to London.\n\n\"We are delighted to see that so many performers have travelled from around the world.\n\n\"This is the first mass gathering of the parade since Covid. This is the first time since 2020 we have had a parade.\n\n\"It is amazing. It is what we do. It is what we love and it gives London this incredible opportunity to showcase itself to the world, to give the world a wave and say 'come on over'.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caring goes to the heart of what it means to be human, says Justin Welby\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury has urged the government to take action to fix the country's \"broken\" social care system in his new year message.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby said care homes were struggling to deal with rising bills while trying to find the staff needed to keep going.\n\nHe said the country needed to \"rise to the challenge\" to repair the industry.\n\nThe government said in response that it was providing £7.5bn in support over the next two years.\n\nThe archbishop's televised message comes as he prepares to publish a report on the social care crisis in January, which will cover how he thinks the system can be fixed.\n\nHe has worked on the research - which has focused on ways to create a fairer social care system - for two years alongside the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell.\n\nIn his message - which will be broadcast on BBC One at 12:55 GMT on Sunday - Mr Welby said: \"We know our care system is broken, but it doesn't have to be. We can rise to the challenge of fixing it. That means action from all of us: you, me, families, communities, government.\n\n\"Caring goes to the heart of what it means to be human. It is hard, but it can also be the most life-giving thing we ever do. It comes back to that essential lesson: we need each other.\"\n\nHe added that looking after elderly relatives was a \"privilege\", and he would \"rejoice\" that his own 93-year-old mother was still alive.\n\nAnd Mr Welby stressed the importance of ensuring the work of carers was properly valued by society.\n\nCurrently a care worker in England is paid on average £8,000 a year less than NHS staff with the same skills, charity research for care provider Community Integrated Care has suggested.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"Why work as a carer when you might get paid more in less demanding jobs? Caring's certainly not easy. Good carers are wonderful people to be valued.\"\n\nHe said his report would offer a \"hopeful vision of our society\", where \"no-one is held back, overlooked, or treated as a burden\".\n\nHe said families and unpaid carers should get support too.\n\nThe report follows the government placing a two-year delay on reforms to the system that will see a lifetime cap on social care costs in England.\n\nJeremy Hunt paused the plans in November, and said the funding would instead be used to increase the adult social care and NHS budget.\n\nIf the lifetime cap goes ahead, people in England will not spend more than £86,000 on their personal care costs in their lifetime, with the government paying any additional costs.\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesman said ministers had prioritised social care in last month's autumn statement making available up to £7.5bn in support over the next two years.\n\n\"This will allow more people to access high-quality care and help address some of the challenges in the sector - including waiting lists, low fee rates, and workforce pressures,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The government remains committed to delivering adult social care charging reform and supporting those who need it, which is why we are giving local authorities additional time to prepare and providing more funding to help with their immediate pressures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak released a video message on social media marking the new year, in which he said he was confident \"better times lie ahead\" and he wanted people to feel \"hopeful\" going into 2023.\n\n\"I may have only had the job for several weeks at this point, but actually I feel good about the future,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel positive about the change that we can bring so that we can improve everyone's lives, so that we can deliver the peace of mind that people are looking for in the here and now.\"\n\nMr Sunak's video address struck a more upbeat tone than his earlier message when he said the UK's problems will not go away in 2023.", "Kyrylo Budanov told the BBC that the war was at a stalemate\n\nFighting in Ukraine is currently at a deadlock as neither Ukraine nor Russia can make significant advances, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency has said, while Kyiv waits for more advanced weapons from Western allies.\n\n\"The situation is just stuck,\" Kyrylo Budanov told the BBC in an interview. \"It doesn't move.\"\n\nAfter Ukrainian troops recaptured the southern city of Kherson in November, most of the fiercest battles have been around Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region. Elsewhere, Russian forces appear to be on the defensive while winter has slowed down the pace of Ukraine's ground operations across the 1,000km (620-mile) front line.\n\nMr Budanov said Russia was \"now completely at a dead end\" suffering very significant losses, and he believed the Kremlin had decided to announce another mobilisation of conscripts. But, he added, Ukrainian forces still lacked resources to move forward in multiple areas.\n\n\"We can't defeat them in all directions comprehensively. Neither can they,\" he said. \"We're very much looking forward to new weapons supplies, and to the arrival of more advanced weapons.\"\n\nEarlier this month, after a series of Russian military setbacks, Ukrainian officials warned about the possibility of another ground offensive by Moscow's forces from Belarus at the start of 2023. The push, they said, could include a second attempt to seize the capital, Kyiv, and involve tens of thousands of reservists being trained in Russia.\n\nMr Budanov, however, dismissed Russia's activities in Belarus, including the movement of thousands of troops, as attempts to make Ukraine divert troops from the battlefields in the south and east to the north.\n\nUkrainian forces are asking for more Western weaponry to defeat the Russian invaders\n\nRecently, he said, a train loaded with Russian soldiers stopped in a location close to the Belarus-Ukraine border and returned, several hours later, with everyone on board.\n\n\"They did it openly during the day, so that everyone would see it, even if [we] didn't want to,\" adding that he saw no real, imminent threat from the troops in Belarus. \"As of now, I don't see any signs of preparations for an invasion of Kyiv or northern areas from Belarus.\"\n\nThe interview in Mr Budanov's dimly lit office in Kyiv took place days after Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to the Belarusian capital, Minsk, for the first time in more than three years. His visit raised speculation that he might try to persuade President Alexander Lukashenko, a long-time ally, to send Belarusian troops to Ukraine.\n\nBelarus has been used by Russian forces as a launchpad for attacks, but Mr Budanov believes Belarusian society will not support any further involvement in the war and analysts have questioned the level of preparedness of its 48,000-strong army. \"That's why President Lukashenko is taking all steps to prevent a disaster for his country,\" he said.\n\nSince retaking Kherson, Ukrainian forces have been engaged in brutal fighting with Russian troops around Bakhmut, in trench warfare that has been compared to World War One. For Russia, capturing the city would disrupt Ukraine's supply lines and open a route for an advance towards other Ukrainian strongholds in the east, including Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.\n\nUkrainian forces have been defending Bakhmut from a series of Russian attacks for weeks\n\nThe offensive, Mr Budanov said, was being led by the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary army. Its founder, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, is believed to want to capture the town as a political prize, amid rivalries between senior Russian officials.\n\nAway from the battlefields, Russia has carried out a relentless air campaign since mid-October, targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure with missiles and drones, leaving millions without electricity, heating and water. Mr Budanov said the strikes were likely to continue, but suggested Russia would not be able to sustain the level of the attacks because of dwindling missile reserves, and the inability of Russian industry to replenish them.\n\nAlthough Iran has provided most of the drones used in Russia's attacks, the spy chief says it has so far refused to deliver missiles to Russia, aware that Western countries are likely to impose measures on Tehran, already under crippling sanctions because of its nuclear programme.\n\nThe war may be deadlocked for now, but Mr Budanov is adamant that Ukraine will ultimately retake all the territory now under occupation, including Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized in 2014. He envisages Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders, when independence was declared with the collapse of the Soviet Union.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPope Francis has led tributes to his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who has died, aged 95.\n\nBenedict had been \"noble\" and \"kind\" - and \"gifted\" to the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Lula are among dozens of leaders to praise the former pontiff.\n\nBenedict resigned in 2013 because of poor health - the first pope to do so in 600 years. His funeral service will be held at the Vatican on 5 January.\n\nThe 265th leader of the Catholic Church, Benedict was a controversial figure. While some mourners hailed him resolute defender of the faith, others criticised his tenure for a failure to tackle allegations of the clerical sexual abuse.\n\nBut hours after the announcement of his death, Pope Francis praised his \"dearest\" predecessor, emphasising \"his sacrifices offered for the good of the Church\".\n\nIn the US, the White House released a statement from President Joe Biden - who is only the second Catholic after John F Kennedy to hold the nation's highest office.\n\nRecalling spending time with Benedict at the Vatican in 2011, the president said that he would \"be remembered as a renowned theologian, with a lifetime of devotion to the Church, guided by his principles and faith\".\n\nLeaders of countries with large Catholic populations across the world also paid tribute, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailing Benedict as a \"giant of faith and reason\" and \"a great man whom history will not forget\".\n\nIreland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described the former pope as a \"humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord\".\n\nIn Brazil - the largest Catholic nation in the world - incoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wished \"comfort to the faithful and admirers of the Holy Father\".\n\nAnd his predecessor - President Jair Bolsonaro - hailed Benedict's \"masterful work as a great theologian\" and said he left an \"immense legacy for the Catholic Church, for all Christians and for humanity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Pope Francis expresses thanks for the life and service of Benedict XVI\n\nIn the UK, the new monarch King Charles III said that he received news of the former Pope's death with \"deep sadness\".\n\nSending a message of condolence to Pope Francis, he highlighted Benedict's \"constant efforts to promote peace and goodwill to all people\" and his actions to strengthen bonds between Catholics and Anglicans.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak called Benedict XVI \"a great theologian whose UK visit in 2010 was an historic moment for both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout our country\".\n\nThe head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said Benedict transformed his image in the UK when he visited.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Cardinal Nichols said he arrived with a reputation of being \"God's Rottweiler\", but left being compared to \"everybody's favourite great-uncle or just uncle\".\n\nUN chief Antonio Guterres praised the former pontiff for his \"tenacious commitment to non-violence and peace\".\n\nGermany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the late pope as \"a formative figure of the Catholic Church, a forthright personality and a clever theologian\".\n\nBenedict was born in Bavaria as Joseph Ratzinger and in 1977 was appointed archbishop of Munich.\n\nReaction to his death in the city was varied - with one resident describing him as \"conservative\", while taking pride from the fact that he was German.\n\nAnother was more critical.\n\n\"I thought when he came to power he would finally bring some fresh air into the Catholic Church and bring an end to celibacy. But unfortunately, he disappointed me,\" Christa Herwig told Reuters news agency.\n\nIn 2019 Benedict blamed clerical sexual abuse on the sexual freedom of the 1960s and the rejection of God's teaching.\n\nFor much of his papacy, the Catholic Church faced allegations, legal claims and official reports into decades of child abuse by priests.\n\nEarlier this year the former pope acknowledged that errors had been made in the handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.\n\nThe admission came after a German legal probe into the Catholic Church alleged that he failed to act over four child sex abuse cases.\n\nIn a letter released by the Vatican, the former pontiff asked forgiveness for any \"grievous fault\" but denied personal wrongdoing.\n\nWith the death of Pope Benedict XVI the Catholic world has lost an unrivalled receptacle of theological knowledge, intellectualism and lived experience.\n\nWhile little has changed in terms of doctrinal discussion at the Vatican in the nearly 10 years since he stepped down, what has changed is the spirit of the papacy.\n\nPope Francis is widely regarded to have had a more pastoral approach and his appointments of cardinals show a clear shift towards Asia and Latin America.\n\nIn recent years, though he has not appeared to court it, the Pope Emeritus became something of a lightning rod for some opposed to the new Pope.\n\nThere had been speculation that Pope Francis, who himself has been suffering ill health, had been contemplating stepping down, but was reluctant to do so if it meant there would be three popes in Rome.\n\nIt was not quite \"The Two Popes\", but in spite of their differences, there was by all accounts immense respect shown between predecessor and successor. We are likely to hear about that in the coming days and particularly in Pope Francis's homily at the funeral on Thursday.", "A woman has appeared in court charged with murdering her husband.\n\nPaul Hanson, 54, died in hospital after he was found with a stab wound at property in Little London Lane in West Cowick, near Snaith, on 28 December.\n\nTeresa Hanson, 53, of West Cowick, appeared at Hull Magistrates' Court charged with his murder.\n\nNo plea was entered and Mrs Hanson was remanded in custody to appear before Hull Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers were called to a property in West Cowick on 28 December\n\nDressed in a grey tracksuit the defendant spoke only to confirm her address and date of birth.\n\nAs she stood in the dock, family members could be heard sobbing in the public gallery.\n\nDescribing the case as a \"difficult situation for all concerned\" the presiding magistrate said it was so serious it could only be dealt with by the Crown Court.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A trip to the beach changed Matthew Bassett's life forever - now he's determined to say yes to everything\n\nA trip to the beach 11 years ago changed Matthew Bassett's life forever. Now a TV presenter for BBC Wales, he describes in his own words why he is determined to show life does not stop after a spinal cord injury.\n\nIt started like any other day but it became one I would never forget.\n\nI was 19 and I remember the sun was out when I arrived at the beautiful seaside town of Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire on Friday, 13 May 2011. The sea looked gloriously inviting.\n\nSwim shorts on, shoes off. I ran down the beach, dived and hit my head on a sandbank.\n\nThe chaos that followed was unforgettable.\n\nPanic rushed through my body as I realised I couldn't move my arms and legs and I was in danger of drowning.\n\nIt's staggering how long a person can hold their breath, knowing that life could be taken away with one more crashing wave.\n\nI prayed, thought about my family, and exhaled.\n\nPeace replaced fear, the waves became calm, and I closed my eyes.\n\nAs you can tell by reading this, you know I was saved.\n\nDoctors told me I had fractured the C5 bone in my neck\n\nThat first breath out of the sea was the sweetest, most life-affirming breath of oxygen.\n\nBy that time, I remember a substantial gathering of nosey people trying to find out what had happened on the usually peaceful beach.\n\nAfter being pulled from the sea, it was decided that an air ambulance would be my best way back to a hospital.\n\nIt was my first time in a helicopter, and all I saw were the rotor blades above my head, they were mesmerising and almost sent me to sleep.\n\nHowever, the paramedic wouldn't let me drift off.\n\n\"Keep talking to me, Matthew,\" was refreshing to hear actually - I usually get told to be quiet.\n\nAfter 20 minutes, we arrived at University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff.\n\nMy mum met me as I entered A&E. I can't imagine how she felt when a doctor explained that I'd got a suspected broken neck.\n\nI don't recall much of that evening, a mix of beeps, buzzers and nurses telling me it would be alright.\n\nIt was hardest at night when I was alone and unable to move anything apart from my head\n\nAfter various scans, my neck was put into a rigid collar. Tape was also put over my forehead and stuck to the bed to prevent me from doing further harm by moving.\n\nA doctor then came, and broke the news that I had fractured a bone in my neck and would require an operation. An injury that high can often affect all four limbs, called tetraplegia.\n\nThere would be a high chance that I would never walk again.\n\nI can't recall how I felt hearing that, and after all the commotion of the day, it didn't hit me until days after.\n\nThe next day I was booked in for an early morning appointment in theatre to fix me up.\n\nAfter a couple of weeks of recovery, I was transferred to Rookwood Hospital's spinal rehab unit in Llandaff, Cardiff, to learn how to live again as a person with no movement in my legs, uncontrollable bowels and a catheter.\n\nA nasty pressure sore kept me in bed for three months. During that time, I watched thousands of house renovations on TV's Homes Under the Hammer.\n\nGetting up into a wheelchair was the next challenge.\n\nGoals were set every month, to see me through to being discharged. Things such as getting into a car and getting in and out of bed.\n\nFinally, after 10 months of hard work, it was time to go home. Strangely, not the same home I left on Friday, 13 May, but somewhere new.\n\nIt felt weird going to a new property, but at the same time, it was a fresh start.\n\nThe house in Pencoed, Bridgend, had to have a couple of adaptations: A ramp to the front door, an automatic key fob fancy door and a wet room.\n\nI missed the hospital. It was too quiet at home, with no beeps, no loud snoring, no regular tea served and no all-day attention. Being at home was when the real rehab started, and it was hard.\n\nLife felt great when I was with friends and family, but strip it back to when nobody was around, and I honestly couldn't work out how to achieve a full life.\n\nHowever, being given more care hours to have a personal assistant with me gave me more time to practice life skills that would aid independence.\n\nThings such as emptying my catheter bag meant I would be able to pop out and about on my own and have a few beers without needing to ask anyone for assistance.\n\nSometimes it takes one positive boost to be a catalyst for change. For me, independently going to the loo was just that.\n\n\"Life doesn't stop after a spinal cord injury\" is a quote that has been drilled into me ever since my accident. Understanding that took a while.\n\nBut once I got my head into gear, I taught myself to get into bed, travelled independently on trains and started flying again.\n\nNow aged 31, I live life aiming to say yes as much as possible\n\nIn 2014, I was offered a job as an independent living advisor on the same spinal ward I was treated on. I was absolutely delighted.\n\nNine years on, I still work there and continue to chat to the patients about life after injury.\n\nIt's a job I cherish and take seriously, as I know how important it is to see and hear that there is a fulfilling life after injury.\n\nYes, life looks different and can be difficult at times, but on the flip side, it can also bring the most unexpected and beautiful surprises.\n\nWhen I was a patient, I met a gorgeous student nurse called Amanda who had the best hair washing technique ever.\n\nMe and my wife Amanda on our wedding day\n\nWhenever she was on shift, I would ask to have a hair scrub and have a little talk with her.\n\nSadly, when her placement was over, I didn't see her for a few years, then in 2017, we bumped into each other and went for a few Christmas drinks.\n\nWe haven't stopped seeing each other since.\n\nWe fell in love, and got married in April 2021. She was the most beautiful bride on the most beautiful day.\n\nI hope that patients in the same position I was in can see how extraordinary the future can be\n\nSince my accident, I decided to say yes to any opportunity that came my way, something that has seen me become a TV presenter on BBC Wales' Weatherman Walking.\n\nI feel so lucky to travel around Wales making great little films showcasing that it doesn't matter if you need a wheelchair to get around, you can still have an adventure.\n\nMy story could've easily ended on the day I had my accident, but it didn't. It was, however, the start of a new chapter.\n\nWe all have a story to tell, and tomorrow is another blank page, a new beginning\n\nWhatever you're going through, grab every special moment you can.\n\nUnderstand that hard times come, but they're not here to stay and see a bright future ahead.", "US composting firms such as Recompose - in Seattle - say the process is an environmentally friendly option after death\n\nNew York has become the latest US state to allow so-called human composting.\n\nA person can now have their body turned into soil after their death - which is seen as an environmentally friendly alternative to a burial or cremation.\n\nAlso known as \"natural organic reduction\", the practice sees a body decompose over several weeks after being shut in a container.\n\nIn 2019, Washington was the first US state to legalise it. Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and California followed suit.\n\nNew York is therefore the sixth American jurisdiction to allow human composting, following Saturday's stamp of approval from Kathy Hochul, the state's Democratic governor.\n\nThe process happens in special above-ground facilities.\n\nA body is put in a closed vessel along with selected materials such as woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass, and gradually breaks down under the action of microbes.\n\nAfter a period of around a month - and a heating process to kill off any contagion - loved ones are given the resulting soil. This can be used in planting flowers, vegetables or trees.\n\nOne US firm, Recompose, has said its service can save a tonne of carbon compared with a cremation or a traditional burial.\n\nEmissions of carbon dioxide are a major contributor to climate change, because they act to trap the Earth's heat in a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect.\n\nTraditional burials involving a coffin also consume wood, land and other natural resources.\n\nProponents of human composting say it is not only a more environmental option, but also a more practical one in cities where land for cemeteries is limited.\n\nNew York's approval of the process was \"a huge step for accessible green death care nationwide\", one Washington-based provider, Return Home, told the New York Post.\n\nBut, for some, there are ethical questions about what happens to the soil which results from the composting.\n\nCatholic bishops in New York state reportedly opposed the legislation, arguing that human bodies should not be treated like \"household waste\".\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the cost of composting. But the firm Recompose - whose facility in Seattle is one of the world's first - says its $7,000 (£5,786) fee is \"comparable\" with rival options.\n\nThe median sum in the US for a funeral with a burial was $7,848 in 2021, or $6,971 for a funeral with a cremation, according to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA).\n\nHuman composting is already legal throughout Sweden. And natural burials - in which a body is buried without a coffin or with a biodegradable coffin - are permitted in the UK.", "Western countries must be prepared to provide long-term support to Ukraine as Russia shows no signs of relenting, Nato's secretary general has said.\n\nJens Stoltenberg told the BBC that military support would ensure the survival of Ukraine as a sovereign country and force Russia to sit down and negotiate an end to the war.\n\nRussia's leader accuses the West of using Ukraine to destroy his country.\n\nRussian missiles and drones have hit Ukraine on New Year's Eve and Day.\n\nRussia's partial mobilisation programme, ordered in September, showed Moscow had no desire to end the war at present, Mr Stoltenberg told Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"The Ukrainian forces had the momentum for several months, but we also know that Russia has mobilised many more forces, many of them are now training,\" he said.\n\n\"All that indicates that they are prepared to continue the war and also try to potentially launch a new offensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a New Year's speech, in which he tried to rally people behind his troops fighting in Ukraine, saying that the country's future was at stake.\n\nHis Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky accused Mr Putin of hiding behind his troops rather than leading them.\n\nTwelve out of 20 Russian cruise missiles were shot down on Saturday, the head of Ukraine's armed forces said. A further 45 Iranian-made kamikaze drones were shot down around Kyiv just hours into the New Year on Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Force said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person died and dozens were injured in the attacks.\n\nThe strike fuelled anger and hate among Ukrainians already tired of Russia's unrelenting air campaign.\n\nAs explosions rocked the capital, some residents sang the national anthem, while officials accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians while they gathered to celebrated the New Year.\n\nAndriy Nebitov, the head of the Kyiv police, posted an image to social media of a downed drone with the words \"Happy New Year\" scribbled across it in Russian.\n\nA downed drone found in a children's playground in Kyiv with the words 'Happy New Year' written in Russian on it\n\n\"That is everything you need to know about the terror state and its army,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding that the remains had crashed in a children's playground.\n\nThough no let up in hostilities looks to be in sight, Mr Stoltenberg said Nato must ensure Ukraine stays in a strong position in the event of negotiation talks between the two sides.\n\n\"We need to provide support to Ukraine now, including military support, because that's the only way to convince Russia that they have to sit down and negotiate in good faith and respect Ukraine as a sovereign independent nation in Europe,\" Mr Stoltenberg said.\n\n\"What we do know is that what Ukraine can achieve around that table is totally dependent on the strength on the battlefield.\"\n\nPrior to Mr Stoltenberg's interview, France - a Nato member - reiterated its backing for Ukraine.\n\n\"We will be beside you without fail. We will help you until victory is achieved,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said in his own New Year's address.", "A man has died in an avalanche on the north face of Ben Nevis.\n\nEmergency services were made aware of the avalanche at about 15:35 GMT on Friday and the 48-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nAnother man, 40, suffered serous injuries and was taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William. Their next of kin have been informed.\n\nLochaber Mountain Rescue Team, which was dispatched with a helicopter, said the slide was about 600m (1969ft).\n\nBen Nevis, which stands at 1,345m (4,413ft), is Britain's highest peak.\n\nBad weather meant it took eight hours to get the casualties off the mountain\n\nIn a Facebook post, the mountain rescue team said the men were found at number two gully and offered their thoughts to the climber's families.\n\nThe post read: \"With the weather creating some challenging conditions the helicopter was limited to the assistance it could offer.\n\n\"This meant that we had an extended extrication of the casualties and eight hours after the initial call we delivered the casualty to the Belford Hospital for further assessment and treatment.\"\n\nAnother climber, Rob Brown, died in an accident on the north face of the mountain in August.", "A 12-minute firework display lit up the sky over Big Ben and the London Eye in central London\n\nThe UK has celebrated the new year with firework displays and street parties for the first time fully since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.\n\nDespite wet weather, partygoers were undeterred and took to the streets to usher in 2023.\n\nLondon's firework display, which featured a tribute to the late Queen, attracted more than 100,000 people.\n\nAnd in Edinburgh, the world-famous Hogmanay street party was enjoyed by more than 30,000 people.\n\nIt was the first time since 2019 that people gathered along the Thames Embankment to watch the 12-minute firework display in London, which the city's mayor Sadiq Khan described as the biggest in Europe.\n\nAs Big Ben's chimes began, drones took shape in the sky to help the crowd count down to midnight, before London's famous skyline exploded into colour with a barrage of fireworks to welcome in the new year.\n\nThe sold-out show in the capital, set to music, paid tribute to the late Queen - with more drones forming the shape of a crown in the sky, before transforming into the shape of ER II and then the familiar image of her face in profile on a huge coin.\n\nThe display also featured a voice recording from the late Queen and words from Dame Judi Dench. It then went on to honour the King with a message about the need to preserve our planet's future.\n\nA tribute was paid to the late Queen Elizabeth during London's fireworks display\n\nThe display also highlighted the Lionesses' history-making Euro win at Wembley and 50 years of London's Pride with a message from Peter Tatchell of the Gay Liberation Front.\n\nThere was a message of support for Ukraine with blue and yellow fireworks and the London Eye lit up in the colours of the country's flag, sound-tracked by the Ukrainian Eurovision winner Kalush Orchestra.\n\nOther music heard during the display included hits from Stormzy, Calvin Harris, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue and Madness, before it finished with the traditional Auld Lang Syne.\n\nBlue and yellow fireworks light up the sky above London in support of Ukraine\n\nDrones were used to spelled out a positive message during the show, welcoming in \"2023 with love from London\"\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of people have lined the streets of London for the city's New Year's Day parade.\n\nMore than 8,000 performers from across the world - including marching bands, cheerleaders, pearly kings and queens and dancers - brought a carnival feel to the city.\n\nParade founder Bob Bone said: \"This is the first mass gathering of the parade since Covid. This is the first time since 2020 we have had a parade.\"\n\nA performer in a Paddington Bear costume taking part in London's New Year's Day Parade\n\nCheerleaders from US are among 8,000 performers from across the world in London for the event\n\nLast night organisers of the sold-out Hogmanay street party in Edinburgh said it was back in its \"rightful home\" after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described it as the \"first full Hogmanay celebrations in three years\".\n\nIn a new year message on Twitter, she wrote: \"Thinking back to Hogmanay last year and indeed the year before that, we're reminded of just how far we have come from the very darkest days of the pandemic.\"\n\nFireworks lit up Edinburgh's Castle and The Pet Shop Boys headlined the event in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nThe street party, which has previously offered 60,000 spaces, was scaled back to just 30,000 tickets.\n\nPartygoers queued in the rain to be at the Hogmanay street party in Princes Street\n\nFireworks light up the sky over Edinburgh Castle and the Balmoral Hotel Clock to mark the new year\n\nIn Cardiff, families partied in the city's Winter Wonderland, while people in Belfast celebrated at Europa Hotel's annual Gala Ball.\n\nBut elsewhere, one new year celebration did not take place as a result of an arctic walrus being spotted on the coast.\n\nThe walrus was discovered in Scarborough's town harbour on New Year's Eve and the council decided to cancel its show after warnings it could cause distress to the animal.\n\nIn a village further down the coast in East Yorkshire, re-enactors took part in the Flamborough Fire Festival in a Viking-themed parade.\n\nViking re-enactors use flaming torches during to write 2023 at a festival near Bridlington, Yorkshire\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak released a video message on social media marking the new year, in which he said he was confident \"better times lie ahead\" and he wanted people to feel \"hopeful\" going into 2023.\n\n\"I may have only had the job for several weeks at this point, but actually I feel good about the future,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel positive about the change that we can bring so that we can improve everyone's lives, so that we can deliver the peace of mind that people are looking for in the here and now.\"\n\nMr Sunak's video address struck a more upbeat tone than an earlier message when he said the UK's problems will not go away in 2023.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: How the world brought in 2023", "Dame Vivienne suspended herself in a cage in 2020, to protest against her friend Julian Assange's incarceration\n\nWikileaks founder Julian Assange will request leave from the high-security Belmarsh Prison to attend Dame Vivienne Westwood's funeral, his wife says.\n\nDame Vivienne was a vocal supporter and friend of Mr Assange for more than a decade, famously protesting against his incarceration suspended in a bird cage.\n\nShe died in London on Thursday aged 81.\n\nMr Assange is fighting extradition to the US on charges related to the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.\n\nHis wife Stella Assange, who has described Dame Vivienne as \"irreplaceable\", told the BBC her husband and the designer had a close personal relationship.\n\nHaving known Mr Assange for more than 10 years, she said Dame Vivienne was a strong supporter of WikiLeaks' work.\n\n\"I know that Julian would want to honour her,\" said Ms Assange, adding that her husband's solicitor had been asked to put in a request for him to attend.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman told the BBC that it was unlikely such a request would be granted as this kind of leave was only meant for close relatives.\n\nHowever, there was no explicit ban, he said, and it was up to prison governors to decide on a case-by-case basis.\n\nA relevant guidance document states that applications should \"balance security considerations with those of decency, and should only be refused on security grounds\".\n\nMrs Assange insisted there was \"no obvious reason\" why the prison would not be able to grant the request, arguing there were \"good compassionate reasons why it should\".\n\nDetails of Dame Vivienne's funeral have not yet been made public.\n\nThe Derbyshire-born designer made her name with her controversial punk and new wave styles in the 1970s and went on to dress a number of big stars.\n\nMr Assange himself described her as a \"pillar of the anti-establishment\", in comments released by his wife on Twitter.\n\nHe saluted Dame Vivienne's creativity and friendship, saying she would be \"missed terribly by me and many others\".\n\nOne headline-grabbing show of support for the Wikileaks founder saw Dame Vivienne suspending herself inside a large cage outside the Old Bailey in 2020.\n\nShe condemned her friend's detention as a \"stitch-up\", and led other protesters in chanting for his release.\n\nDame Vivienne also designed the wedding dress seen during Julian and Stella Assange's small wedding ceremony in Belmarsh earlier this year.\n\nShe cemented her friendship with Mr Assange by visiting him regularly during his long stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London as well as in Belmarsh, Mrs Assange said.\n\nThe two saw in the 2015 New Year together at the embassy, she added.\n\nMr Assange took refuge there for seven years, seeking asylum to avoid extradition. As well as his work with Wikileaks, he faced a rape allegation in Sweden. That investigation was later dropped.\n\nBut he was removed from the embassy in 2019 and imprisoned, and now faces a US trial over a leak of military information.\n\nA request to hand him over has been approved by the UK government. However, Mr Assange is battling this, and has said the case against him is politically motivated.\n\nStella Assange wore a dress designed by Dame Vivienne during her small-scale wedding at Belmarsh Prison earlier this year", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Judi and Sharleen Spiteri joined together to perform an impromptu duet\n\nGuests at an Aberdeenshire hotel were treated to a Hogmanay performance by Dame Judi Dench and Sharleen Spiteri.\n\nA video posted on Twitter showed the pair belting out a rendition of Abba's Waterloo at The Fife Arms in Braemar.\n\nMs Spiteri sings the famous chorus while Dame Judi pretends to play on a pianola, as well as offering the occasional backing vocal.\n\nThe Texas frontwoman then feigns shock at the Oscar winner's musical abilities, mouthing: \"What a pianist!\"\n\nThey shared the piano stool throughout the impromptu performance which followed a dinner and ceilidh at the venue.\n\nEwan Venters, CEO of Artfarm which owns The Fife Arms, posted the video on social media, and it was soon amassing thousands of views.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the crowd's reaction to the performance on the hotel's self-playing piano was \"joyful\".\n\n\"Judi Dench and Sharleen Spiteri were staying at the hotel and we had an impromptu moment at the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a happy evening with lots of guests and locals clapping.\"\n\nHe said the pair burst into song just before the midnight fireworks.\n\n\"It was a classic Scottish Hogmanay party at The Fife Arms,\" he said.\n\n\"The hotel was fully sold out, with four course dinner and a ceilidh with lots of reeling.\"", "Gary McKee celebrated with a beer at the finish line\n\nA man who vowed to complete a marathon on every day of 2022 has hit his £1m target after completing his final run.\n\nGary McKee, from Cleator Moor, in Cumbria, began his challenge on 1 January, with donations to be shared between Macmillan Cancer Support and West Cumbria Hospice at Home.\n\nThe father-of-three often ran his 26.2-mile (42km) route before starting work at the Sellafield nuclear site.\n\nAs he crossed the finish line, he thanked the \"fantastic\" reception.\n\nAnd he later revealed in a tweet that he had reached his £1m goal in aid of charities.\n\nCheered on by crowds, he started his latest challenge at 08:30 GMT and finished at about 14:00 GMT in front of a fireworks display.\n\nMr McKee has gone through more than 20 pairs of trainers, run more than 9,500 miles (15,300km) and finished his final marathon at about 14:00.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, he said: \"The streets were lined. It was raining, but everybody was out clapping and shouting.\n\n\"It was fantastic seeing everybody there. It's something I'll always remember.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Gary McKee crosses the finish line of his 365th marathon in 2022, raising £1m for charity\n\nOn the start line earlier in the day, he told BBC Breakfast he had received \"phenomenal\" support but was \"a little bit nervous\" ahead of the final challenge.\n\n\"It's not the distance, it's because it's the last one. It'll be a special day. Cancer affects everybody so it isn't just a west Cumbrian thing, it's a national thing.\n\n\"I just hope that people do get behind us and we do raise that million pounds. If we don't, it won't be because I haven't run 365 marathons.\n\n\"We'll celebrate the day, have a good laugh on the route.\"\n\nDirector of funding and communications for Hospice At Home West Cumbria, Hayley McKay, said: \"It's difficult to put into words how grateful we are to Gary for taking on this unbelievable challenge.\n\n\"The physical and mental strength he has shown is incomprehensible.\n\n\"Gary has not only raised money for two fantastic charities, he has sprinkled magic on the local community and brought people together supporting him with the challenge.\"\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support executive director of fundraising, Claire Rowney, added: \"Gary's achievement and selflessness is off the scale.\n\n\"Every single day this year, this extraordinary man has put his body through a marathon to raise money for Macmillan and our friends at Hospice At Home West Cumbria.\n\n\"I can only imagine the self-discipline and determination required to achieve this and there aren't enough words to express our heartfelt gratitude for everything that he has done to help Macmillan support people living with cancer at a time when they need us more than ever.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The animal is believed to be Thor - the same walrus spotted on the Hampshire coastline earlier this month.\n\nAn Arctic walrus has been causing an enormous stir in Scarborough after it was discovered in the town's harbour.\n\nThe giant mammal has drawn huge crowds to the seaside resort since being spotted on New Year's Eve, in what is thought to be the first sighting of a walrus in Yorkshire.\n\nThe animal is believed to be Thor - the same walrus spotted on the Hampshire coastline earlier this month.\n\nLocal wildlife experts have asked people not to disturb the creature.\n\nScarborough's new year fireworks display was cancelled out of concern for Thor. The council cancelled the show on the advice of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue who said it could cause \"distress\" to the mammal.\n\nIt is thought the animal may be \"taking a break\" and will move on in a few days once he is rested enough to continue his journey north.\n\nWildlife experts say the walrus is resting before travelling north\n\nStuart Ford, who runs the Sealife Safari boat tour agency, said: \"I was going down to my boat and there it was on the slipway - magnificent. It's got to be half a ton.\n\n\"I think it's a once-in-a-lifetime, first-time-ever thing in Scarborough to see.\"\n\nThe Sea Life Scarborough aquarium said its animal care team is monitoring the walrus's situation, along with the RSPCA and British Divers Marine Life Rescue.\n\nThey wrote on social media: \"Please do not worry - he appears well and is just taking a well deserved rest after his long adventure!\n\n\"Please be respectful of his rest and try not to disturb him. While it is a very exciting opportunity for us, naturally they do not like lots of noise and are not familiar with domestic animals so please keep pets on leads and remain a safe distance for your own welfare and his.\"\n\nA cordon has been put in place to keep crowds away from Thor\n\nOne local resident said the crowds flocking to catch a glimpse of the creature were reminiscent of a summer's day at the resort.\n\nRichard Coulson, 51, said: \"It is absolutely teeming with cars and people. It's amazing how much attention it's brought.\n\n\"It's the first time I've ever seen one. It's huge. We see seals quite regularly round Scarborough coastline but something of that size, it's enormous.\n\n\"You respect nature when you see something of that size. Its tusks are bigger than my arms.\"\n\nRSPCA inspector Geoff Edmond said it does not appear to be sick or injured, and encouraged people to enjoy the sight from a respectful distance.\n\nHe said: \"We understand it's exciting and unusual to have the walrus take up a temporary residence, however, it's in his best interests to be left alone as much as possible, so we're asking people to remember he is a wild animal and avoid the temptation to get near to him and disturb him.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family are wearing extra layers and using small heaters to keep warm\n\nThe soaring cost of living will lead to an increase in hospital admissions for people with sickle cell this winter, a charity has warned.\n\nThe condition, which affects red blood cells, means people must keep warm to avoid painful flare-ups which can often lead to a hospital stay.\n\nOne Birmingham family said they were staying in bed to keep warm as energy bills rise.\n\nCharity Oscar said 89% of its clients were anxious about heating costs.\n\nJoana and her 12-year-old son Steven, from Selly Oak, in Birmingham, both have sickle cell disease.\n\nShe said she had about £900 a month to live on and used small electric heaters to warm individual rooms, plus extra layers of clothing, to avoid putting the central heating on.\n\n\"When the house isn't warm, that triggers the pain so much more,\" she said. \"Winter time is the worst. I always have to put layers of clothes on, like leggings, before my jeans.\"\n\nSteven said: \"If I get cold, I feel a bit weird, I get chest pains and belly aches. We can't use any heaters, it wastes too much energy. Instead we just cover up, or stay in bed.\"\n\nHobby Rahman, from Oscar Birmingham, said the majority of service users were anxious about heating bills\n\nOscar Birmingham, Organisation for Sickle Cell Anaemia Relief and Thalassaemia Support, works to improve the health, social and economic wellbeing of those with the disease.\n\nHobby Rahman, from the charity, said: \"If they fail to keep their homes warm sufficiently, that will trigger off a crisis, resulting in more children admitted into hospital, more pressures on the NHS.\"\n\nPeople with sickle cell disease produce unusual sickle-shaped red blood cells which can block blood vessels. It can cause chronic pain, especially when exposed to colder temperatures.\n\nIt is a genetic condition and is particularly common in African and Caribbean communities.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin should go on trial in Ukraine this year for war crimes committed there, says the man who led the prosecution of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.\n\nSir Geoffrey Nice told the BBC Mr Putin was a \"guilty man\" for attacks on civilian targets during the war.\n\nThe British barrister expressed his surprise that prosecutors and politicians were not \"spelling this out much more freely and openly\".\n\nBut, speaking to Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Sir Geoffrey described Moscow's actions during the invasion as \"crimes against humanity\" - as civilian targets were being attacked.\n\nCrimes against humanity are considered to be among the most serious offences under the so-called \"rules\" of war.\n\nThese laws ban attacks on civilians - or infrastructure vital to their survival - and are set out in international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions.\n\nFor example, Russia's repeat attacks on the Ukrainian energy grid over the winter have been described as war crimes because of the harm done to civilians. Russia insists it is hitting military targets only.\n\nMoscow's troops have been accused by the international community of thousands of abuses since their full-scale invasion of the neighbouring country last February.\n\nThe prosecutor-general in Kyiv says more than 62,000 war crimes have so far been recorded, including the deaths of more than 450 children. The BBC has not been able to verify these figures.\n\nSir Geoffrey worked with International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) between 1998 and 2006.\n\nHe led the case against former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who went on trial in The Hague in 2002 for war crimes committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.\n\nMr Milosevic - once known as the \"butcher of the Balkans\" - died in prison before the trial concluded.\n\nCommenting on the war in Ukraine, Sir Geoffrey said the case \"couldn't be clearer\" against Mr Putin, and there was \"no doubt\" of a chain of command leading to the man in the Kremlin.\n\nThis meant the \"most important thing\" was to try the Russian leader himself, rather than low-ranking soldiers, he told Broadcasting House.\n\nHe added that any trial \"could be tomorrow morning, as far as I'm concerned\" and should be held by Ukrainians in the Ukrainian language. Mr Putin himself would not need to be present, he said.\n\nSir Geoffrey speculated over a possible reason why the Russian leader had not faced tougher action so far - suggesting there could be a move to exempt him from prosecution as part of a peace deal.\n\nHe said the International Criminal Court (ICC) - which has jurisdiction over Ukraine - \"has still not made a pronouncement about Putin's responsibility for this crime\".\n\nSir Geoffrey said this \"reluctance\" raised the question of whether there was some sort of \"political advantage\" to not indicting the president.\n\nBut he said the idea of any peace settlement that prevented a trial of Mr Putin was an \"appalling prospect\" which would be \"a complete denial of justice to the people of Ukraine\".\n\nIn response, the ICC rejected any assertion of \"pressure or influence\" on the prosecutor, Karim Khan, to delay any investigations.\n\nMr Khan had \"gone on record repeatedly... to demonstrate that accountability is an imperative that must be achieved\", an ICC statement said.\n\nIt added that the prosecutor had been working on the ground in Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes - and arrest warrants would be issued when enough proof had been gathered.\n\nSlobodan Milosevic - the \"butcher of the Balkans\" - died in 2006 before his trial concluded", "Dai Jones climbed Mount Toubkal in Morocco after recovering from heart surgery\n\nLife-saving cardiac surgery prompted Dai Jones to follow his heart but one bucket list task meant a delay to his honeymoon.\n\nDai Jones ended up flying to north Africa to climb the area's highest mountain just two days after marrying bride Rachel.\n\nThe couple from Port Talbot could only find dates within days of both events.\n\nBut they agreed to delay their honeymoon to Naples, Italy, for him to climb Mount Toubkal in Morocco.\n\nHe also raised £1,100 for the cardiac intensive care unit at Swansea's Morriston Hospital which looked after him.\n\n\"They saved my life and I just wanted to give something back,\" he said.\n\nThe swimming pool engineer said he has always kept fit but his life changed dramatically when he went for a run during the Covid lockdown in 2020.\n\n\"I'd only gone about a quarter of a mile up the road and I couldn't breathe properly,\" the father of three said.\n\nDoctors detected a heart murmur and a further appointment was planned.\n\nBut he awoke one morning and \"something just didn't feel right\".\n\nDai Jones with wife Rachel and daughters Poppy, Erin and Evie\n\nTests showed an aortic aneurism which can be life-threatening so surgery was planned for three days later.\n\nHowever, an echocardiogram heart scan showed an emergency operation was required at Morriston's Cardiac Centre.\n\nDai recalled how staff told him his wife was being allowed to see him.\n\nHowever, he knew no visitors were being allowed into hospitals during lockdown \"unless it was to say goodbye\".\n\n\"That put everything into perspective,\" he added.\n\nConsultant cardiothoracic surgeon Aprim Youhana removed the aneurism and found and replaced a defective valve, undiscovered since birth.\n\nBut two months later Dai developed an infection, and spent three weeks in Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.\n\n\"After all that was done, Rachel said 'you almost died twice in the last couple of months',\" recalled Dai.\n\n\"'If there's anything you want to do in life, you need to go and do it. You don't know what's around the corner'.\"\n\nAs well as the wedding, Dai decided to climb Mount Toubkal.\n\n\"At the end I was delighted with myself because I did it,\" added Dai who has since ticked another item off his bucket list by joining Port Talbot Cymric Choir as a second tenor.\n\n\"They have lost so many since Covid hit and they are on the look-out to get more members into their ranks,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland has welcomed 2023 with large scale events for the first time in three years.\n\nFireworks, street parties, bonfires and torchlit processions were held across the country - despite the wet weather.\n\nIn Edinburgh, alongside the capital's street party, the Pet Shop Boys headlined the Hogmanay concert in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nAbout 30,000 people attended the party, in a scaled back event from the 60,000 of past years.\n\nAs midnight struck they watched the six minute firework display light up the January sky over the castle.\n\nThe weather was cold and wet but the celebrations continued as people danced on Princes Street and sang Auld Lang Syne.\n\nVisitors from dozens of countries including Mexico, Poland, Switzerland and Canada had joined the crowds as The Pet Shop Boys rounded off the party with some of their most famous hits.\n\nNeil Tennant, of the Pet Shop Boys, told BBC Scotland ahead of the concert: \"It's a really exciting show to play, when you get here you realise Hogmanay is a big deal in Edinburgh.\n\n\"We played it first nine years ago and it was just a fantastic audience, it's an amazing site with the castle above you and everyone's there to have a good time.\"\n\nThe duo have another tour planned for 2023, including their first Aberdeen gig in decades.\n\nIn a new year message posted on Twitter, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"Thinking back to Hogmanay last year and indeed the year before that, we're reminded of just how far we have come from the very darkest days of the pandemic.\"\n\nPartygoers celebrated the new year at the Hogmanay street party\n\nAnd despite the rain, people headed to Princes Street\n\nIn Edinburgh, people queued in the rain to enter the party in Princes Street.\n\nRevellers were also able to become part of the Hogmanay show with illuminated LED wristbands, which were connected to the sound system, allowing people to create patterns in time with music played.\n\nOrganisers said all events on 31 December had sold out, including the candlelit concert in St Giles' Cathedral and the Festival of Ceilidhs Countdown to Hogmanay.\n\nBut the Edinburgh torchlit procession that traditionally kicks off Hogmanay and the New Year's \"Loony Dook\" at South Queensferry were both cancelled.\n\nThree mermaids, who were visiting Scotland from London, were among the \"dookers\"\n\nA \"Portobello Dook\" organised by the community instead allowed people to welcome in the new year with a cold swim.\n\nIn other parts of Scotland, Glasgow celebrated the Ashton Lane Street Party, featuring a live band, indoor and outdoor bars and fireworks.\n\nThere was also a party at the city's Merchant Square with performances from the French Fling Showgirls, Scott & The Fox and The Riffreshers.\n\nIn Aberdeen, locals headed to a Hogmanay ceilidh at the Beach Ballroom with music from the Hipflask Ceilidh Band.\n\nA spectacular fireworks display was held about the Wallace Monument\n\nStirling had a series of events lined up, including live music at the Albert Halls, a ceilidh at the Tolbooth, and fireworks above the National Wallace Monument.\n\nScotland's largest free Hogmanay celebration took place in Inverness, with the Red Hot Highland Fling providing live music.\n\nIt was hosted by stand-up comedian Fred MacAulay on the banks of the River Ness in Northern Meeting Park.\n\nThe tradition in Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire sees locals wield fire to ward off unwelcome spirits.\n\nAround 40 men and women were led by a piper up and down the High Street swinging fireballs around their heads just before midnight.\n\nThe tradition, which has been celebrated for more than 100 years, began as a cleansing ritual to burn off any bad spirits lingering from the old year to bring in a pure New Year.\n\nBiggar, in South Lanarkshire, also welcomed in the New Year with fire.\n\nLocals gradually add to a large pile of wood in the town centre in the weeks before Hogmanay, before it was lit in the hours leading up to the midnight countdown.\n\nIn Comrie, Perthshire, tall torches were set alight and paraded around the village at midnight.\n\nThe Comrie Flambeaux was accompanied by music and people in fancy dress before the remnants of the torches were thrown into the River Earn.\n\nAfter a Hogmanay ceilidh in Dufftown in Moray, people gathered in The Square for the bells.\n\nDrams of whisky and pieces of shortbread were distributed for midnight countdown, courtesy of the local Glenfiddich distillery and Walkers biscuit factory.", "Nicola says she worries that her home will be even closer to the cliff edge every morning when she wakes up\n\nIn a small village on the north Norfolk coast, some residents are wondering how long they've got left in their homes before they are lost to the sea.\n\nDuring the last 20 years, 34 homes have crumbled into the water in Happisburgh because of coastal erosion. Nicola Bayless thinks her home could be the next. She says she is devastated that she might have just spent her last Christmas there.\n\nAlong with East Riding in Yorkshire, Happisburgh and other parts of the north Norfolk coast have the highest number of properties at risk from coastal erosion in England.\n\n\"I'm angry and I'm heartbroken,\" Nicola says. \"My children have grown up here, my husband died here and my parents lived here before they died.\n\n\"I'm so sad that things have come to this,\" the 47-year-old nurse says.\n\nWhen Nicola, who also works as a fitness instructor, moved to Beach Road 18 years ago, her three-bedroom semi was in the middle of the street.\n\nBut punishing weather conditions linked to climate change have eroded so much of the village's soft sandy rock that her house is now the last one before the cliff edge.\n\nHer neighbours have been forced to abandon their homes as the cliffs beneath them crumbled. Nicola knows it is only a matter of time before she also has to leave.\n\n\"I walk out of my door and I can see the cliff. I can't stick my head in the sand about this any more. It's really frightening,\" she says.\n\nWhen Nicola's parents bought the house for £76,000 in 2000, a surveyor said it would be at least 150 years before the cliff eroded.\n\nThe mother-of-two believes it is now worthless. She will have to pay £2,000 for it to be demolished. The house opposite was valued at £1 before it was taken down.\n\nShe bought her siblings out of the house when their parents died and hoped she would be able to pass the property on to her daughters.\n\nBut the cliff edge is creeping ever closer. She will be forced to abandon it when it comes within 5m (16ft) of the edge.\n\nNicola lives in the last house before the cliff edge in Happisburgh\n\nBeach Road residents keep track of how far the sign is from the cliff edge\n\n\"I'm really worried about the new year. We're going to have high tides and if we get a storm, the cliff edge will crumble even more. It's less than 50m (164ft) from my house now. In some parts, probably about 20m (66ft).\n\n\"I've started speaking to my daughters about moving and my youngest said she doesn't mind where we go as long as it's far away from the cliff and she won't have to worry about it every day.\"\n\nNicola plans to move to a bungalow in the village that she currently rents out to holidaymakers, but it means a loss of income and she worries it will also be at risk of coastal erosion in the future.\n\nHappisburgh, home to about 1,100 people, is so susceptible to erosion because the cliffs are made from boulder clay which slumps when wet. The narrow beaches give less protection against the powerful waves, which increase in energy as they travel across the North Sea.\n\nAuthorities tried erecting wooden and concrete defences, but they fell into disrepair as the cost of maintaining them rose.\n\nNorth Norfolk District Council used £3.2m to purchase the most at-risk homes for a reduced price under the Pathfinder Project in 2011, helping some people move further inland.\n\nNicola's neighbour Bryony believes Happisburgh should be defended rather than the approach of moving its residents further inland\n\nTwelve homeowners were made an offer by the council and nine accepted. It also involved the relocation of a caravan park.\n\nBryony Nierop-Reading, 77, refused to leave her bungalow when she was offered £53,000 and it then fell into the sea in 2013.\n\nShe still lives on Beach Road, next door to Nicola, and her current house will suffer the same fate in the next few years.\n\n\"Some people might think it was stupid but I made the decision to stay on Beach Road so close to the sea because I can't just turn my back on the problem. I worry about it every day, not just here, but around the whole coastline of the UK.\n\n\"I'm reminded of the problem every day. It focuses my mind and I am setting up an action group to defend Happisburgh. We can't just let it fall in the sea,\" she says.\n\nBryony Nierop-Reading's bungalow fell in the sea during a 2013 storm\n\nHappisburgh resident Malcolm Kerby was instrumental in setting up the relocation project in 2011. He started campaigning for better support for the community 23 years ago, after moving to the village to spend his retirement.\n\n\"It took over my whole life because it was one of those things you can't do by halves. Had we not managed to move those people away from the cliff, life would be very different today.\n\n\"Happisburgh is the best place in the world to live. There is a fantastic community which manages to exist with the sword of Damocles hanging over its head. The people here are really stoic,\" he says.\n\nMalcolm, who is 81, felt frustrated the project had not been expanded, so he was \"absolutely delighted\" when the government announced the village would benefit from a £36m fund known as the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme.\n\nCash from the programme will be shared between North Norfolk and East Riding.\n\nThe council will apply for funding for specific projects after a period of trialling has taken place. But the money will not be used on new defences, which has left some people in the village like Bryony very upset.\n\nThe government says Happisburgh \"cannot sustainably be defended from coastal erosion\". Instead it will help facilitate the \"managed transition of communities from high-risk land\".\n\n\"We recognise the threat from climate change and sea level rise, which is why we are investing a record £5.2bn over six years in around 2,000 flood and coastal erosion schemes to better protect communities across England,\" a spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said.\n\nMalcolm Kerby helped organise the roll-back of homes at risk from the sea in 2011\n\nThe council said once all the funding was secure, it would be looking to work with communities, businesses and residents to develop plans, while also \"exploring more immediate support to those residents affected\".\n\nMalcolm worries that the help will not come quick enough though and their houses could be taken by the sea before any details are ironed out.\n\nLike Bryony, he is worried about other communities living on the coast who could be submerged by water in the years to come.\n\n\"We need to learn to adapt to climate change. If we could switch it off I would be all for that, but it is going to get worse and we need action now,\" he says.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Watch a selection of some of the most momentous stories covered by BBC News this year.\n\nCorrection 3rd January 2022: The video has been amended to replace an image from the Queen Mother's funeral, which was included in the section recalling the death of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.", "A number of energy suppliers have announced changes to their tariffs from this month.\n\nThey will come into effect at the same time as a reduction in government support.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee which was introduced in November discounted energy bills by up to 19.9p per unit of electricity and 4.8p for gas.\n\nFrom January to March 2023 the discount will be up to 13.6p per unit of electricity and 3.9p per unit of gas.\n\nThat means the amount you pay for gas or electricity may change between December 2022 and January 2023, so we have taken a look at what that means for the typical household annual bill.\n\nDirector of infrastructure and sustainability at the Consumer Council, Peter McClenaghan, said: \"The discount the government has been providing on all electricity and gas tariffs has taken some of the pressure off consumers, but unfortunately the support is reducing which means the price of some energy bills may go up again depending who your supplier is.\n\n\"As there are big differences in prices between suppliers, we are encouraging consumers to think about switching their supplier or tariff.\n\n\"Some households could make savings of over £1,000 by switching from the most expensive electricity and gas tariffs to the cheapest tariffs currently available.\"\n\nThe government said these discounts will result in a typical household bill, for a house using electricity and gas, in Northern Ireland remaining about £1,950/year to March.\n\nThat's cheaper than in Great Britain where the average household will spend £2,500/year on electricity and gas.\n\nFor example, from January 2023 Power NI's average customer will pay £847 a year - that's 39% lower than the equivalent in Great Britain where the Electricity Price Cap is £1,395 per year.\n\nAs in Great Britain, your exact bill amount will continue to be influenced by how much energy you use.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Crowds celebrate in Brazil as Lula is sworn in as president\n\nLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil - the third time he has held the country's highest office.\n\nThe veteran left-wing politician, known widely as Lula, also led the country between 2003 and 2010 - and defeated Jair Bolsonaro in October's poll.\n\nIn his first speech, Lula vowed to rebuild a country in \"terrible ruins\".\n\nHe decried the policies of his predecessor, who went to the US on Friday to avoid the handover ceremony.\n\nA sea of Lula supporters gathered in front of Congress since early in the morning - decked out in the red colour of his Workers' Party. They travelled to see their leader sworn in - but also for a celebration.\n\nMore than 60 artists - including Samba legend Martinho da Vila - were booked to perform on two giant stages decorated in the national flag as part of a music festival dubbed \"Lulapalooza\".\n\n\"Love has won over hate,\" read one banner carried by a man dressed as Lula - complete with a presidential sash.\n\nThere was evident joy as Lula was sworn in\n\n\"Brazil needed this change, this transformation,\" said another backer of the incoming leader as she queued for Sunday's festivities.\n\nJuliana Barreto - who is from Lula's home state Pernambuco - told the BBC that her country was \"a disaster\" previously.\n\nLula and incoming Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin paraded through the city on an open-top convertible before proceeding to the Congress building - where the swearing-in occurred at the start of the formal inauguration ceremony.\n\nThe men have spent the past days selecting their cabinet and appointing supporters to key state-owned businesses.\n\nShortly after being sworn in, Lula sought to instil a sense of hope in the people of Brazil and promised to \"rebuild the nation and make a Brazil of all, for all\".\n\nThere were several instances when he got out his hanky. His most emotional moment came when speaking to the Brazilian people after the swearing-in ceremony - he started sobbing when talking about those who beg at traffic lights, desperate for food.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lula broke down in tears as he talked about poverty in his country\n\nProbably not even Lula thought this day would ever come - a return to the top job after two decades, despite a spell in prison after being convicted of corruption. The convictions were subsequently annulled in 2021.\n\nMuch of his speech to Congress was about unity and reconstruction. The two words are crucial in such a deeply divided country, hit hard by the pandemic and hugely polarised politically.\n\nLula knows that his ultimate challenge will be to convince those who feel he is a corrupt politician who belongs in jail that he does now belong in the presidential palace again and can be their leader too.\n\nHe pledged to undo the legacy of his predecessor's government, which he said involved depleting funding for education, health and the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nTo huge cheers from those watching in Congress, he also promised to revoke Mr Bolsonaro's controversial gun laws immediately.\n\nLula went on to state that his government would not be motivated by \"a spirit of revenge\", but that those who had made mistakes would answer for their errors.\n\nLula lost his little finger decades ago when he was working as a metal worker\n\nIn particular, he singled out Mr Bolsonaro's Covid-19 policies, accusing him of causing a \"genocide\" of deaths in Brazil during the pandemic, which would need to be fully investigated.\n\nIn another noted change of policy from the Bolsonaro administration, Marina Silva - one of Brazil's best known climate activists - was re-appointed to head the environment and climate ministry. She will be expected to achieve Lula's pledge - which was repeated during his speech - to reach \"zero deforestation\" in the Amazon by 2030.\n\nThe atmosphere in Brasilia couldn't be more different than when Mr Bolsonaro was in power. Lots of people were waving banners or wearing T-shirts with the words \"Love conquers hate,\" a reference to the narrative many felt came from Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nBut diversity and inclusion too was a big part of today's inauguration. With Mr Bolsonaro abandoning his final official duty of passing on the presidential sash, it was left to Eni Souza, a rubbish picker, to do the honours. And standing next to Lula was an indigenous leader, a black boy and a disabled influencer. In this country where racism is all too common, it was an important image that will endure.\n\nThe state of Brasilia deployed \"100%\" of its police force - around 8,000 officers - to the city amid fears that some supporters of Mr Bolsonaro could seek to disrupt proceedings.\n\nOne man was arrested trying to enter the area of the inauguration carrying a knife and fireworks earlier on Sunday, Brazil's military police said.\n\nLast week, authorities arrested a supporter of Mr Bolsonaro who had allegedly placed explosives on a fuel truck near an airport in the capital on Christmas Eve. The man said he hoped to \"sow chaos\" ahead of Lula's inauguration.\n\nAnd other supporters of the former leader have remained camped outside army headquarters, where they have been urging the army to launch a coup. Police attempted to remove the demonstrators on Thursday, but withdrew after they reacted violently.\n\nHowever, Mr Bolsonaro has condemned the protests against his defeat, urging his supporters to \"show we are different from the other side, that we respect the norms and the Constitution\".", "Travel warnings have been issued for icy conditions on roads and pavements - as well as for ongoing disruption on the railways.\n\nThree yellow alerts were in force for all of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England until 11:00 on Monday.\n\nThe main rail line between Glasgow and north west of England could remain closed for several more days after it was damaged by a landslip on Friday.\n\nTravel will also be affected by a new round of rail strikes from Tuesday.\n\nForecasters warned that rain, sleet and snow would ease on Sunday evening, leaving surfaces wet as temperatures drop below zero overnight.\n\nIce is likely to form widely on untreated roads and pavements, and further sleet or snow showers are possible overnight in the west.\n\nThe Met Office yellow weather warnings are in place for the whole of Scotland, northern Ireland and much of northern England.\n\nGritters have been out treating roads around the country, though forecasters have warned that the conditions pose a risk of slips and falls.\n\nSnow lay in the hills above Bannockburn, Stirling\n\nMet Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said it will feel colder on Monday - before a lot of wet weather arrives throughout the week.\n\n\"The best day of the week is probably going to be Bank Holiday Monday, with a lot of dry and generally fine weather across the country, a bit of a cloud in the mix, with cloud and rain moving in early Tuesday morning,\" he said.\n\nFlood warnings have now been lifted but the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has advised people to steer clear of receding flood water in southern and central Scotland.\n\nAt one point on Friday, Sepa had 10 regional flood alerts in place, along with 29 local flood warnings and a severe flood warning for Dumfries.\n\nThe environment watchdog said levels at the River Nith reached the highest ever recorded.\n\nAnd in England 16 flood warnings were in place - meaning flooding is expected - as of the early hours of Monday morning, including in York, East Sussex, Bournemouth, Bristol and the Lake District.\n\nA landslip on the West Coast Mainline has caused damage to the line south of Carstairs\n\nFollowing the blockage on the the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs on Friday, Network Rail said engineers were working to reinforce the bank under the track before they can repair the line itself.\n\nThere will be no services north of Carlisle and the line is not expected to reopen for passengers and freight services until at least Friday 6 January. Some replacement bus services are being put on.\n\nMeanwhile, further disruption can be expected due to ongoing industrial action, with Network Rail staff set to strike again on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.\n\nServices will also be severely affected on Thursday due to the challenges of restarting a timetable with just a few hours between strikes.\n\nA spokesperson said there would be only a very limited service across 12 routes in the central belt, Fife and the Borders.\n\nTrain drivers in England will also walk out on Thursday, which could affect cross-border services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe world has welcomed in 2023 with firework displays, concerts and parties.\n\nThe Pacific nation of Kiribati was the first to see in the new year, while the US state of Hawaii was among the last to mark the beginning of 2023.\n\nHere are some of the best images from celebrations across the globe.\n\nConfetti flies around the countdown clock in Times Square as New York welcomes 2023\n\nLondon's fireworks display was watched by a crowd of 100,000 from the banks of the River Thames\n\nIn Paris, a light and fireworks show was displayed on the Arc de Triomphe as revellers gathered on the Champs-Elysees\n\nHundreds of people gathered for the traditional New Year's Eve chimes to welcome in 2023, in Madrid, Spain\n\nA woman eats grapes in Madrid, which is also a new year tradition in Spain\n\nFireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece\n\nResidents of Warsaw and tourists welcome in the new year at Zamkowy Square in Poland\n\nColourful fireworks fill the sky near the Opera House in Oslo\n\nIn the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, a family gathers next to a Christmas tree to celebrate the new year before a curfew, amid Russia's attacks on the country\n\nIn Dubai, Burj Khalifa - the tallest building in the world - was the focus of United Arab Emirates's celebrations\n\nPeople in Wuhan, China, release balloons as they gather to celebrate amid a rise of Covid-19 cases in the country\n\nSydney's fireworks launched from its Harbour Bridge, Opera House and barges in its famous harbour\n\nA man and a child celebrate together in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia\n\nAn estimated two million people watched the fireworks fill the sky over Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro\n\nPeople in Acapulco, Mexico, have also been celebrating with fireworks which illuminated the night sky during new year celebrations\n\nJoyful faces in Quezon City, near to Manila in the Philippines, as people record the turn of the year\n\nPeople gather to celebrate the clocks turning midnight in Seoul, South Korea\n\nRevellers release balloons as they take part in celebrations in Tokyo, Japan\n\nFireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate in Hong Kong\n\nIn Taiwan, fireworks light up the skyline from the Taipei 101 building", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A Kyiv resident describes hearing explosions and glass shattering as strikes hit the city\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Russians that their leader is destroying their country.\n\nSpeaking after Vladimir Putin delivered a New Year address flanked by people in military uniform, Mr Zelensky said the Russian president was hiding behind his troops, not leading them.\n\nSaturday saw a day of deadly strikes across Ukraine, and Mr Zelensky said Ukrainians would not forgive Russia.\n\nAt least one person died and dozens were injured in the attacks.\n\nThe head of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhny, said air defences had shot down 12 of 20 Russian cruise missiles on Saturday.\n\nThere were further missile strikes on Kyiv just hours into the New Year on Sunday, officials said. The Ukrainian Air force said it had shot down 45 Iranian-made kamikaze drones overnight.\n\nBut the strikes, which came in the opening hours of 2023, fuelled anger and hate among Ukrainians already tired of Russia's unrelenting air campaign.\n\nAs explosions rocked the capital, some residents sang the national anthem, while officials accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians while they gathered to celebrated the New Year.\n\nAndriy Nebitov, the head of the Kyiv police, posted an image to social media of a downed drone with the words \"Happy New Year\" scribbled across it in Russian.\n\n\"That is everything you need to know about the terror state and its army,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding that the remains had crashed in a children's playground.\n\nThe latest wave of attacks happened two days after one of the largest air strikes since the start of the war. Dozens of attacks in recent weeks have caused repeated power cuts.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians, but Mr Putin has recently admitted hitting critical energy facilities.\n\nIn an address on his Telegram channel, Mr Zelensky said those who carried out Saturday's attacks were inhuman.\n\nSwitching from Ukrainian to Russian, he then attacked Mr Putin.\n\nPresident Zelensky spoke in Russian to tell people that the picture President Putin painted was not correct\n\n\"Your leader wants to show you that he's leading from the front, and his military is behind him,\" he said.\n\n\"But in fact he is hiding. He's hiding behind his military, his missiles, the walls of his residences and palaces.\n\n\"He's hiding behind you, and he's burning your country and your future. No-one will forgive you for terror. No-one in the world will forgive you for that. Ukraine will not forgive.\"\n\nMr Zelensky later gave a new year's address to the Ukrainian people, thanking them for their \"incredible\" efforts in repelling Russian advances.\n\n\"We fight as one team - the whole country, all our regions. I admire you all. I want to thank every invincible region of Ukraine,\" he said.\n\nMr Putin also issued a new year address which was broadcast for each of Russia's 11 time zones as they saw in 2023.\n\nThe Russian leader tried to rally people behind his troops fighting in Ukraine, saying the country's future was at stake.\n\nPresident Putin was pictured celebrating with people in military uniforms, who he presented with medals\n\nIn combative mood, Mr Putin said: \"We always knew, and today it is confirmed to us yet again, that a sovereign, independent and secure future for Russia depends only on us, on our strength and will.\"\n\nHe presented the invasion of Ukraine's sovereign territory as \"defending our people and our historical lands\" and said \"moral, historical rightness is on our side\".\n\nMr Putin also accused the West of \"provoking\" Moscow to launch its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\n\"The West lied about peace. It was preparing for aggression... and now they are cynically using Ukraine and its people to weaken and split Russia,\" he said.\n\nUkraine and the West reject Russia's claims about the start of the aggression.", "Basking sharks live in UK waters and are the second largest species of shark in the world\n\nHow do you fancy shark spotting from the comfort of your own home?\n\nVolunteers are being recruited to identify sharks, skates and rays captured on underwater cameras around the Welsh coast.\n\nData from more than 90 hours of footage needs to be logged to help build a picture of the diversity of species.\n\nVolunteer Matt Thomson said he was already hooked and hoped to see a \"really rare\" angel shark during his work on the project.\n\nSharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities (SIARC ) is a collaboration between Natural Resources Wales and the Zoological Society of London as well as communities in Gwynedd.\n\nThroughout the summer of 2022, protected and critically endangered species were filmed by remote underwater cameras in a special conservation area off the Llyn Peninsula.\n\nThe project has led to sightings of the critically endangered tope\n\nPreviously for researchers' eyes only, the footage is now available to everyone via the Instant Wild website.\n\nThese \"citizen scientists\" are asked to log the types of sharks, skates and rays they see, helping to save researchers lots of time and effort.\n\nJoanna Barker from the Zoological Society of London said: \"We'll have a scientist reviewing all the footage, but the citizen scientists will be the validator.\n\n\"We'll be able to compare both the scientist and citizen scientist scores and data and it'll just really improve the scientific data that we get out of this project.\"\n\nVolunteer Matt Thomson says he is already \"hooked\" on the project\n\nMr Thomson has been logging exotic wildlife using the Instant Wild app for 10 years.\n\nHe said: \"I'd really like to see an angel shark - that's what the project's all about, they're very rare.\n\n\"I'll be very surprised if we do actually see any and I'd be really excited to see a basking shark.\n\n\"But there's plenty of other things to keep you interested. Any shark, skate or ray that you see on these cameras is going to be really interesting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sailor's surprise as huge shark joins him on trip\n\nJake Davies grew up on the Llyn Peninsula and is now the project coordinator for SIARC, helping to set up the underwater cameras.\n\nFishing crews have helped him find the liveliest spots and he said the footage revealed a previously hidden world.\n\n\"Every time we say we're studying sharks, many people are surprised that we have sharks present off the Welsh coast,\" he said.\n\n\"But Wales hosts a range of different shark species, over 25 in fact, from one of the rarest in the world - the angel shark - to one of the largest, which is the basking shark.\"\n\nWhether it is crabs tussling with sharks or curious conger eels, the project has delivered amazing visuals for the public.\n\nResearchers are now hoping to get the clearest picture yet of life at the bottom of the sea.", "Hundreds of passengers have been stranded on a cruise ship off the Australian coast after a potentially harmful growth was found on its hull.\n\nThe Viking Orion was denied permission to dock in Adelaide after authorities discovered \"biofoul\" - an accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae or small animals.\n\nThis can allow invasive species to be imported into non-native habitats.\n\nOfficials said the ship's hull must be cleaned before entering Australia.\n\nThe Australian fisheries department said the management of biofoul was a \"common practice for all arriving international vessels\" and that the ship had to be cleaned to avoid \"harmful marine organisms\".\n\n\"Professional divers were engaged directly by the vessel line/agent to clean the hull while at anchor outside Australian waters,\" it added.\n\nThe ship was also reportedly denied permission to dock at Christchurch and Dunedin in New Zealand and Hobart, Tasmania.\n\nKenn Heydrick, a passenger, said they had not been able to leave the ship since 26 December. Four scheduled port stops had been missed, he said.\n\n\"The intensity of frustration and anger is growing among passengers,\" he said.\n\n\"The majority of passengers are trying to make the best of things and enjoy extended time at sea. But it is the excursions at four ports that we were looking forward to, and now are greatly missed.\"\n\nThe current itinerary has the vessel arriving in Melbourne on 2 January.\n\nHowever, passenger Matt Roberts said they have now been told they will only be allowed off the boat momentarily, to be checked by immigration. The next chance for passengers to disembark will be on 4 January in Sydney.\n\nHe said the disruption was a shame - \"because for many travellers, this might be their last opportunity to see this part of the world\".\n\nAnother passenger called the holiday a \"trip from hell\" on Twitter.\n\n\"I have cried repeatedly for both the significant financial hit after saving for two years and the loss of memories and experiences,\" she said.\n\nThe 14-deck, 930-person ship - which was built in 2018 - has reportedly dropped anchor about 17 miles (27km) off the coast while the cleaning occurs.\n\nIn a statement, operator Viking admitted that a \"limited amount of standard marine growth\" was being cleared from the ship's hull and said that this had caused the vessel to \"miss several stops on this itinerary\".\n\nBut it said that it expected to sail towards the city of Melbourne in the coming hours, where it would dock on 2 January.\n\n\"Viking is working directly with guests on compensation for the impact to their voyage,\" it added.\n\nIn a letter on Friday, the ship's captain apologised that \"the current cruise falls short of your expectations\" and said a member of Viking's customer relations team would make an \"adjusted offer of compensation\" to guests in the coming days.\n\nAnother cruise ship travelling in waters around New Zealand suffered a similar fate after the discovery of an infestation of snails that were not native to the area.\n\nPrincess Cruises' Coral Princess underwent cleaning on 23 December, with passengers missing out on part of their itinerary, before the ship went on to dock in Christchurch, New Zealand on Christmas Day as planned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The Arctic walrus was filmed re-entering the sea in Scarborough\n\nA New Year's Eve fireworks display had to be cancelled at the last minute to protect an Arctic walrus discovered in Scarborough.\n\nThe event was called off over fears it \"could cause distress to the mammal\".\n\nCouncil leader Steve Siddons said he was disappointed but \"the welfare of the walrus has to take precedence\".\n\nThe walrus, which drew huge crowds after arriving on Saturday, is now believed to have headed out into the North Sea.\n\nMr Siddons said the decision to cancel the event was made on the advice of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), who have been monitoring the marine mammal.\n\nWildlife experts suggested the walrus - nicknamed Thor - was \"taking a break\" before heading north.\n\nOn Saturday, a cordon was put around the animal after sightseers turned up to catch a glimpse, with one local describing the crowds as like a summer's day in the seaside resort.\n\nEmily Mayman, from the BDMLR charity, said the walrus was last seen heading out to sea at about 17:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\n\"We've not had any more reports of his sighting pretty much since he went out of the harbour,\" she said.\n\nShe said surrounding coastline was being monitored in case he reappeared, adding he was probably looking for a feeding ground.\n\n\"It could be that he could turn up anywhere,\" she said.\n\nA cordon was put around Thor after large crowds gathered\n\nMs Mayman thanked the people of Scarborough, the police and local wildlife organisations for their support.\n\n\"Everybody just did the right thing and we can't be grateful enough for it,\" she said.\n\nShe also praised the council for calling off the fireworks display.\n\n\"It's hugely appreciated that they considered his welfare above anything else and I know it has been massively received right across the globe,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elle Edwards was celebrating with her sister and friends when she was fatally wounded\n\nThe third person arrested over the Christmas Eve pub shooting of Elle Edwards has been freed on bail.\n\nThe man, 31, from Tranmere, had been held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but has now been released pending further inquiries.\n\nTwo other people have also been held over her death but no-one has been charged.\n\nMs Edwards, 26, was shot a week ago outside The Lighthouse in Wallasey, Wirral.\n\nUp to 20 members of her family attended prayers for her at a catholic church on Saturday.\n\nThey went to prayers at Holy Apostles and Martyrs in Wallasey which was open from 14:00 to 17:00 GMT.\n\nPrayers were said and candles lit for Ms Edwards and for the community to \"come together\".\n\nTwo other churches - Wallasey Village URC and St Nicholas - were also opened so people could pray for Ms Edwards and her family.\n\nThe Holy Apostles and Martyrs' Canon Philip Moor, whose niece and nephew were also at the pub at the time of the shooting, said the community was \"extremely shocked\".\n\nHe said: \"It is saddened, devastated but I would say the community is hurting at the moment.\n\n\"We want to reach out to start the process of healing.\"\n\nMs Edwards' father has said she was \"the most beautiful and bright star\" as police appealed for information to find those responsible for the attack.\n\nShe died after several shots were fired towards the entrance of The Lighthouse at about 23:50 GMT on 24 December.\n\nMerseyside Police appealed for information about a dark-coloured Mercedes in the pub car park that was used in the attack.\n\nFloral tributes to Elle Edwards have been left outside the pub\n\nFour men were also injured including a 28-year-old who was critically hurt but whose condition is no longer life-threatening.\n\nAnother Tranmere man, aged 30, who was previously arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, has been recalled to prison.\n\nA 19-year-old woman from Rock Ferry, who was held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, has been released on bail.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour addressing the press in a file photo from November\n\nThe UN General Assembly has asked the UN's highest court to give a legal opinion on Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.\n\nThe resolution was backed by 87 countries but opposed by 26 others, including the UK and US.\n\nThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) issues binding rulings, but it cannot enforce them.\n\nFriday's vote came a day after Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn as prime minister of the most hard-line Israeli cabinet.\n\nIsrael occupies the West Bank, and although it pulled out of Gaza the UN still regards that piece of land as occupied territory.\n\nIsrael claims the whole of Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The US is one of only a handful of countries to recognise the city as Israel's capital.\n\nPalestinians claim the West Bank, along with Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip for their hoped-for future state.\n\nPalestinian officials hailed the UN vote as a victory. Nabil Abu Rudeineh said it was time for Israel to be \"held accountable for its ongoing crimes against our people\".\n\nIsrael's new prime minister, for his part, described it as \"despicable\".\n\n\"The Jewish people are not occupiers on their own land nor occupiers in our eternal capital Jerusalem and no UN resolution can warp that historical truth,\" Mr Netanyahu said on Saturday evening.\n\nOn Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu returned as prime minister of Israel in a coalition with ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies.\n\nThe first guiding principle of the new government, published on Wednesday, declares that \"the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the land of Israel\".\n\nIt says that includes the occupied West Bank and promises to \"advance and develop\" settlements there.\n\nAbout 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967.\n\nThe vast majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.\n\nThe new government has also promised to retroactively legalise some 100 outposts in the West Bank built without Israeli authorisation - and to annex the West Bank.\n\nA spokesman for the UK's UN delegation said it did not feel a referral to the ICJ was \"helpful in bringing back the parties back to dialogue\".\n\nHe added it was \"inappropriate without the consent of both parties\" to ask the court to advise on \"what is essentially a bilateral dispute\".", "A landslip on the West Coast Mainline has caused damage to the line south of Carstairs\n\nTravellers have faced Hogmanay disruption on Scotland's railways after Friday's floods.\n\nThe West Coast Mainline is closed between Carlisle and Scotland with a landslip causing damage to the track.\n\nThe Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh line had to be closed for a number of hours due to severe flooding but it has since reopened.\n\nFlood warnings have now been lifted, but Met Office alerts for ice are in place the whole of Scotland.\n\nNetwork Rail said its engineers had been assessing the landslip on the west coast mainline to establish what repairs are needed to reopen the railway south of Carstairs. It said the line would remain closed for the rest of Saturday.\n\nAnother landslip caused problems at Markinch in Fife\n\nMeanwhile, engineers worked through the night to clear a landslip on the line just south of Markinch station in Fife.\n\nTrain passengers for services north of Edinburgh and south from Aberdeen and Inverness are currently advised not to travel.\n\nAt one point on Friday Sepa had 10 regional flood alerts in place, along with 29 local flood warnings and a severe flood warning for Dumfries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe junction of Nith Place and Shakespeare Street in Dumfries was flooded on Friday evening\n\nSepa said levels at the River Nith reached the highest ever recorded, higher than Storm Frank in 2015 and flooding in December 1982.\n\nMarc Becker, Sepa's flood duty manager said: \"Across Friday we saw Scotland hit with yet another significant flood event, with southern and central Scotland heavily impacted this time in particular. This comes after recent flooding impacts in the east and north-east of Scotland in November.\n\n\"What made Friday's event notable was not only the intense nature of the rainfall, but also the rapid and extreme rises in river levels which led, in the Nith, to the highest ever recorded river levels.\n\n\"Whilst across Hogmanay and New Year's Day we're seeing an improving picture, we'll see rain, sleet and snow on higher grounds, particularly across the Bells.\n\n\"With residual impacts on the ground, particularly in Southern and Central Scotland, we're encouraging people living, working and travelling to remain vigilant, steer clear of flood water and follow the latest information from Sepa, transport authorities and Police Scotland.\"\n\nCars negotiated a flooded section of the A921 between Inverkeithing and Aberdour, as Scotland experienced heavy rain on Friday\n\nTwo yellow weather warnings remain in place heading for New Year.\n\nAn ice warning has been issued for the whole of Scotland from 18:00 on Sunday until 11:00 on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office said the deadly bomb cyclone that sent temperatures plunging in the US over Christmas was causing the unsettled weather in the UK.\n\nMeteorologist Simon Patridge said the impact on Scotland would be \"nowhere near as dramatic\".\n\nThe River Nith burst its banks in Dumfries\n\nThe Dumfries and Galloway Virtual Operations Support Team website was activated on Friday, signifying a major incident in the region.\n\nDumfries and Galloway Council closed The Whitesands in Dumfries to traffic from 10:00, before the River Nith burst its banks in the afternoon.\n\nNith Councillor David Slater said he remembered plans to install a flood system in Dumfries dating as far back as 2000.\n\nHe began a campaign for a flood barrier in 2015 after there had been several failed attempts.\n\n\"I brought engineers from a flood barrier company down here who do these rising walls,\" he said.\n\n\"They came and spoke at a meeting in George Street and 150 people attended and it was virtually unanimous that people would want something like this to keep the views of the river and keep the car parking as well because that's very important for the town.\"\n\nAlthough a flood barrier has been approved following a public inquiry, the planning team has requested an extension from the Scottish government because its current deadline is 23 March.\n\n\"It's now years out of date,\" Cllr Slater added. \"Technology has moved on in leaps and bounds and we're trying to build something that many thousands of people have said no to because it will build over the steps of the bridge.\n\n\"Most politicians stand beside the bridge, its the most photographed area in the town, the bridge is very old.\"\n\nRoss Anderson, who runs the Frothy Bike company in Dumfries, has experienced severe flooding\n\nRoss Anderson, who runs the bike shop and cafe, the Frothy Bike company in Dumfries says his premises have been severely flooded.\n\nHe said: \"We got down before the water crossed the road, we had time to put sandbags down as best we could.\n\n\"I'd say still at the time we didn't know how deep it was going to be so we built about a 2ft sandbag wall out the front, put our pumps in place, put sandbags at the back door.\n\n\"We had loads of family helpers in here so we took down our Christmas decorations, we thought it was going to be a usual flood to our front door and nothing more but evidently it was more.\"\n\nHe said that within an hour the water was knee deep in the shop and that he main damage had been to cooking equipment and white goods.\n\nHis team have already begun the clean-up.\n\n\"If we work hard over the next week, it might well open the first week of January,\" he added.\n\n\"If it's the second week then that's acceptable but if it leads into February because of complications or financial reasons, that's when it'll really start to take its toll on the business.\n\n\"The longer we stay shut, the harder it is to open, it's not easy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Harry has accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan in the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column.\n\nIn an ITV interview, the Duke of Sussex said the \"silence is deafening\" about the \"horrific\" Sun article last month.\n\nHe contrasted this with the quick action taken after a race row at a Buckingham Palace reception.\n\nPrince Harry also said he did not believe comments about his son's skin tone, by an unnamed royal, were racist.\n\nThe Clarkson article about Meghan had described how the columnist was \"dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nIt was later taken down by the Sun and prompted an apology from the paper. Mr Clarkson said he was \"horrified\" for the hurt he caused.\n\nThe article was described by Prince Harry as \"horrific and hurtful and cruel towards my wife\".\n\n\"The world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy. But the silence is deafening. To put it mildly,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything to do with my wife, after six years, they haven't said a single thing.\"\n\nPrince Harry accused the Royal Family of \"getting into bed with the devil\" to improve its image - which he linked to relationships between \"certain members of the family and the tabloid press\".\n\nMeghan faced \"stereotyping\" by some of the Royal Family, including himself at one stage, Prince Harry said\n\nThe prince contrasted the lack of a royal response to that article with the events that followed an encounter at Buckingham Palace between Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani, just three weeks earlier.\n\nWhile attending an event, Ms Fulani - a black British charity founder - was challenged repeatedly by Lady Hussey about where she was \"really from\".\n\nMs Fulani complained about how the exchange had offended her, prompting a rapid apology from the Palace.\n\nIn a statement, the Palace described the remarks as \"unacceptable and deeply regrettable\". Lady Hussey ultimately resigned as a lady of the household.\n\nPrince Harry, speaking to interviewer Tom Bradby ahead of the publication of his memoir Spare this Tuesday, defended Lady Hussey, saying \"she had never meant any harm at all\".\n\nBut he pointed to the contrast between the treatment given to Ms Fulani and to his wife after the language used about her by Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nPrince Harry also gave an interview to Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News, which aired a few hours after ITV's show, and saw him speaking about Camilla, the Queen Consort, and her relationship with the media.\n\nCooper asked the duke about comments he made in his memoir suggesting that Camilla would be \"less dangerous\" if she was happy.\n\nPrince Harry said Camilla's need to \"rehabilitate her image\" and her \"willingness\" to forge relationships with the British press made her dangerous.\n\n\"And with a family built on hierarchy, and her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.\"\n\nThe ITV interview returned to Prince Harry and Meghan's previous claim - made in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey - that a member of the Royal Family had raised questions about the skin colour of their future child.\n\nPrince Harry again did not name the individual - and suggested this might have been a case of \"unconscious bias\" rather than racism.\n\nAsked if he would see the questioning as racist, he said: \"I wouldn't, not having lived within that family.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe rejected that he had accused members of the Royal Family of racism in the Oprah interview, saying the \"British press had said that\".\n\nThe wide-ranging interview also discussed the tensions that followed Meghan's introduction into the Royal Family.\n\nBradby said there was an impression that Prince William and Catherine \"almost from the get-go\" did not \"get on\" with Meghan.\n\nAsked if that was a fair observation, Prince Harry replied: \"Yeah, fair.\"\n\nPrince Harry said he and Meghan had been portrayed as the \"new kids on the block\" who had threatened to \"steal the limelight\" from other royals - and that led to problems in those relationships.\n\nOf brother Prince William and his wife Catherine, he said: \"I always hoped that the four of us would get on.\n\n\"But very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate.\n\n\"And that, when it plays out so publicly, you can't hide from that,\" he told Bradby.\n\nIn the 95-minute interview, he recalled the days when he was the \"third wheel\" at official engagements and other outings - but his relationship with Prince William and Catherine was particularly warm at that time.\n\nHe imagined that would continue when he found his own partner and they became a foursome, but it was not to be.\n\nHe said stereotypes about Meghan - as an \"American actress, divorced, biracial\" - were heightened by a hostile press.\n\nAnd those stereotypes about the new woman in his life had been a barrier to his brother and sister-in-law \"welcoming her in\" to the family.\n\nPrince Harry said that while Prince William never tried to dissuade him from marrying Meghan he did \"air some concerns\" and warned Harry: \"This is going to be really hard for you\".\n\n\"I still to this day don't truly understand which part… he was talking about. But maybe, you know, maybe he predicted what the British press's reaction was going to be.\"\n\nIn the CBS interview, Cooper asked Prince Harry about claims he made in his memoir that unspecified members of the Royal Family were uneasy towards Meghan when she was first introduced to them.\n\nAsked what that \"mistrust\" was based on, Prince Harry said: \"The fact that she was American, an actress, divorced, black, bi-racial, with a black mother.\n\n\"Those were just four of the typical stereotypes that becomes a feeding frenzy for the British press.\"\n\nThe prince said the Royal Family reads the tabloids, adding: \"So whether you walk around saying you believe it or not it's still leaving an imprint in your mind.\n\n\"So if you have that judgement based on a stereotype right at the beginning, it's very, very hard not to get over that.\"\n\nAs was typical at that time in 2016, Harry appeared at the Patron's Lunch celebrations for the Queen's 90th birthday alongside Catherine and William\n\nIn the ITV interview, Harry also spoke of the emotional impact of the death of his mother and in his book describes returning to the scene of the car accident in Paris - and asking to be driven through it at the same speed as she was in 1997.\n\nHe said he had always imagined the tunnel as being \"some treacherous passageway\" but \"it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel\".\n\nHe saw no point in reopening inquiries into the car accident - but questioned the official conclusions about the night of the crash.\n\nA 2008 inquest found Diana was unlawfully killed partly due to the \"gross negligence\" of her driver who had been drunk and driving at excessive speed.\n\nPrince Harry also said that, after Diana's death, he and his brother William were sat down in a room and told that the events leading to the car crash were \"like a bicycle chain\".\n\n\"If you remove just one of those links from the chain, the end result doesn't happen,\" Harry recalled being told.\n\nWhen William asked what might have happened had the paparazzi not been chasing Diana's car, he was told that \"the result wouldn't have been the same.\"\n\nThe interview was recorded in California, where Prince Harry lives with his family\n\nDuring the interview, Harry also expressed his hope that he might one day reconcile with his father and brother.\n\n\"Forgiveness is 100% a possibility, because I would like to get my father back. I would like to have my brother back,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment, I don't recognise them, as much as they probably don't recognise me.\"\n\nHe blamed the tabloid press as the \"antagonist\", who he said \"want to create as much conflict as possible\".\n\nThe ITV interview is the first of four broadcast appearances to be aired over the coming days to promote Spare - but all the others were in the US.\n\nAs well as Anderson Cooper from CBS News, he spoke to Michael Strahan of Good Morning America, for a show that will be broadcast later on Monday. He will also appear as a guest on Stephen Colbert's Late Show on CBS on Tuesday.\n\nAlthough Spare is not due to be published until Tuesday, extracts were leaked after some copies went on sale early in Spain. BBC News has obtained a copy and has been translating it.\n\nKensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have both said they will not comment on the contents of the book.", "David Price - who faces trial in South Africa - has also been accused of abusing pupils at Ashdown House in East Sussex\n\nA retired teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a child after a BBC investigation revealed dozens of allegations about his time at a British school, where he taught future prime minister Boris Johnson.\n\nDavid Price will face trial in South Africa, where he taught after leaving England in the 1980s.\n\nA former pupil in South Africa contacted police in December after learning of the earlier allegations in Radio 4's In Dark Corners series.\n\nJournalist Alex Renton, who was taught by Mr Price, has spoken to six men who allege they were sexually assaulted by the teacher at Ashdown House in East Sussex in the 1970s. There are 42 allegations against him in total.\n\nThe prestigious boarding school was known for preparing boys for Eton College. It was attended by King Charles's cousin, David Linley, now the Earl of Snowdon, along with Mr Johnson. There is no suggestion either were abused at the school.\n\nAfter returning to his native South Africa, Mr Price continued to teach. He was arrested in the country by British police in 2019 and has since been fighting extradition to the UK.\n\nThe latest allegations relate to his time at a prestigious all-boys school in Cape Town in the 1980s.\n\nJournalist Alex Renton was taught by David Price at Ashdown House\n\nThe alleged victim contacted Mr Renton after seeing South African media coverage of the BBC's In Dark Corners series - which investigated sexual abuse at Britain's elite boarding schools.\n\nHe claims he was first groped by the teacher in 1985 at the age of about 10 while showering at Western Province Preparatory School in Cape Town.\n\n\"From that day on he would contrive situations to get me alone,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was made to touch the teacher's genitals.\n\n\"I didn't know what was happening. So I did this and he finished off. And I remember just retching. And he said 'listen, you obviously can't tell anyone, they're not going to believe you'.\"\n\nMr Price left the school in December 1987. A spokeswoman says the school never received any complaints he sexually assaulted children. His career as a teacher continued, including some years at a live-in school for deaf children.\n\nSome former pupils at Ashdown House, who have been waiting to have their allegations heard in a British court, welcomed the action by South African prosecutors.\n\n\"Maybe our best hope is for South Africa to bring him to justice within South Africa because the extradition is not working,\" one said.\n\nAshdown House closed in 2020. The Prep School Trust, which took over the school in 2009, said it had cooperated fully with all enquiries into the allegations and had \"worked tirelessly to ensure no such incidents could ever happen in the school again\".\n\nThe BBC series has also spoken to dozens of former pupils who allege they were abused by teachers at the prestigious Scottish schools Fettes College and Edinburgh Academy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For the first time Nicky Campbell discusses the abuse he received at school\n\nAfter listening to the series, BBC presenter Nicky Campbell revealed he had himself been abused at Edinburgh Academy by teacher Hamish Dawson, who has died.\n\nHe said he was haunted by the sight of his friend being abused in the school showers by a different teacher.\n\nThe teacher - who cannot be identified for legal reasons and is referred to as \"Edgar\" in the Radio 4 series - joined Edinburgh Academy in 1968. Five years later he moved to Fettes College. He left in 1979 after being asked to step down.\n\nLike Mr Price, he is also from South Africa, and continued to teach when he returned to the country. He too was arrested in 2019 and has been fighting extradition to the UK.\n\nA court statement from the teacher in 2019 admits to \"inappropriately\" touching boys in the UK, but he denied having done so in South Africa. A later statement in 2021 appears to retract this admission.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to a man who claims he was assaulted by the teacher as a pupil at Rondebosch Boys School in Cape Town, where \"Edgar\" taught from 1980 to 2006.\n\nHe said the teacher would use untidy uniforms as justification to \"have physical contact with you or to have his hands wandering over you\".\n\n\"That would then progress to grabbing me and pushing me up against the wall,\" he said. \"He would push himself up against me.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the school said they had no record of any allegations of misconduct or impropriety involving the teacher. She said she could not confirm the recruitment processes of the time.\n\nA teacher referred to as \"Edgar\" faces multiple allegations of abuse at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College, pictured\n\nMr Price and \"Edgar\" have the same legal team in South Africa. The BBC asked their lawyers to put the allegations to both men, but did not receive a response.\n\nBoth Western Province Preparatory School and Rondebosch Boys School have now written to alumni urging them to come forward if they were molested by either teacher.\n\nMore than 30 former pupils who allege physical and sexual abuse at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College have formed a Whatsapp group to support each other.\n\n\"Along with that sense of solidarity comes a sense of total and utter frustration,\" said Mr Campbell, who is a member of the group.\n\nThe teacher's appeal against extradition is due to be heard in South Africa in March.\n\nFettes College said it had \"co-operated fully with the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, including providing the Inquiry with all documentation pertaining to this matter\".\n\nEdinburgh Academy said it was \"working closely with the relevant authorities including Police Scotland and the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry\".", "Dorset Police have issued an updated photo of the man and said it believed his first language was Latvian\n\nPolice have renewed an appeal for help in identifying a man who could not tell them who he is or where he is from.\n\nThe man was found near the seafront in Weymouth, Dorset, on 28 September and speaks with an eastern European accent.\n\nHe is about 50 years old, 5ft 9in (175cm), slim and had long, curly, matted, brown hair and a long, brown beard when he was found.\n\nDorset Police have issued an updated photo and said it believed his first language was Latvian.\n\nThe man had curly, matted, brown hair and a long, brown beard when he was found in Weymouth in September\n\nWhen he was found with a black rucksack, he was wearing a black motorcycle helmet with no visor, a black shirt, black leather jacket, black trousers and brown boots.\n\n\"We have been continuing to conduct inquiries to try and establish the identity of this man, which have included contact with Interpol and other partner agencies,\" PC Becky Barnes, of Dorset Police, said.\n\n\"However, we have still been unable to confirm an identity for this man and he has not been able to tell us who he is or provide any information about where he is from, or his family.\"\n\nShe added that he remained in the safe care of the health service and his appearance has changed since he was first found, as he had now cut his hair and beard.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Police want help to identify man found in town\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Participants were advised to \"read a magazine or whatever you would normally do\", which meant a commuter catch-up for some\n\nDozens of people bared their briefs for London's annual No Trousers Tube Ride on Sunday.\n\nTrouserless passengers took to the Tube as part of the annual No Pants Subway Ride - a global event that began in New York in 2002.\n\nThis year's event was the first since the pandemic began, and was the group's first trip on the Elizabeth line.\n\nAttendees set off in winter warmers before splitting up to strip off in stations across the capital.\n\nParticipants paraded across the concourse at Paddington, used ticket machines and escalators at stations without trousers, and rode the Elizabeth line half-suited and booted.\n\nOne man brought his tropical taste in trunks to the Tube journey\n\nOrganisers The Stiff Upper Lip Society said the aim of the event was \"to make people laugh\" and have \"fun\".\n\nPeople were encouraged by the organisers to wear fun underwear, but nothing \"that might offend people\".\n\nSome people used the event as a chance to show off their stripes\n\nBare-legged book worms were among the crowds lined up on the concourse for the event\n\nEveryone made sure they bought their ticket to ride, albeit trouserless\n\nOne snappy dresser chose to wear underwear with a shark design\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry has ruled out a return to the UK as a working royal\n\nPrincess Diana would have been \"heartbroken\" about the conflict with his brother Prince William, Prince Harry has told a US television interview.\n\nHe told Good Morning America their mother would have been saddened at the arguments, which he said were fuelled by briefings to a divisive press.\n\nPrince Harry said there had to be \"accountability\" before reconciliation.\n\nHe also ruled out a return to the UK as a working royal.\n\nPrince Harry told ABC News TV interviewer Michael Strahan a return to such a life within the Royal Family in the UK would be \"unsurvivable\".\n\n\"That's really sad, because that's essentially breaking the relationship between us,\" said Prince Harry, in an interview about his memoir, Spare.\n\nIn the book Prince Harry speaks about the traumatic legacy of his mother's death in a car accident in 1997 - but says Diana would now be sad to see the dispute between her sons, with Prince Harry seeing William as his \"arch nemesis\" as well as \"beloved brother\" and describing a physical altercation between them.\n\n\"I think she would be looking at it long term to know that there are certain things that we need to go through to be able to heal the relationship,\" he said in the interview.\n\nHe also spoke about his relationship with Camilla, the Queen Consort, saying they hadn't spoken for a long time, but he didn't think of her as an \"evil stepmother\".\n\nPrince Harry said he had compassion for her as the \"third person within my parents' marriage\".\n\nIt was soon presented as \"Meghan versus Kate\", says Prince Harry about the sisters-in-law\n\n\"She had a reputation and an image to rehabilitate. And whatever conversations happened, whatever deals or trading was made right at the beginning, she was led to believe that would be the best way of doing it,\" he told the US news show.\n\nThese claims, presenting Prince Harry's view of events, have so far not drawn a response from Buckingham Palace or Kensington Palace.\n\nIn an ITV interview on Sunday, Prince Harry had accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan - with overnight viewing figures showing it had been seen by an audience of 4.1 million viewers, behind Call the Midwife and Happy Valley which drew over 5 million that evening.\n\nPrince Harry highlighted the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column, saying the \"silence is deafening\" from the Royal Family about what he called the \"horrific\" Sun article.\n\nHe contrasted this with the quick action taken after a race row at a Buckingham Palace reception.\n\nThe Clarkson article about Meghan had described how the columnist was \"dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nLater taken down by the Sun and prompting an apology from the paper and Mr Clarkson, the article was described by Prince Harry as \"horrific and hurtful and cruel towards my wife\".\n\n\"The world is asking for some form of comment from the monarchy. But the silence is deafening. To put it mildly,\" he said.\n\n\"Everything to do with my wife, after six years, they haven't said a single thing.\n\nHe also said he believed that stereotyping about Meghan - as an \"American actress, divorced, biracial\" - had been a barrier to Prince William and Catherine \"welcoming her in\" to the family.\n\n\"Very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate,\" he said of how the relationship was presented in the media, also saying it was fair to say \"almost from the get-go\" that the sisters-in-law did not \"get on\".\n\nPrince Harry accused the Royal Family of \"getting into bed with the devil\" to improve its image - which he linked to relationships between \"certain members of the family and the tabloid press\".\n\nThe prince contrasted the lack of a royal response to the Clarkson article with the events that followed an encounter at Buckingham Palace between Lady Susan Hussey and Ngozi Fulani, just three weeks earlier.\n\nWhile attending an event, Ms Fulani - a black British charity founder - was challenged repeatedly by Lady Hussey about where she was \"really from\".\n\nThe controversy that followed produced a rapid apology.\n\nPrince Harry defended Lady Hussey, saying \"she had never meant any harm at all\". But he contrasted the reconciliatory meeting held between her and Ms Fulani at Buckingham Palace with the response to Prince Harry and Meghan's complaints.\n\nPrince Harry also gave an interview to Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes on CBS News, which aired a few hours after ITV's show, and saw him speaking about Camilla, the Queen Consort, and her relationship with the media.\n\nCooper asked the duke about comments he made in his memoir suggesting that Camilla would be \"less dangerous\" if she was happy.\n\nPrince Harry said Camilla's need to \"rehabilitate her image\" and her \"willingness\" to forge relationships with the British press made her dangerous.\n\n\"And with a family built on hierarchy, and her on the way to being Queen Consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.\"\n\nThe ITV interview had also returned to Prince Harry and Meghan's previous claim - made in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey - that a member of the Royal Family had raised questions about the skin colour of their future child.\n\nPrince Harry again did not name the individual - and suggested this might have been a case of \"unconscious bias\" rather than racism.\n\nAsked if he would see the questioning as racist, he said: \"I wouldn't, not having lived within that family.\"\n\nHe rejected that he had accused members of the Royal Family of racism in the Oprah interview, saying the \"British press had said that\".\n\nPrince Harry made repeated criticisms of the tabloid press - saying that it was his \"life's work\" to change the media landscape.", "Northern Ireland's lack of power-sharing government for four of the past six years has been catastrophic for the health service, a former chief of the Health and Social Care Board has said.\n\nJohn Compton said that a functioning system relied on political leadership.\n\nIt comes after a week in which the health service has been described as being under unprecedented pressure.\n\nMost health trusts have cancelled some non-urgent operations to increase bed capacity.\n\nIt has also been reported that an inquiry is taking place into eight deaths after ambulance delays while an emergency department nurse told BBC News NI that his ward resembled a war zone.\n\nBBC News NI health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly described the past week as hellishly difficult for health care staff across Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Compton stepped down as leader at the Health and Social Care Board in 2014 after 40 years of working in health care.\n\nAmbulance delays at backed-up emergency departments have been a major issue in the last week\n\nThe organisation, which arranged health and social care services, shut down last year, with its functions coming under the responsibility of the Department of Health.\n\nIn 2011, his report, Transforming Your Care, spelled out major reform for Northern Ireland's health service.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Sunday with Steven Rainey, he said the political stalemate was creating a long-term deficit of services.\n\n\"We've had an assembly for two of the last six years, I mean that is fairly catastrophic for the health service because we are a tax-funded system that relies on political leadership,\" he said.\n\n\"When you don't have political leadership, you don't get decisions and when you don't get decisions, then you get the outworkings of what you see today in our health service.\"\n\nMr Compton warned that if change was not implemented soon, the system will continue to operate as it has for the last four to six weeks.\n\nThere has been no functioning government since February after the DUP withdrew from the executive in protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nPreviously, government collapsed between 2017 and 2020 after a split between the two largest power-sharing parties Sinn Féin and the DUP.\n\nOn Wednesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris will hold roundtable talks with five of the largest parties at Stormont.\n\nThe deadline to restore an executive is 19 January, or legally he will be under a duty to call an assembly election within 12 weeks.\n\nMr Compton said during this discussion, politicians should ask for a transition fund to reform the health care system.\n\n\"If you're trying to change it and reform it... you also need to have that ability to make that change over a three to five-year period,\" he said.\n\n\"I would really encourage a debate about a transition fund to enable proper reform and then to get back into Stormont where you're taking those decisions and you're using that transition fund to drive that reform.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak refuses to to say if he is registered with private GP\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to say whether he uses private healthcare, insisting it is \"not really relevant\".\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that his healthcare was \"a personal choice\".\n\nNursing union leader Pat Cullen said the PM \"needed to come clean as a public servant\".\n\nAnd when asked the same question, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said he did not use private healthcare.\n\nIn the interview, Laura Kuenssberg suggested there was huge public interest in Mr Sunak's decisions and that former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher was open about her choice to use a private GP.\n\nMr Sunak said healthcare was \"something that is private\", adding he \"grew up in an NHS family\", with a dad who was GP, and a mum who was a pharmacist.\n\nBut when pressed again, Mr Sunak did not answer the question and instead said, in general, \"we should be making use of the independent sector\" so patients could choose where they have treatment.\n\nA newspaper report in November last year suggested Mr Sunak was registered with a private GP practice that offers on-the-day appointments and charges £250 for a half-hour consultation.\n\nThe latest NHS figures show that, in November last year, 58% of NHS patients were not seen on the day they made an appointment.\n\nAt the same time, a record high of more than seven million people are waiting for hospital treatment, as the NHS faces one of the worst winters in its history.\n\nMs Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said public servants \"ought to be clear with the public whether or not you are using private health cover\".\n\n\"That's about being open, it's about being transparent and it's about honesty,\" she said.\n\nMr Streeting said the PM's answer to the question about his healthcare showed him to be someone who did not understand the biggest crisis in NHS history.\n\nHe said private healthcare created a two-tier system, but patients were free to make their own choices about treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: PM gives impression that he doesn't use NHS - Wes Streeting\n\nMr Sunak has said he has a policy of not commenting on his family's healthcare arrangements, when asked previously.\n\nLaura Kuenssberg said there was likely to be a political row over Mr Sunak's personal healthcare choices.\n\nOne former minister told the BBC presenter: \"[Mr Sunak's] lack of transparency shows he thinks going private is a problem. It is - he's taking decisions on public spend that affect a version of 'the public' that he's not willing to be part of.\"\n\nSome of Mr Sunak's predecessors have made a point of drawing attention to their use of the NHS when they were prime minister.\n\nDavid Cameron often spoke about how the NHS cared for his disabled son, while Boris Johnson said the health service saved his life after he fell seriously ill with Covid.\n\nBut when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister she was candid about her use of private health insurance, which she said was vital for her to \"go into hospital on the day I want, at the time I want, and with a doctor I want\".\n\nThe prime minister says how he arranges his personal life should not matter, what's important is how his government manages the NHS. Many would agree.\n\nBut refusing to be transparent leaves him politically vulnerable.\n\nFirst there's the charge, already levelled, that he's not being open and honest about his arrangements. That's damaging in itself.\n\nSecond, some may infer that perhaps the prime minister does have private healthcare but doesn't want to admit it. If so, perhaps he's worried about giving any impression that he may think NHS is not good enough for him and his family.\n\nAnd perhaps what could be most harmful is the perception that leaves. When the NHS is under enormous stress, is Mr Sunak distanced from the reality of the service most are using?\n\nMr Sunak was interviewed as senior doctors warn of a NHS on a knife edge, with health workers striking over pay and some hospitals in crisis.\n\nA sharp rise in Covid-19 and flu admissions in recent weeks has put pressure on hospitals, which are also dealing with a backlog of treatment that built up during the pandemic.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nIn Sunday's interview, Mr Sunak acknowledged the NHS was \"undeniably under enormous pressure\".\n\nWhen asked if the NHS was \"in crisis\", he said while recovering from the pandemic \"was going to be tough\", he was optimistic \"we can get to grips with this problem\".\n\nIn his new year speech this week, Mr Sunak said bringing down NHS waiting lists was one of his five top priorities and has since held talks with health leaders to alleviate the crisis.", "While Jair Bolsonaro may not have been the mastermind behind the invasion, he cannot be separated from it.\n\nThroughout his term, he has repeatedly questioned the efficacy of Brazil's institutions - accusing the Supreme Federal Court of being politically against him, and the voting system of being prone to fraud, despite no evidence to support those claims.\n\nHis supporters took on his narrative wholeheartedly.\n\nSince he lost the elections in October he flew off to Florida to avoid having to hand over the presidential sash to Lula - and he's allowed his most ardent supporters to remain angry over a democratic election that he legitimately lost.\n\nTension has definitely been building. Camps were set up across the country in front of army headquarters, with protesters loyal to Bolsonaro calling for military intervention. And then in December, supporters set fire to Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia. Another supporter was arrested for allegedly trying to set off a bomb before Lula's inauguration on 1 January.\n\nIt's no secret that many security forces are more on the side of Bolsonaro than Lula.\n\nFor Bolsonaro's supporters, Lula - who was jailed in 2017 for corruption, and spent 18 months in prison before the convictions were annulled - is a corrupt politician who belongs in prison, not the presidential palace.\n\nThey falsely accuse him of being a communist, wanting to impose a regime like Venezuela or Cuba. They won't be convinced by anything else - and they won't give up their fight for \"democracy\" as they call it.\n\nBut there's a massive flaw in their argument in wanting freedom and democracy.\n\nThey are calling for a very undemocratic military intervention to \"save\" Brazil - an intervention that despite their best efforts, doesn't look forthcoming.", "Tenants in properties owned by private landlords have faced the highest rise in rent since comparable records began seven years ago, official data shows.\n\nRents rose 4% last year as landlords, who face their own squeeze from higher mortgage rates, passed on those costs.\n\nA quarter of tenants surveyed in December said their rent had risen in the past six months, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nRenters proportionally spend more on housing costs than owners do.\n\nOn average, they pay 24% of their weekly expenditure on housing compared with 16% by those with a mortgage, the ONS said, based on the latest figures from 2021.\n\nMyron Jobson, senior personal finance analyst at Interactive Investor, said: \"Higher rents have been accompanied by higher energy bills which continues to squeeze budgets.\n\n\"It is a tricky situation if you are looking for a new tenancy. Many renters could decide to remain in existing tenancy agreements with fixed rents, rather than risk a move and spend more on rent.\"\n\nA growing proportion of people said they were finding it difficult to afford their rent or mortgage payments, rising from 27% in late September to 31% in mid-December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can you do about rent increases? Watch the BBC's Lora Jones tell you, in a minute.\n\nA higher proportion (45%) of adults with mortgages reported being worried about the changes in mortgage interest rates.\n\nThere has been a steep rise in mortgage costs in 2022, driven in part by the doomed mini-budget during the premiership of Liz Truss. Rates surged as the markets reacted unfavourably to promises of tax cuts without an explanation of how they would be funded.\n\nThe average cost of a new, two-year fixed-rate mortgage has fallen slowly since markets stabilised, but is still much higher than it was last year at 5.78%.\n\nThe ONS points out that many thousands of homeowners face sharply higher mortgage costs when their current fixed-rate deal expires.\n\nThe ONS said that more than 1.4 million households would be renewing their fixed-rate mortgage this year, with 57% of them currently paying an interest rate of less than 2%. This renewal peak will come between April and June when 371,000 deals expire.\n\nShould the interest rate on a £100,000 capital and repayment mortgage, borrowed over 25 years, increase from 2% to 6%, then the monthly repayment would jump by £220, the ONS said.\n\nThe same increase on a £300,000 mortgage would see monthly repayments rise by £661.\n\nThe impact of higher mortgage rates is not only hitting those who are re-mortgaging, but also the prospects of first-time buyers.\n\nOne young family told the BBC how they had put their home-buying plans on hold, despite having two good jobs and having saved for a deposit for five years.\n\nKathryn Yabsley and her husband David saw their potential mortgage bill soar in the second half of the year.\n\n\"We had that excitement and thrill. So to just be shot down, I was in bits and my husband was disappointed too. It burst our bubble,\" said 29-year-old Mrs Yabsley, an NHS therapy assistant from Pembrokeshire.\n\n\"We're holding off to see if the rates go down and we're going to rent instead.\n\n\"I don't want to just survive, I want to live as well.\"\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. How much could my mortgage go up by? How much are you borrowing? If you have an existing mortgage enter the outstanding balance left to pay. If not, enter the total you are looking to borrow. How long will you take to pay it back? If you have an existing mortgage enter the total number of years remaining. If not, enter the total number of years you are looking to borrow over. What is your current... For those with a mortgage enter the rate for your current fixed term. For those without a mortgage enter an interest rate from another source, such as a bank's mortgage rate calculator. At this rate, your payments could change by… The information you provided on your monthly payments would not be sufficient to pay off your mortgage within the number of years given.", "The jumbo will carry the rocket to 35,000ft\n\nThe first ever orbital space launch from British soil is getting ready to blast off.\n\nMonday's mission will see a repurposed 747 jumbo jet release a rocket over the Atlantic to take nine satellites high above the Earth.\n\nNewquay Airport in Cornwall is the starting point for the operation, on Monday evening after 2100 GMT.\n\nIf it succeeds, it will be a major milestone for UK space, marking the birth of a home-grown launch industry.\n\n\"What we've seen over the last eight years is this building of excitement towards something very aspirational and different for Cornwall, something that started off as a project that not a lot of people really believed was ever going to happen,\" said Melissa Thorpe, who heads up Spaceport Cornwall.\n\n\"What I think people have seen here in Cornwall is a small team that lives and breathes this county deliver something quite incredible.\"\n\nAircraft and shipping have been told to stay out of the launch zone\n\nThis first foray into orbital launch from UK territory is actually using an American company, Virgin Orbit, that was founded by Sir Richard Branson.\n\nThe British entrepreneur has had one of his old passenger airliners converted to carry a rocket, called LauncherOne, underneath its left wing.\n\nWhen the 747 leaves Newquay, it will head west out over the Atlantic to a designated launch zone just off the coast of the Irish counties of Kerry and Cork.\n\nAt the appropriate moment and at an altitude of 35,000ft, the Virgin jet will release the rocket, which will then ignite its first-stage engine to begin the climb to orbit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC got an exclusive look inside Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl aeroplane\n\nThe BBC was given a rare chance to look inside Virgin Orbit's carrier plane, nicknamed Cosmic Girl.\n\nOn the lower deck, everything has been stripped out to save weight, because a fully fuelled rocket is a heavy load.\n\nUpstairs, two flight engineers will sit at consoles to monitor the launch. The cockpit, though, remains largely unchanged, apart from the addition of a small red button that, when pressed, will release the rocket.\n\nMathew \"Stanny\" Stannard, an RAF squadron leader, is on secondment to Virgin Orbit, and will be the lead pilot, sitting in the left seat.\n\n\"We'll be monitoring the rocket, making sure it's healthy all the way out,\" he explained.\n\n\"And then we enter what's called a terminal count procedure. That's where things for us certainly get more interesting as we go through that sequence of pressurising the tank and chilling the lines.\n\n\"And at the end of that terminal count, it's my job to make sure the aeroplane is at the right bit in the sky, in the right position, so when the rocket says 'I'm ready to go', away she goes.\"\n\nTwo of the satellites, called Prometheus-2, will test novel radio and imaging technologies\n\nTo date, Virgin Orbit, which is based in Long Beach, California, has carried out four straight successful rocket launches over the Pacific Ocean. The flights were initiated from the Mojave Air and Space Port, north of Los Angeles,\n\nFor the UK mission, the team has decamped to Cornwall to set up a new mission control.\n\nDeenah Sanchez, the launch director, says it will be a complex operation.\n\n\"We basically have three different launch systems out there,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"We have our ground hardware, we have an entire aeroplane, and a rocket, and so we have people that specialise in each area here in the control room.\"\n\nVirgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart joked that apart from the Cornish pasties versus American hamburgers, there wasn't a great deal of difference in how his team would operate for the UK flight. \"[It's] a little different weather than Mojave, but otherwise the team is turning the wrenches in the same way,\" he said.\n\nA corner of Newquay Airport has been given over to Spaceport Cornwall activities\n\nIf the launch goes to plan, nine small satellites will be released into an orbit more than 500km above the planet.\n\nThey have a mix of civil and military applications, ranging from ocean monitoring to navigation technology.\n\nOne of the shoe-box sized satellites belongs to Cardiff-based company Space Forge. The firm wants to use satellites to make novel, high-value materials and components in space.\n\nJosh Western, CEO of Space Forge, said: \"For the first time, the UK has all the pieces of the jigsaw to be able to design and develop satellites, launch them from the UK and operate them from the UK.\"\n\nThere is a lot of hope riding on this rocket and its mission is just the beginning of the UK's future strategy for space.\n\nAlongside a growing satellite industry, Scottish companies Skyrora and Orbex are leading the way in building more traditional vertical launch systems - rockets that go straight up from the ground.\n\nThese vehicles will operate from Shetland and Sutherland in the far north of the country, possibly by the end of 2023.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Detectives returned to the Silverwood Green and Kiln Road area to speak to motorists and pedestrians\n\nPolice have revisited the scene of Natalie McNally's murder in Lurgan exactly three weeks on from her killing.\n\nMs McNally, 32, was 15-weeks pregnant when she was stabbed on 18 December at her home in Silverwood Green in Lurgan.\n\nDetectives returned to the Silverwood Green and Kiln Road area to speak to motorists and pedestrians.\n\nThey also handed out leaflets to the public, appealing for information that may assist the investigation.\n\nOn Saturday, police said they had carried out a number of house-to-house inquiries in the Lisburn area and seized a car.\n\nTwo arrests have been made in connection with her murder but no-one has been charged.\n\nA 32-year-old man arrested on Monday, 19 December was released the next day and is no longer a suspect.\n\nAnother 32-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday, 21 December and has been released on police bail while detectives continue their inquiries.\n\nHundreds of house-to-house enquiries have been carried out and over 3,000 hours of CCTV footage has been seized, police said.\n\nOn Friday, detectives conducted a search of the council-owned Silverwood Golf Club grounds beside Ms McNally's home.\n\nEarlier this week, a weapon believed to be used in the murder was recovered by police and is said to have come from her home.\n\nOfficers believe Ms McNally knew her killer, that they had a pre-existing relationship and she felt comfortable inviting them into her home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil McGuinness said the PSNI remained \"absolutely steadfast\" to bringing Ms McNally's murderer to justice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows a man leaving Natalie McNally's street on the night she was killed\n\nCCTV footage of a suspect in Ms McNally's murder was released previously by police.\n\nIt shows a man entering Silverwood Green at 20:52 GMT on Sunday, 18 December and leaving again at 21:30.\n\nThe charity Crimestoppers have offered a £20,000 reward for information about Ms McNally's killing.", "It'll take about another 20 minutes before Cosmic Girl reaches the designated launch zone just off the coast of Ireland.\n\nOn arrival, Virgin’s chief pilot Mathew Stannard will turn the Virgin Orbit plane on to a course that looks a little like a racetrack, even though it’s 35,000 ft (10km) above the Atlantic.\n\nAt first, this course will take the jumbo towards the Republic, but then Sqn Ldr Stannard will turn again to point the plane southwards.\n\nWhen all systems are ready, he’ll pull the nose of the 747 up and his co-pilot, Eric Bippert, sitting alongside, will reach out in the cockpit to press a small red button.“Release, release!”.\n\nThe LauncherOne rocket will fall away. The sudden departure of 25 tonnes from under the left wing will make the plane bank hard to the right.\n\nThat’s actually quite useful because it takes the jumbo away from the moment of ignition which occurs four seconds into the rocket’s fall.\n\nLauncherOne should rapidly accelerate and head skyward. Its first stage will burn for three minutes. The rocket will then separate and the upper segment, or second-stage, will ignite to carry the journey on upwards.\n\nAfter six minutes, the achieved velocity will mean the satellites when ejected will be in orbit around the Earth.", "Harry May is yet to enter a plea to the charge and is due to appear at court again in London on Friday\n\nA man has appeared in court accused of throwing an egg towards King Charles III during a walkabout.\n\nHarry May, 21, of Moreton Road South, Luton, is charged with a public order offence relating to the King's visit to the town on 6 December.\n\nMr May appeared at Luton Magistrates' Court, where prosecutors said the case could only be heard by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nThe next hearing is at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nThe defendant, who gave his full name as Harry Spartacus May, is accused of using threatening/abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.\n\nProsecutor Matthew Taylor said this was a \"special jurisdiction case\" that could only be heard by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nHe has yet to enter a plea.\n\nThe King was ushered away from the crowd by protection officers while meeting members of the public in Luton\n\nDefending, Ahmed Malik told magistrates that Mr May had not been informed of the case being moved to Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe said his client \"understood the case was being dealt with today\".\n\nThe chair of the bench, Helen Cook, granted Mr May bail ahead of the next hearing in London.\n\n\"I am sure things will be resolved on that occasion,\" she said, to which Mr May replied: \"I understand.\"\n\nThe King was outside Luton Town Hall when the egg was allegedly thrown.\n\nHe was initially steered away from crowds by protection officers, but continued his visit to the Bedfordshire town shortly afterwards.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists say Mohammad Ghobadlou (L) and Mohammad Boroughani (R) were sentenced to death after sham trials\n\nDozens of people demonstrated outside a prison in Iran overnight amid reports authorities were preparing to execute another two anti-government protesters.\n\nOpposition activists posted videos showing people chanting slogans in front of Rajai Shahr jail in the city of Karaj.\n\nThe mother of Mohammad Ghobadlou, one of the two men at risk of execution, appealed for clemency at the gathering.\n\nTwo protesters were hanged on Saturday, prompting international condemnation.\n\nThe UN human rights office deplored the \"shocking\" executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, which it said followed \"unfair trials based on forced confessions\".\n\nA Revolutionary Court found the men guilty of \"corruption on Earth\" over their alleged involvement in the killing of a member of the paramilitary Basij force in Karaj in November. Both denied the charge and said they were tortured.\n\nThey were the third and fourth people to be executed in connection with the protests that erupted in September following the death in custody of a woman detained by morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab \"improperly\".\n\nAuthorities have portrayed them as \"riots\" and responded with lethal force.\n\nSo far, at least 519 protesters and 68 security personnel have been killed in the unrest, according to the Human Rights Activists' News Agency (HRANA).\n\nIt says that another 19,290 protesters have been arrested and that 111 of them are believed to \"under the impending threat of a death sentence\", having been convicted of, or charged with, capital offences.\n\nPeople gathered outside Rajai Shahr prison on Sunday night after activists warned that Mohammad Ghobadlou and Mohammad Boroughani had been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for execution.\n\nOpposition activist collective 1500 Tasvir published videos showing a crowd chanting slogans warning authorities against proceeding with the executions. Shouts included \"I will kill who has killed my brother\" and \"This is the last warning. If you execute [them] there will be an uprising/revolt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 1500tasvir_en This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGhobadlou's mother, who has previously said her son has bipolar disorder, was filmed telling the crowd that 50 doctors had signed a petition calling on the judiciary chief to establish a committee to review her son's mental health.\n\n\"If he believed in God, he would have responded to these 50 doctors,\" she said, asserting that her son is \"ill\".\n\nShe also claimed that the policeman who he is accused of killing was \"martyred somewhere else\".\n\n1500 Tasvir also posted videos purportedly from the area around the prison in which gunshots could be heard.\n\nThe activist collective declared later on Monday that the protest had stopped the executions \"at least up to this moment\".\n\nMohammad Ghobadlou's mother urged Iran's judiciary chief to review evidence about his mental health problems\n\nGhobadlou, 22, had his death sentence upheld by the Supreme Court on 24 December. He was convicted of \"enmity against God\" after being accused of driving into a group of policemen during a protest in Tehran in September, killing one of them and injuring others.\n\nHe stood trial without his chosen lawyer, who said the prosecution had relied other flawed evidence. Amnesty International also said it was concerned that he was subjected to torture or ill-treatment in custody, citing a forensic report that pointed to bruising and injuries on his arm, elbow and shoulder blade.\n\nMohammad Boroughani, 19, was tried alongside Ghobadlou and was also convicted of \"enmity against God\".\n\nHe was accused of allegedly wielding a machete, setting fire to a provincial government building and injuring a security officer. He was also accused of \"encouraging\" others to participate in protests via social media.\n\nAmnesty International said he was found guilty after proceedings that \"bore no resemblance to a meaningful judicial trial\".\n\nIn a separate development on Monday, the judiciary announced that a court in Isfahan had sentenced to death three people over an attack during protests in the city on 16 November in which three security personnel were shot dead.\n\nSaleh Mirbasheri Boltaqi, Majid Kazemi Sheikh-Shabani, and Saeed Yaqoubi Kordsofla were convicted of \"enmity against God\".\n\nTwo other defendants were sentenced to prison over their alleged involvement in the attack, including professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani. Nasr-Azadani, 26, was jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of three charges including \"assisting in enmity against God\".", "Workers clashed with police at a Covid test kit factory in China, videos posted on social media showed.\n\nThe protest started on Saturday after a sudden announcement of layoffs and disputes over wages in the south-western city of Chongqing.\n\nSome videos were filmed at Zybio, a company specialising in in-vitro diagnostic reagents and equipment.\n\nChina's end to its zero-Covid policy has seen requirements for negative test results dropped across the country.\n\nIn one video, hundreds of workers could be seen gathering outside the factory, some of them shouting: \"Give us our money back!\"\n\nBoxes of antigen test kits could be seen strewn on the ground.\n\nSome videos suggest later at night some protesters threw chairs, crates and traffic cones at a group of riot police deployed at the scene, forcing the officers to retreat.\n\n\"It is only right and proper that you need to pay money back if you owe others, this is the road of demanding unpaid salary,\" captions on the videos read.\n\nPosts online said the protest started on Saturday morning, when workers were told they were effectively laid off and that salaries would not correspond to those promised by the workers' agents.\n\nAlthough political demonstrations are rare in China, protests over labour issues and demonstrations targeting specific companies occur frequently.\n\nChina's rigid zero-Covid policy eventually led to widespread protests in November and the government announced a liftig of most restrictions soon after.", "Schools strikes will go ahead this week after pay talks with teachers broke up without agreement.\n\nThe largest teaching union, the EIS, described negotiations as \"cordial and constructive\" but said no new offer had been tabled.\n\nStaff in primary schools will walk out on Tuesday followed by secondary school teachers on Wednesday.\n\nMembers of the EIS, NASUWT, SSTA and the AHDS trade unions are due to take part in the action.\n\nUnions have rejected a 5% increase, arguing for 10%. The offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nThe Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SCNT) - which brings together unions, the government and councils - met to discuss the options.\n\nAfterwards the EIS general secretary, Andrea Bradley, said: \"It is disappointing, though not surprising, that no new offer was presented today, despite some positive progress in discussions.\n\n\"The union side remains willing to talk, at any time, with a view to reaching a resolution to this dispute.\n\n\"While it is now too late to halt this week's strike action in schools, we hope that fresh talks may take place later this week to advance discussions towards an improved offer.\n\n\"Only a significantly improved offer from the Scottish government and Cosla can bring an end to this dispute.\"\n\nLast week, the Scottish government said there was \"potential scope for compromise\" following a meeting with teaching unions.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said the talks on Friday were \"constructive and helpful\".\n\nShe added: \"We are open to considering options to resolve this dispute through the SNCT.\n\n\"I recognise that any deal must be fair and affordable for all concerned, given the unprecedented pressures facing Scotland's budget.\"\n\nLocal government body Cosla said there was no additional funding available for an improved pay deal.\n\nStaff in primary schools will walk out on Tuesday followed by secondary school teachers on Wednesday\n\nCosla's spokeswoman for resources, Katie Hagmann, said: \"I look forward to maintaining constructive and proactive dialogue, which considers all options available, so that we limit any further disruption for pupils, parents and carers.\"\n\nThe industrial action follows the biggest Scottish teachers' strike in decades in November.\n\nTeaching unions in England and Wales are also balloting members over pay.\n\nMost state school teachers in England and Wales had a 5% rise this year, and many teachers in Northern Ireland have been offered 3.2% over two years.\n\nUnions argue that with inflation at 10.7%, these increases amount to a real-terms pay cut.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you a parent who is affected by the industrial action? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "There were reports of strikes overnight in Kramatorsk, but Moscow has given no evidence to support its claim it killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers\n\nUkraine has labelled as \"propaganda\" a Russian claim that it killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers in an attack.\n\nMoscow claimed, without providing any evidence, that a \"mass missile strike\" in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had killed more than 600 Ukrainian forces.\n\nIt said it was in retaliation for a Ukrainian attack on a Russian base that killed dozens of Russian soldiers on New Year's Day.\n\nBut the Ukrainian military says this is untrue.\n\n\"This is another piece of Russian propaganda,\" Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, told the BBC.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said it had killed more than 600 Ukrainian servicemen in a strike on buildings temporarily housing Ukrainian forces. More than 1,300 Ukrainian troops were housed in two buildings, Moscow said.\n\nIt called the attacks a \"retaliatory strike\" to avenge the deaths of 89 Russian troops killed in Makiivka. Ukraine says as many as 400 people were killed or wounded in that incident, while numbers into the hundreds have been given by Russian nationalists on social media.\n\nMoscow is yet to offer any proof of its claim about the Kramatorsk deaths.\n\nBy matching pictures of the attack published by local officials to Google satellite imagery and other images online, the BBC has confirmed the location of two sites about a mile apart in Kramatorsk.\n\nThe strikes happened near two school buildings - vocational schools number 28 and 47 - which match with the dormitory numbers provided by Russia. Moscow says the buildings were housing Ukrainian military personnel.\n\nHowever, there's no visual evidence that shows these two buildings were badly hit or that there has been mass deaths on the scale claimed by Russia.\n\nNot that Russia's 36-hour ceasefire remotely resembled a truce, but almost immediately after it ended, we felt seven or so explosions in the city of Kramatorsk.\n\nThe rattle of the windows made us decide to head to the shelter. Until then, we'd only heard faint thuds and a few sirens. This marked a return to the almost daily missile strikes which Kramatorsk has had to endure.\n\nMoscow's truce had only led to the faintest of let ups in the city, which can't be said for the surrounding area.\n\nThe local mayor posted images of damaged buildings and said two educational sites, eight apartment blocks and garages were damaged from the explosions.\n\nThere were no reported casualties, contrary to the claims from the Kremlin.\n\nThere was further shelling in various parts of Ukraine overnight after the end of what Russian President Vladimir Putin said was a 36-hour ceasefire by Russian forces so Orthodox Christians could celebrate Christmas. Evidence suggests this so-called ceasefire was not adhered to by Moscow.\n\nUkrainian officials said at least one person was killed in the Kharkiv region in the north-east.\n\nExplosions were also reported in the southern cities of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol.\n\nSeparately, Russia's defence ministry said that Ukraine had returned 50 captured Russian soldiers after negotiations. Kyiv confirmed that it had received the same number of soldiers in return from Russia.", "Two women who took legal action to highlight long hospital waiting lists have lost their judicial review case.\n\nTheir case argued that the Department of Health and health trusts had a statutory duty to provide effective healthcare in a reasonable timeframe.\n\nEileen Wilson waited almost four years for a neurology appointment. May Kitchen paid for cataract surgery after waiting almost three years.\n\nLord Justice Colton said resolution could not be found in the courts.\n\nIn the first case of its kind in the United Kingdom, the women claimed breaches of a statutory duty and a violation of their human rights.\n\nIn his judgement Lord Justice Colton said it was not a case where the respondents were \"refusing to provide healthcare\".\n\n\"It is clear from the evidence that there has been a series of efforts to provide solutions to the issue of waiting lists in this jurisdiction,\" he added.\n\nThe judge said a \"resolution\" to the waiting lists issue \"is a matter that needs to be addressed by political leadership and decision making\".\n\n\"It will also require, undoubtedly, leadership within the relevant department and trusts.\"\n\n\"They are the people to make the necessary decisions, not the courts.\"\n\nLord Justice Colton added: \"On what basis could the court distinguish these applicants from other members of the public who are currently on waiting lists for treatment by the health service?\n\n\"To do so in my view would not be in the public interest.\"\n\nIn dismissing the case the judge said: \"The resources available to the respondents should be devoted to taking the necessary steps to deal with the problem of waiting lists, rather than defending expensive litigation in the public law so where in which the courts are unsuited to make the necessary decisions.\"\n\nEileen Wilson is one of two women who challenged the health service\n\nMrs Kitchen, a retired nurse who lives alone in north Belfast, was diagnosed with cataracts in 2015.\n\nAmid fears that she would lose her sight, the pensioner was told that the waiting list for surgery was 42 months.\n\nShe eventually used medical insurance for private treatment, but insisted that she should not be out of pocket due to her entitlement to free healthcare.\n\nMs Wilson, a mother of six from east Belfast, sought an urgent consultation with a neurologist about her suspected multiple sclerosis since June 2017.\n\nMay Kitchen feared she would lose her sight\n\nThe women brought challenges against the Department of Health as well as the Belfast and South Eastern Health and Social Care Trusts.\n\nThe court heard that one in seven people in Northern Ireland have spent longer than 12 months on a hospital waiting list amid \"catastrophic\" delays in securing treatment.\n\nIt heard that prospective patients are nearly 50 times more likely to face a year-long wait for care than people living in Wales.\n\nLord Justice Colton said a series of efforts have been made to provide solutions to an issue identified as a major priority by various health ministers for health as well as the Department of Health.\n\n\"It clearly involves high-level political decisions in relation to resources and also in relation to structural reform of the health service,\" he said.\n\n\"Manifestly, that is not a matter for the courts.\n\n\"Whether the problems that arise in relation to waiting lists in the health service are caused by resource issues or strategic issues, or a combination of both is not something which can be measured by a legal standard.\n\n\"That is not a judgment which the courts can make.\"", "Just one week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, thousands of supporters of the previous incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the country's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.\n\nThe president said security forces in the capital, Brasília didn't do enough to stop them. We've looked into the key moments and how the police responded.\n\nSince the narrow election win in October by the left-wing president, better known as Lula, supporters of his right-wing rival had been setting up camps in front of military barracks in many cities around the country.\n\nHis most ardent supporters have been calling for the army to intervene and overturn the election result.\n\nThen over the weekend, thousands of people gathered outside the army barracks in Brasília, many of them brought in by bus.\n\nPresident Lula called on local security forces to remove these protesters, but police had opted to not use force.\n\nOn Sunday afternoon, the protesters set off on a march towards the complex of government buildings. Video footage shows the march peacefully under way, with military police escorting them along the 7km (four mile) route.\n\nWe have asked the police authorities in Brasília whether the protesters had been granted official permission to march along this route ahead of time. We haven't yet received a response.\n\nThe protesters arrived at barriers blocking access to the complex of government buildings known as \"Praça dos Três Poderes\" (Three Powers Square).\n\nA video verified by the BBC shows only a single line of metal barriers across a road through a relatively open area.\n\nOne of the policemen can be seen pulling out what appears to be pepper spray or tear gas, aiming it at the protesters, who quickly force their way through.\n\nWe have asked the police why they hadn't organised stronger barriers and mobilised more officers to control the situation once the protesters approached the government square.\n\nOnce the barriers had been breached, crowds flooded onto ramps which led to the Congress building and the presidential palace.\n\nPolice have been criticised for being too hands-off with the protesters as they streamed in.\n\nTwo videos we've verified shows policemen taking pictures of the crowds as they walk up the ramps and into the Congress building.\n\nAnother video shows a policeman being pulled from his horse by protesters as they approach the Congress building and thrown to the ground.\n\nThe National Congress and the presidential palace were breached just before 15:00 local time.\n\nVideos show protesters using security barricades to smash through several large windows before entering, spreading throughout both buildings and onto the roof of Congress.\n\nThe BBC has also verified this video which shows police standing by as protesters walk up a staircase into the Congress building through the lower floor entrance.\n\nPolice holding riot shields are standing on the right of the stairs, but they aren't protecting the main entrance and appear to be guarding a side corridor instead.\n\nOne policeman waves the protesters through and gives them a thumbs up. As the crowd move forward into the building, some of them applaud the security personnel.\n\nFrom the police uniforms seen in the video it looks like they are part of the Policia Legislativa, the Federal police group that works inside Congress.\n\nShortly afterwards, a group also smashed windows of the Supreme Court and entered the building.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nImages show that once inside the buildings, protesters destroyed furniture, equipment and works of art.\n\nSocial media posts from the afternoon of 8 January clearly show scores of protestors both outside in the plaza and milling around inside buildings, in some cases with no police or security forces visible.\n\nVideos circulating online showed protesters trashing offices, smashing windows and doors, flipping furniture, and tossing computers and printers to the ground.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe governor of Brasília, Ibaneis Rocha, eventually requested support from the national government - although it's not clear when exactly this was made.\n\nPresident Lula announced soon afterwards that he had authorised national forces to intervene in Brasília.\n\nEven with the involvement of additional forces, it took many more hours to bring the situation under control. The Supreme Court was the first to be cleared. Then, as more forces arrived, other buildings were also gradually emptied.", "The boss of Brewdog has said he has paid out almost £500,000 to winners of the company's misleading \"solid gold\" beer can promotion.\n\nJames Watt said he made \"some costly mistakes\" in a promotion which offered people the chance to find a solid gold can hidden in cases in 2021.\n\nSome winners questioned the worth of the cans and complained after discovering they were gold-plated.\n\nMr Watt admitted he \"falsely thought\" the cans were made from solid gold.\n\nThe co-founder and chief executive of the Scottish Brewer said he \"misunderstood the process of how they were made\" and made a \"silly mistake\" by telling customers in initial promotional tweets that the cans were \"solid gold cans\".\n\nAfter some winners complained to the Advertising Standards Authority, the watchdog in October 2021 upheld the complaints and said three adverts were misleading.\n\n\"Those were 3 very expensive mistaken tweets that I sent out in my enthusiasm for our new campaign,\" Mr Watt said in a post on LinkedIn on Saturday.\n\n\"The Gold Can saga was headline news. We were made to look dishonest and disingenuous and we took a real hammering online and in the press. Deservedly so. My initial tweets had been misleading and we deserved the flak,\" he added.\n\nMr Watt said that because it was his error, he had contacted all 50 gold can winners to offer them the \"full cash amount\" as an alternative to the prize if they were unhappy\".\n\n\"All in all, it ended up costing me around £470,000 - well over 2 and a half years' salary,\" he added.\n\nIn his post, the Brewdog boss revealed he now owned 40 of the gold cans.\n\nAfter conducting its investigation, the ASA said it received 25 complaints in relation to three social media adverts stating its can prize was made from \"solid gold\".\n\nAs well as complaints over the prize's authenticity, some questioned how much the can was worth, with Brewdog claiming it was valued at £15,000.\n\nThe ASA said Brewdog told investigators that a single 330ml can, made with the equivalent 330ml of pure gold, would have a gold value of about $500,000 (£363,000) at the time in October 2021.\n\nBut the watchdog considered a general audience was unlikely to be aware of the price of gold, \"how that would translate into the price of a gold can, and whether that was inconsistent with the valuation as stated in the ad\".\n\nMr Watt reiterated in his LinkedIn post on Saturday that the \"valuation of £15,000 per can was accurate\".\n\nBrewdog has faced criticism for its marketing campaigns in the past, as well as its workplace culture.\n\nA letter from ex-workers in June 2021 stated former staff had \"suffered mental illness\" as a result of working for the craft beer brewer.\n\nIt made a number of allegations, including that Brewdog fostered a culture where staff were afraid to speak out about concerns.\n\nMr Watt previously apologised to former staff and said their complaints would help make him a better chief executive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First Minister Mark Drakeford discusses efforts to avoid a strike by NHS staff\n\nNHS workers in Wales will not be offered bigger increases to their wages, despite talks later this week.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford spelled out his offer to avert further industrial action, including a one-off payment, on Monday.\n\nDespite union demands, he said he was not able to give a higher pay award.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) wants a 19% pay rise and said the one-off payment was not \"satisfactory\" and would not halt strike action.\n\nBut ministers have said that is unaffordable and the Welsh government has written to trade unions inviting them to meet and negotiate.\n\nHelen Whyley, director of the RCN in Wales, welcomed the offer but said \"the devil will be in the detail\".\n\nHealth workers in Cardiff took to picket lines in December to support their nursing colleagues\n\nThe GMB, which represents about a quarter of Welsh Ambulance Service staff, said a payment would not be enough to avert its strike planned for Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the first minister acknowledged parts of the NHS had been in \"crisis\" in recent weeks, and apologised to staff and patients.\n\nBut he said it was \"not a perpetual crisis as some people would suggest\".\n\nThe Welsh government has offered NHS staff a pay rise of between 4% and 5.5%, but the RCN has called for an increase in line with inflation.\n\nTalks between the Welsh government and the health unions are expected to begin on Thursday.\n\nHelen Whyley will meet this week with Health Minister Eluned Morgan\n\nThe RCN's associate director, Nicky Hughes, told BBC Radio Wales that a one-off payment was \"a no-go unless it's substantive\", adding: \"It does not address the 10 years of poor pay rises and the fact that nurses' pay is now 20% less than it should be in relation to inflation.\"\n\nMr Drakeford refused to be drawn on details of the one-off payment, only saying there were three elements in his offer to avert further industrial action, including:\n\nLater on Monday, Wales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan said the cash offer would \"not be insignificant\", but would not be drawn on whether all staff would get the same payment, saying it would be \"open to negotiation\".\n\nMr Drakeford said the amount of money on the table for pay rises was linked to pay awards in England that triggered extra money for Wales.\n\n\"That is why when we meet our trade union colleagues later this week I'm not in a position to offer them a higher pay award\", he said.\n\nThe first minister said money for the one-off payment was found from the Welsh government's own funds, and reports of the UK government considering a pay-out to nurses in England were \"entirely coincidental\".\n\nThe 27 December was \"probably\" the busiest in the history of the NHS, Mark Drakeford said, and hospital staff would have felt \"that they were dealing with a crisis\".\n\nAmid reports of more money for social care beds in England, he said there was \"money in the system\" for additional care home beds, including 508 additional beds this winter.\n\nHe rejected the idea of field hospitals, saying staffing was a \"real challenge\".\n\nTwo additional strike dates for ambulance staff have been announced for January\n\nMs Whyley said: \"I want to hear a Welsh government who are committed to sorting out the problems of Welsh nurses in Welsh hospitals looking after Welsh people and that means fair pay for those people and an approach that will give them a career across the whole of the time they are nursing in Wales.\"\n\nAfter unprecedented demand on hospitals, the Welsh government advised senior NHS staff to discharge people who are well enough to leave hospital, even if arrangements to care for them at home have not been finalised, in order to ease pressure.\n\nMs Whyley said she was unsure on the details surrounding the offer, such as knowing which health workers would receive the payment or how much that would be, but \"we want to get round the table to see what that might look like\".\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru health spokesman, said it was positive the government was showing willing to come to the table and negotiate, but said the one-off payment \"simply doesn't cut it\".\n\nHe told BBC Wales: \"We are looking here at a situation where pay for our hardworking nurses has been cut in real terms over many years. That needs to be addressed on a permanent basis, not on a one-off.\n\n\"There's been a totally unacceptable delay in an attempt to try to resolve this situation.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Andrew RT Davies said the pay offer was \"long overdue recognition that decisions over NHS pay is the responsibility of Labour ministers in Cardiff Bay\".\n\n\"It should not have taken this long to get to this point with nurses, ambulance workers and midwives all voting to take industrial action in Wales,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Rishi Sunak says he will talk to nurses about pay\n\nRishi Sunak's openness to talks has offered a \"chink of optimism\" that a deal can be reached over nurses' pay, the head of the nursing union has said.\n\nThe prime minister told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he was open to a pay deal that is \"responsible\" and \"affordable\".\n\nPat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: \"The prime minister talked about coming to the table. Now that's a move for me.\"\n\nBut she said strikes will go ahead as this year's pay was still in dispute.\n\nThe health secretary is due to hold a meeting with unions on Monday, but the government has so far only agreed to discuss a settlement for the next financial year.\n\nNurses are already set to receive a rise for the current year, 2022-23, an average of 4.75%. This is in line with a recommendation by the independent NHS Pay Review Body in July - but the RCN says the figure is not enough to cushion the rising cost of living.\n\nIn an interview on the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Sunak was asked if he would be willing to talk about nurses' pay for this year.\n\n\"The government has always been clear that it's happy to talk about pay that is responsible, that's affordable for the country. That's always been clear,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to have a reasonable, honest, two-way conversation about pay and everything else that is relevant.\n\n\"The most important thing is that we are talking.\"\n\nLast month saw nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland stage a walkout for the first time in the RCN's 106-year history. The Royal College of Nursing Scotland says it is planning industrial action while the RCN has announced further strike dates in England on 18 and 19 January.\n\nThe RCN has said nurses should receive a pay increase of 5% above inflation this year, which at the peak rate of inflation would have equated to a 19% rise, although reports last week suggested it would accept 10%.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"We are about to start a new pay settlement round... we're about to start that independent process, and before that process starts the government is keen to sit down with the unions and talk about pay and make sure they understand where we're coming from.\"\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Ms Cullen repeated her call for the prime minister to meet her \"halfway\", and said the RCN had made a \"significant move\" by signalling a willingness to compromise.\n\n\"There was a chink of optimism and there was a little shift in what the prime minister was saying,\" she said.\n\n\"However, and this is really important, tomorrow's meeting... is not about negotiations, it's not about nurses' pay, and it's not addressing the issues that are our dispute.\n\n\"The prime minister talked about coming to the table. Now that's a move for me. But it must be about addressing pay for 2022-23.\"\n\nAhead of Monday's meeting, Health Secretary Steve Barclay suggested health workers could get a bigger pay rise in the next financial year if they agree to \"efficiency\" savings in the NHS.\n\nMr Sunak was also asked about the growing numbers of people waiting for treatment and whether the NHS was in a crisis.\n\nThe prime minister, who hosted a forum of health leaders and experts on Saturday to discuss how key issues in the health service could be addressed, said: \"The NHS is undeniably under enormous pressure.\n\n\"But actually I came away from all my meetings with a renewed sense of confidence and optimism that we can get to grips with this problem.\n\n\"We've got a plan that we've got in place that we're making sure that we can actually deliver.\"\n\nHe repeatedly refused to reveal whether he uses private healthcare, saying the question was \"not really relevant\" to his role as prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We will phase out GP running practices - Labour's Wes Streeting\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the NHS was \"not just on its knees, it's on its face\".\n\nHe said a Labour government would implement a 10-year plan to reform the health service but defended his backing of the use of the private sector to lower NHS waiting lists.", "Thousands of protesters have ransacked Brazil's Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in Brasília.\n\nPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was on an official state trip to Sao Paulo and Congress was on recess, leaving government buildings largely empty.\n\nSupporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro refuse to accept that he lost October's election and have been calling for military intervention and the resignation of Lula.\n\nRead more: Lula vows to punish rioters who stormed key sites", "Single-use items like plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene trays will be banned in England, the government has confirmed.\n\nIt is not clear when the ban will come into effect but it follows similar moves by Scotland and Wales.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Thérèse Coffey said the move would help protect the environment for future generations.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the ban, but called for a wider-ranging plastic reduction strategy.\n\nGovernment figures suggest that 1.1 billion single-use plates and more than four billion pieces of plastic cutlery are used in England every year.\n\nPlastic waste often does not decompose and can last in landfill for many years.\n\nAlthough it might be useful in terms of food hygiene, it can also end up as litter, in turn polluting soil and water.\n\nThe confirmation of the move from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) follows a long consultation, which will be published on Saturday 14 January.\n\nEach person in England uses an average of 18 single-use plastic plates and 37 items of plastic cutlery every year, according to Defra, while just 10% of those are recycled.\n\nMs Coffey is set to ban a range of single-use plastic items mainly relating to takeaway food and drink.\n\n\"I am determined to drive forward action to tackle this issue head on. We've already taken major steps in recent years - but we know there is more to do, and we have again listened to the public's calls,\" she said.\n\n\"This new ban will have a huge impact to stop the pollution of billions of pieces of plastics and help to protect the natural environment for future generations.\"\n\nSimilar bans have already been made in Scotland, while single-use plastic straws, stirrers and plastic stemmed cotton buds were already banned in England in 2020.\n\nScotland introduced a ban on businesses using a range of single-use plastic goods in June last year. Laws for a similar ban in Wales were approved in December and will come into force later in 2023.\n\nThis latest measure does not, however, cover items found in supermarkets or shops. The government said it would address those by other means.\n\nMegan Randles, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said that the organisation welcomed the ban but further action was needed.\n\nShe said: \"We're dealing with a plastic flood, and this is like reaching for a mop instead of turning off the tap.\"\n\nShe called on the government to deliver a \"meaningful\" strategy on how to reduce plastic use, which would also include stringent targets and \"a proper reuse and refill scheme\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland's hospitals are \"almost completely full\", with bed occupancy exceeding 95% last week, the first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said services were facing \"truly unprecedented\" pressures.\n\nDemand for hospital beds had been driven up by \"extraordinary\" levels of winter flu, rising rates of Covid infections and cases of Strep A.\n\nMs Sturgeon said more work needed to be done to prevent unnecessary hospital attendances and to speed up discharges.\n\nStaffing of the NHS 24 helpline is to be increased, while health boards will be backed in maximising capacity by opening GP practices on Saturdays.\n\nIn a special briefing at the Scottish government's St Andrew's House headquarters, Ms Sturgeon said this was \"almost certainly the most difficult winter ever for the NHS\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had dealt a \"significant shock to the system\" and that this, coupled with \"extraordinary levels of other illnesses\", was creating unprecedented pressure.\n\nMore than 400 people with Covid-19 were admitted to hospital last week, on top of more than 1,000 patients with winter flu for the second week running.\n\nLater, the first minister told BBC Scotland that she would not use private healthcare if she was waiting in pain for an operation on the NHS.\n\nIn the briefing, Ms Sturgeon said there had been more than 100,000 calls to NHS 24 over the holiday period, the highest number in more than a decade.\n\nMeanwhile the ambulance services responded to more than 16,000 emergency incidents in the past week, up 11% on the average for the previous four weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday last week, hospital bed occupancy exceeded 95% - compared to 87% in the same week in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said hospitals were currently \"almost completely full\" and that more needed to be done to reduce \"unnecessary attendances\".\n\nThis will include an expansion of the NHS 24 helpline, with an acceleration of work on a new app and self-help guides.\n\nMs Sturgeon said services were also working on \"other options for patients who do not need to be at accident and emergency\".\n\nThe first minister added that more was being done to speed up the discharge of patients from hospital, with 1,700 people currently estimated to be stuck in hospitals.\n\nExtra funds are being given to health and social care partnerships to book extra care home beds, with the goal of freeing up capacity on wards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory health spokesman Sandesh Gulhane says Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has lost the trust of the NHS and must go\n\nHealth boards will also be given fresh guidance on the \"escalation contingencies\" they can take to protect \"critical and life-saving care\".\n\nOpposition parties at Holyrood have called for the Scottish government to take responsibility for the difficulties facing services.\n\nBoth the Conservatives and Labour have demanded the resignation of Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, with the Tories saying he had \"lost the confidence of NHS staff\".\n\nLabour's Jackie Baillie said Ms Sturgeon \"needs to sack Humza Yousaf and appoint someone who is up to the job\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon insisted that the health secretary was \"doing a very good job in very difficult circumstances\".\n\nMr Yousaf said he was \"working relentlessly, leaving no stone unturned to make sure I am providing as much support as I possibly can to the health service\".\n\nThe first minister also said that \"in a relative sense, NHS Scotland is dealing with some of these pressures in a better way than we would see elsewhere and some of the statistics bear that out\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon didn't come along today with a big new year announcement about NHS reforms or funding.\n\nAs with many of the pandemic-era briefings delivered from the same stage, this was more about being seen to be leading from the front on an issue of significant national concern.\n\nWe all learned during the Covid-19 years how important communication and messaging can be during a public health crisis.\n\nIt was in that spirit that the first minister wanted to acknowledge the pressures facing the health services, and provide some updates on what is being done about them.\n\nAnd she wanted to send a message to the public about \"unnecessary attendances at hospitals\" - something which is also the subject of a new series of TV ads fronted by another familiar pandemic-era face, Prof Jason Leitch.\n\nThe questions posed at the Q&A today will be a taster of what will follow at Holyrood tomorrow, with Humza Yousaf due to give a statement to MSPs.\n\nWith the NHS having such a prized position at the heart of public life, there is intense focus on what politicians in Edinburgh and London are doing to make sure it is prioritised and protected through these tough times.", "In the hours after rioters tore through Brazil's most important democratic institutions, residents of an affluent Bolsonaro-voting area of Brasilia could still hear sirens in the distance.\n\nDespite the sudden ferocity of the violence few were surprised.\n\nThrough apartment windows, you could see the glare of TV screens showing the news and violence at the presidential palace.\n\n\"It's a sad, sad day for Brazil. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised at all,\" said Victor, 28, a cafe kiosk worker.\n\nHe said he had been expecting some sort of similar action before New Year's, when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was inaugurated, and he described how more and more people - including his own brothers - had become sucked into \"populist lies\" and \"divisive\" politics.\n\nWhen he heard the news in the afternoon, he said he was afraid, knowing that he was in a largely pro-Bolsonaro area.\n\nSome of his regulars, Lula-voting neighbours in the apartments nearby, had even come down and offered him shelter in their apartments if the riots got closer.\n\n\"They said I could knock on their door!\" he said but he had decided nervously to wait it out.\n\nOutside the famous Our Lady of Fatima church just around the corner, a few people were praying, kneeling in the last pews even as the church custodian went to shut the lights off.\n\nA woman outside the church told me she was struggling to get home because the subways had been suspended and the central bus station was also closed because it is in the blocked off central district.\n\nShe grew more emotional as she spoke about the violence.\n\n\"Brasilia is a non-political city, it's just the city that I live in and where I go about my day-to-day life. But at the same time, it's also a political city. And we live in these two parallel cities,\" she said, wishing to remain unnamed.\n\n\"So today it was sad to see Brasilia as a non-political city suffering aggressions because of its political side.\"\n\nOne of the men who had been praying told me it was a minority of people who wanted the riots and violence.\n\n\"But that's not what democracy is about. There will be winners and losers,\" said Oswald, 50.\n\n\"Winners will govern the country, losers have to accept, and the country will continue to grow and develop.\n\n\"I don't protest, I'm totally against what those people are doing. But my fear is to speak with someone who doesn't understand and is unwilling to understand others' views and I end up getting attacked. Because it ended up happening today.\"\n\nAnother young man I spoke to tonight in the neighbourhood identified as a Bolsonaro supporter but shook his head at the violence.\n\n\"I voted for Bolsonaro, but I don't agree with what they're doing,\" Daniel Lacerda, 21, told me.\n\nHe told me about the frustration people felt with the problems of corruption in Brazilian politics - and the rampant poverty in so many parts of the country.\n\n\"It's sad to think that we've come to this point where people think the only solution is violence. That's really sad. I don't feel happy in any way. I think there are other ways to solve this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The former boss of McDonald's has been fined by the US financial watchdog for misleading investors about his firing in 2019.\n\nSteve Easterbrook has agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty, without admitting or denying the claims.\n\nThe fast food chain fired him after finding he had had a consensual relationship with an employee.\n\nAt the time, the Chicago-based firm said that he had \"violated company policy\".\n\nFurther investigation uncovered hidden relationships with other staff members.\n\nThe food giant prohibits \"any kind of intimate relationship between employees in a direct or indirect reporting relationship\".\n\nThe British businessman initially received more than $105m (£86m) as part of a severance package.\n\nBut following an investigation, the other relationships came to light.\n\nMcDonald's said had it been aware of this, it would not have approved the multimillion-dollar deal.\n\nIt launched legal action against Mr Easterbrook, accusing him of lying about sexual relationships with staff.\n\nIn December 2021, Mr Easterbrook returned the money and apologised for failing to uphold the firm's values.\n\nOn Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States said that he had made \"false and misleading statements to investors\".\n\nIt added: \"Easterbrook knew or was reckless in not knowing that his failure to disclose these additional violations of company policy prior to his termination would influence McDonald's disclosures to investors related to his departure and compensation.\"\n\nMcDonald's was also charged by the SEC with \"shortcomings\" in its public disclosures related to Easterbrook's firing.\n\nHowever, the agency said the firm had \"substantially co-operated\" with the investigation and would not be hit with any fines as a result.\n\nMcDonald's said the SEC order reinforced the fact it held Mr Easterbrook \"accountable for his misconduct\".\n\n\"We fired him, and then sued him upon learning that he lied about his behaviour,\" it said.\n\n\"The company continues to ensure our values are part of everything we do, and we are proud of our strong 'speak up' culture that encourages employees to report conduct by any employee, including the CEO, that falls short of our expectations.\"\n\nMr Easterbrook, a UK citizen who grew up in Watford, Hertfordshire, led McDonald's from March 2015 to November 2019, after previously leading its UK operations.\n\nHe was widely credited with revitalising the firm's menus, remodelling stores and using better ingredients. The value of its shares more than doubled during his tenure in the US.", "During the first nationwide lockdown in 2020, Tony Stowell was only able to see his mother Antonia through a window at her care home\n\nA man plans to sue a nursing home because, he says, during the pandemic his mother was put on end-of-life care without her family being told.\n\nAntonia Stowell, 87, did not have the mental capacity to consent because she had dementia, say the family's lawyers.\n\nHer son, Tony Stowell, said if end-of-life care had been discussed, he would not have agreed to it.\n\nRose Villa nursing home in Hull says all proper process in Mrs Stowell's care was followed with precision.\n\nMr Stowell said that when he learned of the nursing home's decision, he insisted his mother was moved to a hospital, where she later died.\n\nAs a prelude to legal action, Mr Stowell's lawyers have obtained his mother's hospital records which, they say, show she was diagnosed with suspected pneumonia while living in the home. End-of-life drugs were then prescribed and ordered by medical professionals.\n\nDuring the first pandemic lockdown in 2020, Mr Stowell said that although he was not allowed inside, he visited his mother regularly and would see her through a window, but in May that year, she suddenly seemed to deteriorate.\n\n\"When I looked through the window she was just slumped in her wheelchair,\" he said.\n\n\"Something was just telling me it was different. It didn't look right to me. So I am banging on the windows and the doors and I said 'what's wrong with my mum?'.\n\n\"They said 'it's fine, she's just sleeping'.\n\n\"I said 'it looks like she is dead in there'.\"\n\nThe following day, he said, he was told over the phone by the home that his mother had been put on end-of-life care.\n\nHe said he had to break the news to his equally shocked siblings, and the family insisted their mother was moved to Hull Royal Infirmary hoping she could receive treatment, but she died there the next day.\n\n\"They should have consulted all family members. The care home would always phone each family member if Mum didn't feel well or had a headache. I always got calls from them. This is why I am so angry,\" Mr Stowell said.\n\nIn a statement, Rose Villa said: \"We believe that our dedicated and professional team provided Antonia with the very best care under the direction of her GP and medical team, and all proper process in the delivery of this care was followed with precision.\"\n\nRose Villa nursing home is registered for a maximum of 49 residents, its website says\n\nMr Stowell's lawyers, Gulbenkian Andonian solicitors, said his mother's hospital records reveal the decision to put her on end-of-life care was made two days before the family was told.\n\nIn their letter to the home announcing the planned legal action, they said Mrs Stowell could have had \"48 additional hours on a ventilator with treatment… with the necessary implication that Antonia Stowell could still be with us today or at least survived\".\n\nThe lawyer dealing with the case, Fadi Farhat, told the BBC: \"As a matter of law, there is a presumption in favour of treatment which would preserve life and prolong life, irrespective of one's age or condition.\n\n\"Therefore to deviate from that presumption means a patient, or family members, should be consulted as soon as that decision is made or contemplated.\"\n\nHe adds: \"What is particularly concerning for me is this case occurred at the height of the pandemic. That should worry everybody because it demonstrates that rights can be suspended in times of crisis, when the very purpose of legal rights is to protect us during times of crisis.\"\n\nMr Stowell has also launched a campaign for an \"Antonia's Law\" to give care home residents the right to have cameras in their rooms so relatives can monitor them.\n\nMr Farhat said other families have now been in touch, saying their relatives were put on end-of-life care without consultation, echoing wider concerns about \"do not resuscitate\" decisions during the pandemic.\n\nIn its statement, Rose Villa added: \"The Covid pandemic has hit the social care sector extremely hard. Despite the numerous challenges this has presented, the team at Rose Villa care home have always strived to provide the very best care for all our residents and are fully committed to delivering the highest level of care now and into the future.\"\n\nMrs Stowell's death certificate said she died from Covid and dementia.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said decisions taken for people assessed as lacking mental capacity must be made in their best interests.\n\n\"The Mental Capacity Act places a duty on the decision-maker to consult those interested in the person's welfare where practicable and appropriate,\" the officiial added.", "The ozone layer - which is on track for recovery - protects against harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun\n\nHuman action to save the ozone layer has worked as hoped, and it may recover in just decades, the UN says.\n\nAn international agreement in 1987 to stop using the harmful chemicals that were damaging the layer has been successful, the major assessment says.\n\nThe ozone layer is a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.\n\nWhen it is depleted, this radiation can reach the surface - causing potential harm to humans and other living things.\n\nUltraviolet rays can damage DNA and cause sunburn, increasing the long-term risk of problems such as skin cancer.\n\nThe ozone layer began depleting in the 1970s.\n\nChlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were commonly found in spray cans, fridges, foam insulation and air conditioners, were blamed for eating away at the ozone layer.\n\nA gaping hole in the layer was discovered by scientists in 1985. Just two years later, the Montreal Protocol was signed - with 46 countries promising to phase out the harmful chemicals.\n\nThe deal later became the first UN treaty to achieve universal ratification, and almost 99% of banned ozone-depleting substances have now been phased out.\n\nThe Antarctic ozone hole continued expanding until 2000, after which its area and depth began improving slowly.\n\nNow, a report co-produced by UN, US and EU agencies says the Montreal Protocol is working as hoped.\n\nIt says that, if current policies are maintained, the ozone layer will be restored to 1980 values - before the ozone hole appeared - at different points in different places:\n\nWhile the depletion of ozone is harmful due to solar radiation, it is not a major cause of climate change.\n\nBut saving the ozone layer has had a positive knock-on effect on global warming, the report suggests, because some of the harmful chemicals that were phased out are powerful greenhouse gases.\n\nThat phase-out will have prevented up to 1C of warming by the middle of the century - if compared to increasing their use by 3% per year, the scientists found.\n\nWhile the report has been hailed as good news - and evidence that rapid, international action to avert environmental crises can work - it warns that continued progress on the ozone layer is not guaranteed.\n\nFor example, proposals to limit global warming by sending millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere - known as stratospheric aerosol injection - could drastically reverse the ozone layer's recovery.", "The NHS will seek to discharge patients who are medically fit to leave hospital in the coming weeks\n\nThousands of NHS patients in England will be moved into care homes as part of the government's plan to ease unprecedented pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe NHS is being given £250m to buy thousands of beds in care homes and upgrade hospitals amid a winter crisis.\n\nIt is hoped the move will free up 2,500 hospital beds so patients can be admitted more quickly from A&E.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said the announcement was \"another sticking plaster\".\n\nThe plans are part of an emergency package unveiled by Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nThere are currently about 13,000 medically fit patients occupying beds in England.\n\nIn the coming weeks, some of those patients will be discharged from hospitals into the community, where they will receive care as they recover.\n\n\"Getting people out of hospital on time is more important than ever,\" said Helen Whately, minister for care. \"It's good for patients and it helps hospitals make space for those who need urgent care.\"\n\nThe package, announced on Monday, will include trials of other ideas to free up hospital beds in six areas of England.\n\nThe government said these ideas, which include dedicated dementia hubs and new options for rehabilitative care, could be rolled out across the NHS if successful.\n\nBut questions are also being asked about why it has taken so long to release £500m of winter funding that was announced in September - the primary aim of which was to tackle delayed discharges.\n\nThe latest money is on top of that, but the NHS is still waiting for £300m of the original £500m pot.\n\nThe first tranche finally arrived in early December, with the remainder due by the end of this month, the government says.\n\nBut if it had been given earlier, many in the NHS believe they would have had a better chance of managing some of the problems.\n\nResponding to the announcement, Mr Streeting said the government's \"failure to fix social care means thousands of patients who are medically fit to be discharged remain stranded\".\n\n\"It is worse for patients and more expensive for the taxpayer,\" he said.\n\nOf the new funding, £200m will go towards buying up extra care home beds, with £50m of capital funding to upgrade hospitals. Those plans will aim to deal with ambulance queues by creating areas for vehicles to manoeuvre, and also funding discharge areas in hospitals so patients can be moved out of acute beds.\n\nThe package comes at a time when a spike in Covid and flu infections is putting severe pressure on the NHS, on top of a backlog caused by the pandemic.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nIn a speech last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said bringing down NHS waiting lists was one of his top priorities this year.\n\nMr Sunak and Mr Barclay hosted health leaders in Downing Street for emergency talks on Saturday, as A&E units struggle to keep up with demand, and trusts and ambulance services declare critical incidents.", "Piotr Krowka's body was found in a former parochial house in Maghera in 2018\n\nTwo men have been jailed for the \"brutal\" killing of a homeless man in County Londonderry.\n\nThe body of Piotra Krowka, 37, was found at a derelict parochial house in Glen Road, Maghera, in 2018.\n\nCaolan Michael Johnston, 21, from The Fort, Maghera, and Adrian Kozak, 22, from Garvey Wood, Ballymena, previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter.\n\nKozak was sentenced to eight years and Johnston was handed a six-year sentence.\n\nBoth will serve half the terms in jail and half on licence.\n\nKozak, from Garvey Wood, Ballymena, was 17 at the time of the killing and was also involved in previous attacks on Mr Krowka prior to the fatal assault.\n\nJohnston, from The Fort in Maghera, was aged 16 at the time and described as easily led.\n\nThe court was told that Mr Krowka - who was originally from Poland - was left to die after being attacked by Johnston and Kozak on 31 March 2018.\n\nIt happened in a derelict former parochial house where Mr Krowka was sleeping rough.\n\nThe men went back to the scene twice on the day after the attack, but did not raise the alarm.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed that he had suffered a violent death, caused by blunt-force trauma to his head, chest, abdomen and left arm.\n\nJudge Patricia Smyth described the attack as sustained and brutal, causing catastrophic injuries.\n\nAt Belfast Crown Court on Monday, she said the case had been \"exceptionally difficult\".\n\nThe Belfast Recorder spoke about both Kozak and Johnston's youth and immaturity in March 2018 and said she accepted that neither young men intended to cause Mr Krowka serious harm.\n\nMr Krowka had been living with fellow Poles in Maghera but found himself homeless following allegations that he had sexually assaulted a woman.\n\nThis resulted in him being attacked on several occasions prior to the fatal beating carried out in the disused property.\n\nBoth men were initially charged with murder before they pleaded guilty to manslaughter.\n\nAs she sentenced them, Judge Smyth said the injuries sustained by Mr Krowka were \"catastrophic\".\n\n\"A vulnerable man was left to die, having been subjected to a brutal and sustained beating by two teenagers who did not intend to cause him really serious harm, and who - due to their age, relative immaturity, lighting conditions within a derelict house and a degree of panic - failed to appreciate the extent of his injuries or the fact he was in a life-threatening condition.\"\n\nAs their families sat in the public gallery, both young men were led from the dock in handcuffs by prison staff and taken into custody to begin their sentences.", "Jermaine Cools was with his brother when he was attacked outside a chicken shop\n\nA teenager has admitted murdering a 14-year-old boy who was London's youngest stabbing victim in 2021.\n\nJermaine Cools was attacked in a fight involving a number of people outside a chicken shop near West Croydon station in south London on 18 November that year.\n\nA post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, a 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to murder and is due to be sentenced on 24 February.\n\nSpeaking outside court Jermaine's father, Julius Cools said his son's mother had lost her \"best friend\".\n\nHe described Jermaine as a \"mummy's boy\" and said that they \"used to do everything together\".\n\nThe Met Police said the defendant, who was 16 at the time, was seen on CCTV calmly walking towards a fight that had broken out, with a knife in his pocket.\n\nWhen Jermaine fell over, the defendant was seen to run towards him and he repeatedly lunged at Jermaine with a knife, who was frantically trying to avoid being stabbed, before running off, the force said.\n\nA member of the public helped Jermaine into a car and drove him to Croydon hospital where he died just over an hour later.\n\nDetectives said following the murder the defendant was identified from CCTV and was arrested on 27 December after officers, who were carrying out an arrest inquiry for someone else, found him hiding behind a bed.\n\nJulius Cools (third left) with friends and family outside court\n\nThe defendant, who cannot be named due to his age, previously admitted possessing a knife in London Road on the same date.\n\nOf the guilty plea, Mr Cools said: \"This guy took our life, and our son and everything we had so even though he's in court, he's laughing.\n\n\"There's nothing that can help us from going through what we're going through.\n\n\"This guy killed our son, he murdered our innocent baby just like that for no reason.\"\n\nThe stabbing took place near West Croydon railway station\n\nLast November, a plaque was unveiled near to the place where Jermaine died to commemorate him.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An image released on Saturday is believed to be of Constance Marten in Essex\n\nA couple and their newborn baby who went missing three days ago were last seen after travelling inland from a port, police have said.\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon left their vehicle when it broke down on the M61, near Bolton, on Thursday.\n\nA CCTV image thought to be of Ms Marten near Harwich Port in Essex, more than 250 miles (400km) away, was released on Saturday.\n\nThe couple were seen later that day in Colchester, about 20 miles (35km) away.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said the most recent report of a sighting came shortly after 10:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nA force spokesperson said \"officers are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of the newborn baby which is everyone's priority\".\n\nThey added: \"Evidence suggests that Constance has very recently given birth and neither her nor the baby have been assessed by medical professionals.\"\n\nThe force appealed for the new mother \"to reach out to ensure they are safe and well\".\n\nConstance Marten (left) and Mark Gordon, together with their newborn baby, left their vehicle safely near to junction four of M61 at Farnworth, Bolton.\n\nAfter breaking down close to junction four of the M61, the family walked towards Anchor Lane bridge which links the Highfield and Little Hulton areas, GMP said.\n\nMr Gordon was described as wearing dark clothing while Ms Marten was wearing a burgundy coat. The baby was swaddled.\n\nThe CCTV still released on Saturday appeared to show Ms Marten wrapped in a large red shawl.\n\nMs Marten and Mr Gordon are both originally from London.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Harry has said his father's wife Camilla forged connections with the British press in order to rehabilitate her image after she married into the Royal Family in 2005 - which alarmed him given his own distrust of the media\n\nIn an interview with CBS, which aired hours after his ITV interview and ahead of the official publication of his memoir Spare, he describes how he believed this made Camilla, who is now the Queen Consort, \"dangerous\".", "Supporters of Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the presidential palace could be seen dressed in Brazilian colours and waving flags inside the building.\n\nThousands of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters invaded the country's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital Brasília.\n\nLive updates on this story here", "Western Australia has been experiencing heavy rain, causing communities to be stranded and leaving hundreds of people in need of evacuation.\n\nAn emergency services minister said it was \"the worst flooding Western Australia has had in its history\".\n\nThe crisis in the Kimberley region started last week after the severe weather system Ellie, a former tropical cyclone, brought heavy rain.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nLeague Two Stevenage produced an incredible late comeback to stun Premier League Aston Villa at Villa Park and reach the FA Cup fourth round.\n\nThe visiting players and manager Steve Evans celebrated with their supporters at full-time after two goals in the final two minutes clinched a magnificent victory.\n\nSubstitute Dean Campbell fired in a superb 90th-minute winner after Jamie Reid's equaliser from the penalty spot - the spot-kick awarded after last man Leander Dendoncker was shown a straight red card for bringing down Campbell.\n\nMorgan Sanson's first goal for Villa had given Unai Emery's side a half-time lead over a side ranked 59 places below them in the football pyramid.\n\nBut the hosts, despite their overall superiority, were unable to extend their advantage and they were made to pay in a remarkable conclusion to the match.\n\nFourth tier Stevenage's reward is a trip to Championship outfit Stoke City in the fourth round, which takes place from 27 to 30 January.\n\nFor 84 minutes, it all appeared rather straightforward for Aston Villa.\n\nBut their bid to end their worst ever FA Cup losing run - which extends to an eighth match - unravelled from the moment Dendoncker was dispossessed on the edge of his own box and grabbed the shirt of Campbell.\n\nReferee Graham Scott appeared to initially award a free-kick but then produced a red card and pointed to the spot, allowing a video assistant referee review to confirm the penalty.\n\nReid held his nerve to send Robin Olsen the wrong way and put Stevenage on course for a replay - a feat which would have been a fantastic achievement on its own.\n\nBut the League Two side were not done yet and some quick thinking from Jake Reeves to pass his corner to Campbell resulted in the 21-year-old Scot drilling a shot into the bottom corner and sending the away fans into raptures.\n\nVilla have now progressed from just one FA Cup tie since reaching the 2015 final. Stevenage, meanwhile, are the first fourth tier side to beat a Premier League team in an away FA Cup tie for four years.\n\nA manager with a rich history in cup competitions, four-time Europa League winner Emery made his intentions clear this week as he announced he was preparing his side for this match with the objective of \"winning the FA Cup\".\n\nFive years after he joined Barcelona in a £142m move from Liverpool in January 2018, Brazilian Philippe Coutinho started among eight changes from Villa's midweek Premier League draw with Wolves.\n\nThe hosts dictated from the start - they ended the match having averaged 78.6% possession - but Douglas Luiz's long-range effort was the only test for goalkeeper Taye Ashby-Hammond before Stevenage offered their first warning.\n\nLuke Norris was unlucky to marginally mistime his run before he provided a great assist to set up Danny Rose for what the visitors momentarily believed was a shock opener.\n\nAn intricate passing move produced Villa's opener, Ings teeing up Frenchman Sanson for his first goal for the club, but Stevenage stuck to their task and almost had a stunning equaliser when Norris skimmed the top of the crossbar with an excellent curled attempt.\n\nThey continued to defend resolutely as Villa increased the pressure after the break.\n\nPerhaps too keen to impress in his first start under Emery, the misfiring Coutinho left the field after 65 minutes, having had a match-leading five attempts but landing just one on target.\n\nThere had been little to suggest the match would end as it did. After all, Stevenage scored with their only two shots on target. But what unfolded will live long in the memory of the 3,000 travelling fans present to witness a truly memorable fightback.\n• None Offside, Stevenage. Michael Bostwick tries a through ball, but Jordan Roberts is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. David Amoo (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Roberts.\n• None Attempt missed. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a set piece situation.\n• None Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Stevenage 2. Dean Campbell (Stevenage) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jake Reeves following a corner.\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 1, Stevenage 1. Jamie Reid (Stevenage) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Leander Dendoncker (Aston Villa) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt missed. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Emiliano Buendía.\n• None Substitution, Aston Villa. Lucas Digne replaces Ludwig Augustinsson because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Stevenage. Dean Campbell tries a through ball, but Luther Wildin is caught offside.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Check out the stellar selection of films on BBC iPlayer\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer", "John Lydon - whose parents were from Ireland - is also sometimes known as Johnny Rotten\n\nPublic Image Ltd - the band John Lydon formed after the Sex Pistols split in 1978 - is in the running to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nThe song, called Hawaii, is described as \"a love letter to Lydon's wife of nearly five decades who is living with Alzheimer's.\"\n\nIrish broadcaster RTÉ has announced the band will compete with five other acts for the title in a TV show next month.\n\nThis year's Eurovision is taking place in Liverpool in May.\n\nHawaii \"is dedicated to everyone going through tough times on the journey of life,\" Lydon said. \"It's also a message of hope that ultimately love conquers all.\"\n\nPiL, who formed 45 years ago, have scored five top 20 singles and five top 20 albums in the UK\n\nAs well as the band, who formed 45 years ago, Adgy, Connolly, Wild Youth, Leila Jane and K Muni & ND will all perform on a special edition of the Late Late Show on 3 February.\n\nThe decision will be split between a national jury - made up of music experts - an international jury and a public vote.\n\nIreland has won Eurovision seven times, more than any other country, but it has failed to qualify for the grand final since 2018.\n\nItaly, France, Spain, Germany and the UK automatically get a place in the final because of how much they pay to enter with the remaining acts participating in two semi-finals first.\n\nTvorchi will represent Ukraine in Liverpool and will also automatically get a place in the grand final\n\nLike Ireland, lots of countries choose their Eurovision act via TV competitions, and it is a format the United Kingdom has used in the past to decide its act.\n\nThis year's UK act will be chosen behind-the-scenes, like Sam Ryder was last year, with the BBC hoping to achieve similar success to his second-place position.\n\nThe 37 countries taking part have until the end of March to confirm their songs and artists for the competition.\n\nEurovision grand final will take place on 13 May in Liverpool.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Lailah Peel says patient safety is \"at risk every day\" in A&E departments\n\nScotland's hospitals are \"not safe\" for patients under current winter pressures on the NHS, a doctors' union says.\n\nDr Lailah Peel, deputy chair of BMA Scotland, said patient safety was now \"at risk every day\" in A&E departments.\n\nShe spoke to BBC Scotland as Covid cases soared last week and hospital flu admissions hit a five-year high.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said the Scottish government was doing \"everything possible\" in its power to improve the situation.\n\nDr Peel said a major problem was the shortage of beds due to delayed discharge - where patients who are medically fit are unable to leave hospital, often due to a lack of community care provision.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's Sunday Show: \"It's absolutely heartbreaking, because as a doctor you know what you want to do for patients in their hour of need, but you just can't because you've got so many other patients.\n\n\"Patients who need to be in intensive care or high dependency units are sitting in A&E departments for hours waiting, it is just not safe.\n\n\"Patient safety is at risk every day in our A&Es across Scotland. You just can't give the care you want to give to patients.\"\n\nCovid cases have soared and hospital flu admissions have reached a five-year high\n\nDr Peel said many doctors and medical staff had reached their limit, which was adding to the pressure on health services.\n\nShe added: \"We've struggled for the last three years, it is absolutely brutal. It is painful to think about the future because we can't see this improving any time soon.\n\n\"You see more and more colleagues not turning up to work because they are just broken. More are looking at careers outside of medicine, because it's just so difficult every day.\"\n\nOn Friday Nicola Sturgeon chaired a meeting of the Scottish government's resilience committee to address the pressures on health and social care services.\n\nThe first minister and key cabinet ministers met NHS board chiefs, local authorities and the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe committee, which included Scotland's Health secretary Humza Yousaf, discussed the Covid-19 situation, the flu outbreak and increased demands on acute sites and social care over winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Humza Yousaf says there is an unprecedented crisis in the NHS this winter\n\nMr Yousaf told BBC Scotland that he was doing everything possible to help move fit patients into community care.\n\nHe said about 95% of patients were discharged on time, but the remaining percentage was creating \"a real issue for capacity within hospitals\".\n\n\"Doctors and nurses are working under the most unprecedented pressure of their careers and the NHS's existence,\" he said.\n\n\"People are not getting the level of care I would want, for myself or a family member.\n\n\"Our focus is on trying to invest more in social care, to improve conditions for the workforce and to try to create every ounce of capacity we possible can.\"\n\nMr Yousaf insisted that the Scottish government had done enough planning for this winter, but said there was not a \"silver bullet\" that could alleviate current pressures.\n\nHe added: \"Even with all the mitigation, if we are going to face high levels of Covid, high levels of flu, Strep A and other viral infections, and high energy costs and inflation.\n\n\"We planned for this winter as soon as last winter was over, we got right into meetings. There are some things we just could not have foreseen.\"\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nSeveral of Scotland's A&E departments have asked for emergency measures to be brought in after concerns about patient safety and \"inhumane\" conditions due to high occupancy.\n\nOn Friday, NHS Borders said Borders General Hospital was at capacity and paused all routine operations.\n\nThe health board said the situation was due to high staff absence from illness and the closure of wards due to Covid, flu and Norovirus outbreaks.\n\nScottish Labour last week called for the Army to be drafted in to help.\n\nThe Scottish government previously called in soldiers to drive ambulances in 2021 during the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Yousaf said the Army would not solve the situation, but said he would look at any request from health boards.\n\n\"The biggest issue we are facing is the high level of delayed discharge. Drafting in the army is not going to help,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he had \"no objection\" to any health board declaring a major incident, but said it wouldn't guarantee mutual aid from other boards as all were under pressure.\n\nThe latest figures for A&E departments showed a record 1,925 Scots spent 12 hours or more waiting in the week leading up to Christmas.\n\nThere have also been reports of lengthy waits to get through to helpline NHS 24 and difficulties getting a GP appointment.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives said Mr Yousaf's planning for winter \"came too little too late\".\n\nHealth spokesman, Dr Sandesh Gulhane MSP, said: \"He was repeatedly warned a year ago that a winter crisis was looming but he totally failed to act.\n\n\"His flimsy NHS Recovery plan which is now well over a year old is simply not fit for purpose. He is offering no solutions to this crisis.\"", "Andrew Bagshaw, pictured left, and Christopher Parry have been reported as missing in Ukraine\n\nTwo British nationals have gone missing in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian police have said.\n\nAndrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, were doing voluntary work, police said, and were last seen on Friday heading to the town of Soledar - where fighting has been intense.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was \"supporting the families\".\n\nMr Bagshaw's parents said they \"love him dearly\" and were \"immensely proud of all the work he has been doing\".\n\nThere has been no contact with the two men since Friday.\n\nMr Parry, from Truro in Cornwall, travelled to Ukraine to do humanitarian work and had most recently been helping people evacuate Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Cornwall from Ukraine over Christmas last year, he described having a \"drive to help, as the people here are so lovely\".\n\nHe spoke about the \"continuous\" bombardment as he spent time near the front line, as well as encountering a drone \"within about 10 metres of my face\".\n\nMr Parry, who lives in Cheltenham, has written in his online crowdfunding page about raising money for vehicle repairs, fuel and equipment to help evacuate civilians, and gave examples of helping children and families to flee the front line.\n\nIn a statement issued to the media in New Zealand - where Mr Bagshaw lives - his parents described the work he has been doing \"delivering food and medicines and assisting elderly people move from near the battlefront of the war\".\n\nThe police department in the city of Bakhmut said they received a missing person's report at 17:15 local time on Saturday, and appealed for any information that could help locate the two men.\n\nThe men had been in Kramatorsk, where there have been reports of strikes in recent days.\n\nThey were last seen heading to the small, eastern town of Soledar. The UK's Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that Russia was \"likely\" in control of most of Soledar after a months-long battle with Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe British Foreign Office is warning against all travel to Ukraine due to attacks on a number of different cities currently taking place, as the war continues into its 11th month.\n\nIt says there is a \"real risk to life\", adding British nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately.\n\nThere have been several cases of Britons going missing or being captured in Ukraine over the last year.\n\nLast September, five British nationals who were being held by Russian-backed forces were released after Saudi Arabia said it had brokered an exchange between Russia and Ukraine of 10 detainees.\n\nThis meant Aiden Aslin, John Harding, Dylan Healy, Andrew Hill and Shaun Pinner were all allowed to return home following months of capture.", "Let's be blunt: we are not wildly closer to all these strike rows being sorted out than we were.\n\nBut it is also true that we were never likely to be, after a series of short meetings between trades union officials and government ministers earlier.\n\nThe tone, though, has undeniably shifted, on the government side and among at least some of the unions.\n\nMinisters continue to hint, both publicly and privately, that they might be willing to compromise - although the details of how they might do this don't appear worked through yet.\n\nIt is worth remembering the basis upon which today's talks between ministers and unions were convened.\n\nIt was to talk about what pay might look like in the next financial year starting in April - not the pay striking workers are receiving now, which in many instances is the root cause of the current industrial action.\n\nBut what was also hinted at over the weekend by the prime minister publicly, and other government sources privately, was that there may be scope to do something about pay now.\n\nCould a one-off hardship payment in various sectors caught up in industrial action be an option?\n\nIt is an idea being explored by the Labour government in Wales, and it is not being instantly dismissed at Westminster for England any more.\n\nAn idea that just a few short weeks ago before Christmas was flatly rejected by Downing Street and the Treasury, having been floated by Health Secretary Steve Barclay, now appears to be back in play.\n\nAnd here's another idea being discussed: backdating any pay deal for the next financial year to the start of this calendar year, giving workers another three months at whatever rate they secure in the pay settlement now being worked on.\n\nBoth of these options would allow ministers to say they haven't reopened the existing pay settlement, but would also allow them to say they have listened to what the trades unions are saying.\n\nBut they are, at least as things stand, signals of potential intent, rather than anything more concrete.\n\nHow much would a one-off payment be? \"A few hundred quid? No way. A thousand quid? Well, maybe we'd be getting somewhere,\" one union source suggested to me.\n\nWhat would be the level of pay backdated to the beginning of this year? We, and the unions, don't know.\n\nAmbulance worker strikes are set to continue later this week\n\nAll of this illustrates a subtlety playing out on both sides. There can be disagreements within government.\n\n\"A settlement needs to be arranged, and quickly,\" said one government source, pointing out there is always a resolution in the end, so it made sense to do one sooner rather than later to minimise the damage strike action can cause.\n\nAnother emphasised that the central truth, as they saw it, is there isn't any money left in government coffers and plenty of workers in sectors without a big union presence are struggling, so why should they cave into union demands?\n\nAnd, yes, there are disagreements, or at the very least differences of emphasis, between trades unions: Unite were much more angry and condemning of the government after the meeting at the Department of Health than Unison were.\n\nBut all this also highlights some simple, bald truths.\n\nThere are industrial disputes playing out in different nations of the UK, in different sectors, involving different unions and different governments. Plenty, in all the nations, look rather difficult to sort out.\n\nAs far as England is concerned, after this set of meetings, the strikes that were already in the diary are still in the diary.\n\nNext, the government moves onto the other side of its approach: introducing a new law to attempt to limit their impact in half a dozen different sectors.\n\nThe bill, the planned new law to do this, is to be published, with Business Secretary Grant Shapps heading out and about to make the case for it.\n\nA pragmatic response to strike action in some of our most vital public services? Or a draconian limitation on the capacity of workers to legally withdraw their labour?", "Caryl Griffiths said it was hard to move in the A&E waiting room because it was so \"packed\"\n\nA 90-year-old woman with suspected sepsis was forced to spend three days sitting in a chair in A&E.\n\nMorwen Griffiths, from Ceredigion, was advised to go to hospital after she woke up with breathing difficulties and a high temperature.\n\nWhen she arrived at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, there were no beds available.\n\nHywel Dda health board said patients were experiencing longer waits and apologised for any distress caused.\n\nMrs Griffiths was taken to hospital by her granddaughter Caryl Griffiths, 27, and her family because there \"weren't any ambulances\".\n\nMs Griffiths said: \"The GP wanted us to go straight to A&E with her, we were told there were no beds in her usual hospital in Aberystwyth so he said, 'I think there might be more of a chance in Glangwili in Carmarthen.'\n\n\"As soon we arrived... I'm basically speechless still trying to explain the situation of seeing 10 standstill ambulances and the A&E room absolutely packed.\"\n\nMrs Griffiths had low oxygen levels but her granddaughter said she was sat on a chair in the emergency unit for three days.\n\nCaryl and her family are visiting Mrs Griffiths three times a day now she has been discharged from hospital\n\n\"It was a surreal, surreal situation,\" she said.\n\n\"It was just patients literally behind each other on the corridor, people in front of the toilets, people just queuing anywhere you could find some room.\n\n\"To watch someone as ill and as close to me as my mamgu going through it, it was tragic.\"\n\nDespite their wait, Ms Griffiths said the nurses were \"excellent\".\n\nLast week, senior NHS staff were advised by the Welsh government to discharge people who are well enough to leave hospital, even without a package of care but doctors warned some patients could die if this guidance was followed.\n\nThe Welsh government said discharging patients could help them get better \"by reducing the risk of infection and muscle wastage\" and only people who were fit to leave would be discharged.\n\n\"We have already made more than 500 extra community beds and packages of care available this winter to help discharge people from hospital, and are working on delivering more,\" a spokesman said.\n\nMs Griffiths said she and her family have been supporting Mrs Griffiths since she was discharged and have been promised help from Red Cross volunteers.\n\n\"Obviously, we're more than happy to help, so we have to go up to see mamgu three times a day,\" she added.\n\nHywel Dda health board said: \"We are sorry to hear of Mrs Griffiths' experience and of the distress this will have caused her and her family.\"\n\nIt said it could not comment on individual cases, but encouraged her family to contact patient support.", "Local Covid data is in stark contrast to that from central government\n\nNearly 90% of people in Henan, China's third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say.\n\nProvincial official Kan Quancheng revealed the figure - amounting to about 88.5 million people - at a press conference.\n\nChina is battling an unprecedented surge in cases after abandoning zero-Covid policies in December.\n\nThe move followed rare protests against lockdowns, quarantines and mass tests.\n\nMr Kan did not specify a timeline for when all the infections happened - but as China's previous zero-Covid policy kept cases to a minimum, it's likely the vast majority of Henan's infections occurred in the past few weeks.\n\nHe said visits to fever clinics in Henan province peaked on 19 December \"after which it showed a continuous downward trend\".\n\nThe Henan provincial figures are in stark contrast to Covid figures from the central government\n\nAccording to official data, just 120,000 people in the country of 1.4 billion have been infected and 30 died since the shift in Covid policy.\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, authorities reported three Covid deaths in mainland China, one more than the day before.\n\nHowever, with the definition of Covid deaths narrowed and mass testing no longer compulsory, government data is no longer reflective of the true scale of the outbreak.\n\nOther local and provincial officials have also been providing very different data to that from the central government. On Christmas Eve, a senior health official in the port city of Qingdao reported that half a million people were being infected each day. Those case figures were swiftly removed from news reports.\n\nMeanwhile Chinese health officials said they would not include Pfizer's antiviral Covid medicine Paxlovid in its basic medical insurance schemes as a result of the high price quoted by the US firm.\n\nThe drug, temporarily covered by China's broad healthcare insurance scheme until 31 March, has seen a sharp increase in demand since China's Covid cases surged last month.\n\nPfizer would continue to collaborate with the Chinese government and all relevant stakeholders to \"secure and adequate supply\" of the medicine in China, the company said in a statement.\n\nOn Sunday, Beijing also lifted mandatory quarantine for all international arrivals and opened its border with Hong Kong.\n\nIn the first wave of pre-holiday travel, official data showed that 34.7 million people travelled domestically on Saturday. This represented an increase of more than a third compared to last year, according to state media.\n\nInfections are expected to soar as the country celebrates Lunar New Year later this month, with millions expected to travel from big cities to visit older relatives in the countryside.\n\nOverall, more than two billion individual journeys are expected to take place, officials have said.\n\nListen to more on what we know about China's Covid numbers: More or Less- Behind the Stats - Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted- on BBC Sounds", "Supporters of Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed the Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace.\n\nThis footage shows supporters of Mr Bolsonaro storming the court building.\n\nLive updates on this story here", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vowed to punish supporters of the country's ex-leader, Jair Bolsonaro, after they stormed Congress.\n\nSupporters of the ousted far-right leader also stormed the Supreme Court and surrounded the presidential palace.\n\nBut police regained control of the buildings in the capital Brasilia on Sunday evening after hours of clashes.\n\nBrasilia's Civil Police said 300 people have been arrested and officials have vowed to track down others involved.\n\nThe justice minister, Flavio Dino, has said the government is seeking information on \"terrorist attacks\".\n\nOn Monday morning, heavily armed officers in the city gathered outside a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since October's election.\n\nMeanwhile, Brasilia's governor, Ibaneis Rocha, has been removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nJustice Alexandre de Moraes accused him of failing to prevent the riot and of being \"painfully silent\" in the face of the attack. Mr Rocha has apologised for Sunday's events.\n\nPro-democracy rallies are being called by leftist leaders and groups across Brazil.\n\nThe dramatic scenes - which saw thousands of protesters clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and flags overrun police and ransack the heart of the Brazilian state - come just a week after Lula's inauguration.\n\nHe toured the Supreme Court building on Sunday night to see the damage for himself.\n\nThe veteran left-wing leader was forced to declare emergency powers before dispatching the national guard into the capital to restore order.\n\nHe also ordered the closure of the centre of the capital - including the main avenue where governmental buildings are - for 24 hours.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brazilian President Lula says Congress invaders will be punished\n\nMr Dino said some 40 buses which had been used to transport protesters to the capital had been seized and he called the invasion an \"absurd attempt to impose [the protesters'] will by force\".\n\nMr Bolsonaro has repeatedly refused to accept that he lost October's election and last week left the country instead of taking part in inaugural ceremonies, which would have seen him hand over the iconic presidential sash.\n\nThe 67-year-old - who is believed to be in Florida - condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nSpeaking before he arrived in Brasilia, Lula said there was \"no precedent in the history of our country\" for the scenes in Brasilia and called the violence the \"acts of vandals and fascists\".\n\nAnd he took aim at security forces whom he accused of \"incompetence, bad faith or malice\" for failing to stop demonstrators accessing Congress.\n\n\"You will see in the images that they [police officers] are guiding people on the walk to Praca dos Tres Powers,\" he said. \"We are going to find out who the financiers of these vandals who went to Brasilia are and they will all pay with the force of law.\"\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nSome protesters smashed windows, while others reached the Senate chamber, where they jumped on to seats and used benches as slides.\n\nVideos on social media show protesters pulling a police officer from his horse and attacking him outside the building.\n\nFootage broadcast by national media show police detaining dozens of protesters in their yellow jerseys outside the presidential palace.\n\nOther suspects - whose hands were bound behind their backs - are also seen being led out of the building.\n\nProtesters had been gathering since the morning on the lawns in front of the parliament and up and down the kilometre of the Esplanada avenue, which is lined with government ministries and national monuments.\n\nDespite the actions of the protesters, in the hours before the chaos, security had appeared tight, with the roads closed for about a block around the parliament area and armed police pairs guarding every entrance into the area.\n\nThe BBC had seen about 50 police officers around on Sunday morning local time and cars were turned away at entry points, while those entering on foot were frisked by police checking bags.\n\nDemonstrators were quick to defend their actions when approached by reporters.\n\nLima, a 27-year-old production engineer, said: \"We need to re-establish order after this fraudulent election.\"\n\n\"I'm here for history, for my daughters,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nOthers in the capital expressed outrage at the violence and said the attack marked a sad day for the country.\n\n\"I voted for Bolsanaro but I don't agree with what they're doing,\" Daniel Lacerda, 21, told the BBC. \"If you don't agree with the president you should just say it and move on, you shouldn't go hold protests and commit all the violence like they're doing.\"\n\nAnd many are drawing comparisons with the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nBolsonaro supporters vandalising the interior of the presidential palace\n\nBolsonaro supporters created camps in cities across Brazil, some of them outside the military barracks. That is because his most ardent supporters want the military to intervene and make good elections that they say were stolen.\n\nIt looked like their movement had been curbed by Lula's inauguration - the camps in Brasilia had been dismantled and there was no disruption on the day he was sworn in.\n\nBut Sunday's scenes show that those predictions were premature.\n\nAccording to Katy Watson, the BBC's South America correspondent, some protesters aren't just angry that Jair Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nHe spent 18 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption in 2017. His convictions were later annulled, after initially being sentenced to more than nine years.\n\nPolice used tear gas in an attempt to repel protesters\n\nLeaders from Latin America have condemned the violence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro said \"fascism [had] decided to stage a coup\" while Colombia and Mexico have offered their full support to President Lula.\n\nThese sentiments have been echoed in other countries. US President Joe Biden said he condemned \"the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in Brazil\", while Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the \"attack on democracy...cannot be tolerated\".\n\nThe UK, China and Turkey are among other countries that have also condemned the rioters' actions.", "Beth Matthews was a well known mental health blogger with thousands of followers\n\nA patient at a secure psychiatric hospital in Stockport died after taking a poisonous substance she ordered online, an inquest has heard.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, died a short time after taking the substance, which she told staff was protein powder, in March last year.\n\nMs Matthews, originally from Cornwall, was described in court as \"bright and vivacious\".\n\nShe was a well-known mental health blogger with thousands of followers.\n\nHer inquest heard that she was being treated on a secure ward at the Priory, Cheadle Royal for a personality disorder.\n\nThe court was told that paramedics were called on 21 March after reports Ms Matthews had taken an overdose.\n\nAssistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman told the jury Ms Matthews had \"ingested a substance that came through the post, quite quickly became unwell, was taken urgently to hospital where she sadly died\".\n\nIn a statement, paramedic Kate Barnes said that when she arrived staff at the unit told her that Ms Matthews \"had a parcel delivered to the unit, which she opened in front of them and managed to consume\".\n\nIf you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nMs Matthews swallowed \"an unknown amount\" of the substance it contained and had apparently told staff the package contained \"protein powder\", the inquest heard.\n\nMs Barnes was told that patients were allowed to open their own parcels if supervised by staff.\n\nThe jury was told that the package had \"foreign writing on it\" and that the substance had apparently \"been bought on the internet\".\n\nA statement from Ms Matthews' mother Jane was also read to the court.\n\nShe said her daughter was \"an incredible character\" who was \"bright and vivacious\" and who \"lit up the lives\" of everyone she met.\n\nShe loved sport and excelled at sailing, completing the gruelling Fastnet race at the age of 15.\n\nThe jury heard that in 2019 after a suicide attempt Ms Matthews suffered life-changing injuries.\n\nShe blogged about her recovery and her own mental health, gaining thousands of followers on Twitter.\n\nJane Matthews said her daughter had been able to help those who reached out to her and touched so many lives.\n\nThe inquest continues and is expected to finish next week.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Most train services are back to normal on Monday, for the first time since Christmas.\n\nBut one train operator, Chiltern Railways, is still warning passengers to expect disruption.\n\nThe main strike action on Monday is by driving examiners.\n\nLooking ahead, ambulance workers in England and Wales will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\nSome bus drivers, and teachers in Scotland, will also strike this week.\n\nWe'll bring you another update on Tuesday to explain how these may affect you.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nMonday and Tuesday this week will be affected by ongoing strikes by driving examiners over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms.\n\nStrike action is continuing at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action, by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nCar, motorcycle, lorry, bus and minibus tests are among those that may be affected, according to the DVSA.\n\nIf your driving test is due to take place on Monday, you can check here whether your test centre is affected.\n\nNot all examiners are members of the PCS union so your test may go ahead as planned.\n\nUnless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nWorkers at the DVLA will launch a five-day strike on Monday over pay, pensions and jobs.\n\nMembers of the PCS union based in Swansea and Birmingham will be taking action.\n\nSome 600 workers who are responsible for things like maintaining the database of everyone's driving record and of all of the vehicles in the UK, are expected to take part.\n\nIt forms part of the union's national campaign after 100,000 civil servants in 124 government departments voted for action.\n\nAmbulance workers in England and Wales will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\nServices in London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West of England will take action over pay and staffing.\n\nThe strikes will each last for 24 hours from midnight, the Unison union has said, and will involve all ambulance employees, not just 999 response crews.\n\nLife-threatening calls to 999, as well as the most serious emergency calls, will still be responded to, the union has said.\n\nTeachers in Scotland will also strike on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Abellio bus drivers will strike on Tuesday and Thursday.\n\nGovernment ministers are due to meet a number of unions on Monday for talks, including teachers unions and health unions. These meetings will be about pay next year.\n\nCurrently there are no further rail strikes scheduled. Meetings between the rail minister, industry representatives and union leaders will take place on Monday in a bid to break the deadlock over pay and conditions.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Peta Cavendish gave evidence in front of Judge David Turner KC at Chelmsford Crown Court\n\nA masked intruder dragged the elite cyclist Mark Cavendish by his feet and held a \"Rambo-style\" knife to his throat, his wife has told a trial.\n\nProsecutors have said men in balaclavas broke into the family home in Ongar, Essex, on 27 November 2021.\n\nTwo suspects deny two counts of robbery at Chelmsford Crown Court.\n\nMr Cavendish's wife Peta, giving evidence at the trial, described the incident as \"everyone's worst nightmare\".\n\nJurors have heard how the suspects made off with two Richard Mille watches, valued at £400,000 and £300,000, as well as suitcases and phones.\n\nPeta Cavendish (pictured on another occasion with Mark Cavendish) said the suspects took her husband's £400,000 watch that he \"raced in\"\n\nRomario Henry, 31, of Bell Green, Lewisham, south east London, and 28-year-old Oludewa Okorosobo, of Flaxman Road, Camberwell, south London, both deny two counts of robbery.\n\nMs Cavendish said she was naked in bed when she was woken by a noise downstairs.\n\n\"As I got a few steps down the stairs I could hear men speaking, but it was still dark,\" said Ms Cavendish.\n\nShe said she then saw \"men's figures in balaclavas\" who ran \"towards the bottom of the stairs\".\n\nMark Cavendish remembered his wife running into their bedroom, with \"figures really close behind her\"\n\nShe described how the suspects followed her into the bedroom, where they \"dragged\" her husband \"from his feet and started punching him\".\n\n\"One of the men then had him in a headlock,\" she said.\n\n\"One of them held a large black knife to his throat and they said 'where's the watches?' and 'do you want me to stab you?'.\"\n\nShe agreed with prosecutor Edward Renvoize that it appeared to be a Rambo-style knife.\n\nA Rambo knife is generally described as a survival knife, with about a dozen saw teeth, as featured in the Rambo film franchise.\n\nPeta Cavendish said her watch, which suspects did not initially notice, was taken from her bedside table\n\nMs Cavendish said the robbers were \"very specific\" about a watch, before taking her husband's watch from a windowsill\n\n\"They were very specific about a watch,\" she said.\n\n\"I tried to explain that actually we were broken into a couple of years previously, everything has been taken.\"\n\nMs Cavendish said they demanded to be shown the safe, but that it was empty, and could not be opened anyway because its battery-operated pin machine \"had gone dead\".\n\nShe said her husband was \"out of hospital for four days maybe\" at the time following a cycling crash which left him with three broken ribs and a tear to his left lung.\n\nProsecutors said the defendants left the property at about 02:25 GMT on 27 November 2021\n\nMs Cavendish said they eventually took the £400,000 watch \"Mark raced in\", that had a blue strap, which was on a windowsill.\n\nShe said they took her £300,000 Richard Mille watch from her bedside table.\n\nThey turned the bedroom \"upside down\", she said, and when they left, Mr Cavendish pressed a panic alarm to alert a private security firm and police.\n\nEssex Police believe George Goddard, who is wanted over the alleged robbery, is the man pictured in this shop CCTV image\n\nJo Jobson, who prosecutors say is pictured in this CCTV image, is also wanted by police\n\nMr Cavendish, also giving evidence, described how he had also been naked at the time and one man \"held me\" while another \"pulled out a knife and just held it in my face\".\n\nThe cyclist, who is the joint record holder for winning stages in the Tour de France, told jurors he was a brand ambassador for Richard Mille watches and was sometimes loaned timepieces to wear.\n\nMrs Cavendish, asked about her watch that was stolen, said there was \"only one\", adding: \"It was made for me.\"\n\nMr Cavendish said the two watches were \"provided as part of being an ambassador\".\n\nJurors have been told that Ali Sesay, 28, of Holding Street, Rainham, Kent, admitted two counts of robbery at an earlier hearing.\n\nThe prosecution said fourth and fifth suspects, Jo Jobson and George Goddard, remained at large.\n\nThe trial is expected to conclude by the end of this week.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Could a one-off payment to striking workers be the way to resolve all this industrial action?\n\nI reported before Christmas that it was an idea doing the rounds within government and among senior trades unionists.\n\nBut it all went quiet. There didn't seem to be appetite for it in Downing Street or the Treasury.\n\nNow, it appears to be back.\n\nThe Guardian is reporting that the idea is in the mix for striking health workers.\n\nI am told it is not a fully worked up plan, but tellingly it is not being dismissed out of hand, and senior figures talk in terms along the lines of \"there may be scope\" to consider ideas like this if compromises come from the unions.\n\nThis morning, union leaders are heading to meet ministers in Westminster.\n\nThe formal agenda for the meetings of health unions with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, and education unions with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, is next financial year's pay settlements, rather than this year's, which have led to strikes among nurses and ambulance workers or the prospect of them in schools in England and Wales from next month.\n\nSenior government figures say it is not a negotiation that is happening today, but an information sharing exercise about what factors are feeding into the government's calculations for what those pay awards should be.\n\nBut senior union voices tell me they sense a snicket of opportunity for movement on this year's deal given the prime minister's language when he was talking to Laura Kuenssberg over the weekend.\n\nTo put it gently, Rishi Sunak was at least a hop and a step away from crystal clarity about what he was saying, but unions publicly and privately took some encouragement from what he said.\n\nA one-off payment may allow both sides to save face.\n\nThe government could say that it hasn't reopened the pay deal. The unions could point to a win from their campaigning.\n\nAnd there are those in the trades unions who appear open to it.\n\nBut there are a million questions.\n\nHow much would a one off payment be? To whom? By when?\n\nWould it be politically tenable to offer it to some striking workers and not to others?\n\nNurse union leader Pat Cullen has said there is \"a chink of optimism\" ahead of talks with the government\n\nAs union leaders head into their meetings, one tells me they fear today amounts to \"smoke and mirrors\" - it is an invite they can't turn down, for fear of looking churlish, but they fear it might not add to anything concrete, at least yet.\n\nOn the government side, there is a nervousness that industrial action on this scale, and with no prospect of ending, poses the most awkward question to ministers - who is in charge?\n\nSome fear the unions smell weakness in government and are determined to capitalise on it, hence ministers' desire to give the impression of being pragmatic and wanting to talk.\n\nThis is the latest staging post in a tussle between unions and the government that has plenty of mileage in it yet.", "Protesters in London marching against Iran's leaders following the death of Mahsa Amini\n\nThe foreign secretary has summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in the UK after the regime executed two more protesters at the weekend.\n\nJames Cleverly condemned the deaths and urged an end to \"brutal repression\".\n\nThe diplomat - Mehdi Hosseini Matin - was also summoned in November over alleged threats to journalists in the UK.\n\nThe executions of Mohammad Mahdi Karami and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini have been condemned around the world.\n\nThe two men said they had been tortured into making false confessions over killing a member of the security forces during protests against the government last year.\n\nThe UN said the executions followed \"unfair trials based on forced confessions\".\n\nOther countries including Germany and France have also summoned their Iranian ambassadors.\n\nMr Cleverly said on Monday: \"The Iranian regime must end its campaign of brutal repression and start listening to the concerns of its people.\"\n\nBBC News understands that Mr Cleverly has not directly spoken to Iran's charge d'affaires, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, despite instructing the Foreign Office to summon him four times.\n\nThe Foreign Office first summoned Mr Hosseini Matin on 3 October in response to the regime's crackdown on nationwide protests prompted by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.\n\nA few weeks later, on 11 November, he was summoned again after reports of threats made against journalists living in the UK.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police warned at least two journalists working at Iran International, a Persian-language news channel, of a threat to their lives after an Iranian reconnaissance unit was reportedly seen outside their homes and offices.\n\nMohammad Mahdi Karami attending a court hearing in Karaj, Iran, a month before he was executed\n\nThe Foreign Office then sent another summons on 8 December when another prisoner was executed.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale says summonses such as this are unlikely to change the way the Iranian authorities behave towards anti-government protesters.\n\nBut, he adds, it is a way of sending a signal to Tehran that its actions are not going unnoticed and that they come at a cost.\n\nWidespread protests began in Iran last year following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.\n\nShe was arrested by morality police in Tehran for allegedly breaking the country's strict dress code - she collapsed at a detention centre and died three days later in hospital.\n\nSince her death, the Foreign Office says it has imposed more than 40 human rights sanctions on political, judicial and security officials in Iran over their role in serious human rights violations.", "No politician in power wants to say it out loud, but it is a fact that patients are dying because of poor quality care in the ailing National Health Service.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine has estimated that delays in emergency care are costing up to 500 lives a week throughout the UK, including perhaps 40 a week in Scotland.\n\nCritics say the health service is struggling because of staff shortages, a lack of social care places for patients waiting to leave hospital, and because it has among the lowest levels of critical care beds in the rich world.\n\nThe situation is grim throughout the UK, and indeed beyond, but here in Scotland it's Nicola Sturgeon's SNP which has been in power since 2007, so it was the first minister who faced the cameras in Edinburgh.\n\nMs Sturgeon accepted that the NHS was under pressure even before the pandemic struck in 2020 but she attempted to defend her record as health secretary and first minister.\n\nShe pointed to spending on additional care home places and insisted that an additional 20,000 health staff had been hired in the past 15 years.\n\nHowever, she did not mention that the latest NHS Scotland workforce figures also refer to 6,319 nursing and midwifery vacancies.\n\nMs Sturgeon suggested that the number of critical care beds needed in advanced societies had reduced over time because of improvements in medicine.\n\nThe doctors' union, the BMA, says however that the UK as a whole is lagging far behind comparable countries.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon faced questions at a briefing in Edinburgh\n\nThe first minister pointed out that her budget was constrained by Westminster, but neglected to add that public spending per head was £1,963 per person higher than the UK average in 2021/22, according to statistics endorsed by her own government.\n\nThe SNP leader also came under repeated questioning about the grim assessment of the state of Scotland's hospitals set out by Dr Lailah Peel, deputy chair of BMA Scotland, who had told BBC Scotland's Sunday Show that patient safety was now \"at risk every day\" in the country's A&E departments.\n\nThe first minister did her best to suggest she did not agree without criticising the professional judgment of a senior Scottish doctor.\n\nStanding alongside Ms Sturgeon, and under even more pressure, was Health Secretary Humza Yousaf. Both the Conservatives and Labour continue to call for his resignation over the government's handling of the NHS crisis.\n\nMr Yousaf's expression was stern as he was asked, very bluntly, whether he was actually up to the job. It remained grim as he listened to his boss defend him.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf has been under pressure\n\nThe pressure may ease a little if he can do a deal with the Royal College of Nursing and other unions to avert planned strike action over pay. That will be difficult. As everyone knows money is exceptionally tight and it's not just the NHS which is under pressure.\n\nTaking a step back though, is it time for a more fundamental reassessment of the state of health and social care in Scotland and the rest of the UK?\n\nAs BBC News revealed in November, remarkable discussions have been taking place inside the service about whether it needs to change dramatically in order to survive, with senior NHS leaders in Scotland even discussing the possibility of moving to a \"two-tier\" system.\n\nDescribing a \"billion pound hole\" in the budget, minutes of a high-level meeting suggested it was \"not possible to continue to run the range of programmes\" the NHS currently offers while remaining safe \"and doing no harm\".\n\nThey also contained a warning which critics say was particularly prescient, suggesting that: \"Unscheduled care is going to fall over in the near term before planned care falls over.\"\n\nOpposition parties responded by arguing that in some respects a two-tier system was already here, with those who could afford it (and some who couldn't) paying for private care rather than suffering for months or even years as they wait for the state to help them.\n\nNicola Sturgeon rejected the notion that the NHS was doomed then and she continues to reject it now.\n\nShe insists she is utterly committed to the founding principle of a public health service free for all at the point of need.\n\nShe does, however, accept there is a need for the NHS to \"adapt, change and reform\".\n\nThe first minister, in common with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and other politicians throughout the UK, is likely to come under increasing pressure to set out in more detail exactly what that means if the current crisis - and all the misery and death it entails - is not to become a permanent feature of the NHS.", "Bangladesh is the second largest garments exporter in the world\n\nMajor high street fashion brands have paid factories in Bangladesh less than the cost of producing their clothes, researchers claim.\n\nA survey of 1,000 factories found many were paid the same prices as before the pandemic two years ago - despite soaring costs of materials.\n\nOne in five said they struggled to pay Bangladesh's £2.30 a day minimum wage.\n\nThe report looked at the period from March 2020 to December 2021.\n\nIt found 90% of larger high street brands buying from four or more factories were reported as engaging in unfair purchasing practices.\n\nThese practices included cancellations, failure to pay, delays in payment and discount demands, with knock-on effects including forced overtime and harassment.\n\nSeveral retailers denied the claims made in the report.\n\nMuhammad Azizul Islam, professor of sustainability accounting and transparency at Aberdeen University, led the project .\n\nHe said: \"Two years on from the start of the pandemic, Bangladeshi garment workers were not being paid enough to live on, with one in five manufacturers struggling to pay minimum wage while many fashion brands which use Bangladeshi labour increased their profits.\n\n\"Inflation rates soaring around the world are likely to have exacerbated this even further.\"\n\nThe garment industry accounts for 85% of Bangladesh export income,\n\nHe said larger brands buying from many factories were engaging in unfair purchasing practices more frequently than smaller brands, according to suppliers.\n\nThe garment industry accounts for 85% of Bangladesh export income, with more than 12 million Bangladeshis dependent on the sector.\n\nThe study also found that after the pandemic, factories only employed 75% of the workers they had before, suggesting that up to 900,000 could have lost their jobs.\n\nProf Islam has spent 17 years looking into the lives of workers in Bangladeshi fashion factories. He grew up in Dhaka city surrounded by them.\n\nHe hopes that policy makers in the UK will listen to his findings.\n\nProf Islam added: \"Retailers say in their reports that they have a commitment to the workers and they have made progress, but transparency is a big problem in the sector and it is difficult to establish if certain products are ethically produced.\"\n\nShe told the BBC: \"When retailers treat suppliers badly by breaching previously arranged terms, it's workers who suffer.\n\n\"If a retailer fails to pay the agreed amount, or delays payments, the supplier has to cut costs some other way, and this is frequently passed on to their workers, who have the least power in the supply chain.\n\n\"We need a fashion watchdog to regulate UK garment retailers, along the same lines as the existing supermarket watchdog.\"\n\nA Fashion Supply Chain parliamentary bill was tabled with cross party support in July last year.\n\nIt proposed the establishment of a watchdog to oversee fair purchasing between UK clothing retailers and suppliers around the world.", "A new scheme to support firms with their energy bills will be announced in the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nThe current scheme which caps the unit cost of gas and electricity for all businesses expires at the end of March.\n\nIt will be replaced with a new scheme that offers a discount on wholesale prices rather than a fixed price.\n\nVery heavy energy-using sectors, such as steel, glass and ceramics, are expected to get a larger discount than others, Treasury sources said.\n\nThe BBC understands the definition of what counts as an energy-intensive user will also be broadened as part of Monday's announcement.\n\nThe business group, the CBI, has been calling for sectors including car manufacturing and chilled food processing to be included in the definition.\n\nLast week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt told industry leaders that the current scheme to support businesses was \"unsustainably expensive\".\n\nThe energy support scheme is mainly used by businesses, but is also for charities, and public sector organisations such as schools and hospitals.\n\nFirms have been warning of a \"cliff-edge\" when the current support stops at the end of March, and the new scheme is expected to run until March 2024 to avoid this.\n\nBut the total level of government support is expected to fall sharply - by more than half - from the £18.4bn the current six-month scheme is estimated to have cost by the time it ends.\n\nThis is partly due to wholesale energy prices falling very sharply in recent months.\n\nEuropean gas reserves have held up better than expected thanks to an unusually mild winter in northern Europe.\n\nWholesale gas prices are now below the level they were before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but still three to four times higher than their long-term average.\n\nAnnette Dolan, managing director at Bath Aqua Glass, a glass-blowing company, said that even with the fall in prices she is looking at an annual energy bill of £119,000 a year. \"And that's before they put the standing charge on so it is still unobtainable,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe said that the government should have capped wholesale prices from the beginning, and she warned that if prices don't come down further she will have to start letting staff go.\n\n\"I'm going to have to work with the smallest amount of people to keep going because that's the only way a small business can keep going.\"\n\nAll businesses can expect their energy bills to rise after March. However, Matt Snell, chief executive at Gusto Restaurants, told the BBC that the current help from the government \"has not really touched the sides\".\n\nHe said his company normally spends around £750,000 on energy a year. \"And even with the so-called government support in place our bill went up by over £800,000 so it is forecast to be £1.5m for this year,\" he said.\n\nHe questioned whether providing a discount on wholesale prices would help businesses who face other major energy costs. He said that energy companies are asking for \"ridiculous\" deposits to enter into contracts with businesses: \"We ourselves at Gusto had to pay £150,000 just to enter a contract.\"\n\nMeanwhile the cost of actually delivering energy to businesses was high and he called for Ofgem, the regulator, to get involved.\n\n\"What a lot of people don't understand is that the cost for delivery to your building can almost double what the wholesale cost of gas is and that is completely unregulated,\" he said.\n\nAt the same time that help for businesses is changed, government support for households will become less generous.\n\nThe bill for a typical household could rise from £2,500 a year to £3,000 a year from April - although energy analysts cautiously forecast that average bills may fall to £2,800 a year next October if current market conditions continue.\n\nThat would be a crumb of comfort for households and could save the government billions in subsidies.\n\nBut the bottom line is that energy prices are going up this year for businesses at the same time as their customers' incomes are being squeezed even further.", "Talks with ministers aimed at resolving NHS strikes have made little progress, unions have said.\n\nUnite said the meetings were \"a missed opportunity\", while the Royal College of Nursing said they were \"bitterly disappointing\".\n\nUnison said there were discussions over pay but no \"tangible concessions\" which would enable Wednesday's ambulance strikes to be called off.\n\nHowever, a government source described the talks as useful and constructive.\n\nMinisters have also been meeting teaching and rail unions in a bid to avert further industrial action.\n\nThe formal agenda of the talks was next year's pay settlements, and they were not expected to lead to an immediate breakthrough for the current pay disputes.\n\nUnions are calling for pay rises to keep up with the rising cost of living but ministers say any offer must be \"affordable\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meetings, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not deny that his government could follow Wales by offering a one-off payment to public sector workers to ease the cost of living.\n\nOnay Kasab, from the Unite union, said the government had suggested during the talks earlier that any one-off payments would have to be based on \"productivity savings\".\n\nHe said that some of his members were working 18 hour shifts and that it was \"an insult\" to discuss productivity.\n\n\"We are extremely angry,\" he added.\n\nNo 10 later said the government was \"not seeking to place extra burdens on NHS staff\" but wanted to make their work \"easier and simpler\".\n\nThe Department for Health said Health Secretary Steve Barclay had requested further discussions on ideas to make the health service work better and save staff time, that could unlock additional funding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther ambulance worker union representatives leaving the meeting were slightly more positive, with Sara Gorton from Unison saying there had been progress.\n\nShe told the BBC's PM programme \"the tone has changed\", with Mr Barclay now willing to talk about pay and acknowledging that any resolution to the current dispute \"would involve a reach-back into the current pay year\".\n\nHowever, she told the BBC there was no \"tangible offer\" of a one-off payment or backdated pay, which she said would allow the union to call off Wednesday's ambulance worker strikes.\n\n\"So it is progress, but it isn't significant until we match the new tone with some cold hard cash,\" she added.\n\nThe government has previously refused to discuss this year's pay offer for public sector workers, saying it has met the recommendations of independent pay review bodies.\n\nRachel Harrison, from the GMB union, said the talks \"fell well short of anything substantial that could stop this week's strikes\".\n\nThere was \"some engagement on pay\" but \"no concrete offer\", she said.\n\nJoanne Galbraith-Marten, from the Royal College of Nursing, said there was \"no resolution to our dispute yet in sight\".\n\nThis week's strikes - which include planned walkouts by ambulance drivers, bus drivers, teachers and driving examiners - are all expected to go ahead.\n\nNurses in England are also set to walk out for two days next week.\n\nElaine Sparkes, from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the talks were \"more constructive\" than previous meetings but \"there is nothing tangible on the table\" and the union would announce strike dates later this week.\n\nWatch Make Sense of Strikes on iPlayer and find out more about why people are striking and whether industrial action works.\n\nA government source said the health secretary discussed productivity and efficiency savings which would help decide what was affordable for the coming year's pay deal.\n\nA one-off payment for health service staff was mentioned in passing, the source said.\n\nUnions have repeatedly called for a better pay offer to be on the table before April and are said to have asked Mr Barclay to make that case to the chancellor.\n\nThe source said Mr Barclay had agreed to look at their request, without making any commitments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, there were also meetings between Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and teaching unions.\n\nFollowing the talks, Kevin Courtney, from the National Education Union (NEU), said \"no concrete progress\" was made and there was no new pay offer.\n\n\"There is nothing so far that would dissuade us from taking industrial action,\" he said.\n\nHowever, in a statement he later said there was a promise of further discussions on changes to pay for this year.\n\nTeaching unions covering England and Wales, including the NEU, the NAHT and the NASUWT, are currently balloting members on potential strike action.\n\nIn Scotland, teachers are striking for two days this week, with a week-long industrial action planned for next week.\n\nThe day of talks come as a ballot opens for junior doctors in England to decide on their own industrial action, which could begin in March.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you affected by industrial action? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Wales captain Gareth Bale has announced his retirement from football at the age of 33 after a glittering career.\n\nThe nation's most-capped male player and record men's goalscorer announced his decision on social media.\n\nBale, a five-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid, is arguably Wales' finest ever footballer.\n\n\"After careful and thoughtful consideration, I announce my immediate retirement from club and international football,\" Bale said.\n\n\"I feel incredibly fortunate to have realised my dream of playing the sport I love.\"\n\nCardiff-born Bale's club career took him from Southampton to Tottenham Hotspur and a world record transfer to Spanish giants Real before his move to Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC in June 2022.\n\nHe was his country's talisman as they reached the 2016 and 2020 European Championships before he led Wales at their first World Cup since 1958 at Qatar 2022, ending his international career with 41 goals in 111 appearances.\n\nBale was twice named footballer of the year while at Tottenham, in 2010-11 and 2012-13, and moved to Real for what was then a world-record fee of more than £80m in September 2013.\n\nDuring his time in the Spanish capital, Bale helped Real win three league titles and five Champions League titles - a number no other British player has matched - along with three Club World Cups, three Uefa Super Cups and a Spanish cup.\n\n\"It [football] has truly given me some of the best moments of my life,\" added Bale.\n\n\"The highest of highs over 17 seasons, that will be impossible to replicate, no matter what the next chapter has in store for me.\"\n\nFrom St Mary's to the Bernabeu\n\nBale had joined Tottenham in a deal worth a reported £10m in 2007 having played 45 times for Southampton, scoring five goals.\n\nHaving been used primarily as a left-back in his early career, he really began to thrive in a Spurs shirt when operating further forward, catching the eye especially with a scintillating hat-trick in the Champions League at the San Siro against European champions Inter Milan.\n\nBale's scintillating Spurs form secured the move to Real, where his spell was not always positive despite the fact he scored 104 goals in more than 250 appearances for the club, including two in a match-winning performances in the 2018 Champions League final against Liverpool.\n\nThat was one of five European titles with Real, but injuries and inconsistent form leading to fewer first-team opportunities as his time in Spain went on.\n\nIn 2019, Bale looked on the verge of moving to Chinese club Jiangsu Suning but the proposed transfer broke down, with the forward saying at the time that Real had \"blocked\" the move.\n\nHis relationship with the Spanish giants was further impacted after he celebrated Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a Welsh flag emblazoned with the words 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order'.\n\nHe returned to Tottenham on loan in 2021-22 - and scored 17 goals to give him an overall Spurs record of 72 goals in 237 games at a club where he is still adored - before making just seven club appearances for Madrid in the following campaign, his last as a Real player.\n\nAfter his Real contract expired, Bale joined LAFC on a 12-month deal, though his spell in the US was blighted by fitness issues.\n\nBale managed 13 appearances - including only two starts - for LAFC, though he did help the club lift the MLS Cup for the first time in November by scoring a last-minute equaliser in extra time to set up a penalty shootout which his side won.\n\n\"To show my gratitude to all of those that have played their part along this journey feels like an impossibility,\" Bale said.\n\n\"I feel indebted to many people for helping to change my life and shape my career in a way I couldn't have ever dreamed of when I first started out at nine years old.\n\n\"To my previous clubs Southampton, Tottenham, Real Madrid and finally LAFC, all of my previous managers and coaches, backroom staff, team-mates, all the dedicated fans, my agents, my amazing friends and family, the impact you have had is immeasurable.\n\n\"My parents and my sister, without your dedication in the early days, without such a strong foundation, I wouldn't be writing this statement right now, so thank you for putting me on this path and for your unwavering support.\n\n\"My wife and my children, your love and support has carried me through. Right beside me for all the highs and lows keeping me grounded along the way, you inspire me to be better and to make you proud.\n\n\"So I move on with anticipation to the next stage of my life, a time of change in transition and opportunity for a new adventure.\"\n\nWhile he faced criticism at times from Real fans, Bale's contribution was never questioned by Welsh fans.\n\nWales went out of the recent World Cup at the group stage, with their loss to England proving to be the final appearance of Bale's career.\n\nIt was not a fitting end for a player who achieved extraordinary feats with his country.\n\nBale made his Southampton debut as a 16-year-old in April 2006, and his first senior cap followed a matter of weeks later.\n\nThat made Bale Wales' youngest international - although that record has since been broken.\n\nThat first appearance, in a friendly against Trinidad & Tobago in May 2006, marked the start of a Wales career in which Bale inspired his country to the best spell in their history.\n\nHaving ended a 58-year wait for a major tournament appearance by qualifying for Euro 2016, Wales produced a sensational run to the semi-finals, only losing to eventual winners Portugal.\n\nThey also made it to the knockout stages of the next European Championship before last summer's play-off final win over Ukraine saw Wales clinch their long-awaited return to the World Cup.\n\n\"My decision to retire from international football has been by far the hardest of my career,\" Bale said.\n\n\"How do I describe what being a part of this country and team means to me? How do I articulate the impact it has had on my life? How do I put into words the way I felt every single time I put on that Welsh shirt? My answer is that I couldn't possibly do any of those things justice simply with words.\n\n\"But I know that every person involved in Welsh football feels the magic and is impacted in such a powerful and unique way, so I know you feel what I feel without using any words at all.\n\n\"My journey on the international stage is one that has changed not only my life but who I am. The fortune of being Welsh and being selected to play for and captain Wales has given me something incomparable to anything else I've experienced.\n\n\"I'm honoured and humbled to have been able to play a part in the history of this incredible country, to have felt the support and passion of the Red Wall and together have been to unexpected and amazing places.\n\n\"I shared a dressing room with boys that became brothers and backroom staff that became family.\n\n\"I played for the most incredible managers and felt the undying support and love from the most dedicated fans in the world. Thank you to every one of you for being on this journey with me.\n\n\"So for now I am stepping back but not away from the team that lives in me and runs through my veins after all the dragon on my shirt is all I need.\"\n• None Some of the greatest and most inspiring stories in Welsh football\n• None The transformation of the Wales football team", "Last updated on .From the section American Football\n\nBuffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been discharged from a Cincinnati hospital one week after suffering a cardiac arrest during an NFL game.\n\nHe will continue his recovery at a hospital in Buffalo, doctors said.\n\nThe 24-year-old, who had to be resuscitated on the pitch, was released from University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) on Monday.\n\n\"He is doing well and this is the beginning of the next stage of his recovery,\" said Dr William Knight.\n\nHamlin collapsed during a match at Cincinnati Bengals after making a tackle on wide receiver Tee Higgins, and received more than 30 minutes of medical attention on the field before being moved to an intensive care unit in the city.\n\nHe spent two days on a ventilator but doctors said he was up walking the unit by Friday.\n\nThe Bills player thanked the Cincinnati medical staff in a social media post on Monday after being flown from Ohio to Buffalo to continue his care at the city's General Hospital.\n\n\"Grateful for the awesome care I received at UCMC,\" Hamlin wrote on Twitter . \"Happy to be back in Buffalo. The docs and nurses at Buffalo General have already made me feel at home!\"\n\nThe American football community rallied in support of Hamlin, raising millions of dollars for charity in his name before making tributes at NFL matches when play resumed at the weekend.\n\nHe added on Twitter : \"Headed home to Buffalo today with a lot of love on my heart. Watching the world come together around me on Sunday was truly an amazing feeling. The same love you all have shown me is the same love that I plan to put back into the world n more. Bigger than football!\"\n\nThe most poignant show of support for Hamlin came in the Bills' return to action on Sunday, when they beat the New England Patriots at home to clinch second seed in the AFC for the play-offs.\n\n'It's up to Damar' - doctor on Hamlin's chances of NFL return\n\nDr Knight, who accompanied Hamlin from UCMC to the airport before his transfer to Buffalo, believes it is too early to say whether the Bills player could resurrect his NFL career.\n\n\"It's entirely too premature to discuss his football, we're focused on his day-to-day recovery,\" Dr Knight told reporters during a briefing.\n\n\"He still has a ways to go in terms of his recovery. We're thrilled where he is today. But in terms of any kind of conjecture about his future, that's still significantly into the future. It's going to be up to Damar.\"\n\nTimothy Pritts, a physician at UCMC, said they had not yet determined the cause of his cardiac arrest .\n\n\"We anticipate that he will undergo an ongoing series of tests and evaluations,\" he added, predicting a normal recovery time could range from \"weeks to months\".\n\n\"He appears to be neurologically completely intact and there's no reason to believe that he won't continue his path to recovery.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Bengals coach Zac Taylor described Hamlin's return to Buffalo as \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"I mean, just think about it - that was one week,\" he said. \"There's no one in this room that would have expected he'd be in Buffalo. This is certainly a miracle, there's no question.\"\n• None Get American Football alerts in the BBC Sport app", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,500 people have been held in Brazil after supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court in the capital Brasília.\n\nThe rioting came a week after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in.\n\nHe condemned the \"terrorist acts\" and vowed to punish the perpetrators.\n\nMr Bolsonaro has not admitted defeat in October's tight election that divided the nation, and flew to the US before the handover on 1 January.\n\nOn Monday, he was admitted to hospital in Florida with abdominal pain.\n\nDemonstrators in São Paulo marched with a big banner with the words \"We are democracy\" in Portuguese\n\nTens of thousands of people are now demonstrating in Brazil's largest city São Paulo in support of democratic values.\n\nThe turnout is impressive - a part of Paulista Avenue, Brazil's most famous street, is blocked off - as crowds have filled the area, singing, dancing and chanting for justice, reports the BBC's Katy Watson in São Paulo.\n\nThere was however a huge police presence in case of any trouble. At times, the atmosphere has felt tense, our correspondent adds.\n\nThe new president - widely known as Lula - and the heads of Congress and the Supreme Court said they \"reject the terrorist acts and criminal, coup-mongering vandalism that occurred\" during Sunday's riots.\n\nThe dramatic scenes saw thousands of protesters clad in yellow Brazil football shirts and flags overrun police and ransack the heart of the Brazilian state.\n\nOn Monday morning, heavily armed officers started dismantling a camp of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters in Brasília - one of a number that have been set up outside army barracks around the country since the presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... Why the Brazil riots happened\n\nAuthorities arrested 1,200 people on Monday - in addition to 300 detained a day earlier.\n\nJustice Minister Flavio Dino said some 40 buses which had been used to transport protesters to the capital had been seized.\n\nThe scale of the damage was still starkly evident on Monday afternoon, even as officials lauded the progress of the clean-up at the presidential palace, reports the BBC's Bernd Debusmann in Brasília.\n\nHe says workers were cleaning up broken glass around the building's exterior. Almost every window on the building's ground floor had been damaged, forcing crews to painstakingly remove each pane of glass and replace it with a new one.\n\nThe cobblestone pavement outside the palace also showed signs of damage, with large patches torn out by rioters on Sunday.\n\n\"They were using the rocks as missiles,\" one official said. \"To break the glass.\"\n\nIn the nearby Congress building, the damage included valuable works of art, including several high-profile pieces that were reportedly damaged by water or defaced during the riot.\n\nThe streets, however, were largely calm and devoid of noticeable military or police presence, our correspondent adds.\n\nMr Bolsonaro condemned the attack and denied responsibility for encouraging the rioters in a post on Twitter some six hours after violence broke out.\n\nMeanwhile, Brasília Governor Ibaneis Rocha has been removed from his post for 90 days by the Supreme Court.\n\nJustice Minister Alexandre de Moraes accused him of failing to prevent the riot and of being \"painfully silent\" in the face of the attack. Mr Rocha has apologised for Sunday's events.\n\nVideo shared by the Brazilian outlet O Globo showed some officers laughing and taking photos together as demonstrators occupied the congressional campus in the background.\n\nDemonstrators were quick to defend their actions when approached by reporters.\n\nLima, a 27-year-old production engineer, said: \"We need to re-establish order after this fraudulent election.\"\n\n\"I'm here for history, for my daughters,\" she told AFP news agency.\n\nOthers in the capital expressed outrage at the violence and said the attack marked a sad day for the country.\n\n\"I voted for Bolsonaro but I don't agree with what they're doing,\" Daniel Lacerda, 21, told the BBC. \"If you don't agree with the president you should just say it and move on, you shouldn't go hold protests and commit all the violence like they're doing.\"\n\nBolsonaro supporters created camps in cities across Brazil, some of them outside the military barracks. That is because his most ardent supporters want the military to intervene and make good elections that they say were stolen.\n\nIt looked like their movement had been curbed by Lula's inauguration - the camps in Brasília had been dismantled and there was no disruption on the day he was sworn in.\n\nBut Sunday's scenes show that those predictions were premature.\n\nSome protesters are not just angry that Bolsonaro lost the election - they want President Lula to return to prison.\n\nHe spent 18 months in jail after being found guilty of corruption in 2017. His convictions were later annulled, after initially being sentenced to more than nine years.\n\nHeads of state around the world have also denounced the violence, with the leaders of the US, Canada and Mexico issuing a joint statement on Monday condemning \"attacks on Brazil's democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power\".\n\nLate on Monday, President Joe Biden \"conveyed the unwavering support of the United States for Brazil's democracy\" during a phone call with Lula, the White House said in a statement. It added that the Brazilian leader had accepted Mr Biden's invitation to visit Washington in early February.\n\nComparisons have been drawn with the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump, an ally of Mr Bolsonaro. Mr Biden was sworn in that day after defeating Mr Trump in presidential elections the previous November.", "Singer Sean Cooney has written the song Doctor Boro about Dr Iftikhar Lone\n\nDown the centuries, folk singers have immortalised the lives of everyday characters, from sailors to scoundrels to working-class heroes.\n\nNow, a new set of folk heroes have had their stories sung by modern musicians.\n\nThey include a long-serving GP who almost died of Covid, a soup kitchen manager, and a woman who set up a charity in memory of her late daughter.\n\nSongs about them by artists like Chris Difford and Thea Gilmore feature in BBC Radio 2's 21st Century Folk project.\n\nAll five people who feature in the new songs are from the north-east of England.\n\nThey include Dr Iftikhar Lone, who has been a GP in Middlesbrough for 44 years and was in charge of the Covid vaccine rollout in his area.\n\nHowever, he spent nine days in intensive care after catching the virus himself in 2020.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"When I got Covid in the very first wave when there was no treatment, I was nine days in ICU then another seven days in hospital before I came out, after losing 16lb in weight and lucky to be alive,\" the 75-year-old says.\n\n\"I do not know what the cost of that treatment was. You go in, get treatment, you come out, and you don't worry about the cost. And I think that's a great thing. So therefore the song says, 'Free NHS for all.'\"\n\nSean Cooney of Stockton-on-Tees band The Young'uns has turned Dr Lone's story into a song called Doctor Boro, combining his passions for the NHS and Middlesbrough FC.\n\nDr Lone adds: \"I was surprised that he covered everything that we talked about. He really captured everything in it.\"\n\nMartyn Joseph has written about Andrea Bell, who helps run Sunderland Community Soup Kitchen\n\nOnly one thing in the song didn't really happen, he points out. When he met the Queen to get an MBE in 2006, her handbag didn't actually bear the letters UTB - short for the football slogan Up The Boro.\n\nCooney says being paired with Dr Lone \"was tremendously good fun\".\n\n\"He's quite a character and he's got a dry sense of humour, and half the time you're not quite sure if he's joking or not,\" he says. \"I don't know what his patients think!\"\n\nBut capturing the doctor's life in a song presented \"a challenge\" about how to combine healthcare and football.\n\nThen \"suddenly something clicked\", he says. \"I thought, let's create a character for him. Let's marry those two things immediately in the title and in the character and let's call it Doctor Boro.\"\n\nKathryn Williams and Chris Difford dedicated their song to foyboatman Michael Dodds (centre)\n\nCooney believes the resulting song is \"very current and very resonant\".\n\n\"Dr Lone talks about the huge crisis that the NHS is under at the minute, and there's a line in the song where I say, 'Summer's turned to winter.'\n\n\"That reflected what he told me in his office in September - it's like a winter crisis, but it's happening all year round.\"\n\nThe 21st Century Folk project is intended as a modern version of the BBC's groundbreaking Radio Ballads, in which folk singer Ewan MacColl wrote about ordinary British people in the late 1950s and early '60s.\n\nThe new versions will be featured on the Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe on Wednesday.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says a strategic plan is needed to save the UK car industry, after the collapse of Britishvolt, the country's biggest project to build electric car batteries.\n\nSir Keir said a five or ten-year plan was needed \"and not the sort of instability we've had the last year\".\n\nHe was speaking to the BBC at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.\n\nHis message for business leaders was that the UK \"desperately\" needs change.\n\n\"Last year in 2022, we burned through three prime ministers… they are not the conditions of certainty, of stability, needed for investment into the United Kingdom,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed the failure of Britishvolt, which had planned a giant factory on a site in Northumberland that was supposed to boost the region and create thousands of jobs, on a lack of government backing.\n\n\"This was held up only a year ago, as the flagship of levelling up. And I think the failure of it tells you pretty well all you need to know about the government's levelling up culture,\" he added, referring to government plans to tackle unequal economic development across the UK.\n\nSir Keir was in Davos with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves meeting business leaders, including top European financiers from Bank of America, Lloyds, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, hosted at JP Morgan's offices.\n\nLabour wants to turn around what Sir Keir called the \"massive decline\" in foreign investment under the Conservative government.\n\nThere was considerable interest in meeting the Labour team, especially among long-term investors in energy, and finance. Sir Keir and Ms Reeves were pitching their \"Green Prosperity Plan\" alongside massive US efforts to subsidise low-carbon manufacturing and energy.\n\nThe EU has reacted with anger to the US plan. In response, Sir Keir has suggested a \"clean power alliance\" of countries to drive down the cost of renewables, to act as the \"inverse of Opec\", the oil cartel that drives prices up.\n\nHe denied that the Labour team was talking down Britain, saying \"we are flying the flag, we are ambassadors for UK PLC and very pleased to do so with a very strong message\".\n\nLabour has been cautious about talking about Brexit, but he said former prime minister Boris Johnson's deal was \"not a good deal\". You could \"see the impact it is having\", he added.\n\nBut he said that supporting the car industry did not mean having to go back into the single market with the European Union.\n\n\"I'm having discussions about what a closer trading relationship might be. But it is not a discussion which says you must be in the single market,\" he said.\n\n\"Can we have a closer trading relationship? Yes, I think we can.\n\n\"With trust and confidence on both sides we can make huge improvements in knocking away some of those barriers to trade, by working together on science and innovation,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said the Labour Party was \"a million miles away\" from the deregulated low-standards approach advocated by some Conservatives.", "Eastwood, in Nottinghamshire, is an area earmarked for investment\n\nProjects to regenerate town centres, help struggling high streets and provide new leisure facilities are under threat from soaring inflation, councils in England have warned.\n\nMany \"levelling up\" schemes have been paused or scaled back due to rising fuel, material and labour costs.\n\nThe government says it is ready to talk to any councils struggling to balance their budget.\n\nLevelling up was one of outgoing PM Boris Johnson's flagship policies.\n\nThe two contenders vying to succeed him as Tory leader, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have both said it will remain a priority if they become prime minister next Tuesday.\n\nThe government has made £4.8bn available for councils to fund infrastructure schemes designed to improve life in local communities, as well as other pots of money for high street and town centre projects.\n\nSome local authorities are funding their own schemes - but several have warned that rising costs could leave a shortfall which will make it harder to deliver.\n\nIn Beeston, in Nottinghamshire, Broxtowe Borough Council has already completed the first phase of a multi-million pound scheme to regenerate the town centre which has seen a new cinema, social café and new business space.\n\nCosts for the second phase of the project, which would see more commercial space created, have already risen by £100,000 - about 15%.\n\nThe first phase of the Beeston development has been completed\n\nSeparately, the council has bid for £20m from the government's levelling-up fund to provide a new health centre, library and swimming pool in Eastwood - but it expects costs to rise which the council would have to find from existing budgets.\n\nLabour council leader Milan Radulovic said: \"The impact of inflation is extremely concerning.\n\n\"We're in a very strong position when it comes to financial resilience, but other communities and other councils particularly in poorer areas do not have that financial resilience and they will find it impossible to meet the shortfall due to rising costs and rising inflation.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association has warned rising costs are piling pressure on already stretched budgets.\n\nIt says streetlighting and road repairs are among the services becoming increasingly expensive due to the price of energy and materials.\n\nIn Norfolk, Breckland Council has plans to refurbish and extend the Attleborough Sports Hall to provide new community facilities and a high-tech football pitch.\n\nIn 2019 it was estimated that the project would cost around £2.1m, but already that's gone up by 33%.\n\nThe council plans to press on with the scheme but the Conservative leader Sam Chapman-Allen - who's also chairman of the District Councils Network - said it highlighted the difficult decisions local authorities were facing.\n\nSome councils were having to permanently pause projects to reflect on \"whether they have to ride out the storm and wait until inflation costs come down - and that could be an indefinite period\", he says.\n\n\"For others they're making some really tough decisions about what they set out to achieve and what they can realistically achieve.\n\nAll of us around the country want to do our best for residents and businesses but we've got to make sure those schemes are viable.\"\n\nThe government said it was working closely with councils to understand the impact of inflation on their budgets, and stood ready to speak to any that had concerns.\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with all levels of government to relentlessly drive forward our shared ambition to see improvements delivered through our Levelling Up, Towns and High Streets funds.\n\n\"To meet these ambitions, we have allocated £1.7bn worth of vital investment across the UK to fuel regeneration and growth in areas which have been overlooked and undervalued for far too long.\n\n\"In recognition of the role they play, we have made an additional £3.7bn available to councils this year to ensure they are able to deliver on local priorities and key public services.\"", "The stepfather of a five-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to her murder.\n\nNadia Zofia Kalinowska died after being found injured at her family home at Fernagh Drive in Newtownabbey in December 2019.\n\nHer mother, 28 year-old Aleksandra Wahab, and the child's stepfather, 34-year-old Abdul Wahab, went on trial on Wednesday at Belfast Crown Court, accused of murder.\n\nWhen the case resumed on Thursday, Abdul Wahab pleaded guilty to murder.\n\nThe Pakistani national also pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours before the child's death and on other occasions between July and December that year.\n\nA minimum period, before he can be released, will be set at a future date.\n\nThe trial had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed in her home - a place where she should have felt safe.\n\nDuring the opening, Crown barrister Liam McCollum detailed the injuries inflicted on Nadia.\n\nAs well as suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an injury to her bowel.\n\nAlso present at Nadia's time of death were 70 surface injuries including bruising and abrasions.\n\nNadia was rushed to hospital from her home in Newtownabbey\n\nThis led the Crown to conclude that Nadia had been subjected to a campaign of physical abuse in the family home which culminated in her death.\n\nAs the hearing was due to resume on Thursday, barristers for both Mr and Mrs Wahab asked that their clients be re-arraigned.\n\nAt this point Abdul Wahab bowed his head and tearfully pleaded guilty to the murder.\n\nAleksandra Wahab pleaded guilty to allowing the death of a child and allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm.\n\nThese pleas were accepted by the court and the jury was discharged.\n\nShe was remanded back into custody.\n\nAddressing the jury of seven men and five woman, the judge said that as both defendants had now pleaded guilty to three charges each, he directed them to return not guilty verdicts on all the remaining counts.\n\nA spokesperson for the school said: \"Our school community is still in shock at this terrible tragedy. We have lost Nadia who was a much loved pupil.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted at this time.\"", "Weekly flu deaths in Scotland have reached their highest level in more than 20 years, according to official figures.\n\nNational Records of Scotland reports that there were 121 deaths last week where flu was mentioned on the death certificate, up from 91 the previous week.\n\nThere has also been an increase in deaths where Covid was a cause.\n\nThe total last week was 101, with 84 deaths the previous week.\n\nThe number of deaths in Scotland from all causes last week was 2020, which NRS said was 29% more than the five-year average.\n\nPete Whitehouse, director of statistical services at NRS, said: \"Deaths involving influenza have risen in recent weeks.\n\n\"There were 121 deaths where influenza was mentioned on the death certificate, up from 91 in the previous week.\n\n\"This is the highest weekly number of flu deaths registered in over 20 years.\"\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme the flu figure was \"sobering\" but added that flu was now at a moderate level in Scotland.\n\n\"The highest number of deaths in over 20 years - a lot of that will be because we've seen so much flu,\" she said. \"It's a small percentage but a very high number of people who were affected with flu.\n\n\"It's on the back of an extraordinary surge of flu incidents in the December period.\n\n\"Thankfully incidents of flu have come down. It's now at moderate levels in Scotland which is very welcome. But we are seeing the effect of that surge translate now into deaths.\n\n\"Every one of those could have been considered to be an avoidable death.\"\n\nMs Evans said the Covid figures were also the result of an earlier surge.\n\n\"We know that there's a lag,\" she told the programme. \"The numbers are high - and higher than last week - but we should start to see a stabilisation in deaths.\n\n\"But also, thankfully, incidents of Covid in the community are starting to come down too.\"\n\nShe said the number of people being vaccinated against flu and Covid had slowed down considerably and reminded people it was never too late to get a flu vaccination.\n\n\"I think vaccination is something we can all do,\" she said. \"Let's not forget the deaths from Covid [at the beginning of the pandemic] and how vaccination has made such an impact on that.\"\n\nShe added: \"All the respiratory illness that we're seeing and people that are still in hospital just adds another layer to very busy hospitals.\n\n\"We're not out of the woods as far is winter is concerned and I suspect we'll not be out of the woods for several weeks yet.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"This year we have seen an extraordinary number of flu cases. Safe, effective vaccines for offer the best protection to those most at risk of serious illness from Covid-19 and flu and I would urge anyone eligible to get vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\n\"Uptake for the winter vaccine programme is very encouraging with Scotland delivering more Covid jabs per head of the population among over-50's than any other UK nation. However, although uptake is high, there is no room for complacency.\"\n\nThe figures come 10 days after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish hospitals were almost full as she acknowledged that the NHS was facing unprecedented pressures.\n\nShe said the increase in winter viruses, including flu, had played a part, along with backlogs caused by the Covid pandemic and Brexit-related staff shortages.\n\nMeanwhile, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Scotland, Dr Iain Kennedy has warned that the NHS in Scotland is \"broken\" and cannot survive in its current form.\n\nHe called for a \"national conversation\" on the future of the health service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service are staging their second walkout in a month\n\nMore than 1,000 ambulance workers in Wales have gone on strike for the second time in a month in a pay dispute.\n\nGMB members - about a quarter of the Welsh Ambulance Service - will only respond to life-threatening calls.\n\nHealth bosses fear it will be worse than the strike before Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh government plans to discuss a one-off payment offer with unions on Thursday, but said anything more would require further funds from Westminster.\n\nGMB officer for NHS Wales, Nathan Holman, said members were not taking a stand against the public but against the government, adding that life-threatening calls - about 15% of all calls - would be responded to.\n\n\"We have data for category one calls from the last time we took this action and the percentage of calls that were responded to nationally increased on strike day because vehicles were not being held [at hospitals],\" Mr Holman said.\n\nHe said the Welsh government was considering an offer.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking for an inflation-busting pay rise, but any offer we get we want at least the same as . £1,000 or more on top of what we have now.\"\n\nWhen the GMB took action in December, Unison, which also represents ambulance staff, had not reached the threshold to do the same, but has since re-balloted and will strike on 19 and 23 January.\n\nThe strike is for 24 hours from midnight on Tuesday but the union has made it clear staff working night shifts would not leave patients and compromise care.\n\nParamedic Jamie Stone said they were seeing people in car parks arriving having had strokes\n\nJamie Stone, 31, from Newport, is a paramedic in Cardiff and believes what people were dealing with was \"inhumane\".\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing people turn up in cars that are having heart attacks, patients having strokes in the back of cars and then we're having to deal with it in the car park of a hospital, because they are being told they have to wait eight hours-plus for an ambulance.\n\n\"It's rare that it's been a patient who is critically ill, but it has happened a number of times, where we've had to drag somebody out of a car on to a stretcher and take them straight into the emergency department for the life-saving treatment they need.\"\n\nUrgent responder Laura Morton, 40, has experienced 19-hours waits with patients outside Cwmbran's Grange Hospital.\n\nShe said ambulances were becoming like \"mini-hospitals\" due to the lack of hospital beds.\n\nEmergency medical ambulance technician in Powys, Gyles George, said staff were working late because they felt compelled to stay with patients.\n\n\"You can't just abandon them and you don't know what time you are going to get home,\" he said.\n\n\"Healthcare used to be a vocation and it has become a chore.\"\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan says the Welsh government can only afford a one-off payment\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens said his staff had not been trained to nurse patients for long periods.\n\nEating, drinking and using the toilet was also problematic when parents were in ambulances.\n\n\"I would prefer not to start to train our staff and equip our vehicles to be nursing patients in them for very long periods of time and I think what we should be doing is focusing on solutions to the problem.\"\n\nHe said some paramedics were being trained to treat patients at their homes in a bid to ease problems at hospitals - last month more than a third of the emergency fleet was lost to delays outside hospitals.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan is meeting healthcare unions on Thursday about a one-off payment.\n\nShe said: \"It's very difficult for us to go beyond commitments this year - it will be only an offer of a one-off payment.\"\n\nCat and her dog Vince were part of the picket line in Colwyn Bay\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has urged people to only call 999 if there is an immediate risk to life, while other patients may have to make their own way to hospital.\n\nWhile some 999 call handlers are striking, all calls will be answered and it was agreed the most urgent calls would get responses.\n\nNon-emergency patient transport will also be affected, though exemptions include patients being taken to renal dialysis and oncology.\n\nStrikers at Colwyn Bay say they are taking action for future generations\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Russell George, said: \"It is welcome that the Labour government has finally recognised that it has responsibility for funding the NHS in Wales and that they are now, at last, willing to talk pay with the unions, it should not have taken this long for it to happen.\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised the \"anger and disappointment\" of public sector workers, adding: \"We will continue to work with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised.\n\n\"But it is vital that all of us to do all we can to minimise pressure on our health service during the industrial action and consider carefully what activities we take part in.\"", "Baldwin's lawyer called the decision to file charges \"a terrible miscarriage of justice\"\n\nActor Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun.\n\nMr Baldwin had been rehearsing a scene for the Western film Rust when the shooting happened at a ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico in October 2021.\n\nHannah Gutierrez Reed, the film's armourer, will also be charged.\n\nLawyers for both said they intended to fight the charges in court.\n\nSanta Fe's District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced the charges on Thursday, adding that they would be filed by the end of the month.\n\n\"Actor and producer Alec Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter,\" the statement read. \"I have determined that there is sufficient evidence.\"\n\n\"On my watch, no one is above the law, and everyone deserves justice,\" she said.\n\nBoth face up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 (£4,040) fine if convicted. They will be tried by a jury, prosecutors said.\n\nFilm director Joel Souza was also wounded in the shooting, but prosecutors said no charges would be filed in connection with that.\n\nThe film's assistant director David Halls entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanour charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, prosecutors said. He will spend six months serving probation.\n\nIn a statement, a lawyer for Ms Hutchins' husband, Matthew, said he supported the filing of the charges. \"It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Baldwin's lawyer, Luke Nikas, called the decision \"a terrible miscarriage of justice\".\n\n\"Mr Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun - or anywhere on the movie set,\" Mr Nikas said. \"He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.\"\n\nHalyna Hutchins's death led to calls for greater safety regulations on film sets\n\nMs Gutierrez Reed's lawyer, meanwhile, said the announcement was the result of a \"very flawed investigation and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts\".\n\n\"Hannah is, and has always been, very emotional and sad about this tragic accident,\" Todd Bullion said. \"But she did not commit involuntary manslaughter.\"\n\nMs Hutchins died in hospital shortly after she was shot in the chest by a prop gun fired by Mr Baldwin on set. The incident resulted in accusations of negligence and led to calls for better safety protocols on film sets.\n\nAn initial investigation into the incident found there was \"a degree of neglect\", producers were fined more than $136,000 by the New Mexico Environment Department for failing to enforce safety protocols.\n\nThe film's production company, Rust Movie Productions, argued that it was not responsible for supervising the film set, \"much less for supervising specific protocols such as the maintenance and loading of weapons\".\n\nAfter the shooting, Mr Baldwin said the gun had misfired. He added that he did not pull the trigger and was not aware that it was loaded. \"I don't know what happened on that set. I don't know how that bullet arrived in that gun. I don't know,\" he said.\n\nMr Baldwin has also filed a lawsuit against several people involved with the film, including Ms Gutierrez Reed and Mr Halls, alleging that they both failed to check the gun carefully.\n\nIn October, the 64-year-old actor and the film's production company reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with the family of Ms Hutchins.\n\nIt came after the cinematographer's husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit which alleged violations of industry standards.\n\n\"All of us believe Halyna's death was a terrible accident,\" Mr Hutchins said in a statement at the time. \"I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame.\"\n\nProduction of the film had been scheduled to resume this year, with Mr Hutchins on board as executive producer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The recycling centre remains closed following the discovery\n\nA recycling centre has been closed following the discovery of what is thought to be a mortar bomb.\n\nStaff at the Lamby Way centre in Cardiff found the small ordnance device in waste at about 11:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice were called and cordons were put in place before the device was removed by a military bomb disposal team.\n\nCardiff council said on social media the centre remained closed until further notice.\n\nIt is not known whether the ordnance was a relic or still contained any trace of explosive.", "The Royal College of Nursing said it could announce further strike days \"imminently\".\n\nStrikes by ambulance workers and nurses look set to continue despite talks with Wales' health minister on Thursday.\n\nEluned Morgan gave unions details of a pot of money that could be handed out to NHS staff as a one-off payment.\n\nBut several unions said the offer was not enough to avoid further industrial action, and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) accused ministers of not negotiating seriously.\n\nMs Morgan said there was no intention to reach an agreement at the meeting.\n\nIt is not clear how much cash was put on the table and no specifics have been made available on how much NHS workers might get.\n\nBut unions said they would continue speaking to the Welsh government.\n\nThe Welsh government had been hoping that an offer of a one-off payment to NHS staff would avoid further industrial action.\n\nBut striking workers are hoping for a better permanent pay deal than last year's below-inflation offer of between 4% and 5.5%.\n\nGMB members held a one-day strike in the Welsh ambulance service on Wednesday, while Unite is planning ambulance service walkouts later this month.\n\nThe GMB's Nathan Holman said: \"We have not had an offer that we can put to our members yet.\n\n\"GMB made the minister aware that our members would not accept a one-off payment as this would not be sufficient to address the real problems with pay.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"remain around the table to negotiate\" but had \"no alternative than to continue with industrial action\".\n\nRCN Wales director Helen Whyley said: \"The approach put forward today is simply not enough to offer a substantive and restorative pay award to our members, which is what we have called for all along.\n\n\"From the perspective of nursing staff, the Welsh government are not negotiating seriously on NHS pay. Unless they do so urgently, we will be announcing further strike days for Wales, imminently.\"\n\nSome unions were more receptive than others to the idea of a one-off payment for health workers in this financial year only.\n\nBut those who have already been on strike or are about to do so say it doesn't go far enough to avert further action.\n\nThe minister also wants to keep people around the negotiating table - the difficult question is what they negotiate about.\n\nEluned Morgan wants to talk about how to share out a lump sum payment, the unions want to talk pay deals - and neither side seems to be budging at the moment.\n\nTalks are probably better than no talks, but right now further strikes look likely.\n\nUnite General Secretary Sharon Graham said: \"The Welsh government's offer falls far short of what our members need and what is fair pay after a decade and more of pay cuts. Unless they can move further, the strikes by ambulance workers on 19 and 23 January will go ahead.\"\n\nBoth the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Wales and the Royal College of Midwives said they would not suspend strike action.\n\nThere was a warmer reception for the proposals from Unison.\n\nIts members in the NHS are not currently taking industrial action after it missed the turnout threshold needed in a strike vote - it is balloting members again.\n\nDominic MacAskill, regional secretary of Unison, said the Welsh government's offer was a \"significant step that ups the pressure on Westminster if nothing else. Rishi Sunak must explain why the first minister can dig deep for NHS staff but the UK government cannot\".\n\nHe said the union will enter into negotiations into the detail - but added that a one-off payment still presented \"clear difficulties\".\n\nEluned Morgan told BBC Wales there \"was no intention to go to any agreement\" on Thursday.\n\n\"Today was a day for us to start a discussion. We were really pleased that we were able to start that discussion. We understand the strength of feeling from trade unionists within the health service,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan said there \"is a pot of money on the table\" but declined to say how much it was worth.\n\n\"We will have further discussions about that with the trade unions\", she added.\n\nThe talks coincided with news that PCS members at a number of Welsh public bodies - including the Senedd and Natural Resources Wales - will strike on 1 February as part of wider UK industrial action.\n\nDavid TC Davies, Conservative Welsh Secretary, said it was not fair for the Welsh government to blame UK Tory ministers for not being able to meet health workers' pay demands, accusing Labour ministers of wanting to blame \"someone else\".\n\n\"The Welsh Labour government actually have the power if they wanted to raise income tax to pay those settlements,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's spokesperson for health, Rhun ap Iorwerth, added: \"A one-off payment will not attract new entrants, nor will it be incentive to keep people in an already understaffed profession - ultimately, if we do not have sufficient staff to run our health service, then there are serious implications for patient safety.\"", "King Charles on a visit last week to a community project in Aboyne, Scotland\n\nKing Charles has asked for a surge in profits from six new offshore wind farms on the Crown Estate, worth £1bn, to be used for the \"wider public good\", rather than the Royal Family.\n\nThe Royal Household's public funding is based on 25% of Crown Estate profits.\n\nBut King Charles wants to reduce this percentage so that more is kept by the Treasury to be used for public spending.\n\nThe King spoke of the pressures of the cost-of-living in his Christmas speech.\n\nIn his Christmas message, King Charles highlighted the pressures of the cost-of-living crisis - and he seems to be taking action to avoid what could have been an awkward surge in income for the royals.\n\nThe Crown Estate is an independently-run, commercial business, whose profits go to the Treasury - but those profits are used as the benchmark for the level of public funding for the Royal Family, known as the Sovereign Grant, which last year was worth £86.3m.\n\nThese profits are now expected to be significantly boosted by deals to develop six new offshore wind farms, collectively worth £1bn per year for at least three years in fees from firms buying the rights to build wind farms on Crown Estate offshore sites.\n\nThis would have produced a very significant increase in the amount going into the Sovereign Grant, which could have proved embarrassing against a backdrop of financial pressures on the public.\n\nBuckingham Palace says in light of the \"offshore energy windfall\", the King wants to reduce the slice of profits used to calculate the grant.\n\nAt present, the Sovereign Grant is based on 25% of Crown Estate profits - a temporary increase on the usual 15% - with the extra funding used for repairs and renovations for Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe grant is used for paying for the costs of working royals, such as travel for official engagements, and for the upkeep of royal palaces.\n\nA review of this percentage of Crown Estate profits going into royal funding is currently under way with the Treasury, with a decision expected in the next few months.\n\nSir Michael Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, has written to the prime minister and chancellor to propose an \"appropriate reduction\".\n\nBut anti-monarchy campaigners, Republic, have rejected the move as \"cynical PR to pre-empt a government decision to reduce the percentage\".\n\nThe group's chief executive Graham Smith said the King's statement \"reflected an arrangement he had no power to change\".\n\nThree of the new offshore wind farm locations are off the North Wales, Cumbria and Lancashire coast, and three are in the North Sea off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast. Once developed, the ambition is for them to generate enough electricity for seven million homes.\n\nThis will add to the existing 36 operational offshore wind farms on Crown Estate sites off the coasts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nDan Labbad, chief executive of the Crown Estate, hailed the benefits of this \"next generation of projects\".\n\n\"They demonstrate the far-reaching value that our world-class offshore wind sector can deliver for the nation - home-grown energy for all, jobs and investment for communities, revenue for the taxpayer, clean energy for the benefit of the environment, and a considerate, sustainable approach which respects our rich biodiversity,\" he said.", "Routine calls to HM Revenue and Customs will be answered by text, rather than by a human, in a trial aimed at improving its customer service record.\n\nFrom Thursday, the tax authority will send a direct website link by text to some people who want to find their reference number or reset a password.\n\nIt is expecting 170,000 calls this month with simple questions before the self-assessment tax return deadline.\n\nMPs have slammed HMRC for a poor call handling record over the years.\n\nMore than 12 million people are required to complete tax self-assessments online before 31 January, but some are left frustrated by long waits on HMRC's phonelines when trying to get help.\n\nThe trial will continue until the start of April, and is designed to free up the call handlers for more complex issues.\n\nA test by the BBC found that callers to HMRC are still met with a series of recorded messages, including a warning about potential long waits. Automated voice messages direct people to the HMRC website in much the same way as the new text message will for relatively simple enquiries.\n\nA text answer will be triggered based on a customer's reason for calling. Routine requests that will be answered with a text and a website link include:\n\nCallers will also be given the option to receive an online link or speak to someone to deal with other inquiries such as help filling in their tax return, getting a National Insurance by letter, or requests for income and employment history.\n\nSimilar technology has been widely adopted by other businesses and services, and is far from cutting-edge, but HMRC is battling against a poor customer service reputation.\n\nEarlier this month, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs said that taxpayers and their accountants were receiving an unacceptable level of service from HMRC.\n\nThe number of tax authority customer service staff has been cut from 25,500 to 19,500 in the last five years.\n\n\"We were surprised to learn that at times in the past, HMRC has simply closed its telephone line when it could not cope with demand. It is not acceptable not to answer calls from people who are trying to pay the government money,\" the committee said.\n\nIt said that HMRC's plan was to move people onto better-received online services, but it questioned whether this would reduce demand for phonelines, improve the quality of service, or be appropriate for all circumstances or customers.\n\nRichard West, director of personal tax operations at HMRC, said: \"Redirecting these sorts of queries to online services should help customers find the answer more quickly. It also means calls from customers during the current self-assessment peak, whose questions cannot easily be answered online and require help from an adviser, get the appropriate support they need.\n\n\"Customers who cannot use digital services will be able to get support in the normal way. This is available through our telephony service and through our extra support team for those who have difficulty using our other services.\"", "At least eight people have been killed in an avalanche that struck a tunnel exit near the south-eastern Tibetan city of Nyingchi on Tuesday night.\n\nMany cars were overturned by the avalanche, which left the road covered in snow, a local resident who joined the rescue effort told local media.\n\nIt is unclear how many people are missing. Hundreds of rescuers and 30 large machines are searching the scene.\n\nThe avalanche happened on a highway connecting the town of Pai in Mainling county and Medog county in Tibet, a remote and mainly Buddhist region in western China.\n\nOne woman told local media outlet Hongxin News that her husband was missing after the accident. He had been on his way to the airport to fly home to celebrate Lunar New Year together.\n\nWith an average elevation of about 3,100m above sea level, Nyingchi is a popular travel destination.\n\nIn October, at least 26 people were killed in an avalanche on Mount Draupadi ka Danda in northern India during a mountaineering expedition.", "Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said there are \"no accidents at war time\" after 14 people died in a helicopter crash in the capital, Kyiv.\n\nUkraine has not claimed Russian involvement, but Mr Zelensky told the World Economic Forum in Davos the tragedy was a consequence of the war.\n\nMr Zelensky also used his video address to urge allies to quickly send more weapons before new Russian offensives.\n\n\"The time the free world uses to think is used by the terrorist state to kill,\" he explained. The remark was interpreted as a request for Germany to hurry along a delivery of its much-coveted Leopard tanks.\n\nBerlin has reportedly been unwilling to send the vehicles unless the US commits to providing its own Abrams battle tanks. The UK recently pledged to send a number of its own tanks to Kyiv.\n\nThe head of the Nato military alliance said at Davos on Wednesday that Ukraine could expect to receive \"more support, more advanced support, heavier weapons and more modern weapons\".\n\nJens Stoltenberg said Nato's member states would meet on Friday to discuss what military equipment could be sent to Kyiv.\n\nWednesday's helicopter crash occurred near a nursery in Brovary, outside Kyiv, at around 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT). One of the 14 who died was a child.\n\nMr Monastyrsky, 42, was one of President Zelensky's longest serving political advisers. He is the highest-profile Ukrainian casualty since the war began.\n\nHis death cuts to the heart of the government in Kyiv as the interior ministry has the vital task of maintaining security and running the police during the war.\n\nHe was a recognisable face for Ukrainians throughout the war, updating the public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes since Ukraine was invaded in February 2022.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office said Mr Monastyrsky had been travelling to a war \"hot spot\". The head of police in Kharkiv added that the ministerial team had been on its way to meet him.\n\nThere is no indication the crash was anything other than an accident.\n\nBut the SBU state security service said it was considering several possible causes - including sabotage, a technical malfunction or breach of flight rules.\n\nKey officials are often flown by helicopter across Ukraine at tree-level to avoid detection, but that comes with risks.\n\nAll that was recognisable of the helicopter was a door panel and one of its rotors which landed on the roof of a car. Next to it were three bodies covered in foil blankets.\n\nThe remains of the helicopter were visible outside a residential building in Brovary\n\nOther officials who died in the crash included first deputy minister Yevhen Yenin and state secretary Yuriy Lubkovych, as well as Tetiana Shutiak, an aide to Mr Monastyrsky.\n\nFollowing the disaster, Ihor Klymenko - the head of Ukraine's national police force - was appointed acting interior minister.\n\nA friend of the late minister, MP Mariia Mezentseva, said it was a tragedy for everyone as the ministry had a significant role in Ukraine's response to the invasion.\n\n\"He responded 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family. He was very close to President Zelensky from day one of his presidential campaign,\" she told the BBC.\n\nParents were bringing their children to the kindergarten before going to work when the helicopter came down nearby.\n\nMany of the casualties were on the ground. As well as the child that was killed, 11 of the 25 injured on the ground were youngsters.\n\nWitnesses in Kyiv agreed with President Zelensky that the war was to blame for the disaster.\n\n\"It was very foggy and there was no electricity, and when there's no electricity there are no lights on the buildings,\" local resident Volodymyr Yermelenko told the BBC.\n\nOther witnesses said the pilot had tried to avoid high-rise buildings before the crash, and instead went down near the kindergarten.\n\n\"Parents were running, screaming. There was panic,\" said local volunteer Lidiya. Emergency services and residents rushed to evacuate the children as fire spread through the nursery building.\n\nOne resident, Dmytro, described jumping over a fence to help get children out. He said he picked up one girl whose father did not recognise her as her face was covered in blood.\n\nThe incident came four days Ukraine was hit by one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since the start of the war.\n\nA Russian missile hit a block of flats in the central city of Dnipro, killing 45 people, including six children.", "At its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the blaze at the New County Hotel in Perth\n\nHealth and safety experts raised 23 areas needing \"urgent\" attention at a Perth hotel weeks before a fatal fire.\n\nDonna Janse Van Rensburg, Sharon McLean and Keith Russell died after fire gutted the New County Hotel.\n\nA police investigation into the blaze is ongoing but it has now been revealed that an audit of the hotel in December said improvements were needed.\n\nThe firm which carried out the review has confirmed it made a series of safety recommendations at the hotel.\n\nThis story was first reported by The Courier newspaper.\n\nHealth and safety firm Croner confirmed the paper's reporting of its report was accurate and that it would \"co-operate fully with any requests for information from the relevant authorities\".\n\nThe Croner review was conducted about four weeks before the January 2 fire and, according to The Courier, states: \"At the time of the visit the standard of health and safety management at this site was below an acceptable level with some health and safety matters requiring urgent management corrective action.\"\n\nThe electrical wiring in the hotel was among the areas of concern with the report adding: \"There is no evidence that the fixed hard-wired electrical system has been subject to a periodic inspection within the recommended timescales, and an Electrical Inspection Condition Report has not been issued within the recommended timescales.\"\n\nCroner Group recommended that an inspection should be carried out throughout the building by a qualified electrical engineer.\n\nThe three people who died at the New County Hotel were (from left) Sharon McLean, Donna Janse Van Rensburg and Keith Russell\n\nThe alarm at the New County Hotel was raised at about 05:10 on 2 January, leading to a huge response from the emergency services. There were 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated and it was confirmed later that day that three people had died in the blaze.\n\nPolice sealed off the scene in Perth after the fire\n\nPolice and fire service investigations into the incident are continuing.\n\nPaul Holcroft, managing director at Croner, said: \"In light of the ongoing investigation into this matter it would not be appropriate for us to provide detailed comment further to that contained within the report. We will, of course, co-operate fully with any requests for information from the relevant authorities.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has so far been unable to contact hotel owner Rashid Hussain but he previously told The Times he was not involved in the day-to-day running of the venue and dismissed claims of health and safety concerns at the hotel as \"untrue\".", "The charges against the men relate to an investigation into a serving Met chief inspector, who was later found dead\n\nTwo retired Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with child sex offences, as part of an investigation into a serving Met chief inspector who was found dead.\n\nThe Met said the charges follow an investigation into Richard Watkinson.\n\nHis death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious.\n\nJack Addis, 63, from Perthshire, and Jeremy Laxton, 62, from Lincolnshire, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 9 February.\n\nCh Insp Watkinson, 49 was a serving chief inspector for neighbourhood policing in the West Area Command Unit. He had been suspended from duty following his arrest.\n\nHe was found dead in Buckinghamshire on 12 January, the same day the Met says he was due to be charged with conspiracy to distribute or show indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent photos of a child, voyeurism and two counts of misconduct in public office.\n\nAn inquest into Ch Insp Watkinson's death has opened and adjourned.\n\nCmdr Jon Savell from the Met's professional standards team said: \"Ch Insp Watkinson was facing extremely serious and concerning charges, as the result of a painstaking and thorough police investigation.\n\n\"Before this matter came to light, we had no previous information about these allegations or to indicate the officer posed any risk to the public.\n\n\"He had not faced any other criminal or conduct matters during his Met career.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has said he takes domestic flights to be more \"effective\" at his job after Labour accused him of an \"A-list\" lifestyle at taxpayers' expense.\n\nThe PM used a French-made RAF jet for the 230-mile journey to Blackpool to promote his \"levelling up\" policy.\n\nHe later flew 120 miles from Blackpool to Darlington, to continue a series of official visits.\n\nIt is the third time he has taken domestic flights this month, following trips to Yorkshire and Scotland.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it made a mockery of the PM's environmental strategy.\n\nShe accused Mr Sunak of \"jetting around the country on taxpayers' money like an A-list celeb\" after the 41-minute flight to Blackpool.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper also criticised the decision, calling the prime minister \"out of touch with the rest of society\".\n\n\"It is simply ridiculous that he can't get a train like the rest of the British public do,\" she added.\n\nChallenged about his decision to fly during a visit to Morecambe, Mr Sunak said: \"I travel around so I can do lots of things in one day.\n\n\"I'm not travelling around just for my own enjoyment,\" he told a local audience. \"I travel to make myself as effective as possible on all of your behalf.\"\n\nConservative MP Mark Jenkinson also defended the flight, tweeting that it would be \"madness\" for Mr Sunak to have made the trip via train given the \"unreliable\" Avanti West Coast service.\n\nThe train operator, which runs services between London and the North West, has been criticised by passengers over delays and poor service for more than a year.\n\nIn a follow-up tweet, Mr Jenkinson added that even if the trains were running perfectly, travelling by train would still take longer and present a \"security risk\" for the prime minister.\n\nRishi Sunak was pictured boarding an RAF plane to Leeds earlier this month\n\nMr Sunak reportedly made the trip to Blackpool from RAF Northolt early on Thursday morning, on a 14-seater Dassault Falcon 900LX.\n\nPictures of the prime minister boarding the same model of plane were posted by his media team ahead of a trip to Leeds earlier this month.\n\nSome of Mr Sunak's recent predecessors - including Boris Johnson and David Cameron - have also faced criticism for using domestic flights.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised for using planes to travel back from the UN COP climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, and a weekend away with his family in Cornwall in 2022.\n\nSir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves are currently in Switzerland to speak at the high-profile business leaders' summit in Davos.\n\nIt is understood that the pair flew on a commercial plane to the summit, where they said the UK would be \"open for business\" if they won power at the next general election.", "Rail workers have been given a fresh pay offer by train companies in a bid to end long-running strike action.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made the new offer to the RMT union following talks over the past week.\n\nThe deal includes a backdated pay rise of 5%, up from a previous offer of 4% for 2022, and a 4% increase this year. But the deal depends on changes to working conditions.\n\nThe RMT said it was \"considering\" the matter.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"The national executive committee will be considering this matter and has made no decision on the proposals nor any of the elements within them.\n\n\"We will give an update on our next steps in due course,\" he said.\n\nThere have been 16 days of strike action since June involving RMT members working at both train companies and Network Rail, with Network Rail members additionally striking in a separate dispute between Christmas Eve and 27 December.\n\nTrain drivers in the RMT are also due to join members of the main drivers' union, Aslef, in strikes on 1 and 3 February.\n\nThe RDG - which represents the train operators - said its latest offer was its \"best and final\", and said as well as giving workers a pay rise, the deal would also \"improve how the industry delivers services to passengers\".\n\n\"If accepted, it would help recover the industry's finances post-Covid, reducing the burden on taxpayers at a time of significant pressure on public spending,\" the group said.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the RDG, said the offer was \"fair\" and \"weighted particularly for those on lower incomes\".\n\nAs well as a 9% pay rise over two years, the RDG said the deal also included staff being able to move between stations when there are shortages, as well as introducing part-time and flexible working.\n\nThe government, which ultimately holds the purse strings, has allowed the industry to put forward new proposals. As expected, there's a higher pay offer for 2022. It's now in line with the percentage rise offered to Network Rail employees.\n\nThere is still a long list of conditions attached - which would mean change.\n\nTo give just a couple of examples, staff would be committed to work Sundays if rostered on. And a new \"multi-skilled\" station role would be created.\n\nThe RMT continues to oppose the closure or re-purposing of ticket offices. But today's offer makes clear any changes to station staffing would be subject to local consultation.\n\nThe explicit requirement to expand driver-only operation - where drivers, not guards, operate train doors - is gone. However, the plans say individual companies could separately go on to propose changes to on-board staff roles.\n\nThe period of no compulsory redundancies has been extended.\n\nThere's now a wait to find out whether the RMT's executive committee believes these proposals are acceptable to members, or perhaps, if they will be given a vote.\n\nOn Wednesday, Rail Minister Huw Merriman conceded that the strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have.\n\nThe walkouts have cost the UK more than £1bn, he told a committee of MPs.\n\nThe RDG said industrial action had cost the industry around £480m in lost ticket revenue since June.\n\nIt said this was on top of its current £2bn shortfall in cash following the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"With staff losing up to £2,000 in pay while on strike, the Rail Delivery Group is urging the RMT leadership to put the offer to its membership for a vote, bring an end to the dispute and work together to start rebuilding the railway for the long-term,\" the group said.\n\nThe rail industry is not the only industry to strike in recent months, with many other workers, such as nurses, ambulance staff and civil servants also taking industrial action.\n\nThe rising cost of living has led to many workers asking for pay rises, with inflation - the rate at which prices rise - hitting 10.5% in December.\n\nOn Tuesday, Aslef, the train drivers' union, rejected an offer from train companies, which included a 4% pay rise for two years in a row.\n\nAslef said the proposal was \"not and could not ever be acceptable\", but its general secretary Mick Whelan said the union was open to further talks.", "An attempted burglar was identified after he was caught on video trying door handles at 15 homes in a single night.\n\nPolice in Peterborough appealed for doorbell footage after receiving a number of reports about suspicious behaviour on 12 July.\n\nKennie Owen, 44, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to 15 charges of attempted burglary and was jailed for three years and two months at Huntingdon Crown Court.\n\nDet Con Matt Reed, from Cambridgeshire Police, said: \"This is a really good example of simple measures that can be put in place to prevent your home from being burgled, but also in helping us catch any offenders.\n\n\"Video doorbells can sometimes act as a deterrent, but also clearly capture anyone committing crime.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sunak: The north of England has won the most funding per person\n\nRishi Sunak has defended the latest allocation of levelling up money which saw the richer South East of England region get more than the north-east.\n\nThe prime minister said the north had received the most amount of cash in terms of funding per person.\n\nThe government has also argued that parts of the south are deprived and need investment.\n\nLabour claimed North East England was \"one of the big losers\" from a funding model it says is unfair.\n\nA total of 111 areas across the UK have been awarded money from the second round of the government's Levelling Up Fund.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe, Lancashire, will get £50m to help regenerate a derelict site on the seafront into an eco-tourism attraction.\n\nThere will also be a £50m grant to build a new direct train service linking Cornwall's largest urban areas.\n\nBut London boroughs will get more than both Yorkshire and the North East of England.\n\nAre you concerned about the announcement? Please get in touch.\n\nMr Sunak toured the north of England, starting in Accrington, in Lancashire, which is getting £20m to improve its town square, to promote the policy.\n\nHe said: \"Two thirds of all the levelling up funding is going to the most deprived parts of our country.\n\n\"Levelling up is about making sure people feel pride in the places they call home - it's about driving jobs and investment.\"\n\nHe also defended the £19m awarded to his own constituency of Richmond, in North Yorkshire, arguing the money would benefit armed forces personnel based in Catterick Garrison.\n\nAsked during an event in Morecambe if the distribution of funding was politically motivated, Mr Sunak replied that \"around half\" of the funds had gone to non-Conservative areas.\n\nCamden is one of the London boroughs in line for levelling up cash\n\nThe London Borough of Camden - where Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has his constituency - will receive £7m for cycling and walking infrastructure and local GP services.\n\nLabour has argued the money does not make up for past cuts made by Conservative governments.\n\nShadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"It takes an extraordinary arrogance to expect us to be grateful for a partial refund on the money they have stripped out of our communities.\"\n\nShe criticised the funding model and said her party would end the \"competitive-style bidding\" process, but would not cancel projects that had already been given the green light.\n\nThe idea of \"levelling up\" - or reducing regional inequality - was a key part of Boris Johnson's 2019 election campaign. Its aim was to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the country by improving services such as education, broadband and transport.\n\nOther projects set to get funding include:\n\nOverall this latest pot of funding sees the north-west of England receive the most money getting £354m.\n\nThe south-east comes second with £210m while London gets £151m.\n\nNorthern Ireland and the north-east are the regions allocated the least - £71m and £108m respectively.\n\nThe first pot of levelling up funding, announced in October 2021, saw £1.7bn awarded to 105 projects.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe will be a sister site to an existing attraction in Cornwall\n\nConservative party campaign headquarters have denied reports they have told MPs in marginal seats to stop using the phrase \"levelling up\" due to concerns the public do not know what it means.\n\nA Conservative source told the BBC that MPs had \"been told the precise opposite\" and had instead been told how best to use the phrase based on the party's opinion research.\n\nThe BBC has been told that, for example, MPs have been told not just to talk to constituents about how much money has been spent, but instead to talk about specific things that have changed for their area.\n\nPhilip Rycroft, former top civil servant at the now-defunct Brexit Department, described the process of distributing funding as \"completely crackers\".\n\n\"£2bn of public money is being distributed across the nation by a bunch of civil servants who have probably not been to the vast majority of the places they are distributing money to - how can this be sensible,\" he asked at a think tank Reform event.\n\nThe North West of England got the most money in both rounds of this process. The South East and South West fared better in the second round than the first while Yorkshire and the Humber did much better first time round. A third round is still to come.\n\nThe government has defended the allocations by looking at funding per head of the population in the particular areas.\n\nSo while the South East got almost twice as much money as the North East, its population is about four times as big, so its funding per person is considerably lower.\n\nBy that metric, London and the South East are near the bottom of the table along with Yorkshire and the Humber, while the North West and North East are both near the top, as is Wales.\n\nKevin Bentley from the Local Government Association (LGA) said the allocation of levelling up funding should be \"locally led by evidence\" of where investment is needed rather than \"based on costly competitive bids between areas\".\n\nHe also warned fulfilling projects had become more challenging due to rising inflation and costs.\n\nHead of the Local Government Information Unit think tank Jonathan Carr-West said: \"People will debate whether these allocations are right or fair but the real problem here is that this is a crazy way to fund local government.\"\n\nHe argued that councils were putting \"huge\" resources into applying for the funds, diverting money from \"other useful and necessary things\".\n\nCardiff is getting £50m for a new rail line between Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Central Station", "Ukraine's interior minister has been killed in a helicopter crash near a nursery in Brovary, east of Kyiv.\n\nDenys Monastyrsky, his first deputy minister and state secretary were among 14 people who died in the incident. A child was one of the other victims.\n\nOfficials often fly at low altitude to avoid Russian missiles but the cause of the crash is being investigated.", "Cardiff announced the club-record signing of Emiliano Sala on 19 January, 2019, two days before the plane he was on went missing\n\nCardiff City tried to take out £20m insurance on Emiliano Sala the day after he was killed in a plane crash, say papers filed to the High Court.\n\nSala's plane crashed into the English Channel on 21 January 2019, killing the striker and pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nA company of insurance brokers said the club failed to get cover before Sala's plane went down in January 2019.\n\nCardiff City bosses are seeking damages of more than £10m from insurance brokers following the death.\n\nArgentine player Sala, 28, was on a private flight from Nantes as he travelled to take up his new role with the club then in the Premier League.\n\nBut the club have been unable to claim back the money paid for Sala after insurers refused to pay out.\n\nCardiff City FC is suing insurance broker Miller Insurance LLP claiming it owes more than £10m in a High Court bid.\n\nThe club says the firm failed to say players would not be covered if they were not \"timely informed\" of new signings such as their new star striker.\n\nThe plane disappeared from radar near Guernsey on its way to Cardiff from Nantes\n\nBut lawyers representing the brokers say it was not up to them to \"chase\" club bosses over making sure new signings were insured and that the club were \"fully aware\" Sala was not insured.\n\nAlistair Schaff KC told the High Court that Cardiff City contacted insurers regarding Sala on 22 January 2019, the morning after his flight went missing off the coast of Alderney.\n\nMr Schaff said the club made contact via email seeking £20m coverage for Sala.\n\nCardiff City claim Miller Insurance failed to properly explain the concept of an \"insurable interest\" for football player transfers and the requirement of a \"prompt\" notification of the transfer in order to secure coverage.\n\nIt said the broker also did not let the club know about the risks of \"delaying this notification of an interest or the steps that might be taken to reduce or eliminate the risks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Miller insisted it was not their responsibility to chase the club to ensure that it added new players to its policy \"immediately\".\n\nIt claimed the broker had warned Cardiff City Football Club several times that there would be a gap in a player's insurance cover between acquiring an \"insurable interest\" in a new player and informing the insurer.\n\nLawyers for Cardiff City said that Miller's defence is being \"evaluated, but doesn't seem to contain any surprises\".\n\nThe club, represented by David Phillips KC, added that it expects to file a reply \"soon\" to the High Court.\n\nIn a statement, Cardiff City said that there \"has been selective reporting\" of its defence filed against the club brought against its insurance brokers.\n\nIt said: \"The club did not try to insure Emiliano after the plane crash.\n\n\"All Cardiff City Football Club staff understood from its broker that all players were insured from the moment they were signed, and the case arises from learning they were not.\n\n\"It will reply to the allegations made in the defence that are untrue, or portrayed out of context, in the court proceedings and will not litigate this case in the media.\"", "Lauren Bridges, 20, died at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal four weeks before Beth Matthews\n\nTwo other young women died in the same psychiatric hospital as a mental health blogger in the two months before her death, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, from Cornwall, ordered a poisonous substance from Russia, which was posted to her secure ward at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport, where she ingested it.\n\nThe BBC has learned Lauren Bridges and Deseree Fitzpatrick also died there.\n\nThe hospital said the deaths were \"extremely tragic\" but \"unconnected\".\n\nMs Matthews died in March 2022 after swallowing the toxic substance in front of staff.\n\nA jury at South Manchester Coroners' Court concluded she died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nThe jury's foreman said the hospital had provided \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient\".\n\nThe inquest heard that, three weeks before her death, Ms Matthews had told a nurse \"there are things you can purchase to do the job\".\n\nHer care plan indicated she should not be allowed to open her own post.\n\nOn the day she died she was being supervised by two members of staff.\n\nMs Matthews was able to get the top off a small plastic container and, despite being restrained, was able to swallow a quantity of powder inside.\n\nShe died in hospital later that day.\n\n\"Something occurred in a place where she was supposed to be safe that should never have been allowed to happen,\" her father Chris Matthews said.\n\nBBC News can reveal that four weeks before, on 24 February, Ms Bridges died.\n\nThe 20-year-old, who was diagnosed with a form of autism, was also on a secure ward at the time.\n\nHer inquest is due to take place next month.\n\nAbout a month before, on 23 January 2022, Ms Fitzpatrick died.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who was being treated for the effects of alcoholism, was admitted to the hospital after her mental health deteriorated.\n\nHer inquest found she was given inappropriate medication by staff which caused \"significant sedation\".\n\nThis caused her to choke to death in her sleep.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's inquest heard that her carers were meant to check on her throughout the night at 15-minute intervals.\n\nBut CCTV evidence showed those checks were, in the words of the coroner, \"woefully inadequate\".\n\nThose failures did not cause her death, however.\n\n\"If my daughter didn't go into the Priory, she'd still be alive today,\" her mother Angela Porter said.\n\n\"They killed her. They've got blood on their hands. And I'm not going to let this go until I get justice for my daughter.\"\n\nThe deaths of all three women raise serious questions over the standard of care at the Priory Royal Cheadle.\n\nThe Priory Group is one of the biggest providers of private mental health services to the NHS, with 85% of its services publicly funded.\n\nIt is the parent company of the private Priory clinic in Roehampton, the London clinic best known for treating celebrities.\n\nA series of scandals at inpatient mental health units in England, both NHS and private, have increased calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBrian Dow, Mental Health UK's chief executive said: \"These units are dealing with some of the most vulnerable patients who have the greatest level of need.\n\n\"The quality of support has got to be of the absolute highest order.\n\n\"I think what too many units do not do is treat those patients like people.\"\n\nOne former patient at the Priory Royal Cheadle has identified staffing shortages and a heavy reliance on short-term agency staff as a problem.\n\nMeredith Movel, who is trying to get the hospital closed down, says she never felt safe there\n\nMeredith Movel, who was undergoing treatment in 2015, said that even back then, it was a problem.\n\nThe 22-year-old has since started an online petition to have the hospital closed down.\n\n\"The longer it's open, the more people are going to die, basically\" she said.\n\n\"And I can't have that on my conscience.\"\n\nA Priory hospital statement said: \"We apologise unreservedly for the shortcomings in the care of Deseree Fitzpatrick and Beth Matthews last year, and want to express our sincere condolences to their families and friends.\n\n\"We are unable to comment on a further death at Cheadle Royal Hospital until the inquest concludes later this year.\"\n\nWhile the deaths were \"completely unconnected\" all lessons learned from incidents \"are shared widely with our staff and reinforced through ward meetings,\" it added.\n\n\"The safety of our patients remains our utmost priority and we immediately took action to address the issues raised in both inquests, and our own robust investigations, and enhanced our procedures.\"\n\nCheadle Royal Hospital was inspected by the Care Quality Commission last April and received a rating of good, including for the domain of safety.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "German police have denied being \"extras for Greta Thunberg\" after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged.\n\nA viral post falsely claimed the climate activist being held by police was \"all set up for the cameras\".\n\nMs Thunberg and other activists were seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.\n\nThe video of her being removed by police has gained millions of views.\n\n\"We would never give ourselves to make such recordings,\" a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg's detainment was fake.\n\nBut it is important that the police enable reporting and guarantee the protection of media workers, they added.\n\nThe viral video shows the climate campaigner flanked by police officers on either side.\n\nMeanwhile a few photographers can be seen snapping photos and moving around her, as Ms Thunberg smiles.\n\nSeveral other police officers who were also standing nearby appear to be waiting with her before walking her away from the scene.\n\nSome online have jumped onto these moments of officers and Ms Thunberg waiting around, to falsely claim that it is part of a staged photo opportunity.\n\nHowever the interior ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the BBC that the police officers and Ms Thunberg were waiting for logistical reasons.\n\n\"They had to wait for a couple of minutes before they could bring her to a certain police car,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThey added that \"the whole situation has been used by those with political motives and the real reason is entirely practical and mundane.\"\n\nThe viral post with the video of Greta Thunberg and police officers at the protest\n\nChristian Wernicke, a journalist from German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung who was there at the time, said the police officers \"were deciding how they would proceed with the identity check and waiting to take Greta to the police vehicle.\"\n\n\"My impression was that there was confusion. Greta was not the first protester who had been taken away from the sit-in,\" Mr Wernicke added.\n\n\"I've seen different reactions to the video. Some say that the footage looks like the police are setting her up to embarrass her and others say that it is all part of some propaganda.\n\n\"People are interpreting and using this footage for their own motives.\"\n\nMany online also falsely claimed it was a \"fake arrest\" but police clarified that Ms Thunberg had not been arrested but had been briefly detained.\n\nThe group of activists were detained after they \"rushed towards the ledge\" of the Garzweiler 2 mine, police had said on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers also confirmed all of those detained would not be charged.\n\nMs Thunberg has frequently been the target of conspiracy theories and false claims online, often by those who deny the existence of man-made climate change.\n\nShe tweeted: \"Yesterday I was part of a group that peacefully protested the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. We were kettled by police and then detained but were let go later that evening.", "Harry and Meghan's \"great love story\" was one of the big draws for customers\n\nReed Hastings is stepping down from his role as co-chief executive of Netflix, the firm he helped found more than 25 years ago.\n\nHis announcement came as Netflix unveiled a big rise in subscriber numbers at the end of last year.\n\nWith money tight, people were expected to cut back on streaming services.\n\nBut Netflix bucked that trend, adding more than seven million new subscribers, far more than analysts expected.\n\nHarry and Meghan's revelations were a big draw, as was new Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday, and the film Glass Onion.\n\n\"2022 was a tough year, with a bumpy start but a brighter finish,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nMr Hastings' long-planned move means he is leaving Netflix in a crowded market, with challenges ahead, but with 231 million viewers signed up around the globe.\n\nMr Hastings, who was an early pioneer in the streaming business and is seen as one of the original tech industry disruptors, will stay on as executive chairman.\n\nThe firm will now be run by Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, both already in senior executive positions.\n\n\"Reed Hastings stepping down from his current role raises a lot of questions about Netflix's future strategy,\" said Jamie Lumley, analyst at research firm Third Bridge.\n\n\"Incoming Co-CEO Greg Peters will have a number of major decisions on his plate from managing high levels of expenses, password sharing, and cracking the code to find the next Stranger Things.\"\n\nReed Hastings and a former colleague Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997\n\nMr Peters has been given a strong start, with total subscribers for the last three months of 2022 up 7.66 million, when the firm had predicted a rise of around 4.5 million.\n\nAlicia Reese from Wedbush Securities said there were two reasons Netflix had managed to keep subscribers from cancelling.\n\n\"First, viewership trends indicate better retention on popular shows; second, Netflix offering an ad-supported tier to anyone looking to cancel or pause their membership,\" she said.\n\nBoth those factors limited customer \"churn\" she said.\n\nRevenue rose to $7.9bn (£6.37bn) in the fourth quarter. However, profit was lower in this quarter than the same period a year earlier, and profit for the year as a whole was down from 2021. Although Netflix remained \"ahead of its competitors\" on profitability, said Ms Reese.\n\nIn early 2022, Netflix faced an uphill battle. It was facing increased competition from rivals such as Amazon, HBO, Apple TV and Disney. It cut hundreds of jobs, but still found it had to put up prices to customers to cover rising costs.\n\nThat dealt a blow to its subscriber numbers in the first half of the year.\n\nIn November, it introduced a cheaper ad-supported option in 12 countries, including most of Europe, the UK and the US, and signalled it would be less tolerant of password sharing in future. Netflix said it was \"pleased with the early results\" from the service.\n\nAlthough Netflix did not report how many subscribers signed up to the new ad-supported tier, Mr Peters said they would not have entered the space if they did not think it could be \"very successful\".\n\n\"And they've only started to crack down on password sharing in Latin America,\" said Simon Gallagher, former director of content acquisition at Netflix. He added that the next six months will decide how sturdy Netflix is, as it rolls out new pricing schemes across the UK and US, and focuses on stopping password sharing in those regions.\n\n\"Reed Hastings has been there for 20 years and I think he wanted to go out on top - this has been a successful quarter for them. But he will remain very engaged as executive chairman,\" added Mr Gallagher.\n\nThe company could remain resilient, Mr Gallagher said, even as smaller streaming services continue to merge to compete with bigger services like Netflix.\n\nNetflix shares, which have fallen nearly 38% in the past year, rose in after-hours trading following the results announcement.\n\nNetflix started out in 1997 as a mail-order film service. Customers ordered via the website and DVDs were posted to them at home.\n\nMr Hastings has sometimes said the idea for Netflix was sparked when he owed a large fine for forgetting to return a video cassette to rental shop Blockbuster and thought a model more like gym membership, with a monthly fee for renting films, would be better.\n\nHowever, his co-founder Marc Randolph reportedly disputed this version, saying the pair had simply aimed to emulate Amazon.", "A mental health blogger who took her own life by swallowing a poisonous substance was failed by the psychiatric hospital caring for her, a jury has found.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, died a short time after taking the substance, which she had ordered online and told staff was protein powder in March last year.\n\nShe was being treated at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal in Stockport.\n\nAn inquest jury concluded she died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nThe hearing was told Ms Matthews, originally from Cornwall, was being treated as an NHS patient for a personality disorder.\n\nShe was a complex patient considered at high risk of suicide, and had a history of frequent suicide attempts.\n\nThe jury found that while under the care of the Priory \"it was evident there were serious inconsistencies across all levels of her care plan\".\n\nBeth Matthews was being treated as an NHS patient at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal\n\nThe hospital provided \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient,\" the jury said.\n\nThey found there was a widespread \"lack of communication, failing to escalate serious risk factors, lack of team cohesion, and reliance on inaccurate and inadequate information\".\n\nA finding of neglect at an inquest implies a gross failure in care.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\nThe way Ms Matthews' post was managed was particularly criticised, with the court hearing that her care plan stated only staff should be allowed to open it.\n\nThe inquest at Manchester South Coroners' Court heard how weeks before her death she told a member of staff she could purchase something \"to do the job\".\n\nAnother care worker wrote in her notes that everything Ms Matthews received \"must be checked\", and stated \"we need to be opening her parcels for her\".\n\nBut the court heard she was allowed to open the package, which she had ordered from Russia, with two staff monitoring her at arm's length.\n\nThe jury found the supervising staff were \"unable to prevent her from consuming\" the substance and the evidence demonstrated there had been a \"frequent deviation\" from her care plan.\n\nThe Priory Group admitted the plan had not been followed and if it had, Ms Matthews would not have been able to ingest the substance.\n\nThe mental health blogger, who was described in court as \"vivacious\" and \"bright\", had tens of thousands of social media followers.\n\nPsychiatrist Dr Alind Srivastava, who works for the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, previously told the jury she \"did a lot of good on social media in helping other people, in explaining what happened to her\".\n\nA spokesman for the Priory Group said: \"We fully accept the jury's findings and acknowledge that far greater attention should have been given to Beth's care plan.\n\n\"At the time of Beth's unexpected death, we took immediate steps to address the issues around how we document risk and communicate patients' care plans, alongside our processes for receiving and opening post.\n\n\"We want to extend our deepest condolences to Beth's family and friends for their loss. Beth's attempts to overcome her mental health challenges had been an inspiration for many.\n\n\"Although unexpected deaths are extremely rare, we recognise that every loss of life in our care is a tragedy.\"\n\nThe Priory said it accepted the inquest's findings\n\nSpeaking after the jury delivered their conclusions, Assistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman offered his condolences to Ms Matthews' family.\n\nHe said: \"There are no words to express for the loss of your daughter. The loss of a child is something no person should have to suffer.\"\n\nFollowing the conclusion, her family said Ms Matthews had been \"let down\" by the Priory, adding her death was \"wholly avoidable\" and \"completely unnecessary\".\n\n\"Mental health care providers must listen to and act on the findings of this inquest,\" her family added.\n\n\"It is incumbent on them to keep their patients safe.\"\n\nBeth Matthews was being treated on a secure ward\n\nPaying tribute, they said: \"Beth tried to help others through describing her own mental health experiences in a highly graphic but articulate way and by doing so was able to touch and help countless others.\n\n\"We know for a fact that she saved at least one person through her social media presence.\n\n\"That is a huge legacy for a young lady to leave behind.\"\n\nThe Priory Group spokesman added: \"Patient safety is our utmost priority and we will now review the coroner's comments in detail and make all necessary, additional changes to our policies and procedures.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ch Insp Richard Watkinson, who was suspended, was being investigated for various child offences\n\nA senior Met Police officer who was being investigated over child abuse images has been found dead.\n\nThe body of Ch Insp Richard Watkinson, who was suspended from duty, was found at home in Buckinghamshire on Thursday.\n\nThe officer was being investigated for conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.\n\nHe was first arrested by police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on 9 July 2021.\n\nMr Watkinson was serving with the West Area command unit at the time of the arrest.\n\nDue to \"significant developments in the investigation\", the case was then passed on to specialist officers at the Met Police.\n\n\"Following a conduct referral from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), IOPC investigators arrested a Metropolitan Police Service officer on 9 July, 2021,\" an IOPC spokesman said.\n\n\"We decided it was in the public interest for the matter to be investigated by specialist officers from the force with the necessary skills required in this area,\" he added.\n\nThe senior officer was arrested again on 20 July on suspicion of several offences.\n\nA Met Police spokeswoman said: \"A serving officer was arrested on 9 July 2021 by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and the matter passed back to be investigated by specialist officers from the Met.\n\n\"The officer was further arrested on 20 July 2022 on suspicion of offences including conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.\n\n\"The officer was bailed pending further inquiries and suspended from duty.\"\n\nLast week, Met Police officers attended Mr Watkinson's Buckinghamshire home in what is usually an area covered by Thames Valley Police.\n\nThe Met spokeswoman continued: \"Met officers attended an address in Buckinghamshire on the afternoon of Thursday, 12 January following welfare concerns and found the body of man in his 40s.\n\n\"While Thames Valley Police are dealing with this matter, we can confirm the man was a serving Met officer, based at the West Area Command Unit.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Unite union's general secretary said the Welsh government's one-off payment offer was not enough\n\nMore than 1,000 striking ambulance staff have left the service \"seriously disrupted\", bosses say.\n\nThursday is the first day of action by the Unite union over pay and conditions and follows two days of GMB walkouts.\n\nUnite wants a cost of living salary rise and said a Welsh government offer of a one-off payment would not stop strike action.\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan said \"the clock is ticking\" on the time the unions have to accept that offer.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service assistant operations director, Sonia Thompson, said: \"The strike has seriously disrupted the service today.\n\n\"It's not a situation that we like to be in, and it's not an ideal situation, but we do have resources available to respond to people where their lives are at risk.\"\n\nShe said the day had been \"quite difficult\" adding that management respected the right of staff to strike.\n\nIt comes as new figures show the Welsh Ambulance Service received a record number of calls in December, with response times at a record low.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinisters have said they understood workers' frustrations and called on people to minimise pressure on the NHS.\n\nUnite, which represents about a quarter of Wales' ambulance workers, said it will provide so-called \"life and limb\" emergency care but wants talks to move faster.\n\nAmong those on the picket lines was paramedic and Love Island star Paige Thorne, who joined colleagues striking in Swansea.\n\nExplaining the action to her one-and-a-half million Instagram followers, she said strikes were a \"last resort\" but that it was \"beyond words\" that NHS workers were struggling to pay for food and fuel.\n\n\"We have agreed, and always will agree, on providing the top tier, highest priority call, life-threatening cover,\" she said.\n\n\"We do not want anyone to come to harm from the disruption in service, but we have been pushed to this as a last resort to get the government to understand that staff are facing such financial crisis.\"\n\nTace Richards, a striking paramedic on a picket line in Hawthorn, Pontypridd, says staff are at breaking point\n\nTace Richards, a paramedic on the picket line in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: \"We want to do our best, we've worked through the pandemic, we've had all the claps on a Thursday night. [But] they do not put food on the table for our children and families\".\n\nHe said more money would encourage more staff to come back to the NHS, meaning better conditions for patients.\n\n\"Westminster needs to sort this issue out, the fact they are completely refusing to talk with us, they would rather pass legislation to stop us striking,\" he said.\n\nCatherine Sutton said pressures on the NHS were \"just too much\"\n\nCatherine Sutton, a dispatch assistant on the picket line in Bangor, said she was striking because change is needed.\n\nShe said: \"We've had a real terms pay cut for the last two years, people are struggling, the pressures the NHS are under... it's just too much.\n\n\"There's people leaving the service in droves. We need to up the incentives for the staff to stay.\"\n\nAddressing people's concern's about patient safety during the strikes, Ms Sutton emphasised that this was an issue outside of the strikes as well and was one of the main reasons she was out on the picket line.\n\n\"You go into work and you've got sixty to seventy people waiting for an ambulance and no one to send, so that's why we're here.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said NHS staffing problems were making her members' jobs increasingly difficult.\n\nShe said: \"They see first-hand how our NHS is collapsing. A decent consolidated pay increase is the only way to improve NHS recruitment and relieve the crippling pressure on our ambulance services.\n\n\"The recent proposal from the Welsh government of a one-off payment simply does not cut it.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said NHS staffing problems were making her members' jobs difficult\n\nShe said the only way to prevent further strikes was for the Welsh government to offer a cost of living salary increase.\n\nZoe Codd, regional officer for Unite the Union, said from the picket line at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen: \"I think speaking to the members today, it's very clear that they are frustrated at the fact they spend most of their shift outside A&E departments.\n\n\"They know the number of calls coming in from patients in our communities that need help, but they're stuck outside the hospitals because they've got patients that can't get into A&E.\n\n\"That's not acceptable, that's not their job. Their job is to be supporting patients so we need to really fix that issue and be providing the care to people in communities that really need it.\"\n\nZoe Codd, regional officer for Unite in Carmarthen, said that ambulance staff are frustrated at having to spend most of their shifts outside A&E\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales, chief executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service Jason Killens, said staff had described \"a deep conflict in the choices they are making\".\n\n\"On the one hand - like me - I joined the ambulance service to help people and provide great care to patients when they need it most.\n\n\"Yet when I've been speaking to colleagues, they say they feel so strongly that they can't do that on a day to day basis because of the pressure, that they feel they need to take action,\" he said.\n\nUnite has a second 24-hour strike planned for Monday, 23 January.\n\nAmbulance crews, control-room staff and others in Wales are picketing, and next week colleagues in England will also take action.\n\nPressure is increasing on the Welsh and UK governments, with NHS unions planning to take further action next month.\n\nThe GMB has unveiled fresh strikes in February and March.\n\n\"We have put a package of measures on the table that we hope in time will lead to unions calling off strikes,\" says Health Minister Eluned Morgan\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Eluned Morgan said: \"We're still talking to the trade unions on this matter, we haven't averted strike action yet, but the clock is ticking.\n\n\"This is a payment that has to go out before the end of February if it's going to be paid at all, and I think that would go a long way to helping some people who are struggling in the NHS.\"\n\n\"We have put a package of measures on the table that we hope in time will lead to unions calling off strikes.\n\n\"We have put a non-consolidated award on the table to be discussed with the unions,\" she said.\n\nConservative Russell George says the Welsh government needs to stop blaming UK ministers\n\nThe first, on 6 February, will coincide with a walkout by thousands of nurses from the Royal College of Nursing.\n\nThe Welsh government said it understood the anger of public sector workers.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised,\" a spokesman said.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Russell George said the Welsh government needed to stop \"blaming UK ministers for failing in its own responsibilities\".\n\n\"Patients cannot be allowed to suffer with our public services at a standstill and staff cannot be expected to burn out because Labour ministers cannot get their act together,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said a \"substantive\" pay rise had to be built into health workers' salaries.\n\n\"It's up to government now to avert future strikes by putting a deal on the table that can put the NHS on a firmer foundation for the future,\" he said.\n\nDo you work for an ambulance service? Are you striking today? Are you a patient affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "In 1987 Princess Diana wore the Attallah Cross with a purple dress designed by Catherine Walker\n\nKim Kardashian is the new owner of a necklace that was worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThe Attallah Cross was put up for sale at Sotheby's in London as part of its Royal and Noble Sale on Wednesday.\n\nFour people competed in a bidding war, with the US reality TV star winning the auction after five minutes.\n\nThe amethyst cross is a 1920s pendant by luxury jewellery designer Garrard, which Princess Diana wore on many occasions.\n\nIt was most famously worn by the princess in October 1987 at the London charity gala for Birthright, now known as Wellbeing of Women, a medical charity improving the health of women, girls and babies.\n\nThe Sotheby's pre-sale estimate for the piece was £80,000 to £120,000\n\nIt was first bought by businessman Naim Attallah in the 1980s who, as a result of his friendship with Diana, loaned it to her several times over many years. It was his estate that put the item up for auction.\n\nReality TV star Kardashian paid a total of £163,800 for the cross, far higher than Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of £80,000 to £120,000.\n\nHead of jewellery at Sotheby's London Kristian Spofforth said: \"Jewellery owned or worn by the late Princess Diana very rarely comes on to the market, especially a piece such as the Attallah Cross, which is so colourful, bold and distinctive.\n\n\"To some extent, this unusual pendant is symbolic of the princess's growing self-assurance in her sartorial and jewellery choices, at that particular moment in her life.\"\n\nIt is not the first historic fashion item Kardashian has shown an interest in.\n\nKardashian revealed she lost 16 pounds (7kg) to fit into Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress\n\nAt last year's Met Gala, she wore a Marilyn Monroe gown that was loaned to her from Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum.\n\nThe dress was worn by Monroe during her performance of Happy Birthday to US president John F Kennedy in 1962.", "Nurses in England are walking out for the second day in a row on Thursday as part of a row over pay.\n\nThe key advice is that if you are seriously injured or ill then call 999 as usual. If it's not urgent then call 111.\n\nGP practices will also run as normal as nurses working in those services are not involved in the strike action.\n\nIn total, around a quarter of hospitals and community services are affected by the strikes at 55 Trusts in England.\n\nAll nurses in intensive and emergency care are expected to work, as life preserving care must be maintained.\n\nWelsh ambulance workers are also striking on Thursday, but emergency calls will be covered.\n\nStrike action from teachers also continues in Scotland, and bus drivers in south and west London will walk out on Thursday.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nThe nurses' strike by Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members on Wednesday and Thursday follows two days of action before Christmas.\n\nWhat you need to know about Thursday:\n\nMore than 1,000 Welsh Ambulance Service workers will strike over pay on Thursday, the Unite union said.\n\nThe strike will run for 24 hours, and there will be further action on 23 January.\n\nEmergency calls will still be answered, the union said.\n\nOn Thursday teachers in Scotland are continuing their 16-day wave of rolling strikes with every local authority affected over the period.\n\nMembers of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) will strike in two local authorities per day from 16 January until 6 February.\n\nThey want a 10% pay rise, which ministers and councils have said is unaffordable.\n\nStrikes recently closed almost every primary and secondary school in Scotland across two days.\n\nBus drivers in south and west London are staging a round of strikes in a dispute over pay.\n\nMembers of the Unite union employed by Abellio are taking action over eight days days in January after three strike days in December.\n\nAbellio London said it was offering a 12% pay deal, but the union said Abellio was \"content to hoard mountains of cash\" and called its offer \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe bus routes that are affected include local services to Heathrow airport.\n\nFerries between Dover and Calais will be disrupted by a strike in France.\n\nP&O Ferries says services to and from Calais will be suspended from 07:00 GMT for nine hours.\n\nFrom 16:00 GMT, a shuttle service between Dover and Calais will run until all traffic is cleared.\n\nDunkerque services from Dover will run as normal but passengers are being advised to allow extra time for journeys.\n\nThe strikes will affect Eurostar services too, which is running a revised timetable on Friday.\n\nThere will be cancellations between London and Paris and on services connecting London to Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.\n\nEurostar says if a service is cancelled, it will not charge passengers for a refund, or to change their tickets for another time or date.\n\nIf someone cancels their booking, they can claim a Eurostar voucher which is valid for one year.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Labour's leader, Sir Keir Starmer, will tell business leaders in Davos that a Labour government would do more to draw foreign investment into Britain, especially in \"green industries\".\n\nSir Keir, attending the World Economic Forum meeting, said Labour would push to \"bring global investors back\".\n\nHe said foreign investment had declined sharply under the Conservatives.\n\nHis predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, shunned the elite gathering, which he described as a \"billionaires' jamboree\".\n\nBut Sir Keir and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, who is also attending the meeting of politicians, business people and other influential figures, have taken a much more pro-business stance.\n\nMs Reeves said Labour would \"work in partnership with business\" to boost investment.\n\n\"With Labour in government, Britain will be open for business,\" said Ms Reeves.\n\nLabour wanted to ensure the UK was \"a world leader in the climate transition\", she added.\n\nForeign direct investment (FDI) involves money flowing into the UK from overseas, for example when a foreign firm buys a British factory, or opens a branch in the UK. It can create jobs and boost growth and productivity.\n\nLabour said that foreign investment in the UK had declined while the Conservatives have been in power since 2010, citing United Nations figures.\n\nBetween 1997 and 2010 the UK accounted for 8% of world FDI, but that fell to 4% between 2010 and 2021, the figures show.\n\nIn 2021, UK FDI accounted for 1.7% of world FDI, the lowest since records began.\n\nLabour has been determined to burnish its pro-business credentials under Sir Keir, including courting the financial sector at Canary Wharf and promising to improve trading relations with the EU.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government will be represented at Davos by Business Secretary Grant Shapps and International Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.\n\nMr Shapps tweeted a video of himself on Wednesday saying alongside his warm jacket for Davos, he would be packing a \"vision for how we scale up Britain\" as the best place to start and grow a business.\n\nHe highlighted a survey conducted by accountancy firm PwC, published this week which suggested that Britain was the third \"most important\" place in the world for businesses to invest, behind the US and China\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said: \"As a central part of our plan to grow the economy we are supporting business investment, including by permanently setting the Annual Investment Allowance at its highest ever level of £1m from April, and through our generous £13.6bn package of business rates support.\"\n\nThe investment allowance allows businesses to offset investment against their tax bill. The government announced the extra support for businesses that pay rates in its Autumn statement last year.", "Jonathan Edwards says he has support in his constituency to run again.\n\nAn MP who was cautioned by police for assaulting his wife said he could run against his former party at the next election.\n\nCarmarthen East and Dinefwr MP Jonathan Edwards quit Plaid Cymru last year amid a row about his status in the party.\n\nMr Edwards said he has a \"groundswell of support\" locally to stand again.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was \"entirely focused on continuing to deliver policies that make a real difference to people's lives\".\n\nIn May 2020 Mr Edwards was arrested when police were called to his home in Carmarthenshire.\n\nHe received a police caution for common assault on his wife, Emma Edwards. The pair have since divorced.\n\nAt the time he said he was deeply sorry and that it was the biggest regret of his life.\n\nTwo years later he was allowed to re-join Plaid Cymru by a disciplinary panel - triggering an argument about whether he should represent the party in the House of Commons.\n\nMs Edwards said she was \"appalled and disappointed\" that the party reinstated him.\n\nA majority of the party's ruling national executive committee recommended that he should not resume his work as a Plaid Westminster MP - meaning he would have to sit as an independent.\n\nAfter Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price called for him to leave, he quit the party altogether.\n\n\"Part of the process of deciding what to do is the support I am receiving locally, and there is a lot of support from individuals locally,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\nMr Edwards said he had received enough money to stand and fight an election \"from small donations from numerous individuals\".\n\nHe said that if he did stand he would do so on his \"record as an elected member in Carmarthenshire for over a decade-and-a-half\".\n\nAsked if he was a fit and proper person to be an MP, he said: \"That is a matter for the people to decide and determine.\n\n\"There were no procedures against me by the House of Commons at all and there was no prosecution by the police.\"\n\nHe said he completed a specialist course requested by the Plaid Cymru disciplinary panel \"faithfully\".\n\nJonathan Edwards said he was shocked by a statement made by Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price\n\nMr Edwards said he was shocked by a statement by Mr Price that said his actions \"did not represent our values and his position as an MP sends the wrong message out to domestic abuse survivors\".\n\nHe added: \"The disciplinary committee decided I met all their expectations and were happy for me to re-join. Unfortunately the leadership of Plaid Cymru enabled that process to become politicised.\"\n\nHe accused the leadership of Plaid Cymru of taking an \"absolute position\" that an individual should \"should be cancelled and destroyed and that there is no way back for that individual any more\".\n\n\"There is another group of people who believe that if an individual is honest about the mistakes they have done and recognise that they acted improperly and they have taken their punishment, then that individual deserves a second chance.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said: \"The disciplinary process in question has long concluded.\n\n\"Plaid Cymru is now entirely focused on continuing to deliver policies that make a real difference to people's lives through its co-operation agreement with Welsh government, holding the Tories in Westminster to account for their chronic neglect of Wales, and supporting public sector workers in their disputes with the Labour government.\"", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election.\n\nMs Ardern's first term in office has been a challenging time, but her compassionate leadership style and charisma have seen her become one of the world's most prominent leaders.\n\nHere's a look back at some of the key moments of her leadership.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were last spotted, on CCTV, near East Ham underground station, on 7 January\n\nThe father of a newborn baby who police want to trace is a registered sex offender, US police records reveal.\n\nThe baby has been missing since their parents' car broke down and caught fire on the M61 near Bolton, on 5 January.\n\nSince then, Constance \"Toots\" Marten and Mark Gordon appear to have been avoiding police, moving to Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester and London in quick succession.\n\nMs Marten, 35, is from a wealthy family but is estranged from them, say police.\n\nKnown to her friends as Toots, she grew up in a stately home in Dorset which was used as a set for the 1996 film of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\nShe had a privileged upbringing, attending a private school, university and drama school - but after meeting Gordon, 48, everything changed.\n\n\"At that point the affluent, normal, social aspects of Constance's life, they stop,\" Det Ch Insp Payne said.\n\n\"Then it is just Mark and Constance. They're estranged from family from what we can understand.\"\n\nGordon, whom she met in 2016, has been a registered sex offender in the UK since 2010, having been convicted in Florida of a rape he committed aged 14.\n\nHe served some 20 years in prison in the United States before being deported to Britain.\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon have been missing since their car broke down on the M61 in Greater Manchester\n\n\"Our top priority is ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the newborn baby,\" Det Supt Lewis Basford, of the Metropolitan Police, said.\n\n\"We have no evidence to suggest that either Constance or the baby have been assessed by medical professionals.\"\n\nPolice do not even know if the child was born prematurely or went full term.\n\nOnly a day or so old at the time of the car fire, they could have been born in the vehicle, officers say.\n\nThe couple appear to have left their home in Eltham, south-east London, in September, when Ms Marten would have shown the first signs of pregnancy, and have since led a nomadic lifestyle, police say.\n\nAfter the fire, near Farnworth, at 18:30 GMT, they walked off the motorway embankment and flagged down a taxi, which took them to Liverpool.\n\nFrom there, they took another taxi to the Essex port of Harwich but there is no sign of them trying to board a ferry.\n\nAnd on 7 January, they took a taxi from Harwich to East Ham, spending hundreds of pounds in fares in a couple of days.\n\nTaxi drivers report hearing the baby in their cabs.\n\nThe last time they were spotted was that day, on CCTV, near East Ham underground station.\n\nThought to have lost their belongings in the fire, the couple are travelling using cash.\n\nMs Marten has inherited wealth, and officers say the couple are likely to have built up a \"considerable slush fund\" that could allow them to live off-grid for some time.\n\nWhenever they are near CCTV cameras, they look away or cover their faces, police say.\n\nDet Ch Insp Payne said the couple could be anywhere in the UK.\n\n\"We want to find this child - that is our overriding aim,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nVeteran US folk-rock star David Crosby has died aged 81, his representative has confirmed.\n\nHe helped set up two major bands in the 1960s: The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was renowned for his guitar-playing and vocal harmonies.\n\nHis career saw him achieve the rare feat of being inducted to the revered Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.\n\nFormer bandmates saluted Crosby's creative talents, while acknowledging the conflicts they had endured.\n\nCrosby's wife told showbiz site Variety that he died \"after a long illness\" while surrounded by family.\n\n\"His legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music,\" her statement added.\n\nCrosby was born in California on 14 August 1941, the son of Oscar-winning Hollywood cinematographer Floyd Crosby.\n\nHe joined The Byrds in 1964 - a folk-rock group who scored their first hit with a cover of Bob Dylan's Tambourine Man, and whose other singles like Turn! Turn! Turn! and Eight Miles High helped change the face of American pop and rock.\n\nThe Byrds, with Crosby second left, helped set the template for US pop and rock music in the mid-1960s\n\nHis tempestuous tenure - a period during which he also briefly dated singer Joni Mitchell - culminated in his being fired from the group three years later.\n\nCrosby then formed a supergroup with Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills and The Hollies' Graham Nash, who were later joined by another Buffalo Springfield star, Neil Young.\n\nCrosby, Stills, Nash and Young made one of their first appearances at the Woodstock in 1969, and later had a hit with Mitchell's song about the legendary festival.\n\nThis band, too, was beset by in-fighting and broke up after a few years - although they have periodically reformed for concerts since.\n\nHits written by Crosby during his time in the band included the hippy anthems Almost Cut My Hair and Deja Vu, and he responded to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy with the song Long Time Gone.\n\nHe became known for his countercultural politics and trademark moustache as well as his musicianship. A six-decade career culminated in his final album, For Free, released in 2021.\n\nCrosby (centre) performs with bandmates Graham Nash and Neil Young in 1969\n\nThe record saw him team up with one of his children, James Raymond, who had been put up for adoption soon after birth and only became acquainted with his father three decades later.\n\nOff-stage, Crosby had multiple run-ins with US law enforcement, including an arrest in 1982 on drug and weapons charges.\n\nHis substance abuse had reportedly intensified after the death of a girlfriend in a car crash when he was a young man.\n\nThere followed periods of ill health, and a liver transplant in 1994. Crosby's reputation for a hedonistic lifestyle saw him named two decades later as \"rock's unlikeliest survivor\" by Rolling Stone magazine.\n\nCrosby later expressed regret over his addictions and altercations with co-stars, telling the Los Angeles Times in 2019 he was \"ashamed\" of some of his past behaviours.\n\nFollowing the musician's death, former bandmate Nash expressed his \"profound sadness\" despite the two men's often \"volatile\" relationship, adding that Crosby left behind a \"tremendous void\".\n\n\"What has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years,\" Nash wrote.\n\n\"David was fearless in life and in music.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStills agreed, writing that his late collaborator was \"without question a giant of a musician\", even though they had \"butted heads a lot of the time\".\n\n\"His harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius,\" he added.\n\nAnother tribute came from Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, who wrote on Twitter that he was \"heartbroken\" at the news - as his fellow star had been an \"unbelievable talent\" and a \"wonderful person\".\n\nCrosby helped fellow singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner have two children by acting as their sperm donor through artificial insemination. Etheridge wrote on Thursday: \"He gave me the gift of family. I will forever be grateful to him, Django, and Jan.\n\n\"His music and legacy will inspire many generations to come. A true treasure.\"\n\nCrosby with Melissa Etheridge (centre) and her partner at the time, Julie Cypher, in 2000\n\nCrosby, Etheridge and their respective partners revealed his involvement through an appearance together with the two young children on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 2000.\n\nAsked why she chose Crosby, Etheridge told the magazine: \"He's musical, which means a lot to me, and I admire his work.\"\n\nIn 2016, she said she had considered Brad Pitt, a good friend, as the donor, but decided against it because of the actor's desire to have a family of his own.\n\n\"I looked and I saw how badly he wanted children and I thought, I don't want to share this with someone who really, badly wants children because my children don't need another parent - they have two,\" she told Australia's Studio 10.\n\nEtheridge's family saw Crosby \"every once in a while\", she said, but Crosby and his wife Jan \"totally understood that we are the parents\".\n\nOne of the children they conceived, Beckett Cypher, died in 2020 at the age of 21. Etheridge tweeted at the time that she \"joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction\".\n\nCrosby said in 2021 that Beckett's death was \"hugely painful\". He told The Telegraph: \"It's never gonna get easy. You lose somebody you love and it hurts, that's how it is.\"\n\nEtheridge told The Guardian later that year that Crosby blamed himself for Beckett's addiction, thinking it might be genetic.\n\n\"But he can't. Everybody has choices. You can't just say: 'Oh, that's David Crosby's son, so…' That doesn't work at all.\"\n\nCrosby and his wife also helped actress Drew Barrymore by letting her stay with them for three months as part of her programme of recovery from alcohol and drug abuse when she was 14 in 1989.\n\n\"I'm an old Hollywood kid, and I knew her story,\" Crosby said at the time. \"I felt she had been dealt a short deck, you know, a fifth-generation alcoholic, and I didn't want to see her go down the tubes.\"\n\nFollowing Crosby's death, other famous fans paid tribute on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 🕉🇺🇦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTweets were sent from Crosby's own account the day before his death was announced - with one stating that Eleanor Rigby was his favourite Beatles to song to play on a rainy day.\n\nThe exact cause of his death was not immediately specified.", "Julian Sands has been missing since last Friday\n\nA car belonging to British actor Julian Sands has been found near to where he was reported missing.\n\nMr Sands disappeared last Friday while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nPoor conditions have hindered the search - but officials say there is \"no hard deadline\" for ending the mission.\n\nMr Sands, 65, is known for roles in popular films and TV dramas including A Room With A View, 24 and Smallville.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said his vehicle was located in a car park, believed to be where he left it before setting out on his hike.\n\nHis family have towed it away, police added.\n\nIn an update later on Thursday, police said wintry conditions were continuing to hamper their efforts, and they were waiting to start another ground search.\n\nBut they insisted that they were still involved in a search and rescue operation - telling the PA news agency there was \"no date set\" for calling this off.\n\nThe actor's friends have expressed their concerns after his disappearance was confirmed.\n\nBritish actor Samuel West wrote on Twitter: \"Please, please let Julian Sands be okay. A friend and an inspiration. Awful news.\"\n\nMeanwhile, film producer Cassian Elwes said he was \"devastated\", adding that he had \"said many prayers\".\n\nFor weeks, California has been battered by deadly storms and a disaster declaration was issued by President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Sands was reported missing at about 19:30 local time on Friday 13 January.\n\nThe department's search and rescue crews responded and began a search, but this was hampered by severe weather warnings and trail conditions.\n\n\"However, we continue to search by helicopter and drones when the weather permits,\" a statement said.\n\nA Room with a View was a global hit in 1985\n\nThe department said it had responded to 14 calls on Mount San Antonio, known locally as Mount Baldy, and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. It warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,\" the department said. They are also searching for another hiker, an American, who went missing in the same mountains.\n\nLast week, a mother of four whom friends described as an experienced hiker died after sliding more than 500ft down Mount Baldy.\n\nMr Sands has talked in the past about his love of hiking and mountain climbing.\n\nWhen asked in 2020 what made him happy, he replied: \"Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.\"\n\nMount San Antonio, commonly known as Mount Baldy, in the San Gabriel Mountains\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Mr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nThe father of three most recently appeared in the drama Benediction, which also starred Peter Capaldi.\n\nMr Sands lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.", "Rail strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have, rail minister Huw Merriman has said.\n\nThe strikes have cost the UK more than £1bn, he conceded to a committee of MPs.\n\nHowever, Mr Merriman said no deal over pay was viable without unions agreeing to \"modernise\" working practices - a major sticking point in negotiations.\n\n\"It's the reforms that will actually pay for these pay deals,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the future of train operator Transpennine was under review.\n\nWhen quizzed by the Transport Select Committee, Mr Merriman said the rail strikes cost rail organisations £25m per day on week days, and £15m per day on weekends.\n\nHe cited a report that found the strikes had cost the wider UK economy £700m from June to Christmas.\n\nThis has added up to a more than £1bn hit to the UK, he conceded to Labour MP Ben Bradshaw.\n\n\"If you look at it [through] that particular lens, then absolutely, it's actually ended up costing more than would have been the case if it was just settled,\" Mr Merriman said.\n\nHowever, Mr Merriman added that if the government had settled with rail workers last year, it would have set a precedent for other public sector pay disputes.\n\n\"We have to look at what teachers are being given, and what nurses are being given as well,\" he said.\n\nThe UK railway system, which is heavily subsidised by the government, is a patchwork of public and private sector organisations.\n\nAlthough the train operating companies are mainly private sector, it was the taxpayer who was largely funding these pay settlements, Mr Merriman said.\n\nThe UK has been hit by waves of strikes as discontented workers in a number of sectors take action over pay and conditions.\n\nTeachers and nurses are among the public sector workers who have taken strike action, with more strikes to come.\n\nHuw Merriman said rail modernisation would pay for pay deals\n\nMr Merriman told Mps that railway use had not bounced back after the pandemic, and inflation was running higher than a few years ago, making a pay deal that is acceptable to the unions \"harder to deliver\".\n\nRail unions say any pay offer should reflect the rising cost of living, which is currently above 10%.\n\nThe RMT union, which represents rail workers, said Mr Merriman's statements amounted to an admission that \"prolonging the rail dispute was part of a deliberate strategy that was dictated by the government's concern to keep down the pay of rail workers, nurses, ambulance workers and teachers\".\n\n\"The wider economy and the business interests who relied on pre-Christmas trade were just collateral damage in that policy,\" said RMT general secretary Mick Lynch.\n\nMr Lynch also said the government had intervened just before Christmas to \"torpedo\" the talks between the unions and train firms - a charge which Mr Merriman denied to the committee.\n\nMr Merriman also said train operator Transpennine Express' contract is under review.\n\nTranspennine, which operates across the North of England and into Scotland, has been cancelling trains daily for months.\n\nThe company blames high sickness rates and a backlog of driver training due to the pandemic for cancellations.\n\nMr Merriman said that when the Transpennine Express contract comes to end in May, he is \"already looking at what needs to be done... with regards to that contract\".\n\nHe said he had weekly data on Transpennine and another troubled operator, Avanti West Coast, and was monitoring what they were doing to turn things around.\n\nThe government recently gave Avanti six months to the end of March, to urgently improve.\n\nA spokesperson for TransPennine Express said on Thursday: \"We are committed to the communities we serve and want to assure our customers that we are doing all we can to deliver a train service they can rely on.\"\n\nTranspennine \"continues to work flat-out to deliver higher levels of service delivery and to tackle the issues that are being experienced by customers,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Máirtín MacGabhann says the delay in introducing an organ donation law named after his son Dáithí is not acceptable\n\nThe father of a boy waiting for a heart transplant said he is devastated that an opt-out organ donation system will be delayed from taking effect due to Stormont's stalemate.\n\nThe new law automatically makes people organ donors unless they specifically state otherwise.\n\nIt is named Dáithí's Law, after Máirtín's six-year-old son who is on the organ transplant waiting list.\n\nIt was due to come into force this spring but cannot go forward without a functioning government.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK where an opt-out system is not yet in place.\n\nThe family of Dáithí had long campaigned for a change in the law.\n\nMr MacGabhann said the family would be writing to the Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris in the hope it might be in his power to bring it forward.\n\n\"To wake up this AM to hear that it won't go live in spring 2023 as planned is devastating and unacceptable,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\nThe delay in enacting the law relates to extra legislation, which must be passed by Stormont.\n\nIn a communication seen by BBC News NI, the Department of Health said that \"secondary legislation is required to clarify which organs and tissues are covered\" under the opt-out system.\n\nIt states that legislation has been \"prepared and is ready to be introduced\" in the assembly, but the ongoing political deadlock means that cannot happen yet.\n\nStormont has been without a functioning government for 11 months as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is blocking the formation over its opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nSecondary legislation is commonly used to fill in the gaps of new laws to enable them to be enforced and, if needed, updated over time.\n\nThe Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill was approved by assembly members (MLAs) at Stormont last February.\n\nThere was then a built-in 12-month implementation period including the recruitment of staff, training and education with the system expected to kick in from spring 2023, following the passing of the secondary legislation.\n\nThe Department of Health said contingency plans have been activated that would allow its implementation planning to \"remain in a state of readiness pending the restoration of the assembly\".\n\nIt added that, until then, public awareness campaigns will continue to promote the forthcoming law change.\n\nBut the department said: \"It is not possible in the absence of the assembly to confirm a 'go-live' date for Dáithí's Law.\"\n\nThe bill is called Dáithí's law after six-year-old Dáithí MacGabhann, who is waiting for a heart transplant\n\nMr MacGabhann told BBC News NI it was particularly frustrating because a lot of work had gone into getting the legislation to where it is now.\n\n\"Everything that needs to happen is just a formality - the hard work has been done.\"\n\n\"This is life-saving legislation,\" he said, adding that it was devastating to see families waiting for an organ.\n\n\"It does not bother me if it's going to take someone in Westminster to push this forward.\"\n\nHe added: \"I asked Dáithí last night: 'When do we need Dáithí's Law?\" and he shouted at the top of his voice: 'Now!'\"\n\nDUP MP for East Londonderry Gregory Campbell said he believed the law can be changed at Westminster.\n\n\"If Stormont wasn't there full stop, Westminster would have to act,\" he told BBC Radio Foyle's Breakfast Show.\n\nHe said that he and others would be raising it in Westminster to get action as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the blocking of the law \"because one party has refused to enter the assembly\" is unacceptable.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlliance assembly member Paula Bradshaw said she has written to Mr Heaton-Harris asking him to use powers, in the absence of a minister, to enable the department to enact the system.\n\nThe head of British Heart Foundation in Northern Ireland, Fearghal McKinney, said he wanted to see the legislation in place as soon as possible.\n\n\"We encourage everyone eligible to register as an organ donor and to have the conversation with their families and loves to share their wishes so they can give the gift of life to others,\" he added.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Office has urged the political parties to form an executive to resolve issues within the health service.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The absence of a Northern Ireland Assembly is causing unnecessary delays in the introduction of this life-saving legislation and the secretary of state urges the Northern Ireland parties to come back to the executive, get back to work and take these decisions in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland.\"", "Police searched Matteo Messina Denaro's hideout after he was arrested on 17 January\n\nA second hideout used by Italy's most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe with a sliding base.\n\nItalian police said jewellery, gemstones and silverware were found in the hidden chamber.\n\nEmpty paper boxes were also found, suggesting that potentially revealing documents were cleared out after Messina Denaro was arrested on Monday.\n\nHe had been attending a chemotherapy session at a private clinic in Sicily.\n\nShortly after being apprehended, the Mafia boss was taken to a prison in L'Aquila, in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, where reports say he will continue to receive treatment for his cancer.\n\nOn Thursday, Messina Denaro declined to appear via videolink at a hearing on the 1992 killings of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.\n\nThe killings are only two of the crimes Messina Denaro - a former boss of the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime group - has been found guilty of.\n\nItalian media reported that there are signs the second hideout - a small chamber barely big enough for one person - had been inhabited \"recently\".\n\nThe bunker is in a house about 300m from the Mafia boss's first hideout in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara.\n\nCar keys found in the bag Messina Denaro was carrying at the time of his arrest led investigators to that first location. Police raided the location on Monday afternoon and found a 60sq m ground floor flat, which was described as \"comfortable\".\n\nItalian media said that luxury perfumes, expensive furniture and designer clothes were found at the location, as well two cell phones and Viagra pills.\n\nPolice had been hunting the mafia chief for three decades when he was caught on Monday. He had made the appointment at the clinic under a false name.\n\nThe alias, Andrea Bonafede, aroused the suspicion of police when they realised it was the name of deceased Mafia boss Leonardo Bonafede's nephew.\n\nPhone-mapping showed the real Bonafede's mobile was not in Palermo in 2020 and 2021 when a man using the name had surgery in the city.\n\nDuring his time at the top of the Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate, Messina Denaro oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe was convicted in absentia in 2002 of a string of murders.\n\nDetails of how Messina Denaro lived before his arrest have been starting to emerge.\n\nHe was living in an unassuming house in Campobello di Mazara, 116km (72 miles) from Palermo and just 8km from his birthplace of Castelvetrano.\n\nA neighbour told Italian TV he frequently saw the man and that they would greet one another regularly.", "French-made Caesar artillery is already being used by Ukrainian troops\n\nMore countries have answered President Volodymyr Zelensky's call to send further arms to Ukraine.\n\nThe US says a package worth $2.5bn (£2bn) will be sent, including armoured vehicles and air defence systems.\n\nSeveral European nations promised their own new packages - including hundreds of missiles pledged to Kyiv by the UK.\n\nThe announcements come ahead of a crunch meeting scheduled in Germany on Friday, in which 50 countries are set to co-ordinate arms supplies.\n\nA meeting on Thursday saw representatives from 11 nations gather at an army base in Estonia to discuss a range of new packages to help Ukraine recapture territory and fend off any further Russian advances.\n\nNine countries - the UK, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovakia - promised more support.\n\nThe Netherlands will announce its package of support on Friday.\n\nSpeaking during his visit to Estonia, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"In 2023, it is time to turn the momentum that the Ukrainians have achieved in pushing back Russia into gains and... push them back out of Ukraine and to restore Ukraine's sovereignty, which is their right under international law.\"\n\nThe announcement of fresh US support arrived later on Thursday. Despite Ukrainian hopes, it did not contain an offer of tanks.\n\nBut the Pentagon did promise Kyiv an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other large and small munitions.\n\nIt said recent air attacks demonstrated \"the devastating impact of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine\" - but said the newly-pledged arms would help to fend these off.\n\nA statement added that the US had now committed more than $26.7bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.\n\nBen Wallace and his counterparts in Estonia\n\nA meeting of the Ukraine Defence Group, made up of key allies including the US, will convene at Ramstein air base in Germany on Friday to discuss further military support.\n\nPresident Zelensky said he expected \"strong decisions\" on further arms exports to be made at that meeting, including a \"powerful military support package\" from the US.\n\nThe talks are likely to focus on the question of whether to send heavy tanks, and crucially who will supply them. Despite the billions of dollars pledged in new weapons by Western allies on Thursday, this question remains unanswered.\n\nUkraine is asking for German-made Leopard tanks to be sent to the front line.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under increasing international and domestic pressure to supply them, or at least approve their delivery by third countries.\n\nPoland and Finland have both promised to send their Leopards - but need Germany's permission, as the manufacturing country, to do so.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said he was \"moderately pessimistic\" about Germany giving permission to re-export Leopards to Ukraine.\n\nAnd President Zelensky has also addressed Germany's reluctance.\n\n\"Now we are waiting for a decision from one European capital that will activate the prepared chains of co-operation on tanks,\" he said on Thursday evening.\n\nA government source in Berlin told Reuters it is yet to receive a request from any country to re-export their tanks.\n\nThe UK was the first nation to offer tanks to Ukraine when it promised to send 14 British army Challenger 2s.", "A ban on disposable vapes will be considered by the Scottish government, the health minister has confirmed.\n\nIt follows a campaign against the cheap e-cigarettes, which contain lithium batteries, because of the threat they pose to the environment.\n\nZero Waste Scotland will lead the review, which will consider international experience and action.\n\nHumza Yousaf told MSPs on Thursday it would give \"consideration\" to a potential ban of the devices.\n\nLater the Scottish government said it could also consider increasing access to disposal options, improved product design or publicity campaigns.\n\nIn October, the Irish government launched a consultation on banning \"wasteful\" disposable vape products, citing concerns over littering.\n\nDisposable vapes, which typically cost a few pounds, are marketed as \"beginner friendly\" and can last for the equivalent of a pack of 20 cigarettes - around 600 \"puffs\".\n\nThe single-use vapes are designed to feel more like a cigarette than larger reusable devices, but some manufacturers are now producing refillable and rechargeable pods with a similar slim case.\n\nBecause they contain valuable materials such as lithium batteries and copper, as well as plastic, vapes are classed as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and users are supposed to dispose of them at a household recycling centre or at the shop where they bought the device.\n\nCurrently large shops must take back all items of small electronic products like disposable vapes in store to be recycled for free, regardless of whether the item was bought in that shop.\n\nAnd smaller retailers are legally obliged to finance the take back, collection and treatment of these products when they become waste.\n\nGreen MSP Gillian Mackay raised the issue at Holyrood, citing a newspaper's campaign against disposable vapes.\n\nShe said: \"As well as being an issue for public health, they are an issue for the environment...Would the cabinet secretary support a ban on single-use vapes?\"\n\nMr Yousaf said Public Health Scotland was examining the impact of vaping, with an action plan due in the autumn.\n\nLaura Young has been campaigning to ban single-use vape pens\n\nWhile the World Health Organisation said they were \"undoubtedly harmful to health\", there was limited evidence on their long-term impact, he said.\n\nHe congratulated Dundee-based campaigner Laura Young for highlighting the issue, saying she was \"colloquially described as the vape crusader\".\n\nThe PHD student and climate activist collects discarded vapes littered in the streets, recently picking up about one device per minute in an hour-long walk near her home.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"She has done an incredible job going around the country picking up these vapes that are undoubtedly causing environmental harm.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will ask stakeholders with the relevant expertise to examine the evidence and assess what action the Scottish government and other partners should take.\n\n\"That will include consideration of a potential ban.\"\n\nIain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland, said: \"Any form of littering is an unacceptable, anti-social behaviour, that is damaging to the environment and the economy.\n\n\"Single-use items, like disposable vapes, are becoming an all-too-common eyesore in areas where we live, work, and socialise, and can last in our environment for years and years.\n\n\"Tackling our throwaway culture is a priority here at Zero Waste Scotland and we are happy to lead on this important review.\"", "Sir James Dyson has accused the government of having a \"stupid\" and \"short-sighted\" approach to the economy and business in the UK.\n\nHe said growth had \"become a dirty word\" during Rishi Sunak's premiership.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, the Dyson founder urged the government to \"incentivise private innovation and demonstrate its ambition for growth\".\n\nMichael Gove, levelling-up secretary, said the government was \"firing on all cylinders\" to help business.\n\nA prominent supporter of Brexit with a fortune worth £23bn according to the Sunday Times Rich List, Sir James said the government believed it could \"impose tax upon tax on companies in the belief that penalising the private sector is a free win at the ballot box\".\n\n\"This is as short-sighted as it is stupid. In the global economy, companies will simply choose to transfer jobs and invest elsewhere,\" he warned.\n\nThe high-profile businessman's comments come after the government announced in the autumn £25bn worth of tax rises in an attempt to balance the books and restore credibility to the UK's finances after the economic fallout of the Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng mini-budget.\n\nOne of the mini-budget polices reversed was a change to corporation tax, which is paid to the government by UK companies and foreign companies with UK offices. It is set to rise from 19% to 25% in April.\n\nUK businesses, as well as households, are also dealing with the highest rate of inflation for four decades, with energy bills driving price rises through supply chains.\n\nChaz Curry is one of thousands of business owners to close their doors in 2022.\n\nHe told the BBC he decided to shut Roots Cycleworks, a bicycle repair and hire and repair shop based in Exmouth, because of several factors including inflation, import issues, supplies of parts and customers' disposable income decreasing. He is set to start a new job next month.\n\nChaz Curry closed his business after trading became unviable\n\n\"All of those pressures, it's kind of death by a thousand cuts,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The business this time last year was in a very good state and we have literally watched it over the course of months sort of go down the plug hole.\"\n\nMr Curry said he was not looking for government handouts, but added he did believe some business policies had been \"a bit route one\" and that ministers had been distracted by the end of Boris Johnson's premiership and the following Conservative leadership elections at a time when governments overseas \"seemed to be acting to put money back into the general public's pocket\".\n\n\"Do I feel like there could have been a little bit more creative thinking? Yeah, maybe I do,\" he said.\n\nIn his comment piece, Sir James repeated his concern over working-from-home policies following the height of the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe said the government had \"yet to direct\" workers to return to workplaces after \"ordering them to stay at home\".\n\n\"This has badly damaged the country's work ethic,\" he said.\n\nHe argued \"no weight\" had been afforded to the \"importance of face-to-face collaboration, shared culture, mental health, productivity and output, or the training of new and young employees\", which he said was \"fundamental to the success of businesses and employees alike\".\n\nBut the entrepreneur wrote that the UK could \"shake off its Covid inertia\" and \"turn things around, but only if fast-growing companies are allowed to thrive here\".\n\nHe said the government had a \"role to play\", starting with the spring Budget in March.\n\n\"It must incentivise private innovation and demonstrate its ambition for growth,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove rejected Sir James' view that the country needed to \"shake off its Covid inertia\", saying the government was committed to reducing inflation and growing the economy.\n\n\"If we are being accused of inertia I think it's important that we stress the energy at which we are pursing smarter regulation in a variety different ways that will help enterprise,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe UK electric vehicle industry was dealt a blow earlier this week when battery start-up Britishvolt collapsed into administration, with the majority of its 232 staff made redundant.\n\nThe firm had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland, and ministers had hailed it as a \"levelling up\" opportunity that would boost the region's economy and support the future of UK car making.\n\nSir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, which advises the government, told the BBC it the Britishvolt failure was \"very disappointing\", but said he was hopeful the plant could be \"resurrected\".\n\nMr Gove said the government knew the site where Britishvolt had planned its factory was \"hugely valuable, hugely attractive\".\n\n\"We do know the approach we are taking towards electric vehicles will mean there will be more investment of this kind in the future,\" he added.\n\nAsked about Sir James' comments, Sir John said investment in the UK was \"probably declining\" in part because of the concern over regulatory changes with the EU following Brexit.\n\n\"I think we should as far as possible continue to comply with EU regs because that makes it easier for companies to compete in Europe,\" he added.\n\nSir James had faced criticism previously when he announced he would relocate his firm's global head office to Singapore from Malmesbury in Wiltshire in 2019.\n\nIn 2021, he moved his residency back to the UK from Singapore.", "Welsh students are set to see a 9.4% rise in student maintenance support\n\nWelsh students are set to see a rise in maintenance support amid the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe Welsh government has announced a rise of 9.4% for the 2023-24 academic year, subject to new regulations.\n\nThe amount the average full-time student can claim in maintenance grants and loans will increase from £10,710 to £11,720.\n\nIn contrast, the UK government has announced a 2.8% increase for students ordinarily resident in England.\n\nIt comes as students report rising costs leading to hostile flats, stress, and choosing between food and fun.\n\nThe change will apply to full-time and part-time higher education students who began a course on or after 1 August 2018.\n\nIt does not apply to postgraduates. The postgraduate support and the doctoral loan amount were increased by 1.8%, the Welsh government said.\n\nThe household income thresholds for claiming will not change.\n\nBeth Williams, who is studying English literature and journalism at Cardiff University, said transport and groceries were eating into her budget significantly this year.\n\nBeth Williams says the extra money will be welcome\n\n\"This is definitely a welcome change I think... it's almost a grand extra so that's really going to help,\" the 20-year-old said.\n\n\"It means students can focus more on their studies and not have the added stress of the financial implications of being a student.\"\n\nNow in her third year, Ms Williams, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, said she wanted to prioritise her studies over working at this point.\n\n\"It hasn't been possible for me to get a part-time job because of that so I've had to dip into my savings from my summer job,\" she said.\n\nLiving costs support is rising in line with the National Living Wage, which is unique to Wales.\n\nThe highest level of grant support is given to those students most in need. Maintenance grant amounts are not changing, but loans are increasing.\n\nEducation minister Jeremy Miles said: \"Living costs should never be a barrier to studying at university. This increase in support will ensure that students from all backgrounds are able to access higher education.\"\n\nEducation Minister Jeremy Miles says the cost of living \"should never be a barrier\" to university study\n\nMs Williams said she, like many other students, was a lot more conscious of the cost of living.\n\n\"I do a lot more cooking at home now than I did last year...We're being a lot more thrifty I feel as well. We're always looking for deals and asking if we can get a discount, making the most of the student discount while we can.\"", "The Conservative mayor for the West Midlands has lashed out at the process for allocating levelling up funds, calling for an end to Whitehall's \"broken begging bowl culture\".\n\nIn an angry statement, Andy Street said he wanted ministers to justify why \"the majority\" of bids in his region had been rejected.\n\nThe West Midlands received £155m from a £2.1bn pot of levelling up funds.\n\nThe PM has argued the most deprived areas would benefit from the money.\n\nSpeaking from Morecambe in Lancashire - which will get £50m to build an eco-tourism attraction - Rishi Sunak said his government was \"completely committed to levelling up across the United Kingdom\".\n\nHe said the process was transparent and that areas which had been unsuccessful this time would have another chance to apply for funding in a third round.\n\nThe idea of \"levelling up\" - or reducing regional inequality - was a key part of Boris Johnson's 2019 election campaign. Its aim was to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the country by improving services such as education, broadband and transport.\n\nAs part of the Levelling Up Fund, launched in 2020, local authorities can apply for money from central government to pay for regeneration and transport projects. The first round of funding was awarded in October 2021.\n\nA total of 111 areas across the UK have been awarded money from the second round including £50m for a new train line between Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Central Station and £27m for a ferry in Shetland.\n\nThe north-west region was the biggest winner, securing £354m and Conservative Lancashire MP Sara Britcliffe said she was \"over the moon\" her local area would receive money to refurbish Accrington Market Hall.\n\nHowever, others have complained about the process for allocating the money.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe will be a sister site to an existing attraction in Cornwall\n\nVenting his frustration on Twitter, Mr Street said: \"Fundamentally, this episode is just another example as to why Whitehall's bidding and begging-bowl culture is broken, and the sooner we can decentralise and move to proper fiscal devolution the better.\n\n\"The centralised system of London civil servants making local decisions is flawed, and I cannot understand why the levelling up funding money was not devolved for local decision-makers to decide on what's best for their areas.\n\n\"The sooner we can decentralise and move to proper fiscal devolution the better.\"\n\nHis concerns were echoed by Philip Rycroft, former top civil servant at the now-defunct Brexit Department, who described the process as \"completely crackers\".\n\n\"£2bn of public money is being distributed across the nation by a bunch of civil servants who have probably not been to the vast majority of the places they are distributing money to - how can this be sensible,\" he asked at a think tank Reform event.\n\nHead of the Local Government Information Unit think tank Jonathan Carr-West called the system \"crazy\" and expressed concern that councils were putting \"huge\" resources into applying for the funds, diverting money from \"other useful and necessary things\".\n\nLabour's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said her party would end the \"competitive-style bidding\" process but would not cancel projects that had already been given the green light.\n\nDefending the mechanism, Business Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"The truth is you've got to run a country somehow, you've got to have some kind of system in place.\n\n\"Not everything can be decided in the local town hall or by the local mayor,\" he told the BBC's Newscast podcast.\n\nHe said he agreed with the concept that \"the closer you govern to people the better\" but \"in the end we are one nation, you've got to put the money somewhere, decisions have to be made somehow\".\n\nHe went on to praise Mr Street who he said had brought \"huge resources\" to his local area.\n\nOther projects set to get funding include:\n\nConservative-held constituencies in Parliament were the biggest winners in this latest round of levelling up funding.\n\nAllocations are made to local authorities, rather than to parliamentary seats.\n\nBut BBC analysis, categorising each of the projects by constituency, shows 58 projects are in seats with Conservative MPs. That compares with 27 projects in Labour-held seats.\n\nSome projects cross constituency boundaries: two are shared by the Conservatives and Labour, while six featuring major transport projects are not categorised as they cross multiple seats.\n\nWhile Tory MPs have more projects in their constituencies, it's also the case that there are more Conservative MPs in the Commons than Labour.\n\nSome 56% of Commons seats are Conservative - roughly equivalent to the 52% of successful bids that fall in or across constituencies solely with Conservative MPs.\n\nLabour MPs make up 31% of the Commons total, and 24% of successful bids fell in or across constituencies solely with Labour MPs.\n\nThere was only one successful bid in a Lib Dem constituency, seven for the SNP, five for the DUP, three for Sinn Fein, one for Plaid Cymru and one for the Alliance Party.\n\nIn money terms, projects in Tory constituencies were worth a total of £1.21bn, compared with £471m in Labour ones.\n\nThese figures are based on the results of the 2019 general election rather than the current make-up of the Commons, which is slightly different because of defections and MPs sitting as independents.", "As the UK headed into Christmas, there was speculation that it was going to be a very tough festive season. Not least for all the shops that rely on the period for a big chunk of their sales.\n\nSoaring food prices and energy bills, pay not going up at the same rate, the outlook was - and still is - bleak.\n\nBut news from the country's biggest retailers such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer indicates there are more Christmas winners than losers this time around.\n\nAnd some retailers, such as the low-cost high street fashion chain Primark, benefited as people traded down from more expensive brands. They also had a boost as people went back to shopping in person in the hope of bagging a bargain, and because this year there were no Covid restrictions to stop them.\n\nSo who has come out on top and how?\n\nPrimark: The fashion retailer was in pole position to benefit as shoppers returned to shopping more in stores this Christmas. Sales, in value terms, were up 15% in the three months to 7 January.\n\nA lot of that rise reflected higher prices at the tills, but the chain also sold more items in total compared to last year: like-for-like sales - stripping out things like new store openings - were up 11%.\n\nThe chain has also opened new stores which it said were \"performing well\".\n\nPrimark saw a big rise in sales of thermal items as shoppers added layers to stay warm. Its best selling item was a £7 pair of leggings.\n\n\"I think the UK consumer was way more resilient than we expected,\" said John Bason, group finance director of Primark's parent company, ABF.\n\nHotel Chocolat: The upmarket chocolate confectioner said UK sales rose 10% in the nine weeks to 25 December, with its new mince pie-flavoured drinking chocolate proving a \"real hit\". The business also saw a switch back to store sales and away from online. The group is eyeing up expansion across London.\n\nDespite the jump in UK sales, Hotel Chocolat's sales overall were down from a year earlier following problems overseas. Last year, the company's Japanese business went through insolvency.\n\nDunelm: The homeware retailer saw a jump in sales as people found new ways to stay warm this winter. Heated clothes racks and thick duvets were a best-seller for bargain hunters combating the rising cost of energy bills. Total sales increased by 18% over Christmas, compared with the previous year.\n\nTesco: The supermarket giant's like-for-like sales rose by 5.3% for the 19 weeks to 7 January, which was a smidge below expectations but still strong.\n\nThere appeared to be a divergence in terms of how people shopped: either trading down from branded groceries to Tesco's value range or splashing out on the company's Finest fare. While Tesco's sales figures were robust, the rise was because goods were more expensive - due to the pace of price rises or inflation - as opposed to people buying more items.\n\nTesco chief executive Ken Murphy admitted that the volume of goods sold was marginally lower than the comparable period. But he said the UK consumer \"has proved quite resilient\".\n\nMarks & Spencer: It has been a banner Christmas for the High Street stalwart. Like-for-like sales rose 7.2% across the business for the three months to 31 December.\n\nIn particular, demand for clothing and home goods was strong with increases in both volume and value. Unlike Christmas 2021, there were no Covid restrictions in place so people invested in formalwear or got gussied-up in sequins. M&S shifted 140,000 pieces of sequinned clothing in Christmas week alone. On the home side, shoppers indulged in light-up Christmas scented candles.\n\nFor food, like-for-like sales rose by 6.3%, which was primarily driven by higher inflation. But the cash registers, or self-service counters, were kept busy - on the Friday before the big day M&S generated its highest Christmas sales ever of £80m.\n\nSainsbury's: The supermarket saw a marked shift in people shopping in-store this Christmas compared with the previous year when Omicron emerged and online sales boomed. Sainsbury's, which also owns Argos, said same-store sales rose by 5.9% for the four months to 7 January 2023.\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Simon Roberts said shoppers were \"really careful\" about where they spend \"and they wanted to come in and see the deals and offers we had\".\n\nWalk-in sales at Argos rose strongly in Christmas week. It wasn't all about the festive season though. Retailers including Sainsbury's received a boost from the England men's football team's (relatively) decent run to the quarter finals of the World Cup.\n\nNext: A cold snap in December helped lift the retailer's sales by 4.8% for the nine weeks to 30 December. Next also bumped up its full-year profit forecast by £20m to £860m.\n\nBut the ever-cautious company warned that higher energy bills and mortgage rates would dampen demand from shoppers in the coming year. And inflation means that people visiting Next's stores will see price rises for both spring and summer as well as autumn and winter clothing.\n\nDFS: The furniture company said its orders in the 26 weeks to Christmas Day were up 10.6% compared with the same period before the Covid pandemic in 2019. The company said it expects to make annual pre-tax profits of £36m.\n\nThe sofa seller enjoyed a jump in sales during the height of restrictions, as people splashed out on homeware, but the company has since warned that order numbers were softening as shoppers tightened their belts.\n\nB&M: The discounter said its like-for-like UK sales rose by 6.4% through what it referred to as its \"golden quarter\", otherwise known as the three months to 24 December. Total revenue for the UK grew from £1.1bn to £1.3bn.\n\nGreggs: The bakery chain saw same-store sales surge by 18.2% in the three months to 31 December. The bounce was helped by comparisons to the end of 2021 when Covid was still weighing on households and businesses. Greggs acknowledged that the year ahead will be \"challenging\" but said the food and drink it sells will appeal to people looking to manage their budgets.\n\nAsos: The online fashion retailer said group sales dropped 3% in the four months to the end of December. It was more of a reflection of long-running issues at the company than Christmas trade, although it said the business was \"affected by disruption in the delivery market\" during December when Royal Mail staged a number of strikes. It said: \"This resulted in earlier cut-off dates for Christmas and New Year deliveries.\"\n\nHalfords: The cycling and car parts retailer issued a profit warning citing weaker customer demand as prices soar. It now expects full-year profits before tax to hit between £50-60m, compared with a previous forecast of £65-75m. It also said it had struggled to recruit enough skilled technicians.\n\nDr Martens: The shoe maker said milder weather had lessened demand for its sturdy boots during the peak Christmas trading season. It also cited problems with its new Los Angeles distribution centre creating a \"bottleneck\" in supply. It said profit in the coming year would be weaker than previously expected.", "Police said driving conditions remain hazardous with a weather warning in place until noon on Thursday\n\nDozens of schools in Northern Ireland are closed as snow and icy conditions hit Northern Ireland for a second day.\n\nMost of the affected schools are in the north west, including primary and secondary schools in Londonderry, Limavady and Strabane.\n\nPolice said driving conditions remain hazardous across Northern Ireland due to the snow and freezing temperatures.\n\nA yellow weather warning for snow and ice has been extended until noon on Thursday.\n\nTranslink are advising passengers to expect some disruption to services across Northern Ireland.\n\nEarly morning bus services in Derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Dungannon, Castlewellan, Larne and Antrim are among those affected. There is no major disruption to train services, Translink added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Translink This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt has urged commuters to check for updates online.\n\nTranslink also said the entrance to a park and ride in Newry, County Down, is restricted after an overhead barrier was damaged in a crash.\n\nDerry City and Strabane District Council said it also anticipates some disruption to its services on Wednesday.\n\nWith the weather warning continuing until Thursday, showers of rain and hail are expected around the coast on Wednesday, with sleet and snow mainly inland.\n\nThe Met Office is warning that a further 2-5cm of snow could fall over some higher ground, but ice is expected to be the main hazard with temperatures on Wednesday night falling below freezing in many areas.\n\nRaymond Barr, an independent councillor on Derry City and Strabane District Council, told BBC Radio Foyle driving had been challenging early on Wednesday.\n\nHe made the journey to Strabane on the main Derry road before 07:00 GMT.\n\n\"It is passable but dangerous in parts, but secondary roads are treacherous.\"\n\nResidents in Broughshane, County Antrim, woke to snow on Wednesday morning\n\nMr Barr said he had been inundated with complaints from people in the north west about the lack of gritting on the roads network\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure (DfI) said salting had been carried out across the \"entire scheduled network\" on Tuesday evening and again overnight in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nRoads Service engineer Peter McParland told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme it had been another \"very busy night\" for its winter service teams.\n\nHe said \"many of the drivers have been facing heavy snow showers along their routes\".\n\n\"They have been working in shifts almost continually over the past couple of days, in many areas to try and keep the main road network open and passable, but it is fair to say that the situation does remain difficult, and the road temperatures are currently below freezing almost everywhere.\"\n\nThere's been heavy snow near Slemish Mountain in County Antrim\n\nHe said despite the service's best efforts \"you can't guarantee that roads are free of snow and ice at all times\".\n\nAnyone that has to travel on Wednesday, he said, should \"leave lots of extra time for their journey and drive with extreme care\".\n\nHe said drivers should be \"extremely cautious\" on the rural road network that has not been treated.\n\n\"Snow may be heaviest in the north, but right down to the south of the province and to the west, it is still very icy anyway, so please everyone take extra care if you have to travel,\" he said.\n\nLouise Coyle, from the Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network, lives outside Cookstown, County Tyrone - she said it was a \"winter wonderland\" to look at on Wednesday morning, but that the road conditions on Tuesday had been \"absolutely treacherous\".\n\n\"It's very clear that it has been a while since we have all had to think about how we drive when it is snowy and there were a lot of cars being abandoned - there was one particular hill I had to drive up and the four cars in front of me did not get up that hill and had to leave their cars and vans.\"", "Kaylea Titford was found to be morbidly obese, jurors were told\n\nA 16-year-old girl who died after becoming morbidly obese in lockdown and lived in conditions \"unfit for any animal\" was seriously neglected by her parents, a court has heard.\n\nKaylea Louise Titford's body was found on soiled sheets and police noted an \"unbearable\" rotting smell.\n\nHer father Alun Titford, from Newtown, Powys, denies manslaughter by gross negligence at Mold Crown Court.\n\nCaroline Rees KC told the jury Kaylea had spina bifida which left her with little feeling from the waist down, limiting her mobility, and had used a wheelchair from a young age.\n\nWhen she was found dead at her home she was morbidly obese, weighing nearly 23 stone (146 kg), the court heard.\n\nMs Rees said: \"Kaylea Titford was living in conditions unfit for any animal, let alone a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who depended entirely on others for her care.\"\n\nKaylea's hair was dirty and matted and she was unwashed with ulcerated skin, the court was told.\n\nOn the morning of October 10 2020, the court heard a 999 call was made by Mr Titford's mother before paramedics were sent to her house and Kaylea's body was found.\n\nAs well as lying on soiled bedclothes, she had numerous sores and areas of infection.\n\nAlun Titford is accused of failing in his duty of care to Kaylea\n\nMs Rees added: \"The prosecution say that the scene - as witnessed by those that attended - together with the state in which Kaylea's body was found demonstrate clearly that this vulnerable girl, who relied heavily on others for her welfare needs, was seriously neglected by not just one but both of her parents, who owed her a duty of care.\"\n\nA pathologist's report said her physical state suggested she had not been properly washed in many weeks, jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecution said Kaylea died because her parents failed in their duty of care and that gave rise to an obvious and serious risk of death.\n\nMs Rees said: \"Their serious failures were hidden from the scrutiny of the outside world from March 2020 by reason of the national lockdown during the global Covid pandemic.\n\n\"We further say that the parents' negligence was so gross as to be properly characterised as criminal.\"\n\nWhen Mr Titford was interviewed by police, he told them he was \"not a very good dad\" and his wife looked after Kaylea and did the housework, the court heard.\n\nHe said his daughter had outgrown her wheelchair and he did not think he had seen her out of bed since before lockdown.\n\nHe told police the family would have takeaways five nights a week.\n\nAsked when he last asked Kaylea how she was, he said: \"I didn't ask her. Like I say, I'm not the best of people. Nobody ever thinks their child is going to end up like that.\"\n\nThe prosecution said Mr Titford's case was that although he lived at the same address, Kaylea's mother was primary carer and he was not aware of the state of his daughter's living conditions or the deterioration in her physical state.", "A police sergeant and three police constables have been given misconduct notices by the Independent Office for Police Conduct\n\nFour Metropolitan Police officers are being investigated after the strip-search of a 15-year-old girl in London.\n\nThe girl's mother made a complaint following the search at Walworth Police Station, Kennington, on 11 December 2020, after her daughter's arrest.\n\nA police sergeant and three police constables have been given misconduct notices by the police watchdog.\n\nIt happened eight days after Child Q, also 15, was strip-searched at school in Hackney on 3 December 2020.\n\nA spokesperson for the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said serving misconduct notices did not always mean disciplinary hearings would follow.\n\nThe mother's complaint to the Met Police was among other incidents referred to the IOPC following public concern over the case of Child Q, the IOPC confirmed.\n\n\"We can confirm that four Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers have been served misconduct notices as part of our ongoing investigation,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"A police sergeant and three police constables have been served notices in relation to the arrest and detention of the child, who was strip-searched by MPS officers.\n\n\"Our investigation began following a referral in May 2022.\n\n\"The serving of misconduct notices does not necessarily mean disciplinary proceedings will follow. Due to the sensitivities surrounding this matter, we cannot provide any further information at this time.\"\n\nThe strip-search of Child Q led to a wave of protests across east London\n\nLast year, Child Q announced she would sue her school and the Met Police after a safeguarding report published in March found the strip-search in Hackney was unjustified and racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor.\n\nThe report said the girl, who was menstruating, had been taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by officers who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted, and no drugs were found.\n\nShe was subjected to what police call an MTIP search, or 'More Thorough search where Intimate Parts are exposed', and the review said she had been made to take off her sanitary towel.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The mayor of Amiens, northern France, has asked Madonna if the city can borrow a painting previously believed to have been destroyed.\n\nThe artwork - Diana and Endymion by Jérôme-Martin Langlois - was exhibited from 1878 but went missing during World War One.\n\nMayor Brigitte Fouré now believes the renowned US pop star owns it.\n\nShe said displaying the artwork would help the city's bid to become the 2028 European Capital of Culture.\n\nDiana and Endymion was commissioned by King Louis XVIII of France for a room in the Palace of Versailles and was bought by the state in 1873.\n\nMs Fouré said the painting was likely loaned to the Amiens museum by the Louvre in Paris before the war began.\n\nFrench paper Le Figaro reported that the painting - or one that was almost identical - was bought in a New York auction in 1989 by none other than Madonna herself for £1m ($1.3m; €1.1m)\n\n\"I would like it if on this occasion you could lend us your painting so locals can rediscover this work and enjoy it,\" Ms Fouré said in a video posted to Facebook.\n\nShe added there was no suggestion it had been obtained illegally.\n\nMadonna has just announced a world tour which will include a performance in Paris, which is less than two hours by train from Amiens, this November.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Madonna's agent for comment.", "The report says natural CO2 removal processes like forests and soil are not going to be enough to stop temperature rises.\n\nTechnology to remove the planet-warming greenhouse gas CO2 from our atmosphere must be urgently ramped up, leading climate experts say in a new report.\n\nScientists say big cuts in CO2 emissions won't be enough to limit global warming.\n\nAnd nature alone will not remove enough of it from the air.\n\nCO2 is the most important gas warming the planet, and is emitted when fossil fuels such as gas and oil are burnt.\n\n\"To limit warming to 2C or lower, we need to accelerate emissions reductions. But the findings of this report are clear: we also need to increase carbon removal too,\" says lead author Dr Steve Smith from Oxford University. \"Many new methods are emerging with potential.\"\n\nThere's consensus among scientists that the world is warming primarily because emissions of CO2 (estimated at 33 billion tonnes in 2021) far exceed the amount that is being removed (this report suggests two billion tonnes a year).\n\nUntil emissions and removals are balanced - so called \"net-zero\" - global temperatures are predicted to rise.\n\nBut getting there won't be easy. The latest UN climate reports say to fully achieve \"net zero\" there will need to be some CO2 removal, so called \"negative emissions\", to compensate for sectors that can't easily decarbonise.\n\nCurrently almost all of the world's CO2 removal occurs through natural processes. That's primarily plants and trees taking in CO2 from the air, and the soil absorbing and storing it.\n\nBut there are limits to how much nature can do. For example, how much more of the world can realistically be given over to forests? Some optimistic scenarios suggest that natural CO2 removal could be doubled by 2050, but that's still only about 4 billion tonnes of CO2 a year.\n\nThis new report titled \"The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal\" says that to restrict and reduce global temperatures in the future there needs to be investment in developing technological solutions now.\n\nThe methods it cites are all fairly new, and at different stages of development and deployment. Put together they currently only make up a tiny fraction of the worlds CO2 removal.\n\nOne, known as BECCS, involves incorporating CO2 capture into biomass-based electricity-generation, in which organic matter such as crops and wood pellets are burned to produce power. Other options include: huge facilities where the carbon is extracted from the air before being stored in the ground; the use of specially treated charcoal (biochar) that locks in carbon; and \"enhanced rock weathering\" - loosely based on the carbon removal that occurs with natural erosion.\n\nBiochar is a specially produced type of charcoal that locks in carbon and can be used as a fertiliser.\n\nThe use of CO2 removal technologies is not without its critics. Some campaigners doubt that they can be cost effective and fear that they can be an excuse to defer and delay the transition away from fossil fuel use.\n\nThis report stresses that removing CO2 should not be seen as a \"silver bullet\" to tackle climate change but that meeting the UN's climate goals will require technology as well as nature to reduce greenhouse gas levels.\n\nThat all assumes that global CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels will, as pledged at numerous climate summits, fall rapidly. So far yearly emissions have yet to start a downward trend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victoria Andrews, from Cardiff, says it was a \"stomach-churning\" experience as she feared for her daughter's wellbeing.\n\nA mum was forced to rush her child to hospital by car during a seizure because of uncertainty about when an ambulance might arrive.\n\nNiamh Andrews, five, had a seizure while practising gymnastics.\n\nBut when her mother, Victoria Andrews, phoned 999 the operator was unable to say when an ambulance crew would be available to help.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was implementing system changes to improve wait times.\n\nVictoria and her daughter Niamh Andrews, who live in Cardiff, were at a free-play session at their local gymnastics club when the incident happened.\n\nNiamh was playing on gymnastic bars when her lips turned blue and she began staring into the distance before slipping off the apparatus.\n\n\"I managed to grab hold of her and as she went to the ground I could see that her jaw had started to lock, she started to convulse and to have a seizure,\" Ms Andrews said.\n\n\"She went into a full-on convulsion,\" Ms Andrews said.\n\nOn calling 999 the mum-of-one asked when an ambulance might arrive. The operator did not know.\n\nMs Andrews put Niamh in the recovery position and stayed on the line until Niamh stopped convulsing.\n\nMs Andrews said: \"I asked if it would be quicker if we drove ourselves. At this time Niamh was still lying on the floor, still completely out of it.\"\n\nShe and a friend rushed her to hospital, with Ms Andrews dubbing the experience \"debilitating\".\n\nThe 37-year-old said: \"When your child is unwell, and something is happening to them that is completely out of your control, and that you know would normally need medical assistance, it's got to be the worst thing in the world.\n\n\"I've never felt stomach-churning like that. You're so out of your depth.\"\n\nMs Andrews knew when she dialled 999 they could be waiting for a long time.\n\nBut not getting an estimated time of arrival made it even more difficult.\n\n\"It's hard knowing when you make that phone call there's a chance that they won't be able to respond to you,\" she said.\n\nIt made life \"that little bit more scary\".\n\nMs Andrews said: \"I avoid certain activities knowing there's a good chance something might happen and you may have to bundle your child into the car, or take them in [to hospital] yourself in a situation you never, ever want to be in.\"\n\nThe average response time was 10 minutes in December - the slowest on record. The figures were released on a day in which 1000 ambulances workers were striking across Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government spokesman said: \"Whilst we acknowledge emergency care performance is not where we expect it to be, we are driving system improvements, including extending same-day emergency care services to open seven days a week, improving management of 999 patients on the phone, and recruiting more staff.\n\n\"Without all this the pressure on the system would be even greater.\"", "John Yems left Crawley last May, two days after the Football Association said it was investigating allegations against him\n\nA decision to describe comments by a football manager as \"not conscious racism\" beggars belief, a black ex-Premier League footballer has said.\n\nClarke Carlisle, of anti-racism charity Kick It Out, said he reacted to the findings with \"utter incredulity\".\n\nAn independent panel found ex-Crawley Town boss John Yems guilty of racist abuse towards his players and banned him from football for 15 months.\n\nBut it said it accepted Yems was \"not a conscious racist\".\n\nIn an interview later, Yems said he was owed a few apologies for abuse he has suffered since the allegations came to light.\n\nThe Football Association (FA) is looking at legally challenging the findings of its panel.\n\nIt said the case involving \"racist bullying over a significant period\" was \"extremely serious\" and it \"fundamentally\" disagreed that this was not a case of conscious racism.\n\nThe panel was made up of barrister Robert Englehart KC, former Sheffield United striker Tony Agana and Wolverhampton Wanderers club secretary Matt Wild, who were appointed by the FA, along with others, to sit on such panels.\n\nIn its report published on Tuesday, the panel found Yems used a racial slur to describe some of the club's black players, deliberately mispronounced a name to make it sound like a racially offensive term and joked that a Muslim player was a terrorist.\n\nIt went on to state how, in his defence, Yems \"categorically denied that he was in any way racist\".\n\nAnd the panel concluded: \"We regard this as an extremely serious case. We have accepted that Mr Yems is not a conscious racist.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Carlisle, who played for Watford, Queens Park Rangers and Burnley among others, accused the panel of incompetence.\n\n\"The amount of contradictions that are within the report itself totally undermine any confidence in the processes that are going on at the FA,\" said Carlisle, who sits on the players' board of anti-discrimination football group, Kick It Out.\n\n\"The fact they are at pains from the outset to state that they're confident Mr Yems was not a racist - this was not the time or place to make that distinction. They were supposed to be making judgements on actions he made.\n\n\"But then to say in the next paragraph they reject categorically that any witness was lying, and then they said there is a considerable weight of evidence that Mr Yems was in the habit of making these jokes over a three-year period.\n\n\"It just beggars belief that they can push that notion - the action of someone is not racist when it's not their call to make.\"\n\nThe ex-defender claimed the situation highlighted the need for an independent football regulator.\n\n\"Football regulates itself. It investigates itself... and it means that true justice is not sought in situations like this,\" he added.\n\nFormer player Clarke Carlisle said an independent regulator was needed in football\n\nThe panel found Yems guilty of 11 charges relating to racist abuse between 2019 and 2022. He admitted one charge.\n\nThe 63-year-old has now been banned from all football-related activity until June 2024. His lawyer told the panel his client accepted the ban and was remorseful.\n\nHis attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.\n\nOn Thursday, in an interview with TalkSport, Yems said he was not found to be racist and had never used racist language with intent.\n\n\"The thing that I've done wrong has been highlighted to me and it's shown me now that there are certain things that you can't say and do,\" he said.\n\n\"But to me, it's the intent of what things were said. I haven't purposely gone out there individually to say to somebody 'XYZ' purely on the colour of skin.\"\n\nAsked if he wanted to apologise to anyone, Yems said: \"If anybody needs an apology I think I do, the abuse and everything that I've been getting.\"\n\nThe FA, which indicated it pushed for a two-year suspension, said in a statement: \"Based on the evidence presented to the commission, we fundamentally disagree with the independent panel's finding that this was not a case of conscious racism.\"\n\nThe allegations first came to light after a number of players from the League Two club took grievances to the Professional Footballers' Association.\n\nYems had been in charge at Crawley since December 2019. He was suspended by the club on 23 April 2022 amid \"serious and credible accusations\" that he used discriminatory language and behaviour towards his players.\n\nHe parted company with the club 13 days later, two days after the FA announced it was investigating the allegations against him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJacinda Ardern had been the leader of New Zealand's Labour party for less than 24 hours when she was asked whether she felt a woman could have both a baby and a high-powered career.\n\nMore than five years later, the question is almost laughable.\n\nMs Ardern went on to give birth in office, proving women can indeed do both (although, as she herself has been quick to point out, not without a supportive partner).\n\nHowever, while becoming a first-time mum at 37, she also led New Zealand through three tumultuous years in which it endured its worst-ever terror attack, a deadly volcano eruption and a global pandemic that has tested leaders around the globe.\n\nShe has won plaudits on the international stage, and admiration from many at home. Things have not always been plain sailing - some accuse her of not fulfilling key election promises, like reducing child poverty, others scoff at the \"woke\" policies that she backs on social and racial justice.\n\nBut, Jacinda Ardern went into 2020 general election with an approval rating of 55%, which translated into a landslide victory.\n\n\"This has been a really tough time for New Zealand - we've had a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and a global pandemic,\" she acknowledged earlier in the year.\n\n\"But in these tough times we've seen the best of us. We've been able to clear high hurdles and face huge challenges because of who we are, and because we had a plan.\"\n\nJacinda Ardern is New Zealand's third female prime minister\n\nJacinda Ardern spent her childhood living in small, rural towns in her close-knit Mormon family. She was born in 1980 in the city of Hamilton, two hours south of Auckland. Her father, Ross, was a police officer, while her mother, Laurell, worked as a school cook.\n\nIt was these towns - and the poverty she saw in them - which would shape her political views, she later said. By 17, she was a Labour Party supporter.\n\nAfter attending the University of Waikato, where she earned a degree in communication studies in politics and public relations, Ms Ardern began working for Helen Clark, New Zealand's then prime minister. In 2006, she ended up working in the UK Cabinet Office, as Tony Blair was preparing to hand over power to Gordon Brown.\n\nBy 2008, she was back in New Zealand, an elected MP. During her time in parliament, she championed bills to eradicate child poverty, and supported gay rights.\n\nArdern became the second world leader to give birth while in office. She was back at work six weeks later\n\nThe latter was important: her belief in equality for all her had spurred her on to leave the Mormon church over its stance on gay rights back in 2005.\n\n\"I could never reconcile what I saw as discrimination in a religion that was otherwise very focused on tolerance and kindness,\" she told the New Zealand Herald in 2017.\n\nThen, in March of that year, she was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party. At the time, she was adamant that she didn't want to become prime minister.\n\nIt may seem remarkable now, but Jacinda Ardern became Labour leader only seven weeks before the 2017 election. At the time, they trailed in the polls and looked to have little chance of winning. It was, she said, the \"worst job in politics\".\n\nBut by the time New Zealanders cast their ballots, Labour had secured the second highest number of votes. Under the country's proportional representation system, she was able to form a minority government with the New Zealand First Party, and the Greens.\n\nJacindamania quickly spread across the globe, where she was feted as the anti-Trump - a liberal beacon in a world which seemed dominated by right-wingers like the US president. She won praise for wearing a Maori cloak, known as a korowai, to meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth in April 2018. The news of her pregnancy that same year - and the fact her partner, television host Clarke Gayford, was going to become a stay-at-home dad - was also welcomed as a positive step.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut she was quick to put to bed any thoughts she was doing anything out of the ordinary.\"The only reason I can do what I'm doing is because my partner has the ability to be a pretty much full-time carer,\" she told the Financial Times in 2018. \"So I don't want to appear to be superwoman because we should not expect women to be superwomen.\"\n\nNot everything she did was popular - especially at home. Her decision to ban offshore oil exploration angered some, and was described by the opposition as \"economic vandalism\".\n\nIn March 2019, however, it would be the empathetic Ardern who would bring the country together in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks, which left 51 people dead. She was unequivocal that the gunman was a terrorist - but stressed that he did not represent the people of New Zealand.\n\n\"You may have chosen us, but we utterly reject and condemn you,\" she told the gunman - who she has refused to name in public, to deny him notoriety - in an address just hours later.\n\nOver the next few days, she would be seen comforting those who had lost loved ones. She also announced a change to the country's gun laws, banning the sale of all semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles with a speed which prompted questions in other countries, including in the US.\n\nThen, in December another tragedy hit - this time, a volcano eruption on the privately owned White Island, or Whakaari. Seventeen people, most of them tourists from Australia and the US, died. Again, Ms Ardern led the country in mourning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern: 'It takes strength to be an empathetic leader'\n\nBut by February 2020, the Labour Party were trailing the National Party in the polls, with headlines predicting a tight election race. Jacinda Ardern's continued popularity abroad was not reflected in New Zealand, where some were cross she had not fulfilled election promises.\n\nChild poverty, in particular, continues to be a key issue in a country, with about one in eight children living in material hardship, according to StatsNZ. Within the Maori community, the figure rises to almost a quarter, while almost 28.6% of Pacific children are living in material hardship. Last December, Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft said the government needed to \"move much faster\" to deal with the issue. Ms Ardern has argued things are getting better - albeit slowly.\n\nThose polls, however, came before the pandemic hit. Jacinda Ardern acted quickly, bringing the country together under her oft repeated slogan \"be strong, be kind\". In early March, she ordered any arrivals to New Zealand had to self-isolate. By the end of the month, the borders were closed to almost all non-citizens or residents, and a nationwide lockdown had been put in place.\n\nThe policy of \"hard and early\" appears to have worked. The economy suffered a massive blow, but is now Covid-free - apart from some cases in quarantine.\n\nMs Ardern and her party won a landslide victory in October 2020's election.\n\nShe told her supporters afterwards: \"New Zealand has shown the Labour Party its greatest support in almost 50 years. We will not take your support for granted. And I can promise you we will be a party that governs for every New Zealander.\"\n\nBut her standing among New Zealanders subsequently fell as the economic challenges facing her country grew.\n\nIn 2022, Ms Ardern told the BBC her declining popularity was the price her government had paid for keeping people safe from Covid-19.\n\nBut her government was also grappling with a cost-of-living crisis, national fears about crime, and a backlog of election promises put off during the pandemic.\n\nJust over two years after her big election victory she announced that she would quit as PM, telling reporters she no longer had \"enough in the tank\" to lead.", "Ardern holds the rare position of being both a working mother and the leader of a country\n\nFor millions around the world, Jacinda Ardern's resignation comes as a shock - but some women will pore over her words with particular interest.\n\nWith her charm and leadership philosophy rooted in kindness, the New Zealand prime minister has earned widespread popularity. Many of her fans are women, who have avidly followed her journey from newbie PM to working mother and have looked up to her as a role model.\n\nArdern is not the only prominent figure to make the news in recent years for announcing a shock withdrawal because of burnout - others include athletes Naomi Osaka, Ash Barty and Virat Kohli; and bosses like James Packer.\n\nBut Ardern also holds that very rare position of being a working mother while leading a country. She gave birth while in office, only the second world leader to have done so after Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto.\n\nIn many ways, it was an extreme test case of balancing work and family. But there were clearly political factors at play as well.\n\nHer resignation comes amid growing political headwinds, with her approval ratings falling as New Zealanders' concerns rise over living costs and crime rates.\n\nIt's always tough at the top, but Ardern's tenure has seen many challenges: steering the country through an unprecedented pandemic, a horrific domestic terror attack, and a volcanic eruption. Ardern noted in her speech on Thursday the \"constant and weighty\" decisions she faced.\n\nShe has also had to contend with intense public scrutiny throughout her journey, from announcing her pregnancy just months after taking office to her decision to take six weeks of maternity leave, which sparked debate on whether it was too short.\n\nFor a while, she appeared determined to tackle it head on.\n\n\"I always expected, given [Neve] is still so young and so small, that there would be a real tension there between making sure I was meeting all of her needs and of course my responsibilities. But I am confident with all of the support I'm very lucky to have, we will absolutely make it work,\" she told reporters at the time.\n\nShe was also happy to share her parenting travails on social media, from the struggle to bake the perfect birthday cake for her daughter, to finding a diaper cream stain on her jacket after spending the day in meetings.\n\nBut in the end, it was the human costs of high political office she cited in the most emotional part of her resignation speech.\n\nArdern, who has a four-year-old daughter Neve, often shared about her travails as a working mum\n\n\"Politicians are human. We give all that we can, for as long as we can, and then it's time,\" Ardern said, her voice faltering. \"And for me, it's time… I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice.\"\n\nShe talked about how she wished to spend more time with her family as they had \"sacrificed the most out of all of us\". She said she looked forward to \"being there\" for her daughter when she begins school, and told her partner Clarke \"let's finally get married\".\n\nMany had hoped to see her continue forging a path and will be disappointed that she could not go any further, but they will no doubt also have sympathy for her predicament.\n\nThere is, of course, a political calculation in her decision.\n\nShe has had a meteoric rise to power fuelled by \"Jacinda-mania\", but New Zealand's love affair with her has since soured as her government struggles to navigate post-pandemic economic challenges such as the rising cost of living and deepening social inequality..\n\nJust weeks ago, her approval rating hit its lowest level since August 2017 - just before she became PM - as her Labour party also saw sliding popularity.\n\nDespite her denials, Ardern's move can also be seen as a canny decision to save her party and avoid a personally humiliating defeat in the upcoming election as the incumbent PM. Some of her critics celebrating her exit even accuse her of using her burnout as an excuse to salvage what is left of her political reputation.\n\nRegardless of whether this is burnout, or a walkout from a tricky political situation, or indeed both, some will inevitably see her departure as a powerful statement that it's important to set boundaries and respect personal limits.\n\nJacinda Ardern herself said in 2018: \"I am by no means the first woman to multitask and in terms of being a woman in politics, there are plenty of women who carved a path and incrementally have led the way to be able to make it possible for people to look upon my time in leadership and think, yes, I can do the job and be a mother.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’", "Travellers heading to Dover are being urged to allow extra time for journeys\n\nFerries between Dover and Calais are being disrupted by a national strike in France.\n\nP&O Ferries services to and from the French port have been suspended since early morning.\n\nDover is still open with Dunkerque services running as normal but travellers are being urged to allow extra time for journeys.\n\nA day of strike action across France is being staged to protest about plans to raise the official pension age.\n\nP&O did release an optimised schedule, but said it could not anticipate the extent of disruption to services, adding that \"it is possible that our wider operations could be affected during the day\".\n\nThe company said it hopes to resume services from Dover to Calais later this afternoon.\n\nThere will be a shuttle service between Dover and Calais until all traffic is cleared.\n\nSailings to Calais are being loaded hours prior to departure to make available space at the port.\n\nDanish ferry company DFDS has told customers due to travel from Dover to Calais that alternative arrangements are being made via Dunkerque.\n\nIrish Ferries said that while crossings from Calais are affected, drivers with freight are still able to access that port and \"check-in as normal\".\n\nThe strike is affecting Eurostar rail services - a reduced number of trains is running due to staff shortages.\n\nThere are cancellations between London and Paris and on services connecting London to Lille, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.\n\nThere will also be a reduced Eurostar service on Friday.\n\nIn France, the action affects much more than the ferries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters held flares and played drums in strikes across France\n\nIntercity and commuter train services are badly disrupted. Many schools and other public services are shut. At Orly airport in Paris, one-in-five flights has been cancelled.\n\nOn the Paris metro only the two driverless lines are working normally. Large demonstrations are being staged in Paris and other major cities.\n\nDover was the scene of lengthy queues last July for travellers heading for the port and the Eurotunnel terminal.\n\nUK and French officials could not agree on the cause of the disruption - some UK critics blamed a lack of French border staff but some French politicians said extra checks post-Brexit and a lack of capacity at the port were behind the delays.\n\nThe AA motoring group issued its first amber traffic warning, as thousands of families faced gridlock while attempting to travel.\n\nAre there any queues or chaos at the ports? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What caused the travel chaos at Dover?", "Last year's host Rebel Wilson posed with \"heads on sticks\" during rehearsals for the show Image caption: Last year's host Rebel Wilson posed with \"heads on sticks\" during rehearsals for the show\n\nThe Baftas are a terrible indicator of what is going to win best picture at The Oscars.\n\nOnly once in the last eight years has the same film triumphed at both. That was Nomadland in that most unusual of years, 2021, a time of Covid, lockdown and The Oscars being held in a railway station.\n\nLast year Bafta went for the gothic western The Power of the Dog - while The Oscars opted for the rather lighter fare of Coda.\n\nWhen Bafta chose 1917 - in 2020 - the Oscars picked Parasite.\n\nIn 2018 Roma was rewarded by Bafta, The Oscars gave it to Green Book.\n\nThe differentiation continues all the way back to 2013, when the two ceremonies last found unity over 12 Years A Slave.\n\nThe changing make-up of both voting bodies means that this demonstration of different tastes on either side of the Atlantic may not continue.\n\nBut it has been fun while it lasted.\n\nAnd come 19 February, The Banshees of Inisherin will not be hoping to lose at the Baftas, to boost their Oscars chances.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was filmed without a seatbelt in a moving car\n\nLancashire Police are \"looking into\" Rishi Sunak after he was filmed not wearing a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car.\n\nThe prime minister has apologised for the incident, saying it was an \"error of judgement\" to take his seat belt off to film a social media clip.\n\nMr Sunak \"fully accepts this was a mistake and apologises\", his spokesman told reporters.\n\nThe spokesman added the PM \"believes everyone should wear a seat belt\".\n\nThe prime minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed, during a trip across the north of England.\n\nAsked on Friday if there had been any contact with the Lancashire force, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"Not that I'm aware of.\"\n\nHe added that \"of course\" Mr Sunak did not believe anyone was above the law.\n\nThe video - to promote the government's latest round of \"levelling up\" spending - was posted on Mr Sunak's Instagram account.\n\nIn the clip, which lasts around a minute, Mr Sunak can be seen addressing the camera while the car travels along, with police motorbikes briefly appearing in the background.\n\nPassengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available, unless covered by a valid exemption, can be given an on-the-spot £100 fine. The fine can increase to £500 if the case goes to court.\n\nLabour said Mr Sunak's video added to \"endless painful viewing\" after he was seen struggling to make a contactless payment with his card last year.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak doesn't know how to manage a seat belt, his debit card, a train service, the economy, this country,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This list is growing every day, and it's making for endless painful viewing.\"\n\nThe incident followed criticism of the prime minister for travelling in an RAF jet for a series of official visits on Thursday.\n\nMr Sunak made the 230-mile journey to Blackpool from London in the plane, before later flying 120 miles to Darlington.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"It seems like the PM is getting too used to flying around in private jets that he's forgotten to wear a seat belt in a car.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP for Blackpool South Scott Benton suggested the Lancashire force were wasting their time by looking into the incident.\n\nHe said: \"The vast majority of people would think that politically motivated complaints about a seatbelt are not good use of frontline resources.\n\n\"Their time is better spent investigating serious crime which impacts on my constituents.\"\n\nLabour said it would be \"very serious\" if Mr Sunak was to be fined, having already had to pay a fixed-penalty notice while he was chancellor during the Partygate scandal.\n\nPassengers aged 14 and over are responsible for ensuring they wear a seat belt in cars, vans and other goods vehicles if one is fitted. Drivers are responsible for passengers under 14.\n\nExemptions include having a doctor's certificate for a medical reason, or being in a vehicle used for a police, fire or other rescue service.\n\nThose who are fined for not wearing a seat belt can not currently be given penalty points on their licence, except in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut in October, Transport Minister Katherine Fletcher said the government was considering introducing penalty points in England.\n\n\"In 2021, in 30% of all car occupant fatalities recorded, seat belts were not worn. This is unacceptably high,\" she told Labour MP Barry Sheerman.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nAndy Murray produced another scarcely believable display to fight back from two sets down to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in an epic Australian Open match finishing at 04:05 local time.\n\nIn one of the latest finishes in tennis history, Murray won 4-6 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 7-5 on a night of gruelling physical and mental endurance.\n\nThe second-round match started at 22:20 and lasted five hours 45 minutes.\n\nIt was the longest contest in 35-year-old Murray's eventful career.\n\nThe exhausted Briton remained calm after taking his first match point with a confident backhand down the line, sighing heavily before the two players enjoyed a warm embrace at the net.\n\nWith his proud mum Judy looking close to tears in the stands, Murray then let out a series of huge roars as he celebrated one of the best comebacks of his career.\n\nA healthy and boisterous crowd stayed inside Margaret Court Arena until the end, showing their appreciation for the efforts of both men and providing much-needed vocal support.\n\nThe match is the second-latest finish in Australian Open history after a 2008 third-round match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis that ended at 04:34.\n\n\"The match was very up and down, there was frustration, tension, excitement, all that stuff,\" Murray, ranked 66th in the world, said.\n\n\"It's amazing to win the match but I also want to go to bed now. I want to sleep.\"\n\nMurray is the third Briton to reach the third round at Melbourne Park this year, following Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans into the last 32.\n\nNorrie, seeded 11th, is hoping to progress further on Friday when he plays Czech youngster Jiri Lehecka not before 04:30 GMT.\n\nMurray produces a comeback extraordinary even by his standards\n\nMurray has regularly defied the odds since coming back from the hip surgery in 2019 which he thought would end his career - including in his first-round victory over Italian 13th seed Matteo Berrettini on Tuesday.\n\nTwo days later, the Scot did it again with a comeback that ranks as simply extraordinary, even by his standards.\n\nAmid the high of beating Berrettini, Murray cautiously spoke about the impact the five-set thriller would have on his body - a combination of his advancing years and the strain caused by his implanted metal hip - before he faced 26-year-old Australian Kokkinakis.\n\n\"I felt physically better today than I did the other day, which is a positive thing - but finishing at 4am is not ideal,\" the former world number one said.\n\nMurray could not have asked for more time to recover but the trade-off was playing in chilly conditions, which led to long rallies, long points and a very long night.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open finalist started slowly and struggled to find rhythm, with his regular chuntering to his support box an early indication he was not happy.\n\nKokkinakis, backed by a raucous home crowd on an initially packed Margaret Court Arena, punished him with plenty of powerful and precise forehand winners on his way to a two-set lead.\n\nAt that point, you wondered how much energy - mental and physical - Murray had left in the tank.\n\nAlmost four hours later, we had the answer.\n\nMurray trailed 5-2 in the third set but used all of his experience to maintain his composure as Kokkinakis got tight when he tried to serve out the match.\n\nA horribly skewed smash summed up the strain felt by the world number 159 and Murray used the momentum to dominate the fourth set.\n\nDeep into the decider it was still impossible to confidently predict who would emerge as the victor, but Murray decisively broke at 5-5 and served out for an extraordinary win.\n\n\"It was by far the longest match I've played but in those conditions that is what is going to happen,\" Murray said.\n\n\"To play in the cold at that time of the day and, with balls like that, you will get long rallies and long points.\"\n\nThe one thing that has evaded the former world number one since his comeback in 2019 is another deep run at a major like he made with regularity in his prime.\n\nIf he manages to recover sufficiently to beat Spanish 24th seed Roberto Bautista Agut - coincidentally the man he played in what he thought might have been his final Grand Slam match before the hip operation four years ago - he will reach the fourth round of a major for the first time since 2017.\n\n'Who does it benefit?' - Murray unhappy with late finish\n\nThe late finish brought more questions about why tennis allows this to happen and led to more scrutiny of the scheduling.\n\nDuring the match, Murray screamed his frustration after losing a point and asked why they were \"still playing at 3am\".\n\nAfterwards, he continued to express his displeasure and told a huddle of journalists, who were waiting in a corridor underneath Rod Laver Arena in a bid to speed up his exit, it was a \"farce\".\n\n\"Who is it beneficial for? A match like that and that's what the discussion is. Rather than about an epic match, it ends in a farce,\" he said.\n\n\"Amazingly, people stayed until the end and created an atmosphere, I really appreciate that. Some people need to work.\n\n\"But if my child was a ball kid for the tournament and they're coming home at 5am I'm snapping at that.\n\n\"It's not beneficial for them, for the umpires, the officials. I don't think it's amazing for the fans. It's not good for the players.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "A giraffe at the zoo was hit on the neck by a thrown object (stock image)\n\nTwo men have been sentenced after a break-in at a zoo, in which a giraffe was hit by a bottle and distress was caused to a tiger and penguins.\n\nPolice were called to Marwell Zoo, in Hampshire, in February 2021 after video footage of the event was seen on social media.\n\nBradley Green, 24, was ordered to pay £750 and carry out unpaid work for animal cruelty and criminal damage.\n\nNathan Daniels, 21, was given the same sentence for criminal damage.\n\nThe zoo's two perimeter fences were cut to gain entry on the night of 15 February, Winchester Crown Court heard.\n\nA snapchat video showed the giraffe being hit on the neck by a bottle thrown by Green.\n\nEllie Fargin, prosecuting, said a giraffe was later found with two gashes to its leg which were probably caused by kicking a door in distress.\n\nA plastic disinfectant bottle, stones and a stick were also found in a tiger enclosure and the animal was showing signs of stress, she said.\n\nThe zoo's penguins also showed anxiety symptoms the next morning and their pool filter had been turned off, she added.\n\nMs Fargin said: \"[The defendants'] intention seemed to be that they wanted to gain the attention of the animals, to get close to them.\"\n\nDaniels, of Alexander Grove, Fareham, pleaded guilty to damaging the penguin enclosure and the zoo's perimeter fence, while Green, of Salterns Estate, Fareham, admitted damaging the giraffe enclosure.\n\nJames Riley, defending Green, said he was \"at his core an animal lover\" who had not deliberately attempted to cause suffering.\n\nGraham Gilbert, on behalf of Daniels, said his client was also of previous good character.\n\nJudge Richard Parkes KC said the pair had acted with \"extreme stupidity and thoughtlessness\", causing a \"great deal of public outrage\".\n\nHe ordered them to each pay £750 in compensation to the zoo and to do 120 hours unpaid work as part of a 12-month community order.\n\nIn a statement, Marwell Zoo thanked the judge for \"recognising the severity of what happened and the impact it had on our animals\".\n\nIt added: \"It is deeply saddening to think that there are still people within our communities who do not understand the messages we work so hard to promote.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Four charged after giraffe harassed in zoo break-in\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The law will give children the right to funding for services such as counselling\n\nChildren conceived through rape will be officially classified as victims of crime under new government plans.\n\nThe changes, due to be made in the forthcoming Victims Bill, will entitle those conceived as a result of rape access to information about their case.\n\nThe legal changes will also make it easier for victims to receive support from police and the criminal justice system \"whenever they may need it\".\n\nThe law will cover all sexual offences which can result in pregnancy.\n\nEngland and Wales are understood to be among the first nations in the world to officially confer victim status to children born of rape.\n\nAnnouncing the plans, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"No child born in these horrific circumstances should be left to suffer alone, which is why we must ensure they can access vital support whenever they may need it.\n\n\"Our Victims Bill will amplify their voices and boost support for all victims at every stage of the justice system.\"\n\nThe Commons Justice Committee recommended the amendments to the draft Bill, following calls from campaign groups to change the law.\n\nThe statutory 'Victims' Code' sets out the rights available to all victims who report a criminal offence to the police.\n\nThe cross-party Justice Select Committee found individuals who believe they were born as a result of rape currently find it \"unnecessarily difficult\" to get help, including information about their case, because they are not defined by the Code as victims - and guidance is unclear.\n\nThe change in law will entitle them to make a complaint to the police, in their own right - and to receive information and access support in the same way as any other victim of crime.\n\nUnder the ministry's plans, that help could be accessed at any point in their lives, to address issues including alcohol or drug dependency, education and housing benefit.\n\nResearch by academics for the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ), who lobbied for the change, estimate that more than 3,000 children may have been conceived after rape in England and Wales in 2021 alone.\n\nThe change, dubbed 'Daisy's Law' by the CWJ, stems from the case of a campaigner who was born as a result of a rape in the 1970s.\n\nDaisy, who is due to speak to Newsnight about her ordeal on Monday, began a long campaign for justice after discovering details of her conception from birth records when she turned 18.\n\nDaisy, who was adopted as a baby, discovered that her birth father, Carvel Bennett, then 28, had raped her birth mother at the age of 13. Police investigated the case but it did not go to court.\n\nRecognising that her birth proved the rape, Daisy pursued a criminal case with the hope of convicting her birth father.\n\nIn legal terms, it was her mother - not her - who was a victim of rape, and it took over a decade before the case went to court.\n\nPolice then opened an investigation after the BBC highlighted Daisy's story in 2019.\n\nAt the age of 74, her birth father was convicted in Birmingham of rape in August 2021.\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, she described the decision to extend the definition of a victim as \"momentous\".\n\nShe said: \"I'm still waiting for it to sink in. I hope this changes things for others impacted by being born of rape and at the very least will make them feel they are not alone.\"\n\nThe CWJ said there was evidence that both mothers and children who are rape victims will \"often suffer from attachment difficulties and poor mental health, which in turn can profoundly negatively affect a child's development and educational outcomes, as well as his/her wellbeing in adulthood\".", "Getting enough food to eat and keeping the cold at bay is a daily challenge\n\nIn a country where women are barred from university and secondary schools, and banned from many workplaces, the world's biggest aid operation is now at risk of failing those who desperately need it.\n\nAnd it's happening in the cruellest depths of winter when famine and frostbite are knocking at the door.\n\nIn the middle of a deepening crisis, the most senior UN delegation to visit Afghanistan since the Taliban swept to power in 2021 has flown into Kabul.\n\nThe UN secretary general dispatched his deputy Amina Mohammad, the UN's most senior woman, with a team which also includes the head of UN Women, Sima Bahous.\n\nThey've been tasked with speaking to senior Taliban leaders at the highest-possible level about reversing restrictions, including a new ban on female aid workers, now seen to endanger urgent life-saving humanitarian operations.\n\nThe UN delegation have met the Taliban's acting foreign minister\n\n\"People are freezing and time is running out,\" emphasises Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Afghanistan in a statement which emphasises the all too obvious.\n\n\"We need to build shelters now but, in this conservative society, if we don't have female aid workers to speak to women in the families, we can't do this work.\"\n\nIt's not just that the UN has sent a senior delegation, they've also sent one headed by women with decades of experience.\n\n\"If there are women in the room, there is a greater chance that the uncomfortable conversations about women will take place,\" said one aid official who often sits in the room during efforts to reconcile the Taliban government's demands with international norms on human rights.\n\nThere's often been criticism that, all too often, foreign delegations send men-only teams which reinforce conservative Taliban views of their world.\n\nThe world's top table, the UN Security Council, recently condemned with unusual unanimity the \"increasing erosion for the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms\".\n\nThe first Taliban official to meet the visiting delegation in Kabul was acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.\n\nOn social media, his spokesman said the meeting began with the minister expressing hope that the \"delegation would portray Afghanistan's true picture to the world\".\n\nHe also reiterated the Taliban argument that the absence of international recognition of their rule, along with sanctions, was hindering their ability to govern effectively.\n\nAcross Afghanistan, temperatures are plunging to as low as -17C and even lower in mountainous areas.\n\nElectricity is erratic or absent, and millions of families are struggling to make it through the night. Hardscrabble lives in one of the world's poorest countries have always been harsh - but not as harsh as this.\n\n\"We cannot provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan without the participation of half the society,\" is the urgent mantra of aid agencies struggling to respond to the new Taliban government edict restricting Afghan female aid workers.\n\nSome aid agencies have temporarily suspended their operations. The ruling is the latest in a raft of rules in recent months which also banned women from attending university, socialising in public parks, or even going to women-only gyms.\n\nTaliban leaders say conditions compliant with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and Afghanistan's conservative traditions must first be readied.\n\nDespite earlier promises, the Taliban have steadily pushed women out of public life since they swept back to power\n\nThere's been some movement on this latest ban.\n\nWithin the Taliban system, some officials understand the gravity of these new rules.\n\nThe Health Ministry has now clarified that women can work in the health sector where women doctors and nurses are absolutely essential. That's triggered the resumption of some vital health programmes.\n\n\"While the majority of our programmes remain on hold, we are restarting some activities - such as health, nutrition and some education services - where we have received clear, reliable assurances from relevant authorities that our female staff will be safe and can work without obstruction,\" announced Save the Children in a statement this week.\n\nSamira Sayed Rahman, of the International Rescue Committee in Kabul, underlined the need for Afghan women to work everywhere, from door-to-door surveys in the field to desks in the office.\n\n\"We are taking a pragmatic approach, working with Taliban officials' sector by sector,\" she told the BBC.\n\nWith the economy on its knees, growing numbers of Afghans rely on food aid\n\nThese aren't just concerns of the outside world. In one province after another, tribal leaders and religious scholars have been imploring Taliban leaders to open girls' secondary schools and provide more opportunities for work.\n\nOn our visit to the remote central highlands of Ghor last summer, we heard from farmers and their families how timely interventions by the UN World Food Programme last winter pulled some districts from the brink of famine.\n\n\"We feel the world is now forgetting us,\" one farmer lamented, as he brandished dried shafts of wheat, a painful symbol of years of punishing drought which have deepened the hardship.\n\nThis high-level UN delegation started their mission by first visiting Afghanistan's neighbours, as well as to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to underscore what the UN has called \"the importance of the international community speaking with one voice with a unified approach\".\n\nThis UN visit, at this time, is an important signal to many Afghans and their allies who feel much of the world seems to have forgotten a country where they once invested so much commitment and cash.\n\n\"Where are the Nato countries that rushed through the door in 2021?\" demanded Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.\n\nIn a message posted last week on Twitter during his own visit to Afghanistan, he discarded any niceties about the US-led pull out which played a part in the Taliban takeover. \"You left 40 million Afghans with us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The government says it funds more than 120,000 hectares of nature recovery projects.\n\nGovernment efforts to improve England's environment and to protect the natural world are falling \"far short\" of what is needed, a watchdog has warned.\n\nA report by the independent Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) also says the country is facing a \"deeply concerning decline in biodiversity\".\n\nIt found many of the government's 23 environmental targets were at significant risk of not being achieved.\n\nThe government said it would consider the report carefully.\n\nThe study assessed 32 environmental areas - from species numbers to air and water quality improvements - and found nine trends were improving, 11 were static, and eight were deteriorating. In four areas, there was not enough data to make a reliable assessment.\n\n\"The situation is poor across the board, with adverse trends across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments,\" it said.\n\nOf the 23 environmental targets it looked at, it assessed 14 as \"off track\" while the remaining nine could not be assessed because the evidence was not available.\n\nA spokesman for Defra said it would publish a new environmental improvement plan later this month that would help it to meet its targets to protect the natural world, tackle climate change and halt the decline in species populations by 2030.\n\nRichard Benwell, CEO of campaign group Wildlife and Countryside Link, said that the report showed that \"rapid, concerted action and investment\" was needed if environmental targets were to be met.\n\n\"To halt the decline of nature, the days of fluffy wish lists, and back-of-the-settee funding for nature policy must end,\" he added.\n\nThe OEP - set up under the 2021 Environment Act to hold the government and other public bodies to account - said there had been \"a frequent failure\" by the government to meet its own legally-binding targets.\n\nIt said the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis had worsened a lack of coherence in environmental strategy within Defra and across government.\n\n\"Overall, we do not think the current pace and scale of action will deliver the changes necessary to improve the environment in England significantly,\" the report said.\n\nDame Glenys Stacey, the chair of the OEP, said there now needed to be co-ordinated action across all levels of government and improved data collection and monitoring to ensure targets were being met.\n\n\"Progress on delivery of the 25 Year Environment Plan has fallen far short of what is needed to meet government's ambition to leave the environment in a better state for future generations,\" she said.\n\nDespite some improvements in air quality and people's engagement with nature, she said: \"Many extremely worrying environmental trends remain unchecked, including a chronic decline in species abundance.\"\n\nA Defra spokesperson pointed to the work it had done since it published its 25 year environmental plan in 2018, including the funding of more than 120,000 hectares of nature recovery projects, increased tree planting rates and restoration of peatland.\n\nA new environmental improvement plan, to be launched at the end of the month, will set out \"the comprehensive action this government will take to reverse the decline in nature, achieve our net zero goals and deliver cleaner air and water,\" he added.", "A care worker has described restraining a mental health blogger moments before she swallowed a poisonous substance posted to her secure psychiatric unit.\n\nInquest jurors also heard Beth Matthews had ordered the substance and had it delivered to her mental health ward at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport in March before ingesting it.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Cornwall was well-known for writing about mental health.\n\nShe was being seen as an NHS patient at the hospital run by Priory Group.\n\nHer inquest in Stockport heard from health care assistant Olivia Woodruff.\n\nMs Woodruff said Ms Matthews had received eight parcels on the day of her death, 21 March 2022.\n\nShe said she had not been \"100% sure\" whether Ms Matthews was allowed to open her own parcels, so asked a manager for advice.\n\nMs Matthews seemed agitated and \"her left leg was shaking\", said Ms Woodruff.\n\nThe jury was told the blogger was supervised by two staff members sitting within arms' reach.\n\nMs Matthews is then said to have opened a packet, containing a small plastic bottle.\n\nMs Woodruff described how Ms Matthews then put the powder into a cup of water and tried to drink it.\n\nShe was restrained by the staff members and the cup fell to the ground.\n\nMs Woodruff said that as one of the carers tried to activate her personal alarm: \"Beth managed to get the powder into her mouth dry... and after that it was on her top and mouth.\"\n\nShe then ran to her room with her hand over her mouth and drank water from a tap.\n\nMs Matthews is then said to have told another member of staff: \"I will be dead in an hour.\"\n\nJurors were then able to examine the small, plastic container, which was white with a screw top.\n\nThe court was told that less than three weeks before her death Ms Matthews had been discussing euthanasia with a nurse, Leanne Williamson.\n\nMs Williamson said Ms Matthews thought it was \"unfair that we were making her live when she didn't want to\".\n\nShe had already told the nurse that there were things \"you can purchase to do the job\".\n\nThe nurse told the jury she thought Ms Matthews was \"pretty determined\" and might have already bought something, but didn't know what.\n\nShe said: \"I still thought she was safe because of the plans in place\".\n\nAnother witness who saw the parcel said it had \"Russian writing all over it\".\n\nThe inquest will continue on Monday\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters held flares and played drums in strikes across France\n\nMore than a million people have joined a day of protests and strikes, according to France's interior ministry, against plans to push back the age of retirement from 62 to 64.\n\nSome 80,000 protesters took to the streets of Paris, with demonstrations in 200 more French cities.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron called the reforms \"just and responsible\" - but they are facing a make-or-break moment.\n\nThe strikes severely disrupted public transport and many schools were closed.\n\nProtests took place across France, in Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseille and Toulouse, as train drivers, public sector workers and refinery staff walked out.\n\nThe head of the big CGT union, Philippe Martinez, put the total number of protesters at beyond two million, higher than the government's 1.12 million figure. They said 400,000 peopled had joined the biggest march, from Place de la République in Paris.\n\nBuoyed by their success, the unions called another day of action for 31 January.\n\nPolice were out in force in Paris in case of violence from ultra-left \"black bloc\" infiltrators but there were few clashes and 38 arrests. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne praised both the police and the unions for the \"good conditions\" in which the protests had taken place.\n\nOn some rail lines, as few as one in 10 services were operating, while the Paris metro was running a skeleton service.\n\nThe main secondary education union said 65% of teachers were on strike, although the education ministry said it was 35%.\n\nUnder the proposals outlined by the prime minister earlier this month, from 2027 people will have to work 43 years to qualify for a full pension, as opposed to 42 years now.\n\nHailed by the government as a vital measure to safeguard France's share-out pension system, the reform is proving deeply unpopular among the public, with 68% saying they are opposed, according to an IFOP poll this week.\n\nAll the country's unions - including so-called \"reformist\" unions that the government had hoped to win to its side - have condemned the measure, as have the left-wing and far-right oppositions in the National Assembly.\n\nBecause his Renaissance party does not have a majority in the Assembly, President Macron will be forced to rely on support from the 60 or so MPs of the conservative Republicans party. Although in principle in favour of pension reform, even some of them have warned they could vote against.\n\nWith the parliamentary process expected to take several weeks, Mr Macron faces a rolling campaign of opposition.\n\nThe worst outcome for the government would be rolling strikes in transport, hospitals and fuel depots - effectively bringing the country to a standstill.\n\nIf the scale of opposition forces the president into a retreat. If that happened, it could mark the end of any serious reforms in this, his second term.\n\nOn the one hand, inflation, the energy crisis and constant reports of run-down public services have left many people feeling anxious and irascible. President Macron's poor image outside the prosperous cities contributed to the \"yellow-vest\" insurrection four years ago and could well do so again.\n\nBut on the other hand, pollsters have also identified a sense of resignation among many people, who no longer identify with \"old-school\" social movements such as those the unions specialise in.\n\nThe prime minister invoked the principle of \"inter-generational solidarity\" to justify the decision to make people work longer. Under the French system, very few people have personal pension plans linked to capital investments.\n\nInstead, the pensions of those who are retired are paid from the same common fund into which those in work are contributing every month. Workers know they will benefit from the same treatment when they retire.\n\nTrain drivers joined teachers and refinery workers in walking out on Thursday\n\nHowever, the government says the system is heading for disaster because the ratio between those working and those in retirement is diminishing rapidly.\n\nFrom four workers per retiree 50 years ago, the ratio has fallen to around 1.7 per retiree today, and will sink further in the years ahead.\n\nNearly all other European countries have taken steps to raise the official retirement age, with Italy and Germany, for example, on 67 and Spain on 65. In the UK it is currently 66.\n\nPresident Macron made an earlier, and more ambitious, attempt to reform the system at the end of 2019, but pulled the plug when Covid hit. This second plan was part of his re-election manifesto last year - a key argument deployed by the government in the battle for public opinion.\n\nTo palliate the effects of the reform, Élisabeth Borne has promised easier ways to retire early for people in dangerous or physically demanding jobs; steps to encourage older people back into the workforce; and a higher guaranteed minimum pension.\n\nThe opposition argues the system is not technically in deficit at the moment, so there is no urgency to act. It says there are cost-saving alternatives to making people work longer, such as cutting pensions for the better-off.\n\nIt also says the brunt of the reform will be borne by the poorest. These are people who tend to start work earlier in life, so have normally earned the right to a full pension by the age of 62. Now they will have to work two extra years for no added benefit.\n\nThis is the seventh French pension reform since President François Mitterrand cut the retirement age to 60 in 1982.\n\nEvery subsequent attempt to reverse that change has led to mass opposition on the street - though in most cases, the reform did in the end go through. For example, in 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy raised the retirement age to 62, despite weeks of protests.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louise Kam: Two guilty of murdering businesswoman in £4.6m fraud\n\nTwo men have been found guilty of strangling a businesswoman after a £4.6m plan to \"plunder\" her property went wrong.\n\nLouise Kam, 71, disappeared in July 2021 and was later found dumped in a rubbish bin.\n\nKusai Al-Jundi, 25, of Harrow, London, and Romanian national Mohamed El-Abboud, 28, were convicted of murder.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Howie, of the Met Police, said it was \"despicable, callous crime\" driven by greed.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow KC told the court text messages apparently sent by Ms Kam to her friends in July 2021 did not sound like she had written them.\n\nKusai Al-Jundi has been found guilty of killing Louise Kam in a complex plan to 'plunder' her savings\n\n\"Little did those closest to her realise that when they were replying to those messages, Louise Kam was already dead,\" the prosecutor said.\n\n\"She had been strangled, her body dumped unceremoniously in a rubbish bin, and a plan was afoot to conceal her murder and plunder her life savings.\"\n\nThat plan was \"hatched\" by Al-Jundi who worked as a chef at a restaurant in Willesden, north-west London, the trial heard.\n\nHe had spent months befriending Ms Kam, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and trying to deceive her into giving him control of two properties she owned in Willesden and East Barnet. He also wanted her to sign over control of her finances to him.\n\nMohamed El Abboud from Romania has been found guilty of killing the business woman for her millions\n\nThe second defendant, Romanian national El-Abboud, who worked as a delivery driver at the same restaurant, moved into one of her houses at Gallants Farm Road, East Barnet, and began to treat her property as his own, the court heard.\n\nMs Kam believed she had been offered millions of pounds for the properties by Mr Al-Jundi and that she could use the money to pay off a mortgage and purchase a property for her children.\n\nThe deception reached its conclusion on 26 July 2021 when she arrived at her house in Barnet expecting to finalise the sale of the property.\n\nShe was with the two defendants for about 20 minutes, but while both defendants were seen leaving the address she never reappeared.\n\nMs Kam's best friend, Kambiz Rohany, spoke of his grief following her death, saying in a witness statement his \"life without Louise doesn't have any meaning\".\n\nThe wheelie bin where Louise Kam's body was found\n\nHe said: \"Louise loved and cared for so many, so many. Her disabled eldest son has been left without a loving mother. So many miss her too.\n\n\"Time doesn't heal. Now and for the rest of our lives, I and all that loved her, will live knowing of the brutality she suffered, to her last breath, the disregard of her remains, where no pity or mercy was had.\n\n\"May my Louise rest in peace. I cannot find words that will express the grief I bear. My life without Louise doesn't have any meaning. I will end my days as a lonely and broken man.\"\n\nJudge Mark Lucraft said to the defendants: \"You have been convicted of the most brutal brutal murder of Louise Kam. Not just satisfied with trying to defraud her of large sums of money you left her in the rubbish to be taken away.\"\n\nBoth defendants wept as the verdicts were returned.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Sutherland joined The Beano after entering a DC Thomson art competition in 1959\n\nThe artist behind the Beano's Bash Street Kids has died, aged 89.\n\nDavid Sutherland was described as the \"single most important illustrator in Beano history\" by the editor of the children's comic.\n\nMr Sutherland, who was from Invergordon in the Highlands, spent more than 60 years with Beano and began illustrating the Bash Street Kids in 1962.\n\nHe was made an OBE for services to illustration in the New Year Honours' list.\n\nThe next edition of the comic will feature Mr Sutherland's final illustrations, drawn at the end of last year.\n\nMike Stirling, Beano Studio's creative director, told BBC Scotland's The Nine the illustrator landed the job after entering a competition run by the comic's Dundee-based publisher, DC Thomson.\n\n\"He actually came third in the competition and yet he's become our most beloved artist ever,\" Mr Stirling said.\n\n\"And from my point of view one of Scotland's greatest artists not just in terms of comics, but completely.\"\n\nHe worked on some of the most famous Beano strips, including more than 1,000 Dennis The Menace stories between 1970 and 1998.\n\nBut it was on the Bash Street Kids, which he drew every week for 60 years, that he created his legacy.\n\nOne of his comic strips was one of the original exhibits at The V&A design museum when it opened in Dundee.\n\n\"That was going right into high culture and David deserved that,\" Mr Stirling said.\n\nThe first Bash Street Kids comic strip in 1962, and the latest in 2023.\n\nAnnouncing Mr Sutherland's death on Thursday an official statement from Beano thanked the illustrator for \"so many lols, laughs, giggles and guffaws over the years\".\n\nHis wife, Margaret, said her husband \"only put his pen down last month when he took ill\".\n\n\"Drawing was his life; it made us forget the age he was. He was getting older but we never noticed it,\" she added.\n\n\"He just kept going and the editors remained happy with his work.\"\n\nAfter his OBE was announced in December Mr Sutherland said: \"When I entered the DC Thomson art competition more than 60 years ago, I couldn't have guessed where it might lead.\n\n\"I've been so lucky to be able to do something I love for a living, and work with so many talented writers whose words have helped bring these characters to life.\"\n\nDavid Sutherland illustrated the cover of the 1988 Beano annual\n\nEditor John Anderson said Mr Sutherland's contribution to the comic and British comic history would never be matched.\n\n\"No one will ever repeat what David achieved over 60 years. He was one of a kind, a genuine legend. It is the end of an era,\" he said.\n\n\"Given that David started working in 1959 and had been drawing The Bash Street Kids since 1962, he is the single most important illustrator in Beano history.\"\n\nNigel Parkinson, current Dennis and Gnasher illustrator, said: \"The nation and its children and grandchildren and great grandchildren have all loved David Sutherland's joyous, happy, teeming-with-life, hilarious drawings nearly every single week in Beano for 60 years.\n\n\"He has touched the heart, tickled the funny bone and amused the eyes of millions.\"", "Denys Monastyrsky, who has died aged 42 in a helicopter crash near Kyiv, is the most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began almost a year ago.\n\nHowever, he had not long been a member of the Ukrainian government.\n\nHe became the country's interior minister in July 2021, just six months before Russia invaded the country.\n\nBorn in the western city of Khmelnytsky in 1980, he initially pursued a legal career in private practice, but entered politics in 2014.\n\nRecruited as a legal expert, he was part of the team behind Volodymyr Zelensky's successful longshot bid for the presidency in 2019.\n\nAs a member of the president's Servant of the People party, he was elected to the parliament that same year and swiftly assumed a prominent role as head of the parliamentary committee on law enforcement affairs.\n\nBut his move to front-bench politics came in the wake of the sudden and unexpected resignation of the previous interior minister, Arsen Avakov, a political heavyweight who had held the post under four different administrations.\n\nThere had been rumours that Mr Zelensky was preparing to fire Mr Avakov, who was seen as standing in the way of the president's attempts to tackle corruption.\n\nAt the time, the appointment of Mr Monastyrsky was interpreted as consolidating the president's grip on power.\n\nAs interior minister, Mr Monastyrsky was responsible for the police and security inside Ukraine.\n\nWhen Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he rose to the challenge of rallying international support for Kyiv's fightback.\n\nHe gave interviews to the world's press warning of a \"humanitarian catastrophe\" and highlighting the challenges faced by Ukraine's emergency services, which also come under the interior ministry's control.\n\nHe also played a key role in updating the Ukrainian public on casualties caused by Russian missile strikes.\n\nHis friend and MP Mariia Mezentseva said it was \"a tragedy for everyone\" as Mr Monastyrsky's ministry was playing a key role in Ukraine's response to the invasion.\n\n\"He responded 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family. He was very close to President Zelensky from day one of his presidential campaign,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We will always remember him as a very bright, smiley, friendly, patriotic person and a civil servant of Ukraine,\" she added.\n\n\"I have no words. I'm trying to keep calm but this is very hard, this is very hard because this is a tragedy for everyone.\"\n\nAlso killed in the same helicopter crash was Mr Monastyrsky's deputy, Yevgeny Enin, a former intelligence officer and top lawyer who had been in his post since September 2021.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hailed the men as \"true Ukrainian patriots\" and said their deaths were a \"huge loss for us all\".", "Women's rugby teams will benefit from new funding\n\nTen projects across Northern Ireland have been allocated more than £71m from the UK government's Levelling Up Fund.\n\nAmong them is the transformation of the former Maghera High School into an industrial park and £20m for a new leisure centre in Enniskillen.\n\nThe grants also include a £5.1m boost for 20 local rugby clubs, with are aimed at increasing women's participation in the sport.\n\nSome of the money will be used for things such as female changing rooms.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said the funding would help create new jobs and grow the economy.\n\nIt has been announced that more than 100 projects across the UK will share £2.1bn of levelling up money, with the new Eden Project in Lancashire getting £50m.\n\nThe money is for things such as new female changing rooms, which are aimed at increasing women's participation in sport.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said the investment in local infrastructure projects would help support economic growth and drive regeneration.\n\nIt is aimed at improving economic performance outside the south-east of England.\n\nThe scheme is most closely associated with the north of England but is funding projects throughout the UK.\n\nThe other grants awarded are:", "Mental health blogger Beth Matthews bought the poisonous substance she ingested from Russia, an inquest has heard.\n\nWhile on a secure ward she was able to frequently visit a website that discussed suicide methods, jurors were told.\n\nMs Matthews, 26, from Cornwall, ordered the substance while at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport in March.\n\nShe was being treated as an NHS patient at the hospital, run by Priory Group.\n\nThe court heard from police coroners officer Claire Smith, who described how she had received a download of information from Ms Matthews' phone which ran to 100,000 pages.\n\nMs Smith found she had frequently accessed a website with thousands of threads discussing suicide and methods.\n\nOne method involved swallowing a poisonous substance which Ms Matthews \"had attempted to purchase from a number of sources\".\n\nThe officer found Ms Matthews, who had tens of thousands of followers and was described as \"bright and vivacious\", had bought the substance three weeks before her death from a supplier in Russia, which was shipped by airmail through Heathrow.\n\nThe jury was told there was no means of controlling patient access to the internet via their mobile phones.\n\nAlerts had been issued by the Priory about the poisonous substance used by Ms Matthews in 2018 and again in 2020.\n\nAssistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman said it was \"surprising that none of the staff knew anything about it\".\n\nShe described receiving a message from Ms Matthews on the day she died which read \"I've taken poison, I'll be dead in an hour\".\n\nShe did not get the message until later that afternoon.\n\nMs Page said she thought the Priory \"was a place of safety\" and said her friend's death \"need not have taken place\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jake Davison killed five people and injured two others during a mass shooting in Plymouth in August 2021\n\nThe police department that returned a shotgun licence to a man who carried out a mass shooting did not have enough staff, an inquest has heard.\n\nJake Davison had his licence revoked in 2020 but police returned it in 2021.\n\nDavison, 22, killed his mother Maxine, 51, and then shot dead four others in Plymouth.\n\nThree-year-old Sophie Martyn, her father, Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66, all died on the evening of 12 August 2021.\n\nThursday was the third day of inquests being held into their deaths.\n\nA senior police officer told the hearing there had been a backlog of licence applications when Davison first applied in 2017.\n\nCh Supt Roy Linden, from Devon and Cornwall Police, was questioned about the number of applications for firearms or shotgun licences.\n\nThe mass shooting started on Biddick Drive where Davison killed three people\n\nHe said in 2017 there were about 3,000 applications per year and the force had the highest number of holders of certificates for firearms or shotguns in the UK.\n\nThe counsel to the inquest, Bridget Dolan KC, who is asking questions on behalf of the coroner, said: \"Were there sufficient staff to deal with 3,000 applications?\"\n\nCh Supt Linden replied: \"The simple answer is no.\"\n\nHe said there was a backlog of applications within Devon and Cornwall Police, but the force was not unique in the country.\n\nThe inquests are being held at Exeter Racecourse\n\nCh Supt Linden added the problem had only got worse over time.\n\nHe told the inquest: \"It's still the condition today, I think they have probably increased.\"\n\nBefore he gave evidence Ch Supt Linden addressed the families of the victims.\n\nHe said the force \"recognises the trauma that has been caused by this incident\".\n\nHe added: \"It's our intention that this tragic incident will serve to drive improvements in firearms licensing both in Devon and Cornwall and nationally.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Constance Marten had a privileged upbringing but has since cut off contact with her family\n\nThe father of a high society woman who went missing with her newborn baby and partner, a registered sex offender, has urged her to turn herself in to police.\n\nConstance \"Toots\" Marten, 35, Mark Gordon and their baby have been missing since their car broke down and caught fire near Bolton on 5 January.\n\nMs Marten's estranged father told The Independent he was \"deeply concerned\" for her and her baby's welfare.\n\nMr Gordon served 20 years in prison on rape charges in the United States.\n\nNapier Marten, who said the family had known about Mr Gordon's past record \"for some time\", used the interview - published on Thursday - to make a direct appeal to his daughter.\n\n\"Even though we remain estranged at the moment, I stand by as I have always done, and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us.\n\n\"I beseech you to find a way to turn yourself and your wee one into the police as soon as possible so you and he or she can be protected. Only then can a process of healing and recovery begin.\"\n\nPolice say there is no evidence to suggest that either Constance or the baby have been assessed by medical professionals since the child's birth - nor is it known if the baby was born prematurely.\n\nMr Gordon, 48, whom Ms Marten met in 2016, has been a registered sex offender in the UK since 2010, having been convicted in Florida of a rape he committed at the age of 14.\n\nHe served some 20 years in prison in the United States before being deported to Britain.\n\nMs Marten comes from an affluent family and has inherited wealth.\n\nKnown to her friends as Toots, she grew up in a stately home in Dorset, one of the settings of the 1996 film Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\nShe attended a private school, university and drama school - but after meeting Mr Gordon everything changed.\n\n\"At that point the affluent, normal, social aspects of Constance's life, they stop,\" said Det Ch Insp Payne.\n\n\"Then it is just Mark and Constance. They're estranged from family from what we can understand.\"\n\nIn the Independent interview, Mr Marten said he wanted his daughter to understand that she is \"much, much loved, whatever the circumstances\" and that the family is \"deeply concerned for you and your baby's welfare\".\n\n\"The past eight years have been beyond painful for all the family, as well as your friends, as they must have been for you - and to see you so vulnerable again is testing in the extreme,\" he said, in the appeal published by the Independent.\n\nHe went on to thank the police \"for all their endeavours\" and urged his daughter to \"find the courage\" to present herself to the police \"as soon as possible\".\n\nPolice say that the couple appear to have left their home in Eltham, in south-east London, in September 2022, when Ms Marten would have begun showing the first signs of pregnancy.\n\nThe pair have since led a nomadic lifestyle.\n\nSince their car broke down earlier this month, they have been spotted in Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester and London. They were last traced on CCTV on 7 January, near East Ham underground station in the capital.\n\nThe couple are believed to have lost their belongings in the fire and to be dependant upon cash to survive.\n\nOfficers say the couple are likely to have built up a \"considerable slush fund\" which could allow them to live off-grid for some time.\n\nPolice have said their top priority is \"ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the newborn baby\".\n\n\"There is nothing to suggest that any of them have come to any sort of intentional harm,\" said Det Supt Lewis Basford.\n\n\"We just need to ensure they are okay, especially the baby, and do not require any medical assistance for any underlying issues.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’\n\nJacinda Ardern came to the prime ministership of New Zealand by what amounted to an accident and had her five-year term defined by a series of crises.\n\nHer management of those crises, particularly the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre of 51 Muslims by a gunman, won her international acclaim.\n\nAnd initially, her management of Covid-19 saw her lead her Labour Party to a landslide victory in 2020, but as draconian lockdowns kept New Zealanders at home and its borders closed, her popularity began to wane.\n\nShe has been the subject of often-vile abuse by the anti-vax movement and other populist-inspired right-wing protest groups in New Zealand.\n\nIt was evident in her resignation remarks on Thursday that the pressure had had an impact and caused her to doubt whether she could lead her party into the election scheduled for October.\n\n\"This summer, I had hoped to find a way to prepare not just for another year but another term because that is what this year requires; I have not been able to do that,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern, 42, was born to a Mormon family in the North Island city of Hamilton. Her father was a police officer.\n\nFrom that conservative background, she went to Waikato University in Hamilton and did a communications degree and then rejected Mormonism because of its stance on homosexuality.\n\nShe worked for former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and for Tony Blair's UK government, before being elected an MP in 2008.\n\nBy 2017 as the Labour Party saw its poll ratings stay low under the dour leadership of Andrew Little, she was elected his deputy and quickly developed a following. Mr Little resigned eight weeks before the election, and Ms Ardern took over.\n\nDuring the election campaign, she was dismissed by her critics as offering little more than stardust. But under New Zealand's proportional representation system, even though Labour won only 36.9% of the vote against the centre-right National Party's 44.5%, it was able to become the government after forming a coalition with the populist New Zealand First party.\n\nThat proved to be a political millstone around Ms Ardern's neck as the party's mercurial leader, Winston Peters, opposed many of Labour's cherished policies, such as a capital gains tax.\n\nMs Ardern made Mr Peters minister of foreign affairs and largely left him alone, initially taking, it seemed, very little interest in non-domestic matters herself.\n\nThat all changed with the massacre, and she found herself heading an international effort along with French President Emmanuel Macron called \"the Christchurch Call\" to try to get social media companies to restrict the ability of users to post live violent videos, as the Christchurch gunman had done.\n\nMs Ardern hugs a woman after the massacre in Christchurch in 2019\n\nBut her big foreign policy challenge was New Zealand's relationship with China, its biggest trading partner and biggest source of tourists and, for a long time, migrants.\n\nNew Zealand became widely regarded as the most pro-China of the Five Eyes partners, which led to tensions with Australia.\n\nMr Peters tried to subtly swing New Zealand's foreign policy emphasis back to its traditional partners: the UK, the US and Australia. It was left to Ms Ardern to steer it back to the independent stance the country had adopted when the US forced it out of the ANZUS security agreement in 1985.\n\nBy 2018 she was already becoming an international celebrity, having given birth to her daughter Neve while PM.\n\nShe was the first female world leader to bring an infant to the UN meeting in New York as she and her partner Clarke Gayford sat through the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit with Neve.\n\nShe visited Beijing for a day in 2019 and spent most of it in meetings with President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.\n\nBut she also visited the White House, London and regularly went across the Tasman to meet Australian prime ministers.\n\nHowever, she could not persuade either Scott Morrison or Anthony Albanese to relax their policy of deporting any New Zealand-born person who had been sentenced to more than 12 months in prison, the so-called 501 deportees.\n\nAt home, Covid defined her prime ministership. Almost continuously for two years, she held daily media conferences, which were streamed and became must-view briefings for the large segments of the population forced to stay at home by lockdowns.\n\nBut her party and her caucus were becoming impatient: they wanted their government to leave a legacy of progressive reforms.\n\nSo, after the 2020 landslide, no longer in coalition with the conservative NZ First Party, Labour launched a raft of reforms covering water, the health system, resource management and planning, broadcasting and climate change.\n\nAdded to that was a renewed emphasis on Maori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi and decolonisation, which saw a new history curriculum for schools and increasing moves to co-Maori-European governance of public bodies.\n\nEach reform provoked opposition, and by the middle of last year, after a prolonged anti-vax protest camp on Parliament's lawn had finally been removed after a violent confrontation between protesters and police, a substantial anti-Ardern mood was evident, particularly in provincial New Zealand.\n\nData released in June last year indicated that police-recorded threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years.\n\nConsequently, a long-standing tradition of the prime minister hosting a barbeque at the grounds where the Waitangi Treaty was signed on Waitangi Day had to be cancelled.\n\nShe leaves office with the bulk of her reform agenda either still waiting to be passed or in the very early stages of implementation.\n\nSo at this stage, her legacy is primarily of style, of an accessible, empathetic politician who preferred \"kindness\" to confrontation and was ultimately less admired at home than she was overseas.\n\nHer real legacy will have to wait.", "Calls have been increasing with record lows in Welsh NHS response times\n\nThe ambulance service received a record number of \"red\" life-threatening calls in a month in December.\n\nOf these 5,469 calls, only 39.5% received a response within eight minutes - a record low.\n\nThis beat the previous month's low of 48%, with the target being 65%.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said the system had been under pressure but it was \"not a situation that we're happy with\".\n\nThe average response time was 10 minutes in December - the slowest on record, with the average over the four years up to that month being six minutes.\n\nFigures were released on a day in which 1,000 ambulances workers were striking across Wales in a dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nMeanwhile, handover delays - the time ambulances are spending outside major A&E units waiting to hand over patients - also reached record levels.\n\nThe Welsh government admitted the NHS in Wales was \"still under enormous pressure\". It added that data suggests December saw the busiest day on record.\n\nOpposition parties have described the situation as \"a horror show\" calling for urgent action to address the \"crisis\".\n\nThere were a total of 31,319 \"lost\" hours in December - this time is counted after an ambulance spends more than 15 minutes outside emergency units.\n\nThrough 2022, more than 291,345 hours were lost to handover delays.\n\nWaiting times in A&E were also the worst on record with only 63.1% of people seen within the four hour target.\n\nThe worst was at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, where only 43.7% were dealt with within that time in December.\n\nThose waiting more than 12 hours or more were also at record levels - and numbers passed the 12,000 mark for the first time.\n\nThe target is that no patient should wait that long - on average, patients waited three hours and two minutes in A&E - the third highest time on record.\n\nThere have been record waits both in responding to emergencies and within hospitals\n\nThere are still more than 1,000 patients in hospital waiting to be discharged - either into long-term care or further recovery.\n\nThis figure has not dropped below four figures since June.\n\nCancer waiting times showed an improvement and were at their best levels since early summer 2022, with 53.9% of patients starting treatment within two months of cancer being suspected.\n\nThe only area where things did not get better was the Betsi Cadwaladr health board area - although it still had the highest proportion of people starting treatment within the target time.\n\nWhile it is due to eventually rise, the target is currently 75%.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service assistant operations director, Sonia Thompson, said: \"It's not a situation that we're happy with.\"\n\nMs Thompson said the pressure on the service had been well documented, adding: \"There is a huge effort to try to solve the issue.\n\n\"It is not a problem that's easy to solve and we need to work with health boards and the government to ensure that we can bring in changes to improve the situation.\n\n\"But there isn't just one answer.\"\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan said the Welsh government knew December would be difficult for emergency care.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh government \"knew\" December would be difficult\n\n\"We've had really high levels of Covid, really high levels of flu, high levels of strep-A,\" she said.\n\nShe added: \"Because of the significant services we put in place this year compared to last year, we are diverting 70,000 people a month away from our emergency centres.\n\n\"That means that our performance in those major emergency departments when it comes to four hour waits are better than they are in England.\"\n\nBut the health minister said she was \"not happy with the performance\".\n\n\"I've never given a suggestion that I'm willing to live with this. I'm working every day to make sure that we make improvements,\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh government spokesman said: \"Whilst we acknowledge emergency care performance is not where we expect it to be, we are driving system improvements, including extending same-day emergency care services to open seven days a week, improving management of 999 patients on the phone, and recruiting more staff.\n\n\"Without all this the pressure on the system would be even greater.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth called for \"new and innovative thinking\" to \"drastically improve\" waiting times, saying the situation is a \"crisis\".\n\n\"These are another dire set of figures that only serve to highlight the daily suffering in the Labour-run NHS in Wales where patient safety is at risk and staff morale is utterly broken,\" said Welsh Conservatives health spokesman Russell George.\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds said: \"Increased excess deaths, thousands on waiting lists and hours until an ambulance arrives, this is a horror show that the Welsh Labour government has failed to get a hold of.\"", "Andriy and his team are defending against Russian advances towards Bakhmut\n\nUkrainian forces have acknowledged \"stepping back\" from the bitterly contested Donbas town of Soledar, captured by Russian forces last week in their first significant victory after many months in retreat. But soldiers have told the BBC they've pulled back in a controlled and tactical move before a planned counter-attack.\n\nLong bursts of automatic gunfire rattled across the grey, stubbled fields on the front line between Soledar and the neighbouring town of Bakhmut, during an intense gun and artillery battle.\n\n\"It's quite close. One kilometre,\" said a tall Ukrainian unit commander named Andriy, peering around the corner of a ruined cottage and towards a dark line of trees to the east.\n\nIt was impossible to be sure what was happening. But the sound of automatic gunfire, zinging overhead, in addition to the constant boom of rockets and artillery, suggested that Russian infantry were close. A press officer for the 46th Air Assault Brigade, who was accompanying us on a visit to the area, said the front lines were constantly shifting, unpredictably, sometimes by several kilometres a day.\n\n\"We have a tough situation here,\" Andriy acknowledged, before slipping into a well-disguised command bunker hidden amid the ruins. His team had just received detailed information about a Russian armoured personnel carrier (APC), spotted by a Ukrainian drone. Moments later, there were three loud outgoing blasts from a nearby UK-supplied light artillery piece, used here by Ukrainian forces, and aimed at the vehicle.\n\n\"Every day we destroy 50 or 100 enemy people,\" Andriy claimed.\n\nThe area around Bakhmut has seen some of the most intense fighting of the war in recent weeks\n\nThe fighting in and around Soledar has been some of the heaviest of the war, with Russian forces - spearheaded by the mercenaries and convicts of the Kremlin's Wagner group - reportedly suffering heavy losses but finally succeeding in taking control of the small hill-top town, now a wasteland of flattened buildings and rubble.\n\nPrivately, some Ukrainian soldiers have blamed poor co-ordination between different units for the loss of Soledar and have acknowledged that Russia may now be better placed to encircle the far bigger and strategically more important neighbouring town of Bakhmut, to the south.\n\nBut the mood among front line units in villages like Paraskoviivka, now just a few hundred metres from Russian positions, appears to be quietly confident. Furious Ukrainian air and artillery bombardments appear to be blocking Russian attempts to move forward both from the north and from the south-western outskirts of Bakhmut.\n\n\"It's a controlled situation. I believe in my commander. Sometimes it's really better to take a step back… then after that to make a [counter] attack and crush the enemy. Each day we're destroying enemy positions,\" said Andriy.\n\nOn a grey morning this week, a light thaw turned the snowbound country lanes on the northern edge of Bakhmut into muddy tracks. During winter there is precious little cover from trees and bushes, leaving many roads visible and vehicles exposed to Russian artillery fire.\n\nAs we took cover behind a small cottage, a shell crashed into the road 300m behind us. Our military escort said the fighting had reached a new pitch of intensity, with the boom of rockets and artillery fire coming every few seconds, amid the wail of sirens from Ukrainian ambulances whisking the wounded back to a field hospital.\n\n\"We have gun(shot) wounds, we have shrapnel wounds. The fighting here seems to be particularly intense. We also have (cases of) frostbite and flu. And people are tired,\" said Dr Andriy Zholob, the commander of the 46th Brigade's medical unit. But he insisted morale among the soldiers remained high.\n\n\"They're tired, they're cold, they're wounded. But they ask me, 'Doc, when can I return?' They don't want to say - 'I'm wounded, now I can relax.' Their hearts are burning still. We have work to do,\" said Dr Zholob, scrolling through a video showing him removing mortar shrapnel from a soldier's shoulder.\n\nCloser to Bakhmut, two Ukrainian jets roared overhead, as artillery and tanks, hidden in the fields, continued to pound Russian positions.", "Germany will only send battle tanks to Ukraine if the US does the same, multiple reports suggest.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz is under increasing international and domestic pressure to supply German-built Leopard 2 tanks or at least approve their delivery by third countries.\n\nPoland and Finland have both promised to send their Leopards - but need Germany's permission to do so.\n\nBut Berlin is still in talks with the US about its official position.\n\nMany expect an announcement to follow a meeting of Ukraine's Western allies at the American military base of Ramstein in southwestern Germany tomorrow.\n\nReports suggest that Mr Scholz will only give the green light to the Leopards if the US President Joe Biden agrees to supply American Abrams tanks.\n\nHowever, the Pentagon's top security adviser, Colin Kahl, said late on Thursday that the US wasn't prepared to meet Kyiv's demands for the tanks.\n\n\"The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. It's expensive. It's hard to train on. It has a jet engine,\" Mr Kahl said.\n\nA senior German government source told the BBC that reports of a deadlock between Berlin and Washington over tanks were overstated, but they're causing concern amongst Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nThe provision of Western battle tanks - in sufficient numbers - is widely seen as crucial if Ukraine is to defeat Russia or, at the very least, defend itself against Russian President Vladimir Putin's anticipated spring offensive.\n\nYet, to date, only Britain has promised to supply them. Other countries, including Germany, France and the US, have sent or pledged to send armoured vehicles as well as air defence systems and other heavy equipment. Meanwhile, Kyiv's demands for tanks are growing increasingly urgent.\n\nSo why is Mr Scholz dithering over their delivery?\n\nAll indications are that he will allow third countries to supply their Leopards - the German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said so a week or so ago.\n\nBut Mr Scholz has not yet committed. He's cautious for several reasons.\n\nGermany worries - albeit less so than it did in the past - about escalation and how Russia's Vladimir Putin would react to the supply of offensive weapons. It's a reasoning which many experts perceive to be unjustified.\n\nAnd the concept of German tanks on Ukrainian soil still resonates uncomfortably in Berlin, where the country's World War Two history still casts a long shadow.\n\nMr Scholz may have declared a \"Zeitenwende\" (sea-change) in Germany's stance on defence and military policy following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but he's still mindful that, less than a year ago, the idea of the German government supplying arms to a conflict would have been unthinkable.\n\nMr Scholz's response to the Ukraine war has remained broadly popular with the German people\n\nThe Chancellor has his eye on the domestic opinion polls. As one senior government source put it to me, surveys suggest the public are broadly satisfied with his reaction to Ukraine - unlike his policies and performance in many other areas.\n\nA recent survey for the national broadcaster found that 41% of the public thought Germany was supplying the right amount of weapons, 26% thought its support went too far and 25% that Germany wasn't sending enough.\n\nMr Scholz has promised that Germany will play a greater military role on the world stage, but years of underinvestment have left its armed forces in a parlous state.\n\nEven if the Chancellor gives the green light to sending Leopards, the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has warned that renovation and preparation requirements would delay their delivery by months.\n\nMr Scholz doesn't want to risk the perception that he's acting alone, hence the desire to co-ordinate with allies and, in particular, the US. And it's why there's unlikely to be an announcement ahead of the Ramstein meeting tomorrow.\n\nBut his position has triggered frustration and condemnation in international political and security circles.\n\nThey say Germany - still a political heavyweight - must step up to its military responsibilities.", "A passenger tweeted that his early morning flight to Krakow had been affected by snow\n\nManchester Airport has resumed operations after both runways had to close for more than two hours due to heavy snow.\n\nIt said passengers' health and safety would \"always be our top priority\".\n\nThe Met Office said Manchester was under a yellow weather warning until 12:00 GMT, with wintry showers expected to bring \"further disruption from ice and snow\".\n\nTravellers have been advised to contact their airline for flight information.\n\nThe runways closed at 06:20 GMT and reopened at 08:43.\n\nOne passenger, Dec, tweeted: \"Just another hour to sit on the plane going nowhere.\"\n\nOne passenger took a photo of the scene from his plane seat at about 07:30 GMT\n\nBBC weather presenter Simon King said there had been \"some scattered snow showers this morning, giving a covering of snow in places\".\n\n\"In particular, a heavier snow shower passed over southern areas of Greater Manchester, giving a good covering at Manchester Airport,\" he said.\n\n\"The snow has already moved away, but there still could be a few more wintry showers across Greater Manchester throughout the morning.\"\n\nAn airport representative told the BBC that once snow was deeper than 0.1in (3mm), runways and taxiways must be cleared.\n\nWhile the affected areas had been largely cleared, further snowfall had delayed the runways' reopening.\n\nNathan Booth tweeted that he had been \"sat on a plane diverted to Birmingham [because] of a wind blow of snow fall for the past hour\".\n\nHowever, Teddy Vee said he had sympathy for the airport team.\n\n\"Try clearing 294,000sqm of snow + taxiways + stands,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It's not like clearing your driveway. Snow teams have been there since Monday in readiness.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ofsted's chief inspector says she is \"surprised\" when primary school children have smartphones.\n\nAmanda Spielman said she was \"not comfortable\" with younger children having unlimited internet access.\n\nShe was being interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live about influencer Andrew Tate, who has been detained as part of an investigation into allegations of human trafficking and rape - which he denies.\n\nSchools have been trying to tackle his influence.\n\nMr Tate, a former kickboxer, has millions of online followers - despite being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for misogynistic comments.\n\nDuring a discussion about access to porn and adult content, Ms Spielman - the head of England's schools watchdog - said there was a \"great deal\" that could be done to \"really limit\" the content to which young children are exposed.\n\n\"The first thing you can do is not give a child a smartphone when they're too young,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very surprised when primary aged children have smartphones, for example, and even in early secondary school. It's really hard to manage that.\"\n\nAsked whether she thought no child under the age of 11 should be given smartphones, she said: \"I'm not comfortable with younger children having unlimited internet access.\"\n\nBut it is \"not possible to totally control and contain adolescents' lives\", she added - and it is the job of schools, parents and society to make sure that children \"can steer past all of these undesirable influences\".\n\nMr Tate is being detained in Romania, alongside his brother Tristan. They both deny allegations of human trafficking and rape.\n\nSchools have been trying to tackle Andrew Tate's influence.\n\nLast week, some schools told the BBC they were putting out guidance on how to talk about him, as part of a concerted attempt to tackle his influence.\n\nMs Spielman said she first came across Mr Tate \"a month or two before Christmas\".\n\nShe said it was \"important not to get into total moral panic\" about him, and that children should be exposed to a \"range of male role models\" through the curriculum.\n\nAsked whether there should be compulsory lessons on misogyny in schools, Ms Spielman said that promoting \"respectful relationships\" was already something that schools took seriously.", "David Carrick has been suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police\n\nTrust in policing is \"hanging by a thread\" after the David Carrick case, senior officers have warned.\n\nOne chief constable described this week as \"one of the darkest\" in decades for the profession.\n\nIt comes after the Metropolitan Police admitted it \"missed opportunities\" to catch Carrick.\n\nCarrick has pleaded guilty to dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women committed while he was a serving officer in the Met Police.\n\nThe 48-year-old \"used the fact he was a police officer to control and coerce his victims\", the Met has said.\n\nLucy D'Orsi, Chief Constable of British Transport Police (BTP), said the Carrick case had kept her awake at night and called for major reforms to vetting procedures.\n\nIn a blog post, she wrote: \"David Carrick was a criminal with a warrant card. But it's easy to say he wasn't one of us. He was.\n\n\"And that's why it feels so shameful that he was free to abuse women for so long without the alarm bells being heard.\"\n\nShe called for new checks to automatically flag if an arrested person is a police officer, warning that under the current system DNA and prints are not checked against police databases for matches.\n\nThe Met has confirmed that Carrick came to the attention of police over nine incidents, including rape allegations, between 2000 and 2021.\n\nThe BTP chief said \"others could fall through the cracks and go on to do harm\" without changes.\n\nHumberside Police's Chief Constable Lee Freeman said \"I genuinely believe that the future of policing by consent is under threat\" in a stark message to fellow officers.\n\nCourt sketch of David Carrick when he appeared in court earlier this week\n\nHe wrote on the force's website: \"It used to be unthinkable that such crimes could be committed by a serving member of a police force, but sadly, I think that for some members of the public, this behaviour is no longer considered unbelievable.\"\n\nOn Carrick, Mr Freeman added: \"He was one of us - like it or not.\"\n\nChief Constable Sir Iain Livingstone, head of Police Scotland, said Carrick \"should never have been in the police service\" and called his offending \"despicable\".\n\nSpeaking after he was knighted at a ceremony in Edinburgh this week, he said officers need to earn the public's trust \"every single day\".\n\nCarrick was sacked by the Met on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two decades of brutal offending against a string of women.\n\nHe used his status as a police officer to continue offending until October 2021 when a victim came forward to report him.\n\nThe investigation that followed uncovered an \"unprecedented\" string of crimes and his employer was forced to admit it \"should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn't, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation\".\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has launched a review into police dismissals and warned that more shocking cases may come to light amid renewed scrutiny.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to impose a 36-hour ceasefire on the Ukrainian front line.\n\nThe ceasefire - from 12:00 Moscow time (09:00 GMT) - coincides with the Russian Orthodox Christmas.\n\nMr Putin asked Ukraine to reciprocate, but Kyiv quickly rejected the request.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the truce was an attempt to stop his country's military advances in the east of the country.\n\nThe Kremlin statement appeared to stress that President Putin ordered his troops to stop fighting not because he was de-escalating - Putin never de-escalates - but because he had listened to an appeal from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.\n\nPatriarch Kirill had, earlier in the day, called for a Christmas truce to allow believers to attend services for Orthodox Christmas.\n\nMr Putin's order called on Ukraine to reciprocate so that the \"large numbers of Orthodox believers [who] reside in areas where hostilities are taking place\" could celebrate Christmas Eve on Friday and Christmas Day on Saturday.\n\nBut in his nightly video address, President Zelensky said that Russia wanted to use the truce as a cover to stop Ukrainian advances in the eastern Donbas region and bring in more men and equipment.\n\nThe Russian Orthodox Church - the largest of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - celebrates Christmas Day on 7 January, according to the Julian calendar.\n\nSome people in Ukraine celebrate Christmas on 25 December, others on 7 January. Both days are public holidays in the country.\n\nThis year, for the first time, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine said it would allow its congregations to celebrate Christmas on 25 December, as do some other denominations in western Ukraine.\n\nThe Church split with the similarly named Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in 2018.\n\nThe UOC itself was tied to Moscow's religious leadership until Russia's invasion, and some of its top clergy have been accused of still covertly supporting Moscow.\n\nUS President Joe Biden believes Mr Putin was simply \"trying to find some oxygen\".\n\nThe Kremlin's ceasefire fits in nicely with a common narrative in Moscow, one that is aimed primarily at the domestic audience. That is - that the Russians are the good guys, and it is Ukraine and the West that are threatening Russia.\n\nThe truce is also a handy tool that can be used to demonise Ukraine - as the Ukrainians have dismissed the proposal, Moscow will claim that Kyiv does not respect religious believers and has no desire for peace.\n\nBut it should not be forgotten that it was Russia who started this war by launching an unprovoked invasion of its neighbour.\n\nThe move also comes just a few days after a large number of Russian troops were killed in a Ukrainian strike on a temporary barracks in the occupied Ukrainian city of Makiivka.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry put the death toll at 89, making it the highest single loss of life admitted by Moscow since the war began.\n\nRelatives of the dead, as well as some politicians and commentators, expressed anger over what happened in Makiivka and blamed incompetent military officials. The incident happened on New Year's Eve - the most important holiday in the Russian calendar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Ros Atkins on... How Ukraine’s deadly New Year attack unfolded\n\nPolitical analyst Tatyana Stanovaya says that it is possible the Kremlin wants to ensure no more major loss of life occurs on another important Russian holiday.\n\n\"Putin really does not want a repetition of that on Orthodox Christmas Day,\" she wrote.\n\nA few hours after Russia's ceasefire announcement, Germany said it would follow the US in providing a Patriot air defence missile system to Ukraine. Germany also announced, in a joint statement with the US, that both countries would send armoured vehicles.\n\nFrance said on Wednesday that it would send armoured fighting vehicles.\n\nKyiv has repeatedly called for more aid from its international allies in the face of continuing Russian aggression.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli, who has died at the age of 58, was \"a gorgeous soul\" as well as \"a wonderful footballer and a warm human being\", his former Sampdoria team-mate Graeme Souness has said.\n\nVialli was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017. In 2020 he revealed he had been given the all-clear, but was diagnosed with it again in 2021.\n\nSouness told Sky Sports: \"People will say things about his magnificent football ability, and correctly so, but above all that what a human being.\"\n\nFormer Scotland midfielder Souness added: \"My condolences go to his family - the kids were blessed to have a dad like that, his wife was blessed to be married to a man like that.\n\n\"He was just fabulous to be around. He was such a fun-loving guy, full of mischief, a wonderful footballer and a warm human being.\n\n\"Forget football, he was just a gorgeous soul.\"\n\nVialli, who played 59 times for Italy, left a role with Italy's national team in December 2022 to focus on his health.\n\nHe helped the Azzurri win Euro 2020 with victory over England at Wembley in July 2021 after being appointed to Italy's backroom staff by manager and former Sampdoria team-mate Roberto Mancini in October 2019.\n• None Vialli on his life and career in football - listen to the Headliners podcast\n• None Know the signs of pancreatic cancer\n\nThe Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed that a minute's silence in memory of Vialli will be held before all Italian matches this weekend.\n\n\"Gianluca was a splendid person and he leaves a void that cannot be filled,\" FIGC president Gabriele Gravina said.\n\n\"I hoped until the end that he would be able to perform another miracle. Yet I am comforted by the certainty that what he did for Italian football and the blue shirt will never be forgotten.\"\n\nAn FIGC statement added: \"That photo on the Wembley lawn, that hug with Mancini after Federico Chiesa's goal against Austria in the round of 16 of the 2021 European Championship, will be one of the images of Vialli that we will carry in our hearts forever.\"\n\nVialli made his Italy debut in 1985, a year after joining Sampdoria, where he would win the Serie A title and European Cup Winners' Cup during eight seasons with the club.\n\nSampdoria said: \"We won't forget your 141 goals, your overhead kicks, your cashmere shirts, your earring, your platinum blonde hair, your Ultras bomber jacket.\n\n\"You gave us so much, we gave you so much: yes, it was love, reciprocal, infinite. A love that will not die today with you.\"\n\nVialli helped Sampdoria reach the 1992 European Cup final but after losing to Barcelona, he moved to Juventus for a then world record fee of £12m. Vialli spent four seasons with Juve, winning the Champions League, Uefa Cup and Serie A titles.\n\nJuve said: \"We loved everything about you, absolutely everything - your smile, your being a star and leader at the same time, on the pitch and in the dressing room, your adorable swashbuckling ways, your culture, your class, which you showed until the last day in the black and white stripes.\"\n\nVialli joined Chelsea on a free transfer in 1996 and became player-manager in 1998 - the first Italian to manage a Premier League side, taking over from the sacked Ruud Gullit late in the season - and went on to lead the Blues to victory in the League Cup, Uefa Cup Winners' Cup and Uefa Super Cup.\n\nHe also guided Chelsea to victory in the 2000 FA Cup final and Charity Shield but was sacked early the following season after a poor start.\n\nChelsea said: \"A brilliant striker, a trophy-winning manager and a wonderful man, Luca's place in the pantheon of Chelsea greats is assured. He will be deeply missed.\"\n\nVialli subsequently spent the 2001-02 season as manager of Watford, then in the second tier, but was dismissed after the Hornets finished 14th.\n\nVialli's former team-mates and managers led the tributes to the former Italy striker.\n\nGianfranco Zola, who both played alongside Vialli and then under him when he was manager at Chelsea said: \"Together we won many matches and shared some of the best moments of our lives.\n\n\"For the love of our ball we have often clashed. With no quarter, but always with the utmost respect. Because, in the end, we were always ourselves: two Italian boys and a ball.\"\n\nReal Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti, who played alongside Vialli with Italy, tweeted in Italian: \"Ciao, amico mio\" - goodbye, my friend.\n\nAlessandro del Piero, a Champions League winner alongside Vialli with Juventus posted: \"Our captain. My captain. Forever.\"\n\nFormer Blues manager Gullit posted an image on Instagram of himself with Vialli on the day he signed for Chelsea in 1996 with the caption: \"RIP Gianluca Vialli. We will miss you.\"\n\nTottenham assistant Cristian Stellini said manager and fellow Italian Antonio Conte was \"upset and sad\" following the news, adding Vialli was an \"important person\" who \"opened the door for Italian managers\" in the Premier League.\n\n\"For us he was a great player but first of all he was a great man. He taught us a lot of things, also not only when he played but when he spoke with everyone,\" Stellini said.\n\n\"Now we have to say thanks to Vialli for opening the door and letting us understand how important football is in Europe to open doors and create, because also Italian managers came into the Premier League and improved it so we did it together. It is a great thing.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter, BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker said: \"Deeply, deeply saddened to hear that Gianluca Vialli has left us. One of the loveliest people you could possibly meet. A truly magnificent footballer who will be hugely missed. RIP Luca.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea captain John Terry tweeted: \"Heartbroken. RIP Luca. A proper legend and a great man. I will forever be grateful for you giving me my debut.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"He played a very important part in what has become the best league in the world.\n\n\"He always had such a positive energy. He had a big aura. You could feel his presence as soon as he walked into a room.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer tweeted: \"RIP Gianluca Vialli. What a lovely lovely man and a wonderful player he was.\"\n\nAnd ex-England striker Peter Crouch wrote on Twitter: \"I'm genuinely gutted about this. I had Sampdoria home and away shirts because of him. I tried to replicate his volleys In the park and such a lovely man when I met him. Rip\"\n\nThe Chelsea Supporters' Trust described Vialli as a \"foundational pillar\" upon which the club built a new trophy-filled era.\n\nA statement read: \"He was loved by everyone at our football club. Thank you, Gianluca. We will miss you.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chief executive Richard Bevan described Vialli as \"one of the kindest and most charismatic men we have ever met in the world of sport\".\n\nAleksander Ceferin, president of European football's governing body Uefa, added: \"All members of the football family will feel real pain and a sense of profound dismay.\n\n\"Gianluca was more than a champion; he was kind, measured, respectful and above all courageous, in life even more than on the pitch, as he has taught us in recent years through his dignified fight against his illness.\n\n\"We will always remember his radiance at the many trophies that he won, right up to the final image when he embraced his friend Roberto Mancini in the middle of the pitch at Wembley - a moment of joyful emotion at the most beautiful and brilliant of all triumphs. He will be greatly missed.\"", "Trains are set to be disrupted yet again on Friday, as rail workers in the RMT union begin their second 48-hour strike this week.\n\nThe advice to rail passengers remains to travel only if \"absolutely necessary\", with four out of five trains set to be cancelled.\n\nNetwork Rail said about 20% of Britain's usual train services are expected to run under the reduced strike-day timetable in place on Friday.\n\nDriving examiners and road workers are also striking in some parts of the country.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nStrike action by the UK's largest rail union, the RMT, resumes again, with the second 48-hour walkout this week beginning on Friday and continuing on Saturday.\n\nThe action is part of a long-running dispute over pay, job security and conditions.\n\nSome areas will have no trains at all and services that do run will start later and finish much earlier than usual, typically running between 7:30am and 6.30pm on the days of the strike.\n\nChiltern Railways is not running any trains at all on Friday.\n\nThe advice is to avoid taking trains on Friday if you can, but if you must travel:\n\nSunday is the only strike-free day on the railways this week, but services are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nDriving examiners in the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union are striking at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf you are due to take your driving test on Friday, you can check here whether your test centre is one of those affected. But unless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up. Not all driving examiners are members of the union backing the strikes, so your test may take place as planned.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nSome National Highways workers in the East Midlands and eastern England are striking on Friday. The action involves control centre staff and traffic officers who deal with the aftermath of accidents.\n\nThe PCS union says about 16 workers in the two regions are walking out.\n\nNational Highways says the strikes have caused \"minimal\" impact so far, adding that it has \"well-rehearsed resilience plans in place\".\n\nHowever, it warns roads in general could be busier than usual because of the walkouts taking place on the railways.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The usually low-profile Denise Coates was appointed CBE for services to the community and business in 2012\n\nThe boss of gambling firm Bet365 was paid more than £200m in just one year, which is one of the biggest salaries ever awarded in the UK.\n\nThe highest paid director of Bet365 Group, believed to be founder Denise Coates, earned a salary of £213.4m in the year to March 2022.\n\nShe was also entitled to at least half of £100m in dividends, despite a fall in profits.\n\nBet365 did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nBut campaign groups such as the High Pay Centre hit out at the announcement, arguing it served as a reminder that \"too much [money] is going to too few people\" in the UK economy.\n\nIts spokesman Andrew Speke said: \"It shows if the government wanted to provide greater support to those struggling and increase the pay of striking public sector workers facing real wage cuts, increasing tax on high incomes and wealth would be one of the most effective ways of funding this.\"\n\nLabour MP Carolyn Harris, who co-chairs a cross-party parliamentary group examining gambling-related harm, said that losses made by users as prices are rising \"are paying for the huge salaries of gambling bosses\".\n\nShe called on the government to bring forward its white paper on gambling and update laws that have been in place for decades.\n\nMs Coates founded the Bet365 website in a portable building in Stoke-on-Trent more than 20 years ago. She is thought to be one of Britain's richest women and among the best-paid bosses in the world.\n\nAfter training as an accountant she helped build the group into one of the biggest online gambling companies from her father's bookmaking business. Her brother is also co-chief executive.\n\nAccording to the latest company accounts, Ms Coates received a salary of almost £250m salary the year before.\n\nPiling money into efforts to expand internationally saw the Bet365 group's profits dive.\n\nBet365 made a profit before tax of £49.8m for the year, taking into account a £26.2m loss from its ownership of Stoke City Football Club, much less than the £469m profit seen in 2021.\n\nThe group also saw its wage bill go up significantly, with more than 6,000 employees now on the payroll.\n\nIn the year to 29 March 2022, the business turned over £2.9bn in total, an increase of 2% compared with the year before. While sales from sports betting fell, online games revenues jumped by 25% during the year.\n\nIts report also describes how it invested heavily in advertising and IT systems, having previously benefitted from a boom during the pandemic.\n\nCharitable donations of about £100m were made through the Denise Coates Foundation.\n\nThe eldest of four children, Ms Coates worked part time for the family firm while still at school, before gaining a first-class degree in econometrics.\n\nShe has previously been described as one of the UK's \"most successful women\", spotting the opportunity that online platforms presented.\n\nIn a rare interview with a local newspaper, Ms Coates once said: \"I was convinced early on that gambling would work well on the internet. It is private, accessible and allows you to present a huge range of betting opportunities to customers.\"", "Police in Kenya are investigating the death of young fashion designer and LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba after his body was found dumped in a metal box by the roadside near the town of Eldoret.\n\nA suspect believed to be a friend of the victim has been arrested but police have not spoken about a motive.\n\nRights organisations in Kenya, where gay sex is outlawed, have linked the killing to his sexuality.\n\nOne group estimates that more than half of LGBTQ Kenyans have been assaulted.\n\n\"Words cannot even explain how we as a community are feeling right now. Another soul lost due to hate. You will be missed,\" rights organisation galck+ posted on Twitter.\n\n\"Edwin's death reminds us that queer bodies continue to be under attack all over the country,\" the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission wrote on Instagram.\n\nTributes on social media describe Chiloba, who was in his mid-20s, as \"an amazing human\" and an \"iconic fashion designer\".\n\nLast month Chiloba wrote on Instagram that he was \"going to fight for all marginalised people\", saying that he himself had been marginalised.\n\nHe \"spread love wherever he went, was bold about his existence as a queer man and encouraged many others to do the same,\" Chris Makena, an activist and friend of Chiloba, told the BBC.\n\nHe had moved to Eldoret from the capital, Nairobi, in 2019 to study fashion and was beginning to make a name for himself in design, another friend said.\n\nHis body was discovered on Wednesday.\n\nA witness is quoted as saying that someone in a vehicle without a number plate was seen leaving a metal box at the side of the road.\n\nIt was reported to the police, who went to open the box to find the corpse.\n\n\"We don't know for now why he was killed that way. Experts are handling the matter,\" police spokesperson Resila Onyango was earlier quoted by the Star newspaper as saying.\n\nShe later sent a text message to the Reuters news agency saying that one male suspect had been arrested \"but the matter is still under investigation\".\n\nAnother police officer said the suspect is thought to have been a long-time friend of Chiloba, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nGay sex in Kenya is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Though it is rarely enforced, members of the country's LGBTQ community routinely face discrimination and stigma, and efforts to decriminalise gay sex have been thwarted.\n\nLast year, the killing of non-binary lesbian Sheila Lumumba led to a social media campaign to get #JusticeForSheila.\n\nThere were similar campaigns in 2021 following the murders of trans-woman activist Erica Chandra and LGBTQ activist Joash Mosoti.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The British Medical Association has rejected Welsh government guidance on discharging people from hospital\n\nPatients discharged from hospital without social care packages could die at home, doctors have warned.\n\nThey said Welsh government advice to do this showed a system at breaking point.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said it rejects the guidance to \"change the risk threshold\" for releasing people from hospital.\n\nThe Welsh government said discharging patients could help them get better \"by reducing the risk of infection and muscle wastage\".\n\nRoyal College of General Practitioners Wales chairwoman, Rowena Christmas, said the NHS was \"unbelievably stretched\".\n\nShe believed frail patients could be put at risk.\n\n\"A frail, elderly person coming home, who can't really safely get from their bed or their chair to the bathroom without risk of falling over, they're not going to be able to survive at home,\" Dr Christmas said.\n\n\"I completely understand we need more beds, but that feels like a bad move.\"\n\nThe BMA's Dr Iona Collins compared pressure on the NHS to a \"slow motion train crash\"\n\nThe BMA's Dr Iona Collins dubbed the pressures on the NHS a \"slow motion train crash\".\n\nShe said: \"You can't pass the responsibility for a failure to deliver services over to the hands of the doctors.\n\n\"We have not created this situation. And it is not for us to put our own medical registrations on the line by making decisions we would not make because we don't believe they are safe.\"\n\nConsultant gastroenterologist at Merthyr Tydfil's Prince Charles Hospital, Peter Neville, believed many doctors would ignore the guidance.\n\n\"If you have a bedbound patient who requires nurse care four times a day, and is entirely dependent on carers, there's no possibility of sending them home, because actually they will be in danger if they go home,\" Mr Neville said.\n\nDoctors, he said, had an obligation to consider the risks.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it had about 300 patients who were medically well enough to leave - which equated to over a third of the number of beds in its hospitals.\n\nPowys health board said it had 24.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg said it had 359 patients medically well enough to leave its hospitals.\n\nAt Cardiff and Vale health board there were 346.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said 15% of patients were fit for discharge.\n\nGwent's Aneurin Bevan Health Board confirmed it had sent no patients home without care plans since the new since advice was issued.\n\nSocial care is provided by councils, rather than the NHS.\n\nTorfaen council's social care member David Daniels told the Local Democracy Reporting Service on Thursday there were 253 patients in its beds well enough to leave but unable to do so.\n\nHe said: \"The concern is people may be discharged into the community and we won't know about it, and we can't then provide the care package to safeguard them.\"\n\nCardiff council said it had 41 people discharged from hospital into care in the week before Christmas, with 139 more patients still in hospital waiting.\n\nPart of the problem is a lack of social workers, the council said, so it has started to place patients before doing a full social work assessment.\n\n\"That is already starting to have an impact on the flow out of hospital,\" the council said.\n\nGwent regional partnership board, which includes Newport, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen and Monmouthshire councils, said it was seeing the \"toughest ever winter for health and social care\".\n\n\"People are rightly concerned about the availability of and delays to health and social care services,\" the board said.\n\nTo try to relieve the pressure, it asked family and neighbours to check in a vulnerable people and encourage them to get their flu and Covid vaccines.\n\nNHS Wales chief executive, Judith Paget, said the decision to issue guidance to discharge without care packages was taken on a \"balance of risks\".\n\nShe acknowledged there were \"huge dilemmas\", but argued staff told her they needed to discharge more people from hospital to free beds.\n\n\"We need to make sure that we use the space we've got for the people who are the highest risk and in need for care, and support the people who are the lowest in risk to leave our hospitals,\" she said.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has denied people in Wales face an emergency care lottery.\n\nHe said because hospitals were full of \"low-risk\" patients, high-risk patients were \"struggling to get through the front door\".\n\nDr Rowena Christmas said the NHS was \"unbelievably stretched\"\n\nMr Neville said hospital staff were exhausted and struggling to cope.\n\nSickness, he said, constantly needed to be covered which put \"enormous\" pressure on other staff.\n\n\"There simply aren't enough doctors,\" he said.\n\nHe dismissed the working environment as \"poor\".\n\n\"You put that all together, and you have quite a toxic mix that increases early retirement, increases decisions to go part-time, which, of course, then compromises the workforce even more,\" he said.\n\nMr Neville claimed \"lots\" had taken time off for exhaustion.\n\n\"We have had consultants in tears, junior doctors in tears,\" he said.\n\nHe believed the workforce did not feel the government was listening.\n\nNHS Wales boss, Judith Paget, said guidance to discharge was made on a \"balance of risks\"\n\n\"People in high places are saying things like the NHS is coping,\" he said.\n\n\"You speak to anybody working on the front line in the NHS, and they will tell you something very different.\"\n\nDr Christmas is also worried for colleagues' mental health. They were suffering \"moral distress\" from worrying about patients, she said.\n\n\"We've come out of the pandemic now, and actually, things have just got progressively harder.\n\n\"And it's just not really a sustainable picture, what we're dealing with at the moment,\" said Dr Christmas.\n\n\"You can't keep seeing 50% more patients than you've got time for.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has denied the public faces an emergency care lottery\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives called the discharge policy \"a new low\".\n\n\"I am incredibly concerned that the first minister has chosen to advise that doctors discharge patients without a proper care package in place,\" said the party's health spokesman Russell George.\n\n\"Not only is this a danger to the lives of patients, but also will do little to solve the problems our NHS is under.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said \"unprecedented demand\" had led to it asking health boards to discharge people who do not need treatment so beds could be used by those who do.\n\nIt said the guidance could help patients get better \"by reducing the risk of infection and muscle wastage\", but would not lead to \"frail and sick\" people being discharged and patients would \"only be discharged from hospital when it is medically appropriate and safe to do so\".\n\nFran Evans, pictured, said her mother-in-law was discharged when she was not fit to look after herself\n\nA 100-year-old woman was sent home from hospital with no care plan in place, it has been claimed.\n\nFran Evans said her mother-in-law was discharged from Bridgend's Princess of Wales hospital when she was not fit to look after herself.\n\nMs Evans, from Bridgend, said there had been two occasions where she had been released from hospital.\n\n\"The first time she was discharged was just before a bank holiday and it felt like she was being pushed out for the bank holiday, it felt very rushed,\" she said.\n\n\"She wasn't ready, she had nothing prepared at home, she lives on her own, we later found out she had a collapsed lung, which was evident on the X-ray done in hospital but nothing was done about that.\"\n\nThe second time was a few months later.\n\nMs Evans said: \"She was in hospital for about three weeks, she's very proud and of the generation where she doesn't want to be a fuss to anybody.\n\n\"She was telling them anything she could to get out of there.\n\n\"When they were saying, 'Do you do your own cooking, shopping and cleaning?' She would just say 'Yes'.\n\n\"Just to get out and not be a strain on the NHS. But the reality is she can't do most of things.\"\n\nFran said she cares for her mother-in-law at home.\n\n\"I don't blame nurses, I don't blame the NHS, I don't blame doctors, I don't blame anybody on a ground level position, because they are doing what they can to prop up a broken system,\" she said.\n\nFran Evans said her mother-in-law was discharged from Bridgend's Princess of Wales hospital\n\nMs Evans said she struggled to get social care for her mother-in-law when she left hospital.\n\n\"Because she has told them she can do everything, they say there is nothing we can do,\" she said.\n\nShe said social services have since said they will send someone to the house.\n\n\"But we can't guarantee that's going to happen or when that will happen,\" she said.\n\n\"The whole system is completely broken, and I honestly don't think chucking money at it is going to work, I think it's too broken for that.\"\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said: \"We are extremely sorry to any of our patients who have not had a good experience at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.\"\n\nIt said it was in touch with the family and that as a complaint had been made it would \"not be appropriate\" comment further.\n\nBridgend Council have been approached for comment.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon left their car safely with their newborn near to junction four of the M61\n\nPolice are searching for a couple who have gone missing with their newborn baby after their car broke down on a motorway.\n\nConstance Marten and Mark Gordon left the car near junction four of the M61 near Bolton on Thursday night and walked towards Anchor Lane bridge, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said.\n\nOfficers believe Ms Marten had recently given birth and neither she nor her baby had seen medical professionals.\n\nThey are appealing for information.\n\nThe bridge the couple walked towards links the Highfield and Little Hulton areas.\n\nGMP said Ms Marten and Mr Gordon are both originally from London.\n\nMr Gordon was wearing dark clothing, while Ms Marten was wearing a burgundy coat.\n\nThe newborn baby was swaddled, police said.\n\nCh Supt Michaela Kerr of GMP said as a mother herself she wanted to appeal directly to Ms Marten.\n\nShe said: \"Constance, I know this is an exceptionally hard time for you and you are likely feeling scared but I promise that our number one priority is the same as yours - to keep your beautiful newborn safe.\"\n\n\"As you know, it's really important that both you and your baby are assessed by medical professionals as soon as possible so please make contact with emergency services or make your way to your nearest hospital, wherever that may be.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for the couple to make themselves known or for anyone who knows where they are to come forward with information.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead in fire at New County Hotel in Perth\n\nThree people have died after a fire broke out at a Perth hotel.\n\nEmergency services including 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire engines were called to the New County Hotel on County Place at about 05:10.\n\nHotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated and police set up a cordon, urging members of the public to avoid the area.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nJust before midday, police began removing them from blue tents close to the hotel into a private ambulance.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said a dog also died in the fatal blaze.\n\nJason Sharp, the area's senior fire officer, said firefighters had worked hard to rescue a number of casualties from the building before transferring them into the care of paramedics.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale arrived at the scene of the fire\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale, who is deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council told BBC Scotland News: \"The loss of three people in a dreadful fire is truly shocking and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the deceased.\"\n\nHe added that council staff were supporting neighbouring residents, hotel staff and guests - who were being looked after in another city centre hotel.\n\nAlthough the road closure had caused disruption for people and businesses, Mr Drysdale said it was essential for emergency services to preserve the scene.\n\nHe added: \"There have been three deaths and the investigation has to take its course. I'm sorry to people and indeed businesses on the street that have been affected. I'm sure everything is being done to restore access as soon as possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first £600 energy payment vouchers will start arriving from 16 January, the Post Office has said.\n\nMark Gibson, external affairs manager at Post Office NI, said the rollout will be staggered over four weeks.\n\nCustomers have been urged to redeem the voucher soon after getting it to ensure post office branches have enough cash.\n\nThe vouchers are being distributed to about 500,000 people who pay their electricity bills quarterly or use pre-payment meters.\n\nDirect debit energy customers will receive the money directly to their bank account.\n\nEnergy companies have been tasked with distributing that money and the payments are expected to arrive between mid-January and late March.\n\nMr Gibson told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme that those who are flagged by energy firms as the most financially vulnerable customers will receive their payments in the first phase.\n\nThe voucher is redeemable for cash up until the end of March at any Post Office branch in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe money is intended to help with energy bills but people can use the cash payment as they see fit.\n\nMr Gibson advised that in order to redeem the voucher, customers will need to bring the letter from their energy supplier, the voucher, proof of address and a photographic ID.\n\nKeypad customers will also need to bring their top-up card or app.\n\nPeople with no direct debit arrangement and those with a prepaid meter will receive the voucher from their energy supplier which can then be redeemed at their local post office\n\n\"Even if you know the postmaster, which many of our customers do, you still need to bring this information along,\" he added.\n\nMr Gibson said: \"We are asking customers, for security reasons more than anything else, is that they would immediately deposit that cash into their bank account which they can do at every Post Office in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nTo ensure that Post Office branches have appropriate cash flow, customers are being urged to redeem the vouchers as soon as they receive them.\n\nKevin Higgins, the head of policy at Advice NI, said customers unable to get to a post office can nominate a person to redeem the voucher on their behalf.\n\nThey will need to fill out an authorisation slip and bring the required identification documents of the person entitled to the voucher.\n\nThe public has also been warned of potential scams that may accompany the rollout of the voucher scheme.\n\nMr Gibson said the Post Office and energy suppliers will not be sending out texts and emails or calling customers ahead of the scheme.\n\n\"You will simply receive this voucher and this letter,\" he added.\n\nMr Higgins said it is his understanding that direct debit customers can expect the £600 payment to be paid into their bank accounts to by the end of January.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme that those waiting on the vouchers may need to be patient with the rollout.\n\n\"It's a bit of managing expectations here as well,\" he continued.\n\n\"They'll not hit people's doorsteps next week - it will start to be paid out from Monday 16 [January] and then that will continue over a number of weeks.\"\n\nYou can listen to Inside Business at 17:30 GMT on BBC Radio Ulster or catch up later on BBC Sounds.", "Further strikes could be looming\n\nThe Scottish government said there is \"potential scope for compromise\" following talks with teaching unions in a bid to prevent further strikes.\n\nThe Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SCNT) will meet on Monday to discuss pay deal options.\n\nUnions rejected a 5% increase, arguing for 10%. The offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest paid staff.\n\nMembers of the EIS, NASUWT, SSTA and the AHDS trade unions are due to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.\n\nStaff in primary schools will walk out on Tuesday followed by secondary school teachers on Wednesday.\n\nSchools across Scotland are expected to shut during the industrial action.\n\nThe SNCT brings unions, the government and councils together to negotiate teachers' pay.\n\nThe EIS said it hoped the meeting, which was called at the request of the unions, would advance discussions towards a new offer.\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said talks held between the Scottish government and unions on Friday were \"constructive and helpful\".\n\nShe said: \"I took the opportunity to make clear how much I value our teaching workforce and recognise the vital importance of reaching a fair and affordable settlement on pay.\n\n\"We are open to considering options to resolve this dispute, through the SNCT, and potential scope for compromise.\n\n\"I recognise that any deal must be fair and affordable for all concerned, given the unprecedented pressures facing Scotland's budget.\"\n\nTeachers protested outside of the Scottish parliament during November's walk out\n\nMs Somerville added she hoped unions would reconsider their plans for industrial action while talks were ongoing.\n\nShe said: \"Strikes in our schools are in no one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\"\n\nCosla spokeswoman for resources Katie Hagmann said there was no additional funding available for an improved pay offer due to financial pressures.\n\nBut she acknowledged that reaching a \"fair and affordable pay deal\" would protect the workforce and those in education.\n\nShe added: \"I do however, look forward to maintaining constructive and proactive dialogue, which considers all options available, with all parties so that we limit any further disruption for pupils, parents and carers, which we all agree is in no one's best interests.\"\n\nDes Morris, EIS salaries convener and chair of the teachers' side of the SNCT, said planned strike action would proceed in the absence of a new and improved offer.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross criticised the education secretary for not doing enough to avert strike action.\n\nHe said: \"We know that Shirley-Anne Somerville has done very little with the teacher unions to reach a resolution on this.\n\n\"And that's why for the first time in decades we saw teachers striking at the tail end of last year.\n\n\"Has anyone heard from the SNP education minister over the Christmas period about what she and her government are trying to do to avert these strikes in the new year? Nothing, not a single thing - it's unacceptable.\"\n\nEarlier, Higher and Further Education Minister Jamie Hepburn said Scottish teachers would be the \"best paid in the UK\".\n\nMr Hepburn told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"If you actually look at what we have offered, it is a 6.85% uplift for the lowest paid teachers, 5% for most and £3,000 for those earning £60,000 or more.\n\n\"That would represent a 21.8% cumulative pay increase for most teachers since 2018.\"\n\nHe said the current offer was \"very fair and affordable\".\n\nNext week's industrial action follows the biggest Scottish teachers strike in decades in November.\n\nTeaching unions in England and Wales are also balloting members over pay.\n\nMost state school teachers in England and Wales had a 5% rise this year, and many teachers in Northern Ireland have been offered 3.2% over the past two years.\n\nUnions argue that with inflation at 10.7%, these increases amount to a real-terms pay cut.\n\nScotland's biggest teaching union, the EIS, dismissed the offer as \"insulting\".\n\nThe SSTA said the Scottish government must \"act and negotiate sensibly\" if it values teachers.\n\nNASUWT said the dispute would only end when a \"substantially improved pay offer\" was on the table.\n\nThere now seems to be little realistic chance of averting next week's teachers' strike.\n\nDespite the warm language from the government there was, as expected, no new pay offer today.\n\nA meeting of the committee which negotiates teachers' pay will take place on Monday at the unions' request.\n\nBut a fresh pay offer then would seem unlikely too. The most the unions hope for is that the meeting will advance discussions toward a new offer.\n\nRealistically it would be hard to stop school closures on Tuesday, even if there was a breakthrough on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe unions have a number of concerns about the current pay offer.\n\nFirstly, it simply fails to keep pace with inflation.\n\nSecondly, the offer is differentiated - with higher percentage rises for those on the lowest salaries.\n\nThirdly, those on more than £60,000 - essentially some heads and deputes - will receive a flat pay rise of £3,000. The unions do not want the gap between those in senior posts and classroom teachers to be eroded - in part to ensure these posts can be filled.\n\nAre you taking part in the strikes? Are you a parent who is affected by the industrial action? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, ambulance and rail services, under planned anti-strike laws.\n\nVoluntary agreements would cover other sectors including health, education, other transport services, border security and nuclear decommissioning.\n\nThe measures will not resolve the current wave of strikes.\n\nUnions have condemned the restrictions and threatened legal action, while Labour says it would repeal them.\n\nBusiness Secretary Grant Shapps said the measures were being introduced to \"restore the balance between those seeking to strike and protecting the public from disproportionate disruption\".\n\nThe legislation is expected to be published next week, with MPs debating it for the first time the week after. It will apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is likely to face significant opposition in the House of Lords, as only transport strikes were mentioned in the Conservatives' 2019 manifesto pledge to introduce minimum service levels.\n\nThe Times newspaper quoted a government source saying striking workers who defied minimum service rules could face dismissal for breach of contract.\n\nBut a business department source told the BBC it was \"not our intention to penalise individuals\".\n\nUnder existing laws, people who take illegal strike action can already be sacked.\n\nThe business department also called on the unions to cancel upcoming strikes in a bid to resolve the current disputes \"constructively through dialogue\".\n\nIt said it would invite unions to meet for \"honest, constructive conversations\" about what was \"fair and affordable\" in public sector pay settlements for 2023/24.\n\nBut a number of unions have cast doubt on their continued involvement in the independent pay review process.\n\nGary Smith, GMB general secretary, said: \"There are huge questions over the NHS Pay Review Body, as ministers' actions have consistently undermined its independence. The process needs real reform.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner described the minimum-service proposals as \"unworkable and unserious from a dead-end government\".\n\n\"At every stage the government has sought to collapse talks and throw in last minute spanners. Now the prime minister is wasting time on shoddy hurdles that even his own transport secretary admits won't work,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters have said they will consult on and then set an \"adequate level of coverage\" for the fire and ambulance services and on the railways. For the other sectors, the government says it expects to be able to reach voluntary agreements.\n\nA wave of industrial action is affecting sectors from the health and postal services to driving examinations, as people seek pay rises that keep up with the fast-rising cost of living.\n\nRail workers in the RMT and other unions have taken part in a series of large-scale strikes over more than six months, with Thursday marking the sixth day of action since last summer by members of Aslef, which represents most train drivers.\n\nTUC general secretary Paul Nowak condemned the proposed bill as \"wrong, unworkable, and almost certainly illegal\".\n\n\"This is an attack on the right to strike. It's an attack on working people, and it's an attack on one of our longstanding British liberties.\n\n\"This government has gone from clapping key workers to threating them with the sack if they take lawful action for a pay rise. It will only push more people away from essential jobs in public services,\" he added.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"Safe staffing levels that are set in law are what we want to see year-round not just in these extreme circumstances.\n\n\"We've long campaigned for governments to be accountable for safe and effective staffing levels in NHS and social care to prevent one nurse being left with 15, 20 or even 25 sick patients... Today's highly unsafe situation is what is driving our members to say 'enough is enough'.\"\n\nEarlier, Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, said he did not think new legislation would make life harder for his union.\n\nHe suggested it would lead to unions having to organise more strikes locally, instead of nationally.\n\nMr Whelan said: \"There have been minimum [service] levels in European countries for several years. They have never been enacted because they don't work.\"\n\nHe added that employers could already sack workers, if they went on strike for more than six weeks.\n\nMatt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, said the UK already had some of the most restrictive anti-union laws in the western world.\n\nHe accused the Conservatives of being \"clearly hellbent on criminalising and victimising trade unions with this threatened onslaught on the right to strike\".\n\n\"The Tories are badly misjudging the public mood with these attacks on the pay and conditions of key workers, who kept Britain going during the pandemic,\" he added.", "Saturday saw yet another day of disruption for rail passengers, with workers in the RMT union continuing their latest 48-hour walkout.\n\nStrike action from driving examiners also continues in some parts of the country.\n\nYou can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.\n\nSunday is the only strike-free day on the railways this week, but there may still be some knock-on disruption to services. That's because carriages, engines and staff may not be in the right place at the start of the day.\n\nRail services are not expected to get back to normal until Monday 9 January.\n\nAs things stand there are no more major rail strikes scheduled, although both the RMT and Aslef unions have warned there could be further action.\n\nThe unions are expected to meet rail employers and the rail minister on Monday to try to find a way forward.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nStrike action by driving examiners is continuing at test centres in London, south-east England, south-west England and Wales.\n\nThe action by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union means some practical tests will not take place, although theory tests should go ahead.\n\nIf your driving test is due to take place,, you can check here whether your test centre is affected.\n\nHowever, not all examiners are members of the PCS union so your test may go ahead as planned.\n\nUnless you are told your test is definitely cancelled, you should still turn up.\n\nThe strike by driving examiners is scheduled to continue until Tuesday 10 January.\n\nIf your test is cancelled because of the strike, the DVSA will automatically rebook your test for you.\n\nHow are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking part in strike action? You can email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Many of you have been getting in touch with your opinions on the claims Prince Harry makes in his memoir.\n\nHere are more of the responses we've received:\n\nQuote Message: The Royal family should not say anything publicly but the family need to get together and communicate with each other behind closed doors.\" from Sarah, Royal Wootton Bassett The Royal family should not say anything publicly but the family need to get together and communicate with each other behind closed doors.\"\n\nQuote Message: Harry is a private citizen and is entitled to complain or explain as much as he likes. What husband would continue to sit in silence as him and his wife are constantly critiqued in the media?\" from Buddy Anderson, Market Harborough Harry is a private citizen and is entitled to complain or explain as much as he likes. What husband would continue to sit in silence as him and his wife are constantly critiqued in the media?\"\n\nQuote Message: Harry needs to make his mind up what he wants. He's lucky to be the 'spare' as it allowed him the freedom he wanted.\" from Sarah Harry needs to make his mind up what he wants. He's lucky to be the 'spare' as it allowed him the freedom he wanted.\"\n\nQuote Message: If you wanted to get away from press intrusion this is a strange way to go about things, not to mention numerous TV interviews? No time for him anymore at all.\" from Fiona Weir, London If you wanted to get away from press intrusion this is a strange way to go about things, not to mention numerous TV interviews? No time for him anymore at all.\"\n\nQuote Message: All families have disagreements but we don’t all write books about it. We get over it and move on and so should he.\" from Judi Machin All families have disagreements but we don’t all write books about it. We get over it and move on and so should he.\"", "A retired commanding officer has accused Prince Harry of \"turning against\" his military family after \"having trashed his birth family\".\n\nIn his memoir, the Duke of Sussex describes killing 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan as \"chess pieces taken off the board\".\n\nEx-colonel Tim Collins said that was \"not how you behave in the army\".\n\nPrince Harry gives details about his time as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan in his memoir Spare.\n\nBBC News has obtained a copy of the book after it was put on sale early in Spain.\n\nIn it, Prince Harry reveals for the first time that he killed 25 enemy fighters - which is perfectly possible after two tours in the Helmand region of the country.\n\n\"It wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed,\" he writes.\n\n\"When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn't think about those as 25 people. You can't kill people if you see them as people.\n\n\"In truth, you can't hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys.\n\n\"They trained me to 'other' them and they trained me well.\"\n\nResponding to the prince's comments, a senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani tweeted: \"Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans; they had families who were waiting for their return...\n\n\"I don't expect that the (International Criminal Court) will summon you or the human rights activists will condemn you, because they are deaf and blind for you.\"\n\nSpeaking to Forces News, retired-commanding officer Colonel Collins condemned the book by calling it a \"tragic money-making scam\".\n\nReferring to Prince Harry's revelation that he killed 25 enemy fighters, Col Collins said: \"That's not how you behave in the Army; it's not how we think.\n\n\"He has badly let the side down. We don't do notches on the rifle butt. We never did.\"\n\nThe ex-colonel, who gained worldwide fame for an eve-of battle speech to troops in Iraq, said: \"Harry has now turned against the other family, the military, that once embraced him having trashed his birth family.\n\nHe accused Prince Harry of choosing an \"alien\" path and of \"pursuing riches he does not need\".\n\n\"In the end, I see only disappointment and misery in his pursuit of riches he does not need and his rejection of family and comradely love that he badly needs.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Colonel Richard Kemp says Harry's comments may \"inflame old feelings of revenge\"\n\nEx-army officer Col Richard Kemp, who was sent to Kabul in 2003 to take command of forces in Afghanistan, told the BBC it was unusual but he did not have a problem with Prince Harry revealing his kill number.\n\nHe said soldiers did talk about people they had killed or wounded privately, sometimes as \"a way of almost decompressing after a period of combat\".\n\nOn referring to killed Taliban insurgents as chess pieces, Col Kemp said such comments could give \"propaganda to the enemy\".\n\nHe added the remarks may have undermined Prince Harry's security and could provoke people to take revenge.\n\n\"They're always looking to radicalise people and to recruit people and we've already seen how the Taliban has capitalised on it,\" he said.\n\nPrince Harry briefly served as a forward air controller on the ground calling in strikes, before flying Apache helicopters in his second longer tour.\n\nThe US and its Nato allies invaded in October 2001 to oust the Taliban, who they said were harbouring Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda figures linked to the 9/11 attacks\n\nBen McBean, who lost an arm and a leg serving with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan and was described by Prince Harry as a hero after the pair met at several events, said the royal needed to \"shut up\".\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Love you #PrinceHarry but you need to shut up! Makes you wonder the people he's hanging around with.\n\n\"If it was good people somebody by now would have told him to stop.\"\n\nAnother serviceman still serving told the BBC Harry's comments were \"very unsoldier-like\".\n\nAnd like many military personnel he said he had no interest in keeping count. More often it is those who write books who seem to take more of an interest in their kill statistics.\n\nHarry in his role as a helicopter pilot would have had a better view than most from his cockpit - seeing individuals up close using sensors and screens.\n\nHe would also see the impact of his cannon and hellfire missiles - although clarity would be soon obscured by dust - and he would be able to review footage from the cockpit. But it is not always possible to count bodies on the ground or to distinguish between someone injured or killed.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would not comment on the appropriateness of the prince's 25 kills claim, but added he was \"enormously grateful to our armed forces\".\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesperson, when asked about the prince's kill number, said: \"We do not comment on operational details for security reasons.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has declined to comment on Prince Harry's claims", "Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019 Image caption: Then-President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, alongside Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in January 2019\n\nFormer President Donald Trump endorsed Kevin McCarthy for Speaker yesterday, but it’s unclear whether his words hold the weight they once did.\n\nEven though the 20 Republican holdouts come from the Trumpian wing of the party, they have not changed their minds and continue to oppose McCarthy.\n\nAs little as two years ago, House Republicans would likely have followed Trump’s instructions to \"VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY\".\n\nTrump is once again running for president, on the presumption that he still holds the Republican Party in the palm of his hand.\n\nBut now, out of power and under multiple federal and state investigations, some Republicans and political observers have begun to question his grip. The Speaker contest might provide one data point.\n\nAs the House’s Republican leader, McCarthy long appeased Trump during his presidency and defended him through two impeachments. McCarthy went so far as to visit Trump at his Florida estate after the 6 January attack on Congress to make peace - even after a mob of Trump supporters had chased McCarthy and his colleagues into hiding.\n\nMcCarthy was so deferential to Trump over the years that the former president gave him the moniker “My Kevin” - both an endearment and a reflection of political reality.\n\nBut right now, being Trump’s Kevin might not be enough.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS National Football League star Damar Hamlin has had his breathing tube removed and is able to talk, his team said on Friday.\n\nThe Buffalo Bills player also joined a meeting with his team via Facetime and said: \"Love you boys.\"\n\nHamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field during Monday night's primetime game in Ohio, causing an outpouring of grief from fans.\n\nHe is now able to breathe on his own and \"continues to progress remarkably\".\n\nThe Bills cited his doctors in a tweet saying Hamlin's neurologic function remains intact and he has been able to talk to his family and care team.\n\nThe news comes after physicians treating Hamlin said on Thursday he had woken up and asked doctors if his team had won the game against the Cincinnati Bengals.\n\nThe doctor responded: \"Damar, you won - you won the game of life.\"\n\nHe had been communicating with doctors by writing after waking up.\n\nHe has been in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was on a ventilator to help his breathing.\n\nHamlin's doctors have said his lungs have continued to heal and the NFL star has made \"steady progress\", according to updates from his team.\n\n\"We are grateful for the love and support we have received,\" the Bills said.\n\nShortly before Hamlin's team issued the latest statement on Thursday, his teammate Kaiir Elam wrote in a tweet: \"Our boy is doing better, awake and showing more signs of improvement.\"\n\n\"Keep the prayers coming please,\" he added.\n\nHis agent, Ron Butler, confirmed to CNN that Hamlin was awake and had been holding hands with his family in the hospital.\n\nHamlin, 24, suffered a cardiac arrest during the primetime game after tackling Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. He fell on his back to the ground after the collision.\n\nHe received more than 30 minutes of on-the-field medical care, during which he was resuscitated once, according to the player's friend and marketing agent Jordon Rooney.\n\nSupport for the second-year Bills player has poured in since the accident.\n\nA GoFundMe page for a toy drive launched by Hamlin has amassed more than $7m (£5.9m).\n\nSeveral NFL players have donated to the cause, including Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson.\n\nHamlin was drafted to the NFL in 2021 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he played college football.\n\nThe NFL has cancelled the Bills' game against the Bengals in the wake of the incident.", "Last updated on .From the section Brentford\n\nRomeo Beckham, son of former England captain David, has joined Brentford's B team on loan from Inter Miami II until the end of the season.\n\nBeckham, 20, will link up with Neil MacFarlane's second team \"to continue his development\", the Premier League club said.\n\n\"I'm very proud and very happy to be here,\" said Beckham, who played 20 times for Inter Miami II last season.\n\n\"I'm excited to come here and see what I can do.\"\n\nInter Miami II, the second team at the club which is co-owned by his father, finished sixth in the Eastern Conference last season, with Beckham contributing two goals and 10 assists.\n\nBeckham has trained with Brentford's B team since the conclusion of the 2022 Major League Soccer (MLS) Next Pro season in September.\n\nThe loan move is subject to international clearance.\n\n\"We've been absolutely delighted with Romeo since he arrived with us,\" said Brentford B coach MacFarlane.\n\n\"I love his standards and the way he conducts himself on and off the pitch.\"\n• None Our coverage of Brentford is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything Brentford - go straight to all the best content", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That was easy, huh?\" Kevin McCarthy makes first speech after becoming Speaker\n\nKevin McCarthy has been elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow Republicans come to blows.\n\nIt took 15 rounds of voting for Mr McCarthy to win the job, despite his party having a majority in the chamber.\n\nIt came after a dramatic pressure campaign played out live on the House floor as party rebel Matt Gaetz was urged to vote for Mr McCarthy.\n\nThe Florida Congressman was among six holdouts who relented late on Friday.\n\nEarlier, amid heated scenes in the chamber, Mr Gaetz had almost come to blows with Rep Mike Rogers - a supporter of Mr McCarthy. The Alabama congressman had to be physically restrained by colleagues as he bellowed and jabbed his finger at Mr Gaetz.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Speaker sets the House agenda and oversees legislative business. The post is second in line to the presidency after the US vice-president.\n\nSpeaking after his confirmation, Mr McCarthy wrote on Twitter: \"I hope one thing is clear after this week: I will never give up. And I will never give up for you, the American people.\"\n\nMr McCarthy told reporters that former President Trump had helped him get the final votes: \"I don't think anybody should doubt his influence\".\n\n\"He was with me from the beginning... he would call me and he would call others,\" he said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden congratulated Mr McCarthy for his win and said he looked forward to co-operating with the Republican Party.\n\n\"The American people expect their leaders to govern in a way that puts their needs above all else, and that is what we need to do now,\" he said.\n\nRepublicans have already pledged to launch investigations into Mr Biden's family business dealings and administration.\n\nIn a remarkable turnaround in the 12th round of voting, Mr McCarthy was able to persuade 14 Republican holdouts to cast their vote for him. A 15th rebel followed suit for the 13th ballot.\n\nAfter the 13th ballot was adjourned, Mr McCarthy insisted to reporters that he would \"have the votes\" to take the speakership on the next round.\n\nBut the California congressman was still three votes short of the 217 he needed to take the prized gavel, and in chaotic and dramatic scenes, he again failed to win on the 14th ballot.\n\nThe dissidents included members of the House Freedom Caucus, who argue that Mr McCarthy is not conservative enough to lead them as they work to try to oppose Democratic President Joe Biden's agenda.\n\nMr McCarthy has offered various concessions to the rebels, including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber.\n\nHe also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the Speaker, to only one House member, leading to the possibility that the Republican coalition could easily fracture again even after Mr McCarthy's victory.\n\nAs the last politician on the roll - Montana's Ryan Zinke - voted, the House floor erupted in applause as it became clear Mr McCarthy had finally emerged victorious.\n\nMr McCarthy hugged other representatives and signed autographs, but across the room the Democrats' side was completely silent. No democrat applauded.\n\nSenior Democratic Party lawmakers accused Mr McCarthy of ceding power to an extreme wing of his party and likened the stand-off to the riot exactly two years ago on Capitol Hill by Trump supporters who disrupted Mr Biden's certification as president.\n\n\"Two years ago insurrectionists failed to take over the Capitol,\" Congressman Eric Swalwell wrote on Twitter. \"Tonight Kevin McCarthy let them take over the Republican Party.\"\n\nAnd Virginia Congressman Don Beyer referred to the angry scenes among Republicans that followed the 14th count.\n\n\"Unsettling that this process ends in threats of violence in the House Chamber, on this of all days,\" he said. \"Maybe it didn't determine the outcome, but that is no way to conduct the people's business. A dark and sobering moment will probably be remembered long after this session ends.\"\n\nAfter finally after being handed the Speaker's gavel Mr McCarthy hugged House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries\n\nThe minority Democrats had continued to vote in unison for their leader, New York's Hakeem Jeffries, the first black person ever to lead a party in Congress.\n\nFriday was the first day that Mr McCarthy's vote count actually surpassed that of Mr Jeffries.\n\nMr McCarthy opened his acceptance speech joking; \"that was easy, eh?\". He outlined a range of Republican policy objectives that included lowering prices, securing the US-Mexico border and combatting what he described as a \"woke indoctrination\".\n\nHe said one of his primary goals was to stop \"wasteful Washington spending\".\n\nThe lawmakers began leaving the Congress around 02:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Saturday morning - 14 hours after the gavel first rang at noon.\n\nNot since 1860 in the build-up to the American Civil War has the lower chamber of Congress voted this many times to pick a speaker. Back then it took 44 rounds of ballots.\n\nIn November's midterm elections, Republicans won the House by a weaker-than-expected margin of 222 to 212. Democrats retained control of the Senate.", "When he came onto the House floor earlier, Kevin McCarthy was the picture of confidence: smiling and joking with his Republican colleagues. He'd made it clear to reporters earlier that he thought this process would end tonight.\n\nThat confidence has evaporated into the stuffy air of the House floor.\n\nHis smile has been replaced with a scowl - and he and other Republicans are milling about the floor, seemingly in disbelief. Earlier in the day, after all, the momentum seemed to have swung firmly in McCarthy's favour after he managed to flip all but the few last remaining, hardcore holdouts.\n\nIn the second-to-last row, a small crowd has again formed around Matt Gaetz, the man who scuppered McCarthy's hopes tonight.\n\nIn a few minutes, the clerk will begin counting the \"yays\" and \"nays\" on the motion to adjourn until Monday.", "Forget, for one moment, the allegation of a physical attack by his brother reportedly set out in Prince Harry's upcoming memoir Spare. Put to one side claims of shouting matches and William criticising Harry's new wife.\n\nIt's all good juicy stuff and it reveals - if true - the depths to which the relationship between the brothers fell.\n\nIt is unsurprising that the Palace has held its nose, refusing to comment on private experiences that a fair number of families might have gone through one way or another. The Royal Family, most people agree, deserves some privacy.\n\nBut at the heart of his story is one allegation that has gone entirely unanswered by the Palace - that his family leaked and planted negative stories \"against me and my wife\" to the press.\n\nIn a clip previewing this Sunday's sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, the Duke of Sussex is asked how his desire for privacy sits alongside his tell-all biography.\n\n\"That,\" Harry says, \"would be the accusation from people that don't understand or don't want to believe that my family have been briefing the press.\"\n\nIn happier times: The brothers came together to unveil a statue they commissioned of their late mother Princess Diana in 2021\n\nThe duke said the same sort of thing in last year's Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan. There was a deal, he said, between him and William that they would never brief against each other.\n\nHe explained the deal was born out of their experience of their separated parents - Diana and Prince Charles - feeding vicious briefings to the media through third parties.\n\nThen, Harry says, he found out the office they shared, the Kensington Palace communications team that was supposed to speak for and defend both him and his brother, was feeding negative stories to the media. The couples officially split their offices in January 2020.\n\nNo details have emerged as to which stories he means but it's perhaps not hard to guess. Just after the Sussexes' wedding, tales began to emerge about Meghan's behaviour towards Palace staff, about demands she reportedly made over the 2018 ceremony, about how she had made Kate, now the Princess of Wales, cry.\n\nThe brothers and their wives came together briefly for a walkabout in Windsor last year following Queen Elizabeth II's death\n\nHarry's deep dislike of the media, in particular Britain's best-selling newspapers, is well chronicled. But this allegation is something different.\n\nIf you are a member of the Royal Family the deal is you suck up the criticism and let the Palace communications people deal with the flak. You don't speak out, you don't tell your side of the story.\n\nBut Harry claims the very people he was told to rely on to defend him and Meghan were actually feeding negative stories about them to the media.\n\nThere was, in his eyes, no way for the truth to be told while he remained within the Palace machinery. His and Meghan's side of the story, he says, never got told.\n\nAnd worse, behind their backs, he says Palace staff - the people paid to speak for them - were in fact undermining them.\n\nIf this were an allegation made against a government department, a political party, a business or a football team in the public eye, a response would be expected.\n\nThe lack of any response or denial would be taken by many as an admission that the allegation was true.\n\nSo is it true that the office of William and Catherine briefed against Harry and his wife?\n\nNo comment, says the Palace.\n\nCorrection: Prince William and Catherine's office is funded by the Duchy of Cornwall and not taxpayers, as an earlier version of this article said.", "Manju Prasanna fled the blaze with his wife and four-year-old daughter\n\nA guest at a Perth hotel where three people died in an early-morning blaze has told of his family's escape from the fire.\n\nManju Prasanna, his wife, and their four-year-old daughter were woken by a guest at the New County Hotel shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nThe family fled outside where they watched the incident unfold on Monday morning.\n\nPolice and fire officers have launched an investigation into the fire's cause.\n\nMr Prasanna, who is from Sri Lanka, was visiting his wife, who is studying at Dundee University.\n\nHe said the family were in their room on the first floor of the hotel, the floor below the area where the fire broke out.\n\nThe 38-year-old said he heard a guest shouting that his room was on fire.\n\nMr Prasanna left the building with his wife and child and saw flames coming from the second floor window.\n\n\"I waited here, me my daughter and my wife - my daughter was afraid and she was crying loudly,\" he said.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nForensic teams have been working at the scene\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10, leading to a huge response from the emergency services, with 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and three bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nA dog also died in the blaze, according to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nJason Sharp, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service area commander for Perth, Kinross, Angus and Dundee, described it as a \"very complex incident\".\n\n\"Our firefighters worked extremely hard in a very complex and challenging environment to prevent the further spread of fire and damage where possible,\" he said on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"At its height, we had nine fire appliances in attendance with over 60 firefighters.\n\n\"We're currently still in attendance to make sure the scene is safe. I would like to thank our crews and our other emergency partners and local authority for their support.\"\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"", "Staff on the front line are becoming increasingly frustrated with those behind the scenes\n\nIt's a week where I have run out of adjectives to describe the crisis that's engulfing the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nEven the word crisis doesn't do justice to what's happening and while disaster seems excessive, calamity belittles the enormity of what's going on.\n\nIf I was allowed to sum it up in my own words - I'd say it's been a hellishly difficult week.\n\nHeadlines, while shocking, capture a system that's beyond broken.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine warned that delays in emergency care could be causing the deaths of up to 500 people in the UK each week.\n\nLocally, BBC News NI revealed an inquiry into eight deaths after ambulance delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A nurse who spent Christmas on the front line describes the pressure\n\nAn emergency department nurse told me his ward resembled a war zone where patients were treated amid scenes of chaos.\n\nAfter I was given access to film inside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast last month, I can verify his words are true.\n\nAmid all the adjectives and numbers, often we forget we are talking about people.\n\nSome patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy\n\nAt the time of writing, 403 men and women were waiting on a hospital bed - that number could fill a small hospital.\n\nOf those, 378 were waiting more than 12 hours.\n\nSpace is limited and staff are trying their best but are exhausted.\n\nThere are many unsettling aspects about this week including that this no longer feels like a temporary glitch.\n\nInstead, the daily reports of trolleys lying head-to-toe, side-by-side is becoming the norm.\n\nIf that continues the shock factor will wear off and overcrowded emergency departments could become acceptable.\n\nThose on the front line are also becoming increasingly and openly frustrated with those behind the scenes who are attempting to fix the problem.\n\nThis week, the Royal College of Emergency Doctors said mitigating measures were \"not working\".\n\nAnother called on commissioners to take four hours to \"road test\" their solutions before introducing them to the \"front-facing team on the shop floor\".\n\nA charity also said decision makers should sit down with those involved in domiciliary care to come up with solutions to tackle the ongoing problems in community care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurses on the picket line last month\n\nBeing outspoken and challenging the system isn't the norm in Northern Ireland. Recent outbursts, however, are an indication of just how much those on the front line are at the end of their tether.\n\nThe problems are 10-fold and I have yet to mention the political stand-off.\n\nHaving a power-sharing executive wouldn't make things perfect, but it would make a difference.\n\nThere would likely be a recurrent budget and people with the authority who can legislate for change.\n\nThe system and those who run it would also be accountable for their actions - at present that's not the case.\n\nIn the meantime, those running the hospitals are firefighting, without making any real proactive changes.\n\nAt the end of a long week, our overwhelmed health service is in much need of some of its own intensive care.\n\nIn fact, some might argue that it's beyond that stage and instead the system against all odds is struggling to be revived in resus.\n\nAs I said earlier, finding the right words to describe such an emotive situation that involves frail elderly people is difficult.\n\nI will sign off by saying at present it feels bleak.", "Train passengers in Scotland have been facing further disruption as Network Rail staff resumed strike action.\n\nThe UK-wide industrial action by members of the RMT union took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and is continuing on Friday and Saturday.\n\nScotRail said a very limited service would run on strike days and schedules would also be disrupted on Sunday.\n\nMeanwhile engineers have fixed the main rail line between Glasgow and Carlisle after it was damaged by floods.\n\nThe line reopened for passenger trains on Friday, but Network Rail urged customers only to travel if their journey was essential due to services being limited by strike action.\n\nAbout 40,000 Network Rail workers are expected to take part in the nationwide strikes over a pay dispute.\n\nNetwork Rail owns, repairs and develops the railway infrastructure - tracks, bridges, tunnels and signals - and its staff have essential safety roles.\n\nScotRail said the action meant it would not be able to run the vast majority of its services.\n\nOn strike days the train operator will run services on 12 routes across the central belt, Fife and the Borders between 07:30 and 18:30.\n\nThe UK government is planning to introduce anti-strike laws in the current parliamentary session, which would mean unions could be sued if they do not provide minimum levels of fire, ambulance and rail services.\n\nThe legislation - which would not resolve the current wave of strikes - would apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnions have condemned the proposed restrictions and threatened legal action, while Labour says it would repeal them.\n\nRMT members on the picket line in Glasgow\n\nMeanwhile, engineering on the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs was completed on Thursday.\n\nAn embankment under the railway was damaged during heavy rain last week.\n\nNetwork Rail said its engineers had worked round the clock to remove hundreds of tonnes of landslip material along a 40m (131ft) section of the line.\n\nThey also reinforced the area with more than 300 tonnes of new stone, re-laid the track above and checked signalling in the area.\n\nThe embankment has been reinforced following the landslip\n\nThe same section of track on 31 December following heavy rain\n\nLiam Sumpter, Network Rail's Scotland route director, said: \"Our engineers have worked as quickly as possible to complete these repairs and reopen the railway.\n\n\"We appreciate the inconvenience the closure of the line has caused and we thank everyone for their understanding during these recovery works.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast said a significantly reduced service would operate on Friday and Saturday and urged people travelling to and from Scotland to make their journeys on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday when a full timetable would be operating.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPope Francis has joined pilgrims in St Peter's Square to preside over the funeral of his predecessor, who resigned from the papacy in 2013.\n\nThe dome of St Peter's basilica at the Vatican was shrouded in mist as the cypress-wood coffin containing Pope Benedict XVI's body was brought out and placed on the steps.\n\nThere was applause from the faithful who had gathered for the funeral.\n\nBenedict was then interred in a tomb beneath the basilica.\n\nClergy from around the world had come - cardinals in red vestments, nuns and monks in their dark robes.\n\nPope Francis was brought out on to the dais in a wheelchair.\n\nLatin chants sung by the Sistine Chapel choir echoed across the square. The mood was solemn and subdued.\n\nThousands of people gathered to pay their respects to the former Pope\n\nDaniele, a teacher, who had met the former pontiff at a church in Rome, told me the weather matched the occasion. \"The fog represents the mystery of Pope Benedict, the mystery of death and life.\"\n\nDuring the Mass, concelebrated by cardinals, bishops and priests, Pope Francis spoke of \"wisdom, tenderness and devotion that he bestowed upon us over the years\".\n\n\"Benedict, faithful friend of the Bridegroom,\" he said referring to Jesus, \"may your joy be complete as you hear his voice, now and forever.\"\n\nSome 50,000 mourners came to the funeral, according to police. Official delegations were there from Italy and from former Pope Benedict's home country of Germany. Other leaders, including the king and queen of Belgium attended in a private capacity.\n\nBenedict's death brings to an end the era of a pope and a former pope living side by side in the Vatican - an unprecedented situation brought about by Benedict's resignation almost a decade ago.\n\nIn February 2013, I stood watching in St Peter's Square as he flew away from the Vatican in a helicopter, at the end of his pontificate.\n\nThe ceremonies surrounding his death have been simpler than those for a sitting pope.\n\nPope Benedict was laid out in coffin made of cypress wood enclosed first by zinc with a further wooden coffin inside\n\nOver the past few days, some 200,000 people came to the Vatican to pay their respects to the former pontiff, as he lay in state in front of the main altar in St Peter's Basilica.\n\nOn the day before the funeral, I joined the long line of visitors and mourners queuing to view his body. Dressed in red and gold vestments, he had a rosary clasped in his white, waxy hands.\n\nThere was no display of usual papal regalia like the silver staff, a sign that he was no longer Pope when he died.\n\nBut in line with tradition, a lead tube containing an account of Benedict's papacy, as well as other items, including Vatican coins minted during his reign, were placed in the coffin.\n\nAt the end of the service, the choir sang \"May the angels lead you into paradise.\" Pope Francis placed his hand on the wooden coffin in a final prayer, before it was carried away, to be sealed and placed in another coffin of zinc and an outer one of wood.\n\nIt was buried in the crypt under St Peter's Basilica, where Pope John Paul II was originally interred in 2005 before his body was moved up to a chapel, after his beatification.\n\nClergy from around the world joined Pope Francis at Pope Benedict XVI's funeral\n\nWhile many leading figures have praised Benedict since his death - paying tribute to his theological studies - there has also been criticism, particularly by victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.\n\nThe Snap Survivors network said the former pope \"virtually ignored the burning problem of clergy sexual abuse during his tenure in office\".\n\n\"In his more than 25 years as the world's most influential religious figure, Pope Benedict XVI fell short in protecting children and adults around the world.\"\n\nIn St Peter's Square, feelings about the former pope were mixed. Gaia from Sardinia said that while Benedict had been \"a very good pope, I prefer Pope Francis. I think that he's closer to people in 2023\".\n\nSimona from Monza in northern Italy told me she was concerned that Francis might follow Benedict's example and retire. \"I'm worried he is sick, and I really do hope that he still has the strength to keep the Church united and to go on and give hope to this world.\"\n\nChristopher Lamb, Vatican correspondent of the Catholic magazine The Tablet, said Francis now faced a new moment in his pontificate but he expected him to continue his pace of reform within the Church.\n\n\"The death of Benedict does leave it open for Francis to step down if he wishes but I wouldn't bet on it because this Pope really has a lot to accomplish in terms of reforms.\"", "Fourteen buildings were damaged by Russian missiles on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials\n\nA unilateral ceasefire called by Vladimir Putin appears to have had little effect on the ground, with Ukrainian officials accusing Russians of opening fire in several areas.\n\nA Ukrainian rescue worker was killed in a Russian strike, while Russian state TV said the city of Donetsk was hit.\n\nRussia ordered a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, to coincide with the Orthodox Christmas.\n\nUkraine rejected it saying Moscow might use it to reinforce troops.\n\nRussia's defence ministry insisted it was observing the truce along the entire \"line of contact\", starting at 12:00 Moscow time (09:00 GMT) on Friday.\n\nIt said its forces had only returned fired during the ceasefire when the Ukrainian army had attacked Russian positions.\n\nAir alerts were reported across Ukraine shortly after the purported truce began, and then the governor of Kherson region said a strike on a fire station had left one rescuer dead and four other people wounded in the main city, which was liberated in November by Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe eastern city of Kramatorsk also came under attack and more than a dozen buildings were damaged, Ukrainian officials said.\n\nLuhansk regional leader Serhiy Haidai warned that Russia's Christmas truce was \"a lie and a trap\", advising residents not to attend Orthodox Church services or gather in crowded places as the Russians could plan \"terrorist attacks\".\n\nKyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko warned that overnight temperatures in the capital would drop to -11C and called for electricity to be carefully used.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the truce was an attempt to stop his country's military advances in the east of the country, and bring in more men and equipment.\n\nArtillery fire could be heard on both sides of the front line in the eastern city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces have concentrated much of their firepower in an attempt to push west towards Kramatorsk.\n\nRussia's Wagner mercenary group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said this week that Ukrainians had turned every house in the city into a fortress. Satellite images released on Friday revealed the effects of the battle since last August.\n\nAlthough Russian officials insisted the truce remained intact, there was no indication of any significant lull in fighting.\n\n\"We are two and a half hours into this proclaimed ceasefire, and actually the whole territory of Ukraine is under air raid alert. So I think that speaks for itself,\" Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun told the BBC. \"Basically the ceasefire, the Russians are making it up.\"\n\nThe Russian Orthodox Church - the largest of the Eastern Orthodox Churches - celebrates Christmas Day on 7 January, according to the Julian calendar.\n\nSome people in Ukraine celebrate Christmas on 25 December, others on 7 January. Both days are public holidays in the country.\n\nThis year, for the first time, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine said it would allow its congregations to celebrate Christmas on 25 December, as do some other denominations in western Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: McCarthy says his party has to learn to work together\n\nMembers of the US House of Representatives will try for a fourth day to elect a Speaker on Friday in an attempt to end a political impasse.\n\nThe frontrunner, Republican Kevin McCarthy, has so far failed to reach the 218 votes required for election.\n\nAnd there is still no clear sign that any deal will win over enough colleagues to get him over that mark.\n\nThere have so far been 11 failed votes - a paralysis of government not seen since the pre-Civil War era.\n\nThe reason for him falling short is a right-wing cohort within his own party refusing to vote for him.\n\nMr McCarthy needs to ease the concerns of enough Republican holdouts - 16 out of 20 - to win him the speakership.\n\nThis is nearly always a formality in US politics at the start of a Speaker's two-year term following congressional elections.\n\nFor more than a day now, there has been talk of concessions Mr McCarthy could make to win them over. As talks proceed, the outlines of a potential deal have become more clear.\n\nHis hope at this point seems to be that if he can convince some of them to back him, there will be sufficient pressure on the others to throw in the towel and give up the fight.\n\nProgress is slow and, as some McCarthy supporters grow restless, a resolution - if it comes - could still be days away.\n\nMr McCarthy had already offered compromises that would have weakened the Speaker's role in the House. However, these haven't been enough to break the impasse.\n\nThe Speaker of the House is the second in line to the presidency, after Vice-President Kamala Harris. They set the agenda in the House, and no legislative business can be conducted there without them.\n\nWithout a Speaker, some key functions of the House cannot be conducted - including the swearing in of members, forming committees and the passing of bills.\n\nThe so-called \"Never Kevins\" who are standing in Mr McCarthy's way are sceptical of the California congressman's conservative bona fides, despite his endorsement from former President Donald Trump.\n\nTheir votes are crucial because Republicans took over the House in November's midterm elections by only a slender margin of 222 to 212 in the 435-seat chamber.\n\nThere haven't been many indications that a deal is imminent, however.\n\nOne staunch member of the holdout group, Congressman Matt Gaetz, told reporters on Thursday night that he won't support any deal that \"results in Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker\".\n\nThe last ballot that took place on Thursday before the House was adjourned saw Mr McCarthy earn 200 votes, while 12 Republicans voted for Byron Donalds and seven for Kevin Hern. Mr Gaetz cast a protest ballot for Mr Trump to serve in the role.\n\nNot since 1860, when the United States' union was fraying over the issue of slavery, has the lower chamber of Congress voted so many times to pick a Speaker. Back then it took 44 rounds of ballots.\n\nMeanwhile, the minority Democrats continued to vote in unison for their leader, New York's Hakeem Jeffries, the first black person ever to lead a party in Congress. But it still seems unlikely that he could win over six Republican defectors to become Speaker.\n\nFriday's voting will also take place on the second anniversary of the US Capitol riots, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying the Republican's 2020 election defeat.", "The average house price in the UK fell for the fourth month in a row in December, as the rising cost of living and higher interest rates hit home.\n\nDecember prices fell by 1.5% compared to November, meaning the average house price is now £281,272, said Halifax.\n\nThe bank said uncertainty about how the cost of living will affect household bills, as well as rising interest rates, is slowing the housing market.\n\nIt expects buyers and sellers to \"remain cautious\" over the coming year.\n\nDecember's monthly fall was lower than the decline of 2.4% seen in November, even taking into account the expected seasonal slowdown, said Halifax mortgages director Kim Kinnaird.\n\nOn an annual basis, house prices grew by 2% compared with December 2021 - the slowest rise since October 2019 when prices increased at an annual rate of 1.1%.\n\nIt was also sharply lower than the 4.6% annual increase seen in November.\n\nAre you affected by issues covered in this story? Get in touch.\n\nRising interest rates have weighed on the housing market. The Bank of England has increased rates nine times since December 2021 to try to dampen the rate of price rises, also known as inflation. Interest rates are currently 3.5%, the highest level in 14 years.\n\nAnd while mortgage rates have fallen since the government's controversial \"mini budget\" last September they are still higher than they were at the beginning of 2022.\n\nMs Kinnaird said: \"As we enter 2023, the housing market will continue to be impacted by the wider economic environment and, as buyers and sellers remain cautious, we expect there will be a reduction in both supply and demand overall, with house prices forecast to fall around 8% over the course of the year.\"\n\nHowever, she said, the cost of the average home remained high, and even if prices did drop by 8% that would mean the cost of the average property returning to April 2021 prices, still \"significantly above\" pre-Covid levels.\n\nAlice Haine, personal finance analyst at investment platform Bestinvest, said while the high mortgage rates seen in October had now eased and property prices were on the decline \"affordability is still a challenge for many as prices are still above pre-pandemic levels and household finances continue to grapple with the wider cost-of-living crisis\".\n\nMartin Beck, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club forecasting group, said the four months of falling prices was the \"weakest run since 2008, when the impact of the global financial crisis was building\".\n\nProperty prices were likely to continue falling for the \"foreseeable future\", he said, declining by about 10% over the next 12-18 months.\n\nMr Beck added that if the Bank of England raises interest rates again in February that could push up borrowing costs again.\n\n\"Cost of living pressures are cutting households' spending power and will be exacerbated by tax rises and a reduction in the generosity of the cap on energy bills in April. Meanwhile consumer confidence is very downbeat,\" he said.\n\nAll UK nations and regions saw annual house price inflation cool down in December.\n\nThe biggest slowdown in growth was in the North East of England, where prices were up by 6.5% in December, against a rise of 10.5% in November. The average house price in the region is now £169,980.\n\nThe Halifax house price index has been going for 40 years. When the index began in January 1983 the average UK house price was £26,188 and interest rates stood at 11%. Since then, average house prices have gone up by 974% to £281,272.\n\nThe peak in prices came in August 2022, Halifax said, when the average price hit £293,992.", "Great Britain produced a record amount of wind-powered electricity in 2022, according to the National Grid.\n\nMore electricity came from renewable and nuclear power sources than from fossil fuels gas and coal, the second highest after 2020.\n\nReplacing fossil fuels with green power is a core way for the world to tackle the impacts of climate change.\n\nSources like wind and solar are also significantly cheaper and should lead to cheaper bills in the long-run.\n\nScientists, governments and the UN say switching to renewable power is crucial as the effects of global warming are already being felt, including in the UK, which last year recorded its hottest year since records began.\n\nGas remained the single most significant source of electricity last year, the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) said, but electricity from wind turbines continued to grow in importance.\n\nOverall 48.5% of electricity came from renewable and nuclear power, compared to 40% from gas and coal power stations.\n\nOn a single day in November, more than 70% of electricity was produced by wind, or around 20GW. That power is enough so that in one hour it would heat about 1700 homes for a year.\n\nThat record was again broken on 30 December when 20.918GW was generated by wind turbines.\n\nFor five months of the year (February, May, October, November and December), more than half of electricity came from so-called zero carbon electricity sources renewable and nuclear.\n\nAnd the use of coal - the most polluting fossil fuel - continued to fall. In 2022 it generated just 1.5% of electricity compared to 2012 when it was 43%.\n\nAs Great Britain builds more capacity for renewable energy, including wind turbines and solar farms, more of its electricity will come from these greener sources.\n\nWind power has been increasing in Great Britain since 2010\n\n\"The UK has a good record with offshore wind. We're quite a giant in the offshore wind world and our industry is very attractive,\" Jess Ralston, head of energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, told BBC News.\n\nBut she says the UK has missed some tricks. An effective ban since 2015 on onshore wind has limited the country's capacity to increase wind power faster.\n\n\"Our old-fashioned energy grid urgently needs investment to maximise the opportunity that wind and solar offer to continue to reduce bills,\" she said.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed in December to relax restrictions that effectively prevented onshore wind turbines.\n\nBut the government has also promised new investment in some fossil fuels.\n\nMore of Great Britain's electricity is coming from renewable sources\n\nEnergy supplies and pricing were significantly affected in 2022 by Russia's war in Ukraine, which led to imposing sanctions on Russia which has been an important supplier of gas to Europe.\n\nNations including Germany, Spain and Italy and the US responded by increasing their renewable capacity.\n\nClarification: This article was edited to include a time reference of 'one hour' to the sentence about the heating 1700 homes for a year", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 30 December - 6 January.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRobert Booth photographed a drawing on a whitewashed window in Dundee, \"the comic capital of Scotland\".\n\nA rainbow at Traigh Beach, near Mallaig. \"Made a bike ride in the pouring rain worth it,\" said Mark Slattery.\n\n\"A partridge having a break from its pear tree,\" said Jeff How in Penicuik, Midlothian.\n\nKarin Cudworth captured the scene on Tweed Green, Peebles, the morning after heavy flooding.\n\nCallum Malone photographed the flooding in Dumfries following heavy downpours.\n\nChristine Smith enjoyed a New Year's Eve stroll with friends along the banks of the river Earn in Comrie, \"before Hogmanay celebrating started\".\n\n\"I saw this highland cow up the Pentlands on New Year's Eve,\" Ross McLennan said. \"I am not sure if he is sticking his tongue out or if it’s a party horn for New Year.\"\n\nDaniel Arnold snapped this bold mountain biker at the Storr, Skye, on Hogmanay.\n\n\"We took full advantage of a break in the weather on New Year's Eve to ascend Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis,\" said Jozed Tkocz. Pictured is \"the intrepid\" Tom Golden.\n\nMhairi Young captured the scene near Staffin on Skye an hour out from the bells.\n\nByron Tilly got this shot of the Hogmanay fireworks show at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\n\"The Biggar bonfire to welcome in 2023,\" Mark Murphy said.\n\nAlana Smith captured the spectacular scene at Edinburgh Castle on Hogmanay.\n\n\"We lost our brother in 2022, he loved a pint of Stout,\" Guy Fraser said. \"I was drawn to this whilst out walking, maybe a wee message from him.\"\n\n\"A beautiful crisp start to the New Year at Troon Parkrun,\" said Alex Mullen.\n\nA message in the sand at Niseaboist Beach, Isle of Harris, captured by Louisa McLennan. The message was written in sand and seaweed by local families as part of a West Harris Trust community event.\n\nYvonne Manson, from Cardenden, Fife, captured the scene \"on our traditional New Year’s Day walk\".\n\nWest Bay, North Berwick, hosted its traditional Loony Dook event on New Year's Day. \"A spontaneous community gathering which has been going for as long as people can remember,\" said Matthew Gibbons.\n\n\"I climbed Ben Lomond on New Year's Day and was rewarded with a cloud inversion and the rare phenomenon known as a snowbow,\" said Alan FIndlay.\n\nSteven Clark grabbed this shot on New Year's Day just outside Braemar. \"It was like time had stopped,\" he said.\n\nThe scene at Salisbury Crags on New Year's Day, captured by Stephanie Land.\n\nA bird's-eye view of Lochan Uaine, near Aviemore, taken by Johnny MacAulay on New Year's Day.\n\nStuart Miller took this picture in Carnoustie. \"The interesting rock, reflection and the moon at the top makes a triple lunar landscape,\" he said.\n\nThe lighthouse at Rua Reigh, near Gairloch. \"The sun reflecting from the glass gave the impression the lighthouse was operational,\" said Jane Sayliss.\n\nGareth Holroyd took this photo during a trip to Glencoe.\n\nAndy Condron photographed this scene on New Year's Day \"of January of Jupiter sitting above the Pap of Glencoe with its reflection shimmering on the cold, still waters of Loch Leven\".\n\nSalvatore Carida snapped this photograph of a frozen drop on Knock Hill. \"I was amused and surprised about the unusual pointed shape of the drop, as it has been frozen instantaneously while falling off the tree,\" he said.\n\n\"Stirling Castle looking stunning at sunrise with Stuc á Chroin and Ben Vorlich,\" said Ian Barnes. \"I’m glad I got out of bed early to take this.\"\n\n\"Two cows having a nice kiss,\" by Dave Lowe during a trip to Elgol, Skye.\n\n\"My little ray of sunshine,\" said Bex Jackson, who snapped this image of her dog Oki on Lamlash Beach, Arran.\n\n\"I watched this otter chilling out in Brodick on the Isle of Arran,\" said Brian Gallagher.\n\n\"Peace perfect peace,\" said Liz Rodger, who got this shot of a still Loch Ard\n\n\"A stunning sight,\" said Adrian Plumb, who took this picture in Fife overlooking the Firth of Forth at sunset.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Good conditions have given the Lecht a strong start to the season\n\nScotland's ski resorts are enjoying a strong start to the season as some resorts elsewhere in Europe struggle for snow.\n\nRelative warmth has been far from ideal for some resorts in countries such as France and Switzerland.\n\nHowever, at venues such as the Lecht Ski Centre in Aberdeenshire, business is booming.\n\nThe blue skies of 2 January saw it so busy they had to stop selling tickets for only the second time in 45 years.\n\nPieter du Pon, chairman of the Lecht Ski Company, said the season was off to a \"very good start\".\n\nPieter du Pon, chairman of the Lecht Ski Company, said good luck with the weather would come and go\n\n\"Christmas is a peak period, there are a lot of kids on holiday.\n\n\"We specialise in families and small children learning to ski up here.\"\n\nHe said: \"Just listening, there are a lot of English voices around.\n\n\"I don't want to gloat too much, but yes it's nice that we've got snow.\"\n\nSkiers pass on a small layer of artificial snow in Leysin, Switzerland\n\nHe explained: \"I would imagine the higher resorts in the Alps will be fine, it's the lower ones, snow has not fallen quite often in many places.\n\n\"We look at a 10-day forecast. In a week's time in could disappear. We were very lucky this Christmas period.\n\n\"It comes and goes. We'll see how the rest of the season goes.\"\n\nMeanwhile, people heading to the hills are being urged to be well-prepared by mountain rescue experts.\n\nInsp Matt Smith, the Police Scotland Mountain Rescue national lead, said smart phone technology has benefits but did have some drawbacks.\n\n\"The first one is battery life, when it's cold,\" he said.\n\n\"You still need an ability to navigate. You need a map and compass in your bag.\"\n\nInsp Smith said conditions could deteriorate from a car park to being up in the hills.\n\nHe said this meant crampons and an ice axe were also needed.", "Covid cases are once again increasing\n\nCovid-19 infection rates are at their highest since last July with one in 25 estimated to have the infection, according to new figures.\n\nMeanwhile, hospitalisations for flu in Scotland reached the highest level in five years over Christmas.\n\nPublic Health Scotland's weekly update reveals nine of the 14 health boards are considered to be experiencing \"extraordinary\" levels of flu.\n\nIt also shows hospital admission rates are highest in children under one.\n\nThe ONS Covid infection survey estimates an average of 213,100 people were infected on any given day in the week up to 28 December.\n\nFigures from the National Records of Scotland also show there were 67 Covid deaths in the week ending 6 January, which is higher than the previous week.\n\nAlthough levels are much higher than last week when the estimate was one in 40 people, Scotland is currently believed to have the lowest levels of Covid-19 in the UK.\n\nFigures say one in 20 people in England are believed to be infected, as well as one in 18 people in Wales.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the data showed one in 16 people had tested positive - but this was for the week ending 22 December.\n\nCovid and flu are putting pressure on hospitals\n\nMichelle Bowen, head of health surveillance dissemination and strategy for the ONS said: \"Infections have risen across the whole of the UK.\n\n\"In England, Wales and Scotland, cases are at the highest they have been since July 2022, and the highest they have been since March 2022 in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nShe added that the organisation would \"continue to monitor the data closely\".\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nPublic Health Scotland's weekly update on influenza shows there were 2,279 influenza cases.\n\nThe hospitalisation rate for flu has been on the rise since the middle of 2022 and in the second last week of 2022 it was higher than any week since the beginning of the 2016-2017 season.\n\nThe data also showed that in week 52, the most admissions were in patients aged less than one year old - about 13 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nJillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian told BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme that these numbers were to be predicted following the festive period.\n\nShe said: \"We always knew the winter period was going to be tricky.\n\n\"It is likely infection is going to spread and our efforts have not been about controlling infection, but more geared towards protecting people from the serious affects of Covid.\"\n\nChildren under one are the largest group ending up in hospital with the flu virus\n\nMs Evans described the flu situation as a cause for concern.\n\nShe said: \"That is a worry and flu is nasty because it affects the most vulnerable - those very young children and older people.\n\n\"It has a wider impact on the population too, and the possibility of illnesses following on from flu.\"\n\nMs Evans added that one of the reasons the population is so susceptible to flu this year is because people have been protecting themselves against the effects of Covid.\n\nShe said: \"Our immunity is lower and we are more susceptible to catching it.\n\n\"We are also hearing about the possibility of new variants of Covid but I think mainly what we are seeing is the result of more people mixing and socialising.\"\n\nMs Evans also told the programme the prevalence of both respiratory infections was \"a worsening situation\".\n\nShe said: \"We need to take stock next week but there is no doubt about it - we are feeling the effects of respiratory infections within hospitals.\n\n\"The main thing we can do at the moment is to consider the effects of these infections and how we protect the most vulnerable in society.\"\n\nDr Sarah Pitt, virologist at the University of Brighton's Institute of Biomedical Sciences told BBC Scotland a new sub variant of Covid -19 called XBB 1.5 is beginning to emerge in the UK.\n\nShe said' \"It is a variation of the theme of Omicron. It seems to be a bit more infectious.\n\n\"It has taken off quite dramatically in the US and is starting to account for a higher number over here in Europe.\"\n\nDr Pitt said that as with previous variants, she expected vaccine protection and previous infection to give some protection from serious illness.\n\nShe added: \"We should just be aware of it because it is super infectious.\"", "An 18-year-old Afghan refugee was fatally stabbed in a south-west London park by another teenager during a fight over a girl, a court has heard.\n\nHazrat Wali died after being attacked in Craneford Way Playing Fields, Twickenham, on 12 October 2021.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he suffered \"massive and fatal blood loss\" after being stabbed with an 8in (20cm) knife when he and a girl he was with were approached by a group of teenagers.\n\nOn the opening day of the trial, a jury was told Mr Wali had been sitting in the park with a female friend when they were approached by a group of teenagers, including the defendant.\n\nOne of the girls in the group said the pair \"looked nice together\".\n\nThe defendant then began to swear at Mr Wali and the two began to push each other, prosecutor Jacob Hallam KC told the court.\n\nMr Wali died at the scene in Craneford Way Playing Fields\n\nThe jury heard the female friend of Mr Wali's then noticed the 17-year-old, who was aged 16 at the time, was holding a large, black knife, with \"zigzag-shaped indentations\" on the top of the blade.\n\nAs the two teenagers continued to push each other, the 17-year-old stabbed Mr Wali in the right side with the knife, Mr Hallam said.\n\nThe blade pierced Mr Wali's liver and caused \"massive and fatal blood loss\", the prosecutor explained, adding that pathologists analysing the wound found it would have required \"at least moderate force\".\n\nAfter he was stabbed, Mr Wali was heard saying \"why did they stab me?\", Mr Hallam said.\n\nThe final stages of the fight were witnessed by participants in a nearby rugby match between two local school teams.\n\nDuring evidence given to the police, one of the players said he saw Mr Wali chase his attacker with a stick, return a short time later, and then faint, the jury was told.\n\nEmergency services went to the scene but were unable to save Mr Wali's life and he died about an hour later.\n\nMr Hallam told the court the defendant had previously said he had acted out of anger.\n\n\"Although he speaks of acting in what he claims was self-defence, he says that when he stabbed Hazrat it was 'just anger', and stabbing was 'a way to release your anger',\" the prosecutor said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 42-year-old man shot seven members of his family before killing himself in the US state of Utah after his wife filed for divorce, police said.\n\nThe family of eight were found dead inside a rural home in Enoch City on Wednesday night during a welfare check at the property.\n\nPolice say the victims included the man's wife, his five children and his mother-in-law.\n\nCity manager Rob Dotson said the town of about 8,000 people was in shock.\n\nAt a news conference on Thursday, city officials said 42-year-old insurance salesman Michael Haight had opened fire on his wife, 40-year-old Tausha, his 78-year-old mother-in-law Gail Earl, and his five children before he killed himself.\n\nThe five children, who were not named, include three girls, 17, 12 and 7, and two boys, 7 and 4.\n\nEnoch City manager Rob Dotson said their bodies had been discovered by police at around 16:00 (23:00 GMT) on Wednesday, after someone reported that the wife had missed a scheduled appointment, prompting a welfare check on the family's home.\n\nMr Dotson said each of the victims appeared to have sustained a gunshot wound.\n\nOfficials also confirmed that Tausha Haight had filed for divorce on 21 December.\n\n\"Tausha was the most kind and generous person and she never ever said anything ill about anyone,\" Tina Brown, a friend of the family, told KSTU-TV. \"She would give the shirt off of her back for anyone and she served people tirelessly.\"\n\nCity officials, including mayor Jeffrey Chestnut, appeared emotional as they provided their latest update to media.\n\n\"It's not too often something like this hits very close to home,\" Mr Chestnut said, adding that the Haight family had been his neighbours.\n\n\"The youngest children played in my yard with my sons,\" he said.\n\nEnoch City is a small agricultural town in the south-western part of the state, about 245 miles (394 km) south of Salt Lake City.\n\nThe five children attended four schools across the Iron County School District, which released a statement expressing its sorrow.\n\nThe school district has since mobilised a crisis response team and made counsellors and therapists available.\n\nTwo unidentified women wept at a news conference in Enoch on Thursday\n\nA police crime scene trailer sat outside the victims' home on Thursday\n\nFestive decorations could be seen in the property's porch\n\nUtah Governor Spencer Cox tweeted his condolences for those affected by the \"senseless violence\".\n\nPresident Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden also offered their condolences, calling the incident a \"tragic shooting\".\n\n\"Less than one month after we marked 10 years since the Sandy Hook tragedy, another mass shooting has claimed the lives of five more children in Enoch City,\" White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.\n\nMayor Chestnut said his community had received offers of support from state and federal governments, including from the US National Security Council.\n\n\"We're very grateful to the greater world at large who are mindful of us at this time,\" Mr Chestnut said.", "The 2021 census was the first to ask people about their gender identity and sexual orientation\n\nMore than 1.3 million people in England and Wales identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, census data has revealed for the first time.\n\nFor people aged 16 and over, more than 1.5% - 748,000 - identify as gay or lesbian, and 624,000 (1.3%) as bisexual.\n\nSome 165,000 people identify as \"other\" sexual orientations.\n\nAnd 262,000 people (0.5%) said their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth.\n\nThis is the first census that has asked people about their sexual orientation and gender identity.\n\nThe census, which took place in England and Wales on 21 March 2021, offers a snapshot of the population. The total population of England and Wales is about 59.6 million.\n\nBefore it was circulated, the government said the information would provide evidence about inequalities to tackle discrimination and improve decisions made about health care, education, employment, housing and social services for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.\n\nCompleting this section of the census was voluntary.\n\nBrighton and Hove was the local authority with the highest percentage (10.7%) of people identifying as \"LGB+\", - lesbian, gay, bisexual or any non-heterosexual sexual orientation.\n\nSeven of the other local authorities in the top 10 were in London.\n\nIn Wales, Cardiff was the local authority with the biggest LGB+ population (5.3%).\n\nLondon was the English region with the highest percentage of people who said their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth (0.91%). The South West was the region with the lowest percentage (0.42%).\n\nLondon also had higher proportions of people identifying as transgender men (0.16%) and trans women (0.16%) when compared with the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe decision to include a voluntary question about gender identity in England and Wales was welcomed by some charities as a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nResearch suggested that asking just the one question in previous censuses about a person's sex was a \"barrier\" to some taking part who felt it did not apply to them.\n\nSmaller surveys have indicated that less than 2% of the population of England and Wales currently identify as lesbian or gay.\n\nPreviously the government estimated there to be between 200,000 and 500,000 transgender people in the UK.\n\nCensus respondents were asked voluntary questions about their sexual orientation, and whether their gender identity is different from their sex registered at birth.\n\nAround 3.6 million people (7.5%) did not answer the question on sexual orientation, while 2.9 million (6.0%) chose not to disclose their gender identity.\n\nThose who did answer were able to select from options including heterosexual, gay, lesbian and bisexual. They could also select \"other\" and fill in a text box describing their sexual orientation.\n\nOf those who selected \"other sexual orientation\":\n\nRespondents were also asked whether their gender identity matched their sex registered at birth. Those who selected \"no\" were asked to fill in a text box describing their gender identity.\n\nThose aged 16 or over who did not wish for their answers to be revealed to other members of their household were able to submit a separate form to keep their answers anonymous.\n\nJen Woolford, Population Director for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the body responsible for carrying out the census, said the data will help to \"tackle inequalities\" in the LGBT+ community.\n\nShe said: \"We've introduced those questions as a reflection of of our society becoming more diverse, but also because there are now clear user needs for more information on that kind of diversity and the richness of our population.\n\nDr Kevin Guyan, Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and LGBT data expert, has called the information a \"landmark moment for inclusion\".\n\nHe urged that the figures be used to benefit communities.\n\n\"The data will not, on its own, address issues negatively impacting many LGBT people such as the cost-of-living crisis, access to healthcare and affordable housing,\" he said. \"It must be understood as the first step in a longer project of change.\"\n\nMatthew Belfield, spokesperson for Manchester-based charity the LGBT Foundation, said the data will help them better target services across the country.\n\nHe said: \"Manchester is such a hot spot for the LGBTQ+ community, but other communities aren't so lucky.\n\n\"By asking these type of questions on a national level, it means that resources will be allocated in the correct way, that their communities will have their needs addressed.\"\n\nThe LGBT Foundation's Matthew Belfield said it would help the charity to better allocate resources\n\nScotland's census was delayed due to the pandemic, but its responses are expected to be released later this year.\n\nNorthern Ireland's didn't include a question about gender identity. The responses to its question on sexual orientation are also due to be published this year.\n\nInformation about how age groups and ethnicity intersect with these figures hasn't yet been released. However, previous surveys found 16-24-year-olds are more likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and in recent years there has been a small gradual decline in the number of people identifying as exclusively straight.\n\nCanada is the only other country so far to have released data related to gender identity.\n\nNew Zealand will also include similar questions in its census in 2023.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Claire says it's a \"disgrace\" that her daughter is being refused free bus travel.\n\nA woman whose daughter missed out on a free school bus by 0.1 miles has called the policy \"a disgrace\".\n\nBridgend council offers free transport to primary school pupils who live more than two miles (3.2km) from school.\n\nBut Claire Jones, from Nantyfyllon, and her seven-year-old daughter, live 1.9 miles from the school, meaning they are ineligible for free bus travel.\n\nBridgend council said it has one of the most generous travel policies in Wales and met Welsh government requirements.\n\nClaire said her daughter Seren has been a student at the school for three years and used to get free transport, but was told she was ineligible after returning after October half-term.\n\nShe said she offered to pay for transport for her daughter, but was refused, and might have to give up work as there was no safe way of taking her daughter to school - about a 40-minute walk away.\n\nShe said: \"It's a disgrace, everyone in the Maesteg area is having the same issue - nobody understands why this is happening.\n\n\"I am a working parent and leave the house at 06:45 GMT and am not home until after 17:00, and nothing is being done to help.\"\n\nClaire has to often pay a childminder to take her daughter to school because of the lack of free transport\n\nSeren's grandmother Julie, works as a carer and helps her out with childcare, and said she already had to drop her shifts as a carer to help with her granddaughter.\n\nThe family said having a Catholic education was very important to them, so changing schools was not an option.\n\n\"It's awful, we are a Catholic family, and we want her to have a Catholic education,\" she said.\n\n\"We want her to go to the school, Claire, I and my mum went to, but I feel we're being told to put up with it and that's the way it's going to be.\"\n\nEmily Roberts says the lack of free transport could be an issue for her family when her eldest daughter goes to secondary school\n\nEmily Roberts, from Maesteg, has two daughters who are pupils at the local Welsh language primary and said being within the two-mile radius for primary schools and three miles for secondary schools could have an impact on them in the future.\n\n\"We could be in a situation where we have to walk the two children to different schools at the same time, I can't be in two places at once,\" she said.\n\nMs Roberts said she was considering moving the children to an English language school so they get free transport.\n\nAnother parent, Lisa Marie, said walking to school meant navigating blocked junctions with no safe crossings and unsafe pavements, forcing children to walk in the roads.\n\nShe added that buses were driving past half empty as children were not allowed to use them unless they had an older sibling already on them.\n\nHuw Budd, also from the area, said his son was due to start comprehensive school in September and would have to walk about three miles to get there.\n\n\"The council is arguing it is less than that, so he isn't entitled to free school transport - something needs to be done about this,\" he said.\n\nParents across the county say they are frustrated about the situation\n\nHuw Irranca-Davies, MS for Ogmore, said local authorities needed to make sure that walks to school are safe and achievable for children.\n\nHe said: \"You very often can't go the direct route, you then have to look at taking a safe route, so it's not just looking at the route on a map as a bit of desk research, but looking at what it actually means to walk it.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"A detailed review of the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure is due to take place soon, it will include consideration of the threshold of home to school travel and transport for learners to Welsh medium education.\"\n\nBridgend council said: \"Our revised Home-to-School Transport Policy, which was introduced in September 2016, meets all of Welsh government's legislative requirements.\n\n\"In situations where a child does not meet the eligibility criteria for free school transport, parents have a legal responsibility to make suitable travel arrangements between home and school for their children.\"", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Life is slowly inching back to normal in China\n\nWhen Mr Chen's 85-year-old father fell ill with Covid in December, it was impossible to get an ambulance or see a doctor.\n\nThey went to Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, where they were told to either try other hospitals or sit in the corridor with an IV drip.\n\n\"There was no bed, no respiratory machine, no medical equipment\" available, Mr Chen tells the BBC.\n\nHis father managed to find a bed at another hospital, but only through a special contact, and had by then developed a severe lung infection.\n\nThe elder Mr Chen has now recovered, but his son worries that a second infection in the future could kill him.\n\nThree years of Covid prevention measures were a complete waste and failure, he says, because the government eased controls too quickly, with no preparation, and so many have caught the virus.\n\n\"The outbreak will come back again. For elderly people, they can only count on their own fate,\" Mr Chen says.\n\nThe final step in China's swift reversal of its contentious zero-Covid policy comes on Sunday when it reopens borders for international travel. With mass testing, stringent quarantines and sudden, sweeping lockdowns gone, families like Mr Chen's are wary of what lies ahead.\n\nBut younger Chinese, all of whom did not wish to be named, feel differently - and some told the BBC they were voluntarily exposing themselves to infection.\n\nA 27-year-old coder in Shanghai, who did not receive any of the Chinese vaccines, says he voluntarily exposed himself to the virus.\n\n\"Because I don't want to change my holiday plan,\" he explains, \"and I could make sure I recovered and won't be infected again during the holiday if I intentionally control the time I get infected.\" He admits he did not expect the muscle aches that came with the infection, but says the symptoms have been largely as expected.\n\nAnother Shanghai resident, a 26-year-old woman, tells the BBC she visited her friend who had tested positive \"so I could get Covid as well\".\n\nBut she says her recovery has been hard: \"I thought it would be like getting a cold but it was much more painful.\"\n\nThere is concern about how elders will fare under loosened pandemic rules\n\nA 29-year-old who works for a state-run business based in Jiaxing, in the northern Zhejiang province, says she was thrilled when she heard the country's borders were reopening. She is excited to travel to other parts of China again to see concerts.\n\n\"Life was ridiculous when I had to ask my manager's permission to travel. I just want life to get back to normal,\" she says. \"But I do worry about the elderly.\"\n\nWhen her grandfather fell sick with Covid, he refused to go to hospital, even when his condition took a turn for the worse, she says. And reports of overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums have only added to the worry - she says she has heard stories of corpses piled high in funeral parlours.\n\nShe herself has not tested positive for the virus yet, but concedes that - when her husband did - she wore a mask 24/7 at home, even when she was sleeping.\n\n\"I did not want us to be sick at the same time,\" she says. \"But I'm not scared of the virus, as the severe symptoms are rare.\"\n\nAt least in the big cities, people have been returning to malls, restaurants and parks, and even queuing up for visas and tourist permits. The state-run Global Times newspaper declared \"normal times are back\", attributing the line to interviews with Chinese.\n\nIf normal days are indeed back, it is an uncomfortable return to normalcy for many.\n\nMrs Liu's husband never got vaccinated because he suffers from advanced diabetes. Since the re-opening, she has stayed indoors and has disinfected every home delivery that has arrived, but the couple still caught the virus.\n\nTheir daughter, also sick with Covid, scoured various locations in the midst of a cold Beijing winter for Paxlovid, Pfizer's anti-viral Covid medication, before finally purchasing a single box off the black market at 7500 CNY (£918).\n\n\"My husband has recovered smoothly. It's a big relief for me,\" Mrs Liu says. \"But when the second wave comes, what will happen to him?\"\n\nMs Wang, another Beijing resident, and her family have pre-purchased Paxlovid before it becomes too expensive, as well as an oxygenator and pulse oximeter, for her grandfather-in-law. He has not gotten the virus but is in his 90s.\n\n\"Anyways, the open-up is good for the economy. Business has recovered quickly,\" she remarks, adding that hotels, restaurants and shopping malls are all filling up with people again.\n\nDespite the fear over the Covid surge, people are going back to restaurants and malls\n\nBut beyond the major cities, it is difficult to know how people - particularly in China's rural regions - are responding to an about-face in government messaging.\n\nFor three years, state-run media presented the virus as a dangerous menace to society, vowing that it would achieve \"dynamic zero-Covid\" to keep the population safe.\n\nBut that rhetoric has been turned on its head in recent weeks, with doctors regularly trotted out to call for calm over confusion.\n\nMrs Li, a 52-year-old in Beijing, argues the government \"did the right thing\" for the first two years but should have ended its zero-Covid policy in early 2022.\n\n\"Now we finally have all controls eased, but it's too sudden. The government could have done it phase by phase, region by region. Also winter is the worst season to do it. Why not wait until next spring? And why didn't the government prepare enough resources before opening up?\" she asks.\n\n\"2022 was the worst year for us. I can only pray 2023 won't be any worse.\"", "The three people who died were (from left) Sharon McLean, Donna Janse Van Rensburg and Keith Russell\n\nThree people who died in a fire at a hotel in Perth have been named by police.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Donna Janse Van Rensburg, 44, and Sharon McLean, 47, both from Aberdeen, and Keith Russell, 38, originally from Edinburgh, were discovered at the New County Hotel after the blaze on Monday.\n\nMr Russell's family described him as a \"loving father\".\n\nPolice Scotland said an investigation was ongoing.\n\nBoth families have asked for privacy.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Russell's family said: \"Keith was a loving father and loved by all his family. He will be greatly missed.\"\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison said a joint investigation with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was continuing.\n\n\"Our thoughts continue to be with the family and friends of those who died as well as the many people affected by this incident,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to again thank all the emergency services and partner agencies involved as well as the local community for their patience while inquiries are carried out.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10 on 2 January, leading to a huge response from the emergency services. There were 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire appliances at the scene at its peak.\n\nAbout 16 hotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the three bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nThe deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council, Councillor Eric Drysdale, said: \"My thoughts and prayers are with the heartbroken families of Donna, Sharon and Keith.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone in Perth and Kinross I send our deepest condolences.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 05:10 on 2 January\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene", "Junior doctors in England could stage a three-day walkout in March, a union has warned the government.\n\nA ballot for the industrial action will open on Monday, the British Medical Association has confirmed.\n\nLike recent strikes by nurses and ambulance crews, the dispute centres around pay amid rising inflation.\n\nThe current pay agreement for junior doctors ends in March 2023 - and the government says increasing pay in line with inflation is unaffordable.\n\nInflation - the rate prices rise at - is now 11.1%, the highest level for 40 years.\n\nBelow inflation pay rises add up to a 26.1% real-terms cut for junior doctors in England since 2008-09, the BMA says.\n\nBasic pay for a new junior doctor is about £29,000 a year - though most will also receive overtime and unsocial-hours shift payments.\n\nJunior doctors - those who have just graduated from medical school through to those with many years of experience on the front line - walked out of routine and emergency care in 2016.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is working on \"new tough laws\" to protect people from strike disruption.\n\nThe government says it will consult on the adequate level of coverage for the emergency sectors, \"recognising that disruption to blue-light services puts lives at immediate risk\".\n\nFor other sectors, including other health services, education, nuclear decommissioning, transport and border security, the government says it hopes to continue reaching voluntary agreements on minimum provision.\n\nAbout 45,000 junior doctors in England will be balloted from Monday. If they strike, NHS trusts will have to arrange emergency cover to ensure patient safety. A ballot is planned in Scotland soon too.\n\nDr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, who co-chair the BMA junior doctors committee, said: \"The prime minister says his door, and that of the health secretary, are 'always open.' This simply is not true.\n\n\"All our calls to meet, and letters to the health secretary and his immediate predecessors, have been ignored.\n\n\"When we are faced with such resolute ongoing silence despite all our attempts to start negotiations, then we are left with no choice but to act.\n\n\"Junior doctors are not worth a quarter less than they were 15 years ago nor do they deserve to be valued so little by their own government.\"", "The UK is embarking on an ambitious plan to accelerate research into mRNA cancer vaccines, with German pharmaceutical company BioNTech.\n\nFollowing the success of Covid vaccines using the same messenger-ribonucleic-acid technology, scientists now want to conduct more trials in cancer patients.\n\nAnd they are hoping to provide this personalised type of treatment to about 10,000 patients by 2030.\n\nBritain is the first nation to sign up to such a partnership.\n\nBioNTech has several international cancer vaccine trials in progress but says the UK is ideally placed as it has a great track record and infrastructure for medical research.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BioNTech founders described their cancer research to the BBC in October\n\nSome of the patients in the trials will have cancer that has already been treated and the vaccine will hopefully prevent it returning.\n\nOthers will have advanced, spreading cancers the vaccine might help shrink and control.\n\nUnlike chemotherapy, which attacks lots of different cells as well as the cancer, the mRNA treatment is tailor-made for the individual and presents the immune system with bits of genetic code from the specific cancer so it can attack only the tumour.\n\nThis makes it more expensive to produce. BioNTech says it will be affordable for healthcare systems. But much more work is needed to determine whether the cost can be justified for the NHS. Being commercially sensitive, the details of the partnership between the Government and BioNTech have not been disclosed.\n\nBioNTech co-founder Prof Ozlem Tureci told BBC News: \"The UK is a great partner for this endeavour.\n\n\"We have seen in the Covid-19 pandemic with the fast approval of vaccines in the UK that the regulatory authority is exceptional.\n\n\"And then there is the genomic-analysis capabilities. The UK is one of the leading nations in that regard.\n\n\"The concept here is to use specific molecular features in individual cancers of patients to encode them into the mRNA vaccines and to train the immune system to attack.\"\n\nIt was like putting up a bounty or wanted poster, she said, alerting the body to be on the lookout and fight.\n\nAnd because cancer is a complex disease, patients might need several doses to keep the immune system on guard.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay said: \"Once cancer is detected, we need to ensure the best possible treatments are available as soon as possible, including for breast, lung and pancreatic cancer.\n\n\"BioNTech helped lead the world on a Covid-19 vaccine and they share our commitment to scientific advancement.\n\n\"This partnership will mean that, from as early as September, our patients will be among the first to participate in trials and tests to provide targeted, personalised and precision treatments using transformative new therapies to both treat the existing cancer and help stop it returning.\"\n\nCancer Research UK welcomed the news, but said delays in diagnosis and treatment mean staff are increasingly overstretched and may be unable to find the time needed to set up clinical trials - if this continued it would mean slower progress towards new treatments.\n\nCRUK spokesman Dr Iain Foulkes said: \"mRNA vaccines are one of the most exciting research developments to come out of the pandemic, and there are strong hints that they could become powerful treatment options for cancer.\n\n\"Getting there will require lots more research.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Buses burn and block roads on the streets of Culiacan, Mexico\n\nAt least 29 people were killed during the bloody operation to arrest of the son of Mexican drugs kingpin \"El Chapo\", the Mexican authorities say.\n\nOvidio Guzmán-López, 32, alleged to be a leader of his father's former cartel, was captured in Culiacán and flown to Mexico City on Thursday.\n\nBut during and after the arrest, 10 soldiers and 19 suspects were killed.\n\nFurious gang members set up road blocks, set fire to dozens of vehicles and attacked planes at a local airport.\n\nA further 35 military personnel were injured and 21 gunmen were arrested, Defence Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Friday.\n\nMr Guzmán-López - nicknamed \"The Mouse\" - was extracted by helicopter and flown to the capital before being taken to a maximum security federal prison.\n\nHe is accused of leading a faction of his father's notorious Sinaloa cartel - one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world.\n\nHis father, Joaquín \"El Chapo\" Guzmán, is serving a life sentence in the US after being found guilty in 2019 of drug trafficking and money laundering. His trial revealed some of the brutal details of how Mexico's drug cartels operate.\n\nThe US announced an award of $5m for information leading to Mr Guzmán-López's arrest\n\nThe six-month surveillance operation to capture Mr Guzmán-López had the support of United States officials, Mr Sandoval said.\n\nThe US had put out a reward of up to $5m (£4.2m) for information leading to his arrest or conviction, as well as that of three of his brothers who are also thought to have kept their positions of command in the group.\n\nBut a federal judge in Mexico has now suspended any extradition process against him, according to local media.\n\nThe operation, which began at dawn in Culiacán, in Sinaloa state, north-west Mexico, sparked a wave of violence from armed cartel members.\n\nBurning vehicles are seen blocking a road following the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán-López.\n\nDozens of vehicles were set alight and at least two planes at Sinaloa airports were hit by gunfire, in attacks blamed on the Sinaloa cartel. More than 100 flights were cancelled at local airports as a result.\n\nTwo Mexican Air Force aircraft were forced to make emergency landings after they were hit by gunfire from the cartel, Defence Minister Sandoval said.\n\nHelicopter gunships were deployed from the authorities to support the ground operation.\n\nMexican President Andrés López Obrador said Mexican forces had acted responsibly to look after the civilian population and avoid innocent victims. No civilian deaths have yet been reported.\n\nA further 1,000 troops are being sent to Sinaloa to help with ongoing security measures.\n\nVideos on social media have shown burning buses blocking roads in Culiacán.\n\nJustine Goldbas, 32, was travelling on a bus through Sinaloa on her way back home to Los Angeles with her husband and eight-year-old son - just before the riots began on Thursday.\n\nThey were then told the bus was \"at risk\" and the driver was informed he needed to \"stop and hide\". The vehicle was parked off the main road for 16 hours in Caborca, in the neighbouring state of Sonora, before being allowed to move again.\n\n\"There was a lot of fear, people were scared,\" Ms Goldbas said.\n\n\"Our bus had just passed a spot where it happened - literally, if we had waited another 30 minutes before passing, we would have been in the cross of it.\n\n\"We've also seen security guards, some in cars and some in big tanks going south. We may have been far from it but we were close enough to see many people driving pretty fast in the opposite direction.\"\n\nThe fuselage of a plane scheduled to fly from Culiacán to Mexico City was hit by gunfire during the operation on Thursday morning as it was preparing for take-off, Mexican airline Aeromexico said.\n\nNo customers or employees were harmed, it said. A video posted on social media appears to show passengers crouching and cowering in their seats.\n\n\"As we were accelerating for take-off, we heard gunshots very close to the plane, and that's when we all threw ourselves to the floor,\" one of the passengers, David Tellez, told Reuters news agency.\n\nUS President Joe Biden is due to visit Mexico for a North American leaders' summit next week. He will now arrive on Sunday, a day earlier than previously expected, according to a tweet by Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. No reason was given for why he was arriving early.\n\nThere were blockades in different parts of the city and residents were urged to stay at home. Many shops were also looted and gunfire exchanges took place between security forces and gang members.\n\nAll schools across the whole state of Sinaloa were closed on Friday, the local government body overseeing education said.\n\nMexican security forces had previously arrested Mr Guzmán-López in 2019 but released him to avoid the threat of violence from his supporters.\n\nThe US State Department says he and his brother Joaquín are currently overseeing approximately 11 methamphetamine labs in the state of Sinaloa, producing an estimated 1,300- 2,200kg (3,000-5,000lb) of the drug per month.\n\nThey have also said that information indicates Mr Guzmán-López ordered the murders of informants, a drug trafficker and a popular Mexican singer who refused to sing at his wedding.\n\nAre you in Mexico and have been affected by the issues raised in this story? Tell us my emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A new partnership between the satellite phone firm Iridium and chip giant Qualcomm will bring satellite connectivity to premium Android smartphones later in the year.\n\nIt means that in places where there is no mobile coverage, handsets can connect with passing satellites to send and receive messages.\n\nQualcomm's chips are found in many Android-powered smartphones.\n\nApple announced a satellite feature for the iPhone 14 in September 2022.\n\nThe service is currently only available for sending and receiving basic text messages in an emergency.\n\nBritish smartphone maker Bullitt was the first to launch its own satellite service, beating Apple to the post. It is also for emergency use, and will be available in selected areas when first rolled out.\n\nThe new partnership will make the same service accessible to millions more smartphone users, without tying them to a particular brand - but it will be down to the manufacturer to enable it.\n\nIridium is the original satellite phone system, sending its first satellite in to orbit in 1997. It completed a refresh of its network of 75 spacecraft in 2019.\n\nThe satellites cover the entire globe and fly in low orbit, around 485 miles (780km) above the Earth, and groups of them can communicate with each other, passing data between them.\n\nQualcomm said that at first the new feature, called Snapdragon Satellite, will only be incorporated into its premium chips so is unlikely to appear in budget devices.\n\nBut it will eventually be rolled out to tablets, laptops and even vehicles, and also become a service that is not restricted to emergency communication - although there is likely to be a fee for this.\n\nSatellite connectivity is broadly considered to be the next frontier for mobile phones because it tackles the problem of \"not-spots\" - areas where there is no existing coverage. These tend to be more common in rural or remote places.\n\nIt has already been successfully deployed to provide broadband coverage by services such as Elon Musk's Starlink.\n\nSatellite broadband is fast and generally reliable, but more expensive than cable or fibre connections.\n\nUse of the the feature will be subject to local government regulations, as countries including India and China ban the use of satellite phones.", "A criminal investigation was launched following a visit by Ofsted inspectors to Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley\n\nSix women have been arrested over the \"suspicious\" death of a one-year-old boy at a nursery in the West Midlands.\n\nA criminal investigation was launched following a visit by Ofsted inspectors to Fairytales Day Nursery in Dudley, in the wake of the death on 9 December.\n\nTwo of those arrested are being held on suspicion of corporate manslaughter, police have confirmed.\n\nThe nursery, on Bourne Street, along with other linked premises, is closed.\n\nThe corporate manslaughter suspects were detained on Wednesday, along with another woman held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nOfsted said it was supporting the police inquiry\n\nThe three are aged 51, 53 and 37, says West Midlands Police, adding it is treating the death as suspicious.\n\nThree others, aged 20, 23 and 50, were arrested on 16 December on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. They have been released on police bail.\n\nA post-mortem examination has taken place, but further tests will be needed to establish the cause of death, according to police.\n\nThe boy's family is being supported, the force adds.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service said paramedics and an air ambulance were called to Bourne Street at about 15:20 GMT on 9 December.\n\nCrews found a child in a critical condition and advanced life support was administered, which continued on the way to Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital by ambulance.\n\nThe nursery's website stated that the Bourne Street site was established in 2003\n\nBefore the nursery's closure, Ofsted said it had received concerns on 14 December that it was not meeting some safeguarding and welfare requirements, and its registration was suspended amid fears by officials \"children may be at risk of harm\".\n\nA regulatory visit a day later revealed the nursery had failed to notify Ofsted of a change in manager, which is an offence, and was not meeting some other requirements.\n\nAs a result of that it was told to make several improvements, including training for staff caring for babies, as well as other actions around babies' sleeping routines, risk assessments and safeguarding procedures.\n\nA spokesperson for Ofsted told BBC News on Thursday it would be inappropriate to comment on the circumstances surrounding the death while a police investigation was under way.\n\nHowever, the watchdog said it was supporting the police inquiry.\n\nThe nursery was rated \"good\" by Ofsted in 2019, and \"outstanding\" three years earlier.\n\nIts website details several awards it has won, including SME News UK Enterprise Award for best childcare provider in the West Midlands in 2022, expert-recommended top three nursery in Dudley in 2021 and Greater Birmingham Apprenticeship Awards Small Employer Of The Year 2022.\n\nIt added the Bourne Street site was established in 2003, with two others in St James's Road from 2006.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'Take Back Control' bill will turn slogan into solution, says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nSir Keir Starmer has promised a new \"take back control\" bill to transfer powers from Westminster to communities.\n\nIn his first speech of 2023, the Labour leader - a former Remain supporter - said he wanted to turn the Brexit campaign slogan \"into a solution\".\n\nHe pledged to devolve new powers over employment support, transport, energy, housing, culture and childcare.\n\nSir Keir said the legislation would be \"a centrepiece\" of Labour's plans if it wins the next general election.\n\nWith the country facing severe pressure on the NHS, a wave of strike action and a cost-of-living crisis, Sir Keir said he was \"under no illusions about the scale of the challenges we face\".\n\nIn his speech in east London, he promised a \"decade of national renewal\" under Labour and \"hope\" for the future.\n\nBut the Labour leader warned his party \"won't be able to spend our way\" out of the \"mess\" he said would be left by the Conservatives.\n\nSetting out his priorities for a future Labour government, Sir Keir said he wanted to give communities \"the chance to control their economic destiny\".\n\n\"The decisions which create wealth in our communities should be taken by local people with skin in the game, and a huge power shift out of Westminster can transform our economy, our politics and our democracy,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer tells Chris Mason he expects to inherit a \"very badly damaged economy\" from the Conservatives if he wins the next election\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign of 2016, Sir Keir said he \"couldn't disagree with the basic case so many Leave voters made to me\".\n\n\"It's not unreasonable for us to recognise the desire for communities to stand on their own feet. It's what 'take back control' meant,\" he said.\n\n\"So we will embrace the 'take back control' message but we'll turn it from a slogan to a solution. From a catchphrase into change.\"\n\nKeir Starmer - a man who voted Remain and campaigned for a second referendum - is cloaking himself in the language of Brexit.\n\nHis promise of what he calls a '\"take back control bill\", a planned new law pushing powers away from Westminster, is nothing if not unsubtle.\n\nTaking the highly effective slogan of the victorious Brexit campaign and claiming it as his own.\n\nLabour needs to win back dozens and dozens of seats that voted Leave and Sir Keir might as well be screaming \"I get it\" from every rooftop he can clamber on.\n\nIt does mean critics will ask what he really believes: it might be savvy politics to court Brexit voters, but who is the real Keir Starmer?\n\nSir Keir was Labour's shadow Brexit secretary under Jeremy Corbyn between 2016 and 2020, when he unsuccessfully campaigned for a second EU referendum.\n\nAsked by reporters whether he now regretted supporting a fresh vote, Sir Keir said: \"Even in those turbulent years, 2016 to 2019, I was always making the argument that there was always something very important sitting behind that leave vote.\n\n\"That phrase 'take back control' was really powerful, it was like a Heineken phrasing, got into people.\n\n\"And the more they ask themselves, do I have enough control, the more they answer that question, no.\"\n\nLabour said the bill would give English towns and cities the tools to develop long-term plans for economic growth, creating high-skilled jobs in their areas.\n\nThe party said there would be \"a presumption towards moving power out of Westminster\", with local leaders able to bid for any powers which had already been devolved elsewhere.\n\n\"Take back control\" was used by the Vote Leave campaign, including Boris Johnson\n\nElsewhere in his speech, Sir Keir accused the Conservatives of \"sticking plaster politics\", saying they had failed to address long-term issues.\n\nAlthough he acknowledged investment was needed after the \"damage\" done by the Conservatives to public services, he warned Labour would not be \"getting its big government chequebook out\".\n\nBy suggesting a move away from big increases in public spending, Sir Keir appeared to distance himself from his predecessor as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn.\n\nPressed by the BBC's Chris Mason over whether a Labour government would spend any more than the Conservatives, Sir Keir said he would make \"different choices\" but any commitments would be fully costed.\n\nHe said the party would inherit \"a broken economy\" and with the tax burden already high there was not scope for big tax increases.\n\nSir Keir also said he wanted a Labour government to work with business to deliver its aims.\n\nAsked by reporters whether there was more scope for private sector involvement in public services, Sir Keir said trying to deliver everything through the state did not work and he was instead proposing a \"partnership model\" with private business.\n\nSir Keir's speech made no mention of abolishing the House of Lords - a proposal which was unveiled by Labour in a report last month.\n\nBut the Labour leader denied he had \"gone cool\" on the idea, saying it was a \"key part\" of the party's report on constitutional change.\n\nThe speech provoked criticism from some on the left of the Labour Party.\n\nFormer shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who is a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said a \"take back control\" bill was an \"empty promise\" without new money to go with it.\n\nLabour councillor Martin Abrams, a committee member of the Momentum campaign group, said Sir Keir's speech was \"totally out of step with the scale of the crisis facing us\" and the reference to private sector partnerships \"makes people's hearts sink\".\n\nThe speech came a day after Rishi Sunak set out his own priorities for government at a venue just a short distance away.\n\nIn his new year speech, the prime minister promised to halve inflation, grow the economy, ensure national debt falls, cut NHS waiting lists and pass new laws to stop small boat crossings.\n\nForeign Secretary James Cleverly said Mr Sunak's five pledges were in contrast to Sir Keir's speech, which he claimed made \"no firm commitments\".\n\nOn Labour's \"take back control\" plan, Mr Cleverly said the Conservatives had already given local communities more power through regional mayors.", "Joan Sydney, who starred in long-running soaps A Country Practice and Neighbours, has died at the age of 83.\n\nThe British-Australian actor died last Wednesday at her Sydney home after a long illness.\n\nHer long-time friend and fellow actor Sally-Anne Upton confirmed her death on Facebook yesterday.\n\nMs Sydney played Margaret Sloan, a no-nonsense matron, in A Country Practice during the 1980s.\n\nShe was named most outstanding actress for the role in 1989 at Australia's annual Logie Awards for television.\n\nIn 2002, she joined the cast of Neighbours, playing Valda Sheergold.\n\nMs Sydney was born in London and grew up in Wales. She trained as an actor in the Oldham Repertory Theatre.\n\nShe made her screen debut in the 1957 film version of English play When We Are Married, at the age of 21. She emigrated to Perth in 1965, and later moved to New South Wales.\n\nFans and fellow artists paid tribute to the late actor on social media.\n\n\"Thank you for all you have taught me, love, friendship, many memories shared that will be treasured forever,\" wrote Ms Upton, who acted alongside Ms Sydney in her last television production, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.\n\nShane Withington, who also starred in A Country Practice, tweeted: \"Comedy is never as easy as it looks and this lady made it look effortless. I adored her.\"", "More than a dozen residents of one village have reported delays, missing packages and failed deliveries by Evri\n\nVillagers have been left waiting for their Christmas presents to be delivered by courier company Evri.\n\nMany people living in Cefneithin, Carmarthenshire, said they had not received packages, or contact, from the company.\n\nOne woman said a £70 gift she ordered in November has still not arrived, despite Evri claiming it had.\n\nEvri said that most parcels were delivered by Christmas and apologised to those experiencing delivery issues.\n\nIn total, 11 residents in Cefneithin have contacted BBC Wales to report issues.\n\nCharlotte Jukes, 40, is still waiting for a £70 chef's knife she bought for her husband.\n\n\"This may seem like a small amount of money, but I am a disabled wheelchair user and work part-time so it took me a while to save for,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm very upset that it did not arrive in time for Christmas and more upset that Evri are claiming it has been delivered when it hasn't been.\"\n\nMs Jukes was excited to give her husband the chef's knife that had long been on his Christmas list\n\nShe said the Evri parcel tracker listed the parcel as delivered on the 27 December, but there was no photographic proof of the delivery.\n\nMrs Jukes added that footage from her video doorbell showed that no Evri courier parked outside or approached their door on that day.\n\nEvri's main point of contact is an automated online chat which has made it difficult for Mrs Jukes to get answers, so she has been left without the gift.\n\nMarie McAvoy spent all of Christmas Eve waiting at home for Christmas presents which never arrived\n\nMarie McAvoy, 56, said she bought three Christmas presents between 15 and 18 December, before the advertised Christmas delivery date and paid for express delivery.\n\nShe said she got an email on Christmas Eve saying her packages would be delivered that evening, but they never turned up, followed by an email saying no-one was home when the delivery was attempted.\n\n\"I had not been out of the house all day,\" she said.\n\n\"For me, I live on my own, I didn't have a spare £150 on Christmas Eve to go and buy alternative presents.\"\n\nMs McAvoy said her sister, mother and brother-in-law had to go without presents, and although \"they are grown ups and they understand\" she felt frustrated.\n\n\"With the cost-of-living crisis, people are penny pinching… and some will have been waiting for presents for their children.\"\n\nShe said she has still not received her packages, or had any reply from Evri.\n\nRachael Thomas said Evri claimed to have tried to deliver her parcel, but her Ring doorbell showed that was not the case\n\nRachael Thomas, 39, from Foelgastell near Cefneithin, said Evri had lost three of her deliveries in December, labelling the company \"diabolical\".\n\n\"I had to spend loads of time seeking refunds off companies, some of which have issued gift cards which I am to afraid to use to order online as the same will happen,\" said Mrs Thomas.\n\nShe added that Evri have not updated her on the whereabouts of these three parcels since mid December.\n\n\"They emailed saying they had tried to deliver, again another lie as three people were home and I have a Ring doorbell.\"\n\nRachael Thomas said her parcel was due to be delivered well before Christmas, but said she has still received nothing\n\nDanielle Griffiths, 34, said she was left disappointed after two bespoke photo books of a family trip to Lapland, which she paid £13 for express delivery, did not arrive until 5 January.\n\n\"I'm very disappointed. It's a flaw that the company does not have a backup plan for these situations,\" she said.\n\nEvri said: \"During the Christmas period we successfully delivered over three million parcels each day despite increased volumes due to Royal Mail Strikes, staff shortages and bad weather which affected all carriers.\n\n\"The vast majority were delivered in time for Christmas unless we were unable to due to the wrong address, people not being in and/or poor packaging resulting in the item being separated from the address.\n\n\"We apologise to the small number impacted for the inconvenience and disappointment and advise that people experiencing delivery issues should contact their seller who will in turn contact us regarding a replacement or refund.\"", "The pilot escaped with minor arm and leg injuries\n\nA helicopter crashed after the pilot wanted to take a closer look at an obelisk on a north Wales mountain, a report has found.\n\nThe 65-year-old hovered the helicopter near the top of Rhobell Fawr in the Eryri National Park, also known as a Snowdonia.\n\nHowever he lost control after the helicopter suffered a loss of thrust when the tail rotor broke.\n\nThe pilot was airlifted to hospital but escaped with minor injuries.\n\nThe Enstrom 280FX helicopter had left Hawarden Airport in Flintshire and flown near Nantlle and Barmouth in Gwynedd before heading to Bala lake, in August 2021.\n\n\"As the helicopter approached Rhobell Fawr, the pilot noticed a stone obelisk near its summit and decided to take a closer look,\" a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) described.\n\n\"Having flown past the obelisk by about 20m (66ft), he then brought the helicopter into a hover about two to three feet (0.6m to 0.9m) above an area of gently sloping ground.\n\n\"However, uncommanded by the pilot, the helicopter then rapidly yawed to the right before touching down heavily on its skids.\"\n\nThe helicopter remained on the mountain for a month but when recovered it was found that it had suffered substantial damage.\n\nThe AAIB investigation found a lack of lubrication to the tail rotor gearbox had caused it to overheat and fail.\n\nThree safety recommendations have been made relating to the maintenance manual regarding the required oil quantity and servicing interval for the tail rotor gearbox.\n• None Racehorse owner among five in helicopter crash", "The airline industry was once notorious for imposing strict rules on how its airline staff looked.\n\nBritish Airways is the latest airline to try to shake-off that reputation with its first uniform revamp in 20 years - and it includes a jumpsuit.\n\nIt follows Virgin Atlantic allowing male pilots and crew to wear skirts and female colleagues to choose trousers.\n\nAs well as the all-in-one, designer Ozwald Boateng has also created a tunic and hijab for BA's new uniform.\n\nBut it has taken some time to get the clothes from the page to the plane - nearly five years in fact, including two years of delays because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nDuring that time, Mr Boateng's designs have been put through their paces including testing the gear for BA's outdoor workers in freezing temperatures and pouring rain.\n\nFinally the collection will be rolled out in spring for BA's 30,000 staff. Mr Boateng, a Savile Row tailor, has designed a three-piece suit for men while women can choose to wear a dress, skirt or trousers.\n\nStaff will be allowed to order different cuts - normal or skinny-fit trousers - and will be able to book a fitting so the uniform is more tailored.\n\nAs for the jumpsuit, that will be for female check-in staff at first but BA expects cabin crew to be able to wear them by the middle of the year - after further testing.\n\nFemale cabin crew have already been trying out the new uniform and asked for changes. Emma Carey said: \"The pockets on the apron, for example, were widened after the trial so we had more room for everything we need during meal services on board.\"\n\nEngineers also requested tool pockets, and ground handlers asked for glove fabric that could cope with touch screens.\n\nLast year, rival airline Virgin Atlantic announced it was taking a \"fluid approach\" to uniforms which allowed staff to choose their clothing \"no matter their gender\".\n\nThough it later said the policy did not apply to crew on board the England football team's flight to the World Cup in Qatar, which has been criticised for its treatment of LGBT people.\n\nA spokesperson for BA said that although its uniforms were gendered, it has a policy which allows staff who identify as a certain gender to wear that clothing.\n\nBA's uniforms by Ozwald Boateng (left) will replace those designed by Julien MacDonald (right)\n\n\"As a colleague, you can chat to us about that and you can wear what you want. We've got a number of transgender colleagues, and have had that policy for decades,\" he said.\n\nBA relaxed its dress code last year by allowing male pilots and cabin crew to wear makeup and nail varnish.\n• None No uniform choice for Virgin crew on World Cup flight", "A Tory MP is standing by comments he made that firefighters earning £32,000 a year who use food banks should \"learn how to budget\".\n\nBrendan Clarke-Smith tweeted that the idea of people on this money using a food bank was the most \"ridiculous\" thing he had heard.\n\n\"If true\", he added, they should learn \"how to budget and prioritise\".\n\nHis remarks sparked a row, with many people highlighting the soaring costs of energy, food, fuel and rent.\n\nThe MP for Bassetlaw, in Nottinghamshire, denied claims his comments were \"patronising\", telling the BBC there was a general need across the population for people to learn how to manage their finances better.\n\nHe also pointed to \"many things\" he said the government had done to help people with the cost of living, including their energy bills.\n\nBut, he told the BBC, it was wrong to \"trivialise\" food banks and to use them as a \"catch-all term\" every time there was a pay dispute.\n\nMost people in his Bassetlaw constituency had to manage on less than £32,000 a year, he added, and the median salary in the area was £25,800.\n\nCritics on social media noted that MPs earn a basic annual salary of £84,144, and can claim expenses for accommodation, office costs and travel.\n\nIn an interview on Tuesday, Transport Secretary Mark Harper distanced himself from Mr Clarke-Smith's comments, telling LBC: \"I wouldn't put things in the way that he has.\"\n\nIn November, The Trussell Trust charity reported it had provided 1.3m emergency food parcels to people between April and September, almost half a million of them to children.\n\nMr Clarke-Smith was responding to a tweet from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which said: \"Freedom of Information requests reveal that Chief Fire Officers are on average on £148,000 - whilst many ordinary firefighters, on £32,244, are forced to foodbanks.\"\n\nHe replied: \"I respect the profession, but £32,244 and using a foodbank? Never heard such a ridiculous thing in my life.\n\n\"I earned a lot less than that for most of my teaching career and so do many of my constituents. If true, which is unlikely, I suggest learning how to budget and prioritise.\"\n\nIn a column for the Worksop Guardian published on Friday, Mr Clarke-Smith said he had been dismayed by the FBU's food bank claim.\n\nHe said anyone could fall on hard times and have to use food banks, regardless of their income.\n\nThis could be for a variety of reasons, including a short-term cashflow problem or a family tragedy, he added.\n\nAnother Nottinghamshire Conservative MP recently sparked a backlash when he suggested that striking nurses who used food banks were not managing their money properly.\n\nLee Anderson, who represents Ashfield, said: \"I heard some nonsense a few weeks back that nurses were actually stealing food off patients' plates. I don't believe it.\n\n\"Anybody earning 30-odd-grand a year, which most nurses are, using food banks, then they've got something wrong with their own finances.\"", "A deep seam of unresolved grief runs through Prince Harry's book, with repeated references to Princess Diana\n\nFrom losing his mother, losing his trust in his family to losing his virginity, Prince Harry's bombshell memoir, Spare, leaves few royal stones unturned.\n\nPrince Harry's life story describes fighting his brother, taking psychedelic drugs, his love affairs and not wanting his father to re-marry.\n\nIt's sex, drugs and rucks and royals.\n\nBut there is also a deep seam of unresolved grief, with repeated references to Princess Diana.\n\nPrince Harry's view is clear from the very outset of the book, in its dedication - to his wife Meghan, their children Archie and Lilibet, and \"of course\" his mother.\n\nNothing for his brother Prince William, his father King Charles, or his sister-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales.\n\nAs an aside, it also reveals that the sparring brothers called each other Harold and Willy.\n\nAnd in another detail emerging, Prince Harry says that he first found out that his grandmother Queen Elizabeth had died from the BBC News website on his phone.\n\nThe launch of this controversial book has been overtaken by multiple leaks and a premature appearance in Spain, which allowed media outlets, including the BBC, to get a copy ahead of official publication.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry: \"He [William] wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to\"\n\nTaken as a whole what's apparent is the anger that Prince Harry still feels about much of his life as a young royal and how that bitterness continues to shape his difficult relations with the Royal Family.\n\nHe talks in the book of being left with a legacy of \"terrifying panic attacks\" and the sweat-drenched anxiety he felt about appearing and speaking in public.\n\nA clue to understanding Prince Harry's clear sense of unfinished business comes from a quote from US writer William Faulkner that's used to start a chapter: \"The past is never dead. It's not even past.\"\n\nIt was a line used by Barack Obama before he became president - and it runs through this memoir like the writing in a stick of rock. It's a past that dominates his present - the sense of losing his mother and then failing to find the support he expected.\n\nThis is Prince Harry's version of events - Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace have declined to comment.\n\nDiana, in her absence, is one of the biggest characters in this story.\n\nPrince Harry, who speaks of Diana as \"mummy\", goes to see a woman with special powers who might make contact with his mother.\n\nThe prince gets a driver to take him through the tunnel in Paris where his mother died in a car crash in 1997, hoping for closure from a \"decade of unrelenting pain\", and this only makes him feel an even keener sense of grieving.\n\nHe went back through the tunnel with Prince William and claims that neither of them were convinced by the official account of the accident, which he calls an \"insult\" and raised more questions than answers.\n\nThe aftermath of her death seems to have left a divide between Harry and his father, now King Charles. Harry remembers that his father didn't hug him when he broke the news that Diana had died, sitting on his bed in Balmoral.\n\nAnd he describes the traumatising walk behind her coffin, the crowds reaching out to him and how he felt unable to cry in public.\n\nPrince Harry still dreamt about his mother returning, maybe turning up in secret wearing a blonde wig and dark glasses. \"Perhaps she will appear this morning,\" he thought.\n\nThe book makes claims about tensions between members of the Royal Family\n\nWhen his father introduces Camilla to his sons, Harry talks of fearing a wicked stepmother and seems desperate to avoid seeing anyone else married to his father.\n\nThe impact of his early years - and the challenge of growing up in public - are described, including taking cocaine at the age of 17.\n\nIn lines unlikely to have appeared in any previous royal memoir, he also lost his virginity in a field behind a pub, with an \"older woman who really liked horses and treated me like a young stallion\".\n\nSuch was the strangeness and scrutiny of his young life that he says he welcomed serving in Afghanistan. \"I savoured the sense of normality,\" he writes, about being without titles or bodyguards.\n\nHe says he killed 25 Taliban fighters. \"It wasn't a fact that filled me with satisfaction, but it didn't make me ashamed either.\"\n\nMuch attention has been paid to the more domestic conflict, between Prince Harry and Prince William, and suggesting the tensions in their relationship, Prince Harry describes his brother as both \"beloved\" and his \"arch-nemesis\".\n\nThis conflict culminates in the claim that Prince William physically attacked his brother, pushing him to the ground after a row in which William is reported to have called Meghan \"difficult\", \"rude\" and \"abrasive\".\n\nAlso previously untold was his account of finding out about Queen Elizabeth's ill-health and death. He says he was called by his father to say that his grandmother's health had worsened, but as Harry made plans to go to Balmoral he says he was told not to bring Meghan.\n\nWhen his plane was coming into land in Scotland he says: \"I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.\"", "The government's top social mobility adviser has quit, saying she was doing \"more harm than good\" in the role.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh, who has been dubbed Britain's strictest head teacher, has attracted controversy since being appointed in November 2021.\n\nShe said her \"propensity to voice opinions that are considered controversial\" was putting the commission \"in jeopardy\".\n\nShe added she had become increasingly cautious about what she said.\n\n\"Instead of going out there to bat for the team and celebrate our achievements, I am becoming a politician,\" she wrote in Schools Week magazine.\n\n\"And I can't bear the idea of ever being a politician. It just isn't who I am or a skillset I wish to develop,\" she added.\n\nThe government said Alun Francis, the principal of Oldham College, would replace Ms Birbalsingh on an interim basis, with arrangements for finding a permanent replacement announced in \"due course\".\n\nIn her inaugural speech as social mobility adviser, Ms Birbalsingh said the debate on social mobility was too focused on \"rags-to-riches\" stories of people from poor backgrounds getting into top universities and elite professions.\n\nIn her Schools Week article, she said the wider point of her speech had been lost amid \"outrage\" in the press, who she said had misconstrued her remarks and \"insisted that I personally believe 'working class people should stay in their lane'\".\n\nShe also came under fire last April for saying girls are less likely to choose physics A-level because it involves \"hard maths\" - later admitting her remarks had been \"clunky\".\n\nThe comments earned a rebuke from the Institute of Physics (IOP), which said it was concerned at the \"continued use of outdated stereotypes\".\n\nIn June last year, she criticised Boris Johnson, describing the former prime minister as a \"bad role model for children\" that sometimes didn't look \"professional enough\".\n\nMs Birbalsingh set up Michaela Community School in London in 2014, after losing her teaching job at another school after an outspoken speech to the 2010 Tory conference where she attacked a \"culture of excuses and low standards\" in the \"broken\" education system.\n\nHer new school, part of the \"free schools\" initiative launched by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, has been described as the strictest in Britain.\n\nIn 2021, she was appointed chair of the government's social mobility commission, tasked with monitoring progress on improving life chances in England, by then equalities minister Liz Truss.\n\nThe advisory body is tasked with improving the number of children who go on to earn more or hold higher-status jobs than their parents. Research has suggested the UK has low rates of mobility compared to other developed countries.\n\nKatharine Birbalsingh set up Michaela Community School with the help of then-education secretary Michael Gove\n\nMichaela Community School is known for its \"tiger teaching\" approach, where pupils are expected to adhere to strict rules on things like uniform, slouching, and talking in corridors.\n\nIn a resignation letter to Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, Ms Birbalsingh said she believed the approach would \"make for good schools\" if replicated elsewhere.\n\nHowever, she said she she worried that any research the commission did that vindicated her approach would be \"tainted\" by association with her.\n\n\"People will imagine that something sinister is going on and that I am using the [commission] in order to prove a point with Michaela,\" she added.\n\nIn a letter of reply, Ms Badenoch praised her \"fresh approach to social mobility\", which had moved away from the idea \"that it should just be about the 'long' upward mobility from the bottom to the top\".", "Raye signed a four-album deal with Polydor when she was 17, but said the label was unwilling to release her debut album\n\nPop star Raye has claimed her first number one single, 18 months after splitting from the record label that refused to release her debut album.\n\nThe five-time Brit nominee has topped the chart with the hard-hitting, drink-the-pain-away club anthem Escapism.\n\n\"As someone who writes for a living, I have no words,\" she told the BBC on Friday. \"I've been crying all day.\"\n\n\"It just shows that you should back yourself, no matter what people tell you.\"\n\nShe added: \"And we've done it independently - that's just crazy.\"\n\nEscapism had already been riding high in the charts, but was held off the number one spot by a succession of Christmas songs over the festive period.\n\nAs those tracks dropped away this week, Escapism rose to the top with 5.6 million streams, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nRaye had previously reached number three in the UK Singles Chart twice, first as a guest vocalist on Jax Jones's You Don't Know Me in 2016, then on last year's Joel Corry and David Guetta collaboration Bed.\n\nBut after her solo material failed to reach the same heights, she publicly parted ways with record label Polydor in 2021, saying she was being treated as a \"rent-a-vocal\" dance artist.\n\n\"Imagine this pain,\" she wrote in an open letter in June 2021. \"I have been signed to a major label since 2014… and I have had albums on albums of music sat in folders collecting dust, songs I am now giving away to A-list artists because I am still awaiting confirmation that I am good enough to release an album.\n\n\"I've done everything [Polydor] asked me, I switched genres, I worked seven days a week. I'm done being a polite pop star.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAYE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVindication came with the release of Escapism late last year. A juddering, powerful song about dulling the pain of a break-up with a night of hedonism, it went viral on TikTok before crossing into the mainstream charts.\n\n\"The crazy thing is, you can see the statistics,\" she said. \"One in two people who heard the song on TikTok went and added it [to their library] on a streaming platform.\n\n\"Substance abuse isn't a pretty subject for a woman to express so boldly, but maybe it was important to be so visceral because there are clearly a lot of heartbroken people out there, blowing off steam in the wrong way.\"\n\nThe singer, who previously came third in the BBC Sound Of 2017, admitted the song's unusual structure and shifting tempos made it an unlikely hit.\n\nMajor labels who heard the song after her split from Polydor were sceptical about its chances.\n\n\"I was reluctant to ever get involved with a major again, but I took some meetings just in case,\" she said. \"And the people who heard the song were like, 'Yeah, this is cool [but] it's just something Raye needs to get out of her system'.\n\n\"It's just brilliant when you get to prove people wrong,\" she added. \"This music wasn't about charts or numbers, it was just about passion.\"\n\nEven so, getting to number one \"is the most beautiful affirmation I could ever ask for as a musician\", she said.\n\nThe 25-year-old will finally release her debut album, My 21st Century Blues, on 3 February.\n\nRaye received her first-ever Number One Award from the Charts Company on Friday\n\nWith Christmas songs staging a mass exodus from this week's charts, there are an incredible 46 new entries in the Top 75, with hits like Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits and Beyoncé's Cuff It returning to the countdown.\n\nDozens of other songs have rebounded inside the chart. Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero has leapt 51 places to number two, and Venbee & Goddard's dance anthem Messy In Heaven has rocketed from 65 to number three.\n\nUS R&B star SZA has gained her first top 10 hit, as her revenge fantasy Kill Bill climbs 28 places to number four.\n\nTwo other tracks from her critically-acclaimed album SOS have also made the Top 40, with Shirt at 25 and Nobody Gets Me at 29.\n\nMeanwhile, Tom Odell's 2012 hit Another Love has gained a new lease of life after becoming popular on TikTok as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance during Russia's invasion.\n\nAfter featuring in London's New Year's Eve fireworks display, it has re-entered the chart at number 10, its highest position to date.\n\nIn the albums chart, Taylor Swift has claimed the number one spot with her 10th studio album Midnights, while the Top 40 contains another four of her records.", "Train drivers have been offered a 4% pay rise for two years in a row by the body that represents rail companies in a bid to end strike action.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made its first offer to Aslef, the union for train drivers, after several strikes.\n\nThe deal includes a backdated pay rise of 4% for 2022 and a 4% increase this year, but it also hinges on changes to working practices.\n\nAslef told the BBC its officials had not seen the offer yet.\n\nBut its General Secretary Mick Whelan has previously said that the union is \"chasing a pay rise that at least puts a dent\" in prices, which are rising at their fastest rate in 40 years.\n\nThe RDG said it sent its offer to Aslef mid-afternoon on Friday after drivers at 15 train companies walked out on Thursday, leaving some operators unable to run any trains.\n\nThe action by drivers comes as other rail workers, such as guards and signalling staff in the RMT union, continued a series of large-scale strikes.\n\nSaturday marks the second day of a 48-hour walkout by tens of thousands of RMT members, with only around 20% of services on the rail network expected to run.\n\nMeetings between the rail minister, industry representatives and union leaders will take place on Monday.\n\nThe RDG said its offer, the first made to Aslef during to the dispute, included having no compulsory redundancies until the end of March next year.\n\nIf accepted by members, it would mean the average salary for a driver would increase from £60,000 per year to £65,000 by the end of 2023. Ten years ago it was £44,985.\n\nIt is understood the deal is contingent on what the the group has described as \"common sense, vital and long overdue changes to working arrangements across the industry\", which the RDG argues will deliver a more reliable service to passengers.\n\nOne of the conditions the RDG has outlined is employers taking control of things like staff, work and training schedules, meaning bosses would not need to agree rotas or train routes with unions.\n\nThe RDG said the changes were \"vital in a post-Covid world\", which has seen leisure travel recover more quickly than commuting has and companies struggling with a big hole in their finances.\n\nIt said the offer also looks to \"address many inefficient and arcane practices\", using a policy of extra payment for the use of technology such as tablets and smartphones as an example.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the Rail Delivery Group, said: \"This is a fair and affordable offer in challenging times, providing a significant uplift in salary for train drivers\".\n\nHe added that the deal would bring in \"common-sense\" reforms that would allow the railway to adapt to changing travel patterns.\n\n\"Instead of staging yet more damaging strike action and holding back changes that will improve services, we urge Aslef to work with us,\" he said.\n\nIf Aslef accepted this offer, it would still need to go down to local level and agreed at each of the 15 train companies where it represents drivers.\n\nLast month, the RMT union rejected an offer from the Rail Delivery Group, which included the same pay rise conditional on a list of changes to working practices.\n\nThe RMT objected to some of those, particularly the expansion of driver-only operation, where drivers operate the doors on all carriages.\n\nIt is understood this is an area under discussion, as all sides look for a way forward in the ongoing dispute", "Prince Harry's memoir Spare went on sale early in some bookshops in Spain\n\nIt was billed as the publishing event of the year.\n\nBut the meticulously-laid PR strategy for the launch of Prince Harry's tell-all autobiography appeared to unravel on Thursday in the face of a newspaper leak, followed by its surprise sale by some Spanish booksellers.\n\nPlans for a tightly choreographed publicity push, which would have been months in the making and involved a series of TV interviews with the prince, looked to be in ruins.\n\nBut while the publishers of Spare had gone to great lengths to keep the book under wraps to maximise the impact of its release, it's unlikely this unanticipated publicity will hurt sales.\n\nPhilip Jones, editor of trade paper The Bookseller, tells BBC News he thinks the leaks are \"70% good\" for the book and its publisher, Penguin Random House.\n\n\"I think they will be a little bit annoyed it has come out before the book is released, but I'm sure they will be delighted it is dominating the headlines around the world at a time when they want to increase pent-up demand ahead of publication on Tuesday,\" he says.\n\nHarry has conducted a string of pre-recorded broadcast interviews to promote the book\n\nDespite the publisher's efforts to keep the book secure, many journalists were able to get hold of it on Thursday, after word got out that the Spanish edition had been put on sale early in some bookshops.\n\nThat came hot on the heels of a leak in the Guardian, which broke the news of Harry's allegation in the book of a physical altercation with his brother, Prince William.\n\nThe next 36 hours saw wall-to-wall coverage of Spare as news outlets digested and distributed the revelations contained in its 416 pages.\n\nMost industry figures doubt that sales will be harmed by the leaks.\n\n\"This probably won't make any difference - they're likely going to sell the same number of books,\" says Edward Coram James, reputation management expert and CEO of digital marketing agency Go Up. \"If anything, they might sell more because they've got an additional week of coverage.\"\n\nBut he adds: \"You wouldn't have wanted a leak like this too far in advance, because you want the book to be launched at the height of the hype. If this leak had happened three weeks ago, the news cycle would have moved on and this story would have been slightly old hat.\n\n\"I would say it has happened close enough to the scheduled launch that, actually, the hype will continue until the launch itself, so it won't lose momentum.\"\n\nPenguin had carefully co-ordinated its publicity campaign. The strategy was for Harry to conduct a string of broadcast interviews (at least four that we know about so far), which will air in the 48 hours before the book's release.\n\nThe publisher otherwise kept things under wraps. They avoided doing a newspaper serialisation deal, while deliveries to many bookshops were scheduled to arrive at the last minute.\n\nThe book's publication follows the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series Harry & Meghan\n\nBut the number of people involved in the book's international production and distribution meant a leak was difficult to avoid. The Guardian, The Sun, The Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News were among the outlets which obtained the book en Español on Thursday and started ploughing through it.\n\n\"The net result has been that about every two or three hours, someone translates another chapter and then there's been another news dump of some new line,\" notes Neill Denny, joint editor of book trade news website BookBrunch. \"No publicity campaign can normally achieve that. It's almost worked better than a serialisation.\"\n\nHowever, a spokesman for the Spanish publisher, Plaza y Janes Editores (which belongs to Penguin Random House) expressed his frustration, telling Reuters: \"A very clear launch protocol was established and communicated to all customers so that the book would not be marketed before that date.\n\n\"Everything points to the fact that some customers have breached their commitment to the publisher and have put the book on sale before the agreed date.\"\n\nMr Denny dismisses any suggestion that the leak could have been co-ordinated for publicity. \"I think this is embarrassing for the publisher, because it shows they can't handle a massive worldwide release without it leaking,\" he says.\n\nHarry's memoir further exposes the strained relationship with his brother Prince William\n\nWhile the early revelations may not have been part of the original rollout plan, Mr Coram James points out: \"With PR strategies on big events like this, there is very often a half-expectation that something is going to go wrong. And so they will have prepared for this scenario, even though they won't have expected it.\"\n\nOne result of the leak, he suggests, has been that the broadcasters who had pre-recorded interviews with Harry have been rushing out more teaser clips, partly to make sure their exclusive isn't undermined.\n\n\"I think that will have been co-ordinated with Penguin and the Sussexes after the leak, and will be an attempt by all three parties to get a bit of control,\" Mr Coram James adds.\n\nHarry is due to be interviewed on ITV, CBS, Good Morning America and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the coming days. The clips released so far suggest Harry will be given a tough ride by some of the interviewers.\n\nUnder the original PR strategy, that would have created the appearance of Harry being held to account over the book's content, getting ahead of any potential criticism.\n\nBut instead, Mr Coram James says, the leak has led to an unplanned period of exposure for the Sussexes, creating a gap that has been filled by critics appearing on media outlets to condemn parts of the book's content.\n\n\"When you are doing a release like this, you want to make sure you are setting the terms,\" he says. \"When the book is leaked, all of a sudden the narrative escapes you.\"\n\nThe book has been written with prolific celebrity ghostwriter JR Moehringer\n\nSpare might have Harry's name on the cover, but it was written with JR Moehringer, a prolific ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs who made his name writing Andre Agassi's bombshell autobiography in 2009.\n\n\"The American publishers were very smart to get him in the room with Harry,\" says Mr Denny. \"I think if Harry had written the book himself, it would have been a bit blander. But I think this guy's pulled out and worked on these themes and made the book much more interesting.\"\n\nThe publication of Spare is part of a long-running effort by Harry to get his own narrative into the public domain. That started when he sat down, alongside wife Meghan, with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 for a tell-all interview.\n\nThe couple later signed a reported $100m (£83m) deal with Netflix for a string of programmes including their recent six-part docuseries, as well as a reported $25m (£21m) deal with Spotify for a podcast hosted by Meghan. Harry reportedly received a further $25m from Penguin for the rights to Spare.\n\nThe releases of all these products have been timed so they do not clash. The Spotify podcast ran from August to November, followed by the release of the Netflix series in December, now the publication of Spare in January.\n\n\"Had they dropped all of them at once, their market will have fragmented - some will have bought the book, some will have watched the series or listened to the podcast,\" says Mr Coram James. \"But it's not just about giving consideration to their various stakeholders and employers, it's also about, how do we keep ourselves at the top of the news cycle for as long as possible?\"\n\nMany bookshops are running promotions for the release of Spare\n\nSpare is currently number one on Amazon's pre-order chart, suggesting the publicity has been beneficial. \"It's great that people want people to buy a book early,\" says Mr Jones. \"January is a difficult time to sell books and this book is great for the industry.\"\n\nPrior to the publicity from the book's leak, Spare was at number four in Amazon's weekly non-fiction chart.\n\nAhead of Harry in Amazon's most sold list were Miriam Margolyes' autobiography and two cookery books, Pinch of Nom and Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book.\n\nUltimately, no matter how much interest there is in Harry, his toughest competition may come from a recipe for a 463-calorie Red Lentil Dal.", "The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has failed in his latest bid to get elected speaker in a paralysis of US government not seen since the pre-Civil War era.\n\nA cohort of right-wingers in his party derailed an 11th attempt to elect him on the third day of voting.\n\nRepublicans took over the House in November's midterm elections, but the impasse has left the chamber unable to swear in members or pass bills.\n\nThe House has adjourned until Friday.\n\nNot since 1860, when the United States' union was fraying over the issue of slavery, has the lower chamber of Congress voted so many times to pick a speaker. Back then it took 44 rounds of ballots.\n\nA group of 20 hard-line Republican lawmakers are refusing to give Mr McCarthy the necessary 218 votes.\n\nThe rebels are sceptical of the California congressman's conservative bona fides, despite his endorsement from former President Donald Trump.\n\nOne of the dissidents, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, told the BBC he simply does not trust Mr McCarthy.\n\nThe congressman said Mr McCarthy's team had threatened political retaliation against them if they did not fall in line, in the weeks leading up this deadlock.\n\n\"We were going to be thrown off committees,\" Mr Norman said. \"We're going to lose every privilege we had.\n\n\"And we'd basically told them, 'If we can't ask questions, if we can't vet out the most powerful person that we're getting ready to put in office, then we're out.'\"\n\nMeanwhile, the minority Democrats continued to vote in unison for their leader, New York's Hakeem Jeffries, the first black person ever to lead a party in Congress. But it seems unlikely that he could win over six Republican defectors to become speaker.\n\nLawmakers in the sharply divided chamber will reconvene at noon (17:00 GMT) on Friday, the second anniversary of a riot by Trump supporters at the US Capitol.\n\nDespite the holdouts, Mr McCarthy - who has served as the top House Republican since 2019 - has won support from more than 200 Republicans, over 90% of his caucus. They are growing restless as their agenda stalls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I'm very worried about it and I'm on the intelligence committee,\" said Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick. He added that he and the other committee members are not able to receive classified briefings until lawmakers are sworn in.\n\nRules do not require the speaker to be a member of the House, and on Thursday, Florida Republican rebel Matt Gaetz cast a protest ballot for Mr Trump to serve in the role.\n\n\"This ends in one of two ways: either Kevin McCarthy withdraws from the race or we construct a straitjacket that he is unwilling to evade,\" he said.\n\nColorado Republican Lauren Boebert nominated a lawmaker from Oklahoma, telling her colleagues to move past Mr McCarthy.\n\n\"It is not happening,\" she said, adding that Republicans \"need to get to a point where we start evaluating what life after Kevin McCarthy looks like\".\n\nMr McCarthy has offered a number of concessions to the rebels, including a seat on the influential rules committee, which sets the terms for debate on legislation in the chamber. He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the speaker, to only one House member.\n\nDuring Thursday's eight-hour session, he was seen huddling with aides and having animated one-on-one talks with colleagues.\n\nThe speaker of the House is the second in line to the presidency, after Vice-President Kamala Harris. They set the agenda in the House, and no legislative business can be conducted there without them.\n\nIn November, Republicans won the House by a slender margin of 222 to 212 in the 435-seat chamber. Democrats retained control of the Senate.", "Freddie Tyzack says a third of his university teaching time is done online\n\nAlmost a third of university courses are still combining face-to-face teaching with online learning in 2022-23, data gathered by the BBC suggests.\n\nData from 50 of the 160 universities surveyed shows 28% of courses are being taught in a hybrid way, compared with 4.1% in 2018-19 before the pandemic.\n\nOne student said he feels like he is paying thousands of pounds per year for a \"glorified streaming service\".\n\nBut an official says many students appreciate the flexibility and freedom.\n\nFirst-year economics student Freddie Tyzack said he did not realise any of his teaching would be online before he started at the University of Bath in September.\n\nBut the 18-year-old says one-third of his contact hours are now taught remotely.\n\n\"It's not good value for money at all. It's just like watching a YouTube video,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"When it's online, you're in your room and you're on your own, you can just sit in bed and watch and then think, 'that's that done - I can go back to sleep'.\n\n\"It doesn't get you in a good routine, a good rhythm or a good learning mindset.\"\n\nHe said his course had been oversubscribed, claiming his cohort had been told they could not all fit into one lecture theatre.\n\nIn one instance, even a Zoom lecture was capped at 300 attendees - meaning dozens could not watch it live and had to replay it later.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesman for the university said almost all teaching took place in-person in the first term of this year, but lectures could also be held online.\n\nHe said the blended approach was more inclusive and benefited students in their education.\n\n\"If any student has concerns about their course, then we encourage them in the first instance to speak to their director of studies or personal tutor,\" he said, adding that about 90% of the entire economics course is taught in person.\n\nThe university did not respond to Freddie's claim that his course had not been advertised as hybrid before he started.\n\nAccording to the data provided to the BBC, more than 3,500 of the 12,569 courses at the 50 universities which responded are being taught in a hybrid format this year.\n\nClaims that courses have not been advertised as hybrid suggests the true number of blended courses being taught at UK universities this year could be even higher.\n\nProf David Latchman, vice-chancellor at Birkbeck, University of London, told the BBC that hybrid learning had been part of the long-term plan for many universities even before Covid.\n\nBut the pandemic accelerated its introduction, because all students were forced to work from home.\n\nNow he says universities should maintain their levels of online teaching, but keep educational outcomes and student satisfaction under constant review.\n\n\"Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I still think that face to face is a better learning experience,\" he said.\n\n\"But I think the way that it [blended learning] can help people to keep up and keep going is tremendously important.\n\n\"Everything should be quality audited. If you stand in front of a class, the quality audit looks at that. If you're broadcasting, it shouldn't be second best. It should be helping the students with their learning experience. I think that's the one key thing.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Universities UK, which represents 140 universities, said many students supported hybrid learning as a way of making higher education more accessible, as well as helping them to develop digital skills.\n\nStudent union representatives who spoke to the BBC said students have mixed opinions on the new teaching methods.\n\nLila Tamea worked on a report looking into blended learning for the Office for Students\n\nLila Tamea, former president at Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union, sits on the student panel at the Office for Students, which recently commissioned a report looking into the quality of blended learning.\n\nShe said many students appreciated the flexibility of blended learning, but that it was important for universities to provide as much information as possible about how much teaching will be online before students apply.\n\n\"It's really hard for universities to get it right but they're trying to,\" she said.\n\n\"It's important that they continue to listen to and communicate clearly with students on how course learning is delivered.\"\n\nAasiyah Patankar, who represents students at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, agreed that communication between universities and students is key.\n\n\"We've done lots of surveys and things and the majority are really chuffed with how we've managed to bring back in-person teaching bit by bit,\" she said.\n\n\"But you're never going to be able to completely please everyone.\"\n\nAre you a student whose course is being taught in a hybrid way? Please email us with your views at: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynch vs Sunak: RMT boss labels PM \"patronising\", for calling for a \"grown-up conversation\" with the trade unions\n\nLawyers say they expect the UK government's planned laws on enforcing minimum service levels during strikes to be hampered by legal challenges.\n\nUnions could be sued if basic services are not provided in key sectors under the proposed anti-strike laws.\n\nSome unions have threatened legal action and say they believe the strike restrictions would be unlawful.\n\nLabour says it would repeal such laws, calling them a \"legislative weapon\" used for political reasons.\n\nThe law was announced on Thursday after weeks of industrial strife, with key public services paralysed by large-scale strikes.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the new law as an \"entirely reasonable\" way to balance the freedom to strike with \"the right of ordinary working people to go about their lives free from significant disruption\".\n\nBut employment lawyers have told the BBC the proposed law has raised serious legal questions and would be contested by unions in court.\n\nThe government says the law would introduce \"minimum safety levels\" for fire, ambulance and rail services and would consult on what that means for these sectors.\n\nFor other sectors, including health services, education and border security, the government would only consult on minimum safety levels if voluntary positions are not agreed.\n\nThe government is yet to spell out what those minimum levels might be, or who defines them.\n\nRail workers started another round of strikes on Friday in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions\n\nRichard Arthur, head of trade union law at Thompsons Solicitors, said the introduction of minimum safety levels would not comply with the UK's obligations under international law.\n\nHe said the law could be struck down in court for breaching treaties the UK government has signed up to, such as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).\n\nThe ECHR is an international treaty that has been incorporated into UK law.\n\n\"Based on what we've seen so far, it seems that there's been no regard paid to international labour standards,\" Mr Arthur said. \"That has got to raise very serious legal question marks.\"\n\nMr Arthur said UK unions could challenge the law in the same way they brought a case against new regulations that would allow agency workers to fill in for striking workers.\n\nIn December, the High Court granted permission for a judicial review of what unions called \"anti-worker\" regulations. The case is expected to be heard early this year.\n\nThe unions \"may hope for similar success in a judicial review of any future minimum service level legislation\", said Tom Long, employment partner and industrial relations specialist at law firm, Shakespeare Martineau.\n\nBut Mr Long said there was no guarantee the unions would be able to win the case in court.\n\nHe said the rights of trade unions under the ECHR \"can be interfered with where necessary and where such interference can be justified\".\n\nMr Long said others European countries - including France and Spain - have passed similar laws on minimum service levels.\n\nBut Mr Arthur said these laws were \"not in effective use\" and in Spain's case, had been \"subject to considerable censure\" by the country's courts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK government's legislation is expected to be published next week, with MPs debating it for the first time the week after. It will apply in England, Scotland and Wales - but not in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is likely to face significant opposition in the House of Lords, as only transport strikes were mentioned in the Conservatives' 2019 manifesto pledge to introduce minimum service levels.\n\nThe legislation would apply to vital public services, including railways, which was disrupted by another 48-hour strike by members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union.\n\nMick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said the legislation would \"make strike action completely entrenched\".\n\n\"We'll have to resort to partial strikes, which will mean disputes will become intractable, probably,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Lynch said a lawyer had advised the RMT that \"much of what they've got in mind would be illegal\".", "Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estate over alleged unpaid rent for their London headquarters.\n\nThe Estate - which oversees a property portfolio belonging to the King - filed a claim against Twitter in the High Court in London last week, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThe alleged arrears relate to office space near Piccadilly Circus in central London, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe social media giant has not responded to requests for comment.\n\nIt comes after Elon Musk, the world's second richest man, paid $44bn (£36bn) to take control of Twitter in October last year before slashing more than half of the firm's global workforce of around 7,000.\n\nThe Crown Estate took legal action after previously contacting Twitter about rental arrears over office space at Air Street.\n\nThe Estate is one of the UK's largest landowners and an independent commercial business, generating profit for the Treasury for public spending. The monarch is then given 15% of the annual surplus of the estate, known as the Sovereign Grant, to support official duties\n\nIt owns 10 million sq ft of property in London's West End, as well as the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland among other properties.\n\nMr Musk, who also owns Tesla and Space X, said Twitter now employs 2,300 people.", "Cody Fisher played for several non-league Midlands clubs, most recently Stratford Town\n\nA nightclub where a footballer was stabbed to death on the dance floor has lost its licence amid fears it posed \"terrifying\" risks to public safety.\n\nCody Fisher was killed at the Crane venue in Digbeth, Birmingham, on Boxing Day (26 December).\n\nPolice had asked the council to revoke the licence permanently, citing drugs misuse as well as security concerns.\n\nOn the night Mr Fisher died, three people needed medical help due to drugs, police told a licensing hearing.\n\nEvidence from several bodies was considered by a licensing committee on Tuesday.\n\nA licence suspension which came into force on 30 December remains in place pending any appeal against the finding to revoke.\n\nRepresentations on behalf of the club were held in private but ahead of the council's decision, a spokesperson had said revoking the licence would be \"wholly inappropriate\".\n\nThree men have been charged with murdering 23-year-old Mr Fisher, a sports coach from Redditch, Worcestershire, who played for non-league Stratford Town.\n\nGary Grant, representing the West Midlands force in a public portion of Tuesday's hearing, urged councillors to pull the licence, saying the venue posed a \"grave risk\" to public safety and also of crime and disorder.\n\nDoor searches were \"inconsistent or haphazard\", he told the committee, and, citing bags of white powder, added there was \"blatant and widespread\" use of drugs.\n\nThe meeting heard that video footage from the night in question showed a person inhaling from a balloon believed to contain nitrous oxide, regardless of a police presence that emerged following the stabbing.\n\nCouncil enforcement officer Shaid Ali told members the terms of the licence required the venue to have a zero-tolerance policy on drugs, adding \"it's quite clear its policy wasn't being enforced\".\n\nWest Midlands Police found a \"scene of chaos and drug use\" following the stabbing on Boxing Day\n\nBefore the committee passed judgment, barrister Nicholas Leviseur for Damian Eston, director of Digital Arts Media Ltd which operated Crane, told the hearing the revocation of the licence was \"wholly inappropriate in this case\".\n\nHe said he would not comment further on \"what led to the tragic loss\" of Mr Fisher as his client's evidence had been set out in private sessions.\n\nMr Grant said checks on CCTV from Boxing Day revealed three customers \"had to be carried out by friends or staff\" because of drug use, including a woman who was described as \"dribbling out of her mouth, barely breathing\".\n\nAn ambulance was required and the woman was taken to hospital, adding to the perception \"this was not a properly controlled event\", he explained.\n\n\"[It was] so blatant, that management and security showed a reckless blind eye or simply didn't care what was going on in their venue,\" Mr Grant stated.\n\nDigbeth landlord Oval Real Estates, and venue Lab 11, joined environmental health and trading standards in making submissions to the council against Crane. One city councillor had said while he opposed its closure there should be strong conditions placed on the venue.\n\nThe club began operating on 15 October after being granted a licence in June, the hearing was told.\n\n\"Within just three months this venue is facing a summary review triggered by\" Mr Fisher's death, said Mr Grant, expressing concerns of \"rather terrifying risks in the operation of this venue\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter McNamee (left), Peter Finnegan (centre) and Nathan Corrigan (right) died in a two-vehicle crash in December 2021\n\nThe father of a man killed with two of his friends on the A5 in County Tyrone has said \"enough is enough\" over continuing delays to its upgrade.\n\nA large crowd attended the launch in County Tyrone of a group formed to demand action to end the delays.\n\nPlans to upgrade the A5 were announced in 2007 but have been delayed amid funding issues and legal challenges.\n\nNathan Corrigan died in an accident on the road in December 2021 which also claimed the lives of two other men,\n\nHis father Damian said the accident happened just 100yds (91m) from their home.\n\n\"We went to the scene of the accident and saw the car turned upside down, unfortunately there was three body bags sitting on the side of the road,\" Mr Corrigan told Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"We were waiting on the priest to come and give the last rites.\n\n\"We were able to go over and say goodbye to Nathan as the coroner took him away.\"\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said the estimated cost of the project was £1.6bn.\n\nThat is up £400m from the last estimate.\n\nThe proposed upgrade would improve the road between Aughnacloy in County Tyrone and New Buildings in County Londonderry.\n\nThe group met on Monday night in County Tyrone\n\nThe group Enough is Enough met on Monday night. It said 44 people have died on the road since plans to upgrade it were announced.\n\nThe meeting at Tyrone GAA centre included relatives of people killed on the road, which forms part of the main route between Londonderry and Dublin.\n\nMr Corrigan added: \"Enough is enough, there's just too many deaths on that road.\n\n\"The numbers for that stretch of road, it's not just in recent years, the history on that road is horrific.\n\n\"We have to stop at that junction where he was taken from us, so it's horrific.\"\n\nNathan's mother Kate said: \"It is great that a community has come together, the GAA community, and people from all areas - all communities coming together to support this.\"\n\nShe said that the upgrade to the road should have happened long ago.\n\n\"Nathan was our youngest. He was the life and soul of the house and we have to piece back our lives together without him and that's very tough.\"\n\nMrs Corrigan said it was good to be a part of something positive and that hopefully 'Enough is Enough' would help to make a difference.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure said it was \"acutely aware of the collision history along the existing road\" and that it sympathised with families who have lost loved ones.\n\n\"The department is doing all we can within our powers to progress the A5 Western Transport project in line with statutory procedures,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe department said that a consultation had commenced and it encouraged anyone with an interest to make their views known during the consultation period.\n\nMr McKenna was motivated to form the group after the death of 21-year-old John Rafferty\n\nNiall McKenna, chairman of Enough is Enough said he was motivated to form the group after the death of 21-year-old John Rafferty who was a member of his own GAA club in Killyclogher and died in a collision on the road at the end of last year.\n\n\"I saw the devastation that it did to my own club, his teammates and particularly to the Rafferty family,\" Mr McKenna said at the meeting in Garvaghy.\n\nWhen Tyrone GAA held their monthly meeting with local clubs in attendance he said he had seen many people in the crowd that had lost loved ones on the road.\n\n\"A few of us got speaking and we just said, surely enough is enough. This road, which is a death-trap, is killing our membership.\"\n\nFormer Tyrone GAA players Kevin Hughes, whose brother and sister lost their lives in separate road accidents in the county, and Peter Canavan, who grew up in a house situated along the A5, were among those who spoke at Monday evening's event.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Richard Sharp says he is \"confident\" appointment was on merit\n\nThe chairman of the BBC says he won't quit over the Boris Johnson loan row.\n\nRichard Sharp is accused of helping facilitate a loan to the then prime minister, when Mr Sharp was applying to be BBC chairman.\n\nHis appointment is now under review by the Commissioner of Public Appointments.\n\nMr Sharp denies being involved in any loan and told the BBC he believes he will be exonerated because he \"was appointed on merit\".\n\nHe has been called to give evidence to MPs on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on 7 February to cover issues raised at a previous hearing and \"developments since then\".\n\nRichard Sharp sat down with me ahead of a senior BBC management conference in London.\n\nHe doesn't appear to be a man who thinks he has done anything wrong.\n\nHe repeated several times he was confident that the process to appoint him was \"rigorous\" and is confident that the commissioner, William Shawcross, will find in his favour.\n\nAfter a weekend of reports suggesting cronyism, on Monday, he emailed BBC staff denying he had been involved in making a loan or arranging a guarantee or any financing.\n\nOn Tuesday he gave some more information about what happened, welcomed the scrutiny and maintained he had taken steps to ensure \"due process was followed by the book\".\n\nHe detailed how he contacted Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to discuss an offer of financial assistance being made for the then PM.\n\nThat came from Sam Blyth, a multimillionaire who Mr Sharp described as an \"old friend\" and who is also a distant cousin of Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Blyth had offered to be the guarantor on a loan for Mr Johnson after reading press reports that he was under financial pressure.\n\nMr Sharp was involved in discussions in December 2020, a few weeks before being announced as the government's choice for the senior BBC role.\n\nI suggested to Mr Sharp that his decision to introduce Sam Blyth to the cabinet secretary when he was applying to be BBC chairman in fact looked like an error of judgment.\n\nHe said: \"With all this fuss, with the benefit of hindsight, particularly at that time I might have said 'Do it yourself', but I was working in Downing Street at the time as the economic advisor to support industries\".\n\nHe insisted Mr Johnson's personal finances were not discussed when they dined with Mr Blyth in May 2021, three months after beginning his BBC role.\n\nThey dined together outside at Chequers, the PM's grace and favour home, an occasion described as a \"social meeting\" by Mr Sharp.\n\nDescribing the meeting, he said: \"Sam came to me and said, 'Do you want to come to Chequers? I'm going down to have dinner with Al' [an abbreviation of Mr Johnson's first name Alexander].\n\n\"I said, 'yeah, great' - I'd never been to Chequers and Sam drove me down and we had dinner and I took advantage of that opportunity to bat for the BBC.\"\n\nHe said the loan arrangement did not come up and insisted that he doesn't \"know anything\" about Mr Johnson's personal finances.\n\nMr Sharp said he made the cabinet secretary aware of his application to be chairman when he told him about Mr Blyth's financial offer in late 2020.\n\nI asked him why he didn't raise this meeting during his application process to be BBC chairman. I suggested even if he didn't think he had done anything wrong, he should have \"over declared\" to ensure full transparency\n\nMr Sharp said: \"I don't think having a meeting with the most senior civil servant to discuss avoiding a conflict is a notifiable conflict in itself.\"\n\nHe notified Mr Johnson of the meeting \"as a courtesy and explained why\" it was taking place. The then PM \"acquiesced\".\n\nMr Sharp said his involvement ended when the cabinet secretary advised it could be perceived as a conflict of interest. Similar advice was given to Mr Johnson.\n\nCandidates for public roles are asked a series of questions around conflicts of interest. That includes whether there is anything that, if it came to light, could embarrass either the government or the organisation.\n\nI put it to Mr Sharp that the furore over his involvement in this story has done exactly that.\n\nYet again, he repeated that his meeting with the cabinet secretary justified his actions.\n\nThe BBC is making huge efforts to ensure impartiality and transparency are at the heart of what it does. I asked Mr Sharp how he can continue to be the public face of the corporation on these issues, when his actions are being called into question.\n\nMr Sharp asked viewers to \"judge us by our output\" which he said was \"world class\".\n\nHe added: \"We define ourselves increasingly by being impartial in the way we both represent news and the breadth of our content.\"\n\nThere have been criticisms that Mr Sharp overstepped his functions by sitting on an interview panel for the new director of news role, given to Deborah Turness.\n\nHe confirmed he was on the panel and said \"there was nothing untoward in that\".\n\nHe says the director of news is also a member of the board, so \"it was also a board position. There were also members of the board on that panel\".\n\nMr Sharp denied meddling in editorial issues, saying he would only become involved if there had been a complaint.\n\nHe will hope this interview will draw a line under the story. That looks unlikely for now.\n\nWhatever he's said, until the government watchdog completes its review, criticisms and questions will remain.\n\nNo timescale has been given for when that will happen.", "Government borrowing hit a new high in December, driven by the cost of supporting households with their energy bills and rising debt interest costs.\n\nBorrowing, the difference between spending and tax income, was £27.4bn, the most for any December since records began in 1993.\n\nInterest on government debt hit £17.3bn, more than doubling in a year.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said inflation was the main factor behind the rise in borrowing.\n\nWhile gas prices have begun to come down, the typical UK energy bill is still almost twice what it was before Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nTo help ease the burden, the government cut energy bills in England, Scotland and Wales by £400 this winter.\n\nIt also launched the Energy Price Guarantee scheme, which limits average household bills to £2,500 per year.\n\nIt comes as inflation, the rate at which prices rise, is at its highest level for 40 years, putting millions of households under pressure.\n\nGrant Fitzner, chief economist at the ONS, told the BBC that the cost of energy bill support had added around £7bn to the December borrowing figures.\n\nMeanwhile interest payable on UK gilts, or bonds, which the government sells to international investors to raise the money it needs, has risen sharply, he said. This is because many gilts are \"index linked\", meaning the government's repayments rise in line with the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation which is currently at double-digit levels.\n\n\"If you stripped those two factors out, then underlying public sector borrowing would have been lower than a year ago,\" Mr Fitzner told the Today programme:\n\nHe said government borrowing was likely to fall once the energy support schemes were no longer needed and inflation - which is thought to have peaked - finally comes down.\n\nBut Ruth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said the borrowing figures \"provided more evidence that the government's fiscal position is deteriorating fast\".\n\nShe said borrowing was well above what economists had expected, debt interest payments were at an \"eye-watering\" level, government spending was high, and there were \"pressures from the weakening economy\".\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he will have to make \"eye watering\" public spending cuts to get the public finances back on track.\n\nHe has also had to reverse swathes of unfunded tax cuts promised by his predecessor, Liz Truss, after her plans sparked panic on financial markets.\n\nCommenting on the latest borrowing figures, Mr Hunt said the government was \"helping millions of families with the cost of living, but we must also ensure that our level of debt is fair for future generations\".\n\nHe added that the government has \"already taken some tough decisions to get debt falling\" as it tries to halve inflation and boost economic growth.\n\nThe ONS said total public sector debt reached £2.5 trillion at the end of December, or around 99.5% of UK economic output, or gross domestic product (GDP) - a level last seen in the early 1960s.\n\nDecember's figure took borrowing to £128.1bn so far in the financial year to the end of March, £5.1bn more year-on-year.\n\nBank Governor Andrew Bailey said last week that inflation might have turned a corner after it fell in November and December, adding that it is \"likely to fall rapidly\" this year as energy prices fall.\n\nHowever, Mr Bailey also warned that high rates of job vacancies meant employees were in a strong bargaining position for wage rises which could stop inflation falling as quickly.\n\nAt 10.5%, the annual pace of price rises is more than five times higher than the Bank's 2% target at the moment.\n\nWithout two factors - the energy support schemes and higher debt interest - borrowing would have been lower, the ONS says.\n\nThat raises an interesting question: why, given that Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation is a discredited statistic, does the government pay higher debt interest at RPI?\n\nIt's consistently higher than the official measure targeted by the Bank of England - the Consumer Prices Index.\n\nThe surprising answer is that the government doesn't, as you or I would, seek to find the cheapest interest rate it can.\n\nInstead it's issuing \"gilts\", also known as bonds, to suit big investors such as private pension funds, whose payouts to customers are linked to RPI and therefore need an asset linked to it.\n\nThis is one of many reasons why when the government borrows, it's very unlike the borrowing a household or business does.\n• None Energy firms must help customers with unpaid bills", "Several senior Ukrainian officials have resigned as President Volodymyr Zelensky begins a shake-up of personnel across his government.\n\nA top adviser, four deputy ministers and five regional governors left their posts on Tuesday.\n\nTheir departures come as Ukraine launches a broad anti-corruption drive.\n\nRecently, authorities have seen bribery claims, reports of officials buying food at inflated prices and one figure accused of living a lavish lifestyle.\n\nSenior aide Mykhailo Podolyak said Mr Zelensky was responding to a \"key public demand\" that justice should apply to everyone.\n\nThe president has already banned state officials from leaving the country unless on authorised business.\n\nThe first to resign on Tuesday was Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the president's deputy head of office, who oversaw regional policy and had earlier worked on Mr Zelensky's election campaign.\n\nAfter Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last February he became a frequent spokesperson for the government.\n\nHe was accused by Ukrainian investigative journalists of using several expensive sports cars throughout the war - though denies any wrongdoing.\n\nIn a Telegram post, he thanked Mr Zelensky for \"the opportunity to do good deeds every day and every minute\".\n\nDeputy Defence Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov also resigned, following reports he oversaw the purchase of military food supplies at inflated prices from a relatively unknown firm. The department called this a \"technical mistake\" and claimed no money had changed hands.\n\nThe defence minister himself - Oleksii Reznikov - has been under scrutiny for the same reason.\n\nA host of other top officials were dismissed on Tuesday, including:\n\nUkraine has a history of corruption and in 2021 Transparency International ranked the country at 122 out of 180 countries in its ranking of corrupt states.\n\nA crackdown is one of the EU's key demands if the country is to advance its application to join the bloc.\n\nIn an address on Sunday, Mr Zelensky promised there would be \"no return to what used to be in the past, to the way various people close to state institutions\" used to live.\n\nHis comments followed the arrest of Ukraine's Deputy Infrastructure Minister Vasyl Lozinskyi on Saturday on suspicion of accepting a bribe worth over $350,000 (£285,000) over the supply of electricity generators. He has denied the charges.\n\nDavid Arakhamia, the head of Mr Zelensky's Servant of the People party, has said that corrupt officials could face jail.\n\n\"Officials at all levels have been constantly warned through official and unofficial channels: focus on the war, help the victims, reduce bureaucracy and stop doing dubious business.\n\n\"Many of them have actually listened, but some, unfortunately, did not,\" he said in a Telegram statement.\n\n\"If it doesn't work in a civilised way, it will be done according to the laws of wartime. This applies both to recent purchases of generators and to fresh scandals in the ministry of defence.\"\n\nWhile there have been anti-corruption reforms in recent years, the stakes are high for Kyiv - which is receiving billions of dollars worth of financial aid from Western allies.", "Women from all walks of life have been affected since the Taliban takeover, including one aid worker from one of the poorest and most remote regions of the country. She says she’s been unable to carry out her work since restrictions were imposed on female aid workers and says it breaks her heart every time someone asks her when they will start getting aid again\n\nQuote Message: We met different people; we would speak with women, men, children, and old people. We would ask about their problems and needs, and then we report their problems and voices to our offices. Our office was trying really hard to help them all. I was feeling glad and great to help my people. We met different people; we would speak with women, men, children, and old people. We would ask about their problems and needs, and then we report their problems and voices to our offices. Our office was trying really hard to help them all. I was feeling glad and great to help my people.\n\nQuote Message: The salary that I was receiving monthly from our office would help me to support my family and my sisters' and brothers' education. But now that we are all at home, have lost our jobs, and are not able to go out alone or without mahram (male guardian), we should have someone from our family go out with us, like our father, brother, or husband. The salary that I was receiving monthly from our office would help me to support my family and my sisters' and brothers' education. But now that we are all at home, have lost our jobs, and are not able to go out alone or without mahram (male guardian), we should have someone from our family go out with us, like our father, brother, or husband.\n\nQuote Message: I wanted to study and get a masters, but now all my dreams are broken. We are just alive without hope. Now I spend most of my time at home. I watch films, videos on social media and Tv programmes to pass time. I wanted to study and get a masters, but now all my dreams are broken. We are just alive without hope. Now I spend most of my time at home. I watch films, videos on social media and Tv programmes to pass time.\n\nQuote Message: I've had several run-ins with the Taliban; whenever I go out, they stop me at checkpoints and tell me to wear a hijab and cover my face and hair. Though I have a proper hijab, they would still stop you and order you to wear your hijab properly.\" I've had several run-ins with the Taliban; whenever I go out, they stop me at checkpoints and tell me to wear a hijab and cover my face and hair. Though I have a proper hijab, they would still stop you and order you to wear your hijab properly.\"", "Justin Bieber has sold his share of the rights to his music to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a reported $200m (£162m).\n\nThe firm now owns the pop star's stake in some of the biggest hits of recent years, including Baby and Sorry.\n\nBieber, one of the best-selling artists of the 21st Century, joins a growing group of artists who have cashed out on their catalogues.\n\nThe move means Hipgnosis will receive a payment every time a song it owns is streamed or used on radio, TV or film.\n\nThe company - a $1bn venture between financial giant Blackstone and the British Hipgnosis Song Management - acquired Bieber's publishing copyrights to his 290-song back catalogue.\n\nIt has also acquired his share in the original master recordings of his songs.\n\nThat includes all of his music released before 31 December 2021.\n\nHipgnosis has not disclosed the terms of the deal, but a source told the news agency AFP it was worth around $200m.\n\nArtists are increasingly selling stakes in their work to music funds, although the trend is more common among older artists. In the last two years, music legends Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen both sold back catalogue rights to Sony.\n\nSpringsteen received a reported $500m (£376m) for the sale of his life's work.\n\nBy Sean Farrington, BBC Wake up to Money and Today business presenter\n\nUp-and-coming artists may now be watching Justin Bieber's pension plans as closely as they do announcements for his new music.\n\nBieber had a choice - continue to reap the rewards every single time one of his hits gets played, or cash in now and sell the rights in a lump sum. Bieber's bet is he's better off with latter. It's a move often made by singers much older than him.\n\nAs the investor who bought the rights put it to me: \"It gives him an opportunity to put his money to work for himself, and he's de-risking his future.\"\n\nHow will he put that money to work? Maybe music's queen of entrepreneurialism, the billionaire Rihanna, could give him a few tips.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Capital is separate entity to the Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has also been building up a catalogue of classic hits and inviting big institutional investors to share in the proceeds.\n\nThe fund floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2018, while Hipgnosis Songs Capital is a private company.\n\nThe man behind both companies is Merck Mercuriadis, who has claimed hit songs can be \"more valuable than gold or oil\".\n\nHe said Bieber's music was \"arguably the definitive soundtrack of the streaming revolution\", with 13 songs that have each achieved more than a billion streams on platforms like YouTube and Spotify.\n\nAs his audience are still relatively young, he added, royalties will continue to pour in for \"60 or 70 years\".\n\n\"The beautiful thing about music is that when these songs become hits, they become part of the fabric of our lives and they live on forever,\" Mercuriadis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, his fund's share price has fallen by more than 27% since this time last year, as investor interest has waned.\n\nIn December, Mercuriadis called the share price situation a \"disappointment\", but said he believed in the company's long-term profitability.\n\n\"In the wider music market, people continue to listen to and pay for music irrespective of today's cost of living challenges with annual audio streams in the US passing the one trillion mark for the first time,\" he said.\n\n\"These are all exciting indicators for the further growth that we will experience as income flows through the collection process into Hipgnosis.\"\n\nThe company's share price rose by 1.6% after the Justin Bieber deal was announced, even though it is not involved in that purchase.", "The Stop Aquind campaign, pictured here in Portsmouth in 2021, is \"disappointed\" by the ruling\n\nThe UK government's decision to refuse permission for a £1.2bn electricity link between England and France has been overturned in the High Court.\n\nAquind Ltd wants to lay cables through Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Normandy.\n\nLast year's decision to block the scheme was made by then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng.\n\nAquind challenged the decision in the High Court after being granted a judicial review.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it was \"disappointed by the outcome but we will be considering the judgment carefully before deciding next steps\".\n\nThe project is now expected to be referred back to Mr Kwarteng's successor as Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, to make a final decision.\n\nAquind's proposal has faced objections from residents, campaigners and local MPs, including Commons leader and Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt.\n\nMs Mordaunt said: \"The plan will never happen. It is hard to imagine why any investor would want to be associated with it.\n\n\"I believe the government's decision was the right one and that it will stand.\"\n\nThe Stop Aquind campaign group argue the cable could cause damage to \"onshore and shoreline wildlife\", threatening the habitats of birds and insects.\n\nThe campaigners also express concern about \"pollution resulting from the construction traffic\".\n\nIn his January 2022 ruling, Mr Kwarteng said he was not satisfied that \"more appropriate alternatives to the proposed route\" for the interconnector cable had been fully considered.\n\nBut lawyers for Aquind argued in the High Court that Mr Kwarteng had \"misunderstood the evidence\" when making his decision.\n\nThe interconnector, allowing electricity to flow between the two countries, will make landfall at Eastney beach in Portsmouth\n\nAquind director Richard Glasspool said Mrs Justice Lieven's decision to rule against the business secretary and Portsmouth City Council was \"wonderful news\" for the interconnector project.\n\n\"We look forward to re-engaging with local residents, stakeholders, environmental experts, and energy professionals in order to pursue the commitment to meeting the UK's net zero energy target,\" he added.\n\nBut Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan said the court's decision \"will be a bitter blow to Portsmouth people\".\n\n\"Aquind's desperate attempt to re-run the argument through the High Court doesn't change the facts, and it shouldn't change the outcome,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been clear from the outset that this project would bring untold disruption to our daily lives and our city's natural environment, with no clear benefits.\"\n\nThe MP added he would \"continue to do everything in my power to ensure this project is stopped once and for all\".\n\nPaula-Ann Savage, of the Stop Aquind campaign group, said she was \"disappointed\" with the court's decision.\n\nBut she added: \"We will continue to raise awareness of the dangers to the environment and our national security.\n\n\"Aquind are not an appropriate company to carry out any energy infrastructure project in the UK.\"\n\nAquind Ltd is led by Ukrainian-born British businessman Alexander Temerko\n\nIn October 2021, the BBC's Panorama programme revealed that Aquind is part-owned by Russian-born former oil executive Victor Fedotov.\n\nThe company has donated more than £700,000 to 34 Conservative MPs since the Aquind project began.\n\nAquind's co-owner, Ukrainian-born businessman Alexander Temerko, has donated a further £700,000 to the party.", "Police have been unable to identify the man whose body was found in 2011\n\nResearchers have released a new reconstructed image of a man who was found dead more than 11 years ago.\n\nHis remains were discovered in woodlands near Balmore Golf Course in East Dumbartonshire in October 2011.\n\nDespite previous appeals for information, police have been unable to identify him. There were no suspicious circumstances around the death.\n\nNow the Scottish cold case unit has released further details in the hope someone will recognise him.\n\nThe unit, located at Glasgow Caledonian University, is made up of criminology students and academic staff.\n\nAcademics said forensic analysis had revealed the man suffered injuries to his nose and jaw before his death and had a chip to one of his front teeth.\n\nThey said these injuries were left untreated and would have caused him \"significant pain\". They also believe he may have had difficulty walking or had a limp.\n\nThe team said these factors may have affected his appearance and quality of life.\n\nIt is estimated he was aged between 25 and 34, 5ft 8in to 6ft 1in tall and was of slight build, was white European and had light hair.\n\nResearchers have put together a reconstruction of what the man was wearing at the time he was found\n\nHe was wearing a blue Top Man T-shirt with a maroon diagonal stripe on the front, a blue zipped cardigan with the logo Greek Pennsylvania, light jeans and black waterproof walking shoes - commonly bought in Lidl.\n\nA number of personal items including toiletries, additional clothes, headphones, chargers, a lighter, and cigarette papers were found in a Nike messenger bag near his body.\n\nIt is thought he could have been dead for up to six months before he was discovered.\n\nThe images, produced by another team at the University of Dundee, are being showcased online alongside photos of the man's belongings and drone footage of the woodland, close to Golf Course Road.\n\nThe man was found in 2011 in woodland near Balmore Golf Club\n\nProfessor Lesley McMillan, co-director of the cold case unit said she hoped the information and images in the appeal might jog someone's memory.\n\nShe said: \"The unit has spent the last 18 months gathering as much detail as we can to progress this case.\n\n\"We would encourage anyone with information that might be relevant, no matter how small, to please get in touch with us.\"\n\nDet Insp Kenny McDonald of Police Scotland said he was extremely grateful for the unit's \"diligent work\".\n\nHe said: \"This is a long-term inquiry examining the circumstances of unidentified human remains, and a detailed forensic review of all physical matter has been conducted.\n\n\"This includes revisiting the recovery site, creating facial reconstruction imaging and liaising with the UK's Missing Persons Unit.\n\n\"With the support of Glasgow Caledonian, I hope this new image will offer fresh leads which could help to finally identify the man and bring closure to any members of his family.\"\n\nAnyone with information can contact Police Scotland's non-emergency line, email coldcaseunit@gcu.ac.uk or phone on 0141 331 3235.", "Steve Phillips has said he believes he is the man for the job\n\nWelsh Rugby Union (WRU) boss Steve Phillips should resign, the Welsh government's former national adviser for violence against women has said.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies said his apology was \"not enough\", adding he \"should take responsibility\" for what had happened.\n\n\"There needs to be urgent steps taken and one of the biggest steps would for him to resign,\" she said.\n\nIt comes after major Welsh rugby sponsors and politicians expressed concern at the allegations.\n\nPrincipality Building Society, which supports grassroots rugby and sponsors Wales' national stadium, said the allegations were \"extremely concerning\" and called for \"immediate and decisive\" action.\n\nClaims were made by an ex-Wales women's manager and a former chairwoman of the Welsh Rugby Union's professional board.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies was appointed the Welsh government's first national adviser for violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence in 2015.\n\nRhian Bowen Davies says \"the culture is something that has strong roots within\" the WRU\n\nMs Bowen Davies, who is now an independent consultant in that field, told the S4C Newyddion programme: \"Even though I understand that this happened before he came into the role, the culture is something that has strong roots within the union and someone needs to take responsibility.\n\n\"This is another example where misogyny and sexism is systemic and is a culture that tries to quieten individuals who suffer any kind of violence or violence at home.\n\n\"We need to take definite steps to change this kind of culture. This culture exists in systems where men have ruled for decades.\"\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Mark Drakeford said rugby bosses had to take \"urgent and transparent action\" and acknowledge the scale of the issue to restore confidence in the WRU at question time in the Senedd.\n\nHe added the Welsh government would \"continue to be in a challenging, where necessary, conversation with them to make sure that a future is set out for the Welsh Rugby Union that commands the confidence of all of those who are players of the game and who want to see it have a successful future\".\n\nAdmiral, another WRU partner, said in a statement: \"Our culture is of paramount importance to us, so naturally the cultures of the partners we work with are also important. While this is a matter for the WRU, given the serious nature of the allegations made, we have and will remain in discussion with them.\"\n\nThe Millennium Stadium was renamed the Principality Stadium in 2016 as part of a 10-year sponsorship deal\n\nAnd Vodafone, which sponsors Welsh women's rugby, said in a statement it was \"concerned about the nature of the allegations made and are in regular communication with the WRU\".\n\nIt added: \"At Vodafone we believe that sport can be a force for good, and through our partnerships we seek to make a positive and progressive difference to fans and wider communities.\"\n\nWelsh women's rugby ex-manager Charlotte Wathan described a \"toxic culture\" of sexism at the WRU.\n\nShe also said a male colleague had said in front of others in an office that he wanted to \"rape\" her.\n\nAnother female former WRU employee, a mother of one, said she wrote a manual for her husband in case she killed herself.\n\nAmanda Blanc, now chief executive of insurance company Aviva, told the WRU it had a \"deep rooted\" culture and behavioural problems when she left her role on the union's professional board and that a WRU-commissioned review into the women's game was \"beyond disappointing\" and verged on \"insulting to women\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He joked he wanted to rape me', claims Charlotte Wathan\n\nThe allegations prompted Principality to speak out.\n\nVicky Wales, its chief customer officer, said: \"Principality Building Society takes great pride in supporting grassroots rugby within the diverse communities we serve, as we have for over 20 years.\n\n\"Principality wants to work with partners who share our values.\n\n\"The allegations in the emerging BBC investigation are extremely concerning and we would expect the WRU to take the immediate and decisive action required to remove any discriminatory and bullying behaviours and to uphold the inclusive values that we should all live by.\"\n\nAmanda Blanc was named as one of the Financial Times' 25 most influential women of 2022\n\nThe Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the Senedd's sports committee should consider how it can support \"those on the receiving end of this treatment\" and work with the WRU to introduce safeguards.\n\nThe WRU has also resisted calls to publish its 2021 review of the the women's game in Wales but extracts of it have been seen by BBC Wales Investigates.\n\nIn it, past players described Welsh rugby's culture as toxic and called for an end to \"inequality\" and \"empty promises\".\n\nThe WRU said both cases in the programme were investigated and proper procedures were followed.\n\nThe WRU has previously spoken of its commitment to the women's game and last year gave Wales' women players professional contracts for the first time.\n\nThe Senedd's sport and culture committee called the accusations \"extremely serious\".\n\nIt said: \"The committee expects the WRU to address these issues immediately.\"\n\nS4C, an official WRU broadcast partner, declined to comment.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I had to put myself first and be happy' - Ellie Downie on retiring age 23\n\nGreat Britain's Ellie Downie has said she chose to retire from gymnastics because her mental health \"was taking a beating\". Downie, 23, announced her retirement with a statement on social media on Monday. Downie won 12 medals during her senior career, including a historic all-round European Championship gold in 2017. \"It wasn't the sport itself, I still very much love gymnastics,\" Downie told BBC Sport's Laura Scott. \"I want to stay within realms of it, but it was how people were treating me.\" In 2020, Downie and her sister Becky spoke out about abusive behaviour in British Gymnastics, saying it was \"ingrained\" and \"completely normalised\". Last year, the Whyte Review found systemic abuse in the sport in Britain, but Downie says speaking out hindered her further selection. \"At the time I was pretty confident to [speak out],\" she said. \"Ultimately it did really hinder us a lot, we both didn't make the Tokyo Games. But I really wanted to make a positive change. \"When I got to the last trial [before Tokyo], I decided to pull out. But the whole scenario around it, no-one came up to me, I sat on the bench crying, the coaches ignored me. \"I went home without anyone speaking to me before I left, - that was absolutely heart-breaking.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellie Downie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDownie, an Olympian at Rio in 2016, said she had been considering retirement since October, shortly before the World Championships. \"I got asked to be a reserve before trials, but then to not get picked it put me in a very low state. \"Ultimately I knew I couldn't carry on, because I didn't think I would ever get picked again.\" Downie lost her brother Josh in 2021 after he suffered a heart attack during cricket training, and while she says she \"lost direction\" following his death, she felt it was used as a \"narrative\" to justify her non-selection for the Tokyo Games. \"I was coming in as a reigning world medallist, with the potential to do well in Tokyo if they would help me along the way,\" she said. \"I didn't speak on it at the time, it was too painful to talk about. It's only been until now that I've felt like I can and strong enough to do so.\" Chief executive of British Gymnastics Sarah Powell said Downie was a \"trailblazer in how she has reflected on her experiences to challenge and push the sport of gymnastics forward.\" \"Her bravery and honesty, privately and publicly, helps shape the future of our sport,\" she said.\n\nPowell added that Downie \"produced history making performances on the world stage\" and \"helped lead a ground-breaking group of British women's artistic gymnasts and in doing so inspired generations of younger gymnasts to reach their goals.\" In announcing her retirement, Downie also shared an interview with her on Dr Alex George's podcast Stompcast., external, where she spoke in depth about her reasons to retire and experiences she had in her career. In that interview Downie also said:\n• None Throughout her career her weight was ridiculed with coaches blaming injuries on how \"heavy\" she was. \"If I am sad I want to eat and I feel that is because I was told I couldn't,\" she said. \"Some people go to drink or drugs when they are highly emotional and I turn to food. It has given me a tough relationship with food at times.\"\n• None Downie claimed she experienced a lack of support and communication from the governing body after she failed to qualify for the Olympics and the death of her brother.\n• None Felt \"worthless\" after only being selected as a reserve for the 2022 World Championships, despite meeting the criteria that was set out for her and it left her \"mentally battered\".\n• None Claims an email sent to those who competed at the World Championships by national coach David Kenwright said: \"We finally put the naysayers to rest\". She that added a performance director called the language in the email \"not acceptable\".\n• None Said the \"wrong person\" is in charge of the national programme at the moment.\n\nSpeaking later to the BBC, Downie also added that she felt she had \"nothing to lose now\" in speaking out about the issues. She said that \"ultimately' she didn't feel like \"they wanted me back that much\". In response to the claims in the podcast, British Gymnastics said in a statement: \"She's raised issues that we are already aware of and are being addressed, particularly around the conduct and communication of a member of our coaching team. \"As part of the wide reform of gymnastics being undertaken, we must ensure appropriate behaviours and attitudes are maintained and always reinforced.\" In response to the email claim, the governing body said it \"did not meet our standards or reflect our values as an organisation\" and a disciplinary process was ongoing. \"Our Performance Director immediately sent correspondence to recipients outlining that some of the language and tone was unacceptable and not in line with our culture and commitment to reform,\" British Gymnastics added: \"A subsequent discipline and education process took place and this is being monitored as an ongoing process.\" British Gymnastics put together an action plan called Reform '25 to deliver on the findings of the Whyte Review. \"Our Reform '25 action plan makes it abundantly clear that abuse, mistreatment, and a culture of fear have no place in gymnastics, and that nothing is more important than the safety and wellbeing of gymnasts and everyone involved in the sport,\" the statement continued. \"The reforms we have already put in place in bringing in two new Performance Directors in Tracy Whittaker-Smith and David Hart, together with Scott Hann as Technical Advisor, were made to ensure these kinds of issues were addressed. \"We still need to go further and faster over the next two years of delivering our plans, but the immediate response and subsequent action to deal with this email is a demonstration that progress is being made.\" If you have been affected by any of the issues in this story, the BBC Action Line has links to organisations which can offer support and advice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Firefighter Barry Martin, 38, remains in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries\n\nA firefighter who is critically ill in hospital following a fire at the former Jenner's department store has been named as Barry Martin.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the 38-year-old from Fife was still in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.\n\nFour other firefighters were treated in hospital after the blaze and have now been discharged.\n\nDozens of emergency service crews were sent to the fire on Monday.\n\nA police officer was also treated for smoke inhalation in the hospital before being released.\n\nAt its height, 22 fire appliances were at the scene, with more than 100 firefighters working to tackle what Interim Chief Officer Ross Haggart has described as a \"serious and complex fire\".\n\nHe added: \"Our thoughts are very much with Barry and his family, and indeed with all of our colleagues who were injured in responding to this incident.\n\n\"We continue to provide all possible support to our colleagues and their families, as well as all staff involved.\n\n\"We are liaising with appropriate partners to ensure a full and thorough investigation is undertaken into this incident.\"\n\nInterim Chief Officer Haggart added his thanks to his \"dedicated crews and staff for their professionalism in responding to this challenging incident\".\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) Scotland issued a statement which said its officials were \"already addressing this incident and together with FBU head office are making urgent arrangements on the immediate steps required\".\n\nTwo of the other firefighters who were taken to hospital were treated for smoke inhalation, and two were treated for burns.\n\nOne fire engine remains in attendance at the landmark building to monitor for potential hotspots.\n\nAn investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.\n\nThe east end of Rose Street is still closed between South St David Street and Rose Street Lane North, while two nearby business premises on Rose Street also remain shut.\n\nThe building is owned by property firm AAA United, which is renovating the site.\n\nDirector Anders Krogh Vogdrup told BBC Scotland the owners were \"devastated\" about the fire.\n\n\"Our thoughts and appreciation are with the rescue team,\" he said.\n\nMr Vogdrup added that initial investigations indicated only \"very localised damage\" in the lower north side of the building.\n\n\"The overall building is intact, but we still await further investigations over the following days which will reveal the total extent of the damage,\" he said.\n\nThe owners described the blaze as a \"temporary setback\" in the project to refurbish the building.\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing a restoration which was due to take four years. Under the plan, disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Edinburgh City Council leader Cammy Day said: \"I'm sure I say this on behalf of the whole city, that our thoughts are with the firefighters who risked their lives to save the building and save the people around the city as well, so our thoughts are with their families.\"\n\nHe said the council would assess the building's structural integrity, adding: \"That is a question we don't have the answer to yet.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tory MP Caroline Nokes says Nadim Zahawi should stand aside\n\nNadhim Zahawi should stand aside as Conservative chairman during an inquiry into his taxes, former Tory minister Caroline Nokes has said.\n\nRishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser to investigate Mr Zahawi's financial affairs, saying there are \"questions that need answering\".\n\nMr Zahawi is facing opposition calls to resign after reaching a settlement with HMRC over previously unpaid tax.\n\nBut a fellow minister said he should be allowed to stay on during the probe.\n\nChris Philp, a minister at the Home Office, added it was \"reasonable\" for him to stay in post, and it wouldn't be fair to \"jump to any conclusions\".\n\nHe also defended the prime minister's handling of the controversy, after he initially told MPs last week Mr Zahawi had \"addressed this matter in full\".\n\nMr Philp added that Mr Sunak had launched the investigation after \"extra facts came to light\" over the weekend.\n\nMr Sunak had been told when appointing Mr Zahawi Conservative Party chairman in October that his taxes were \"in order,\" Mr Philp added.\n\nMr Zahawi confirmed on Saturday that he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), adding that the tax authority accepted the error was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when Mr Zahawi was chancellor under Boris Johnson, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HMRC.\n\nOn Monday, a spokesperson for Mr Sunak suggested he was not aware last week that Mr Zahawi had paid a penalty as part of his settlement.\n\nThe prime minister has asked Sir Laurie Magnus, his newly appointed ethics adviser, to examine whether Mr Zahawi broke the code of conduct on ministerial behaviour.\n\nMr Zahawi said that during the probe he would stay on as Conservative chairman, a role in which he is responsible for party administration and political campaigning.\n\nHe pledged to co-operate with the inquiry, adding he was confident he had \"acted properly throughout\".\n\nThe investigation could prove problematic for the Tory party, given Mr Zahawi would be expected appear frequently in the media in the coming weeks ahead of local elections in May.\n\nMr Sunak's spokesman said on Tuesday the probe would be carried out \"swiftly,\" but no timeline had been set for publication of its findings.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast earlier, Ms Nokes, who chairs the Commons women and equalities committee, said Mr Zahawi should \"temporarily\" stand down during the investigation.\n\nShe added that \"for his own sake\" he should \"allow some space\" between the probe and his chairman role, as part of which he attends cabinet.\n\nShe also urged him to \"come clean on all of the questions being posed\" into his affairs by journalists and others.\n\nOpposition parties have called on Mr Zahawi to resign immediately, with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer calling his position \"untenable\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy said on Tuesday he was becoming a \"huge distraction\" for the government from the cost of living, strikes and the state of the NHS.", "President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which has not yet approved Sweden's bid to join Nato\n\nSweden should not expect Turkey to back its Nato membership bid, Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, days after a copy of the Quran was burned in a Stockholm protest.\n\nSweden applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine - but needs Turkey, already a member, to approve.\n\nKurdish protesters in Sweden hung an effigy of Mr Erdogan this month, followed by the Quran burning.\n\n\"Sweden should not expect support from us for Nato,\" Erdogan said in response.\n\n\"It is clear that those who caused such a disgrace in front of our country's embassy can no longer expect any benevolence from us regarding their application.\"\n\nSaturday's protest - but not the burning of the book itself - was given prior approval by Swedish authorities.\n\nErdogan condemned the latest protest, carried out by a far-right politician from a Danish party, as blasphemy not to be defended by free speech.\n\nThe Swedish governments also criticised the protest.\n\n\"Sweden has a far-reaching freedom of expression, but it does not imply that the Swedish government, or myself, support the opinions expressed,\" Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Saturday.\n\nResponding to Mr Erdogan's remarks on Monday, Mr Billstrom said that he wanted to understand exactly what the Turkish leader said before commenting.\n\n\"Sweden will respect the agreement that exists between Sweden, Finland and Turkey regarding our Nato membership,\" he added.\n\nSweden, along with Finland, applied to join Nato after Russia invaded Ukraine, but the recent protests have heightened tensions.\n\nNato's secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said that freedom of expression was a \"precious commodity\" in Nato countries, and that these acts, while inappropriate, were not \"automatically illegal\".\n\nTurkey, a majority Muslim country, denounced the Swedish government's decision to allow the protest as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\n\"No one has the right to humiliate the saints,\" said Mr Erdogan in his televised remarks on Monday.\n\n\"When we say something, we say it honestly, and when someone dishonours us, we put them in their place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From May: Sweden and Finland formally submit Nato applications\n\nDefence Minister Hulusi Akar said Turkey cancelled a visit by his Swedish counterpart Pal Jonson after \"observing that no measures were taken over the... disgusting protests\".\n\nA flurry of earlier visits by Sweden's top ministers to Turkey's capital Ankara raised hopes the trip could ease objections to Sweden's accession.\n\nAs Turkey is already a Nato member, it can block another country from joining, and has made several demands of Sweden already. That includes the extradition of some Kurds that it claims are terrorists.\n\nEarlier this month, the Swedish prime minister said Kurdish protesters in Stockholm who hung an effigy of Turkey's president from a lamppost were trying to sabotage Sweden's Nato application.\n\nA Swedish minister branded the stunt as \"deplorable\", but Turkey said the condemnation was not enough.", "The process of hiring BBC chairman Richard Sharp is to be reviewed by the watchdog that oversees how public appointments are made.\n\nIt follows claims that shortly before being given the job, Mr Sharp helped the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson, secure a loan guarantee agreement.\n\nWilliam Shawcross, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, said the review would ensure the hiring followed rules.\n\nMr Sharp said he \"simply connected\" people and did not arrange financing.\n\nAccording to The Sunday Times, Mr Sharp was involved in discussions about a loan worth up to £800,000 for Mr Johnson in December 2020.\n\nThe paper reports that multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. Mr Sharp then introduced Mr Blyth to Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, the Times says.\n\nMr Johnson, Mr Sharp and Mr Blyth later had dinner together, the Times reports.\n\nA few weeks later, in January 2021, Mr Sharp - a former Goldman Sachs banker - was announced as the government's choice for the new BBC chairman. His role entails upholding and protecting the BBC's independence and ensuring it fulfils its mission.\n\nThe timing of these reported events has led to questions about how Downing Street decided he should have the job and whether the process was fair.\n\nThe government's choice for the BBC chairman job is ultimately decided by the prime minister, on the advice of the culture secretary, who is in turn advised by a panel.\n\nMr Sharp, Mr Johnson and the government all deny there was a conflict of interest. On Monday, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin described the appointment as an \"incredibly robust process\".\n\nMr Shawcross - who is in charge of regulating how people are hired to public roles, such as the Bank of England governor or BBC chairman - announced his review on Monday, after Labour had written to him over the weekend calling for him to do so.\n\nHe said his job was to \"ensure appointments are made fairly, openly and on merit\".\n\nMr Sharp said he welcomed the commissioner's review. The top civil servant at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Sarah Healey, has already said she has been asked to submit documents about the hiring to Mr Shawcross in the next 10 days.\n\nEarlier, Mr Sharp announced that the BBC Board - which he chairs - would hold a review into any potential conflicts of interest when it next meets, without giving a timeline.\n\nThis BBC review is not an investigation into what led to his appointment - but will look at whether any declarations of personal of interests are accurate, up to date and whether they affect his role.\n\nThe body that will look at this is the BBC Nominations Committee, which is headed by Mr Sharp as chairman. However, the BBC understands he would recuse himself from this exercise in due diligence.\n\nIn an email to BBC staff on Monday, Mr Sharp said: \"I believe firmly that I was appointed on merit, which the Cabinet Office have also confirmed.\"\n\nGiving his account of events, Mr Sharp said his \"old friend\" Mr Blyth became \"aware of the financial pressures on the then prime minister, and being a successful entrepreneur, he told me he wanted to explore whether he could assist\".\n\n\"He spoke to me because he trusts me and wanted to check with me what the right way to go about this could be. I told him that this was a sensitive area in any event, particularly so as Sam [Blyth] is a Canadian, and that he should seek to have the Cabinet Office involved and have the cabinet secretary advise on appropriateness and indeed whether any financial support Sam might wish to provide was possible.\n\n\"Accordingly Sam asked me whether I would connect him with the cabinet secretary.\"\n\nMr Sharp added: \"I went to see the cabinet secretary and explained who Sam was, and that as a cousin of the then prime minister he wanted to help him if possible. I also reminded the cabinet secretary that I had submitted my application for the position of BBC chairman.\n\n\"We both agreed that to avoid any conflict that I should have nothing further to do with the matter. At that point there was no detail on the proposed arrangements and I had no knowledge of whether any assistance was possible, or could be agreed.\"\n\n\"Since that meeting I have had no involvement whatsoever with any process,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: MPs question appointment of BBC chairman. 'It's all a bit banana republic, is it not?'\n\nIn the Commons on Monday, SNP MP John Nicolson brought up the issue in an urgent question, saying: \"Mr Sharp appeared before the Culture Select Committee on which I sit.\n\n\"We grilled him about his £400,000 gift to the Conservative Party. However he did not disclose his role in getting the man appointing him a huge loan….\n\n\"Even by the grubby standards of this government, it's all a bit banana republic is it not?\"\n\nIn response, Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin described the appointment as an \"incredibly robust process\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"There was a very robust process in place for the appointment of the chairman at the BBC, including a pre-appointment hearing.\"\n\nFormer BBC broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby said: \"I have no reason at all to doubt Richard Sharp's integrity. The problem is the manner of the appointment. In times when the public is alarmingly lacking in trust of our public institutions, everything has to be crystal clear and transparent.\n\n\"It does not mean, of course, there was a conflict of interest, but the appearance of a conflict of interest is what is important.\"\n\nMr Johnson described any claims of improper behaviour as \"a load of complete nonsense\".\n\nHe told Sky News on Monday: \"Let me just tell you, Richard Sharp is a good and wise man but he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances - I can tell you that for 100% ding dang sure.\"\n\nDowning Street has rejected allegations of \"cronyism\" and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also defended the BBC appointment process as \"rigorous\" and \"transparent\".\n\nMr Sharp was an unpaid adviser on the government's business loan scheme during the pandemic, and was an economic adviser to Mr Johnson during his time as London mayor. Mr Sharp and Mr Sunak also worked together at Goldman Sachs investment bank.\n\nIt is not the first time there have been questions about a BBC chairman's links with the government. Many former politicians or people with close political ties have been appointed over the years.\n\nBut also there have been times where a an BBC chairman has clashed with government, like Labour appointment Gavyn Davies who resigned over a clash with Tony Blair's government.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there were \"clearly serious questions to answer\" on the loan row and said \"we need to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible\".\n\nThe job of BBC chairman is different to that of BBC director general Tim Davie, who is the BBC's editor-in-chief, as well as creative and operational leader responsible for its global workforce.", "German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the decision after weeks of reluctance and international pressure\n\nAfter weeks of reluctance, Germany has agreed to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, in what Kyiv hopes will be a game-changer on the battlefield.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz announced the decision to send 14 tanks - and allow other countries to send theirs too - at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nUS President Joe Biden's administration is also expected to announce plans to send at least 30 M1 Abrams tanks.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman earlier said the tanks would \"burn like all the rest\".\n\nDmitry Peskov said there was an overestimation of the potential the tanks would bring to the Ukrainian army, and called the move a \"failed plan\".\n\nBut Ukrainian officials insist they are urgently in need of heavier weapons, and say sufficient battle tanks could help Kyiv's forces seize back territory from the Russians.\n\nA German government spokesperson said the decision to supply the tanks \"follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability\".\n\nGermany also permitted other countries to send their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine - which was restricted until now under export regulations.\n\nThe US and Germany had resisted internal and external pressure to send their tanks to Ukraine for some time.\n\nWashington cited the extensive training and maintenance required for the high-tech Abrams.\n\nGermans endured months of political debate about concerns that sending tanks would escalate the conflict and make Nato a direct party to the war with Russia.\n\nUS media is reporting that an announcement regarding Abrams shipments to Ukraine could come as soon as Wednesday, with unnamed officials cited as saying at least 30 could be sent.\n\nHowever the timing remains unclear, and it could take many months for the US combat vehicles to reach the battlefront.\n\nGerman officials had reportedly been insisting they would only agree to the transfer of Leopard 2s to Ukraine if the US also sent M1 Abrams.\n\n\"If the Germans continue to say we will only send or release Leopards on the conditions that Americans send Abrams, we should send Abrams,\" Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a Biden ally, told Politico on Tuesday.\n\nBritain has already said it will send Challenger Two tanks to Ukraine.\n\nUkraine is still unlikely to get the 300 modern main battle tanks it says it needs to win the war.\n\nBut if half a dozen Western nations each provide 14 tanks, then that would bring the total to nearly 100 - which could make a difference.\n\nWestern tanks - including the UK's Challenger 2, Germany's Leopard 2 and the US-made Abrams - are all seen as superior to their Soviet-era counterparts, like the ubiquitous T-72.\n\nThey will provide Ukrainian crews with more protection, speed and accuracy.\n\nBut Western modern main battle tanks are not a wonder weapon or game-changer on their own. It's also what's being supplied alongside them.\n\nIn recent weeks, there's been a step change in heavy weapons being supplied by the West - including hundreds more armoured vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition.\n\nCombined together, they are the kind of military hardware needed to punch through Russian lines and to retake territory.\n\nIf Ukrainian troops can be trained and the weapons delivered in time, they could form key elements of any spring offensive. A missing element for offensive operations is still air power.\n\nUkraine has been asking for the West to provide modern fighter jets since the war began. So far, none has been delivered.\n\nMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann of the liberal FDP party, who chairs the defence committee of the German parliament had previously described reports that Germany had approved the tanks as a relief to \"the battered and brave Ukrainian people.\"\n\n\"The decision was tough, it took far too long, but in the end it was unavoidable,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Poland's PM: \"Free world cannot afford not to send Leopard tanks\"\n\nAllied nations had become frustrated at what they perceived as German reluctance to send the armoured vehicles in recent days.\n\nThe Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, on Tuesday called on Western countries to give Kyiv hundreds of tanks to form a \"crushing fist\" against Russia.\n\n\"Tanks are one of the components for Ukraine to return to its 1991 borders,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nAnatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to Washington, wrote on Telegram: \"If the United States decides to supply tanks, then justifying such a step with arguments about 'defensive weapons' will definitely not work.\n\n\"This would be another blatant provocation against the Russian Federation.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is in the former Jenners building, which has been undergoing a restoration.\n\nA firefighter has been critically injured in a blaze at the Jenners building in Edinburgh.\n\nEmergency service crews were sent to the former department store on Rose Street at 11:30 on Monday.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it dispatched 22 fire engines to the scene. It said five firefighters were taken to hospital.\n\nEyewitnesses described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the landmark Edinburgh building.\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue Service interim chief officer, Ross Haggart, said the fire was \"serious and complex\".\n\nHe said: \"Regrettably I can confirm five of our colleagues have been taken to hospital and one remains in a critical condition.\"\n\nThe cordon around the Jenners building was reduced on Tuesday but emergency services remain on the scene\n\nA police cordon was put in place which covered the whole of St Andrew Square, and staff from nearby offices were evacuated.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said it was aware of the reports of injuries to firefighters during the incident.\n\nEyewitnesses told BBC Scotland about the response of emergency services on Princes Street.\n\nSarah Mullins, 34, manager at Wagamama in St Andrew Square, said she first saw smoke at about 11:30.\n\n\"It got so bad we couldn't see out across the square,\" she said.\n\n\"The police told us to stay inside because the smoke was so bad it would have affected our lungs. They said it was safer to stay inside.\n\n\"It's very sad this has happened to such an iconic building.\"\n\nOn Tuesday City of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said the rear of the building was the main part affected by the fire.\n\nHe added four appliances remained at the scene overnight but confirmed the blaze had been extinguished.\n\nBut while businesses in the area reopen Mr Day said there would still be some disruption to transport near the scene.\n\nMr Day told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I'm sure I say this on behalf of the whole city, that our thoughts are of course with the firefighters who risked their lives to save the building and the people around the city as well.\"\n\nAsked if there was a chance the building might not survive, he said: \"That will be subject to these surveys.\n\n\"I am hopeful that where we saw the fire yesterday was towards the rear of the building and I hope that can be salvaged.\"\n\nEyewitnesses described smoke pouring out of the basement area of the former department store\n\nFirefighters, police and ambulance crews were dispatched to the scene\n\nFounded in 1838, the Jenners building was one of the oldest department stores in the world until it closed.\n\nIt has been undergoing a restoration which was due to take four years. Under the plan, disused rooms in the six-storey building are due to be made into a hotel.\n\nThe current building was designed by architect William Hamilton Beattie in the Victorian renaissance revival style and opened in 1895 - after the original building was destroyed by fire in 1892.\n\nThe building was sold to private investors in 2005 after House of Fraser bought the Jenners brand and property.\n\nIt was then bought by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen in 2017 for a reported £53m.", "All Quiet On The Western Front is the only nominee from a streaming service in the best picture category Image caption: All Quiet On The Western Front is the only nominee from a streaming service in the best picture category\n\nStreaming services have not had as strong a year at the Oscars as they did in 2022, when Coda became the first streamer to win best picture.\n\nThis year, Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front is the only nominee from a streaming service in the top category.\n\nIt is notable that despite Netflix putting a lot of campaign effort into Glass Onion and Pinocchio, they both scored just one nomination each.\n\nIn contrast, All Quiet did not initially seem as strong a contender for the streamer (until it started showing up prominently at precursor ceremonies, at which point the marketing was stepped up a gear), and yet it secures nine nods at the Oscars.\n\nAll of the other best picture contenders were released in cinemas - although some have since become available on streaming. The Banshees of Inisherin, for example, is on Disney+ just three months after it was released on the big screen.\n\nIn total, streaming services got about half the number of nominations they did a year ago, Deadline reports. Netflix, Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 total nominations, down from 37 last year.\n\nDespite the distinct possibility that Netflix's All Quiet could win best picture, the weaker year for streaming overall may be partly reflective of a return to cinema releases following the pandemic.", "The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and eight US states have filed a case against Google alleging it has too much power over the online ad market.\n\nIts anti-competitive actions had \"weakened if not destroyed competition in the ad tech industry\", US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.\n\nGoogle accused the DOJ of \"doubling down on a flawed argument\".\n\nThe case attempted to \"pick winners and losers\" in a competitive industry, the firm said.\n\nOnline advertising accounts for the lion's share of Google's multibillion dollar revenue.\n\nGoogle is the market leader, but its slice of total US digital ad income has fallen from 36.7% in 2016 to 28.8% in 2022, according to market research firm Insider Intelligence.\n\nMr Garland alleged that Google's anti-competitive conduct extended into three key areas:\n\nAs a result of Google's scheme, \"website creators earn less and advertisers pay more\", Mr Garland said.\n\nIt meant that fewer publishers were able to offer content without subscriptions, paywalls, or other forms of monetisation.\n\nAssistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter alleged that the firm's actions over 15 years had the effect of \"driving out rivals, diminishing competition, inflating advertising costs, reducing website publisher revenues, stymieing innovation and flattening our public marketplace of ideas\".\n\nBut in a statement to the BBC Google said the legal action \"attempts to pick winners and losers in the highly competitive advertising technology sector.\n\n\"It largely duplicates an unfounded lawsuit by the Texas Attorney General, much of which was recently dismissed by a federal court.\n\n\"DOJ is doubling down on a flawed argument that would slow innovation, raise advertising fees, and make it harder for thousands of small businesses and publishers to grow.\"\n\nIn a blog post Dan Taylor, vice president of global ads said the DOJ's action would \"reverse years of innovation, harming the broader advertising sector\".\n\nThe almost 150-page complaint accuses Google of breaches of US antitrust law and aims to \"halt Google's anti-competitive scheme, unwind Google's monopolistic grip on the market, and restore competition to digital advertising\".\n\nIt could lead to the break-up of the firm's advertising business if the courts side with the US government. The Justice Department complaint asks the court to compel Google to divest parts of its ad business.\n\nThe US states of Connecticut, California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia are also joining the legal action.\n\nThis latest case follows a 2020 action launched during the Trump presidency against the tech giant over its dominance in search.", "Andrea Riseborough said she was \"not entirely sure\" how her nomination had happened\n\nAwards pundits are still picking their jaws off the floor after Tuesday's Oscar nominations.\n\nDespite enjoying a flurry of late celebrity support, many Oscar-watchers felt British actress Andrea Riseborough had too high a hill to climb to score a nomination in the highly competitive best actress category.\n\nBut on Tuesday, she was nominated for her performance in To Leslie, in which she plays an alcoholic mother from Texas who tries to make ends meet after squandering her lottery winnings.\n\nThere is no doubt that Riseborough is impressive in the low-budget film, but the nod took even her by surprise. \"I'm astounded,\" she told Deadline after the nominations were unveiled. \"It's such an unexpected ray of light... I'm not entirely sure how this happened.\"\n\nWell, we have a bit of an idea - and it involves Gwyneth Paltrow, Edward Norton, Courteney Cox, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Paulson and Amy Adams.\n\nThey are just a few of the Hollywood A-listers who got behind To Leslie - voicing their support for the film on social media in the dying days of voting, and in some cases even hosting their own screenings.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gwynethpaltrow This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt had become a bit of a running joke in recent days that many posts championing the film used the same wording, calling To Leslie a \"small film with a giant heart\". But the copy-and-paste tweets and Instagram posts were driven by an apparently genuine admiration.\n\nThe efforts to get the film on to the Academy's radar were ultimately successful, but it's hard to overstate how unusual Riseborough's campaign has been.\n\nTo Leslie reportedly only made $27,000 (£21,800) at the box office when it first opened. (Having said that, it did make at least an extra £4.49 last week when this reporter paid to rent it on a well-known streaming service.)\n\nThe film premiered at South by Southwest last March. Unlike Toronto, Venice or Cannes, SXSW is not one of the film festivals considered a key part of the awards race and the film went largely unnoticed.\n\n\"After SXSW there was a quiet lull,\" Riseborough recalled. \"And then slowly, as the film had a few screenings elsewhere - including at Raindance, which was a big deal because we hadn't had a release in the UK - we found people were starting to talk about it.\n\nI, Tonya actress Allison Janney, a previous Oscar winner herself, stars opposite Riseborough in To Leslie\n\n\"And people were asking us, 'Why can I not go and see it? Where can I see it?' After a while, we were able to point them to iTunes and Amazon, but it didn't happen right away.\"\n\nNonetheless, a nomination seemed like a long shot. \"It was so hard to believe it might ever happen because we really hadn't been in the running for anything else,\" Riseborough commented.\n\nCrucially, the team behind the film uploaded it to the Academy's viewing portal, which meant voters could access it more easily. Meanwhile, the nomination Riseborough netted at the Independent Spirit Awards, which recognise small indie films, certainly didn't hurt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edward Norton 🌻🇺🇦 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, some expressed scepticism that the campaign was anything other than contrived.\n\n\"There are people saying this is such a beautiful, organic movement, and I've got to tell you, this is not organic,\" said Vanity Fair's Rebecca Ford. \"She [Riseborough] has a very well-connected manager, she is well-respected by actors, and they just took this moment to launch this campaign, and it is a campaign.\"\n\nRiseborough was previously nominated for a Bafta for playing a young Margaret Thatcher in the BBC's The Long Walk to Finchley, and has appeared in the films Birdman and Shadow Dancer, and TV shows like ZeroZeroZero and National Treasure.\n\nHer first Oscar nomination is somewhat humbling for the many awards watchers who usually pride themselves on predicting which way things will go, based on the countless films they've watched and their sense of momentum on the ground at industry events.\n\nAs Erik Anderson of Awards Watch tweeted, only half-jokingly: \"We are going to talk about the Andrea Riseborough campaign for DECADES to come.\"\n\nWe'll certainly be talking about it until the Oscars ceremony on 12 March.\n\nHere are just four of the other talking points from this year's nominations:\n\nAll Quiet on the Western Front has nine nominations - the most of any Netflix film\n\nStreaming services have not had as strong a year at the Oscars as they did in 2022, when Apple's Coda became the first film from a streamer to win best picture.\n\nThis year, Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front is the only nominee from a streaming service in the top category.\n\nIt is notable that despite Netflix putting a lot of campaign effort into Glass Onion and Pinocchio, they both scored just one nomination each.\n\nIn contrast, All Quiet had not initially seemed as strong a contender - until it started showing up prominently at precursor ceremonies, at which point the marketing and campaigning was stepped up a gear. It has now secured nine nods at the Oscars.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guillermo del Toro is nominated in best animated film for Pinocchio\n\nAll of the other best picture contenders were released in cinemas - although some have since become available on streaming. The Banshees of Inisherin, for example, is on Disney+ in the UK just three months after it was released on the big screen.\n\nIn total, streaming services got about half the number of nominations they did a year ago. Netflix, Apple and Amazon accounted for 19 total nominations, down from 37 last year.\n\nDespite the distinct possibility that Netflix's All Quiet could win best picture, the weaker year for streaming overall may partly reflect a return to cinema releases following the pandemic.\n\nPaul Mescal shot to fame after appearing in the BBC drama Normal People\n\nFour actors were considered locks for best actor, and all were duly nominated on Tuesday (Bill Nighy, Colin Farrell, Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser), but there had been much debate about who would score the fifth slot.\n\nSomewhat surprisingly, it ended up being Irish actor Paul Mescal for his performance in the terrific Aftersun. The film sees him play a young Scottish father grappling with how to raise his daughter.\n\n\"This is bananas!\" Mescal said of his nomination. \"To be recognised by the Academy is such an insane honour and I'm so utterly grateful.\"\n\nHe was part of a very strong showing for Irish actors and talent. The Banshees of Inisherin alone scored four acting nods (Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon) in addition to best picture and best director for Martin McDonagh.\n\nElsewhere, An Cailín Ciúin/The Quiet Girl became the first ever in the Irish-language film to be nominated for best international feature. The enjoyable and understated film tells the story about a shy young girl who goes to stay with distant relatives for the summer.\n\nWriter and director Colm Bairéad said the team behind the film were \"honoured beyond words\" to be recognised.\n\nAngela Bassett has already won a Golden Globe for her performance in Wakanda Forever\n\nAngela Bassett became the first actor in history to be nominated for a performance in a Marvel film.\n\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever sees Bassett reprise her role as Queen Ramonda, the mother of the late Chadwick Boseman's character T'Challa.\n\nBut while Wakanda Forever missed best picture, the nominations for Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water ensured a record was still broken for the most sequels to make it into the shortlist in a single year.\n\nBrian Tyree Henry is nominated for his performance in Apple's Causeway\n\nBrian Tyree Henry, who stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Apple's excellent Causeway, scored an unexpected nomination in the best supporting actor category.\n\nThis was a huge but very welcome surprise. Henry plays a mechanic who befriends Lawrence's character as she begins recovering from a traumatic brain injury.\n\nOther surprises included Hong Chau making it into the best supporting actress shortlist for The Whale, and Ana de Armas being nominated for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in the divisive Blonde, just a day after it was nominated for several Razzies.\n\nSadly, there were as many snubs as there were surprises, perhaps most notably Danielle Deadwyler, who was widely expected to be recognised for her outstanding performance in Till. Other notable absences included Olivia Colman and Eddie Redmayne.", "Rishi Sunak's trio of promises on becoming prime minister have just careered into a trio of incidents that pose him big questions.\n\nBack in October, moments before he went into Downing Street for the first time as prime minister, he promised: \"this government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.\"\n\nNow he confronts three issues testing those promises: the seat belt, the BBC Chairman and the taxman.\n\nNot wearing a seatbelt and getting fined for it.\n\nNo prime minister wants a reputation for harbouring a stash of fixed penalty notices gathered while in office.\n\nThe one the other day was his second after his one during the pandemic as chancellor.\n\nThen there are the cases of the two chairmen: the BBC Chairman and the Conservative Party Chairman.\n\nBoth, to varying degrees, amount to the exhaust fumes of the Boris Johnson era - Richard Sharp's appointment entirely so, even if the revelations in the Sunday Times prompt questions for the government now.\n\nBut Nadhim Zahawi presents Rishi Sunak with a live and present case - and the decision he faces is simple: sack him, or keep him?\n\nThe Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in his interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday amounted to him saying \"search me guv, I haven't the foggiest\" when he was pressed for any detail about Mr Zahawi's taxes.\n\nIt meant Mr Cleverly did not personally commit himself to saying anything that could amount to a hostage to fortune.\n\nBut it also meant plenty of big questions remain unanswered about the claims, which were first reported in the Guardian last week.\n\nWe now have some answers, but there is plenty we still do not know.\n\nIn practical terms it seems difficult to see how Mr Zahawi can fulfil the public role of party chairman with all this still swirling.\n\nBoris Johnson faces claims over his appointment of Richard Sharp as BBC Chairman when he was prime minister\n\nHe is determined to, but that is different from actually being able to do so.\n\nFor as long as he ducks the questions in public, they will perch upon his shoulder.\n\nAnd as and when he does choose to answer them, it is likely to be uncomfortable for him, and the answers might not be politically palatable to many.\n\nMeanwhile, all these things are oxygen snatchers for Rishi Sunak: attention and credibility grabbers when he would much rather be talking about the health service, for instance, a topic he will attempt to turn to this week.\n\nBut instead the prime minister will face questions grounded in that initial promise when he took office: the extent to which his government has integrity, professionalism and accountability.", "Labour would forge a new security pact between the UK and the European Union if it wins the next election, the shadow foreign secretary has said.\n\nIn a speech, David Lammy set out five goals the party said would help Britain \"thrive\" on the world stage.\n\nThe proposals involves working more closely with the EU on cyber threats, energy security and organised crime.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said that its focus was helping countries become resilient against external threats.\n\nIn an address at the foreign affairs think tank Chatham House, Mr Lammy outlined how the party would reset UK foreign policy and create a \"Britain Reconnected\".\n\nLabour say their proposals will improve UK prosperity by resolving the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations, tackling climate change and rebuilding what the shadow foreign secretary described as Britain's \"tarnished\" international reputation.\n\nMr Lammy also promised to ease UK-EU friction on food and medical goods, strengthen the recognition of professional standards, and restore co-operation on science and research - with regular summits of the two sides to discuss commons issues.\n\nHe also pledged to re-establish the UK as a \"trusted, reliable and influential partner\" when it comes to diplomacy.\n\nHowever, he reiterated that a Labour government would not take the UK back into the EU's single market or customs union.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer previously ruled out rejoining the single market despite the Labour mayor of London Sadiq Khan recently calling for a shift to greater alignment with Europe.\n\nMr Lammy said: \"Any serious discussion about increasing prosperity in Britain must include the 15 trillion elephant in the room - the European market just across our shores.\"\n\nDavid Lammy says he wants to \"reset\" the UK's foreign policy\n\nHe said: \"We will rebuild bilateral relationships with key European partners. A modern Britain in a changing world must invest in partnerships beyond our traditional allies in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth.\"\n\nMr Lammy also said that a Labour government would \"stand with Ukraine\", and commit to Nato, as well as defence co-operation with Australia and Japan.\n\nAnd he said: \"Our commitment to Britain's independent nuclear deterrent is unambiguous.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office spokesman said that the foreign secretary had set out the government's approach to foreign policy, focusing on helping countries tackle threats from climate change, disease and hostile states.\n\n\"We are focused on responding to Russia's aggression in Ukraine - our total military, humanitarian and economic support now amounts to nearly £4bn,\" he said.", "A small trickle of mourners came to pay their respects at the entrance of Star Dance Studio on Monday morning, some softly uttering their condolences as ever-present media helicopters buzzed overhead.\n\nBy mid-morning, several bouquets, candles, and other tributes had accumulated in front of a gate. One bundle of roses came with a note: “Victims and families, you are in our prayers.”\n\nJovita and Alfonso Matematico left whispered prayers for the victims. The married couple, both Catholics, had driven to Monterey Park from downtown Los Angeles to pay their respects.\n\n“We went to church today, at eight o'clock, and we prayed for them - may they rest in peace,” said Jovita, 64.\n\nMako Seto, a 44-year-old Baptist pastor from neighboring Montebello, and his son, Jordan, came to the scene.\n\nHe had woken up on Sunday morning to a flurry of texts and news alerts about the shooting, and had to address his congregation at Evergreen Church soon after.\n\n“People were sad, they were afraid,” he said. “A lot of our church members are from Monterey Park. They were shocked.”\n\n“We’re mourning,” Seto said. “We never thought this would happen, in a million years.”", "Ashley Davies supports the plan for tighter controls being introduced\n\nWales is set to become the first UK nation to introduce mandatory licensing for tattoo artists, body piercers and cosmetic clinics.\n\nThe tougher controls aim to reduce infections and poor working practices by creating a public register of licence holders.\n\nAbout 3,500 practitioners will need to be licensed and 1,868 business premises will require approval.\n\nA 12-week consultation has been launched by the Welsh government.\n\nThe new rules are the final phase of changes introduced under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 to improve standards of infection prevention and control in the industry.\n\nThe legislative work was due to be brought in during 2020 but the scheme was delayed by Brexit and the Covid pandemic.\n\nAshley Davies, who has been running Stronghold Tattoo in Cardiff for eight years and has been working with the Welsh government on the new qualification, said: \"The increase in quality of tattoos in the last decade has been exponential so the hygiene needs to be raised.\n\n\"This is all positive for the industry and helps shake the image of it being dark and shady. It's reassuring for those getting tattooed as well.\"\n\nThe pass rate for those practitioners who have already undertaken the level 2 award in infection prevention and control voluntarily is 95%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The parlour in Wigan says \"you may have regrets but we can cover them up\"\n\nBut there are still concerns about many without licences, including self-taught tattooists, known in the industry as \"scratchers\".\n\nHealth experts have warned of the dangers of contracting blood-borne viruses - such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV - from unlicensed tattoo artists, and warn how blood poisoning caused by dirty needles can kill.\n\nFfion Hughes, a paramedic tattooist who helps mastectomy patients with scarring and areola loss, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that her clinic in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, often sees distressed patients after \"having bad work, infections, viruses… a bad image on their body that they can't get rid of\".\n\nThe new regulations will be a \"shock\" to the tattoo industry, says paramedic tattooist Ffion Hughes\n\n\"Anybody can pick up a tattoo gun and become a tattooist which is absolutely shocking,\" she said, \"because that's actually on your body for the rest of your life.\"\n\nShe said the new regulations bring medical tattoo practitioners and tattoo artist to the same level.\n\n\"It's going to be a huge shock for the [tattoo parlour] industry,\" she said, but she believes the general public will be \"more accepting of it and respect it a bit better now that there's better work out there\".\n\nShaun Newman, manager at Stronghold Tattoo, said tattoos had become a lot more popular because of heavily tattooed celebrities such as David Beckham and exposure through social media, but that has brought extra issues.\n\n\"There can be a real problem of people going to unlicensed tattooists at their homes because they're cheap,\" he said.\n\n\"People think it doesn't matter if it's cheap, but it really matters that these people have no idea how to use the machinery properly or take care of the tattoo during and after the process, which is critical.\"\n\nWales' chief medical officer Frank Atherton said extra regulation was needed following an outbreak of skin infection pseudomonas at a Newport tattoo and body piercing establishment in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nowhere does this thing that we're doing' says inclusive tattoo studio\n\n\"This specific incident in 2014 highlighted the problem of unlicensed body art practitioners and body piercers and led to very difficult consequences for a number of people in south Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Some very young people were affected, even as young as 13 and they had significant hospital treatment and reconstructive surgery. It cost the NHS nearly £250 000.\n\n\"Good standards of hygiene and infection control by all special procedures practitioners and businesses is essential as these procedures are capable of causing harm if not carried out properly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco.\n\nThe attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American.\n\nSuspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was arrested after driving to a police station.\n\nIt comes as the state mourns the deaths of 11 people in Monterey Park - about six hours south-east of Half Moon Bay - during Lunar New Year celebrations.\n\nAnd just over a week ago, six people including a teenage mother and baby were killed at a property in Goshen, central California.\n\nIn emotional remarks at a news conference in Half Moon Bay on Tuesday afternoon, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he's grown weary of having to \"say the same things we hear again and again\" in the wake of mass shootings.\n\n\"What the hell is wrong with us that we allow these weapons of war and large capacity magazines out on the streets and sidewalks?\" he asked. \"Why have we allowed this culture, this pattern, to continue?\"\n\n\"Only in America do we see this kind of carnage,\" he added.\n\nThe latest bloodshed to hit the state took place at two locations around the Half Moon Bay community in what officials have described as instances of workplace violence.\n\nFour victims were discovered at a mushroom farm, while the other three were later found at a nearby trucking business. An eighth victim who was transported to hospital is out of surgery and in a stable condition, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said at a news conference on Tuesday.\n\nThe victims were five adult men and two women, Sheriff Corpus said. All of them were agricultural workers, Half Moon Bay Mayor Deborah Penrose told CNN on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspect was a resident of Half Moon Bay and employed at the Mountain Mushroom Farm, Sheriff Corpus said.\n\n\"The only connection between the suspects and the victims is that they may have been co-workers,\" Sheriff Corpus said. \"All of the evidence we have points to this being an instance of workplace violence.\"\n\nThe operator of the farm - California Terra Garden - later confirmed that the suspect lived at one of the two locations where people were killed.\n\nThe suspect is due to be arraigned on Wednesday in Redwood City, California, according to local US media outlets.\n\nAlicia Ortega said her partner, Martin Martinez, a manager of the mushroom farm, was shot and killed in the attack.\n\nThe last time she spoke to him was in \"the morning, when he [went] to work\", she told KPIX, a local affiliate of CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nA number of children who had recently been let out of school and lived on the rural property saw the attack take place, Sheriff Corpus said.\n\n\"For children to witness this is unspeakable,\" the sheriff's office said.\n\nAfter carrying out the killings, the suspect drove to a local police station where his arrest was caught on camera.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS news channels showed the suspect being pinned to the ground and arrested by police.\n\nHe used a legally purchased semi-automatic pistol, Sheriff Corpus said.\n\nSan Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine told the Associated Press news agency that the attacks were committed by a \"disgruntled worker\".\n\nIn a statement, President Joe Biden said he was praying for the victims and called on Congress to pass legislation reintroduced this week by Democratic senators that would raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons in the US to 21.\n\nJust hours after the attack, seven people were injured and one person was killed in a shooting in Oakland - about 40 miles (64 km) north-east of Half Moon Bay.\n\nZhao Chunli, seen in an undated driver's licence photo\n\nThe Half Moon Bay attack is the 37th mass shooting in just 24 days, according to Gun Violence Archive.\n\nEven as details of the deadly attack in Half Moon Bay were coming in, detectives in the south of the state were still hunting for a motive for the killings in Monterey Park.\n\nThere, an elderly Asian immigrant murdered 11 people in a suburban dance hall, before killing himself as police closed in.", "Princess Eugenie shared a picture of her son August kissing her pregnancy bump\n\nPrincess Eugenie, the King's niece, is expecting her second child this summer, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.\n\nThe royal baby will be 13th in line to the British throne and will be a plain Miss or Master.\n\nEugenie married Jack Brooksbank in 2018 and their son, August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, was born in February 2021.\n\n\"The family are delighted and August is very much looking forward to being a big brother,\" said Buckingham Palace.\n\nEugenie, 32, is the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, and the late Queen's granddaughter.\n\nAnnouncing the news, Eugenie shared a family photograph of her son, August, kissing her bump.\n\n\"We're so excited to share that there will be a new addition to our family this summer,\" she wrote on her Instagram account.\n\nHer mother responded to an Instagram post announcing the pregnancy with the words \"Granny heaven\" and a heart emoji.\n\nAugust, who is nearly two, was born at the exclusive Portland Hospital in central London.\n\nHe made an appearance at the Platinum Jubilee pageant celebrations last year wearing a Union Jack jumper as Eugenie bounced him on her knee as they sat in the royal box.\n\nThe new baby will be one place behind their older brother in the line of succession and one ahead of Prince Edward, the King's youngest sibling.\n\nJack Brooksbank and Princess Eugenie were married St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle\n\nShe is married to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, who responded to the Instagram pregnancy announcement with two heart emojis.\n\nEugenie is not a working royal and does not receive funding from the Sovereign Grant.\n\nThe baby news comes after a difficult period for the royals following the publication of the Duke of Sussex's tell-all memoir Spare.\n\nEugenie's father Prince Andrew stepped down as a working royal in 2019 after a controversial Newsnight interview that addressed his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHe was later stripped of his military titles and there have been calls for him to relinquish his remaining titles following an out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre in the US.", "Repairs to the pipes and the road in Milngavie could take several days\n\nWater has been restored to nearly 100,000 properties across Glasgow after a water main burst.\n\nChildren were evacuated from a nursery in East Dunbartonshire when the burst pipe caused a road to split open and nearby streets to flood.\n\nScottish Water said a 3ft (91cm) main ruptured in Milngavie, affecting the supplies in Glasgow.\n\nMany pubs and restaurants were forced to close before supplies were restored late on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe road surface at the junction between Auchenhowie Road and Glasgow Road in Milngavie, where the pipe had burst, was torn and buckled and a torrent of water was at one stage pouring down the street.\n\nPolice Scotland said Auchenhowie Road was closed at the roundabout junction with Boclair Road, Glasgow Road was shut at the roundabout junction with B8030 and the A81 was closed at Dougalston Avenue.\n\nRescue crews using dinghies were deployed to Milngavie as the children from the nearby nursery were evacuated.\n\nLullaby Lane nursery informed parents that the children had been safely taken to the nearby Rangers Training Centre.\n\nTeams with dinghies were sent to help evacuate children from a nursery in Milngavie\n\nIn an update posted at 23:30 on Tuesday, Scottish Water said supply had been restored to all customers.\n\nTeams from the water board were on site to assess the damaged pipe on Wednesday and were investigating \"small pockets\" of customers still without water.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"\"We would urge any customers in this area who still have no water to contact us so we can investigate.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise to all customers affected and we would like to thank everyone for their patience while we carry out these major repairs.\"\n\nShe added that some customers could experience discoloured water supply and advised those with brown water to run the cold kitchen tap at reduced pressure until it runs clear.\n\nWhite water, caused by air in the water supply, would settle within two days, she said.\n\nKes Juskowiak, water operations manager at Scottish Water, said almost 250,000 customers had been affected.\n\n\"These pipes are Victorian, they are almost 140 years old,\" he told BBC Scotland's The Nine.\n\n\"They've done us very well over time. Occasionally they do burst and because of their size they do tend to cause a bit of devastation.\"\n\nMr Juskowiak said the cause of the leak was still unknown.\n\n\"We need to have a look and see if there's anything we can learn from what's happened here, see if there's anything we can do to prevent it going forward but nothing so far in terms of standing out why this happened,\" he said.\n\nHe predicted repairs on the pipes and the road in Milngavie would take several days.\n\n\"There might be a little bit of disruption for the community of Milngavie as we work through that, and also arrange any appropriate clean-up for anyone that's been affected by the flood water as well,\" he added.", "Thousands of crystals were attached to Doja Cat's head and body\n\nPop star Doja Cat turned heads in Paris, wearing full red body paint and 30,000 crystals as Schiaparelli's show opened the city's Haute Couture week.\n\nHer team took five hours to complete the bold look, titled Doja's Inferno.\n\nIt was created by Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry and British make-up artist Dame Pat McGrath.\n\nShe said Doja Cat had \"sublime patience\" and described the final product as \"a magical, mesmerising masterpiece of sparkling brilliance\".\n\nDoja Cat was also draped in a large red silk scarf\n\nThe Swarovski crystals were applied by hand. As well as the body paint, the singer donned a red silk bustier, a heavily beaded tulip skirt and a pair of matching red knee-high boots.\n\nDame Pat posted a behind-the-scenes time-lapse video showing her team painting the star's skin and applying the thousands of crystals.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by patmcgrathreal This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe told Vogue the result was \"evocative of sublime sculptures; a true feast for the eyes\".\n\nRoseberry became the first American to lead a French couture house when he took over at Schiaparelli in 2019. The fashion house was founded in 1927 by Elsa Schiaparelli.\n\nRihanna, Kendall Jenner and Julia Roberts are among the stars who have worn the label on the red carpet recently.\n\nMonday's show featured several eye-catching looks, the most headline-grabbing being the lion and snow leopard 3D heads jutting out from a velvet and faux fur gown respectively.\n\nKylie Jenner posed with Schiaparelli's (fake) lion's head outside the show\n\nIt is not the first time Doja Cat, whose real name is Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini, has donned body paint in the name of fashion.\n\nIn October, the rapper covered herself entirely in gold body paint for A.W.A.K.E Mode's spring show in Paris, and she has experimented with zig-zag eye-make up at Vivienne Westwood.\n\nDoja Cat is known for hits such as Say So, Streets and Kiss Me More.", "Nadhim Zahawi was made chancellor in the closing days of Boris Johnson's government\n\nNadhim Zahawi is determined to stay on as Conservative party chairman, allies have told the BBC, amid calls for his resignation after details of a multi-million pound tax dispute emerged.\n\nMr Zahawi paid a penalty to HMRC over unpaid tax while he was chancellor.\n\nHe has described the error as \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nMeanwhile Labour is calling on Rishi Sunak to \"come clean\" about his knowledge of the deal and called Mr Zahawi's position \"untenable\".\n\nMr Zahawi's allies have insisted he would continue in the role Mr Sunak appointed him to less than three months ago.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Zahawi said he made a payment to settle the issue. But while it had previously been reported this included a penalty, it had not been confirmed.\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, as previously reported.\n\nPressure has been growing on Mr Zahawi to give more details about his finances after reports emerged this week he had agreed to pay millions of pounds to HMRC to settle his tax affairs.\n\nThe Guardian had previously reported that Mr Zahawi paid back tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HM Revenue & Customs.\n\nLabour said there were questions that still needed answering - and called on him to publish all his correspondence with HMRC \"so we can get the full picture\". Labour also said there are questions over the timing.\n\nAlthough the BBC has been told the issue with HMRC was resolved while Mr Zahawi was chancellor - and the minister ultimately responsible for HMRC - it is still not clear when he originally became aware of it.\n\nHis allies claim he told the government's Propriety and Ethics Team - which is in charge of ensuring ethics across government departments - about it before his appointment as chancellor.\n\nAnd after having become chancellor, Mr Zahawi did not seek to challenge HMRC's demands, but instructed his accountants to pay all of what they said was due, the BBC has been told.\n\nFormer Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith urged Mr Zahawi on Sunday to release \"the absolute facts\", adding he did not believe he was \"deceitful\". Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said it was for Mr Zahawi to decide \"how much detail to put in the public domain\".\n\nLater on Sunday, Conservative MP Tim Loughton told the BBC's Westminster Hour it was fair to let Mr Zahawi put his side of the case but he should have given a fuller account earlier on.\n\n\"The more transparency, as early as possible, might have avoided all this speculation.\n\n\"If there's more to it then he will absolutely have to stand up and take the consequences and the prime minister, I'm sure, will take the appropriate action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC was previously told on Saturday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was satisfied with Mr Zahawi's account and has confidence in him as chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nA former child refugee who fled Iraq with his parents in the 1970s, Mr Zahawi went on to co-found the successful online polling company YouGov.\n\nHe is now believed to be one of the richest politicians in the House of Commons, after being elected as Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon in 2010.\n\nHe gained public recognition for his role as vaccines minister during the pandemic and later served as education secretary.\n\nBetween July and September 2022, he served briefly as chancellor under Boris Johnson, after the resignation of Mr Sunak.\n\nWhen Liz Truss took over as prime minister, he was made chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, minister for equalities and minister for intergovernmental relations.\n\nIn October Mr Sunak appointed him Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio, attending cabinet as part of his role.", "Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are all nominated for Everything Everywhere All at Once\n\nEverything Everywhere All At Once leads the field at this year's Academy Awards, with 11 nominations.\n\nThe madcap adventure follows a woman, played by Michelle Yeoh, who hops through the multiverses as different versions of herself.\n\nOther best picture nominees include Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water and The Banshees of Inisherin.\n\nThe acting nominees include Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser and Britain's Andrea Riseborough and Bill Nighy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBlanchett is nominated for leading actress for her performance in Tár, in which she plays a renowned orchestra conductor whose career starts to unravel when she is accused of abuse.\n\nBritish actress Riseborough was an outsider to be nominated in the same category for her role in To Leslie, but enjoyed a late surge thanks to celebrity endorsements from the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Aniston.\n\nJoining Blanchett and Riseborough on the shortlist are Yeoh, Michelle Williams (The Fablemans) and Ana de Armas (Blonde).\n\nDe Armas' portrayal of Marilyn Monroe has split opinion, though - Blonde also had the dubious honour of picking up several Razzie nominations - for the worst films of the year - earlier this week.\n\nWakanda Forever's Angela Bassett has secured the first ever acting nomination for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe\n\nJamie Lee Curtis has received the first Oscar nomination of her long and varied career at 64, for her role as a tax inspector in Everything Everywhere All At Once.\n\nThe best supporting actress category also provides a nomination for Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which makes her the first person to get an acting nod for a Marvel film.\n\nMore on the Oscar nominees:\n\nPost-war drama Living has provided Bill Nighy with his first Oscar nomination\n\nNighy has received his first Oscar nomination at the age of 73 for Living, in which he plays a civil servant whose outlook changes after he is diagnosed with a terminal illness.\n\nThe other best actor nominees, are Fraser (The Whale), Austin Butler (Elvis) and Irish actors Colin Farrell (Banshees of Inisherin) and Paul Mescal (Aftersun).\n\nNormal People star Mescal is rewarded with his first Oscar nomination for playing a young Scottish father raising his 11-year-old daughter.\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin, directed by Martin McDonagh (holding the trophy), enjoyed success at the Golden Globes\n\nIt is a strong year for Ireland all-round. There was also a nomination in the best international film category for The Quiet Girl, about a shy young girl who goes to stay with her distant relatives for the summer.\n\nIn the best supporting actor category, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan were both recognised for their roles in Martin McDonagh's Banshees, alongside co-star Kerry Condon for best supporting actress.\n\nIt was also a strong year for actors of Asian descent, with four nominated - Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Hong Chau - the most in a single year.\n\nQuan found fame as a child actor in the mid-1980s in The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom but stopped acting when he found it hard to find roles. Everything Everywhere All At Once is his first major film for more than 30 years.\n\nViola Davis (The Woman King) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till) had both been tipped for nominations in the best actress race, but were notably snubbed by the Academy.\n\nTop Gun's Tom Cruise and Babylon stars Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie were among the other big names to miss out.\n\nUS actor Bryan Tyree Henry was a surprise inclusion on the supporting actor shortlist for playing a garage owner with a painful past opposite Jennifer Lawrence in Apple's Causeway.\n\nPaul Dano had been expected to appear in the same category for his turn in The Fabelmans, but missed out - although co-star Judd Hirsch did make the cut.\n\nFive of this year's 20 acting nominees are Irish, including Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan for The Banshees of Inisherin\n\nWhile it's a good showing for Irish talent, Jessie Buckley also missed out on a best supporting actress nomination for her role in Women Talking.\n\nSarah Polley's drama about abuse in a remote Mennonite community is the only film directed by a woman in the coveted best picture race - but no women were nominated in the best director category.\n\nThe other films up for best picture include German war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, Steven Spielberg's The Fablemens, Todd Field's Tar and Ruben Ostlund's Cannes winner Triangle of Sadness.\n\nIn other categories, the BBC's adaptation of Charlie Mackesy's best-selling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - which was on TV over Christmas - is nominated for best animated short film.", "People in public services should trial a four-day working week, a report by politicians has urged.\n\nThe Petitions Committee said a pilot scheme could work with trials in private firms, with global evidence on new working patterns also considered.\n\nIt is argued a shorter week - with fewer hours but on the same pay - could boost productivity and wellbeing.\n\nThe committee also considered warnings that sectors such as education, health and hospitality could struggle to cope.\n\nThe report said some workers were \"already over-worked and moving to a four-day week would exacerbate the stress-related challenges they face\".\n\nIt also highlights concerns that it could be \"too rigid an approach when greater flexibility is required in the workplace\" and that some organisations suggest it \"poses organisational challenges, and may be too complicated to implement\".\n\nOutlining the case for taking a day off the working week, the report said it could:\n\nCommittee chairman, Labour Member of the Senedd for Alyn and Deeside Jack Sargeant, agreed it was a \"bold proposal\" but \"no more bold than those campaigners who fought for a five-day week, paid holiday and sick pay which we now take for granted\".\n\n\"People in Wales work some of the longest hours in Europe. Despite these long hours the UK lags behind on productivity. Once we break that link of 'hours worked equalling productivity' we can start to look at a four-day week differently.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Emma Simpson looks at the history of the working week and how it might change\n\nThe report said that after \"successful trials\" in Iceland \"governments in Scotland, Ireland and Spain are all devising their own four-day week pilots that are scheduled to begin next year\".\n\nMr Sargeant said: \"I hope the Welsh government will consider our call for a modest experiment in our public sector, so that future debates on this subject will be more fully informed by evidence from Welsh people on the economic, social and environmental impacts of a four-day week.\"\n\nThe report follows a petition to the Senedd by Mark Hooper, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, who brought in a four-day working week at the cooperatively-owned business Indycube, which provides a network of remote co-working spaces.\n\nHe called the report a \"major step forward towards a world where we have a better relationship with work\".\n\n\"Today, our lives are too often dominated by how we earn our living and that makes us more ill, sadder and ultimately less productive,\" he said.\n\nIceland has already tried out changing the traditional office hours\n\nOne member of the committee opposed the idea.\n\nConservative South Wales Central MS Joel James said the evidence considered \"does not provide adequate justification to spend Welsh government budget, intended for the people of Wales, on a scheme that the Welsh government does not have the legislative competence to implement across the board\".\n\n\"The arguments for the four-day working week are not supported by sufficient research data on improving productivity, which the whole premise of justifying a four-day working week rests upon.\n\n\"I believe it is not something that could be introduced in all sectors, and would lead to division and injustice in society.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesman said: \"We are following the pilots in other countries with interest.\n\n\"A shorter working week is just one example of flexible working we want to encourage more employers to provide workers with greater choice and flexibility about where and when they work, wherever possible.\"", "Andrew Bagshaw, pictured left, and Christopher Parry have been reported as missing in Ukraine\n\nThe body of one of two Britons who went missing in Ukraine has been found, according to a Russian mercenary group.\n\nWhile the claim has yet to be verified by the BBC, the disappearance of Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry has raised questions about their last-known movements and what they were doing in Ukraine.\n\nChris Parry, 28, had spoken to multiple journalists saying he was working as a volunteer evacuating civilians from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.\n\nA Ukrainian charity - Pavlo Vyshniakov Foundation - told the BBC that Mr Parry had worked with them, but that Mr Bagshaw had not. A Telegram channel associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, boss of Russian mercenary group Wagner, earlier released an image of a document which had the name of that charity and Mr Parry's permission to operate as a volunteer.\n\nThe same Telegram post included images of what appear to be the two men's passports, although we have not been able to verify them definitely.\n\nImages posted online appear to be of the two men's passports, not definitively verified\n\nWe spoke to a former UK border official who told us that \"from looking at these pictures they appear to be genuine, several safeguards can be seen.\"\n\nA volunteer who said he worked as Andrew Bagshaw's interpreter supplied us with a video posted on 12 December 2022 showing Mr Bagshaw and Mr Parry wearing civilian clothes carrying a stretcher into a hospital building in the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine. We've been able to verify the location by comparing the video with other confirmed images of the hospital.\n\nMr Parry and Mr Bagshaw, 48, were believed to have headed to the heavily bombarded front-line town of Soledar on Friday 6 January. In an Instagram post, a friend of theirs - also working as a volunteer - said that the pair had made the journey to carry out evacuations.\n\n\"If you have any information on the whereabouts of the boys, or have seen their car (Black Land Rover, AFIO HWU), please contact me or the police,\" the friend added.\n\nThere are lots of groups in the area, which include foreigners, who help with evacuations of civilians and bring food and supplies to people.\n\nBBC correspondent Yogita Limaye and producer Imogen Anderson met Mr Parry, from Truro in Cornwall, on new year's day in the city of Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donbas region. They had been looking to report on Bakhmut, the scene of intense fighting, and the volunteers working there.\n\nHe told them he had been staying in the city for about six weeks, and had just acquired a new 4x4 through a fundraiser he had started two months before.\n\nHe told the BBC journalists that he had to abandon his old car in Bakhmut the previous week. It had been \"shot by a tank\" he posted on Instagram at the time.\n\nHe told the pair that he had no intention of leaving Ukraine, where he had been since March.\n\nThe journalists were on their way to Bakhmut on 2 January when Mr Parry got in touch to say he was also going into the city. But once they reached Bakhmut they lost reception and that was the last contact they had with the volunteer.\n\nThe following day, Mr Parry gave an interview to BBC Radio Cornwall and described a close encounter he'd had with a drone in the Bakhmut area.\n\nMr Parry said that he was staying in a town 10 miles from the front line and explained his motivation was to help children particularly.\n\n\"To be able to get them out of these war-torn areas, it makes it definitely more worthwhile than anything else that I can imagine.\"\n\nIn a previous interview with the same station in November 2022, he said he had become \"obsessed\" with Ukraine after the invasion, realised he could not fight and decided it would be more useful for him to get a van and help evacuate civilians.\n\nA friend of Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry said the pair were missing in a message posted on Instagram\n\nOn 3 January, three days before the volunteers disappeared, Mr Parry was interviewed in Bakhmut by freelance journalist Arnaud de Decker.\n\nMr Parry told the journalist he had been volunteering as an evacuation driver.\n\n\"I receive requests from family members who ask us to go and collect their relatives.\"\n\nDescribing an evacuation, he said there had been \"lots of Ukrainian missiles... a lot of small arms firing\".\n\nHe said: \"A lot of volunteers won't go anymore, but there are people there who want to get out, so I'm willing to go.\"\n\nMr Parry said he used a vehicle for evacuations - his black Land Rover is seen in the video.\n\nChris Parry said he'd obtained a 4x4 vehicle through an online fundraiser\n\nMr De Decker spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall on Thursday about the interview on 3 January. He said when he met Mr Parry, he had just returned from an evacuation in the east of Bakhmut. \"It's a very dangerous part. Volunteers, most of them, they don't dare to go there, because it's too dangerous.\n\n\"Chris went that morning to rescue a resident who was stuck... in her apartment. Chris was able to go to the eastern part with his own car, cross the river, and he was able to save her.\"\n\nMr De Decker said Mr Parry had \"probably saved hundreds of people from the frontline areas\".\n\nFighting around Soledar in eastern Ukraine has left many buildings in the town in ruins\n\nRegarding Andrew Bagshaw, the BBC has spoken to Grzegorz Rybak, who lives in Edinburgh, but travelled to Ukraine in November. He says he carried out evacuations alongside Mr Bagshaw, acting as his interpreter. Mr Rybak said the 48 year old had travelled to Ukraine in March, and first worked distributing aid, before starting evacuations during the summer.\n\nJournalist and filmmaker Laurel Chor told the BBC she first met Mr Bagshaw in October in Kramatorsk. She says she joined him on evacuations in Bakhmut on three occasions in November.\n\n\"Andrew had been doing it for months and months and largely on his own. He lived in Kramatorsk, had a vehicle that he'd scrounge up donations for and he was really doing all the evacuations that he could. He was very quiet about it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Andrew was so experienced.\"\n\nShe said she believes there were about 12 volunteers working independently on frontline evacuations in the region. \"There's a small group of mostly independent volunteers, mostly foreign, who have just taken upon themselves to do evacuations.\n\n\"They don't necessarily work with an organisation. What they do is so dangerous.\n\n\"They are often going into areas that are actively getting shelled and sometimes they go further in where it's actually the grey zone of the contested territory, in between Ukrainian and Russian positions.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has not confirmed whether either of the volunteers have died.\n\nAdditional reporting: Daniele Palumbo, Paul Myers in London and Liubov Sholudko, in Ukraine", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Cup\n\nDarvel produced arguably the biggest upset in 149 years of Scottish Cup history as the sixth-tier outfit defeated top-flight Aberdeen.\n\nJordan Kirkpatrick's first-half shot on the spin at Recreation Park deflected past Joe Lewis to put Darvel on course for a last-16 home tie with Falkirk.\n\nChris Truesdale made three great close-range saves from Aberdeen forwards Ryan Duncan and Luis Lopes.\n\nBut, remarkably, the West of Scotland Premier Division leaders held on.\n\nThe embarrassing exit - Aberdeen's seventh defeat in nine games - piles further pressure on Pittodrie manager Jim Goodwin.\n\nAberdeen forward Duncan - starting in place of top scorer Bojan Miovski - was involved in four attacks in the first seven minutes, letting Darvel defender Chris McGowan know he would be in for a busy evening.\n\nLopes received Duncan's cross on the penalty spot but his effort on the turn was blocked, then the 19-year-old attacker hit a shot into the side-netting, won a corner with Aberdeen's next attack and curled an effort wide.\n\nDarvel soon settled, though, thanks to Craig Truesdale changing the momentum. He registered The Vale's first shot on target, a low drive gathered comfortably by Lewis and soon after hit a 25-yard piledriver slightly off target.\n\nTruesdale's next contribution was telling. He weighted a lovely cross to the back post that Hayden Coulson headed only partially clear. Willie Robertson quickly played in Kirkpatrick who spun and cracked a low shot into the net to send the home fans in the 3,500 crowd wild.\n\nDarvel had seen off Haddington Athletic, Tynecastle, Dalbeattie Star and Montrose in earlier rounds. The way they began to knock the ball around after the shock opening goal suggested they believed they could add the scalp of the seven-time winners.\n\nAberdeen's response to that surge in confidence was limited. Ylber Ramadani rattled a shot that contained more anger than accuracy, and skipper Anthony Stewart nodded a free-kick over Truesdale's crossbar.\n\nAberdeen manager Goodwin looked haunted as he headed to the changing room at half-time.\n\nHe sent on Miovski and Vicente Besuijen for Patrik Myslovic and Matty Kennedy for the second half to try to effect a turnaround in his side's fortunes and possibly save his job.\n\nBesuijen cracked an effort from 22 yards that Truesdale was happy to see sail over and at the other end Lewis stood his ground to save Ian McShane's long-range drive.\n\nAberdeen began to dominate and when Lopes ran down the left wing and his cross was met by Duncan, an equaliser looked certain. Not so. Truesdale dropped to his left to make a tremendous save.\n\nJonny Hayes came on for Coulson and with 18 minutes to go the Irish winger supplied Lopes. The Cape Verde international connected well but, as with the Duncan attempt, somehow Truesdale parried clear.\n\nTo the growing queasiness of the Aberdeen fans, Truesdale made another brave save from Lopes, again from a few yards out, and he was the equal of the Dons winger's looping header as the clock moved towards 90 minutes and Darvel held on for a famous victory.\n\nWhat they said\n\nDarvel manager Mick Kennedy: \"I believed in the guys all week. It's about togetherness and love and respect. We've been driving that home all week.\n\n\"We probably deserved going in front. We had to show our togetherness. The community has been unbelievable. From the first day I came here I told the board we are going to build something special.\"\n\nAberdeen manager Jim Goodwin: \"I don't want to talk about how bad my team's performance was, I want to congratulate Darvel.\n\n\"I thought they were excellent on the night, got their noses in front and defended for their lives. They thoroughly deserved their victory.\"\n• None Craig Moore (Darvel) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Liam Scales (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Andy Stirling (Darvel) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Vicente Besuijen (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Duk (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Daryll Meggatt (Darvel). Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A nurses' union has rejected a Welsh government proposal to head-off strike action with a one-off payment to workers.\n\nRoyal College of Nursing (RCN) said it is not \"prepared to discuss any further\" the proposal made this month.\n\nLast week the RCN announced a new round of strikes, due to take place on 6 and 7 February.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would continue to try to \"deliver the best possible outcomes for staff\".\n\nThe RCN said while it was still open to negotiations, it would not discuss the one-off payment unless the parameters of the payment change.\n\nSeveral health unions are in dispute with the Welsh government, wanting pay rises that better reflect rising prices.\n\nThe offer of a one-off payment was revealed by the First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier in January.\n\nFurther strikes have been announced since, with unions concerns the payment would not be built into future pay rises.\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan has said the \"clock is ticking\" on the payment which would need to go out by the end of February.\n\nOne union source said the comment was unhelpful and misleading because no firm offer is available to put to workers.\n\nNo firm details of what has been proposed have been released publicly, although the BBC was previously told the Welsh government had considered a payment of around £1,000 to each NHS worker.\n\nWelsh Labour ministers have insisted they cannot afford pay-outs that match inflation without better funding from the UK government.\n\nThe RCN had initially called for inflation plus 5%, although has since said it is willing to meet the Welsh government halfway.\n\nIn a statement RCN Wales director Helen Whyley indicated the union was still prepared to talk to the Welsh government - saying she had written to the first minister last week to urging the Welsh government to \"change its approach entirely\".\n\nShe said: \"I have been clear that only genuine negotiations with us can avert further strikes.\n\n\"We are not prepared to discuss any further the one-off non-consolidated payment proposed by the Welsh government in our last meeting unless the parameters of that payment change.\n\n\"Our elected members have judged this as a political quick fix rather than a move towards a solution of the crisis in the nursing workforce recognising the value of nursing in a substantive and restorative pay award.\"\n\nUnite members held a strike in the Welsh ambulance service on Monday\n\nIt is understood that Welsh government officials have invited unions to a meeting to discuss the proposal on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe GMB is among the unions representing members in the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust that have taken strike action.\n\nA source told BBC Wales that the GMB wants to see the one-off payment not conditional on ending strike action, and is considering whether to take a similar view to the RCN.\n\nMembers of the Unite union held a strike in the ambulance service on Monday.\n\nBBC Wales was told by a separate source that Unite is expected to continue talking to Welsh government about the payment proposal, but the source felt the union's members would not feel it was sufficient.\n\nThe source added they had not seen a firm offer that could be put to members for consultation.\n\nA Welsh government spokeswoman said: \"We recognise and respect the strength of feeling among NHS staff.\n\n\"We will continue to work to bring together trade unions, employers and government to deliver the best possible outcomes for staff, while continuing to call on the UK government to use the funding it has to provide a fair pay offer to NHS staff and enable us to do the same in Wales.\"", "Bruno Tonioli took his place at the Britain's Got Talent judges' desk on Tuesday\n\nDavid Walliams has been replaced by former Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli on the judging panel for the new series of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nBut in November, he admitted making \"disrespectful comments\" about two contestants during a previous series.\n\nTonioli, who left Strictly in 2021, joined his new co-stars at the first judges' audition of the new series at the London Palladium on Tuesday.\n\n\"Here we are, Britain's Got Talent. I am so excited,\" he said. \"It's my first show, I have no idea what's going to happen, but I'm sure it's going to be brilliant.\"\n\nAlesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell are still there, along with Ant and Dec\n\nTonioli was one of the original Strictly judges and appeared on every series until his departure from the BBC show.\n\nHe still appears as a judge on Dancing With The Stars, the US version of Strictly. For many years he appeared on both series, flying between the UK and the US every week.\n\nHowever, Covid travel restrictions made that arrangement difficult, and in 2020 he only appeared on Strictly via Zoom from the US.\n\nHe announced his departure from the show altogether the following year, and Anton Du Beke replaced him permanently as a judge.\n\nDavid Walliams had been on the judging panel with Cowell, Holden and Dixon since 2012\n\nWalliams joined Britain's Got Talent in 2012 and became known for his light-hearted rivalry with Cowell.\n\nLast year, the comedian and children's author apologised after a recording of him making derogatory and sexually explicit remarks during a break in filming in 2020 was leaked to The Guardian newspaper.\n\nHe said the remarks \"were never intended to be shared\", and the show's producers said they had spoken to him about his \"future professional conduct\".\n\nIn December, Walliams teased a new project with his former Little Britain co-star Matt Lucas.", "Ministers have rejected a proposal from MPs to introduce \"menopause leave\" pilots in England, arguing it could be \"counterproductive\".\n\nIt also dismissed a recommendation to make menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act.\n\nThe suggestions came from the Women and Equalities Committee, which accused ministers of making \"glacial progress\" on menopause support.\n\nThe government insisted it had an \"ambitious\" plan to improve help.\n\nIn July 2022, the committee published a report which warned that the impact of menopause was causing the UK economy to \"haemorrhage talent\".\n\nIt said a lack of support was pushing women out of work and made 12 recommendations aimed at giving working women more rights.\n\nHowever, in its response to the report, published on Tuesday, the government rejected outright five of the committee's proposals, including a recommendation for the government to work with a large public sector employer to \"develop and pilot a specific menopause leave policy\".\n\nIn its report, the cross-party group of MPs argued this could stop women being \"forced out of work by insensitive and rigid sickness policies\".\n\nThe government said it was focused on encouraging employers to implement workplace menopause policies, adding: \"We are concerned that specific menopause leave may be counterproductive to achieving this goal.\"\n\nIt also said it would not launch a consultation on amending the Equality Act to introduce a new protected characteristic of menopause \"including a duty to provide reasonable adjustments for menopausal employees\".\n\nThe government expressed concern that such a move could have \"unintended consequences which may inadvertently create new forms of discrimination, for example, discrimination risks towards men suffering from from long term medical conditions or eroding existing protections.\"\n\nMinisters accepted \"in principle\" the committee's recommendations to launch a public health campaign around menopause and to appoint a menopause ambassador to monitor progress made by businesses in this area.\n\nHowever, the Conservative chair of the committee Caroline Nokes condemned the government's overall response as \"a missed opportunity to protect vast numbers of talented and experienced women from leaving the workforce, and leaves me unconvinced that menopause is a government priority.\n\nLots of women don't think about the menopause until they're in their 40s. But it could start much earlier. Emma, Soe-Myat, Olivia and Elspeth share their experiences to help others cope with menopause at any age.\n\n\"For too long women have faced stigma, shame and dismissive attitudes when it comes to menopause.\n\n\"The evidence to our inquiry was crystal clear that urgent action was needed across healthcare and work settings to properly address women's needs, yet government progress has been glacial and its response complacent.\"\n\nA government spokesperson rejected accusations of complacency arguing it had \"put women's health at the top of the agenda as part of the first-ever women's health strategy for England\".\n\n\"We are implementing an ambitious programme of work with the NHS to improve menopause care so all women can access the support they need.\"\n\nAccording to a previous British Menopause Society survey, 45% of women indicated they felt their menopause symptoms had a negative impact on their work.", "Chameleon I: The ices are buried in the wispy molecular cloud (blue)\n\nThe new super space telescope James Webb has ventured into the freezer.\n\nIt's been probing some of the darkest, coldest regions in space for clues about the chemistry that goes into making planets, and perhaps even life.\n\nThis newly released image shows a segment of the Chameleon I molecular cloud, some 630 light years from Earth.\n\nIt's here, at temperatures down to about -260C, that Webb is detecting types of ice grains not previously observed.\n\nEventually, such clouds will collapse to form stars and, around them, planets. And the chemistry being spied by Webb will be incorporated.\n\nYou can see this in action at top-left of the image.\n\nThe orange \"hourglass\" feature is a protostar - a star in the mode of formation, pulling material from the cloud on to itself.\n\nThe orange stars underneath are more mature and bright enough that they generate the distinctive six spikes that have now become familiar in Webb pictures and are artefacts of the telescope's segmented mirror design.\n\nBut to detect the ices, Webb is ignoring all of these stars to the side and looking to stars behind the blue wispy Chameleon I.\n\nAs the light from these objects shines through the cloud, some of it is absorbed by the ices to betray their composition.\n\n\"It's sort of like a shadow puppet,\" explained Dr Melissa McClure from Leiden University, Netherlands.\n\n\"You have some kind of shape that makes the shadow. The ices make an absorption at particular wavelengths of light and you add all those up into a spectrum to see what chemical species you have,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThis is work done principally on Webb by its near-infrared and mid-infrared spectrometers (NIRSpec and MIRI), and to a degree by its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) which produced the beautiful image at the top of the page.\n\nIn addition to simple ices such as water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia, and methane, Webb sees several other compounds, including carbonyl sulphide and the more complex organic (carbon-containing) ice methanol. And there are hints too of chemical species with multiple carbon atoms, such as acetone, ethanol, and acetaldehyde.\n\nIt is much easier for astronomers to see these targets in space when they're gases. Webb is breaking new ground by seeing them in the solid state, as ices.\n\nIt will aid scientists as they try to understand where the chemistry for life came from and how it built the sophistication it now displays on our planet.\n\n\"Even though we detected more ice than ever previously reported, the amount of 'light elements' (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulphur) present within them is still less than we expect,\" explained Dr Helen Fraser, from the Open University, UK.\n\n\"For astronomers that is exciting, because it means there is something we don't yet fully understand about interstellar chemistry - and that challenges us not just to keep observing, but also to experiment in the laboratory.\"\n\nShadow puppets: Webb analysed the light shining through the cloud from two stars\n\nClose in to a newly forming star, the icy dust grains like those in Chameleon I would mostly evaporate, but further out they could survive and clump together to make comets.\n\n\"These comets would then have a large chemical inventory in them and they would likely bombard planets, certainly early in their history,\" said Prof Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University, UK.\n\n\"In the case of Earth, the belief today is that the load delivered by comets was part of that organic soup from which life evolved,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe telescope is a joint endeavour of the US, European and Canadian space agencies.\n\nThe latest Webb observations are part of the James Webb Space Telescope Ice Age project and are reported in the journal Nature Astronomy.", "Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, could lead the charge in a particularly strong year for sequels\n\nNominations for the 2023 Oscars will be announced later, and it is likely that several Academy records will be broken.\n\nMore sequels than ever could be nominated for best picture, thanks to new iterations of Top Gun, Avatar and Black Panther, among others.\n\nThere is expected to be a particularly strong showing for Irish films and actors, while Marvel could secure its first ever acting nomination.\n\nJimmy Kimmel will host this year's ceremony, set to be held on 12 March.\n\nGiven their success at precursor awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Banshees of Inisherin are likely to feature heavily when the nominations are unveiled from 13:30 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nElvis, Tár, The Fabelmans, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Whale are also predicted to show up. Here are a few things to look out for ahead of the nominations:\n\nAvatar: The Way of Water stars Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington\n\nThe 2023 shortlist could see the largest number of sequels ever nominated for best picture in a single year.\n\nThe contenders include Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and possibly even Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. That's a lot of colons.\n\nOnly two of those would have to be nominated to break the record for most sequels in the same year. However, that's partly because the best picture category is bigger than it used to be - with 10 slots available.\n\nJust eight sequels have been nominated for best picture before, and no two in a single year. Those which have previously made the cut include follow-ups to The Godfather and Lord of the Rings, as well as Toy Story 3 and Mad Max: Fury Road.\n\nWakanda Forever's Angela Bassett could secure the first ever acting nomination for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe\n\nA best supporting actress nomination for Angela Bassett's performance in Wakanda Forever would mark the first ever acting nod for a Marvel film.\n\nThe first Black Panther movie was nominated for best picture in 2019, and actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been shortlisted for their performances in other films, but not for those in the superhero franchise.\n\nIn total, Marvel films have previously scored 19 nominations - but may of those were in technical categories. For example, the original Black Panther won best costume design, production design and original score.\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin, directed by Martin McDonagh (holding the trophy), enjoyed success at the Golden Globes\n\nThere could be a particularly strong showing for Irish actors this year. The Banshees of Inisherin alone could produce four acting nominees: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon.\n\nThe film follows two friends on an island off the west coast of Ireland who fall out, and has performed well at precursor ceremonies.\n\nOther Irish actors who could be nominated include Paul Mescal for Aftersun and Jessie Buckley for Women Talking.\n\nAnd there could be a nomination in the best international film category for The Quiet Girl - an excellent film about a shy young girl who goes to stay with her distant relatives for the summer.\n\nBill Nighy, Eddie Redmayne (pictured) and Olivia Colman could be among the British acting nominees\n\nThere could be a few Brits in contention for the acting prizes too. Bill Nighy is expected to be nominated for his widely-praised performance in Living, which sees him play an ageing civil servant who decides to change his lifestyle after receiving a terminal diagnosis.\n\nOther British actors thought to be in the running include Eddie Redmayne, for his portrayal of serial killer Charles Cullen in The Good Nurse.\n\nOlivia Colman's performance in Empire of Light as a cinema worker who suffers from mental health issues could also be recognised, but her nomination is not a dead-cert.\n\nOther possible but less likely British nominations include Ben Whishaw for Women Talking and Emma Thompson for Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Whale star Brendan Fraser is one of the frontrunners for best actor\n\nAll Quiet On The Western Front dominated the Bafta nominations last week, and the World War One epic should enjoy a similarly strong showing at the Oscars.\n\nA best picture nomination would make it only the second book ever to be adapted into two best picture nominees (a previous Oscar-winning adaptation was released in 1930).\n\nThe inventive multiverse adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once could be recognised both for best picture and for its stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.\n\nMeanwhile, the acting frontrunners include Brendan Fraser, who plays a morbidly obese professor in The Whale, Austin Butler, who portrayed Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's recent biopic and Cate Blanchett, who plays a disgraced orchestra conductor in Tár.\n\nOtherwise, while she is not a favourite, it is possible Ana de Armas could score a best actress nomination for playing Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.\n\nMichelle Williams stars with Paul Dano (left) in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans\n\nThere has been much debate in awards circles this year over Michelle Williams' potential nomination for Steven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans.\n\nShe plays the protagonist's mother in the drama, but despite not being the main character, Williams decided to submit herself in the leading actress category rather than supporting, with the support of the film studio.\n\nThis led to a debate in Hollywood about whether mothering roles are traditionally overlooked for leading categories, despite such characters often having a large amount of screen time.\n\nHowever, Oscar rules state the Academy can nominate any actor in whichever category they see fit. So if enough members decide Williams' character was a supporting role, she could show up there anyway despite her own efforts to upgrade.\n\nRihanna (pictured), Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift are among the singers who could be nominated for best original song\n\nThe best original song category is often starrier than the acting categories, thanks to the large number of pop stars who still contribute to movie soundtracks.\n\nThe most likely nominee here is Rihanna, for Lift Me Up from Wakanda Forever. Lady Gaga may also be nominated for Hold My Hand, which plays over the credits of Top Gun: Maverick.\n\nA nomination for Taylor Swift's terrific Carolina is uncertain but it could be a good way for the Academy to recognise Where The Crawdads Sing - which was successful at the box office but is not predicted to show up in other categories.\n\nBut the field won't be as starry as it might have been - because the song Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell contributed to the Turning Red soundtrack was not even longlisted.\n\nBaz Luhrmann (pictured with Elvis stars Austin Butler and Tom Hanks) could be nominated for best director\n\nAll of the nominees for best director are likely to be male this year. They could include Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans), Todd Field (Tár), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Baz Luhrmann (Elvis), and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick).\n\nThere may also be a nomination for male duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - known jointly as Daniels - for Everything Everywhere All At Once.\n\nThat could mean female directors such as Charlotte Wells (Aftersun), Sarah Polley (Women Talking) and Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King) are shut out.\n\nHowever, the Oscars has been doing much better on this front recently. The two most recent winners of the category were women - Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland in 2021, and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog in 2022.\n\nAndrea Riseborough has surged in the best actress race in recent days\n\nElsewhere, a little-known film that reportedly only made $27,000 (£21,800) at the box office has made a very late break for it in the best actress race.\n\nBritish star Andrea Riseborough could spring a surprise nod after several Hollywood A-listers, including Courteney Cox, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron and Gwyneth Paltrow, got behind the film and championed her performance.\n\nMany tweeted their love for the movie, while others hosted their own screenings or gave the film a shout-out at other ceremonies, all in an effort to try and get the movie on the Academy's radar.\n\nRiseborough is brilliant in To Leslie, which follows an alcoholic mother who wins the lottery but squanders the money. However, her awards momentum has only materialised in the last fortnight.\n\nThe film premiered last March at South By Southwest - which, unlike Toronto, Venice or Cannes, is not one of the film festivals considered a key part of the awards race. Riseborough's nomination would be a surprise - but also make the race much more exciting.", "About 200 children, mostly Albanian teenage boys, remain missing from hotels housing asylum seekers, the immigration minister has said.\n\nRobert Jenrick told MPs that of 4,600 child asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK since 2021, 440 had gone missing and only half had returned.\n\nHe said it was \"extremely concerning\" but added he had not seen evidence the children were being abducted.\n\nThe shadow home secretary said there was \"a criminal network involved\" in taking the children away from their accommodation and that the government was \"completely failing to stop them\".\n\n\"They are letting these gangs run amock.\"\n\nShe urged the government to crack down on the gangs and end its contracts with hotels from where children had gone missing.\n\nShe also expressed concern about the lack of clarity over whether the Home Office or local councils were legally responsible for the children.\n\nMr Jenrick said he had not been presented with evidence that children were being abducted but would continue to make enquiries adding: \"I am not going to let this matter drop.\"\n\nHe acknowledged there was \"a challenge\" about the status of the local authorities in this area but said the government's overall objective was to ensure young people were only kept in the hotels \"for a very short period of time\".\n\nHe told MPs that 88% of the children who had gone missing were Albanian; 13 of the children were under 16; and one of them is female.\n\nHe said the government had no power to detain unaccompanied asylum-seeking children but the police and local authority were \"mobilised\" to find missing children to ensure their safety.\n\nCaroline Lucas - a Green MP in Brighton where some of the children are thought to have gone missing - accused the Home Office of \"staggering complacency and incompetence\".\n\n\"This feels like the plight of girls in Rotherham who were treated like they didn't matter,\" she said, in reference to the widespread child sex abuse in the Yorkshire town.\n\nMs Lucas raised the matter in Parliament following a report in the Observer that children had been kidnapped from a hotel in Brighton and Hove.\n\nAnother local MP - Labour's Peter Kyle - said the missing children were being \"coerced into crime\", adding: \"Just last year Sussex Police pursued a car that had collected two children from outside this hotel.\n\n\"When they managed to get the car to safety they released two child migrants and they arrested one of the members who was driving it - who was a gang leader who was there to coerce the children into crime.\"\n\nThe government has come under pressure recently to reduce the number of asylum seekers staying in hotels.\n\nAsylum seekers are often accommodated in hotels while the Home Office decides whether they can stay in the country.\n\nThis is a lengthy process, and recent delays in decision making, as well as a big rise in the numbers arriving in the UK, has caused a rise in the numbers kept in hotels.\n\nIf you have information about this story and would like to talk to a BBC journalist in confidence, you can do so by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nYou can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Chris Smalls led workers in New York who won a contest in April 2022 to establish the first Amazon union in the US\n\nIt has been almost a year since workers at an Amazon warehouse in New York voted to start the company's first-ever labour union in the US - an historic labour victory that won global attention. But the fight remains unfinished.\n\nAmazon has been battling the outcome of the election in legal actions.\n\nEfforts to organise workers at other warehouses, including one just across the street, have failed.\n\nNegotiations with the company over a labour contract for the warehouse workers have yet to start - and, when they do, are expected to take years.\n\nFormer Amazon worker Chris Smalls, who started the union after the company fired him during the pandemic, takes the lack of progress in his stride.\n\n\"We know we're dealing with a trillion dollar company that is going to spend X amount of dollars to try to stop a union from taking place so the timing is just about what we expected,\" he says.\n\nEarlier this month, regulators finally certified the victory of the Amazon Labor Union at JFK8, the warehouse on Staten Island that employs roughly 8,000 people.\n\nAmazon, which has argued that regulators unfairly tilted the result of the election against the company, plans to appeal. This week the deadline it was facing was extended two more weeks.\n\n\"We knew it was unlikely that the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) regional office would rule against itself, and intend to appeal,\" spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said.\n\n\"As we've said since the beginning, we don't believe this election process was fair, legitimate, or representative of the majority of what our team wants.\"\n\nThe state of play is indicative of the ongoing questions about the future of America's labour movement.\n\nDespite an uptick in organising activity, the share of workers who are members of unions has continued its decades-long decline, falling to 10.1% last year, from 10.3% in 2021.\n\nThat is the lowest rate on record and roughly half what it was when the government started tracking the figures in 1983.\n\nBut there are some signs that labour organisers have made inroads.\n\nMore than 70% of Americans now support labour unions - the highest share since 1965, according to a 2022 Gallup poll.\n\nPetitions from workers to start unions at their workplaces jumped 53% in the 12 months to October, to more than 2,510 - the highest number since 2016, the NLRB said.\n\nAnd in the private sector, the number of workers who are members of unions actually increased by nearly 200,000 last year - the first rise in nearly a decade, driven by gains in sectors including transportation and warehousing.\n\nThose gains did not keep pace with the overall growth of the workforce though, which expanded at a rapid clip last year.\n\nCathy Creighton, director of Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab and former field attorney for the NLRB, says US law favours employers, making it unlikely that the activity will result in long-term gains for the labour movement.\n\nThe law does not even have a mechanism to force companies to agree a contract with workers, she says.\n\n\"I'm not saying there's not a movement afoot, but the question is: how will it go in the long run?\" she says.\n\n\"Corporate America is fighting back hard and the government is not on the workers' side at this point, unless the American people realise what's happening, realise the barrier and ask their elected officials to change the law.\"\n\nShe says companies often successfully sap momentum from labour movements simply by running down the clock.\n\nIn this case, it has been nearly three years since Mr Smalls worked for Amazon, and the celebrity status he has since acquired has sparked accusations that he has become disconnected from work issues. Derrick Palmer, another top leader at Amazon Labor Union, has been suspended from work since late last year while the company investigates a worker dispute.\n\nMr Smalls rejects suggestions that Amazon's waiting game will succeed, pointing to new union campaigns in Minnesota and California. He is also due to visit the UK this week, where workers are planning their first-ever walkout.\n\n\"Their plan is to stall as long as they can but we're going to be creative on our end as well. That's what's gotten us here,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't want nothing else but a contract and we're not going to stop organising or stop fighting until we get it,\" he adds. \"If the company's really a good company, then it's time to come to the table and negotiate.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Integrity and accountability are really important to me\", says Rishi Sunak\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the disclosures made about the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nMr Sunak said there were \"questions that need answering\" over the case.\n\nTory party chairman Mr Zahawi is facing calls to resign, after it emerged he paid a penalty to HMRC over previously unpaid tax while he was chancellor, as part of a multi-million pound dispute.\n\nHe said he was \"confident\" he had \"acted properly throughout\".\n\nOn a visit to a hospital in Northamptonshire, Mr Sunak told reporters: \"Integrity and accountability is really important to me and clearly in this case there are questions that need answering.\n\n\"That's why I've asked our independent adviser to get to the bottom of everything, to investigate the matter fully and establish all the facts and provide advice to me on Nadhim Zahawi's compliance with the ministerial code.\"\n\nHe added that Mr Zahawi would remain Tory Party chairman during the investigation and had agreed to \"fully cooperate\".\n\nIn a statement, Mr Zahawi said he welcomed the investigation and looked forward to \"explaining the facts of this issue\" to Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister's independent adviser on minister's interests.\n\nHe added: \"In order to ensure the independence of this process, you will understand that it would be inappropriate to discuss this issue any further, as I continue my duties as chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.\"\n\nHowever, opposition parties called for Mr Zahawi to be sacked from his role straight away.\n\nAllies of Mr Zahawi have told the BBC he is determined to stay on as Tory Party chairman, despite growing pressure over his tax affairs.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Zahawi confirmed he had made a payment to settle a dispute with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).\n\nThe BBC understands the dispute was resolved between July and September last year, when he was chancellor, and that the total amount paid is in the region of about £5m, including a penalty.\n\nThe Guardian had previously reported that Mr Zahawi paid the tax he had owed, as well as a 30% penalty, with the total settlement amounting to £4.8m.\n\nMr Zahawi said HMRC accepted the error was \"careless and not deliberate\".\n\nThe tax was related to a shareholding in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 before he became an MP.\n\nMr Zahawi has not confirmed how much his penalty amounted to, nor the total value of the final settlement with HMRC.\n\nAlthough the BBC has been told the issue was resolved while Mr Zahawi was chancellor - and the minister ultimately responsible for HMRC - it is still not clear when he originally became aware of it.\n\nHis allies claim he told the government's Propriety and Ethics Team - which is in charge of ensuring ethics across government departments - about it before his appointment as chancellor.\n\nAfter he became chancellor, Mr Zahawi did not seek to challenge HMRC's demands, but instructed his accountants to pay all of what they said was due, the BBC has been told.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi is not going to resign and the PM should sack him, says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said launching an investigation was \"not enough\" and Mr Zahawi could not stay on as Tory Party chairman.\n\nHe said the idea that Mr Zahawi could be discussing his own tax affairs with HMRC while he was chancellor was wrong.\n\n\"The prime minister should sack him, and sack him today and show some leadership,\" he said.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon accused Mr Sunak of \"kicking [the issue] into the long grass\" by launching an inquiry.\n\nThe SNP leader said Mr Zahawi's position was \"untenable\" and he should resign or be sacked.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats also called for Mr Zahawi to be sacked, or suspended while the investigation continued.\n\n\"The gear-change from 'nothing to see here' to ordering a major ethics investigation in just a few days, puts Sunak's own judgment in the spotlight once again,\" the party's deputy leader Daisy Cooper said.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions last week, Mr Sunak said Mr Zahawi had already addressed the matter of his tax affairs \"in full\".\n\nDowning Street said Mr Sunak was not aware last week that Mr Zahawi had paid a penalty to settle his dispute with HMRC.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the investigation by his ethics adviser would focus on \"potential breaches of the ministerial code relating to ministerial declarations\".\n\nHowever, he said the investigation could also look at whether Mr Zahawi's tax arrangement was suitable for a minister.\n\nHe added that Mr Sunak still has confidence in Mr Zahawi and hoped the investigation would be completed \"as quickly as possible\", although he could not give a timeline.\n\nWhat could have happened is that Nadhim Zahawi decided to resign, or the prime minister decide to sack him.\n\nBut neither did, and nor has Mr Zahawi appeared in front the cameras to answer the questions he faces.\n\nWhich means this row will trundle on, while the Prime Minister's Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests pokes around the affair.\n\nThe prime minister's public outlook on his party chairman's conduct has pointedly shifted in just days; as Downing Street acknowledged it didn't know until this weekend Nadhim Zahawi had been charged a penalty by Revenue and Customs.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak has chosen to define his commitment to integrity as seeking out the facts - \"do things professionally\" as he put it - rather than get rid of Mr Zahawi now.\n\nWestminster inquiries can act as a fire blanket on controversy, smothering the intensity of the political flames by allowing their subject to swerve questions for as long as they take.\n\nBut for Number 10 - and Mr Zahawi - this is a problem deferred, at best; not resolved.", "Elon Musk (left) is testifying in court over claims a tweet he wrote about Tesla cost investors millions of dollars\n\nElon Musk has told a court that he was trying to do the \"right thing\" when he issued a tweet claiming he had enough backing to take Tesla private.\n\nThe boss of the electric car company is on trial after investors claimed the 2018 tweet cost them millions of dollars when a deal did not go ahead.\n\nMr Musk claims that he had met with a Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund which indicated support for a deal.\n\nBut he admitted he never discussed a specific funding amount.\n\nMr Musk is accused of defrauding investors after he tweeted on 7 August 2018 that he had \"funding secured\" to take Tesla private at $420 (£341) per share, and that \"investor support is confirmed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tweet sent shares in Tesla soaring, but weeks later they fell back when Mr Musk said the plan was no longer going ahead, causing a significant backlash for the billionaire.\n\nHe was forced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US regulator, to step down as Tesla's chairman and had to have any tweets related to Tesla vetted by an independent committee.\n\nHe and Tesla were also fined $20m each to settle a claim by the SEC that he had committed securities fraud.\n\nAt the jury trial in a San Francisco court on Tuesday, Mr Musk and his attorney argued that the deal was seriously considered for about two weeks, with discussions with major investors and other firms.\n\nMr Musk said he eventually scrapped the plan after his discussions with smaller investors led him to believe they would prefer that the firm remain publicly traded on the stock market.\n\n\"I felt it was important to be responsive to their wishes,\" he said, later citing a letter he received from Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment, a firm that manages billions of dollars worth in assets.\n\nMr Musk said he thought sharing his consideration of the potential buyout was the \"right thing\" to do because he was worried an article in the Financial Times about Saudi Arabia's stake in the company would put ordinary investors at a disadvantage.\n\n\"I thought I was doing the right thing,\" he said on Tuesday, his third day testifying in the case.\n\n\"I was concerned when receiving the Financial Times article that the information had leaked and that some investors would be aware that I was considering taking the company private and this would disadvantage other investors, especially small shareholders.\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr Musk told a court in San Francisco that he had met with people from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund on 31 July, 2018.\n\nHe said that while a price for taking Tesla private was not discussed, he claimed that the representatives from the fund made it clear they backed a deal.\n\nMr Musk claimed Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the fund's governor, then appeared to backpedal on the pledge.\n\n\"I was very upset because he had been unequivocal in his support for taking Tesla private when we met and now he appeared to be backpedaling,\" he said.\n\nMr Musk was also questioned about how he decided on a price of $420 a share and whether it was a reference to marijuana.\n\nIn American counterculture, the significance of 420 is said to have come from a group of students in California in the 1970s who used to meet after school at 4:20pm to smoke and to search for a patch of cannabis plants.\n\nLater on, 20 April became a day when thousands of people gathered to celebrate marijuana. In the US, dates are written with the number of the month first, then the day - in this case 4/20.\n\nMr Musk, who has smoked cannabis in public but claimed not to be a regular user, told the court: \"420 was not chosen because of a joke; it was chosen because there was a 20% premium over the stock price.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"some karma around 420\", though \"I should question whether that is good or bad karma at this point.\"\n\nMr Musk, who bought the social media platform Twitter for $44bn last year, had told the court on Friday that he did not think that his tweets had affected Tesla's share price.\n\n\"Just because I tweet something does not mean people believe it or will act accordingly,\" he told jurors.\n\nMr Musk will continue testifying on Tuesday. He had attempted to have the trial moved from California to Texas due to concerns that a jury would be biased against him due to media coverage of the businessman.\n\nFollowing his takeover of Twitter, which is headquartered in San Francisco, thousands of staff lost their jobs.\n\n\"We don't think we can get a fair trial in this district, period, full stop,\" said Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Mr Musk.\n\nThe request was denied by Judge Edward Chen.\n\nDuring jury selection, potential jurors expressed a wide range of opinions about Mr Musk. Some described him as \"smart\" and a \"genius\".\n\nAnother said he was \"a little off his rocker\".\n\nOne woman suggested that \"he is not a very likable person,\"\n\nWhen asked by the judge whether that meant she would not be impartial towards him, the woman responded: \"A lot of people are not necessarily likable people…. sometimes I don't like my husband.\"", "President Lula said what he saw in Roraima state amounted to \"genocide\"\n\nBrazil has airlifted 16 starving Yanomami tribal people to receive urgent treatment, after the government declared a medical emergency.\n\nThe indigenous people live in a reserve in Brazil's northern state of Roraima.\n\nPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has accused his predecessor, far-right Jair Bolsonaro, of committing genocide against the rainforest tribe.\n\nThe government declared a medical emergency after hundreds of Yanomami children died from malnutrition.\n\nThe deaths are linked to water pollution caused by mining and logging in the densely forested area, where food insecurity is rife.\n\nOn Saturday President Lula visited Roraima, which borders Venezuela and Guyana, following reports of severe malnutrition among Yanomami children and said he was \"shocked\" by what he found.\n\n\"More than a humanitarian crisis, what I saw in Roraima was genocide: a premeditated crime against the Yanomami, committed by a government insensitive to suffering,\" he said later. \"I came here to say we are going to treat our indigenous people as human beings.\"\n\nAn estimated 28,000 indigenous people live in the Yanomami reserve. They hunt, practise small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture and live in small, scattered, semi-permanent villages.\n\nIn his four years in power, Mr Bolsonaro often criticised the size of the indigenous reserves and promised to open some of them to agriculture and mining. His government weakened environmental protections, and critics said his rhetoric emboldened illegal activity in the region.\n\nToday, some 20,000 illegal miners are estimated to operate inside the Yanomami reserve, which is rich in gold, diamonds and minerals. In 2021, miners in the area opened fire on the Yanomami using automatic weapons.\n\nThe new Lula government says more than 500 indigenous children have died in the past few years from drinking water contaminated with mercury, which is directly linked to illegal gold mining.\n\nLula was sworn in as president on 1 January after narrowly defeating Jair Bolsonaro, and Brazilian society is deeply polarised.\n\nSonia Guajajara, the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, said: \"We must hold the previous government accountable for allowing this situation to get worse to the point where we find adults weighing like children, and children reduced to skin and bones.\"\n\nThe Interior Minister, Flavio Dino, also accused the previous government of abandoning the indigenous community and promised an investigation.\n\nBesides airlifting some of the most seriously ill members of the tribe, Brazilian authorities announced that the health ministry would create a field hospital and send supplies and health professionals to the area.\n\nDr Andre Siqueira, a specialist in tropical medicine who is currently working in the Roraima region, told the BBC he had come across cases of severe malnutrition in entire indigenous families and said the situation was \"catastrophic\" and \"disastrous\".\n\nHe said the Yanomami were not the only tribes facing serious threats to their existence, and he had witnessed \"similar situations of lack of assistance and care\" in other indigenous territories.\n\n\"This is something that urgently needs to be addressed, because our humanity depends on it\", Dr Siqueira said.", "Julian Sands has been missing for 11 days\n\nThe family of missing British actor Julian Sands has thanked the Californian authorities for their efforts in trying to locate him.\n\nThey also said they were \"deeply touched\" by the \"outpouring of love and support\" they had received.\n\nMr Sands, 65, disappeared on 13 January while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nLast week, his car was found next to where he was reported missing.\n\nIn the statement - put out on the 11th day since Mr Sands went missing - the family praised the \"heroic search teams\" who are working through the difficult weather conditions \"on the ground and in the air to bring Julian home\".\n\nCalifornia has been battered by deadly storms, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said it had responded to more than a dozen calls on Mount San Antonio, known locally as Mount Baldy, and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. It warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,\" the department said. Earlier in January, a mother of four whom friends described as an experienced hiker died after sliding more than 500ft (152m) down Mount Baldy.\n\nLast week, a spokesperson for the sheriff's department told the PA news agency that conditions were still too dangerous for ground crews to operate due to wintry weather, and that searches would be conducted by helicopter only.\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Mr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nHe lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nMr Sands has talked in the past about his love of hiking and mountain climbing.\n\nWhen asked in 2020 what made him happy, he replied: \"Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Poland's PM: \"Free world cannot afford not to send Leopard tanks\"\n\nPoland's prime minister has called on Germany to be \"brave\" and allow his country to export 14 Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nMateusz Morawiecki told the BBC that Germany had a \"special responsibility\", having built up \"huge Russian funds\" before the war by buying its gas.\n\nUkraine sees the tanks as vital for breaking through Russian lines and to beat an anticipated counter-offensive.\n\nBut as Leopard 2s are made in Germany, Berlin needs to approve their export.\n\nGermany has been hesitant to send its own or allow other nations to do the same.\n\nOne of its concerns is that a sudden move could further escalate the conflict with Russia.\n\nMr Morawiecki said he would give Germany one or two weeks to make a decision - but would send its tanks, whatever Berlin says.\n\n\"We will do this, no matter what the decision is going to be,\" he said. \"But we want to go along the procedures which are requested of us.\"\n\nHe also maintained that Germany should send some of its own Leopard 2s - he said they had 350 operational Leopard tanks and 200 in storage.\n\n\"Why keep them in storage?\" he asked.\n\nPresident Zelensky believes about 300 Leopard tanks would help it defeat Russia.\n\nThe German government told the BBC it had received the request to export 14 German-made tanks on Tuesday.\n\nThe Leopard 2 tanks were specifically designed to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Mr Morawiecki said that an urgent move from Germany was \"so important\".\n\n\"This is why we have talk to our German partners, not to procrastinate, not to delay, but just to take brave decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"Germany played a key role in building up the huge Russian funds for this war by buying Russian gas, trading with Russia, big time. Now there is a special responsibility on Germany's shoulders,\" he added.\n\nHe earlier accused Germany of \"delaying, dodging, acting in a way that is difficult to understand\".\n\nMr Morawiecki said that Poland was \"just about to send\" 50 to 60 more tanks to Ukraine.\n\nHe did not name the type of tank, but was probably referring to more Soviet-era tanks. Poland has already sent about 250 Soviet era T-72 tanks to Ukraine.\n\nOn Tuesday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Berlin had given allied nations the green light to train Ukrainians to use Leopard 2 tanks, but did not commit to sending their own.\n\nMr Pistorius said a decision about supplying the tanks would be made soon. The military's chief of staff added that any decision would be taken at a political level.\n\n\"We are encouraging our partners if they want to, and if they have the opportunity, to start training Ukrainian forces on these Leopard vehicles,\" Mr Pistorius said in a news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg.\n\nAllied nations have become frustrated at what they perceive as German reluctance to send the armoured vehicles in recent days.\n\nBut Miguel Berger, Germany's ambassador to the UK, told the BBC that decisions would \"not be driven by the news cycle\".\n\nSending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine \"would put pressure and additional tension on the relationship between Germany and Russia\", he said.\n\n\"Chancellor Scholz needs to have the time to analyse the strategic implications of the decision and then make a decision with partners - this is very important.\"\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Poland's Defence Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, said he was appealing to Germany to \"join the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks\".\n\n\"This is our common cause, because the security of the whole of Europe is at stake!\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Pistorius defended German Chancellor Olaf Scholz against criticism that he was dragging his feet.\n\n\"Taking the lead does not mean blindly going ahead,\" he said. \"And if the decision takes another day or two, then that's just the way it is.\"\n\nThe UK has promised 14 Challenger tanks, while France is considering sending some of its Leclerc battle tanks.", "\"It's a political tragedy.\" One long standing Conservative figure is reflecting on the political pickle Nadhim Zahawi finds himself in.\n\n\"He set up an incredibly successful polling company. He knows just how opinion polls work and what you can read into them. He's a great organiser. It makes him an ideal party chairman,\" they add.\n\nBut there's a \"but\" coming.\n\n\"But this is really difficult. How can he function as party chairman with all this going on? Talk to rich donors who are scrupulous about their taxes? Talk to the grassroots?\"\n\nThe former Tory minister Caroline Nokes has told the BBC her party chairman should \"stand aside\" while an inquiry by the prime minister's ethics adviser takes place.\n\nBut others say this is impractical: Were he to do so, there would have to be a temporary replacement, who may find themselves replaced were Mr Zahawi to be exonerated.\n\n\"Once you get off the roundabout it is hard to get back onto it,\" it was put to me.\n\n\"I love him, but patience really is running thin\" a minister says.\n\nThere's a sense he has mucked up and defending him is difficult.\n\nAnd part of that is the degree to which MPs say privately the whole thing looks so otherworldly: for millions of people who pay tax as they earn, the idea of accountants and complex arrangements seems hard to relate to.\n\nAnd for many businesses with experience of filing tax returns, the sums involved here, settling a bill and penalty of around £5m, seem off the scale compared with their own lives.\n\nAnother minister goes as far as to say they feel it \"doesn't pass the smell test;\" that there were no excuses for ending up having to pay a penalty to the tax authority and not getting things right in the first place.\n\nAnd enter next Lord Evans of Weardale, the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.\n\nHe's told BBC Radio 4 that reports Mr Zahawi threatened some journalists with being sued if they reported on his tax affairs don't match with the behaviour \"the government has committed itself to\".\n\n\"The sort of attempts, apparent legal attempts to suppress this story... I don't think that does live up to the sort of standards that the public would rightly expect.\"\n\nSo how soon might all this be sorted out, one way or another?\n\nIt is the job of the recently appointed Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests, Sir Laurie Magnus, to determine if Nadhim Zahawi broke the rule book of being in government, the ministerial code.\n\nAnd here are those rules, against which Mr Zahawi will be judged.\n\nOne senior MP told me the prime minister had been \"too nice\" in asking Sir Laurie to look into things, and could have just sacked Mr Zahawi.\n\nAnother countered that the government had been criticised for not having an ethics adviser until his appointment last month, so you might as well use him when an incident like this flares up.\n\nDowning Street have said the inquiry was requested because of \"potential breaches of the ministerial code\" based on what the prime minister's official spokesman called \"ministerial declarations\".\n\nIn other words, what Mr Zahawi did and didn't say about his tax affairs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions last week, Rishi Sunak told the Commons his party chairman had addressed the issue of his tax \"in full\". But it turns out he hadn't.\n\nDowning Street didn't learn until the weekend that he had in fact paid a penalty to HM Revenue and Customs as well as an outstanding tax bill. And then it asked Sir Laurie to look into it all.\n\nSo what is in the rules that could prove tricky for Mr Zahawi?\n\nIt's for the adviser to advise and then the prime minister to decide what to do. But let's take a look.\n\n\"Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing,\" are two sentences that jump out.\n\n\"Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or appears to arise, between their public duties and their private interests\" is another.\n\nNadhim Zahawi says he looks forward \"to answering any and all specific questions in a formal setting to Sir Laurie\" but isn't being drawn into saying anything else publicly while the inquiry is carried out \"in order to ensure the independence of this process\".\n\nSo when will Sir Laurie be finished?\n\nDowning Street wants it done \"swiftly.\"\n\nOne senior figure well-placed to know the hoped-for timetable told me it could be done within a week.\n\nLet's see. These things have a tendency to trundle on.\n\nThere is no doubting the appetite among Conservative MPs to get this sorted one way or the other and quickly, so the focus can turn to something, anything, else.", "There are growing fears that 2023 could see a wave of company collapses as the cost of living crisis continues.\n\nThe number of firms on the brink of going bust jumped by more than a third at the end of last year, said insolvency firm Begbies Traynor.\n\nIt expects this number to rise due to higher costs, firms repaying Covid loans and consumers cutting back.\n\nPaul Jones, co-founder of brewery Cloudwater Brew, said the pressure felt like a \"never-ending nightmare\".\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at Begbies Traynor, said it was receiving an increasing number of calls from businesses owners like Mr Jones who were concerned over whether they could carry on.\n\nPaul Jones says he feels like continuing his business is either not possible or not worth it\n\nMr Jones said his Manchester-based company has been in survival mode since March 2020, with high costs, debt, low consumer confidence and post-Brexit trading problems all bearing down on the business.\n\n\"The cost to me has been pretty bleak,\" he said. \"I have a heart condition from stress and I feel constantly on the edge of what I can personally cope with.\"\n\nHis thoughts have turned to closing his business \"probably once a month since 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel like continuing is either not possible or not worth it,\" he said. \"We're going to keep going. What else can we do?\"\n\nBut he remains downbeat about business prospects in 2023.\n\nBegbies Traynor said the number of companies in critical financial distress jumped by 36% in the last three months of 2022.\n\nA firm is in critical financial distress if it has more than £5,000 in county court judgments or a winding up petition against it.\n\nThe number of county court judgments served against companies in the same period jumped by 52% compared with 2021.\n\nMs Palmer said that up until now low interest rates and loans had helped firms. In the pandemic, Covid loans and a longer time to pay taxes had meant that support had continued.\n\n\"[The support] all seems to be coming to an end at the same time, with nothing really on the horizon in terms of what might replace them,\" she said.\n\nA backlog in the insolvency courts due to Covid has also delayed some company collapses.\n\n\"The courts were closed for business so nobody could take recovery action against non-payers and we are beginning to see those cases pushed through now,\" she said.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague had to close her restaurant last year\n\nThis cocktail of challenges has already proved lethal for some.\n\nChef Mary-Ellen McTague set up a restaurant The Creameries in Manchester back in 2018. It received rave reviews and was trading well until the pandemic hit the following year, and the business never fully recovered.\n\nHigh energy costs were the final straw. She had to close the restaurant in September last year.\n\n\"It became apparent that no matter how hard I worked, how hard I tried, how many different tactics we tried to turn it around, we were just never going to get enough customers through the door to make it work. And that was a horrible moment,\" said Ms McTague.\n\nShe said running a business during such a difficult period took a huge emotional toll.\n\n\"I think it can be a really lonely experience being in that position,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are the head of a small business, you've got close relationships with your staff, your suppliers. And you don't want to worry anyone, so you don't necessarily talk to your friends, family, or even your partner about it,\" she added.\n\n\"You don't want to worry your children. There's a lot of trying to keep the worry from others, which means you hold it in yourself.\n\n\"There's still quite a lot of stigma around it, and feeling this sense of shame of things not working out, even when it's completely out of your hands.\"\n\nShe admitted that she had mixed feelings when she finally had to close the business\n\n\"Once you're at the point where you can see what's going on and you can't make it better, there is definitely a sense of relief afterwards.\"\n\nNatWest boss Alison Rose said that while the UK's biggest business lender is yet to see widespread company failures she is concerned that firms are unable or not confident enough to invest for the future.\n\n\"We are seeing very little investment thanks to very low business confidence. That for me is a real concern because it will affect future growth.\"\n\nBut there were still reasons for optimism in 2023, she said.\n\n\"If you think we have had a global pandemic, the end of low interest rates, a war in Europe, massive price rises - what we have seen is incredible resilience in UK business,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also at full employment which is really positive. We are seeing record number of start-ups and banks like ours that is in a strong position to support customers. So it is a tough environment, but we should never forget how resilient business owners have been.\"", "Dr Jo Wilson has died, aged 69, after living with dementia\n\nA woman with dementia, who the BBC has followed for months as her husband battled to secure care for her, has died.\n\nDr Jo Wilson, from Newcastle, was a business executive before she was diagnosed in 2020.\n\nAfter weeks of delays, she moved into residential care earlier this month but died on Saturday, aged 69.\n\nHer husband, Bill, said he wanted their case to highlight health and social care issues.\n\nDr Wilson trained as a nurse but went on to become a high-achieving international businesswoman before her illness took hold.\n\nThe couple had been together for almost 50 years but, as the dementia tightened its grip, Mr Wilson had to look after his wife around the clock.\n\nHe previously described the care system as \"broken\".\n\nHe told BBC News: \"I've done all this because I want to see change happen. Change can only happen if people stand on the rooftop and shout about dementia.\n\n\"There's a huge disparity between being ill - that is treatable by the NHS - and the illness of dementia. Nothing is free, we have to pay for everything.\"\n\nBill Wilson documented his struggles as he cared for his wife, Jo, round the clock at their home in Newcastle\n\nMr Wilson said it had taken two years to initially get a care package put in place for his wife, but only after she suffered a fall and ended up in hospital was one was finally agreed.\n\nHe found home visits from carers frustrating due to frequent changes of staff, unreliable timekeeping and a lack of understanding of dementia.\n\nSpeaking in October, he said estimates for residential care for his wife were around £1,500 a week which would have seen their savings used to cover the cost.\n\nCurrent rules meant their local council would fund a place in a care home only when their owns funds had been exhausted.\n\nTyneside-based charity Dementia Matters was eventually able to step in to provide a residential bed.\n\nChanges designed to help people cover their personal care costs were due to come into effect in October, including a more generous means-test and a lifetime cap on care costs of £86,000.\n\nHowever, in November the move was postponed until 2025. after local authorities warned adult care services could worsen if the rollout was not delayed.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Isla Bryson, who was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow, faces a custodial sentence\n\nA transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women in attacks carried out before she changed gender.\n\nIsla Bryson committed the crimes in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard that the 31-year-old has now started the process of gender re-assignment.\n\nJudge Lord Scott said she had been convicted of two extremely serious charges and a significant custodial sentence was inevitable.\n\nBBC Scotland understands Bryson is being sent to Cornton Vale women's prison in Stirling but will not be held alongside the jail's general population.\n\nA risk assessment will then be carried out to decide where Bryson should go after that.\n\nBryson had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as Adam Graham.\n\nThe following year Bryson told jurors she had made the decision to transition from a man to a woman.\n\nAt the trial, she was then known as Isla Bryson with jurors told Adam Graham was now her \"dead name\".\n\nBryson had been on bail, but was remanded in custody by Lord Scott.\n\nShe attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, having met on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam Graham.\n\nThis was immediately after Bryson's marriage to a woman had ended.\n\nThe rape occurred on 16 September 2016 after Bryson locked the door and got into bed beside the woman.\n\nIsla Bryson was remanded in custody at the High Court in Glasgow\n\nIn pre-recorded testimony played to jurors, the woman recalled repeatedly stating \"no\" as a \"muscular\" Adam forced himself upon her.\n\nThe second woman was raped at a flat in Drumchapel, Glasgow on 27 June 2019.\n\nBryson told jurors how she had shared her \"sexuality issues\" with the 34-year-old having met on the social media site Bigo.\n\nThe court heard the pair were together at the flat planning to watch a film.\n\nThe victim recalled feeling \"crushed\" as the attacker she knew as Adam raped her.\n\nShe stated: \"I told him to stop and he did not. He kept going. That is when I closed my eyes and let him do what he wanted to do.\"\n\nBryson denied that charge. She said: \"I would never do that. I would never hurt any woman.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, prosecutor John Keenan KC said the first rape had been reported to the authorities in 2016, but that there were no further \"proceedings at that stage\".\n\nLord Scott deferred sentencing on Bryson until 28 February in Stirling.\n\nShe already had three summary levels convictions - not for sexual matters - and has never been jailed before.\n\nThe judge told her: \"You have been convicted of two extremely serious charges. Given what you have been convicted of, a significant custodial sentence is inevitable.\"\n\nThe media and public had to watch proceedings from a viewing room elsewhere in the court building.\n\nA previous trial was abandoned due to Bryson reporting being unwell after having her photo taken as she arrived at court.\n\nSince 2014, the Scottish Prison Service's policy has been that prisoners should be accommodated on the basis of self-declared identity, subject to a risk assessment.\n\nThat accommodation must best suit \"the person's needs and should reflect the gender in which they are currently living\".\n\nInitially, Isla Bryson will be held on remand at the women's prison at Cornton Vale where it is expected she will be segregated from other inmates.\n\nThe judge has made it clear she will receive a lengthy prison sentence when she is brought back to court.\n\nAfter that, the prison service will have to work out what to do with her.\n\nA multi-disciplinary assessment will decide whether she should serve her sentence with male or female prisoners.\n\nThe assessment will gauge the risk Bryson poses to others, and the risk that would be posed to Bryson, depending on where she was sent.\n\nSandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland, believes it is the first time a trans woman has been convicted of raping women in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"If someone has been convicted of a serious sexual offence they should not be held with the general female population.\"\n\nThe community safety spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives Russell Findlay MSP referred to the fact that Bryson has not yet had gender reassignment surgery.\n\nHe said: \"It would be wrong to put a male-bodied rapist in a women's prison.\"\n\nDiscussing the general issue of trans prisoners in 2018, the Scottish Trans Alliance said the prison service \"isn't daft\" and scrutinises each case with great care.\n\nClearly, Bryson cannot be held in segregation - solitary confinement - forever. It would breach her human rights.\n\nAt some point she will mix and be housed with other prisoners. One commentator with extensive knowledge of Scotland's jails said the prison service \"is in a very difficult position facing very difficult choices.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Four year old boy joins Mensa, counts to 100 in six non-native languages\n\nA boy who taught himself to read as a toddler has been accepted as the UK's youngest member of Mensa.\n\nFour-year-old Teddy, from Portishead in Somerset, can count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin.\n\nMensa accepts people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on an approved intelligence test.\n\nTeddy's mother, Beth Hobbs, said he learned to read at just 26 months old \"by watching children's television and copying the sounds of letters\".\n\nTeddy was three years old when Mensa granted him membership\n\n\"He started tracing the letters and so when we sent him back to nursery after Covid lockdown we told them we thought he'd taught himself how to read,\" she said.\n\n\"We had a phone call back from the nursery, who'd sent a pre-school teacher to check, who said 'yes he can read!'\"\n\nTeddy's mum Beth said he \"chooses a topic to be interested in every couple of months or so, and sometimes it's numbers, it was times tables for a while, which was intense, countries and maps, then learning to count in different languages\"\n\nIt was the latter that particularly astounded Teddy's parents.\n\n\"He was playing on his tablet, making these sounds that I just didn't recognise, and I asked him what it was, and he said \"Mummy, I'm counting in Mandarin,\" said Mrs Hobbs.\n\nTeddy taught himself to read by watching children's television aged two\n\nTeddy has learned to count to 100 in six non-native languages, including Mandarin\n\nTeddy was made a member of Mensa when he was three years old, making him the youngest current member of the organisation in the UK.\n\nBut his parents said they want him to have a rounded childhood.\n\n\"He's starting to figure out that his friends can't read yet and he doesn't know why, but it's very important for us to keep him grounded,\" Mrs Hobbs said.\n\n\"If he can do these things, then fine, but he sees it like 'yes I can read, but my friend can run faster than me', so we've all got our individual talents.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Mike Pence previously said no classified documents left the White House\n\nClassified files have been found at ex-US Vice-President Mike Pence's home in the latest discovery of secret papers at the homes of officials who have served in the top ranks of government.\n\nThe documents, discovered by a lawyer last week for Mr Pence at his Indiana home, have been handed over to the FBI.\n\nInvestigators are already looking into President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump's possession of files.\n\nRepresentatives for Mr Pence sent a letter to the National Archives alerting them to the documents.\n\nThe FBI came to the former vice-president's home to collect the documents, bypassing \"standard procedures\" and requesting \"direct possession\" of them, lawyers added in a separate letter.\n\nUnder the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives once an administration ends. Regulations require such files to be stored securely.\n\nA \"small number of documents bearing classified markings\" were \"inadvertently boxed and transported\" to Mr Pence's home at the end of Mr Trump's presidency, his lawyer wrote in a letter shared with US media.\n\nThe latest development emerged after Mr Pence sought legal help from specialists in handling classified documents \"out of an abundance of caution\".\n\nHe asked for help \"after it became public that documents with classified markings were found in President Joe Biden's Wilmington residence\", the letter read.\n\nLawyers found \"a small number of documents that could potentially contain sensitive or classified information\", which were locked by the former vice-president in a safe.\n\nAn aide to Mr Pence told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, the documents were stored in boxes in an insecure area of Mr Pence's home. The aide said they were taped shut.\n\nAccording to US media, the documents are believed to have first been taken to Mr Pence's home in Virginia before later being sent to Indiana.\n\nAfter the letter became public, Mr Trump came to Mr Pence's defence, taking to his Truth Social social media platform to say that he is \"an innocent man\".\n\n\"He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life,\" Mr Trump wrote. \"Leave him alone!!!\"\n\nMr Pence had repeatedly said over the last months that he did not believe he was in possession of classified documents.\n\nEarlier this month, he told CBS that he was confident reviews of documents in his home were done \"in a thorough and careful way\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President has no regrets about classified documents\n\nMr Biden previously said he had \"no regrets\" over not going public before the midterm elections with the news that classified documents had been discovered in his private office.\n\nSix more classified files were found during a 13-hour search of President Biden's home in Delaware on Friday, his lawyer Bob Bauer said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nThe documents unearthed so far are believed to be related to Mr Biden's eight-year tenure as vice-president under former President Barack Obama.\n\nMr Biden offered access \"to his home to allow DoJ [the Department of Justice] to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice-presidential records and potential classified material\", Mr Bauer added.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Biden's lawyers said a first batch of classified documents had been found on 2 November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank that the president founded in Washington DC.\n\nA second batch of records was found on 20 December in the garage at his Wilmington home, while another document was found in a storage space at the house on 12 January, his lawyers said.\n\nRepresentatives for former Presidents Obama and George W Bush told Reuters on Tuesday that their administrations had turned over all documents to the National Archives after leaving office.\n\nThe discoveries at the homes of Mr Pence and Mr Biden come as Mr Trump faces a special counsel inquiry over his alleged mishandling of documents.\n\nHundred of classified records were found at Mr Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago residence - Mr Trump and his lawyers resisted handing over the documents until the FBI raided the Florida holiday home last August.\n\nHe denied any wrongdoing, alleging that President Biden was being treated more favourably by the FBI.", "During CES in Las Vegas, visitors could take advantage of a new transportation system under the Las Vegas strip.\n\nThe BBC's James Clayton visited the Boring Company's tunnel network carrying passengers in Tesla cars.", "Jared O'Mara served as MP for Sheffield Hallam from June 2017 to November 2019\n\nA former South Yorkshire MP tried to submit fake invoices for nearly £30,000 in a bid to fund his \"extensive cocaine habit\", a court has heard.\n\nJared O'Mara, who represented Sheffield Hallam, is on trial at Leeds Crown Court and denies eight counts of fraud.\n\nProsecutors allege part of the fraud involved creating a false organisation called \"Confident About Autism South Yorkshire\" to try to claim payments.\n\nMr O'Mara, 41, and two other men deny the charges.\n\nOpening the case for the prosecution, Mr James Bourne-Arton described it as a \"very straightforward case of fraud\".\n\n\"In 2019 the defendants Jared O'Mara and Gareth Arnold submitted a series of invoices for payment that were false - that is to say that the services that the invoices related to were a fiction and the defendants knew that,\" he said.\n\n\"They were deliberately making dishonest claims for work that hadn't been done in order to receive the money for themselves.\"\n\nAs well as submitting claims for £19,400 relating to the \"fictitious\" organisation it is also claimed he submitted two invoices totalling £4,650 from his \"chief of staff\" Mr Arnold for media and PR work that prosecutors say was never carried out.\n\nThe jury was also told Mr O'Mara, who appeared in court by videolink on Monday, submitted a false contract of employment for his friend John Woodliff, 43, \"pretending\" that Mr Woodliff worked for him as a constituency support officer in an effort to \"generate money for the two of them\".\n\nGareth Arnold, left, and John Woodliff, pictured at a previous hearing, are on trial alongside Mr O'Mara\n\nThe jury heard the invoices were submitted to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), an independent body which was established to restore public confidence following the 2009 MP expenses scandal.\n\nMr Bourne-Arton continued: \"Jared O'Mara viewed IPSA, and the taxpayers' money that they administered, as a source of income that was his to claim and use as he wished, not least in the enjoyment of his extensive cocaine habit.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Arnold, 30, alerted South Yorkshire Police by phone on 2 July 2019 \"after reaching a point at which he was no longer willing to participate in the fraud\".\n\n\"He described an undoubtedly sad state of affairs in which O'Mara was plainly unable to cope with the office he held, was in poor mental health and was heavily addicted to cocaine that he was abusing in prodigious quantities,\" Mr Bourne-Arton told the court.\n\nProsecutors said genuine members of staff Mr O'Mara employed had not heard of Mr Arnold or Mr Woodliff, with all of the invoices either rejected or not processed.\n\nThe court heard financial investigations revealed Mr O'Mara was \"living to or beyond his means and in dire need of cash\".\n\nThe prosecutor said: \"The reason for that appears to have been that he was funding a significant cocaine habit of which both Gareth Arnold and John Woodliff were plainly aware.\"\n\nMr O'Mara, of Walker Close, Sheffield, was elected to Parliament in June 2017 after a shock victory in Sheffield Hallam over former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Nick Clegg.\n\nHe quit Labour in 2018 but remained in office as an independent MP before standing down at the 2019 general election.\n\nMr Arnold, of School Lane, Dronfield, Derbyshire, denies six counts of fraud, with Mr Woodliff, of Hesley Road, Shiregreen, denying one charge.\n\nThe trial, which is due to last 10 days, continues.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jordan McSweeney was working at a funfair near to where he beat Zara Aleena to death - just nine days after being released from prison on licence\n\nJordan McSweeney has been jailed for life, after admitting murdering aspiring lawyer Zara Aleena as she walked home from an east London bar. Chilling CCTV footage recovered from that night reveals the prolific criminal trailed other lone women before singling out and killing one he had never met before.\n\nJust after 02:30 on 26 June, Ms Aleena was found on a pavement not far from her home, in Ilford.\n\nHer belongings were strewn along Cranbrook Road. She had been badly beaten, was partially naked and struggling to breathe.\n\nAnother woman gave the 35-year-old cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until paramedics arrived. Ms Aleena died later that morning in hospital.\n\nWeeks prior to her death, Zara Aleena was offered a job at the Royal Courts of Justice.\n\nDetectives immediately began extensive inquiries in the area where she was found.\n\nZara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a \"danger to any woman\".\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)\n\nClips were circulated within the Metropolitan Police - and one officer, recognising him from a previous encounter, came forward to provide a name, Jordan McSweeney.\n\nAt the time, McSweeney was working at a fairground in Valentine's Park - close to where he attacked Ms Aleena - and the footage shows him climbing a fence to the park after the attack.\n\nDet Ch Insp Dave Whellams sent an officer to the fairground, with an image of the prime suspect, to see if anyone else recognised him.\n\n\"Lo and behold, 'Yes,' they said,\" Det Ch Insp Whellams says. \"'That's Jordan McSweeney'.\"\n\n\"And then the next question was, 'Do you know where he is?' And the answer to that was, 'Yes he's in that caravan asleep.'\"\n\n\"That was how quick it all took place.\"\n\nThe JD Sports bag contains the shoes and clothes Jordan McSweeney wore on the night he killed Zara Aleena\n\nMore CCTV footage shows McSweeney walking through the fairground site, bustling with families, hours after attacking Ms Aleena, clutching a plastic bag.\n\nFound in the fairground ticket office, it contained the bloodstained clothes and shoes he wore during the attack.\n\nArrested and interviewed extensively by officers, McSweeney sat in silence, refusing to provide his name or details of where he lived.\n\nBut more and more CCTV footage was being uncovered - and officers were able to work out what led up to him killing Ms Aleena.\n\nJordan McSweeney caught on CCTV after being thrown out of a bar in Ilford town centre\n\nMcSweeney was clearly intent on finding a woman to attack that evening.\n\nThe footage shows him following two lone women - for prolonged periods, not just a few minutes - the first at 00:05, just after being thrown out of an Ilford bar, staggering along Romford Road towards Manor Park before trying to catch up with her.\n\nJordan McSweeney follows one woman along Romford Road towards Manor Park, in east London\n\nSeemingly intent on not losing her, McSweeney follows the woman into a shop, then loiters outside until she emerges. But after about 20 minutes, she runs down a side street and enters a house.\n\nJordan McSweeney follows a woman into a shop in east London and loiters until she leaves\n\nJust before 02:00, as the streets start to quieten, McSweeney spots a second woman, on Cranbrook Road.\n\nThe footage clearly shows him striding quickly towards her, catching up as she turns on to Northbrook Road.\n\nBut she makes it home safely, leaving McSweeney to once again loiter and head back on to Cranbrook Road.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jordan McSweeney was caught on CCTV following other women before he attacked Zara Aleena\n\nMs Aleena is also alone, walking home after an evening with a friend.\n\nAnd following her, McSweeney becomes \"fixated\".\n\nTributes were left in Ilford, east London, near to where Zara Aleena was murdered in June\n\n\"His very demeanour, the way he is, the focus that he has and his don't-care-less attitude,\" Det Ch Insp Whellams says, \"he is somebody… that we really can't allow out on the streets.\"\n\nJordan McSweeney was a danger to lone women, the judge said, after he pleaded guilty to murdering Zara Aleena\n\nJust nine days earlier, McSweeney was freed on licence from a prison sentence for criminal damage, racially aggravated harassment and unauthorised possession of a knife.\n\nOne of the conditions was he attend probation appointments.\n\nAfter missing two, he had to be recalled to jail. And on 22 June, the Probation Service started these proceedings.\n\nTwo days later, the police were told - and within hours, went to McSweeney's mother's house to arrest him.\n\nBut he was not there - and within 24 hours, had murdered Ms Aleena.\n\n17 June - McSweeney leaves prison on licence but fails to attend a probation appointment\n\n24 June - In the afternoon, the police are told McSweeney has been recalled\n\n25 June - In the early hours, officers visit McSweeney's mother's house to arrest him - but he is not there\n\nMcSweeney had no shame about his past criminality.\n\nOn his social-media accounts, he would post comments about court appearances and jail time.\n\nHe has 28 previous convictions for 69 offences, including burglary, assaults on police and members of the public, criminal damage, theft of motor vehicle, driving offences, offences committed while on bail, and shoplifting.\n\nThose between 2006 and 2009, dating back to when he was 13, were dealt with by juvenile courts in Kent.\n\nMcSweeney has a string of previous convictions, including for violence\n\nIn August 2010, aged 17, McSweeney was convicted of assaulting a young woman, leaving her with a swollen eye, and given a four-month detention-and-training order.\n\nEleven years later, a three-year restraining order was placed on him, preventing him from directly or indirectly contacting another woman.\n\n\"He can only be described as a danger to women,\" Det Ch Insp Whellams says.\n\nThe detective is adamant officers did all they could with the information given to them at the time of the hunt for McSweeney after Ms Aleena's murder.\n\nOfficers' actions following McSweeney's recall to prison were reviewed by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards.\n\nNo indication of misconduct had been found, the Met said.\n\nBut, the Ministry of Justice has moved to investigate the circumstances around McSweeney's recall to prison.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Those on licence are required to abide by strict conditions and will be immediately recalled to custody if necessary.\n\n\"A serious-further-offence review is under way - and we cannot comment until this is completed.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Thomson relies on Royal Mail to send her jewellery to Ireland and the US\n\nEmma Thomson, who runs a jewellery company in Romford, says she is losing hundreds of pounds due to delivery issues, two weeks after Royal Mail was hit by a cyber-attack.\n\n\"It's a nightmare,\" she told the BBC. \"It's gone on too long.\"\n\nOther firms that rely on posting items overseas have also expressed frustration at the impact on their business.\n\nRoyal Mail says it is \"working around the clock\" to resolve the issues.\n\nThe company was the victim of a ransomware attack, which affected the computer systems it uses to despatch deliveries abroad.\n\nRansomware is malicious computer software that encrypts data and locks up systems. Criminals usually demand payment for releasing the data.\n\nThe problem emerged on Tuesday, 10 January. Customers were told of the problem the following day.\n\nRoyal Mail has restarted the export of parcels from a backlog, and is accepting new letters for overseas, as it tries to recover from the attack.\n\nBut it is still advising people not to send new parcels internationally for now.\n\nBusinesses are frustrated at the length of time it has gone on for.\n\nMs Thomson says she understands Royal Mail was the victim of a cyber-attack, but thinks the company should have got things up and running again sooner.\n\n\"You'd expect they'd have measures and precautions for this kind of thing,\" she says.\n\nAround 40% of Ms Thomson's sales, from her jewellery company Gemz by Emz, usually go to Ireland and the US. She relies on Royal Mail for those deliveries.\n\nSince the cyber-attack, she has tried to use other companies to send her products internationally, but says that is costing her around £6 more per package. \"That money's coming out of my pocket.\"\n\nOther items that were posted before the incident are stuck in the hub, waiting to be delivered. \"They've shown no sign of movement in weeks,\" she says.\n\nShe estimates all of this will end up costing her a few hundred pounds per month, for as long as it continues, and comes on top of the postal strikes in the run-up to Christmas, which also had an impact in her busiest week.\n\nSarah Turner says the longer this drags on, the more it will cost her business, which sells wool tumble drying balls\n\nSarah Turner, owner of Little Beau Sheep in Ilkely, Yorkshire, agrees that the situation is \"frustrating\".\n\n\"We're relying on our customers' patience and goodwill, but that will dry up,\" she says.\n\nHer company, which sells wool tumble drying balls, uses Royal Mail as it is one of the more affordable providers of international deliveries for small parcels.\n\nShe has several outstanding international orders pending that she is not able to despatch due to the cyber-attack, and says sending them via alternative means would end up costing more than the item is worth.\n\nShe thinks more communication is needed. \"There's no indication how long this will go on, so we're not able to advise our customers either.\n\n\"The [overall] cost [to us] will depend how long this drags on, but it just adds to the woes of last year.\"\n\nShe's worried that customers who are still waiting for orders may decide to cancel them, while others may hold off making purchases.\n\nFor now, she is still accepting orders, but is having to warn customers that she is not able to send her items for now.\n\nMichelle Ovens, founder of Small Business Britain, said the problem with Royal Mail's international delivery system was \"yet another headache\" for firms.\n\n\"Finding opportunities abroad, particularly through exporting, is a major way small firms can pursue growth when the UK economy is flat.\n\n\"Small businesses simply cannot afford to lose out on international opportunities, so everything must be done to resolve this as soon as possible.\"\n\nDespite customers' frustration, Ciaran Martin, professor at University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC that Royal Mail was \"not being unusually slow\".\n\nHe said it takes time to recover from these types of incidents, and it is \"very rare in ransomware attacks for things to be resolved quickly\".\n\nHe pointed out that when you have attacks like this, there can be extensive damage to the network which can take a long time to repair, even if a business puts in place workarounds in the meantime.\n\n\"What people don't understand about such attacks is whether or not you pay whatever the criminal is demanding, the computer networks get battered and take a while to recover regardless.\"\n\n\"Our initial focus is on clearing export parcels that have already been processed and are waiting to be despatched. We continue to make good progress,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe company asks customers not to send new international parcels \"until further notice\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish nationals Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, who were reported missing in eastern Ukraine, have been killed, their families have said.\n\nMr Bagshaw, 47, and Mr Parry, 28, were last seen heading to the city of Soledar on 6 January.\n\nMr Bagshaw's family said the pair were attempting to rescue an elderly woman when their cars were hit by a shell.\n\nThe family of Mr Parry said the men had died while \"attempting a humanitarian evacuation\".\n\nEarlier this month, the Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed the body of one of the men had been found.\n\nSoledar had been the focus of intense fighting and earlier this month Russia's military claimed to have captured the Ukrainian salt-mine time town after a long battle.\n\nIn a statement issued by the UK Foreign Office, Rob, Christine and Katy Parry wrote: \"It is with great sadness we have to announce that our beloved Chrissy has been killed along with his colleague Andrew Bagshaw whilst attempting a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar, eastern Ukraine.\"\n\nSpeaking of Mr Parry, originally from Truro in Cornwall, they said: \"His selfless determination in helping the old, young and disadvantaged there has made us and his larger family extremely proud. We never imagined we would be saying goodbye to Chris when he had such a full life ahead of him. He was a caring son, fantastic brother, a best friend to so many and a loving partner to Olga.\n\n\"Chris was a confident, outward looking and adventurous young man who was loyal to everyone he knew. He lived and worked away as a software engineer but Cornwall was always his home. He loved rock climbing, cycling, running and skydiving and wanted to travel the world.\n\n\"He found himself drawn to Ukraine in March in its darkest hour at the start of the Russian invasion and helped those most in need, saving over 400 lives plus many abandoned animals.\n\n\"It is impossible to put into words how much he will be missed but he will forever be in our hearts.\n\n\"We feel so privileged that he chose our family to be part of.\"\n\nMr Parry and Mr Bagshaw had been in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine doing voluntary work.\n\nScientific researcher Mr Bagshaw was a British national but lived in New Zealand. He had been a volunteer in Ukraine since April.\n\nHis parents, Dame Sue and Prof Phil Bagshaw, said the men had been delivering food and medicines and helping the elderly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement released via news outlets they said Mr Parry and Mr Bagshaw \"were attempting to rescue an elderly woman from Soledar, in an area of intense military action, when their car was hit by an artillery shell.\n\n\"Andrew selflessly took many personal risks and saved many lives; we love him and are very proud indeed of what he did.\"\n\nThey added: \"The world needs to be strong and stand with Ukraine, giving them the military support they need now, and help to rebuild their shattered country after the war.\"\n\nBelgian journalist, Arnaud de Decker, who interviewed the pair three days before they went missing, described the evacuations they were carrying out in Ukraine as \"one of the most dangerous jobs you could do right now\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the journalist said Mr Parry had just returned from an evacuation mission and \"seemed very experienced\".\n\n\"He saved a lot of lives\", said Mr Decker, adding that Mr Parry's actions were \"truly heroic\".\n\nMr Parry's last words on camera were \"as long as people are willing to be evacuated, I will be ready to go\", Mr Decker told the BBC.\n\n\"I think you can only conclude one thing, that's a very inspiring personality - I'm sure that the family must be very proud of the actions of Chris.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has previously warned against all travel to Ukraine, saying there is \"a real risk to life\".\n\nBritish nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately if it is safe to do so, it said.\n\nUkraine's airspace is closed and for those in the vicinity of military activity, the Foreign Office has advised people to stay indoors, away from windows and remain alert to developments.\n\nMr Parry previously spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall on 2 January from the Bakhmut area in eastern Ukraine.\n\nExplaining his motivation for being there, he said he wanted to help children in particular.\n\n\"To be able to get them out of these war-torn areas, it makes it definitely more worthwhile than anything else that I can imagine,\" he said.", "Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were last seen in east London on 7 January\n\nA couple who disappeared with their newborn baby may be sleeping in a tent in sub-zero temperatures, police have told the BBC.\n\nConstance Marten, 35, and Mark Gordon, 48, were last seen with the infant in east London on 7 January.\n\n\"No child, especially a tiny, newborn baby, should be forced to endure such dangerous, potentially life-threatening, conditions,\" police said.\n\nThe child was less than a week old at the time of their disappearance.\n\nNew CCTV footage shows when they were last seen buying camping gear in Argos in London's Whitechapel area, before unsuccessfully trying to flag down three black cabs.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's detective superintendent Lewis Basford, who is leading the investigation, told the BBC he was \"really concerned\" the baby could have been subjected to recent harsh weather.\n\nHe said: \"We're really concerned that a newborn baby, only days old at the time, would have been subjected to the harsh environments we've had in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"We don't believe as a couple that they're looking to intentionally harm the baby, but we do know that those conditions and the fact they've had no medical attention since the birth could be a significant risk to the baby.\"\n\nThe force believes the couple are trying to \"evade authorities\".\n\nMaking a plea directly to the couple, he added: \"I can say to Constance and Mark please come forward. This is about the baby's health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Please reach out to us.\"\n\nDetectives think the couple could be anywhere in the country, and have asked dogwalkers to keep an eye out for a blue tent in local parks and wasteland.\n\nNew CCTV footage shows the family on the night they were last seen - they walked with a baby buggy along Brick Lane towards Bethnal Green Road in London's East End, before disappearing just after 22:00 GMT on 7 January.\n\nLast sighting: Constance Marten and Mark Gordon with a buggy in Whitechapel, London, on 7 January\n\nPolice say the couple left their home in Eltham, south-east London, in September 2022 when Ms Marten began showing signs of pregnancy, and have since led a nomadic lifestyle.\n\nDetectives do not know if the baby has been assessed by medical professionals since the child's birth, or if the baby was born prematurely or went full term.\n\nThe infant has been missing since the parents' car broke down and caught fire on the M61 near Bolton, on 5 January. The baby was believed to be only a day old or so at the time, and could have been born in the vehicle, according to police.\n\nIt is believed most of their belongings were destroyed in the car fire.\n\nCCTV footage also showed the couple carrying bags as they walked near Adler Street in Whitechapel\n\nSince then, Constance \"Toots\" Marten and Mark Gordon appear to have been avoiding police, moving to Liverpool, Harwich, Colchester and London in quick succession.\n\nMs Marten is from a wealthy family, and grew up in a stately home in Dorset attending private school, university and drama school.\n\nBut after meeting Gordon in 2016, she became estranged from the family, police said.\n\nNapier Marten, Ms Marten's father, has previously called for his daughter to \"find the courage\" to make contact with the police.\n\nGordon has been a registered sex offender in the UK since 2010, having been convicted in Florida of a rape he committed aged 14.\n\nHe served some 20 years in prison in the United States before being deported to Britain.", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nA&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units.\n\nEach nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible.", "A Conservative MP has said delaying climate action risks damaging the UK's economic prospects, in a major review of the government's net zero plans.\n\nThe report by Chris Skidmore says the government's climate policies need to be more consistent and ambitious.\n\nThe UK is \"falling behind\" on some targets and needs a \"new approach\", the report says.\n\nIt calls for 25 actions within two years, including food eco-labelling, and phasing out gas boilers by 2033.\n\nMr Skidmore - the Tory MP who wrote the report - was commissioned by former prime minister Liz Truss to review the government's delivery of net zero, to ensure it was \"pro-growth and pro-business\".\n\nSome green campaign groups praised the report for focusing on the economic opportunities of net zero and urged the government to heed its recommendations.\n\nLabour's shadow climate secretary, Ed Miliband, said the government's lack of \"urgency and consistency\" was \"depriving our country of the economic opportunities climate action offers\".\n\nAnd Green MP Caroline Lucas said the review itself shied away from calling for \"truly transformative measures to end our dependence on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels\".\n\nThe government said the UK was leading the world on tackling climate change and developing green jobs for the future.\n\nNet zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere.\n\nThe UK has set a legally binding target of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, as part of the global effort to avert the worst effects of climate change.\n\nMr Skidmore is one of the greenest Tory MPs and signed the 2050 emissions target into law in 2019 when he was an energy minister.\n\nHe spent months meeting politicians, business leaders and energy experts across the country as part of his evidence-gathering process.\n\nCalling net zero \"the growth opportunity of the 21st century\", Mr Skidmore says the UK \"must move quickly\" and decisively to reap the economic benefits of achieving the target.\n\n\"We have heard from businesses that economic opportunities are being missed today because of weaknesses in the UK's investment environment - whether that be skills shortages or inconsistent policy commitment,\" Mr Skidmore writes.\n\n\"Moving quickly must include spending money. We know that investing in net zero today will be cheaper than delaying, as well as increasing the economic and climate benefits.\"\n\nHe added: \"The review recognises we have fallen behind, but it sets out how we can be world-leading in these areas once again. We need to remove the barriers that are in place at the moment.\"\n\nThe review - a leaked copy of which was seen by the BBC ahead of its publication on Friday - said a key demand from across the country was \"the need for clarity, certainty, consistency, and continuity from government\".\n\nOn top of setting out long-term goals, it outlines 25 actions the government should take in the next two years. These include:\n\nIn his conclusion, Mr Skidmore said the UK was in a \"net-zero race\" and delaying decisions risked losing jobs, infrastructure and investments to other countries.\n\nThe UK, he said, had \"reached a tipping point\" where the \"risks of 'not zero' are now greater than the associated risks of taking decisive action on net zero now\".\n\n\"This is why we need a new approach to our net zero strategy,\" Mr Skidmore writes. \"One which identifies stable 10-year missions that can be established across sectors, providing the vision and security for stakeholders and investors.\"\n\nSources in the renewable energy sector told the BBC it was vital for the review's recommendations to be \"taken forward immediately\", adding: \"The government needs to take the same kind of agile and empowered approach as was used for developing the coronavirus vaccine.\"\n\nThe government's independent adviser on climate change said Mr Skidmore had gone \"further than anything we've published before by highlighting the fact that there's a risk if we don't go fast enough\" on net zero.\n\n\"To have that from a Conservative MP is very significant indeed,\" Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, told the BBC.\n\nBut Tanya Steele, chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), said she was concerned by the government's \"stop-start\" policies on net zero.\n\nThe WWF was urging the government to \"deliver on its promise to meet the net zero target with a clear strategy\", Ms Steele said.\n\nA government spokesperson said Mr Skidmore's report \"recognises the government progress that has been made to date in working towards legally-binding net zero targets\".\n\n\"The UK is leading the world on tackling climate change while also developing green jobs for the future - in fact we've cut emissions by over 44% since 1990 while growing our economy by 76%, and our policies have supported 68,000 green jobs since late 2020,\" the spokesperson said.", "Brad is passionate about cheerleading and wants more boys involved in the sport\n\nBeing a cheerleader has helped an autistic teenager become more comfortable around people and now he wants to inspire more boys to try it.\n\nBrad, 19, from Cardiff, was the only male member of Team Wales' advanced adaptive abilities side that won last year's world championships.\n\nHe trains daily, including weight sessions, and monthly with Wales.\n\nHowever, he has struggled to convince his friends to get involved who \"still think it's all about pompoms\".\n\nBrad had enjoyed boxing and hockey but after watching sister Freya in action, decided cheerleading was for him.\n\n\"People have taken the mick out of me, like [saying] cheerleading's just going around with pompoms and dancing,\" he said.\n\n\"But I show them a video on my phone of what I actually do and then they stutter their words, they're like 'Oh, OK, so you don't do pompoms?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBrad's role is far from pompoms, as he is what is known as the base - holding the flyer, or top girl, in the air during the routine, sometimes for long periods.\n\nWhile being part of the team has required him to get \"super strong arms\", it has also helped him cope with his autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).\n\nThe Wales team has given Brad a sense of belonging among the members\n\nHe described being around lots of people as his \"issue\".\n\n\"My autism affects my day-to-day life, when I meet new people I go into a really shy mode… and it's hard to be around people.\"\n\nHowever, cheerleading has made him comfortable around not only his teammates, but competitors from around the world.\n\nHis trip to the world championships in Orlando also gave him a desire to travel.\n\nTeammate Libby called him \"brilliant\", adding: \"He makes me laugh and he's a good friend to everyone on the team. Everyone gets along with him.\"\n\nBrad, who is at college training to be a plumber, has already started inspiring other boys, with two others joining the Wales squad in 2023.\n\nIn 2022 Brad was the only boy - but two more have joined for 2023\n\nIt was in 2017 that SportCheer Wales created the adaptive abilities side - which brings together a mix of people with and without disabilities.\n\n\"Cheerleading is different from when I was a kid. It was just a sideline thing then in the USA, on the sideline [of sports matches], dancing, cheerleading,\" said coach Sabrina Steele.\n\n\"But it's gone physical and is a sport of its own.\n\n\"There's a lot to tumbling, holding flyers up in the air by their feet. They're extremely high in the air, we are throwing them, so it's has gone very far forward from when I was a cheerleader.\"\n\nWhile becoming a cheerleading coach was a natural progression after being a professional dancer until she was 30, the 45-year-old's journey to look after the Wales team was less straightforward.\n\nOriginally from New Jersey in the United States, she met her husband on a cruise ship, who she initially thought was English.\n\nSabrina was confused when somebody told her he was actually Welsh, having never heard of it.\n\nBut now living in Church Village, Rhondda Cynon Taf, she said: \"I'm living in Wales, my kids speak Welsh, I'm coaching the Welsh team... I'm Welsh now.\"\n\nWhile she is passionate about getting more boys involved in the sport, she thinks there needs to be a mindset shift in a country where many think of playing rugby and football.\n\n\"In the US, boys grow up thinking about cheerleading from a young age,\" she said.\n\n\"Here in Wales, it's not something they think about from a young age, or something that's instilled in them. Brad is moving it forward.\"", "The world's richest man, Bernard Arnault, has appointed his daughter to head up fashion house Dior.\n\nMr Arnault promoted Delphine Arnault, 47, as part of a reshuffle at LVMH, Europe's most valuable company.\n\nIt owns a portfolio of high-end brands including Fendi and Louis Vuitton and is worth about £336bn.\n\nThe outgoing head of Dior, Pietro Beccari, will move to replace long-time Louis Vuitton chief executive Michael Burke.\n\nBoth Ms Arnault and Mr Beccari \"are well respected\", so these are \"logical promotions within the group,\" said Credit Suisse analyst Natasha Brilliant.\n\nAll five of Mr Arnault's children hold management positions at brands in the group.\n\nThe changes, which come into effect in February, follow the recent appointment of Antoine Arnault, Bernard Arnault's eldest son, to head the family's holding company.\n\nAlexandre Arnault, 30, is in charge of products and communication at Tiffany, while Frederic Arnault, 28, is chief executive of another group brand, Tag Heuer.\n\nThe youngest child, Jean Arnault, 24, heads marketing and product development for Louis Vuitton's watches division.\n\nMr Arnault's companies sell goods including luxury suitcases by Louis Vuitton and Moet and Chandon champagne.\n\n\"Succession planning in strategic roles has been instrumental to the success of LVMH's key brands over the past 20 years, hence today's moves are significant,\" said Thomas Chauvet, an analyst at Citi.\n\nChristian Dior's catwalk presentations in Paris are attended by global celebrities including K-pop star Jisoo and singer Rihanna, drawing enthusiastic crowds of fans.\n\nDelphine Arnault will leave her position as LVMH's executive vice president for Louis Vuitton, which she has held since 2013.\n\nLouis Vuitton set new sales records under Ms Arnault's leadership, LVMH said.\n\nSimilar succession plans have happened at other major fashion companies in recent years.\n\nHigh Street fashion giant Inditex, which owns brands including Zara and Massimo Dutti, appointed the founder's daughter as its new chairwoman in 2021. Marta Ortega was 37 at the time.\n\nThe boss of fashion house Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, recently said he expects to hand the reins of the company to his son Lorenzo within two years.\n\nBernard Arnault overtook Elon Musk in December 2022 to become the world's richest man.", "Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company\n\nThe head of one of the world's biggest oil companies has been named to lead the COP28 global climate talks in Dubai, later this year.\n\nSultan Ahmed Al Jaber is currently the chief executive officer of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.\n\nHe is also the minister for industry and advanced technology for the COP28 hosts, the United Arab Emirates.\n\nCampaigners say he must stand down from his oil business role while president as it is a clear conflict of interest.\n\nThey believe someone steeped in the oil industry may not push countries to rapidly reduce their production and use of fossil fuel, which scientists say is critical to avoiding dangerous climate change.\n\nRunning the global climate talks process is not an easy job - for months before, and especially during the conference, every word and action of the president is heavily scrutinised.\n\nCOP28 is already mired in some controversy as the hosts, the United Arab Emirates, are one of the world's biggest producers of oil and gas.\n\nAbu Dhabi National Oil Company is the 12th biggest in the world\n\nThe appointment of a key figure in the energy industry as the president-designate of COP28 will likely increase the concerns that the global climate talks process is facing significant influence from fossil fuel interests.\n\nThe recent COP27 gathering in Egypt was described by some attendees as a \"glorified fossil fuel trade show\".\n\nAnalysis of those who registered for the event showed a significant increase in those who were connected to the oil and gas industry compared to previous meetings.\n\nAmong the large delegation from the UAE at the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, there were 70 people closely connected to fossil fuels.\n\nMr Al Jaber is the chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, said to be the world's 12th biggest oil company.\n\nOver the past decade he has become the face of the UAE's energy industry but he will be the first serving oil executive to assume the role of COP president.\n\nAs well as being a minister and his country's climate envoy, he is also chairman of Masdar, the government-owned renewable energy company that he helped set up.\n\nProtestors at the recent COP27 summit in Egypt were disappointed that efforts to phase out oil and gas were rejected\n\nHe has certainly long warned of the dangers of climate change but campaigners are concerned about his appointment, and are calling for him to step aside from his industry roles.\n\n\"It is imperative for the world to be reassured that he will step down from his role as the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company,\" said Tasneem Essop, from Climate Action International.\n\n\"He cannot preside over a process that is tasked to address the climate crisis with such a conflict of interest, heading an industry that is responsible for the crisis itself.\"\n\nWhat will concern campaigners is that major oil and gas producers are among those opposed to a more rapid phase out of all fossil fuels.\n\nAt COP27, there was a strong push from more than 80 countries for the conference to declare support for a phase down of oil and gas as well as coal.\n\nThis attempt came to nothing in the face of strong opposition from countries the rely of fossil fuel exports.\n\nA fuel outlet in Dubai, where the COP28 talks will be held later this year\n\nWhile Mr Al Jaber's appointment has been met with criticism from activists, others involved in climate diplomacy have welcomed the move.\n\n\"The UAE has adopted a sound green growth strategy and is a major investor in renewable energy both at home and abroad,\" said Yvo de Boer, who was UN climate chief between 2006 and 2010.\n\n\"The COP president-designate has been instrumental on many of these issues. This equips him with the understanding, experience and responsibility to make COP28 ambitious, innovative and future focussed.\"\n\nCertainly those skills will be tested at the gathering in Dubai in early December this year.\n\nCOP28 will hold the first formal assessment of progress on cutting carbon since the Paris agreement was signed.\n\nThe \"global stocktake\" as it is called will be a key moment in clarifying just how much further countries will need to go in restricting their emissions.", "People sending items abroad with Royal Mail have been warned there is no end in sight to delivery disruption after the firm was hit by a \"cyber incident\" on Thursday.\n\nThe firm is still unable to send letters and parcels overseas and says it is \"working hard\" to fix the issue.\n\nThere are also minor delays to post coming into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised again and vowed to update people as soon as possible.\n\nIt said that some customers who had posted items abroad even before the \"incident\" might see delays.\n\nThe company is calling it a \"cyber-incident\" rather than a cyber attack because the problem is still under investigation, the BBC has been told.\n\nA National Crime Agency spokesperson said it was \"aware of an incident impacting Royal Mail\" and was working alongside the National Cyber Security Centre - which is part of the UK's cyber intelligence agency GCHQ - to understand its impact.\n\nThe back office system that has been affected is used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.\n\nIt is in use at six sites, including Royal Mail's huge Heathrow distribution centre in Slough, as well as its Bristol site.\n\nIn the year to March, Royal Mail sent 152 million parcels abroad which equates to about 200,000 items a day.\n\nHowever, that was a small fraction of the number of parcels it sent domestically.\n\nAndrew Pope runs an online business, PopeyMon Games, which sells vintage games and refurbished computers to customers in the UK and around the world.\n\nBased in Southampton, Andrew says he was forced to look at an alternative courier for his UK deliveries before Christmas due to parcels being left on doorsteps and what he describes generally as a poor service.\n\nHe describes the cyber incident as \"the latest nail in the coffin\" and says he will now look at moving away from Royal Mail for his international sales, which make up about 20% of his income, and are generally high-value items.\n\nHe adds, as a former temporary postal worker himself: \"I really despair... this latest incident is just another example of a race to the bottom.\"\n\nCiaran Martin, a professor at the University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC he believed the \"incident\" was down to \"malicious activity\".\n\nHe suggested, based on the limited information about the case so far, that it was likely to be criminal extortion or a \"ransomware\" attack.\n\n\"You're locked out of the system and there will be a demand, probably in broken English from criminal abroad, to pay a lot of money in cryptocurrency for what is called a decrypt key to let you back in to the system,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nWhatever has happened, a full recovery is likely to take some time, Prof Martin added.\n\nRoyal Mail has faced a number of hurdles in recent months, including mounting losses as people send fewer letters and delivery delays as postal workers strike over pay and conditions.", "Cody Fisher had played for a series of non-league clubs in the Midlands, most recently Stratford Town\n\nA fourth man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering footballer Cody Fisher at a Birmingham nightclub.\n\nThe 23-year-old player for non-league Stratford Town died after being stabbed on the dance floor of the Crane venue in Digbeth on Boxing Day.\n\nThe 18-year-old suspect was detained in Erdington, Birmingham, on Thursday.\n\nTwo men have been charged with the murder of Mr Fisher who was from Redditch, while a third has been released on police bail.\n\nWest Midlands Police is still asking for mobile phone images or footage from the venue on 26 December. Det Insp Michelle Thurgood said: \"We know lots of people at The Crane were using their mobile phones to take pictures and video on the night.\"\n\nThe two accused - Kami Carpenter, 21, and Remy Gordon, 22, both from Birmingham - appeared at the city's Crown Court last week.\n\nNeither entered a plea and were remanded in custody.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles has carried out his first public engagement since the publication of Prince Harry's memoir Spare.\n\nHe visited the Aboyne and Mid Deeside Community Shed in Aberdeenshire to meet with local hardship support groups.\n\nIt came while King Charles was on a short break at his Scottish home of Birkhall on the Balmoral estate.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography was released earlier this week, following days of leaks and headlines across the world.\n\nBuckingham Palace has declined to comment on the book's contents or anything mentioned by Harry in a string of high-profile media interviews.\n\nWell-wishers turned out to greet King Charles in Aboyne\n\nA plaque to commemorate the visit was made by members of the Men's Shed\n\nOn his Aberdeenshire visit, the King said he was \"very impressed\" with a plaque made to commemorate the occasion.\n\nDressed in a hunting Stewart tartan kilt, he unveiled the plaque made by Men's Shed member Tony Atherton, to a round of applause.\n\nHe also drank tea with members of the Men's Shed and watched craft skills including wood and stone carving in action.\n\nThe Aboyne Men's Shed opened last year with the goal of reducing rural social isolation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Railway lines were closed and roads flooded after heavy overnight rain on Friday\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds across the UK have led to flooding and travel disruption, as warnings continue with more bad weather forecast.\n\nThe National Grid said about 600 homes, mainly around the Welsh city of Newport, were without power.\n\nThe bad weather is expected to continue into Friday and the weekend.\n\nAs it stands, a yellow wind warning for wind is in place until 03:00 GMT on Friday for Northern Ireland, north Wales, and north-west England, with warnings of gusts of up to 70mph.\n\nThe Met Office warns it could mean travel disruption and potential short-term loss of power.\n\nRoads have flooded at Reybridge near Lacock in Wiltshire\n\nOn Thursday, flooding blocked two train lines in the west of England, between Bristol Parkway and Swindon, and between Bristol Temple Meads, Bath and Swindon.\n\nIn the town of Keynsham in Somerset, some drivers had to be rescued from their cars due to the flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Images of Bath and Beyond.\n\nIn South Wales, the fire service said the areas worst affected by flooding were Porth and Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nTransport for Wales said four railway lines were blocked due to heavy rain flooding the tracks.\n\nThese include Cardiff Central to Bridgend, Pontypridd to Treherbert, Newtown to Shrewsbury and Abercynon to Aberdare.\n\nThe River Taff burst its banks, flooding a number of parks and walking routes along the Taff trail, including Cardiff's Bute Park near the city centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many areas across Wales are experiencing storm disruption following high winds and heavy rain overnight.\n\nFlood barriers have gone up on several stretches of the River Severn as river levels continue to rise in Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire.\n\nRail lines between Welshpool and Shrewsbury were blocked, National Rail Enquiries said.\n\nGemma Plumb, forecaster with BBC Weather Centre, said the heavy rain which had hit Northern Ireland and Scotland on Thursday evening would travel southward into the night.\n\n\"It is going to turn windier in the north-west, Northern Ireland, and parts of north Wales. There is potential for some severe gales in some coastal areas,\" she said.\n\nShe said there would be some showers on Friday, but concentrated in northern and western areas, with it being drier in the south and east.\n\n\"Friday night into Saturday morning there will be heavy and persistent rain, and that will be hitting areas already badly affected by flooding,\" she said.\n\n\"In the next few days we will be seeing more wintery weather. There will be some sleet and snow, especially around parts of northern Scotland.\"", "Chinese police have arrested a man who drove a car into pedestrians in Guangzhou, killing five people and injuring 13 others.\n\nThe incident has sparked widespread public outrage, with many accusing the man of deliberately targeting people.\n\nVideos posted online show the driver getting out of the car and throwing banknotes into the air, shortly after the crash.\n\nPolice have detained the 22-year-old man and launched an investigation.\n\nThe crash took place on Wednesday during the evening rush hour at a busy junction in the southern city of 19 million.\n\n\"He deliberately drove into the people who were waiting for the traffic light. He rammed the car into them maliciously. After that, he made a U-turn and hit people again,\" an eyewitness told local outlet Hongxin News.\n\n\"He wasn't driving too quickly, but some people couldn't run away in time because they wouldn't have known he was hitting people deliberately.\"\n\nThe man also reportedly drove into a traffic police officer and his motorcycle, but the officer managed to escape.\n\nOne widely circulated clip shows a young girl lying on the ground at the scene of the incident, while a woman said to be her mother is seen by her side wailing.\n\nAnother eyewitness described the chaos of the aftermath on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. The person said that an hour after the incident, the site was still filled with ambulances and traffic police \"and they had not moved all the injured and the bodies from the scene\".\n\n\"The scene was too tragic and I couldn't bear seeing it. I felt so sad that I wanted to throw up whenever I heard the siren of the ambulance,\" the person said.\n\nThe incident has sparked public anger, with many expressing sorrow that it happened in the lead-up to Chinese New Year, a time for family reunions.\n\n\"The victims could be a girl who dressed up meticulously to go on a date… It could be a food deliveryman who earned five yuan after rushing an order. It could be a father who wanted to go home and have dinner with children. It could be a child who was happily shopping,\" one Weibo user wrote.\n\nMany noted that the man drove a luxury car and had thrown money into the air, and asked if he came from a rich and powerful family.\n\nThe incident quickly became a trending topic on Weibo on Wednesday, but it later disappeared from the \"hot searches\" list, leading users to accuse the platform of censorship.\n\nThere have been similar recent incidents. In February 2022, a driver ploughed a mini truck into people in the southern province of Fujian, killing three and injuring nine.\n\nEarlier this week, a hotel guest in Shanghai deliberately drove his car into the lobby following an argument with staff. Nobody was injured in that incident.\n• None Over 200 cars involved in fatal crash in China", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nDraper has climbed into the world's top 40 after being ranked outside the top 250 a year ago Coverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app. Rising British star Jack Draper will play top seed Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open first round, with Andy Murray also handed a difficult draw. Murray faces 13th seed Matteo Berrettini, while Novak Djokovic makes his Melbourne return against Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena. Emma Raducanu, who has been struggling with an ankle injury, has been drawn against Germany's Tamara Korpatsch. Raducanu, 20, could face seventh seed Coco Gauff in the second round. After learning of his first-round meeting with 2022 winner Nadal, Draper said it would be \"amazing to play on court with him\". \"He's a great champion,\" the 21-year-old added. \"Whatever happens, it will be a special occasion for me. \"I'm still very young in my career so it's great to have these sort of experiences and exposure to playing someone like Rafa on a big court like that. \"But I want to play really well and I want to compete hard and do the best I can.\" The Australian Open, which is the first Grand Slam tournament of the new season, takes place at Melbourne Park between 16 and 29 January. Andy Murray (left) was beaten by Matteo Berrettini (right) in the third round of last year's US Open Draper emerged as one of the rising stars on the ATP Tour last year and the left-hander has continued his rapid progress this season by reaching the Adelaide semi-finals. But his debut in the main draw at Melbourne Park could not have been much tougher. Nadal, 36, is the defending champion and, although he has struggled with injuries and lost his two matches so far this year, remains a daunting prospect for most opponents. However, the 22-time major champion would also probably not wish to start against a young talent who possesses the power and confidence of 40th-ranked Draper. Former world number one Murray will also be cursing his misfortune. The 35-year-old Scot impressed earlier on Thursday by beating Australian Alex de Minaur in an exhibition match at the Kooyang Classic, saying afterwards he hoped for a kind draw at Melbourne Park. Instead he was pitched against Italy's Berrettini, whose big serving troubles most opponents and who reached the semi-finals last year.\n• None Murray has 'no timeframe' on retirement What about the other British players? Emma Raducanu said this week she is trying \"not to expect too much\" but is hoping to be fit for the tournament Raducanu, who shocked the world by winning the 2021 US Open as a teenage qualifier, suffered what she described as more bad luck when she rolled an ankle in Auckland last week. It led to doubts over whether she would be fit to play in Melbourne, but she has been practising on court in the past few days with her movement seemingly improving with each session. Raducanu is ranked one place below Korspatch at 75th in the world, but the 27-year-old German has never won a main-draw match at a major. Cameron Norrie, Britain's highest ranked player and the 11th seed, starts against French wildcard Luca van Assche, while 25th seed Dan Evans faces Argentina's Facundo Bagnis. Another difficult challenge for a British player saw Kyle Edmund - a semi-finalist in 2018 but on the comeback trail after three knee surgeries - pitted against Italian 15th seed Jannik Sinner. Harriet Dart, the only other Briton in the women's draw, starts against Swiss 32nd seed Jil Teichmann. Nine-time champion Djokovic missed last year's event after being deported from Australia in a row over his vaccination status and returns on the back of winning the Adelaide title last week. The 35-year-old Serb, who is also bidding for a 22nd major title which would equal Nadal's men's record, has only lost one of his past 25 matches. Seeded fourth, Djokovic would not face Nadal until the final - but could face home favourite Nick Kyrgios in the quarter-finals. In the women's draw, world number one Iga Swiatek, who reached the semi-finals last year, starts against Germany's recent Wimbledon quarter-finalist Jule Niemeier. Another eye-catching draw sees Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and American Sofia Kenin - both former champions - meet in the first round.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Will this valley ever recover? Watch the brand-new series of the gripping drama Happy Valley on BBC iPlayer\n• None 'There are forces out there that you can't yet understand': Watch the long-awaited final series of His Dark Materials on BBC iPlayer", "Many of those remaining in Bakhmut are elderly, like 86-year-old Anatolay, and searching for food\n\n\"This is the toughest operation I've ever seen. The enemy has thrown its strongest assault at Bakhmut. We haven't seen troops like this before,\" the Ukrainian commander tells us.\n\nCommander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street. It is one of the main command centres the Ukrainian military has set up in the city, and few journalists have been here.\n\nA tall, hefty man with sparkling eyes, he watches a live feed from a drone hovering outside the eastern edge of the city on a big screen in the centre of the room.\n\nOne of the battalion's units is trying to spot the location of Russian positions, to aid another unit which has just gone out to defend eastern approaches to Bakhmut under attack.\n\nIn addition to Russian armed forces, mercenaries from the private paramilitary Wagner group have been sent in their thousands to front lines around Bakhmut.\n\nCommander Skala is operating from an underground command centre in Bakhmut\n\n\"Wagner soldiers openly advance under fire towards us even if they're littering the land with their bodies, even if out of 60 people in their platoon only 20 are left. It's very difficult to hold against such an invasion. We weren't prepared for that, and we're learning now,\" Commander Skala says.\n\n\"Some weeks ago, we lost positions on the eastern approaches to the city because the enemy was constantly storming us with assaults. We moved to secondary front lines to save our soldiers,\" he adds.\n\n\"We are trying to work smartly and get those positions back. Sometimes you have to withdraw to attack the enemy properly.\"\n\nWagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has said Ukrainians have turned every house in Bakhmut into a fortress, and that there were now \"500 lines of defence\".\n\nRussia has been using all its might to try to take Bakhmut - a battle considered critical for the country after it lost ground in Ukraine in recent months, being pushed out of Kherson in the south and the Kharkiv region in the north-east. Capturing Bakhmut is also important to further Russia's aim to control the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.\n\nBombs have ripped through facades of buildings everywhere in Bakhmut\n\nThroughout our conversation with Commander Skala, muffled explosions can be heard from above ground. The second you step outside, the sound is loud enough to make your heart pound - the terrifying whistle of shells flying in followed by the deafening boom of the impact.\n\nAnd the sound never stops as the bombs keep falling.\n\nOne resident described it as \"the end of the world\" and there are moments when it feels like that.\n\nBombs have ripped through the middle of apartment blocks, blown away the facades of buildings and created craters by the side of streets. It was hard to find a window in Bakhmut that was intact. The ground is littered with broken glass and debris.\n\nThis was once a quiet, ordinary town in the east, known for its sparkling wine. Now, it's become a byword for war and Ukraine's resistance.\n\nIt lies at a vital road intersection, but over the months, the battle here has gained a symbolic importance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently called it the \"fortress of our morale\".\n\nBakhmut used to be home to just over 70,000 people before the war. Just a tenth of its residents - mostly elderly or poor - remain.\n\nWhile the streets are largely empty, we see dozens of civilians in an aid centre, known here as a \"resilience centre\".\n\nIt has power, and wi-fi provided by Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. Volunteers distribute small packets of food, medicines and other basic supplies. A wood-burner in the centre keeps the room warm.\n\nThis is a lifeline for the people in Bakhmut.\n\nThis resilience centre helps those residents still in the city stay warm and charge their phones\n\nMany sit huddled around electrical points, trying to charge up their phones.\n\nWhat's remarkable is that even when shells land just a few hundred metres from the centre, people don't flinch. It's as if they've become numb, running from bombs every day.\n\nTrauma is visible on many faces though.\n\nWhy don't you leave, we asked Anatolay Suschenko, who was standing in a queue for some food.\n\n\"I have nowhere to go. I'm alone. Who would want to take an 86-year-old?\" he said. \"Here, at least sometimes when soldiers throw away food or soup, I find it and eat it. And I get free bread. In my whole life, I've never seen anything like this. All the windows of my house have been blown off, and the gate has been destroyed.\"\n\nPeople have different reasons to stay. Olha Tupikova sits in the corner of the room with her 13-year-old daughter Diana.\n\n\"I think everywhere in Ukraine is equally dangerous. Some of our neighbours left and died elsewhere. Here we have a house. We have cats and dogs. We can't leave them,\" she said.\n\n\"Our roof has 21 holes and the garage has nine. I mend them every time, and try to repair the windows too. Normally the holes are caused by shrapnel, but lately we've had stones flying in too, making holes that are the size of a head.\"\n\nOlha (left) and her daughter Diana, are staying in Bakhmut as they have a house and cats and dogs\n\n\"We live like mice. We quickly run out to get some bread, choose different routes to get back home. Before sunrise I look for wooden boards and logs [to repair my home]. In the evening I search for water because there's no water supply in town,\" Olha said.\n\n\"Of course, it's frightening. But now we do it army style, like soldiers. We joke that master chefs know nothing about cooking [compared to us]. We can make a meal out of anything on an open fire, or even a candle.\"\n\nThe local administration is trying to convince people to leave.\n\nIn a location in the city we can't disclose because it could compromise his safety, we met Oleksiy Reva, who has been the mayor of Bakhmut for 33 years.\n\n\"It's those who don't have money and don't want to face the unknown who are staying. But we are talking to them about it. Because safety is most important, safety and peace,\" he said.\n\nWhy does he continue to stay, we asked. \"This is my life, my job, my fate. I was born here, and grew up here. My parents are buried here. My conscience won't allow me to leave our people. And I'm confident our military will not allow Bakhmut to fall,\" he said.\n\nIn the fields outside the city, we see the daily grind required to keep a hold on it.\n\nThe unit of soldiers we meet try to spot Russian locations and fire artillery - Soviet-era D-30 guns - in their direction, to allow Ukrainian infantry to push ahead every day. But barely any advance is being made.\n\n\"The equipment is outdated. It works fine and does the job, but it can be better. We also have to be very economical with our shells, very precise with our targets so we don't run out of ammunition. If we had more equipment and modern weapons, we would be able to destroy more targets which would make things much easier for our infantry,\" one of the soldiers, Valentyn, said.\n\nWinter also makes things difficult. Weapons don't operate as smoothly in cold weather, they tell us.\n\nUkrainian forces say their weapons are outdated and they worry about running out of ammunition\n\n\"We simply need to overcome this period, hold on, and then execute counter-offensives and fight,\" Yaroslav said.\n\nEach side is trying to wear the other down. This is a battle of endurance.\n\nHow do you motivate yourself every day, we asked. \"We all have families to go back to. Valentyn just had a son but his family is in Germany, so he hasn't seen him yet,\" Yaroslav said as Valentyn cracked a shy smile.", "GMB Union members in the Welsh Ambulance Service are staging their second walkout in a month\n\nMore than 1,000 ambulance workers in Wales have gone on strike for the second time in a month in a pay dispute.\n\nGMB members - about a quarter of the Welsh Ambulance Service - will only respond to life-threatening calls.\n\nHealth bosses fear it will be worse than the strike before Christmas.\n\nThe Welsh government plans to discuss a one-off payment offer with unions on Thursday, but said anything more would require further funds from Westminster.\n\nGMB officer for NHS Wales, Nathan Holman, said members were not taking a stand against the public but against the government, adding that life-threatening calls - about 15% of all calls - would be responded to.\n\n\"We have data for category one calls from the last time we took this action and the percentage of calls that were responded to nationally increased on strike day because vehicles were not being held [at hospitals],\" Mr Holman said.\n\nHe said the Welsh government was considering an offer.\n\nHe said: \"We're looking for an inflation-busting pay rise, but any offer we get we want at least the same as . £1,000 or more on top of what we have now.\"\n\nWhen the GMB took action in December, Unison, which also represents ambulance staff, had not reached the threshold to do the same, but has since re-balloted and will strike on 19 and 23 January.\n\nThe strike is for 24 hours from midnight on Tuesday but the union has made it clear staff working night shifts would not leave patients and compromise care.\n\nParamedic Jamie Stone said they were seeing people in car parks arriving having had strokes\n\nJamie Stone, 31, from Newport, is a paramedic in Cardiff and believes what people were dealing with was \"inhumane\".\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing people turn up in cars that are having heart attacks, patients having strokes in the back of cars and then we're having to deal with it in the car park of a hospital, because they are being told they have to wait eight hours-plus for an ambulance.\n\n\"It's rare that it's been a patient who is critically ill, but it has happened a number of times, where we've had to drag somebody out of a car on to a stretcher and take them straight into the emergency department for the life-saving treatment they need.\"\n\nUrgent responder Laura Morton, 40, has experienced 19-hours waits with patients outside Cwmbran's Grange Hospital.\n\nShe said ambulances were becoming like \"mini-hospitals\" due to the lack of hospital beds.\n\nEmergency medical ambulance technician in Powys, Gyles George, said staff were working late because they felt compelled to stay with patients.\n\n\"You can't just abandon them and you don't know what time you are going to get home,\" he said.\n\n\"Healthcare used to be a vocation and it has become a chore.\"\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan says the Welsh government can only afford a one-off payment\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens said his staff had not been trained to nurse patients for long periods.\n\nEating, drinking and using the toilet was also problematic when parents were in ambulances.\n\n\"I would prefer not to start to train our staff and equip our vehicles to be nursing patients in them for very long periods of time and I think what we should be doing is focusing on solutions to the problem.\"\n\nHe said some paramedics were being trained to treat patients at their homes in a bid to ease problems at hospitals - last month more than a third of the emergency fleet was lost to delays outside hospitals.\n\nWales' Health Minister Eluned Morgan is meeting healthcare unions on Thursday about a one-off payment.\n\nShe said: \"It's very difficult for us to go beyond commitments this year - it will be only an offer of a one-off payment.\"\n\nCat and her dog Vince were part of the picket line in Colwyn Bay\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has urged people to only call 999 if there is an immediate risk to life, while other patients may have to make their own way to hospital.\n\nWhile some 999 call handlers are striking, all calls will be answered and it was agreed the most urgent calls would get responses.\n\nNon-emergency patient transport will also be affected, though exemptions include patients being taken to renal dialysis and oncology.\n\nStrikers at Colwyn Bay say they are taking action for future generations\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Russell George, said: \"It is welcome that the Labour government has finally recognised that it has responsibility for funding the NHS in Wales and that they are now, at last, willing to talk pay with the unions, it should not have taken this long for it to happen.\n\nThe Welsh government said it recognised the \"anger and disappointment\" of public sector workers, adding: \"We will continue to work with the NHS, unions and partners to ensure life-saving and life-maintaining care is provided during the industrial action, patient safety is maintained and disruption is minimised.\n\n\"But it is vital that all of us to do all we can to minimise pressure on our health service during the industrial action and consider carefully what activities we take part in.\"", "Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon met in private at an Inverness hotel\n\nThe prime minister and Scotland's first minister have held \"cordial\" talks at a private meeting in Scotland.\n\nRishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon met at a hotel in Inverness on Thursday night, following a series of engagements by the PM north of the border.\n\nThey are understood to have discussed the NHS, the economy and legislation passed in Scotland last month to make it easier to change gender.\n\nThere was said to have been a \"robust\" exchange on Scottish independence.\n\nThe creation of two green freeports in Scotland was also discussed. A joint announcement from the UK and Scottish governments is expected on Friday.\n\nThe Cromarty and Forth bids are thought to be the favourites to be named, which will see tax incentives being used in a bid to boost investment and economic growth in the two areas.\n\nIt is Mr Sunak's first trip to Scotland as prime minister.\n\nAhead of the meeting, he visited a Sea scouts community group in Muirtown near Inverness, and a Coastguard search and rescue team at Inverness Airport.\n\nMr Sunak tweeted: \"It was great to be in Inverness today meeting rescue services and hearing more about the life-saving work they do every day.\n\n\"I also sat down with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to discuss the challenges we jointly face and how best to deliver for communities across the UK\"\n\nFollowing the talks, which lasted more than an hour, Ms Sturgeon told the BBC they had been \"perfectly constructive and cordial\".\n\n\"Clearly Rishi Sunak and I disagree on lots, but we were able to talk about some of the areas where the Scottish and UK governments can work together,\" she added.\n\nThe First Minister said there was also talk about how they could work together to realise Scotland's \"vast\" renewable energy potential.\n\nThe two political leaders met previously at the British-Irish Council in Blackpool in November.\n\nThese discussions included how best to tackle the cost of living crisis, the NHS and Ms Sturgeon's desire for a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nMr Sunak's predecessor, Liz Truss, did not have any formal talks with Ms Sturgeon during her brief spell in Downing Street, although they briefly met at a service following the death of the Queen.\n\nMs Truss had previously described the first minister as an \"attention seeker\" who was best ignored, during a Tory leadership hustings.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has spoken of wanting to \"reset\" the often fractious relationship between the two governments.\n\nHowever, there could be a major clash coming between the Scottish and UK governments over Holyrood's gender recognition reform legislation.\n\nThe UK government has concerns about the wider implications of Scotland's new gender recognition legislation\n\nScotland recently became the first part of the UK to approve a self-identification system for people who want to change their legal gender.\n\nThe new rules lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) to 16, and removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nBut the UK government has concerns about the impact of the new law on the rest of the UK and is considering blocking it.\n\nThe deadline for an intervention is the middle of next week.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the PM's visit, Downing Street said the UK government had not yet decided whether to block the gender recognition legislation.\n\nAsked whether the Mr Sunak has decided whether to use section 35 of the Scotland Act, which would prevent the new laws coming into force, his official spokesman told reporters: \"No, there's no decision made on that.\n\n\"There is a process to consider it and then he will be given advice to make a decision. That is still taking place\".\n\nThere is plenty they disagree about but Nicola Sturgeon seems to get on with Rishi Sunak far better than with his two immediate predecessors.\n\nShe had next to no relationship with Liz Truss and made no secret of her belief that Boris Johnson was unfit for office.\n\nThere is potential for this PM and FM to do some business like their joint announcement on Scottish freeports.\n\nThey are much further apart on a range of other things such as energy policy, UK legislation to limit strike action and Scottish government calls for another independence referendum.\n\nRelations could sour significantly if the UK government blocks Scottish reform of the process for legally switching gender.\n\nThat came up in their discussions, but these majored on shared challenges like the huge pressures on the NHS.", "Fighting around Soledar in eastern Ukraine has left many buildings in the town in ruins\n\nThe destruction caused by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces battling for control of a town in eastern Ukraine has been revealed in newly released satellite images.\n\nComparison with earlier images shows a school and several agricultural buildings are among the structures destroyed in Soledar, while bomb craters scar the landscape and roads around the salt-producing town in Donetsk.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMuch of the damage has been caused in recent weeks with Russian forces trying to seize the town, after months in which they have failed to take a single key town or city in Ukraine.\n\nThe strategic significance of Soledar is disputed by military analysts but if Russia succeeds in establishing full control over the town it would be a symbolic victory for the Kremlin.\n\nRussia's notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group has been heavily involved in the battle for the town, with its head Yevgeny Prigozhin at one point claiming his fighters were in full control and that only his troops took part. However, Russia's defence ministry has insisted its forces are involved.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry said on Wednesday that heavy fighting continues, and Wagner forces have had no success in breaking through Ukrainian defences.\n\nThe images released by Maxar, a US-based space technology company, show how Ukrainian trenches in fields around the town have been targeted by Russian artillery.\n\nSuccess in Soledar may help Russia in its assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, about 10km (6 miles) to the south west, providing it with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nThe town also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nTaking Bakhmut would be a \"much needed boost for Russian forces in the east who have been under real pressure since September\", says Edward Arnold, from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), although he adds it would have \"little strategic significance for the outcome of the war\".\n\nThe city has itself been devastated by months of fierce fighting, with Russia continuing its assault there even as its forces were pushed back elsewhere in Ukraine.", "Najma and Marzia, both 15, had to leave their London school\n\nA group of Afghan families brought to London after the Taliban took power are taking the government to court because a subsequent move north meant their children had to leave a local school during their GCSE studies.\n\nFour families were moved from a London hotel to one in northern England.\n\nA lack of school places near their new temporary home has since set back the teenagers' education, the families say.\n\nThe Home Office said it was trying to find permanent homes for Afghans.\n\nIn a two-day hearing at the High Court next week, the Afghans' lawyers will argue the Home Office has not addressed the impact of the hotel move on the children's schooling.\n\nTeachers at Ark Walworth Academy, in south London, enrolled some of the children, who were living at a nearby hotel - and they had begun working towards their GCSEs.\n\nBut in August 2022, Home Office officials told the families they would be moved to new accommodation when the government stopped using the hotel to house refugees.\n\nThe Afghans were given details of their new home, which a court order prevents BBC News from locating specifically, in a text message.\n\nOne of the girls, Marzia, 15, now receives online lessons, in her hotel, from teachers at Ark Walworth Academy.\n\nHer classmate Najma, 15, has found a school but has to repeat Year 10.\n\nMarzia said: \"They told us they were going to put us in a good school. They broke their promise. The hotel is like a jail.\n\n\"A hotel is a good place but for a holiday - not for almost two years.\"\n\nArk Walworth Academy principal Jessica West said the school had been \"more than happy to provide them with an education on a temporary basis\".\n\n\"What is difficult is to see them move from a situation that was precarious, that we did everything we could to try and shore up for them, to another situation that isn't permanent and is just as precarious,\" she added.\n\nMs West said the teenagers' situation was precarious\n\nThe Afghans' lawyers say the Home Office is required, under the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act, to \"safeguard and promote the welfare of children\" when it makes any immigration decision.\n\nBut court papers suggest the Home Office will argue a decision to move refugees between two \"bridging\" hotels in the UK is not an immigration decision.\n\nThe Afghan families' solicitor, Daniel Rourke, from the Public Law Project, said he was hopeful his clients would win the case and be allowed to return to south London.\n\n\"They were promised a warm welcome and it is quite chilling to now hear the home secretary argue in court that she owes no duty to have any regard to the best interests of the children that are affected by this important decision to uproot them and move them hundreds of miles to live in an airport temporarily,\" Mr Rourke said.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"The UK is proud to have already provided homes for nearly 7,400 Afghan evacuees, through the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy. While hotels do not provide a long-term solution, they do offer adequate space and secure and clean accommodation.\n\n\"We will continue to bring down the number of people in bridging hotels, moving people into more sustainable accommodation.\"", "The Royal College of Nursing said it could announce further strike days \"imminently\".\n\nStrikes by ambulance workers and nurses look set to continue despite talks with Wales' health minister on Thursday.\n\nEluned Morgan gave unions details of a pot of money that could be handed out to NHS staff as a one-off payment.\n\nBut several unions said the offer was not enough to avoid further industrial action, and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) accused ministers of not negotiating seriously.\n\nMs Morgan said there was no intention to reach an agreement at the meeting.\n\nIt is not clear how much cash was put on the table and no specifics have been made available on how much NHS workers might get.\n\nBut unions said they would continue speaking to the Welsh government.\n\nThe Welsh government had been hoping that an offer of a one-off payment to NHS staff would avoid further industrial action.\n\nBut striking workers are hoping for a better permanent pay deal than last year's below-inflation offer of between 4% and 5.5%.\n\nGMB members held a one-day strike in the Welsh ambulance service on Wednesday, while Unite is planning ambulance service walkouts later this month.\n\nThe GMB's Nathan Holman said: \"We have not had an offer that we can put to our members yet.\n\n\"GMB made the minister aware that our members would not accept a one-off payment as this would not be sufficient to address the real problems with pay.\"\n\nHe said the union would \"remain around the table to negotiate\" but had \"no alternative than to continue with industrial action\".\n\nRCN Wales director Helen Whyley said: \"The approach put forward today is simply not enough to offer a substantive and restorative pay award to our members, which is what we have called for all along.\n\n\"From the perspective of nursing staff, the Welsh government are not negotiating seriously on NHS pay. Unless they do so urgently, we will be announcing further strike days for Wales, imminently.\"\n\nSome unions were more receptive than others to the idea of a one-off payment for health workers in this financial year only.\n\nBut those who have already been on strike or are about to do so say it doesn't go far enough to avert further action.\n\nThe minister also wants to keep people around the negotiating table - the difficult question is what they negotiate about.\n\nEluned Morgan wants to talk about how to share out a lump sum payment, the unions want to talk pay deals - and neither side seems to be budging at the moment.\n\nTalks are probably better than no talks, but right now further strikes look likely.\n\nUnite General Secretary Sharon Graham said: \"The Welsh government's offer falls far short of what our members need and what is fair pay after a decade and more of pay cuts. Unless they can move further, the strikes by ambulance workers on 19 and 23 January will go ahead.\"\n\nBoth the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in Wales and the Royal College of Midwives said they would not suspend strike action.\n\nThere was a warmer reception for the proposals from Unison.\n\nIts members in the NHS are not currently taking industrial action after it missed the turnout threshold needed in a strike vote - it is balloting members again.\n\nDominic MacAskill, regional secretary of Unison, said the Welsh government's offer was a \"significant step that ups the pressure on Westminster if nothing else. Rishi Sunak must explain why the first minister can dig deep for NHS staff but the UK government cannot\".\n\nHe said the union will enter into negotiations into the detail - but added that a one-off payment still presented \"clear difficulties\".\n\nEluned Morgan told BBC Wales there \"was no intention to go to any agreement\" on Thursday.\n\n\"Today was a day for us to start a discussion. We were really pleased that we were able to start that discussion. We understand the strength of feeling from trade unionists within the health service,\" she said.\n\nMs Morgan said there \"is a pot of money on the table\" but declined to say how much it was worth.\n\n\"We will have further discussions about that with the trade unions\", she added.\n\nThe talks coincided with news that PCS members at a number of Welsh public bodies - including the Senedd and Natural Resources Wales - will strike on 1 February as part of wider UK industrial action.\n\nDavid TC Davies, Conservative Welsh Secretary, said it was not fair for the Welsh government to blame UK Tory ministers for not being able to meet health workers' pay demands, accusing Labour ministers of wanting to blame \"someone else\".\n\n\"The Welsh Labour government actually have the power if they wanted to raise income tax to pay those settlements,\" he said.\n\nPlaid Cymru's spokesperson for health, Rhun ap Iorwerth, added: \"A one-off payment will not attract new entrants, nor will it be incentive to keep people in an already understaffed profession - ultimately, if we do not have sufficient staff to run our health service, then there are serious implications for patient safety.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries on 5 Sports Extra/BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nFour-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka has announced she is pregnant.\n\nThe Japanese former world number one, 25, withdrew from the Australian Open earlier this week, having not played since September.\n\n\"2023 will be a year that'll be full for lessons for me,\" said Osaka, adding that she hopes to return in 2024.\n\n\"One thing I am looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, 'that's my mom'.\"\n\nOsaka won the last of her four Grand Slams at the Australian Open in 2021.\n\nHowever, she has spoken of the problems she has faced since that memorable title win.\n\nIn May 2021, after pulling out of the French Open, she revealed she had \"suffered long bouts of depression\" ever since winning her first major title, the US Open, in 2018.\n\nIn September 2021 she took a five-month break from the sport.\n\nShe lost in the third round of the Australian Open on her return, then the first round of the French Open, missed Wimbledon because of injury and lost in the opening round of the US Open.\n\nOsaka played last at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September and has dropped to 47 in the world rankings.\n\n\"The past few years have been interesting to say the least, but I find that it is the most challenging times in life that may be the most fun,\" added Osaka, announcing her pregnancy on social media.\n\n\"These few months away from the sport have really given me a new love and appreciation for the game I've dedicated my life to.\n\n\"I realise that life is so short and I don't take any moments for granted, every day is a new blessing and adventure.\n\n\"I know I have so much to look forward to in the future.\"\n\nOsaka is the latest high-profile player to take a break from tennis due to pregnancy.\n\nGermany's three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber revealed her pregnancy in August, suggesting she will return after giving birth, while former world number three Elina Svitolina is expected to make her comeback this year after giving birth last October.\n\nSerena Williams took a break to give birth in 2017 and returned later the same year, continuing to play before retiring in 2022.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can they identify The Traitors to win £120,000?", "Sarah Hutchinson has been waiting for four years for a kidney, while her son Shae is also a transplant patient\n\nBlack patients wait six months longer on average for organ transplants than the general population, NHS data shows.\n\nThe best match comes from someone of the same ethnicity - but only 2% of donors in 2021/22 were black, while black people are 4% of the population.\n\nBlack families are also less likely to agree to organ donation than white families, the figures show.\n\nThe NHS says there's an \"urgent need\" for more people from ethnic minorities to donate.\n\nThe NHS Blood and Transplant report, seen by BBC Radio 1Xtra's If You Don't Know podcast ahead of its publication on Thursday, shows that while waiting times have improved for all ethnicities in the UK, black people wait on average 735 days for a kidney.\n\nBy comparison, the average waiting time for the general population is 550 days. For Asian people, it is 650 days and 488 days for white people.\n\nKidney patients make up the majority of people on waiting lists and face some of the longest waits, because transplants need to be matched by blood and tissue type, whereas other organs only need a blood type match. But there are similar disparities in waiting times for other organ transplants.\n\n\"Black people wait longer because there's less people coming forward to give their organs from their ethnic group,\" said Winnie Andango from NHS Blood and Transplant.\n\n\"During Covid, so many patients were suspended but those have been added back onto the list, and that means if we had less organs for this ethnic minority group we have even less right now.\"\n\nSarah Hutchinson - who has Alport Syndrome, a disease which affects the kidney function - has been waiting on the organ transplant list for four years.\n\nShe is on dialysis, which helps to do the work of her kidneys and remove toxins from her body, but she says it can be painful and tiring.\n\n\"It's an emotional rollercoaster. It's the tiredness, the fatigue. That, if anything, is what gets you down,\" she told the If You Don't Know podcast.\n\n\"I am struggling at the moment with my energy levels, and things you kind of take for granted I can't do anymore.\"\n\nShe says getting a kidney transplant would be \"life-changing\" and wants to encourage more people from the black community to donate their organs.\n\n\"I totally understand why not many people come forward. To help ourselves - and they say 'black lives matter'- we need to do more for our own community and organ donation is definitely one of them.\"\n\nHer son, 22-year-old footballer Shae, has the same condition and found it was affecting his career as a striker for Norwich City FC's under-23s.\n\n\"I couldn't really manage to play a full 90 minutes,\" he said. \"My muscles were getting tired quicker - even after an injury it took me longer to recover than it should have.\"\n\nHis health improved when he had a transplant - initially from his dad in 2018, and then from a stranger in 2020 when the first transplant stopped working.\n\n\"After that I felt brilliant in myself, I didn't feel tired as much. I'm very grateful to the person who stepped forward,\" he added.\n\nIt was thanks to his uncle Simon that Shae was able to get his second transplant.\n\nSimon donated his kidney as part of a sharing scheme, which meant his nephew got a kidney that was a better match - and his organ went to someone else.\n\nHe says living with one kidney hasn't impacted his life and wants to encourage more people to consider donating while they're alive.\n\n\"It's not changed me whatsoever,\" Simon said. \"I actually ran the London Marathon to raise awareness for people to show it's OK to donate - it's not going to change your life.\"\n\nThe law around organ donation in England changed in 2020 to an opt-out system, meaning people are presumed to have consented unless they record a decision not to donate.\n\nScotland adopted the opt-out system in 2021, while Wales has taken this approach since 2015. In Northern Ireland, the law was changed last year.\n\nBut the number of UK donors last year was still lower than before the change in the law, as transplant services recover from the pandemic.\n\nDespite the introduction of the opt-out approach, the families of people who have died are still involved in the decision before an organ donation goes ahead.\n\nThe NHS report found one of the reasons black families do not consent is because people were unsure what their loved ones would have wanted.\n\n\"Me being from a black family from Africa, death and dying are just not just normal things we discuss at dinner,\" said Ms Andango.\n\n\"So when it comes to something like this, it can feel like a very big decision and it becomes difficult because you've never discussed it really.\n\n\"The important thing is that people need to start having those conversations.\"\n\nThe government says it will be announcing extra measures to make the best use of organs \"so we are saving as many lives as possible\".\n\nHealth Minister Neil O'Brien said: \"We need more people, especially those from black and Asian heritage, to register their organ donation decision and share it with their family so loved ones can follow their wishes.\"\n\nListen to the latest If You Don't Know podcast on BBC Sounds to hear more about black organ donors.", "Delta, one of the dolphins, with a sound tag to measure his clicks and whistles during the experiment\n\nDolphins struggle to hear each other and cooperate in a world of increasing noise pollution, a new study reveals.\n\nThey are one of many marine mammals that rely on whistles and echolocation to work together for hunting and reproducing.\n\nBut noise pollution from human activity like shipping and construction have risen dramatically in recent years.\n\nIf they are no longer able to cooperate it could have detrimental effects, the researchers said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dolphins Delta and Reese use sound to cooperate during a test\n\n\"If groups of animals in the wild are less efficient at foraging cooperatively, then this will negatively impact individual health, which ultimately impacts population health,\" said co-author Stephanie King, associate professor at the University of Bristol.\n\nSound is one of the most important senses for marine animals. Unlike light, which is quickly absorbed by water, it can travel tens if not hundreds of kilometres.\n\nAs a result, cetaceans - whales, dolphins, porpoises - have developed a complex range of sounds to \"talk\" to each other.\n\nIt was already known that they will increase the volume of their calls or the frequency to try and compensate for noise pollution caused by human activity.\n\nPernille Mayer Sørenson, a PhD candidate at Bristol University who led the research team which included the Dolphin Research Centre and St Andrews University, said: \"We knew from previous studies that noise pollution impacts animals, but from this study what we do for the first time is look at how noise impacts how animals work together.\"\n\nThe study, published in the journal Current Biology, revealed that the efforts of dolphins to compensate for pollution by \"shouting\" were not enough and they struggled to work together.\n\nThe study was carried out with two bottlenose dolphins Delta and Reese - who goes by the nickname \"Reese's pieces\" - in an experimental lagoon with their trainers. They were required to perform a cooperative task - in this case each pressing a button within a certain time of each other.\n\nEach dolphin was fitted with a temporary sound-and-movement tag which sits behind their blowhole and measures their behaviour and sounds.\n\nThe scientists found that as the dolphins were exposed to increasing levels of anthropogenic (human-created) noise they nearly doubled their whistle durations and also loudness to compensate for this interference.\n\nReese and Delta were also more likely to face each other. Previous work has shown that this may be because their hearing is sensitive to direction, meaning that facing each other could help separate the signal of their partner and the polluting noise - a process known as \"spatial release\".\n\nDespite their best efforts though, Delta and Reese were only 62.5% successful when they were exposed to very high noise pollution compared to 85% during the control experiment with ambient background noise.\n\nThe highest level of noise they were exposed to was 150 decibels (dB).\n\nThe sound produced by a super tanker cargo vessel as it moves through the ocean, will reach volumes of up to 200 dB according to the Natural History Museum.\n\nReese's whistles were on average 1.85 times longer in the highest noise exposure trials\n\nMs Sørenson explained why it is a concern if dolphins cannot communicate properly: \"If you are exposed to noise and that prevents you from you communicating with your friends when you are foraging together that might lead to missed opportunities and could have an impact on your individual health if that's a certain behaviour that is essential to your survival.\"\n\nAnd she warned: \"If you are exposed to that over longer and longer time it could have bigger consequences at a population level.\"\n\nThis work adds to existing research linking noise pollution to negative impacts for marine mammals.\n\nWhales have been observed suffering from decompression sickness, behavioural changes and strandings after being exposed to noise pollution from ships, oil and gas surveying and construction.\n\nWhales can become stranded if they become disorientated by noise pollution from ships and other human activities\n\nThe next step would be to repeat the experiment for dolphins in the wild, but this is a challenge because of the difficulties in creating a controlled scenario with no noise pollution to compare with.\n\nBut Ms Sørensen suspects that wild dolphins would perform even worse when exposed to noise pollution than their counterparts at the research centre.\n\nShe said: \"These individuals [Delta and Reese] are highly motivated and know this task well - they have done it hundreds of times for previous studies. But if we go out into the wild, if an animal wants to initiate behaviour with someone else, they might not know that its partner wants to cooperate.\"\n• None How the war in Ukraine is killing marine mammals", "Australian actress Margot Robbie stars in Babylon, which had five nominations at the Globes, winning best original score\n\nHollywood stars returned in their droves to the Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday, wearing a variety of eye-catching outfits on the red carpet.\n\nSpeculation that few celebrities would show up this year due to the controversy surrounding the Globes proved largely unfounded - with a few exceptions.\n\nSome stars were notable by their absence - Tom Cruise and Brendan Fraser have previously distanced themselves from the voting body behind the Globes and did not attend.\n\nBut most of the nominees and guests who showed up the Beverley Hilton hotel in Los Angeles were happy to pose for photos as they walked the red carpet ahead of the ceremony.\n\nUS actress Jennifer Coolidge won best TV supporting actress for The White Lotus\n\nPose star Billy Porter was one of the category presenters at this year's ceremony\n\nAnya Taylor-Joy, pictured with Malcolm McRae, was nominated for best supporting actress for The Menu\n\nBritish actor Eddie Redmayne was nominated for best supporting actor for The Good Nurse, in which he starred opposite Jessica Chastain\n\nActress Jenna Ortega, who recently appeared in the hugely popular Netflix series Wednesday, handed out an award\n\nGlass Onion director Rian Johnson was seen bowing down to Decision To Leave director Park Chan-wook on the red carpet\n\nThe Flight Attendant star Kaley Cuoco, who is expecting a child with her partner, US actor Tom Pelphrey\n\nAwards favourite Viola Davis was nominated for her performance in The Woman King\n\nPinocchio director Guillermo del Toro walked the red carpet with his wife Kim Morgan, and later won best animated feature for Pinochhio\n\nActress Laverne Cox wore a vintage blue and gold gown on the red carpet\n\nJulia Garner has starred in Inventing Anna, but it was her performance in Ozark which won her a Golden Globe\n\nJamie Lee Curtis and Irish actor Barry Keoghan, two actors in the supporting categories, cosied up on the red carpet\n\nAngela Bassett won best supporting actress for her performance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\n\nActor Bob Odenkirk's hugely popular series Better Call Saul came to an end last year after six seasons\n\nDaisy Edgar-Jones recently starred in Where The Crawdads Sing after her breakout success in Normal People\n\nSee more on the Golden Globes:\n\nEddie Murphy (pictured with Paige Butcher) was the recipient of this year's Cecil B DeMille Award - one of the Globes' top honours\n\nSelena Gomez was nominated for her role in the popular comedy-drama Only Murders In The Building\n\nAndrew Garfield was nominated for his role in miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven\n\nActress Michelle Williams stars in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans, which won best drama film\n\nIrish actress Kerry Condon appears in The Banshees of Inisherin, one of the nights big winners\n\nSarah Polley directed another awards contender, Women Talking, which stars Claire Foy and Rooney Mara\n\nJessica Chastain won acclaim and was Golden Globe-nominated for her leading performance in The Good Nurse", "Michelle Yeoh's best actress award at the Golden Globes has sparked hope that an Oscar may be on the cards for the Malaysian star.\n\nMs Yeoh bagged the award for her starring role in sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once.\n\n\"It's been an amazing journey and an incredible fight to be here today,\" she said, dedicating the award to fellow minority actors in Hollywood.\n\nPeople in Asia and Asian-Americans have been celebrating her win.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Ms Yeoh, whose showbiz career started in Hong Kong in the 1980s, reflected on her early years in Hollywood.\n\n\"I remember when I first came to Hollywood. It was a dream come true until I got here, because, look at this face. I came here and was told, 'You are a minority'.\" she continued in her speech.\n\n\"This is also for all the shoulders that I have (stood) on, all who came before me who look like me, and all who are going on this journey with me forward,\" she added.\n\nThe accolade drew a flurry of congratulatory messages online, with many describing Ms Yeoh's win as well-deserved and fans airing hopes it would boost her chances of getting the best actress Oscar.\n\nMalaysia's Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said it was a \"great honour for the country\", while Hong Kong's culture secretary Kevin Yeung hailed her \"exceptional acting skills\".\n\n\"We are really empowered by the fact that Hong Kong actors have continued to shine in the global film industry,\" he said.\n\n\"Up next: The Oscars!\" said Malaysian commentator Faizal Hamssin on Twitter.\n\nThe 60-year-old played Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant who owns a failing laundromat. She beat Lesley Manville, Margot Robbie, Anya Taylor-Joy and Emma Thompson to the award.\n\nShe is the second Asian actor to win the award, after Awkwafina in 2020 for The Farewell.\n\nMs Yeoh became a household name for roles in Hong Kong action films, particularly those also starring with Jackie Chan. She famously did a lot of the stunts herself.\n\nShe later became better known among Western audiences for roles in James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, her Hollywood debut, and Oscar-winning drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\n\nMore recently, she appeared in the blockbusters Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.\n\nIf she pulls off an Oscar, Ms Yeoh will be the first Asian actress to win the award. Nominations for the 95th Oscars will be announced later in January, while the actual awards ceremony will be held in March.\n\nPast Asian Oscar winners include Bong Joon-Ho, who was named best director for Parasite in 2019, which was also awarded best original screenplay.\n\nIn 2020, Chloe Zhao was named best director for Nomadland, while Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress for Minari.", "The NHS is in the middle of its worst winter in a generation, with senior doctors warning that hospitals are facing intolerable pressures that are costing lives.\n\nA&E waits and ambulance delays are at their worst levels on record.\n\nThe health service was already under pressure - the result of long-standing problems - but Covid, flu and now strike action by staff have all added to the sense of crisis this winter.\n\nSo how did the NHS get to this point?\n\nAdvances in medicine over recent decades have meant people are living longer.\n\nThat is a success story. But it means the NHS, like every health service in the developed world, is having to cope with an ageing population.\n\nThat puts a huge strain on the health service. Half of over-65s have two or more health conditions and are responsible for two-thirds of all hospital admissions.\n\nTo help the health service cope with this demand as well as pay for the advances in medicine, the NHS budget has traditionally risen by an average of 4% above inflation each year.\n\nBut since 2010, the average annual rate of increase has been half that.\n\nOf course, that is when a Conservative-led government came into power, although it is worth bearing in mind Labour were also signed up to this squeeze following the 2008 financial crash.\n\nLabour - despite previous big increases in funding - were promising less for the health service than the Tories in the 2010 election, while in 2015 there was little between the two parties.\n\nThe government points to extra funding for the NHS during this parliament and topped up further in the Autumn Statement but a decade of austerity has come at a cost.\n\nBed numbers have fallen, while staffing shortages have increased.\n\nCurrently around one in 10 NHS posts are vacant, leaving the UK with fewer doctors and nurses than many of its Western European counterparts.\n\nThe lack of staff puts even more pressure on those in post.\n\nTalk to paramedics, nurses and doctors and one of the most common refrains is that the job is no longer enjoyable because they cannot provide the level of care they want for their patients.\n\nAlongside pay, this is a driving factor for those ambulance staff and nurses who took strike action last month and look set to do so again in the coming weeks.\n\nIn fact, they argue the two issues are interlinked. Pay for NHS staff has been cut over the past decade once inflation is taken into account.\n\nUntil that is addressed, the government has little chance of plugging the staff gaps, they believe.\n\nHow are your local NHS services coping this winter? Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust. When you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland. Comparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible. A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments, for example, those who attend minor injury units. Each nation has different target times for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them may not be possible. A modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection are required to view this interactive.\n\nThe problems being seen also have their origins in when the NHS was created in the aftermath of World War II.\n\nThe decision was taken to split health (run by the NHS) and social care for the elderly (run by councils).\n\nMore than 70 years on, and despite some move towards integration, this division still persists.\n\nThis is despite successive governments since the late 1990s all promising major reform.\n\nIt means we have a health system that is free at the point of need, but a care system that is means-tested and has been squeezed even more than the NHS.\n\nThe waiting list for care is rising sharply, while this sector too has a staffing crisis with one in 10 posts also vacant.\n\nSuccessive governments have failed to reform the social care system\n\nThey are two very different systems, despite being two sides of the same coin.\n\nWithout care to keep them independent, the frail elderly are more likely to end up in hospital and less likely to be able to get out.\n\nEvery day more than half of patients who are ready to leave hospital cannot because of a lack of care in the community. Not all of this is down to social care, but much of it is.\n\nThis divide is something that does not exist - certainly not to such an acute extent - in many of the social insurance systems across the world that have been developed much more around the needs of the individual.\n\nOf course, the NHS, like other health systems, has been battered by the pandemic. Waiting lists have grown and staff have been left exhausted from fighting Covid - the latter is another factor that has driven staff to vote for industrial action.\n\nWhat is more, the tail end of the pandemic has had a sting. Other infections, and in particular flu, have rebounded after the lockdowns suppressed cases and immunity.\n\nThe NHS is now in the grip of its worst flu season for a decade - and this has come as the fifth wave of Covid has reared its head.\n\nAnd while the most recent data suggests hospitalisations for both may have peaked, experts are urging caution because reporting delays over the festive period may have masked what is happening.\n\nThere has been another consequence too - the indirect health impacts. This is something England's Chief Medical Officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty warned about at the start of the pandemic and now appears to be taking off.\n\nThe lockdown led to people with chronic conditions not always getting the support they needed - patients with heart problems not getting statins and people with respiratory illness not getting their regular checks for example.\n\nThis is thought to be one factor behind the rising demand being seen on the emergency care system, as well as the higher-than-expected number of deaths being seen.\n\nA frailer, sicker population is adding to the pressure when the NHS and its staff are least able to respond.", "Rishi Sunak is facing a major backbench rebellion over the government's plans to prevent harmful material on the internet.\n\nThirty-six Tory MPs are backing a plan to make social media bosses face prison if they fail to protect children from damaging content online.\n\nTheir amendment to the Online Safety Bill is due to be voted on next week.\n\nThe idea was suggested under Boris Johnson, but eventually dismissed in favour of higher fines for firms.\n\nAsked about the proposal, Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan said she was \"not ruling out\" accepting any of the amendments.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, she said she was \"strongly in favour of bolstering protection for children\" and would take \"a sensible approach\" when considering MPs' ideas.\n\nThe rebellion follows other significant backbench revolts in recent weeks over housing targets for councils and restrictions on onshore wind farms.\n\nOn both of those issues, the prime minister backed down and offered concessions to avoid defeat in the House of Commons.\n\nUnder the rebels' proposals, senior managers at tech firms could face up to two years in jail if they breach new duties to keep children safe online. The provision would not apply to search engines.\n\nThese duties include taking \"proportionate measures\" to stop children seeing harmful material, including through measures such as age verification, taking content down, and parental controls.\n\nCurrently the bill would only make managers criminally liable for failing to give information to media regulator Ofcom, which is set to gain wide-ranging powers to police the internet under the new law.\n\nMaking managers liable for a failure to comply with broader safety duties in the bill was rejected after a consultation ahead of the bill's introduction, which concluded it could make the UK tech sector less attractive.\n\nCompanies failing in their legal duties, including protecting children, could be fined up to 10% of global revenue.\n\nHowever, supporters of the amendment, including child protection charities, argue that only personal liability for company bosses will ensure the child safety provisions are effective.\n\nTory rebels point to the construction and financial services industries, which have similar personal liabilities for company managers.\n\nA leading Tory rebel, Miriam Cates, told the BBC the group met Ms Donelan earlier this week, and ministers recognise the \"strength of feeling\" over the issue.\n\nShe added that they were open to government concessions, but any proposal to change the law would have to retain personal liability for managers.\n\n\"I think that is the key driver of change,\" she told the BBC's World Tonight programme, adding: \"In the construction industry we've seen a massive drop in accidents and deaths in construction since the senior manager liability was introduced.\"\n\nLabour has confirmed to the BBC that it supports the rebel Tory amendment. It means the government, which has a working majority of 68, is at serious risk of defeat.\n\nThe party has tabled similar amendments throughout the bill's passage through Parliament. Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Lucy Powell has previously said a lack of criminal liability for social media bosses would leave Ofcom \"toothless\".\n\nOther Conservatives supporting the amendment include former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, and other ex-ministers including former home secretary Priti Patel.\n\nHowever, the Open Rights Group has expressed concern about the idea. Policy manager Dr Monica Horten said: \"This amendment is not at all clear on what basis the tech company directors could be indicted.\n\n\"Fear of a prison sentence could lead to children being restricted from all types of content that they are legally entitled to see, either because it would be swept away or they would be denied access.\"\n\nThe Online Safety Bill was introduced in March under Mr Johnson, and has been repeatedly altered during its passage through Parliament.\n\nIts progress was further delayed last month when the government decided to make more changes to the bill.\n\nIt is due to return to the Commons next Tuesday, after which it will begin what is likely to be a long journey through the House of Lords.", "Climate change is making extreme weather including flooding more likely, scientists say\n\nOne of the world's largest oil companies accurately forecast how climate change would cause global temperature to rise as long ago as the 1970s, researchers claim.\n\nExxonMobil's private research predicted how burning fossil fuels would warm the planet but the company publicly denied the link, they suggest.\n\nThe academics analysed data in the company's internal documents.\n\n\"This issue has come up several times in recent years and, in each case, our answer is the same: those who talk about how \"Exxon Knew\" are wrong in their conclusions,\" the company told BBC News.\n\nCorporations including ExxonMobil have made billions from selling fossil fuels that release emissions that scientists, governments and the UN say cause global warming.\n\nThe findings suggest that ExxonMobil's predictions were often more accurate than even world-leading Nasa scientists.\n\n\"It really underscores the stark hypocrisy of ExxonMobil leadership, who knew that their own scientists were doing this very high quality modelling work and had access to that privileged information while telling the rest of us that climate models were bunk,\" Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University, told BBC News.\n\nThe findings are a \"smoking gun\", suggests co-author Geoffrey Supran, associate professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami.\n\n\"Our analysis allows us for the first time to actually put a number on what Exxon knew, which is that the burning of their fossil fuel products was going to heat the planet by about 0.2C of warming every decade,\" he said.\n\nResearchers have never before quantified the scientific evidence in ExxonMobil's documents, he says.\n\nIn response, ExxonMobil pointed to a 2019 US court ruling that concluded: \"ExxonMobil executives and employees were uniformly committed to rigorously discharging their duties in the most comprehensive and meticulous manner possible.\"\n\n\"ExxonMobil is committed to being part of the solution to climate change and the risks it poses,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nA chart that researchers say compares ExxonMobil's predictions of temperature rise with actual temperature increase\n\n\"Their excellent climate modelling was at least comparable in performance to one of the most influential and well-regarded climate scientists of modern history,\" Prof Supran said, comparing ExxonMobil's work to Nasa's James Hansen who sounded the alarm on climate in 1988.\n\nProf Oreskes said the findings show that ExxonMobil \"knowingly misled\" the public and governments. \"They had all this information at their disposal but they said very, very different things in public,\" she explained.\n\nPrevious investigations have unearthed Exxon documents that suggest the company sought to spread doubt about the science. One internal paper set out the \"Exxon position\" to \"emphasise the uncertainty in scientific conclusions\" about the greenhouse effect.\n\nThe research, published in the academic journal Science, also suggests that ExxonMobil had reasonable estimates for how emissions would need to be reduced in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change in a world warmed by 2C or more.\n\nTheir scientists also correctly rejected the theory that an ice age was coming at a time when other researchers were still debating the prospect.\n\nProf Oreskes and Prof Supran carried out the research after journalists in 2015 uncovered evidence suggesting ExxonMobil's knew about climate change, but were accused by ExxonMobil of \"cherry-picking\" the truth.\n\nThey plotted scientific data in more than 100 publications from Exxon and Exxon Mobil between 1977 and 2014 to calculate their predictions of global temperature rise.\n\nProf Oreskes suggests that it showed the company was internally using climate science when publicly it called the models \"speculative\" or \"bad science\".\n\nThe findings add to ongoing pressure on the company over what it knew about climate change. Campaigners allege it spread misinformation in order to protect its business interests in fossil fuels and are suing the company in a number of US courts.\n\nIn May a court in Massachusetts, US ruled that ExxonMobil must face trial over accusations it lied about climate change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The culture secretary is accusing tech firms of prioritising profits over children\n\nControversial measures which would have forced big technology platforms to take down legal but harmful material have been axed from the Online Safety Bill.\n\nCritics of the section in the bill claimed it posed a risk to free speech.\n\nCulture Secretary Michelle Donelan denied weakening laws protecting adult social media users and said they would have more control over what they saw.\n\nThe bill - which aims to police the internet - is intended to become law in the UK before next summer.\n\nThe government argues that the changes do not undermine the protections for children.\n\nTechnology companies will still have to stop children - defined as those under 18 - from seeing content that poses a risk of causing significant harm.\n\nMany social media platforms have a minimum age and offer parental controls.\n\nCompanies will have to explain how they will check their users' age - some like Instagram are using age-verification technology.\n\nBut some have criticised the latest changes, including Labour and the Samaritans who called it a hugely backward step.\n\nIan Russell, the father of teenager Molly Russell, who ended her life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online, said the bill had been watered down and the decision might have been made for political reasons to help it pass more quickly.\n\nBut Ms Donelan said there may have been a \"misunderstanding\" over what Ian Russell said.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"nothing is getting watered down or taken out when it comes to children.\"\n\n\"We're adding extra in, so there is no change to children. This is a very complicated Bill and there's lots of aspects to it, but I wouldn't want any of your listeners to think for a minute that we are removing anything when it comes to children because we're not.\"\n\nThe bill previously included a section which required \"the largest, highest-risk platforms\" to tackle some legal but harmful material accessed by adults.\n\nIt meant that the likes of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube would have been told to prevent people being exposed to content relating to self-harm and eating disorders as well as misogynistic posts.\n\nThat prompted criticism that the bill opened the door for technology companies to censor legal speech.\n\nIt was \"legislating for hurt feelings\", former Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch said.\n\nThat requirement has now been removed from the bill - tech giants will instead have to introduce a system allowing adult users more control to filter out harmful content they do not want to see.\n\nMs Donelan insisted the legislation was not being watered down - and that tech companies had the expertise to protect people online.\n\n\"These are massive, massive corporations that have the money, the knowhow and the tech to be able to adhere to this,\" she said.\n\nShe warned that those who did not comply would face significant fines and \"huge reputational damage\".\n\nAdults will be able to access and post anything legal, provided a platform's terms of service allow it - although, children must still be protected from viewing harmful material.\n\nIn July, the former minister David Davis was one of nine senior Conservatives who wrote a letter to then Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, warning the legal but harmful provision posed a threat to free speech.\n\nHe told the BBC he was glad it had now been taken out the bill but he still had other \"serious worries\" about the threat to privacy and freedom of expression which could \"undermine end-to-end encryption\".\n\nIn some scenarios the bill permits the government to direct companies to use technology to examine private messages.\n\n\"I urge the government to accept the amendments in my name to fix these technology notices so that they no longer pose a threat to encryption, which we all rely on to keep safe online,\" he said.\n\nLucy Powell MP, Labour's shadow culture secretary, criticised the decision to remove obligations over \"legal but harmful\" material.\n\nShe said it gave a \"free pass to abusers and takes the public for a ride\" that it was \"a major weakening, not strengthening, of the bill\".\n\nAnd the boss of charity the Samaritans, Julie Bentley, said \"the damaging impact that this type of content has doesn't end on your 18th birthday\".\n\n\"Increasing the controls that people have is no replacement for holding sites to account through the law and this feels very much like the Government snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.\"\n\nBut Ms Donelan told BBC News the revised bill offered \"a triple shield of protection - so it's certainly not weaker in any sense\".\n\nThis could include content promoting eating disorders or inciting hate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender reassignment- although, there will be exemptions to allow legitimate debate.\n\nBut the first two parts of the triple shield were already included in the draft bill.\n\nAt its heart this complicated bill has a simple aim: those things that are criminal or unacceptable in real life should be treated the same online.\n\nBut that means reining in the power of the big tech companies and bringing an end to the era of self-regulation.\n\nGetting the bill this far has been a complex balancing act. Dropping the need to define what counts as \"legal but harmful\" content may have satisfied free speech advocates.\n\nIncluding new criminal offences around encouraging self-harm or sharing deep fake porn could feel like a win for campaigners.\n\nBut it won't satisfy everyone - the Samaritans for example don't feel it adequately protects adults from harmful material.\n\nThe Molly Rose Foundation set up by Molly Russell's family believes the bill's been watered down. It's not about freedom of speech, it said in a statement, it's about the freedom to live.\n\nAnd there's much about the bill that is still unclear.\n\nInternet safety campaigner Mr Russell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think the most harmful content to [Molly] was content that could be described as legal but harmful.\"\n\nHe added: \"It is very hard to understand that something that was important as recently as July, when the bill would have had a full reading in the Commons and was included in the bill, this legal but harmful content, it is very hard to understand why that suddenly can't be there.\"\n\nMolly Russell was aged 14 when she died in 2017\n\nCampaign group the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said platforms might feel \"off the hook\" because of the new focus on user controls \"in place of active duties to deal with bad actors and dangerous content\".\n\nElon Musk's takeover of Twitter indicated tough rules were needed, it said. Twitter recently reinstated a number of banned accounts, including that of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, which had been suspended over anti-Semitic posts.\n\nBut CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed added it was welcome the government \"had strengthened the law against encouragement of self-harm and distribution of intimate images without consent\".\n\nIt was recently announced that the encouragement of self-harm would be prohibited in the update to the Online Safety Bill.\n\nOther changes will require technology companies to assess and publish the risk of potential harm to children on their sites.\n\nCompanies must also explain how they will enforce age limits - knowing users' ages will be a key part in preventing children seeing certain types of content.\n\nAnd users' accounts must not be removed unless they have broken the law or the site's rules.\n\nTech policy expert at the Open Rights Group, Dr Monica Horten, said the bill lacked definition about how companies will know the age of their users.\n\n\"Companies are likely to use AI systems analysing biometric data including head and hand measurements, and voices,\" she said.\n\n\"This is a recipe for a gated internet, currently subject to minimal regulation and run by third-party private operators.\"\n\nMuch of the enforcement of the new law will be by communications and media regulator Ofcom, which will be able to fine companies up to 10% of their worldwide revenue.\n\nIt must now consult the victims' commissioner, the domestic-abuse commissioner and the children's commissioner when drawing up the codes technology companies must follow.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US President Joe Biden's aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House.\n\nThe first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency.\n\nThe matter is under review by the US Department of Justice.\n\nFormer President Donald Trump is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified files.\n\nIt was not yet clear on Wednesday when or where the additional tranche of files was found by Biden aides.\n\nThe original batch of about 10 documents was discovered in November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank near the White House, but only came to light this week.\n\nThose papers reportedly include US intelligence memos and briefing materials related to Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom.\n\nThey relate to his time as vice-president under President Barack Obama but it is unclear why they turned up in a private office he started using after that.\n\nAccess to classified documents is limited by law to people with special authorisation and there are rules about how they are kept and stored.\n\nAll White House records, including classified ones, are required to be turned over to the US National Archives after an administration's time in office.\n\nThe White House has not yet commented on the newly discovered batch. However, the find has been confirmed by the BBC's US partner CBS and other US media.\n\nDuring her daily press briefing on Wednesday, Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to answer questions about the first cache of files.\n\n\"This is under review by the Department of Justice,\" she said. \"I'm not going to go beyond what the president shared yesterday.\"\n\nShe was pressed on why it took two months for the news to be made public and refused to say when Mr Biden had been briefed on it. The discovery happened just days before the midterm congressional elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Biden said on Tuesday he was \"surprised\" when he found out and he was \"co-operating\" with the justice department's review.\n\nBut the discovery of another batch of classified documents in a second location increases the possibility that this story is not one of isolated carelessness on the part of Joe Biden and his team, but rather something more systemic. It also increases the chances that this is not the last new revelation of document mishandling.\n\nIt is an iron rule of presidential scandals that bad news dripping out over an extended period of time is much more politically damaging than one-time revelations, however bad they may be.\n\nThere have now been multiple days of dripping revelations on the documents story, and it's already distracting from the issues Mr Biden wants to focus, such as dropping inflation levels and the Republican efforts to enact abortion restrictions in the House of Representatives.\n\nThe controversy also comes as the Democratic president faces scrutiny from a new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives.\n\n\"Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming,\" James Comer, the new chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Wednesday.\n\nThe committee is launching inquiries into the president and his family, including a request for the White House to turn over documents and communications related to the classified files.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the moment, the story is an embarrassment for Mr Biden. If it drags on, it could have a more corrosive effect on his presidency.\n\nThe White House has said Mr Biden's lawyers alerted the archives as soon as they recovered the classified materials at the think tank, and the agency retrieved them the next morning.\n\nLast August, FBI agents searched the Florida home of Mr Biden's predecessor and seized more than 10,000 files that Mr Trump had not turned over to the National Archives.\n\nThe justice department had issued a subpoena for the return of the sensitive files before the FBI showed up at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nMore than 300 documents with classified markings, including 18 marked top secret, were recovered by federal agents from the golf club in Palm Beach.\n\nMr Trump has not given any reason to explain their presence there but has said he had the power as president to declassify them, a claim challenged by legal experts.", "US dancer and choreographer Michael Flatley, famous for his Irish production Riverdance, has had surgery for an \"aggressive form of cancer\".\n\nA post on his Instagram page said he was \"in the care of an excellent team of doctors\", adding no further comments would be made.\n\nFlatley, 64, shot to fame with Riverdance, which first appeared during the 1994 Eurovision interval in Dublin, lasting seven minutes.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIts success at Eurovision, where it teamed Irish dancers with music by Bill Whelan, saw it extended into a full-length show which opened at Dublin's Point Theatre the following year.\n\nThe Riverdance 25th anniversary website suggests that since its debut, more than three billion people worldwide have seen the show on television.\n\nFlatley, born to an Irish-American family in Chicago, has also created, produced and directed productions including Feet Of Flames and Celtic Tiger.\n\nHe has previously had a diagnosis of facial skin cancer which he was treated for in 2003.\n\nHe also directed and starred in the spy thriller film Blackbird, which did not receive many positive reviews.\n\nThe film also stars Eric Roberts, Patrick Bergin and Ian Beattie, Flatley plays former MI6 operative Victor Blackley, who returns to the world of espionage, having left it behind.\n\nLast year Flatley also launched a Lord Of The Dance tour, which helped raise money for the humanitarian effort in Ukraine.", "Data for England is shown by NHS trust, where the trust includes at least one hospital with a Type 1 A&E department. Type 1 means a consultant-led 24 hour A&E service with full resuscitation facilities. Data for Wales and Scotland is shown by Health Board and in Northern Ireland by Health and Social Care Trust.\n\nWhen you enter a postcode for a location in England you will be shown a list of NHS trusts in your area. They will not necessarily be in order of your closest hospital as some trusts have more than one hospital. Data for Wales and Scotland are shown by NHS board and by Health and Social Care trust in Northern Ireland.\n\nComparative data is shown for a previous year where available. However, where trusts have merged there is no like-for-like comparison to show. Earlier data is not available for all measures, so comparisons between years are not always possible.\n\nIn England and Northern Ireland A&E attendances include all emergency departments in that trust or health board, not just major A&E departments. For example, those who attend minor injury units are included. In Wales the data include all emergency departments, but does not include patients kept in A&E by doctors under special circumstances, [more details here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67056279). In Scotland the data includes only major A&E departments.\n\nEach nation has different target times and definitions for some of the measures shown, therefore comparisons between them are not possible.", "Jeff Beck performing at Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2022\n\nJeff Beck, one of the most influential rock guitarists of all time, has died at the age of 78.\n\nThe British musician rose to fame as part of the Yardbirds, where he replaced Eric Clapton, before forming the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart.\n\nHis tone, presence and, above all, volume redefined guitar music in the 1960s, and influenced movements like heavy metal, jazz-rock and even punk.\n\nBeck's death was confirmed on his official Twitter page.\n\n\"On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing,\" the statement said.\n\n\"After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jeff Beck performs on the BBC in 1974\n\nDescribing his playing style in 2009, Beck said: \"I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible.\"\n\n\"That's the point now, isn't it? I don't care about the rules.\n\n\"In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song, then I'm not doing my job properly.\"\n\nBeck performing with Johnny Depp at the Helsinki Blues Festival in 2022\n\nBorn Geoffrey Arnold Beck in Wallington, south London, the musician fell in love with Rock and Roll as a child, and built his first guitar as a teenager.\n\n\"The guy next door said, 'I'll build you a solid body guitar for five pounds',\" he later told Rock Cellar Magazine. \"Five pounds, which to me was 500 back then [so] I went ahead and did it [myself].\n\n\"The first one I built was in 1956, because Elvis was out, and everything that you heard about pop music was guitar. And then I got fascinated. I'm sure the same goes for lots of people.\"\n\nAfter a short stint at Wimbledon Art College, he left to play with shock-rocker Screaming Lord Sutch and the Tridents.\n\nWhen Eric Clapton left the Yardbirds in 1965, Jimmy Page suggested hiring Beck - and he went on to play on hits like I'm A Man and Shapes Of Things, where his pioneering use of feedback influenced musicians like Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.\n\nThe Yardbirds, backstage at Top Of The Pops, in 1965\n\n\"That [technique] came as an accident,\" he later told BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker.\n\n\"We played larger venues, around about '64-'65, and the PA was inadequate. So we cranked up the level and then found out that feedback would happen.\n\n\"I started using it because it was controllable - you could play tunes with it. I did this once at Staines Town Hall with the Yardbirds and afterwards, this guy says, 'You know that funny noise that wasn't supposed to be there? I'd keep that in if I were you.'\n\n\"So I said, 'It was deliberate mate. Go away'.\"\n\nThe guitarist stayed with The Yardbirds for nearly two years, before declaring he was quitting music altogether... then releasing his first solo single Hi Ho Silver Lining.\n\nRecorded in just three hours, the song was his only top 20 hit in the UK, charting in both 1967 and 1972. But the singer was famously ambivalent about it.\n\nHe was persuaded to record the song by producer Mickie Most who, Beck said, \"wasn't the slightest bit interested in recording my sort of music\".\n\n\"I couldn't say to him, 'Look, you don't know what's going on,' because he had 20,000 gold disks on the wall saying 'I do know what's going on',\" he told Rolling Stone magazine in 1971. \"So for a couple of years I wasted my career doing junk tunes.\"\n\nWhen he left the studio after cutting the track, the receptionist was already singing it. \"That,\" he said, \"was when I knew it was a disaster\".\n\nHe went to describe the song as a \"pink toilet seat around my neck\", but eventually made his peace with it, even performing it on Jools Holland's TV show in 2015.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter that brief brush with fame, he formed the Jeff Beck Group, whose first two albums Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969), took a ferocious approach to the blues that laid the groundwork for heavy metal.\n\nBut the band were unhappy - with a US tour regularly descending into arguments and physical fights.\n\nSinger Rod Stewart and bassist Ronnie Wood quit in 1970 to join the Small Faces (later The Faces), and when Beck was injured in a car accident, he had to put his career on hold.\n\nWhen he recovered, Beck assembled a second line-up of his band but their albums were commercially unsuccessful and Beck went solo in 1975.\n\nThat year, he recorded an album, Blow By Blow, with Beatles producer George Martin. Entirely instrumental, Beck's lyrical, mellifluous guitar playing essentially replaced the parts of a lead vocalist, an approach he would take for most of the rest of his career.\n\nBlow By Blow made the US top 10 and was awarded a platinum disc, and Beck quickly followed it up with 1976's Wired (also produced by George Martin) and the 1977 concert album Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group Live.\n\nAfter the tour documented on the album, the musician retired to his estate outside of London and remained quiet for three years.\n\n\"The pitch I play at is so intense that I just can't do it every night,\" he later explained.\n\nThe 1980s saw him collaborate with Nile Rodgers on an album called Flash, which contained his first US hit single - a cover of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready with Rod Stewart on lead vocals - and earned him a Grammy Award.\n\nIn 1987, he played on Mick Jagger's solo album Primitive Cool, and continued to work with artists like Roger Waters and Jon Bon Jovi in the 1990s, as well as contributing to Hans Zimmer's score for the Tom Cruise movie Days Of Thunder.\n\nBeck performing in a charity concert in New York in December 1983\n\nBut his solo output slowed down, until the release of 1999's You Had It Coming, featuring Imogen Heap on vocals, followed in 2003 by an album he simply called Jeff.\n\nAround this time, he started incorporating more electronic and hip-hop elements to his music; culminating in his fourth Grammy victory for the tempestuous, shape-shifting instrumental Plan B.\n\nHe toured extensively in the 2010s, including a joint-headline venture with Beach Boy Brian Wilson.\n\nThe duo had hoped to record together but those plans fell apart. Instead, Beck ended up befriending actor Johnny Depp, with whom he released a full-length album, 18, in 2022.\n\nBeck was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1992 as a member of the Yardbirds, then as a solo artist in 2009.\n\nHis legacy lies in the balance between the fluidity and aggression of his playing, a technical brilliance equalled only by his love of ear-crunching dissonance.\n\n\"It's like he's saying, 'I'm Jeff Beck. I'm right here. And you can't ignore me',\" wrote Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers in an essay for Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitar Players of All Time, where Beck placed seventh.\n\n\"Even in the Yardbirds, he had a tone that was melodic but in-your-face - bright, urgent and edgy, but sweet at the same time. You could tell he was a serious player, and he was going for it. He was not holding back.\"\n\n\"He'd just keep getting better and better,\" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page once recalled. \"And he leaves us, mere mortals\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Chief Inspector of Constabulary has called for officers to have more training in cases of domestic abuse\n\nSome police officers lack empathy and show \"outdated attitudes\" in domestic abuse cases, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe Chief Inspector of Constabulary reported there is a lack of consistency in the quality of responses from officers called to incidents.\n\nCraig Naylor praised the national force for making progress on the issue but called for more training.\n\nPolice Scotland said it is committed to improving its response to domestic abuse.\n\nLast year there were 64,807 domestic incidents recorded in Scotland with just over half resulting in reports to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, which decides whether there should be prosecutions.\n\nHomicide figures show that 56% of women killed last year in Scotland died at the hands of a partner or ex-partner.\n\nMr Naylor, of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary Scotland (HMICS), highlighted a series of recent convictions secured by the domestic abuse task force in his latest report.\n\nSentences totalling 215 years have been imposed on 32 men.\n\nMr Naylor said \"a great deal\" has been done by Police Scotland and the organisation is committed to further improvements.\n\nBut he warned that domestic abuse is under reported and it could get worse because of the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe added Police Scotland was dealing with a challenging budget settlement and a reduction in police numbers.\n\nThe HMICS report said: \"The victim experience is that the attitudes and behaviours of some officers lack empathy and understanding and some victims report that remarks made by officers reflect outdated attitudes.\"\n\nIt also said there was still \"a lack of knowledge and confidence\" among some officers over the Scottish government's Domestic Abuse bill, which outlawed psychological domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour.\n\nMr Naylor said: \"Good quality service to victims at the first point of contact and beyond is crucial. If having taken the bold step to report domestic abuse, a victim has a poor experience, they are far less likely to report any further abuse.\"\n\n\"The risks associated with this area of policing, which are of significant public concern, determine that the improvements we identify in this report must be prioritised.\"\n\nHe called for more trauma informed training, drawing on the experiences of victims.\n\nHMICS consulted a small number of domestic violence victims during its review of the force's work.\n\nPolice Scotland Assistant Chief Constable Bex Smith said: \"We are grateful to His Majesty's Inspector for underlining the successes of our proactive approach, partnership working and the significant progress in this critically important area.\n\n\"While we do not always get everything right, we listen carefully to a range of voices, including victims groups, and take action.\n\n\"We are resolute in our commitment to continually improve our response to domestic abuse and we will consider how this report can support us in doing so.\"", "The Online Safety Bill aims to protect children from harmful content\n\nThe Online Safety Bill will return to Parliament \"quickly\", Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has said.\n\n\"We want it in law as soon as possible to protect children when they're accessing content online,\" she said.\n\nThe bill requires technology companies to protect their users from illegal content such as child-abuse images.\n\nBut rules requiring them to also tackle \"legal but harmful\" material, which critics say could lead to censorship, would be altered, Ms Donelan said.\n\nWhat exactly will count as legal but harmful material will be set out in secondary legislation.\n\nPlatforms \"likely to be accessed by children\" will have to protect them from inappropriate or harmful content such as posts promoting self-harm or eating disorders.\n\nBut \"the largest, highest-risk platforms\" will also have to tackle some legal but harmful material accessed by adults - and make clear in their terms and conditions, which they are expected to enforce, what is and is not acceptable on their site.\n\nThis gives big tech too much power, according to digital civil liberties campaigners.\n\n\"The bill effectively outsources internet policing - from the police, courts and Parliament, to Silicon Valley,\" the Open Rights Group says.\n\nIn July, during the Conservative leadership campaign, candidate Kemi Badenoch - now International Trade Secretary - welcomed the bill's delay until autumn, saying it had amounted to \"overreach\" and been in \"no fit state\" to become law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn her first Prime Minister's Questions, Liz Truss told MPs: \"What I want to make sure is that we protect the under-18s from harm and that we also make sure free speech is allowed, so there may be some tweaks required\".\n\nAnd on Tuesday, Ms Donelan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"My clear objective is to get this bill back to the House quickly, to edit the bit that we've been very upfront that we're editing and to make sure that we get it into law.\n\n\"That element is in relation to adults - the bits in relation to children and online safety will not be changing.\"\n\nAsked how she would ensure this content accessed by adults was not also seen by children, she replied: \"I'm not going to go into the detail of what we're doing on the legal but harmful element, because this isn't the correct forum to do that and we need to make those announcements in Parliament.\"\n\nBut news site Tech Crunch suggested it might require social-media companies \"age verifying all users and thereby putting the British social web behind a universal age-gate\".", "The new chimpanzee has bonded well with its mother and the rest of the troop, Chester Zoo says\n\nA critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which conservationists say is the \"world's rarest chimpanzee\", has been born at a zoo.\n\nChester Zoo said the birth was a \"small but vital boost\" to the global population of the species which was \"under huge threat\" in the wild.\n\nThe \"baby boy\" was in good health and had bonded well with its mother and the rest of the troop, it added.\n\nIn line with the zoo's tradition, it will be named after a rock or pop star.\n\nAndrew Lenihan, from Chester Zoo, said: \"We've previously welcomed Dylan (Bob), Alice (Cooper) and Annie (Lennox) - so watch this space.\n\n\"Mum ZeeZee and her new arrival instantly bonded and she's doing a great job of cradling him closely and caring for him.\"\n\nChimpanzee Stevie has taken a \"real shine\" to her baby brother\n\nHe said the apes were under huge threat in the wild as a result of hunting for the illegal bush meat trade, diseases spread by humans and extensive habitat loss and forest destruction across West Africa.\n\nThe chimpanzee's arrival was a \"small but vital boost to the global population of Western chimpanzees, at a time when it's most needed for this critically endangered species\", he added.\n\nThe zoo said just 18,000 Western chimpanzees remain across Africa and it is the first subspecies of chimpanzee to ever be declared critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nChester Zoo says the arrival of a healthy baby offers hope to the species of Western chimpanzees\n\nWestern chimpanzees have become extinct in Benin, Burkina Faso and Togo.\n\nMike Jordan, animal and plant director at the zoo, said: \"In the last 25 years alone the world has lost 80% of its Western chimpanzee population, so the arrival of a healthy baby here at Chester offers us real hope that we can help turn things around for this species.\"\n\nHe added the conservation zoo was \"doing everything we possibly can to halt and reverse this\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alireza Akbari says he was tortured and forced to confess to crimes that he did not commit\n\nThe family of a British-Iranian dual national sentenced to death in Iran have told BBC Persian that authorities are preparing to execute him.\n\nAlireza Akbari's wife, Maryam, said the family had been asked to go to his prison for a \"final visit\" and that he had been moved to solitary confinement.\n\nThe ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was arrested in 2019 and convicted of spying for the UK, which he denied.\n\nThe UK urged Iran to halt the planned execution and immediately release him.\n\n\"This is a politically motivated act by a barbaric regime that has total disregard for human life,\" Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted.\n\nEarlier, a Foreign Office spokesperson told the BBC that it was supporting Mr Akbari's family and had repeatedly raised his case with Iranian authorities.\n\nIt has requested urgent consular access, but Iran's government does not recognise dual nationality for Iranians.\n\nBBC Persian also broadcast an audio message on Wednesday from Mr Akbari in which he says he was tortured and forced to confess on camera to crimes he did not commit.\n\nHe says that he was living abroad a few years ago when he was invited to visit Iran at the request of a top Iranian diplomat who was involved in nuclear talks with world powers.\n\nOnce there, he adds, he was accused of obtaining top secret intelligence from the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, \"in exchange for a bottle of perfume and a shirt\".\n\nMr Akbari served under Mr Shamkhani when the latter was defence minister during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who was in office for two terms between 1997 and 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Akbari alleges in the audio message that he was \"interrogated and tortured\" by intelligence agents \"for more than 3,500 hours\".\n\n\"During all those 3,500 hours, which took more than 10 months, they were recording my confessions with 10 cameras to make their Hollywood-style film,\" he says, adding that he was also given \"psychedelic drugs\".\n\n\"By using physiological and psychological methods, they broke my will, drove me to madness and forced me to do whatever they wanted. By the force of gun and death threats they made me confess to false and corrupt claims.\"\n\nHe also accuses Iran of seeking \"to take revenge on the UK by executing me\".\n\nHours after the audio message was broadcast, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency confirmed for the first time that Mr Akbari had been found guilty of espionage, and that the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal.\n\nIt cited Iran's intelligence ministry as saying that Mr Akbari had been \"one of the most important infiltrators of the country's sensitive and strategic centres\" for the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, and that he had been \"compiling and consciously transferring sensitive information\".\n\nThe ministry claimed that its agents uncovered Mr Akbari's spying by feeding him false information.\n\nAt the end of November, Iranian state media reported that authorities had hanged four men convicted of \"co-operating\" with Israeli intelligence.\n\nFour other men have been executed since December after being sentenced to death in connection with the anti-government protests engulfing the country.\n\nAlicia Kearns, chair of the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said the news from Mr Akbari's family was \"awful\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, it is another horrifying example of the Iranian regime - because they feel they are cornered, because there is such significant pressure from sanctions on them - weaponising British nationals and industrialising hostage taking,\" she told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nShe speculated that Mr Akbari might have been singled out by hard-liners in the establishment in order to undermine Mr Shamkhani, who she described as a \"moderate voice... [who] has been calling for discussions and dialogue\" in response to the current protests. Iran's current leaders have portrayed them as \"riots\" and cracked down on them with lethal force.\n\nIran has arrested dozens of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, mostly on spying and national security charges.\n\nBritish-Iranian citizens Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were released and allowed to leave Iran last year after the UK settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.\n\nHowever, at least two other British-Iranians remain in detention beside Mr Akbari, including Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US citizenship.", "As the UK headed into Christmas, there was speculation that it was going to be a very tough festive season. Not least for all the shops that rely on the period for a big chunk of their sales.\n\nSoaring food prices and energy bills, pay not going up at the same rate, the outlook was - and still is - bleak.\n\nBut news from the country's biggest retailers such as Tesco and Marks & Spencer indicates there are more Christmas winners than losers this time around.\n\nAnd some retailers, such as the low-cost high street fashion chain Primark, benefited as people traded down from more expensive brands. They also had a boost as people went back to shopping in person in the hope of bagging a bargain, and because this year there were no Covid restrictions to stop them.\n\nSo who has come out on top and how?\n\nPrimark: The fashion retailer was in pole position to benefit as shoppers returned to shopping more in stores this Christmas. Sales, in value terms, were up 15% in the three months to 7 January.\n\nA lot of that rise reflected higher prices at the tills, but the chain also sold more items in total compared to last year: like-for-like sales - stripping out things like new store openings - were up 11%.\n\nThe chain has also opened new stores which it said were \"performing well\".\n\nPrimark saw a big rise in sales of thermal items as shoppers added layers to stay warm. Its best selling item was a £7 pair of leggings.\n\n\"I think the UK consumer was way more resilient than we expected,\" said John Bason, group finance director of Primark's parent company, ABF.\n\nHotel Chocolat: The upmarket chocolate confectioner said UK sales rose 10% in the nine weeks to 25 December, with its new mince pie-flavoured drinking chocolate proving a \"real hit\". The business also saw a switch back to store sales and away from online. The group is eyeing up expansion across London.\n\nDespite the jump in UK sales, Hotel Chocolat's sales overall were down from a year earlier following problems overseas. Last year, the company's Japanese business went through insolvency.\n\nDunelm: The homeware retailer saw a jump in sales as people found new ways to stay warm this winter. Heated clothes racks and thick duvets were a best-seller for bargain hunters combating the rising cost of energy bills. Total sales increased by 18% over Christmas, compared with the previous year.\n\nTesco: The supermarket giant's like-for-like sales rose by 5.3% for the 19 weeks to 7 January, which was a smidge below expectations but still strong.\n\nThere appeared to be a divergence in terms of how people shopped: either trading down from branded groceries to Tesco's value range or splashing out on the company's Finest fare. While Tesco's sales figures were robust, the rise was because goods were more expensive - due to the pace of price rises or inflation - as opposed to people buying more items.\n\nTesco chief executive Ken Murphy admitted that the volume of goods sold was marginally lower than the comparable period. But he said the UK consumer \"has proved quite resilient\".\n\nMarks & Spencer: It has been a banner Christmas for the High Street stalwart. Like-for-like sales rose 7.2% across the business for the three months to 31 December.\n\nIn particular, demand for clothing and home goods was strong with increases in both volume and value. Unlike Christmas 2021, there were no Covid restrictions in place so people invested in formalwear or got gussied-up in sequins. M&S shifted 140,000 pieces of sequinned clothing in Christmas week alone. On the home side, shoppers indulged in light-up Christmas scented candles.\n\nFor food, like-for-like sales rose by 6.3%, which was primarily driven by higher inflation. But the cash registers, or self-service counters, were kept busy - on the Friday before the big day M&S generated its highest Christmas sales ever of £80m.\n\nSainsbury's: The supermarket saw a marked shift in people shopping in-store this Christmas compared with the previous year when Omicron emerged and online sales boomed. Sainsbury's, which also owns Argos, said same-store sales rose by 5.9% for the four months to 7 January 2023.\n\nSainsbury's chief executive Simon Roberts said shoppers were \"really careful\" about where they spend \"and they wanted to come in and see the deals and offers we had\".\n\nWalk-in sales at Argos rose strongly in Christmas week. It wasn't all about the festive season though. Retailers including Sainsbury's received a boost from the England men's football team's (relatively) decent run to the quarter finals of the World Cup.\n\nNext: A cold snap in December helped lift the retailer's sales by 4.8% for the nine weeks to 30 December. Next also bumped up its full-year profit forecast by £20m to £860m.\n\nBut the ever-cautious company warned that higher energy bills and mortgage rates would dampen demand from shoppers in the coming year. And inflation means that people visiting Next's stores will see price rises for both spring and summer as well as autumn and winter clothing.\n\nDFS: The furniture company said its orders in the 26 weeks to Christmas Day were up 10.6% compared with the same period before the Covid pandemic in 2019. The company said it expects to make annual pre-tax profits of £36m.\n\nThe sofa seller enjoyed a jump in sales during the height of restrictions, as people splashed out on homeware, but the company has since warned that order numbers were softening as shoppers tightened their belts.\n\nB&M: The discounter said its like-for-like UK sales rose by 6.4% through what it referred to as its \"golden quarter\", otherwise known as the three months to 24 December. Total revenue for the UK grew from £1.1bn to £1.3bn.\n\nGreggs: The bakery chain saw same-store sales surge by 18.2% in the three months to 31 December. The bounce was helped by comparisons to the end of 2021 when Covid was still weighing on households and businesses. Greggs acknowledged that the year ahead will be \"challenging\" but said the food and drink it sells will appeal to people looking to manage their budgets.\n\nAsos: The online fashion retailer said group sales dropped 3% in the four months to the end of December. It was more of a reflection of long-running issues at the company than Christmas trade, although it said the business was \"affected by disruption in the delivery market\" during December when Royal Mail staged a number of strikes. It said: \"This resulted in earlier cut-off dates for Christmas and New Year deliveries.\"\n\nHalfords: The cycling and car parts retailer issued a profit warning citing weaker customer demand as prices soar. It now expects full-year profits before tax to hit between £50-60m, compared with a previous forecast of £65-75m. It also said it had struggled to recruit enough skilled technicians.\n\nDr Martens: The shoe maker said milder weather had lessened demand for its sturdy boots during the peak Christmas trading season. It also cited problems with its new Los Angeles distribution centre creating a \"bottleneck\" in supply. It said profit in the coming year would be weaker than previously expected.", "The film world's award season has officially kicked off in Los Angeles. The Golden Globes, which is now in its eightieth year, honours work in both film and television.\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin was the night's biggest winner in the film categories, with three wins, closely followed by The Fablemans and Everything, Everywhere All at Once with two.", "Andrew Bridgen has been suspended as a Conservative MP for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccination.\n\nIt comes after the North West Leicestershire MP posted a tweet that compared vaccines to the Holocaust.\n\nTory chief whip Simon Hart said the comments had \"crossed a line\" and caused great offence.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak also condemned the remarks, calling the comparison \"utterly unacceptable\".\n\nMr Hart said Mr Bridgen would lose the party whip - meaning he will sit as an independent - while a formal investigation takes place.\n\n\"As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme,\" the chief whip added.\n\n\"The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Bridgen for a comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The comments were also condemned by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock\n\nThe MP is currently serving a five-day suspension from Parliament for breaching parliamentary rules on registering financial interests.\n\nMr Bridgen was previously critical of policies like lockdown and vaccine passports but he praised the development of Covid vaccines, and tweeted proudly when he received his doses.\n\nHowever, last autumn he began to make increasingly baseless claims including that vaccines were killing many people and that the damage was being covered up.\n\nAt first, he began highlighting some real, but rare, instances of genuine vaccine injury and misinterpreting real data to suggest these cases were more common than the research suggests.\n\nIn recent weeks, this rhetoric has increased.\n\nPosting a link to an article on vaccines earlier, he said: \"As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.\"\n\nExtensive independent research shows that Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing deaths.\n\nSerious side effects involving Covid vaccines, including approximately 60 deaths in England and Wales according to the Office for National Statistics, are rare, given the tens of millions of doses administered.\n\nKaren Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, called Mr Bridgen's comments \"highly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate\".\n\nLord Mann, an independent peer and former Labour MP who advises the government on antisemitism, said Mr Bridgen should be barred from standing for the Tories at the next election.\n\n\"He cannot claim that he didn't realise the level of offence that his remarks cause,\" he added.\n\nConservative chairman Nadhim Zahawi, a former vaccines minister, said he was \"proud\" of the UK's response to the pandemic, and he was \"appalled\" by Mr Bridgen's remarks.\n\n\"Any comparison made to the Holocaust is completely inappropriate, belittling one of the greatest horrors ever committed by humanity,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that suspending the whip had been \"the right thing to do\" and accused Mr Bridgen of \"whipping up anti-vax conspiracy theories\".\n\nHe said it was \"regrettable\" that the prime minister had not acted sooner to \"slap down what he has been saying\".\n\nAsked whether he thought the MP's remarks were antisemitic, Sir Keir's spokesman said: \"A one word reference to the Holocaust would not meet the definition of antisemitism, but it is unacceptable\", adding that he would \"defer to others who may be better placed to judge this\".", "Andrew Bagshaw, pictured left, and Christopher Parry have been reported as missing in Ukraine\n\nA Russian mercenary group fighting in Ukraine has said it has found the body of one of two British aid workers reported missing over the weekend.\n\nThe Foreign Office, which has not confirmed the claim, said it was supporting the families of the two men.\n\nAndrew Bagshaw, 48, and Chris Parry, 28, were last seen heading to the town of Soledar on Friday, where fighting has been intense in recent days.\n\nThe Wagner group said on Wednesday a body had been found without naming him.\n\nThe claim has not been verified by the BBC.\n\nOn social media, the group posted photographs of documents that were said to belong to the missing men.\n\nThe statement posted on messaging platform Telegram from the press office of the head of the pro-Kremlin Wagner group claimed the body was found in eastern Ukraine.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was aware of recent reports and was in touch with the Ukrainian authorities.\n\nLater, Downing Street said the reports, which were yet to be verified, were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nThe Kremlin has told the BBC it had no information on the discovery of the body.\n\nSpokesman Dmitry Peskov said he only knew from media reports that British citizens were involved.\n\nHe added he had read in Russian media reports that the men were fighters.\n\nRussian propaganda outlets have reported the two aid workers were fighters, but there is no evidence that is the case.\n\nJournalists have had difficulty accessing Soledar and getting information\n\nMr Parry and Mr Bagshaw had been in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine doing voluntary work, helping to evacuate people from the front line.\n\nEarlier this week, family of Mr Parry, originally from Truro in Cornwall but living in Cheltenham, said they were \"very worried\" about his health and whereabouts.\n\nHe \"would not be dissuaded from his work in Ukraine liberating elderly and disabled people, which we are very proud of\", they said.\n\nThe parents of Mr Bagshaw, who lives in New Zealand, said they \"love him dearly\" and were immensely proud of all his work helping Ukrainians.\n\nThey said he had been delivering food and medicines and helping the elderly.\n\nSoledar, a town north of Bakhmut in east Ukraine, has been the focus of recent fighting.\n\nThe Wagner Group has claimed control over the town - but Ukraine said on Wednesday that its soldiers were holding out. Neither claim has been verified.\n\nThe fighting and scale of devastation has made it difficult for journalists to access the area and get a clear picture of what it happening.\n\nThe Foreign Office is warning against all travel to Ukraine, saying there is \"a real risk to life\".\n\nBritish nationals still in Ukraine should leave immediately if it is safe to do so, it adds.", "The National Union of Students (NUS) has failed to sufficiently challenge antisemitism and hostility towards Jews in its own structures, an independent investigation has found.\n\nJewish students have been \"subjected to harassment\" and NUS policies have been breached, its report said.\n\nThe NUS apologised to Jewish students and said it would implement the report's recommendations.\n\nThe Union of Jewish Students (UJS) called the report \"damning\".\n\nThe report, which outlines the findings of the investigation announced by the NUS and led by lawyer Rebecca Tuck KC, did not recommend any sanctions.\n\nInstead, it set out 11 recommendations - including the introduction of regular antisemitism training for NUS staff and officers, and producing educational materials on antisemitism and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.\n\nThe report said there was a \"poor relationship\" between the NUS and Jewish students, which \"stems from views about and attitudes towards\" the situation.\n\nIt said some complaints of antisemitism have been viewed in the NUS as being made in \"bad faith to try and avert pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel policy advocacy\".\n\n\"This has resulted in antisemitism, as well as hostility towards Jews, which has not been challenged sufficiently robustly or proactively by NUS,\" it said.\n\nThe report cites examples given by interviewees of antisemitism on campus, such as Jewish freshers having swastikas drawn on them during \"white T-shirt parties\".\n\nIt also lists examples within NUS spaces, such as:\n\nOne student attending an NUS event was told to enjoy \"dead baby's blood\" in a fizzy drink as a reference to a protest relating to the West Bank.\n\nKat Stark, director of NUS, said incidents of antisemitism in the report were \"shocking\" and it would be implementing all of Ms Tuck's recommendations, as well as a \"zero-tolerance\" policy on antisemitism.\n\n\"What we'd like to say to Jewish students right now - past, present, future - is we're really sorry about the antisemitism that you faced, and the moments where you felt unwelcome,\" she said.\n\n\"I want Jewish students everywhere to know that you are welcome in colleges, in universities. You are welcome in NUS.\"\n\nCampaigning on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is \"entirely possible... without stepping over that line into antisemitism\", she said. \"That is where we need to get to in the student movement.\"\n\nMs Tuck's report - which is based on interviews with 46 groups and individuals - found that recommendations from \"numerous\" previous investigations had been implemented inconsistently.\n\nIt noted that not all Jewish students would have had \"hostile\" experiences of the NUS, but added: \"The fact that some students did not experience hostility does not in any sense reduce the importance of the trauma suffered by those who did, nor the culpability of the NUS in failing to prevent it.\"\n\nJoel Rosen previously told the BBC the NUS seemed to have \"abandoned proud anti-racist traditions\"\n\nUJS president Joel Rosen said the report was a \"very damning indictment of the presence of anti-Jewish racism at the heart of student politics\".\n\nIn one section, it says Jewish students have been seen as \"answerable for Israel\" in NUS spaces and \"stripped of any other characteristics\".\n\n\"The students I represent are diverse... they have very different views on a whole range of issues,\" Mr Rosen told the BBC.\n\n\"But what we've seen is this kind of stereotyping that the report lays out.\"\n\nHe said the recommendation of an \"advisory panel\" was \"encouraging\", but added: \"Producing a report is a diagnosis of the problem. It's not a solution to the problem - and Jewish students will want to see action.\"\n\nThe report also reviews how the NUS handled Jewish students' complaints about it inviting Kareem Dennis, the rapper Lowkey, to a conference in March.\n\nThe former NUS president's advertising of performance timings and the availability of alternative spaces \"to enable Jewish students to avoid the performance\" was \"entirely inappropriate and unsatisfactory\", it says. The appearance did not go ahead.\n\nLast year, the government cut ties with the NUS over antisemitism allegations.\n\nIn a tweet after the release of the report, Robert Halfon, higher education minister, said: \"Whilst I welcome this shocking but sobering report... I will be taking time to review the report fully and consider the next steps.\n\n\"The proof of the pudding will be in the eating.\"\n\nBen Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, claimed the investigation had been driven by \"pressure\" from the government and the UJS - both of which, he said, wanted \"to reduce the space for legitimate critique of Israel's oppression of Palestinians\".\n\n\"A consistent anti-racism means opposing antisemitism and standing in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle against Israel's system of apartheid,\" he said.\n\nBefore the report was published, Mr Jamal and Dr Sara Husseini, director of the British Palestinian Committee, told the BBC in a joint statement that their concerns about the space for legitimate debate had been \"exacerbated\" by the November dismissal of former NUS president Shaima Dallali over antisemitism allegations.\n\nMs Dallali denied the allegations and previously told the Guardian newspaper it was absolutely not true she did not like Jewish people.\n\nHer lawyers have also said she rejected the findings which led to her dismissal.", "Women's experiences of care when giving birth have worsened in the last five years, says a report by England's health and care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\n\nA survey of 20,000 women found \"a concerning decline\" in getting help when most needed during labour and after childbirth.\n\nOverall satisfaction is high and mental health support in pregnancy is rising.\n\nThe safety of maternity services has come under scrutiny in recent years.\n\nA BBC analysis recently showed that more than half of maternity units in England fail consistently to meet safety standards, with 48% requiring improvement and 7% posing a high risk of avoidable harm.\n\nA report from March 2022 into one hospital trust found that more than 200 babies might have survived if better maternity care had been given.\n\nThe CQC asked thousands of women about their experience of giving birth in February 2022, and compared the results with previous years.\n\nFrom the responses, it found:\n\n\"These results show that far too many women feel their care could have been better,\" said director of secondary and specialist care at the CQC, Victoria Vallance.\n\nShe said it was vital for staff at individual trusts to understand what makes a good experience, and what needs to improve.\n\nBut there was also recognition that the survey results reflected \"increasing pressures on front-line staff\" as they try to provide high-quality care with available resources.\n\nThe CQC said a new programme of maternity inspections had recently begun in NHS hospitals across England which will have \"a strong focus on capturing the experience of women and families\".\n\nFewer than half of those who responded to the survey said their partners, or someone close to them, were able to stay with them when they were giving birth - compared with 74% before the pandemic.\n\nThe National Childbirth Trust said this was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"Trusts must immediately enable partners' presence at in-hospital postnatal care so that mothers are never left without food and water, emotional support, access to a bathroom and help to lift and feed their baby,\" chief executive Angela McConville said.\n\nThe CQC report says mental health support during pregnancy and after childbirth is improving, with 96% of respondents saying a midwife or health visitor asked them about their state of mind after their baby was born.\n\nAreas for improvement include pregnant women's concerns being taken more seriously during labour, more women being given advice and support at the start of their labour, and explanations of the care they need in hospital.\n\n\"Maternity services in England are categorically falling short of women's expectations,\" Ms McConville said.\n\n\"This is not all the impact of the Covid pandemic, but is directly associated with long-term underinvestment in the staffing of maternity services.\"\n\nMinister for mental health and women's health strategy Maria Caulfield said: \"No one should feel their maternity experience was impacted by poor care and I am determined to make the NHS the safest place in the world to give birth - while many areas of maternity services continue to receive positive feedback, there's still more that needs to be done.\"\n\nShe said £127m had already been invested into the maternity working and improving neonatal care, on top of funding for 1.200 more midwives and 100 more obstetricians.\n\nUpdated training is also being introduced for those working in maternity services to improve safety across all areas of England.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sometimes the personal becomes political.\n\nAnd the thing is there was the beginning of a pattern emerging: the prime minister bristled when it did.\n\nOn a human level, plenty will sympathise with this: an individual runs for public office, not their family.\n\nThere must surely be, most would accept, lines over which public scrutiny shouldn't cross.\n\nBut there is always public interest in a political leader's own private decisions. And a strand of that interest in Rishi Sunak relates to his colossal family wealth.\n\nPoliticians are often considerably better off than the average Briton. But Mr Sunak's wealth is off the scale compared to his political peers.\n\nThe Sunday Times Rich List said he and his wife were worth around £730m.\n\nAnd so questions are asked about the extent to which he can relate to the concerns of ordinary families, given his own financial situation is so, so different from so many.\n\nMr Sunak's reticence to get into this stuff was first evident in the row over his wife's tax affairs.\n\nHe initially described reporting of his wife Akshata Murty's decision to claim non-dom status, meaning she did not have to pay UK tax on her overseas income, as amounting to \"unpleasant smears\".\n\nThe BBC estimated Ms Murty would have avoided - perfectly legally - around £2.1m a year in UK tax through being a so-called non-dom.\n\nBut she then changed her tax status, acknowledging it was a \"distraction\".\n\nThen, there was the issue of private healthcare.\n\nMr Sunak has repeatedly ducked the question about whether he used it, most recently in his BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday.\n\nAgain, he bristled, saying it was \"not really relevant.\"\n\nAgain, there will be sympathy from some - why should he get drawn into answering questions about his health or that of his family?\n\nTwenty years ago, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to say whether his then young son, Leo, had had a vaccine that was a matter of some debate at the time.\n\nBut there is a public interest in whether a prime minister, ultimately in charge of public services that millions of people rely on, actually has to rely on them himself.\n\nAnd now, another shift of position from Mr Sunak: after it appears Downing Street calculated that his evasion on private healthcare, or to put it another way, how much he used the NHS, left him politically vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The prime minister confirms he's registered with an NHS GP\n\nSo, we were told, he has always been registered with an NHS GP, he has used private healthcare in the past but he doesn't have private medical insurance now.\n\nHis team wouldn't tell us when he last used private healthcare, nor answer when we asked if he might use it again.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer mocked the prime minister's admission, saying he would \"enjoy the experience of waiting on hold every morning at 8am to get a GP appointment\".\n\nAnd yes, the nature of a prime minister's job and this prime minister's wealth might make that scenario seem unlikely.\n\nBut No 10 can at least now argue Mr Sunak has that same basic connection so many have with the NHS, being registered with a family doctor.\n\nAnd they can push back against at least some of the previous claims of his slipperiness on the issue.\n\nBut don't be surprised if there are further examples down the track for Mr Sunak where the personal becomes political and it becomes awkward.\n• None Rishi Sunak says he is registered with NHS doctor", "Alan Sutherland, chief executive of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, was paid a gross salary of £183,240 in 2021/22\n\nOne of Scotland's highest-paid public servants has been given a £14,000 payment for some of the annual leave he did not use.\n\nThe latest accounts for the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (Wics) show chief executive Alan Sutherland's gross salary as £183,240 in 2021/22.\n\nThis included a £14,060 payment in relation to accumulated leave.\n\nWics said it approved a one-off payment to staff for annual leave which could not be used during the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe public body - which is the economic regulator of Scottish Water - said this was an \"extraordinary measure\" for leave which could not be used up during the year, and that no further payments have been made.\n\nBut Scottish Lib Dem environment spokesman Liam McArthur MSP called on the regulator to justify the payout.\n\nHe said: \"For most workers annual leave is a use it or lose it proposition.\n\n\"Wics will need to justify why they have dished out such a hefty sum to its chief executive, particularly at a time when raw sewage is being routinely dumped into Scotland's waterways every day.\"\n\nMr Sutherland has been in charge of Wics since the regulator was created in 2005 and his salary is higher than the £157,861 Nicola Sturgeon earns as an MSP and first minister.\n\nA statement from Wics, which is funded through a levy on Scottish Water, said: \"In responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Wics allowed for a one-off payment to staff for a portion of annual leave which could not be used up during the year.\n\n\"This was an extraordinary measure to ensure we could continue to operate effectively in 2020-21 and into 2021-22.\n\n\"Our employees' annual leave balance has now returned to normal, and no further payments have been made.\"", "Dr Geraldine Strathdee says the review would find it difficult to meet its terms of reference without statutory powers to compel witnesses\n\nThe government has been asked to decide whether to hold the first national public inquiry into mental health deaths.\n\nAn independent review into 1,500 deaths at the Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT) over a 21-year period was launched in 2020.\n\nAnother 500 deaths were made known to the review chair, Dr Geraldine Strathdee, in December.\n\nA government spokeswoman said it was \"carefully considering\" next steps.\n\nDr Strathdee said the inquiry could not continue without full legal powers.\n\nHer comments came after only 11 staff out of 14,000 agreed to attend evidence sessions.\n\nIts findings will no longer be published as expected this spring.\n\n\"The inquiry's work will continue while we await further progress,\" she said.\n\nIn an open letter, Dr Strathdee described the number of responses to the review from current and former staff as \"hugely disappointing\".\n\nThe 1,500 died while they were a patient on a mental health ward in Essex, or within three months of being discharged, between 2000 and 2020.\n\nDr Strathdee said: \"In December 2022, I received an update on this number from EPUT, and it actually stands closer to 2,000.\n\n\"This is a significant increase in the number of people who have lost their lives as mental health patient.\n\n\"I am concerned that it has taken two years since this inquiry was announced to be informed about these individuals' deaths by the Trust.\"\n\nMelanie Leahy, seen here with her late son Matthew, campaigned for a public inquiry\n\nThe current review was commissioned by the government after 100,000 people signed a petition to investigate mental health deaths.\n\nIt was set up by Melanie Leahy, whose son Matthew died while he was an inpatient at the Linden Centre in Chelmsford in 2012.\n\n\"I'm almost in tears hearing this now,\" she told the BBC. \"Why has it taken 10 years of my life to get to this point?\n\n\"I want to be able to say to Essex that your loved ones are safe, when they come under the care of Essex mental health services. Give us our statutory public inquiry.\"\n\nThe call has been backed by Essex MPs John Whittingdale and Priti Patel, who have asked to meet with Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nDr Strathdee said staff evidence was \"fundamental to the inquiry to properly investigate the deaths of mental health patients\".\n\nShe added: \"In the event that staff engagement remains very poor, it is my view that the inquiry will not be able to meet its terms of reference with a non-statutory status\".\n\nDr Strathdee confirmed she had met with the health secretary and said any decision on the inquiry's status would be the government's to make.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"Every death in a mental health facility is a tragedy.\n\n\"We are committed to improving mental health services across the country and it was for this reason that we launched the inquiry to look at inpatient mental health deaths in Essex between 2000 and 2020.\n\nShe said they were grateful to those who had participated in the inquiry, but added: \"It is disappointing that current and former staff have not engaged to the extent expected nor that the inquiry has been able to access all the information it has requested.\n\n\"The progress of the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry is being carefully considered ahead of any further potential next steps.\"\n\nEPUT said it was proactively encouraging its staff to take part in the review and had been offering advice and support.\n\nIt said: \"There is a need to meet the commitment to families, carers and service users who rightly expect answers.\"\n\nSome 93 families in Essex have been campaigning for a full public inquiry with legal powers to compel witnesses.\n\nThe review was announced by Nadine Dorries in 2020, when she was a health minister, after a series of deaths at an NHS mental health unit in Essex.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Karine Jean-Pierre is being questioned on why the Biden administration did not disclose publicly that a second batch of classified files had been found in his Delaware home until today.\n\nShe directs questions towards the Department of Justice, but says a search for further material has now been completed.\n\nJean-Pierre says the decision was made to share the information with the public after the search was finished.", "A wave of 18 new strike days are planned across 150 UK universities in February and March, the University and College Union has announced.\n\nIt said a pay offer worth between 4-5% made during talks with employers this week was not enough.\n\nBut UCEA, which represents university employers, says the offer made is worth up to 7%.\n\nUCU general secretary Dr Jo Grady said the \"clock is now ticking\" for a deal to be reached.\n\nIt comes after the government announced tuition fees in England will be frozen for another two years.\n\n\"Today our union came together to back an unprecedented programme of escalating strike action. The clock is now ticking for the sector to produce a deal or be hit with widespread disruption throughout spring,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nUniversity employers, the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) say the offer on the table \"recognises that cost-of-living pressures fall disproportionately on the lower paid staff\".\n\nUCEA chief executive Raj Jethwa said a proportion of the award on offer was being offered from February.\n\n\"This is six months early as a direct response to current cost of living concerns,\" he said.\n\nUCEA said its offer would mean an increase of up to 7%, with a minimum of 5% for anyone earning up to £51,000.\n\n\"The fact that UCU is not calling indefinite strike action is welcome, but their revised strike plans could still have a damaging impact on students. UCU needs to provide its members with a realistic and fair assessment of what is achievable, \" Mr Jethwa said.\n\nThe UCU said it would confirm the precise dates of strike action by the 70,000 academics and university support staff next week.\n\nAs part of the stepping up of its industrial action the union also said it would re-ballot members.\n\nThat would allow it to comply with the law on industrial disputes and open the way for it to call more strikes later in the year.\n\nPay and working conditions are the issues affecting every university caught up in the dispute.\n\nThe 3% pay increase this year is far below the rising cost of living, and the union said an offer of 4-5% tabled at a meeting yesterday was also not enough.\n\nMany staff are also protesting at the use of short term insecure contracts at universities.\n\nAt the older universities - in existence before 1992 - there is also a separate dispute about proposed changes to the pension scheme.\n\nFor students the strikes mean more disruption to their courses, after many have already had their studies compromised by remote learning during the pandemic.\n\nSo far the National Union of Students has been broadly supportive of the industrial action. The BBC has contacted NUS for comment.\n\nUniversity staff previously held three days of strikes in November, in a dispute that has included calls for action to tackle \"excessive workloads\" resulting in hours of \"unpaid work\".\n\nAcademic staff and those in other professional roles including administrators, librarians and technicians have taken part in the strikes.", "Lesley Weekley believes he husband Rob could still be alive today if an ambulance had been sent sooner\n\nA woman who called 999 six times as her husband suffered a fatal heart attack said she was told he would have survived if paramedics had been sent after her first call.\n\nRob Weekley, 75, died about four hours after his wife, Lesley, first called 999 in the early hours of 4 January.\n\n\"The paramedic said that night, 'had we have come out after your first call he'd have survived',\" she said.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it was not the service it wished to provide.\n\nLesley, 73, who works as a receptionist at the intensive care unit at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, said the couple, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, were walking their dog when Rob complained of feeling like his \"lunch was sitting on his chest\".\n\nThe discomfort returned the following day but they put off going to A&E because of waiting times, Lesley said.\n\nRob Weekley was \"full of life\" and \"always positive\"\n\nThe night he died, he woke her asking for indigestion tablets.\n\n\"He was almost incoherent icy cold, sweaty and clammy and I couldn't understand what he was saying and I gave him the tablets and he just laid on the bed and straight away I phoned 999,\" she said.\n\n\"He was conscious at the time, still sort of slurring his words, but he was roaring, holding his head, trying to fight off the feeling... writhing on the floor.\"\n\nAfter calling 999, she said she was first told to give Rob four aspirin to suck on, but then later was told not to give him aspirin.\n\n\"The fact that they told me to give him aspirin they must have thought it was a heart problem,\" she said.\n\nLesley says her husband first felt discomfort in his chest when they were out walking their dog Booze\n\nShe said she could not feel a pulse, but Rob was still breathing, a concern she raised three times with ambulance staff, which she said she thought should have set \"alarm bells ringing\".\n\n\"They didn't say, 'we'll get the ambulance out straightaway'. [They said] 'if he deteriorates, phone us back'.\"\n\nDuring her sixth call to 999 Rob stopped breathing.\n\nRob was an architect who sang with the London Welsh male voice choir\n\nShe started doing CPR, continuing as best she could until an ambulance arrived after about 20 minutes.\n\nBut she said towards the end she \"wasn't doing it properly because my arms were so tired and I was sweating\".\n\nShe said the paramedics were \"just amazing\" trying to revive Rob, but stopped at about 04:45.\n\nLesley said through her work in the hospital she had seen staff and a system under \"extreme\" pressure.\n\nShe said she wanted someone to \"sit up and take notice that we are not just statistics, we are loving families\" and called for something \"drastic\" to be done.\n\nRob and Lesley lived in a flat in Barry\n\nLiam Williams, the executive director of quality and nursing at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: \"We are really sorry to hear about such a distressing incident, and we send our deepest condolences to Mrs Weekley and her family.\n\n\"This is not the service we aim to deliver, and we know that this must have been a very upsetting and traumatic experience.\"\n\n\"We will be contacting Mrs Weekley to listen to her concerns, investigate the circumstances of our response and to answer any questions she may have.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many areas across Wales are experiencing storm disruption following high winds and heavy rain overnight.\n\nStormy weather has caused disruption across Wales, including power cuts, flooding and train delays.\n\nThe National Grid said about 600 homes, mainly in Newport, were without power.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the areas worst affected by flooding were Porth and Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nPaul Cooper, of Taff's Well, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was flooded in 2020 and discovered water pouring from his bathroom on Thursday morning.\n\n\"The toilet was overflowing, it was erupting,\" the 53-year-old kitchen fitter said.\n\nPaul Cooper has been flooded again after being flooded in 2020\n\n\"Everything is brand new. It's only been in since Christmas 2020. The water's gone into everything.\n\n\"It's like déjà vu. Here we go again. When's it going to stop?\n\nIt was sewage water in his property, he said, adding: \"The weather forecast isn't very good for next week. Is it going to happen again? When's the next time?\n\n\"We were told it was a once in a lifetime occurrence, but here we are, two years later, and it's happened again.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport For Wales (TfW) said four railway lines were blocked, including Cardiff Central to Caerphilly.\n\nRailway lines were flooded including between Cardiff and Bridgend\n\nPontypridd to Treherbert, Abercynon to Aberdare, and Bridgend to Llantwit Major were also flooded, TfW said.\n\nGreat Western Railway also said its services were affected due to heavy rain.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service added a number of hillside and low-lying properties had been affected from run-off water and blocked culverts - tunnels which drain water away.\n\nLeader of Rhondda Cynon Taf council, Andrew Morgan, added: \"So far all the culverts that we've spent millions of pounds upgrading since Storm Dennis have upheld.\n\n\"If your journey is not urgent, stay off the roads for the next few hours so the highway crews and emergency services have a chance to respond.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the National Grid said power outages were affecting about 450 homes in Newport as well as some in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire and Kenfig Hill, Bridgend county.\n\nKevin Evans, 55, from Llandysul was rescued from his van that cut out in floodwater near Llandovery\n\nA yellow rain warning in place across 16 of Wales' 22 counties was cancelled just before 14:00.\n\nWind speeds are predicted to increase and a yellow warning for high winds up to 70mph (112km/h) has been issued in Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey between 15:00 on Thursday and 03:00 on Friday.\n\nA specialist boat team from Mid and West Fire and Rescue came to the aid of a driver who was stranded in his van on a flooded stretch of the A4069 near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire.\n\nKevin Evans, 55, from Llandysul, Ceredigion, said: \"I was following two cars and they got through and my engine just cut out. I've been there for about two [or] three hours. It was getting worse because the water seemed to be rising.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNatural Resources Wales had flood warnings in place on Thursday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Office said yesterday was Cardiff's third wettest January day on record - with 41.2mm (1.6in) of rain falling in 24 hours.\n\nThe River Taff in Pontypridd is one of many to have swollen due to flood water\n\nIt was also Cardiff's wettest day since 23 December 2020 and only the third time in January that Cardiff has seen more than 40mm in 24 hours, the others being 14 January 2008 (42.2mm) and 27 January 1995 (43.0mm).\n\nTwo access roads to St Fagans museum in Cardiff were blocked due to floodwater and will be closed for the rest of Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There is flooding across Wales following stormy conditions\n\nCardiff council warned water levels were extremely high at the level crossing on Michaelston Road over the River Ely at St Fagans and urged people to avoid the area.\n\nSevere floods have also affected Peterston-super-Ely, Vale of Glamorgan, with at least four cars trapped underwater near the Sportsmans Rest.\n\nAt least four cars were trapped underwater near the Sportsmans Rest, Peterston-super-Ely\n\nGuto Davies from Clwb y Bont in Pontypridd said there was about 2in (5cm) of water in the club and he had erected barriers to stop more getting in.\n\nHe added: \"We received many flood alerts, but until we get a flood warning we don't put the barriers up. That system hasn't worked for us and that's worrying and disappointing.\n\n\"Since February 2020, we partially reopened then fully reopened in November - barely three months and it's flooded again.\"\n\n“It’ll take us a couple of days at least to clear the place up again,” said Guto Davies\n\nHead of operations south central at Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Mike Evans, said: \"We've been suffering from quite severe conditions on top of several weeks of rainfall.\n\n\"The biggest impact is there is a lot of surface water around so I advise people to be very careful before leaving the house.\"\n\nSeveral of Stagecoach South Wales' services were cancelled or delayed.\n\nA road was blocked by a fallen tree between Hermon and Llanfyrnach in west Wales\n\nHensol Golf Academy flooded after the River Ely burst its banks.\n\nThe family-run business was badly hit by an electrical storm in November, and lost internet and phone lines for two months. This morning it was without power because of the floods.\n\nManager and pro Aled Griffiths said: \"I had a phone call this morning at 6am from the alarm company to say the electric has gone off. I came down to check and the conditions were biblical. The rain was coming in sideways.\n\n\"I looked out on to the driving range and I thought, 'I'm going to take up swimming instead of golf'. I didn't know what to do. \"\n\nA golf driving range in Hensol has flooded after the River Ely burst its banks\n\nDairy farmer Abi Reader from Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast it had been \"a wild night\".\n\nShe added: \"We've had electricity flickering on and off. The milking parlour had about a foot of water in it which we've had to pump out.\"\n\nFlooding in Peterston super Ely, just outside of Cardiff, made roads impassable\n\nA number of workmen and council staff have been dealing with flooding in Dinas, near Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nTerry Evans, highways engineer at Rhonnda Cynon Taf Council, said: \"The sheer volume of water means the drainage system is overwhelmed.\"\n\nA blocked culvert at Dinas, near Porth, has caused flooding\n\nThe M48 Severn Bridge was closed in both directions between Chepstow and Aust in Gloucestershire.\n\nThe heavy rain caused one of the main roads in Chepstow, Welsh Street, to close between the town centre and the comprehensive school.\n\nThe A4061, Bwlch Mountain Road, was partially blocked in both directions between B4223 Pen-Twyn Road and Haul Bryn in Nantymoel, Rhondda Cynon Taf, due to a landslip.\n\nTfW said it was experiencing \"disruption across the network\" in south Wales and advised passengers to check before travelling.\n\nPontcanna fields in Cardiff were flooded after the heavy rain\n\nPeople should stay clear of river banks, it said, and not try to walk or drive through floods.\n\nIts flood response teams had been monitoring river levels, operating flood defences and trying to reduce flood risk to people and property.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was providing \"record levels\" of funds to deal with floods and reducing the risk of them was a priority.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Over the last government term we invested over £390m in flood and coastal erosion risk management through two programmes, reducing risk to more than 47,000 properties across Wales.\n\n\"This financial year we are investing more than £71m across Wales through local authorities and Natural Resources Wales.\n\n\"This includes work building new flood assets, maintenance of existing assets, development of future schemes, natural flood management, property flood resilience measures, mapping, modelling and awareness raising.\"", "Members of the EIS union have been campaigning for a 10% pay rise\n\nTeacher strikes will go ahead in Scotland on Monday after a deadline passed for a new pay offer to be made.\n\nThe Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said an improved deal was needed to prevent planned action going ahead.\n\nUnions, councils and the Scottish government met on Thursday afternoon but no new offer was tabled.\n\nTeaching unions have rejected a 5% pay increase, arguing for 10%. The latest offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nThe Scottish government and councils have said a 10% rise is unaffordable and the education secretary urged teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\nA fresh round of strikes will begin on Monday.\n\nAny new deal would need to be agreed by all 32 council leaders. They are currently not due to meet for two weeks.\n\nEarlier this week all four unions representing teachers and headteachers walked out together for the first time.\n\nIt involved members of the EIS, Scotland's largest teaching union, the NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes (AHDS) unions.\n\nThe EIS said it was \"disappointed\" and its national executive committee would meet on Friday to consider next steps.\n\nGeneral secretary Andrea Bradley said: \"Despite their warm words over the past week, the Scottish government and Cosla have again failed to come to the table with a new pay offer to Scotland's teachers.\n\n\"Our members are not prepared to accept the repeatedly reheated sub-inflationary offer that has now been sitting around for six months, and that is neither fair nor affordable for teachers.\n\n\"In the absence of an improved offer, our members will continue with strike action from Monday of next week, in their struggle for fair pay.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said meetings which took place this week had provided \"a crucial opportunity\" to further discuss potential areas for agreement.\n\nShe said: \"There is a shared understanding that these latest talks are focused on examining options for compromise, rather than tabling a new offer at this time.\n\n\"While talks are ongoing, the Scottish government continues to urge the teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\n\"Strikes in our schools are in no one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to a fair and sustainable pay deal.\"\n\nLocal authority group Cosla it was there continued to be in proactive discussions.\n\nCosla spokesperson, Councillor Katie Hagmann, said \"Strikes in education are in nobody's interest.\n\n\"All parties are eager to seek a resolution that not only protects the teaching and wider local government workforce, but also our children and young people's educational experience.\"\n\nHowever she reiterated that the 10% pay rise asked for by unions remained unaffordable.\n\nWithout movement on an offer, a 16-day programme of regional strikes will begin on Monday.\n\nSchools in Glasgow and East Lothian will be targeted on the first day of the campaign with strike action then continuing on a rolling basis within two authorities each day.\n\nIt follows strikes this week that closed almost every primary school in Scotland on Tuesday, and every secondary school on Wednesday.\n\nPreliminary exams due to take place had to be rescheduled for some pupils.\n\nIt was a great disappointment to the teachers unions that no new pay offer was put to them today. But it was, probably, no great surprise.\n\nIt had become apparent that the gulf between what the unions want and what council and the Scottish government say they can afford remains wide.\n\nAny new pay offer would need to be agreed by Scotland's 32 council leaders before it could be formalised.\n\nTheir next meeting is not due for another fortnight.\n\nThe unions will be hopeful the new offer will come before then. But will that new offer, when it comes, be enough to lead to the suspension of strikes and even settle the dispute?", "Gen Gerasimov has been Russia's chief of the general staff since 2012\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has removed Russia's top commander in Ukraine, just three months after he was installed.\n\nChief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov will now lead what Mr Putin terms a \"special military operation\".\n\nGen Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin who has overseen recent brutal attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.\n\nThe reshuffle comes as Russians claim they are making progress in eastern Ukraine after suffering a series of military defeats in recent months.\n\nRussia launched its invasion into Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nGen Gerasimov, who has been in post since 2012, is the longest-serving Russian chief of general staff of the post-Soviet era.\n\nGen Surovikin - now his deputy - has been dubbed \"General Armageddon\" for his brutal tactics in previous wars, including Russia's operations in Syria and the heavy bombardment of the city of Aleppo in particular.\n\nShortly after he was appointed to lead the operation in October, Russia began its campaign to destroy Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainian civilians without power or running water for extended periods in the depths of winter. He also oversaw Russia's withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson - a major success for the Ukrainians.\n\nRussia's defence ministry said the decision to replace Gen Surovikin was aimed at organising \"closer contact between different branches of the armed forces and improving the quality and effectiveness of the management of Russian forces\".\n\nBut the move has been seen by some as a sign that he may have gained too much power.\n\n\"As the unified commander in Ukraine, Surovikin was becoming very powerful, and was likely bypassing [Russian Defence Minister Sergei] Shoigu and Gerasimov when talking to Putin,\" military analyst Rob Lee wrote on Twitter.\n\nSome of Russia's hawkish military bloggers, who support the war but frequently criticise the way it is being carried out, have been highly critical of Russia's military leadership, including the new head of the special operation, Gen Gerasimov.\n\nWednesday's announcement comes as fighting continues in Soledar.\n\nThe fall of Soledar may help Russian troops in their assault on the strategic city of Bakhmut, about 10km (six miles) to the south-west, providing them with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nSoledar also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nRussia's mercenary Wagner Group has taken full credit for \"storming\" it.\n\nOn Tuesday night, the group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his forces were in full control of Soledar. However, on Wednesday the Russian defence ministry released a statement appearing to contradict his claim - or that only Wagner group troops were involved.\n\nThis led to Mr Prigozhin repeating the claim on Wednesday evening. In a short statement on Telegram, he boasted that his mercenaries had killed around 500 pro-Ukraine troops. \"The whole city is littered with the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers,\" he wrote.\n\nUkraine has recently made similar comments about piles of Russian bodies.\n\nThere is no independent confirmation.\n\nThe US-based Maxar Technologies company has published pictures of Soledar from August and early January, showing the scale of destruction during the recent fighting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maxar Technologies This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe apparent differences in Russia's official narrative surrounding the latest events around Soledar hint at divisions in the country's military leadership, particularly between the Wagner Group and the defence ministry.\n\nFor his part, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky denied that Soledar had fallen.\n\n\"The terrorist state and its propagandists are trying to pretend\" to have achieved some successes in Soledar, Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Wednesday, \"but the fighting continues\".\n\n\"We do everything, without stopping for a single day, to strengthen Ukrainian defence. Our potential is growing,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows fighting in Soledar, Ukraine, but the BBC has been unable to confirm the date these videos were filmed", "No rare earths are currently mined in Europe, and nearly all of the EU's supply comes from China\n\nEurope's largest deposit of rare earths - which are used from mobile phones to missiles - has been found in Sweden.\n\nNo rare earths are mined in Europe at the moment and a Swedish minister hailed the find as a way of reducing the EU's dependence on China.\n\nThe discovery is also being seen as \"decisive\" for the green transition, given the expected rise in demand for electric vehicles and wind turbines.\n\nSome 98% of rare earths used in the EU in 2021 were imported from China.\n\nOver one million tonnes are reported to have now been found in Sweden's far north.\n\nAlthough significant, that is a fraction of the world's 120-million-tonne reserves, according to a US estimate.\n\nThe term rare earth refers to a group of 17 elements that are used to make a range of products and infrastructure which are increasingly important to everyday life.\n\nThey can be found in mobiles, hard drives and trains. But they are also important for green technology including wind turbines and electric vehicles. Some are essential for military equipment like missile guidance systems.\n\nExtraction is both difficult and potentially damaging to the environment.\n\nDemand for them is expected to increase fivefold by 2030.\n\n\"Lithum and rare earths will soon be more important than oil and gas,\" the EU's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said last year.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference on Thursday, Swedish Energy Minister Ebba Busch said the EU was \"way too dependent on other countries for these materials\" and insisted a change was needed.\n\n\"Electrification, the EU's self-sufficiency and independence from Russia and China will begin in the mine,\" she asserted.\n\nThe newly discovered raw materials may not reach the market before 10-15 years' time, the LKAB mining company's CEO Jan Mostrom said. Permitting processes take time due to environmental risk evaluations.\n\nBut Mr Mostrom called on authorities to speed up the process, \"to ensure increased mining of this type of raw material in Europe\".", "Ukrainian troops have been defending areas in the east of the country, including the town of Soledar\n\nRussia has not taken a key town or city in Ukraine for months, despite intense efforts to achieve military gains.\n\nIf Russian forces seize the eastern town of Soledar, their hope is that the course of the war could change.\n\nWhen Russian mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin announced his Wagner units had taken control of the entire territory of Soledar, the images produced looked convincing.\n\nBut Wagner fighters are not part of the regular Russian armed forces and the defence ministry in Moscow says the battle is still going on.\n\nUkraine's president also says the fight is continuing and Kyiv is adamant the Russians are not succeeding in their push to capture the town.\n\nThe fall of Soledar may help Russian troops in their assault on the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, about 10km (6 miles) to the south west, providing them with a secure artillery position within range of the city.\n\nSoledar also has deep salt mines, which could be used to station troops and store equipment, protected from Ukrainian missiles.\n\nIn video posted on a Russian Telegram channel, which the BBC has not yet been able to verify, Mr Prigozhin is apparently seen alongside Wagner soldiers in a Soledar salt mine.\n\nThe mines have an extensive underground network of tunnels, which could be of strategic importance as Russian forces attempt to penetrate Ukrainian-controlled territory.\n\nIt is not clear, however, how much of this network is accessible and where it might lead.\n\nWagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin in a picture claiming to show the mercenaries in a Soledar salt mine\n\nSoledar's mines also contain valuable salt and gypsum, which could provide an important source of revenue for anyone who controls and is able to extract resources from it.\n\nBut perhaps one of the most important factors in the battle for Soledar is a symbolic one.\n\n\"The reason they are throwing everything at it,\" says the BBC's James Waterhouse in Ukraine, \"is that there is a big propaganda win here… a vital trophy for President Vladimir Putin to present to critics back in Russia\".\n\nTaking control of the nearby city Bakhmut would certainly be a prize for Russian forces in the region.\n\n\"This would be a much needed boost for Russian forces in the east who have been under real pressure since September,\" says Edward Arnold, a European security researcher at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).\n\nHowever, he adds that \"the seizure of Bakhmut will have little strategic significance for the outcome of the war\".\n\nThe Wagner Group has become increasingly influential in the Ukraine conflict and Mr Prigozhin has been behind its advance on the battlefield.\n\nHe claims his fighters are the only ones fighting in Soledar, although the Russian defence ministry says its forces are also taking part.\n\nThe battle for Soledar and Bakhmut is only part of the front line and the broader campaign is not going well for Vladimir Putin.\n\nRussia again replaced the head of its regular forces in Ukraine only three months after he was put in place, in another sign of dissatisfaction at the lack of progress.\n\n\"[Prigozhin will] continue to use both confirmed and fabricated Wagner Group success in Soledar and Bakhmut,\" says the Institute for the Study of War \"to promote [it] as the only Russian force in Ukraine capable of securing tangible gains.\"\n\nWagner has also been prominent in conflict zones in Africa, invited in by governments battling insurgent rebel forces. In doing so, the mercenaries have often taken control of valuable mining resources.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Have you read your brother's book?\" - The royals give no comment to a reporter's question\n\nThe Prince and Princess of Wales have made their first public engagement since the Duke of Sussex's controversial memoirs went on sale.\n\nWilliam and Catherine waved to well-wishers as they officially opened Royal Liverpool University Hospital.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography Spare became the fastest selling non-fiction book in history.\n\nThe book includes stories of a fraught relationship between Prince Harry and his elder brother.\n\nOn arriving at the hospital entrance, the couple did not respond when a reporter asked: \"Were you hurt by the comments in Harry's book, sir?\"\n\nAn 81-year-old woman attending an appointment grasped the prince's hand and said: \"Keep going Will, Scousers love you\", to which he responded: \"I will do.\"\n\nThe royal couple were greeted by well-wishers as they visited Liverpool\n\nThe prince and princess later met staff at the hospital, which has become the biggest British hospital to provide all in-patients with ensuite rooms.\n\nStaff member Nikki Langley, who works in administration, was left overjoyed when a smiling William posed for a selfie with her and three colleagues, the five all crowding into the image.\n\nA few minutes later she asked Kate for a picture and the princess joked: \"I'm going to be told off by William.\"\n\nThe 646-bed venue became operational in autumn, taking over from the old Liverpool Royal Hospital.\n\nIt was delayed by five years - partly due to the collapse of construction firm Carillion - with costs spiralling from £335m to an estimated £1bn-plus.\n\nThe Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared together after the Queen's death\n\nRecently, more than 30 senior medics at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital wrote in a letter that they were \"ashamed and demoralised\" by the standards they could provide in the new A&E.\n\nThey described it as \"overcrowded, chaotic and unpleasant\".\n\nThe NHS trust that runs the site said it had made positive progress since the letter, which was dated in November.\n\nPrince Harry's autobiography includes claims the Prince of Wales physically attacked Harry and teased him about his panic attacks, and that the King put his own interests above Harry's and was jealous of the Duchess of Sussex and the Princess of Wales.\n\nThe autobiography sold more than 1.4 million copies on its release date on Tuesday, a new record according to its publisher Penguin Random House.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "A Walt Disney film was made in 1961 about Greyfriars Bobby\n\nThe remains of the dog who starred in the 1960s movie about Greyfriars Bobby have been found after an 18-month search in the Scottish Borders.\n\nDavid Hunter faced a race against time to find the burial spot before houses were built on top of it.\n\nHe and his team were almost ready to give up when they found Bobby's coffin.\n\nThey now hope to have him reinterred at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, near where the original Greyfriars Bobby is buried.\n\nThe story of the terrier which faithfully visited its master's grave for 14 years after his death in 1858 became known across the world.\n\nGreyfriars Bobby was honoured with a statue in Edinburgh and also inspired a book and then, in 1961, a Walt Disney film.\n\nThe Skye terrier which was chosen to play the role was given to Willie Merrilees after the movie had been filmed.\n\nHe was the former chief constable of Lothian and Peebles constabulary, and had helped with the film's script.\n\nThe terrier ended up with one of his chief inspectors, John Turner, who was the uncle of David Hunter.\n\nAfter his starring role in the Walt Disney film the dog remained something of a celebrity\n\nHe remembers the dog being at family gatherings while he was growing up in Edinburgh.\n\nMr Hunter said the canine star lived in the city's Morningside area and remained something of a celebrity until his death.\n\nHe was then buried at a property which Mr Merrilees owned called The Nick, which was located near the village of Dolphinton.\n\n\"Bobby was buried at The Nick in a grand funeral attended by VIPs and the public on 23 June 1974,\" said Mr Hunter.\n\n\"A headstone marked the grave and a while later Willie had a replica Greyfriars Bobby statue made mounted on a cairn.\"\n\nMr Hunter said it took him and his team months of research - and digging - to find the small coffin\n\nHowever, the property changed hands a number of times in the years following and the headstone and memorial were lost.\n\nWhen Mr Hunter found out that plans to build new houses on the site had been approved by the Scottish Borders Council in 2021, he started his search for the remains.\n\n\"I couldn't bear the thought of him unwittingly ending up under a house or garage,\" he said.\n\n\"I contacted the property owner who had no idea of the historical significance of the place.\n\n\"He was fascinated with the story and very graciously put his house building project on hold to allow us to go and search for the remains.\"\n\nIt is hoped the remains can be reinterred near to the original Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh\n\nThat was just the start of a lengthy journey.\n\n\"It's taken over two years of research and 18 months of digging,\" said Mr Hunter.\n\n\"There have been many disappointments when we thought we were getting close but we kept the faith.\"\n\nUsing maps, old photographs and information from former owners of the property and others they gradually pieced together where the remains might be.\n\n\"I think we made more progress in the last four weeks of last year than we had in 18 months,\" admitted Mr Hunter.\n\nA gravestone was removed from the area some years ago, making the search more difficult\n\nOn Saturday, with what he described as a mix of excitement and apprehension, they made what they had agreed would be their final dig.\n\n\"The friendships that had been forged - grown men with a JCB looking for a dead dog on waste ground - you couldn't make this up,\" he said.\n\n\"We kind of thought if we don't find him in this area here, he is not here, and we all agreed it was over.\"\n\nThey started to work at about 09:00 and had dug about 90% of the area when they discovered the side of a small coffin.\n\nMr Hunter said his group had agreed the latest dig would be their final one\n\n\"There were a few seconds of silence when we didn't actually realise we had discovered what we had discovered,\" he said.\n\nHe said it prompted \"scenes of jubilation\" but also \"more quiet reflection\".\n\nThe story is not quite over as Mr Hunter hopes they will be able to reinter the remains at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, near the original Bobby.\n\nHe said that could take some time to achieve but would be the right place for the canine film star to be laid to rest.", "The government has said it will not create a specific offence for spiking, arguing a new law is unnecessary.\n\nMinisters said they were looking into the issue last year.\n\nBut on Wednesday, Home Office Minister Sarah Dines said there were already several offences which covered spiking incidents and the government had not found \"any gap in the law\".\n\nSupporters of the idea argue it could help increase reporting of incidents and improve police data.\n\nMPs on the Home Affairs Committee were among those calling for new legislation to target spiking - when someone puts alcohol or drugs into another person's drink or body without their knowledge of consent.\n\nMs Dines confirmed the government's position in a letter to the committee's chairwoman, Labour MP Diana Johnson, which was written in December but published on Wednesday.\n\nShe said the government had considered the case for legislation but had decided a new offence was not required.\n\n\"The existing offences cover all methods of spiking, including by drink, needle, vape, cigarette, food or any other known form,\" she said.\n\n\"Police are yet to encounter a case where they could not apply an existing offence.\"\n\nShe added that a specific spiking offence would not increase the powers available to judges in such cases or the likelihood of charging or prosecuting an offender.\n\nMs Dines said the government had concluded its focus should be on non-legislative measures to tackle spiking and it would consult on potential changes to statutory guidance to include \"explicit reference to spiking being illegal and give examples of such spiking\".\n\nThe committee had previously argued a specific offence would have several benefits, including increased reporting of incidents, facilitating police work by improving data and \"sending a clear message to perpetrators that this is a serious crime\".\n\nLast year, then-Home Secretary Priti Patel told the committee the government was looking into \"a specific criminal offence to target spiking directly\".\n\nDuring a Westminster Hall debate earlier, she called for existing legislation to be amended so there was a \"coherent approach\" in addressing spiking.\n\nDame Diana said she was disappointed by the government's decision as existing legislation was \"clearly not working\" and not being used.\n\n\"Reporting is low, and prosecution rates are very rare indeed,\" she added.\n\nLabour's shadow Home Office minister Sarah Jones said: \"We should call a spade a spade in this case and introduce a specific offence for spiking.\"\n\nConservative MP Richard Graham also criticised the government's response, accusing it of \"various straw man arguments\".\n\n\"In almost 13 years as an MP I have not read such an extraordinary letter,\" he said.\n\nAlmost 5,000 cases of needle and drink spiking incidents were reported to police in England and Wales in the 12 months to September 2022, according to the National Police Chiefs Council.\n\nIt said forces had increased their focus on spiking, with high visibility patrols across town and city centres, following a rapid rise in spiking reports during the autumn of 2021.\n\nSpiking is illegal under current laws, for example the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which says it is an offence to administer a substance to another person without their consent, with the intention of \"stupefying or overpowering\" them so as to enable any other person to engage in sexual activity with them.\n\nSection 23 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 also makes it an offence to maliciously administer poison so as to endanger the life of someone or inflict grievous bodily harm.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is set to attack what he will describe as the government's \"denial\" of the \"immense damage\" he says Brexit is doing.\n\nIn a speech at Mansion House in the City of London, he will call for a shift to greater alignment with Europe.\n\nThe Labour mayor is expected to say the consequences of leaving the EU \"can't be airbrushed out of history\".\n\nIn contrast, Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out rejoining the EU single market if Labour wins power.\n\nIn November, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ruled out a revised trade deal with the European Union, after reports he wanted the UK to have a Switzerland-style relationship, with closer alignment with EU rules and fewer restrictions on migration.\n\nIn a speech to London's business leaders, Mr Khan will say: \"I simply can't keep quiet about the immense damage Brexit is doing.\n\n\"Ministers seem to have developed selective amnesia when it comes to one of the root causes of our problems.\n\n\"Brexit can't be airbrushed out of history or the consequences wished away.\"\n\nHe will point to the economic effects of Brexit, and argue for a new approach to \"sensibly and maturely mitigate the damage that's being inflicted\".\n\nIn October 2021, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility estimated that Brexit would reduce GDP [economic output] by 4% in the long term, compared with the UK staying in the European Union.\n\nDowning Street said its position had not changed.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The British people set out their view back in 2016 and the government is busy enacting.\"\n\nThe government has described the trade deal struck with the EU in December 2020 as \"the world's largest zero tariff, zero quota free trade deal\".\n\n\"It secures the UK market access across key service sectors and opens new opportunities for UK businesses across the globe.\n\n\"Despite difficult global economic headwinds, UK-EU trade is rebounding, with recent data showing that UK trade to both EU and non-EU countries is above pre-Covid levels\".\n\nIn his speech, Mr Khan will say: \"After two years of denial and avoidance, we must now confront the hard truth: Brexit isn't working.\n\n\"It's weakened our economy, fractured our union and diminished our reputation. But, crucially, not beyond repair.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the UK's Brexit deal that keeps Northern Ireland aligned with the EU's single market for goods\n\n\"We need greater alignment with our European neighbours - a shift from this extreme, hard Brexit we have now to a workable version that serves our economy and people.\"\n\nHe will acknowledge that \"no one wants to see a return to the division and deadlock\" of recent years, but call for a \"pragmatic debate\" about the benefits of the EU's customs union and single market.\n\nWhile the mayor's criticism is aimed at the government, it will also be seen as a swipe at the recent harder stance on Brexit taken by his party leader.\n\nLike Mr Khan, Sir Keir campaigned for Remain in the 2016 referendum and later for a second referendum.\n\nBut he has recently ruled out a return to the EU's single market.\n\nSpeaking in Belfast on Thursday, the Labour leader said: \"Look, we have left the EU and there is no case for re-joining the EU or for going back into the single market.\n\n\"But what I do think we need to do is move beyond what I think is a pretty inadequate deal... and make Brexit work. And that is my priority.\"\n\nSir Keir has said Labour would fix holes in the government's Brexit deal - in part by devolving some powers from Westminster to local communities.\n\nSadiq Khan will denounce what he calls an \"extreme Brexit\" being pursued by the Conservatives.\n\nIn his speech, he will reel off a litany of statistics to suggest London and the UK as a whole have been hit hard by leaving the EU.\n\nBut there is economics and there is politics.\n\nThe London Mayor's call for a \"pragmatic debate\" is a challenge to his own party leader.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has ruled out a return to the single market, because it would entail accepting the free movement of people as well as goods,\n\nAnd the voters he is trying to woo in former Labour strongholds may be wary of a party that signs up to uncontrolled EU migration.\n\nIn those areas Labour's strategy is to argue it will deliver on the Brexit slogan, \"take back control\", by moving more powers from Whitehall to local areas.\n\nSadiq Khan's intervention doesn't quite sing from that songsheet,\n\nBut it will strike a chord with many grassroots Labour Party members and some backbench MPs who think their leadership can afford to be more critical of the government's version of Brexit.\n\nCorrection January 26 2023: This article was amended. We wrongly stated that the OBR had forecast Brexit would reduce GDP by 4% a year rather than 4% overall in the long term.", "A number of defects in the systems of working at a luxury hotel contributed to a fire which claimed the lives of two guests, an inquiry has found.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and his partner Richard Dyson, 38, died in the blaze at Cameron House on the banks of Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nA fatal accident inquiry was held last year to establish if lessons could be learned from the tragedy.\n\nThe fire broke out after night porter Christopher O'Malley left a plastic bag of ash in a concierge's cupboard at the reception area which contained newspapers and kindling.\n\nIn his 122-page findings, Sheriff McCartney said there were precautions which could realistically have avoided the fire breaking out at the five-star hotel near Balloch, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nThese were a \"clear system of work\" for the safe cleaning and removal of ash from the open fires at the hotel, and the installation of a sprinkler system.\n\nSheriff McCartney also said there were \"a number of defects in systems of working which contributed to the accident resulting in the deaths\".\n\nThe sheriff made six recommendations in his report, which included the need for hotels to have up-to-date procedures in place to ensure that ash from open fires is removed and disposed of safely.\n\nHe said the Scottish government should consider introducing a requirement for sprinkler systems to be installed when historic buildings are converted to hotels.\n\nAnd he said there should be \"robust arrangements\" to ensure that everyone is accounted for in the event of evacuation, and that all staff have experience of evacuation drills.\n\nThe Scottish government said it would consider the report's recommendations and respond \"in due course\".\n\nThe fire claimed the lives of Simon Midgely (right) and Richard Dyson\n\nThe sheriff's findings highlighted the delay in obtaining a guest list to obtain an accurate roll call.\n\nThe resort's night manager Darren Robinson told the inquiry he had activated the hotel's full alarm at about 06:40 after smoke was detected on a fire control panel at reception.\n\nMoments later, night porter O'Malley opened the concierge cupboard, just off of the reception area, and was confronted with flames and smoke.\n\nMr Robinson, who was also fire warden at the time, said he left the building without the list of guests in the hotel - which he only realised when he was about to start the roll call.\n\nIn the \"chaotic\" scenes that followed, more than 200 people were evacuated from the hotel to its nearby Boat House restaurant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHotel guests had to be physically stopped from going back into the burning building to help a couple and their baby.\n\nThe family were rescued when firefighters arrived and taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nMeanwhile, a roll call of the 214 guests was carried out in the Boat House.\n\nBut it was not until 08:09 that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson, who were staying in a suite above reception, were recorded as missing.\n\nSheriff McCartney said: \"The fact that it took about one-and-a-half hours from the activation of the full fire alarm until identification that there were two hotel guests unaccounted for is of serious concern.\"\n\nHe said this was due to the initial unavailability of a guest list, which he put down to human error.\n\nAerial photographs show the extent of the damage to Cameron House\n\nAs the flames took hold, Mr Midgely and Mr Dyson tried to use a picture frame to break a laminated double-glazed window.\n\nBoth men were found with cuts on their arms, which the court heard was consistent with their failed bid to smash the window.\n\nMr Dyson, a TV producer, was found on a landing at the top of a staircase. Mr Midgley, a freelance journalist, was discovered lying in a fire escape passageway.\n\nThe couple died from inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nSheriff McCartney said: \"They were clearly talented young men with a great deal to contribute. They were committed to each other and to their families.\n\n\"It is not surprising that their passing has had a devastating impact on family and friends.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nScotland's Crown Office had initially said an FAI was not needed because the circumstances of the fatalities had been established.\n\nBut a review overturned the decision after Mr Midgley's mother Jane, from Leeds, called for wider lessons to be learned.\n\nThe inquiry finally got under way at Paisley Sheriff Court last August.\n\nFire investigator Gary Love said more than 75% of the main building of the 128-room hotel was \"severely damaged\" in the incident.\n\nHe concluded that the fire was accidental and was most probably caused by a careless act.\n\nMr Love said it was \"not rare\" for people to believe ashes were dead, while they still contained hot or smouldering embers.\n\nNight porter Christopher O'Malley gave evidence to a Fatal Accident Inquiry over the Cameron House blaze\n\nThe court was also show CCTV footage of the moment the fire was discovered by O'Malley.\n\nDuring his evidence, O'Malley said it did not occur to him that putting a bag of ash in a cupboard could have started a fire.\n\nHe said the ash bins outside had been full, and he had reported this to the night manager both on the morning of 18 December 2017 and the previous morning.\n\nHe also said that he had received \"no training whatsoever\" on disposing of ashes.\n\nThe court also heard bosses at the hotel - which reopened in September 2021 - were told before the fire about the danger of storing combustible materials in certain cupboards.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage from the days before the fatal fire shows ash being emptied into external bins\n\nThe FAI heard that in August 2017 James Clark, a fire inspector, had highlighted some concerns about the resort in a routine inspection.\n\nCameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd was previously ordered to pay £500,000 after admitting to breaches of fire safety rules.\n\nO'Malley, 35, who admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, was given a community payback order.\n\nCameron House resort director Andy Roger said the report was an \"an important milestone for everyone involved\", especially the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe added: \"In all our dealings with them over the past five years, they have borne their grief with great bravery and dignity.\"\n\nHe said the hotel had been rebuilt to \"the most exacting fire safety standards possible\" and that there had been \"intensive\" staff training.", "Some of the best film and TV shows of the past year were honoured at the ceremony in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.", "Royal Mail has asked people to stop sending mail abroad due to a \"cyber incident\" causing severe disruption.\n\nIt said it was temporarily unable to send letters and parcels overseas, and was \"working hard\" to resolve the issue.\n\nThere are also minor delays to post coming into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.\n\nThe incident has been reported to the UK's cyber intelligence agency and police who deal with serious crime.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised and said its teams were \"working around the clock to resolve this disruption\". It said it would update customers when it had more information.\n\nThe company is calling it a \"cyber-incident\" rather than a cyber attack because it does not know what has caused the problem, the BBC has been told.\n\nComputerised systems for sending letters and parcels abroad had been \"severely disrupted\", Royal Mail said.\n\n\"We immediately launched an investigation into the [cyber] incident and we are working with external experts,\" it added.\n\nThe back office system that has been affected is used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.\n\nIt is in use at six sites, including Royal Mail's huge Heathrow distribution centre in Slough, which has been affected by the incident.\n\nIt is unclear how long the disruption will continue, and mail that has already been shipped for export may be delayed.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of the UK's cyber intelligence agency GCHQ, is involved in trying to work out what has happened, alongside the National Crime Agency.\n\nRegulators have also been told of the incident.\n\nDetails are often scarce when it comes to cyber incidents, but Royal Mail is being especially vague about what is happening inside its international mail centres.\n\nThe company has called in the National Cyber Security Centre and the Information Commissioners Office, which are the bodies you'd usually call if there's a cyber attack - the NCSC for help, and the ICO because you have to inform them of any potential data theft.\n\nBut Royal Mail has also called the National Crime Agency, which suggests the incident might have a different angle to it.\n\nThey are also being careful not to call it a cyber-attack, which opens up the possibility that it might be a large scale technical glitch, or even some sort of sabotage to the system.\n\nEither way it seems to be a major incident with far-reaching effects as the backlog of packages builds up.\n\nThere have been a number of high-profile cyber-security incidents in recent weeks in the UK.\n\nThe Twitter accounts of two Cabinet ministers have been hacked, and the Guardian newspaper was hit with a suspected ransomware attack.\n\nIn the year to March, Royal Mail sent 152 million parcels abroad which equates to around 200,000 items a day.\n\nHowever, that was a small fraction of the number of parcels it sent domestically.\n\nRoyal Mail has faced a number of challenges over the past year, including a series of strikes by postal workers as part of a long-running dispute over pay and conditions.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents more than 115,000 postal workers at Royal Mail, is planning further industrial action, with a fresh ballot due to open later this month.", "The battles around Bakhmut are among the fiercest of the war\n\nRussia's defence ministry says its forces are taking part in the battle for Soledar, a town north of Bakhmut in east Ukraine which has been the focus of recent fighting.\n\nIt comes after the head of Russia's notoriously brutal Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed his fighters were in full control there and boasted that only his troops took part.\n\nMr Prigozhin will most likely use any victory to bolster the reputation of Wagner as an effective fighting force in the eyes of President Putin.\n\nBut the Russian defence ministry appeared to contradict the controversial oligarch's claims.\n\nSpokesman Igor Konashenkov said in the military's daily update that: \"Soledar has been blockaded from the north and the south by units of the Russian Airborne Forces.\n\n\"The Russian Air Force is carrying out strikes on enemy strongholds. Assault troops are taking part in battles inside the town.\" There was no mention of Wagner forces.\n\nUkraine's defence ministry also said on Wednesday that heavy fighting continues, and Wagner forces have had no success in breaking through its defences.\n\nIf Soledar falls, it will be a boost to Mr Prigozhin. In a statement released on Tuesday night, he boasted that \"no other units took part in the storming of Soledar apart from Wagner\". Ukrainian and US officials have said that Wagner units make up a large part of forces fighting in the area.\n\nAnalysts have long spoken of tensions between the military and Wagner, and Mr Prigozhin has publicly criticised generals for allegedly being out of touch with the realities of the war in Ukraine.\n\nWhile it is difficult to know for sure exactly whether infighting is going on in the corridors of power, there are some clues.\n\nYesterday, news agency Tass reported that Colonel-General Alexander Lapin was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces. Russian media quoted sources who claimed that the announcement of Gen Lapin's position - he was one of those slammed by Mr Prigozhin last year - was made as a warning to the oligarch: don't mess with the military.\n\nBut many here have been quick to praise Mr Prigozhin and Wagner for their apparent progress in Soledar. Influential media boss Margarita Simonyan gushed about how \"polite\" he is, signing off with a thanks to Wagner fighters, who she called \"my little darlings!\"\n\nLikewise, pro-Kremlin military bloggers on Telegram lavished praise on the mercenary group. One blogger thanked them for \"the emotions you've given us tonight\".\n\nAnother said \"When Soledar and [Bakhmut] are liberated, it will be a new chapter in Russian military history. The first time that a private military company has shown such results in a highly intensive military conflict\".\n\nThe strategic significance of Soledar is disputed by military analysts. But if Russian forces do succeed in establishing full control over the town, it will certainly be a symbolic victory for the Kremlin. That is because Moscow's troops have failed to take a single significant town from Ukrainian forces since the summer of 2022.", "Energy bills could fall further than previously forecast later this year, easing pressure on struggling households, new projections suggest.\n\nLess generous government help means a typical household gas and electricity bill is expected to rise from £2,500 a year to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nBut falling wholesale gas prices mean annual bills could fall below this from July, says finance firm Investec.\n\nIt predicts customers will be paying £2,478 a year from that point.\n\nIt's a marked reduction from recent forecasts by energy consultancy Cornwall Insight, which suggested that bills would settle at about £2,800 a year in the summer.\n\nInvestec said warmer weather and higher gas storage levels had helped bring down gas prices in recent months.\n\nInvestec analyst Martin Young wrote that this will feed through to the government's price cap, which sets a maximum limit that suppliers can charge households per unit of energy.\n\nMr Young expects this to fall to £2,478 in July and then £2,546 in October.\n\nIf either prediction proves to be correct, then the bill paid by 26 million households would again be governed by regulator Ofgem's price cap, rather than the government's energy price guarantee, which was originally introduced in October in a bid to protect bill-payers from soaring costs.\n\nThat would ultimately mean a lower-than-expected cost to the government, and ultimately taxpayers.\n\nBut even if the weather stays relatively mild over January and February, household bills wold still be much higher than they were before the pandemic.\n\nThey are unlikely to fall back to that level for many years, after prices spiked following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and as industry recovered from coronavirus-related lockdowns.\n\nMost households in the UK are on a variable or default gas and electricity tariff. The price per unit of energy is capped in England, Wales and Scotland at what is considered an appropriate level by the energy regulator Ofgem. The cap is set every three months.\n\nHuge costs faced by suppliers meant that would have left a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity paying £4,279 a year from the start of January.\n\nSo, the government stepped in to cover some of that cost for people across the UK. Its Energy Price Guarantee means the typical household pays £2,500 a year now, rising to £3,000 a year in April.\n\nThat is still a massive hike on the bills people had been accustomed to. In the winter of 2021-22, the typical annual bill was £1,277.\n\nThe government has also introduced extra cost-of-living payments to help less well-off households with soaring prices.\n\nAlthough bills are extremely high, the wholesale prices paid by suppliers - in advance of selling it on to consumers - have been tumbling.\n\nIf these lower wholesale prices hold, then customers could see the benefit later in the year, both Investec and Cornwall Insight predict.\n\nHowever, this is far from certain as global tensions could quickly push prices up again.", "Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon held talks ahead of a meeting of the British-Irish Council\n\nNicola Sturgeon has met Rishi Sunak for the first time since he became prime minister.\n\nScotland's first minister said the meeting was \"cordial and constructive\" despite the pair having \"profound political disagreements\".\n\nShe said they discussed the cost of living crisis, the NHS and her desire for a second Scottish independence referendum.\n\nMr Sunak called on political leaders to unite to tackle shared challenges.\n\nThe talks were held in Blackpool ahead of a meeting of the British-Irish Council.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is good to be able to sit down with the prime minister, as I used to do with Rishi Sunak's predecessors, and to talk through issues that we are all grappling with.\"\n\nRising inflation and the cost of living crisis were among topics on the agenda.\n\nMr Sunak said: \"The economic challenges we face are similar, whether you are in Belfast or Dublin, Swansea or Edinburgh or indeed Yorkshire.\n\n\"So I thought it was important to come here, talk to other leaders about how we can relentlessly focus on coming together to serve the people that we represent across all these islands.\"\n\nAfterwards, he used Twitter to say it was \"great to meet\" Ms Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford, the first minister of Wales.\n\n\"Teamwork, absolute focus and collective effort will be required to deal with the shared challenges faced by people across the UK,\" Mr Sunak added.\n\nChancellor Jeremy Hunt and Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove were also involved in the discussions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she spoke about her \"profound concerns about the NHS and the fact it is close to breaking point across the UK\".\n\n\"It's my government's responsibility to manage the NHS in Scotland,\" the SNP leader said. \"But our ability to invest in it depends on the decisions taken by the UK government and we in Scotland are at the limits of what we can do.\"\n\nShe called for an \"injection of investment\" in the health service ahead of the upcoming Autumn Statement.\n\nAnd she explained their discussion about a second independence referendum, which she wants to hold in October 2023.\n\nThe UK Supreme Court is currently considering whether the Scottish parliament has the legal power to hold a referendum without the UK government's consent.\n\nOn a second independence referendum, Ms Sturgeon said she would not allow Scottish democracy to be \"held prisoner\" by Westminster.\n\n\"The right way of doing that would be for the UK government to respect the mandate and agree a process to allow the people of Scotland to decide,\" she said.\n\nMr Sunak has given no indication that he is likely to grant formal consent for a second vote.\n\nHe has previously said that ignoring Ms Sturgeon and the SNP would be \"dangerously complacent\" and described the first minister and her party as an \"existential threat to our cherished union\".\n\nWhile acknowledging \"deep and profound political disagreements\", the first minister expressed hopes for a constructive relationship.\n\nIt comes after Mr Sunak's predecessor Liz Truss failed to have any formal talks with Ms Sturgeon during her brief spell in Downing Street.\n\nMs Truss claimed during the contest to succeed Boris Johnson that the first minister was an \"attention seeker\" who was best ignored.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"There's been a lack of respect on the part of the UK government or riding roughshod over the powers and responsibilities of devolved parliaments.\n\n\"Now, I welcome Rishi Sunak's words about wanting to reset the relationship and do things differently. I really welcome that.\n\n\"But the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. We need to see from the UK government proper respect.\n\n\"And if if that is the case, then I do believe that notwithstanding our disagreements, we'll be able to build a good relationship.\"\n\nRishi Sunak appears to have pushed the reset button on relations with Nicola Sturgeon and the devolved Scottish government.\n\nBy making an early effort to meet the first minister, he's already done more for intergovernmental relations than his predecessor Liz Truss managed in her six-week premiership.\n\nWhile Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed the chance to discuss shared challenges with the PM and his talk of closer co-operation, she is also putting their relationship to an immediate test.\n\nTo solve the pay dispute with nurses and other NHS workers, the first minister has asked for more money from the UK government and will find out in next week's Autumn Statement whether or not that's forthcoming.\n\nThere are, of course, policy differences on things like independence and nuclear power where there is little scope for agreement but that does not have to mean they can't do business in other areas.\n\nRishi Sunak's expected to visit Scotland in the near future and it's not impossible that he and Nicola Sturgeon might jointly announce the two successful bids for green freeport status.", "Joelinton will appear in court on 26 January.\n\nNewcastle United star Joelinton has been charged with drink-driving after being stopped by police in the early hours of the morning.\n\nPolice said a 26-year-old man was pulled over in the Ponteland Road area of Newcastle at 01:20 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe Brazilian is due to appear before magistrates on 26 January.\n\nThe midfielder, who signed for Newcastle United for £40m in 2019, scored in the club's 2-0 win against Leicester City on Tuesday.\n\nJoelinton was previously fined £200 after he broke lockdown restrictions to get a haircut.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Rufus played for Charlton Athletic between 1993 and 2004\n\nA former Premier League defender has been jailed for defrauding friends, family and associates out of £8m in a pyramid scheme.\n\nEx-Charlton Athletic player Richard Rufus was found guilty of fraud, money laundering and carrying out a regulated activity without authorisation.\n\nProsecutors said he had claimed he was a foreign exchange trader, convincing victims to invest in a low-risk scheme.\n\nRufus, 48, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nHe was forced into retirement in 2004 following a knee injury.\n\nFollowing the hearing, Roger Makanjuola, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), described Rufus's actions as \"selfish\", adding the footballer used his status as a professional athlete and a respected church member to scam his victims.\n\n\"While making these huge losses he put approximately £2m into his personal accounts, allegedly for the purposes of investment but this was never transferred over to his trading account.\n\n\"We now commence confiscation proceedings to seek to recover his ill-gotten gains\".\n\nIn a statement, City of London detectives said Rufus, of Purley, used his status as a sportsman to give the impression he was wealthy and successful, when in reality he was failing to make a profit from his trading activities.\n\nRufus claimed he was an experienced foreign exchange broker but was in fact using his victims' money to reimburse those who had paid in as part of a pyramid scheme, the statement said.\n\nInvestigators added he told one victim he only traded 5% of the capital investment, which meant 95% would have been retained safely - reducing the risk of incurring large losses.\n\nOf the £15m paid to accounts controlled by Rufus, investors received back a total of around £7.6m.\n\nPolice said his scheme ran from May 2007 to the end of 2010.\n\nIn the process, police said relationships and loyalties between friends had been shattered, with many suffering huge financial and mental health difficulties.\n\nAnalysis of his finances showed Rufus spent some £300,000 on his own lifestyle - including payments for travel, car finance, restaurants and shopping, police said.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hannah Munns says the trauma of the hotel fire has blighted her son's childhood\n\nA survivor of a hotel fire which claimed the lives of two guests has told how her son still suffers from anxiety.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the blaze at Cameron House on the banks of Loch Lomond on 18 December 2017.\n\nHannah Munns was staying in a room next to the couple with her husband and then five-year-old son.\n\nShe said: \"It still impacts my son's life day in, day out.\"\n\nA fatal accident inquiry (FAI) was held last year to establish if lessons could be learned from the tragedy.\n\nOn Wednesday, a sheriff said Mrs Munns and her family were \"very fortunate\" to survive after the alarm was raised at about 06:40.\n\nThey were among more than 200 guests who were evacuated from the luxury resort near Balloch, West Dunbartonshire.\n\nIn a 122-page determination, published on Wednesday, Sheriff Thomas McCartney made a series of recommendations.\n\nMrs Munns, from Leeds, told BBC Scotland it was a \"relief\" to finally read the report.\n\nShe said: \"It feels like someone has listened and the real issues have come through.\n\n\"They are recognising all those things that went wrong which could have prevented the two men from dying.\"\n\nThe fire claimed the lives of Simon Midgely (right) and Richard Dyson\n\nMrs Munns also said she was encouraged that issues which could have prevented the fire had been identified.\n\nThese included having a \"clear system of work\" for the safe cleaning and removal of ash from the open fires at the hotel, and the installation of a sprinkler system.\n\nShe added that putting the recommendations in place would save lives in the future and make people feel safer when entering a hotel.\n\nBut Mrs Munns said the fire had taken a heavy toll on her family.\n\n\"It has been horrendous,\" she said. \"What I am most emotional about is my son.\n\n\"He was five and is now 10 and he still doesn't sleep. He won't be away from us. He won't stay away from us.\n\n\"He won't do all the things that a normal 10-year-old would do because he has experienced that moment that you realise you are not going to live forever.\"\n\nThe inquiry heard Mrs Munns described seeing smoke coming under their hotel room door within 30 seconds of the alarm being sounded.\n\nThe family left their room and ran down the main staircase to the reception foyer.\n\nBut they saw the Christmas tree in the reception area was on fire and there was smoke on the stairway and decided to go back upstairs.\n\nThere they encountered another family who were trying to find their way out through the dark, smoky corridors.\n\nThey eventually reached safety after hearing a staff member call out from a side door.\n\nReflecting on her son's ordeal, Mrs Munns said: \"He learnt at five years old that these things can go wrong and, as such, he has got really serious anxiety issues.\n\n\"It just breaks my heart that he has learnt so young that these things can go wrong.\n\n\"And it impacts his life day in, day out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Munns said she did draw some comfort from the fact the FAI report may help to prevent other families from suffering the same experience and \"hopefully same some lives\".\n\nSheriff McCartney said the Munns family were lucky to escape the fire.\n\nHe added: \"I considered this evidence particularly significant as Mrs Munns and her family were in the room next to Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson on the same corridor.\n\n\"The conditions with which Mrs Munns and family were confronted are likely to have been the same if not worse when Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson left their room.\"\n\nJane Midgley successfully challenged the Crown Office's initial decision not to hold a fatal accident inquiry into the death of her son, Simon, and his partner Richard\n\nMrs Munns also paid tribute to Mr Midgley's mother, Jane, who led the campaign for a fatal accident inquiry after the Crown Office initially said one would not be held.\n\nShe said: \"She has been amazing and so strong given everything she has been through, and that has given me the will to fight on.\n\n\"We could have just kept quiet. We could have just not said anything. We could have let happen what happened but actually then nothing would have changed and this tragedy would happen again in a hotel to somebody else.\n\n\"And it will continue happening until things change.\"\n\nNight porter Christopher O'Malley gave evidence to a Fatal Accident Inquiry over the Cameron House blaze\n\nThe fire broke out after night porter Christopher O'Malley left a plastic bag of ash in a concierge's cupboard at the reception area which contained newspapers and kindling.\n\nIn his findings, Sheriff McCartney said there were precautions which could realistically have avoided the fire breaking out at the five-star hotel.\n\nSheriff McCartney also said there were \"a number of defects in systems of working which contributed to the accident resulting in the deaths\".\n\nThe sheriff made six recommendations in his report, which included the need for hotels to have up-to-date procedures in place to ensure that ash from open fires is removed and disposed of safely.\n\nHe said the Scottish government should consider introducing a requirement for sprinkler systems to be installed when historic buildings are converted to hotels.\n\nAnd he said there should be \"robust arrangements\" to ensure that everyone is accounted for in the event of evacuation, and that all staff have experience of evacuation drills.\n\nAerial photographs show the extent of the damage to Cameron House\n\nThe Scottish government said it would consider the report's recommendations and respond \"in due course\".\n\nCameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd was previously ordered to pay £500,000 after admitting to breaches of fire safety rules.\n\nO'Malley, 35, who admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, was given a community payback order.\n\nCameron House resort director Andy Roger said the report was an \"an important milestone for everyone involved\", especially the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe added: \"In all our dealings with them over the past five years, they have borne their grief with great bravery and dignity.\"\n\nHe said the hotel had been rebuilt to \"the most exacting fire safety standards possible\" and that there had been \"intensive\" staff training.", "Teachers have been striking in Scotland already\n\nNine out of every 10 teachers who voted in a ballot over pay in England and Wales were in favour of striking, a union says.\n\nBut the NASUWT union also reported a 42% turnout - below the threshold needed for lawful strike action.\n\nIts general secretary, Dr Patrick Roach, said the union remained in formal disputes over pay.\n\nThe government said it would continue talks to avoid any \"damaging\" industrial action.\n\nDr Roach said NASUWT members were \"sending a strong message to the government\".\n\n\"The readiness of our members to support industrial action demonstrates the anger of the profession and the need for governments in England and Wales to engage in meaningful negotiations to address the deep concerns of our members,\" he added.\n\nTwo other teaching unions are yet to release the results of their ballots in England and Wales.\n\nNASUWT members, as well as those of other unions, have already been on strike in Scotland\n\nTeachers from five unions in Northern Ireland are continuing to take action short of a strike - affecting meeting attendance and administrative tasks.\n\nMost state-school teachers in England and Wales had a 5% pay rise in 2022, well below the rate of inflation.\n\nDowning Street said Education Secretary Gillian Keegan had had a \"constructive meeting\" with union leaders earlier this week - and a similar one on Thursday.\n\n\"She agreed the importance of working together to avoid strike action that would be damaging to children,\" an official said.\n\n\"We know the disruption that children have already faced in terms of their education due to the pandemic, so we obviously don't want to see any further disruption.\n\n\"We continue to want to try and help and facilitate teachers and the unions to receive a fair and affordable pay deal.\"\n\nThe NASUWT, which represents both primary and secondary teachers, balloted 150,000 members in England and 10,000 in Wales.\n\nMs Codrington-Rogers is worried about pay and workload\n\nNASUWT national officer Michelle Codrington-Rogers, who teaches at a secondary school in Oxfordshire, estimates her pay has risen by just £120 above inflation over the past 15 years.\n\n\"In that time, I've been married, I've had my own child, I've run my own household,\" she says.\n\n\"When you start to get the bills - electricity going up, food going up, transport going up, and being able to give your children and your families the start that they need - that's when teachers start to see the disproportional impact.\"\n\nTeachers leaving the profession means those who remain have a greater workload, Mr Codrington-Rogers adds, and if they burn out if affects their pupils.\n• None Teachers' strikes: When, where and why?", "Colin Farrell was named best actor in a musical or comedy film for his performance in The Banshees of Inisherin\n\nThe Banshees of Inisherin has won three major prizes at the Golden Globes' comeback ceremony in Los Angeles.\n\nThe film took home best comedy or musical film and best screenplay, as well as best comedy actor for its star, Irish actor Colin Farrell.\n\n\"I never expect my films to find an audience, and when they do it's shocking for me,\" Farrell said.\n\nSteven Spielberg's autobiographical The Fabelmans was also one of the big winners, scooping best drama film.\n\nSchool-based comedy Abbott Elementary, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon and satirical dark comedy The White Lotus were among the winners in the television categories.\n\nMost of the winners collected their awards in person, despite speculation that many stars would stay away from this year's ceremony due to controversy surrounding the organisation behind the Globes.\n\nThe event has been under a cloud since its organisers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), were accused of ethical lapses and a lack of diversity two years ago.\n\nSet on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, The Banshees of Inisherin tells the story of two friends who fall out after one decides to abruptly end their relationship.\n\nThe film sees Farrell reunite with director Martin McDonagh and co-star Brendan Gleeson. The trio previously worked together on the 2007 cult film In Bruges.\n\nSpielberg was named best director for The Fabelmans, which follows a young boy - loosely based on Spielberg himself - who falls in love with film-making.\n\n\"I put a lot of things in my way with this story,\" he said in his acceptance speech. \"I told this story in parts and parcels all through my career but I never had the courage to hit the story head-on.\"\n\nMichelle Yeoh was named best musical or comedy actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once\n\nOther big film winners included Everything Everywhere All at Once, which saw acting prizes for two of its stars, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.\n\nThe madcap sci-fi movie sees Yeoh play a laundrette worker who hops through the multiverse exploring different versions of herself.\n\nAccepting her award, Yeoh said: \"I turned 60 last year. And I think all of you women understand this: as the days, the years and the numbers get bigger, it seems like opportunities start to get smaller.\n\n\"And I probably was at a time when I thought, 'well hey, you had a really good run, you worked with some of the best people... then along came the best gift - Everything Everywhere All at Once.\"\n\nJennifer Coolidge was recognised for her performance in the dark comedy series The White Lotus\n\nJennifer Coolidge gave one of the most memorable acceptance speeches, entertaining the audience for almost four minutes after winning one of the TV acting awards for The White Lotus, which was also named best limited TV series.\n\n\"I had such big dreams and expectations as a younger person, but they get sort of fizzled by life,\" the 61-year-old said. \"I thought I was going to be queen of Monaco, even though someone else did it. I had these giant ideas, and then you get older...\"\n\nCoolidge said show creator Mike White had \"given me hope, a new beginning\".\n\nAustin Butler's recognition for his portrayal of Elvis Presley marks his first Golden Globe nomination and win\n\nElsewhere, Austin Butler held off stiff competition to be named best film drama actor, for his portrayal of singer Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's biopic.\n\n\"I owe this to a bold, visionary film-maker who allowed me the experience to take risks and I always knew I would be supported. Baz Luhrmann, I love you,\" Butler said. \"And lastly, Elvis Presley himself. You were an icon and a rebel.\"\n\nCate Blanchett was named best drama actress for her performance in Tar, but was not present to collect the prize because she is working on a production in the UK.\n\nKevin Costner, who won best actor in a drama series for Yellowstone, said beforehand he was \"so sorry\" he wouldn't make it because of the major flooding currently affecting California.\n\nSupporting actress winner Angela Bassett is hotly tipped to win an Oscar for her performance in Wakanda Forever\n\nOther winners who were not at the ceremony included Zendaya, who won best TV drama actress for Euphoria.\n\nJay Ellis, who announced her award, told the audience: \"She's busy, she's working, y'all. It's a good thing.\"\n\nAngela Bassett was there to accept the best supporting film actress award for her performance in Wakanda Forever, and used her speech to pay tribute to her late Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman.\n\n\"We were surrounded each and every day by the light and the spirit of Chadwick Boseman,\" she said. \"With this historic Black Panther series, it is part of his legacy that he helped to lead us to. We showed the world what black unity, leadership and love looks like beyond, behind and in front of the camera.\"\n\nKe Huy Quan was named best supporting actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once\n\nQuan, who acted as a child alongside Harrison Ford in the Steven Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, became emotional as he accepted the trophy for best supporting film actor.\n\n\"I was raised to never forget where I came from, and to always remember who gave me my first opportunity. I am so happy to see Steven Spielberg here tonight,\" he said.\n\nEddie Murphy accepted the prestigious Cecil B DeMille award, one of the Globes' outstanding achievement honours, and referenced Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at last year's Oscars as he gave advice to younger actors.\n\n\"To achieve success, prosperity and longevity... you just do these three things,\" Murphy said. \"Pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep Will Smith's wife's name out of your mouth.\"\n\nAbbott Elementary was named best comedy series, while two of its stars, Tyler James Williams and Quinta Brunson, took home acting prizes.\n\nOther acting winners in the TV categories included The Bear's Jeremy Allen White and Ozark's Julia Garner, who said playing her hugely popular character Ruth Langmore has \"been the greatest gift in my life\".\n\nIt wasn't a great night for the UK - there were plenty of nominations for British actors including Olivia Colman, Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Lesley Manville, Bill Nighy and Emma Thompson but all lost out.\n\nInventing Anna star Julia Garner was named best TV supporting actress for playing Ruth Langmore in Ozark\n\nThere was a mixed response to first-time host Jerrod Carmichael on social media\n\n\"I'll tell you why I'm here, I'm here because I'm black,\" joked first-time host Jerrod Carmichael as he opened the ceremony - referencing the lack of diversity within the Globes' voting body which came to light in and expose in the LA Times in 2021.\n\nThe US comic's opening monologue was otherwise quite awkward and short on gags - Carmichael spent much of his time telling the audience to be quiet. But his performance became more assured as the show went on.\n\nMany viewers said they appreciated his willingness to create awkward moments in the room with his often savage and brutally honest one-liners, but others felt his jokes were offensive or in poor taste.\n\nCarmichael referenced the ceremony being held at the Beverly Hilton, describing it as \"the hotel that killed Whitney Houston\". He spoke to some stars directly from the stage, telling Rihanna to ignore pressure from fans and take her time with recording her long-awaited next album.\n\nThe most risqué jibe came when he suggested that the three Golden Globes which Tom Cruise returned should be \"exchanged for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige\" - a reference to Scientology leader David Miscavige's wife, who has not been seen in public since 2007.\n\nElsewhere, Carmichael recalled the Oscars slap, joking that Smith had won \"the Rock Hudson award for best portrayal of masculinity on television\".\n\nIn the end, there was a big turnout for an event that has been under a cloud of controversy over its ethics and a lack of diversity.\n\nFollowing Tuesday's ceremony, the publication wrote: \"The industry collectively signalled it is ready to forgive, if not forget, and get back to the business of receiving awards...\n\n\"A spirit of acceptance - and the power of awards season promotion - won out.\"\n\nHollywood publication Variety decided the Globes' comeback as a televised ceremony \"made for a surprising success\", but Rolling Stone said the \"messy\" event \"failed to justify its existence\".\n\nIn the musical categories, composer Justin Hurwitz was recognised for his Babylon score, while best original song went to Naatu Naatu from the Indian action film RRR.\n\nThe tune held off competition from pop heavyweights Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.\n\nThere was a surprise win for Argentina, 1985 in the best non-English language film category. It beat RRR, Decision to Leave, and the Oscar-tipped All Quiet on the Western Front.\n\nDuring the ceremony, actor Sean Penn also introduced a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said that it was \"clear\" that the \"tide was turning\" in the ongoing war in his country, and that Ukraine would be triumphant in its struggle.", "Australian Cardinal George Pell - who was convicted then acquitted of child sex abuse - will not be offered a state funeral in his home state to avoid distress for victims of abuse, Victoria's premier says.\n\nThe former Vatican treasurer died on Tuesday aged 81.\n\nHe is Australia's highest ranking Catholic, and the most senior clergyman ever jailed for child sex offences.\n\nState funerals are frequently offered to notable public figures in Australia.\n\nBut the premier of Victoria - where Cardinal Pell was born and spent about half his career - said no such funeral would take place there.\n\n\"I couldn't think of anything more distressing for victim survivors,\" Daniel Andrews told reporters on Thursday.\n\nMr Andrews also said he was unlikely to attend the cleric's funeral.\n\nOfficials in the state of New South Wales, where the Cardinal served as Archbishop of Sydney, have also said they will not offer the honour, local media report.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also declined to say whether he will attend the cardinal's funeral.\n\nCardinal Pell was Australia's most powerful Catholic, but he was reviled by many in Australia.\n\nDuring a career spanning six decades, he worked his way through the ranks of the Church in Victoria, serving as Archbishop of both Melbourne and then Sydney, before he became one of the Pope's top aides.\n\nHe was summoned to Rome in 2014 to clean up the Vatican's finances, and was often described as the Church's third-ranked official.\n\nBut the cleric left his post in 2017, returning to Australia to face trial on child sex abuse charges.\n\nA jury in 2018 found he had abused two boys while Archbishop of Melbourne in the 1990s.\n\nCardinal Pell, who always maintained his innocence, spent 13 months in prison before the High Court of Australia quashed the verdict in 2020, finding the jury had not properly considered all the evidence at his trial.\n\nEven before he faced charges, the cleric was a lightning rod for anger in Australia over the Church's failure to tackle the child sex abuse crisis.\n\nA landmark inquiry found that he knew of child sexual abuse by priests in Australia as early as the 1970s but failed to take action, something he says is \"not supported by evidence\".\n\nThe cleric also faced criticism as an architect of the Australian Church's first victim compensation scheme, which survivors say was designed to protect the Church from large payouts and lacked empathy.", "Weeks before a blogger died at a secure mental health unit she told a staff member it was possible to buy things \"to do the job\", an inquest has heard.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, from Cornwall, had a poisonous substance delivered to a psychiatric ward at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal in Stockport.\n\nShe opened the parcel in front of staff on 21 March and swallowed the contents.\n\nMs Matthews, who blogged about her mental health, was followed by thousands on social media.\n\nShe was being treated as an NHS patient at the private hospital run by the Priory Group at the time of her death.\n\nManchester South Coroners' Court in Stockport was told weeks before her death Ms Matthews, who has been described as \"bright and vivacious\", had been discussing euthanasia with a nurse and stated she should have the right to end her own life.\n\nThe inquest heard she told a care worker: \"There are things you can purchase to do the job.\"\n\nWhen questioned about whether she had bought \"something risky\" she replied: \"It's already done now.\"\n\nThe inquest was told she added: \"I've said too much.\"\n\nGiving evidence Dr Taslim Kamath, who supervised patients on the ward, said: \"I was not aware of that\", adding, \"It should have been brought to my attention as soon as possible\".\n\nWhen asked about events on the day Ms Matthews died, Dr Kamath said she received a phone call at 13:15 BST on 21 March from the ward informing her that Ms Matthews had swallowed a substance.\n\nThe clinician said she had \"never heard of the substance in my life before\", and advised the team to call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nShe admitted there had been confusion about the name of the substance.\n\nAssistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman asked her how she found out more about it and the witness replied: \"Google.\"\n\nDr Kamath told the inquest \"alarm bells\" were ringing and at 13:30 she was informed that Ms Matthews appeared \"agitated\" but \"was sitting up and talking and did not need my immediate attention\".\n\nAt 13:40 the doctor went to the ward and was \"shocked\" to see paramedics and the hospital crash team trying to resuscitate the 26-year-old.\n\nThe inquest has previously been told a risk screening concluded three days before her death decided \"everything Beth orders must be checked by staff… we need to be opening parcels for her\".\n\nA note in November 2021 had encouraged staff to be \"hyper vigilant\" when Ms Matthews opened parcels and following an incident involving Ms Matthews later that month, it was recommended that staff should open her parcels, but this was not discussed in meetings with senior staff convened to discuss her treatment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Model Tatjana Patitz has died, aged 56, her modelling agency has announced.\n\nNo cause of death has been revealed. The German-born model was living in California at the time of her death.\n\nPatitz, who rose to fame in the 1990s, became one of the decade's most prominent supermodels. She also appeared in music videos for Duran Duran and George Michael.\n\nIn a 1988 interview with Vogue magazine, she attributed her success to \"not looking like anyone else\".\n\n\"People always said that I looked special... And I was going to make it because of that,\" she said at the time.\n\nPatitz was born in Hamburg in 1966, to an Estonian mother and a German father.\n\nHer family soon relocated to Sweden, where she entered a contest at the age of 17. She came third and it took several years for her career to take off.\n\nBy 1988, however, she was being shot by high-profile fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh.\n\nPatitz also featured on the famous 1990 British Vogue cover alongside fellow supermodels Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington, cementing her status as one of the five \"original\" supermodels of the 1990s.\n\nShe also starred in George Michael's Freedom! '90 music video and worked on campaigns for Chanel, Calvin Klein and Versace.\n\nAnna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue, said: \"Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti... She was far less visible than her peers - more mysterious, more grown-up, more unattainable - and that had its own appeal.\"\n\nThe Peter Lindbergh Foundation paid tribute to \"Tatjana's kindness, inner beauty and outstanding intelligence\".\n\n\"She will be immensely missed,\" a Twitter statement by the Foundation said.\n\nPatitz's most recent catwalk appearance was in the Etro show in February 2019 as part of Milan fashion week, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nShe is survived by her 19-year-old son, Jonah.", "Money borrowed to pay for Christmas could take years to repay, according to debt advice charity StepChange.\n\nThe charity said worries about debt had led to a surge in enquiries as soon as the festive season was over.\n\nIts warning comes as a poll for the BBC suggests fears over unmanageable debt.\n\nA third of respondents to the poll who used credit to help get through Christmas and the holiday season said they were not confident about their ability to repay.\n\nStepChange said it had advised more people on 3 January, the first working day after the festive break, than on any day last year.\n\n\"Christmas can put great financial pressure on people, causing some to rely on credit and spend more than they can afford. In some cases, this can lead to a debt hangover in the new year that may take many months or even years to repay,\" said Richard Lane, from StepChange.\n\nHe urged those struggling not to \"suffer in silence\".\n\nThe government has promised support payments to those most in need.\n\nThe online poll of 4,187 UK adults by Savanta Comres for BBC News, Morning Live and Rip Off Britain was carried out on 4-6 January. It found that more than eight in 10 of those asked were worried about the rising cost of living, with some losing sleep over it.\n\nBut it suggests people are finding different ways to cut costs to pay their bills. A majority of respondents have been turning the heating down and lights off, or reducing their grocery shop.\n\nNatasha and Linda have found ways to save money\n\nThat is also the case for Natasha Miller and her mum Linda, who spoke to BBC News as they took six-month-old Lana and two-year-old Penny to a free story and rhyme session in Garforth, Leeds.\n\n\"We try not to bath the girls every night, that's the big one,\" Natasha said.\n\nLinda added: \"With food prices, we've tried to budget, to only buy the things we need and not waste as much. We switch off the lights, and we keep the temperature at 16C to 18C in the house.\n\n\"Normally we buy each other presents but we did a Secret Santa this year so we weren't buying for everyone.\"\n\nThe poll for the BBC shows half those asked paid for at least some of their Christmas and holiday season spending on credit, and many would have received credit card bills in recent days.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics has found almost one in 10 people (8%) have had a direct debit, bill or standing order they have been unable to pay in the past month, rising to 10% of those aged 16 to 29, and 13% of those aged 30-49.\n\nPrices are rising at a rate not seen for 40 years, with annual inflation hitting 10.7% in November. That means something which cost £100 a year earlier would typically have gone up in price to £110.70.\n\nInflation is beginning to ease, with price rises slowing, but the poll for the BBC suggests that higher bills - driven primarily by food and energy - are causing anxiety and people are trying to cut spending.\n\nComparable polls for the BBC in June and October last year showed more than eight in 10 people were worried about the rising cost of living.\n\nThis time, two-thirds of those said it was affecting their mental health. Among that group, 80% said they were feeling anxious, 62% had trouble sleeping and 50% had avoided social activities.\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise again in April, from £2,500 to £3,000 a year for a typical household. Yet the poll for the BBC suggests a number of people have already fallen behind on their energy bills, with renters (29%) or those in social and council housing (32%) most likely to have done so in the past six months.\n\nTo reduce energy bills, 68% of respondents said they had turned down their thermostat during the winter, about half (49%) had only heated certain rooms in their home and a similar proportion (45%) had bought warmer clothes.\n\nPeople are also trying to save money by spending less on clothes and cover bills.\n\nFrankie Lakin, a mum of two from Kippax in West Yorkshire, said: \"I personally sometimes feel the pressure of social media, you see all your friends doing stuff with their children and sometimes it's a bit overwhelming. I had to say no. I did cut it down a lot this year.\n\n\"You spend on your card and it is literally just a tap for everything and you don't realise how much you are spending.\"\n\nThe government has said eight million people receiving benefits and on low incomes will receive £900 cost-of-living payments in three instalments in the next 18 months to help pay the bills.\n\nMinisters also confirmed that a £150 cost-of-living payment would automatically go to those with disabilities during the summer, a further £300 payment would be paid to pensioners during the winter of 2023-24, and benefits and the state pension would rise in line with prices in April.\n\n\"Tackling inflation is this government's number one priority, we have a plan that will help to more than halve inflation this year and lay the foundations for long-term growth to improve living standards for everyone,\" a Treasury spokesman said.\n\n\"We are also providing significant support to help people through these tough times by holding down energy bills and delivering up to £1,350 in direct cash payments to millions of vulnerable households.\"", "The BBC’s existing agreement included TV, radio and digital rights for the Paris 2024 Olympics\n\nEvery Olympic Games up to and including the 2032 summer Games will continue to be shown free to air across the BBC. The BBC will offer live and on-demand coverage of both summer and winter editions of the Games on TV, radio, online and digital platforms. \"The Olympic Games is a truly special event - thrilling and inspiring in equal measure,\" said BBC director general Tim Davie. \"I'm delighted it will be on free to air for the UK public.\" The 2024 summer Olympics will be hosted in Paris, France. In 2028 they will be staged in Los Angeles in the United States and the 2032 Games will be in Brisbane, Australia. The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, with the 2030 hosts still to be decided. Tokyo 2020 saw a record-breaking 104 million requests to watch the action online throughout the duration of the Games, while 36.4 million watched on BBC TV. The BBC has secured the same package of rights across all of its broadcast platforms, meaning it will be able to run two simultaneous live streams, as well broadcasting a daily highlights programme and digital clips of the top action. Radio 5 Live will continue to cover all of the big moments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relive some of the best bits from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games\n\nBarbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: \"This partnership ensures that audiences in the UK will continue to have free-to-air access to the Olympic Games for the next decade. \"The BBC's ability to bring the nation together is second to none and this new deal provides sports fans a comprehensive, compelling live and on-demand offer.\" The BBC has partnered with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros Discovery for the coverage. Noel Curran, the director general of the EBU, a European alliance of public service media organisations, added: \"Sport should be for everyone, and we need public service media to bring all audiences together to enjoy the big national moments, inspire the next generation of athletes and grow fanbases for new and emerging sports.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A group of transgender people have lost their legal case against NHS England over waiting times to get seen by a gender specialist.\n\nThe two trans adults and two trans children had tried to get the wait times - more than four years in one of their cases - deemed illegal.\n\nBut a High Court judge ruled on Monday the waiting times are lawful.\n\nThe Good Law Project - which helped to bring the legal action - said it would seek permission to appeal.\n\nThe four people brought the legal action against NHS England (NHSE) over the waiting time to get a first appointment with a gender dysphoria specialist.\n\nThe claimants argued that NHS England was failing to meet a duty to ensure 92% of patients referred for non-urgent care start treatment within 18 weeks.\n\nThey said the waiting times were discriminatory, arguing the delays faced by trans people were longer than for other types of NHS treatment.\n\nBut the judge dismissed the claim on several grounds.\n\nMr Justice Chamberlain said it was \"important to acknowledge the serious effects of long waiting times on the first two claimants\" - meaning the two children who were awaiting treatment ahead of puberty.\n\n\"Their distress and fear, as described by their parents, is particularly affecting because its source lies in their own changing bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a matter of great regret that many other children and adolescents waiting for children's GID [gender identity development] services must face the same distress and fear.\n\n\"The question for me, however, is not whether the first two claimants and others in a similar position have been well served by NHSE, but whether NHSE is in breach of the legal duty imposed.\"\n\nAmong the claimants in the case was a girl who was born as a boy but has been living as a girl for more than two years.\n\nAfter lockdown in 2020, she returned to school as a girl and with a girl's name. The court heard she was happy in her new identity but the happiness was disrupted by the early signs of male puberty, which she wants to delay.\n\n\"As her body develops into a man's body, she is becoming increasingly distressed and sad,\" said her father, who was concerned that she will be left with lifelong mental health issues if she does not access treatment soon.\n\nGender dysphoria is described by the NHS as a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. This sense of unease or dissatisfaction may be so intense it can lead to depression and anxiety and have a harmful impact on daily life, the NHS says.\n\nMuch of the court's decision centred around the 18-week waiting time target that NHS England had to meet - and what the relevant regulations meant.\n\nAs of August 2022, there were more than 26,200 adults waiting for a first appointment at a gender dysphoria clinic, 90% of whom had been waiting more than 18 weeks, the court judgement said.\n\nThe judge concluded that the duty on the NHS was \"a duty to make arrangements with a view to ensuring that the 18-week standard is met\" - but crucially it \"does not regard failure to achieve that standard... as a breach\".\n\nJudge Mr Justice Chamberlain also looked at the claim of direct discrimination - the argument that waiting times were longer in gender identity services than other parts of NHS England because of discrimination.\n\nBut he listed the reasons for the long waiting times in gender identity services, saying it was down to: increased demand; recent clinical controversy surrounding the treatment; the difficulty in recruiting enough specialists despite having funding; and the need to redesign the commissioning model.\n\n\"On the contrary, as I have said, the evidence shows that the long waiting times have increased despite NHSE's willingness to increase very substantially the resources available for this service area,\" he said.\n\nCharity Gendered Intelligence, which aims to increase understanding of gender diversity and improve the lives of trans people, was also named in the legal action as a sixth claimant.\n\nEva Echo, one of the trans adults who made the claim and waited more than four years for a first appointment, said she was \"extremely disappointed\" by the court's decision.\n\n\"While we recognise the strain NHS England is under, these delays predate Covid and this is about individuals getting important and in some cases, life-saving care,\" Ms Echo, who is from Birmingham, said.\n\nThe Good Law Project also said it and the trans community were deeply disappointed.\n\n\"Good Law Project assesses with great care whether to take on a case, and we believed it was a strong and important case to bring,\" said the charity's legal director, Emma Dearnaley.\n\n\"It's our first loss in this space, having previously brought two successful cases. We have decided to appeal this decision.\"\n\nNHS England - which has opened four new gender dysphoria clinics for adults in the last two years - said: \"The NHS notes today's judgement, which saw the claim dismissed on all grounds and acknowledges steps already being taken to reduce waiting times for gender healthcare services.\"", "A large number of people tried to enter the O2 Academy in Brixton, witnesses said\n\nLondon's Brixton O2 Academy will remain closed for at least three months, Lambeth Council has ruled.\n\nIt comes after two people died and several were injured in a crowd surge in the foyer of the venue during a gig by Afro-pop singer Asake on 15 December.\n\nRebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson were fatally injured in the crush.\n\nLambeth's licensing sub-committee suspended the licence for the venue during a meeting earlier.\n\nThe third sold-out concert in a week by Nigerian artist Asake had to be cut short when a large number of people tried to enter the south London venue.\n\nRebecca Ikumelo, 33, and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, were injured in the crush and died in hospital\n\nNursing graduate Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, from Newham, east London, was the mother of two children and Gaby Hutchinson, 23, from Gravesend in Kent, was a security contractor working at the venue.\n\nShortly after the crush, the council suspended the Brixton O2's licence pending a full hearing by the sub-committee.\n\nThe Met Police had said it would use the meeting to \"seek a further suspension\" - something the venue's owner and operator, Academy Music Group, agreed with.\n\nDuring the latest meeting, the Met told the committee the investigation had been challenging - involving statements from hundreds of potential witnesses, examining more than 500 sets of documents, reviewing social media content and analysing footage from more than 40 CCTV cameras.\n\nThe force stressed it was not possible to make a final decision on what should happen to the venue's licence, until that investigation had progressed further.\n\n\"Until we know what happened, we can't say what needs to be done differently,\" the Met's lawyer Gerald Gouriet KC told committee members, adding: \"The answers won't be known for some time.\"\n\nShoes and other items were left strewn outside the venue\n\nMr Gouriet said police were called by venue staff at 21:16 GMT after they had closed the doors due to large crowds outside.\n\n\"When they arrived, they found large-scale disorder, the crowd pushing against the doors, trying to force them open, which they eventually did, and when the doors were breached the crowd poured into the lobby towards the auditorium,\" he said.\n\n\"A number of them fell to the floor. Several - we don't yet know the total number and that will be found out as the inquiry proceeds - were injured as the crowd surged on and over those who had fallen.\"\n\nMr Gouriet went on to say the full extent of the injuries caused by the crush was still unknown, but a third person remained critically ill in hospital.\n\nAcademy Music Group said it continued to offer its \"sincere condolences\" to the families of the people who died and those affected, adding this was the first time any of its venues had been subject to a \"police review\" since 2005.\n\nThe firm told the committee 650 shows had been staged at the venue since 2017 without significant incident.\n\nHowever, the Met had told a previous meeting of the licensing committee there was a similar crush on 2 February 2020, when concerns were raised about the strength of the front doors, during a concert by Naira Marley, another Afrobeats singer.\n\nAmong the 2023 performances at the venue that have been cancelled are two gigs by the band Pendulum, which were due to take place on 5 and 6 March.\n\nThe band's production director, Mark Ward, said O2 Academy Brixton was the \"best-run venue in the country\", as reported by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, adding some of the issues at the site were \"simply unavoidable results of awful things going on in wider society, as we're seeing invasions of parliamentary spaces all over the world\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm not belittling for a second that there needs to be an awful lot of attention paid to what went wrong and how to change that and approach it in the best way possible moving forward.\"\n\nAcademy Music Group lawyer Stephen Walsh said the company was \"committed\" to learning from what had happened and would be applying to update, and vary, the licence when it put forward fresh conditions in the future.\n\nCommittee members ruled that the venue should not reopen until 16 April at the earliest.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A cordon has been set up outside St Aloysius Church\n\nPolice have released details of a car they want to trace after a seven-year-old girl suffered life-threatening injuries in a drive-by shooting at a London church.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nPolice said on Sunday they were seeking information on a black Toyota.\n\nThe seven-year-old is in a stable but life-threatening condition.\n\nSuspects fired from a shotgun during a memorial service attended by hundreds of people at the Roman Catholic church on Phoenix Road at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were seeking information about a black Toyota\n\nSupt Jack Rowlands said officers \"found multiple people with injuries caused by pellets from a shotgun\".\n\n\"Four women, aged 21, 41, 48 and 54, were taken to central London hospitals. Thankfully their injuries were assessed as non-life threatening,\" he said.\n\n\"Two children were also injured. A 12-year-old girl sustained a leg injury. She was treated at hospital before being discharged yesterday afternoon. She is expected to make a full recovery.\n\n\"A seven-year-old girl was more seriously injured. She remains in hospital in a stable but life-threatening condition, and our thoughts are with her and her family.\n\n\"We believe the suspects discharged a shotgun from a moving vehicle, which was a black Toyota C-HR, likely a 2019 model or similar.\"\n\nThe memorial service was being held for Sara Sanchez and her mother\n\nFather Jeremy Trood, who conducted the memorial service, said it was for 20-year-old Sara Sanchez, who died from leukaemia in November and her mother, who died the same month.\n\nHe said the Mass, which had more than 300 people attending, had just finished and people were leaving, when he heard an \"enormous bang\".\n\n\"It was a very strange, long and prolonged noise I heard,\" Father Trood told BBC London.\n\n\"Doves were going to be released at the end of the service and I think people were going out to see that.\n\n\"I remember the screams and shouts, and the people who were making their way out of the church all coming back in.\n\n\"There was confusion as people were getting away from the windows and doors.\n\n\"I've been here nine years and I've never known anything like this... it's very shocking.\"\n\nPolice shared a stock image of the Toyota model they are seeking\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with detectives to determine what happened.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on Twitter that she was \"deeply concerned by the shocking shooting\".\n\nA police cordon is in place outside the church\n\nSupt Rowlands appealed for anyone with information on the \"shocking incident\" to contact police urgently.\n\n\"People came here to attend a funeral, to be with friends and loved ones and to mourn together,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead they were the victims of a senseless act of violence.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as prime minister last year\n\nFormer Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signed a deal to write a book about his turbulent time as prime minister, described as a \"memoir like no other\".\n\nPublisher HarperCollins has bought the rights to the memoir, which is yet to be titled.\n\nNo publication date has been set for the account of Mr Johnson's time in office.\n\nA biographer and friend of Mr Johnson said he expected the former PM to make a \"vast sum\" from the book deal.\n\n\"It will be tremendously readable and no ghost writer will be required,\" Andrew Gimson, author of The Rise of Boris Johnson, told the BBC. \"People pay vast amounts of money for these books.\"\n\nLiterary agents have predicted Mr Johnson could be paid \"north of £1m\" for a memoir about his spell as prime minister.\n\nHarperCollins refused to share details about how much Mr Johnson was paid for the deal, when the book might be finished, or how many copies it expected to sell.\n\nIn brief statement, its publishing director, Arabella Pike, said: \"I look forward to working with Boris Johnson as he writes his account of his time in office during some of the most momentous events the United Kingdom has seen in recent times.\"\n\nMr Johnson was forced to resign by his ministers last July after a series of controversies shattered confidence in his leadership.\n\nHe attempted a comeback after his successor, Liz Truss, quit within weeks of taking office, but ultimately stood aside, and saw Rishi Sunak become prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson's time in office was defined, in part, by the Covid-19 pandemic and the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nThere has been speculation that Mr Johnson is plotting a return to frontline politics and has said he will stand again as an MP at the next general election.\n\nMr Gimson said the memoir will be \"an important exercise in rescuing his reputation\" and \"part of the audience for this will be his own party\".\n\n\"He's got to tell those people I'm worth another go,\" Mr Gimson said, predicting the book could be published this year.\n\nA former journalist, Mr Johnson had a long career in the media before becoming prime minister, working as editor of the Spectator from 1999 to 2005 and as a columnist for the Telegraph.\n\nOther UK prime ministers have secured lucrative books deals, receiving large sums for the publishing rights.\n\nSir Tony Blair was reported to have been paid about £5m in 2007 for his political memoir A Journey, while David Cameron was reported to have earned £1.5m for his memoir, For The Record.\n\nMr Johnson has already written a number of books, including The Churchill Factor, a biography of his hero and wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nAs a backbench Conservative MP, Mr Johnson has also made a considerable amount of money touring the speaking circuit, declaring more than £1m in speaking fees since leaving office in September.\n\nLast week, parliamentary records showed a company set up by Mr Johnson had received a £1m donation from crypto-currency investor.", "The boss of Norwegian energy giant Equinor has said he does not expect gas and electricity bills to return to the levels they were before Covid.\n\nAnders Opedal told the BBC this was down to the costs of moving from fossil fuels to less damaging energy sources.\n\nHe said also that windfall taxes on energy firms were affecting investment in projects in the UK.\n\nEquinor, like many other energy companies, has reported record profits because of higher gas prices.\n\nThe firm, which makes most of its money producing oil and gas, is one of Europe's biggest energy companies, with operations in 36 countries around the world including the UK.\n\nIn its most recent financial results, it reported pre-tax profits of $24.3bn (£19.8bn) between July and September compared to $9.7bn in the same period the year before.\n\nWholesale prices rose as Covid restrictions began to ease but soared higher after Russia invaded Ukraine and countries targeted the Kremlin with sanctions.\n\nIn recent weeks, in part due to warmer than usual weather across Europe, gas prices have returned to where they were before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHowever, gas and electricity bills for households and businesses remain elevated and are squeezing living costs for many.\n\nMr Opedal said it was doubtful that gas and electricity bills would return to a time when the typical UK household was paying around £1,300 a year. The typical annual bill for homes is currently around £2,500 which includes help from the UK government.\n\nThere is \"a kind of re-wiring of the whole energy system in Europe particularly after the gas from Russia was taken away\", Mr Opedal said, adding that huge investment in renewables was needed, including using more hydrogen for example.\n\n\"This will require a lot of investment and these investments need to be paid for, so I would assume that the energy bills may slightly be higher than in the past but not as volatile and high as we have today.\"\n\nLooking ahead, Mr Opedal said \"we need to treat energy as something that is not abundant\".\n\n\"I think we have had a lot of cheaper energy in the past and we probably wasted some of it, so we need to make sure we're making the right investments now [and] everyone [should] use as little energy as possible.\"\n\nMr Opedal spoke to the BBC before attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland which is an annual gathering of political and business leaders. The theme of this year's meeting, which takes place from 16-20 January, is \"Cooperation in a fragmented world\".\n\nMr Opedal took over as chief executive and president of Equinor in November 2020 with a pledge to be \"a force\" in the shift to green energy. He started his career as a petroleum engineer.\n\nLast year, the UK introduced a windfall tax on energy companies that have benefitted from the spike in prices.\n\nInitially 25%, the so-called Energy Profits Levy will rise to 35% in January and remain in place until March 2028.\n\nThe tax applies to profits made from extracting UK oil and gas, but not from other activities such as refining oil and selling petrol and diesel on forecourts.\n\nThe scheme also lets firms claim tax savings worth 91p of every £1 invested in fossil fuel extraction in the UK.\n\nMr Opedal said that while the tax had not impacted Equinor's investment strategy in the UK: \"It is affecting how we judge each project because we have to take into account what is the tax level compared to what are all the other risks.\"\n\nHe cited the Rosebank oilfield off the coast of Shetland which Equinor is seeking to develop, pending government approval.\n\nEquinor says the field could produce almost 70,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, accounting for 8% of the UK's total oil production between 2026 and 2030.\n\nHowever, environmental campaigners have described the plans as a \"total betrayal\" of the UK's climate goals.\n\nMr Opedal said: \"There have been two changes in the tax regime already and we're thinking about will it even be more going forward? Rosebank is a project that we think is needed in the UK in terms of energy security.\"\n\nHe added: \"Uncertainty about what will the tax level be will be an important part of the decision [to go ahead] because, for instance, now on some of the fields we have invested in we are still not profitable but pay tax already based on the windfall taxes. So this is how we kind of evaluate every project.\"\n\nEquinor's Norwegian operations account for around two thirds of its oil and gas business. The rest of its oil and gas business is spread across 30 countries, with two of its largest operations the Peregrino field in Brazil and the Mariner field off Shetland, which started production in 2019.\n\nThe firm also has investments in off-shore wind power. It recently announced plans with Germany's RWE to develop hydrogen-ready power plants.\n\nThe plants will run on gas initially but will eventually be able to transfer to using hydrogen generated by renewable energy.", "Andrew Tate (left) and his brother Tristan outside a Bucharest court last week\n\nAndrew Tate's head of security has given a dismissive account of the women who surrounded the controversial influencer, in spite of a police investigation into claims of sexual assault and exploitation against him. Tate denies all the allegations.\n\nIn an exclusive broadcast interview with the BBC, Bogdan Stancu said more than 100 women had passed through Mr Tate's compound in Bucharest, since he began work there two years ago.\n\nThe former police intelligence officer said he was sometimes asked to physically remove women from the Tate house for being \"too drunk\" or \"making problems\", but that no force was ever used.\n\nAndrew Tate and his brother Tristan are currently in 30-day custody in Romania, while police investigate allegations of trafficking and rape.\n\nThe case has put a spotlight on the attitudes inside their Bucharest home, and the way women were treated there.\n\nMr Stancu says his boss's public persona is the opposite of his real character. But his own views about the models, girlfriends and other women in the Tate house are revealing.\n\nMost of the women who spent time with the brothers in their compound were under 25, he said, and their expenses were paid for by Andrew Tate.\n\n\"Some of the girls misunderstood the reality and believed [they would] be his next wife,\" Mr Stancu told me. \"When they realised the reality, it's easy to transform from a friend into an enemy, and make a statement to the police.\"\n\nBogdan Stancu's lack of faith in the women accusing Andrew Tate is in sharp contrast to the loyalty he feels for his employer.\n\n\"I never doubt Andrew,\" he told me.\n\nAnd, as one of the millionaire's most senior staff, his explanation for doubting the testimony of Mr Tate's accusers is equally striking.\n\n\"They're young and stupid,\" he said.\n\nBut, he added, it was right that the police investigated these serious allegations, and that if the Tate brothers were ultimately charged and convicted, they must pay for their crimes.\n\nHe also offered a glimpse into Andrew Tate's private anxieties, saying his boss believed \"somebody wanted to hurt him\".\n\nIt wasn't clear where Mr Tate believed the threat was coming from, he said.\n\nAsked whether these concerns amounted to paranoia, the security chief said, \"I would not say 'paranoid' but something similar maybe. He wanted to have a normal life and couldn't - maybe it's normal to be a little bit more paranoid.\"\n\nMr Stancu said the social media star could also be impulsive while travelling abroad, changing his schedule at the drop of a hat, and flying to different destinations at a moment's notice.\n\n\"[The security team] stayed inside the hotel with the baggage locked and without changing our clothes,\" he said, \"because we knew anything could happen.\"\n\nAnd he also confirmed that both Mr Tate and his brother Tristan had several children living in Romania, saying they sometimes went to visit them.\n\nInvestigators have been widening their inquiries over the past week.\n\nOn Saturday, they removed Mr Tate's fleet of luxury cars - the sight of his shiny dove-grey Porsche perched on the battered frame of a police tow-truck captured his shift in fortunes, from a millionaire internet personality to a key suspect in a human trafficking case.\n\nAndrew Tate's luxury cars were towed away from his compound in Bucharest\n\nPolice last week expanded their investigation to seven more properties, including a villa owned by the Tates beneath the Carpathian Mountains in northern Romania.\n\nIn the town of Comarnic, two hours' drive further north, the Tate villa, raided by police on Thursday, towers over the houses around it. Small home-made sheds perch against the high walls that surround the property.\n\nNeighbours here say the property was fully-renovated last year, and only completed a few months ago.\n\nBeldica Trandafir lives in a worn housing block beside the main gate to the villa.\n\n\"The guy in charge of the construction asked me to work on the electrics, but when they explained what they wanted, I told them it was way beyond what I knew how to do,\" Mr Trandafir told me.\n\nInside, he said, the house has \"all the amenities you can think of\".\n\n\"It's extremely luxurious,\" he explained. \"It's divided into flats, [and] they could afford to build a swimming pool - things that people like us couldn't even dare to dream of.\"\n\nHow Andrew Tate made his money is a key part of this investigation.\n\nPolice want to know whether he lured women to Romania with promises of a serious relationship or marriage, before forcing or manipulating them into working for him as models in adult entertainment chat rooms.\n\nThey are also looking into rape allegations made by one of the witnesses.\n\nInvestigators have confirmed that six women have been identified as potential victims. But last week, two of the women in the investigation publicly denied any mistreatment by the Tate brothers.\n\nThe women - who have tattoos reading \"Property of Tate\" and \"Tate Girl\" - worked in the compound in Bucharest, where Andrew Tate lived with his brother and the models who staffed his adult web-cam business.\n\nThe BBC has verified their identities with a member of Tate staff.\n\nSpeaking to Romania's Antena 1 TV channel, one of the women - identified as Beatrice - said she had been \"good friends\" with the Tate brothers for two years and had \"Tate Girl\" tattooed on her arm \"out of respect for them\".\n\nThe other woman - Jasmin - said she had never seen Mr Tate or his brother Tristan be \"aggressive or rude\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Beatrice and Jasmin, who Romanian police deem to be potential victims of Andrew Tate, say they were friends, not victims\n\n\"I was never threatened,\" Beatrice said. \"If I was, I wouldn't be stupid enough to stay in that house.\n\n\"You can't describe me as a victim in the case file if I'm not a victim.\"\n\nDescribing the moment police first entered the compound in December, Beatrice said 20 police officers charged in and went upstairs to a bedroom where, she says, two other women had locked themselves inside the room in fear of the raid.\n\n\"They broke the door down. [The women] screamed,\" Beatrice said.\n\n\"But the police didn't see that the key to the bedroom was lying on the bed.\"\n\nBBC News has spoken to others who have different memories of the raid.\n\nNo charges have yet been brought against the Tates - or the two Romanian women detained alongside them. But Mihaela Dragus, spokeswoman for Romania's National Anti-Trafficking Agency, says the case is already sending a strong message to both traffickers and victims.\n\nIn one of his social media videos, Andrew Tate explains why he moved to Romania in 2017.\n\n\"One of [my reasons] is the #MeToo era,\" he says. \"People say: 'Oh you are a rapist'. No, I am not a rapist, but I like the idea of being able to do what I want, I like being free.\"\n\n\"If she goes to the [Romanian] police and says: 'He raped me yesterday', they'll say ok, do you have evidence? Is there CCTV proof?\"\n\nNone of this is evidence that Mr Tate was involved in human trafficking or rape, but his assessment of Romania's attitude to sexual crimes is not wrong, says Laura Stefan, a legal expert and prominent anti-corruption campaigner working with the Expert Forum think tank.\n\n\"In a way, he's right,\" she told me. \"Listening to him, the way he explained why he came here, I could relate to that; I thought he made a good calculation - unfortunately.\"\n\nBut she says things are changing.\n\n\"Romania has a serious problem with trafficking, and I think the Romanian authorities have come to understand that this has to be dealt with,\" she explained.\n\n\"That means not only investigating a handful of hotshots, but also working with the victims and providing them with support.\"\n\nLast year, Romania made enough progress for the US Trafficking In Persons report to take it off their watchlist.\n\nBut the report also repeated concerns about Romanian officials themselves being involved in people trafficking.\n\nThis case, involving a controversial, high-profile personality with US-British citizenship, has put a fresh spotlight on how Romania handles allegations of organised crime and sexual exploitation.\n\nThere's huge public interest in this case.\n\nAnd whatever the truth about life behind the high black gates of his compound, this case is a test for both the Romanian authorities and for the reputation of Andrew Tate.", "The health service is in urgent need of help with doctors warning that unprecedented pressures could cost lives. Ambulances are queuing outside hospitals, emergency departments are packed and exhausted healthcare staff have more strikes planned. So do we need to do things differently to fix the NHS?\n\nThe government says the NHS has record numbers of staff and that it is tackling the pressures - including providing additional funding. But currently, many other records are being broken in England's health and care system for the wrong reasons. The latest NHS Digital figures show:\n\nEven at a time of crisis, there are doctors and nurses rethinking healthcare.\n\nBBC Panorama has been to Hull and Oxford where they are identifying problems early, and taking hospital treatment directly into people's homes.\n\n\"We've essentially done 20 consultations in one here,\" says Dr Anna Folwell, as she finishes a medical consultation with 83-year-old Mary.\n\nRather than the rushed 10 minutes that's more usual in the NHS, Dr Folwell has spent more than an hour with Mary - who is having a full-body and life MOT at the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre in Hull.\n\nMary, accompanied by her daughter Jackie, was referred to the Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre by her GP after recent falls\n\nDuring her day-long visit, Mary also sees a nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and social worker.\n\nThe NHS-funded centre is a one-of-a-kind hub that tries to anticipate and prevent problems among people who are frail - most of them are elderly.\n\nIn the UK, there are nearly 3 million people who can be described as frail - that's about 4% of the population - and research suggests they require about 40% of all hospital beds and GP resources.\n\nDoctors, paramedics, and any health or care service in the area can refer someone here. Mary was sent by her GP after her third fall in the past year.\n\n\"I've never seen her look so frail. She'd been laid on the floor for a while,\" says Mary's daughter, Jackie, who has accompanied her.\n\nConsultant geriatricians Dr Anna Folwell and Dr Dan Harman set up the Jean Bishop centre for the NHS\n\nUsually, doctors only have a partial view of someone's medical history, but Dr Folwell has access to all Mary's GP, hospital and social care records.\n\nShe concludes that Mary's blood pressure pills may be increasing her risk of falling. She adjusts the dose and removes another medication altogether.\n\nThe centre says these reviews consistently save more than £100 per patient per year - removing medications where the risks of continuing them outweigh the benefits for the patient.\n\nIt believes if that was replicated for all frail people across the UK, it could save about £270m annually - money which could be reinvested in services.\n\nThe centre's social worker sees Mary to assess if she needs more help at home. She also provides information about clubs and day centres, as loneliness can increase the risk of dementia and poor health.\n\nDr Folwell and Dr Dan Harman set up the Jean Bishop centre. Both are consultant community geriatricians - they specialise in the care of older people.\n\nTwelve thousand patients have come through the centre's doors in the four years since it opened. They have needed fewer GP and hospital visits, but the biggest impact has been among some of the frailest patients.\n\n\"For those patients deemed to be frequent flyers - three or more emergency department attendances in the last six months - we reduce those attendances by over 50%,\" says Dr Harman.\n\nThe NHS is in a critical condition. The BBC's social affairs editor, Alison Holt, assesses the innovation and new ways of working that might offer the NHS the lifeline it needs.\n\n\"The biggest thing is trying to explain to someone who is feeling unwell, why it is OK for them to be at home feeling unwell,\" says Dr Jordan Bowen.\n\nDr Bowen says many patients, particularly those who are older, will get better quicker in an environment they know.\n\nDr Jordan Bowen tries to get people who arrive as emergencies home the same day\n\nHe runs a unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford that tries to get people, who arrive as emergencies, home the same day safely.\n\nThey see about 70 people a day - 95% will go home.\n\nMany hospitals have similar units - but here, they are going a step further.\n\nThey want to reduce the number of people who need to go to hospital in the first place, by providing high-level treatment at home.\n\n\"The hospital is full at the moment, 110% full,\" Dr Bowen says, studying a screen that shows the patients waiting in A&E.\n\nHe turns to Prof Dan Lasserson, who is standing beside him. \"Could we get you and the hospital-at-home team to go out?\" he asks.\n\nProf Lasserson was one of the first doctors in the country to start delivering this kind of hospital care in people's own homes.\n\nLike Dr Bowen, he is a consultant specialising in the care of older people.\n\nParamedics, GPs and the John Radcliffe's own specialists alert the hospital-at-home team if there is a patient who needs medical care, but would benefit from being at home.\n\nProf Lasserson has also been asked by a heart specialist to visit the home of 91-year-old Ted - who fell last week. A bed has been moved into the family's front room, and Ted's wife and daughter are looking after him.\n\n\"I feel rotten,\" says Ted, who is finding breathing difficult - but doesn't want to go to hospital.\n\nProf Lasserson helps Ted have a drink before starting the medical treatment\n\nNew technology means Prof Lasserson can now treat much sicker people in their own homes.\n\nHe plugs a small ultrasound scanner into his mobile phone - and scans Ted's heart, lungs and kidneys. Black and white images on the screen show a build-up of fluid around his internal organs.\n\nThey also show his heart is not pumping properly. \"This isn't squeezing very well at all, this left ventricle,\" says Prof Lasserson. \"That's the problem.\"\n\nRapid blood tests are done and Ted's heart rhythm is also monitored. All while he is sitting in his armchair.\n\nHe is given intravenous drugs to help get rid of the excess fluid and a catheter is fitted.\n\nWithin a couple of hours, he has had treatment that would previously have taken visits to several different hospital departments and probably a stay on a ward.\n\nThe average hospital stay for frail, older patients is 10 days.\n\nResearchers estimate providing a patient with hospital care at home costs about half that of providing the same treatment and care on a ward.\n\nNationally, the NHS is rolling out an initiative called \"virtual wards\". Technology is used to monitor patients, who need more routine care at home. They are visited if needed. The NHS says last month more than 10,000 patients were cared for in this way, easing pressure and reducing demand on hospitals.\n\nIn Ted's case, a nurse or paramedic will visit him each day at home - but, as he is not in hospital, the help he needs with day-to-day tasks falls to his family.\n\nHis daughter, Gill, returned from her home in France two months ago to help, but she has to go back in a week's time.\n\n\"My mum has mobility problems and balance issues, so often toileting and washing she can't do,\" says Gill. \"She can't carry on doing what she's doing.\"\n\nIn the end, his family was only able to get a little social care help. They say it wasn't enough. Ted was eventually moved to hospital, then to a hospice, where he died a few weeks later.\n\nIf the Oxford \"hospital-at-home\" initiative is to be rolled out more widely, families will need more support in the community.\n\nThe government says there are 35,300 more doctors and 47,100 additional nurses working in the NHS now, compared to 2010.\n\nBut there remains significant shortages of GPs and district nurses. And the social care system, which supports people in their own homes and in care homes, is also buckling.\n\n\"We're no different in Oxfordshire. We are really struggling with the demand,\" says Stephen Chandler who runs the county council - which cover's Ted's area. He is also former president of Adass, the association which represents the people running local authority social care in England.\n\nHe says councils are doing everything they can to provide support, but to tackle staff shortages, care workers have to be valued and paid more. Most earn just above the minimum wage.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) says it is investing £7.5bn into adult social care over the next two years, including improving training and recruitment.\n\nIt also says this winter it is putting an extra £700m into getting people out of hospital more quickly, including buying more care home places.\n\nIn both Oxford and Hull, change has been driven by determined doctors and there was energy and enthusiasm among staff.\n\nNurse specialist Yun Ody from the Oxford team used to work on a busy hospital ward. She prefers seeing patients in their homes, because she has time to get to know them. \"You can listen to them and know what they need,\" she says..\n\nIn Oxford, nurse specialist Yun Ody prefers seeing patients in their homes\n\nPatients we met were given valuable time that resulted in problems being picked up early, emergencies being avoided, or people being able to have their treatment at home surrounded by family. It gave them choices.\n\nBut at a time, when the NHS and the care system are facing such huge demand, many will question how realistic or possible it is to scale up projects like this.\n\nThe doctors in Hull and Oxford would argue we can't afford not to do things differently.\n\nTackling staff shortages will be key. And if that doesn't happen then the danger is the health and care system will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan: \"The smell of smoke still hangs in the air here\"\n\nThe pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report \"anything untoward\" as the plane approached the airport, a spokesman said.\n\nAnup Joshi said that the \"mountains were clear and visibility was good\", adding there was a light wind and \"no issue with weather\".\n\nThere were 72 passengers and crew aboard the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara which crashed on Sunday.\n\nNo one is believed to have survived.\n\nIt is the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.\n\nOn Monday, fragments of the Yeti Airlines plane were scattered across the riverbank, on both sides, like pieces of a broken toy.\n\nOne portion of the aircraft lay on its side, the windows still intact. A few metres away, blue airline seats, now mangled.\n\nThe thick stench of smoke hung in the air, the scorched grass on the bank a reminder of the fireball that engulfed the aircraft after it crash landed.\n\nMobile phone footage showed the plane rolling sharply as it approached the runway. It then hit the ground in the gorge of the Seti River, just over a kilometre from the airport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nThe pilot asked for a change from the assigned runway 3 to runway 1, which was granted by the airport, Mr Joshi said.\n\n\"We could operate from both runways. The plane was cleared for landing.\"\n\nIt was \"very unfortunate\" that the incident happened just 15 days after the airport had opened for business, he added.\n\nAs members of Nepal's police scoured through the wreckage, they told us they had found the black box flight recorder. The voice recorder has also been recovered.\n\nThey have given up hope of finding any survivors. Now the focus was on finding any clues as to how this tragedy happened.\n\nThe government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the disaster and the prime minister declared Monday a national day of mourning.\n\nHundreds of rescuers were rushed to the site of the crash\n\nOn both sides of the vast gorge where the plane crashed, hundreds of people who live nearby watched on.\n\nIndra Prasad Saptoka said he saw the plane turn to its side before it crashed. He was thankful it landed away from the houses close by.\n\nAnother local resident, Divya Dhakal, told the BBC how she rushed to the crash site after seeing the aircraft plunge from the sky shortly after 11:00 local time (05:15 GMT).\n\n\"By the time I was there, the crash site was already crowded. There was huge smoke coming from the flames of the plane. And then helicopters came over in no time,\" she said.\n\n\"The pilot tried his best to not hit civilisation or any home,\" she added. \"There was a small space right beside the Seti River and the flight hit the ground in that small space.\"\n\nAviation accidents are not uncommon in Nepal, where remote runways and sudden weather changes can make for hazardous conditions.\n\nThis Himalayan nation, home to some of the most breathtaking mountains in the world, has some of the most difficult terrain to navigate.\n\nA lack of investment in new aircraft and poor regulation have also been blamed in the past.\n\nThe European Union has banned Nepalese airlines from its airspace over concerns about training and maintenance standards.\n\nIn May 2022, a Tara Air plane crashed in northern Nepal, killing 22 people. Four years earlier, 51 people were killed when a flight travelling from Bangladesh caught fire as it landed in Kathmandu.\n\nJournalist Tribhuvan Paudel was a passenger on the crashed plane\n\nChiranjibi Paudel, whose journalist brother Tribhuvan was on the flight, said action had to be taken to improve aviation safety in Nepal.\n\n\"The airlines should be penalised and the regulatory body of the government also should be held accountable,\" he said.\n\nThe Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara left the Nepalese capital just after 10:30 (04:45 GMT) for what should have been a short trip.\n\nOf the passengers, 53 were said to be Nepalese. There were also five Indians, four Russians and two Koreans on the plane. There was one passenger each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France among others.\n\nHave you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Environmental activists Just Stop Oil are among those to use tactics like blocking roads\n\nPolice could be allowed to shut down protests before they cause serious disruption, under new government plans.\n\nDowning Street said the proposals would help officers clamp down on \"a disruptive minority\" who use tactics like blocking roads and slow marching.\n\nIt said the changes seek to give police greater flexibility and clarity over when they can intervene.\n\nBut human rights group Liberty said the proposals amounted to an attack on the right to protest.\n\nThe plans will be set out in an amendment to the Public Order Bill, due to be introduced on Monday.\n\nIts aim is to crack down on disruptive protests by groups like environmental activists Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion, which have used tactics including blocking roads.\n\nThe bill, which covers England and Wales, is currently being scrutinised by the House of Lords and any changes at this stage could be blocked by peers before they become law.\n\nThe proposals are likely to provoke strong opposition from some peers, who have been critical of previous attempts to increase police powers to shut down protests.\n\nNo 10 said the changes would mean police would not have to wait for disruption to take place to shut down a protest.\n\nIt said forces could also consider the \"total impact\" of a series of protests by the same group, rather than seeing them as standalone incidents.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said: \"The right to protest is a fundamental principle of our democracy, but this is not absolute. A balance must be struck between the rights of individuals and the rights of the hard-working majority to go about their day-to-day business.\n\n\"We cannot have protests conducted by a small minority disrupting the lives of the ordinary public.\"\n\nChief Constable BJ Harrington, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for public order and public safety, said: \"This will support officers in confidently and quickly taking action and making arrests where appropriate.\"\n\nAll we know about the proposals to stop what the government calls \"disruptive protests\" is a press release issued by Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 says an amendment to the Public Order Bill will give police \"greater flexibility and clarity\" in their ability to stop demonstrators using \"guerrilla tactics\" and causing \"chaos\".\n\nBut, as things stand, we have little in the way of clarity because everything hinges on a definition of \"serious disruption\" and we do not yet have one.\n\nOpposition parties and civil liberty campaigners argue the police already have powers to deal with dangerous or highly disruptive protest. The Public Order Bill would introduce serious disruption orders, allowing police to place restrictions on individuals and greater stop and search powers.\n\nHowever, senior police officers argue there is a need for greater clarity given the complexity of case law. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, says he wants to know \"where the balance of rights should be struck\". The policing of the vigil for Sarah Everard inspired legal action which saw the High Court rule in March last year that the handling breached the rights of the organisers.\n\nBut Martha Spurrier, director of human rights group Liberty, said the proposals were \"a desperate attempt to shut down any route for ordinary people to make their voices heard\".\n\nShe said allowing the police to shut down protests before any disruption had taken place \"sets a dangerous precedent\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the tactics of Just Stop Oil activists were wrong and \"deeply arrogant\" but police already had the power to take action against them.\n\nHe told LBC officers could be given greater clarity over when to intervene without the need for legislation.\n\nLabour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, a former director of Liberty, said police already had adequate powers to arrest people obstructing highways and the government's proposals gave officers \"a blank cheque\".\n\n\"This, I fear, is about treating all peaceful dissent as effectively terrorism,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"This degree of pre-emption will basically shut down the kind of dissent that isn't even causing disruption at all because their definition will set such a low bar.\"\n\nThe Just Stop Oil group described the proposal as \"a sinister and authoritarian attempt to undermine the basic human rights that underpin our democracy\".\n\nThe Public Order Bill already included provisions to create a new criminal offence for interfering with key national infrastructure like oil refineries and railways and for \"locking on\".\n\nThat tactic - where someone locks themselves to an object or building - has been used by some climate protesters.\n\nThe bill builds on the controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, which passed last year and was criticised by some groups for introducing curbs on the right to protest.\n\nUnder this existing legislation, if the police want to restrict a protest, they generally have to show it may result in \"serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. '16 is too young to change legal gender', says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer believes 16-year-olds are too young to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nThe UK Labour leader voiced \"concerns\" about the Scottish government's reforms to the process, citing a potential impact on UK-wide equalities law.\n\nHowever, he stopped short of backing a challenge to the Holyrood legislation, something UK ministers are considering.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said any move to block the bill passed by MSPs would be \"an outrage\".\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will \"vigorously\" contest any challenge.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, passed by MSPs, removes the need for people to get a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria before starting the change process.\n\nIt also drops the age limit to 16, and cuts the amount of time the process takes from two years to a matter of months.\n\nScottish Labour supported the reforms, and almost all of its MSPs voted for the finalised bill.\n\nBut Sir Keir told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: \"I have concerns about the provision in Scotland, in particular the age reduction to 16 and, in particular, the rejection of our amendment in relation to the Equalities Act.\"\n\nPressed on whether you are old enough at 16 to decide to change gender, he replied: \"No, I don't think you are.\"\n\nScottish Labour had tabled an unsuccessful amendment that sought to clarify the application of UK-wide equality laws.\n\nSupporters of the lower age limit previously argued that the age of legal capacity in Scotland was already 16 and that should be no different when it came to changing gender.\n\nSir Keir also told the programme a respectful debate was needed on the issue and said he believed it was currently being treated as a \"political football\".\n\nAsked to clarify his position, the Labour leader replied: \"Modernise the legislation to take out the indignities.\"\n\nThe UK government is considering challenging the legislation, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying it is \"entirely reasonable\" for ministers to examine the potential legal impact of the bill on the rest of the UK.\n\nSir Keir would not be drawn on whether he would back a challenge, saying he wanted to wait and see what UK ministers decided to do.\n\nAuthor JK Rowling has been an outspoken critic of the reforms in Scotland\n\nThe UK government is currently considering legal advice about whether to use its powers to block the bill from becoming law.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke during a visit to Scotland last week about the concerns he has over the changes it would enact.\n\nDowning Street officials said on Saturday that the full legal advice to ministers had not yet been reviewed and no decisions had been made.\n\nBBC Scotland understands a decision may be announced on Tuesday or Wednesday.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Mark Harper was also asked about the gender self-identification laws being changed in Scotland.\n\nHe said ministers were awaiting \"detailed analysis\" of how Scotland's gender law would affect UK legislation.\n\nMr Harper told the BBC: \"We are not proposing to make those changes for England, but what we have to do is make a decision about whether that legislation impacts on legislation elsewhere in the UK.\n\n\"One of those pieces of legislation is the Equalities Act.\n\n\"That is why we need a detailed analysis of that, and that is the information the government needs before it can take a decision.\"\n\nMr Harper added that transgender people had received abuse and their rights should be respected but women also had concerns about risks to their safety.\n\nThe minister also described criticism of the author JK Rowling, who has condemned the legislation in Scotland, as unfair.\n\nMaking it easier to legally change gender has been one of the most contentious issues to come before the Holyrood parliament.\n\nIt has exposed sharp divisions within all the major political parties and prompted the biggest ever rebellion in the SNP since the party took power.\n\nThose divisions within parties are underlined by the stance Sir Keir Starmer has now taken against extending the right to switch gender to 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nThe official position of the Scottish Labour Party was to support that change, albeit that some of their MSPs refused to back the bill at the final stage.\n\nIf, in the week ahead, the UK government decides to use its powers to block the Scottish bill, Labour will have another decision to make.\n\nDo they think such an intervention is justified or not? Sir Keir has not ruled out backing a UK veto even if his Scottish party helped pass the legislation.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"What we have is a right-wing UK Conservative government which is seeking to row back on the democratic powers of the Scottish Parliament. That's an outrage.\n\n\"And the people who should be most outraged by that are the Conservative and Labour politicians who voted in favour of the GRR (Gender Recognition Reform) who must recognise the fact this is the UK parliament overstepping massively.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens criticised the Labour leader and said his comments were a \"shameful intervention\".\n\nEqualities spokeswoman Maggie Chapman said: \"Starmer is ignoring the views of the vast majority of the Scottish Parliament, including the Labour MSPs who rightly backed the bill.\n\n\"A lot of people in Scotland will never forgive him if he lines up with the Tories to block what is a small but important step for equality.\"\n\nScottish actor Brian Cox, 76, also spoke in favour of the legislation but said he was unsure about 16-year-olds being allowed to change gender.\n\nI'm very, very proud of Scotland for doing the gender identification act, because I think that's long needed and it's a debate that has to happen,\" he told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.\n\n\"And I do question the 16 thing, but that's my own personal feeling, but I do feel we need to address that and I think that's absolutely right.\"\n\nHe also said he did not like the way JK Rowling was treated over the issue as she was \"entitled to her opinion\".\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Passengers have been asked to check the latest information before they travel until advised otherwise\n\nThe 144ft-long (44m) landslip, which happened near Hook, in Hampshire, has damaged the main line from London Waterloo to Basingstoke.\n\nNetwork Rail has asked passengers not to travel between London and south or west of Basingstoke on Monday.\n\nIt also said there would be \"major changes to train services for some time\" while repairs take place.\n\nThe slip, which left one track hanging in mid-air, means only two of the railway's four tracks are passable, with both the intact tracks designed to be used by London-bound trains only.\n\nNetwork Rail Wessex route director Mark Killick said it would have \"a massive effect on customers\".\n\nHe said the main line to Basingstoke was the spine of the railway and there would be \"knock-on impacts across the route\".\n\n\"We're still assessing the damage and it's difficult to put a detailed timescale in place, but we know it's going to be at least a week,\" he said.\n\nThe slip happened when the soil gave way along a section of the embankment\n\nApologising for the \"scale of the disruption\", he said passengers should check before they travel, not just on the affected section but all the way up the line to London Waterloo.\n\n\"We will need to stabilise the embankment, essentially stopping it moving, and then rebuild the railway where it has slid away,\" he said.\n\nThe slip happened when the soil gave way along a section of the embankment to the north-east of Hook station and slide out from underneath the tracks.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was working on designs for the work needed to repair the railway, which would then give a clearer idea of timescales involved.\n\nIt added that a plan to provide journey options was set to be published \"as soon as possible\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conflict in Burkina Faso has forced nearly two million people to flee their homes (File photo)\n\nSome 50 women have been abducted by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, local officials say.\n\nResidents in Arbinda said two groups of women were taken as they were out gathering leaves and wild fruits because of a severe food shortage.\n\nA small number managed to escape and raise the alarm.\n\nThe abductions happened on Thursday and Friday, but news has just emerged, as much of the area has been blockaded by Islamist militants.\n\n\"The women got together to go and gather leaves and wild fruits in the bush because there is nothing left to eat,\" one resident told the AFP news agency, adding that they had left with their carts on Thursday.\n\n\"On Thursday evening, when they didn't come back, we thought that their carts had had a problem. But three survivors came back to tell us what happened,\" said another resident.\n\nArbinda in the Sahel region has been hit hard by the jihadist insurgency.\n\nRoads in and out have been blocked by the jihadists, there is severe hunger as food supplies are limited, and the humanitarian situation is desperate.\n\nLast month, protesters in Arbinda broke into warehouses to get food and supplies.\n\nBurkina Faso as a whole has been hit by a decade-long insurgency that has displaced nearly two million people.\n\nThe military seized power last January, promising an end to attacks, but the violence still rages.", "Andrey Medvedev in uniform before defecting from Wagner\n\nA former commander with the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group has claimed asylum in Norway after deserting from the mercenary outfit.\n\nAndrey Medvedev, 26, crossed the border into Norway last Friday, where he was detained by border guards.\n\nHe is currently being held in the Oslo area where he faces charges of illegal entry to Norway, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the BBC.\n\nMr Risnes said his client left Wagner after witnessing war crimes in Ukraine.\n\nThe Norwegian Border Guard confirmed to the BBC that a Russian man had been detained after crossing the country's 198km (123 mile) long border with Russia, but said it could not comment further for \"reasons of security and privacy\".\n\nTarjei Sirma-Tellefsen, police chief of staff in the Norwegian region of Finnmark, said a man had been detained by a border patrol and said he had applied for asylum.\n\nBut the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net, who helped Mr Medvedev leave Russia, confirmed his identity. His escape is believed to be the first known instance of one of the group's soldiers defecting to the West.\n\nGulagu.net's founder Vladimir Osechkin told the BBC that Mr Medvedev had joined the paramilitary group in July 2022 on a four-month contract, but had deserted after witnessing a host of human rights abuses and war crimes while serving in Ukraine.\n\nHe said that Mr Medvedev is a former soldier in the Russian army and that he later served time in prison between 2017 and 2018 before joining the Wagner Group.\n\nHe was placed in charge of a Wagner division in Ukraine, where the mercenary group supplied him with around 30-40 troops every week, Mr Osechkin said.\n\nIn a video posted by Gulagu.net to its social media channels, Mr Medvedev said he fled Ukraine in November after being informed that the group intended to extend his contract indefinitely.\n\nAfter spending two months underground in Russia, he crossed the border into Norway last week.\n\nMr Risnes said his client had also witnessed a host of war crimes while fighting in Ukraine, including seeing \"deserters being executed\" by the Wagner Group's internal security service.\n\n\"In short he felt betrayed and wanted to leave as soon as possible,\" Mr Risnes said.\n\nHe added that he believed Mr Medvedev had taken some evidence of war crimes with him to Norway and that he intends to share his information with groups investigating war crimes in the coming weeks.\n\nIn response, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared to laugh off the allegations.\n\nIn a press release from one of his companies, Prigozhin issued a sarcastic statement, linking Mr Medvedev to a non-existent Nordic mercenary unit and said he was a Norwegian citizen, in an apparent attempt to mock the man's testimony.\n\nPrigozhin also accused him of \"mistreatment of prisoners\" and said that his former employee was \"very dangerous\". Mr Risnes told the BBC that the Wagner leader's claims were not true.\n\nUK officials believe the Wagner Group makes up about 10% of Russia's forces in Ukraine, and played a significant part in helping Moscow's forces take the town of Soledar in eastern Donbas region last week.\n\nThousands of its troops have been recruited from Russian prisons. Mr Prigozhin - a former convict himself - has promised recruits their freedom in exchange for six months service in Ukraine.\n\nBefore the invasion of Ukraine, it had only a few thousand mercenaries. Most were believed to be experienced former soldiers, including some from Russia's elite regiments and special forces.\n\nSince 2015, it is believed to have deployed troops to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.", "Christine Lambrecht was widely criticised for failing to improve Germany's notoriously ill-equipped armed forces.\n\nGermany's Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned following a series of blunders and PR disasters.\n\nIt comes as Berlin comes under rising pressure to allow the delivery of German-built battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nMs Lambrecht was mocked for her announcement that Germany was supporting Ukraine by sending 5,000 military helmets.\n\nShe was also widely criticised for failing to improve Germany's notoriously ill-equipped armed forces.\n\nThis was despite the provision of €100bn (£88bn) for that task following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMs Lambrecht, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), also came in for criticism when it emerged that she had taken her son on a trip in a military helicopter.\n\nBut it was an awkward video she posted on New Year's Eve which triggered widespread contempt and undermined her support within political circles. In the video, Ms Lambrecht talked about the positive personal encounters she had enjoyed during the war in Ukraine, while fireworks exploded around her in Berlin.\n\nIn a resignation statement seen by the German national news agency, Ms Lambrecht said: \"Months of media focus on me doesn't allow for fact-based reporting and discussion about soldiers, the army and security policy in the interest of German citizens.\n\n\"The valuable work of the soldiers and many motivated people in the defence area needs to be in the foreground.\"\n\nMs Lambrecht was due to meet other defence ministers from Ukraine's western allies at the American military base in Ramstein on Friday to discuss further support for Ukraine.\n\nThe German government is facing renewed calls to send German-built Leopard 2 tanks - which Ukraine considers vital if it is to defeat Russia - or at least approve their delivery from countries such as Poland.\n\nWarsaw has signalled its intention to supply the battle tanks, but requires permission from the country of manufacture.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz, who has been criticised for his cautious approach to sending heavy weaponry to Ukraine, agreed last week to supply Marder infantry fighting vehicles.\n\nCrucially, that decision was reached with the US, which jointly announced it would send Bradley armoured vehicles.\n\nShortly afterwards, the UK announced it would send Challenger battle tanks, increasing pressure on Germany to act.\n\nA senior government source told me that Berlin will only send Leopards if the US is in agreement. And the head of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has warned that, even if that decision was reached, it would be 2024 before it could deliver the tanks.\n\nBut German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said recently that his country would not stand in the way of other nations that wanted to send Leopards.\n\nIt is not yet clear who will succeed Ms Lambrecht in a job which is considered such a poisoned chalice that many refer to it as \"the ejector seat\".", "Images of the apartment with its wall torn off and apples still in a fruit bowl were shared widely on social media\n\nImages of a bright, family kitchen in Ukraine, which was exposed to the world when a Russian missile strike tore off its external wall, have caused shock and sadness on social media.\n\nThe apartment was home to well known boxing coach Mykhailo Korenovsky, who was killed in Saturday's attack. His wife and children reportedly survived.\n\nA video of Korenovsky celebrating a recent birthday with his family in the same flat has also been published.\n\nThe victims included three children, with more than 30 people still unaccounted for on Monday evening.\n\nThe image is striking for the stark contrast between the normal and the abnormal; the everyday domesticity of the cosy kitchen is framed by the sudden and total devastation delivered by a Russian attack.\n\nThe modern-looking kitchen with bright yellow cupboards remained remarkably intact after the strike, despite the total destruction of its external wall.\n\nA bowl of apples sits on the table, dishes lie next to the sink waiting to be washed and oven gloves still hang neatly from a line of hooks.\n\n\"Here people cooked, had kitchen conversations, celebrated holidays, laughed, argued,\" Kyiv MP Zoya Yarosh wrote on Facebook.\n\nShe compared the destruction of the building to the fate of her country: \"These are the wounds on the body of Ukraine. Wounds on our homes.\"\n\nOn social media, many people highlighted the small details in the photograph, suggesting a family getting on with their life as best they could, despite the raging war.\n\n\"When I look at this kitchen all I see is the flat I grew up in, the flat my grandparents lived in, the flat my cousins lived in, because we all had two stools tucked under the kitchen table just like that,\" wrote Ukrainian Alina on Twitter.\n\nA video posted online shows a family celebrating a birthday in the same kitchen\n\nBefore the missile strike, the kitchen seems to have been at the centre of a happy family moment - a child's birthday party.\n\nIn a video published online and reposted by Ukraine's armed forces, a young girl smiles as she is presented with a huge birthday cake, and blows out her four candles. The same yellow cupboards are clearly visible, as are the oven gloves and television on the wall.\n\nThose in the video are believed to be Mykhailo Korenovsky's family, who reportedly survived the strike, while the boxing coach did not.\n\nIt is not clear when the video was filmed, but it is a stark reminder of how suddenly war can destroy lives.\n\n\"Perhaps it was him [Korenovsky] who bought those apples for his family, left standing on the table after the building collapsed,\" said BBC Russian journalist Liza Fokht. \"Or perhaps it was him who left a plate in the sink - there'll always be time to wash it later.\"\n\nThe strike on the building killed at least 40 people", "The weapons used in the infamous Inn Dinn massacre were made in Myanmar, the report says\n\nMyanmar's military is producing a vast range of weapons to use against its own people thanks to supplies from companies in at least 13 countries, former top UN officials say.\n\nThe US, France, India and Japan are among those named, despite Western-led sanctions intended to isolate Myanmar.\n\nThe report says the home-produced arms are used to carry out atrocities against those who oppose the military.\n\nMyanmar has been engulfed in violence since a February 2021 military coup.\n\nOpponents of the coup, which ousted the elected government, have joined ethnic rebel groups in resisting military rule.\n\nThe Special Advisory Council on Myanmar's report notes that several UN member states continue to sell weapons to the military.\n\n\"An equally important factor, however, is the fact that Myanmar's armed forces can produce, in-country, a variety of weapons that are being used to target civilians,\" it says.\n\nThe firms named supply Myanmar's military with raw materials, training and machines, the report says, and the weapons produced as a result are not used to defend its borders.\n\n\"Myanmar has never been attacked by a foreign country,\" explains Yanghee Lee, the UN's former Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, and one of the report's authors.\n\n\"And Myanmar does not export any arms. Since 1950, it's made its own arms to use against its own people.\"\n\nThe military vastly outnumbers and outguns its opponents\n\nOfficially, more than 2,600 people have been killed by the military since the most recent coup. However, the real death toll is thought to be 10 times higher.\n\n\"When it started... it seemed that the military could overpower those fledgling opposition movements, but the tide has turned a little bit in recent months and weeks,\" explains Soe Win Tan, head of the BBC's Burmese service.\n\n\"What the opposition are lacking is the air power the Myanmar junta has at its disposal.\"\n\nThe weight of sanctions and international isolation imposed in the wake of the coup has not stopped Myanmar's rulers from manufacturing a litany of weapons, including sniper rifles, anti-aircraft guns, missile launchers, grenades, bombs and landmines.\n\nAlongside Yanghee Lee, the report was written by Chris Sidoti and Marzuki Darusman, both from the UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.\n\nThe marking of the Myanmar's Directorate of Defence Industries is on this bullet casing found after a lethal crackdown on protesters in 2021\n\nTheir work sources leaked military documents along with interviews with former soldiers and satellite imagery of the factories. Photos have also been invaluable: images taken in 2017 prove the home-produced weapons were used before the coup.\n\nSoldiers are seen carrying made-in-Myanmar rifles during the Inn Din massacre, when Myanmar troops killed 10 unarmed ethnic Rohingya men.\n\n\"More recently, we had the massacres that took place in the Sagaing region,\" explains Chris Sidoti, \"particularly the bombing and shelling of a school that resulted in a number of children and others being killed.\n\n\"The weapons that were found, or the... military artillery shell casings that were found on that occasion were clearly identifiable as coming from those production plants.\"\n\nSome of the equipment used to make weapons is believed to come from Austria. High-precision machines made by the Austrian supplier GFM Steyr are used in several locations, the Special Advisory Council says, to manufacture gun barrels.\n\nWhen the machines need maintenance, they're shipped to Taiwan, where GFM Steyr technicians reportedly restore them before they're returned to Myanmar. The report says it's unclear whether the Austrian company's technicians are aware they're working on things that will be used inside Myanmar.\n\nGFM Steyr did not respond to a BBC request for comment on the report's findings.\n\nThe authors of the report admit they have only uncovered a fraction of the weapons production network, but a number of countries are thought to be involved:\n\nFor decades, Myanmar's military has been subject to a range of international sanctions, but they haven't stopped its production of weapons. The number of factories is multiplying - from around six in 1988 to as many as 25 factories today.\n\n\"The international sanctions have been very hit and miss,\" says Chris Sidoti. \"There haven't been sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council, but only by individual states or groups of states.\n\n\"So, it's been relatively easy for many companies to avoid the sanctions, by going through other companies in countries that do not impose sanctions, or dealing with local Myanmar intermediaries.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo far, it seems that Myanmar doesn't export weapons to other countries. However, it showcased a range of weapons at a Thai weapons trade fair in 2019. Bullets, bombs and grenade launchers were all neatly lined up on display shelves at the fair.\n\n\"Life in Myanmar for ordinary people is incredibly tough,\" says Ronan Lee, doctoral lecturer at Loughborough University London.\n\n\"Myanmar is not functioning as a viable country and I think it's close to internal state collapse.\n\n\"The opportunity for the international community, who care about the people of Myanmar, is now for them to tell the military that it can't continue to build weapons that they are going to use against civilians.\"", "The boy was aged six when he was thrown from the Tate Modern viewing platform in 2019\n\nA boy who is recovering from life-changing injuries he received when he was thrown from the Tate Modern viewing platform has made \"considerable progress\", his family have said.\n\nThe boy, who was six at the time of the fall in 2019, was \"delighted\" to take part in adapted archery and a form of Judo, his family said in a statement.\n\nThey also said his sight and memory was improving.\n\nJonty Bravery was convicted of attempted murder and jailed in 2020.\n\nDuring Bravery's sentencing, the court heard the boy, who had been visiting London from France, would require round-the-clock care until at least 2022 as he had suffered a bleed to the brain and fractures to his spine.\n\nIn a post on a GoFundMe page, which has raised almost 400,000 euros (£354,000) towards his recovery, the boy's family said he was increasingly taking part in physical activity as part of his treatment.\n\nThey said they had spoken to specialists in Paris, who had recommended appropriate physical activity, and as a result, they had registered him \"for equine therapy and the swimming pool with his specialised educator\".\n\nThe family said the boy had taken up a gentle form of Judo in October and had occasionally taken part in adapted archery.\n\n\"Our son has always loved sports, he is delighted to do all this,\" they said.\n\nThey said the youngster's sight and memory was also improving and he had made \"considerable progress in swallowing and breathing\".\n\n\"He remembers more and more things he did or was told during the day,\" they said.\n\nThey added that he had received \"very positive\" school results and \"manages to follow in class despite his difficulties, because he is extremely courageous and hardworking\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "10,000 GMB ambulance workers went on 24-hour strike last week over pay\n\nThe health secretary said \"voluntary arrangements\" for emergency cover during recent ambulance strikes could not \"ensure patient and public safety\".\n\nIn a letter to the GMB, Steve Barclay acknowledged unions that walked out had agreed to answer the most serious category one 999 calls.\n\nBut he said the lack of cover for category two calls, including strokes, in some areas put lives at risk.\n\nThe GMB has accused the government of \"demonising\" its striking workers.\n\nThe union represents more than 10,000 ambulance workers who went on strike on Wednesday across nine ambulance services in England and Wales.\n\nOn Saturday, in an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the GMB said his government had \"singled out ambulance workers as part of a crude attempt to remove our right to strike\".\n\nIt added: \"You are making us and our ambulance colleagues feel demonised.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Barclay wrote on Sunday that he recognised the right to strike and accepted \"that a certain amount of disruption is inherent to any strike\".\n\nHe said he \"greatly\" valued the \"vital work ambulance workers do\" but criticised the \"volatile\" assurances given to him about cover by trade unions during December's industrial action.\n\nThe government's anti-strike bill is due to be considered by MPs again on Monday.\n\nThe legislation would set minimum service levels for fire, ambulance and rail services during industrial action and could leave unions at risk of legal action if they fail to comply.\n\nIn his letter, seen by the BBC, the health minister set out why national minimum service levels should be set in law during \"blue light\" strikes, which he said had the potential to \"put lives at immediate risk\".\n\n\"During recent action I have not been reassured that the current system of voluntary arrangements can be relied upon to ensure patient and public safety,\" Mr Barclay wrote.\n\nThe military helped to drive ambulances during the strike on Wednesday\n\nHe said the controversial Strikes Bill would provide the public with \"much needed assurance that a certain level of urgent and time-critical care will always continue throughout strike action\".\n\nMr Barclay denied it deprive workers of the right to strike, but instead would \"reflect that some individuals will not be able to strike at certain times so that a minimum service level can be maintained\".\n\nUnder the new legislation, employers would be required to issue work notices seven days before strike action and only after consulting with trade unions.\n\nThe GMB said its ambulance committee planned to discuss the health secretary's letter at its meeting on Monday and would consider its response.\n\nAmbulance staff are scheduled to walk out again on 23 January.", "A Challenger 2 tank being used during a military parade in the UK\n\nSending tanks and artillery guns to Ukraine to bolster the country's war effort will leave the British Army weaker, its chief has said.\n\nGen Sir Patrick Sanders said that Ukraine would put British donations to \"good use\" in the fight with Russia, in an internal message sent to troops and seen by the BBC.\n\nBut he warned that it would also leave the British Army \"temporarily weaker\".\n\nThe UK has committed to sending 14 Challenger 2 tanks to the frontline.\n\nAround 30 AS90s - large, self-propelled guns - are also expected to be delivered.\n\nGen Sanders, head of the British Army, told troops that ensuring Russia's defeat in Ukraine \"makes us safer\".\n\nBut he said it was vital the Army's \"warfighting capability\" was restored at pace.\n\n\"There is no doubt that our choice will impact our ability to mobilise the army against the acute and enduring threat Russia presents and meet our Nato obligations,\" he added.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace highlighted the need to reinvest in the military.\n\nHe told MPs his department was now considering whether the Army needed a larger tank fleet in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMr Wallace added he would \"also build on the Army's modernisation programme at pace, specifically on artillery\".\n\nGen Sanders' memo to the troops is as much a message to the Treasury to deliver on the government's pledge to modernise the Army.\n\nHe makes clear the Army is making sacrifices to help Ukraine win the war.\n\nAnd while he believes that it is worthwhile, it comes at a cost. So Gen Sanders wants to see the investment needed to rebuild it. In that goal he has the support of the defence secretary.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has pledged to spend £24bn on re-equipping the Army over the next decade. But much of that new kit - including upgraded tanks and new armoured vehicles - will not be fully operational until the early 2030s.\n\nUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the decision to send the Challenger 2 tanks \"will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners\".\n\nBuilt in the late 1990s, the Challenger tank is more than 20 years old, but it will be the most modern tank at Ukraine's disposal\n\nWhile the donation alone is not considered a game-changer, it is hoped that the UK's move will inspire other countries to donate more modern equipment to help Ukraine.", "Teachers on the picket line at Preston Tower Primary School in Prestonpans\n\nTeachers are launching a fresh wave of rolling strikes across Scotland as a union leader warned there was no end in sight to the current pay dispute.\n\nOver the next 16 days the action will affect two local authorities a day, starting on Monday with Glasgow and East Lothian.\n\nThe Educational Institute of Scotland last week announced it would be followed by 22 extra days of strikes.\n\nMinisters and councils have said a requested 10% pay rise is unaffordable.\n\nThe current 5% offer includes rises of up to 6.85% for the lowest-paid staff.\n\nOn Friday Education Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said she remained committed to a \"fair and sustainable pay deal\".\n\nAny new offer would need to be agreed by all 32 council leaders but they are not due to meet until the end of next week.\n\nLast week, strikes closed almost every primary school in Scotland on Tuesday, and every secondary school on Wednesday.\n\nStriking staff were in high sprits at Knox Academy in Haddington\n\nPreliminary exams due to take place also had to be rescheduled for some pupils.\n\nThe strikes also saw all four unions representing teachers and headteachers walk out together for the first time.\n\nMembers of the EIS, Scotland's largest teaching union, the NASUWT, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Association of Headteachers and Deputes (AHDS) unions were involved.\n\nAhead of the latest phase of strike action, EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said there was a willingness to break the deadlock.\n\nBut she told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: \"In terms of an an end in sight, I think we are still quite a bit away from that because there aren't figures on the table as yet that we can meaningfully work with to see a way through this dispute.\n\n\"There's a bit more work to be done on behalf of Cosla and the Scottish government to get us there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. EIS general secretary, Andrea Bradley, said there had been no significant changes to the pay offer since August\n\nMs Bradley told the programme the offer that was made in November was \"practically the same\" as the previous one in August.\n\nShe added: \"It has been badged as 'fair and affordable' by the Scottish government, in terms of what is fair and affordable to them, but we have been absolutely clear throughout this process so far that that 5% offer is neither fair nor affordable for our members.\"\n\nAsked if she thought that more effort was being put into ending the nurses' dispute, the EIS general secretary said: \"We are not really in the business of comparing ourselves to other groups of workers.\n\n\"We wish every group of workers who is in pursuit of fair play all the very best and we stand in solidarity with them.\n\n\"What we would say is that with the resource that the Scottish government has they should be able to attend to the needs of both sets of workers.\"\n\nTeachers highlighting their pay claim outside Hillhead High School in Glasgow\n\nEIS members have already taken three days of national strike action - one in November and two in January.\n\nOn Friday the union announced a 22-day programme of additional strike action.\n\nIt will include two days of national strike action in all schools on 28 February and 1 March, followed by a rolling programme of strikes for 20 days between 13 March and 21 April.\n\nOver the second rolling strike period, each local authority area will be impacted by three consecutive days of action, with one day of strike action in all schools bookended by one-day strikes in primary and secondary schools.\n\nSixteen consecutive days of strikes are scheduled by the EIS and AHDS.\n\nBut could the action be called off before the programme is complete?\n\nThis depends on whether a new formal pay offer is made to the teachers unions and, crucially, whether that offer is a significant improvement on the existing one.\n\nA new offer is expected soon but there is no formal timetable.\n\nAny new offer would need to be agreed at a meeting of all 32 council leaders before it could be made officially.\n\nTheir next meeting is not due until the end of next week although a special meeting could be arranged sooner.\n\nSpeaking on Friday, the education secretary said recent meetings had focused on \"examining options for compromise\" rather than tabling a new offer.\n\nMs Somerville added: \"While talks are ongoing, the Scottish government continues to urge the teaching unions to reconsider their plans for industrial action.\n\n\"Strikes in our schools are in no-one's interest - including for pupils, parents and carers who have already had to deal with significant disruption over the past three years.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to a fair and sustainable pay deal.\"\n\nLocal authority group Cosla said all parties were eager to seek a resolution but reiterated that the 10% pay rise asked for by unions remained \"unaffordable\".\n\nSpokeswoman Councillor Katie Hagmann said: \"All parties are eager to seek a resolution that not only protects the teaching and wider local government workforce, but also our children and young people's educational experience.\"", "People on an early morning walk in the snow near Hexham\n\nParts of the UK have been hit with snow and ice, amid warnings the cold weather is set to stay.\n\nYellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place for Northern Ireland, northwest England and north Wales from midday until 12:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nDrivers were warned to leave extra time for morning commutes due to icy roads, with more travel disruption expected.\n\nA sharp widespread frost, with lows of -4C to -8C, is expected overnight into Tuesday.\n\nSnow has hit south-east England and a yellow warning for snow and ice is in place for Scotland until Wednesday.\n\nThe Met Office said snow showers and icy conditions might \"bring some disruption\" and warned it could lead to longer journeys for train passengers and drivers.\n\nBBC forecaster Billy Payne said a few centimetres of snow had fallen in parts of Scotland and northern England overnight, even on low ground - with 18cm (7in) recorded at Loch Glascarnoch in Scotland.\n\nFurther frost and ice risks are expected over the next few nights and daytime temperatures should stay low, he said.\n\nBut BBC forecasters said major weather disruption, like in December, was not expected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Craig Snell warned Monday morning commuters to leave plenty of time for their journeys, due to \"a risk of snow on high ground and slippery surfaces on lower areas\".\n\nHe added: \"This could be a problem during rush hour, it could cause a few problems on the roads. The risk of flooding is still there.\"\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice, covering Northern Ireland, northern Wales, northern England, northern Midlands and southern Scotland, was in place until 10:00.\n\nSnow has also fallen across the south east of England after a yellow warning was in place for Kent and Canterbury until 08:00.\n\nBBC forecasters said the snow in south east and northern England would ease throughout the morning.\n\nMr Snell said most of the nation would be dry with sunny spells through the rest of Monday.\n\nThe rest of the week is predicted to be cold with patchy showers, particularly in northern areas, until temperatures rise at the weekend.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has also been issued for south west England from midnight until 09:00 on Tuesday.\n\nA woman walks her dog through snow in Hexham\n\nIn northern Scotland, a yellow warning for snow and ice covers the area until 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAll schools and nurseries in Shetland have closed after overnight snow fell across most of the islands.\n\nThe cold snap comes after widespread flooding left parts of the UK submerged over the weekend - with more than 106 flood warnings and 172 flood alerts still active across England.\n\nSarah Cook, from the Environment Agency, said workers on Monday would continue dealing with flooding in the areas which were worst hit by the weekend deluge.\n\nShe added the rain on Sunday night in the south of England could give rise to the possibility of a minor risk of flooding to isolated properties, and she advised people to to stay away from swollen rivers and to avoid driving through flood water.\n\nThe Met Office's Rachel Ayres said a widespread frost expected overnight could see some flood water on roads freezing.\n\nThis \"could pose an ice risk\" on Tuesday, she said.\n\nRod Dennis from the RAC said that after the floods last week \"it's now ice that poses the biggest danger to drivers\".\n\nHe warned motorists on rural roads which have not been gritted to be careful and slow down.\n\n\"Although this week's cold snap will be much briefer than the freezing conditions we saw in December that led to the RAC's busiest week ever, we're still expecting to see a big increase in breakdowns\", he added.\n\nThe scene in York at the weekend where rescue workers needed a boat to navigate floodwaters", "Jeremy Clarkson is the star of Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm and hosts Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for ITV\n\nJeremy Clarkson has said he has apologised to Harry and Meghan over his column in The Sun newspaper in which he said he \"hated\" the Duchess of Sussex.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said he emailed the couple on Christmas Day to say his language had been \"disgraceful\" and he was \"profoundly sorry\".\n\nIn the column, he wrote about a naked Meghan being pelted with excrement.\n\nA spokesperson for Harry and Meghan said the article was not an isolated incident for Clarkson.\n\nClarkson had released a statement before Christmas saying he \"was horrified to have caused so much hurt\".\n\nThe Sun newspaper has also apologised for the December article and removed it from its website.\n\nIn the column, Clarkson wrote that he lay in bed \"dreaming of the day when she [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant 'Shame!' and throw lumps of excrement at her\".\n\nHe also claimed \"everyone who's my age thinks the same way\", and that her appeal to young people who \"think she was a prisoner of Buckingham Palace\" made him \"despair\".\n\nA record 25,000 complaints have been made to press regulator Ipso since the piece was published.\n\nIn his lengthy Instagram post on Monday, the presenter of Amazon Prime's The Grand Tour and Clarkson's Farm and ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, said he usually reads what he's written before filing his copy, but he was home alone that day and in a hurry.\n\n\"So when I'd finished, I just pressed send. And then, when the column appeared the next day, the land mine exploded.\"\n\nHe said he picked up a copy of The Sun and quickly realised he had \"completely messed up\".\n\n\"You are sweaty and cold at the same time. And your head pounds. And you feel sick. I couldn't believe what I was reading. Had I really said that? It was horrible.\"\n\nHe said he had been thinking of a scene in Games of Thrones when he wrote about imagining the duchess being abused in the street, but had forgotten to mention it.\n\n\"So it looked like I was actually calling for revolting violence to rain down on Meghan's head.\"\n\nClarkson's daughter Emily criticised her father over the column\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said Clarkson addressed his correspondence solely to Prince Harry.\n\n\"While a new public apology has been issued today by Mr Clarkson, what remains to be addressed is his long-standing pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Unless each of his other pieces were also written 'in a hurry', as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate,\" they added.\n\nIn a recent interview with ITV, Prince Harry criticised Clarkson as well as the Royal Family for not commenting on the matter at the time.\n\nIn his statement, Clarkson added that he had \"tried to explain\" himself. \"But still, there were calls for me to be sacked and charged with a hate crime. More than 60 MPs demanded action to be taken. ITV, who make Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Amazon, who make the Farm Show and the Grand Tour, were incandescent.\"\n\nIt was then that he \"wrote to everyone who works with me saying how sorry I was\" as well as emailing the duke and duchess.\n\n\"On Christmas morning, I emailed Harry and Meghan in California to apologise to them too. I said I was baffled by what they had been saying on TV but that the language I'd used in my column was disgraceful and that I was profoundly sorry.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that his own daughter Emily had been among his critics.\n\nVariety is reporting that Amazon Prime \"is likely to be parting ways\" with Clarkson after 2024, when his shows that are already in the pipeline are due to end. Amazon declined to comment.\n\nLast month, ITV's media and entertainment boss Kevin Lygo described Clarkson's column as \"awful\" but said there were no plans \"at the moment\" to replace him as host of game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nITV is believed to have one more series due to be filmed with Clarkson but no further current commissioning commitments beyond that.", "The Metropolitan Police is investigating 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 of its officers, the commissioner has said.\n\nIt comes after PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including dozens of rapes.\n\nSir Mark Rowley announced all 45,000 Met officers and staff would be rechecked for previously missed offending.\n\nHe also apologised to Carrick's victims for the force's failings.\n\n\"We have failed. And I'm sorry. He should not have been a police officer,\" he said.\n\n\"This man abused women in the most disgusting manner. It is sickening. We've let women and girls down, and indeed we've let Londoners down. The women who suffered and survived this violence have been unimaginably brave and courageous in coming forward.\n\n\"I do understand also that this will lead to some women across London questioning whether they can trust the Met to keep them safe.\n\n\"We haven't applied the same sense of ruthlessness to guarding our own integrity that we routinely apply to confronting criminals.\"\n\nThe Met said a total of 1,633 cases of alleged sexual offences or domestic violence involving 1,071 officers and other staff were being reviewed from the last 10 years to make sure the appropriate decisions were made.\n\nIt can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty in December to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, and admitted the final six counts on Monday.\n\nHe committed the offences against 12 women across two decades.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: We failed and let women down - Met police chief\n\nThe Met apologised after it emerged Carrick was brought to the attention of police over nine incidents including allegations of rape, domestic violence and harassment between 2000 and 2021.\n\nMeeting some of the women on dating websites, he would control what they wore, what they ate, where they slept and he even stopped some of them from speaking to their own children.\n\nIt emerged he had been accused of two offences against a former partner the year before he passed vetting to join the Met in 2001, and faced further assault and harassment claims against an ex-girlfriend in 2002, while still in his probationary period.\n\nDespite having five public complaints to his name, he passed checks to become a firearms officer when he transferred to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command in 2009 and he was vetted again in 2017.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister said high-profile cases such as Carrick's had \"shattered\" the public's trust in policing.\n\nRishi Sunak retains faith in the Met and its chief Sir Mark Rowley, the spokesman said, adding: \"The commissioner has acknowledged the significant work required by the force.\"\n\nBaroness Casey, who is conducting a review of the force's standards and internal culture, called on the home secretary for a full inquiry into Carrick's case.\n\n\"We owe it to all of his victims that this work takes place,\" she said.\n\nShe added the scope of Lady Elish Angiolini's current non-statutory inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard should be extended to include the actions of Carrick.\n\nAny inquiry into Carrick should \"include the conduct of David Carrick and the potential opportunities the Met, other police forces and organisations may have had to identify his pattern of behaviour prior to October 2021, to stop him being a police officer and, ultimately, stop him offending,\" she said.\n\nThe issue was \"so serious\", she said, that if extending the current inquiry was not possible she would volunteer to conduct a separate inquiry.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said it was a \"sobering day\" for the Met and \"the whole policing family throughout the country\".\n\n\"This appalling incident represents a breach of trust, it will affect people's confidence in police and it's clear that standards and culture need to change in policing,\" she said.\n\nShe added chief constables needed to follow recent guidance by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary on prioritising vetting and recruiting processes.\n\n\"I expect every chief constable to take on board those recommendations and implement them urgently,\" she said.\n\nZoe Billingham, who previously served as HM Inspector of Constabulary, called for a public inquiry to look into misogyny in policing on the BBC's Newscast Podcast.\n\nShe said she feared \"there will be more cases\" like Carrick's without \"a rapid public inquiry\" across police forces in England and Wales.\n\nIt would serve to establish if \"misogyny in policing is leading to our failings to root out this form of corruption early enough to protect women,\" she said.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe detectives hunting criminals in uniform, to restore trust in the police.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mursal Nabizada was an MP until the Taliban takeover in 2021\n\nA former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said.\n\nMursal Nabizada, 32, was one of the few female MPs who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.\n\nHer brother and a second security guard were wounded in the attack on Sunday.\n\nFormer colleagues praised Ms Nabizada as a \"fearless champion for Afghanistan\" who turned down a chance to leave the country.\n\nSince the Taliban returned to power in 2021, women have been removed from nearly all areas of public life.\n\nKabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said security forces had started a serious investigation into the incident.\n\nFormer lawmaker Mariam Solaimankhil said Ms Nabizada was \"a true trailblazer - strong, outspoken woman who stood for what she believed in, even in the face of danger\".\n\n\"Despite being offered the chance to leave Afghanistan, she chose to stay and fight for her people,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\nMs Nabizada, from the eastern province of Nangarhar, was elected as a member of parliament from Kabul in 2018 and stayed in power until the Taliban takeover.\n\nShe was a member of the parliamentary defence commission and worked at the Institute for Human Resources Development and Research.\n\nHannah Neumann, a member of the European Parliament, said: \"I am sad and angry and want the world to know!\" in response to the killing.\n\n\"She was killed in darkness, but the Taliban build their system of gender apartheid in full daylight.\"\n\nAbdullah Abdullah, a former top official in Afghanistan's former Western-backed government, said he was saddened by Ms Nabizada's death and hoped the perpetrators would be punished.\n\nHe described her as a \"representative and servant of the people\".\n\nMany women who had prominent professional jobs in Afghanistan after the US-led invasion two decades ago fled the country after the Taliban returned to power.", "A woman has been rescued from the rubble of an apartment building in Dnipro, a day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike.\n\nAt least 25 people died in the attack on Saturday and dozens were injured. Officials said 43 people are missing.\n\nRead more: 'Minimal' chance of more survivors from Dnipro flats", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"When you see their faces, you can't put it into words... we still tear up\"\n\nLynsey Summers says she dreams about seeing her son walk.\n\nJacob, 19, has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which affects his arms and legs and means he uses a wheelchair.\n\nBut thanks to a new machine at his school, Jacob has now stood upright and moved his legs for the first time.\n\n\"I have dreams where he walks and that's emotional, so to actually see that start to be real, I suppose it's the closest I can ever hope for a dream coming true,\" said Lynsey.\n\n\"It's a sensation he could never have experienced before.\"\n\nJacob, from Cardiff, cannot sit unaided so most of his movement has traditionally come from physiotherapy sessions.\n\n\"We'd try to do a little bit in the morning, just to loosen him up,\" Lynsey said, describing doing ankle turns and leg movements with him, which could be quite \"stilted\".\n\nLynsey said you can see how happy it makes Jacob to be able to move his legs while using the machine\n\n\"It's also very tiring for the person doing it, so it can only be done for a short time, especially because Jacob's an adult now,\" she added.\n\n\"So to have a machine he can go in for a longer period and give him the sensation of walking that he's never experienced before... he goes on there and you see the smile on him.\"\n\nYsgol y Deri is a special school in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, which caters for students aged between three and 19 with a range of learning and physical needs and autism.\n\nPhysiotherapists at the school trialled the Innowalk device to see if it could help pupils.\n\nIt looks a bit like a cross trainer that you would find in a gym, but with lots of extra support\n\nEighteen months on, paediatric physiotherapist Amelia Stubbs, 31, said they had seen real benefits for pupils.\n\n\"In the basic terms, it's their wellbeing,\" said Ms Stubbs.\n\n\"They're up and doing something active, which they wouldn't normally be able to do.\n\n\"We notice they're much happier when they come to physiotherapy and really like engaging with us.\"\n\nAmelia Stubbs has been using the Innowalk machine with pupils like Jacob to give them the sensation of walking\n\nLynsey said Jacob looks forward to his sessions: \"He gets an endorphin rush when he's been on it, so he's in a much better mood.\n\n\"He's happy and jokey. He sleeps really well when he's been on it. It helps with his personal care, bowel movements and achy-ness in his muscles. He really, really enjoys it.\"\n\nFellow pupil Seren, 14, also enjoys using the device.\n\n\"It's actually kind of nice. It's fun if you have something fun to do in it,\" she said.\n\nThe school's assistive technology technician, Aaron Hawxwell, had the idea of introducing virtual reality (VR) headsets to the experience.\n\nVirtual reality (VR) is used to offer a realistic walking experience\n\nUsing the perspective of children who used to be able to walk but cannot any longer, they tested a series of VR videos to determine which one offered the most realistic walking experience to the user.\n\n\"Some of the kids who can't talk, when you see their faces... you can't put it into words,\" said Mr Hawxwell.\n\n\"Even us, who've been here a long time, we still tear-up. You go home and think about it. It just makes your day.\"\n\nThe school chose to purchase two machines after seeing positive results.\n\nNineteen-year-old Jacob Summers has stood up and moved his legs for the first time thanks to a machine bought by his school\n\n\"For us, we need to invest as much in pupils' wellbeing as we do in their education,\" said head teacher Chris Britten.\n\n\"When the kids are well and they're in a good place they can learn, and that benefits all of us - and that means our whole community, not just me, not just the teachers, but the parents as well and their families.\"\n\nThe second series of A Special School - based at Ysgol y Deri - begins on Monday at 20:30 on BBC One Wales and BBC iPlayer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said the UK government would be using trans people as a \"political weapon\" if it decides to block Scottish gender reforms.\n\nThe first minister said any veto of the legislation would be an \"outrage\".\n\nThe UK government said it had not yet decided whether to use powers which would stop the bill becoming law.\n\nMs Sturgeon also criticised Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for saying that 16-year olds were too young to decide about changing their gender.\n\nIt would mean that people in Scotland would no longer require a medical diagnosis to change gender. The timescale involved would also be reduced.\n\nThe UK government is considering using its own powers to block the Scottish legislation.\n\nUnder Section 35 of the Scotland Act, ministers can stop a bill getting royal assent - a power which has never previously been used.\n\nDowning Street said Scottish Secretary Alister Jack would make an announcement ahead of Wednesday's deadline.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said: \"No decision has been taken at this point by the UK government.\n\n\"It's the secretary of state for Scotland who is the ultimate decision-maker.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said there were no grounds to challenge the legislation, as it falls within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe said: \"It doesn't affect the operation of the equality act and it was passed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish Parliament after very lengthy and intense scrutiny by MSPs of all parties.\n\n\"If there is a decision to challenge, then in my view then it will quite simply be a political decision and it will be using trans people, already one of the most vulnerable stigmatised groups in our society, as a political weapon.\n\n\"I think that will be unconscionable, indefensible and really quite disgraceful.\"\n\nUK ministers have concerns the Scottish system could come into conflict with UK-wide equalities law.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the government was taking advice on the implications of the reforms \"as is completely standard practice\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the significance the UK government using Section 35 powers would \"go beyond the particular subject matter\" of gender reforms.\n\nShe added: \"There is a bigger issue of principle here, the right of the Scottish Parliament to legislate within its areas of competence.\n\n\"If we see a challenge this week then we will be seeing yet more evidence from this UK government of complete contempt for the Scottish Parliament and devolution.\"\n\nThe first minister also said it would \"embolden\" the UK government to use Section 35 powers on other issues, which she described as \"a very slippery slope indeed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. '16 is too young to change legal gender', says Sir Keir Starmer\n\nAt a Scottish government media briefing on the health service, Ms Sturgeon was also asked about Sir Keir Starmer's views on the gender reforms.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he had concerns and felt 16-year-olds were too young to change their legally recognised gender.\n\nBut he stopped short of supporting a challenge to the legislation.\n\nMs Sturgeon pointed out that Scottish Labour had voted for the legislation at Holyrood.\n\nShe said: \"If he backed any move by the government to block this he would be showing utter contempt for his own Scottish party as well as the Scottish Parliament.\"\n\nA survey conducted for the BBC last year showed general sympathy towards trans people alongside uncertainty over some of the details of Scotland's gender reforms.\n\nThe controversial legislation, which is expected to come into force later this year, lowers the age at which people can apply for a gender recognition certificate from 18 to 16.\n\nIt also removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while applicants only needing to have lived as their acquired gender for three months rather than two years - or six months if they are aged 16 or 17.\n\nThe BBC poll found people aged 16 to 34 were more likely than older people to support making it easier to acquire a gender recognition certificate and also backed allowing people to legally identify as non-binary.\n\nIn addition to the generation split, it found there was also a tendency for women to be more supportive than men.\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police chiefs have defended a 43% year-on-year rise in the number of officers based in UK schools.\n\nThe Runnymede Trust race equality think tank found 979 Safer Schools Officers (SSOs) in schools last spring, compared with 683 in 2021.\n\nIt found SSOs are more likely to be based in schools with higher numbers of children on free school meals, often with higher numbers of black pupils.\n\nBut the National Police Chiefs' Council says SSOs play an essential role.\n\nThe Runnymede Trust gathered the Freedom of Information data following the case of Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl who was strip-searched by the Metropolitan Police at school without an appropriate adult present.\n\nChildren from ethnic minority groups are up to three times more likely to be strip-searched by police after an arrest than white children, according to Met Police data.\n\nPolice officers have worked in schools for decades and were formally introduced in the Safer Schools Partnership programme in 2002.\n\nThe programme is something schools can choose to sign up to. Depending what schools ask for, SSOs might offer assemblies, workshops or provide drop-in sessions for pupils.\n\nBut some campaigners and community leaders are worried SSOs are doing more harm than good.\n\nDr Shabna Begum, head of research at the Runnymede Trust, is concerned schools could be leaning too heavily on police to sort out \"quite trivial\" behavioural or pastoral problems that should be dealt with by teaching staff.\n\nIf this is happening, black children may face harsher consequences - creating a pathway to the criminal justice system.\n\nRace equality activists say this problem is often the result of adultification - when black children are more likely to face tougher punishments at school because they are viewed as less innocent.\n\nThe Runnymede Trust's Dr Shabna Begum wants all SSOs to be removed\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commander Catherine Roper, NPCC lead for children and young people, says the role of SSOs is vital.\n\n\"It's an opportunity to work with children and young persons in a secure environment, to build up that trust and confidence, start those conversations, to build up that rapport,\" she said.\n\nShe says SSOs can help to support children who might be vulnerable to exploitation, such as county lines drugs operations.\n\nCdr Roper has seen pupils speak to SSOs if they were scared or worried about something that they did not feel they could talk to their families about.\n\n\"[SSOs] being in and around schools is to help children and young persons to feel safe,\" she says.\n\nI went to meet a 16-year-old girl and her mum at their home in London to talk about her \"frightening\" and \"isolating\" experience involving police.\n\nJorja (not her real name) was arrested at school when she was 14.\n\nOfficers came to her school and arrested her on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, after she tried to pull a girl away from a fight. Another girl was later charged and convicted of assault.\n\nJorja told correspondent Adina Campbell (pictured) she was frightened by her experience with the police\n\n\"It was weird because I was the only female in the van and they were [grown-ups],\" she said.\n\n\"I felt quite helpless that even my mum couldn't take me to the police station. I felt like I was being incriminated when I didn't do anything.\"\n\nJorja's mum says she was terrified when she turned up after the school had called her.\n\n\"She was in a room, locked in a room. They took off her jacket and went into her pockets. They had on gloves,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a shock. She's standing there crying and there's nothing I could do.\"\n\nJorja was kept on bail for four months and was not allowed to attend school during that time, which caused her to fall behind.\n\nNo further action was taken against Jorja by the Metropolitan Police and she is now studying for her A-Levels at a different school.\n\nWe asked her former school for more details but they declined to comment. It is unclear whether or not the school had an SSO in place.\n\nFormer social worker Imani Mclean, from Birmingham, works as a community advocate for families. She says some schools lean too much on the police unnecessarily.\n\n\"Many of the young people that I deal with already have a fear of the police because they feel that they are discriminated against and don't believe the police are fair,\" she says.\n\n\"There needs to be dialogue in terms of when you use the police and how they come into schools.\"\n\nThe Runnymede Trust is calling for the removal of all SSOs and for the government to invest more funding in school wellbeing services.\n\nThe government says the deployment of officers in schools is an operational decision for police forces and a matter for individual schools.\n\nThe Department of Education also says a new investment of a further £10m in 2022/23 will help up to 8,000 schools and colleges promote and support the mental health and wellbeing of all pupils.", "Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said she is determined to make the Rwanda policy work\n\nMigrants facing potential removal to Rwanda under the Home Office's relocation scheme have won permission to challenge the policy.\n\nLast month the High Court ruled that the scheme was lawful.\n\nToday's ruling means there is no prospect of flights leaving immediately while it goes to the Court of Appeal.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman has said she is committed to making the Rwanda policy work.\n\nUnder the controversial scheme, asylum seekers who arrive from a safe country - such as in a small boat from France - can be told they will be sent to Rwanda, to have their claim for protection dealt with there.\n\nThe scheme has so far cost the UK £140m - but no migrants have been sent to the country.\n\nDuring Monday's High Court hearing, Lord Justice Lewis and Mr Justice Swift said that 11 migrants could ask the Court of Appeal to consider whether Rwanda's assurances to the UK amounted to sufficient guarantees of safe and fair treatment.\n\nNo date has been set for the case to go before the Court of Appeal, and the Home Office is abiding by an injunction from the European Court of Human Rights, which blocked flights until after British judges had finally ruled.\n\nThe court said the group could argue that sending them to Rwanda penalised them for seeking protection and that the entire plan is systemically unfair.\n\nIn December's judgement, the High Court had ruled that while individual migrants earmarked for the Rwanda flights had been treated unfairly, the scheme as a whole was legally permissible and the government had acted rationally in choosing the African nation as a partner.\n\nAsylum Aid, a charity, is also expected to lodge an appeal, saying that it can provide the court with expert evidence that Home Office decision-making is systemically unfair.\n\nThree organisations who were part of the original case - Care4Calais, the PCSU union that represents immigration caseworkers and Detention Action, had their cases thrown out last December - but have another fortnight to consider trying to appeal.\n\nThis morning, the home secretary's lawyers urged judges to only allow an appeal on issues that were genuinely compelling - while also acknowledging the case could progress to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal has ruled.\n\nIn practice, that could mean the plan could remain in limbo for much of 2023 - or even into next year if judges do not prioritise the appeals.\n\nMs Braverman has not said when she hopes a flight will leave for Rwanda.\n\nRishi Sunak has made ending English Channel crossings a priority and the Rwanda scheme aims to deter migrants from taking small boats across the sea.", "Kathryn Dumphreys said BMW's decision to stop providing police with the cars was \"too little, too late for Nick\"\n\nThe widow of a police officer who died in a faulty car said a decision to stop selling the models to forces \"should have been taken years ago\".\n\nPC Nick Dumphreys, 47, died while responding to an emergency call on the M6 near Carlisle in 2020.\n\nBMW is closing its division selling to UK forces after many restricted the use of its cars with the same engine.\n\nKathryn Dumphreys said it was \"the first step in the right direction\" but \"too little, too late for Nick\".\n\n\"It is glaringly obvious that these cars were not and, in my view, are still not fit or safe for UK policing purposes,\" she said.\n\nAn inquest found a broken part in the N57 engine of the BMW police car PC Dumphreys had been driving had cut the supply of oil, which then ignited.\n\nIt heard there had been similar incidents involving police cars with the same type of engine.\n\nCarlisle coroner Robert Cohen recorded a conclusion of accidental death and said PC Dumphreys, who was an advanced driver, could not have prevented the crash.\n\nMrs Dumphreys has criticised the National Police Chiefs' Council for not withdrawing existing models from service immediately\n\nMrs Dumphreys said: \"The rate of the engine failures in these BMWs, which was between five and seven a month from 2014 to 2017, was described by the independent engineering expert as 'extraordinary' and by the coroner as 'startling'.\n\n\"I firmly believe that had these cars been withdrawn from UK policing years ago, as they should have been, Nick would still be alive.\"\n\nBMW said the problem with the engine was down to the \"particular way\" police use the cars and there was \"no need for action on any civilian vehicles\".\n\nMrs Dumphreys has criticised the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) for not withdrawing existing models from service immediately.\n\n\"Why do they still require our officers to drive these cars, which have proved to be dangerous, nearly three years after Nick's death?\" she said.\n\nNPCC head of police driving Deputy Chief Constable Terry Woods said vehicles assessed as \"at risk and unsuitable for police use\" had been removed from service.\n\n\"Any remaining usable BMWs with the engine type identified are subject to rigorous monitoring,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescuers gathered at the site of the crash\n\nA British man is among the passengers who died in a plane crash in Nepal on Sunday.\n\nThe person was previously described as Irish by Nepal authorities, but was understood to be traveling on a UK passport.\n\nHe has not yet been formally named by authorities.\n\nThere were 72 passengers and crew aboard the Yeti Airlines that crashed near the tourist town of Pokhara. There are not believed to be any survivors.\n\nA spokesman for Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that an individual indicated in reports as being Irish is a UK national, and that the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FDCO) was providing consular support.\n\nAn FCDO spokesman said: \"We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in Nepal and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nSunday's incident - which occurred on a flight from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, in central Nepal - is the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.\n\nA local official said the jet's pilot did not report \"anything untoward\" as the plane approached the airport.\n\nAnup Joshi said that the \"mountains were clear and visibility was good\", adding there was a light wind and \"no issue with weather\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from the ground appears to show the plane moments before it crashed\n\nMobile phone footage showed the plane rolling sharply as it approached the runway. It then hit the ground in the gorge of the Seti River, just over a kilometre from the airport.\n\nOfficials have said the voice and black box flight recorders have been recovered.\n\nThe government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the disaster and the prime minister declared Monday a national day of mourning.\n• None Nothing unusual on doomed Nepal flight - official", "Marks & Spencer has said it will create 3,400 jobs across Britain as part of plans to revamp its stores.\n\nIt plans to open eight \"full-line\" stores - which stock clothes, food and homeware - in cities such as Liverpool, Birmingham and Leeds in the next year.\n\nSeven of the eight shops will be relocations, of which five will be at former sites of Debenhams.\n\nSome 12 food halls will also be opened as part of an overhaul of the company's stores.\n\nOnce completed, the changes will see a reduction overall in the number of M&S's traditional shops as the firm looks to expand its grocery trade.\n\nNew Simply Food outlets will be opened in towns including Stockport, Barnsley and Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland.\n\nFive of the eight new \"full-line\" stores will be situated on former Debenhams sites in the Leeds White Rose, Liverpool ONE, Birmingham Bullring, Manchester Trafford and Lakeside Thurrock shopping centres.\n\nA new shop will also open in Purley Way in Croydon, while the other two are yet to be named.\n\nMarks & Spencer said it was investing £480m in its \"store rotation programme\", which will see 3,400 jobs being created over the next three to five years.\n\nIt confirmed the jobs were new roles in additional to those that might be part of stores that relocate to different areas.\n\nM&S chief executive Stuart Machin said the programme was about \"making sure we have the right stores, in the right place, with the right space\".\n\n\"The out-performance of our recently relocated and renewed stores give us the confidence to go faster in our plan,\" he added.\n\nLast year, M&S announced plans to reduce the number of its \"full-line\" shops to 180 from 247 by 2028.\n\nThe retailer wants fewer but better main stores, as shoppers spend more online.\n\nRuss Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said it felt \"significant\" that M&S had revealed its investment figure at a time when the \"retail environment is not exactly buoyant\".\n\n\"The company had already announced plans to close a large number of shops last October so on a net basis its presence in retail parks and on the High Street will be reduced.\n\n\"However, it demonstrates physical retail continues to have a role and that Marks & Spencer sees its multi-format stores, with a mix of clothing, homewares and food, as a competitive advantage.\n\n\"The push to revamp the store estate also shows it recognises the importance of having sites which are appealing for shoppers to visit and are in the right places to attract healthy footfall.\"\n\nThe new jobs announcement comes after M&S emerged as one of the winners of the Christmas trading season, with a 6.3% rise in like-for-like sales across its food halls in the 13 weeks to 31 December.\n\nThe company also saw clothing and home store sales rise 8.6%.\n\nIt said recent sales across stores already revamped as part of its overhaul had seen better-than-expected trading, with clothing and home sales 26% ahead of plans in its new Colchester store.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nHome favourite Nick Kyrgios pulled out of the Australian Open with a knee injury the day before he was scheduled to play his opening match.\n\nThe Wimbledon runner-up, 27, said he was \"devastated\" he could not play in Melbourne.\n\nKyrgios, seeded 19th, was set to play Russia's Roman Safiullin on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's obviously been pretty brutal before [one] of the most important tournaments of my career,\" Kyrgios said. \"It hasn't been easy at all.\"\n\nConsidered among the favourites to win the title, Kyrgios \"didn't pull up great\" from an exhibition with Novak Djokovic on Friday, according to his physio Will Maher.\n\nMaher said they had used the charity event as \"a gauge\" to see if the player could compete at the highest level.\n\nBut afterwards he advised the Australian he would potentially not be able to play a succession of five-set matches over the fortnight.\n\n\"He still tried to give himself every chance in the following days to have subsequent training,\" Maher added.\n\n\"But it was clear with each passing session that he was getting sorer and sorer.\"\n\nKyrgios, who will be unable to defend the men's doubles title here, will need an operation because of a cyst growing in his meniscus but expects to be fully recovered to play At Indian Wells in March.\n\n\"I'm devastated obviously. It's like my home tournament. I've had some great memories here,\" Kyrgios said.\n\n\"Obviously last year winning the title in doubles and playing the best tennis of my life probably. Then going into this event as one of the favourites, it's brutal.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The Lyell team cross paths with the mafia:\n• None Key moments on the pitch, candid interviews with the players and unique behind-the-scenes insight", "Forensic officers have worked at the crime scene following the shooting\n\nA seven-year-old girl has suffered life-threatening injuries in a suspected drive-by shooting outside a central London church.\n\nA remembrance service was being held at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were reportedly fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Met Police said a 12-year-old girl and four women - aged 21, 41, 48 and 54 - were also injured.\n\nThe 48-year-old may have life-changing injuries, police said.\n\nThe three other women's injuries are not life-threatening and the 12-year-old girl has been treated for a minor leg injury, said the force.\n\nThe seven-year-old, who was taken to a central London hospital at about 14:05 GMT, \"remains in hospital in a life-threatening condition\".\n\nIn a statement, the Met said an urgent investigation was under way and details of the incident were still emerging.\n\n\"At this early stage, there have been no arrests,\" it said.\n\nSupt Ed Wells said any shooting incident was \"unacceptable, but for multiple people, including two children, to be injured in a shooting in the middle of a Saturday afternoon is shocking\".\n\nThe shooting happened close to a church while a funeral was taking place, police say\n\n\"Our thoughts are with all the victims, but in particular with the seven-year-old girl. An investigation into this dreadful attack is already well under way,\" he said.\n\n\"I can assure the communities of Camden and beyond that we will do everything we possibly can to identify and bring to justice those who were responsible.\"\n\nHe added that there would be \"an increased visible police presence in the area through the weekend and into the days ahead\".\n\nDetectives have urged anyone with video footage or CCTV to contact the force.\n\nRoad closures were put in place and buses were diverted to allow investigation work to take place.\n\nFather Jeremy Trood conducted the remembrance service at St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, just before the shooting unfolded.\n\nHe confirmed the service was held for Sara Sanchez, 20, who had died from leukaemia, and her mother. They had died within a month of each other in November.\n\nFather Trood said: \"I was inside the church. I heard the bang and people ran back into the church. They knew something had happened outside.\n\n\"They were very scared, people sheltered in the church until the police said they can leave but some of them were so scared they had to wait a while to get their confidence back up to go outside.\"\n\nA forensics officer works at the scene of the shooting\n\nA resident on an estate near the church, who did not want to give her name, said: \"I heard the gunshots.\n\n\"I was having a quiet day on my balcony and I heard this almighty bang and I thought this was not normal, and the next minute everyone was screaming and shouting.\n\n\"Neighbours came in and said there has been a shooting. What a terrible thing.\"\n\nPhotographer Simon Lamrock said when he first arrived at the church, people had been evacuated through a side entrance.\n\n\"It's a very busy area. All the local residents had come out to find out what was going on,\" Mr Lamrock said.\n\n\"There was shock and surprise. That was the mood of people trying to work out what had happened.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with the Met Police.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Molly Russell was aged 14 when she died in 2017\n\nMolly Russell's father has criticised social media companies for their \"underwhelming\" response to a coroner's call to prevent future deaths.\n\nThe 14-year-old, from Harrow, London, took her own life in 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content online.\n\nA coroner concluded Molly died while suffering from the \"negative effects\" of online content.\n\nIan Russell said the social media firms' responses indicated a \"business as usual approach\".\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Walker had sent a Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) report to social media giants Meta, Pinterest, Twitter and Snapchat last year.\n\nRecommendations were issued, including a review of algorithms used by the sites to provide content.\n\nMolly's father Mr Russell said only regulation, as proposed in the Online Safety Bill, would change the attitude of social media giants.\n\nHe said: \"My reaction is summed up by underwhelming and unsurprising.\n\n\"The responses vary but in general they are underwhelming and seem to me to indicate a 'business as usual' approach post-Molly's inquest.\n\n\"One perhaps would have hoped that looking at the level of detail that was presented to the coroner… it would have focused minds and compelled tech platforms to react more positively to put safety higher up their agenda.\n\n\"But that doesn't seem to be the case - particularly in Meta's case.\"\n\nMeta, the parent company of Instagram, in their response to the coroner's PFD report said it had introduced a sensitive content control on the platform,\"take a break\" reminders and a nudge feature for teenagers dwelling on a particular topic.\n\nPinterest also responded, saying it would develop tools to limit the distribution of sad or depressive content to teens, and expand its self-harm policy to remove references to self-harm or suicide in artwork or memes.\n\nSnap Inc, which runs Snapchat, said it was introducing new resources to help people manage their mental health.\n\nMolly, from Harrow in north-west London, ended her life in November 2017 after viewing suicide and self-harm content on sites such as Instagram and Pinterest, prompting her family to campaign for better internet safety.\n\nMr Russell has repeated calls for criminal liability for senior bosses at social media platforms.\n\nIan Russell has campaigned for a safer online world for children since his daughter's death\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak faces as a rebellion from Conservative MPs over the Online Safety Bill.\n\nAround 50 rebels, including ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel and former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, are pushing for social media bosses to be made criminally liable if they do not block minors from seeing damaging content online.\n\nThe new internet safety law will require tech companies to remove illegal material from their platforms, with a particular emphasis on protecting children from seeing harmful content.", "The teacher is accused of abusing boys at Fettes College in Edinburgh the 1960s\n\nA man accused of abuse at two Edinburgh private schools has been named in the UK Parliament by SNP MP Ian Blackford.\n\nThe 83-year-old ex-teacher, who the BBC is not naming for legal reasons, taught at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nMr Blackford said naming him would help other abuse survivors come forward.\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who made allegations against the man, who is fighting extradition from South Africa.\n\nThe teacher was previously referred to only as \"Edgar\" under an anonymity order at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.\n\nBut Mr Blackford, MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, said he was using Commons privilege to name him in the \"public interest\".\n\n\"I have a number of constituents who have complaints against Edgar,\" Mr Blackford said.\n\n\"We now know that there are dozens of boys who have come forward to the police with allegations against the man referred to as Edgar.\n\n\"It is important that others who were abused by this man can come forward.\n\n\"It is right that his crimes against children are named - and it is also right that he is now named.\"\n\nIan Blackford said naming the teacher would help other abuse survivors come forward\n\nThe teacher, originally from South Africa, joined Edinburgh Academy in 1968 and moved to Fettes five years later.\n\nHe left in 1979 after being asked to step down.\n\nEdgar returned to South Africa and resumed his teaching career. He now lives in a retirement community in Cape Town.\n\nHe was arrested in 2019 and has since been fighting extradition to the UK.\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell has said he witnessed the man sexually assault a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nMr Campbell said he was sexually assaulted at the school by a second teacher, who is now dead, and physically assaulted by a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For the first time Nicky Campbell discusses the abuse he received at school\n\nFettes College said it had \"co-operated fully with the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, including providing the Inquiry with all documentation pertaining to this matter\".\n\nEdinburgh Academy said it was \"working closely with the relevant authorities including Police Scotland and the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry\".\n\nLaura Connor, of Thompsons Solicitors, represents many former pupils of Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College.\n\nLast month the firm secured a £450,000 settlement from Fettes for a former pupil of Edgar.\n\nMs Connor said: \"We hope that in hearing this man can no longer hide behind the veil of a fictitious name, a sense of relief and perhaps justice will be felt.\n\n\"The priority of my legal team continues to be securing further justice through our civil courts.\"\n\nThe teacher's appeal against extradition is due to be heard in South Africa in March.", "Lollobrigida was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and a Bafta\n\nItalian actress Gina Lollobrigida, one of the biggest stars of European cinema in the 1950s and '60s, has died at the age of 95.\n\nOften described as \"the most beautiful woman in the world\", her films included Beat the Devil, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Crossed Swords.\n\nShe co-starred alongside the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Rock Hudson and Errol Flynn.\n\nHer career faded in the 1960s and she moved into photography and politics.\n\nItaly's culture minister paid tribute, saying: \"Her charm will remain eternal\"\n\nNicknamed La Lollo, she was one of the last surviving icons of the glory days of film, who Bogart said \"made Marilyn Monroe look like Shirley Temple\".\n\nMovie mogul Howard Hughes showered her with marriage proposals. Off camera, she enjoyed a feud with Sophia Loren, a fellow Italian star.\n\nLoren was \"very shocked and saddened\" by the death of her one-time rival, a statement said.\n\nCulture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano wrote on Twitter: \"Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal.\"\n\nLollobrigida died in a Rome clinic, her former lawyer Giulia Citani told the Reuters news agency.\n\nGina Lollobrigida - at the age of 90 - performed on Italy's version of Strictly Come Dancing in 2018\n\nLuigina Lollobrigida was born on 4 July, 1927. The daughter of a furniture manufacturer, Gina spent her teenage years avoiding wartime bombing raids before studying sculpture at Rome's Academy of Fine Arts.\n\nA talent scout offered her an audition at Cinecitta - then the largest film studio in Europe and Italy's thriving \"Hollywood on the Tiber\".\n\nLollobrigida wasn't keen. \"I refused when they offered me my first role,\" she recalled. \"So, they said they would pay me a thousand lire. I told them my price was one million lire, thinking that would put a stop to the whole thing. But they said yes!\"\n\nGina Lollobrigida (3rd from left in white two-piece suit) taking part in the 1947 Miss Italia contest\n\nIn 1947, she entered the Miss Italia beauty pageant - a competition that launched many notable careers - and came third. Two years later, she married a Slovenian doctor, Milko Skofic.\n\nSkofic took some bikini-clad publicity shots of his new - and still relatively unknown - wife. Six thousand miles away in Hollywood, the world's richest man sat up.\n\nHughes had just taken control of a major studio. He was more than 20 years older than Lollobrigida and famous for a string of affairs with the most glamorous women of the age - including Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner.\n\nHe tracked Lollobrigida down and offered a screen test. She accepted, expecting her husband to accompany her to America. On the day of departure, only one of the tickets Hughes had promised showed up.\n\nHughes had divorce lawyers waiting at the airport. She was installed in a luxury hotel, given a secretary and a chauffeur, and bombarded with proposals.\n\nHe had prepared everything. Even the screen test turned out to be a scene about the end of a marriage.\n\nThe trip lasted nearly three months. She saw him daily - fending off pass after pass. To avoid the press, they often ate at cheap restaurants or in the back of his car.\n\nAlthough the behaviour was clearly abusive, Lollobrigida said she enjoyed the attention. \"He was very tall, very interesting,\" she later recalled. \"Much more interesting than my husband.\"\n\nHoward Hughes lured Lollobrigida to Hollywood and inundated her with proposals of marriage\n\nBefore she departed for Rome, Hughes presented her with a seven-year contract. It made it hugely expensive for any other US studio to hire her. \"I signed it because I wanted to go home,\" she said.\n\nHughes didn't give up. His lawyers pursued her as far as the Algerian desert - where she was making a film. Her husband was understanding about the decade-long infatuation. He'd even play the lawyers at tennis.\n\nAvoiding Hollywood, Gina worked in France and Italy - making films such as The Wayward Wife and Bread, Love and Dreams.\n\nHer first English-language picture - opposite Bogart in John Huston's Beat the Devil - was shot on the Amalfi coast, and was the beginning of a series of starring roles alongside the world's most glamorous men.\n\nLollobrigida played the manipulative Lola - at the centre of a love triangle with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis - in Trapeze\n\nIn Crossed Swords it was Flynn; in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Antony Quinn. She realised her celebrity was global when 60,000 turned up to greet her in Argentina. They included the country's dashing president, Juan Peron.\n\nShe won awards for Beautiful But Dangerous - as an orphan opposite one of Italy's finest actors, Vittorio Gassman. She played a manipulative circus performer in Trapeze, with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.\n\nShe disliked Sinatra, with whom she starred in Never So Few - a wartime romance shot in Myanmar and Thailand. He was late on set and got shirty when she complained. \"Zero sense of humour,\" she said.\n\nLollobrigida had little time for Frank Sinatra, her leading man in Never So Few\n\nAnd disaster struck her next project. Two-thirds of Solomon and Sheba had been filmed when her co-star, Tyrone Power, had a heart attack filming a sword fight in Madrid.\n\nOne version of the story says Power died in Lollobrigida's car on the way to hospital. Another suggests he passed away in his dressing room and was \"walked\" out of the studio - a scarf tied round his jaw to stop it sagging.\n\nWhatever the truth, Power's scenes were reshot with Yul Brynner. The film shocked late-1950s Hollywood with an orgy scene, albeit one where all were fully clothed.\n\nIn 1960, she moved to Canada - for lower taxes and a promise of legal status for her Yugoslav husband. One magazine gushed that it was \"the most fetching argument ever advanced for liberal immigration policies\".\n\nHer film career was slowing but there was still time to work with her favourite actor: Rock Hudson.\n\nRock Hudson and Lollobrigida were nominated for Golden Globes for their performances in Come September\n\nThey appeared together in romantic comedies Come September and Strange Bedfellows. After a lifetime fending off Hughes and most of Hollywood's finest, Hudson's failure to make a pass came as a shock.\n\n\"I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay, when he did not fall in love with me,\" she told one reporter.\n\nHer feud with Loren was coming on nicely. Egged on by her husband - the film producer Carlo Ponti - Loren had claimed she was \"bustier\" than Lollobrigida.\n\nGina hit back, saying Sophia could play peasants but never ladies. \"We are as different as a fine racehorse and a goat,\" she said.\n\nLollobrigida (right) and Loren (left) at the Berlin Film festival in 1954 with a third actress, Yvonne de Carlo\n\nLollobrigida's brief affair with heart transplant pioneer Christian Barnard spelled the end of her marriage. Divorce had just been legalised in Italy and she took early advantage.\n\n\"A woman at 20 is like ice,\" she declared. \"At 30 she is warm. At 40 she is hot. We are going up as men are going down.\" She was certainly not short of admirers.\n\nPrince Rainier of Monaco was one, in spite of his marriage to Grace Kelly. \"He would make passes at me in front of her, in their home,\" she claimed. \"Obviously, I said no!\"\n\nHer last major film - alongside David Niven in King, Queen, Knave - came in 1972. There were tantrums on set and the production was halted three times for mysterious \"eye problems\".\n\nLollobrigida took a few parts in American TV series - including Falcon's Crest and Love Boat - but then reinvented herself as an artist.\n\nThis was no ageing film star vanity project. Lollobrigida was good.\n\nShe donned a disguise to take award-winning photographs of her native Italy and saw her huge marble and bronze sculptures entered at an International Expo in Seville.\n\nLollobrigida reinvented herself as a sculptor and photojournalist\n\nShe scooped the world with a rare photoshoot and interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.\n\n\"We spent 12 days together,\" she said. \"He didn't interest me as a political leader but as a man. He realised that I hadn't gone there to attack him and he readily accepted me.\"\n\nThere was work for Unicef, the United Nations and an unsuccessful run for a seat in the European Parliament. She remained active in politics - as recently as last year, she stood for the Italian Senate, but was unsuccessful.\n\nDespite all her suitors, the \"most beautiful woman in the world\" never quite found Mr Right.\n\n\"My experience,\" she said, \"has been that, when I have found the right person, he has run away from me. Important men want to be the star - they don't want to be in your shadow.\"\n\nDisastrously, she met Javier Rigau y Rafols, a charming Spaniard who was 34 years younger. They announced their engagement in 2006 - but soon called it off, citing frenzied press attention.\n\nLollobrigida took legal action against her former boyfriend, Javier Rigau y Rafols\n\nRigau, however, went ahead with the wedding - allegedly using an imposter to play Lollobrigida. According to her account, she only discovered her marriage by chance when she found documents on the internet.\n\nShe took legal action; Rigau produced witnesses. He insisted Lollobrigida had agreed to marry him by proxy using a power of attorney she had once granted.\n\nShe lost the ensuing court case, but the marriage was annulled in 2019 with the blessing of the Pope.\n\nLollobrigida fought another legal action against her son Milko, who had asked for control of his mother's business dealings. Now in her 80s, the action was thought to have been prompted by her new relationship with a handsome man in his 20s.\n\nIn later life, she became reclusive. But - from time to time - she would hold court at her huge villa, with its flock of white storks, on Rome's ancient Appian Way. She would glide down her magnificent staircase, bedecked in emeralds, to greet visiting journalists with her young lover. It was Sunset Boulevard come to life.\n\n\"I am only a film star,\" she had a habit of saying in a full Norma Desmond purr, \"because the public wanted me to be one.\"\n\nGina Lollobrigida lived to an age at which memories of her glory days - as part of movie world royalty in the '50s and '60s - have grown dim. Few of her films are now regarded as classics.\n\nBut - in her time - she was one of the greats. Her life story was as exotic as any of the roles she played.\n\nAnd the maxim by which she lived, she said, was simple: \"We are all born to die. The difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV of people fleeing after drive-by shooting at church\n\nCCTV footage shows screaming people fleeing after a drive-by shooting outside a London church left a girl, seven, seriously injured.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nPolice believe a black Toyota was used in the attack, which happened during a memorial service at the church.\n\nA man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder earlier.\n\nThe force said the seven-year-old girl remained in a stable but life-threatening condition.\n\nA shotgun was used in the attack, which happened at about 13:30 GMT during a memorial service for 20-year-old Sara Sanchez and her mother Fresia Calderon. The service was held at the Roman Catholic church on Phoenix Road, which said it was attended by about 300 people.\n\nFour women, aged 21, 41, 48 and 54, were taken to hospital, where their injuries were assessed as non-life threatening.\n\nA 12-year-old girl sustained a leg injury and was expected to make a full recovery, officers added.\n\nA cordon has been set up outside St Aloysius Church\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a dark car being driven down Phoenix Road and, seconds later, a gunshot noise can be heard.\n\nSupt Jack Rowlands said on Sunday officers \"found multiple people with injuries caused by pellets from a shotgun\".\n\nHe said officers were seeking information about a black Toyota.\n\n\"We believe the suspects discharged a shotgun from a moving vehicle, which was a black Toyota C-HR, likely a 2019 model or similar,\" Supt Rowlands said.\n\nPolice shared a stock image of the Toyota model used in the attack\n\nFather Jeremy Trood conducted the memorial service for Ms Sanchez, who died from leukaemia in November, and her mother Fresia Calderon who died the same month.\n\nMs Sanchez had suffered from leukaemia for three years, while her mother died from a rare blood clot on arrival at Heathrow from Colombia.\n\nFr Trood said the Mass had just finished and the congregation was leaving when he heard an \"enormous bang\".\n\nThe memorial service was being held for Sara Sanchez and her mother Fresia Calderon\n\n\"It was a very strange, long and prolonged noise I heard,\" he told BBC London.\n\n\"Doves were going to be released at the end of the service and I think people were going out to see that.\n\n\"I remember the screams and shouts, and the people who were making their way out of the church all coming back in.\n\n\"I've been here nine years and I've never known anything like this... it's very shocking.\"\n\nHe added since the shooting, he had held two services to pray for those affected, especially those in hospital, as well as the perpetrator, for them to learn the errors of their ways and to accept responsibility.\n\n\"How anyone could shoot into a crowd of people is just unimaginable, I don't know how anyone could even contemplate doing such a thing,\" he said.\n\nA resident who lives near the church said her children had been left traumatised, especially after it was confirmed that it was a shooting that they had heard.\n\nThe woman, who did not want to be named, added they had seen one of the victims fall to the ground.\n\n\"My son had an exam today and I think the whole night he wasn't able to go to sleep because of it (the shooting),\" she said.\n\n\"We have witnessed something right in front of our doorstep.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is still a \"hangover effect\" from the financial instability seen during the prime ministership of Liz Truss, the Bank of England governor has said.\n\nAndrew Bailey told MPs that the cost of government borrowing, which soared after the mini-budget, had normalised.\n\nBut he said international investors were still wary about lending money to the UK government.\n\n\"It's going to take some time to convince everybody that we're back to where we were before,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"Not because I doubt the current government, I am not trying in any sense to be negative. Obviously there is something of a hangover effect.\"\n\nIn September the pound fell sharply and government borrowing costs soared after Ms Truss's administration promised a huge package of tax cuts without explaining how they would be funded.\n\nIt caused mortgage rates to surge to a 14-year high. The Bank of England also had to step in to calm financial markets after the chaos put some pension funds at risk.\n\nSince then, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reversed almost all of Ms Truss's tax plans and the pound and government borrowing costs have stabilised.\n\nMr Bailey told MPs on the Treasury Select Committee that international investors were no longer demanding sharply higher rates of interest when they bought UK \"gilts\", which are debt issued by the UK government.\n\n\"My judgement would be that that has pretty much gone now actually and we're back to where we were before,\" he said.\n\nBut he said there were signs the instability had left international investors wary of buying UK gilts.\n\nThe Bank of England says foreign investors sold more gilts than they bought between September and November, indicating a lack of confidence in the government. However, Mr Bailey said that the gap was \"considerably lower\" in November suggesting confidence was returning.\n\n\"So I think that is reasonable evidence and it probably suggests that [the hit to the UK's reputation] is taking a bit longer to work its way through,\" he told MPs.\n\nSeparately, Mr Bailey said that inflation - the rate at which prices rise - looks set to fall sharply this year as energy prices decrease, but a shortage of workers in the labour market posed a \"major risk\" to this outcome.\n\n\"I think that going forwards the major risk to inflation coming down ... is the shrinkage of labour force,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe cost of living is rising at its fastest pace in 40 years as energy bills and food price soar, putting households under pressure.\n\nThe Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for a tenth time in a row early next month as it seeks to cool inflation.\n\nBut it has to balance rates rises - which increase the cost of borrowing money for consumers and businesses - with the risk of tipping the country into recession.\n\nA recent forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility suggests the UK is already in recession and will remain so for the whole of 2023.", "Downing Street insists that using Section 35 of the Scotland Act to veto this Holyrood bill is not a political choice but a legal necessity.\n\nThat argument is complicated by the fact that when the mechanism was proposed in 1998, the Conservatives’ Constitutional Affairs Spokesman Michael Ancram was highly critical of it.\n\nThe MP for Devizes invoked the notion of colonialism by referring to it as a “governor-general clause” which appeared “to place draconian powers in the hands of the Secretary of State”.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is now trying to frame the decision to use Section 35 (confusingly known at the time as Clause 33) as an attack on devolution itself.\n\nBut her position is complicated by the fact that SNP MPs voted for the Scotland Act after abstaining on Ancram’s amendment\n\nIt sought to raise the bar for invoking Section 35 albeit in a way that would probably not have made a difference in this case as it simply required the minister to seek legal advice before making a decision, which the Scottish Secretary Alister Jack appears to have done.\n\nLabour, which designed the devolutionary framework, is in more of a pickle about the gender law itself. UK leader Sir Keir Starmer expressed concerns about it on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg even though Scottish Labour MSPs had voted for it.\n\nSo we are now heading for the courts. In the meantime, you might want to ask Ancram for his lottery numbers because, in the House of Commons debate on 12 May 1998, he made this prediction:\n\n“…the purpose of the Opposition throughout the passage of the Bill has been to try to identify the areas in it that could lead to dramatic confrontation between the Parliament and Government in Edinburgh and the Parliament and Government in London.\n\n\"I can see within this draconian power—were it used in a way that ran counter to the wishes of the Scottish Parliament—the epitome of such a confrontation.”", "One of the most shocking cases we have dealt with - CPS\n\nSpeaking outside Southwark Crown Court, Jaswant Narwal of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) describes Carrick's case as \"one of the most shocking cases\" the CPS has dealt with involving a serving police officer. She says anyone hearing of the 49 counts which Carrick has pleaded guilty to against 12 victims \"would agree that the sheer magnitude of his offending is horrifying\", adding that she has seen nothing else like it in her 34 years working with the CPS. She says Carrick was \"trusted with the responsibility of protecting the public\", but in his private life he did the opposite. She says she commends \"every woman\" who \"courageously\" saw the case to court, and says that it is their courage which has \"finally\" led to justice being served. She also commends the CPS team, the prosecution council, and the police investigation team who \"worked so hard and quickly\" to build an \"extremely strong case\" against Carrick which left him \"no option but to admit his crimes\". \"Women have the right to be safe, and feel safe,\" she says. She adds that she hopes the outcome of the case will encourage other women who may be in a similar position to come forward.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A woman is pulled from the rubble of the Dnipro apartment block hit by a missile\n\nThe mayor of Dnipro has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday's Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city.\n\nA whole section of the nine-storey block collapsed and authorities say at least 40 people died. Rescue efforts are continuing.\n\nSeveral others are still missing and 75 survivors were injured.\n\nThere is \"minimal\" chance of finding others alive, Mayor Borys Filatov said.\n\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman insisted that the Russian military did not strike at residential buildings.\n\n\"Attacks are made on military targets, either obvious or disguised,\" Dmitry Peskov told journalists.\n\nUkraine said the building was hit by a Russian Kh-22 missile, which it does not have the capability to shoot down. The missile is also known to be extremely inaccurate, according to the office of Ukraine's prosecutor general.\n\nBut Mr Peskov suggested the strike on the building could have been the result of Ukrainian air defence.\n\nKyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa were also hit on Saturday in attacks which Moscow said were targeted at Ukraine's military and energy infrastructure.\n\nPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called the missile strikes \"inhuman\", adding that \"Russia intentionally keeps on committing war crimes against civilians\".\n\nRescue teams work in the rubble of the damaged residential building hit by shelling in Dnipro\n\nPresident Putin said \"everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defence and the general staff\".\n\nBelarus, on Ukraine's northern border, is beginning joint air force drills with Russia on Monday. The Belarusian defence ministry insists they will be defensive, but there are concerns that Moscow is pressuring Minsk to join the war in Ukraine. Belarus was one of Russia's launchpads for the invasion last February.\n\nIn his evening address on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted he had received many messages of sympathy from around the world and condemned the Russian people's \"cowardly silence\" over the Dnipro attack.\n\nSwitching to Russian during his message, he said he wanted to address those \"who even now could not utter a few words of condemnation of this terror\".\n\n\"Your cowardly silence, your attempt to 'wait out' what is happening, will only end with the fact that one day these same terrorists will come for you.\"\n\nHe added the victims of the strike included a 15-year-old girl and that two children had been left orphans.\n\nIt has been two weeks since the last wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid. On Saturday, Mr Zelensky said energy infrastructure in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions had been badly hit.\n\nFollowing the attacks, Ukrainian state energy company Ukrenergo temporarily imposed round-the-clock consumption limits for all regions. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said the next few days would be \"difficult\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNato chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that Ukraine could expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries.\n\n\"Recent pledges for heavy warfare equipment are important - and I expect more in the near future,\" Mr Stoltenberg told German media.\n\nRussia's missile barrage came on the same day that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government would give Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv's armed forces in a bid to help \"push Russian troops back\".\n\nIn response, Moscow said providing more weapons to Ukraine would lead to intensified Russian operations and more civilian casualties.\n\nAsked about the supply of British tanks to Ukraine, Mr Peskov replied: \"These tanks are burning and will burn just like the rest.\"", "For 20 years, David Carrick, a serial rapist and violent sexual predator, wore a police uniform and, for much of that time, also carried a gun.\n\nIn his private life, he told his victims: \"You are my slave,\" as he controlled and abused them, subjecting them to appalling acts of degradation. They would never be believed as it would be their word against that of a serving officer, Carrick told them.\n\nCarrick has now admitted 49 charges relating to 12 victims. His guilty pleas leave the Metropolitan Police - the force he served in - once again apologising for failing to root out a criminal in uniform.\n\nCarrick was finally stopped when one woman did decide to report him. In October 2021, after publicity about disgraced Met Police officer PC Wayne Couzens, she contacted police in Hertfordshire, where Carrick lived and committed many of his crimes.\n\nThe woman described how, a year earlier, she had met Carrick on Tinder, the dating app. On their first encounter, he showed her his police warrant card, claimed he had met famous people - including the prime minister - and said he handled firearms. He also mentioned his pet snake. He told her he wanted a submissive woman.\n\nAfter plying her with drink, he took her to a hotel room where, she said, he raped her. Carrick was arrested and charged.\n\nAt his first court appearance, he denied the allegation - but, as a defendant in a court case, Carrick's name was made public. Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, of Hertfordshire Constabulary, who led the investigation, describes this first complainant as a trigger.\n\nSeeing him finally in the dock, Carrick's many victims - previously intimidated and silenced - gradually began to come forward. \"The investigation snowballed,\" Det Ch Insp Moor says. The first complainant did not realise she would empower so many women to strip away the law-and-order mask of a monster.\n\nThe Met has apologised after it emerged Carrick had come to the attention of the Met and three other forces nine times.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray says the force \"should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour\". She says failings \"may have prolonged\" the suffering of Carrick's victims.\n\nCarrick's earliest known victim described being falsely imprisoned, raped and threatened by him in 2003, as his probationary period in the police was ending.\n\nHe went on to rape, sexually assault and abuse a series of women, calling them his prostitutes. He would tell some what to wear, where to sleep and what to eat, sometimes even banning them from food altogether. Some he banned from speaking to other men, or even to their own children. Others he urinated on.\n\nOne woman described Carrick whipping her with a belt, another how he regularly imprisoned her in a small cupboard under the stairs. She stayed there \"intimidated and humiliated until he chose when she could come out\", Det Ch Insp Moor says, adding: \"I have seen bigger dog crates.\"\n\nHe says Carrick developed relationships with women \"to sustain his appetite for degradation and control\". \"He thrived on humiliating his victims,\" Det Ch Insp Moor says. Three women were in \"controlling and coercive\" relationships with Carrick. And police believe there may be more victims.\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary has set up a dedicated section on its website, allowing people to report directly online without going through a police control room or the general online reporting system.\n\nBBC News has also spoken to a woman who met Carrick through a dating site. He did not attack her and she is not one of the women in this case. Although they never went on a date, she did once go to his house.\n\nShe describes how he began bombarding her with messages that \"really creeped me out\". \"He was weird,\" she says. \"I thought I should be nice to him because he was a police officer - and I was also thinking, surely you can trust a police officer.\"\n\nIn the messages, Carrick told her he thought he was falling in love with her and accused her of leading him on. She is shocked and astonished by the crimes of a man she regarded as simply cocky and strange.\n\nIn police interviews, Carrick appeared relaxed, claiming the sexual activity had been consensual or had not happened.\n\nAnd for months, it appeared his victims would have to go through the ordeal of court, as Carrick denied the charges. Suddenly, in December 2022, he admitted most of the offences. He was still due to go on trial, in February, on the remaining charges but now the arch-manipulator has pleaded guilty to those as well.\n\nThe street in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where David Carrick lived\n\nHis conviction has left the police with serious questions to answer.\n\nCarrick joined the Met, aged 26, in 2001, after a spell in the Army. He had passed the vetting procedure despite having twice in the previous year been implicated, although not arrested or charged, in possible offences - including burglary, involving a former partner he had refused to accept he was no longer in a relationship with.\n\nIn 2002, Carrick, the rookie cop, was investigated by his own force, after being accused of assaulting and harassing an ex-partner. There were no criminal charges and he was not referred to the Met's directorate of professional standards.\n\nPC Carrick's career saw several more reports of assault, harassment and domestic abuse, but none led to a criminal prosecution. He was on the radar of police in Hertfordshire, Hampshire and Thames Valley.\n\nOne allegation was made in 2009, when Carrick became a member of the armed teams guarding the Houses of Parliament, government offices and diplomatic missions.\n\nIn 2017, he sailed through his police re-vetting - but two years later, he was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck. Again, there were no criminal charges. And although the Met was informed, it decided against a misconduct process.\n\nIn summer 2021, Carrick was accused of rape and arrested by Hertfordshire Constabulary, but the Met allowed him to continue working - on restricted duties.\n\nWhile the Met was publicly proclaiming its commitment to protecting women after the murder of Sarah Everard, it now admits its professional-standards department made no attempt to check the full record of another officer accused of rape.\n\nMs Gray, who recently took over the department, says she is incredulous, stressing Carrick should have been re-vetted and suspended.\n\nThe rape case did not proceed, after the woman withdrew her complaint. And Carrick was preparing to return to full duties when he was arrested again, on another rape allegation. He was charged, named publicly and his 17 years of offending finally exposed.\n\nThe Met has asked the police watchdog to review its decision-making on Carrick, a case Ms Gray describes as \"devastating for the victims that have had to go through pain and suffering at the hands of a serving police officer\".\n\n\"It's devastating to the trust and confidence that we are working so hard to earn from women and girls across London,\" she says. \"We know this is a day when policing has definitely taken a step back.\"", "The UK government has decided to block a controversial Scottish bill designed to make it easier for people to change their legal gender.\n\nUK ministers say the draft law would conflict with equality protections applying across Great Britain.\n\nIt is the first time a Scottish law has been blocked for affecting UK-wide law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called the move a \"full-frontal attack\" on the Scottish Parliament and vowed to oppose it.\n\nShe said the Scottish ministers would \"defend\" the bill, warning if the veto succeeded it would be the \"first of many\".\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to challenge the ruling - potentially through a judicial review - but is waiting for more details from UK ministers.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's government believe the current process is too difficult and invasive, and causes distress to an already marginalised and vulnerable minority group.\n\nThe UK government's Scottish secretary Alister Jack will take the legal steps on Tuesday to confirm the move, and set out the reasons for it in a statement to the House of Commons.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Sturgeon, he said the bill would have a \"significant impact\" on protections contained in UK equalities legislation.\n\nHe cited concerns over its effect on legal rights to run single-sex clubs, associations and schools, as well as rules on equal pay for men and women.\n\nHe added that having \"two different gender recognition schemes in the UK\" risked creating \"significant complications,\" including \"allowing more fraudulent or bad faith applications\".\n\nThe announcement was greeted with fury by Scottish Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison, who called the decision to block the bill \"outrageous\".\n\nArguing that the bill does not affect UK-wide equalities law, she said the \"political\" move demonstrated the UK government's \"contempt for devolution\".\n\n\"This is a dark day for trans rights and a dark day for democracy in the UK,\" she added.\n\nThis is a major and unique intervention from the UK government.\n\nThey have successfully challenged Holyrood legislation before on the basis that MSPs exceeded their powers.\n\nBut they have never blocked a Scottish bill on the basis that they think it will have a negative impact on UK law, in this case the Equality Act.\n\nThis decision turns a dispute about the process for legally changing gender into a significant constitutional clash between the Scottish and UK governments.\n\nI am told the UK Labour Party will not challenge this intervention, but some Scottish Labour MSPs are furious that gender reforms they helped pass are being stopped.\n\nWhile UK ministers have suggested the bill could be modified, Scottish ministers have made clear they intend to defend what Holyrood has approved - which probably means this dispute ends up in court.\n\nThe Gender Recognition Bill, passed by 86 votes to 39 in the Scottish Parliament last month, would streamline the process in Scotland for changing legal gender.\n\nThe bill would lower the age that people can apply for a gender recognition certificate (GRC) - a legal document confirming a gender change - from 18 to 16.\n\nIt would also remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, with applicants only needing to have lived as their acquired gender for three months rather than two years - or six months if they are aged 16 or 17.\n\nTrans campaigners welcomed the bill, however critics of the plans are worried that allowing anyone to \"self-identify\" as a woman could impact on women's rights and access to single-sex spaces like refuges and changing rooms.\n\nUK ministers have used a power to block the law under Section 35 of the Scotland Act, the legislation which created a Scottish Parliament with powers to make laws on a range of issues.\n\nIf ministers think a Holyrood bill would modify laws reserved to Westminster and have an \"adverse effect\" on how those laws apply, they can block it. But the power has not been used up to now.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has argued there are no grounds for the UK government to challenge the legislation as it falls within the powers of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nShe has said any move to block the reforms would be using trans people \"as a political weapon\".\n\nScottish Labour, who supported the bill at Holyrood, called on Scottish and UK ministers to find a solution to the impasse.\n\nShadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray added: \"Trans rights and women's rights should not be used as an excuse for SNP-Tory attrition warfare\".\n\nHow do you feel about the Scottish gender bill being blocked? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Mont Blanc rises to 4,810m (nearly 16,000ft) - the highest peak in western Europe\n\nA British woman, 45, has died after getting caught in an avalanche while hiking with two other people in the French Alps, rescue services have said.\n\nThe accident happened on Saturday on the Argentière Glacier, one of Mont Blanc's biggest glaciers.\n\nThe specialist high-mountain search and rescue unit of the French police in Chamonix said it was alerted by a guide at around 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT).\n\nRescue workers and a doctor were sent by helicopter to rescue her.\n\nBut they were unable to revive the woman, said Col Bertrand Host of the mountain rescue unit.\n\nPolice have launched an investigation into the woman's death.\n\nThe local public prosecutor's office said the woman and her partner had been Nordic skiing with a high-mountain guide and were going up the Col du Tour Noir when the avalanche happened.\n\nThe office confirmed there was an avalanche warning risk of three on a scale of five in place on Saturday.\n\nThe prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation to determine the circumstances of the woman's death and has ordered a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe woman was hiking with a guide and another person on the Argentière Glacier\n\nMont Blanc, western Europe's highest mountain at 4,810m (nearly 16,000ft), attracts 20,000 hikers and skiers every year.\n\nWarmer temperatures in recent years have melted permafrost - permanently frozen ground - raising the risk of rockfalls on the most popular routes.\n\nLast August, authorities closed down two popular mountain shelters used by Mont Blanc climbers because of potentially deadly drought-related rockfalls.\n\nMelting snow is also believed to help trigger avalanches.\n\nThe Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office said it was providing assistance to the woman's family.\n• None Two dead in avalanche near Mont Blanc", "Nurses and doctors protesting in Westminster, in July\n\nTwo new nurses' strikes will be held on 6 and 7 February in England and Wales - unless there is movement on pay, the Royal College of Nursing says.\n\nThe walkouts will be the biggest so far, with more than a third of NHS trusts in England and all but one Welsh health board affected.\n\nIt comes as nurses prepare to walk out on Wednesday and Thursday, following the two strike days before Christmas.\n\nAs required under trade union laws, emergency care will be covered.\n\nMost of the 73 NHS trusts involved in the new set of strike dates are hospitals.\n\nIt means the biggest disruption is likely to be in pre-booked treatment such as hernia repair, hip replacements or outpatient clinics.\n\nServices such as chemotherapy, kidney dialysis and intensive care will be staffed, however, as part of the emergency cover.\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"It is with a heavy heart that nursing staff are striking this week and again in three weeks. Rather than negotiate, Rishi Sunak has chosen strike action again.\n\n\"We're doing this in a desperate bid to get him and ministers to rescue the NHS. The only credible solution is to address the tens of thousands of unfilled jobs - patient care is suffering like never before.\n\n\"My olive branch to government - asking them to meet me halfway and begin negotiations - is still there. They should grab it.\"\n\nThe union has asked for 5% above the Retail Prices Index (RPI) rate of inflation, which currently stands at 14%.\n\nThe governments in England and Wales have given an average of 4.75% to NHS staff, with everyone guaranteed at least £1,400.\n\nTalks have been held between the RCN and other NHS unions and Health Secretary Steve Barclay.\n\nGovernment sources said there would be no movement on this year's pay award but ministers are considering backdating the 2023-24 pay rise to January. It would normally kick in in April.\n\nThis has already been tabled in Scotland, leading to NHS strikes being halted for further negotiations - although, staff there received a 7.5% pay rise this year.\n\nThere have been walkouts in Northern Ireland but the RCN said its members there were not being included this time.\n\nThe RCN, which represents about two-thirds of nurses, balloted more than 300,000 across individual NHS trusts and boards rather than in a single, national vote.\n\nThis means some nurses are not entitled to take industrial action, because the turnout in their local area was too low.\n\nDuring the first two days of strikes, before Christmas, nurses at 44 out of 209 NHS trusts in England were involved, along with those at services in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis week, nurses at 55 other NHS trusts in England are striking.\n\nMatthew Taylor, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health managers, said routine treatments and checks-ups would have to be rescheduled \"against a backdrop of what is a very pressured time of year\".\n\nHe added: \"It appears that that both sides have a willingness to compromise - it is vital that the prime minister takes this opportunity to find a solution in health.\"\n\nAre you a nurse? Have you voted on strike action? Share your experiences. Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: CCTV of people fleeing after drive-by shooting at church\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a drive-by shooting outside a London church left a girl, seven, seriously injured.\n\nA 12-year-old girl and four women were also injured at St Aloysius Church in Euston when shots were fired from a moving vehicle on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a 22-year-old man was arrested after a car was stopped in Barnet, London, shortly before 16:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nHe has been taken into custody.\n\nThe force said the seven-year-old remains in a stable but life-threatening condition.\n\nCCTV footage shows people fleeing and screaming after shots were fired from a moving vehicle.\n\nPolice on Sunday said they were seeking information on a black Toyota.\n\nSuspects fired from a shotgun during a memorial service attended by hundreds of people at the Roman Catholic church on Phoenix Road at about 13:30 GMT.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were seeking information about a black Toyota\n\nSupt Jack Rowlands said officers \"found multiple people with injuries caused by pellets from a shotgun\".\n\n\"Four women, aged 21, 41, 48 and 54, were taken to central London hospitals. Thankfully their injuries were assessed as non-life threatening,\" he said.\n\n\"Two children were also injured. A 12-year-old girl sustained a leg injury. She was treated at hospital before being discharged yesterday afternoon. She is expected to make a full recovery.\n\n\"A seven-year-old girl was more seriously injured. She remains in hospital in a stable but life-threatening condition, and our thoughts are with her and her family.\n\n\"We believe the suspects discharged a shotgun from a moving vehicle, which was a black Toyota C-HR, likely a 2019 model or similar.\"\n\nThe memorial service was being held for Sara Sanchez and her mother\n\nFather Jeremy Trood, who conducted the memorial service, said it was for 20-year-old Sara Sanchez, who died from leukaemia in November and her mother, who died the same month.\n\nMs Sanchez suffered from leukaemia for three years before she died. Her mother died from a rare blood clot on arrival at Heathrow from Colombia, MyLondon reported.\n\nHe said the Mass, which had more than 300 people attending, had just finished and people were leaving, when he heard an \"enormous bang\".\n\n\"It was a very strange, long and prolonged noise I heard,\" Father Trood told BBC London.\n\n\"Doves were going to be released at the end of the service and I think people were going out to see that.\n\n\"I remember the screams and shouts, and the people who were making their way out of the church all coming back in.\n\n\"There was confusion as people were getting away from the windows and doors.\n\n\"I've been here nine years and I've never known anything like this... it's very shocking.\"\n\nPolice shared a stock image of the Toyota model they are seeking\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan described the shooting as \"deeply distressing\" and said he was in close contact with detectives to determine what happened.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on Twitter that she was \"deeply concerned by the shocking shooting\".\n\nA police cordon is in place outside the church\n\nSupt Rowlands appealed for anyone with information on the \"shocking incident\" to contact police urgently.\n\n\"People came here to attend a funeral, to be with friends and loved ones and to mourn together,\" he said.\n\n\"Instead they were the victims of a senseless act of violence.\"\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised here? Were you in the area? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Border Force officers discovered uranium with a shipment of scrap metal in a routine screening on 29 December\n\nA man in his 60s has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after traces of uranium were found at Heathrow Airport in December.\n\nIt comes after counter-terrorism officers searched an address in Cheshire on Saturday.\n\nThe man was arrested under Section 9 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which covers the making and possession of radioactive devices and materials.\n\nHe was released on bail until April.\n\nCdr Richard Smith, head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said that \"based on what we currently know\", the incident \"still does not appear to be linked to any direct threat to the public\".\n\nHe said officers were continuing to investigate to \"ensure this is definitely the case\".\n\nThe search of the Cheshire property had been completed and police said no material that could be a threat to the public was found.\n\nBorder Force officers discovered the radioactive material with a shipment of scrap metal during a routine screening on 29 December.\n\nUranium is an element which occurs naturally. It can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.\n\nHighly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.", "Australian Open 2023 results: Emma Raducanu and Cameron Norrie through in Melbourne Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nEmma Raducanu is aiming to go beyond the second round at a Grand Slam event for the first time since she won the 2021 US Open Coverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website and app. Emma Raducanu made a positive return to court after her injury scare, moving into the second round of the Australian Open with a straight-set win. On the opening day in Melbourne, the British number one won 6-3 6-2 against Germany's Tamara Korpatsch. Raducanu, 20, rolled her ankle in Auckland 11 days ago and a beaming smile after sealing victory showed her joy at coming through her first test. British men's number one Cameron Norrie also advanced with a straight-set win. Norrie, seeded 11th, progressed from the first round for only the second time in five attempts with a 7-6 (7-3) 6-0 6-3 success over teenage French wildcard Luca van Assche. The 27-year-old left-hander had a short turnaround after playing in the Auckland final on Saturday, when he lost to French veteran Richard Gasquet. \"I was pretty nervous but I managed to relax in the second set there and close out a tough game. Not my best level but I'll build on it,\" said Norrie, who earned the biggest win of his career by beating Rafael Nadal at the United Cup earlier this month. \"I enjoyed the match after that tricky first set.\" Norrie and Raducanu were the only two British players to win at Melbourne Park, with Raducanu now set to face American seventh seed Coco Gauff in round two. Rising star Jack Draper was beaten by Spanish great Rafael Nadal, while Kyle Edmund lost 6-4 6-0 6-2 to Italian 15th seed Jannik Sinner. Edmund, 28, reached the semi-finals in 2018 but is trying to rebuild his career after a knee injury which needed three operations before he returned to the tour last year. Playing using a protected ranking, it was another tough draw at a Grand Slam for Edmund after he faced eventual runner-up Casper Ruud at last year's US Open. Harriet Dart, Britain's only other representative in the women's singles, lost 7-5 6-1 to Swiss 32nd seed Jil Teichmann. Gauff, 18, is among the favourites to win the women's singles at Melbourne Park and started with a 6-1 6-4 victory over Czech opponent Katerina Siniakova. American third seed Jessica Pegula, Gauff's doubles partner and another favoured by many to win her first major singles title, made an even bigger statement with a 6-0 6-1 victory over Romania's Jaqueline Cristian which took just 59 minutes. When Raducanu left the Auckland court in tears, her chances of playing at the first major of the season looked in serious doubt. Physical issues have plagued the Briton since she was catapulted to superstardom by winning the 2021 US Open as a teenage qualifier and, after employing Andy Murray's former fitness coach Jez Green, she worked hard in pre-season on building her body to withstand the rigours of the WTA Tour. So it was a bitter blow when she rolled her left ankle in what she described as a \"freak accident\". Raducanu's movement improved in practice at Melbourne Park as last week went on, but the real indication of her condition would only be apparent in a match scenario. \"Everything I've done has been quite controlled the last week,\" she said. \"So I had to test it out in a real match, with the unpredictability and just getting used to it in the beginning. It felt good. \"You know it's there and if anything, it kind of alleviates any pressure. \"That's because you're, like, I've done so well to get myself on to the court, and my team has done so well. It's a great achievement for all of us.\" With strapping on the ankle, Raducanu initially looked cautious when she stretched out to the backhand side and had to put weight on the affected foot. A poor quality start littered with unforced errors saw the pair exchange five breaks of serve before Raducanu began to grow in confidence. Korpatsch, 27, is ranked a place higher than Raducanu but does not have the same pedigree and was making her Australian Open main-draw debut. A double fault from the German - who is more comfortable on clay and looked nervous throughout - brought up a match point which Raducanu took when Korpatsch hit a forehand long. Raducanu twirled on the court in celebration, but knows a much tougher test lies ahead when she plays Gauff on Wednesday. \"I might as well just enjoy all the hard work we've done to get myself here,\" said Raducanu. \"If anything, it's not mental, it's more physical and just playing, seeing how it is.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None The Lyell team cross paths with the mafia:\n• None Key moments on the pitch, candid interviews with the players and unique behind-the-scenes insight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nItaly's most-wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run.\n\nMessina Denaro was reportedly detained in a private clinic in Sicily's capital, Palermo, where he was receiving treatment for cancer.\n\nHe is alleged to be a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra Mafia and he was tried and sentenced to life in jail in absentia in 2002 over numerous murders.\n\nMore than 100 members of the armed forces were involved in his arrest.\n\nItalian media reported that Messina Denaro was captured just before 10:00 (09:00 GMT) and taken to a secret location by the Carabinieri. He was reportedly visiting the clinic under a fake name for a course of chemotherapy.\n\nA video circulated by Italian media appears to show people standing in the street and applauding the Italian police as Messina Denaro is led away.\n\nThese are some of the murders he was convicted over:\n\nMessina Denaro once boasted he could \"fill a cemetery\" with his victims.\n\nThe Mafia boss also oversaw racketeering, illegal waste dumping, money-laundering and drug-trafficking for the powerful Cosa Nostra organised crime syndicate.\n\nHe was reportedly the protege of Totò Riina, head of the Corleone clan, who was arrested in 1993 after 23 years on the run.\n\nClans nicknamed Messina Denaro \"Diabolik\" - the name of an uncatchable thief in a comic book series - and \"U Siccu\" (Skinny).\n\nHe is thought to be Cosa Nostra's last \"secret-keeper\". Many informers and prosecutors believe that he holds all the information and the names of those involved in several of the most high-profile crimes by the Mafia, including the bomb attacks that killed magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.\n\nAlthough Messina Denaro had been a fugitive since 1993, he was thought to have still been issuing orders to his subordinates from various secret locations.\n\nOver the decades, Italian investigators often came close to catching Messina Denaro by monitoring those closest to him.\n\nThis resulted in the arrest of his sister Patrizia and several other of his associates in 2013. Police also seized valuable businesses linked to Messina Denaro, leaving him increasingly isolated.\n\nHowever, few photos of Messina Denaro existed and police had to rely on digital composites to reconstruct his appearance in the decades after he went on the run. A recording of his voice was not released until 2021.\n\nIn September 2021, a Formula 1 fan from Liverpool was arrested at gunpoint in a restaurant in the Netherlands after being mistaken for Messina Denaro.\n\nItalians were glued to their screens on Monday morning when news of the arrest of the mafia boss broke.\n\nFor years, Messina Denaro had been a symbol of the state's inability to reach the upper echelons of the organised crime syndicates.\n\nHis arrest will be an unexpected sign of hope that the Mafia can be eradicated even in the southern regions of the country, where the state is perceived as largely absent and ineffective.\n\nUniversity of Essex criminology professor Anna Sergi told the BBC that Messina Denaro's arrest was \"symbolic not just because he was the boss of Cosa Nostra, but because he represents the last fugitive the Italian state really wanted to get its hands on\".\n\nShe said the reason people applauded in Palermo and the state felt \"triumphant\" was because the news felt like closure.\n\nHowever, questions are likely to arise over the timing of the arrest.\n\nProf Sergi suggested it was still unclear how the morning raid on the clinic came about, who tipped the authorities off and crucially, how it was possible for Messina Denaro to \"run around Sicily, presumably protected, for 30 years\".\n\nMessina Denaro was being treated for cancer so was \"quite sick\", the professor said, adding people were speculating that someone in the crime world had decided he was no longer useful.\n\n\"This means he was likely still part of structure where there is an exchange of favours between the Mafia and state, and where one can be given up in return for something,\" she explained.\n\nBut at a press conference on Monday afternoon the Carabinieri appeared to deny that they had received a tip-off on the whereabouts of Messina Denaro and emphasised the hard work of investigators who tracked the mafia boss down in a \"painstaking and extremely delicate\" operation.\n\nThe authorities said Messina Denaro did not attempt to run when he realised the operation was taking place, and that he admitted to being the man the Carabinieri were searching for as soon as they approached him.\n\nThey also said that the fugitive was \"looking well, well dressed and wearing high-end clothing\": \"We certainly did not find a destroyed man… we found a well-groomed man in a good economic condition.\"\n\nGeneral Pasquale Angelosanto of the ROS special force unit of the Carabinieri added that Messina Denaro was wearing a watch worth 35,000 euros ($37,880, £31,067) when officers detained him.\n\n\"Obviously the mafia has not been defeated, and it would be a mistake to think it so,\" said the Palermo prosecutor general Maurizio De Lucia.\n\nDe Lucia also told reporters that Messina Denaro spent the last three decades hiding out in many parts of Italy, most recently in Sicily.\n\nAfter the arrest, tributes to the work of the armed forces poured in from across the political spectrum.\n\nGian Carlo Caselli, a judge and former prosecutor general, said that the arrest of Messina Denaro was an \"exceptional... simply historical event\" that might lead to significant developments in the ongoing inquiries into the 1993 bomb attacks that killed 10 people across Italy.\n\nItaly's president, Sergio Mattarella, whose brother Piersanti was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1980, congratulated the minister of the interior and the Carabinieri.\n\nPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni travelled to Sicily today and visited the memorial to Giovanni Falcone and the other victims of the 1992 bombing near Palermo, where she observed a minute's silence.\n\nMs Meloni also thanked the armed forces for their work in detaining the \"most important member of the mafia criminal group\", adding: \"This is a great victory for the state.\"", "The fact Cardiff Airport is on the coast means it has fewer local customers than other airports, ex-BMI Baby boss David Bryon says\n\nCardiff Airport was built in the wrong place to attract passengers, the former boss of a low-cost airline has said.\n\nDavid Bryon, ex-director of BMI Baby, which operated from the airport between 2002-2011, said no-one in their \"right mind\" would invest in the airport.\n\nHe spoke after budget airline Wizz Air announced it was quitting Cardiff and data showed passenger numbers had fallen following the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh government said smaller UK airports were vital to the economy.\n\n\"Nobody in their right mind would look at investing in the airport as an infrastructure,\" said Mr Bryon.\n\n\"It's not an attractive proposition as an airport for an investor.\"\n\nSince Covid, passengers numbers have fallen to 812,000 in the year to November 2022 at Cardiff Airport\n\nMeanwhile, Doncaster Sheffield Airport, which ceased operations due to \"financial viability\" last month, had 1.4 million passengers in 2019, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\n\"What I think was most alarming is, we saw an airport actually shut down with similar levels to Cardiff,\" Mr Bryon said.\n\n\"Doncaster was carrying similar pre-pandemic passenger levels of 1.5 million... and sadly they announced in September that it's closing.\n\n\"If you can't get above two, three, four million [passengers] then... it's very difficult for it to break even, let alone make money, and we saw that with Doncaster.\"\n\nCardiff Airport was valued at £15m in 2021, but the Welsh government bought it for £52m in 2013.\n\nMr Bryon told BBC Radio Wales Drive BMI Baby had considered Cardiff a \"key attraction\" when it started routes in 2002 as it thought it could grow the market.\n\nHe claimed its coastal location at Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, meant it could not attract as many passengers as other airports that were totally surrounded by potential customers.\n\nWizz Air's two remaining winter routes to Milan and Bucharest will cease to operate from 25 January\n\n\"There just isn't the volume [of passengers]. Not only is Cardiff Airport on the coast, which limits its catchment, it's on the wrong side of Cardiff,\" he explained.\n\nTo make the airport work, Mr Bryon said it would have to attract customers from England, but its position a 25-minute drive \"down a country road to actually get to the airport\" once customers left the M4 made it \"quite a bind\" to get to.\n\n\"Its location, unfortunately, is all wrong,\" he said, adding: \"Losing Wizz Air is a huge blow to the airport.\"\n\n\"You look at Bristol, which is somewhere in the region of eight or nine million, and then we go up to 14 million for Birmingham... you've got to really get to that four to five million [passengers] to be able to make the airport viable.\n\n\"If we look at Monday, there are seven flights taking off, and seven landing back at Cardiff.\"\n\nJane Dodds, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said the Welsh government had serious questions to answer about the airport's future.\n\n\"With a bill of £210m since the Welsh government purchased the airport and no sign of things improving, taxpayers will rightly be asking what value for money they are getting,\" she said.\n\n\"Imagine what £210m of taxpayers' money could have done if it had been ploughed into sustainable transport in Wales instead.\"\n\nThe Welsh government did not specifically address the concerns over the airport's location or its future, but said: \"Our Covid recovery plan remains in place, but clearly the current economic climate is incredibly tough for the aviation sector.\n\n\"Smaller airports are vital to regional economies across the UK and we urge the UK government to provide the support to put them on a secure footing for the future.\"\n\nThe UK government said the management and location of Cardiff Airport was a devolved matter for the Welsh government.", "A Metropolitan Police armed officer who used his role to put fear into his victims has admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women.\n\nDavid Carrick, 48, who met some victims through dating websites, pleaded guilty to 49 offences across two decades.\n\nThe Met has apologised after it emerged he had come to the attention of police over nine incidents, including rape allegations, between 2000 and 2021.\n\nA senior officer said his offending was \"unprecedented in policing\".\n\nAssistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met's lead for professionalism, said: \"We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn't, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation.\n\n\"We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police officer may have prolonged the suffering of his victims.\n\n\"We know they felt unable to come forward sooner because he told them they would not be believed.\"\n\nCarrick, who admitted 24 counts of rape, was suspended from duty when he was arrested in October 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Policing has definitely taken a step back\", says Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray\n\nHis offences spanned 2003 to 2020 and most took place in Hertfordshire, where he lived.\n\nCarrick, from Stevenage, would control what the women wore, what they ate, where they slept and even stopped some of the women from speaking to their own children.\n\nHe was finally stopped when one woman did decide to report him. In October 2021, following publicity about disgraced Metropolitan Police officer PC Wayne Couzens, she contacted police.\n\nJaswant Narwal, chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Carrick held a role where he was trusted with the responsibility of protecting the public, but yet over 17 years, in his private life, he did the exact opposite.\n\n\"This is a man who relentlessly degraded, belittled and sexually assaulted and raped women.\n\n\"As time went on, the severity of his offending intensified as he became emboldened, thinking he would get away with it.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Iain Moor (second right) and Jaswant Narwal, from the Crown Prosecution Service, spoke to the media outside Southwark Crown Court\n\nShe said the \"scale of the degradation Carrick subjected his victims to is unlike anything I've encountered in my 34 years with the Crown Prosecution Service\".\n\nCarrick, who served with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, met some victims through online dating sites such as Tinder and Badoo, and used his role as a police officer to gain their trust.\n\nHe admitted four counts of rape, false imprisonment and indecent assault relating to a 40-year-old woman in 2003, at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.\n\nIt can now be reported that Carrick had already pleaded guilty to 43 charges, including 20 counts of rape, in December.\n\nCarrick admitted raping nine women, some on multiple occasions over months or years, with many of those attacks involving violence that would have left them physically injured.\n\nDavid Carrick has been suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Ch Insp Iain Moor, from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: \"The details of David Carrick's crimes are truly shocking.\n\n\"I suspect many will be appalled and sickened by his actions, but I hope the victims and the public more widely are reassured that no-one is above the law and the police service will relentlessly pursue those offenders who target women in this way.\"\n\nHe said he expected even more victims to come forward.\n\nDavid Carrick, as pictured by a court artist, was an armed officer until he was suspended from duty at the Metropolitan Police\n\nCarrick admitted to false imprisonment offences, having on a number of occasions forced one of his victims into a small cupboard under the stairs at his home.\n\nDet Ch Insp Moor, the senior investigating officer, said: \"I have seen bigger dog crates.\"\n\nAfter Carrick's first guilty pleas, the Met stopped his pay and began an accelerated misconduct process, with a hearing due to take place on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Carrick: 'The sheer magnitude of his offending is horrifying'\n\nHarriet Wistrich, director of campaign group the Centre for Women's Justice, said: \"We have known for some time that there has been a culture of impunity for such offending by police officers.\n\n\"Recent reports show a woefully deficient vetting and misconduct system and a largely unchallenged culture of misogyny in some sections of the Met.\n\n\"That Carrick could have not only become a police officer but remain a serving officer for so long whilst he perpetrated these horrific crimes against women, is terrifying.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he was \"absolutely sickened and appalled\" by Carrick's crimes.\n\nHe said \"serious questions must be answered about how he was able to abuse his position as an officer in this horrendous manner\".\n\nIn the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, the force publicly proclaimed its commitment to protecting women and launched an \"action plan\" to try to regain trust.\n\nBut it has now admitted its professional standards department made no attempt to check the full record of another officer accused of rape.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said it was \"an appalling case\" and that Rishi Sunak's \"thoughts are with all of [Carrick's] victims\".\n\n\"There is no place in our police forces for officers who fall so seriously short of the acceptable standards of behaviour and are not fit to wear the uniform.\"\n\nDavid Carrick will be sentenced in February\n\nSal Naseem, from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said no opportunities to stop Carrick earlier had been identified by police so far.\n\nTwo retired Met officers who dealt with a 2002 allegation of assault and harassment against Carrick may have committed misconduct, but as they cannot face misconduct proceedings, the IOPC decided it was not in the public interest to take further action.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is poised to grant a £300m funding package for struggling British Steel, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe move follows requests from Business Secretary Grant Shapps and Levelling-up Secretary Michael Gove.\n\nIt would depend on British Steel's Chinese owner Jingye committing to securing jobs at the company and making additional substantial investments.\n\nTreasury sources said the money would have to be put towards decarbonisation.\n\nIt is unclear when a decision will be announced.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis), said the government \"recognises the vital role that steel plays within the UK economy, supporting local jobs and economic growth\".\n\nIt said it was \"committed to securing a sustainable and competitive future for the UK steel sector\".\n\n\"While we cannot comment on ongoing negotiations, the Business Secretary considers the success of the steel sector a priority and continues to work closely with industry to achieve this,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThis is a tricky one for the Chancellor.\n\nBritish Steel employs thousands of people, and thousands more work for its suppliers.\n\nBut making steel is very expensive, especially with energy prices at current levels.\n\nOwner Jingye wants the government to step in.\n\nMinisters fear that if they don't act, parts of the business could be shut down.\n\nYet giving a wealthy foreign company money to prop up British Steel would not be a good look - the more so as cheap, heavily subsidised imports from China are often cited as having been a key factor in triggering a crisis in British steelmaking in the first place.\n\nSo any taxpayers money the government offers won't be for day to day expenditure.\n\nIt will be ringfenced for investment in new technology - in particular a new greener, cleaner and cheaper to run blast furnace for Scunthorpe.\n\nIt's hoped that will persuade Jingye to stick around and invest in the business - as well as making the plant itself more efficient to run and therefore more viable.\n\nThe support package, which was first reported by Sky, would help British Steel build electric arc furnaces in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.\n\nThese electric arc furnaces can run on renewable power, and are best used with recycled steel.\n\nThree years ago British Steel was bought out of insolvency by Jingye, which became its third owner in four years.\n\nBut the Chinese steel-making giant has recently been pushing for UK taxpayer funding, which it says it needs to keep the firm running.", "The deposit return scheme will cover PET plastic bottles but not glass in England and Northern Ireland\n\nThe government's latest plans for a deposit return scheme for drinks containers have been criticised for excluding glass bottles.\n\nThe scheme due to be introduced in 2025 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will cover plastic bottles and cans.\n\nAccording to the proposals supermarkets will host \"reverse vending machines\" where bottles are returned for money.\n\nThe government says the UK uses more than 20 billion bottles and cans each year, many of which end up in landfill.\n\n\"This will provide a simple and effective system across the country that helps people reduce litter and recycle more easily, even when on the move,\" according to environment minister Rebecca Pow.\n\nWaste management is a devolved matter but Westminster, the Welsh government and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland are working together on the plans.\n\nWestminster has decided that glass bottles will be excluded from the deposit return scheme in England and Northern Ireland. It says including them made the scheme too complex and they will instead by covered by the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme (in England and NI) which gives manufacturers targets to recycle them. That contrasts with the decision of the national governments in Scotland and Wales to include glass.\n\n\"At the final hurdle, this government bottled it and excluded glass from the scheme\", says Megan Randles from Greenpeace UK.\n\n\"In what kind of world is collecting glass drinks containers not an essential part of a system designed to collect drinks containers?\"\n\nConservative MP Philip Dunne who chairs the Environmental Audit Committee called excluding glass a \"missed opportunity\" and said that though he welcomed the announcement he was disappointed it wouldn't start until 2025.\n\nNo decision has been taken yet on the size of the deposit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with the government setting a target of 85% of returnable drinks containers using the scheme. In Scotland the deposit level has been set at 20p.\n\nThe plans have been welcomed by soft drinks manufacturers and there will now be a period of consultation to prepare the infrastructure and to change labelling to try and make the deposit return system work smoothly.\n\nMany countries have much higher rates of recycling than the UK and have been operating similar schemes for years. Daniel Webb, who runs Everyday Plastic, an organisation which campaigns against plastic waste, welcomed the announcement. He told the BBC this was a chance to move away from a damaging \"throwaway culture and kickstart a real circular economy\".\n\nHis organisation recently carried out a massive survey of plastic packaging waste with more than 100,000 people taking part and documenting more than 6.5 million items of plastic waste in a week. Just 7.5% of it was plastic bottles.\n\n\"Given our evidence, shouldn't the government be more ambitious in its scope?\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jacinda Ardern was the leader we needed - Chris Hipkins\n\nNew Zealand Labour MP Chris Hipkins is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after becoming the only nominee for the party's leadership.\n\nHe was first elected to parliament in 2008 and was appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020.\n\nIn Ms Ardern's shock announcement on Thursday she said she did not have \"enough in the tank\" to lead.\n\nHow long Mr Hipkins will be in office is uncertain as New Zealand holds a general election in October.\n\nMr Hipkins, 44, is currently minister for police, education and public service.\n\nHe will still need to be formally endorsed by the Labour Party in the House of Representatives on Sunday before he can become leader.\n\nShould he receive that backing, Ms Ardern will formally tender her resignation to the governor-general, who will then - on behalf of King Charles III - appoint Mr Hipkins as prime minister.\n\nBut the incoming Labour leader faces an uphill battle if he wants to remain in the top job after the 2023 election.\n\nInflation and increasing social inequality saw Ms Ardern's popularity fall to all-time lows according to opinion polls.\n\nThey also suggested public approval of the country's Labour Party was similarly low.\n\nMr Hipkins' appointment removes the immediate possibility of Justice Minister Kiri Allan becoming the country's first Maori prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacinda Ardern resigns: ‘I no longer have enough in the tank’\n\nDuring her resignation announcement, Ms Ardern - who at 37 became the youngest female head of government in the world when she took office in 2017 - said the past five-and-a-half years had been the \"most fulfilling\" of her life.\n\nHowever, she added that leading the country during \"crisis\" had been difficult - with the Covid pandemic, Christchurch mosque shootings and White Island volcanic eruption taking place during her premiership.\n\nReaction to Ms Ardern's announcement was mixed, with some suggesting she was \"running away before getting thrown out\".\n\nBut renowned New Zealand actor Sam Neill said she had faced \"disgraceful\" treatment from \"bullies\" and \"misogynists\".\n\nIf Labour loses the general election Mr Hipkins will have only spent eight months as the nation's leader - although the shortest prime ministerial stint was Harry Atkinson's term in 1884, which lasted just eight days.", "David Nash was studying law at The University of Leeds\n\nA law student who died after four remote GP appointments was likely to have lived if he had been seen face-to-face, a coroner has ruled.\n\nDavid Nash died in November 2020 after developing mastoiditis in his ear, which caused an abscess on his brain.\n\nMr Nash, 26, spoke to a GP practice in Leeds four times over a 19-day period, but was not seen in-person.\n\nCoroner Abigail Combes said the failure to see him meant he underwent surgery 10 hours later than it could have been.\n\nShe said the failure to arrange an in-person examination when he complained to an advanced nurse practitioner of fever, neck stiffness and night-time headaches in the days before his death was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nRecording a narrative verdict after an inquest at Wakefield Coroner's Court, Ms Combes said: \"On 2 November 2020 there was a missed opportunity to direct David to seek face-to-face care during his GP appointment that morning.\n\n\"Had he been directed to seek face-to-face or urgent care by the GP practice it is more likely than not that he would have undergone neurosurgery approximately 10 hours earlier than he actually did which, at that time, it is more likely than not would have been successful.\"\n\nMr Nash's parents, Andrew and Anne, said they were \"both saddened and vindicated by the findings that the simple and obvious, necessary step of seeing him in-person would have saved his life\".\n\nReading a statement outside court, his mother said: \"As a family, we have been devastated by David's death. He was our wonderful son, brother and friend.\"\n\nShe said the family had spent two years trying to \"make sure others don't die as David did\".\n\nDuring the week-long inquest Ms Combes read a statement from GP expert Alastair Bint, who said a nurse should have organised an urgent in-patient appointment after the phone consultation on 2 November.\n\nDr Bint said he did not criticise the remote nature of Mr Nash's first three consultations in October by Burley Park Medical Centre.\n\nHowever, he said he thought a face-to-face appointment would have led to the advanced nurse practitioner, who spoke with Mr Nash, admitting him to hospital.\n\nOn Wednesday, neurosurgeon Simon Howarth told the inquest he thought surgery 10 hours previously would have avoided Mr Nash's death.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dentists have told the BBC that people ordering clear braces or \"aligners\" like these online may be unaware of harm they can cause\n\nDentists have told the BBC that demand for Instagram smiles has left people with damage from wearing clear braces or \"aligners\" ordered online.\n\nOne man said aligners weakened his front teeth, leaving him unable to bite into an apple.\n\nSmile Direct Club, the largest company selling clear aligners remotely, says they straighten teeth faster and cheaper than traditional braces.\n\nIts aligners have been successful for the majority of users, it says.\n\nBut some dentists and orthodontists believe customers of so-called remote dentistry are unaware of harm that can be caused by aligners if not fitted by a dentist in person.\n\nJamie, a father from Glasgow, turned to Smile Direct Club (SDC) after being quoted £4,000-£6,000 for straightening his teeth.\n\nThe US-based remote orthodontics company was offering clear aligners for about £1,800 without the need to see a dentist in person.\n\nAccording to SDC, its platform has improved access to oral care and \"has enabled successful treatment for more than 1.8 million people\". The \"overwhelming majority\" of users have had an \"excellent experience\".\n\nBut Jamie now says he would never do it again.\n\n\"I can't bite into an apple because I can't trust that my front teeth are strong enough any more,\" he says.\n\nBefore starting treatment he was sent a DIY impression kit to take his own teeth moulds. The other option, a 3D scan of his mouth done in an Smile Direct Club shop, was unavailable because of lockdown.\n\nWithin weeks he'd received a six-month course of aligners, with the name of the dentist overseeing him labelled on the box.\n\nBut after six months, he posted on Reddit: \"One of my front teeth has become wobbly, my enamel feels all funny, like the aligners have rubbed some of it off, the aligners have made my gum recede making it agony.\"\n\nWobbly teeth and gum recession: Jamie's teeth after nine months of wearing Smile Direct Club aligners\n\nIn traditional dentistry, train-track braces and clear aligners are fitted by dentists and orthodontists themselves, or a trained orthodontic therapist, after an in-person consultation.\n\nThe health of the hard and soft tissues of the mouth, the teeth and gums, and whether the roots of the teeth can sustain movement, are some of the factors dentists consider. X-rays are instrumental in this process.\n\nOnce someone starts wearing braces, regular appointments allow dentists to monitor how teeth are moving and to spot and address complications.\n\nSDC's website says users will \"have regular virtual check-ins\" with a UK-registered dentist \"remotely from beginning to end\" - but Jamie says he was not once connected to the dentist overseeing him or told to see a dentist about his issues.\n\nCustomer service eventually put him in touch with a \"dental expert\" via web chat, who said the issues were normal and would subside. It's unclear what qualifications are required for this role.\n\nJamie was encouraged to continue wearing the aligners.\n\nSDC styles itself as a disruptor to the \"bricks-and-mortar\" dental industry. It argues many dentists and orthodontists offer Invisalign - a popular brand of clear braces - as a product, and therefore compete with SDC.\n\nSome positive testimonials by SDC users on YouTube say they were put off by Invisalign's cost and the longer length of treatment offered. One customer who used SDC to correct minor teeth crowding said that the treatment \"worked really well\" and improved her appearance and confidence.\n\nBut, Jamie isn't alone. Hundreds of SDC users around the world have shared negative experiences on social media and dozens of users and dentists we spoke to detailed issues ranging from aligners fitting poorly to permanent nerve damage and tooth loss.\n\nDr Victoria Sampson says she treated a user for tooth loss after they wore SDC aligners\n\nDentist Dr Victoria Sampson says users may underestimate the force aligners put on teeth. If decay or gum disease is missed in a physical check-up, people risk losing some of their teeth.\n\nShe says she has treated someone who lost their front tooth after using the aligners because they moved her teeth too quickly, skewing her bite. The roots of the patient's teeth were too short to withstand the pressure from aligners, which would have been picked up in an X-ray.\n\nAccording to UK dental associations, 3D scans and DIY teeth moulds used in remote orthodontics are not sufficient for approving aligners.\n\n\"You want to create a beautiful smile, but you also want to create a healthy smile,'' says Dr Anjli Patel at the British Orthodontic Society. The results could be \"disastrous\" if the teeth aren't monitored properly.\n\nThe British Dental Association's Dr Eddie Crouch is concerned SDC customers are being left to decide whether to go ahead with treatment without the right information.\n\nThe BBC showed Dr Crouch three SDC plans - a 3D interactive image of teeth that maps how they could move during treatment - presented to potential customers. He said two showed visible signs of gum disease, meaning the aligners could \"loosen the teeth sufficiently to cause tooth loss\".\n\nThe third plan, if accepted, he said, could leave that person with an unstable bite.\n\nSDC says it is the user's \"responsibility to see a dentist\" and receive a clean bill of health for their teeth and gums within six months of starting treatment. Potential risks for patients, including nerve damage, gum disease and tooth loss are also listed.\n\nHowever, patients don't have to provide proof they have seen a dentist, and under contracts they sign are fully responsible for damage.\n\nSDC says its affiliated dentists and orthodontists are entirely responsible and accountable for the treatment they provide. There is no clinical evidence an office visit is necessary for the same level of care, it adds.\n\nHowever, customers expecting the same level of care as those getting traditional braces \"aren't fully informed of what they're buying into,\" says Dr Anjli Patel.\n\nFew orthodontists would provide an assessment for remote treatment they don't oversee: \"You have no control over what's going to happen next\".\n\nSome of the users we spoke to who experienced damage have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements to receive full or partial refunds.\n\nPatients are requested to sign a confidentiality clause when they seek refunds outside of their refund policy, which is in line with standard industry practices, SDC says.\n\nThe General Dental Council (GDC), responsible for regulating UK dentists, says there is no effective substitute for an in person clinical examination, which should take place before treatment is prescribed. It urges consumers to consult its guidelines.\n\nHowever, Dr Crouch of the BDA believes such guidelines are insufficient compared with \"rules and regulation to protect patients\". Otherwise, dentists will be left picking up the pieces when \"patients have undergone wholly inappropriate treatment\".\n\nThe UK's health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) announced last summer any company providing remote orthodontic services will have to register with it.\n\nNearly two years on from his first treatment plan Jamie has stopped wearing his Smile Direct Club aligners.\n\nHe was persuaded to try a fresh 3D scan for better-fitting new aligners, but that didn't work for him, he says.\n\nAfter months of negotiation he has received a full refund, but not without signing a contract that prohibits him from \"creating a negative impression\" of SDC's \"business reputation\".\n\n\"It's my naivety, I should have known that [plan] was far too quick.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The girl was taken to hospital with \"red flags for meningitis and sepsis\", the court heard\n\nA girl whose limbs were amputated after she was wrongly discharged from hospital has had a £39m settlement approved in the High Court.\n\nShe went to Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey with \"red flags for meningitis and sepsis\" but was given paracetamol and discharged, her lawyers said.\n\nWhen her parents took her back to A&E a few hours later, she was diagnosed with meningococcal sepsis and went on to suffer multi-organ failure.\n\nThe young girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had above-knee amputations of both legs and above-elbow amputations of her arms.\n\nHer family brought a claim, arguing if she had been treated urgently with antibiotics, she would not have been as ill and would have avoided the amputations.\n\nThe High Court heard Neil Dardis, chief executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, had apologised in a letter to the parents and said her care \"fell below the standard (the girl) was entitled to expect\" and she should not have been discharged.\n\nElizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC, representing the family, said the girl had lost all four limbs after \"not being diagnosed promptly enough in relation to meningitis\".\n\nShe said she was \"an extraordinarily brave little girl who is managing in school to do very well academically\".\n\nBradley Martin KC, for the trust, said: \"There is no amount of money that can truly compensate (her) for her injuries.\n\n\"She will have access to the care and technology she needs.\"\n\nJudge Caspar Glyn KC said he would \"unhesitatingly\" approve the settlement, to be paid partly in a lump sum and the remainder in annual payments for the rest of her life.\n\nPaying tribute to the girl and her family, he said: \"Money cannot bring who your daughter was back, but it can secure her future.\"\n\nRepresenting the family, lawyer Deborah Nadel said: \"This child's injuries and severe disabilities were completely avoidable with proper care.\n\n\"All the red flags for meningitis and sepsis were there for doctors to see. Specific protocols for treating these illnesses exist to protect patients and doctors, but they only work if they are followed.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the NHS trust said: \"We are very sorry for the claimant's injuries and we understand no amount of money can fully compensate for them.\n\n\"However we are pleased that the settlement has been approved and we hope the agreed damages will ensure that the claimant can live as independently as possible in the future.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None BBC Two - Trust Me, I'm a Doctor - How can I spot the signs of meningitis\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were glimmers of hope on both sides last week that a deal could be done to end the health service strikes.\n\nBut the tentative sense of optimism that existed after talks between the unions and Health Secretary Steve Barclay has evaporated.\n\nSpeaking privately to figures within the health unions, there is a growing exasperation.\n\n\"In 25 years of negotiations, I've never seen anything like it\" says one. \"They dress up a meeting as dialogue, as negotiation, and it's nothing of the sort.\"\n\n\"Why are they dragging this out?\" another asks. \"The NHS is a special case.\"\n\nA senior figure in another union predicts a deal will have to be done in the NHS, because no government can win a popularity contest with nurses and ambulance staff.\n\nBut another factor that has provoked anger is the government's repeated public criticism of ambulance services when it comes to providing a basic service on strike days.\n\nMinisters have cited the difficulty in signing off what are known as \"derogations\" to justify their planned new law on introducing what they call minimum safety levels when there is industrial action.\n\nBut union sources counter that ambulance services are organised regionally, and so the only way to organise strike day preparation is regionally, even if that takes longer.\n\nInside the Department of Health, I hear their systems have coped on strike days, the mitigations put in place have worked, albeit in providing a vastly reduced service.\n\nOne source talks down a souring of relations, but characterises it like this: \"Things haven't cooled. They just haven't really changed.\"\n\nThe source adds that the unions are \"digging in\" and \"announcing further strike dates makes it less likely there'll be a collegiate atmosphere\".\n\nThere is a hope that given the prime minister's priority to reduce waiting lists, the Treasury might look favourably on the need for more money.\n\n\"They are busy elves in the Department of Health,\" smiles a source elsewhere in Whitehall.\n\nThose in the Treasury argue their focus is on cutting inflation and there will be no new money for striking workers.\n\nInstead there is what is called a \"Efficiencies and Savings Review\" going on across government.\n\nIf departments can find savings from their existing budgets, they can spend them as they see fit.\n\nIn other words: cut something you're already spending money on, and you can spend that money on pay. But you're not getting any new money.\n\nOthers at the centre of government make a blunt economic and political calculation: if a deal is done with one union or one sector, all the others will demand the same - and that will cost a fortune.\n\nEnter - at one step removed from the government - the Rail Delivery Group, representing train companies, offering the RMT union a minimum pay rise of 9% over two years and guaranteed no compulsory redundancies until at least the end of next year.\n\nThe union is considering the offer.\n\nRight now, it's a safe bet that across plenty of sectors this winter, there are plenty more strikes to come.\n\nWatch Make Sense of Strikes on iPlayer and find out more about why people are striking and whether industrial action works.", "Beth Matthews was 26 when she took her own life in a psychiatric unit run by The Priory - an inquest jury has found she was failed by the hospital. After Beth died, her family discovered she had helped countless people by writing honestly about her mental health problems.\n\nIn the weeks after his daughter's funeral, Chris Matthews spent many mornings at her grave, nestled in a country churchyard, as he struggled to come to terms with her death.\n\nOne morning, as he tidied away some flowers that were beginning to fade, he discovered a fresh bouquet.\n\nAttached was a note which read: \"I probably should explain why a completely random stranger left this card and flowers on Beth's grave. Over the past year, her tweets and her blog have kept me alive.\"\n\nIf you are suffering distress or despair, details of help and support are available here.\n\nIt was written by Robert, who had travelled 200 miles from London to Beth's grave, overlooking the River Tamar in Cornwall. He had never met Beth, but wanted to thank her.\n\nBeth had written a blog which documented her mental health journey - including how she had survived and was recovering from a suicide attempt.\n\nRobert discovered it on a particularly dark day, when he had decided to take his own life.\n\nRobert says he believes Beth helped thousands of people like him\n\n\"Instead, I couldn't stop reading it,\" he says. \"And when I finished, I was very sad, but the suicidal moment had gone. I thought, 'If Beth can get through this, then surely I can.'\"\n\nIn a typical tweet to her 26,000 followers, Beth wrote: \"Suicide is not the answer. To anyone out there that is struggling, please believe me when I say things CAN and WILL get better.\"\n\nRobert says she saved his life. \"I would imagine, going through her tweets and replies, that there were probably thousands of people like me,\" he adds.\n\nOn the surface, Beth's childhood was idyllic. Growing up by the sea, she loved sailing, becoming one of the youngest competitors in the renowned competition named after the Fastnet Rock off southern Ireland, which the race course rounds.\n\n\"I can still hear her squeal of delight when she was doing anything a little bit mischievous,\" remembers her sister Lucy.\n\nBut despite her extrovert persona, Beth secretly struggled with her mental health for many years, and made a number of suicide attempts. Then on 8 April 2019, she was badly injured trying to take her own life.\n\nShe was airlifted to hospital and spent two weeks in a coma, but remarkably survived and started rebuilding her life.\n\nBeth's first post on social media about her mental health struggles went viral\n\nBeth first spoke publicly about her recovery in a post on Facebook.\n\n\"She felt understandably nervous and anxious about it,\" recalls Lucy. \"She was writing about how she'd fought to be here and how much she wanted to be here. And she wrote so well.\"\n\nThe post went viral. She started a Twitter account and a blog.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\n\"I think she realised that there were people out there who were benefiting from her knowledge and understanding,\" says Chris.\n\nAnother one of those people was Melanie, who was struggling with \"horrific\" insomnia.\n\n\"I'd sit on the settee all the way through the night, while my hubby and my kids were asleep, and just feel like the loneliest person in the whole world, with plans to end my life, trying not to act on those plans,\" she explains.\n\nMelanie is compiling a book of messages from Beth's Twitter friends\n\nMelanie would message Beth on Twitter, asking for support. And Beth would reply.\n\n\"No matter what Beth was going through, even when she was in hospital, she was messaging me at 2am… telling you it's worth it, telling you you're worth it,\" she says.\n\nMelanie, from Sheffield, is compiling a book of messages from Beth's Twitter followers for her family.\n\n\"There aren't just a handful of us who think about Beth on a daily basis,\" she says, showing a tattoo she has to remind her of Beth.\n\nThe chief executive of charity Mental Health UK, Brian Dow, says Beth had a special ability to explain the \"raw, really challenging moments\" that many people face.\n\n\"The effect of that was that thousands of other people who felt the same, stopped feeling alone,\" he says. \"We know that kind of willingness to share actually saves people's lives.\"\n\nTelling her story was part of Beth's attempt to move forward.\n\nShe also bought a paddleboard and posted videos of herself, back on the water. \"I've been given a second chance at life,\" she wrote. \"I'm going to seize it.\"\n\nHer sister Lucy says writing her blog and helping others on Twitter gave Beth purpose.\n\nHer father Chris agrees. \"She was wise beyond her years,\" he says, choking back tears. \"She became such an enormous part of peoples' lives, people that she'd never met before.\"\n\nThe power of Beth's writing comes from the unvarnished honesty of the pain she had experienced.\n\nIn one tweet, she shares shocking images of the X-rays of her broken pelvis, saying they are a \"gentle reminder\" of why people should not try to harm themselves.\n\n\"When somebody is willing to think of others and to share their pain in such a raw manner, I think that takes a level of courage that frankly most of us don't possess,\" says Mental Health UK's Brian Dow.\n\nBeth with PC Jessica Floyd, who had held her hand after her suicide attempt\n\nAs part of her recovery, Beth met members of the Devon Air Ambulance team who had come to her aid, plus the police officer who had held her hand that day.\n\nPC Jessica Floyd - who says she will never forget the incident - wanted to speak in Beth's memory to urge anyone who was also struggling to talk to someone.\n\n\"Tell somebody how you feel. Know that you're not alone,\" she says. \"And whilst you feel very trapped in that situation, there are people out there who are there to talk to and to help you.\"\n\nBeth also used her experience to educate people in person. She told her story to young people at a Cornwall mental health unit. She helped train police negotiators in dealing with those threatening suicide, organised by an officer from Staffordshire Police who saw her online profile.\n\n\"We'd never had that insight before,\" says Sgt Nigel Roberts. \"It was electrifying. She was just resolute that she would do anything she could to help other people, help it not happen to them.\"\n\nSgt Roberts and his team now routinely use knowledge and experience they learned from Beth when dealing with high-risk situations.\n\nBeth, pictured here with her boyfriend Matt, had told her family she wanted to live\n\nYet while she was doing so much to help others, Beth was still suffering with physical pain from her injuries and mental health struggles.\n\nHer family sought NHS funding for treatment at a mental health unit run by The Priory Group - one of the UK's biggest private mental health care providers.\n\nBeth moved to the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport in November 2021. She tweeted in excitement: \"The funding for the specialist unit has been approved. I'm going to grab this opportunity with both hands.\"\n\nBeth's father remembers breathing a huge sigh of relief that, at least there, his daughter would be safe. Her family insist she could have got better, with the right care and treatment.\n\n\"When I last saw her, she said 'I do want to be here,'\" says Lucy.\n\nBut Beth took her own life, on 21 March last year, after taking poison which she had ordered online and told staff was protein powder.\n\nAn inquest jury concluded that Beth, who was being treated for a personality disorder, died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nIt found there had been \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient,\" adding \"it was evident there were serious inconsistencies across all levels of her care plan\".\n\nThe Priory said it fully accepted the jury's findings and acknowledged \"far greater attention should have been given to Beth's care plan\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"At the time of Beth's unexpected death, we took immediate steps to address the issues around how we document risk and communicate patients' care plans, alongside our processes for receiving and opening post.\n\n\"We want to extend our deepest condolences to Beth's family and friends for their loss.\"\n\nBeth's family feel let down and angry. But they take some comfort in her achievements.\n\n\"It wasn't until after her passing that we realised the impact she'd had on individual lives, when people came forward and left us notes and messages of support,\" says Lucy.\n\n\"It's just full of sadness that she didn't do the same for herself.\"", "During the pandemic, nearly half a million people in the UK missed out on starting medication to help prevent heart attacks and strokes, a new study suggests.\n\nThe British Heart Foundation (BHF) team looked at prescribing data for the first 18 months after Covid hit.\n\nSome 491,000 people - 27,000 a month - appear to have missed out on blood pressure pills.\n\nAnd 316,000 did not get treatment to lower their cholesterol.\n\nThe team says more needs to be done to make sure that anyone who needs treatment gets it.\n\nDuring the pandemic, normal NHS services were severely disrupted.\n\nFor example, there was a reduction in diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of high blood pressure, and other heart and circulation disease risk factors.\n\nAlthough the NHS took action, including providing more than 220,000 blood pressure monitors for people to use at home, data shows two million fewer people in England were recorded as having controlled hypertension in 2021 compared to the previous year.\n\nThe BHF researchers analysed 1.32 billion records of routinely dispensed prescriptions in England, Scotland and Wales, from April 2018 to July 2021.\n\nLead investigator Prof Reecha Sofat, who is based at the University of Liverpool, said the findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, highlight the impact Covid has had on other important health conditions: \"Despite the incredible work done by NHS staff, our data show that we're still not identifying people with cardiovascular risk factors at the same rate as we were before the pandemic. \"\n\nShe said it was more than just a blip, and it would take time to catch up.\n\n\"The NHS has already taken important and positive steps towards identifying people with high blood pressure as early as possible.\n\n\"However, we need this focus to be sustained in the long term to prevent any increase in heart attacks and strokes which will add to a healthcare system already under extreme pressure.\"\n\nDr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Associate Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation and consultant cardiologist, said: \"Yet again we're seeing clear evidence of the major disruption to healthcare people in the UK experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"But it's not too late to limit the damage. These findings demonstrate how getting heart healthcare back on track can curb the additional strain that untreated risk factors - such as high blood pressure - would otherwise place on the NHS.\"\n\nSome factors - like older age - are unavoidable, but others can be managed:\n\nAdam Toms suffered a stroke in 2015, before the Covid pandemic\n\nAdam Toms was 47 when he suffered a stroke in 2015. He had undiagnosed and untreated high blood pressure.\n\nNow 54 and living in north-west London, Mr Toms said: \"You can appear completely healthy, and it can just happen. then you've got a whole lot of adaptations to make. I was never ill but then bang, everything changed - my whole world changed.\n\n\"My father and my brother had high blood pressure. The connection wasn't made.\n\n\"I always associated a stroke with somebody who is 70, 75 plus.\n\n\"Who knows, if I had found out earlier and got it under control, I might not be where I am today.\"\n\nHis stroke has left him with weakness on the left side of his body and he also has difficulty with finding the right words when he speaks.\n\nHe wants to encourage others to get their blood pressure and health checked.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police Scotland is to check staff against national databases as it steps up vetting of its officers.\n\nIt follows the case of David Carrick who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met police officer.\n\nIn response, police forces in England and Wales were asked to check officers using UK-wide data on previous offences.\n\nPolice Scotland said the new measure will \"further enhance\" its vetting measures.\n\nThe checks will apply to 22,000 officers and civilian workers.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said Police Scotland was determined to address sexism, misogyny and violence against women in the force and across society.\n\n\"Police Scotland has already strengthened vetting measures, introducing an additional check for new recruits just before they are sworn into office and we will commence a rolling programme to review vetting decisions this year,\" she added.\n\n\"We have recently invested in our vetting team and take relevant action where concerns emerge.\n\n\"To further enhance our ability to safeguard our values and standards, all officers and staff will be checked against national systems, in line with work being taken forward in England and Wales.\n\n\"It is right policing is held to high standards. We will always support officers and staff acting with our values and standards at heart.\n\n\"Those who reject what we stand for don't belong in Police Scotland.\"\n\nDavid Carrick admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met Police officer\n\nIt follows a warning from the former assistant chief constable of Tayside that Police Scotland would look \"stupid\" if it did not follow the measures announced in England and Wales.\n\nAngela Wilson, who now chairs the Women's Rape and Abuse Centre in Dundee, also called for an independent body to be set up to look at complaints against officers.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council, which asked forces in England and Wales to step up vetting, said earlier this week it was also holding talks with Police Scotland and Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nCarrick, 48, was officially sacked on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women over two decades.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said his crimes were an \"absolutely despicable\" abuse of power which needed to be \"addressed immediately\".", "Accounts belonging to Andrew Tate (centre) and his brother Tristan (right) seem to have used a standard formula to approach teenagers online\n\nDaria Gusa was 16 and still at school, when she says she received a private message on Instagram from Andrew Tate, a high-profile influencer almost 20 years older than her.\n\n\"It just read 'Romanian girl' and he put some flirty emoji,\" Daria told me. \"I was confused because I [only] had 200 followers, and it was a private account.\"\n\nShe is one of two teenagers who have described to the BBC how Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan approached them online, apparently using a standard formula.\n\n\"It was obvious we were high-school girls,\" Daria said. \"We had our high school in our bio and everything. I think he was just trying to find girls who were as innocent or naïve as possible, in my opinion.\"\n\nShe showed us a screenshot of the message, which she never replied to. But she says some of her friends did.\n\nDaria showed the BBC the messages, which appear to be from Andrew Tate's Instagram account\n\nDaria, who's now at university in the UK, is the daughter of a prominent Romanian politician. She feels able to speak out publicly when others have refused to go on the record.\n\nThe Tate brothers are currently in 30-day custody in Romania while police investigate allegations of rape and trafficking, which both men deny.\n\nIn video posted online Andrew Tate appears to instruct others on how to approach women on social media.\n\n\"In my experience, what raises intrigue [and] inspires them to respond [is]… I ask where they are,\" he says in the recording.\n\n\"Sometimes [for] intrigue, I'll put a completely pointless emoji on the end: some cherries, or an orange, or a strawberry.\"\n\nSince sharing her experiences, Daria says many young men have accused her of lying.\n\n\"Even guys that I used to know from high school are calling me a liar for saying I once received a message from Andrew Tate,\" she told me. \"But [they] don't find anything strange about all the other allegations.\"\n\nDaria says men have accused her of lying about receiving the message\n\nShe says many men of her age idolise Andrew Tate, who is 36.\n\n\"This is a big problem,\" she told me, \"because we can't wake up in 20 years with two million Andrew Tates.\"\n\nIn publicity for his online courses, in manipulating and exploiting women, Andrew Tate said: \"I've been running a web-cam studio for over a decade… Over 50% of my employees were actually my girlfriends at the time and, of all my girlfriends, NONE were in the adult entertainment industry before they met me.\"\n\nHe describes his job as \"to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her… get her to fall in love with me, to where she'd do anything I say,\" the publicity continues, \"and then get her on web-cam so we could become rich together.\"\n\nHe has previously said he would never date a woman over 25.\n\nGabriela (not her real name) was 17 when she was contacted on social media by Andrew Tate's brother Tristan - though she later pretended she was 19.\n\nShe's asked that we call her Gabriela to disguise her identity. She showed me his initial message, which read, \"You're beautiful\".\n\n\"I knew he was using the same approach with other girls,\" she said. \"He always starts the conversation with the same exact line: 'You're beautiful'.\"\n\nThe BBC is not identifying Gabriela\n\nGabriela said a friend of hers received exactly the same opening message from Tristan Tate.\n\nIn his video online, Andrew Tate says the phrase '\"you are beautiful\" isn't bad as an opening, and goes on to outline what he describes as \"a perfect example\" of a conversation.\n\nAfter establishing where the woman is, Mr Tate advises men to ask: \"Why do I never see you? Where are you hiding?\"\n\n\"99% of them say [they're] not hiding,\" he says in the recording.\n\nThis is exactly what appears to have happened in the exchange with Gabriela.\n\nScreenshots of what is purported to be her conversation with Tristan Tate show his next message is exactly as Andrew describes: \"Feel I've seen you around town before somewhere. Is that possible? Where have you been hiding?\"\n\n\"It is likely,\" Gabriela replies. \"I didn't hide.\"\n\nGabriela says he invited her out in his car, and to a party, though she declined.\n\nScreenshots of their exchange indicate that the conversation ended abruptly after she posted a video about him on social media.\n\n\"Important people will never want to write you if they see you do stuff like this. Just a friendly warning,\" one of his last messages says.\n\nThere is nothing illegal in the Tate brothers contacting girls of 16 or 17 online, or inviting them out.\n\nBut the testimony of these young women, along with Andrew Tate's comments online, suggest a pre-planned method for initiating contact.\n\nThe BBC has seen the screenshots that appear to support the claims made by these women. The messages appear to be sent from handles whose username matches that used by Andrew and Tristan Tate before they were banned from the application.\n\nHowever, the BBC has been unable to independently verify their authenticity, or establish whether the messages were sent by Andrew and Tristan Tate themselves or someone working on their behalf.\n\nThe BBC has put these allegations to the Tate brothers through their lawyer, and asked for their response.\n\nSocial media updates have continued to appear on Andrew Tate's accounts, even while he's in custody.\n\nOn Thursday, he wrote that five people had been authorised to visit him in detention, including a 22-year-old American influencer called Adin Ross, with millions of followers, who said he was flying to Romania on Thursday.\n\nNo charges have yet been brought against the Tate brothers. Their 30-day detention period, which began after they were arrested in late December, was on Friday extended to the end of February.\n\nFor all the confessional videos and commentary on their personal life, the allegations against them remain unproven; any evidence against them, veiled - for now - from public view.", "Baldwin's lawyer called the decision to file charges \"a terrible miscarriage of justice\"\n\nActor Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun.\n\nMr Baldwin had been rehearsing a scene for the Western film Rust when the shooting happened at a ranch near Sante Fe, New Mexico in October 2021.\n\nHannah Gutierrez Reed, the film's armourer, will also be charged.\n\nLawyers for both said they intended to fight the charges in court.\n\nSanta Fe's District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced the charges on Thursday, adding that they would be filed by the end of the month.\n\n\"Actor and producer Alec Baldwin and armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter,\" the statement read. \"I have determined that there is sufficient evidence.\"\n\n\"On my watch, no one is above the law, and everyone deserves justice,\" she said.\n\nBoth face up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 (£4,040) fine if convicted. They will be tried by a jury, prosecutors said.\n\nFilm director Joel Souza was also wounded in the shooting, but prosecutors said no charges would be filed in connection with that.\n\nThe film's assistant director David Halls entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanour charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, prosecutors said. He will spend six months serving probation.\n\nIn a statement, a lawyer for Ms Hutchins' husband, Matthew, said he supported the filing of the charges. \"It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Baldwin's lawyer, Luke Nikas, called the decision \"a terrible miscarriage of justice\".\n\n\"Mr Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun - or anywhere on the movie set,\" Mr Nikas said. \"He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.\"\n\nHalyna Hutchins's death led to calls for greater safety regulations on film sets\n\nMs Gutierrez Reed's lawyer, meanwhile, said the announcement was the result of a \"very flawed investigation and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts\".\n\n\"Hannah is, and has always been, very emotional and sad about this tragic accident,\" Todd Bullion said. \"But she did not commit involuntary manslaughter.\"\n\nMs Hutchins died in hospital shortly after she was shot in the chest by a prop gun fired by Mr Baldwin on set. The incident resulted in accusations of negligence and led to calls for better safety protocols on film sets.\n\nAn initial investigation into the incident found there was \"a degree of neglect\", producers were fined more than $136,000 by the New Mexico Environment Department for failing to enforce safety protocols.\n\nThe film's production company, Rust Movie Productions, argued that it was not responsible for supervising the film set, \"much less for supervising specific protocols such as the maintenance and loading of weapons\".\n\nAfter the shooting, Mr Baldwin said the gun had misfired. He added that he did not pull the trigger and was not aware that it was loaded. \"I don't know what happened on that set. I don't know how that bullet arrived in that gun. I don't know,\" he said.\n\nMr Baldwin has also filed a lawsuit against several people involved with the film, including Ms Gutierrez Reed and Mr Halls, alleging that they both failed to check the gun carefully.\n\nIn October, the 64-year-old actor and the film's production company reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with the family of Ms Hutchins.\n\nIt came after the cinematographer's husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit which alleged violations of industry standards.\n\n\"All of us believe Halyna's death was a terrible accident,\" Mr Hutchins said in a statement at the time. \"I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame.\"\n\nProduction of the film had been scheduled to resume this year, with Mr Hutchins on board as executive producer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Forty more Halifax and Lloyds bank branches will close this year as fewer people need physical sites, the banks' owner Lloyds Banking Group has said.\n\nThe switch to online banking has seen branch footfall in those sites drop by over half, it said.\n\nCost-cutting in the banking sector has led to the closure of thousands of branches in recent years.\n\nIn July, Lloyds Banking Group said it would close 66 branches between October 2022 and January 2023.\n\nIn its latest announcement, the group said Halifax will close 18 sites, while Lloyds will shut 22 between April and June.\n\nAll but one of the closures are in England, with Halifax closing its site in Bangor, Wales.\n\nThe group said there were no job losses as a result of the closures.\n\nThe number of people using services in-person has been falling for years as more people do their banking online.\n\nThe group said the branches to be closed have seen the number of visits drop dramatically in the last five years.\n\n\"Branches play an important part in our strategy but we need to have them in the right places, where they are well-used,\" a group spokesperson said.\n\nThey added that all of the branches due to close have at least one free-to-use cash machine or a Post Office within a third of a mile.\n\nThe Halifax branches shutting are in: Bangor, Chester-le-St, Fenchurch Street in London, Aldershot, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Crouch End, Golders Green, Putney, Norbury, Surbiton, Chingford Mount, Redruth, Bletchley, Maldon, St Neots, Whitley Bay, Grays and Purley.\n\nThe Lloyds branches closing are in: Norbury, Beckenham, Pontefract, Chingford, Gillingham in Kent, Dagenham Heathway in London, Marylebone, Bramford Road in Ipswich, Ripley, Weybridge, Twickenham, Beeston, Whitstable, Wickersley, Borehamwood, Littlehampton, Rustington, Liverpool's Aintree, Shaftesbury, Newport in Shropshire, Hyde and South Harrow.\n\nIn November 2021, TSB bank announced it would be shutting 70 sites, while in November 2022 HSBC said that from April, it would close 114 branches.\n\nBarclays announced it would be closing 15 branches in 2023.\n\nThere were 8% fewer banks on High Streets across England, Scotland and Wales in March 2022 from a year earlier, according to data from Ordnance Survey.\n\nOnce the closures are complete, Lloyds Banking Group will have 1,277 branches across its Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands.", "Father Neil McGarrity has been found guilty of four sexual assaults\n\nA Glasgow priest has been convicted of sexually abusing four girls.\n\nFather Neil McGarrity, who has been added to the sex offenders register, targeted his victims at two churches as well as his parish home.\n\nThe 68-year-old was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of four sexual assaults and one charge of engaging in sexual activity.\n\nThe charges span from December 2017 to February 2020, with the girls aged between 10 and 16.\n\nSheriff Vincent Lunny said the priest carried out \"touching of a sexual nature\".\n\nHe told the court: \"I was impressed with the care the witnesses gave their evidence and were not exaggerating in any way\n\n\"I'm satisfied that the contact and inappropriate touching was the beginning of getting to something more serious.\n\n\"I'm satisfied this was a single course of conduct systematically pursued by you.\"\n\nSome of the incidents happened at St Bernadette's church in Carntyne\n\nThe court heard from a girl who said she was repeatedly hugged by the priest when she was aged 10 or 11 at St Thomas' Church in Riddrie.\n\nThe witness stated that McGarrity made her feel \"uncomfortable\". The girl added that he stroked her arm and hugged her.\n\nA second girl told the court that she phoned Childline about the priest not long after meeting him.\n\nThe girl said that on separate occasions he rubbed her waist, chest, arm and touched her leg.\n\nA third girl told the court McGarrity put his arm around her at St Bernadette's Church, in Carntyre, as well as St Thomas'.\n\nA 25-year-old woman said she spotted the priest and her younger sister in a \"prolonged embrace\" at his parish home.\n\nMcGarrity told the court he was \"stunned\" to hear of the allegations.\n\nSentencing was deferred, pending background reports, until March. McGarrity has been granted bail.\n\nA spokesman for the Archdiocese of Glasgow said the convicted priest was suspended from public ministry.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise to the victims of Fr McGarrity and renew apologies previously made for the abuse suffered by anyone in the care of those ministering or working on behalf of the church,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The archdiocese will, in due course, continue its own canonical process, which was put on hold until completion of the criminal case and sentencing.\"", "After losing their hands when a landmine exploded, two Ukrainian soldiers are some of the first to get a new type of prosthetic.\n\nAndrii Gidzun and Vitalii Ivashchuk were filmed being fitted with bionic arms.\n\nOpen Bionics, a British tech company, developed the 3D printed prosthetics and flew a team of technicians to Munich, Germany.\n\nThe charity Superhumans, with support from Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, is now developing a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, to help those who have lost limbs.", "The number of stars that people can see with the naked eye has reduced dramatically over the last decade.\n\nThe cause is \"Skyglow\" from artificial lighting - the brightness of that glow has increased every year since 2011.\n\nDr Christopher Kyba, a scientist from the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, told the BBC: \"Our view of the stars is disappearing\".\n\nHe and his colleagues published this discovery in the journal Science.\n\nIt is the conclusion of 12 years of amateur astronomers and citizen scientists going out at night to count the stars.\n\nThe change in stars' visibility that people reported - by submitting their star counts to an online project called Globe at Night - was equivalent to an almost 10% annual increase in sky brightness every year.\n\nThat means, the scientists say, that a child born in an area where 250 stars were visible, would probably see fewer than 100 stars in the same location 18 years later.\n\nAs light pollution researchers Fabio Falchi and Salvador Bará pointed out in an expert commentary published alongside the research: \"Looking at the International Space Station's images and videos of the Earth at night, people generally are struck by the 'beauty' of city lights, as if they were lights on a Christmas tree.\n\nGlowing cities at night - captured from the International Space Station - look beautiful, but actually show pollution and wasted energy\n\n\"They do not perceive that these are images of pollution. It is like admiring the beauty of the rainbow colours that gasoline produces in water and not recognising that it is chemical pollution.\"\n\nDr Kyba said he had hoped to see some signs of improvement in light pollution in recent years, because many urban centres have recently changed their lighting to be more energy-efficient. Towns and cities, particularly in developed countries, are swapping older streetlights for modern LEDS that are more carefully directed downwards, where the light is useful.\n\n\"The hope was that if the light was better directed, the situation would get better,\" he said.\n\n\"But there are so many types of lighting - streetlights, decorative, advertising. So, with all these things combined - and possibly more lighting overall - [we're] making sky brightness worse.\"\n\nAccording to a 2022 study by the European Space Agency the relatively low cost of LED lighting is also contributing to the problem.\n\nThe agency described this as a \"lighting paradox\", explaining: \"While the LED lighting revolution promised to reduce energy consumption and improve human vision at night, overall [light pollution has] increased. Paradoxically, the cheaper and better the lighting, the higher society's addiction to light.\"\n\nLight pollution doesn't just reduce our view of the stars. It has been shown to affect human health and disrupt sleep patterns. It also affects the behaviour of some nocturnal animals, with one recent study linking it with local insect decline.\n\n\"It does not need to be this way,\" insists Dr Kyba. \"There's a lot of room for improvement - if you light more carefully, you should be able to reduce skyglow, whilst still lighting the ground.\n\nPrevious research showed the brightest parts of the UK getting brighter over time\n\n\"And remember that light pollution is wasted energy. We're continuing to put that light energy into the atmosphere, and maybe that's not what we should be doing.\"", "Nurses are striking in around a quarter of NHS services across England.\n\nStaff will continue to provide \"life-preserving\" and some urgent care but routine surgery and other planned treatment is likely to be disrupted.\n\nYou can see if an organisation is affected in your area using our interactive table below.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The controversial influencer is being investigated for alleged human trafficking and rape, which he denies\n\nInfluencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan will stay in custody until 27 February after a Romanian court extended their police detention.\n\nThe pair have been held since late December as Romanian police investigate allegations of rape and exploitation.\n\nTate and his brother both deny the allegations against them.\n\nAuthorities claim the brothers have been part of a group that exploited women by forcing them to create pornographic content.\n\nNo charges have been brought against the brothers yet. As they have not been charged, they have not yet had the chance to plead guilty or not guilty.\n\nThe former kickboxer has millions of online followers - despite being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for misogynistic comments.\n\nHis Twitter account was reactivated in November and remains active, despite his detention.\n\nTate moved to Bucharest five years ago and was arrested last month when his house was raided.\n\nA lawyer for the Tate brothers argued prosecutors had not presented any new evidence in their application to extend the detention period.\n\nThe reasons for the extension of the Tates' detention will be given later.", "Rail workers have been given a fresh pay offer by train companies in a bid to end long-running strike action.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has made the new offer to the RMT union following talks over the past week.\n\nThe deal includes a backdated pay rise of 5%, up from a previous offer of 4% for 2022, and a 4% increase this year. But the deal depends on changes to working conditions.\n\nThe RMT said it was \"considering\" the matter.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: \"The national executive committee will be considering this matter and has made no decision on the proposals nor any of the elements within them.\n\n\"We will give an update on our next steps in due course,\" he said.\n\nThere have been 16 days of strike action since June involving RMT members working at both train companies and Network Rail, with Network Rail members additionally striking in a separate dispute between Christmas Eve and 27 December.\n\nTrain drivers in the RMT are also due to join members of the main drivers' union, Aslef, in strikes on 1 and 3 February.\n\nThe RDG - which represents the train operators - said its latest offer was its \"best and final\", and said as well as giving workers a pay rise, the deal would also \"improve how the industry delivers services to passengers\".\n\n\"If accepted, it would help recover the industry's finances post-Covid, reducing the burden on taxpayers at a time of significant pressure on public spending,\" the group said.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chair of the RDG, said the offer was \"fair\" and \"weighted particularly for those on lower incomes\".\n\nAs well as a 9% pay rise over two years, the RDG said the deal also included staff being able to move between stations when there are shortages, as well as introducing part-time and flexible working.\n\nThe government, which ultimately holds the purse strings, has allowed the industry to put forward new proposals. As expected, there's a higher pay offer for 2022. It's now in line with the percentage rise offered to Network Rail employees.\n\nThere is still a long list of conditions attached - which would mean change.\n\nTo give just a couple of examples, staff would be committed to work Sundays if rostered on. And a new \"multi-skilled\" station role would be created.\n\nThe RMT continues to oppose the closure or re-purposing of ticket offices. But today's offer makes clear any changes to station staffing would be subject to local consultation.\n\nThe explicit requirement to expand driver-only operation - where drivers, not guards, operate train doors - is gone. However, the plans say individual companies could separately go on to propose changes to on-board staff roles.\n\nThe period of no compulsory redundancies has been extended.\n\nThere's now a wait to find out whether the RMT's executive committee believes these proposals are acceptable to members, or perhaps, if they will be given a vote.\n\nOn Wednesday, Rail Minister Huw Merriman conceded that the strikes have cost the UK more than settling the disputes months ago would have.\n\nThe walkouts have cost the UK more than £1bn, he told a committee of MPs.\n\nThe RDG said industrial action had cost the industry around £480m in lost ticket revenue since June.\n\nIt said this was on top of its current £2bn shortfall in cash following the easing of Covid restrictions.\n\n\"With staff losing up to £2,000 in pay while on strike, the Rail Delivery Group is urging the RMT leadership to put the offer to its membership for a vote, bring an end to the dispute and work together to start rebuilding the railway for the long-term,\" the group said.\n\nThe rail industry is not the only industry to strike in recent months, with many other workers, such as nurses, ambulance staff and civil servants also taking industrial action.\n\nThe rising cost of living has led to many workers asking for pay rises, with inflation - the rate at which prices rise - hitting 10.5% in December.\n\nOn Tuesday, Aslef, the train drivers' union, rejected an offer from train companies, which included a 4% pay rise for two years in a row.\n\nAslef said the proposal was \"not and could not ever be acceptable\", but its general secretary Mick Whelan said the union was open to further talks.", "Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act.\n\nA meeting on Friday to co-ordinate military donations for Kyiv did agree to supply more armoured vehicles and air defence systems.\n\nBut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier made a specific appeal for modern tanks to repel Russia.\n\n\"Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now,\" Zbigniew Rau wrote on Twitter.\n\nWestern countries have committed billions in other weaponry - but without Germany's commitment on tanks, it was not the result Ukraine was hoping for.\n\nUkraine wants German-made Leopard 2s as they are easy to maintain and designed specifically to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which are being used in the invasion.\n\nThere are believed to be more than 2,000 Leopard 2 tanks worldwide and President Zelensky believes about 300 of them would help ensure it can defeat Russia.\n\nHowever, under German export laws, other countries who want to supply German-made Leopard 2s - like Poland and Finland - are unable to do so until Berlin gives the all-clear.\n\nUkraine already has tanks, but they are old, Soviet-era machines, prone to breaking down and without the upgraded armour and sophisticated laser range-finders found on modern Nato tanks.\n\nThe country knows its best, perhaps only, chance of fending off the massed assault Russia is expected to launch in the coming months is fielding a sizable force of western-supplied armour.\n\nMr Zelensky said there was \"no alternative\" to supplying his country with tanks in a video address on Friday evening: \"Each arrangement must be carried out as quickly as possible - for our defence.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Germany was reported to have made a decision on providing the tanks - which would be done on the condition the US agreed to send its advanced M1 Abrams tank.\n\nBut speaking after Friday's meeting of 54 countries at Ramstein air base in Germany, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin denied Berlin was waiting on the US to make the first move.\n\n\"This notion of unlocking - in my mind it's not an issue,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of Germany's wider contribution to the defence of Ukraine, Mr Austin, said: \"They are a reliable ally, they've been that way for a very, very long time and I truly believe that they'll continue to be a reliable ally going forward.\"\n\nHe told reporters other countries were providing tanks to Ukraine: \"I don't have any announcements to make on M1s [Abrams tanks] and you heard the German minister of defence say that they've not made a decision on Leopards.\"\n\nOther countries have committed to sending tanks, including the UK, which will send 14 Challenger 2s.\n\nDespite hesitation over the Abrams tanks, the US announced fresh support worth more than $2.5bn (£2bn) this week, including armoured vehicles.\n\nThe Pentagon promised an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other supplies.\n\nNine European nations have also promised more support of their own after meeting on Thursday in Estonia. They included:\n\nFor now, this leaves Ukraine in limbo - receiving armoured vehicles and air defence systems, but not the armour it so desperately needs.", "A farmer in a small US town kept an astounding secret from his family and friends. Then the truth emerged at his funeral - and the news has inspired the community.\n\nThe adage that charity begins at home has been enacted in the most uplifting way by the actions of one man.\n\nHody Childress spent his whole life in Geraldine, Alabama, working as a farmer and an employee of the Lockheed Martin Space facility nearby.\n\nHis family described him as a humble, God-loving man, who would often send handwritten get-well cards and share vegetables from his garden with neighbours.\n\nBut even his family didn't know one big secret. Every month, for nearly a decade, Mr Childress donated $100 (£80) to the local pharmacy for anyone who couldn't afford to pay for a prescription.\n\nOver the years, he gave nearly $12,000 to the community, but his generosity came with one condition: don't tell anyone.\n\nBrooke Walker said she'd been the pharmacist at Geraldine's, the town drug store, for nearly two years when Mr Childress, who was a regular customer, asked her a question.\n\n\"He pulled me to the side and said, 'Do you ever have anybody that can't pay for their medication?' and I said, 'Well, yeah, unfortunately, that happens a good bit.\"\n\nMany have come to see Mr Childress as their guardian angel after a family secret was revealed at his funeral.\n\nShe said Mr Childress handed her a folded bill and said: \"Next time that happens, will you use this? Don't tell where it came from, and don't tell me who needed it, just say it's a blessing from the Lord.\"\n\nMs Walker later called Mr Childress to tell him how much his generosity meant to the customer it had helped. He thanked her and she said she ended the call feeling blown away by his generosity. She thought it would be a one-time kindness.\n\nBut the next month, he came in and did the same thing.\n\n\"It continued every single month for almost 10 years,\" she said. \"I never saw it lasting this long and he always said, 'Keep this between us.'\"\n\nEventually, his daughter, Tania Nix, had to be brought in on the secret.\n\nAfter battling illness for years, her father became unable to leave his home. But one day, he asked her for a favour.\n\n\"He said, 'I've been doing something for a while and I would like to continue doing this,'\" Ms Nix said. \"He said, 'I want you to take a $100 bill up to the drugstore, at the first of the month, as long as I'm alive.'\"\n\nThe request didn't surprise her. As an Air Force veteran and a man of faith, she said her father cared deeply for his community and country and always sought to help others any way he could.\n\nMr Childress died on 1 January 2023. He was 80 years old.\n\nMs Nix initially had mixed emotions about sharing her father's secret but felt compelled to speak about his generosity at his funeral because it showed the kind of man that he was.\n\nAfterward, she said a staff member from the local high school approached her to say thank you.\n\nHer son had been prescribed an Epi-pen, but the family struggled to afford the $600 cost for the lifesaving shot of adrenaline. Mr Childress' generosity helped to cover the expense.\n\n\"She said my dad could have possibly saved her son's life,\" said Ms Nix.\n\nNews of her father's altruism quickly spread throughout the community and the media.\n\nAfter the story was reported in the Washington Post this week, Ms Walker said her pharmacy began receiving calls from the across the US from people wanting to help keep the fund going.\n\nMs Nix said it can often seem like the country is moving further apart, but her father's gesture has been a reminder of the importance of kindness and community.\n\n\"People do care, and there's hope out there,\" she said.", "Lauren Bridges, 20, died at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal four weeks before Beth Matthews\n\nTwo other young women died in the same psychiatric hospital as a mental health blogger in the two months before her death, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, from Cornwall, ordered a poisonous substance from Russia, which was posted to her secure ward at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport, where she ingested it.\n\nThe BBC has learned Lauren Bridges and Deseree Fitzpatrick also died there.\n\nThe hospital said the deaths were \"extremely tragic\" but \"unconnected\".\n\nMs Matthews died in March 2022 after swallowing the toxic substance in front of staff.\n\nA jury at South Manchester Coroners' Court concluded she died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nThe jury's foreman said the hospital had provided \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient\".\n\nThe inquest heard that, three weeks before her death, Ms Matthews had told a nurse \"there are things you can purchase to do the job\".\n\nHer care plan indicated she should not be allowed to open her own post.\n\nOn the day she died she was being supervised by two members of staff.\n\nMs Matthews was able to get the top off a small plastic container and, despite being restrained, was able to swallow a quantity of powder inside.\n\nShe died in hospital later that day.\n\n\"Something occurred in a place where she was supposed to be safe that should never have been allowed to happen,\" her father Chris Matthews said.\n\nBBC News can reveal that four weeks before, on 24 February, Ms Bridges died.\n\nThe 20-year-old, who was diagnosed with a form of autism, was also on a secure ward at the time.\n\nHer inquest is due to take place next month.\n\nAbout a month before, on 23 January 2022, Ms Fitzpatrick died.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who was being treated for the effects of alcoholism, was admitted to the hospital after her mental health deteriorated.\n\nHer inquest found she was given inappropriate medication by staff which caused \"significant sedation\".\n\nThis caused her to choke to death in her sleep.\n\nMs Fitzpatrick's inquest heard that her carers were meant to check on her throughout the night at 15-minute intervals.\n\nBut CCTV evidence showed those checks were, in the words of the coroner, \"woefully inadequate\".\n\nThose failures did not cause her death, however.\n\n\"If my daughter didn't go into the Priory, she'd still be alive today,\" her mother Angela Porter said.\n\n\"They killed her. They've got blood on their hands. And I'm not going to let this go until I get justice for my daughter.\"\n\nThe deaths of all three women raise serious questions over the standard of care at the Priory Royal Cheadle.\n\nThe Priory Group is one of the biggest providers of private mental health services to the NHS, with 85% of its services publicly funded.\n\nIt is the parent company of the private Priory clinic in Roehampton, the London clinic best known for treating celebrities.\n\nA series of scandals at inpatient mental health units in England, both NHS and private, have increased calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBrian Dow, Mental Health UK's chief executive said: \"These units are dealing with some of the most vulnerable patients who have the greatest level of need.\n\n\"The quality of support has got to be of the absolute highest order.\n\n\"I think what too many units do not do is treat those patients like people.\"\n\nOne former patient at the Priory Royal Cheadle has identified staffing shortages and a heavy reliance on short-term agency staff as a problem.\n\nMeredith Movel, who is trying to get the hospital closed down, says she never felt safe there\n\nMeredith Movel, who was undergoing treatment in 2015, said that even back then, it was a problem.\n\nThe 22-year-old has since started an online petition to have the hospital closed down.\n\n\"The longer it's open, the more people are going to die, basically\" she said.\n\n\"And I can't have that on my conscience.\"\n\nA Priory hospital statement said: \"We apologise unreservedly for the shortcomings in the care of Deseree Fitzpatrick and Beth Matthews last year, and want to express our sincere condolences to their families and friends.\n\n\"We are unable to comment on a further death at Cheadle Royal Hospital until the inquest concludes later this year.\"\n\nWhile the deaths were \"completely unconnected\" all lessons learned from incidents \"are shared widely with our staff and reinforced through ward meetings,\" it added.\n\n\"The safety of our patients remains our utmost priority and we immediately took action to address the issues raised in both inquests, and our own robust investigations, and enhanced our procedures.\"\n\nCheadle Royal Hospital was inspected by the Care Quality Commission last April and received a rating of good, including for the domain of safety.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has withdrawn a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge accused him of using the courts to seek revenge.\n\nThe lawsuit accused Ms James of conducting a \"war of intimidation\" against the former president.\n\nAn ongoing $250m (£202m) lawsuit launched by Ms James accuses Mr Trump's family company - the Trump Organization - of committing fraud over a decade.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Trump and his legal team for comment.\n\nMr Trump's lawsuit was withdrawn on Friday, less than a day after he was rebuked by US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks who said it bordered on \"frivolous\".\n\nThe judge added that the former president had repeatedly used the courts to \"seek revenge on political adversaries\".\n\nHe ordered Mr Trump to pay nearly $1m (£809,190) for another lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton, which accused her and others of conspiring to \"weave a false narrative\" during the 2016 election that his campaign was colluding with Russia.\n\nThat lawsuit was dismissed in September, and Mr Trump was later fined after one defendant sought sanctions. The latest order came after a group of defendants, including Mrs Clinton, filed a new request for sanctions.\n\nIn the ruling, Judge Middlebrooks called Mr Trump a \"mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process\" and said the lawsuit showed \"inadequacy as a legal claim\" and was intended for a \"political purpose\".\n\n\"No reasonable lawyer would have filed it,\" he said. \"This case should never have been brought.\"\n\nThe judge ordered Mr Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, and her firm, Habba Madaio & Associates, to jointly pay $937,989.39 in fines.\n\nJudge Middlebrooks also warned at the time that Mr Trump could face further sanctions over his lawsuit against Ms James.\n\nThat lawsuit, which was filed in November, claimed Ms James had led \"a relentless, pernicious, public and unapologetic crusade\" against him and the Trump Organization.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Harry and Meghan's \"great love story\" was one of the big draws for customers\n\nReed Hastings is stepping down from his role as co-chief executive of Netflix, the firm he helped found more than 25 years ago.\n\nHis announcement came as Netflix unveiled a big rise in subscriber numbers at the end of last year.\n\nWith money tight, people were expected to cut back on streaming services.\n\nBut Netflix bucked that trend, adding more than seven million new subscribers, far more than analysts expected.\n\nHarry and Meghan's revelations were a big draw, as was new Addams Family spin-off series Wednesday, and the film Glass Onion.\n\n\"2022 was a tough year, with a bumpy start but a brighter finish,\" the company said in a statement.\n\nMr Hastings' long-planned move means he is leaving Netflix in a crowded market, with challenges ahead, but with 231 million viewers signed up around the globe.\n\nMr Hastings, who was an early pioneer in the streaming business and is seen as one of the original tech industry disruptors, will stay on as executive chairman.\n\nThe firm will now be run by Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, both already in senior executive positions.\n\n\"Reed Hastings stepping down from his current role raises a lot of questions about Netflix's future strategy,\" said Jamie Lumley, analyst at research firm Third Bridge.\n\n\"Incoming Co-CEO Greg Peters will have a number of major decisions on his plate from managing high levels of expenses, password sharing, and cracking the code to find the next Stranger Things.\"\n\nReed Hastings and a former colleague Marc Randolph founded Netflix in 1997\n\nMr Peters has been given a strong start, with total subscribers for the last three months of 2022 up 7.66 million, when the firm had predicted a rise of around 4.5 million.\n\nAlicia Reese from Wedbush Securities said there were two reasons Netflix had managed to keep subscribers from cancelling.\n\n\"First, viewership trends indicate better retention on popular shows; second, Netflix offering an ad-supported tier to anyone looking to cancel or pause their membership,\" she said.\n\nBoth those factors limited customer \"churn\" she said.\n\nRevenue rose to $7.9bn (£6.37bn) in the fourth quarter. However, profit was lower in this quarter than the same period a year earlier, and profit for the year as a whole was down from 2021. Although Netflix remained \"ahead of its competitors\" on profitability, said Ms Reese.\n\nIn early 2022, Netflix faced an uphill battle. It was facing increased competition from rivals such as Amazon, HBO, Apple TV and Disney. It cut hundreds of jobs, but still found it had to put up prices to customers to cover rising costs.\n\nThat dealt a blow to its subscriber numbers in the first half of the year.\n\nIn November, it introduced a cheaper ad-supported option in 12 countries, including most of Europe, the UK and the US, and signalled it would be less tolerant of password sharing in future. Netflix said it was \"pleased with the early results\" from the service.\n\nAlthough Netflix did not report how many subscribers signed up to the new ad-supported tier, Mr Peters said they would not have entered the space if they did not think it could be \"very successful\".\n\n\"And they've only started to crack down on password sharing in Latin America,\" said Simon Gallagher, former director of content acquisition at Netflix. He added that the next six months will decide how sturdy Netflix is, as it rolls out new pricing schemes across the UK and US, and focuses on stopping password sharing in those regions.\n\n\"Reed Hastings has been there for 20 years and I think he wanted to go out on top - this has been a successful quarter for them. But he will remain very engaged as executive chairman,\" added Mr Gallagher.\n\nThe company could remain resilient, Mr Gallagher said, even as smaller streaming services continue to merge to compete with bigger services like Netflix.\n\nNetflix shares, which have fallen nearly 38% in the past year, rose in after-hours trading following the results announcement.\n\nNetflix started out in 1997 as a mail-order film service. Customers ordered via the website and DVDs were posted to them at home.\n\nMr Hastings has sometimes said the idea for Netflix was sparked when he owed a large fine for forgetting to return a video cassette to rental shop Blockbuster and thought a model more like gym membership, with a monthly fee for renting films, would be better.\n\nHowever, his co-founder Marc Randolph reportedly disputed this version, saying the pair had simply aimed to emulate Amazon.", "A mental health blogger who took her own life by swallowing a poisonous substance was failed by the psychiatric hospital caring for her, a jury has found.\n\nBeth Matthews, 26, died a short time after taking the substance, which she had ordered online and told staff was protein powder in March last year.\n\nShe was being treated at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal in Stockport.\n\nAn inquest jury concluded she died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nThe hearing was told Ms Matthews, originally from Cornwall, was being treated as an NHS patient for a personality disorder.\n\nShe was a complex patient considered at high risk of suicide, and had a history of frequent suicide attempts.\n\nThe jury found that while under the care of the Priory \"it was evident there were serious inconsistencies across all levels of her care plan\".\n\nBeth Matthews was being treated as an NHS patient at the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal\n\nThe hospital provided \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient,\" the jury said.\n\nThey found there was a widespread \"lack of communication, failing to escalate serious risk factors, lack of team cohesion, and reliance on inaccurate and inadequate information\".\n\nA finding of neglect at an inquest implies a gross failure in care.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\nThe way Ms Matthews' post was managed was particularly criticised, with the court hearing that her care plan stated only staff should be allowed to open it.\n\nThe inquest at Manchester South Coroners' Court heard how weeks before her death she told a member of staff she could purchase something \"to do the job\".\n\nAnother care worker wrote in her notes that everything Ms Matthews received \"must be checked\", and stated \"we need to be opening her parcels for her\".\n\nBut the court heard she was allowed to open the package, which she had ordered from Russia, with two staff monitoring her at arm's length.\n\nThe jury found the supervising staff were \"unable to prevent her from consuming\" the substance and the evidence demonstrated there had been a \"frequent deviation\" from her care plan.\n\nThe Priory Group admitted the plan had not been followed and if it had, Ms Matthews would not have been able to ingest the substance.\n\nThe mental health blogger, who was described in court as \"vivacious\" and \"bright\", had tens of thousands of social media followers.\n\nPsychiatrist Dr Alind Srivastava, who works for the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, previously told the jury she \"did a lot of good on social media in helping other people, in explaining what happened to her\".\n\nA spokesman for the Priory Group said: \"We fully accept the jury's findings and acknowledge that far greater attention should have been given to Beth's care plan.\n\n\"At the time of Beth's unexpected death, we took immediate steps to address the issues around how we document risk and communicate patients' care plans, alongside our processes for receiving and opening post.\n\n\"We want to extend our deepest condolences to Beth's family and friends for their loss. Beth's attempts to overcome her mental health challenges had been an inspiration for many.\n\n\"Although unexpected deaths are extremely rare, we recognise that every loss of life in our care is a tragedy.\"\n\nThe Priory said it accepted the inquest's findings\n\nSpeaking after the jury delivered their conclusions, Assistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman offered his condolences to Ms Matthews' family.\n\nHe said: \"There are no words to express for the loss of your daughter. The loss of a child is something no person should have to suffer.\"\n\nFollowing the conclusion, her family said Ms Matthews had been \"let down\" by the Priory, adding her death was \"wholly avoidable\" and \"completely unnecessary\".\n\n\"Mental health care providers must listen to and act on the findings of this inquest,\" her family added.\n\n\"It is incumbent on them to keep their patients safe.\"\n\nBeth Matthews was being treated on a secure ward\n\nPaying tribute, they said: \"Beth tried to help others through describing her own mental health experiences in a highly graphic but articulate way and by doing so was able to touch and help countless others.\n\n\"We know for a fact that she saved at least one person through her social media presence.\n\n\"That is a huge legacy for a young lady to leave behind.\"\n\nThe Priory Group spokesman added: \"Patient safety is our utmost priority and we will now review the coroner's comments in detail and make all necessary, additional changes to our policies and procedures.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fionnuala Kennedy said she was \"breathless with anger\"\n\nA head teacher has warned pupils at her all-girls' school \"not to allow a lone policeman to approach you at any time\".\n\nFionnuala Kennedy, head of Wimbledon High School in south London, made the comments after the David Carrick case.\n\nMet Police officer Carrick admitted 49 sexual offences, including 24 counts of rape, across two decades. He has been dismissed by the force.\n\nMs Kennedy said the case made her concerned about how to empower her students while also keeping them safe.\n\nThe head teacher at the independent school wrote her comments in a blog post after Carrick's crimes became public knowledge earlier this week.\n\nShe called the case \"horrific\" and said that she was \"breathless with anger\" about \"the utter failing of the Met Police to protect girls and women\".\n\nHer remarks come as the head of the Met Police, Sir Mark Rowley, published a plan to reform the force over the next two years, after a series of scandals involving rogue officers, including Carrick.\n\nSir Mark said he was \"determined to win back Londoners' trust\" and was asking the public to comment on the plan over the next three months. The Met said its priorities included tackling violence against women and girls and identifying misconduct in its ranks.\n\nIn her blog post, Ms Kennedy also reflected on Andrew Tate's recent arrest - the social media influencer is being investigated over allegations of sexual assault and exploitation, which he denies.\n\nMs Kennedy said that both cases made her feel \"tired\", \"angry\" and \"somewhat defeated\".\n\nAndrew Tate (third from right) is currently in detention in Romania\n\nMs Kennedy told BBC London that the anger she expressed in her post was really \"the anger of my students, and I'm the channel through which that is expressed\".\n\nShe said she thought it was \"important for women to express anger when they feel it\" as they were often told it was an \"inappropriate\" or \"shameful\" emotion.\n\nMs Kennedy said she felt it was her place to offer the advice she gave in her blog \"as long as parents are in the loop\".\n\nMs Kennedy said she would still encourage her pupils to approach a police officer if they were in trouble\n\nShe clarified that she was \"not suggesting for a moment that girls don't trust the police as an entire establishment\" and she was not discouraging girls from finding a police officer if they were in trouble.\n\nBut she defended her warning to pupils that they should be wary, saying \"the police have done a good enough job on their own of developing distrust from the public\".\n\nMs Kennedy called for the Met Police to \"address their cultural issues and make sure that we feel that they are taking due diligence to protect our vulnerable people\".\n\nIn response to the head teacher's remarks, the Met referred the BBC to a statement by Sir Mark issued soon after Carrick pleaded guilty. The Met commissioner - whose statement preceded the comments made about his reform plans - admitted that the force had \"let women and girls down and indeed we've let Londoners down\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nVeteran US folk-rock star David Crosby has died aged 81, his representative has confirmed.\n\nHe helped set up two major bands in the 1960s: The Byrds, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was renowned for his guitar-playing and vocal harmonies.\n\nHis career saw him achieve the rare feat of being inducted to the revered Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice.\n\nFormer bandmates saluted Crosby's creative talents, while acknowledging the conflicts they had endured.\n\nCrosby's wife told showbiz site Variety that he died \"after a long illness\" while surrounded by family.\n\n\"His legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music,\" her statement added.\n\nCrosby was born in California on 14 August 1941, the son of Oscar-winning Hollywood cinematographer Floyd Crosby.\n\nHe joined The Byrds in 1964 - a folk-rock group who scored their first hit with a cover of Bob Dylan's Tambourine Man, and whose other singles like Turn! Turn! Turn! and Eight Miles High helped change the face of American pop and rock.\n\nThe Byrds, with Crosby second left, helped set the template for US pop and rock music in the mid-1960s\n\nHis tempestuous tenure - a period during which he also briefly dated singer Joni Mitchell - culminated in his being fired from the group three years later.\n\nCrosby then formed a supergroup with Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills and The Hollies' Graham Nash, who were later joined by another Buffalo Springfield star, Neil Young.\n\nCrosby, Stills, Nash and Young made one of their first appearances at the Woodstock in 1969, and later had a hit with Mitchell's song about the legendary festival.\n\nThis band, too, was beset by in-fighting and broke up after a few years - although they have periodically reformed for concerts since.\n\nHits written by Crosby during his time in the band included the hippy anthems Almost Cut My Hair and Deja Vu, and he responded to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy with the song Long Time Gone.\n\nHe became known for his countercultural politics and trademark moustache as well as his musicianship. A six-decade career culminated in his final album, For Free, released in 2021.\n\nCrosby (centre) performs with bandmates Graham Nash and Neil Young in 1969\n\nThe record saw him team up with one of his children, James Raymond, who had been put up for adoption soon after birth and only became acquainted with his father three decades later.\n\nOff-stage, Crosby had multiple run-ins with US law enforcement, including an arrest in 1982 on drug and weapons charges.\n\nHis substance abuse had reportedly intensified after the death of a girlfriend in a car crash when he was a young man.\n\nThere followed periods of ill health, and a liver transplant in 1994. Crosby's reputation for a hedonistic lifestyle saw him named two decades later as \"rock's unlikeliest survivor\" by Rolling Stone magazine.\n\nCrosby later expressed regret over his addictions and altercations with co-stars, telling the Los Angeles Times in 2019 he was \"ashamed\" of some of his past behaviours.\n\nFollowing the musician's death, former bandmate Nash expressed his \"profound sadness\" despite the two men's often \"volatile\" relationship, adding that Crosby left behind a \"tremendous void\".\n\n\"What has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years,\" Nash wrote.\n\n\"David was fearless in life and in music.\"\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStills agreed, writing that his late collaborator was \"without question a giant of a musician\", even though they had \"butted heads a lot of the time\".\n\n\"His harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius,\" he added.\n\nAnother tribute came from Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, who wrote on Twitter that he was \"heartbroken\" at the news - as his fellow star had been an \"unbelievable talent\" and a \"wonderful person\".\n\nCrosby helped fellow singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner have two children by acting as their sperm donor through artificial insemination. Etheridge wrote on Thursday: \"He gave me the gift of family. I will forever be grateful to him, Django, and Jan.\n\n\"His music and legacy will inspire many generations to come. A true treasure.\"\n\nCrosby with Melissa Etheridge (centre) and her partner at the time, Julie Cypher, in 2000\n\nCrosby, Etheridge and their respective partners revealed his involvement through an appearance together with the two young children on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 2000.\n\nAsked why she chose Crosby, Etheridge told the magazine: \"He's musical, which means a lot to me, and I admire his work.\"\n\nIn 2016, she said she had considered Brad Pitt, a good friend, as the donor, but decided against it because of the actor's desire to have a family of his own.\n\n\"I looked and I saw how badly he wanted children and I thought, I don't want to share this with someone who really, badly wants children because my children don't need another parent - they have two,\" she told Australia's Studio 10.\n\nEtheridge's family saw Crosby \"every once in a while\", she said, but Crosby and his wife Jan \"totally understood that we are the parents\".\n\nOne of the children they conceived, Beckett Cypher, died in 2020 at the age of 21. Etheridge tweeted at the time that she \"joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction\".\n\nCrosby said in 2021 that Beckett's death was \"hugely painful\". He told The Telegraph: \"It's never gonna get easy. You lose somebody you love and it hurts, that's how it is.\"\n\nEtheridge told The Guardian later that year that Crosby blamed himself for Beckett's addiction, thinking it might be genetic.\n\n\"But he can't. Everybody has choices. You can't just say: 'Oh, that's David Crosby's son, so…' That doesn't work at all.\"\n\nCrosby and his wife also helped actress Drew Barrymore by letting her stay with them for three months as part of her programme of recovery from alcohol and drug abuse when she was 14 in 1989.\n\n\"I'm an old Hollywood kid, and I knew her story,\" Crosby said at the time. \"I felt she had been dealt a short deck, you know, a fifth-generation alcoholic, and I didn't want to see her go down the tubes.\"\n\nFollowing Crosby's death, other famous fans paid tribute on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 🕉🇺🇦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTweets were sent from Crosby's own account the day before his death was announced - with one stating that Eleanor Rigby was his favourite Beatles to song to play on a rainy day.\n\nThe exact cause of his death was not immediately specified.", "Julian Sands has been missing since last Friday\n\nA car belonging to British actor Julian Sands has been found near to where he was reported missing.\n\nMr Sands disappeared last Friday while hiking in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles.\n\nPoor conditions have hindered the search - but officials say there is \"no hard deadline\" for ending the mission.\n\nMr Sands, 65, is known for roles in popular films and TV dramas including A Room With A View, 24 and Smallville.\n\nThe San Bernardino County Sheriff's department said his vehicle was located in a car park, believed to be where he left it before setting out on his hike.\n\nHis family have towed it away, police added.\n\nIn an update later on Thursday, police said wintry conditions were continuing to hamper their efforts, and they were waiting to start another ground search.\n\nBut they insisted that they were still involved in a search and rescue operation - telling the PA news agency there was \"no date set\" for calling this off.\n\nThe actor's friends have expressed their concerns after his disappearance was confirmed.\n\nBritish actor Samuel West wrote on Twitter: \"Please, please let Julian Sands be okay. A friend and an inspiration. Awful news.\"\n\nMeanwhile, film producer Cassian Elwes said he was \"devastated\", adding that he had \"said many prayers\".\n\nFor weeks, California has been battered by deadly storms and a disaster declaration was issued by President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Sands was reported missing at about 19:30 local time on Friday 13 January.\n\nThe department's search and rescue crews responded and began a search, but this was hampered by severe weather warnings and trail conditions.\n\n\"However, we continue to search by helicopter and drones when the weather permits,\" a statement said.\n\nA Room with a View was a global hit in 1985\n\nThe department said it had responded to 14 calls on Mount San Antonio, known locally as Mount Baldy, and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. It warned hikers to \"stay away\" from that area.\n\n\"It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,\" the department said. They are also searching for another hiker, an American, who went missing in the same mountains.\n\nLast week, a mother of four whom friends described as an experienced hiker died after sliding more than 500ft down Mount Baldy.\n\nMr Sands has talked in the past about his love of hiking and mountain climbing.\n\nWhen asked in 2020 what made him happy, he replied: \"Close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.\"\n\nMount San Antonio, commonly known as Mount Baldy, in the San Gabriel Mountains\n\nBorn in Yorkshire, Mr Sands has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, but it was a lead role in the 1985 British romance A Room With A View that brought him global fame.\n\nThe father of three most recently appeared in the drama Benediction, which also starred Peter Capaldi.\n\nMr Sands lives in the North Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. They have two children.\n\nHe was previously married to Sarah Sands, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom he has a son.", "A top UN official believes progress is being made towards reversing bans on women taking part in public life in Afghanistan.\n\nDeputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has been in Kabul for a four-day visit to urge the Taliban to reconsider.\n\nLast month, the country's Islamist rulers banned all women from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs).\n\nThe move caused several aid agencies to suspend operations.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the end of her trip, Ms Mohammed said most senior Taliban officials she met had been ready to engage over the rights of girls and women.\n\nHowever, she described the talks as tough and cautioned that it would be a very long journey before the leadership took the fundamental steps required for international recognition of their rule.\n\n\"I think there are many voices we heard, which are progressive in the way that we would like to go,\" Ms Mohammed said. \"But there are others that really are not.\"\n\n\"I think the pressure we put in the support we give to those that are thinking more progressively is a good thing. So this visit, I think, gives them more voice and pressure to help the argument internally.\"\n\nMs Mohammed also criticised the international community, including other Islamic states, for not doing enough to engage on the issue.\n\nSince seizing back control of the country last year, the Taliban has steadily restricted women's rights - despite promising its rule would be softer than the regime seen in the 1990s.\n\nAs well as the ban on female university students - now being enforced by armed guards - secondary schools for girls remain closed in most provinces.\n\nWomen have also been prevented from entering parks and gyms, among other public places.\n\nIt justified the move to ban Afghan women from working for NGOs by claiming female staff had broken dress codes by not wearing hijabs.\n\nMs Mohammed's comments come as Afghanistan suffers its harshest winter in many years.\n\nThe Taliban leadership blames sanctions and the refusal of the international community to recognise their rule for the country's deepening crisis.\n\nMs Mohammed said her message to Afghanistan's rulers was that they must first demonstrate their commitment to internationally recognised norms and that humanitarian aid cannot be provided if Afghan women are not allowed to help.\n\n\"They're discriminating against women there. for want of a better word, they become invisible, they're waiting them out, and that can't happen,\" she said.\n\nBut she said the Taliban's stance was that the UN and aid organisations were \"politicising humanitarian aid\".\n\n\"They believe that... the law applies to anyone anywhere and their sovereign rights should be respected,\" she said.\n\nThe Taliban health ministry has clarified that women can work in the health sector, where female doctors and nurses are essential, but Ms Mohammed said this was not enough.\n\n\"There are many other services that we didn't get to do with access to food and other livelihood items that that will allow us to see millions of women and their families survive a harsh winter, be part of growth and prosperity, peace,\" she said.\n\nThis visit by the most senior woman at the UN also sends a message that women can and should play roles at all levels of society.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I just feel that I can't fit into the system at the moment. I feel forced out of it\"\n\nA 73-year-old man has to travel 100 miles each time he goes to the dentist due to a lack of practices taking NHS patients.\n\nDafydd Williams has lived in Newtown, Powys, for 20 years but his dentist is in Telford, Shropshire.\n\nPowys was one of 10 councils the BBC found last year did not have any dentists taking new adult NHS patients.\n\nThe Welsh government said it is providing an additional £2m annually to improve access to dental services.\n\nIt said the changes it has introduced to dental contracts aim to secure 112,000 appointments for new patients this year.\n\nHowever, the British Dental Association (BDA) criticised that claim, accusing the Welsh government of \"cooking the books\" and \"making misleading claims\".\n\n\"I'm angry to be honest that we have to travel so many miles to see a dentist,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"We go twice a year for a check-up, but of course if we need to have any treatment and they say we have to go back in 10 days or a fortnight - that's another day gone.\"\n\nAccording to the BDA, new NHS contracts issued by the Welsh government put an emphasis on seeing new patients, but it claims this is at a detriment to those already registered at practices.\n\nThe BDA claims that for every new NHS patient taken on, \"a dozen historic patients could lose access to dentistry\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Andrew Dickenson, the chief dental officer for Wales, said dentistry has had \"some very unique challenges\" over the past few years.\n\n\"At present services are being recovered, but that takes time and I can fully appreciate the sentiments coming from Dr Roberts and Mr Williams but what we've been trying to do is address the unmet need for the population.\"\n\nMr Dickenson said practices have been asked if they would offer appointments to patients who have not had regular dental treatment to address the problems to give more \"stability\" to services.\n\nDafydd Williams, 73, has not been able to register with a Welsh dental practice in 20 years\n\nDentist and BDA representative Tristan Roberts has worked for the NHS since graduating, but said he now feels he is being \"forced out of it\".\n\n\"I think it [NHS dentistry] is on a precipice at the moment and is hanging by a thread,\" he told Newyddion S4C.\n\n\"I think we're losing what dentistry is about these days. It's all about funding and cutting costs.\"\n\nThe BBC has learned of several dental practices in different parts of the country that have brought NHS dentist services to an end, turning to private healthcare only.\n\nThis week, a letter was sent to patients of the Marquess Dental surgery in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, stating that it was \"impossible\" to continue providing the \"standard of care they wish\" to NHS patients so it would be only offering private dental care from the beginning of April.\n\nMark Drakeford said more than a thousand additional dental appointments have been made for children in Powys in the last 8 months\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds, who represents Mid and West Wales in the Senedd, said she had discovered that in November last year, there were 794 children under 18 on a waiting list for an NHS dentist in Powys alone.\n\nShe said: \"There's a two-tier system here in Wales where, if you have the money, you can pay and you can afford it.\n\n\"But if you don't, then you either just have to wait until an appointment becomes available or you have nowhere to go to register locally.\"\n\nIn the Senedd on Tuesday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said 1,100 additional dental appointments have been made for children in Powys in the past eight months.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"Changes to the NHS dentistry contract, offered to dental practices since last April 2022, also includes a requirement to see new patients.\n\n\"This means an estimated 112,000 new NHS patient appointments will be possible in Wales this year.\"", "In 2011, 12-year-old Oliver died when his heart stopped during a school swimming lesson. He had an undiagnosed heart condition.\n\nHis father Mark King started the Oliver King Foundation and campaigned for all schools in England to have defibrillators.\n\nWith help from some of Oliver's school friends and former footballer Jamie Carragher, Mr King's mission succeeded.\n\nNow the rollout has started, with the life saving devices being distributed to state schools who don't already have one.\n\nAccording to the Department for Education, 20,000 defibrillators will be delivered to almost 18,000 state-funded schools by the end of the academic year.\n\nMr King spoke to BBC Breakfast about the milestone.", "Ukraine is pleading for Western-made, modern tanks to fight off the Russians\n\nAs the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces near the fiercely contested towns of Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThe explosions come every few seconds, sometimes in rapid clusters of six or more short blasts, sometimes deep and long and rib-cage-rattling, thundering across the snow-speckled hills that stretch along the front lines close to Bakhmut and Soledar.\n\nThen come the distant booms, the shorter punch of a mortar round blasting off on the roadside, and, occasionally, the bone-chilling, fizzing whoosh of an incoming artillery shell that sends us diving for cover on the frozen fields.\n\nThis is the daily, constant, percussive chorus of war in the Donbas, where Ukrainian and Russian artillery, rocket and tank crews are slugging it out, trading blows in a fierce, but largely inconclusive struggle to break a months-long deadlock.\n\n\"We have a target,\" said Roman, a Ukrainian tank unit commander, suddenly pulling off his gloves, clambering up onto the slippery, snow-covered turret of a dark green T-72 tank, and swinging open a heavy steel hatch.\n\nVasyl, Volodymyr and Bogdan man a Soviet-era tank - and would all like an upgrade\n\nAnother crew member, Vlad, scrambled out of a nearby fox hole, where he had been warming his grimy hands over a fresh fire, to help out.\n\nSeconds later, a skull-shaking explosion echoed across the valley and towards Bakhmut, as a US-supplied tank shell tore out of the gun barrel with a flash of orange, heading towards Russian positions on the opposite hillside.\n\n\"T-72s are old tanks - this one's the same age as me,\" said Bogdan, a 55-year-old Ukrainian volunteer, turning to pat the huge, squat, Soviet-era machine behind him. \"I used to drive one of these nearly 40 years ago - I can't believe I'm doing it again. But it works. It does the job.\"\n\n\"But a Leopard would be better,\" said Volodymr, another member of their three-man crew, with a low chuckle.\n\nPlans to send German-made Leopard tanks and UK Challengers to the front lines here in the Donbas have been greeted with visible excitement by Ukrainian forces, who have been taking heavy casualties in recent weeks, around Bakhmut, and, more particularly, during the ferocious struggle for the nearby town of Soledar.\n\n\"There were very heavy losses. It's very pitiful. It's hard,\" said Danylo, an officer in charge of repairing tanks for the 24th Mechanised Brigade. He said the current deadlock would not be broken unless foreign tanks arrived in significant numbers.\n\n\"Yes, we'll be stuck here. We need these [Western tanks] to stop Russia's aggression. With infantry, covered by tanks, we'll win for sure,\" he said.\n\n\"Leopards, Challengers, Abrams - any foreign tank is good for us! I think we need at least 300. And we need them now!\" said Bogdan.\n\nThe Ukrainians all acknowledged that Russia had more modern tanks but were scathing about their tactics.\n\n\"The Russian tanks are a bit better than ours. They're fully modernised. But mostly the Russians are strong because they push forwards en masse, advancing over the bodies of their own soldiers. Our commanders care more about the lives of their crews, so we try to destroy [the enemy] while losing as few of our own men as possible,\" said Bogdan.\n\nA more senior company commander in the 24th Brigade, with the code name Khan, took us to a rear position, past fresh trenches being dug in the fields by specialised machines, where several tanks were hidden under camouflage nets in a wooded area.\n\nRussian and Ukrainian forces are deadlocked on the eastern front lines\n\n\"These T-72s have proved effective in winter conditions. But they're old, and not really suited for modern warfare. These days it's all about drones and the latest technology.\" Khan said he believed it would take very little time for his crews to adapt to more modern European equipment.\n\n\"If you're a tank driver you're already someone of above-average intelligence. They'll be able to learn and adapt quickly,\" he said.\n\nSuddenly, an incoming Russian artillery shell landed several hundred metres away. Seconds later, another landed closer, and then closer still, sending soldiers and journalists diving for cover.\n\nThe war in Ukraine has, in many ways, been a distinctly old-fashioned conflict, based on attrition, on devastating artillery strikes, and on dug-in positions reminiscent of the trenches of World War One. But the war has also revealed the limitation of tanks - most clearly in the first weeks of the conflict when nimble Ukrainian infantry destroyed many huge Russian armoured columns with shoulder-launched rockets.\n\n\"In the old days, it was all about tanks. Now it's about these new rocket systems,\" said Volodymr. But the coming months could yet see Western tanks - if deployed quickly, and in large numbers - play a decisive role.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was filmed without a seatbelt in a moving car\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video.\n\nLancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty.\n\nNo 10 said Mr Sunak \"fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologised\", adding that he would pay the fine.\n\nPassengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available can be fined £100.\n\nThis can increase to £500 if the case goes to court.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, the deputy prime minister said Mr Sunak was \"someone with the highest standards of integrity\" who had \"made a mistake on the seatbelt issue\".\n\nDominic Raab said the PM was \"a human being doing a demanding job\" and had \"put his hands straight up\" and apologised.\n\nThe prime minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed, during a trip across the north of England.\n\nThe video - to promote the government's latest round of \"levelling up\" spending - was posted on Mr Sunak's Instagram account.\n\nIt is the second time Mr Sunak has received a fixed penalty notice while in government.\n\nLast April, he was fined along with Boris Johnson and wife Carrie for breaking Covid lockdown rules - by attending a birthday gathering for the then-prime minister in Downing Street in June 2020.\n\nFixed penalty notices are a sanction for breaking the law, and mean a fine, which needs to be paid within 28 days, or contested.\n\nIf someone chooses to contest the fine, the police will then review the case and decide whether to withdraw the fine or take the matter to court.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said in a tweet that Mr Sunak was a \"total liability\".\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson added: \"Hapless Rishi Sunak's levelling-up photo op has blown up in his face and turned him into a laughing stock.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said, in becoming the second ever serving prime minister to be fined by police, he had \"shown the same disregard for the rules as Boris Johnson\".\n\nDeputy Lib Dem leader Daisy Cooper said: \"From partygate to seatbelt gate, these Conservative politicians are just taking the British people for fools.\n\n\"Whilst they continue to behave as though it's one rule for them and another for everyone else, this fine is a reminder that the Conservatives eventually get their comeuppance.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP for Blackpool South Scott Benton defended Mr Sunak, saying \"everybody makes mistakes\".\n\nMr Benton said police should focus on \"tackling serious crime in our communities\", adding: \"Let's keep this in proportion here. Every single year millions of Britons receive similar fixed penalty notices.\"\n\nPassengers aged 14 and over are responsible for ensuring they wear a seat belt in cars, vans and other goods vehicles if one is fitted. Drivers are responsible for passengers under 14.\n\nExemptions include having a doctor's certificate for a medical reason, or being in a vehicle used for a police, fire or other rescue service.\n• None Police look into Sunak's failure to wear seat belt", "French-made Caesar artillery is already being used by Ukrainian troops\n\nMore countries have answered President Volodymyr Zelensky's call to send further arms to Ukraine.\n\nThe US says a package worth $2.5bn (£2bn) will be sent, including armoured vehicles and air defence systems.\n\nSeveral European nations promised their own new packages - including hundreds of missiles pledged to Kyiv by the UK.\n\nThe announcements come ahead of a crunch meeting scheduled in Germany on Friday, in which 50 countries are set to co-ordinate arms supplies.\n\nA meeting on Thursday saw representatives from 11 nations gather at an army base in Estonia to discuss a range of new packages to help Ukraine recapture territory and fend off any further Russian advances.\n\nNine countries - the UK, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovakia - promised more support.\n\nThe Netherlands will announce its package of support on Friday.\n\nSpeaking during his visit to Estonia, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"In 2023, it is time to turn the momentum that the Ukrainians have achieved in pushing back Russia into gains and... push them back out of Ukraine and to restore Ukraine's sovereignty, which is their right under international law.\"\n\nThe announcement of fresh US support arrived later on Thursday. Despite Ukrainian hopes, it did not contain an offer of tanks.\n\nBut the Pentagon did promise Kyiv an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other large and small munitions.\n\nIt said recent air attacks demonstrated \"the devastating impact of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine\" - but said the newly-pledged arms would help to fend these off.\n\nA statement added that the US had now committed more than $26.7bn in security assistance to Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022.\n\nBen Wallace and his counterparts in Estonia\n\nA meeting of the Ukraine Defence Group, made up of key allies including the US, will convene at Ramstein air base in Germany on Friday to discuss further military support.\n\nPresident Zelensky said he expected \"strong decisions\" on further arms exports to be made at that meeting, including a \"powerful military support package\" from the US.\n\nThe talks are likely to focus on the question of whether to send heavy tanks, and crucially who will supply them. Despite the billions of dollars pledged in new weapons by Western allies on Thursday, this question remains unanswered.\n\nUkraine is asking for German-made Leopard tanks to be sent to the front line.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz is coming under increasing international and domestic pressure to supply them, or at least approve their delivery by third countries.\n\nPoland and Finland have both promised to send their Leopards - but need Germany's permission, as the manufacturing country, to do so.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said he was \"moderately pessimistic\" about Germany giving permission to re-export Leopards to Ukraine.\n\nAnd President Zelensky has also addressed Germany's reluctance.\n\n\"Now we are waiting for a decision from one European capital that will activate the prepared chains of co-operation on tanks,\" he said on Thursday evening.\n\nA government source in Berlin told Reuters it is yet to receive a request from any country to re-export their tanks.\n\nThe UK was the first nation to offer tanks to Ukraine when it promised to send 14 British army Challenger 2s.", "A ban on disposable vapes will be considered by the Scottish government, the health minister has confirmed.\n\nIt follows a campaign against the cheap e-cigarettes, which contain lithium batteries, because of the threat they pose to the environment.\n\nZero Waste Scotland will lead the review, which will consider international experience and action.\n\nHumza Yousaf told MSPs on Thursday it would give \"consideration\" to a potential ban of the devices.\n\nLater the Scottish government said it could also consider increasing access to disposal options, improved product design or publicity campaigns.\n\nIn October, the Irish government launched a consultation on banning \"wasteful\" disposable vape products, citing concerns over littering.\n\nDisposable vapes, which typically cost a few pounds, are marketed as \"beginner friendly\" and can last for the equivalent of a pack of 20 cigarettes - around 600 \"puffs\".\n\nThe single-use vapes are designed to feel more like a cigarette than larger reusable devices, but some manufacturers are now producing refillable and rechargeable pods with a similar slim case.\n\nBecause they contain valuable materials such as lithium batteries and copper, as well as plastic, vapes are classed as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and users are supposed to dispose of them at a household recycling centre or at the shop where they bought the device.\n\nCurrently large shops must take back all items of small electronic products like disposable vapes in store to be recycled for free, regardless of whether the item was bought in that shop.\n\nAnd smaller retailers are legally obliged to finance the take back, collection and treatment of these products when they become waste.\n\nGreen MSP Gillian Mackay raised the issue at Holyrood, citing a newspaper's campaign against disposable vapes.\n\nShe said: \"As well as being an issue for public health, they are an issue for the environment...Would the cabinet secretary support a ban on single-use vapes?\"\n\nMr Yousaf said Public Health Scotland was examining the impact of vaping, with an action plan due in the autumn.\n\nLaura Young has been campaigning to ban single-use vape pens\n\nWhile the World Health Organisation said they were \"undoubtedly harmful to health\", there was limited evidence on their long-term impact, he said.\n\nHe congratulated Dundee-based campaigner Laura Young for highlighting the issue, saying she was \"colloquially described as the vape crusader\".\n\nThe PHD student and climate activist collects discarded vapes littered in the streets, recently picking up about one device per minute in an hour-long walk near her home.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"She has done an incredible job going around the country picking up these vapes that are undoubtedly causing environmental harm.\"\n\nHe added: \"We will ask stakeholders with the relevant expertise to examine the evidence and assess what action the Scottish government and other partners should take.\n\n\"That will include consideration of a potential ban.\"\n\nIain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland, said: \"Any form of littering is an unacceptable, anti-social behaviour, that is damaging to the environment and the economy.\n\n\"Single-use items, like disposable vapes, are becoming an all-too-common eyesore in areas where we live, work, and socialise, and can last in our environment for years and years.\n\n\"Tackling our throwaway culture is a priority here at Zero Waste Scotland and we are happy to lead on this important review.\"", "Mary Bousted, general secretary of the National Education Union, said no progress was made to resolve the dispute\n\nMore talks between government officials and unions have taken place as schools prepare for teachers' strikes.\n\nHowever, unions say there was no discussion of an increased pay offer.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said the six-hour meeting between the two sides was to discuss \"pay but also other issues such as workload and the conditions of teachers in schools\".\n\nEarlier this week, teachers from the NEU union voted in favour of strike action in England and Wales.\n\nThey are preparing for their first national strike day on 1 February. National and local strikes in Scotland have already begun.\n\nFollowing the meeting, Mary Bousted, general secretary of the NEU, said: \"We're no further forward in resolving the dispute.\n\n\"We didn't get any indication that there was any money available for this year.\"\n\nMs Bousted said discussions were now taking place \"which we should have had years ago\" and that concerns about pay, workload and teacher retention seemed \"to be accepted\" by the officials.\n\n\"They will have to work out what they can do to offer us a better deal, so that we don't have to take strike action on 1 February,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not something we want to do at all, but ministers have to now engage seriously and have to begin negotiating.\"\n\nMr Gibb told the BBC that the government was negotiating with teachers but said there were concerns about \"inflation-busting pay settlements\" that would mean embedding inflation into the economy \"for the long term\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson described Friday's talks as \"constructive\" and said strike action would be \"highly damaging\" to schoolchildren.\n\nIn England, head teachers will decide whether their school needs to close on strike days.\n\nTeachers do not have to stick to the curriculum on strike days, according to government guidance. So children could face changes to their lessons even if schools stay open.\n\nPrincipal Tyrone Myton says he is hoping to keep his school open\n\nTyrone Myton, the principal of Shirley High School in Croydon, south London, is currently trying to get a picture of what strike action might look like in his school.\n\nHe wants to keep the school open on strike days but as union members do not have to declare whether they are striking, he says it is difficult to plan ahead.\n\nMr Myton says it is important to prioritise vulnerable pupils, ones whose parents work in the public sector and those in an exam year.\n\n\"We are trying to take steps to minimise disruption for students who are sitting exams in 10 weeks' time, and some have already started exams,\" he explained. \"This is for the rest of their lives, so you have to do all you can.\"\n\nHe says he hopes there will be an agreement soon but believes that in order to prevent further strike action by teachers, better pay for new teachers and support staff must be addressed.\n\nSarah Smith is worried about her children having additional time off school\n\nSarah Smith, from Wharfedale in Yorkshire, runs a parenting website called Mumbler, which gives families information on things to do in the area.\n\nShe has two children, one in primary school and one in secondary, and her partner works full-time.\n\nMs Smith is worried about her children having more time off school following the pandemic, and says there are already \"gaps in their knowledge\".\n\n\"The schools are already working really hard to catch them up but additional time off is going to make it even more difficult for them,\" she adds.\n\nMs Smith says on strike days, if the schools close, she will have to stay at home to do some home learning with the children and then wait for her partner to get home so she can work late into the evening.\n\nShe said she could understand teachers' point of view, but her main concern is for her children's education.\n\nThe NASUWT union, which did not meet the legal threshold for strike action in its ballot, has sent guidance to its members on what they should do on strike days.\n\nIt says members are required to report for work but should not cover the work of colleagues, and should not agree to undertake online teaching to pupils from home if the school closes.\n• None Teachers' strikes: When, where and why?", "Chewy, the the chihuahua, was missing for seven years until he was found by police hunting a fugitive\n\nA dog missing for seven years has been reunited with his owners after police stumbled on him while hunting a suspect.\n\nPCs Kirsty Stanley and Jacob Wood found Chewy on Wednesday while searching a house in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire.\n\nThey took the chihuahua to a vet and, after finding a microchip, discovered he went missing from Batley, about two miles (3.2km) away, in 2016.\n\nChewy had since been returned to his grateful owners, the force said.\n\nOfficers had been \"immediately suspicious\" after neighbours told them of the \"vague circumstances\" in which Chewy had come to be at the property.\n\nPC Stanley added: \"Jacob and I were so glad this was a story with a really happy ending.\n\n\"It was fantastic to take Chewy back to his owners and see the looks on their faces when they saw him after so long.\"\n\nInsp David Bates, of the Batley and Spen Neighbourhood Policing Team, praised his officers' \"thoroughness\".\n\nHe added: \"This case really does go to show that even if a pet is missing for years there is a chance he or she can find their way home.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Conservative mayor for the West Midlands has lashed out at the process for allocating levelling up funds, calling for an end to Whitehall's \"broken begging bowl culture\".\n\nIn an angry statement, Andy Street said he wanted ministers to justify why \"the majority\" of bids in his region had been rejected.\n\nThe West Midlands received £155m from a £2.1bn pot of levelling up funds.\n\nThe PM has argued the most deprived areas would benefit from the money.\n\nSpeaking from Morecambe in Lancashire - which will get £50m to build an eco-tourism attraction - Rishi Sunak said his government was \"completely committed to levelling up across the United Kingdom\".\n\nHe said the process was transparent and that areas which had been unsuccessful this time would have another chance to apply for funding in a third round.\n\nThe idea of \"levelling up\" - or reducing regional inequality - was a key part of Boris Johnson's 2019 election campaign. Its aim was to close the gap between rich and poor parts of the country by improving services such as education, broadband and transport.\n\nAs part of the Levelling Up Fund, launched in 2020, local authorities can apply for money from central government to pay for regeneration and transport projects. The first round of funding was awarded in October 2021.\n\nA total of 111 areas across the UK have been awarded money from the second round including £50m for a new train line between Cardiff Bay and Cardiff Central Station and £27m for a ferry in Shetland.\n\nThe north-west region was the biggest winner, securing £354m and Conservative Lancashire MP Sara Britcliffe said she was \"over the moon\" her local area would receive money to refurbish Accrington Market Hall.\n\nHowever, others have complained about the process for allocating the money.\n\nThe Eden Project in Morecambe will be a sister site to an existing attraction in Cornwall\n\nVenting his frustration on Twitter, Mr Street said: \"Fundamentally, this episode is just another example as to why Whitehall's bidding and begging-bowl culture is broken, and the sooner we can decentralise and move to proper fiscal devolution the better.\n\n\"The centralised system of London civil servants making local decisions is flawed, and I cannot understand why the levelling up funding money was not devolved for local decision-makers to decide on what's best for their areas.\n\n\"The sooner we can decentralise and move to proper fiscal devolution the better.\"\n\nHis concerns were echoed by Philip Rycroft, former top civil servant at the now-defunct Brexit Department, who described the process as \"completely crackers\".\n\n\"£2bn of public money is being distributed across the nation by a bunch of civil servants who have probably not been to the vast majority of the places they are distributing money to - how can this be sensible,\" he asked at a think tank Reform event.\n\nHead of the Local Government Information Unit think tank Jonathan Carr-West called the system \"crazy\" and expressed concern that councils were putting \"huge\" resources into applying for the funds, diverting money from \"other useful and necessary things\".\n\nLabour's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said her party would end the \"competitive-style bidding\" process but would not cancel projects that had already been given the green light.\n\nDefending the mechanism, Business Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"The truth is you've got to run a country somehow, you've got to have some kind of system in place.\n\n\"Not everything can be decided in the local town hall or by the local mayor,\" he told the BBC's Newscast podcast.\n\nHe said he agreed with the concept that \"the closer you govern to people the better\" but \"in the end we are one nation, you've got to put the money somewhere, decisions have to be made somehow\".\n\nHe went on to praise Mr Street who he said had brought \"huge resources\" to his local area.\n\nOther projects set to get funding include:\n\nConservative-held constituencies in Parliament were the biggest winners in this latest round of levelling up funding.\n\nAllocations are made to local authorities, rather than to parliamentary seats.\n\nBut BBC analysis, categorising each of the projects by constituency, shows 58 projects are in seats with Conservative MPs. That compares with 27 projects in Labour-held seats.\n\nSome projects cross constituency boundaries: two are shared by the Conservatives and Labour, while six featuring major transport projects are not categorised as they cross multiple seats.\n\nWhile Tory MPs have more projects in their constituencies, it's also the case that there are more Conservative MPs in the Commons than Labour.\n\nSome 56% of Commons seats are Conservative - roughly equivalent to the 52% of successful bids that fall in or across constituencies solely with Conservative MPs.\n\nLabour MPs make up 31% of the Commons total, and 24% of successful bids fell in or across constituencies solely with Labour MPs.\n\nThere was only one successful bid in a Lib Dem constituency, seven for the SNP, five for the DUP, three for Sinn Fein, one for Plaid Cymru and one for the Alliance Party.\n\nIn money terms, projects in Tory constituencies were worth a total of £1.21bn, compared with £471m in Labour ones.\n\nThese figures are based on the results of the 2019 general election rather than the current make-up of the Commons, which is slightly different because of defections and MPs sitting as independents.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said he regrets the protocol being imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of unionists and nationalists.\n\nHe told the BBC the measure was working but said he understood why unionists felt it had \"weakened the union\".\n\nThe protocol, which keeps Northern Ireland aligned with some EU trade rules post-Brexit, has been a source of tension since it was enacted in 2021.\n\nUnionist parties argue it undermines Northern Ireland's place within the UK.\n\nMr Varadkar became Taoiseach, or prime minister of Ireland, for the second time last month.\n\nHe previously served in the role between 2017 and 2020, and therefore played a part in the Brexit talks that ultimately led to the creation of the protocol. While the protocol has been in place for more than a year, it remains a point of contention with talks continuing between the UK and EU to find a resolution.\n\nIt is an agreement between the EU and UK which allows goods to be transported across the Irish land border without the need for checks.\n\nBefore Brexit, it was easy to transport goods across this border because both sides followed the same EU rules but, after the UK left, special trading arrangements were needed so that this could still happen.\n\nThe EU has strict food rules and requires border checks when certain goods - such as milk and eggs - arrive from non-EU countries.\n\nThe land border is a sensitive issue because of Northern Ireland's troubled political history. It was feared that cameras or border posts - as part of these checks - could lead to instability.\n\nUnionist parties argue that placing an effective border across the Irish Sea undermines Northern Ireland's place within the UK.\n\nIn protest against the protocol Paul Givan of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) resigned as first minister in February 2022, collapsing the power-sharing agreement. Since then, there has been no devolved government in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder Northern Ireland's power-sharing system of government, introduced in the 1990s as a way of ending decades of violence, Sinn Féin - which became the biggest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly last year - cannot nominate its first minister until the DUP puts forward a nomination for the position of deputy first minister. The DUP is refusing to do under its ongoing protest against Brexit trading arrangements.\n\nAsked by the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam whether anything could have been done differently during the protocol talks, Mr Varadkar said his main regret was that the measure had been \"imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of both communities\".\n\n\"In the same way Brexit was imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of both communities, the protocol was imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of two communities,\" he said, laying some blame on the fact Northern Ireland's government \"was not functioning\".\n\nBut Mr Varadkar said the protocol was working economically and that the absence of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic was proof of this.\n\nSpeaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he also said Northern Ireland's economy was \"outperforming the UK economy\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's economy did appear to be doing better than the UK average on some measures last year.\n\nHowever, figures from the NI Statistics and Research Agency suggest it entered a technical recession - two consecutive quarters of shrinking economic output - at the end of the summer.\n\nThe UK as a whole has so far avoided a technical recession, although UK and NI output figures are not directly comparable.\n\nBut Mr Varadkar said he could understand why unionists and unionist politicians felt the protocol had \"lessened the links [and] weakened the union between Northern Ireland and Britain\" without them \"having a proper say as to how it operates\".\n\nMr Varadkar's interview came amid an ongoing stalemate at Stormont, the Northern Ireland parliament.\n\nThere has been no functioning devolved government at Stormont since February 2022 after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) withdrew from the institution in protest against the Protocol.\n\nThe party has continued its boycott at Stormont and is demanding fundamental change to the protocol before it considers a return to the assembly.\n\nMr Varadkar said he hoped a fresh agreement between the EU and UK could be reached \"sooner rather than later\", describing UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as someone he believed would \"go about doing business and getting things done\".\n\n\"The possibility of an agreement... in the next couple of months is very real and, with reasonableness and flexibility on both sides, it can be achieved,\" he added.\n\nResponding to his comments, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said: \"The Northern Ireland Protocol has never had the support of unionists and never will enjoy unionist support. It was imposed against the will of unionists.\n\n\"Whilst the Taoiseach's comments are welcome, rather than focus on the past, London, Dublin and Brussels must now redouble their efforts on replacing the protocol with arrangements that unionists can support.\"", "President Macron gave details of his proposals to refocus the French military at an airbase in south-west France\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has detailed plans for a major boost to the armed forces, to meet modern threats including Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nThe next seven-year budget would increase to €413bn (£360bn) from 2024-30, up from €295bn, he said.\n\nFirst France had to repair and restock its armed forces, then transform them, he told soldiers at Mont-de-Marsan airbase in south-west France.\n\n\"We must not do the same with more, we have to do better and differently.\"\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted Western countries to review military spending - and in many cases, increase it significantly.\n\nMeanwhile, the Kremlin has outlined plans to increase the number of combat soldiers from 1.15 million to 1.5 million. President Vladimir Putin said this week that Russia's powerful defence industry left him in no doubt that victory in Ukraine was assured.\n\nPresident Macron acknowledged on Friday there were no more post-Cold War \"peace dividends\" now that Russia had invaded Ukraine, so the aim was to renew a military that protected France's freedom, security, prosperity and place in the world.\n\nKey to his reforms are a 60% hike in the military intelligence budget, adapting to \"high-intensity\" conflict with investment in drones, cyber-defence and improved air defences.\n\n\"We need to be one war ahead,\" he warned.\n\nFrance's failure to foresee the Russian invasion last February cost the head of military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, his job. The armed forces chief admitted at the time that US and UK intelligence had read the situation correctly.\n\nFrance has stepped up its military aid for Ukraine in recent weeks, with plans to send AMX-10 RC \"light combat tanks\", but its supply of weapons to Kyiv is seen as lagging behind other European allies.\n\nLast year, France ended an eight-year anti-jihadist operation in the Sahel region of Africa in what was widely seen as a failure.\n\nPresident Macron said France would have to rethink its alliances while remaining a leader in Europe and a reliable Nato ally, and deepening its relationships with Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain.\n\nThe Russian war has changed defence priorities across Europe, with Sweden and Finland announcing steep increases in their military budgets as part of their bid to join Nato. Members of the Western military alliance have agreed to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence from 2024.\n\nDays after the invasion in February 2022, Germany pledged an extra €100bn of the budget to the armed forces.\n\nIn June, the UK promised under previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson to increase spending to 2.5% of GDP.\n\nLast month, Japan announced a dramatic rise in its defence budget, because of what Prime Minister Kishida Fumio warned was the \"most severe and complex security environment since World War Two\". It cited threats from China and North Korea.", "Jacinda Ardern says she expects MPs to soon select her successor\n\nJacinda Ardern says she has \"no regrets\" about her plans to quit as New Zealand leader, after a decision that shocked both supporters and critics.\n\nA day after revealing she had \"no more in the tank\", Ms Ardern said she was feeling a \"range of emotions\" from sadness to a \"sense of relief\".\n\nPolls suggest her party has a difficult path to re-election in October.\n\nThe prime minister said she would not openly back any of the likely candidates to replace her.\n\nSpeaking on Friday outside an airport in Napier - where the Labour Party caucus had gathered for a retreat - Ms Ardern said she had \"slept well for the first time in a long time\".\n\nIn response to questions by reporters, she rejected suggestions by some commentators that experiences of misogyny had played a role in her decision.\n\nMs Ardern said she had a \"message for women in leadership and girls who are considering leadership in the future\" that \"you can have a family and be in these roles\", adding \"you can lead in your own style\".\n\nOn Thursday, she said she was looking forward to spending more time with her family and for being there when her daughter starts school later this year.\n\nShe will step down by 7 February and Labour Party MPs will hold a leadership vote on Sunday. If no candidate gets the support of two-thirds of the party, the vote will go to the wider Labour membership.\n\nBut Ms Ardern said she expected a successor would be selected on Sunday.\n\nChris Hipkins, who currently holds the education and police portfolios, appears to be the most likely candidate. Mr Hipkins, 44, led the government's response to the pandemic after being appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020.\n\nHe later conceded that strict restrictions should have been scaled back sooner.\n\nOther potential candidates include Minister of Justice Kiri Allan, 39. If successful she would become the country's first prime minister of Maori descent, as well as the first openly gay leader.\n\nMichael Wood, 42, the Minister for Transport and Workplace Safety is also on the list of potential successors.\n\nReaction to Ms Ardern's decision has been mixed in New Zealand. One local, Liliana Lozano, said she'll miss the leader's \"kindness and her ability to relate to others\".\n\n\"Watching her on TV made me feel safe during [Covid] lockdown,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBut Tina Watson, who is originally from the UK and now lives in South Africa, blamed Ms Ardern for separating her from her family because the borders were closed for more than two years.\n\n\"Her Covid-19 restrictions were so harsh,\" Ms Watson said. \"I have three children [in New Zealand], six grandchildren - two of whom I've never met. She drew me apart from them. I'm glad she resigned.\"\n\nJacinda Ardern's personal popularity has taken a hit recently, with latest polls suggesting it's at its lowest since she came to power in 2017.\n\nNew Zealand has been dealing with issues including a deteriorating economy, a cost of living crisis and concerns about crime rates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Key moments from Jacinda Ardern's time as New Zealand prime minister", "Labour is calling for Rishi Sunak to sack Nadhim Zahawi as Conservative Party chairman after reports he paid a penalty to HMRC as part of a multi-million pound tax settlement.\n\nThe ex-chancellor has been under pressure over claims he tried to avoid tax and has now had to pay it back.\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner said Mr Zahawi's position was \"untenable\" and the prime minister must sack him.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Zahawi for comment on the latest allegations.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said Mr Zahawi had been \"very transparent\" about the matter, saying: \"He has been clear that all of his tax owed to HMRC are up to date and paid in full.\n\nHe added: \"If he needs to answer any further questions I'm sure he'll do so\".\n\nHowever, Ms Rayner said: \"Nadhim Zahawi's story doesn't add up. The position of the man who was until recently in charge of the UK's tax system and who this prime minister appointed Conservative Party Chair is now untenable.\n\n\"It's time for Rishi Sunak to put his money where his mouth is and dismiss Nadhim Zahawi from his cabinet.\"\n\nMs Rayner added: \"The fact that Nadhim hasn't been out on the airwaves explaining himself to me adds insult to injury.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe company at the centre of the row is Balshore Investments, which is registered offshore in Gibraltar.\n\nMr Zahawi has faced questions over whether he used Balshore to hold shares in YouGov, the polling company he co-founded in 2000 - something he has always denied.\n\nLabour have called for an explanation. According to The Guardian, he has had to pay back the tax he owed with a 30% penalty and the total amounts to £4.8m.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify that figure, but when the Guardian asked repeatedly about the penalty, Mr Zahawi's spokesperson did not deny one had been paid.\n\nWhen pressed on the total amount, which was thought to include the alleged penalty, the spokesperson said: \"Nadhim Zahawi does not recognise this amount … as he has previously stated, his taxes are properly declared and paid in the UK.\"\n\nThe BBC has discovered that Balshore Investments was also registered as a \"beneficial owner\" of a UK crowdfunding firm called crowd2Fund for three years.\n\nUnder transparency rules brought in by the coalition government in the UK, the firm should have made public who was personally in charge.\n\nThat is because Balshore owns more than 25% of Crowd2Fund's shares.\n\nAlthough it is based in Gibraltar where beneficial ownership information is kept behind a paywall, the UK requires this to be made freely available to the public.\n\nBalshore was described as the \"family trust of Nadhim Zahawi, an executive director of YouGov\", in the polling firm's 2009 annual report.\n\nBut the Conservative Party chairman has denied benefiting from or having any involvement with the company.\n\nA spokesperson for Mr Zahawi said it was a matter of public record that Balshore Investments is owned by his father, hence the YouGov reference to his family.\n\nIn June 2020, Crowd2Fund told Companies House that its Gibraltar-based shareholder had in fact ceased to be a beneficial owner in April 2016.\n\nCompanies are supposed to update these details within 14 days. But Crowd2Fund appears to have taken four years to register the information.\n\nIn June last year, Nadhim Zahawi's parents were personally recorded as beneficial owners of Crowd2Fund which indicates they now control the Gibraltar firm.\n\nHowever, Balshore Investments has owned more than 25% of Crowd2Fund's shares since at least 2015.\n\nThat leaves a gap in the register explaining who ultimately benefited from the shareholding prior to June 2022.\n\nBBC News asked both Crowd2Fund and Balshore Investments to explain what happened and if they would now disclose who the beneficial owners of Balshore were for the relevant period.\n\nThey were also asked if they accepted they may have broken the law if they failed to file the correct information with Companies House.\n\nNeither Balshore Investments or Crowd2Fund has so far responded to requests for comment.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Zahawi has previously said his taxes are \"properly declared and paid in the UK\" and the minister \"has never had to instruct any lawyers to deal with HMRC on his behalf\".", "Google's parent company Alphabet will cut 12,000 jobs, in the latest staff redundancies to hit the tech industry.\n\nGoogle and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he took \"full responsibility\" for the cuts, in an internal email.\n\nThe cuts will affect 6% of Alphabet's workforce worldwide, in teams including recruitment and engineering.\n\nThis comes days after Microsoft announced 10,000 jobs would be lost, and weeks after Amazon announced 18,000 job cuts.\n\nMr Pichai thanked staff for \"working so hard\" in their roles, adding that their \"contributions have been invaluable\".\n\nHe wrote: \"While this transition won't be easy, we're going to support employees as they look for their next opportunity.\n\n\"Until then, please take good care of yourselves as you absorb this difficult news. As part of that, if you are just starting your work day, please feel free to work from home today.\"\n\nAccording to a recent filing with Companies House, Google has more than 5,500 staff in the UK. But it is unclear how many of these will be affected by the cuts.\n\nMr Pichai announced severance packages for US employees, who will receive at least 16 weeks of salary, their 2022 bonus, paid vacations and six months of health coverage.\n\nHe said he remained \"optimistic about our ability to deliver on our mission, even on our toughest days\".\n\nWall Street welcomed the cuts - Alphabet shares rose by 3.5% in electronic trading before the stock market opened.\n\nAnalysts have said tech's big guns had previously overspent, not seeing a slowdown on the horizon.\n\nDaniel Ives of Wedbush Securities said the layoffs highlight irresponsible spending across a sector basking in \"hypergrowth\".\n\n\"The reality is tech stalwarts over-hired at a pace that was unsustainable and now darker macro is forcing these layoffs across the tech space,\" he said.\n\nAccording to tech site Layoffs.fyi, nearly 194,000 industry employees have lost their jobs in the US since the beginning of 2022, not including those announced by Alphabet on Friday.\n\nHewlett Packard and cloud computing giant Salesforce also announced major cuts this month, as rampant inflation and rising interest rates have slowed growth.\n\nUS tech giants have also been facing scrutiny in the European Union, which has started enforcing regulations to stop them avoiding tax, stifling competition, profiting from news content without paying and serving as platforms for disinformation and hate.", "Scottish transport tycoon Dame Ann Gloag has been charged with human trafficking offences.\n\nHer husband David McCleary and two other members of their family have also been charged.\n\nAll four strongly deny the charges against them.\n\nBBC Scotland has been told that the 80-year-old co-founder of Stagecoach was charged after voluntarily attending Falkirk police station with Mr McCleary for an interview on Thursday.\n\nA statement issued on behalf of Dame Ann said that she could not comment on the details of an ongoing investigation.\n\nBut it added: \"Dame Ann Gloag strongly disputes the malicious allegations that have been made against her, her foundation and members of her family.\"\n\nIt went on to say she would \"vigorously defend herself and the work of her foundation to protect her legacy and continue her work helping thousands of people in the UK and abroad every year.\"\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that four people were charged in connection with an investigation into alleged human trafficking and immigration offences.\n\nA spokesperson said a report would be sent to Scottish prosecutors.\n\nIt is understood Sarah Gloag, who is Dame Ann's stepdaughter and daughter-in-law, attended voluntarily at Livingston police station in West Lothian with Dame Ann's son-in-law Paul McNeil.\n\nThe allegations are believed to relate to people who were brought to Scotland as part of Dame Ann's charity work with the Gloag Foundation.\n\nA source close to Dame Ann told the BBC that the family were \"victims of collusion\" and had endured \"a Kafkaesque nightmare for the last two years.\"\n\nThe source added: \"Everybody is bewildered by these accusations and the level of this investigation.\n\n\"It is deeply ironic that Dame Ann actually funds an Eastern European charity called the Open Door Foundation whose job it is to stop the trafficking of poor women into sex crimes.\n\n\"She is very attuned to the real dangers that are going on in this world.\n\n\"This is bizarre. We are dealing with technicalities.\n\n\"There are countless people who are stepping forward to support Dame Ann from around the world.\"\n\nDame Ann has donated to many charites over the years including the Africa Mercy hospital ship project\n\nSarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, took to Twitter to voice her support for Dame Ann.\n\nMrs Brown said: \"Gordon and I have known Ann Gloag for many years through her huge personal commitment to Freedom from Fistula and supporting girls' health & education.\n\n\"She is a remarkable campaigner and quietly generous charity supporter. These charges just don't add up.\"\n\nAnother charity voiced its support for Dame Ann, with Monica Boseff, executive director of the Open Door Foundation, saying she has \"compassion and high moral values\".\n\nThe foundation says it works to provide \"emergency shelter for victims of any form of human trafficking\" and described Dame Ann a \"long time supporter and friend\" who provided donations.\n\nDame Ann retired from Stagecoach in 2019, almost 40 years after she founded the firm with her brother. At the time she was Scotland's richest woman.\n\nThe Perth-based firm grew out of Margaret Thatcher's deregulation of the bus industry in the 1980s.\n\nIt became one of the UK's biggest bus and coach operators, employing more than 24,000 people.\n\nDame Ann is now a philanthropist with charity interests around the world.\n\nShe set up the Gloag Foundation to support projects that \"prevent or relieve poverty and encourage the advancement of education, health and religion in the UK and overseas\".\n\nThe foundation supports charities including Freedom from Fistula, a charity founded by Dame Ann, which supports women and children in Sierra Leone, Malawi and Madagascar.", "Shetland's ultra deep water port at Dales Voe is expected to benefit from the deal\n\nA £100m deal aimed at promoting economic prosperity in Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles has been signed.\n\nThe Islands Growth Deal was signed in Orkney by UK and Scottish government ministers and local council leaders.\n\nIt is expected to lead to up to 1,300 jobs and £393m of investment over 10 years.\n\nTourism, infrastructure, innovation, energy and skills will be targeted for funding.\n\nThe deal was developed by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Shetland Islands Council and Orkney Islands Council, along with a range of partners.\n\nIt is being jointly funded by the UK and Scottish governments.\n\nThere are already regional deals for areas including Ayrshire, Moray and the south of Scotland.\n\nOver 10 years, the Islands Growth Deal will invest in 16 projects and programmes built around the themes of \"low carbon, supporting growth and future industries and thriving sustainable communities\".\n\nThe first year of the programme is expected to see investment in the University of the Highlands and Island's campuses in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides as well as the Islands Centre for Net Zero, which will be based at the Orkney Research and Innovation Campus in Stromness.\n\nOther investments include Shetland's ultra deep water port at Dales Voe and the Orkney World Heritage Gateway project.\n\nScotland Office minister Malcolm Offord said: \"This will not just boost local economies and create jobs, but also empower communities to get the most out of the many assets and attributes that make the islands such unique and special places to live.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's business minister Ivan McKee said the growth deal would be \"a game-changing initiative for our islands\".\n\nHe added: \"This £50m Scottish government investment will support the transition to renewable energy sources - including equipping the workforce with new skills - and trial emissions reduction initiatives on islands.\n\n\"It will drive innovation in key space, food and drink and creative industries sectors; help develop significant tourism and cultural attractions and expand education provision.\"\n\nOrkney Islands Council leader James Stockan said it marked \"another significant milestone in our collaborative journey and future vision for our three island areas\".\n\nComhairle nan Eilean Siar leader Paul Steele said the deal would capitalise on the islands' \"natural assets and most importantly, our people\", while Shetland Islands Council leader Emma Macdonald stated it would help \"unlock more economic success for all our islands\".", "Preet Chandi was thought to have become the first woman of colour to reach the South Pole solo and unsupported in 2021\n\nA British Army officer has broken the world record for the longest solo and unsupported polar expedition by a woman.\n\nPreet Chandi, known as Polar Preet, first made history trekking to the South Pole in 2021.\n\nThe 33-year-old has so far travelled 868 miles (1,397 km) across Antarctica in temperatures as cold as -50C (-58F).\n\nThe previous female record was 858 miles (1,381 km), skied by Anja Blacha in 2020.\n\nHowever, Capt Chandi, from Sinfin in Derby, did not complete her original aim of becoming the first woman to cross Antarctica solo and unsupported.\n\nShe set off from Hercules Inlet in November and hoped to reach Reedy Glacier within 75 days.\n\nAn online blog, which she has kept along the way, was last updated on Thursday.\n\nShe reported being about 30 nautical miles away from her pick-up point.\n\nCapt Chandi has travelled 868 miles (1,397 km) so far\n\nCapt Chandi, a physiotherapist at a regional rehabilitation unit in Buckinghamshire but currently on leave, said: \"I'm pretty gutted that I don't have the time to complete the crossing.\n\n\"I know that I have done a huge journey, it's just difficult while I'm on the ice and I know it's not that far away.\"\n\nDespite extreme cold and high winds, she said her spirits were being kept up by listening to recorded messages from friends and family.\n\nHer challenge had been formally backed by the Princess of Wales, who wished her good luck with her expedition in a phone call.\n\nCapt Chandi was thought to have become the first woman of colour to embark on a solo expedition on the continent when she completed a 700-mile (1,126km) ski to the South Pole in January last year, a challenge she finished in 40 days, seven hours and three minutes - the third-fastest woman to complete the feat.\n\nShe has been congratulated for her latest exploits by the University of Derby, which awarded her an honorary degree last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by University of Derby\n\nProf Kathryn Mitchell, vice-chancellor of the university, said: \"We are delighted to hear about Captain Chandi's record-breaking achievement.\n\n\"It was a privilege to award her an honorary degree at the University of Derby last year; she is an inspirational role model for our students, demonstrating how determination and commitment reap rewards.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a GoFundMe page has raised more than £10,000, half of which will go to an \"adventure grant\" for females conducting \"unique challenges\", while the other will go towards Capt Chandi's next expedition.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Good Shepherd service from Shetland is slow, small and unreliable in poor weather\n\nIt's not every day that Scotland's smallest population scoops a large chunk of UK government funding.\n\nBut the Levelling Up grant for a new a new roll-on, roll-off service for Fair Isle is not just a ferry, it's a lifeline.\n\nThe £27m pledge means a long-awaited upgrade from the current vessel - the 37-year-old Good Shepherd.\n\nTrips for visitors, shipping in food supplies and even taking a car to the island will become a lot easier.\n\nThe Good Shepherd service from Shetland, via the churning Sumburgh Roost tidal race, is slow, small and unreliable in poor weather.\n\nIt can carry 12 passengers, who have to climb down a ladder to reach the seating area, and one car - loaded aboard by crane.\n\nFiona Mitchell at Fair Isle Post Office says islanders can't wait for the upgrade\n\nThe new ferry will allow cars to drive on and off for the voyage, which currently takes two hours 40 minutes from Grutness or five hours from Lerwick.\n\nFiona Mitchell, who runs the island's post office, works as a fire fighter and teaches art at the primary school, says islanders \"can't wait\".\n\n\"It's fantastic news,\" Fiona says. \"For someone like me that sails on the Good Shepherd ferry and always needs a sick bag, I'm hoping the new ferry is going to be a wee bit more comfortable than the last one.\n\n\"It moves Fair Isle forward with the infrastructure, the new ferry, and with the new bird observatory coming on - it cements what we are looking forward to and have been asking for.\n\n\"It really says Fair Isle is here to stay.\"\n\nFair Isle lies half way between Shetland and Orkney and has a population of about 60. It's just three miles long by half a mile wide.\n\nThe remote island is famous for its knitwear and birds, not forgetting its place in the shipping forecast.\n\nA reliable 24-hour electricity supply was only established four years ago and its tiny primary school has just five pupils.\n\nEileen Thomson grew up on Fair Isle, where her father was a skipper of the Good Shepherd, and decided to move back from Edinburgh with her partner Guillermon Rotolo six years ago.\n\nTheir sons Luca, seven, and Ander, five, make up nearly half the primary school roll.\n\nEileen Thomson hopes having a new ferry will help encourage people to move to the island\n\n\"We've been fighting for a new boat for over 10 years, closer to 20 years,\" Eileen says.\n\n\"It's the oldest ferry in the fleet in Shetland. It crosses the roughest piece of water.\n\n\"In recent years its refit takes weeks and weeks every year. I think last year we had about two months without a ferry which had a huge impact on the isle.\n\n\"There are a lot of people who wouldn't consider moving here if they knew you were going to have to wait possibly a month here and a month there without any actual contact.\"\n\nFair Isle is one of the UK's most remote islands\n\n\"It's no exaggeration to say that this funding from the UK government has saved Fair Isle as an inhabited island,\" she says.\n\n\"There would have been no other way for us to sustainably fund such a project.\n\n\"This is a truly great day for Fair Isle and for Shetland and we are grateful for the honest, open and productive dialogue we have had with the Scotland Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities throughout the process.\"\n\nWith a new bird observatory being built later this year and a new ferry on the horizon it's a fair windfall for Fair Isle.", "Shop sales fell by record numbers both in December and across the whole of last year as consumers cut spending.\n\nRetail sales had been expected to rise last month in what is a key season for shops because of Christmas.\n\nHowever, the volume of goods people bought in December fell by 1% from November, and by a record 5.8% compared with December 2021.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also confirmed retail sales for last year recorded the worst-ever fall.\n\nThey fell by 3% between 2021 and 2022, which is the biggest decline since ONS records began in 1997.\n\nPrices have been rising sharply since last year, mainly due to soaring energy costs, which has put pressure on millions of households.\n\nWhile the rate of inflation is starting to ease, at 10.5% it remains close to a 40-year high.\n\nThe ONS said retailers had indicated that \"consumers are cutting back on spending because of increased prices and affordability concerns\".\n\nWhile the amount of goods and food bought fell in December, rising prices mean a large number of retailers have reported strong sales figures based on value over the Christmas period.\n\n\"It's worth noting that sales growth has been driven by customers spending more due to inflation rather than buying more,\" said Silvia Rindone, UK and Ireland retail strategy leader at accountancy firm EY.\n\nJohn Adams, managing director at Jarrold, a department store in Norwich, said that Christmas sales had risen by 13%. However, it appeared people were spending more on fewer items.\n\nJarrold's John Adams said more people shopped in-store as postal strikes threatened deliveries\n\n\"I think from our perspective they were probably being more considered about what they were buying so we saw the average unit transaction actually increase,\" he said. \"People tended to be buying quality and investing in things rather than buying perhaps frivolous things.\"\n\nThere was a sharp drop in volume at non-food stores, but food stores also reported a fall in sales in December, according to the ONS.\n\nIt said the drop in food sales during December reinforced the view that people stocked up for Christmas earlier. In November, the volume of retail sales at food stores rose by 1%.\n\n\"After last month's boost as shoppers stocked up early, food sales fell back again in December with supermarkets reporting this was due to increased food prices and the rising cost of living,\" said Heather Bovill, deputy director for surveys and economic indicators at the ONS.\n\nBill Grimsey, the former boss of Iceland and Wickes, told the BBC's Today programme: \"Christmas is the key trading time for retailers to often make a difference between profit and loss, particularly in the food sector where volumes are so very important.\"\n\nOnline sales also fell between November and December. The proportion of online sales dipped to 25.4% from 25.9% in the previous month.\n\nMs Bovill said feedback from retailers indicated \"postal strikes were leading people towards purchasing more goods instore\".\n\nMr Adams said: \"Our footfall was ahead of 2019, so ahead of pandemic levels. I think particularly in the run-up to Christmas people were worried about delivery disruption with the strikes that were happening so there was definitely a swing back to in-store experience.\"\n\nLooking ahead, John Allan, chairman of the UK's biggest supermarket chain Tesco, said that while there is a hope inflation will drop sharply in the middle of the year, \"that doesn't mean prices are going to fall\".\n\nHe said: \"I think it means the increase in prices, we hope, will be much less sharp in the second half of this year and it is probably going to be into 2024 and beyond before we see the normal level of inflation we've enjoyed in previous years.\"\n\nMr Allan called on the government to provide a detailed plan to help boost economic growth.\n\n\"What we'd love to see from government is a really serious, thought-through, long-term growth plan,\" he said. \"Long-term growth is the only way in which we're actually going to be able to raise standards of living for our fellow citizens.\"\n\nWe've had a host of big retailers reporting better-than-expected Christmas trading but these ONS figures are a bit of a reality check on what's really going on.\n\nWe've been spending more but getting less for our money. And that's the overall story of retail in 2022 as inflation has taken a huge bite out of our spending power.\n\nThis year's festive figures are also flattered by easier comparatives from the previous year which was disrupted by the Omicron variant of Covid and supply chain problems leading to less available stock.\n\nThere had been fears that retail would be a wipe-out this Christmas. Consumers did still spend but this all-important season didn't deliver much festive cheer.\n\nAnd it seems inevitable spending will be reined back in the first half of this year with higher bills coming down the tracks including all those purchases put on credit cards.\n\nThe ONS also revised down figures for November. It said that sales volumes fell by 0.5% instead of the original estimate of a 0.4% drop.\n\nCapital Economics said the figures for December showed a \"disappointing end to a difficult year\".\n\n\"Today's retail sales release suggests that some of the resilience in the economy towards the end of last year appeared to peter out in December,\" said Olivia Cross, an economist at Capital Economics.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nJuventus play their home games at Allianz Stadium in Turin Juventus have been docked 15 points following an investigation into the club's past transfer dealings, Italy's football federation (FIGC) says. The Serie A giants were accused of fixing their balance sheets by artificial gains from club transfers. Juventus had been in third place but the penalty will drop them to 10th. The club's board of directors, including former president Andrea Agnelli and vice-president Pavel Nedved, resigned in November. Juventus have denied any wrongdoing and confirmed they will appeal against the decision. In a statement, the club said they \"await the publication of the reasons of the decision\" but have started bringing an appeal to the Sport Guarantee Board of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). The FIGC's sanction is tougher than the nine-point deduction prosecutors had requested. Juve's former sports director Fabio Paratici, now Tottenham's managing director of football, has been banned for 30 months. The FIGC has also hit Agnelli and the club's former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene with two-year bans, while current sports director Federico Cherubini has been given a 16-month ban. A total of 11 former and current Juventus executives have received sanctions, with Nedved given an eight-month ban, The FIGC says all the bans include a request for the sanction to be extended to Uefa and Fifa and therefore then apply worldwide. How did we get here? Juventus were initially acquitted alongside 10 other clubs, including current Serie A leaders Napoli, in April 2022. Paratici and Agnelli were among 59 individuals to also be cleared. The investigation was reopened in December after the federal prosecutor decided to appeal that ruling. It followed new evidence from a separate investigation into Juve's finances conducted by prosecutors in Turin. The request to reopen the trial and apply sanctions concerned nine of the original 11 clubs investigated, including Serie A sides Juventus, Sampdoria and Empoli, as well as 52 of the executives at those clubs. Juventus' lawyers said the FIGC's sanctions \"constitute a clear disparity of treatment against Juventus and its managers compared to any other company or member\". They added: \"We point out, as of now, that only Juventus and its managers are attributed the violation of a rule, that the same sports justice had repeatedly recognised that it did not exist. \"We believe that this is also a blatant injustice towards millions of fans, who we trust will soon be remedied in the next degree of judgement.\" In a statement in November, the outgoing board said their resignations were \"considered to be in the best social interest to recommend that Juventus equip itself with a new board of directors to address these issues\". Juventus won nine Serie A titles in a row during Agnelli's 13-year tenure, but finished fourth last season and made a 254m euro (£220m) loss - a record in Italy. Agnelli was one of the chief architects of the breakaway plans to form the European Super League in 2021 and as a result resigned as chairman of the European Club Commission. A new board of directors was approved at a Juventus shareholders meeting on Wednesday, with Gianluca Ferrero replacing him as chairman. Juventus are also facing an investigation from Uefa over potential breaches of its club licensing and financial fair play regulations, which was announced last month. Juve's next league game is at home to Atalanta on Sunday. In 2006, Juventus were relegated to Italy's second division, Serie B. They were also stripped of two Serie A titles.\n• None Sliced Bread investigates whether it's worth spending more on a scent\n• None How did an interview turn 'nearly physical'?", "Vladimir Putin likes it when there's no complete agreement in the West.\n\nThere's been no official reaction in Moscow but I'm sure the Russians will be pleased there will be no American and German battle tanks going to Ukraine yet.\n\nThis morning the Russian government newspaper issued a warning to Germany and its chancellor saying, \"no one should know better than the German chancellor what happened the last time that German armour approached the borders of Russia,\" meaning World War Two.\n\nThe paper says that if these tanks are sent to kill Russian soldiers, then the same things will happen that happened in WWII, the tanks will be destroyed.\n\nThe Kremlin wants the Russian public to believe that the war in Ukraine - which it still calls a 'special military operation’ - is similar to World War II: a war of liberation, a fight to defend the Motherland.\n\nBut they are totally different. In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. In 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.", "Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer: The mission has been nearly two decades in the planning\n\nEurope is about to undertake one of its grandest ever space missions, to explore the icy moons of Jupiter.\n\nThe Juice satellite is going through final testing in Toulouse, France, after which it will be shipped to the launch site in South America.\n\nIt's due to depart Earth in April.\n\nThe six-tonne spacecraft will make a series of flybys of Callisto, Ganymede and Europa, using an advanced package of instruments to investigate whether any of these worlds are habitable.\n\nThis might sound fanciful. The Jovian system is in the cold, outer reaches of the Solar System, far from the Sun and receiving just one twenty-fifth of the light falling on Earth.\n\nBut the gravitational squeezing and pushing the giant planet gives its moons means they have the energy and warmth to retain vast quantities of liquid water at depth. And we know on Earth that wherever there is water, there's an opening for life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Emma Bunce: The moons could be a new \"Goldilocks\" zone for life\n\n\"In the case of Europa, it's thought there's a deep ocean, maybe 100km deep, underneath its ice crust,\" said mission scientist Prof Emma Bunce from Leicester University, UK.\n\n\"That depth of ocean is 10 times that of the deepest ocean on Earth, and the ocean is in contact, we think, with a rocky floor. So that provides a scenario where there is mixing and some interesting chemistry,\" the researcher told BBC News.\n\nMark the calendar for July 2031. That's when Juice arrives at Jupiter. It will then conduct 35 flybys of the three moons before settling permanently around Ganymede in late 2034.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe European Space Agency (Esa) project team behind Juice held a major review this week and concluded the mission was \"go for launch\".\n\nAerospace company Airbus has spearheaded the construction of the €1.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.7bn) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer.\n\nThe manufacturer has pulled in expertise and components from all across the continent.\n\nCyril Cavel, Séverine Deschamps and the Airbus team will soon send the probe to the launch site\n\nEverything is now fully assembled, including Juice's suite of 10 scientific instruments.\n\n\"We have a number of high-resolution cameras on this probe in all possible wavelengths - in infrared, the visible and ultraviolet,\" explained engineer Cyril Cavel, as he pointed out a collection of boxes hanging off one side of the silver and black satellite.\n\n\"You can see all these instruments underneath protective, transparent covers. The high-resolution visible telescope, which is called Janus, will take fantastic pictures very close to the moons because we will do flybys at just 400km altitude. They will be stunning shots,\" the Airbus Juice project manager said.\n\nRadar will also peer inside the moons; lidar - a laser measurement system - will make 3D maps of their surfaces; magnetometers will trace their complex electrical and magnetic environments; and sensors will sample the particles that whiz around them.\n\nJuice won't be searching for specific \"biomarkers\"; it won't be trying to detect alien fish in the deep oceans. Its job is to learn more about the possibilities for habitability that future missions could then investigate in more detail. Scientists have long pondered the idea of putting landers on one of Jupiter's icy moons to drill through its crust to the water below.\n\nThat could happen one day, perhaps; in the latter half of this century.\n\nYou need patience to work in the outer Solar System. The orbits of Earth and Jupiter may be \"only\" 600 million km apart, but you can't easily go direct, not without a stupendous rocket. And even though Europe's Ariane 5 is powerful, it doesn't have that kind of heft.\n\nInstead, it will send Juice on a rather circuitous route that will use the gravity of Venus and Earth to slingshot the probe out to the gas giant.\n\nThe American Clipper mission should launch in 2024 and focus on Europa\n\nJuice is built a little like an air-conditioned tank.\n\nUnprotected, its electronics would rapidly degrade in the harsh radiation that swirls around Jupiter. And that long journey inwards towards Venus and then out to the gas giant will see temperatures on the exterior of the satellite swing from 250C to minus-230C.\n\n\"We have two big vaults inside the spacecraft to protect the computers from radiation and to maintain them through a network of pipes at the same level of temperature,\" said thermal architect Séverine Deschamps.\n\n\"The same is true for the propulsion system. Its operation has to be maintained around the 20C, quite warm, to get a good level of performance when firing.\"\n\nThe business side of Juice. Most of its instruments are on one panel\n\nJuice won't be alone in its work.\n\nThe US space agency Nasa is sending its own satellite called Clipper.\n\nAlthough it will leave Earth after Juice, it should actually arrive just before its European sibling. It will focus on Europa.\n\nTogether, the two satellites will make a powerful team.\n\n\"You get a much deeper understanding having the two there together, and it removes some of the guesswork as to what's going on,\" said Prof Michelle Dougherty, the principal investigator on Juice's magnetometer instrument.\n\n\"It will be interesting, for example, when Clipper is going past Europa if there is a plume coming from the moon. Clipper will be making the close-in measurements, but Juice will be watching at a distance to see what impact that has on the environment around Europa and whether we get bigger spots in the auroral lights on Jupiter.\"\n\nItalian astronomer Galileo Galilei identified Jupiter's four major moons in 1610. Only Io (top) will not be visited by Juice", "Beth Matthews was 26 when she took her own life in a psychiatric unit run by The Priory - an inquest jury has found she was failed by the hospital. After Beth died, her family discovered she had helped countless people by writing honestly about her mental health problems.\n\nIn the weeks after his daughter's funeral, Chris Matthews spent many mornings at her grave, nestled in a country churchyard, as he struggled to come to terms with her death.\n\nOne morning, as he tidied away some flowers that were beginning to fade, he discovered a fresh bouquet.\n\nAttached was a note which read: \"I probably should explain why a completely random stranger left this card and flowers on Beth's grave. Over the past year, her tweets and her blog have kept me alive.\"\n\nIf you are suffering distress or despair, details of help and support are available here.\n\nIt was written by Robert, who had travelled 200 miles from London to Beth's grave, overlooking the River Tamar in Cornwall. He had never met Beth, but wanted to thank her.\n\nBeth had written a blog which documented her mental health journey - including how she had survived and was recovering from a suicide attempt.\n\nRobert discovered it on a particularly dark day, when he had decided to take his own life.\n\nRobert says he believes Beth helped thousands of people like him\n\n\"Instead, I couldn't stop reading it,\" he says. \"And when I finished, I was very sad, but the suicidal moment had gone. I thought, 'If Beth can get through this, then surely I can.'\"\n\nIn a typical tweet to her 26,000 followers, Beth wrote: \"Suicide is not the answer. To anyone out there that is struggling, please believe me when I say things CAN and WILL get better.\"\n\nRobert says she saved his life. \"I would imagine, going through her tweets and replies, that there were probably thousands of people like me,\" he adds.\n\nOn the surface, Beth's childhood was idyllic. Growing up by the sea, she loved sailing, becoming one of the youngest competitors in the renowned competition named after the Fastnet Rock off southern Ireland, which the race course rounds.\n\n\"I can still hear her squeal of delight when she was doing anything a little bit mischievous,\" remembers her sister Lucy.\n\nBut despite her extrovert persona, Beth secretly struggled with her mental health for many years, and made a number of suicide attempts. Then on 8 April 2019, she was badly injured trying to take her own life.\n\nShe was airlifted to hospital and spent two weeks in a coma, but remarkably survived and started rebuilding her life.\n\nBeth's first post on social media about her mental health struggles went viral\n\nBeth first spoke publicly about her recovery in a post on Facebook.\n\n\"She felt understandably nervous and anxious about it,\" recalls Lucy. \"She was writing about how she'd fought to be here and how much she wanted to be here. And she wrote so well.\"\n\nThe post went viral. She started a Twitter account and a blog.\n\nThe blogger who gave others hope, Beth Matthews, took her own life at 26.\n\n\"I think she realised that there were people out there who were benefiting from her knowledge and understanding,\" says Chris.\n\nAnother one of those people was Melanie, who was struggling with \"horrific\" insomnia.\n\n\"I'd sit on the settee all the way through the night, while my hubby and my kids were asleep, and just feel like the loneliest person in the whole world, with plans to end my life, trying not to act on those plans,\" she explains.\n\nMelanie is compiling a book of messages from Beth's Twitter friends\n\nMelanie would message Beth on Twitter, asking for support. And Beth would reply.\n\n\"No matter what Beth was going through, even when she was in hospital, she was messaging me at 2am… telling you it's worth it, telling you you're worth it,\" she says.\n\nMelanie, from Sheffield, is compiling a book of messages from Beth's Twitter followers for her family.\n\n\"There aren't just a handful of us who think about Beth on a daily basis,\" she says, showing a tattoo she has to remind her of Beth.\n\nThe chief executive of charity Mental Health UK, Brian Dow, says Beth had a special ability to explain the \"raw, really challenging moments\" that many people face.\n\n\"The effect of that was that thousands of other people who felt the same, stopped feeling alone,\" he says. \"We know that kind of willingness to share actually saves people's lives.\"\n\nTelling her story was part of Beth's attempt to move forward.\n\nShe also bought a paddleboard and posted videos of herself, back on the water. \"I've been given a second chance at life,\" she wrote. \"I'm going to seize it.\"\n\nHer sister Lucy says writing her blog and helping others on Twitter gave Beth purpose.\n\nHer father Chris agrees. \"She was wise beyond her years,\" he says, choking back tears. \"She became such an enormous part of peoples' lives, people that she'd never met before.\"\n\nThe power of Beth's writing comes from the unvarnished honesty of the pain she had experienced.\n\nIn one tweet, she shares shocking images of the X-rays of her broken pelvis, saying they are a \"gentle reminder\" of why people should not try to harm themselves.\n\n\"When somebody is willing to think of others and to share their pain in such a raw manner, I think that takes a level of courage that frankly most of us don't possess,\" says Mental Health UK's Brian Dow.\n\nBeth with PC Jessica Floyd, who had held her hand after her suicide attempt\n\nAs part of her recovery, Beth met members of the Devon Air Ambulance team who had come to her aid, plus the police officer who had held her hand that day.\n\nPC Jessica Floyd - who says she will never forget the incident - wanted to speak in Beth's memory to urge anyone who was also struggling to talk to someone.\n\n\"Tell somebody how you feel. Know that you're not alone,\" she says. \"And whilst you feel very trapped in that situation, there are people out there who are there to talk to and to help you.\"\n\nBeth also used her experience to educate people in person. She told her story to young people at a Cornwall mental health unit. She helped train police negotiators in dealing with those threatening suicide, organised by an officer from Staffordshire Police who saw her online profile.\n\n\"We'd never had that insight before,\" says Sgt Nigel Roberts. \"It was electrifying. She was just resolute that she would do anything she could to help other people, help it not happen to them.\"\n\nSgt Roberts and his team now routinely use knowledge and experience they learned from Beth when dealing with high-risk situations.\n\nBeth, pictured here with her boyfriend Matt, had told her family she wanted to live\n\nYet while she was doing so much to help others, Beth was still suffering with physical pain from her injuries and mental health struggles.\n\nHer family sought NHS funding for treatment at a mental health unit run by The Priory Group - one of the UK's biggest private mental health care providers.\n\nBeth moved to the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport in November 2021. She tweeted in excitement: \"The funding for the specialist unit has been approved. I'm going to grab this opportunity with both hands.\"\n\nBeth's father remembers breathing a huge sigh of relief that, at least there, his daughter would be safe. Her family insist she could have got better, with the right care and treatment.\n\n\"When I last saw her, she said 'I do want to be here,'\" says Lucy.\n\nBut Beth took her own life, on 21 March last year, after taking poison which she had ordered online and told staff was protein powder.\n\nAn inquest jury concluded that Beth, who was being treated for a personality disorder, died from suicide contributed to by neglect.\n\nIt found there had been \"inadequate care of a highly vulnerable patient,\" adding \"it was evident there were serious inconsistencies across all levels of her care plan\".\n\nThe Priory said it fully accepted the jury's findings and acknowledged \"far greater attention should have been given to Beth's care plan\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"At the time of Beth's unexpected death, we took immediate steps to address the issues around how we document risk and communicate patients' care plans, alongside our processes for receiving and opening post.\n\n\"We want to extend our deepest condolences to Beth's family and friends for their loss.\"\n\nBeth's family feel let down and angry. But they take some comfort in her achievements.\n\n\"It wasn't until after her passing that we realised the impact she'd had on individual lives, when people came forward and left us notes and messages of support,\" says Lucy.\n\n\"It's just full of sadness that she didn't do the same for herself.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was filmed without a seatbelt in a moving car\n\nLancashire Police are \"looking into\" Rishi Sunak after he was filmed not wearing a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car.\n\nThe prime minister has apologised for the incident, saying it was an \"error of judgement\" to take his seat belt off to film a social media clip.\n\nMr Sunak \"fully accepts this was a mistake and apologises\", his spokesman told reporters.\n\nThe spokesman added the PM \"believes everyone should wear a seat belt\".\n\nThe prime minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed, during a trip across the north of England.\n\nAsked on Friday if there had been any contact with the Lancashire force, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"Not that I'm aware of.\"\n\nHe added that \"of course\" Mr Sunak did not believe anyone was above the law.\n\nThe video - to promote the government's latest round of \"levelling up\" spending - was posted on Mr Sunak's Instagram account.\n\nIn the clip, which lasts around a minute, Mr Sunak can be seen addressing the camera while the car travels along, with police motorbikes briefly appearing in the background.\n\nPassengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available, unless covered by a valid exemption, can be given an on-the-spot £100 fine. The fine can increase to £500 if the case goes to court.\n\nLabour said Mr Sunak's video added to \"endless painful viewing\" after he was seen struggling to make a contactless payment with his card last year.\n\n\"Rishi Sunak doesn't know how to manage a seat belt, his debit card, a train service, the economy, this country,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"This list is growing every day, and it's making for endless painful viewing.\"\n\nThe incident followed criticism of the prime minister for travelling in an RAF jet for a series of official visits on Thursday.\n\nMr Sunak made the 230-mile journey to Blackpool from London in the plane, before later flying 120 miles to Darlington.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: \"It seems like the PM is getting too used to flying around in private jets that he's forgotten to wear a seat belt in a car.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP for Blackpool South Scott Benton suggested the Lancashire force were wasting their time by looking into the incident.\n\nHe said: \"The vast majority of people would think that politically motivated complaints about a seatbelt are not good use of frontline resources.\n\n\"Their time is better spent investigating serious crime which impacts on my constituents.\"\n\nLabour said it would be \"very serious\" if Mr Sunak was to be fined, having already had to pay a fixed-penalty notice while he was chancellor during the Partygate scandal.\n\nPassengers aged 14 and over are responsible for ensuring they wear a seat belt in cars, vans and other goods vehicles if one is fitted. Drivers are responsible for passengers under 14.\n\nExemptions include having a doctor's certificate for a medical reason, or being in a vehicle used for a police, fire or other rescue service.\n\nThose who are fined for not wearing a seat belt can not currently be given penalty points on their licence, except in Northern Ireland.\n\nBut in October, Transport Minister Katherine Fletcher said the government was considering introducing penalty points in England.\n\n\"In 2021, in 30% of all car occupant fatalities recorded, seat belts were not worn. This is unacceptably high,\" she told Labour MP Barry Sheerman.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nAndy Murray produced another scarcely believable display to fight back from two sets down to beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in an epic Australian Open match finishing at 04:05 local time.\n\nIn one of the latest finishes in tennis history, Murray won 4-6 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 7-5 on a night of gruelling physical and mental endurance.\n\nThe second-round match started at 22:20 and lasted five hours 45 minutes.\n\nIt was the longest contest in 35-year-old Murray's eventful career.\n\nThe exhausted Briton remained calm after taking his first match point with a confident backhand down the line, sighing heavily before the two players enjoyed a warm embrace at the net.\n\nWith his proud mum Judy looking close to tears in the stands, Murray then let out a series of huge roars as he celebrated one of the best comebacks of his career.\n\nA healthy and boisterous crowd stayed inside Margaret Court Arena until the end, showing their appreciation for the efforts of both men and providing much-needed vocal support.\n\nThe match is the second-latest finish in Australian Open history after a 2008 third-round match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis that ended at 04:34.\n\n\"The match was very up and down, there was frustration, tension, excitement, all that stuff,\" Murray, ranked 66th in the world, said.\n\n\"It's amazing to win the match but I also want to go to bed now. I want to sleep.\"\n\nMurray is the third Briton to reach the third round at Melbourne Park this year, following Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans into the last 32.\n\nNorrie, seeded 11th, is hoping to progress further on Friday when he plays Czech youngster Jiri Lehecka not before 04:30 GMT.\n\nMurray produces a comeback extraordinary even by his standards\n\nMurray has regularly defied the odds since coming back from the hip surgery in 2019 which he thought would end his career - including in his first-round victory over Italian 13th seed Matteo Berrettini on Tuesday.\n\nTwo days later, the Scot did it again with a comeback that ranks as simply extraordinary, even by his standards.\n\nAmid the high of beating Berrettini, Murray cautiously spoke about the impact the five-set thriller would have on his body - a combination of his advancing years and the strain caused by his implanted metal hip - before he faced 26-year-old Australian Kokkinakis.\n\n\"I felt physically better today than I did the other day, which is a positive thing - but finishing at 4am is not ideal,\" the former world number one said.\n\nMurray could not have asked for more time to recover but the trade-off was playing in chilly conditions, which led to long rallies, long points and a very long night.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open finalist started slowly and struggled to find rhythm, with his regular chuntering to his support box an early indication he was not happy.\n\nKokkinakis, backed by a raucous home crowd on an initially packed Margaret Court Arena, punished him with plenty of powerful and precise forehand winners on his way to a two-set lead.\n\nAt that point, you wondered how much energy - mental and physical - Murray had left in the tank.\n\nAlmost four hours later, we had the answer.\n\nMurray trailed 5-2 in the third set but used all of his experience to maintain his composure as Kokkinakis got tight when he tried to serve out the match.\n\nA horribly skewed smash summed up the strain felt by the world number 159 and Murray used the momentum to dominate the fourth set.\n\nDeep into the decider it was still impossible to confidently predict who would emerge as the victor, but Murray decisively broke at 5-5 and served out for an extraordinary win.\n\n\"It was by far the longest match I've played but in those conditions that is what is going to happen,\" Murray said.\n\n\"To play in the cold at that time of the day and, with balls like that, you will get long rallies and long points.\"\n\nThe one thing that has evaded the former world number one since his comeback in 2019 is another deep run at a major like he made with regularity in his prime.\n\nIf he manages to recover sufficiently to beat Spanish 24th seed Roberto Bautista Agut - coincidentally the man he played in what he thought might have been his final Grand Slam match before the hip operation four years ago - he will reach the fourth round of a major for the first time since 2017.\n\n'Who does it benefit?' - Murray unhappy with late finish\n\nThe late finish brought more questions about why tennis allows this to happen and led to more scrutiny of the scheduling.\n\nDuring the match, Murray screamed his frustration after losing a point and asked why they were \"still playing at 3am\".\n\nAfterwards, he continued to express his displeasure and told a huddle of journalists, who were waiting in a corridor underneath Rod Laver Arena in a bid to speed up his exit, it was a \"farce\".\n\n\"Who is it beneficial for? A match like that and that's what the discussion is. Rather than about an epic match, it ends in a farce,\" he said.\n\n\"Amazingly, people stayed until the end and created an atmosphere, I really appreciate that. Some people need to work.\n\n\"But if my child was a ball kid for the tournament and they're coming home at 5am I'm snapping at that.\n\n\"It's not beneficial for them, for the umpires, the officials. I don't think it's amazing for the fans. It's not good for the players.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Stanley Tucci and his best friend talk about their love of food and art\n• None All fired up and ready for business:", "The family of a 17-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed have won their fight to have a fresh inquest into his death.\n\nJoshua Molnar stabbed Yousef Makki with a knife during a row in Hale Barns, Greater Manchester, in March 2019. He was cleared of manslaughter and murder.\n\nAn inquest later ruled out both unlawful killing and accidental death and recorded a narrative conclusion.\n\nYousef's family were last year granted a judicial review, which has now quashed the original findings.\n\nAlison Mutch, senior coroner for Greater Manchester South, had concluded she could not be sure of the \"precise sequence of events\" leading to Yousef's death.\n\nBut the High Court, sitting in Manchester, has rejected that conclusion.\n\nLady Justice Macur and Mr Justice Fordham handed down their ruling and directed a fresh inquest be held before a different coroner.\n\nYousef's family, from Burnage, Manchester, were granted permission for a judicial review last year.\n\nThey challenged Ms Mutch's assertion that there was insufficient evidence on the \"central issue\" of whether Yousef's killing had been unlawful.\n\nDuring his trial, Manchester Crown Court heard Molnar, who was 17 at time of the stabbing, had claimed self-defence and told the jury that knives were produced after an argument broke out with his friend.\n\nThe court heard Molnar, Yousef and another youth - Adam Chowdhary - had all carried knives that night.\n\nMolnar was subsequently jailed for 16 months for possession of a knife in a public place and perverting the course of justice by lying to police at the scene.\n\nAt the original inquest, lawyers for the Makki family argued the coroner could still conclude Yousef had been unlawfully killed, even though Molnar had been cleared of murder and manslaughter.\n\nThey said this was because the burden of proof in inquests was much lower than in criminal cases.\n\nIn the former, the case only has to be proven \"in the balance of probabilities\" as opposed to \"beyond reasonable doubt\".\n\nAlistair Webster, KC, representing Molnar at the inquest, said Yousef's death had simply been a \"terrible accident\".\n\nOutside court following news that the fresh inquest had been granted, Yousef's sister Jade Akoum said she was \"overwhelmed\" since she had been expecting bad news.\n\nShe said: \"They have given us another opportunity and hope... to shine a light on what happened.\n\n\"We have been failed by two courts now - the criminal court and the inquest.\n\n\"Finally for two senior judges to give us another chance... it's amazing.\"\n\nShe added: \"Yousef deserves this - we will carry on.\"\n\nBarrister Matt Stanbury who represents the family said: \"We hope... there will be a very thorough examination of the evidence; the difficult questions will be allowed to be asked.\n\n\"We will be arguing again for an unlawful killing but first and foremost it is about a fair process.\"\n\nYousef's family have set up the Yousef Makki Foundation to help underprivileged young people in education in Greater Manchester.\n\n\"Despite being from humble beginnings, Yousef was lucky enough to attend Manchester Grammar School on a full bursary scholarship and wished to become a heart surgeon after university,\" the family said when they launched it in March.\n\nThey said they believed Yousef would have wanted them to do something positive in his name.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Carrick is due to be sentenced in February\n\nAll police forces will be asked to check staff against national databases to identify if anyone \"slipped through the net\", the Home Office says.\n\nIt follows the case of David Carrick who admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences as a Met Police officer.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) will ask forces to check current staff recruited before tougher vetting of recruits was introduced in 2006.\n\nThe College of Policing will also be asked to strengthen vetting procedures.\n\nCarrick, 48, was officially sacked on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women over two decades.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak said Carrick's crimes were an \"absolutely despicable\" abuse of power which needed to be \"addressed immediately\".\n\nSpeaking after a joint visit to a London police station with Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, the prime minister said: \"All police forces across the country have been told to check all of their serving officers and staff against national police databases to identify and root out anybody who shouldn't be serving.\n\n\"The government has done a huge amount already to protect the safety of women and girls, but we will keep going and doing whatever it takes to ensure that women and girls feel safe and can go about their lives, freely and without fear.\"\n\nThe NPCC, which works with police forces on staffing, says the checks will help identify \"anyone who has slipped through the net\".\n\nShadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the move for tougher checks as the \"bare minimum\" and called the government's response \"completely underwhelming\".\n\n\"All we get are warm words from the home secretary and prime minister while in practice they have walked away from taking national action to improve police standards,\" she said.\n\nThis is just the latest call for tougher vetting checks in policing.\n\nThe current guidelines for checking applicants when they join a police force were set in 2006 and require a series of background checks that look at everything from past convictions, behaviour of family and friends, or financial problems that may leave an applicant open to corruption.\n\nThe College of Policing introduced the national guidelines to ensure all forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were checking new recruits in the same way.\n\nThen in 2019 the police watchdog, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, gave all forces in those three nations a deadline of July 2020 to retrospectively vet all their officers and staff to those 2006 guidelines, no matter how long they had been serving.\n\nThat deadline passed and in 2021, the BBC's File on Four programme checked with the forces whether it had been complied with - and revealed that a quarter had not met the deadline.\n\nNow two-and-a-half years on from the deadline, it is not clear how many forces have still to complete the checks. The Home Office has yet to reveal how many background checks are missing at this stage, but has been approached by the BBC for a comment.\n\nPolice Scotland is not bound by College of Policing guidance but said it was \"watching developments\" and would consider taking action as a result of the Carrick case.\n\nThe prime minister called on police to restore public confidence\n\nIt comes as the Home Office also launched a review of the police disciplinary system to make sure officers who \"are not fit to serve the public\" and \"fall short of the high standards expected of them\" can be sacked.\n\nOfficials will look at decision-making at police disciplinary hearings, as well as checking forces have the power they need to take action against rogue officers. The review is expected to be completed within four months.\n\nHome Secretary Suella Braverman said in a statement: \"David Carrick's sickening crimes are a stain on the police and he should never have been allowed to remain as an officer for so long.\n\n\"We are taking immediate steps to ensure predatory individuals are not only rooted out of the force, but that vetting and standards are strengthened to ensure they cannot join the police in the first place.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Carrick could be stripped of his state-funded pension, as the Home Office has said it will consider a minister's application for its forfeiture.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Customers can return drinks bottles and cans and get the fee returned to them\n\nA refundable fee will be added to drinks bottles and cans to boost Wales' recycling rate.\n\nThe Deposit Return Scheme will launch in Wales in 2025, alongside schemes in England and Northern Ireland, and will see customers get their money back when they return empty containers.\n\nWales is ranked third in the world for its recycling rates, according to the Welsh government.\n\nIt has now set a target of reaching a recycling rate of 100% by 2050.\n\nClimate Change Minister Julie James said the scheme was another step in moving toward a \"more circular economy where less waste is generated\".\n\nSimilar Deposit Return Schemes (DRS) have achieved recycling rates of more than 90% in countries like Norway, Germany and Finland.\n\nThe programme will mean people can buy a drink in Bangor, Gwynedd, and return it in Bristol or Belfast.\n\nIndia, 17, thinks it's a good idea as it encourages people to not waste plastic\n\nScotland will launch its own scheme later this year where a 20p refundable rate will be added to all drinks containers.\n\nThe Welsh government said it has yet to decide how much it will charge, but it expects the amount to vary depending on the size of the item and its material.\n\nRetailers will be responsible for deciding how they operate their return point, choosing to either have a reverse vending machine or manual take-back service.\n\nDrinks containers made from plastic, glass, steel and aluminium will all be included in the scheme.\n\nThe Welsh government also hopes to introduce a digital deposit return scheme at a later date, a pilot of which ran in Conwy in 2020.\n\nAngela Smithey, 49, from Pontypool, Torfaen, said she thought the scheme was a good idea, but thought it could be more effective.\n\nAngela Smithey backs the idea, but she has reservations\n\n\"I personally think it would be easier to recycle at home on our own and we don't have to travel somewhere to get our money back,\" added Ms Smithey.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Tim Gent, manager director of the recycling company Recresco, said he \"can't really see why we would do it\".\n\n\"In Wales we have the third best glass recycling rate in the world as the system we're already using.\"\n\n\"It seems to me the proposal is to continue to send the truck round collecting recycling as usual but now it's only going to collect half of it.\"\n\nBy driving to the reverse vending machines, he said, people will do \"more damage to the environment than the recycling they've saved from landfill\".\n\nDean Matthews, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, said he thought the scheme might be more effective with younger people, who \"you see drinking bottles and cans about the town\".\n\n\"I would just put it in my recycling bin at home. It does remind me though of the old pop bottles and going behind the off-license back in the day and taking them to get some money for them,\" added the 56-year-old.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Remember getting money back on your empties?\n\nIndia, 17, said: \"I think it's a good idea because it encourages people not to waste plastic. Even if you put it in a recycling bin, there's no guarantee it'll stay there because it could blow away.\n\n\"I'm not sure if everybody will bother to get some money back, but I would.\"\n\nDean Matthews says the scheme reminds him of getting money for old pop bottles around the back of off-licences\n\nOwen Derbyshire, chief executive of Keep Wales Tidy, said: \"Based on the success of similar initiatives around the world, we believe adding a value to recyclables will have a significant impact on recycling rates and quality, reduce litter and improve the quality of our local environment.\n\n\"We're delighted Welsh government has committed to a comprehensive scheme that includes glass. It is another important step towards transforming the way we consume resources and reduce waste as a nation.\n\nThe British Soft Drinks Association said: \"Whilst this is an environmental scheme, it needs to be treated as more than just an anti-littering initiative if we are to unlock its true potential.\n\n\"If designed properly, the DRS can successfully kickstart the UK's circular economy for packaging, giving producers access to high quality recycled materials and creating vital investment in UK recycling facilities.\"", "Ed Sheeran has released a song, called F64, in tribute to his friend Jamal Edwards nearly a year after his death.\n\nIt has been released on Edwards' music platform SBTV, on which Sheeran rose to fame more than 10 years ago.\n\nEdwards was a lifelong fan of Chelsea FC, with the video for the track filmed at the team's Stamford Bridge stadium.\n\nThe DJ and entrepreneur's mum, Brenda Edwards, has also been raising awareness of her son's death by campaigning for more CPR training.\n\nCPR is cardiopulmonary resuscitation and should be administered if someone is unconscious and not breathing properly.\n\nJamal Edwards died aged 31 from cardiac arrhythmia after taking recreational drugs in February 2022.\n\nJamal Edwards, pictured in 2016, was credited with launching the careers of Dave, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5Live on Thursday, Brenda Edwards said her son always helped others, and she was proud to carry on his legacy.\n\n\"It's spurred me on to continue to do the same that he used to do - he had such a big heart and he was so giving to so many.\n\n\"I was honoured to have the time with Jamal, he inspired me on a daily basis and his legacy continues to inspire me and so many people,\" she said.\n\nJamal Edwards was credited with launching the careers of Dave, Jessie J and Sheeran on his YouTube music channel SBTV.\n\nHe would mentor and pay for the music and video production for upcoming artists.\n\nEdwards championed Sheeran's music early in his career and put a video of him performing on YouTube in 2010.\n\nIt caught the attention of his now manager, Stuart Camp and landed him a record deal with label Atlantic.\n\nSheeran raps in his freestyle track, which carries a language warning, about spending more than a week with Brenda Edwards after Jamal Edwards died.\n\n\"We cried for nine nights at your family home…. Was at your mum's there all week, trying to make sense but I can't, and although it's been a year still feel pain in my heart,\" he says.\n\nThe 31-year-old Grammy award-winner is lit up in a circle of candles in the stadium, with Jamal Edwards' name spelt out on the seats at the stadium appearing in the background.\n\nHe also raps: \"Since we last spoke I've become a father-of-two trying to live life with a smile but that's been harder to do.\n\n\"Because all I want to do is talk about you, but these tears won't let me talk about you. We should have known that we'd be lost without you.\"\n\nIn the track, he also says Edwards would have \"loved loving my little girls\" and expresses sadness that he never met Sheeran's daughter Jupiter, to whom he would have been godfather.\n\nSheeran also fulfilled a promise he made to Edwards last year when he released the music video for the track Are You Entertained with Russ in July.\n\nEdwards was due to shoot and produce the video, but died the day before it was due to be made, so Sheeran took his original ideas and made the video in his honour.\n\nCorrection 23 January 2023: This article was amended to give the correct information about when CPR should be administered.", "A bomb disposal team was called to the hospital\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence after he was allegedly spotted with a suspected firearm and suspicious package at a hospital maternity ward.\n\nThe Gledhow wing of St James's Hospital in Leeds was evacuated after the security scare on Friday morning.\n\nThe man was held on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism acts.\n\nPolice said: \"This is being treated as an isolated incident.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Jim Dunkerley, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing North East, added: \"There is no evidence to suggest there is any heightened or ongoing risk to the public.\"\n\nThe man was originally arrested on suspicion of firearms and explosives offences but police later announced he had been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in connection with the new allegation.\n\nOfficers have been searching a vehicle and a number of properties in connection with their inquiries.\n\nArmy specialists and a bomb disposal unit were called to the hospital site and a cordon was put in place as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nVisiting was suspended in part of the hospital for a time on Friday\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing North East said its officers were \"working to establish the full circumstances of the incident and any potential motivation\".\n\nSupt Dan Wood, from West Yorkshire Police said: \"We recognise an incident of this nature will cause understandable public concern.\n\n\"We are linking with our partner agencies and key community representatives to reassure them and keep them informed.\"\n\nLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said some patients had been moved and wards were temporarily evacuated at the Gledhow Wing as a safety precaution.\n\nVisiting for patients in parts of the hospital was also suspended for a time.\n\nCounter terrorism police worked with Army specialists during the incident\n\nStephen Bush, the hospital trust's medical director for operations, said: \"Unfortunately some patient appointments were cancelled... we would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused - these will be rearranged as soon as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"We'd like to thank our patients and the public for their patience and understanding during this matter.\n\n\"We want to wholeheartedly thank our staff and the emergency services for their dedication and commitment to ensure we have been able to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Wagner group's death's-head mural appeared on a wall in Belgrade signed by an extremist group\n\nA Russian news video claiming to show Serbian volunteers training to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine has prompted outrage in Serbia, exposing its complex relationship with Moscow.\n\nRussia's Wagner mercenary group made the Serbian-language videos to encourage recruitment for the war.\n\n\"Why do you, from Wagner, call anyone from Serbia when you know that it is against our rules?\" he said.\n\nCritics frequently accuse Serbia of prioritising its long-standing friendship with Russia over its ambition to join the EU. But what has emerged in recent days in Belgrade shows that the picture is not so black and white.\n\nHinting at less-than-rosy relations with Moscow, President Vucic said that not only was Serbia \"neutral\" regarding the war in Ukraine, but that he had not spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin for \"many months\".\n\nIt is illegal for Serbs to take part in conflicts abroad.\n\nThe number of Serbian recruits involved does not appear be significant. Some did fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine in 2014, but not with any sort of official endorsement.\n\nIn fact, Serbian courts convicted more than two dozen people for taking part in \"fighting on foreign battlefronts\".\n\nOn Thursday, a Belgrade-based lawyer and anti-war groups filed criminal complaints against the Russian ambassador as well as the head of Serbia's state security and information agency (BIA) for allegedly recruiting Serbs for the Wagner group.\n\nIn Belgrade, where provocative murals are numbingly common, the Wagner death's head emblem appeared on a city-centre wall last week. It was signed by the People's Patrols, an extreme right-wing organisation which has previously staged sparsely attended pro-Russia rallies.\n\nSerbia's president Aleksandar Vucic made clear this week that his country's trajectory was towards the West\n\nNone of the mainstream political parties have even hinted at support for the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIndeed, Serbia has consistently voted in favour of resolutions at the United Nations condemning Russia's aggression.\n\nPresident Vucic this week made Belgrade's position crystal clear: \"For us, Crimea is Ukraine, Donbas is Ukraine, and it will remain so.\"\n\nThe US expressed concerns to the Serbian leader last week about Wagner's recruitment efforts, and US ambassador Christopher Hill said this week he was glad to hear that President Vucic could see \"the threat to peace and stability posed by Wagner potentially operating in Serbia\".\n\nBut Mr Vucic's stance has not been enough to impress the European Parliament, because Serbia has repeatedly refused to impose sanctions on Russia.\n\nFor the second time, MEPs have passed a resolution calling for the suspension of membership negotiations until Serbia agrees to sanctions.\n\nFor as long as the EU showed little enthusiasm for expanding the bloc to include the countries of the Western Balkans, it made sense for Serbia to maintain friendly ties with Moscow.\n\nIt reminded Brussels that Belgrade had other options. Cheap gas supplies, Gazprom's majority ownership of Serbia's oil company NIS and Russia's refusal to recognise Kosovo's independence were practical reasons to stay on good terms.\n\nBut the invasion of Ukraine has shifted perceptions. Belgrade was not impressed when President Putin referred to Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence as justification for recognising the independence of areas of occupied eastern Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, Brussels belatedly realised that its reticence towards the Western Balkans was leaving room for Moscow to meddle. Accession talks for Albania and North Macedonia were swiftly unblocked - and Bosnia received candidate status.\n\nSo if Serbia's president has been waiting for a moment to pivot decisively to the West, it might just have arrived.\n\nHe has been warning of \"very difficult\" conversations with EU and US special envoys - and says he will address Serbs over the weekend to tell them \"what is required and expected from Serbia regarding Kosovo and sanctions against Russia\".\n\nMr Vucic has made similar remarks before - without ever committing to a major policy change. But this week he once again reiterated that Serbia's trajectory was towards the West.\n\n\"I know that EU is our path,\" he told Bloomberg News. \"There are no other paths.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 13 and 20 January.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nRebecca Maclennan captured the sun reflecting off the colourful snow-covered houses along the Tobermory waterfront.\n\n\"Taken after sunset,\" said Scott MacKellar. \"Glencoe Lochan was totally calm, resulting in a stunning silhouette picture of the snowy mountain and trees.\"\n\nThe first snowdrops emerging at Dalkeith Country Park snapped by Sharon Mackintosh.\n\nJohn Maclean captured a freezing sunrise which turned the beach at Sandend pink.\n\n\"This young cormorant appeared several miles upstream the Water of Leith and has made itself at home ever since,\" said Tom Kelly.\n\nAlison Carroll spotted this colourful pair out on a sunny afternoon walk along Aberdeen Beach.\n\nPaul Steven from Wick captured the northern lights over Sinclair and Girnigoe Castle in Caithness.\n\nMay Cruickshank's beautiful picture of a red squirrel near Doune.\n\n\"The Cowden Japanese Gardens near Dollar caught in the sunshine between the squally showers,\" said Ken Lawton.\n\nLocals brave the cold for a late afternoon walk as the sun sets over Cramond in Edinburgh. Taken by Susan Bald.\n\nAfter the floods in Dumfries, the cold weather created some interesting frozen rings around the trees. Snapped by Morven Campbell.\n\nRoger Chapman's view of the sunset from Kinghorn on the Fife coast.\n\n\"Gorgeous sea eagle at Camperdown Wildlife Park in Dundee,\" said Emma Legge from Cupar.\n\n\"Beautiful light and long shadows when I was walking around Balerno,\" said Jim Hughes.\n\nWild goats at Newtonmore in the Highlands. Taken by Fearghus Ormiston.\n\nJo Tucker captured the afternoon sunshine looking out to Whiten Head, Sutherland.\n\n\"Not sure taking a seat on this bench at Glenfinnan would be such a good idea,\" said Jim Johnston.\n\nKatharine Iveson captured this snowy scene while out for a walk in Moray with her 14-year-old collie Tess.\n\nGordon Coley from Arbroath captured this stunning picture during sunset and high tide at St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife.\n\nRoss Fountain in Princes Street Gardens slightly frozen over. \"Beautiful but cold!\" said Adam Neep.\n\nGiant icicles hanging off boulders in the Arrochar Alps. \"Interestingly, they were not hanging down vertically, but at an angle as the wind had affected their formation,\" said Ken Milne.\n\nAmanda Taylor spied a seal disguised as a boulder on the Isle of Mull.\n\nThe sunrise lighting up the Arran peaks over a very cold Troon skyline. Taken by Colin Irvine.\n\nDave Stewart from Leith spotted a waxwing on a clear day in Edinburgh.\n\nMike Rennie snapped this view on his first trip to Lerwick in Shetland. \"Everything is beautiful, blanketed in snow and all the kids out sledging,\" he said.\n\nFatlips Castle behind some snow-dusted trees near Denholm in the Scottish Borders. Taken by Joe Somerville.\n\nCameron Campbell took this picture of an old yacht and art installation at the Dysart Harbour in Fife. \"The colours on the poles match to the colour of the Forth on any given day,\" he said.\n\nSnow on Unst, the UK's most northern inhabited island. Taken by Elizabeth Johnson.\n\nAndrew Murray snapped this picture of the sunrise over Castle Loch Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway. \"The swan just came at the right time,\" he said.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "David Carrick is due to be sentenced in February\n\nPolice forces in England and Wales have been told to check all their officers against national databases by 31 March.\n\nThis week the Home Office demanded checks after the case of David Carrick, who admitted dozens of rapes and sexual offences as a Met Police officer.\n\nThe National Police Chief's Council (NPCC) wrote to chief constables on Friday asking them to take \"immediate action\" and check officers and staff.\n\nForces should identify all cases for further investigation by September.\n\nCarrick, 48, was officially sacked by his force on Tuesday after pleading guilty to 49 offences against 12 women over two decades.\n\nNPCC chairman Martin Hewitt said the \"horrific and abhorrent\" case had further damaged the confidence of women and girls in the police and they deserved better.\n\nHe said: \"Words will not rebuild confidence, only action and the public seeing the results of that action.\n\n\"Checks of all officers and staff will ensure we are turning over every stone in our efforts to rid policing of abusers and corrupt individuals. I know the dedicated, professional majority in policing will support this action.\"\n\nHe added the NPCC, which works with police forces on staffing, said it had also asked the Home Office to work with them to develop technology to allow forces to carry out regular automated checks on their staff.\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Carrick's crimes were an \"absolutely despicable\" abuse of power which needed to be \"addressed immediately\".\n\nFollowing the case, senior officers warned trust in policing was \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nLucy D'Orsi, chief constable of British Transport Police (BTP), said the Carrick case had kept her awake at night and called for major reforms to vetting procedures.\n\nShe called for new checks to automatically flag if an arrested person is a police officer, warning that under the current system DNA and prints are not checked against police databases for matches.\n\nThe Met confirmed Carrick came to the attention of police over nine incidents, including rape allegations, between 2000 and 2021.\n\nHe used his status as a police officer to continue offending until October 2021 when a victim came forward to report him.\n\nThe Home Office has also launched a review of the police disciplinary system.\n\nThe prime minister called on police to restore public confidence\n\nThe current guidelines for checking applicants when they join a police force were set in 2006 and require a series of background checks that look at everything from past convictions, behaviour of family and friends, or financial problems that may leave an applicant open to corruption.\n\nThe College of Policing introduced the national guidelines to ensure all forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were checking new recruits in the same way.\n\nThen in 2019 the police watchdog, Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services, gave all forces in those three nations a deadline of July 2020 to retrospectively vet all their officers and staff to those 2006 guidelines, no matter how long they had been serving.\n\nThat deadline passed and in 2021, the BBC's File on Four programme checked with the forces whether it had been complied with - and revealed that a quarter had not met the deadline.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Commentary every day from 07:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 'Tennis Breakfast' live from Melbourne, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the BBC Sport website & app\n\nBritish men's number one Cameron Norrie is out of the Australian Open after losing to rising star Jiri Lehecka.\n\nNorrie, seeded 11th, had been aiming to knock off another notable career milestone by reaching the last 16 at Melbourne Park for the first time.\n\nHe led by two sets to one before Czech Lehecka fought back to win 6-7 (8-10) 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-4 in the third round.\n\nThe 27-year-old left-hander was far from his best and needed treatment on his left knee early in the decider.\n\n\"I can't really put my finger on why I wasn't at my best, he played better than me and better in the bigger moments,\" said Norrie.\n\n\"The knee did not affect the outcome of the match - it was a small niggle and I wanted to check it was nothing serious.\"\n\nLehecka will play Canadian sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the fourth round on Sunday.\n\nIt was a measure of revenge for the 21-year-old after he was beaten by Norrie at the Auckland Open last week.\n\n\"I felt that I could beat him,\" said Lehecka, who is ranked 71st in the world.\n\n\"The only thing I learned from that match [in Auckland] was to never give up and fight for every ball.\"\n\nNorrie's exit means Andy Murray - who won his extraordinary second-round match at 04:05 local time earlier on Friday - and Dan Evans are the only British players remaining in either singles draw.\n\nEvans plays his third round match against Russian fifth seed Andrey Rublev on Margaret Court Arena at about 13:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nMurray takes on Spanish 24th seed Roberto Bautista Agut in the opening match of the night session on the same court at 08:00].\n\nNorrie 'doesn't regret' schedule but maybe 'peaked too soon'\n\nNorrie has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past few seasons after his unprecedented success on the ATP Tour, which included his first career titles and a climb into the world's top 10.\n\nHis success has been a product of hard work and self-belief, delivering consistent performances based on relentless returning and athletic energy.\n\nA deep run at a major had eluded him until he ticked off that achievement in style with his Wimbledon semi-final showing last year.\n\nHowever, he has yet to go far in Melbourne, having lost in the first round on four of his previous five visits prior to this year's tournament.\n\nNorrie arrived in Australia on the eve of the year's first major after reaching the final in Auckland, the city where the London-based player grew up.\n\nHowever, he was unable to transfer his best form to Melbourne Park.\n\nHe lacked rhythm against Lehecka, with a stream of errors flowing from the forehand side, and the young Czech maintained his composure to secure one of the biggest wins of his career.\n\n\"Maybe I peaked a bit too early and couldn't keep the momentum up but I gave myself the best preparation possible,\" said Norrie, who beat Rafael Nadal at the season-opening United Cup.\n\n\"I felt great arriving in Melbourne and it was perfect preparation.\n\n\"I played a lot of matches and I really enjoyed playing in Auckland - it was very special for me. I don't regret anything.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "David Sutherland joined The Beano after entering a DC Thomson art competition in 1959\n\nThe artist behind the Beano's Bash Street Kids has died, aged 89.\n\nDavid Sutherland was described as the \"single most important illustrator in Beano history\" by the editor of the children's comic.\n\nMr Sutherland, who was from Invergordon in the Highlands, spent more than 60 years with Beano and began illustrating the Bash Street Kids in 1962.\n\nHe was made an OBE for services to illustration in the New Year Honours' list.\n\nThe next edition of the comic will feature Mr Sutherland's final illustrations, drawn at the end of last year.\n\nMike Stirling, Beano Studio's creative director, told BBC Scotland's The Nine the illustrator landed the job after entering a competition run by the comic's Dundee-based publisher, DC Thomson.\n\n\"He actually came third in the competition and yet he's become our most beloved artist ever,\" Mr Stirling said.\n\n\"And from my point of view one of Scotland's greatest artists not just in terms of comics, but completely.\"\n\nHe worked on some of the most famous Beano strips, including more than 1,000 Dennis The Menace stories between 1970 and 1998.\n\nBut it was on the Bash Street Kids, which he drew every week for 60 years, that he created his legacy.\n\nOne of his comic strips was one of the original exhibits at The V&A design museum when it opened in Dundee.\n\n\"That was going right into high culture and David deserved that,\" Mr Stirling said.\n\nThe first Bash Street Kids comic strip in 1962, and the latest in 2023.\n\nAnnouncing Mr Sutherland's death on Thursday an official statement from Beano thanked the illustrator for \"so many lols, laughs, giggles and guffaws over the years\".\n\nHis wife, Margaret, said her husband \"only put his pen down last month when he took ill\".\n\n\"Drawing was his life; it made us forget the age he was. He was getting older but we never noticed it,\" she added.\n\n\"He just kept going and the editors remained happy with his work.\"\n\nAfter his OBE was announced in December Mr Sutherland said: \"When I entered the DC Thomson art competition more than 60 years ago, I couldn't have guessed where it might lead.\n\n\"I've been so lucky to be able to do something I love for a living, and work with so many talented writers whose words have helped bring these characters to life.\"\n\nDavid Sutherland illustrated the cover of the 1988 Beano annual\n\nEditor John Anderson said Mr Sutherland's contribution to the comic and British comic history would never be matched.\n\n\"No one will ever repeat what David achieved over 60 years. He was one of a kind, a genuine legend. It is the end of an era,\" he said.\n\n\"Given that David started working in 1959 and had been drawing The Bash Street Kids since 1962, he is the single most important illustrator in Beano history.\"\n\nNigel Parkinson, current Dennis and Gnasher illustrator, said: \"The nation and its children and grandchildren and great grandchildren have all loved David Sutherland's joyous, happy, teeming-with-life, hilarious drawings nearly every single week in Beano for 60 years.\n\n\"He has touched the heart, tickled the funny bone and amused the eyes of millions.\"", "President Zelensky told ARD television that Ukraine needed the Leopard tanks for self-defence\n\nUkrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has made a direct appeal for tanks at crunch talks involving dozens of Western allies in southern Germany.\n\nThe US and European nations have already promised more weapons.\n\nBut Mr Zelensky told defence ministers at Ramstein airbase: \"Hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks.\"\n\nGermany had faced growing pressure to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, but at the end of Friday's meeting had not yet committed to their supply.\n\nThe nation was also under pressure to allow other countries to provide Ukraine with their own Leopard tanks.\n\nUnder German law, the government in Berlin would have to give its permission before countries such as Poland or Finland could commit to re-exporting them.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Poland's defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak said he was hopeful building a coalition to support Ukraine would end \"in success\".\n\nGermany's new defence minister, Boris Pistorius, had earlier told reporters at Ramstein: \"None of us can say today when there will be a decision for Leopard tanks and what the decision may look like.\"\n\nDefence colleagues from more than 50 countries gathered at the airbase on Friday, a day after several nations pledged more equipment to help Ukraine fend off further Russia campaigns. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told them it was time to \"dig deeper\".\n\nAlmost 11 months into Russia's war in Ukraine, Nato military figures believe Moscow is planning a renewed spring offensive with troop numbers bolstered by a partial mobilisation since the end of September.\n\nWestern officials see a potential \"window of opportunity\" in the coming weeks for Ukraine to push Russian forces back. They say Moscow is running short of ammunition and trained troops - despite efforts to replenish stocks and mobilise additional forces.\n\nFor its part, Russia has warned of increasing Nato involvement, direct as well as indirect, in the conflict. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that sending tanks would not change the course of the conflict, but would \"create more problems for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people\".\n\nThe UK has already announced it will send 14 Challenger 2 battle tanks. But Kyiv wants more tanks and UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he hoped that the 50 allies would \"all hear the message that unlocking the tank is part of 2023\".\n\nGermany's Leopard tanks are key to that equation. They are in more plentiful supply than the British tank, and are operated by more than a dozen other nations.\n\nAhead of the Ramstein meeting Mr Zelensky criticised Germany's hesitant attitude to sending tanks, assuring Berlin that the Leopards would only be used in self-defence and not go through Russia. \"If you have Leopard [tanks], then give them to us,\" he told German public TV.\n\nPolish deputy foreign minister Pawel Jablonski indicated on Friday that Warsaw might be prepared to provide Ukraine with Leopards regardless of Berlin's views. \"We'll see. I think if there is strong resistance, we'll be ready to take even such non-standard action. But let's not anticipate the facts,\" he told Polish radio.\n\nGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under pressure to allow Kyiv a supply of the Leopard 2 tank - pictured here last year\n\nBerlin was reported this week to have made a decision on the Leopard conditional on the US agreeing to send Abrams tanks, which it is not intending to do. The defence minister denied Germany was blocking deliveries of the tank unilaterally and said that when a decision was made he wanted to be able to move fast.\n\n\"That's why this morning I told my ministry to make an inventory of the different types of Leopard tanks we have within our military but also within the industry.\"\n\nThere are fears of escalation in Berlin and of going it alone. Until recently, Germany refused requests to send a Patriot air defence battery, but it relented as soon as the US did the same. On tanks too, Berlin would like to see the US take the lead.\n\nBen Wallace has rejected talk of escalation. Germany along with the US and UK, he argued, had already supplied artillery systems, like Himars, with a much longer range.\n\nMr Zelensky has repeatedly taken aim at Berlin's perceived hesitancy and on Thursday criticised suggestions that the US and Germany were only planning to commit vehicles if the other nation did the same.\n\nRetired US Army general David Petraeus said there was \"legitimate reluctance\" in Washington on the issue of sending Abrams tanks because they were difficult to maintain and had a jet turbine.\n\nHe told the BBC it was \"imperative\" that any Western tank donations were made \"early enough, so [Ukrainian soldiers] can actually train on them\".\n\nOn Thursday, Western nations pledged to send more vehicles, artillery and munitions to bolster the Ukrainian war effort.\n\nThe US committed a new package worth $2.5bn (£2bn), saying this took its spend on Ukrainian support to $26.7bn since last February's full-scale invasion by Russia.\n\nTanks were not included in the offer, but the Pentagon did promise an extra 59 Bradley armoured vehicles, 90 Stryker personnel carriers and Avenger air defence systems, among other provisions.\n\nThe announcement came after nine European nations promised more support of their own following a meeting in Estonia. This included:", "Mental health blogger Beth Matthews bought the poisonous substance she ingested from Russia, an inquest has heard.\n\nWhile on a secure ward she was able to frequently visit a website that discussed suicide methods, jurors were told.\n\nMs Matthews, 26, from Cornwall, ordered the substance while at Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal near Stockport in March.\n\nShe was being treated as an NHS patient at the hospital, run by Priory Group.\n\nThe court heard from police coroners officer Claire Smith, who described how she had received a download of information from Ms Matthews' phone which ran to 100,000 pages.\n\nMs Smith found she had frequently accessed a website with thousands of threads discussing suicide and methods.\n\nOne method involved swallowing a poisonous substance which Ms Matthews \"had attempted to purchase from a number of sources\".\n\nThe officer found Ms Matthews, who had tens of thousands of followers and was described as \"bright and vivacious\", had bought the substance three weeks before her death from a supplier in Russia, which was shipped by airmail through Heathrow.\n\nThe jury was told there was no means of controlling patient access to the internet via their mobile phones.\n\nAlerts had been issued by the Priory about the poisonous substance used by Ms Matthews in 2018 and again in 2020.\n\nAssistant Coroner Andrew Bridgman said it was \"surprising that none of the staff knew anything about it\".\n\nShe described receiving a message from Ms Matthews on the day she died which read \"I've taken poison, I'll be dead in an hour\".\n\nShe did not get the message until later that afternoon.\n\nMs Page said she thought the Priory \"was a place of safety\" and said her friend's death \"need not have taken place\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest.\n\nThe \"monster\" specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record.\n\nDubbed \"Toadzilla\", the animal was quickly placed in a container and removed from the wild.\n\nToads - which were first introduced to Australia in 1935 - are one of the country's most damaging pests and are now estimated to number in the hundreds of millions.\n\nWhen park ranger Kylee Gray first spotted the massive amphibian while out on patrol in Queensland, she couldn't believe her eyes.\n\n\"I've never seen anything so big,\" she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"[It looked] almost like a football with legs. We dubbed it Toadzilla.\"\n\nHer team quickly captured Toadzilla - believed to be a female - and returned to base to weigh her. They knew she would be heavy, but were surprised to find she could set a new world record.\n\nThe current Guinness World Record for the largest toad - 2.65kg - was set by a pet toad in Sweden named Prinsen in 1991.\n\nMs Gray says this giant specimen likely bulked out on a diet of insects, reptiles and small mammals.\n\n\"A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit into its mouth,\" she said.\n\nToads have no natural predators in Australia and the poisonous species have wrought havoc on native animal populations.\n\nMs Gray isn't sure how old Toadzilla was - the species can live up to 15 years in the wild - but believes she has \"been around a long time\".\n\nToadzilla has since been euthanised, as is standard practice in Australia for the pests, and will be donated to the Queensland Museum.", "Tim Peake spent six months on the space station in 2015/2016\n\nUK spaceman Tim Peake is stepping down permanently from his role as a European astronaut.\n\nHe's going to take up a full-time ambassadorial position for science and space instead - work he's been doing since 2019.\n\nThe former British Army Air Corps helicopter pilot was selected as a European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut in 2009.\n\nHe flew to the space station for a six-month tour in 2015/2016.\n\n\"Being an Esa astronaut has been the most extraordinary experience,\" Tim Peake said.\n\n\"I have had the privilege of working with an exceptional team of dedicated individuals during the past 13 years with the agency, which has been incredibly exciting and rewarding.\n\n\"By assuming the role of an ambassador for human spaceflight, I shall continue to support Esa and the UK Space Agency, with a focus on educational outreach, and I look forward to the many exciting opportunities ahead.\"\n\nIn a tweet following the announcement, he didn't rule out future trips into space.\n\n\"And as for getting back to space again - never say never!\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn November last year, Esa unveiled UK citizens Rosemary Coogan, John McFall and Meganne Christian as new astronaut candidates.\n\nCoogan is set to begin training in April; McFall is joining a feasibility study to see if he can fly as a disabled astronaut (he's a former Paralympic \"blade runner\"); and Christian is a reserve and could join the corps if someone else drops out.\n\nTim Peake's selection into the Esa astronaut corps in 2009 was a surprise because the UK was not participating in the agency's human spaceflight programme at the time.\n\nBut this policy changed as a consequence and now Britain plays its part, helping to fund the programme and send experiments to the International Space Station.\n\nThe UK, as an Esa member state, is also involved in the US space agency Nasa's Artemis programme to go back to the Moon and will be supplying equipment for a new lunar space station.\n\nDr Paul Bate, the UK Space Agency's CEO, said: \"Tim Peake is an incredible ambassador for the UK space sector and has played a leading role over the past decade.\n\n\"Not only has he carried out important scientific work, during his historic Principia mission to the International Space Station and while on Earth, but he has inspired millions with his passion for space and the opportunities it offers.\"\n\nOne of the highlights for any ISS astronaut is to conduct a spacewalk\n\nHailing from Chichester, Tim Peake was the UK's first \"official\" astronaut, going into orbit on a government ticket. But he was preceded by other UK-born citizens, notably Helen Sharman, who went to the Mir space station in 1991 on a private programme organised with the Russians.\n\nA number of UK-born individuals were also able to fly before him with Nasa because they had acquired US citizenship - figures like Michael Foale and Piers Sellars.\n\nHowever, during his Principia mission on the ISS, Tim Peake did become the first person to complete a spacewalk while sporting a Union flag on his shoulder.\n\nThe ISS tour also saw him control a rover on Earth remotely from orbit, help dock two spacecraft, and even run the London marathon on a treadmill.", "Unite the union announced six new strikes for ambulance workers over the next two months\n\nMore days of strikes by ambulance workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been announced by the Unite union.\n\nFour of the dates in February and March coincide with walkouts by staff from the GMB union, in a pay dispute.\n\nOn 6 February the two unions will be joined by nurses in the biggest NHS walkout in this dispute.\n\nA health department spokesman said it is \"continuing to have constructive discussions\" with unions about pay.\n\nThe announcement of the news dates means ambulance trust workers will now be striking on:\n\nNot all union member ambulance staff - including paramedics, call handlers and support workers - will strike at once. Under trade union law emergency cover will still be provided and staff can leave the picket lines to attend.\n• University staff who are members of the University and College Union and Unison are on strike\n• Union members at 150 universities have been taking part in industrial action Read more: Will my lecture be cancelled? There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer\n• More than 1,000 Passport Office workers are on strike in a dispute about jobs, pay and conditions\n• Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have warned of delays to applications and the delivery of passports in the run-up to summer There are currently no national strikes planned for this date\n\nAhead of previous strikes in January and December, patients were told that all Category 1 calls - classed as the most life-threatening situations, such as cardiac arrest - would be responded to by an ambulance.\n\nHowever, less urgent calls which are not immediately judged to be life-threatening (Category 2), might have to wait longer than usual for an ambulance but they would still respond to strokes and heart attacks. Urgent problems that fit into Category 3 - such as a woman in late-stage labour - would not be prioritised, the public was told.\n\nIn all cases, patients with the most urgent clinical need will be given priority.\n\nUnite is the smallest of the three main unions in the ambulance service, meaning on some days only a couple of hundred ambulance workers across the country will actually be striking across the 10 ambulance services in England, those in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in the Political Thinking podcast, Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said staff were \"fighting for the NHS\".\n\nMs Graham said: \"People are dying as we speak because of waiting times and the clogging up of the NHS.\"\n\nShe called on Rishi Sunak to personally intervene on pay negotiations.\n\n\"If they don't solve the pay crisis, they can't solve the crisis of the workforce, which means that the NHS is on its knees,\" she said.\n\nMs Graham said workers will ensure \"proper minimum cover because that is something that's really important to us\".\n\n\"Nobody wants lives to be lost,\" she added.\n\nThe dispute centres on pay, with workers calling for above-inflation (10.5% in the year to December) pay rises.\n\nThe government has made it clear it is not willing to move on this year's pay award.\n\nBut the governments in England and Wales have given NHS staff an average of 4.75%, with everyone guaranteed at least £1,400 - as recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body.\n\nThat is less than half the rate of inflation, although latest figures show the rate at which prices are rising has started to slow.\n\nOne option being explored by Health Secretary Steve Barclay is backdating the 2023-24 rise to January. It would normally kick in in April.\n\nThe Treasury has not agreed to the idea.\n\nThis has already been tabled in Scotland, leading to NHS strikes being halted for further negotiations - although staff there received a 7.5% pay rise this year.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"It is disappointing some union members are going ahead with further strikes at a time when the NHS is already under huge pressure from Covid, flu and tackling the backlog.\n\n\"The Health and Social Care Secretary is continuing to have constructive discussions with unions about the 2023/24 pay review process and what is affordable and fair.\"", "The intensity of working at an extreme pace in an elite kitchen is laid bare by the study\n\nChefs working in elite kitchens face \"extreme suffering\" to produce award-winning food, a new study suggests.\n\nResearchers heard that Michelin Star chefs are sterilising their wounds on hot stoves and plunging their hands into deep-fat fryers to prove themselves at work.\n\nOne of them said going on shift felt like \"going to war\".\n\nHowever, the study also found that many chefs still see the pain as \"a medal of honour\".\n\nThe research, conducted by Cardiff University and Emlyon Business School in France, is based on the anonymous accounts of 62 Michelin Star chefs working in the UK and abroad.\n\nMany detailed experiencing physical abuse and bullying from the start of their career, with one junior chef describing how he was \"locked in fridges, punched, and kicked about\".\n\n\"At such a young age I was in a position where I felt very lonely. I was really exhausted. I wasn't used to the abuse I was getting,\" he said.\n\nSome chefs said they were routinely subjected to endurance tests, like peeling \"up to 150 fresh langoustines every day with our bare hands.\"\n\n\"That would basically rip your hands to shreds because they're extremely sharp,\" they added.\n\nAnother said food would be thrown in their face if they made mistakes.\n\nThat level of pressure led some to having bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea before clocking on shift, with some stints in the kitchen lasting 20 hours.\n\nAnother chef described how his boss \"picked up his bread knife from the middle of the kitchen and just - had it to my neck in front of everyone.\"\n\nFollowing that ordeal, he was then promoted to a three-star Michelin restaurant.\n\nIn one instance, a chef gave the researcher a tour of back-stage areas of a restaurant, including rooms where chefs lay sleeping on the floor.\n\nUK chef's union Unichef said work was needed to stamp out what it described as a \"playground bullying\" culture\n\nBut despite that level of pressure, researchers said that for many, \"a body marked by cuts and burns... was something to be celebrated.\"\n\nThe academics said: \"For many of our chefs, it was the right kind of body to have - it was the body of a committed, hard-working, tough chef\".\n\nBecause of this attitude, many continued working even when they were injured.\n\nOne chef said: \"I stabbed myself between my fingers with a knife many years ago. Blood was pulsing out. I just wrapped it with a tea towel [and carried on],\" one said.\n\nAnother said burn marks and cuts on their colleagues were taken as \"a good indicator that they're working under some sort of pressure\".\n\n\"I mean, we always turned it around... you gave it some sort of, positive [spin]. You knew the reality was your bloody suffering and it's horrible and horrendous, but you couldn't let it in. You can't do that,\" they said.\n\nThe intense working culture in top kitchens has come under the spotlight in films like The Menu and Boiling Point - both received critical acclaim in their exploration of the fine dining process.\n\nThe UK's chef's union, Unichef, told the Guardian the accounts highlighted the need for greater diversity in kitchens - including more women - to help stamp out what it described as a \"playground bullying\" culture.", "Claire Foy is perhaps best known for her portrayal of a young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix's The Crown\n\nA stalker who targeted the actress Claire Foy has been given a suspended prison sentence and will be repatriated to the US.\n\nJason Penrose, 49, sent her more than 1,000 emails in a month and appeared outside her north London home. The Old Bailey heard that Ms Foy now \"views the world in much more fearful way\".\n\nIn November, Penrose admitted stalking the actress over a six-month period.\n\nHe also admitted a stalking protection order breach, by sending her a parcel.\n\nIn a statement by Ms Foy read to the court, the star said she had felt \"terrified and helpless in my own home\", adding: \"I feel like the freedoms I enjoyed before Mr Penrose contacted me have now gone.\"\n\nA sentencing hearing was adjourned last month, when concerns were raised that he might continue to contact the 38-year-old actress.\n\nJason Penrose was given a stalking protection order in July\n\nPenrose, who has paranoid schizophrenia, has been held in a secure mental health unit in north London for the past year.\n\nDuring an application to a court to impose the stalking protection order Penrose received in July, an officer from the Met Police said Penrose had posed as a film director and producer who wanted the actress to appear in his next film.\n\nHe had contacted Ms Foy's sister and agent, found out where the actress lived and frequently rang her doorbell, the court was told.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Judge David Aaronberg KC said Ms Foy had \"become scared and suspicious of post she does not recognise and of her front doorbell ringing\".\n\nSentencing Penrose to 22 months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, the judge said he believed the US citizen had not intended to \"cause fear or distress to Ms Foy\".\n\nHowever, Judge Aaronberg added he remained \"troubled\" that Penrose might continue to be infatuated with her.\n\nAs a condition of his suspended sentence, he must remain under the care of a psychiatrist in the UK until his repatriation to the US.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of NHS operations and appointments have had to be cancelled because of the nurses' strikes in England this week.\n\nOver the two days, NHS England said 27,800 bookings had to be rescheduled, including 5,000 operations and treatments.\n\nThere were more than 30 hospital trusts affected with some saying between 10% to 20% of normal activity was lost.\n\nThey warned the dispute was hampering progress in reducing the backlog.\n\nCurrently more than 7 million people - one in eight of the population - are on a waiting list for planned care, such as knee and hip operations.\n\nDuring the strikes, nurses provided emergency cover but routine care was affected.\n\nThis included operations as well as outpatient appointments and check-ups.\n\nHospitals reported finding it most difficult to carry out surgery because of the lack of theatre nurses and staff on wards to provide post-op care.\n\nAt University College London Hospital, two-thirds of its operations and procedures were cancelled and one in seven outpatient appointments.\n\nOverall, this meant around 20% of its planned activity for the strike days had to be rescheduled, affecting over 2,000 patients.\n\nAt Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals 13% of their planned bookings were put back.\n\nOther places the BBC contacted reported similar levels of disruption.\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, said the strike days caused \"significant disruption\" and were \"some of the hardest\" hospitals have had to cope with this winter.\n\nShe said it would have a \"big knock-on effect on efforts to tackle the backlog\".\n\n\"The ramifications go well beyond the day itself. We are deeply concerned by this pile-up of demand, which will only continue with more strikes on the horizon.\"\n\nThe RCN has announced two more strikes on 6 and 7 February, involving even more services.\n\nThis week's strikes involved a quarter of hospitals, but in February close to half of hospitals will be involved.\n\nMatthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which also represents hospitals, added his members were \"increasingly concerned\" about the dispute.\n\nHe said it was particularly dispiriting because in November, before the strikes had started, the NHS had finally started to make inroads in the backlog - the waiting list fell slightly for the first time since the pandemic began.\n\n\"The longer this vicious cycle continues the longer it will take for the NHS to tackle the backlog.\"\n\nRCN general secretary Pat Cullen said: \"I'm sorry that people have had their operations cancelled. But look at the bigger picture, operations are cancelled every day of the week because there are not enough nurses.\n\n\"Nursing staff did not create this situation - it was the government's refusal to invest in nursing and tackle the workforce crisis which has led us to where we are now.\"\n\nOn Friday, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association announced the junior doctors it represents had backed strike action by 97%.\n\nThe group is a smaller trade union, and has just over 3,000 members. The British Medical Association - which represents around 45,000 junior doctors - is set to announce the result of its strike ballot at the end of February.\n\nCurrently one in eight nurse posts in the NHS in England is vacant.\n\nThe government argues it has awarded NHS staff the rise recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body - 4.75% on average - and meeting the demands of the RCN, which wants 5% above inflation, would hamper its attempts to get rising prices under control.", "John Rainbow said he opened the letter and thought \"blimey, this is a bit strange\"\n\nA letter that was posted nearly 30 years ago has finally reached its destination.\n\nJohn Rainbow was \"shocked\" to get the letter from 1995 through his door in Wylam, Northumberland, after it was posted in Bridgwater, Somerset.\n\nMr Rainbow, 60, said: \"We opened the letter, had a look at it and thought, 'Blimey, this is a bit strange'.\n\n\"It was for a previous resident of the house, they must've lived here at least 12 to 15 years ago.\"\n\nThe envelope has a Royal Mail first-class postage stamp and was franked in Bridgwater in 1995.\n\nOn the back is a 1995 franking stamp from Alnwick in Northumberland.\n\n\"It is in perfect condition, it's not like it's been lying around, it just looks old,\" Mr Rainbow said.\n\nThe letter's recipient, Valerie Jarvis-Read, lived at the address until about 2010\n\nMr Rainbow, who is retired and has lived in Wylam with his wife since 2015, said the letter was about family stories dating back to the 1880s, containing childhood memories, and how the writer's children had grown.\n\nHe said the letter came through the door with some other post and he did not think much of it at first.\n\n\"I thought, 'Ah, it is a Christmas card.' Then I noticed it was a letter and how old it is,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very strange, we have no connection to the person that was here.\"\n\nMr Rainbow explained the intended recipient, Valerie Jarvis-Read, lived at his property until about 2010 and the home had passed through several hands since.\n\nOn the back there is an Alnwick 1995 postage stamp\n\nMr Rainbow said a neighbour had told him Mrs Jarvis-Read was a navigator for her husband who was in the armed forces in Le Mans, sometime after World War One.\n\nThe letter was sent by Somerset farmer Patrick Daniel, who has since died.\n\nHis son, Richard, told BBC Radio Newcastle the emergence of the late delivery was \"bizarre\" and he believed his father was replying to a letter from Mrs Jarvis-Read enquiring whether their families may be related.\n\n\"I think Valerie must've written a long letter to my father because she thought she might be related to us several generations back.\n\n\"My father said he enjoyed hearing about her far-flung family and that he thought he'd better tell her about his.\n\n\"This was my father's response. The tragedy is it never reached her.\"\n\nA Royal Mail spokesperson said: \"Incidents like this happen very occasionally, and we are uncertain what happened to cause this incident in this instance.\n\n\"We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Germany will only send battle tanks to Ukraine if the US does the same, multiple reports suggest.\n\nChancellor Olaf Scholz is under increasing international and domestic pressure to supply German-built Leopard 2 tanks or at least approve their delivery by third countries.\n\nPoland and Finland have both promised to send their Leopards - but need Germany's permission to do so.\n\nBut Berlin is still in talks with the US about its official position.\n\nMany expect an announcement to follow a meeting of Ukraine's Western allies at the American military base of Ramstein in southwestern Germany tomorrow.\n\nReports suggest that Mr Scholz will only give the green light to the Leopards if the US President Joe Biden agrees to supply American Abrams tanks.\n\nHowever, the Pentagon's top security adviser, Colin Kahl, said late on Thursday that the US wasn't prepared to meet Kyiv's demands for the tanks.\n\n\"The Abrams tank is a very complicated piece of equipment. It's expensive. It's hard to train on. It has a jet engine,\" Mr Kahl said.\n\nA senior German government source told the BBC that reports of a deadlock between Berlin and Washington over tanks were overstated, but they're causing concern amongst Ukraine's Western allies.\n\nThe provision of Western battle tanks - in sufficient numbers - is widely seen as crucial if Ukraine is to defeat Russia or, at the very least, defend itself against Russian President Vladimir Putin's anticipated spring offensive.\n\nYet, to date, only Britain has promised to supply them. Other countries, including Germany, France and the US, have sent or pledged to send armoured vehicles as well as air defence systems and other heavy equipment. Meanwhile, Kyiv's demands for tanks are growing increasingly urgent.\n\nSo why is Mr Scholz dithering over their delivery?\n\nAll indications are that he will allow third countries to supply their Leopards - the German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said so a week or so ago.\n\nBut Mr Scholz has not yet committed. He's cautious for several reasons.\n\nGermany worries - albeit less so than it did in the past - about escalation and how Russia's Vladimir Putin would react to the supply of offensive weapons. It's a reasoning which many experts perceive to be unjustified.\n\nAnd the concept of German tanks on Ukrainian soil still resonates uncomfortably in Berlin, where the country's World War Two history still casts a long shadow.\n\nMr Scholz may have declared a \"Zeitenwende\" (sea-change) in Germany's stance on defence and military policy following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but he's still mindful that, less than a year ago, the idea of the German government supplying arms to a conflict would have been unthinkable.\n\nMr Scholz's response to the Ukraine war has remained broadly popular with the German people\n\nThe Chancellor has his eye on the domestic opinion polls. As one senior government source put it to me, surveys suggest the public are broadly satisfied with his reaction to Ukraine - unlike his policies and performance in many other areas.\n\nA recent survey for the national broadcaster found that 41% of the public thought Germany was supplying the right amount of weapons, 26% thought its support went too far and 25% that Germany wasn't sending enough.\n\nMr Scholz has promised that Germany will play a greater military role on the world stage, but years of underinvestment have left its armed forces in a parlous state.\n\nEven if the Chancellor gives the green light to sending Leopards, the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has warned that renovation and preparation requirements would delay their delivery by months.\n\nMr Scholz doesn't want to risk the perception that he's acting alone, hence the desire to co-ordinate with allies and, in particular, the US. And it's why there's unlikely to be an announcement ahead of the Ramstein meeting tomorrow.\n\nBut his position has triggered frustration and condemnation in international political and security circles.\n\nThey say Germany - still a political heavyweight - must step up to its military responsibilities.", "Matthew King from Wickford, Essex, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey\n\nA man has pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack allegedly targeting the police or military.\n\nMatthew King, 19, was accused of carrying out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London.\n\nAt a hearing at the Old Bailey, King, from Wickford in Essex, admitted preparation of terrorist acts, alleged by the prosecution to be related to Islamist beliefs.\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 14 April.\n\nThe judge, Mark Lucraft KC, said a pre-sentence report needed to be prepared which should include the issue of the defendant's dangerousness.\n\nThe court heard the authorities became aware of King after tip-off through an anti-terrorist hotline and the Prevent counter-terrorism programme.\n\nHe was arrested at his home on 18 May by the Metropolitan Police and his mobile phone was examined.\n\nProsecutors said the charges related to terrorist activity carried out between 22 December 2021 and 17 May 2022.\n\nProsecutors alleged he carried out surveillance at railway stations, police stations, Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London and an Army barracks in East Ham, also in east London.\n\nAt an earlier hearing, prosecutor Gillian Curl said that no \"specific act of terrorism\" had been identified.\n\nBut she said: \"He was preparing for an act against either serving on-duty police officers or military personnel.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record, as hospitals are being \"pressurised like never before\", health leaders have warned.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it believes this will have been the worst December for hospital bed occupancy and emergency care delays.\n\nThe warning comes as hospitals face soaring demand driven by winter infections like flu, strep A and Covid.\n\nThe government says it is \"working tirelessly\" to ensure patient care.\n\nA number of NHS trusts have declared critical incidents in recent days, signalling they are unable to function as normal due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nDr Adrian Boyle, the president of the RCEM, told the BBC that hospitals were \"too full\" and the situation was \"much worse than in previous years\".\n\nAmbulances waiting outside hospitals was the \"most obvious marker\" of this, Dr Boyle told Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nIn November, around 37,837 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E for a decision to be admitted to a hospital department, according to data from NHS England.\n\nThis was more than triple the equivalent figure for November 2021, when an estimated 10,646 waited longer than 12 hours.\n\nIn separate remarks to the PA news agency, Dr Boyle said he \"would not be at all surprised\" if December proved to be the worst month on record for hospital occupancy rates.\n\nOver 90% of senior doctors reported there had been people waiting in their emergency department for more than 24 hours last week, he added.\n\nDr Boyle remarked: \"The gallows joke about this is now that 24 hours in A&E is not a documentary, it's a way of life.\"\n\nHe said the health service had been stretched further by a \"staff retention crisis\", as well as recent nurse and ambulance worker strikes and a \"demand shock\" caused by winter infections.\n\nFears of a \"twindemic\" of flu and Covid infections were \"sadly being realised\", added MP Steve Brine, chair of the Commons health and social care select committee.\n\nThis was \"very heavily weighted\" towards flu infections, Mr Brine said in his own interview with the BBC.\n\nFlu case numbers in Wales have put the country's hospitals in an \"unprecedented situation\", says its top doctor - and those with symptoms have been asked to stay away from hospitals.\n\nAt the same time, the 111 telephone helpline has come under \"significant pressure\", Dr Sir Frank Atherton said. People have instead been urged to consult the 111 website.\n\nMeanwhile in England, the latest figures show there were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week - up from 520 a day the month before, and just 34 a day this time last year.\n\nAmong the NHS trusts to have declared \"critical incidents\" in recent days are:\n\nOther trusts previously declared critical incidents but have since removed the status as conditions improved - including Surrey and Sussex Healthcare, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals, East of England Ambulance, and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.\n\nOn top of this, several ambulance services have declared critical incidents over the past two weeks - with North East Ambulance Service and East of England Ambulance Service doing so twice.\n\nNo critical incidents have been declared in Scotland, but A&E doctors have urged NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to declare one over \"grave concerns\" over patient safety, the BBC understands.\n\nIn his own comments to the PA news agency, Dr Nick Scriven, the former president of the Society for Acute Medicine, warned that UK's urgent care system was being \"pressurised like never before\".\n\nHe urged people to \"consider carefully\" whether or not their problem required emergency care before attending a hospital.\n\nDr Scriven said the NHS should consider a \"short-term moratorium\" on the pressure to ease backlogs in elective procedures - with services working together \"for the common good\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social care said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS is facing following the impact of the pandemic and are working tirelessly to ensure people get the care they need, backed by up to £14.1bn additional funding for health and social care over the next two years.\n\n\"This winter, the government has provided an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharge and free up beds - and the NHS is creating the equivalent of at least 7,000 more beds to help reduce A&E waits and get ambulances back on the road.\n\n\"We're supporting and growing the health and social care workforce through training and recruitment campaigns at home and abroad, and there are record numbers of staff working for the NHS, including 9,300 more nurses and almost 4,000 more doctors compared to September 2021.\"", "Brazil's left-wing president elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who recently beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in his country's presidential election, got emotional during a ceremony ratifying his election victory.\n\nAfter a divisive campaign which saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum go head to head, Lula won 50.9% of the votes.", "The 2.9m (9.5ft) long \"Green Coffin\" belonged to an ancient Egyptian priest called Ankhenmaat\n\nA looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that was on display at a US museum has been returned to Egypt.\n\nThe 2.9m (9.5ft) long \"Green Coffin\" dates back to the Late Dynastic Period, which spanned 664BC to 332BC, and belonged to a priest called Ankhenmaat.\n\nIt was looted from the Abu Sir necropolis in north Egypt by a global art trafficking network, which smuggled it through Germany into the US in 2008.\n\nA collector loaned it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2013.\n\nThe sarcophagus was repatriated after an investigation that lasted several years and was formally handed over by US diplomats at a ceremony in Cairo on Monday. The event was attended by Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa.\n\nMostafa Waziri, the top official at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, inspected the sarcophagus\n\n\"Today's ceremony is emblematic of the long history of co-operation between the United States and Egypt on antiquities protection and cultural heritage preservation,\" said the US chargé d'affaires in Egypt, Daniel Rubinstein.\n\nMr Issa said the return of the sarcophagus showed Egypt's strenuous efforts to recover smuggled artefacts.\n\nIn September, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the Green Coffin, which was valued at over $1m (£830,000), was illegally trafficked out of Egypt by a multinational network of antiquities smugglers.\n\nThe network was also responsible for trafficking the \"Gold Coffin\", which was which was returned to Egypt in 2019, the Stele of Pa-di-Sena, which is also from the Late Dynastic Period and was handed over in 2020, and five pieces seized from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.\n\nThe US is not the only country to have returned antiquities to Egypt recently.\n\nIn 2021, Israel handed over 95 relics which had been smuggled into the country or found for sale in Jerusalem.\n\nLast month, a university in the Republic of Ireland said it was planning to repatriate a sarcophagus, mummified human remains and canopic jars.", "Richard Burton fans still visit the bridge where the photograph was taken of the actor and his coalminer dad\n\nA Hollywood star drinking with his dad in the village pub while his world-famous girlfriend mixed with locals as if she was one of them.\n\n\"Everyone has stories about Richard Burton,\" said Andrea Edwards.\n\nIn many ways, Pontrhydyfen is a typical community in the Afan valley.\n\nBut in 2025, it celebrates two important anniversaries - 100 years since the birth of its most famous son and 200 years since work started on a bridge he became synonymous with.\n\nDespite the fact the anniversaries are two years away, conversations have started about the events - illustrating the importance to this community of properly remembering one of Wales' greatest screen stars who died in 1984, aged 58.\n\nA meeting is planned later this month for people to put forward ideas.\n\nEven now, 39 years after his death, fans still visit to recreate the image of the actor walking over Y Bont Fawr with his coalminer dad.\n\nLocals want to make it easier for visitors and fans of the star to view a memorial to Richard Burton in his hometown\n\nThere are sites linked to Burton all around - including a semi-overgrown memorial in chapel grounds - and villagers want to make that more accessible, as well as uncovering stories of the star's time in the area, his life and career.\n\n\"He came back to see Hilda, his sister, and his brother... I met Elizabeth Taylor [Burton's Hollywood actress wife], but I was six and didn't know who she was,\" recalls Andrea.\n\n\"He signed my War of the Worlds album [which Burton narrated].\"\n\nSign marks the birthplace of Burton and other icons of the village\n\nA sign welcoming people to the former mining village acknowledges it is also the birthplace of Ivor Emmanuel, who starred in Zulu and opera singer Rebecca Evans.\n\nThese claims alone are pretty impressive for an area with fewer than 1,000 residents.\n\nYet, it is links to Burton it is best known for.\n\nBorn in the village in 1925, he starred in Hollywood blockbuster Cleopatra, as well as giving powerful performances in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and Shakespearean stage roles.\n\nRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor appeared in many films together - including 1965's The Sandpiper\n\nRenowned as much for his colourful life as his acting, he was married five times - including twice to Taylor - whom he starred in 11 films with.\n\nAs chairwoman of Pontrhydyfen Miners' Welfare Scheme, Andrea wants \"everyone to come together\" in the area to \"capture all the stories\" about the star.\n\nIn doing so, this would document not only the actor's links to the area, but also stories of how life has changed in the 100 years since he was born - including the industry that has gone, pubs that have closed and the choirs and brass band that no longer play.\n\nThe area around a memorial stone in Pontrhydyfen has become overgrown\n\nBurton's final resting place is not in Pontrhydyfen, but in a graveyard more than 700 miles (1,126km) away in Celigny, Switzerland.\n\nAfter it deteriorated, a Cardiff man living nearby restored it in 2022.\n\nThere is a tribute to the actor, though, on his parents' grave in the village.\n\nThis too had become \"very overgrown\" and was \"in a terrible state\", according to villager David Hutchison.\n\n\"This is a great disappointment as there are a number of Richard Burton fans who visit Pontrhydyfen each year and wish to view the memorial,\" he said.\n\n\"It is quite disappointing that they are presented with such a mess.\"\n\nMr Hutchison and his wife have helped maintain access to it in the past, but with two big anniversaries coming up, he believes the authorities should make the gravestone a focus of celebrations.\n\nBurton's father Richard Jenkins was a miner and a number of photos feature the actor visiting him\n\nHowever, because the graveyard is in the grounds of a former chapel which is now privately-owned, Neath Port Talbot council said it could not tend to it.\n\nCimla and Pelenna councillor Jeremy Hurley has spoken to the owner and discussed the possibility of volunteers organising clear-ups.\n\nHe believes another giant of the area should be celebrated with the man it was famously linked with.\n\nIt is also almost 200 years since work started on Y Bont Fawr, which translates to The Big Bridge.\n\nIt was formerly an aqueduct to provide water to Cwmavon blast furnaces, but now a walkway which featured in a photograph of Burton that appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world.\n\n\"The Big Bridge and Richard Burton, we feel as a village we should promote these things and get the community together,\" said Mr Hurley.\n\n\"There is so much history, we are surrounded by heritage. Perhaps we don't take the full opportunity to celebrate this.\n\n\"We regularly get bus loads of people wanting to recreate the iconic photo of Burton with his dad on the aqueduct.\"\n\nHis famous name is kept alive in various ways - a walk around the area called The Richard Burton Trail opened in 2011, while the Richard Burton 10k race takes place every November.\n\nHowever, calls have long been made for more recognition in the wider area.\n\nIn 2017, Burton's niece Sian Owen said: \"I definitely think it's a shame. I think there should be a permanent memorial for him and also the other people who have come from Port Talbot.\n\n\"A lot of world famous people have come from Port Talbot and I think a memorial is essential.\"\n\nBefore that, in 2011, a campaign was led by then-AM Peter Black, who said: \"It is already a tourist attraction and I believe a permanent exhibition either in Pontrhydyfen or in Port Talbot itself would be a great attraction to Burton fans.\"\n\nAs the centenary of his birth approaches, it will perhaps be the stories, still vivid in some people's minds, that help paint the best picture of the local boy turned Hollywood star.", "Anita Pointer, from the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters, has died aged 74, her publicist has announced.\n\nShe died surrounded by her family at her Beverley Hills home in California.\n\nHer family said they were deeply saddened by her passing. \"Heaven is a more loving beautiful place with Anita there,\" they said in a statement.\n\nThe second oldest of the four sisters, Ms Pointer and her siblings rose to fame with hits including Jump (For My Love) and Fire.\n\nWith a blend of funk, soul and R&B, the group released their eponymous debut album in 1973. Yes We Can Can, a funky tune which called for unity and tolerance at a time of racial unrest in the US, became the album's breakout hit.\n\nAnd in 1975, their hit song, Fairytale, won a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance. The win remains a rarity in a category dominated by white acts.\n\nThe group almost disbanded in 1979 after Bonnie Pointer left to pursue a solo career, but the remaining sisters regrouped and went on to shed their previously retro image for a modern pop sound.\n\nThroughout the 1980s, they remained a powerhouse in the US charts, and their hits, which included He's So Shy, Jump (For My Love) and Neutron Dance, have stood the test of time, remaining heavily streamed to this day.\n\nBut Pointer's personal life was marked by tragedy. In 2003, her only child - Jada Pointer - died from cancer aged just 37. She went on to raise her granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer.\n\nHer family said they were \"comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace\".", "A third of the global economy will be in recession this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.\n\nKristalina Georgieva said 2023 will be \"tougher\" than last year as the US, EU and China see their economies slow.\n\nIt comes as the war in Ukraine, rising prices, higher interest rates and the spread of Covid in China weigh on the global economy.\n\nIn October the IMF cut its global economic growth outlook for 2023.\n\n\"We expect one third of the world economy to be in recession,\" Ms Georgieva said on the CBS news programme Face the Nation.\n\n\"Even countries that are not in recession, it would feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people,\" she added.\n\nKatrina Ell, an economist at Moody's Analytics in Sydney, gave the BBC her assessment of the world economy.\n\n\"While our baseline avoids a global recession over the next year, odds of one are uncomfortably high. Europe, however, will not escape recession and the US is teetering on the verge,\" she said.\n\nThe IMF cut its outlook for global economic growth in 2023 in October, due to the war in Ukraine as well as higher interest rates as central banks around the world attempt to rein in rising prices.\n\nSince then China has scrapped its zero-Covid policy and started to reopen its economy, even as coronavirus infections have spread rapidly in the country.\n\nMs Georgieva warned that China, the world's second largest economy, would face a difficult start to 2023.\n\n\"For the next couple of months, it would be tough for China, and the impact on Chinese growth would be negative, the impact on the region will be negative, the impact on global growth will be negative,\" she said.\n\nThe IMF is an international organisation with 190 member countries. They work together to try to stabilise the global economy. One of its key roles is to act as an early economic warning system.\n\nMs Georgieva's comments will be alarming for people around the world, not least in Asia which endured a difficult year in 2022.\n\nInflation has been steadily rising across the region, largely because of the war in Ukraine, while higher interest rates have also hit households and business.\n\nFigures released over the weekend pointed to weakness in the Chinese economy at the end of 2022.\n\nThe official purchasing managers' index (PMI) for December showed that China's factory activity shrank for the third month in a row and at the fastest rate in almost three years as coronavirus infections spread in the country's factories.\n\nIn the same month home prices in 100 cities fell for the sixth month in a row, according to a survey by one of the country's largest independent property research firms, China Index Academy.\n\nOn Saturday, in his first public comments since the change in policy, President Xi Jinping called for more effort and unity as China enters what he called a \"new phase\".\n\nThe downturn in the US also means there is less demand for the products that are made in China and other Asian countries including Thailand and Vietnam.\n\nHigher interest rates also make borrowing more expensive - so for both these reasons companies may choose not to invest in expanding their businesses.\n\nThe lack of growth can trigger investors to pull money out of an economy and so countries, especially poorer ones, have less cash to pay for crucial imports like food and energy.\n\nIn these kinds of slowdowns a currency can lose value against those of more prosperous economies, compounding the issue.\n\nThe impact of higher interest rates on loans affects economies at the government level too - especially emerging markets, which may struggle to repay their debts.\n\nFor decades the Asia-Pacific region has depended on China as a major trading partner and for economic support in times of crisis.\n\nNow Asian economies are facing the lasting economic effects of how China has handled the pandemic.\n\nThe manufacture of products such as Tesla electric cars and Apple iPhones may get back on track as Beijing ends zero-Covid.\n\nBut renewed demand for commodities like oil and iron ore is likely to further increase prices just as inflation appeared to have peaked.\n\n\"China's relaxed domestic Covid restrictions are not a silver bullet. The transition will be bumpy and a source of volatility at least through the March quarter,\" Ms Ell said.\n\nBill Blaine, strategist and head of alternative assets at Shard Capital, described the IMF's warning as \"a good wake up and smell the coffee moment\".\n\n\"Even though labour markets around the world are fairly strong, the kind of jobs being created are not necessarily high paying and we're going to have a recession, we are not going to see interest rates fall as rapidly as the markets think,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"That's going to create a whole series of consequences that will keep markets on tenterhooks for at least the first half of 2023.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "President Vladimir Putin delivers his New Year's address surrounded by people in uniform\n\nThe clock in the Kremlin's Spassky Tower strikes midnight.\n\nThen Channel One TV kicks off 2023 with a pop song: \"I'm Russian and I will go all the way…I'm Russian, to spite the world.\"\n\nNext on Top of the (patriotic) Pops: \"I was born in the Soviet Union, I was made in the USSR!\"\n\nI change channels. At the Russia-1 New Year party, one of the station's most famous war correspondents is holding a champagne glass, toasting 2023 and wishing for \"more good news than bad from the front line\".\n\nSitting with him are men in military fatigues. A Moscow-installed official from Russian-occupied Ukraine declares: \"I wish us all peace. But peace will only come after our victory.\"\n\nYou get the gist. This year's festive extravaganzas on Russian TV are a strange mixture of let's party and let's win on the battlefield.\n\nThis is not normal TV fare for a New Year's night in Russia. Then again, this is not a normal New Year's night. \"Normal\" disappeared 10 months ago when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThere was nothing \"normal\" about Vladimir Putin's New Year address to the Russian people. For his annual speech the president normally stands alone outside the Kremlin. This year, standing behind him, were men and women in combat uniforms.\n\nIn his speech last year, the Kremlin leader pointed out that \"New Year's Eve is literally filled with good cheer and happy thoughts\".\n\nGood cheer and happy thoughts were in short supply this time round.\n\nPresident Putin used the address to promote the Kremlin's alternative reality: that in this conflict Russia's the hero and Ukraine and the West are the villains.\n\n\"For years, Western elites hypocritically assured us of their peaceful intentions…but in fact, they encouraged the neo-Nazis in every possible way,\" President Putin said.\n\n\"Defending our Motherland is the sacred duty we owe to our ancestors and descendants.\"\n\nWhen the Kremlin talks about \"defending our Motherland\", keep in mind that it was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Not the other way around.\n\nThe Russian President claims his country is benefiting enormously from the dramatic events of 2022: \"It was a year of… important steps towards Russia's full sovereignty.\"\n\n\"We lay the foundation for our common future, our true independence.\"\n\nThe assertion that, in this war, Russia is fighting for its sovereignty and independence is puzzling, to say the least.\n\nFor a start Russia has long been a sovereign, independent nation. Even if you accept Vladimir Putin's premise that Russia never achieved \"full sovereignty\" the question arises: why not? Mr Putin's been in power for 23 years. Long enough, you may think, to sort that.\n\nThe other thing President Putin does in his new year address is to divide Russians into us and them, into those who support his \"special military operation\" and those who don't.\n\n\"It was a year that put many things in their place,\" the Kremlin leader said, \"and drew a clear line between courage and heroism, on the one hand, and betrayal and cowardice on the other…\"\n\nIn 2023 we're likely to see the Kremlin drawing this line ever more clearly. The Russian authorities have mobilised all the country's resources for the \"special military operation\".\n\nThere is no room for debate or discussion: the government expects the public to rally round and to support the president. Those Russians who don't will be made to feel they're betraying their Motherland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The EU says it will launch proceedings to remove parliamentary immunity from two MEPs implicated in an ongoing corruption scandal.\n\nParliamentary President Roberta Metsola said she had taken the move after a request from Belgian police.\n\nBut her statement did not name the MEPs involved.\n\nThe scandal erupted last month after one MEP and three others were arrested on charges of corruption and money-laundering.\n\nWhile authorities have not named the country behind the bribery network, numerous EU sources have accused Qatar of running the operation.\n\nBut the Gulf state has strenuously denied any claims of misconduct as unfair and \"gravely misinformed\".\n\nMs Metsola - who has previously said the scandal showed that \"open, free, democratic societies are under attack\" - said she would now launch an \"urgent procedure\" to remove parliamentary immunity from the two MEPs following the police request.\n\nAn EU source told the BBC that officers had made contact with her office on 30 December.\n\nThe request must now be filed before the entire EU parliament on 16 January, before advancing to the body's legal affairs committee. A report on the allegations will then be prepared, before a vote in the full chamber on removing the MEPs' immunity.\n\nMs Metsola said she wanted the entire process completed by 13 February.\n\nGreek MEP Eva Kaili has been accused of accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes by authorities\n\nAll MEPs hold some limited immunity which means they can carry out their jobs, express their opinions and vote freely without living in fear of arrest or political persecution.\n\nBut the chamber can vote to strip them of that immunity after confidential proceedings. The process allows accused MEPs to present evidence and defend themselves.\n\nEuropean Parliament spokeswoman Yasmina Yakimova said last week that the purpose of immunity was to ensure \"that parliament can function\" but emphasised that it was \"not something that allows them to break the law more easily\".\n\nOne of the chamber's vice-presidents, Greek MEP Eva Kaili, was among those arrested during last month's raids.\n\nHowever, the 44-year-old Socialist MEP - who has denied any wrongdoing - has already been stripped of her immunity as she was caught \"red-handed\", with reports suggesting police found her with large \"bags of cash\".\n\nHer lawyer has denied allegations that she had accepted bribes amid reports that €150,000 had been found in her Brussels flat.\n\nSources said another €600,000 had been found at the home of one suspect, and another €750,000 in a suitcase in a Brussels hotel room.\n\nShe remains in pre-trial detention, along with her partner, Francesco Giorgi, Italian former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri and NGO head Niccolò Figà-Talamanca.\n\nAt a hearing last month, it emerged that Belgium's VSSE state security service had been working on an investigation into the corruption allegations for more than a year, with the aid of other EU countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three people dead in fire at New County Hotel in Perth\n\nThree people have died after a fire broke out at a Perth hotel.\n\nEmergency services including 21 ambulance crews, 60 firefighters and nine fire engines were called to the New County Hotel on County Place at about 05:10.\n\nHotel guests and two people from neighbouring flats were evacuated and police set up a cordon, urging members of the public to avoid the area.\n\nEleven people were treated at the scene by the Scottish Ambulance Service.\n\nThe fire was extinguished at about 06:30 and the bodies were discovered in a subsequent search.\n\nJust before midday, police began removing them from blue tents close to the hotel into a private ambulance.\n\nAt its peak 60 firefighters were sent to the scene\n\nThe emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 05:00\n\nResidents of the city centre street spoke of a sense of shock that such a tragedy could have happened on the second day of the new year.\n\n\"We were wakened at 05:00 when the alarms went off and the lights were flashing in my room,\" one resident told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"Obviously as we were watching it unfold, police incident units were arriving. The fire brigade and 21 ambulances were outside.\n\n\"It was pretty horrendous to watch. It was frightening. When I saw the private ambulance I knew it only meant one thing. Then I realised it was major.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said a dog also died in the fatal blaze.\n\nJason Sharp, the area's senior fire officer, said firefighters had worked hard to rescue a number of casualties from the building before transferring them into the care of paramedics.\n\nPolice Scotland said officers were conducting a joint investigation with the fire service.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison added: \"Our thoughts are very much with the families and loved ones of those who have died at what is a very difficult time for everyone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police confirmed that three people died at the scene of the fire.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is the local MSP, paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.\n\n\"The news of the major fire at the New County Hotel in Perth and the loss of life that has been associated with that has been an absolutely tragic start to 2023 in the city of Perth,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to everybody who has been involved in this tragedy and affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"There has been a huge effort by the emergency services to try to avoid the loss of life and address the very serious fire that has emerged, and a whole host of support work has been put in place to assist those who have been affected, and I'm grateful to everybody for their efforts in these very sad circumstances.\"\n\nFirst Minster Nicola Sturgeon described it as a \"sad and shocking incident\".\n\nIn a post on Twitter, she added: \"My deepest condolences are with the bereaved and my thoughts with all those involved.\n\n\"I am also hugely grateful to the firefighters who responded and to our other emergency services.\"\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale arrived at the scene of the fire\n\nCouncillor Eric Drysdale, who is deputy leader of Perth and Kinross Council told BBC Scotland News: \"The loss of three people in a dreadful fire is truly shocking and my heart goes out to the family and friends of the deceased.\"\n\nHe added that council staff were supporting neighbouring residents, hotel staff and guests - who were being looked after in another city centre hotel.\n\nAlthough the road closure had caused disruption for people and businesses, Mr Drysdale said it was essential for emergency services to preserve the scene.\n\nHe added: \"There have been three deaths and the investigation has to take its course. I'm sorry to people and indeed businesses on the street that have been affected. I'm sure everything is being done to restore access as soon as possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people gathered in central London for the annual New Year's Day parade, the first full one in three years.\n\nThe event, which has been taking place since 1987, saw more than 8,000 performers entertain flag-waving crowds along the route.\n\nThe parade, which was cancelled in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, is thought to have attracted more than 500,000 spectators.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan said there was \"no better place to welcome in the New Year than London\".\n\nFeathers, sequins and fun all featured at this year's event\n\nPerformers from more than 20 countries were involved\n\nThe three-hour parade takes place in the heart of London, covering Regent Street and Trafalgar Square\n\nLast year, just 600 ticket holders attended a pared-back production in a temporary outdoor arena, largely due to Covid restrictions on international performers and Londoners.\n\nThis year the three-hour parade took place in the heart of London, a kaleidoscope of colour covering well-known areas including Regent Street and Trafalgar Square.\n\nThe route began at Piccadilly, then headed east to Piccadilly Circus, before moving south down Regent Street and St James's, passing Pall Mall, to the finish point at Westminster.\n\nPearly Kings and Queens took part in the event\n\nMaximalism was a clear theme at this year's event\n\nThe cold weather did not stop the marching bands as they paraded from Piccadilly to Parliament Street\n\nIt seems the performers had one motto - the bigger costume the better\n\nIt was hard to tell who was the more excited, the performers or the crowd.\n\nParade director, Joe Bone, believes this year's event will bring a much-needed lift amid the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"We are all in it together,\" he said. \"The parade can be enjoyed by communities across the capital - and on TV around the world - it's our gift to London.\n\n\"We are delighted to see that so many performers have travelled from around the world.\n\n\"This is the first mass gathering of the parade since Covid. This is the first time since 2020 we have had a parade.\n\n\"It is amazing. It is what we do. It is what we love and it gives London this incredible opportunity to showcase itself to the world, to give the world a wave and say 'come on over'.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elle Edwards was celebrating with her sister and friends when she was fatally wounded\n\nThe sister of Elle Edwards, shot on Christmas Eve, has described has as \"her soulmate\".\n\nLucy Edwards said her older sister was \"her best friend\" and the \"kindest person ever\", who was \"beautiful, inside and out\".\n\nIn the social media tribute, she said she should not be waking up in the new year without her \"partner in crime\".\n\nMs Edwards, 26, was shot a week ago outside The Lighthouse in Wallasey, Wirral, while celebrating Christmas.\n\nShe was hit in the head as several shots were fired towards the entrance of the pub at about 23:50 GMT.\n\nFour men were also injured, including a 28-year-old who was critically hurt, but whose condition is no longer life-threatening.\n\nMerseyside Police has appealed for information about a dark-coloured Mercedes seen in the pub car park that was used in the attack.\n\nThree people arrested over Ms Edwards's death have been released by police.\n\nFloral tributes to Elle Edwards have been left outside the pub\n\nA 31-year-old from Tranmere was held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but has been released pending further inquiries.\n\nAnother Tranmere man, aged 30, who was previously arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, has been recalled to prison.\n\nMeanwhile, a 19-year-old woman from Rock Ferry, who was held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, has been released on bail.\n\nOn Friday, Ms Edwards's father paid tribute to her, describing her as \"the most beautiful and bright star\".\n\nIn a statement, the family also said that she had \"so many amazing plans for the future\", and that \"Christmas and our family will never be the same again without her\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fred White, former drummer of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, has died aged 67.\n\nA child drumming prodigy, Chicago-born White was one of the first members to join the group founded by his older brothers Maurice and Verdine.\n\nBassist Verdine said his \"amazing and talented\" sibling was now \"drumming with the angels\".\n\nAmong the tributes to White, singer Lenny Kravitz called him a \"true king\" and said he was \"blessed\" to have been influenced by him.\n\nWhite began drumming at nine years old, and featured on his first gold record, Donny Hathaway's Live, at just 16.\n\nIn 1974, he joined Earth Wind & Fire, whose best-known hits include September and Boogie Wonderland.\n\nA year later, the group shot to fame with its triple platinum album That's the Way of the World.\n\nThe funk and soul outfit became one of the best-selling groups of all time, with more than 90 million records sold worldwide.\n\nOver the years the group won six Grammys and four American Music Awards, as well as entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and gaining a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nFred's death was announced on Instagram by Verdine White, who did not give a cause.\n\n\"Our family is saddened today with the loss of an amazing and talented family member, our beloved brother Frederick Eugene 'Freddie' White,\" he wrote.\n\nAs well as his drumming success, White was a wonderful brother who was \"always entertaining and delightfully mischievous\" he added.\n\n\"We could always count on him to make a seemingly bad situation more light hearted! He will live in our hearts forever, rest in power beloved Freddie!\"\n\nIn response, Kravitz wrote: \"Sending my love and deepest condolences to you and the family.\n\n\"I was blessed to have been in his presence and blessed to have been influenced by him. A true king. Rest in power.\"", "Harry: The Interview on ITV1 at 9pm on 8 January Prince Harry is set to release his autobiography Spare on 10 January\n\nPrince Harry has said \"I would like to get my father back, I would like to have my brother back,\" in a trailer for an interview ahead of the release of his upcoming memoirs.\n\nIn a trailer for the sit-down interview with ITV's Tom Bradby, he says \"they've shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile,\" although it is not clear who he is referring to.\n\nThe prince also said he was \"betrayed\" in a trailer for US broadcaster CBS.\n\nCBS and ITV have only released short trailers for their programmes. Both interviews will be broadcast on 8 January, two days before his memoir, Spare, is published.\n\nIn the CBS trailers, Prince Harry - the Duke of Sussex - speaks to CBS 60 Minutes journalist Anderson Cooper in a chat the broadcaster described as \"explosive\".\n\nThe duke claims he was \"betrayed\" along with \"briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife\".\n\nHe said: \"The family motto is 'never complain, never explain', but it's just a motto.\n\n\"They will feed or have a conversation with a correspondent, and that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story, and at the bottom of it, they will say they have reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.\n\n\"But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting.\n\n\"So when we're being told for the last six years, 'we can't put a statement out to protect you', but you do it for other members of the family, there becomes a point when silence is betrayal.\"\n\nIn a second trailer released by CBS, Prince Harry said he could not see himself returning to the institution as a full-time royal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nITV said its interview would cover Prince Harry's personal relationships and \"never-before-heard details\" surrounding the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nFilmed in California where the Sussexes live, the ITV sit-down will also see the duke refer to \"the leaking and the planting\" of stories, before adding: \"I want a family, not an institution\".\n\n\"They feel as though it is better to keep us somehow as the villains,\" he adds.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ITV This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpare, which is anticipated to give details about disagreements with his brother the Prince William, will be released on 10 January.\n\nPublisher Penguin Random House has called it \"a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief\".\n\nThe book follows the release of Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, in which Prince Harry said it was \"terrifying\" to have his brother \"scream and shout\" at him during a summit to discuss the couple's future in the Royal Family.\n\nBuckingham Palace declined to comment on the claims made in the programme.\n\nThe Sussexes also talked about why they decided to give up royal duties and move to the US, criticising the British press and the inner workings of the royal institution.\n\nNow we have Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper.\n\nThe new trailers from ITV and CBS 60 Minutes tease the two big TV interviews Prince Harry has done ahead of his book \"Spare\" coming out.\n\nThe themes discussed are largely what we've heard from both Harry and Meghan so far - an institution that didn't support them, a family breakdown proving hard to fix, and a media that is manipulated by Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe difference this time may be the two people conducting the interviews.\n\nSo far, the story shared has been from the perspective of Harry and Meghan.\n\nThey have shared their sadness and frustration.\n\nWith no comment from Buckingham Palace, it is difficult to present another side of the story.\n\nBut both Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper are respected journalists.\n\nIt is hard to imagine that they wouldn't want this to be a more challenging, questioning conversation with Prince Harry compared to anything we've heard so far.\n\nWe will know for sure next Sunday.", "Police have charged a 19-year-old with two counts of attempted murder over an attack on three police officers near Times Square on New Year's Eve.\n\nTrevor Bickford - who was also charged with two counts of attempted assault - travelled to NYC by train from Maine before the attack, police said.\n\nUS media reported his family recently told the FBI they feared he was being radicalised by Islamist extremists.\n\nPolice Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the attack was \"unprovoked\".\n\nThe three officers - one of whom suffered a fractured skull after being struck by the machete - were all released from hospital on Sunday.\n\nMr Bickford is believed by investigators to have travelled to the city on 29 December after withdrawing thousands of dollars in cash from his bank account and purchasing the knife later used in the attack.\n\nHe allegedly launched his attack shortly before 22:00 local time on Saturday near an area that had been set up for New Year's Eve celebrations, Ms Sewell said.\n\nDuring the attack he attempted to strike police over the head with his weapon, before one of the officers fired their weapon and hit him in the shoulder, officials said.\n\nMr Bickford remains in hospital under police custody because of the injuries sustained in the attack.\n\nNYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the attack had been \"unprovoked\".\n\nAccording to US media reports, his mother and aunt had reported him to the FBI over their fear that he had been radicalised by extreme Islamists.\n\nCNN, citing law enforcement sources, reported that was interviewed by FBI agents in Maine in mid-December after he said he wanted to travel overseas and help fellow Muslims.\n\nThe network also reported that a backpack found at the scene contained a diary in which he expressed his desire to join the Afghan Taliban and believed he would die in the attack.\n\nAhead of New Year's Day, the NYPD had released intelligence reports suggesting that some terrorist groups were preparing for a potential attack.\n\n\"Throughout December, multiple pro-ISIS users disseminated extremist propaganda graphics broadly calling for attacks in advance of the New Year, advocating a wide range of low-tech tactics,\" the assessment report said.", "Kyrylo Budanov told the BBC that the war was at a stalemate\n\nFighting in Ukraine is currently at a deadlock as neither Ukraine nor Russia can make significant advances, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency has said, while Kyiv waits for more advanced weapons from Western allies.\n\n\"The situation is just stuck,\" Kyrylo Budanov told the BBC in an interview. \"It doesn't move.\"\n\nAfter Ukrainian troops recaptured the southern city of Kherson in November, most of the fiercest battles have been around Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region. Elsewhere, Russian forces appear to be on the defensive while winter has slowed down the pace of Ukraine's ground operations across the 1,000km (620-mile) front line.\n\nMr Budanov said Russia was \"now completely at a dead end\" suffering very significant losses, and he believed the Kremlin had decided to announce another mobilisation of conscripts. But, he added, Ukrainian forces still lacked resources to move forward in multiple areas.\n\n\"We can't defeat them in all directions comprehensively. Neither can they,\" he said. \"We're very much looking forward to new weapons supplies, and to the arrival of more advanced weapons.\"\n\nEarlier this month, after a series of Russian military setbacks, Ukrainian officials warned about the possibility of another ground offensive by Moscow's forces from Belarus at the start of 2023. The push, they said, could include a second attempt to seize the capital, Kyiv, and involve tens of thousands of reservists being trained in Russia.\n\nMr Budanov, however, dismissed Russia's activities in Belarus, including the movement of thousands of troops, as attempts to make Ukraine divert troops from the battlefields in the south and east to the north.\n\nUkrainian forces are asking for more Western weaponry to defeat the Russian invaders\n\nRecently, he said, a train loaded with Russian soldiers stopped in a location close to the Belarus-Ukraine border and returned, several hours later, with everyone on board.\n\n\"They did it openly during the day, so that everyone would see it, even if [we] didn't want to,\" adding that he saw no real, imminent threat from the troops in Belarus. \"As of now, I don't see any signs of preparations for an invasion of Kyiv or northern areas from Belarus.\"\n\nThe interview in Mr Budanov's dimly lit office in Kyiv took place days after Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to the Belarusian capital, Minsk, for the first time in more than three years. His visit raised speculation that he might try to persuade President Alexander Lukashenko, a long-time ally, to send Belarusian troops to Ukraine.\n\nBelarus has been used by Russian forces as a launchpad for attacks, but Mr Budanov believes Belarusian society will not support any further involvement in the war and analysts have questioned the level of preparedness of its 48,000-strong army. \"That's why President Lukashenko is taking all steps to prevent a disaster for his country,\" he said.\n\nSince retaking Kherson, Ukrainian forces have been engaged in brutal fighting with Russian troops around Bakhmut, in trench warfare that has been compared to World War One. For Russia, capturing the city would disrupt Ukraine's supply lines and open a route for an advance towards other Ukrainian strongholds in the east, including Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.\n\nUkrainian forces have been defending Bakhmut from a series of Russian attacks for weeks\n\nThe offensive, Mr Budanov said, was being led by the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary army. Its founder, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, is believed to want to capture the town as a political prize, amid rivalries between senior Russian officials.\n\nAway from the battlefields, Russia has carried out a relentless air campaign since mid-October, targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure with missiles and drones, leaving millions without electricity, heating and water. Mr Budanov said the strikes were likely to continue, but suggested Russia would not be able to sustain the level of the attacks because of dwindling missile reserves, and the inability of Russian industry to replenish them.\n\nAlthough Iran has provided most of the drones used in Russia's attacks, the spy chief says it has so far refused to deliver missiles to Russia, aware that Western countries are likely to impose measures on Tehran, already under crippling sanctions because of its nuclear programme.\n\nThe war may be deadlocked for now, but Mr Budanov is adamant that Ukraine will ultimately retake all the territory now under occupation, including Crimea, the peninsula that Russia seized in 2014. He envisages Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders, when independence was declared with the collapse of the Soviet Union.", "The body of Brazilian football legend Pelé has been moved from the hospital where he died to the stadium of his former club Santos.\n\nPelé's wake will be held at Santos Football club later today and his coffin will be placed in the centre of the pitch for the public to pay respects.\n\nHe died at the age of 82 in São Paulo on Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nMartina Navratilova has been diagnosed with both throat and breast cancer.\n\nThe 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, who previously had breast cancer in 2010, will start treatment in New York later this month.\n\nNavratilova, 66, said both cancers had been caught at an early stage.\n\n\"The double whammy is serious, but fixable, and I'm hoping for a favourable outcome,\" she said. \"It's going to stink for a while, but I'll fight with all I have got.\"\n\nNavratilova noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck during November's WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas.\n\nDuring the tests, a lump was also discovered in her breast, which was later diagnosed as an unrelated cancer.\n\n\"Both of these cancers are in their early stages with great outcomes,\" Navratilova's representative Mary Greenham added.\n\nNavratilova was due to cover this month's Australian Open from the Tennis Channel studio in Melbourne, but will instead make some occasional remote appearances.\n\nThe nine-time Wimbledon singles champion said she felt \"helpless\" after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, but decided to go public with the news to help other women suffering similar health problems.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPope Francis has led tributes to his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who has died, aged 95.\n\nBenedict had been \"noble\" and \"kind\" - and \"gifted\" to the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope said.\n\nUS President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Lula are among dozens of leaders to praise the former pontiff.\n\nBenedict resigned in 2013 because of poor health - the first pope to do so in 600 years. His funeral service will be held at the Vatican on 5 January.\n\nThe 265th leader of the Catholic Church, Benedict was a controversial figure. While some mourners hailed him resolute defender of the faith, others criticised his tenure for a failure to tackle allegations of the clerical sexual abuse.\n\nBut hours after the announcement of his death, Pope Francis praised his \"dearest\" predecessor, emphasising \"his sacrifices offered for the good of the Church\".\n\nIn the US, the White House released a statement from President Joe Biden - who is only the second Catholic after John F Kennedy to hold the nation's highest office.\n\nRecalling spending time with Benedict at the Vatican in 2011, the president said that he would \"be remembered as a renowned theologian, with a lifetime of devotion to the Church, guided by his principles and faith\".\n\nLeaders of countries with large Catholic populations across the world also paid tribute, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailing Benedict as a \"giant of faith and reason\" and \"a great man whom history will not forget\".\n\nIreland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar described the former pope as a \"humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord\".\n\nIn Brazil - the largest Catholic nation in the world - incoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wished \"comfort to the faithful and admirers of the Holy Father\".\n\nAnd his predecessor - President Jair Bolsonaro - hailed Benedict's \"masterful work as a great theologian\" and said he left an \"immense legacy for the Catholic Church, for all Christians and for humanity\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Pope Francis expresses thanks for the life and service of Benedict XVI\n\nIn the UK, the new monarch King Charles III said that he received news of the former Pope's death with \"deep sadness\".\n\nSending a message of condolence to Pope Francis, he highlighted Benedict's \"constant efforts to promote peace and goodwill to all people\" and his actions to strengthen bonds between Catholics and Anglicans.\n\nPrime Minister Rishi Sunak called Benedict XVI \"a great theologian whose UK visit in 2010 was an historic moment for both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout our country\".\n\nThe head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said Benedict transformed his image in the UK when he visited.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Cardinal Nichols said he arrived with a reputation of being \"God's Rottweiler\", but left being compared to \"everybody's favourite great-uncle or just uncle\".\n\nUN chief Antonio Guterres praised the former pontiff for his \"tenacious commitment to non-violence and peace\".\n\nGermany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the late pope as \"a formative figure of the Catholic Church, a forthright personality and a clever theologian\".\n\nBenedict was born in Bavaria as Joseph Ratzinger and in 1977 was appointed archbishop of Munich.\n\nReaction to his death in the city was varied - with one resident describing him as \"conservative\", while taking pride from the fact that he was German.\n\nAnother was more critical.\n\n\"I thought when he came to power he would finally bring some fresh air into the Catholic Church and bring an end to celibacy. But unfortunately, he disappointed me,\" Christa Herwig told Reuters news agency.\n\nIn 2019 Benedict blamed clerical sexual abuse on the sexual freedom of the 1960s and the rejection of God's teaching.\n\nFor much of his papacy, the Catholic Church faced allegations, legal claims and official reports into decades of child abuse by priests.\n\nEarlier this year the former pope acknowledged that errors had been made in the handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop of Munich between 1977 and 1982.\n\nThe admission came after a German legal probe into the Catholic Church alleged that he failed to act over four child sex abuse cases.\n\nIn a letter released by the Vatican, the former pontiff asked forgiveness for any \"grievous fault\" but denied personal wrongdoing.\n\nWith the death of Pope Benedict XVI the Catholic world has lost an unrivalled receptacle of theological knowledge, intellectualism and lived experience.\n\nWhile little has changed in terms of doctrinal discussion at the Vatican in the nearly 10 years since he stepped down, what has changed is the spirit of the papacy.\n\nPope Francis is widely regarded to have had a more pastoral approach and his appointments of cardinals show a clear shift towards Asia and Latin America.\n\nIn recent years, though he has not appeared to court it, the Pope Emeritus became something of a lightning rod for some opposed to the new Pope.\n\nThere had been speculation that Pope Francis, who himself has been suffering ill health, had been contemplating stepping down, but was reluctant to do so if it meant there would be three popes in Rome.\n\nIt was not quite \"The Two Popes\", but in spite of their differences, there was by all accounts immense respect shown between predecessor and successor. We are likely to hear about that in the coming days and particularly in Pope Francis's homily at the funeral on Thursday.", "US composting firms such as Recompose - in Seattle - say the process is an environmentally friendly option after death\n\nNew York has become the latest US state to allow so-called human composting.\n\nA person can now have their body turned into soil after their death - which is seen as an environmentally friendly alternative to a burial or cremation.\n\nAlso known as \"natural organic reduction\", the practice sees a body decompose over several weeks after being shut in a container.\n\nIn 2019, Washington was the first US state to legalise it. Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and California followed suit.\n\nNew York is therefore the sixth American jurisdiction to allow human composting, following Saturday's stamp of approval from Kathy Hochul, the state's Democratic governor.\n\nThe process happens in special above-ground facilities.\n\nA body is put in a closed vessel along with selected materials such as woodchips, alfalfa and straw grass, and gradually breaks down under the action of microbes.\n\nAfter a period of around a month - and a heating process to kill off any contagion - loved ones are given the resulting soil. This can be used in planting flowers, vegetables or trees.\n\nOne US firm, Recompose, has said its service can save a tonne of carbon compared with a cremation or a traditional burial.\n\nEmissions of carbon dioxide are a major contributor to climate change, because they act to trap the Earth's heat in a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect.\n\nTraditional burials involving a coffin also consume wood, land and other natural resources.\n\nProponents of human composting say it is not only a more environmental option, but also a more practical one in cities where land for cemeteries is limited.\n\nNew York's approval of the process was \"a huge step for accessible green death care nationwide\", one Washington-based provider, Return Home, told the New York Post.\n\nBut, for some, there are ethical questions about what happens to the soil which results from the composting.\n\nCatholic bishops in New York state reportedly opposed the legislation, arguing that human bodies should not be treated like \"household waste\".\n\nConcerns have also been raised about the cost of composting. But the firm Recompose - whose facility in Seattle is one of the world's first - says its $7,000 (£5,786) fee is \"comparable\" with rival options.\n\nThe median sum in the US for a funeral with a burial was $7,848 in 2021, or $6,971 for a funeral with a cremation, according to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA).\n\nHuman composting is already legal throughout Sweden. And natural burials - in which a body is buried without a coffin or with a biodegradable coffin - are permitted in the UK.", "Western countries must be prepared to provide long-term support to Ukraine as Russia shows no signs of relenting, Nato's secretary general has said.\n\nJens Stoltenberg told the BBC that military support would ensure the survival of Ukraine as a sovereign country and force Russia to sit down and negotiate an end to the war.\n\nRussia's leader accuses the West of using Ukraine to destroy his country.\n\nRussian missiles and drones have hit Ukraine on New Year's Eve and Day.\n\nRussia's partial mobilisation programme, ordered in September, showed Moscow had no desire to end the war at present, Mr Stoltenberg told Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"The Ukrainian forces had the momentum for several months, but we also know that Russia has mobilised many more forces, many of them are now training,\" he said.\n\n\"All that indicates that they are prepared to continue the war and also try to potentially launch a new offensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a New Year's speech, in which he tried to rally people behind his troops fighting in Ukraine, saying that the country's future was at stake.\n\nHis Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky accused Mr Putin of hiding behind his troops rather than leading them.\n\nTwelve out of 20 Russian cruise missiles were shot down on Saturday, the head of Ukraine's armed forces said. A further 45 Iranian-made kamikaze drones were shot down around Kyiv just hours into the New Year on Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Force said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person died and dozens were injured in the attacks.\n\nThe strike fuelled anger and hate among Ukrainians already tired of Russia's unrelenting air campaign.\n\nAs explosions rocked the capital, some residents sang the national anthem, while officials accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians while they gathered to celebrated the New Year.\n\nAndriy Nebitov, the head of the Kyiv police, posted an image to social media of a downed drone with the words \"Happy New Year\" scribbled across it in Russian.\n\nA downed drone found in a children's playground in Kyiv with the words 'Happy New Year' written in Russian on it\n\n\"That is everything you need to know about the terror state and its army,\" he wrote on Facebook, adding that the remains had crashed in a children's playground.\n\nThough no let up in hostilities looks to be in sight, Mr Stoltenberg said Nato must ensure Ukraine stays in a strong position in the event of negotiation talks between the two sides.\n\n\"We need to provide support to Ukraine now, including military support, because that's the only way to convince Russia that they have to sit down and negotiate in good faith and respect Ukraine as a sovereign independent nation in Europe,\" Mr Stoltenberg said.\n\n\"What we do know is that what Ukraine can achieve around that table is totally dependent on the strength on the battlefield.\"\n\nPrior to Mr Stoltenberg's interview, France - a Nato member - reiterated its backing for Ukraine.\n\n\"We will be beside you without fail. We will help you until victory is achieved,\" French President Emmanuel Macron said in his own New Year's address.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Huge queues build to see the former Pope lying in state at the Vatican\n\nThousands of people have been paying their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at his lying in state in the Vatican.\n\nHe died on New Year's Eve at the age of 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ill health.\n\nPope Francis will preside over Thursday's funeral - the first time a Pope will be buried by his successor.\n\nAs dawn broke over the Vatican, a queue had already formed at the edge of St Peter's Square.\n\nAnd Vatican police said some 40,000 people filed past his body in the first five hours, where a pair of Swiss Guards - the traditional papal bodyguards - stood watch.\n\nAt the very front was Father Alfredo Elnar, 30, from the Philippines. He said he had studied and admired the theological writings of the former pontiff, and spoke of an emptiness since his death.\n\nA little further back, Sister Marianna Patricevic, a nun from Croatia, talked of how grateful she was for all the late pope had done - saying there was not a subject she studied at university where they did not discuss his views.\n\nFather Richard Kunst, visiting from the US, said when he passes the Pope's body, he would pray for him - but also for a miracle to help a friend at home who is dying of cancer.\n\nBenedict XVI became the first Pope to resign in 600 years in 2013, citing ailing health.\n\nHis body will be displayed for three days in an open casket at St Peter's Basilica, with people allowed to pay their respects until 7pm each evening.\n\nMany of those who filed into the basilica on Monday made a sign of the cross or stopped to pray as they passed the former Pope's body - which has been displayed without papal insignia or regalia. Others took pictures on their mobile phones.\n\nOne man who had been inside, Mountain Butorac, said the experience was \"beautiful\" and \"humbling\".\n\nThe Catholic pilgrimage organiser was queueing to view the former Pope's body for a second time, this time with his family. He said the mood was \"sombre\" but \"joyful\".\n\nHe described Benedict as a \"a very gentle\" and \"humble\" man, who was like a \"papal grandfather\" to him.\n\nBefore the church was opened to the public, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Georgia Meloni were among those who paid their respects.\n\nA picture was released of Pope Benedict's lying in state\n\nThe funeral will take place in St Peter's Square, before the Pope Emeritus is laid to rest in the tombs beneath the Basilica.\n\nThe Vatican released pictures of the body on Sunday, dressed in red papal mourning robes and wearing a gold-trimmed mitre.\n\nTributes have poured in from around the world, and the funeral is expected to draw crowds of thousands.\n\nThe last papal funeral, that of Pope John Paul II in 2005, was one of the largest Christian gatherings in history, and drew an estimated four million people to Rome.\n\nBenedict asked that the funeral be marked by simplicity, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists.\n\nDetails of the guest list have not been released, but the Vatican has said that it will include delegations from Italy and Benedict's native Germany.\n\nPope Francis paid tribute to his \"dearest\" predecessor after his death.\n\nUS President Joe Biden lauded the former Pope's \"lifetime of devotion to the Church\", while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed him as \"a great man whom history will not forget\".\n\nIn Brazil - the largest Catholic nation in the world - incoming President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he wished \"comfort to the faithful and admirers of the Holy Father\".\n\nPope Benedict was a controversial figure, and some have criticised him for failing to tackle allegations of clerical sexual abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Pope Francis expresses thanks for the life and service of Benedict XVI", "Relatives gathered outside the prison gates after the shootings\n\nDozens of inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico after gunmen, suspected to be members of a drug cartel, opened fire on the facility.\n\nThe men arrived outside the Chihuahua state prison shortly after 07:00 (14:00 GMT) in armoured vehicles and began firing on the guards, authorities say.\n\nTen were killed, along with four prisoners, during the audacious and brutal attack in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.\n\nFighting within the prison, where inmates from differing criminal bands and drug cartels are housed in separate cellblocks, also left 13 people injured. Four of them are being treated in hospital, prison authorities said.\n\nOutside, relatives gathered, hugging each other and crying as they waited for news.\n\nOne woman said the attackers were dressed in black, were better armed than the police, and were shooting at any vehicles that passed by.\n\nThe army and the national guard have been called in to support local authorities in the aftermath.\n\nThe city has seen years of violent clashes between the rival Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, killing thousands of people in the past decade.\n\nThe prison was also the site of an uprising last August in which a riot inside the jail spilled over into the streets, killing 11 people.\n\nBoth incidents underline the strength which the drug cartels still exert on the prison system.\n\nProsecutors in the city, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, have promised an investigation into the latest attack.\n\nMinutes before the escape, armed men fired on police on a nearby street, setting off a car chase that ended up with four men being detained.\n\nIn a different area of the city, two more drivers died after what officials called armed aggression.\n\nAuthorities have not yet said whether the incidents are believed to be linked.", "Ukraine's president says Russia is planning a protracted campaign of drone attacks in a bid to demoralise Ukraine.\n\nVolodymyr Zelensky said he had received intelligence reports suggesting that Moscow would launch the attacks using Iranian-made Shahed drones.\n\nIt comes after Ukraine carried out a strike that it said killed hundreds of Russian soldiers in the Donbas region.\n\nIn an extremely rare admission of battlefield losses, Russia said the attack killed 63 of its troops.\n\nSpeaking from Kyiv in his nightly address, Mr Zelensky said Russia planned to \"exhaust\" Ukraine with a prolonged wave of drone attacks.\n\n\"We must ensure - and we will do everything for this - that this goal of terrorists fails like all the others,\" he said. \"Now is the time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky should be especially attentive.\"\n\nRussian drone strikes on Ukraine appear to have increased in recent days, with Moscow launching attacks on cities and power stations across the country over the past three nights.\n\nCorrespondents say that as well as the strain on Ukraine's military - which has to track and intercept the drones - there is also an attritional impact on the civilian population which lives with the uncertainty, fear and disruption the attacks cause across the country.\n\nRussia has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure for several months, destroying power stations and plunging millions into darkness during the country's freezing winter.\n\nMr Zelensky said Ukrainian air defences had already shot down over 80 Iranian-made drones in the opening days of 2023.\n\nElsewhere, Ukraine has confirmed it carried out a strike in the occupied region of Donetsk, which it earlier claimed killed 400 Russian troops.\n\nRussian officials contested the figure, saying only 63 troops were killed. Neither claim has been verified, and access to the site is restricted.\n\nHowever, some of those killed and wounded came from Russia's south-western Samara region, according to governor Dmitry Azarov, who urged families to contact a hotline or local military offices.\n\nFamilies laid wreaths in the region's main cities of Samara and Tolyatti on Tuesday to remember those killed.\n\nFootage, apparently from the scene of the attack, was posted by the Ukrainian military\n\nThe Ukrainian attack, thought to have taken place as Russians celebrated the new year, hit a vocational school building in the city of Makiivka, where Russian soldiers were stationed.\n\nIt is extremely rare for Moscow to confirm any battlefield casualties.\n\nBut this was such a deadly attack, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, that staying silent probably wasn't an option.\n\nIt is the highest number of deaths acknowledged by Moscow in a single incident since the war began 10 months ago.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Russia's defence ministry said Ukrainian forces fired six rockets using the US-made Himars rocket system at a building housing Russian troops. Two of them were shot down, it added.\n\nIgor Girkin, a Russian nationalist commentator, earlier said that hundreds had been killed and wounded, although the exact number was unknown because of the large number still missing.\n\nThe building itself was \"almost completely destroyed\", he said.\n\nHe added that the victims were mainly mobilised troops - that is, recent conscripts, rather than those who chose to fight. He also said ammunition was stored in the same building as the soldiers, making the damage worse.\n\n\"Almost all of the military equipment was also destroyed, which stood right next to the building without any disguise whatsoever,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nGirkin is a well-known military blogger, who led Russian-backed separatists when they occupied of large parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014. He was recently found guilty of murder for his part in the shooting down of flight MH17.\n\nDespite his hawkish stance, he regularly criticises the Russian military leadership and their tactics.\n\nSeveral Russian lawmakers have also strongly criticised military commanders over the attack, saying commanders must be held to account for allowing troops to concentrate in an unprotected building within range of Ukrainian rockets, where ammunition may also have been stored.\n\nSergei Mironov - a former chairman of the Russian Senate - said it was obvious than neither intelligence nor air defence had worked properly.\n\nAccording to the Ukrainian military's earlier statement, 300 were wounded in addition to the estimated 400 killed. Ukraine's army claims, almost daily, to have killed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of soldiers in attacks.\n\nA later statement from the Ukrainian military's general staff said \"up to 10 units of enemy military equipment\" were \"destroyed and damaged\" in the strikes, and that \"the losses of personnel of the occupiers are being specified\".\n\nThe US-based Institute for the Study of War said the defence ministry in Moscow was probably trying to deflect the blame for the security lapse on to Russia's proxy authorities in Donetsk.\n\nLocal security officials told Tass news agency that the cause of the strike was that Ukrainian forces had been able to detect the use of Russian mobile phones by servicemen arriving in the building.\n\nMakiivka is just to the east of Donetsk city", "Protesters opposed to Lula's election have been camped out outside the barracks\n\nFollowing the arrest in Brasilia of a supporter of outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly trying to set off a bomb to create chaos ahead of the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil's new president, the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson examines the risks that hardcore Lula opponents pose for his presidency.\n\nOutside the military barracks in the centre of São Paulo, there is a small group of about 50 people protesting.\n\nDraped in Brazil's flag, they are chanting: \"Armed forces, save Brazil.\" Some are waving banners with the words: \"Our flag will never be red - out with communism\".\n\nAround them, dozens of tarpaulin tents have been set up, most of them green, blue and yellow, the colours of the national flag, which are now associated with the country's far-right.\n\nOne young man who introduces himself as Rodrigo is camping out in one of them, along with four other people.\n\nRodrigo says he is willing to stay outside the barracks long-term if need be\n\nHe pitched up just after October's presidential election in which the far-right candidate he was backing - incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro - narrowly lost to left-winger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\n\n\"It's a greater cause,\" he says, explaining that he is here to stay and not considering returning home.\n\nWhen asked whether Jair Bolsonaro is the driving force behind his decision to stay on and protest, he admits he is.\n\n\"He's influential on social networks - the things he posts about family, God, liberty, which are our principles, make us stay here.\"\n\nBut fellow protester Luca Oliveira disagrees - he says their movement is bigger than the soon-to-be former leader.\n\n\"Our voting system? It's a fraud,\" says Luca. He claims Brazil's electronic voting system is prone to irregularities and that the \"biased\" Supreme Court is doing nothing about it.\n\nIt is a familiar argument. Jair Bolsonaro made it throughout the election campaign, providing no proof to back it up. But repeat the allegations over and over again, and that is enough to keep this group of people on the streets.\n\n\"We are calling for something different,\" Luca says, without defining exactly what that is.\n\nThe truth is, people here want the military to get involved.\n\n\"I come here mainly because we have reason to believe that the elections were not done in a clean manner,\" explains 22-year-old Sofia, a law student who did not want to give her surname.\n\nSofia is a law student who thinks the army should intervene\n\n\"Lula da Silva is an ex-convict. Having him become president is basically saying it's OK for you to be a criminal here in Brazil,\" she says referring to the time the president-elect served in jail before his conviction was annulled.\n\nSofia argues that under Brazil's constitution, it falls to the army to intervene to take care of national security in cases when there is something wrong with the elections or the electronic voting machines.\n\nShe says that the armed forces should take \"whatever measures necessary\" to ensure \"the election is correct\".\n\nBut there is no sign that Brazil's military wants to intervene.\n\nA report by the armed forces on the security of Brazil's electronic voting system found no evidence of fraud during the elections, although it did point out some vulnerabilities that it said could be exploited.\n\nThat sliver of doubt is enough to keep these protesters hoping for a radical U-turn from the authorities.\n\nIt is a scene replicated across Brazil since Lula won the presidential elections at the end of October.\n\nOne demonstrator is carrying a sign which reads \"#Brazilianspring\" in a reference to the mass protests in 2013, when more than a million people took part in anti-government protests in about 100 cities across the country.\n\nThe demonstrators believe the election was \"stolen\" by Lula\n\nPolitical scientist Jonas Medeiros says these protests are nothing like on the scale of the unrest the country experienced back then.\n\nBut he does caution that what is happening now is worth paying attention to. \"There is a tendency in the progressive camp as well as the media to minimise their [the protests'] importance,\" says Mr Medeiros.\n\n\"That they are just a minority of interventionist pariahs, so don't give them any attention. But these people are building networks, possible civil organisations and this is the seed for the future of the opposition that Lula will have to deal with for the next four years.\"\n\nMichele Prado is also a political scientist. She knows first-hand how these protesters operate, because until recently she was one of them.\n\nShe voted for Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 and talks about having become \"radicalised\" before she realised that many of arguments she had read on right-wing WhatsApp groups \"weren't democratic\".\n\nShe says she fell for the narrative which \"appeared to defend democracy and liberty\".\n\nBut even though Ms Prado may have had a change of heart, she insists Mr Bolsonaro's influence remains strong.\n\n\"Just look at his behaviour until now. He's still not given a declaration [after Lula's victory],\" she says referring to the fact that the outgoing president has not admitted defeat.\n\nJair Bolsonaro has not been seen in public much since he lost in the election\n\n\"He left the door open for extremist mobilisation to continue. He legitimises this radicalisation and the extreme right because he himself spent his entire mandate attacking democratic institutions, disrespecting minorities, the separation of power,\" she explains.\n\nLaw student Sofia is one of those still holding out for the armed forces to somehow prevent the handover of power from happening.\n\nShe says she believes \"the armed forces will actually do something\" to stop Lula from taking office.\n\nIt is an unlikely outcome that those protesting alongside her outside the army barracks may still be holding out for, but one that few Brazilians truly believe will occur.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour people have died after a mid-air collision between two helicopters near Sea World on Australia's Gold Coast.\n\nQueensland Police say initial investigations suggest the crash happened as one aircraft was taking off and the other was landing.\n\nThose who died were travelling in the same helicopter. Three other passengers are in a critical condition.\n\nTwo UK citizens were among those killed in the crash, a foreign office spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nThey added that officials were supporting the families of the two victims - who have not been named - and would remain \"in contact with the local authorities\".\n\nFive of the six people on the other aircraft, which made an emergency landing, suffered minor injuries.\n\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese said the country had been left shocked by the \"terrible and tragic incident\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with all those affected, including first responders, and my deepest sympathies are with those who are grieving,\" he said.\n\nThe Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating the collision, which happened at about 14:00 local time (04:00 GMT).\n\nThe two aircraft came down near a tourist strip known as Main Beach, about 75km (47 miles) south of Brisbane.\n\nGary Worrell of the Queensland Police Service said: \"It's a difficult scene, Due to the area it's located, on the sand bank, it was difficult to gain access, to get our emergency services to the scene to manage it appropriately.\"\n\nImages from the site show debris strewn around the area and a mangled helicopter apparently lying upside down opposite the Sea World resort.\n\nThe other helicopter has the popular marine park's logo on its fuselage and appears to have made an emergency landing after the collision.\n\nMr Worrell said members of the public and police had tried to remove passengers from the aircraft and performed first aid on the injured.\n\nAccording to the Sea World website the park offers sightseeing helicopter flights for tourists, as well as carrying out other charter operations.\n\nThe resort's owner, Village Roadshow Theme Parks, offered its condolences to all those impacted and said Sea World Helicopters is an independent operator.\n\nATSB chief commissioner Angus Mitchell asked eyewitnesses who saw the collision or the helicopters in flight to contact investigators.\n\nA preliminary report will be made public in the next six to eight weeks, with a final report to follow once the investigation is complete, he added.\n\nQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called the incident an \"unthinkable tragedy\" and said her \"deepest sympathies are with each of the families and everyone affected by this terrible accident\".\n\nThe Gold Coast region is currently in its peak tourist season, with children on their summer breaks.", "Pressure on the NHS is \"intolerable and unsustainable\", according to the British Medical Association (BMA) which represents doctors.\n\nChair of the BMA council, Professor Phil Banfield, has called on the government to \"step up and take immediate action\" to solve the crisis.\n\nHospitals are facing soaring demands, which experts believe is in part driven by winter illnesses like flu and Covid.\n\nThe government said it recognised the pressures faced by the NHS.\n\nA number of hospitals have declared critical incidents in recent days, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.\n\nAccording to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments - the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record and some A&E departments are in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nDr Ian Higginson, the college's vice-president, said he was in \"no doubt\" there was a risk to patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live the waits being experienced by patients in emergency departments were \"appalling\" - and said he had heard of waits of up to four days.\n\n\"Emergency departments are in a really difficult and in some cases a complete state of crisis right now... and in many cases we are unable to provide care at the standard we would like.\"\n\nOn Sunday, RCEM president Dr Adrian Boyle said between 300 and 500 people were dying every week as a result of delays to emergency care.\n\nThe figures appear to be based on research published by the Emergency Medical Journal which calculated that every 82 patients whose hospital admission is delayed by more than six hours results in one death within 30 days.\n\nBut NHS England's Chris Hopson said care needed to be taken \"jumping to conclusions about excess mortality rates and their cause without a really full and detailed look at the evidence\".\n\nMr Hopson told BBC Radio 5 Live he feels \"deeply uncomfortable\" about the level of care sometimes being provided at moments of pressure.\n\nHe listed multiple factors that have contributed to pressures on NHS services including:\n\nHowever, the chief strategy officer urged people in need of medical attention to \"come forward\", but reminded patients to \"use the best route\" of support.\n\nEducation minister Robert Halfon said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was treating pressures on the NHS as a \"top priority\".\n\n\"We're increasing NHS capacity by the equivalent of 7,000 beds, spending an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharges and improve capacity, and providing an extra £150m for the ambulance service,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShadow health secretary Wes Streeting blamed the situation on \"more than 12 years of Conservative mis-management\".\n\nHe said he found it \"completely inexplicable\" that no government minister had appeared in public to \"explain what they are doing to grip this crisis\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for an immediate recall of parliament and urged the government to pass an emergency health plan and declare a \"national major incident\".\n\nDr Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said the situation in emergency departments remains \"unbearable\".\n\n\"Unless we are able to retain and attract colleagues, and recruit new colleagues, then our situation will remain unbearable for a long time,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nAndrew Macfarlane's 90-year-old mother has been waiting more than 30 hours for an ambulance after she fell on New Year's Eve and hurt her hip.\n\n\"She's in a lot of pain but she's not on death's door, so I think there is a priority listing whereby she's down the priority list,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHis closest hospital in Torbay, Devon, is a 10-minute drive away but he was told not to move his mother in case it caused her further injury.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: \"We sincerely apologise for the delay this patient has experienced.\"\n\nThey said handover delays at emergency departments were affecting their performance. An ambulance did later arrive for her.\n\nMeanwhile, nurses and paramedics went on strike in December and the BMA has said it will ballot junior doctors this month. Nurses will again strike in England on 18 and 19 January and ambulance staff in parts of England on 11 and 23 January.\n\nThe government says it recognises the pressures being faced, and said it was providing £14.1bn in additional funding for health and social care over the next two years, as well as an extra £500m to try to speed up hospital discharges.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The Adriatic city of Dubrovnik is a big draw for tourists\n\nCroatia is embarking on a historic year as it joins the border-free Schengen zone and ditches its own currency, the kuna, adopting the euro.\n\nThe country committed to joining the eurozone when it became the EU's newest member in 2013.\n\nNationalist parties wanted to keep the kuna, but were overruled by the constitutional court.\n\nIt is the twenty-seventh country in the Schengen area, which allows 400 million to move freely between countries.\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the changes as \"two immense achievements\" for the youngest member state of the EU.\n\nShe said 1 January - when the changes officially happened - would be a day \"for the history books\".\n\nAbove all, this would be a moment of \"joy and pride for the Croatian people\", she said.\n\n\"It is testimony of your amazing journey, your hard work and your determination.\"\n\nCroatia's Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic, said on Sunday the country - a former Yugoslav republic that fought a war of independence in the 1990s - had \"achieved its strategic, state and political goals\" by the two historic changes.\n\nHe was speaking at a ceremony at the Bregana border crossing with neighbouring Slovenia, where passports will no longer be routinely checked.\n\nMr Plenkovic said that Schengen membership would \"mean a lot for Croatia as a tourist country, which is to a large extent a destination where tourists travel by car\".\n\nHe added that \"the fact that we will also be in the eurozone gives another signal to all those visiting Croatia\".\n\nCroatia's entry into the Schengen zone is expected to boost its tourism industry, which accounts for 20% of its GDP and welcomes millions of visitors each year.\n\nPreviously long queues at border crossings with Hungary and Slovenia should become a thing of the past.\n\nThe use of the euro is already widespread in the country, with key assets such as homes valued in the currency and a large percentage of bank deposits also denominated in euros.\n\nExperts say moving to the European currency should help shield Croatia's economy at a time of inflation across the globe.\n\nThe euro was launched on 1 January 1999 as an electronic currency and became legal tender for about 300 million people in 12 member states on 1 January 2002. With the addition of Croatia, there are now 20 countries in the eurozone.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo opposition MPs in Senegal have been given six-month jail sentences for kicking a pregnant colleague in the stomach during a budget debate.\n\nThe male lawmakers attacked Amy Ndiaye after she criticised an opposition religious figure.\n\nThe judge also ordered Mamadou Niang and Massata Samb to pay Ms Ndiaye five million CFA francs ($8,100; £6,750) in compensation.\n\nThe incident was widely condemned and sparked a debate about women's rights.\n\nIn a video widely shared online, Mr Samb is seen walking towards Ms Ndiaye and slapping her during a routine budget debate on 1 December. She then retaliates by throwing a chair, but at the same time gets kicked in her belly by another male colleague. A melee then breaks out as other MPs try to calm the situation.\n\nMs Ndiaye, a member of the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition, fainted in parliament after the attack and there were fears that she would lose the baby.\n\nDespite leaving hospital she \"remains in an extremely difficult situation,\" her lawyer Baboucar Cissé told news agency AFP.\n\nDespite the video evidence, lawyers for Mr Niang and Mr Samb argued in court that their clients had not physically attacked Ms Ndiaye.\n\nThey also argued unsuccessfully that the two lawmakers were immune to prosecution.\n\n\"They are going to remain in prison pending an appeal,\" one of their lawyers, Abdy Nar Ndiaye, told AFP.\n\nThere has been tension in Senegal's parliament since the government lost its majority in legislative elections in July last year.", "Three people have died following a fire at a the New County Hotel in Perth, Police Scotland has confirmed.\n\nCh Supt Phil Davison said guests and nearby residents were evacuated and 11 people were treated by the ambulance service at the scene.\n\nA dog also died in the incident.\n\nMore: Three dead in blaze at New County Hotel", "Footage, apparently from the scene of the attack, was posted by the Ukrainian military\n\nUkraine has confirmed it carried out a strike in the occupied region of Donetsk, which it earlier claimed killed 400 Russian troops.\n\nRussian officials contested the figure, saying only 63 troops were killed. Neither claim has been verified, and access to the site is restricted.\n\nThe attack on New Year's Day hit a building in the city of Makiivka, where Russian forces were stationed.\n\nIt is extremely rare for Moscow to confirm any battlefield casualties.\n\nBut this was such a deadly attack, says the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, that staying silent most probably wasn't an option.\n\nIt is the highest number of deaths acknowledged by Moscow in a single incident since the war began ten months ago.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Russia's defence ministry said Ukrainian forces fired six rockets using the US-made Himars rocket system at a building housing Russian troops. Two of them were shot down, it added.\n\nA number of Russian commentators and bloggers acknowledged the attack - but said the numbers were lower than claimed by Ukraine.\n\nBut Igor Girkin, a pro-Russian commentator, said hundreds had been killed and wounded, although the exact number was still unknown because of the large number still missing.\n\nThe building itself was \"almost completely destroyed\", he said.\n\nHe added that the victims were mainly mobilised troops - that is, recent conscripts, rather than those who chose to fight. He also said ammunition was stored in the same building as the soldiers, making the damage worse.\n\n\"Almost all of the military equipment was also destroyed, which stood right next to the building without any disguise whatsoever,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nGirkin is a well-known military blogger, who led Russian-backed separatists when they occupied of large parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014. He was recently found guilty of murder for his part in the shooting down of flight MH17.\n\nDespite his pro-Russian stance, he regularly criticises the Russian military leadership and their tactics.\n\nAccording to the Ukrainian military's earlier statement, 300 were wounded in addition to the estimated 400 killed. Ukraine's army claims, almost daily, to have killed dozens, sometimes hundreds, of soldiers in attacks, so caution is needed.\n\nA later statement from the Ukrainian military's general staff said \"up to 10 units of enemy military equipment\" were \"destroyed and damaged\" in the strikes, and that \"the losses of personnel of the occupiers are being specified\".\n\nUkraine has not confirmed the strikes were carried out with Himars missiles, maintaining a long-held strategy of not releasing specific details about its attacks.\n\nUkrainian authorities posted a picture of a Russian drone that says, in Russian, \"Happy New Year\"\n\nHours after the strike in Makiivka, Kyiv came under fire. A drone and missile attack targeted critical infrastructure, the Ukrainian capital's regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said.\n\nOne man in Kyiv was injured by debris from a destroyed Russian drone, the capital's mayor added.\n\nMr Kuleba said the weapons were Iranian-made Shahed drones, adding that they were \"targeting critical infrastructure facilities\".\n\n\"The main thing now is to stay calm and stay in shelters until the alarm is off,\" he said.\n\nAll 39 Iranian made drones were eventually shot down by Ukraine, the military said. But Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said energy facilities were damaged, disrupting power and heating supplies.\n\nRussia has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure for several months, destroying power stations and plunging millions into darkness during the country's freezing winter.\n\nMakiivka is just to the east of Donetsk city", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Judi and Sharleen Spiteri joined together to perform an impromptu duet\n\nGuests at an Aberdeenshire hotel were treated to a Hogmanay performance by Dame Judi Dench and Sharleen Spiteri.\n\nA video posted on Twitter showed the pair belting out a rendition of Abba's Waterloo at The Fife Arms in Braemar.\n\nMs Spiteri sings the famous chorus while Dame Judi pretends to play on a pianola, as well as offering the occasional backing vocal.\n\nThe Texas frontwoman then feigns shock at the Oscar winner's musical abilities, mouthing: \"What a pianist!\"\n\nThey shared the piano stool throughout the impromptu performance which followed a dinner and ceilidh at the venue.\n\nEwan Venters, CEO of Artfarm which owns The Fife Arms, posted the video on social media, and it was soon amassing thousands of views.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the crowd's reaction to the performance on the hotel's self-playing piano was \"joyful\".\n\n\"Judi Dench and Sharleen Spiteri were staying at the hotel and we had an impromptu moment at the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a happy evening with lots of guests and locals clapping.\"\n\nHe said the pair burst into song just before the midnight fireworks.\n\n\"It was a classic Scottish Hogmanay party at The Fife Arms,\" he said.\n\n\"The hotel was fully sold out, with four course dinner and a ceilidh with lots of reeling.\"", "Pupils are preparing to return to lessons after the Christmas holidays.\n\nParents in England are being urged to keep children off school if they are unwell and have a fever, amid high levels of flu and Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe same applies for nurseries, according to advice from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).\n\nThe number of scarlet fever cases is also high, it warned.\n\nA head teachers' union welcomed the advice, issued as pupils prepare to return to lessons after the Christmas holidays.\n\nFlu and Covid cases are \"currently circulating at high levels and are likely to continue to increase in coming weeks\", the UKHSA said.\n\n\"High numbers of scarlet fever, which is caused by group A streptococcus, also continue to be reported.\"\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, its chief medical adviser, said: \"If your child is unwell and has a fever, they should stay home from school or nursery until they feel better and the fever has resolved.\"\n\nShe also stressed the importance of washing hands and catching coughs and sneezes in tissues.\n\nAdults should also stay at home when unwell and wear a face covering if they have to go out, she said. Those who are ill should avoid healthcare settings and vulnerable people unless urgent, she added.\n\nProf Hopkins said uptake of the flu vaccine remained low among young children, but it was still available for:\n\nMore than 1.4 million people in the UK, about one-in-45, were infected with Covid in the week ending 9 December, according to the latest official data.\n\nHospital admissions from flu in England were at their highest level since the winter of 2017-2018.\n\nHealth officials also say parents should be aware of strep A, an infection that can cause scarlet fever, after children in the UK died from it.\n\nAbsence rates across schools in England rose sharply at the start of December as more pupils missed class due to illness.\n\nThe proportion of children off sick rose to 7.5% in the week commencing 5 December - up from 6.1% the previous week and 2.6% at the start of the term.\n\nOverall absence rates up to that week surpassed the whole of the 2021 autumn term, when Omicron was taking hold.\n\nJames Bowen, director of policy for school leaders' union NAHT, said there \"does appear to be an unusually high level of illness around at the moment, even for this time of year\".\n\n\"Advice from government is welcome to give schools and parents clarity on when children should stay at home,\" he said.\n\n\"It is quite common for school policies to already state that children with a fever should remain at home, so this shouldn't represent a major departure from existing policies.\"", "Marvel actor Jeremy Renner is in a critical but stable condition in hospital after an accident occurred while he was ploughing snow.\n\nA spokesperson for the star told Deadline the 51-year-old was airlifted to hospital on Sunday after the incident at his home near Reno, Nevada.\n\nThey added that Renner was \"receiving excellent care\" following the \"weather-related accident\".\n\nDozens of people have been killed across the US amid blizzard conditions.\n\nThe winter storm also caused power cuts and forced the cancellation of thousands of flights.\n\nLocal public information officer Kristin Vietti told The Hollywood Reporter that Renner was taken to a local hospital and that he was the only one involved in the accident.\n\nThe major accident investigation team at the Washoe County Sheriff's Office is looking into the circumstances of the incident, she added.\n\nThe office said in a statement given to the Reuters news agency that it \"responded to a traumatic injury in the area of Mt. Rose Highway in Reno, Nevada on Sunday morning at 09:00\".\n\nRenner is probably best known for playing Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.\n\nHe has also starred in films such as The Hurt Locker - for which he received a best actor Oscar nomination - American Hustle and Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol.\n\nRenner was also nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in The Town.\n\nHe is currently starring in Paramount+ series The Mayor Of Kingstown and recently saw his fictional own-branded hot sauce make a cameo appearance in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin should go on trial in Ukraine this year for war crimes committed there, says the man who led the prosecution of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.\n\nSir Geoffrey Nice told the BBC Mr Putin was a \"guilty man\" for attacks on civilian targets during the war.\n\nThe British barrister expressed his surprise that prosecutors and politicians were not \"spelling this out much more freely and openly\".\n\nBut, speaking to Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, Sir Geoffrey described Moscow's actions during the invasion as \"crimes against humanity\" - as civilian targets were being attacked.\n\nCrimes against humanity are considered to be among the most serious offences under the so-called \"rules\" of war.\n\nThese laws ban attacks on civilians - or infrastructure vital to their survival - and are set out in international treaties such as the Geneva Conventions.\n\nFor example, Russia's repeat attacks on the Ukrainian energy grid over the winter have been described as war crimes because of the harm done to civilians. Russia insists it is hitting military targets only.\n\nMoscow's troops have been accused by the international community of thousands of abuses since their full-scale invasion of the neighbouring country last February.\n\nThe prosecutor-general in Kyiv says more than 62,000 war crimes have so far been recorded, including the deaths of more than 450 children. The BBC has not been able to verify these figures.\n\nSir Geoffrey worked with International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) between 1998 and 2006.\n\nHe led the case against former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, who went on trial in The Hague in 2002 for war crimes committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.\n\nMr Milosevic - once known as the \"butcher of the Balkans\" - died in prison before the trial concluded.\n\nCommenting on the war in Ukraine, Sir Geoffrey said the case \"couldn't be clearer\" against Mr Putin, and there was \"no doubt\" of a chain of command leading to the man in the Kremlin.\n\nThis meant the \"most important thing\" was to try the Russian leader himself, rather than low-ranking soldiers, he told Broadcasting House.\n\nHe added that any trial \"could be tomorrow morning, as far as I'm concerned\" and should be held by Ukrainians in the Ukrainian language. Mr Putin himself would not need to be present, he said.\n\nSir Geoffrey speculated over a possible reason why the Russian leader had not faced tougher action so far - suggesting there could be a move to exempt him from prosecution as part of a peace deal.\n\nHe said the International Criminal Court (ICC) - which has jurisdiction over Ukraine - \"has still not made a pronouncement about Putin's responsibility for this crime\".\n\nSir Geoffrey said this \"reluctance\" raised the question of whether there was some sort of \"political advantage\" to not indicting the president.\n\nBut he said the idea of any peace settlement that prevented a trial of Mr Putin was an \"appalling prospect\" which would be \"a complete denial of justice to the people of Ukraine\".\n\nIn response, the ICC rejected any assertion of \"pressure or influence\" on the prosecutor, Karim Khan, to delay any investigations.\n\nMr Khan had \"gone on record repeatedly... to demonstrate that accountability is an imperative that must be achieved\", an ICC statement said.\n\nIt added that the prosecutor had been working on the ground in Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes - and arrest warrants would be issued when enough proof had been gathered.\n\nSlobodan Milosevic - the \"butcher of the Balkans\" - died in 2006 before his trial concluded", "Travel warnings have been issued for icy conditions on roads and pavements - as well as for ongoing disruption on the railways.\n\nThree yellow alerts were in force for all of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England until 11:00 on Monday.\n\nThe main rail line between Glasgow and north west of England could remain closed for several more days after it was damaged by a landslip on Friday.\n\nTravel will also be affected by a new round of rail strikes from Tuesday.\n\nForecasters warned that rain, sleet and snow would ease on Sunday evening, leaving surfaces wet as temperatures drop below zero overnight.\n\nIce is likely to form widely on untreated roads and pavements, and further sleet or snow showers are possible overnight in the west.\n\nThe Met Office yellow weather warnings are in place for the whole of Scotland, northern Ireland and much of northern England.\n\nGritters have been out treating roads around the country, though forecasters have warned that the conditions pose a risk of slips and falls.\n\nSnow lay in the hills above Bannockburn, Stirling\n\nMet Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said it will feel colder on Monday - before a lot of wet weather arrives throughout the week.\n\n\"The best day of the week is probably going to be Bank Holiday Monday, with a lot of dry and generally fine weather across the country, a bit of a cloud in the mix, with cloud and rain moving in early Tuesday morning,\" he said.\n\nFlood warnings have now been lifted but the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has advised people to steer clear of receding flood water in southern and central Scotland.\n\nAt one point on Friday, Sepa had 10 regional flood alerts in place, along with 29 local flood warnings and a severe flood warning for Dumfries.\n\nThe environment watchdog said levels at the River Nith reached the highest ever recorded.\n\nAnd in England 16 flood warnings were in place - meaning flooding is expected - as of the early hours of Monday morning, including in York, East Sussex, Bournemouth, Bristol and the Lake District.\n\nA landslip on the West Coast Mainline has caused damage to the line south of Carstairs\n\nFollowing the blockage on the the West Coast Mainline near Carstairs on Friday, Network Rail said engineers were working to reinforce the bank under the track before they can repair the line itself.\n\nThere will be no services north of Carlisle and the line is not expected to reopen for passengers and freight services until at least Friday 6 January. Some replacement bus services are being put on.\n\nMeanwhile, further disruption can be expected due to ongoing industrial action, with Network Rail staff set to strike again on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.\n\nServices will also be severely affected on Thursday due to the challenges of restarting a timetable with just a few hours between strikes.\n\nA spokesperson said there would be only a very limited service across 12 routes in the central belt, Fife and the Borders.\n\nTrain drivers in England will also walk out on Thursday, which could affect cross-border services.", "A number of energy suppliers have announced changes to their tariffs from this month.\n\nThey will come into effect at the same time as a reduction in government support.\n\nThe Energy Price Guarantee which was introduced in November discounted energy bills by up to 19.9p per unit of electricity and 4.8p for gas.\n\nFrom January to March 2023 the discount will be up to 13.6p per unit of electricity and 3.9p per unit of gas.\n\nThat means the amount you pay for gas or electricity may change between December 2022 and January 2023, so we have taken a look at what that means for the typical household annual bill.\n\nDirector of infrastructure and sustainability at the Consumer Council, Peter McClenaghan, said: \"The discount the government has been providing on all electricity and gas tariffs has taken some of the pressure off consumers, but unfortunately the support is reducing which means the price of some energy bills may go up again depending who your supplier is.\n\n\"As there are big differences in prices between suppliers, we are encouraging consumers to think about switching their supplier or tariff.\n\n\"Some households could make savings of over £1,000 by switching from the most expensive electricity and gas tariffs to the cheapest tariffs currently available.\"\n\nThe government said these discounts will result in a typical household bill, for a house using electricity and gas, in Northern Ireland remaining about £1,950/year to March.\n\nThat's cheaper than in Great Britain where the average household will spend £2,500/year on electricity and gas.\n\nFor example, from January 2023 Power NI's average customer will pay £847 a year - that's 39% lower than the equivalent in Great Britain where the Electricity Price Cap is £1,395 per year.\n\nAs in Great Britain, your exact bill amount will continue to be influenced by how much energy you use.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Crowds celebrate in Brazil as Lula is sworn in as president\n\nLuiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil - the third time he has held the country's highest office.\n\nThe veteran left-wing politician, known widely as Lula, also led the country between 2003 and 2010 - and defeated Jair Bolsonaro in October's poll.\n\nIn his first speech, Lula vowed to rebuild a country in \"terrible ruins\".\n\nHe decried the policies of his predecessor, who went to the US on Friday to avoid the handover ceremony.\n\nA sea of Lula supporters gathered in front of Congress since early in the morning - decked out in the red colour of his Workers' Party. They travelled to see their leader sworn in - but also for a celebration.\n\nMore than 60 artists - including Samba legend Martinho da Vila - were booked to perform on two giant stages decorated in the national flag as part of a music festival dubbed \"Lulapalooza\".\n\n\"Love has won over hate,\" read one banner carried by a man dressed as Lula - complete with a presidential sash.\n\nThere was evident joy as Lula was sworn in\n\n\"Brazil needed this change, this transformation,\" said another backer of the incoming leader as she queued for Sunday's festivities.\n\nJuliana Barreto - who is from Lula's home state Pernambuco - told the BBC that her country was \"a disaster\" previously.\n\nLula and incoming Vice-President Geraldo Alckmin paraded through the city on an open-top convertible before proceeding to the Congress building - where the swearing-in occurred at the start of the formal inauguration ceremony.\n\nThe men have spent the past days selecting their cabinet and appointing supporters to key state-owned businesses.\n\nShortly after being sworn in, Lula sought to instil a sense of hope in the people of Brazil and promised to \"rebuild the nation and make a Brazil of all, for all\".\n\nThere were several instances when he got out his hanky. His most emotional moment came when speaking to the Brazilian people after the swearing-in ceremony - he started sobbing when talking about those who beg at traffic lights, desperate for food.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lula broke down in tears as he talked about poverty in his country\n\nProbably not even Lula thought this day would ever come - a return to the top job after two decades, despite a spell in prison after being convicted of corruption. The convictions were subsequently annulled in 2021.\n\nMuch of his speech to Congress was about unity and reconstruction. The two words are crucial in such a deeply divided country, hit hard by the pandemic and hugely polarised politically.\n\nLula knows that his ultimate challenge will be to convince those who feel he is a corrupt politician who belongs in jail that he does now belong in the presidential palace again and can be their leader too.\n\nHe pledged to undo the legacy of his predecessor's government, which he said involved depleting funding for education, health and the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.\n\nTo huge cheers from those watching in Congress, he also promised to revoke Mr Bolsonaro's controversial gun laws immediately.\n\nLula went on to state that his government would not be motivated by \"a spirit of revenge\", but that those who had made mistakes would answer for their errors.\n\nLula lost his little finger decades ago when he was working as a metal worker\n\nIn particular, he singled out Mr Bolsonaro's Covid-19 policies, accusing him of causing a \"genocide\" of deaths in Brazil during the pandemic, which would need to be fully investigated.\n\nIn another noted change of policy from the Bolsonaro administration, Marina Silva - one of Brazil's best known climate activists - was re-appointed to head the environment and climate ministry. She will be expected to achieve Lula's pledge - which was repeated during his speech - to reach \"zero deforestation\" in the Amazon by 2030.\n\nThe atmosphere in Brasilia couldn't be more different than when Mr Bolsonaro was in power. Lots of people were waving banners or wearing T-shirts with the words \"Love conquers hate,\" a reference to the narrative many felt came from Mr Bolsonaro.\n\nBut diversity and inclusion too was a big part of today's inauguration. With Mr Bolsonaro abandoning his final official duty of passing on the presidential sash, it was left to Eni Souza, a rubbish picker, to do the honours. And standing next to Lula was an indigenous leader, a black boy and a disabled influencer. In this country where racism is all too common, it was an important image that will endure.\n\nThe state of Brasilia deployed \"100%\" of its police force - around 8,000 officers - to the city amid fears that some supporters of Mr Bolsonaro could seek to disrupt proceedings.\n\nOne man was arrested trying to enter the area of the inauguration carrying a knife and fireworks earlier on Sunday, Brazil's military police said.\n\nLast week, authorities arrested a supporter of Mr Bolsonaro who had allegedly placed explosives on a fuel truck near an airport in the capital on Christmas Eve. The man said he hoped to \"sow chaos\" ahead of Lula's inauguration.\n\nAnd other supporters of the former leader have remained camped outside army headquarters, where they have been urging the army to launch a coup. Police attempted to remove the demonstrators on Thursday, but withdrew after they reacted violently.\n\nHowever, Mr Bolsonaro has condemned the protests against his defeat, urging his supporters to \"show we are different from the other side, that we respect the norms and the Constitution\".", "The Catholic Church has strict protocols in place following the death of its leader, but with the death of former Pope Benedict, it is unclear whether those same protocols will apply to a retired pope.\n\nWhen Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 citing old age, he became the first Pope in 600 years to step down from the role. Born Joseph Ratzinger, the German cardinal was elected in April 2005 and chose to go by the name of Benedict.\n\nFor almost a decade there were in effect two popes living at close quarters in the Vatican, because Benedict stayed in the Vatican Gardens at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery, appearing occasionally alongside his successor.\n\n\"We've never had this before where a living pope will help bury a dead pope,\" Catholic historian John McGreevy said.\n\nEven the Middle Ages do not provide a template, because when Gregory XII resigned in 1415 his aim was to bring an end to years of division involving rival challengers to the papacy.\n\nBenedict was pictured on 1 December 2022 at a meeting of the 2022 Ratzinger Awards\n\nThe person who runs the Vatican from the death of one pope to the election of another is called a \"camerlengo\", currently Cardinal Kevin Farrell. But because Benedict was no longer pope some of the cardinal's tasks may no longer be appropriate.\n\nNormally, the camerlengo has the role of officially confirming the pope's death, traditionally by tapping his head three times with a small silver hammer and calling out his name. He would also oversee the destruction of the pope's fisherman's ring, sealing the papal apartments, organising the funeral and preparing a conclave to elect a successor.\n\nAs Francis is already Pope, there is considerable uncertainty about what the camerlengo will now do.\n\nA papal funeral is typically presided over by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. But in this case, Pope Francis will officiate over the funeral, to be held in St Peter's Square.\n\nEach pope can specify their own funeral arrangements, and although Benedict's family is buried in Germany, his biographer Peter Seewald said he wanted to be buried in the tomb that belonged to his predecessor John Paul II before he was canonised and moved elsewhere in the Vatican.\n\nThe most significant ritual that usually happens following the death of a pope - electing a new one - will not happen.\n\nVatican affairs writer Massimo Franco told the BBC that all the procedures would have to be \"written from scratch\", and that following Benedict's resignation in 2013 the Catholic Church did not specify what would be done when he died.\n\nHe also warned the death of Benedict could have unforeseen consequences on the papacy, such as normalising the resignation of a pope.\n\n\"For some within the Catholic Church, the resignation of Benedict represents a unique circumstance that will never have to be repeated,\" he said.\n\n\"For others it may represent a precedent and therefore could be repeated. But this remains a big question mark, just like everything surrounding the death and funeral of Benedict XVI.\"\n\nAs Benedict was previously the head of state of Vatican City - an independent city-state surrounded by Rome and governed by the Pope - it is possible there will be a state funeral with foreign leaders invited, but even that to date is uncharted territory.\n\nThis article was first published on 29 December and updated following the death of Benedict XVI.", "Basking sharks live in UK waters and are the second largest species of shark in the world\n\nHow do you fancy shark spotting from the comfort of your own home?\n\nVolunteers are being recruited to identify sharks, skates and rays captured on underwater cameras around the Welsh coast.\n\nData from more than 90 hours of footage needs to be logged to help build a picture of the diversity of species.\n\nVolunteer Matt Thomson said he was already hooked and hoped to see a \"really rare\" angel shark during his work on the project.\n\nSharks Inspiring Action and Research with Communities (SIARC ) is a collaboration between Natural Resources Wales and the Zoological Society of London as well as communities in Gwynedd.\n\nThroughout the summer of 2022, protected and critically endangered species were filmed by remote underwater cameras in a special conservation area off the Llyn Peninsula.\n\nThe project has led to sightings of the critically endangered tope\n\nPreviously for researchers' eyes only, the footage is now available to everyone via the Instant Wild website.\n\nThese \"citizen scientists\" are asked to log the types of sharks, skates and rays they see, helping to save researchers lots of time and effort.\n\nJoanna Barker from the Zoological Society of London said: \"We'll have a scientist reviewing all the footage, but the citizen scientists will be the validator.\n\n\"We'll be able to compare both the scientist and citizen scientist scores and data and it'll just really improve the scientific data that we get out of this project.\"\n\nVolunteer Matt Thomson says he is already \"hooked\" on the project\n\nMr Thomson has been logging exotic wildlife using the Instant Wild app for 10 years.\n\nHe said: \"I'd really like to see an angel shark - that's what the project's all about, they're very rare.\n\n\"I'll be very surprised if we do actually see any and I'd be really excited to see a basking shark.\n\n\"But there's plenty of other things to keep you interested. Any shark, skate or ray that you see on these cameras is going to be really interesting.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sailor's surprise as huge shark joins him on trip\n\nJake Davies grew up on the Llyn Peninsula and is now the project coordinator for SIARC, helping to set up the underwater cameras.\n\nFishing crews have helped him find the liveliest spots and he said the footage revealed a previously hidden world.\n\n\"Every time we say we're studying sharks, many people are surprised that we have sharks present off the Welsh coast,\" he said.\n\n\"But Wales hosts a range of different shark species, over 25 in fact, from one of the rarest in the world - the angel shark - to one of the largest, which is the basking shark.\"\n\nWhether it is crabs tussling with sharks or curious conger eels, the project has delivered amazing visuals for the public.\n\nResearchers are now hoping to get the clearest picture yet of life at the bottom of the sea.", "Hundreds of passengers have been stranded on a cruise ship off the Australian coast after a potentially harmful growth was found on its hull.\n\nThe Viking Orion was denied permission to dock in Adelaide after authorities discovered \"biofoul\" - an accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae or small animals.\n\nThis can allow invasive species to be imported into non-native habitats.\n\nOfficials said the ship's hull must be cleaned before entering Australia.\n\nThe Australian fisheries department said the management of biofoul was a \"common practice for all arriving international vessels\" and that the ship had to be cleaned to avoid \"harmful marine organisms\".\n\n\"Professional divers were engaged directly by the vessel line/agent to clean the hull while at anchor outside Australian waters,\" it added.\n\nThe ship was also reportedly denied permission to dock at Christchurch and Dunedin in New Zealand and Hobart, Tasmania.\n\nKenn Heydrick, a passenger, said they had not been able to leave the ship since 26 December. Four scheduled port stops had been missed, he said.\n\n\"The intensity of frustration and anger is growing among passengers,\" he said.\n\n\"The majority of passengers are trying to make the best of things and enjoy extended time at sea. But it is the excursions at four ports that we were looking forward to, and now are greatly missed.\"\n\nThe current itinerary has the vessel arriving in Melbourne on 2 January.\n\nHowever, passenger Matt Roberts said they have now been told they will only be allowed off the boat momentarily, to be checked by immigration. The next chance for passengers to disembark will be on 4 January in Sydney.\n\nHe said the disruption was a shame - \"because for many travellers, this might be their last opportunity to see this part of the world\".\n\nAnother passenger called the holiday a \"trip from hell\" on Twitter.\n\n\"I have cried repeatedly for both the significant financial hit after saving for two years and the loss of memories and experiences,\" she said.\n\nThe 14-deck, 930-person ship - which was built in 2018 - has reportedly dropped anchor about 17 miles (27km) off the coast while the cleaning occurs.\n\nIn a statement, operator Viking admitted that a \"limited amount of standard marine growth\" was being cleared from the ship's hull and said that this had caused the vessel to \"miss several stops on this itinerary\".\n\nBut it said that it expected to sail towards the city of Melbourne in the coming hours, where it would dock on 2 January.\n\n\"Viking is working directly with guests on compensation for the impact to their voyage,\" it added.\n\nIn a letter on Friday, the ship's captain apologised that \"the current cruise falls short of your expectations\" and said a member of Viking's customer relations team would make an \"adjusted offer of compensation\" to guests in the coming days.\n\nAnother cruise ship travelling in waters around New Zealand suffered a similar fate after the discovery of an infestation of snails that were not native to the area.\n\nPrincess Cruises' Coral Princess underwent cleaning on 23 December, with passengers missing out on part of their itinerary, before the ship went on to dock in Christchurch, New Zealand on Christmas Day as planned.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThousands of mourners queued through the night to pay respects to Brazil legend Pele, who is lying in state at the stadium of his former club Santos.\n\nPele's coffin is in the centre of the pitch at the Urbano Caldeira stadium in Sao Paulo, and fans have lined the streets to get into the ground.\n\nThere will be a procession through the streets of Santos from 12:00 GMT, before a private family burial.\n\nPele - a three-time World Cup winner - died at the age of 82 on 29 December.\n\nArguably the world's greatest ever footballer, he had been receiving treatment for colon cancer since 2021.\n\nBrazil's government declared three days of national mourning after his death, and the country's new president - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - will travel to Santos to pay his respects as the 24-hour vigil draws to a close.\n\nFifa president Gianni Infantino attended the memorial on Monday, and said: \"We're going to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of Pele.\"\n• None Obituary: 'The best player in the history of football'\n\n'There will be no-one else like Pele' - fans pay tribute\n\nThousands of fans gathered on the streets as the hearse carrying Pele's coffin arrived at the stadium on Monday.\n\nFormer Brazil midfielder Ze Roberto and Pele's son Edinho helped carry the coffin, with floral wreaths sent by Brazil internationals Neymar and Vinicius Junior, and Real Madrid.\n\nThere were tears and applause, and some people fell to the ground in worship of the man who revolutionised football and made Brazil famous.\n\n\"I had the opportunity to see him playing in the stadium many times,\" Joao Paulo Machado, who lives in Santos, told BBC South America correspondent Katy Watson.\n\n\"He's the number one ambassador of this country in the world, in my opinion. If you travel abroad, the first thing people say is: 'You are from Pele's country.'\"\n\nFormer Santos FC president Marcelo Teixeira said Pele was a \"fantastic human being\".\n\nHe added: \"He had a generous heart, not just because he was the athlete of the century. He always looked after people in a really sincere, humble way.\"\n\nBeatrice woke up at six in the morning to travel with her husband from the city of Soracaba to Santos, and had been waiting for more than two hours in the queue.\n\n\"I'm determined to pay my final respects to him,\" the 56-year-old told the BBC.\n\nMarcela Buono, a Santos native who now lives in Miami, also returned to pay her respects.\n\n\"We grew up with him,\" she said. \"He used to go to the supermarket here every day. That was normal for us. He was always fantastic, giving autographs for the kids. He was an amazing person, an inspiration.\"\n\nWilson Genio queued with his 13-year-old son Miguel, carrying white roses and a Santos flag signed 'To the family Genio, your friend Pele'.\n\nThe Genios had travelled overnight with the hearse carrying Pele's body from Sao Paulo.\n\n'The whole city is drawn to the stadium'\n\nIt is baking hot - about 30 degrees in Santos - but it feels like the whole city is drawn to the heart of Vila Belmiro stadium, where Pele's coffin lies.\n\nA steady stream of mourners pass through the centre to pay their final respects - sometimes a smattering of applause breaks out as they pass his coffin. People from all over Brazil - and the outside world - have come. I spot a Mexican flag, a Dutch pin.\n\nThere are several news helicopters buzzing overhead. People are dressed in the striped black-and-white jerseys of Santos Football Club - Pele's team - or in Brazil's national team yellow jersey.\n\nPele's voice blasts over the stands in the stadium - his 2006 song Meu Legado (My Legacy) is playing on repeat.\n\nOutside the stadium, a queue of thousands snakes for kilometres across half a dozen city blocks.\n\nMen have taken off their shirts to wrap around their heads like bandanas. Others are fanning themselves with the tribute newspaper printed just for the day. Some have come prepared with hats, umbrellas and their tributes.\n\nSometimes a Mexican wave ripples through. There are occasional chants of 'Pele! Rei!' But mostly, the crowds are patient in the heat, waiting for their turn to say goodbye.", "Lula addressing supporters in São Paulo after his election win\n\nAs news of Lula's victory spread, a sea of red - the colours of his Workers' Party - massed on São Paulo's main street, Paulista Avenue, eager for a glimpse of the president-elect.\n\n\"Lula has returned,\" the crowd chanted, as they let off red smoke in celebration.\n\n\"It was a very hard campaign,\" Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva admitted to the crowds a few hours later. \"It wasn't Lula against Bolsonaro, it was a campaign of democracy against barbarity.\"\n\nLike him or loathe him, the fact that Lula, once Brazil's most popular politician, is returning to the top job is a moment in history.\n\n\"I feel free, relieved not only for the Brazilian people but for the whole planet - for the Amazon, for democracy, for human rights,\" said 47-year-old Viridiana Aleixo, while admitting that Brazil remained very divided. \"We have to be very patient, and we have to leave the anger and hatred behind.\"\n\nTwenty years ago, Lula came to power promising huge change - but a subsequent fall from grace over corruption scandals disqualified him from running in 2018. He had a stint in prison, before his charges were annulled. It has been quite a journey for Lula, but he has returned with a vengeance.\n\n\"I went through a political resurrection, because they tried to bury me alive,\" Lula said. \"From the first of January there won't be two Brazils, we are one - we don't want to fight anymore, it's time to lay down our weapons that should never have been raised in the first place.\"\n\nBut uniting Brazil will be Lula's biggest challenge.\n\nOn Sunday, 24-year-old Felipe Fonte went to vote dressed in Brazil's football shirt, a colour that's become linked with Brazil's far right.\n\n\"I think [President Jair] Bolsonaro has a lot of flaws, but he's a man of God,\" says Felipe. \"He has the right principles, and he's not the biggest thief that ever existed in Brazil. So that for me is the biggest thing.\"\n\nAlthough Lula officially takes over in the new year, his job begins now - trying to win over people like Felipe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Cheers and tears as Lula thanks Brazilians for election win\n\n\"Starting tonight, the focus must be on initiating a dialogue with those who didn't vote for the president,\" says Oliver Stuenkel, professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. \"He needs to be the president for all Brazilians.\"\n\nIn the wake of Lula's victory, there was silence from the Bolsonaro camp. The rumour was he had gone to bed. A bad loser perhaps, but there is real concern over whether Bolsonaro and his most radical followers will accept the vote.\n\n\"I think we are facing a few potentially tense days and weeks,\" says Stuenkel. But while the world waits to hear whether Bolsonaro will accept the result or contest it, as he has often threatened to do, one thing is for certain: this is good news for democracy, says Stuenkel.\n\n\"Bolsonaro had over the past four years sought to undermine checks and balances and put increasing pressure on the judiciary and civil society,\" he says. \"In that sense, particularly for other democracies around the world, his victory is unambiguously good news, particularly at a time of democratic regression.\"\n\nWhile Lula may be the same politician, he will be leading a Brazil that's very different - and much more divided - than the one he took control of 20 years ago. And it comes at a time of deep economic hardship.\n\nNot only that, but as Bolsonaro steps aside - one hopes - his legacy will remain in Congress and regional politics. Lula will have to contend with conservative lawmakers in whatever he wants to do.\n\nWill Lula once again be the saviour of Brazil that many of his supporters still see him as? On Sunday evening on Avenida Paulista, they were hopeful.\n\n\"It's time to go, Bolsonaro,\" they chanted. Lula's back - and he's here to change Brazil.", "Emanuele Mascolo is one of the chefs at Pure Pizza\n\nA takeaway owner is offering to give everyone in Edinburgh a free pizza over the next month as an act of kindness.\n\nMarc Wilkinson, 55, the owner of Pure Pizza in Morningside, said he had been planning a big altruistic act to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe said it would also give his part-time staff more work.\n\n\"I'm very happy with my plan because it's a win, win, win for everyone,\" he said.\n\n\"The customers benefit, the suppliers benefit and my team of chefs benefit as it gives them more hours of work.\n\n\"I keep hearing about how the cost of living is affecting so many people and I just thought that my ovens are running all day anyway, so they may as well be working at full capacity all day if it helps people.\n\n\"Altruism is something that really interests me so I wanted to try it.\"\n\nMarc Wilkinson said he would give a free pizza to everyone who lives in Edinburgh\n\nHe estimated that it would cost him about £12,000.\n\nMr Wilkinson, who opened the business at the start of the lockdown in March 2020, says his ovens have the capacity to make 18 pizzas every six minutes.\n\nThe free pizzas will be given to people who visit his shop in Morningside Drive during January, although they will not be available between 17:30 and 20:30.\n\nHe hopes that anyone who takes up the offer will pass on the act of kindness in their own way.\n\nThey will only need to provide a valid mobile number.\n\n\"I hope my idea doesn't get out of hand but I'm not going to start asking for proof of address, they won't have to bring in a council tax bill with their address on it,\" he added.", "There was a sharp rise in the number of shops closing on the UK's High Streets, shopping parades, and out-of-town shopping parks in 2022, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nMore than 17,000 sites shut up shop - the highest number for five years.\n\nTotal closures were nearly 50% higher than in 2021, the researchers said.\n\nThe number of retail jobs lost, in stores and online, also jumped as businesses closed or cut costs.\n\nMore than 150,000 posts were closed, up 43% compared to the previous year.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic some businesses were protected through government support and the furlough scheme, which helped to pay wages when shops could not open.\n\nHowever, in 2022 as the economy continued to reopen, the retail sector faced a barrage of challenges.\n\nPrices rose sharply and shoppers reined in their spending. Costs for retailers also rose, with steep increases in energy and wage bills in particular.\n\nThe CRR, an independent research body which provides analysis of retail sector trends, said shops were closing at a rate of 47 per day in 2022. Over the course of the year, large retail chains closed 6,055 shops while 11,090 shops were closed by independents.\n\nHowever, only around a third of closures were due to insolvencies, according to the CRR.\n\nThe number of stores closing because a parent chain with more than 10 stores went under, actually fell, the CRR said. Closures in that category were 56% lower in 2022 than in 2021, but included some high profile names, including M&Co, Joules, McColls, Sofa Workshop and TM Lewin.\n\nNearly a third of the closures were branches of chains which were closing some of their sites to save money and rationalise the business. Some, such as Marks and Spencer, simultaneously opened new branches in different locations.\n\nMore than a third of closures were independent shops which decided to wind up their business, also classed as rationalisation.\n\n\"Rather than company failure, rationalisation now seems to be the main driver for closures as retailers continue to reduce their cost base at pace,\" said CRR director Joshua Bamfield.\n\nHe expected the trend to continue in 2023, he said, although \"a few big hitters may well fail too\".\n\nFrom April, retailers will receive temporary support from the government with business rates, the tax charged according to the value of the firm's properties. That will be in the form of a 75% discount on business rates up to a limit of £110,000 per business.\n\nShops standing vacant are exempt from rates altogether for three months. After that, however, they are subject to the full rate charge, and are not eligible for the 75% discount.\n\nRobert Hayton, UK president at real estate advisory group Altus, called for the approach to empty properties to be reviewed.\n\n\"Rate-free periods need to be urgently extended to reflect the time that it actually takes to re-let vacant properties.\" he said.", "Twenty-four years after becoming a nun, it was a brief touch of the sleeve of a monk in the parlour of the convent in Preston, Lancashire, that changed everything for Sister Mary Elizabeth.\n\nThe prioress of the order had taken her to meet the friar Robert, who was visiting from a priory in Oxford, to see if he wanted anything to eat. But Sister Mary Elizabeth's superior was called away to take a phone call, so the two were left alone.\n\n\"It was our first time in a room together. We sat at a table as he ate, and the prioress didn't come back so I had to let him out.\"\n\nSister Mary Elizabeth had lived a devout, austere and mostly silent life as a nun, spending most of her days in her \"cell\". As she let Robert out of the door, she brushed his sleeve and says she felt something of a jolt.\n\n\"I just felt a chemistry there, something, and I was a bit embarrassed. And I thought, gosh, did he feel that too. And as I let him out the door it was quite awkward.\"\n\nShe recalls that it was about a week later that she received Robert's message asking if she would leave to marry him.\n\nWhen she was Sister Mary Elizabeth, Lisa belonged to the strict Carmelite Roman Catholic religious order\n\n\"I was a little bit shocked. I wore a veil so he never even saw my hair colour. He knew nothing about me really, nothing about my upbringing. He didn't even know my worldly name,\" she recalls.\n\nBefore entering the Carmelite order - an ancient order of the Roman Catholic church - at the age of 19, Sister Mary Elizabeth had been Lisa Tinkler, from Middlesbrough.\n\nThough her parents had not been religious, an aunt's pilgrimage to Lourdes awakened something in six-year-old Lisa, such that she asked her father to build an altar in her bedroom.\n\n\"I had a little statue of Our Lady on it and a little Lourdes water bottle. Actually, I thought it was the bottle that was holy and not the water - so I was just filling it from the tap and drinking the water,\" she says.\n\nLisa would make her own way to one of the Roman Catholic churches in her home town and sit alone in the second pew - where she says she developed an overwhelming love for the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, and ultimately a feeling she had a vocation.\n\nA weekend retreat at a monastery while she was still a teenager convinced her of her calling. The monastery was run by Carmelite nuns from an order that had origins in the 12th Century and where the life was particularly spartan, secluded and strict - but she decided that was precisely the life she wanted to lead.\n\nRobert grew up in Poland, but was a Carmelite monk in Oxford\n\nThough Lisa had wanted to join immediately, her mother - who was troubled by her daughter's decision - secretly wrote to the monastery to delay her departure for a few months, so Lisa could spend one more Christmas at home. She joined in the new year.\n\n\"From then I lived like a hermit. We had two recreation times a day, about half an hour, when we could speak, otherwise you were on your own in your cell. You never worked with anybody, always on your own,\" she says.\n\nOver the years, Sister Mary Elizabeth felt her vocabulary diminish as she had little more to talk about with the other nuns - who were all decades older than her - except the weather and the nature in the garden. She saw her mother four times a year through a grille.\n\n\"When I had my 21st birthday, my cake and my cards were all passed through the drawer. And when my nephew was born he was passed through a kind of turntable,\" she chuckles, looking back on it all quite fondly.\n\nShe describes the way she felt her \"interior world\" open up as the outside world closed to her. There was a sense of feeling content and fulfilled. But, that day in the convent parlour, it all changed with the touch of a sleeve and a message asking if she would walk away from monastic life and get married.\n\nSister Mary Elizabeth didn't give Robert an answer to his question and did not know what to do.\n\nHe may have known nothing about her, but she knew a little about him.\n\nLisa says before she met Robert she didn't know what it was like to be in love\n\nOn his visits from Oxford to the Carmelite retreat centre in Preston he had occasionally come to say mass at the nearby monastery and Lisa had watched his sermons from behind a grille.\n\nThrough hearing his anecdotes as he preached, she got snippets of a life growing up in Silesia in Poland near the German border, and about a love of mountains. Though she says at the time it did not feel like it had a profound impact on her.\n\nNow, suddenly, that had changed.\n\n\"I didn't know what it feels like to be in love and I thought the sisters could see it in my face. So I became quite nervous. I could feel the change in me and that scared me,\" she says.\n\nSister Mary Elizabeth eventually plucked up the courage to say to her prioress that she thought she had feelings for Robert, but the response she got was disbelief.\n\n\"She couldn't understand how it had happened because we were in there 24/7 under her watch all the time. The prioress asked how I could have fallen in love with so little contact,\" she says.\n\nSister Mary Elizabeth had imagined the reaction of her family, or of her bishop, if she left. She also wrestled over whether her relationship with God would change.\n\nBut the interaction with her superior caused her to do something uncharacteristically impetuous.\n\nLisa and Robert's story is explored further in the first episode of a new series of Beyond Belief at 16:30 GMT on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 2 January - afterwards it will be available on BBC Sounds\n\n\"The prioress was little bit snappy with me, so I put my pants and a toothbrush in a bag and I walked out, and I never went back as Sister Mary Elizabeth,\" Lisa tells me now.\n\nRobert had messaged her to say he was planning to visit Preston again that evening. This time, it was to meet a Carmelite friend for advice at a nearby pub, the first person from the order he had trusted to tell of his and Lisa's predicament.\n\nLisa guessed they would be meeting at the Black Bull about a mile up the road, so that was where she decided to head.\n\nBut instead of it being a joyful moment, Lisa was thrown into deep turmoil that November night in 2015.\n\nRobert says when he saw Lisa in the pub, he was paralysed by fear\n\n\"The rain was lashing down as I was walking along the Garstang road. The traffic was coming towards me with bright headlights and I just thought 'I could just finish this,'\" she says, referring to a momentary suicidal thought.\n\n\"I was really struggling, I thought I should just stop this from happening and Robert could get on with his life. But I also wondered if he really meant what he said about getting married.\"\n\nBut Lisa kept walking until she found herself on a Friday night drenched, without a coat, in her habit outside the Black Bull. She only plucked up the courage to go inside when she saw the monk inside through an open door.\n\n\"When I saw her, my heart stopped,\" says Robert.\n\n\"But actually I was paralysed by fear not by joy, because I knew in that moment that I had to be entirely for Lisa, but I also knew we were not practically ready for that,\" he says.\n\nRobert had been a Carmelite friar for 13 years by this point. He was a thinker, academic and theologian who came to monastic life in a search for meaning during what he describes as a crisis of faith and identity.\n\nLooking back now, he feels his roots made that confusion almost inevitable - growing up in a region that recently transitioned from Germany to Poland, with a Lutheran father and Catholic mother.\n\nBut it was a dark period after a failed relationship that led him to continue his search for fulfilment in England where, in spite of the Lutheran Protestant theology he had settled on, it was in a Carmelite Roman Catholic monastery where he found his solace.\n\n\"I didn't know much about Carmelites before and had not considered being a monk. In fact, I was always very suspicious of this kind of expression of faith,\" Robert says.\n\nBut he says the order taught him how to embrace darkness, difficulties and crisis to the point where he felt settled. However, the encounter with Lisa - who he barely knew then as Sister Mary Elizabeth - turned his life upside down.\n\nRobert wondered how he would start a new life at 53\n\n\"That touch of Lisa's on my sleeve started a change, but while I felt something gradually growing in my heart, I don't think I ever reached a point where I felt I was crazily falling in love, because in becoming a monk or a nun they teach you how to deal with emotions like love,\" says Robert.\n\nHe explains that his message to Lisa asking if they could marry was almost an intellectual tussle with himself.\n\n\"When she appeared at the pub the little demon in me was terrified. But my fear was not religious or spiritual, it was purely about how I would start a new life at the age of 53,\" he says.\n\nThe transition was difficult, particularly at the beginning. Lisa remembers a moment just before Christmas, soon after they had both left their monastic lives.\n\n\"I looked at Robert and he was distressed and crying. At that moment we both hit rock bottom and it felt like we should just take something like Romeo and Juliet and just end it,\" says Lisa.\n\n\"It was so hard because he both felt so alone and so isolated and didn't know the way forward. But we just held hands and we got through it,\" she says.\n\nThey describe the moment at the job centre when they both burst into tears when asked about their transferrable skills - and another time when they were driving from Preston to Yorkshire.\n\n\"I had ordered a book in Polish about nuns who had left their orders for various reasons. I read and translated it for Lisa in the car, but she had to pull over on the M62. We both needed to cry because their stories were so emotional and we could relate to them,\" says Robert.\n\nLisa is now a hospital chaplain, and Robert a Church of England vicar\n\nWhat brought them peace was the thing that guided them to their monasticism in the first place - connecting with their personal faith.\n\n\"All through your religious life, you're told your heart is supposed to be undivided and given to God. Suddenly I felt like my heart was expanding to hold Robert, but I realised it also held everything else that I had. And I didn't feel any different about God, and that was reassuring to me,\" says Lisa.\n\nLisa first found work at a funeral home and later as a hospital chaplain. Though he was upset by a letter from Rome telling him he was no longer a member of the Carmelite order, Robert was soon accepted into the Church of England.\n\nThey both did get married, and now share a home in the village of Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire - where Robert has been made a vicar of the local church. They are still on a journey to adjust to life outside the monastery.\n\nLisa and Robert on their wedding day\n\nLisa in particular, who had been isolated for 24 years and not had the academic life Robert had before, talks of feeling like an observer in the outside world. Only now is she working out what hair styles and clothes work best for her after a life in a habit.\n\nThey both still yearn for elements of monastic life, Lisa even says that if it was not for Robert, she would return to being a Carmelite nun tomorrow.\n\n\"We became so used to the silence and the solitude, that's hard to find in the business of the world, you get pulled in so many different directions, so it's a constant struggle for me and Robert to remain centred and grounded,\" says Lisa.\n\nBut they have found a solution that works.\n\n\"I often think I live in a monastery here with Robert, like two Carmelites where everything we do is given to God. We anchor ourselves in prayer but love can make a sacrament of everything you do and I realise nothing has really changed for me,\" she says.\n\nLisa says they both agree there are three of them in the marriage.\n\n\"Christ is at the centre and comes before everything. If we were to take him out of the equation, I think it wouldn't have lasted really.\"\n\nLisa and Robert's story is explored further in the first episode of a new series of Beyond Belief at 16:30 on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 2 January - afterwards it will be available on BBC Sounds.", "Households will receive £600 in either cash credit or vouchers, depending on how they pay for electricity\n\nThe initial process of rolling out £600 government energy payments to households in Northern Ireland has begun.\n\nHouseholds will receive their payments in different ways, depending on how they pay for domestic electricity.\n\nFor direct debit customers, the energy firm they are signed up to on 2 January will be tasked with distributing £600 directly into their bank accounts.\n\nThe payments are expected to arrive between mid-January and late March.\n\nThe money is intended to help households with their home energy costs, however the recipients can spend it in any way they choose.\n\nThe one-off payments are part of the Northern Ireland Energy Bills Support Scheme and will be distributed automatically to customers who pay for a domestic electricity supply.\n\nElectricity customers who pay their bills on a quarterly basis will receive vouchers in the post, rather than having the £600 credited to their bank accounts.\n\nHouseholders who pay for electricity via a keypad or pre-payment meter will also receive their £600 via posted vouchers.\n\nThe vouchers can either be deposited in a bank or credit union or redeemed for cash at the Post Office, but must be cashed in by 31 March 2023.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 households in Northern Ireland will be in line to receive vouchers.\n\nProof of address and photo identification will be required to exchange the vouchers for money.\n\nDetails of the payments were announced last year as part of the UK-wide energy support scheme, a government response to help people with record wholesale energy costs.\n\nHouseholds in Great Britain are currently receiving a total of £400 in instalments, which have taken the form of discounts of about £67 off their electricity bills each month from October to March.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, households are in line to receive a total of £600 by March - the extra money being a £200 \"oil payment\" to reflect the fact that a large proportion of customers use home heating oil.\n\nAll households in Northern Ireland will qualify for the £200 oil payment, regardless of whether or not they use home heating oil, because of the complexity of Northern Ireland's energy market.\n\nDetails of the 2 January cut-off point for determining which electricity supplier will be responsible for distributing payments to direct debit customers were announced last week.", "Betsi Cadwaladr decided to postpone \"all but the most urgent\" appointments at its hospitals on Tuesday\n\nWales' largest health board has declared a \"critical incident\" as it faces \"unprecedented demand\".\n\nThe Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board covering north Wales said patients face long waits for emergency care due to flu and Covid cases.\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed at hospitals in north Wales on Tuesday in response.\n\nSeparately, Swansea Bay health board told patients not to go to A&E unless it is a life-threatening situation.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr's executive director of nursing, Angela Wood, said: \"This morning we have declared an internal critical incident as we are struggling to cope with prolonged, unprecedented demand across the health and social care system.\n\n\"We are currently seeing a very high volume of patients presenting at our hospitals with flu, Covid and other respiratory viruses, as well as in increase in the most seriously injured or unwell patients requiring emergency care.\n\n\"This, together with a lack of available beds in our hospitals and significant staffing shortages, is leading to extremely long waits for patients to be seen - particularly at our hospital emergency departments.\"\n\nThe nursing director said it was an \"exceptionally challenging time\" for staff across the health service.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr said it was contacting patients after deciding to postpone \"all but the most urgent\" appointments at its hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nPlanned appointments on Wednesday will still go ahead.\n\nHealth officials at Swansea's Morriston Hospital are asking patients to stay away from A&E\n\nOn Monday the Royal College of Emergency Medicine - which monitors standards of care in UK A&E departments - said the NHS is facing the worst winter for A&E waits on record.\n\nIts vice-president Dr Ian Higginson said some of Britain's emergency departments were in a \"complete state of crisis\".\n\nWales' most senior doctor, Sir Frank Atherton, said on New Year's Eve all health boards were \"at the highest level of escalation\" and described the system as the busiest he had seen.\n\nFlu hospital admissions in Wales have risen sharply over December\n\nIn 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